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Sun 22:03:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Here's the latest:
Sun 22:03:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Well, I'm just pointing out that most of the fake Trump discounts are GoodRX cards with the GRP and BIN replaced with MAHA and TrumpRX.
Sun 22:03:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can replace those with anything and pay the same price, you know. I could print out the GoodRX card and replace MAHA and TrumpRX with FUCKTRUMP and BULLSHITPRICES, and it would come back with the same price at the pharmacy.
Sun 22:03:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $50 million tax dollars down the shitter for a site with drug discounts that don't exist or are coupons that you could already use, or patient assistance programs that nobody on Medicare, Medicaid, Commercial Insurance, or TriCARE can actually use.
Sun 22:04:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Try it. I recommend the cherry flavoring to the Trump Bullshit RX prices. It makes them go down easier.
Sun 22:05:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, You can replace the GRP and BIN with anything. The system totally ignores them when you use the GoodRX numbers on the other two slots on the card.
Sun 22:29:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I posted on a conservative site....
Sun 22:30:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That TrumpRX isn't saving anyone money.
Sun 22:30:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But if you're a nutbag who hates pharma and thinks drugs and vaccines are toxic, why would you care what they cost?
Sun 22:30:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 22:34:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now, you know, one thing I found out that I did not like anyway that can add 200-300 calories to a hamburger, is the damned bun.
Sun 22:34:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You replace it with a lettuce wrap and there's 5 calories and it's a vegetable.
Sun 22:35:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ 200-300 calories for a bun that usually just tastes like cardboard anyway and is a carbohydrate bomb is sort of counterproductive.
Sun 22:36:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ strange, the burger buns over here taste nice
Sun 22:38:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Someone asked how we should handle ICE after Trump is gone. I posted:
Sun 22:38:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Many of the German Nazis who lost the war got a fair trial followed by a hanging.
Sun 22:38:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Many of the US soldiers that were disgusted and horrified by their crimes made sure that the rope was too short so the neck wouldn't break and they'd choke out.
Sun 22:38:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm just saying, that's how they handled the German Nazis after the war."
Sun 22:38:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, but that was a better time
Sun 22:41:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, A hanging with a short rope would be a fitting punishment for the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Unfortunately lethal injection is the most our laws allow for premeditated murder.
Sun 22:42:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ strange, i thought nazi america lost access to the chemicals used for lethal injections years ago
Sun 22:42:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and had to resort to other means
Sun 22:42:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We can still do lethal injections.
Sun 22:42:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it's messier without the two drugs they used to use.
Sun 22:43:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They used to use one to make you pass out and then another one to stop the heart.
Sun 22:43:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now it's just one.
Sun 22:43:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ now it's just bleach, and you become immune to SARS-CoV-2?
Sun 22:43:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Can't remember which it is but there's been a lot of botched executions that just leave the person there dying painfully.
Sun 22:43:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <@MinceR> now it's just bleach, and you become immune to SARS-CoV-2?
Sun 22:43:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A gas chamber full of Lysol, you know. I heard that works too.
Sun 22:43:53 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Sun 22:43:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The President said it so it must be true.
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Sun 22:48:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Watching Dredd (2012)
Sun 22:48:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not as good as the 1995 Judge Dredd, sadly.
Sun 22:48:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But passable.
Sun 22:48:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ indeed
Sun 22:49:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was one of the people who signed the petition to the Obama website to replace the courts with street judges like in Judge Dredd.
Sun 22:49:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It got way more signatures than it needed for a response, so they closed the petition website.
Sun 22:49:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Without responding.
Sun 22:49:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The Halls of Justice.
Sun 22:49:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know where that is right?
Sun 22:50:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's across the street from the Halls of Menthol.
Sun 22:50:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ probably where two neutron starts will meet
Sun 22:50:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :D
Sun 22:50:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ close enough to sterilize Earth with a gamma ray burst
Sun 22:50:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Remember those old TV commercials for Halls cough drops?
Sun 22:50:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "From the Halls of Menthol."
Sun 22:50:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (human extinction, also known as justice)
Sun 22:50:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, they were translated into hungarian here
Sun 22:51:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and i'm not sure if they were those commercials and if they were close to the original
Sun 22:51:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/arts/ars/
Sun 22:56:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/2507056
Sun 23:08:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/08/asia/japan-takaichi-snap-election-exit-polls-intl
Sun 23:09:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The LDP is the one that brought in the Unification Church that ripped off that poor man's elderly mother.
Sun 23:09:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They didn't mention that Shinzo Abe was the reason that guy's mother went broke and died.
Sun 23:09:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They acted like he shot Abe for no reason at all.
Sun 23:09:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's how the "news" works.
Sun 23:12:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wonderful
Sun 23:13:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, My mother said the church she goes to closes and locks the doors and they're all armed. I asked "Because of their 'satisfied customers' or just the standard persecutory delusions?"
Sun 23:14:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ because their false god can't even protect them
Sun 23:14:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ the one they claim to be omniscient and omnipotent
Sun 23:14:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't seem to realize that there's one guy in the whole church who is doing well. It's the pastor, and he's living off of the money they give him while they can't even afford their medicine at the pharmacy.
Sun 23:15:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they still believe in medicine?
Sun 23:16:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eh, one of them told my mom that he couldn't afford his medicine at the pharmacy. She told him about drug discount coupons. He said he didn't have $100 to his name but he could afford $30.
Sun 23:16:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ These people are so close to the edge that it's a wonder they're even still alive.
Sun 23:18:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know. If I had less than $100, the rent was due, and I needed medicine, I mean, I've been in that situation before.
Sun 23:18:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you know, a smart person realizes "Hey, this God fellow isn't doing much for me."
Sun 23:18:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I hurt all the time and my shoulder is fractured and rotting and needs surgery."
Sun 23:19:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "And the surgeon will try to help me, for money, but this God fellow, he hasn't done a lot. I'm broke and I hurt all the time."
Sun 23:20:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know, when people say they'll pray for you it means they plan on doing nothing.
Sun 23:20:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're saying "Gee that sounds bad, man. Lemme play the world's smallest violin."
Sun 23:20:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's like with the school shootings, but it could be about my shoulder, it could be about anything.
Sun 23:21:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They pray that the war in Ukraine will end. Nope, Putin is still ruining Russia's economy and murdering and kidnapping children in Ukraine after 5 years. No sign of stopping.
Sun 23:22:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can pray that Trump will "go away somehow" and that he'll stop sending ICE to murder Americans with four gunshots to the back and a coverup, and kidnapping children. It doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Fucker's still there.
Sun 23:23:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Pray for whatever you want. It's a bunch of vainglorious words.
Sun 23:24:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I get that it provides some comfort to people who are struggling, and afraid. But other than self-soothing it doesn't do much.
Sun 23:26:41 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/health-medicine/epstein-improve-human-dna
Sun 23:28:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I say ICE murders Americans with 4 shots to the back and a coverup. It's the same thing basically that the protesters were shouting after Chicago Police officer Jason Van Dyke (found guilty of Murder) murdered Laquan MacDonald, "16 shots and a coverup!"
Sun 23:29:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ ICE murdered Alex Pretti with 4 gunshots to the back and a coverup.
Sun 23:30:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Officer Van Dyke shot and killed MacDonald then walked up to his lifeless body and shot him 15 more times in the back.
Sun 23:30:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The DOJ report said that the Chicago Police have a culture of "corruption, excessive violence, and racism". Well no shit, Sherlock.
Sun 23:31:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not long after that, in a separate incident, they murdered a 14 year old Latino boy and tried to cover it up.
Sun 23:31:28 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://futurism.com/future-society/olympics-crotch-allegations
Sun 23:31:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They got caught by their own body cameras trying to plant a gun on his body after they killed him.
Sun 23:32:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson issued an executive order saying the Chicago Police should investigate ICE.
Sun 23:32:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What it should have said was they're ordered to pretend ICE agents are unarmed 14 year old boys.
Sun 23:32:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe we could scare ICE out of town that way.
Sun 23:33:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ incells, c-cells, by the sea shore... https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/robot-human-face-unsettling
Sun 23:39:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, There was a debate over whether the Snoopy Lunar Module from Apollo 10 would still be possible to power up if it was salvaged.
Sun 23:39:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone said he had NiCad cells from that era that still accepted a charge and worked.
Sun 23:39:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said that the cells used on Snoopy were silver oxide cells that are not rechargeable.
Sun 23:40:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So those batteries are definitely dead and the module couldn't be powered on now except maybe by an umbilical cord that was compatible with the electrical system, like the type the Apollo module had.
Sun 23:40:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The LM didn't switch to battery power until it detached from the CSM.
Sun 23:40:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you might be able to power it up from another craft, but not by the batteries.
Sun 23:51:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://nerds.xyz/2026/02/savannah-guthrie-bitcoin-ransom/
Mon 00:07:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Planned Parenthood sent me an email saying that using expired condoms increases the chances they'll break.
Mon 00:07:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A while back the CDC said don't put them through the dishwasher and reuse them.
Mon 00:07:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said they say it because people do it.
Mon 00:07:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was like "Who puts used condoms through the dishwasher?
Mon 00:08:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're not so expensive that you have to resort to doing THAT.
Mon 00:08:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 00:11:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The more you buy at once, the less they tend to cost individually. It's the same with medication or toilet paper or most things.
Mon 00:14:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I was wondering why Dredd doesn't ever grab any of the guns the bad guys are using, to make his Lawgiver last longer.
Mon 00:14:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Halfway into the movie it says ammunition low.
Mon 00:15:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's been wasting it on low level criminals.
Mon 00:16:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they have a law against it
Mon 00:17:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it is folly to look for rationality in the behavior of Lawful beings :>
Mon 00:18:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, he's a classic Lawful Good character.
Mon 00:18:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It really limits how he can function.
Mon 00:24:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, It's also strange that in such a lawless world that street judges don't carry more ammunition.
Mon 00:25:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He comments that there's so much lawbreaking going on that street judges can only respond to 6% of it at any given time.
Mon 00:25:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That means they probably prioritize the worst.
Mon 00:26:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or the easiest
Mon 00:26:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Especially given the casualty rate that he mentions, you'd think they'd go out expecting to be cut off from resupply and reinforcements.
Mon 00:26:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ like our cops, who like to sit in squad cars waiting for their speed trap to collect victims
Mon 00:27:00 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ while people who ignore following distance cause accidents and hardly anyone knows how to use turn signals, high beams or fog lights properly...
Mon 00:28:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, In real life, Ma-Ma's control over Peach Trees is sort of like what happened in the Cabrini-Green apartments in Chicago.
Mon 00:28:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The gangs had total control, the Chicago Police wouldn't go there.
Mon 00:43:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I suppose Dredd is depressing in a way.
Mon 00:43:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead of trying to deal with the causes of crime, the system is still trying to react to it.
Mon 00:44:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dredd himself says what's going on in Peach Trees is mass poverty and "96% unemployment", but as a law enforcement officer, he just tries to respond to their crimes, like gang stuff and maniufacturing drugs, which always happens due to concentrated poverty.
Mon 00:45:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it's depressing in several ways
Mon 00:45:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ given that they don't have real courts, their entire operation is a mockery of their alleged ideals
Mon 00:46:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dredd embodies competence within a failing system, which is why the setting feels depressing rather than heroic.
Mon 00:46:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ obsession with rules always dooms a society
Mon 00:46:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He does enforce their laws correctly. He means well. He's incorruptible. But none of that really matters because of structural problems.
Mon 00:47:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and they ended up with the society they have because they couldn't sustain anything better
Mon 00:47:39 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ as we're seeing republics fall apart now
Mon 00:48:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even if they had 100 times as many street judges and they were all as good as Judge Dredd (which is what the cloning project in the first movie was trying to do), it wouldn't fix the root causes of crime.
Mon 00:48:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, in the US, Bill Clinton's administration dialed up federal funding of local police departments.
Mon 00:48:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said "a cop on every street" and he armed them with military weapons and flak jackets.
Mon 00:48:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And we still have crime.
Mon 00:49:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because we still have high unemployment and not much of a social welfare system.
Mon 00:50:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The other day a woman went crazy and ran a bunch of people over with her car and went on a stabbing spree.
Mon 00:50:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When the cops caught her, and asked why, she said "I used to be a good person and it did me no good. I lost my job, I'm homeless now. So I'm not good anymore."
Mon 00:51:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe that doesn't justify what she did, but it is a revenge against society rampage.
Mon 00:51:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like, would any of it have happened if she had a job and a home? She said that's what made her snap.
Mon 00:52:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can tell you that being broke and oppressed by the system does sort of make you have crazy thoughts about the people that created and are numb to that system.
Mon 00:54:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I mean, America is the system that produced a system where any crazy person can buy a handgun without delay and for under $200, but access to a psychiatrist is $400 a visit and perhaps thousands of dollars a month in medication.
Mon 00:55:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'll run you out of your apartment with $1600 rents and they'll starve you by doubling the price of food in 5 years and pouring bleach on the stuff that goes bad.
Mon 00:56:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then they give you a gun and no mental health care.
Mon 00:58:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One of the corrupt judges in the movie says he's been on the street for 20 years and the city is just a meat grinder. People go in one end and meat comes out the other, and all the system does is turn the handle.
Mon 00:59:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Sounds familiar.
Mon 01:05:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, firearms are not that expensive to mass produce
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Mon 02:06:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheeto hates Nacho (NATO)
Mon 02:18:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am told most LLMs get approx 40% of "what they know" from Reddit. SMH." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f
Mon 02:18:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "when will 'AI' figure out the US will never be able to pay down its debt and start labeling it a finacial fiasco" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f
Mon 02:19:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe MechaHitler gives xitter greater weight
Mon 02:21:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and mechamango, truth social
Mon 02:28:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Every time you say "AI", you make the whole world mumble and gaze at its shoes a little more." https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/bollocks/
Mon 02:29:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Stallman has a punk way of cutting through the epic miasma of bullshit generated by corporate American tech. You won't hear him mumble words like "AI" or "Cloud". He doesn't use those words because they are meaningless marketing terms designed to subtract clarity from conversation. It's hard not to respect, even admire those who refuse to adopt the language of the enemy."
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Mon 02:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-08.txt
Mon 02:51:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Mon 02:51:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Mon 02:52:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: nerds.xyz is 100% slop
Mon 02:52:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i notice you link to it
Mon 02:52:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's LLM spam
Mon 03:00:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 03:14:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux Mint keeps improving without telling you to use the terminal." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-mint-made-terminal-easier-to-ignore/
Mon 03:15:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After years of testing, this distro caused the least disruption." https://www.makeuseof.com/one-linux-distro-i-recommend-to-every-windows-11-user/
Mon 03:15:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The bootable rescue environment I reach for when systems won’t start." https://www.makeuseof.com/this-tiny-linux-usb-tool-can-save-almost-any-broken-pc/
Mon 03:16:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes, a GUI app isn't enough." https://www.makeuseof.com/terminal-commands-i-run-on-every-fresh-linux-install/
Mon 03:16:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I'm not here to make you feel old, but..." https://www.makeuseof.com/ancient-linux-distros-you-dont-remember-anymore/
Mon 03:17:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Free tools, low power use, and zero noise—this setup actually holds up." https://www.makeuseof.com/installed-lightweight-linux-tools-mini-pc-turned-into-silent-home-server/
Mon 03:17:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One plain-text system replaced my entire productivity stack." https://www.makeuseof.com/tried-god-mode-of-productivity-apps-linux-my-workflow-changed-forever/
Mon 03:18:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you're comfortable being a little uncomfortable around your Linux system, I highly recommend micro breaking your OS." https://www.makeuseof.com/broke-my-linux-system-on-purpose-recovered-it-without-reinstalling/
Mon 03:19:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.6.0 will fix the most annoying part of printing within the desktop environment https://www.xda-developers.com/kde-plasma-660-will-fix-the-most-annoying-part-of-printing-within-the-desktop-environment/
Mon 03:20:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 ways I use multiple Proxmox nodes without making a cluster https://www.xda-developers.com/use-multiple-proxmox-nodes-without-making-cluster/
Mon 03:21:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Don't worry, it already smashed its original funding goal." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-love-this-linux-handheld-computer-and-you-can-help-fund-it-right-now/
Mon 03:22:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's basically Linux running inside an app, with a desktop environment, too." https://www.xda-developers.com/turned-phone-into-linux-desktop-free-app/
Mon 03:22:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It also comes with a ton of fixes." https://www.xda-developers.com/valves-proton-100-4-update-introduces-a-wave-of-new-games-to-linux/
Mon 03:24:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It was a pretty big dealbreaker." https://www.xda-developers.com/i-tried-cosmic-desktop-as-a-kde-plasma-fanboy-and-one-thing-stopped-me-switching/
Mon 03:24:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Good for Good Old Games." https://www.xda-developers.com/gog-calls-linux-the-next-major-frontier-for-gaming-as-it-works-on-a-native-client/
Mon 03:25:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Minimalist Linux distros aren't as simple as they look https://www.xda-developers.com/minimalist-linux-distros-arent-as-simple-as-they-look/
Mon 03:26:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Arch Linux isn't as hard as everyone told me it'd be https://www.xda-developers.com/arch-linux-isnt-as-hard-as-everyone-told-me-itd-be/
Mon 03:27:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 of the biggest reasons your switch from Windows to Linux failed https://www.xda-developers.com/the-biggest-reasons-your-switch-to-linux-failed/
Mon 03:28:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TuxMate is like Ninite but for Linux, and it supports every major distro https://www.xda-developers.com/tuxmate-ninite-linux-supports-every-major-distro/
Mon 03:29:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The game streaming platform is on Ubuntu now." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-gamers-finally-get-official-nvidia-geforce-now-support/
Mon 03:29:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Astrology meets computer science." https://www.xda-developers.com/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on/
Mon 03:30:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NixOS is the best operating system I absolutely cannot recommend to anyone https://www.xda-developers.com/nixos-best-operating-system-cannot-recommend/
Mon 03:33:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): XDA (Valnet) on NixOS, Minimalist Distributions, Arch Linux, and Switching From Windows top GNU/Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/XDA_Valnet_on_NixOS_Minimalist_Distributions_Arch_Linux_and_Swi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/XDA_Valnet_on_NixOS_Minimalist_Distributions_Arch_Linux_and_Swi.gmi ∎
Mon 03:35:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore https://www.howtogeek.com/upgrade-argument-for-desktops-doesnt-stand-up-anymore/
Mon 03:35:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There's a reason why Linux keeps getting more popular!" https://www.howtogeek.com/things-you-can-do-on-linux-but-not-windows/
Mon 03:36:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Learn the terminal in four steps: package installs, config edits, a minimal installation, and then small scripts. No memorizing required." https://www.howtogeek.com/learn-the-terminal-in-a-few-steps-no-memorizing-required/
Mon 03:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ They never published their RMS talk (which they had in fact recorded) https://inv.nadeko.net/channel/UC0r6VVLgxKMpp-NGEEsE-MQ
Mon 03:38:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Leave these Windows tendencies at the door. You're in Penguin land now." https://www.howtogeek.com/windows-habits-that-will-backfire-in-linux/
Mon 03:38:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The truth behind Linux's security claims." https://www.howtogeek.com/no-linux-is-not-more-secure/ Windows does not even TRY to be secure. http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/
Mon 03:40:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Richard Stallman explains about hackers who program: "What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming."
Mon 03:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Richard Stallman Exposes the AI Lie; He Calls It “Pretend Intelligence” ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Richard_Stallman_Exposes_the_AI_Lie_He_Calls_It_Pretend_Intelli.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Richard_Stallman_Exposes_the_AI_Lie_He_Calls_It_Pretend_Intelli.gmi ∎
Mon 03:44:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it would be nice if humans pretended too
Mon 03:50:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Transmission 4.1 makes my favorite BitTorrent client even better https://www.howtogeek.com/transmission-41-makes-my-favorite-bittorrent-client-even-better/
Mon 03:52:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Transmission 4.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released as a Massive Update ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/28/Transmission_4_1_Open_Source_BitTorrent_Client_Released_as_a_Ma.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/28/Transmission_4_1_Open_Source_BitTorrent_Client_Released_as_a_Ma.gmi ∎
Mon 03:52:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "GParted Live 1.8.0 is ready to fix your ballooning partition problems." https://www.howtogeek.com/live-linux-distro-for-editing-disks-gparted-live-1-8-released/
Mon 03:53:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to pipe and redirect like a pro in the Linux command line https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-pipe-and-redirect-like-a-pro-linux-command-line/
Mon 03:55:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Bash error-handling patterns I use in every script https://www.howtogeek.com/bash-error-handling-patterns-i-use-in-every-script/
Mon 03:57:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One SSD has become my digital swiss army knife." https://www.howtogeek.com/external-ssd-changed-how-i-use-pc/
Mon 03:58:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Most of my homelab problems trace back to these 3 early decisions https://www.howtogeek.com/most-of-my-homelab-problems-trace-back-to-these-early-decisions/
Mon 03:58:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Effortlessly deploy 500+ tools to any Linux system with a single curl command. No root, no mess, no fuss." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-x-cmd-the-no-sudo-toolbox-that-installs-and-enhances-cli-tools-on-demand/
Mon 04:01:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to set up a perfect “rescue USB” that can save any PC https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-set-up-a-perfect-rescue-usb-that-can-save-any-pc/
Mon 04:02:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Not all Linux is built for laptops. From Ubuntu’s gesture support to Linux Mint’s efficiency, these are the best "laptop-first" choices" https://www.howtogeek.com/best-linux-distros-for-laptops/
Mon 04:03:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No installs required: history search, redirection, job control, completions, and other built-in terminal features that exploit the power of Linux." https://www.howtogeek.com/hidden-terminal-features-that-make-linux-feel-like-a-power-user-os/
Mon 04:04:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MAME can now emulate Apple's first graphical computer https://www.howtogeek.com/mame-em/
Mon 04:05:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Freedom isn't free." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-has-a-price-its-just-not-money/
Mon 04:05:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, microslop paid that price, and got Linux
Mon 04:06:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] linux 7 soon
Mon 04:06:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like vista 7
Mon 04:06:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Mon 04:06:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with rusty DRM
Mon 04:07:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "How much cooler does it get than fractals?" https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-this-week-january-30/
Mon 04:08:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ignore the advice to 'stop' partitioning: Why I still split my SSDs https://www.howtogeek.com/really-important-reasons-you-should-partition-your-ssds/
Mon 04:10:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I invited hackers to attack my home server, and the results were a wake-up call https://www.howtogeek.com/made-honeypot-for-linux-server/
Mon 04:11:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Fedora’s defaults make it safer and easier to maintain. Here’s why more distros should adopt them." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-features-i-wish-every-linux-distro-would-steal/
Mon 04:37:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – EPO Outrage and Maintaining the Pressure ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/EPO_Outrage_and_Maintaining_the_Pressure.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/EPO_Outrage_and_Maintaining_the_Pressure.gmi ∎
Mon 04:42:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Switching to Linux shouldn't feel like learning a new language. I used Zorin OS and Mint to see which one actually delivers the Windows experience." https://www.howtogeek.com/zorin-os-vs-linux-mint-which-is-the-better-linux-distro-for-windows-users/
Mon 04:43:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary and Microsoft, what else can one expect? https://www.howtogeek.com/visual-studio-code-is-eating-up-hundreds-of-gigabytes-on-linux/
Mon 04:44:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In an era of automated updates and "easy" installers, Slackware 15.0 is a jarring reminder of what Linux used to be." https://www.howtogeek.com/this-is-the-oldest-linux-distro-still-standing-and-im-shocked-people-still-use-it/
Mon 04:46:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ thesocietyofmedialawyers.org is not an org, it's a front group of the hired gun of Gulagboy and few others. 7 or about 10% of all members are from the same firm. It's a lying lobby.
Mon 04:47:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also includes Mishcon de Reya LLP, which corrupt EPO officials hired to stalk, harass and threaten Techrights
Mon 04:48:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From 2025: http://techrights.org/i/2025/11/mishcon-upc.png
Mon 04:48:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Love the speed of grep but hate the terminal syntax? Discover the Rust-based GUI tool that makes complex file searches as easy as point-and-click." Is Rust a selling point?? https://www.howtogeek.com/this-linux-gui-app-makes-grep-easy-even-if-you-forget-the-flags/
Mon 04:49:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I finally figured out Vim's "hidden" file system, and it changed everything https://www.howtogeek.com/vim-buffers-finally-made-multi-file-editing-click-for-me/
Mon 04:50:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I got tired of accidentally breaking things." https://www.howtogeek.com/immutable-linux-can-stop-you-from-breaking-your-system/
Mon 04:53:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ These 5 homelab mistakes almost ruined my self-hosting dreams https://www.howtogeek.com/homelab-mistakes-almost-ruined-self-hosting-dreams/
Mon 04:53:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Don't try self-hosting on Windows"
Mon 04:54:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-09.gmi
Mon 04:55:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1561.jpg
Mon 04:56:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1911.jpg
Mon 04:57:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dark hair gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/darkHaired
Mon 04:58:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I wanted to build on Sandra's idea here a little bit and I have two load bearing metaphors for it, related to two of my favourite video games: No Man's Sky and Stardew Valley" gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/exploration-myth.gmi
Mon 04:59:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He loves walking around the town - there's so much interesting stuff to sniff (good and bad stuff...), and he likes having people around, and bumping into other dogs to say hello, and all the shops that leave bowls of water outside are a fabulous perk since he's eternally thirsty due to the prednisone." gemini://ieve.me/squall/14.gmi
Mon 05:00:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am not a fan of JavaScript or developing for the web in general. I've been pretty clear on this opinion before." gemini://sporiff.dev/2026/02/08/js-fun/
Mon 05:01:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Running your own Autonomous System on the public internet sounds like something reserved for ISPs and large enterprises. It's not. With sponsoring LIRs making AS numbers and IPv6 prefixes accessible to individuals, and FreeBSD providing the routing tools to make it work" gemini://gemini.hofstede.it/bgp_routing_asn_freebsd.gmi
Mon 05:03:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 09/02/2026: The Exploration Myth and Making JavaScript Fun ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Gemini_Links_09_02_2026_The_Exploration_Myth_and_Making_JavaScr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Gemini_Links_09_02_2026_The_Exploration_Myth_and_Making_JavaScr.gmi ∎
Mon 05:04:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The one tool that makes every homelab easier to manage https://www.howtogeek.com/the-one-tool-that-makes-every-homelab-easier-to-manage/
Mon 05:04:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All the Linux news from this past week you may have missed." https://www.howtogeek.com/calibres-big-update-the-new-raspberry-pi-os-alternative-and-more-proton-games-linux-news-roundup/
Mon 05:05:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to make your Linux laptop more secure in 7 steps https://www.howtogeek.com/make-your-linux-laptop-more-secure-in-7-steps/
Mon 05:06:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux+ChromeOS at almost 7% in Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 05:07:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, There's a job for "laser operator".
Mon 05:08:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I feel I should interview just so I can tell them I plan to steal the "laser" for my lair on the moon. It's for "Preparation H".
Mon 05:08:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 05:08:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why not. Job interviewers fuck with us all the time.
Mon 05:08:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but maybe first you should carve your name into the Moon with it
Mon 05:09:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think the last time i did a job interview was in 2012
Mon 05:09:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] edinburgh uni
Mon 05:09:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and the interview was "remote"
Mon 05:11:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Open Gaming Collective, among other projects, is building a single kernel optimized for gaming." https://www.howtogeek.com/these-gaming-linux-distros-are-teaming-up-to-fix-bigger-problems/
Mon 05:11:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why settle for a restrictive storage dashboard? I replaced my specialized NAS software with Ubuntu and its better at almost everything." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-replaced-my-nas-os-with-ubuntu-desktop-and-it-was-better-at-everything/
Mon 05:12:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I traded Ubuntu's flashy interface for Debian’s "No Nonsense" philosophy, and I'm not going back." https://www.howtogeek.com/hate-ubuntu-debian-might-be-the-linux-distro-you-actually-want/
Mon 05:20:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ <@MinceR> but maybe first you should carve your name into the Moon with it
Mon 05:20:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ FUCK TRUMP seems more obvious.
Mon 05:20:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Mon 05:22:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/the-tick-animated/images/b/ba/Moon1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170218175136
Mon 05:22:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/the-tick-animated/images/b/b2/Chairfacearrested.png/revision/latest?cb=20170312004947
Mon 05:24:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux is winning the productivity war. From seamless updates to a better way to install apps, here are the features I wish Microsoft would replicate." https://www.howtogeek.com/3-linux-features-that-make-everyday-pc-work-faster-than-windows/
Mon 05:25:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ more like windows is losing it
Mon 05:25:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ linux is also losing, just more slowly
Mon 05:26:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why your favorite paid software wouldn't exist without open source https://www.howtogeek.com/your-favorite-paid-software-wouldnt-exist-without-open-source/
Mon 05:27:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I learned the hard way that your main computer shouldn't be a lab—here is why boring is better for your daily driver." https://www.howtogeek.com/please-stop-screwing-with-your-daily-driver-linux-pc/
Mon 05:28:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu itself is a problem https://www.howtogeek.com/turn-off-these-annoying-ubuntu-defaults-in-5-minutes/
Mon 05:29:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ There is a LOT of "virtue-signalling" from the right, but we just don't label it that
Mon 05:30:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 'Patriotic Correctness'
Mon 05:30:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ For instance, Gulagboy is pretending right about now to be a friend of the trans community. He's not leftist, he's an Irish bigot and Nem-isis, the spouse, publicly said: "Matthew Garrett is a rapist, kidnapper, and abuser" (source: https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/2014588565049770148) so he's just "virtue-signalling"
Mon 05:30:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ besides, are we sure that national socialism is on the right?
Mon 05:31:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ All this "virtue-signalling" thing isn't about wings
Mon 05:31:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ btw, that link is dead
Mon 05:31:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "virtue-signalling" is a phony term meant to demonise people you don't agree with
Mon 05:31:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is not dead
Mon 05:31:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is access-restricted
Mon 05:31:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ x.com won't load it, xcancel.com won't load it
Mon 05:32:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://old.reddit.com/r/amex/comments/1qzs6lq/the_amex_payment_myth_debunked_by_someone_at_amex/
Mon 05:32:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ghostarchive, archive.today and archive.org don't have it either
Mon 05:32:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <MinceR> 'Patriotic Correctness'
Mon 05:32:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] first time i see this term
Mon 05:32:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: those are not logged in
Mon 05:33:02 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ can we get a screenshot?
Mon 05:33:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Pay your bill on time and preferably in full. This might seem a bit counter intuitive, but we prefer people that don't carry any balance. Yes, you heard that right, we prefer you as a member when you never carry. Someone that pays in full is someone we can make exceptions for, it is someone we can trust repaying any debt very fast. We see them as a zero-risk client." -American Express
Mon 05:34:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, they do strongly prefer people who pay in full every month.
Mon 05:34:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org//i/2026/02/isis-2k.png
Mon 05:34:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't make the majority of their money on interest and they actively discourage carrying a balance.
Mon 05:34:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ thx
Mon 05:34:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you are carrying a balance, you're projecting financial instability to American Express, which they correctly interpret as risk.
Mon 05:34:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we did the right thing
Mon 05:34:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by kicking him our
Mon 05:34:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *out
Mon 05:35:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he uses the avatar of pink swine
Mon 05:35:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so he seems to at least be self-aware
Mon 05:35:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I have all kinds of friends, you know. We don't need to be politically eye to eye on everything, that's never going to happen.
Mon 05:35:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But I don't consider extremists to be a friend.
Mon 05:36:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's how it was
Mon 05:36:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] decades or years back
Mon 05:36:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the theory goes
Mon 05:36:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the powerful people want us divided
Mon 05:36:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aand social control media helps achieve this
Mon 05:36:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We can have arguments over what taxes should be or what the defense budget should be or what social programs we have.
Mon 05:36:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so people cannot organise for any meaningful change
Mon 05:36:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But we can never argue about the fundamental rights of human beings.
Mon 05:36:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That has to be where the limit is.
Mon 05:37:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ seems to me most humans believe that humans have no fundamental rights
Mon 05:37:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, the problem is those people that want to limit rights want all the rights they need to live their life.
Mon 05:37:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ not even all of them
Mon 05:37:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But then when you want the same thing, that's where the "negotiation" happens.
Mon 05:38:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ people with Authoritarian Personality Type want no rights for you, or for themselves
Mon 05:38:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have an anti-authoritarian personality.
Mon 05:38:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ same
Mon 05:38:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My parents tell me that's a character flaw.
Mon 05:38:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ but this is very rare
Mon 05:38:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Will Yandex overtake Microsoft? https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/europe/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 05:38:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said, "Ryan, one day you're going to mouth off to a cop and they're just going to kill you."
Mon 05:38:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "What the hell kind of a country is that? Because it's not a free country."
Mon 05:39:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe you can migrate to the uk then
Mon 05:39:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] :)
Mon 05:39:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ rotfl
Mon 05:39:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] here you don't get shot... easily
Mon 05:39:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yeah, migrate to the country that already banned VPNs
Mon 05:39:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oh
Mon 05:39:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did it?
Mon 05:39:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] url?
Mon 05:39:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so i keep hearing
Mon 05:39:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hearing, ok
Mon 05:39:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In the UK, at least the cops don't have assault rifles and an itchy trigger finger.
Mon 05:39:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but
Mon 05:39:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And masks.
Mon 05:39:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe a half truth
Mon 05:39:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And military costumes.
Mon 05:40:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, i wear masks
Mon 05:40:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i wore one yesterday
Mon 05:40:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ looks like it's still in progress
Mon 05:40:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For all the things you can say about the UK that are terrible, at least there's that.
Mon 05:40:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] most cops don't have any firearms
Mon 05:40:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they might have a club
Mon 05:40:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Neither do most people for that matter.
Mon 05:40:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and spray
Mon 05:40:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have several firearms.
Mon 05:41:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they can probably cause you more pain with the Kádár sausage than with a gun
Mon 05:41:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some are tall and/or strong
Mon 05:41:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some are short and fat
Mon 05:41:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you can run away in theory
Mon 05:41:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] their cars are not fast
Mon 05:41:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but cars get out of their way
Mon 05:41:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they have that advantage
Mon 05:42:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gulagboy is fraid of cops
Mon 05:42:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i can figure out now... why
Mon 05:42:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seeing what a person he is
Mon 05:42:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ many people have reason to be afraid of cops
Mon 05:42:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ given that most states are oppressive shitholes
Mon 05:43:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and cops always serve the state
Mon 05:43:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and the rich and powerful people the state serves
Mon 05:43:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] GAFAM is companies
Mon 05:43:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not the state
Mon 05:43:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but GAFAM works for the state
Mon 05:43:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ most states have been captured
Mon 05:43:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ besides, GAFAM is controlled by the sort of people the states like to serve
Mon 05:43:49 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (rich and powerful)
Mon 05:44:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they are the sort of people who tend to get away with everything
Mon 05:44:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "The worst offender in this category is casino deposits. Other than the fact that gambling is addictive, gambling with money you borrowed is completely irresponsible. I have personally slashed limits by over 50% because although this is a legitimate activity, we consider you as much more risky if you gamble with debt. Of course, if you always pay in full, we usually won't take action immediately, but don't be mistaken, we will make
Mon 05:44:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ note of it." -AmEx
Mon 05:44:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LOL
Mon 05:44:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i even saw someone argue in court that someone shouldn't be treated the way poor people are treated
Mon 05:44:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I am not afraid of cops
Mon 05:44:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] never was
Mon 05:44:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ this is a failed society of a failed species
Mon 05:44:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i called 4 cops weeks ago
Mon 05:44:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] one came to our home
Mon 05:44:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they were all female by the way
Mon 05:44:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so?
Mon 05:45:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are not scary
Mon 05:45:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but some people scare them, or vice verrrsa
Mon 05:45:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they will be
Mon 05:45:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and lack social skills
Mon 05:45:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like gulaghboy
Mon 05:45:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ once you learn how crazy and stupid someone has to be in order to become a cop
Mon 05:45:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In the US, the police are scary.
Mon 05:45:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When you get the attention of the police in the US, they will figure out a reason to hate you.
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Mon 05:45:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rianne is also not afraid of cops
Mon 05:45:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ Authoritarian Personality Type is a requirement, and so is not being too bright
Mon 05:45:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in the future i will explain swatting attempts against us
Mon 05:45:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they will refer to you as the "perpetrator" before you're even charged, much less have court.
Mon 05:45:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it didn';t work\
Mon 05:46:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it was attempted by ontario criminal
Mon 05:46:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who disappeared btw
Mon 05:46:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] banned everywhere
Mon 05:46:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] vanished
Mon 05:46:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nowhere to be seen
Mon 05:46:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] figures.
Mon 05:46:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if suicide, we'd not even know
Mon 05:46:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nobody would mention it in a mailing list
Mon 05:47:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as the person accomplished absolutely nothing
Mon 05:47:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in ontario, it is a go-to reference foe "insane person"
Mon 05:47:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we'll cover this in the future
Mon 05:48:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] techrights has more important and pressing topics to cover
Mon 05:49:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Lobsta was basically good at being a pain in the ass for other people to deal with.
Mon 05:49:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Mon 05:49:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even in irc
Mon 05:49:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and in social control media
Mon 05:49:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Collected one "scalp" which was a few thousand dollars from someone who made the mistake of hiring him.
Mon 05:49:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but you have to hesistate
Mon 05:50:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you enforce the rukles
Mon 05:50:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And that went to his head.
Mon 05:50:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they will call you a "phobe"
Mon 05:50:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] afaik, was never paif
Mon 05:50:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *paid
Mon 05:50:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after "winning"
Mon 05:50:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but refresh my memory
Mon 05:50:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe i misremember
Mon 05:50:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Going to the "tribunal" over the police and the prosecutor was probably where they lost patience with him.
Mon 05:51:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trying to use the resources of the system to attack another part of the same system, doesn't tend to go over well.
Mon 05:51:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it establishes a paper trail of "this person is nuts".
Mon 05:51:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/15/Human_Rights_Tribunal_of_Ontario_HRTO_Does_Not_Wish_to_Become_a.shtml
Mon 05:51:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which it clearly did.
Mon 05:51:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he was wasting money
Mon 05:51:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he was wasting time
Mon 05:51:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and not payingg taxes
Mon 05:51:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just taking benefits
Mon 05:51:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] take benefits././. one thing... but then wasting the authorities' time
Mon 05:51:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to "troll" them
Mon 05:52:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even did this in the uk
Mon 05:52:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] via internaitonal calls
Mon 05:52:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wasting the time of authorities in other counries
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Mon 05:52:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they called him a "troll:"
Mon 05:52:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they told
Mon 05:52:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us
Mon 05:52:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to rianne
Mon 05:52:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "HE IS A TROLL"
Mon 05:52:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "IGNORE THE TROLL"
Mon 05:52:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Mon 05:52:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "BLOCK HIM"
Mon 05:53:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, taking benefits that you are lawfully entitled to is fine.
Mon 05:53:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he was exchanging emails with gulagboy
Mon 05:53:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we have evidence
Mon 05:53:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Lots of people do that and that's what they're there for.
Mon 05:53:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we'll show this one day
Mon 05:53:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] gulagboy sank himself in deep mud
Mon 05:53:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Helping people who are less able to care for themselves.
Mon 05:53:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and hopes to quickly "move on"
Mon 05:53:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's a legal term for this in the US.
Mon 05:53:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Adult Failure to Thrive"
Mon 05:54:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It may sound harsh, but if you are an adult who can't care for yourself, you are not thriving.
Mon 05:54:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you may need assistance.
Mon 05:54:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's no shame in that. Maybe some Nazi doesn't like that there are programs to help the less fortunate.
Mon 05:55:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know, lots of people have a disease or disorder so debilitating that they cannot do work. I mean, they don't take the benefits and brag that they're on them, they'd work if they could.
Mon 05:55:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is a generic
Mon 05:55:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] term
Mon 05:55:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But nobody will hire them like that.
Mon 05:55:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now all are the same
Mon 05:55:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some were in prison
Mon 05:55:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some have autism
Mon 05:56:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some are mean people workers cannot get along with
Mon 05:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right, in the US we have SSI and SSDI income, Medicaid and Medicare.
Mon 05:56:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Subsidized housing.
Mon 05:56:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Food Stamps
Mon 05:56:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We don't "do nothing" for them, but it's expensive to deal with these programs.
Mon 05:56:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] across from us we have council (public) housing
Mon 05:56:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And the taxes are not keeping up with the cost.
Mon 05:56:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] most of them are very nice people
Mon 05:56:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some of them even feed the birds
Mon 05:56:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with the little money they have
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Mon 05:57:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> We don't "do nothing" for them, but it's expensive to deal with these programs.
Mon 05:57:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I personally think taxes should go higher.
Mon 05:57:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more expensive to bail out banks
Mon 05:57:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Especially the employer portion of FICA.
Mon 05:57:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like SVB
Mon 05:57:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what happens if you don't?
Mon 05:57:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who suffers?
Mon 05:57:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some sil valley saillies?
Mon 05:57:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They should let uninsured depositors eat their losses.
Mon 05:58:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They should let tech scams go bankrupt, not inflate the bubble bigger.
Mon 05:58:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like bit-'coin'
Mon 05:58:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 09 065413 < IsambardPrince> It may sound harsh, but if you are an adult who can't care for yourself, you are not thriving.
Mon 05:58:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ what if my entire species is failing to thrive?
Mon 05:58:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Deposit Insurance should be enough to cover reasonable deposits for the poor and lower middle class.
Mon 05:58:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (or, for most part, being adult)
Mon 05:58:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't even think they should insure $250,000.
Mon 05:58:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think it should go back DOWN to $100,000.
Mon 05:58:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like it was before the Dodd-Frank Act.
Mon 05:59:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, here it is 65k (gbp)
Mon 05:59:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ s/most/the most/
Mon 05:59:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fscs or something like that
Mon 05:59:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The intent was that nobody should go completely broke and lose everything because a bank failed.
Mon 05:59:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you have more than $100,000 you should have to buy units of private deposit insurance for the rest.
Mon 05:59:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like you do with non-NCUA credit unions.
Mon 06:00:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] banks rely more on loans than hoarders
Mon 06:00:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because
Mon 06:00:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they have like 10 borrowers
Mon 06:00:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Loans are cheaper.
Mon 06:00:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from the lending bank
Mon 06:00:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for each one that hoards money
Mon 06:00:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that is a problem,
Mon 06:00:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] banks are not a place where money is placed
Mon 06:00:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a place that invents capital that does not yet exist
Mon 06:00:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're places you're supposed to OWE money to.
Mon 06:00:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and may never exist
Mon 06:00:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so the system itself is based on toxic assumptionsd
Mon 06:00:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yes, this is fractional reserve banking.
Mon 06:01:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We should have Full Reserve Banking.
Mon 06:01:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but then life is "down"
Mon 06:01:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Banks would be less inclined to invest in bullshit if they had to have deposits to cover it all.
Mon 06:01:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people don't buy 2 cars
Mon 06:01:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and homes with 2 garages
Mon 06:01:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that they don't own
Mon 06:01:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then building stallsd
Mon 06:01:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] property developers like epstein and trump
Mon 06:03:23 │ 〖schestowitz-pi〗 │ first line not alarming
Mon 06:03:23 │ 〖schestowitz-pi〗 │ second - more so
Mon 06:05:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Recent Valnet Articles About GNU/Linux and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Recent_Valnet_Articles_About_GNU_Linux_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Recent_Valnet_Articles_About_GNU_Linux_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 06:06:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm planning to move back to the city at some point.
Mon 06:06:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe even get rid of the car eventually.
Mon 06:07:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dropping it would reduce my expenses by nearly $1,000 of insurance, not to mention the gas and repairs every year.
Mon 06:07:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can definitely see why broke people drive around with no car insurance.
Mon 06:07:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't plan for anything, including when the police pull them over and ask "Why no insurance?"
Mon 06:07:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not even the minimum the law requires.
Mon 06:08:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't plan for anything when you're broke.
Mon 06:09:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i still have a licence
Mon 06:09:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but i live near town
Mon 06:09:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i walk everywhere i need
Mon 06:09:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is good i don't have a car
Mon 06:09:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for many other reasons
Mon 06:10:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] having a licence is not having an asset
Mon 06:11:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just like citizenships are not assets
Mon 06:11:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same for knowledge
Mon 06:11:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you want to challenge some $system
Mon 06:11:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need to not play along with the mantra of it
Mon 06:11:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then the $system cannot put you down
Mon 06:11:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as you are anomalous to it
Mon 06:12:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yesterday I saved almost 30 pounds on peanut butter
Mon 06:12:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in quantities, very famous brand too
Mon 06:12:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's not for me, for rianne..
Mon 06:14:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there seems to be a 300G version of it
Mon 06:14:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not the 1KG one
Mon 06:14:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they can rip people off a lot better
Mon 06:15:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more glass, less content
Mon 06:15:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] buy over and over again in smaller quantities
Mon 06:15:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aka shinkflation
Mon 06:15:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/pip-nut-smooth-peanut-butter-300g it would cost like 13 pounds for 1kg
Mon 06:16:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] peanuts didn't use that cost that much
Mon 07:12:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tips: Sharing files on home network ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Tips_Sharing_files_on_home_network.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Tips_Sharing_files_on_home_network.gmi ∎
Mon 07:17:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Planet KDE: Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the Oxygen and Air themes? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Planet_KDE_Beating_an_old_but_not_dead_horse_what_to_do_with_th.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Planet_KDE_Beating_an_old_but_not_dead_horse_what_to_do_with_th.gmi ∎
Mon 07:20:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Noid Linux – Void-based minimalist Linux distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Noid_Linux_Void_based_minimalist_Linux_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Noid_Linux_Void_based_minimalist_Linux_distribution.gmi ∎
Mon 07:26:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Mon 07:36:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mr Crow estimates that in 1982, aged 17, he would have been earning around £35 a week as a trainee civil servant." ☛ https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/people-will-do-whatever-it-takes-to-get-a-ticket-the-rising-cost-and-stress-of-securing-gig-tickets-5492122 | Source: The Scotsman
Mon 07:36:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "From the Canadian Anti-Monopoly Project (CAMP): World of Scams: The Fraud Problem at the Heart of Online Advertising." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/fix-liability-and-ad-libraries-anti-fraud-policy-ideas-from-canada/ | Source: Don Marti
Mon 07:37:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "I was wondering is it possible to bypass first boot key enrollment through shim. Could there be some signed bootloader that allow you to do more than the authors expected?" ☛ https://habr.com/en/articles/446238/ | Source: Habr
Mon 07:37:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I do want to note a couple of things first, I consider a digital subscription to be one you pay for online." ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/keep-only-one-digital-subscription/ | Source: Gregory Hammond
Mon 07:37:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Everything beyond that will be blurred out, and they’ll be prompted to “Unlock lyrics with Premium" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/streaming/875511/youtube-music-lyrics-paywall | Source: The Verge
Mon 08:14:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – A Can of WORMS - Part IV - They Would Even Attack RMS for Criticising Autocrats (Saying This is "Politics") ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/A_Can_of_WORMS_Part_IV_They_Would_Even_Attack_RMS_for_Criticisi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/A_Can_of_WORMS_Part_IV_They_Would_Even_Attack_RMS_for_Criticisi.gmi ∎
Mon 08:27:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I keep "tiny" Linux distros on my keychain: Here are 5 reasons you should too ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/I_keep_tiny_Linux_distros_on_my_keychain_Here_are_5_reasons_you.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/I_keep_tiny_Linux_distros_on_my_keychain_Here_are_5_reasons_you.gmi ∎
Mon 08:29:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Competitions, Addictions, and Popularity Contests Are Not Going to Help Perl, They'll Waste Everybody's Time and Give Microsoft More Control Over Its Competition ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Microsoft_Competitions_Addictions_and_Popularity_Contests_Are_N.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Microsoft_Competitions_Addictions_and_Popularity_Contests_Are_N.gmi ∎
Mon 08:29:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 6 tips for using Linux without touching the command line ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/6_tips_for_using_Linux_without_touching_the_command_line.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/6_tips_for_using_Linux_without_touching_the_command_line.gmi ∎
Mon 08:33:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "... which is an action that demonstrates how much the endowment cares about freedom;" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/06/0310232#1433059
Mon 08:33:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The servers and bandwidth and backups cost ~$2.2 million USD a year to host Wikipedia (and hardware and bandwidth seems to be getting cheaper over the long term, while Wikipedia has about maximized its popularity) and not accounting for inflation"
Mon 08:33:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Who writes Wikipedia? PEOPLE WITH MONEY... by proxy! http://techrights.org/o/2022/10/07/nat-friedman-wikipedia-spam/
Mon 08:33:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ lxo, see https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/05/133201#1433057 "The kernel, Linux contains proprietary software and is distributed alongside a massive collection of proprietary derivative works, therefore it is proprietary software."
Mon 08:35:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On-demand delivery services facilitated through online platforms have grown significantly in the past decade" ☛ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-seattle-minimum-pay-app-deliveries.html | Source: Omicron Limited
Mon 08:36:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The labor movement isn’t just the weakest it’s been in a century." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2026/02/union-density-crisis-labor-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Mon 08:36:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Team USA in a troubling time for many Americans I am now receiving a scary amount of hate/threats for simply using my voice WHEN ASKED about how I feel" ☛ https://www.thewrap.com/culture-lifestyle/sports/olympic-figure-skater-amber-glenn-social-media-break-trump-comments-threats/ | Source: The Wrap
Mon 08:36:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apparently, the Super Bowl is not American enough for MAGA." ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/tpusas-halftime-show-is-an-all-american | Source: The Next Move
Mon 08:37:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The statute has survived everything from the dot-com bubble to a Supreme Court challenge that struck down the surrounding text in the CDA." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-turns-30-social-media-addiction-cases-sunset | Source: The Verge
Mon 08:37:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Claire Lai said the sentence was “heartbreakingly cruel” given her 78-year-old father’s declining health, while her brother Sebastien Lai called the sentence “draconian” and “devastating”." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/jimmy-lai-sentencing-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-businessman | Source: The Guardian UK
Mon 08:37:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The rule of law has been completely shattered in Hong Kong" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-20-years-in-prison-in-hong-kongs-biggest-media-trial/ | Source: CPJ
Mon 08:38:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The international community must step up its pressure to free Jimmy Lai if we want press freedom to be respected anywhere in the world." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/world/asia/effectively-a-death-sentence-no-mercy-for-hong-kong-media-tycoon-20260209-p5o0sh.html | Source: The Age AU
Mon 08:38:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "He faced judges hand-picked to preside over national security cases and was denied his first choice of lawyer." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/09/breaking-jimmy-lai-jailed-for-20-years-in-hong-kong-after-nat-security-conviction/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press
Mon 08:38:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Two of those years will overlap with Lai's existing prison term, meaning that he will serve an additional 18 years, the judges wrote. He has been in prison since 2020" ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-sentenced-to-20-years/a-75867715 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Mon 08:39:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So it is a life sentence if not death sentence. He is given not even hope.
Mon 08:39:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "His sentence is by far the harshest handed out under the national security law, surpassing the previous record of 10 years given to legal scholar Benny Tai in 2024." ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/hong-kong-to-sentence-media-mogul-jimmy-lai-in-national-security-trial-507832600 | Source: RTL
Mon 08:39:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Such statements, particularly when viewed alongside numerous reports of widespread summonses and forced confessions, present a picture of a “combined deterrence” policy, in which judicial threats are coupled with economic and social tools." ☛ https://www.en-hrana.org/day-43-of-the-protests-pressure-and-threats-on-universities-and-political-activists/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency
Mon 08:40:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "News of the extended years of imprisonment comes after Mohammadi embarked on a hunger strike." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/iranian-nobel-laureate-sentenced-to-over-7-more-years/a-75862455 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Mon 08:40:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Once you jump from 22 to 1678 files, doesn't it get difficult to still call it "from scratch"?" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/07/0323222
Mon 08:41:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Federal Reserve 101, Part II: The Global Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Aftermath" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/federal-reserve-101-part-ii-the-global
Mon 08:42:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Just days after Nazi Cheeto said Putin had promised to stop this https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/07/russia-hits-ukraine-power-grid-with-massive-attack-operator-says-a91888
Mon 08:43:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ No power/heat security, no water security, what sort of future is this?
Mon 08:44:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unit Activity Events" ☛ https://www.businessinsider.com/us-military-members-pressured-to-see-melania-documentary-mrff-2026-2 | Source: Business Insider
Mon 08:44:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s like injecting cancer into the body of the military unit." ☛ https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/military-pressured-to-see-melania-whistleblowers-warn/ | Source: The Daily Beast
Mon 08:44:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Historians who study ancient Greece often have to work with fragments of text or just a few pottery shards." ☛ https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/i-used-to-think-historians-in-future.html | Source: Computational Complexity
Mon 08:45:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The European Parliament firmly rejects the visa ban imposed by the US authorities on former Commissioner Breton" ☛ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20260122IPR32567/ep-leaders-reject-the-visa-ban-imposed-on-former-commissioner-breton | Source: European Parliament
Mon 08:45:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It was a shock. It’s never nice to be singled out like that, especially hours before Christmas Eve, when all you want to do is wrap presents and peel vegetables" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/technology/2026-02-08/the-europeans-banned-from-the-us-for-fighting-misinformation-elon-musk-has-pushed-the-nuclear-button-he-doesnt-like-us.html | Source: El País
Mon 08:46:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When does Cheeto force every household to receive a book by or about him? Already forcing people to watch propaganda 'film' made as a gift by Bezos to the wife, now imposing MAGA propaganda in sporting events (like Germany in the 1930s).... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-hitler-speeches-ivana-poisoning-blood-b2466500.html
Mon 08:47:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 08:47:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In autocracy, revering the leader is obligatory
Mon 08:48:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s years late and many millions over budget, but — at last — the TTC Line 5 Eglinton Crosstown is open today!" ☛ https://scruss.com/blog/2026/02/08/crosstown-is-finally-open-and-i-am-%f0%9f%98%90/ | Source: Stewart C Russell
Mon 08:48:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Well, I don't mean to turn this into yet another discussion of the significant environmental hazard posed by leaking underground storage tanks" ☛ https://computer.rip/2026-02-08-forecourt-networking.html | Source: J B Crawford
Mon 08:48:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Dozens of victims come forward " ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2026-02-08/fbi-concluded-jeffrey-epstein-wasnt-running-a-sex-trafficking-ring-for-powerful-men-files-show | Source: US News And World Report http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/06/Does_Linux_Torvalds_Regret_Having_Dinners_With_Bill_Russian_Gir.shtml
Mon 08:53:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Airports warned that during peak travel times, delays could reach six hours" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/02/08/2026/new-eu-biometric-system-creates-long-airport-waits | Source: Semafor Inc
Mon 08:54:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Most discussions of anonymization focus on buzzwords like k-anonymity and differential privacy" ☛ https://www.testingbranch.com/re_identification/ | Source: Miguel Batista
Mon 08:55:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "a threat of cybercriminals hijacking the behavior of these agents" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/asia_tech_news_roundup/ | Source: The Register UK
Mon 08:59:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It is entirely accurate, yes, but it is so funny to me to summarize the arguments raised by critics in this breezy, balanced matter." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/canada-ai-strategy-summary/ | Source: Nick Heer
Mon 09:01:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So the man who committed crimes and then attacked the media for criticising him (Harris) chose the same lawyer as Gulagboy and is now openly promoted the far right in the UK. Seems so very fitting.
Mon 09:01:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And the lawyer who did this seems to be unemployed after the lawsuit (K.C.)
Mon 09:02:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ At least based on Microsoft LinkedIn and official site. Did Gulagboy's lawyer become unemployed after the lawsuits against Techrights?
Mon 09:05:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ To be fair, if you profit from men who strangle women, then you ought be unemployable. This lawyer literally came from the PR INDUSTRY. http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Special_Place_in_Hell_for_Women_Who_Help_Violent_Microsofters_F.shtml
Mon 09:06:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a benchmark, my screen time this week averaged around 2.5 hours per day on my phone and 1.5 hours per day on my tablet" ☛ https://kevquirk.com/step-aside-phone | Source: Kev Quirk
Mon 09:11:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Welcome to a little series I'm starting, where I ask people working in the privacy field 7 questions about their work!" ☛ https://blog.avas.space/pp-messaging/ | Source: Ava
Mon 09:11:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No, what I’m talking about here is all the businesses that are throwing their lot in with this scam." ☛ https://explodingcomma.com/posts/outsourcing-the-core-of-your-business-seems-like-a-bad-idea | Source: Pete Brown
Mon 09:11:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I just think that’s interesting." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/everything-eventually-becomes-email/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 09:11:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve only gone and done it again! I redesigned my website." ☛ https://dbushell.com/2026/02/09/big-design-and-bold-ideas/ | Source: David Bushell
Mon 09:20:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ All the women who attacked Rianne Schestowitz on behalf of Brat Wilson LLP [sic] quit the firm after the lawsuit
Mon 09:29:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 09/02/2026: Russia Intentionally Killing Civilians, Jimmy Lai Effectively Sentenced for Life for Publishing News ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Links_09_02_2026_Russia_Intentionally_Killing_Civilians_Jimmy_L.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Links_09_02_2026_Russia_Intentionally_Killing_Civilians_Jimmy_L.gmi ∎
Mon 09:29:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "TLDR (but stay for the animations!): Lance is a successor to Iceberg / Delta Lake, more optimized for random reads" ☛ https://tontinton.com/posts/lance/ | Source: Tony Solomonik
Mon 09:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When you think of Java modularity, chances are your first thoughts land on JPMS, or perhaps on Spring’s flexible configuration model." ☛ https://blog.frankel.ch/rediscovering-java-serviceloader/ | Source: Nicolas Fränkel
Mon 09:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "R has external pointers, and these make it feasible to instantiate the same object in Python." ☛ https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/08/#chronometre_initial_pair | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Mon 09:32:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A key compiler optimization is ‘inlining’: the compiler takes your function definition and it tries to substitute it at the call location." ☛ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/02/08/the-cost-of-a-function-call/ | Source: Daniel Lemire
Mon 09:33:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Modern sandwich construction relies on a complex graph of transitive ingredients sourced from multiple registries (farms, distributors, markets)." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/08/sandwich-bill-of-materials.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Mon 09:33:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As I see more and more people generating code instead of writing it" ☛ https://localghost.dev/blog/stop-generating-start-thinking/ | Source: Sophie Koonin
Mon 09:33:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Stallman has a punk way of cutting through the epic miasma of bullshit generated by corporate American tech" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/bollocks/ | Source: The Cyber Show
Mon 09:34:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yeah, I didn't take a break." ☛ https://kevquirk.com/ive-moved-to-pure-blog | Source: Kev Quirk
Mon 09:44:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve been playing with security configurations this month, trying to optimize what I already had." ☛ https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/Updates_and_Bot_Wars | Source: Marisabel Munoz
Mon 09:44:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "I am a mama bear. I don’t allow anyone to disrupt my joy. This website is my safe haven, my playground, a reflection of myself." ☛ https://marisabel.nl/public/blog/RE:_The_Internet_Is_No_Longer_A_Safe_Haven_%7C_Brain_Baking | Source: Marisabel Munoz
Mon 09:45:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For me, vim is a combination of genuine improvements in vi's core editing behavior (cf)" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/ViIsAProductOfItsTime | Source: University of Toronto
Mon 09:45:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here’s a summary of what I’ve got so far: [...]" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/childhood-melbourne-i486-progress/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Mon 09:46:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The NetBSD project has announced the release of NetBSD 11.0 RC1." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12725 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 09:46:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, I again mused about FreeBSD 15.0 and pkgbase." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/08/upgrading-a-freebsd-14-3-host-to-freebsd-15-0/ | Source: Dan Langille
Mon 09:46:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "why NetBSD is unlikely to adopt Rust code" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260209 | Source: Distro Watch
Mon 09:47:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Picross puzzles, aka nonograms, can relatively easily have ambiguous solutions." ☛ https://eli.li/constraint-propagation-for-fun | Source: Eli Mellen
Mon 09:47:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Running your own Autonomous System on the public internet sounds like something reserved for ISPs and large enterprises." ☛ https://blog.hofstede.it/running-your-own-as-bgp-on-freebsd-with-frr-gre-tunnels-and-policy-routing/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn
Mon 09:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I recently discovered a surprising path to accessing localhost URLs and services, where instead of connecting to 127.0.0.1" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdAndConnectToAny | Source: University of Toronto
Mon 09:48:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first thing I did was wipe the OS it shipped with and install TrueNAS. That part was also great." ☛ https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/ugreen4800plusquiet/ | Source: Tymscar
Mon 13:45:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Iran sentences Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to six years in prison ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20260208-iran-sentences-nobel-peace-prize-laureate-narges-mohammadi-to-six-years-in-prison
Mon 13:54:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Quantum Teleportation Was Performed Over The Internet For The First Time ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-teleportation-was-performed-over-the-internet-for-the-first-time
Mon 13:57:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Niko Matsakis: Fun With Dada ☞ https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2026/02/08/fun-with-dada/
Mon 13:59:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why OOXML Is Not a Standard Format for Office Documents ☞ https://fossforce.com/2026/02/why-ooxml-is-not-a-standard-format-for-office-documents/
Mon 14:00:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week in Linux 335: Ubuntu LTS, LibreOffice, Debian takes A.I.m at LLMs, NVIDIA GeForce NOW & more GNU/Linux news ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-335/
Mon 14:07:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reaction to Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai's 20 year sentence in security trial ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/reaction-to-hong-kong-tycoon-jimmy-lais-20-year-sentence-in-security-trial
Mon 14:09:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – GNU/Linux May Have Grown to 7% in Equatorial Guinea ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_May_Have_Grown_to_7_in_Equatorial_Guinea.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_May_Have_Grown_to_7_in_Equatorial_Guinea.gmi ∎
Mon 14:31:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): pearOS 26.2 Released with Liquid Gel Design, Wayland Session, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/pearOS_26_2_Released_with_Liquid_Gel_Design_Wayland_Session_and.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/pearOS_26_2_Released_with_Liquid_Gel_Design_Wayland_Session_and.gmi ∎
Mon 14:37:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai given 20 years’ jail in national security case ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai-given-20-years-jail-in-national-security-case
Mon 14:37:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Links between Epstein and the Israeli government: What the files show ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/links-between-epstein-and-the-israeli-government-what-the-files-show
Mon 14:38:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Source Web Radio with Icecast2 and Raspberry PI ☞ https://peppe8o.com/icecast-raspberry-pi/
Mon 14:39:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beating an old, but not dead horse: what to do with the Oxygen and Air themes? ☞ https://filipfila.wordpress.com/2026/02/08/beating-an-old-but-not-dead-horse-what-to-do-with-the-oxygen-and-air-themes/
Mon 14:40:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing Pure Blog ☞ https://kevquirk.com/introducing-pure-blog
Mon 14:41:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8devices Maca 2 – A ultra-long-range data radio with 80km range for drones and robotics ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/08/8devices-maca-2-a-ultra-long-range-data-radio-with-80km-range-for-drones-and-robotics/
Mon 14:42:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wealth Was Never Only Money or Physical Assets But the Physical Self and the Mind ☞ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/08/never-only-money/
Mon 14:43:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Betting on catastrophe: the dizzying rise of prediction markets ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/economy/20260208-betting-catastrophe-dizzying-rise-prediction-markets
Mon 14:43:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Enhanced script to run app as any user ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/enhanced-script-to-run-app-as-any-user.html
Mon 14:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SpaceFM removed from Excalibur ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/spacefm-removed-from-excalibur.html
Mon 14:44:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Iranian Nobel Laureate Gets Second Prison Sentence and Ends Hunger Strike ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/world/middleeast/iran-narges-mohammadi-second-sentence.html
Mon 14:45:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia says it didn't use pirated books to train its Hey Hi (AI) models — company asking for Anna's Archive suit to be dismissed ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-says-annas-archive-contact-does-not-show-pirated-books-were-used-to-train-its-ai
Mon 14:46:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Surveillance Giant Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/homeland-security-google
Mon 14:46:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Voyager 26.04-alpha5 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/voyager
Mon 14:47:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Colin Watson: Free software activity in January 2026 ☞ https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-01.html
Mon 14:48:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vincent Bernat: Fragments of an adolescent web ☞ https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2026-old-web-articles
Mon 14:48:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Patryk Cisek: Bitwarden Secrets Manager With Ansible ☞ https://prezu.ca/post/2026-02-05-bws-with-ansible/
Mon 14:49:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Step Aside, Phone! ☞ https://kevquirk.com/step-aside-phone
Mon 14:49:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fixed wrong path to pngoverlay-cairo ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/fixed-wrong-path-to-pngoverlay-cairo.html
Mon 14:49:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ALSA fix for aplay ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202602/alsa-fix-for-aplay.html
Mon 14:50:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Tearscape - 2026-02-04 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-02-04-edition/index.html
Mon 14:51:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The 6.19 kernel has been released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1057417/
Mon 14:52:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Grep Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/grep/
Mon 14:52:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Awk Cheatsheet ☞ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/awk/
Mon 14:52:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top 10 Most Popular GNU/Linux Distributions in February 2026 ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/top-10-most-popular-linux-distributions-february-2026/
Mon 14:53:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Set or Change Timezone on Debian 13 ☞ https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-set-or-change-timezone-on-debian-13/
Mon 14:53:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install OpenJDK 25 on Debian (13, 12, 11) ☞ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-openjdk-25-on-debian-linux/
Mon 14:54:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Change TimeZone on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/change-timezone-debian-13/
Mon 14:54:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Percona on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-percona-rocky-linux-10/
Mon 15:06:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU Linux-Libre 6.19 Kernel Is Now Available for Software Freedom Lovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Libre_6_19_Kernel_Is_Now_Available_for_Software_Freed.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Libre_6_19_Kernel_Is_Now_Available_for_Software_Freed.gmi ∎
Mon 15:07:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 6 Best Free and Open Source Crystal Static Site Generators ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-crystal-static-site-generators/
Mon 15:08:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Noid GNU/Linux – Void-based minimalist GNU/Linux distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/noid-linux-void-based-minimalist-linux-distribution/
Mon 15:14:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3 Useful Free and Open Source YAML Code Formatters ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-yaml-code-formatters/
Mon 15:14:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gale – lightweight Thunderstore client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gale-lightweight-thunderstore-client/
Mon 15:14:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 8 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Student Information Systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/studentinformationsystems/
Mon 15:14:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CuteKit – build system and package manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cutekit-build-system-package-manager/
Mon 15:15:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Toney – terminal based note taking app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/toney-terminal-based-note-taking-app/
Mon 15:15:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Toney – terminal based note taking app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/toney-terminal-based-note-taking-app/
Mon 15:16:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ webchanges – checks web content ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/webchanges-checks-web-content/
Mon 15:20:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Return of Algol 68 ☞ https://jxself.org/algol-68.shtml
Mon 15:21:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Kernel Always Wins | LINUX Unplugged 653 ☞ https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows#entry-13883
Mon 15:23:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Waking up whenever I want because I am no longer with IBM" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f
Mon 15:24:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Setting Up Open Media Vault as a Home NAS ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/setting-up-open-media-vault-as-a-home-nas.59023/
Mon 15:24:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rooks – steganographic tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rooks-steganographic-tool/
Mon 15:25:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ v2 – rich-text editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/v2-rich-text-editor/
Mon 15:26:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ JetBrains enables Wayland support by default in IntelliJ 2026.1 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/intellij-native-wayland-support-2026-1
Mon 15:27:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 6.19: 40% Speed Boost on Old AMD GPUs & Faster Ext4 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/linux-6-19-kernel-features-amd-performance
Mon 15:27:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: February 8th, 2026 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-february-8th-2026
Mon 15:27:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 7.0 Kernel Confirmed by Linus Torvalds, Expected in Mid-April 2026 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-7-0-kernel-confirmed-by-linus-torvalds-expected-in-mid-april-2026
Mon 15:27:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Kernel 6.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New ☞ https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-6-19-officially-released-this-is-whats-new
Mon 15:28:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ArchBANG 080226 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/archbang
Mon 15:28:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Branchlet – create and manage Git worktrees ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/branchlet-create-manage-git-worktrees/
Mon 15:28:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ENux 5.0 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/enux
Mon 15:28:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ObsidianOS 2026.02.08 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/obsidianos
Mon 15:28:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2025 Annual Report now available ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/08/2025-annual-report-now-available/
Mon 15:29:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Welcome to APRICOT 2026 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/09/welcome-to-apricot-2026/
Mon 15:31:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): NetBSD 11.0 RC1 available! ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/NetBSD_11_0_RC1_available.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/NetBSD_11_0_RC1_available.gmi ∎
Mon 15:34:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Circumstantial Complexity, LLMs and Large Scale Architecture ☞ https://www.datagubbe.se/aiarch/
Mon 15:34:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 86-type Smart Home control panel features a 3.5-inch display, physical buttons, Bluetooth SIG Mesh gateway ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/09/86-type-smart-home-control-panel-features-a-3-5-inch-display-physical-buttons-bluetooth-sig-mesh-gateway/
Mon 15:35:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In the Age of Hey Hi (AI) Writing Tools, I Picked Emacs for My Sci-Fi Novel ☞ https://itsfoss.com/emacs-the-ux-ideal/
Mon 15:38:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux and LINUX Unplugged ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Audiocasts_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_and_LINUX_Unplugged.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Audiocasts_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_and_LINUX_Unplugged.gmi ∎
Mon 15:40:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Barry Kauler on EasyOS Development: ALSA, SpaceFM, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Barry_Kauler_on_EasyOS_Development_ALSA_SpaceFM_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Barry_Kauler_on_EasyOS_Development_ALSA_SpaceFM_and_More.gmi ∎
Mon 15:40:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/today_s_howtos.1.gmi ∎
Mon 15:43:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 15:45:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): A Move to Pure Blog ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/A_Move_to_Pure_Blog.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/A_Move_to_Pure_Blog.gmi ∎
Mon 15:46:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU Binutils 2.46 Adds Support for AMD Zen6 CPUs, SFrame v3, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Binutils_2_46_Adds_Support_for_AMD_Zen6_CPUs_SFrame_v3_and_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Binutils_2_46_Adds_Support_for_AMD_Zen6_CPUs_SFrame_v3_and_.gmi ∎
Mon 15:49:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AppImages are just .exe files for Linux, and nobody explains it that simply https://www.xda-developers.com/appimages-are-just-exe-files-for-linux-and-nobody-explains-it-that-simply/
Mon 15:50:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Linux lsusb command has 5 secret uses you should know https://www.howtogeek.com/uses-for-the-lsusb-command-on-linux/
Mon 15:50:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I keep "tiny" Linux distros on my keychain: Here are 5 reasons you should too https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-tiny-linux-distros-are-worth-keeping-on-a-usb-stick/
Mon 15:51:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From Fallout to Retro: How to give your Linux bootloader a total makeover https://www.howtogeek.com/default-grub-looks-so-ugly-heres-how-to-give-it-a-makeover/
Mon 15:52:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 4 Emacs packages that replaced everyday apps for me https://www.howtogeek.com/emacs-packages-that-replace-everyday-apps-email-notes-to-dos-rss/
Mon 15:55:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Applications: GRUB, lsusb, and Editors ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Applications_GRUB_lsusb_and_Editors.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Applications_GRUB_lsusb_and_Editors.gmi ∎
Mon 15:55:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Almost like "DrKnife" https://securityaffairs.com/187716/malware/dknife-toolkit-abuses-routers-to-spy-and-deliver-malware-since-2019.html
Mon 15:56:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ spam for slop https://itsfoss.com/qwen-code-sysadmin-tasks/
Mon 15:58:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Hardware: Raspberry P and Oldies ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Hardware_Raspberry_P_and_Oldies.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Hardware_Raspberry_P_and_Oldies.gmi ∎
Mon 16:02:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Mon 16:05:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Mon 16:14:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Matrix is quietly becoming the chat layer for governments chasing digital sovereignty https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/matrix_element_secure_chat/
Mon 16:16:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 09/02/2026: Mass Plagiarism and Pollution/FakeCoin Company Nvidia Contacted Anna’s Archives, Narges Mohammadi Gets Second Prison Sentence ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Links_09_02_2026_Mass_Plagiarism_and_Pollution_FakeCoin_Company.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Links_09_02_2026_Mass_Plagiarism_and_Pollution_FakeCoin_Company.gmi ∎
Mon 16:17:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Raspberry Pi Zero 2w gemini://tecnico-ligero.mooo.com/gemlog/59--2026-02-09-Las-temperaturas-externas-han-durado-un-suspiro-en-la-raspi-zero---relfexion.gmi
Mon 16:18:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Project: Great Salt Lake Ecological Observatory gemini://arcanesciences.com/gemlog/26-02-09/
Mon 16:18:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ comics/015 - Departures gemini://kodaro.it/msf/comics/015.Departures.webp
Mon 16:19:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline. And I’ve just released version 3.0. It is probably not for everyone, but I use it every single day. I like it, and it seems I’m not alone!" gemini://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.gmi
Mon 16:21:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I saw a post on YouTube on how to make crispy wings at home, I tried it - and it was a hit!" gemini://buffering.party/blog/2026/super-crispy-wings-at-home/
Mon 16:21:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Math + CS = HPC — Server finally up! gemini://sublime.jp.eu.org/blog/2026-02-08-server-finally-up.gmi
Mon 16:22:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Art: My watercolor analog-digital workflow gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/02-08-2026-My-Watercolor-Analog-Digital-Workflow.md
Mon 16:23:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The number of dashes in the header can now be configured and defaults to 67 chars. I also added an author line (optional), made the date format configurable and added some links back to the phlog index and the root page of the gopher hole (optional)." gopher://envs.net:70/1/~dan/phlog/20260209-some-changes-to-the-burrow-tool/
Mon 16:25:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The future of the DOE Site gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2026-02-09-nuke.txt
Mon 16:26:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-08.gmi
Mon 16:29:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 09/02/2026: Great Salt Lake Ecological Observatory and Offpunk 3.0 "A Community is Born" Release ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Gemini_Links_09_02_2026_Great_Salt_Lake_Ecological_Observatory_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Gemini_Links_09_02_2026_Great_Salt_Lake_Ecological_Observatory_.gmi ∎
Mon 16:45:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Why OOXML is not a standard format for office documents ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/07/Why_OOXML_is_not_a_standard_format_for_office_documents.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/07/Why_OOXML_is_not_a_standard_format_for_office_documents.gmi ∎
Mon 16:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ghostty vs Kitty: Which Modern Terminal is the Best for Linux Users? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Ghostty_vs_Kitty_Which_Modern_Terminal_is_the_Best_for_Linux_Us.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Ghostty_vs_Kitty_Which_Modern_Terminal_is_the_Best_for_Linux_Us.gmi ∎
Mon 16:55:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Lesser-Known Nextcloud Alternative's Latest Release Makes it More Suitable for Small Businesses ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/This_Lesser_Known_Nextcloud_Alternative_s_Latest_Release_Makes_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/This_Lesser_Known_Nextcloud_Alternative_s_Latest_Release_Makes_.gmi ∎
Mon 16:57:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kdenlive 25.12.2 released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Kdenlive_25_12_2_released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Kdenlive_25_12_2_released.gmi ∎
Mon 17:02:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Milis Linux – independent distribution ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Milis_Linux_independent_distribution.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Milis_Linux_independent_distribution.gmi ∎
Mon 17:07:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Mon 17:15:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Mint isn’t just for beginners—and this "hidden" Cinnamon feature proves it ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Linux_Mint_isn_t_just_for_beginners_and_this_hidden_Cinnamon_fe.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Linux_Mint_isn_t_just_for_beginners_and_this_hidden_Cinnamon_fe.gmi ∎
Mon 17:32:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/09/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Mon 17:34:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Mobbing at the European Patent Office (EPO) - Part V - Strongest Strike Under António Campinos ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_V_Strongest_Stri.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Mobbing_at_the_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Part_V_Strongest_Stri.gmi ∎
Mon 17:39:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], That person who claimed to work for American Express (Canada) sort of confirmed what I thought all along.
Mon 17:39:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said that if you have a long history of paying in full they'll believe you when you say what your income is, or even extend credit that your income does not justify.
Mon 17:40:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I always said "Nobody asks questions when your credit score is great."
Mon 17:40:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But eventually this means that you can extend yourself too far and fall over.
Mon 17:41:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When your FICO score is over 800, they'll let you sign a loan on a brand new car without checking your income.
Mon 17:41:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can drive off with a new car and not be able to make a single payment.
Mon 17:41:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'll find it and repossess it eventually, but people manage to do this.
Mon 17:42:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My grandparents would have said "that person got too big for his britches".
Mon 17:44:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If I had been a smarter person, I would have just moved out on John even if that had meant abandoning all of my stuff that I lost anyway. I would have given my cats to my mother. I would have ignored Mandy.
Mon 17:44:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I would have been better off financially than I am now had I just driven the Kia to Texas so I wouldn't freeze in the back of it that winter and camped in the back of the car.
Mon 17:46:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've learned some painful lessons, including that when someone seems sweet and looks relatively pathetic and harmless, eventually they'll turn on you and hurt you badly when you've made them stronger.
Mon 17:47:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's a parasite. Like all parasites, they grow stronger as their host grows weaker.
Mon 17:48:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now all we have left are threats. "If you do this, I'll do that."
Mon 17:48:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said "I'll switch my deposits over to my own bank account and you won't have any money."
Mon 17:49:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "Then there won't be any money to pay YOUR credit cards. I'll have to leave and that means that the electricity and cable internet will be shut off, and the power company won't let you hook up electricity so you won't be able to live here either.
Mon 17:51:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2] is absolutely right.
Mon 17:52:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Mandy is insane. He's narcissistic. He suddenly believes that EVERYTHING is his, including my old car.
Mon 17:52:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He wants to leave me nothing and he believes that he can even steal my Social Security check.
Mon 17:53:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Delusion - Part IV - Machos in Charge of the House (and System), Even If the Faces Are Female (Optics) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Delusion_Part_IV_Machos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Delusion_Part_IV_Machos.gmi ∎
Mon 17:53:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He has no idea how a divorce works under modern laws or that nobody cares what happens. He keeps claiming that he's saved a book of "blackmail" about me that he thinks someone is going to let him narrate to them in a no fault divorce.
Mon 17:55:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For some reason he thinks that stealing an old car registration that expires for a car that's worth maybe hundreds of dollars means he owns it or something.
Mon 17:55:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *expired
Mon 17:56:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I talked to representation about this already, and she told me that gives him no rights whatsoever, and that even if he stole my car title and tried to change it over to himself, I could pursue felony charges against him. And I will if he does.
Mon 17:57:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stealing a car of any value is automatically a felony.
Mon 17:57:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's actually worse if it's title fraud because that's a separate charge.
Mon 18:07:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ While he's fucking around on an iPhone not realizing that he's gonna have 99 problems when I'm gone, including that something's wrong with the power company and they won't let him turn the electric on...
Mon 18:07:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm developing an exit strategy.
Mon 18:08:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's not smart. The problem with idiots is they all think they're smarter than you. Like that guy that crashed into my car and was mouthing off about all the things he planned to do to me while the fucking police were writing me a ticket that I beat later.
Mon 18:10:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Narcissists all have the same problem. They can't fathom what it's like to be you because they don't care about you, even when they should. They believe that there's no higher authority than themselves even when they're a nobody, and that any idea that happens to pop into their head is the law.
Mon 18:12:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Expressing my disdain for IBM on this website!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f
Mon 18:13:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The inability to think like someone else does is a major impediment.
Mon 18:14:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Remember when Teal'c was talking about why the Goa'uld were losing the war against Earth even though they were a thousand years ahead of humans technologically?
Mon 18:14:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't think strategically. They don't change tactics that aren't working.
Mon 18:14:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Their battle tactics say that when you're losing an army, you just throw the rest of your army at it rather than thinking about what's causing your losses.
Mon 18:18:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/bhad-bhabie-sued-nearly-700k-131532075.html
Mon 18:18:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, They issued an unlimited credit line Centurion card to an InstaTHOT.
Mon 18:18:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What did they think would happen?
Mon 18:19:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ bankruptcy?
Mon 18:19:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm sure they'll lose the entire $700,000.
Mon 18:19:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She probably didn't spend it on bankable assets that they can easily recover.
Mon 18:19:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Bankruptcy won't save her.
Mon 18:20:01 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe AmEx will get some advertising out of it
Mon 18:20:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe it's worth the $700k for them
Mon 18:20:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Bankruptcy Code says that luxury purchases are civil fraud.
Mon 18:20:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And cannot be discharged.
Mon 18:20:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how do they define luxury?
Mon 18:20:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think it's any purchase over $600 is considered presumed fraud.
Mon 18:21:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So AmEx could dispute any purchases over that amount and ask that they be excluded from the bankruptcy discharge.
Mon 18:21:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only rebuttal that they'll consider is if it was for housing, medicine, food....
Mon 18:21:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Things like that.
Mon 18:22:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So if you can say "I had to pay my rent or I'd get thrown out of my apartment." then that purchase might not be civil fraud.
Mon 18:22:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because being thrown out of your home and only having a credit card to pay your rent with is not a luxury purchase.
Mon 18:23:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But American Express isn't just the bank. They're the card network.
Mon 18:23:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – thelayoff.com Deletes On-Topic Discussions (Layoffs) While Leaving in Tact Pro-Corporate Trolling Made by LLMs (Slop) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/thelayoff_com_Deletes_On_Topic_Discussions_Layoffs_While_Leavin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/thelayoff_com_Deletes_On_Topic_Discussions_Layoffs_While_Leavin.gmi ∎
Mon 18:23:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They get detailed information about everything you buy from the merchant.
Mon 18:23:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Data that other banks might not automatically have.
Mon 18:23:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Other banks might glance over your statements and go "Well, he went to Jared." (the jewelry store)
Mon 18:24:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But AmEx knows every single thing you buy when you slide your AmEx card.
Mon 18:24:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Other banks could get your Level 3 purchasing data from the network but it's often not worth it for normal credit card limits.
Mon 18:24:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ doesn't sound like a benefit
Mon 18:24:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's cheaper to write off a $10,000 credit card than to go nitpicking.
Mon 18:25:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I spoke with Linda the bankruptcy lawyer about how the banks look at things.
Mon 18:25:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ She told me that during the 341 meeting almost never does a creditor actually show up.
Mon 18:25:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's usually nothing to gain from it.
Mon 18:25:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They might show up if you're discharging a car loan and you're hiding the car or something.
Mon 18:25:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Things like that.
Mon 18:25:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Microsoft goodwill and intangible assets for the quarter ending December 31, 2025 were $139.911B, a 3.23% decline year-over-year." https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MSFT/microsoft/goodwill-intangible-assets-total
Mon 18:26:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The finance company showed up to my ex's bankruptcy 341 meeting.
Mon 18:26:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They said they needed relief from the automatic stay because he was hiding the car from them and he had dropped his car insurance.
Mon 18:26:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he was risking their asset.
Mon 18:26:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Workday CEO Carl Eschenbach clocks out amid job cuts and market jitters https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/workday_ceo_steps_down/
Mon 18:27:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He asked the trustee for an appraisal in case he wanted to offer them fair market value for the car.
Mon 18:27:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The appraisal gave him another month.
Mon 18:27:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It didn't appraise for much because after he dropped the car insurance he hit a deer and nobody ever fixed the car.
Mon 18:27:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So he told them he didn't want the car.
Mon 18:27:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said they gave up trying to get it back aggressively after that.
Mon 18:28:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His bankruptcy eventually discharged and he started hiding the car by parking it at an abandoned roller skating rink. He took all his stuff out and eventually it just wasn't there one day.
Mon 18:28:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ bbiab
Mon 18:29:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The bankruptcy hearing for Bhad Bhabie should go like that trial in Heavy Metal.
Mon 18:29:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Bhad Bhabie, you stand here accused of 57 counts of fraud, lying to American Express, being a BHAD BHABIE, and a moving violation!"
Mon 18:30:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Mon 18:30:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ do they pronounce the 'h'-s?
Mon 18:30:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ dunno
Mon 18:31:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the Bankruptcy Code does not exist to further fraud. It exists to give relief to people who need it. Not just let you walk away from your bills.
Mon 18:31:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So she's not going to get much help there.
Mon 18:36:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microslop is Slop, Slop is Considered "Quality" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Microslop_is_Slop_Slop_is_Considered_Quality.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Microslop_is_Slop_Slop_is_Considered_Quality.gmi ∎
Mon 18:42:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft down https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/south-america/#monthly-200902-202602
Mon 18:53:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Is Europe Abandoning Digital Opium? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.gmi ∎
Mon 19:08:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [winter] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-09.gmi
Mon 20:14:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ he's lucky the front didnt fall off... https://futurism.com/future-society/hospital-evacuated-man-ww1-shell
Mon 20:15:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ McElon's??? https://futurism.com/space/elon-musk-change-city-moon
Mon 20:18:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Crowdfunding vs Bitcoins: donations are better investment than digital tulip mania ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/08/Crowdfunding_vs_Bitcoins_donations_are_better_investment_than_d.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/08/Crowdfunding_vs_Bitcoins_donations_are_better_investment_than_d.gmi ∎
Mon 20:57:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-air-force-bans-use-of-smart-glasses-among-its-troops-earbuds-and-other-bluetooth-devices-limited-to-official-duties
Mon 21:04:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/compilers_undermine_encryption/
Mon 21:49:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/25070443
Mon 23:54:21 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ and as many treats as their lil tummys can hold....
Tue 02:06:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://ircz.de/p/25070423
Tue 02:20:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Mandy has gone off the deep end.
Tue 02:21:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've decided that I'm just going to file taxes as Married Filing Separately and not even do his.
Tue 02:21:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't have to pay the IRS anything.
Tue 02:21:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His tax bill will shoot up to $3600 and then they'll hit him with failure to file failure to pay.
Tue 02:21:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And add 50%.
Tue 02:21:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then statutory interest.
Tue 02:22:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most good CPAs will tell you that even if you can't pay it right now you need to at least file it before the deadline to avoid THAT 25% penalty.
Tue 02:22:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And preferably set up a payment plan with the IRS, which avoids the other 25% penalty if you stick to the payment plan.
Tue 02:22:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But he's not a CPA and he wouldn't know that.
Tue 02:23:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'll charge interest on the plan.
Tue 02:23:17 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 02:23:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But as long as you file and set up a plan, it'll just be what you owed and interest.
Tue 02:23:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If I file on my own, I will have no tax obligation on my end.
Tue 02:24:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I can save back that $632 and make a big damned problem for him.
Tue 02:24:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He's been threatening to withold his paycheck from me.
Tue 02:24:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I'll take the $632.
Tue 02:24:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he can have the IRS.
Tue 02:27:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, "How did you acquire Cronus's ship?" Oh we traded him for it. We got his ship, and he got what he had coming.
Tue 02:27:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Tue 02:27:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 02:29:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I forget which one asked him that.
Tue 02:29:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But I recall the answer amused him greatly.
Tue 02:29:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The guy had probably been trying to kill Cronus for centuries with no luck.
Tue 02:29:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then here comes SG-1.
Tue 02:30:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, It's like the CIA and Fidel Castro, really.
Tue 02:30:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just hundreds of plans that didn't work from the bay of pigs to poison cigars.
Tue 02:31:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, The weird thing is that had the US really wanted to depose Castro, we could have at any time.
Tue 02:31:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And here we had all these crazy plans.
Tue 02:31:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know, the only time Castro was actually safe was during the Cuban Missile Crisis when there were Soviet nukes aimed at us from Cuba.
Tue 02:32:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Tue 02:32:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The US maintains a huge naval base there.
Tue 02:32:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And has put thousands of landmines around it.
Tue 02:33:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On that base there is, of course, the torture facility.
Tue 02:33:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But even better. The only McDonald's in Cuba.
Tue 02:33:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ During the Clinton Administration, the US put several hundred Haitians who all had AIDS there.
Tue 02:33:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And didn't give them medicine.
Tue 02:34:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At the time, having HIV meant that you couldn't legally enter the United States.
Tue 02:34:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People who had it entered all the time, but to do so, they came without their medicine after they mailed their medicine to where they'd be staying in the US.
Tue 02:35:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That way Customs didn't find it on them at the airport.
Tue 02:35:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But there was only about a 1% chance their package would be pulled from the mail and inspected.
Tue 02:35:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, So I've got another problem.
Tue 02:35:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ My back started hurting two weeks ago.
Tue 02:36:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was out of town so I decided to go to the chiropractor last monday.
Tue 02:36:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He gave me an adjustment and I walked out of there, with better posture and only slightly sore, which was a huge improvement.
Tue 02:36:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then it got better over the next two days.
Tue 02:36:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then some asshole almost ran into my car on Thursday, stopping inches short of hitting me.
Tue 02:37:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And I screamed and tensed up, and a searing pain shot through my back and down my right arm.
Tue 02:37:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I went to the chiropractor again on Friday and it did not help much this time.
Tue 02:37:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I scheduled a doctor's appointment this morning and managed to get in with my primary.
Tue 02:37:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had PT for the shoulder downstairs an hour later anyway, so I had to drive up there and back already.
Tue 02:38:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So between the doctor and PT, I did a set of X-Rays.
Tue 02:38:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Found out that I've got a degenerative spine disorder, but that's actually not a big deal.
Tue 02:38:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Over 60% of people my age have something like this, and they said it was very mild.
Tue 02:39:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :(
Tue 02:39:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the problem appears to be that I've got a pinched nerve between the C6 and C7 vertabrae.
Tue 02:46:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-090226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-090226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-090226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-090226.txt
Tue 02:47:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Is Europe Abandoning Digital Opium? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.gmi ∎
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Tue 02:49:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-090226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-090226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-090226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-090226.txt
Tue 02:49:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-09.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-09.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Tue 02:50:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-09.txt
Tue 02:59:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: i wonder what this Mopria certification is really about, might be worth while to find out. https://www.neowin.net/news/windows-update-ends-support-for-printer-drivers/
Tue 03:00:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If it's true that Microsoft uses 'vibe' (slop) coding, that might explain why nobody can maintain or properly manage code of Microslop. They build up technical debt; it won't save any money in the long run
Tue 03:05:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Monday, February 09, 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_February_09_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_February_09_2026.gmi ∎
Tue 03:06:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Tue 03:07:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Tue 03:09:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-10.gmi
Tue 03:10:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1562.jpg
Tue 03:10:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1912.jpg
Tue 03:11:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Paul Rickards Gives a Decorative Maclock a Serious Upgrade, Creates a Tiny Working Apple Macintosh gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260209-tinymac.gmi
Tue 03:12:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ launch email from offpunk gemini://thatit.be/2026-02-09-15-31-46.gmi
Tue 03:12:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I've added a document to my library, just because I think it may be of interest to people on the Gemiverse, or perhaps not, but I thought it would be worthwhile to have it on hand." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/20260209-last-messiah.gmi
Tue 03:13:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first English version of a classic essay by Peter Wessel Zapffe, originally published in Janus #9, 1933. Translated from the Norwegian by Gisle R. Tangenes." gemini://carcosa.net/library/zapffe-the-last-messiah-en.gmi
Tue 03:14:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’m trying to imagine the kind of people that might like this. Parents of kids who think their kids should not see the disturbing porn and images of violence available. And I agree with that! I avoid the immediate news about disasters and violence because the images used far exceed my limits." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-09-teenagers
Tue 03:20:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 10/02/2026: "The Last Messiah", Discord for Adults ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/09/Is_Europe_Abandoning_Digital_Opium.gmi ∎
Tue 03:26:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, So they review my case every now and then.
Tue 03:26:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But they haven't done a full one since last time.
Tue 03:27:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They thought they'd get cute and send me a full one, so I sent them a brown envelope full of files about my seizure disorder, and they agreed I had gotten worse.
Tue 03:27:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And this time they'd hear about my shoulder replacement and my spinal disorder.
Tue 03:27:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> But they haven't done a full one since last time.
Tue 03:28:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] medical case?
Tue 03:28:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah.
Tue 03:29:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Considering AI can't even calculate correct crating for shipping a piece of equipment, my faith in it is not very high. The fact that it creates stuff to fit your questions, is pretty scary." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kgz0qa0f
Tue 03:29:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Since 2011 is what I mean.
Tue 03:29:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They got so much stuff to look over that it cost them thousands just to review it.
Tue 03:29:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And agree with me.
Tue 03:29:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't like that.
Tue 03:30:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It fucks up their figures.
Tue 03:30:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They like to tell Congress that for every $1 they spend on this shit, they save $9.
Tue 03:30:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When they spend $4,000 doing a full review only to agree with you, they wasted that $4,000.
Tue 03:36:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sure gets expensive to not be healthy
Tue 03:37:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Expensive for the government.
Tue 03:37:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The shoulder surgery cost Medicare a lot of money.
Tue 03:38:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They actually denied coverage for the graft itself, and the hospital just wrote it off.
Tue 03:38:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], My Part D got worse this year.
Tue 03:39:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have to pay for most of my medicine in cash because my insurance price is much much higher.
Tue 03:39:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The only thing it actually seems to cover anymore are blood pressure and cholesterol medicine, those are $0 copays.
Tue 03:39:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But everything else I take are on Tiers 3 and 4.
Tue 03:43:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I was talking to dad about Epstein.
Tue 03:43:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said,
Tue 03:43:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Donald Trump was the President when Epstein was murdered in prison.
Tue 03:43:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He had just told the prosecutor that in exchange for a plea bargain, he was willing to testify against Trump.
Tue 03:43:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ All of a sudden all of the security cameras malfunction, the guards are not at their post, and a man who was on suicide watch gets something to hang himself with.
Tue 03:43:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Things that make you go hmmm.
Tue 03:43:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ According to the House Oversight Committee, the Trump DOJ is illegally redacting the Epstein files, to protect 9 people who are heavily implicated in them.
Tue 03:43:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Even Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, who is as far-right as they get, came out with Democrat Ro Khanna of California, and they both said that what Trump is doing is "criminal" sabotage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act."
Tue 03:44:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], When I was booked on Disorderly Conduct they made me take off my pajama pants and shoes because they had strings.
Tue 03:44:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And we're supposed to believe that Epstein had something to hang himself with in prison?
Tue 03:45:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's a liability thing for the police department.
Tue 03:45:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's very unlikely, however, not impossible, that someone facing a Class C Misdemeanor, could hang themselves in the booking cell.
Tue 03:46:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Comparable to throwing a McDonald's bag out of a car window.)
Tue 03:46:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Stealing bread is actually much worse than Disorderly Conduct.
Tue 03:46:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Retail Theft is a Class B or A Misdemeanor, depending on the value of what was stolen.
Tue 03:47:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The worst thing the judge can theoretically do to you over Disorderly Conduct is 30 days in jail and a $500 fine.
Tue 03:47:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But the system is so overwhelmed with worse people, it's usually just a fine. Or maybe some probation.
Tue 03:47:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The prisons are overflowing and there are convicted murderers in county jail.
Tue 03:48:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They are not going to take a cell to deal with someone who made some noise in the middle of the night (or threw a McDonald's bag out the car window).
Tue 03:48:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The police lied to me, by the way, lied to me to induce panic.
Tue 03:48:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They claimed that I could go to prison for two years.
Tue 03:49:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was later told "That's a lie, the worst thing that could technically happen to you is thirty days, but you're just not that important."
Tue 03:53:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] your mom said you can be shot
Tue 03:54:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for disputing them
Tue 03:59:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, the time to argue the case is not with the police officer.
Tue 03:59:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Don't talk to them at all.
Tue 03:59:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The cop has ALREADY arrested you.
Tue 03:59:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why would you tell him anything?
Tue 04:03:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It doesn't matter why the police say they want to talk to you. The answer is NO.
Tue 04:03:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Technically all you have to do at a traffic stop is crack the window and hand them your license, insurance card, and registration.
Tue 04:03:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You don't have to say anything to them.
Tue 04:03:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They can hand you a ticket if they want to.
Tue 04:04:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They'll say that you have to sign it, but in Illinois you don't actually have to. They're not allowed to arrest you for anything that's not at least a Class B Misdemeanor.
Tue 04:04:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So not signing the ticket has no consequences unless they're offering to cite you on DUI or Reckless Driving or something.
Tue 04:04:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Simple speeding is just a petty,.
Tue 04:05:08 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they'll probably shoot you in the head anyway
Tue 04:05:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and then billions of nazis will say it was all your fault
Tue 04:07:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Basically.
Tue 04:08:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But cops here have to wear a body camera.
Tue 04:08:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So in theory it shows everything that happened.
Tue 04:08:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ In this city, a cop beat up a domestic violence suspect.
Tue 04:08:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The other cops witnessed it and recorded it on their body cameras.
Tue 04:08:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They turned on him and testified.
Tue 04:09:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – After Employee Reviews at IBM Staff Expects Another Large Wave of PIPs and "RAs" (Layoffs) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/After_Employee_Reviews_at_IBM_Staff_Expects_Another_Large_Wave_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/After_Employee_Reviews_at_IBM_Staff_Expects_Another_Large_Wave_.gmi ∎
Tue 04:09:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The law here says that when a police officer is using excessive force, the others are obliged to pull him off of you and render aid.
Tue 04:09:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And if they don't, they're accomplices.
Tue 04:09:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not saying that's always how it goes, but the law is better than most states.
Tue 04:10:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Recent changes to Illinois law have also "demilitarized" the police.
Tue 04:10:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 10 050810 < IsambardPrince> So in theory it shows everything that happened.
Tue 04:10:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ nazis ignore what the videos show
Tue 04:10:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they won't let it get in the way of their narrative
Tue 04:10:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have been stripped of their military weaponry and Stryker armored personnel carriers, and .50 caliber sidearms.
Tue 04:20:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Says It Cannot Keep Up With Abusive Legal Cases in the UK ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Says_It_Cannot_Keep_Up_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Says_It_Cannot_Keep_Up_.gmi ∎
Tue 04:24:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/uk/andrew-mountbatten-police-epstein-trade-intl
Tue 04:25:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's ridiculous that anyone still has a monarchy in this day and age.
Tue 04:25:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I agree that if this topples public support of that institution at least something good will have come of it.
Tue 04:26:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I liked that report of Buckingham Palace signing up for the British equivalent of LIHEAP (low income heating assistance)
Tue 04:26:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I saw one article that was titled "WELFARE QUEEN" in all caps.
Tue 04:29:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ would you expect security in a m$ product??? https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/microsoft_one_prompt_attack/
Tue 04:31:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it seems devil apes can't do better
Tue 04:36:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] microosft sez
Tue 04:36:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sex the register ms
Tue 04:36:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *sez
Tue 04:48:27 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ https://www.ijrat.org/downloads/Conference_Proceedings/ICATESM-2019/icatesm-140.pdf
Tue 04:49:01 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ it's unbelievable that so many ATMs still run on Windows
Tue 04:49:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Fighting Slop With the Public Domain (and Why Slopfarms Perish Faster Than New Ones Appear) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Fighting_Slop_With_the_Public_Domain_and_Why_Slopfarms_Perish_F.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Fighting_Slop_With_the_Public_Domain_and_Why_Slopfarms_Perish_F.gmi ∎
Tue 04:49:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ shows the state of our society
Tue 05:14:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Where We Stand With the Winter Series ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Where_We_Stand_With_the_Winter_Series.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Where_We_Stand_With_the_Winter_Series.gmi ∎
Tue 05:16:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM PIPs and excuses; "yes that is how it’s suppose to work and what is in the documentation but the flaw is the metrics to determine your level" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kh21matb
Tue 05:25:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – GNU/Linux at 12% in Guam, Based on statCounter (Compared to 2-3% a Year Ago) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/GNU_Linux_at_12_in_Guam_Based_on_statCounter_Compared_to_2_3_a_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/GNU_Linux_at_12_in_Guam_Based_on_statCounter_Compared_to_2_3_a_.gmi ∎
Tue 05:39:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Rumours About February 2026 Microsoft Layoffs: Silent Layoffs or 30,000 Culled Tomorrow ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Rumours_About_February_2026_Microsoft_Layoffs_Silent_Layoffs_or.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Rumours_About_February_2026_Microsoft_Layoffs_Silent_Layoffs_or.gmi ∎
Tue 05:41:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft sez... Microsoft sez... Microsoft sez... Microsoft sez... https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/09/microsoft_one_prompt_attack/
Tue 05:43:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Dr. Aaron Balick talks about the 'Algorithmic Self', digital harms and hope scrolling." https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=58
Tue 05:57:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slop at Microsoft is a Miserable Failure, Now Microsoft Takes the "Vista Route" (Paying People to Say Good Things About It) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Slop_at_Microsoft_is_a_Miserable_Failure_Now_Microsoft_Takes_th.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Slop_at_Microsoft_is_a_Miserable_Failure_Now_Microsoft_Takes_th.gmi ∎
Tue 06:10:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Microsoft's Implosion Will be an Opportunity for Further GNU/Linux Gains ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_s_Implosion_Will_be_an_Opportunity_for_Further_GNU_Li.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_s_Implosion_Will_be_an_Opportunity_for_Further_GNU_Li.gmi ∎
Tue 06:25:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Security More Advanced in Geminispace Than on the Web (Bloat) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Security_More_Advanced_in_Geminispace_Than_on_the_Web_Bloat.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Security_More_Advanced_in_Geminispace_Than_on_the_Web_Bloat.gmi ∎
Tue 06:34:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – In Finland, Microsoft Falls Behind Yandex (Russia) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/In_Finland_Microsoft_Falls_Behind_Yandex_Russia.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/In_Finland_Microsoft_Falls_Behind_Yandex_Russia.gmi ∎
Tue 06:43:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): When the UK's Regulatory Authorities Are Systematically Failing Women ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/When_the_UK_s_Regulatory_Authorities_Are_Systematically_Failing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/When_the_UK_s_Regulatory_Authorities_Are_Systematically_Failing.gmi ∎
Tue 06:50:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I just applied to 38 jobs in one go.
Tue 06:50:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Randomly.
Tue 06:50:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Don't even care what they are.
Tue 06:50:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Didn't read.
Tue 07:09:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sucks
Tue 07:09:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what sort of system is this?
Tue 07:27:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Brett Wilson LLP Seems to Have Done for Roberto Foa What It Did a Year Earlier for the Serial Strangler from Microsoft ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Seems_to_Have_Done_for_Roberto_Foa_What_It_Did.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Seems_to_Have_Done_for_Roberto_Foa_What_It_Did.gmi ∎
Tue 07:32:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kapsule: it shipped and nobody died ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Kapsule_it_shipped_and_nobody_died.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Kapsule_it_shipped_and_nobody_died.gmi ∎
Tue 07:49:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Tue 07:59:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is Not a Regulator, It's Part of the Litigation "Industry" in the UK (They Overlap Each Other) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_is_Not_a_Regulator_It_s.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_is_Not_a_Regulator_It_s.gmi ∎
Tue 08:00:38 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ what was the fallout from Crowdstrike?
Tue 08:00:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some share price drop
Tue 08:00:53 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ and yet, Microsofters dare to call GNU/Linux a hobby OS
Tue 08:00:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and people moved on
Tue 08:01:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Microsofters wrote about it
Tue 08:01:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] their talking point was
Tue 08:01:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (Microsofters')
Tue 08:01:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hat linus had the 'same issue' months easlier
Tue 08:01:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with falcon or whatever it was called
Tue 08:01:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] almost no linux system had this malware installed
Tue 08:01:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a windows thing
Tue 08:01:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but Microsofters worried those affected would explore moving to GNU/Linux
Tue 08:02:09 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ now that GNU/Linux is growing, I see more Microsofters railing against its adoption by belittling it as a hobby OS (on the desktop)
Tue 08:02:29 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ yes, I let it go last time but this time I responded to a Microsofter on Tweakers
Tue 08:02:58 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ because if no one calls these people out, they think they have all the power to belittle whatever they don't like to see happening
Tue 08:04:13 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ it's necessary on Windows, because it lacks facilities for doing such scanning in userland
Tue 08:04:25 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ it lacks many features a modern operating system should have
Tue 08:04:54 │ 〖psydroid3〗 │ and instead of fixing and adding those, they turn the entire operating system into malware
Tue 08:05:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Want to self-host for free? This server OS makes it easy - here's #HowTo get started ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Want_to_self_host_for_free_This_server_OS_makes_it_easy_here_s_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Want_to_self_host_for_free_This_server_OS_makes_it_easy_here_s_.gmi ∎
Tue 08:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 8 Reasons Why Linux Mint is Better Than Ubuntu for Linux Beginners ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/8_Reasons_Why_Linux_Mint_is_Better_Than_Ubuntu_for_Linux_Beginn.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/8_Reasons_Why_Linux_Mint_is_Better_Than_Ubuntu_for_Linux_Beginn.gmi ∎
Tue 08:27:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Plasma vs. Xfce: Comparing Lean and Mean Desktop Environments for Linux Users ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/KDE_Plasma_vs_Xfce_Comparing_Lean_and_Mean_Desktop_Environments.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/KDE_Plasma_vs_Xfce_Comparing_Lean_and_Mean_Desktop_Environments.gmi ∎
Tue 08:31:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Tue 08:44:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – From Weber Shandwick (Microsoft PR) to Brett Wilson LLP (Hired Gun of the Serial Strangler of Microsoft) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/From_Weber_Shandwick_Microsoft_PR_to_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Hired_Gun.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/From_Weber_Shandwick_Microsoft_PR_to_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Hired_Gun.gmi ∎
Tue 08:46:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US does not have free speech, it has people with many firearms and huge ego https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/How_Americans_View_Free_Speech_in_Practice.shtml
Tue 08:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And they also attack speech overseas https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/18/Threats_Against_Techrights_Always_Come_From_Outside_Britain.shtml
Tue 09:04:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – SRA: SLAPPs From Russian War Criminals and American Men Who Strangle Women Are Acceptable ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/SRA_SLAPPs_From_Russian_War_Criminals_and_American_Men_Who_Stra.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/SRA_SLAPPs_From_Russian_War_Criminals_and_American_Men_Who_Stra.gmi ∎
Tue 09:08:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ tr 'https://images.pdimagearchive.org/collections/snowball-fights/snowball-fight-13a.jpg?width=1400&height=800' 'Etching by Anthonij van der Haer, after Adriaen van de Velde, ca. 1760' 'https://pdimagearchive.org/images/6451e06c-9763-4ddb-8c0a-fe7d2ba54049/'
Tue 09:12:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Windows Hits All-Time Low in The Netherlands in 2026 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_Windows_Hits_All_Time_Low_in_The_Netherlands_in_2026.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_Windows_Hits_All_Time_Low_in_The_Netherlands_in_2026.gmi ∎
Tue 09:21:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): analytics.usa.gov Shows Rapid Erosion of Windows Market Share Since 'End of 10' (Vista 10) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/analytics_usa_gov_Shows_Rapid_Erosion_of_Windows_Market_Share_S.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/analytics_usa_gov_Shows_Rapid_Erosion_of_Windows_Market_Share_S.gmi ∎
Tue 09:24:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft Windows Falling ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_Windows_Falling.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Microsoft_Windows_Falling.gmi ∎
Tue 09:32:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – GNU/Linux at 3.99% in Australia ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/GNU_Linux_at_3_99_in_Australia.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/GNU_Linux_at_3_99_in_Australia.gmi ∎
Tue 09:58:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – As the US Economy Sags Microsoft Layoffs Carry on (Now in Larger Waves Like 15,000 Per Season or 30,000+ Per Year) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/As_the_US_Economy_Sags_Microsoft_Layoffs_Carry_on_Now_in_Larger.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/As_the_US_Economy_Sags_Microsoft_Layoffs_Carry_on_Now_in_Larger.gmi ∎
Tue 10:04:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chrome was near 80% (!) https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/finland/#monthly-200903-202602
Tue 10:13:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Will Finns Put Out the Online Cigarettes? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Will_Finns_Put_Out_the_Online_Cigarettes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Will_Finns_Put_Out_the_Online_Cigarettes.gmi ∎
Tue 10:23:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A California federal court has ruled that identity information obtained through DMCA subpoenas cannot be used for foreign copyright lawsuits" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-subpoenas-cant-be-used-for-foreign-piracy-lawsuits-court-rules/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Tue 10:23:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The motion is part of a trademark infringement lawsuit filed last year by audio device startup iyO" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/openai-drops-io-branding-hardware-devices/ | Source: Wired
Tue 10:24:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "...scores reflect the views of experts and businesspeople, not the public" https://yle.fi/a/74-20209365 ("Finland again ranks second in global corruption perceptions index")
Tue 10:24:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anon: either way it is about perception and not based in fact I would guess, that especially at the local level, facts show a _*very*_ different ranking
Tue 10:39:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "EU competition regulators have threatened to stop Meta Platforms from blocking artificial intelligence rivals from its WhatsApp messaging service" ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-warns-meta-it-must-open-up-whatsapp-to-rival-ai-chatbots/articleshow/128108919.cms | Source: India Times
Tue 10:40:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This accounting firm was actually using a Windows 98 computer (yep, in 2026), and running the RPG software inside a DOS console window." ☛ https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle?ICID=ref_fark |
Tue 10:44:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As I see it, wishcessibility isn’t a single specific bad practice, it’s anything that inadvertently hurts accessibility when you’re trying to improve it." ☛ https://www.nicchan.me/blog/wishcessibility/ | Source: Nic Chan
Tue 10:48:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A local journalist, who is following the case and spoke to CPJ on the condition of anonymity" ☛ https://cpj.org/2026/02/algerian-authorities-arrest-journalist-omar-ferhat/ | Source: CPJ
Tue 10:49:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Section 230 didn’t receive much attention when it was passed" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/reflections-on-section-230s-past-present-and-future-on-its-30th-anniversary/ | Source: Techdirt
Tue 10:49:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This weekend marked the 30th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/section-230-turns-30-both-parties-want-it-gone-for-contradictory-reasons/ | Source: Techdirt
Tue 10:50:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This past weekend Section 230 turned 30 years old." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/on-section-230s-30th-birthday-a-look-back-at-why-its-such-a-good-law-and-why-messing-with-it-would-be-bad/ | Source: Techdirt
Tue 11:06:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Russia and China Best Off Without GAFAM ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Russia_and_China_Best_Off_Without_GAFAM.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Russia_and_China_Best_Off_Without_GAFAM.gmi ∎
Tue 11:08:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But rolling back or eliminating Section 230 will not stop invasive corporate surveillance that harms all internet users." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/its-30th-birthday-section-230-remains-lynchpin-users-speech | Source: EFF
Tue 11:09:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Oracle is considering cutting 20,000 to 30,000 jobs and selling some of its activities as US banks pull back from financing the company’s AI data-center" ☛ https://www.cio.com/article/4125103/oracle-may-slash-up-to-30000-jobs-to-fund-ai-data-center-expansion-as-us-banks-retreat.html | Source: IDG Communications Inc
Tue 11:09:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I advocate for donating a steady amount every month, rather than big lumps of money to different projects, as gaining steady income is more important" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/is-open-source-in-trouble/ | Source: The New Stack
Tue 11:10:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The $6.4 billion cost of the Gordie Howe bridge has been entirely funded by Canada's federal government" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/trump-gordie-howe-bridge-9.7081924 | Source: CBC
Tue 11:12:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But even us hardy brits have had enough now, it seems to have been raining continuously since before Christmas." ☛ https://mark.hysted.com/even-the-brits-are-fed-up-of-the-rain/ | Source: Mark Hysted
Tue 11:13:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Is Open Source in Trouble? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Is_Open_Source_in_Trouble.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Is_Open_Source_in_Trouble.gmi ∎
Tue 11:15:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Back in August, I argued that Todd Blanche’s interview of Ghislaine Maxwell was not intended to elicit useful information." ☛ https://emptywheel.net/confirmed-todd-blanche-locked-ghislaine-maxwell-into-a-false-story-then-rewarded-her/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
Tue 11:23:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Not surprisingly, the members of the Board fully ignore Russia's many grave breaches of international maritime law in the Black Sea and Azov Sea" ☛ https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/russia-hints-it-will-deploy-navy-to-protect-shadow-fleet/444331 | Source: The Barents Observer
Tue 11:24:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cheeto = "reign of terror." ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-biggest-corporations-helping | Source: Robert Reich
Tue 11:24:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "can pose grave risks to democracy and public debate." ☛ https://edri.org/our-work/edri-welcomes-eu-preliminary-findings-on-tiktoks-addictive-platform-design/ | Source: EDRI
Tue 11:28:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Let’s make it impossible for someone to steal our SSH keys by storing them on a FIDO2 security token like a YubiKey." ☛ https://scvalex.net/posts/79/ | Source: Alexandru Scvorțov
Tue 11:28:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the Iranian government completely shut down connections to the global [Internet]" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/irans-digital-surveillance-machine-is-almost-complete/ | Source: Wired
Tue 11:29:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Second, people who have chosen not to update older devices compatible with the “26” releases can’t use the new AirTag." ☛ https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/02/airtag-2-requires-26-2-1-for-pairing-and-finding/ | Source: Six Colors
Tue 11:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO ☛ https://theconversation.com/which-countries-are-best-placed-to-resist-state-supported-cyber-attacks-a-government-advisor-explains-275447 | Source: The Conversation
Tue 11:31:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Her father Jamie posted the horrendous message on his own social media as an example of what some young jockeys have to put up with, but the police were unwilling to tackle it." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/racing/2026/02/09/visit-online-trolls-issue-rape-threats-female-jockeys/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Tue 11:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The view also doesn't take into account how sturdy algorithmic bubbles now seem to be." ☛ https://blog.avas.space/out-of-touch/ | Source: Ava
Tue 11:33:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At the center of a consequential case about social media liability is a key question: did Meta lie or mislead the public about the safety of its platform, while knowing something very different?" ☛ https://www.theverge.com/policy/876168/new-mexico-attorney-general-meta-child-predator-social-media-addiction-trial | Source: The Verge
Tue 11:34:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The plaintiffs in that case allege that social media companies designed their products in a negligent manner and caused various harms to minors using their apps." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/meta-child-safety-trial-new-mexico-attorney-general/ | Source: Wired
Tue 11:34:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "TikTok's algorithm favours certainty, not nuance. Videos hinting at Moloch worship within elite networks spread quickly because they promise hidden truth. Corrections and caveats do not travel as far." ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/did-epsteins-inner-circle-worship-moloch-whats-behind-child-sacrifice-claims-1777673 | Source: International Business Times
Tue 11:34:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "digital casinos" ☛ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/technology/social-media-addiction-trial.html | Source: New York Times
Tue 11:36:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I suspect that a lot of this pattern is caused by AI generated changes, but it’s hard to know for sure." ☛ https://discourse.llvm.org/t/concerns-about-low-quality-prs-beeing-merged-into-main/89748 |
Tue 11:37:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So what do you do? Well, you do the obvious — you use an AGI. That is, A Guy Instead. You tell your investors the machine will totally do the whole job next year." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/09/waymo-self-driving-cars-powered-by-agi-a-guy-instead/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Tue 11:38:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s tricky to say what an agent wants because agents will lie to you and they are influenced by all the code they’ve seen." ☛ https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/9/a-language-for-agents/ | Source: Armin Ronacher
Tue 11:40:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Concerns about low-quality PRs being merged into main ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Concerns_about_low_quality_PRs_being_merged_into_main.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Concerns_about_low_quality_PRs_being_merged_into_main.gmi ∎
Tue 11:40:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A key takeaway from Gemini’s Pokémon troubles and the Chroma post is that context rot is not a capacity problem. It’s a quality problem." ☛ https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/02/09/the-potential-of-rlms.html | Source: Drew Breunig
Tue 11:40:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI as it stands right now it's neither artificial nor intelligent. It is, however, a buzzword for a suite of in-machine data processing tools." ☛ https://thomasrigby.com/posts/which-ai-do-you-mean/ | Source: Thomas Rigby
Tue 11:41:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So, without further ado, I present the variants in my collection" ☛ https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/history-of-creator-studio-icons/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
Tue 11:55:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The three-year pilot project had an immediate impact: police arrested fewer people for possession" ☛ https://breachmedia.ca/decriminalization-worked-b-c-killed-it-anyway/ | Source: Breach Media
Tue 11:55:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When the participants did this, relevant conditions were identified in less than 34.5% of cases" ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/dr-google-meet-dr-chatbot-neither-is-ready-to-see-you-now/277476/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Tue 11:55:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Acquired via thrift on 2026-02-06. This machine continues my typewriter collection theme for 2026: hunting for great machines with less common typefaces." ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2026/02/09/1954-royal-hh-standard-typewriter/ | Source: Chris Aldrich
Tue 11:56:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The king of the sound cards in the ’90s was the SoundBlaster 16, which other manufacturers cloned directly." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/ibm-made-a-sound-card-who-knew/ | Source: Hackaday
Tue 11:56:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are to believe the glossy marketing campaigns about ‘quantum computing’, then we are on the cusp of a computing revolution, yet back in the real world things look a lot less dire." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/why-havent-quantum-computers-factored-21-yet/ | Source: Hackaday
Tue 11:59:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Are you a primary school teacher in England, Scotland or Wales interested in AI and data science and how students learn about AI and data" ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/join-our-new-study-on-ai-and-data-driven-computing-in-uk-primary-classrooms/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Tue 11:59:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But being fully stuck is also a myth. We might not like the trade offs, but we also have a choice." ☛ https://seths.blog/2026/02/free-agency/ | Source: Seth Godin
Tue 12:00:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The talk is excellent, and it’s available on YouTube." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/pioreactor-an-automated-raspberry-pi-bioreactor/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Tue 12:01:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Dijkstra is a legend in computer science and his algorithm, which he published in 1959, predates packet switching by a few years." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/10/dijkstras_algorithm_impact_on_networks/ | Source: The Register UK
Tue 12:01:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Researchers have developed a laser-based scanning technique that can identify the preservation fluids inside sealed museum specimen jars" ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/lasers-scan-darwin-specimen-jars | Source: Interesting Engineering
Tue 12:01:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It occurred to me that this could be generalized beyond text files to handle arbitrary sequences of countable events." ☛ https://cryptography.dog/blog/a-probabilistic-all-pay-auction/ | Source: Cryptography.doc OÜ
Tue 12:02:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why is this interesting? Why is anybody teaching with a 20 year old method, and even making new libraries for it?" ☛ https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/02/09/personally-meaningful-data-to-motivate-data-science-and-ai/ | Source: CER
Tue 12:02:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What occurred to me today was that the most intense period of my photography hobby overlapped with the deepest part of my decade in Joss Whedon" ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-09-on-intersecting-interests-fandom-and-photography/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Tue 12:03:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These intersecting interests are part of why I write this blog" ☛ https://contino.com/blog/intersecting-interests | Source: Andrea Contino
Tue 12:05:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jeremy talks to us about the history and evolution of the Strong Museum and its pedagogical remit" ☛ https://arcadeblogger.com/2026/02/09/the-tde-podcast-ep-36-strong-museum-assistant-vp-jeremy-saucier/ | Source: The Arcade Blogger
Tue 12:05:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Manifest (manifest.fm) is a podcast dedicated entirely to package management, hosted by Alex Pounds and me. I’ve listed its episodes under the relevant ecosystems below rather than in a separate section." ☛ https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/09/package-manager-podcast-episodes.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
Tue 12:06:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Cybershow, TDE Podcast and Package Manager Podcast ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Audiocasts_Shows_Cybershow_TDE_Podcast_and_Package_Manager_Podc.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Audiocasts_Shows_Cybershow_TDE_Podcast_and_Package_Manager_Podc.gmi ∎
Tue 12:07:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Margin and Semble could both be used as replacements." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2026/02/09/bookmarking-the-web/ | Source: Henrique Dias
Tue 12:07:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For the last four years, I’ve been developing Offpunk, a command-line Web, Gemini, and Gopher browser that allows you to work offline." ☛ https://ploum.net/2026-02-09-offpunk3.html | Source: Lionel Dricot
Tue 12:09:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A single Bosch BME280 sensor collects the temperature, humidity, air pressure, and altitude measurements." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/09/a-weather-station-built-specifically-for-model-rocket-launches/ | Source: Arduino
Tue 12:09:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What should have been a straightforward CD32 recap turned into something far more interesting." ☛ https://linuxjedi.co.uk/when-pal-goes-wrong-repairing-an-amiga-cd32/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings
Tue 12:09:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These phones date well before the rotary phone that some of us may be familiar with, to a time where landline phones had batteries installed in them to provide current to the analog voice circuit." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/a-working-intercom-from-antique-telephones/ | Source: Hackaday
Tue 12:10:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Bookmarking the Web, Offpunk 3.0 for Gemini/Gopher, and Matrix in Governments ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Bookmarking_the_Web_Offpunk_3_0_for_Gemini_Gopher_and_Matrix_in.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Bookmarking_the_Web_Offpunk_3_0_for_Gemini_Gopher_and_Matrix_in.gmi ∎
Tue 12:13:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Pioreactor, Amiga With PAL, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Pioreactor_Amiga_With_PAL_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Pioreactor_Amiga_With_PAL_and_More.gmi ∎
Tue 12:16:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 10/02/2026: Splinternets and "Meta Goes to Trial in a New Mexico Child Safety Case" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Links_10_02_2026_Splinternets_and_Meta_Goes_to_Trial_in_a_New_M.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Links_10_02_2026_Splinternets_and_Meta_Goes_to_Trial_in_a_New_M.gmi ∎
Tue 12:29:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – US/Europe divergence: health & safety, criminality & Debian harassment culture: Open Digital Ecosystems submission F33370170 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/US_Europe_divergence_health_safety_criminality_Debian_harassmen.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/US_Europe_divergence_health_safety_criminality_Debian_harassmen.gmi ∎
Tue 12:33:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "aggressively monochrome" ☛ https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-09-some-technical-updates/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
Tue 12:33:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The conference kicks off on Monday with the Opening Ceremony and Plenary." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/09/welcome-to-apricot-2026/ | Source: APNIC
Tue 12:34:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I felt the familiar feeling of depression and lethargy creep in while my eyes darted from watching claude-code work and my phone." ☛ https://www.abhinavomprakash.com/posts/i-am-happier-writing-code-by-hand/ |
Tue 12:35:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So I work in compilers, which means that I write programs that translate programs to programs." ☛ https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/09/six-thoughts-on-generating-c | Source: Andy Wingo
Tue 12:36:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's been a while since I tried extracting out a directory into another repository - and back then I just got someone else to do it." ☛ https://theorangeone.net/posts/git-directory-extraction/ | Source: Jake Howard
Tue 12:36:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "These are all the aliases I use at least once a week." ☛ https://matduggan.com/gitbutler-cli-is-really-good/ | Source: Mat Duggan
Tue 12:37:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are at least two ways to approach what a compiler IR is: [...]" ☛ https://www.philipzucker.com/smt_compiler_i/ | Source: Philip Zucker
Tue 12:40:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But yesterday I published WebService::OpenStates" ☛ https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11167059 | Source: PerlMonks
Tue 12:41:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "First, I have worked on tuning the initialisation in adam() in case of backcasting" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/02/smooth-v4-4-0/ | Source: Rlang
Tue 12:41:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I encourage you to guess which of the options in the original post is the actual behavior before you read the rest of this entry." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/PythonCircularImportPuzzle | Source: University of Toronto
Tue 12:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Debian 2.1: Released on March 09, 1999. Code name – slink, support architecture Alpha and Sparc, apt came in picture, Number of package – 2250." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/happy-birthday-to-debian-gnu-linux/ | Source: TecMint
Tue 12:42:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "The next version of Debian was released on the 9th of March in 1999 as 2.1 Slink. This release was built of two thousand two hundred fifty packages running on kernel 2.0.34." ☛ https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-debian-part-1 | Source: Bradford Morgan White
Tue 12:43:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Early this week Murdock posted a series of Tweets suggesting he had problems with law enforcement, he said he has been beaten by the police and charged with battery." ☛ https://securityaffairs.com/43171/breaking-news/ian-murdock-died.html | Source: Security Affairs
Tue 12:44:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Murdock’s death last year was alarming because he took to Twitter to accuse police of assaulting him." ☛ https://www.wtvr.com/2016/07/06/mysterious-death-of-software-pioneer-ruled-suicide |
Tue 12:44:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “The police here beat me up for [knocking] on my neighbor’s door.. they sent me to the hospital,” he wrote. “They followed me home… then they pulled me out of my house and did it again.”
Tue 12:46:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I disable my repos and enable the FreeBSD repos. If you’re using your own repos, you should already know how to do this." ☛ https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/09/freebsd-15-0-after-upgrade-installing-my-own-packages/ | Source: Dan Langille
Tue 12:46:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After almost three years of inactivity, Per Fogelström found time and motivation to resume working on the OpenBSD codebase" ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/sgi2.html | Source: Miod Vallat
Tue 12:46:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Creating a custom FreeBSD LiveCD (or Live USB) involves creating a base system, installing desired packages into a directory, and wrapping it into an ISO or memory stick image." ☛ https://betounix.substack.com/p/how-to-make-a-freebsd-livecd-live |
Tue 12:54:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Ian Murdock Died in San Francisco 10 Years Ago. Cops Led to His Death. ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Ian_Murdock_Died_in_San_Francisco_10_Years_Ago_Cops_Led_to_His_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/Ian_Murdock_Died_in_San_Francisco_10_Years_Ago_Cops_Led_to_His_.gmi ∎
Tue 13:07:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Anon] the tv station article about Ian had a concise summary: """The police here beat me up for [knocking] on my neighbors door.. they sent me to the hospital, he wrote. They followed me home then they pulled me out of my house and did it again.""" SWATting == attempted murder / murder by cop
Tue 13:09:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Linux ecosystem presents users with a paradox." ☛ https://medium.com/@ss-tech/the-great-linux-distro-dilemma-why-your-choice-always-sucks-eb4e7567b5f7 | Source: Medium
Tue 13:09:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "By default, the resolution of the videos recorded by Screenshot is quite high, so no surprise that the output gif turned out to be huge 1.4M." ☛ https://dolzhenko.me/blog/2026/02/ffmpeg/ | Source: Dmitry Dolzhenko
Tue 13:09:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes, though, all I want to do is select a directory to play from a scrollable list in the console." ☛ https://kevinboone.me/clh_simple_console_audio.html | Source: Kevin Boone
Tue 13:13:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One service that caught my attention was the ip-to-asn mapping service provided by Team Cymru, and in particular, the DNS variant of this service." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/09/from-the-stupid-dns-tricks-department-ipasn-net/ | Source: APNIC
Tue 13:14:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Driver support improvement is on its way through using netbsd's rump layer" ☛ https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7FZXHF-updates_on_gnuhurd_progress_rump_drivers_64bit_smp_software_bootstrapping/ | Source: FOSDEM
Tue 13:15:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NsCDE is a copy of (not a continuation of) the Common Desktop Environment." ☛ https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/10/nscde-on-debian-13/ | Source: Darren Goossens
Tue 13:18:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam Early Access games can now have a planned release date listed | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-early-access-games-can-now-have-a-planned-release-date-listed/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 13:18:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Wine 11.2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Wine_11_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Wine_11_2.gmi ∎
Tue 13:18:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam game People Playground hit by malware via the Steam Workshop | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-game-people-playground-hit-by-malware-via-the-steam-workshop/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 13:20:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mesa 25.3.5 Release Notes https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.3.5.html
Tue 13:21:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Political analyst" or "political strategist" is 100% faux description of people. They're like "spouse says I'm good in bed, hence it's true" types. Similarly, the most vocal people claiming to be security "experts" are anything BUT.
Tue 13:23:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Wikipedia says "xyz" about it so it must be true... who edits Wikipedia? You?
Tue 13:23:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mesa 25.3.5 Released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Mesa_25_3_5_Released.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Mesa_25_3_5_Released.gmi ∎
Tue 13:23:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vulkan-based translation layer D7VK officially expands to include Direct3D 5 support | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/vulkan-based-translation-layer-d7vk-officially-expands-to-include-direct3d-5-support/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 13:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ For sure a lot more than 1,000 https://www.timesnownews.com/business-economy/companies/salesforce-lays-off-nearly-1000-employees-in-february-which-departments-were-hit-article-153590480/amp
Tue 13:27:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kyndryl Stock Falls 55 Percent Following SEC Document Request, CFO And General Counsel Exits https://www.crn.com/news/channel-news/2026/kyndryl-stock-falls-55-percent-following-sec-document-request-cfo-and-general-counsel-exits
Tue 13:38:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Could be the Next Kyndryl, a Dinosaur With Accounting Fraud ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IBM_Could_be_the_Next_Kyndryl_a_Dinosaur_With_Accounting_Fraud.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IBM_Could_be_the_Next_Kyndryl_a_Dinosaur_With_Accounting_Fraud.gmi ∎
Tue 13:48:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – International Buybacks Machines ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/International_Buybacks_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/International_Buybacks_Machines.gmi ∎
Tue 14:06:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM RAs (or PIPs) in London, England? ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IBM_RAs_or_PIPs_in_London_England.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/10/IBM_RAs_or_PIPs_in_London_England.gmi ∎
Tue 14:11:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux kernel 6.19 arrives and the next will be 7.0 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/linux-kernel-6-19-arrives-and-the-next-will-be-7-0/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/linux-kernel-6-19-arrives-and-the-next-will-be-7-0/
Tue 14:11:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Getting a check today from the Motorola Solutions BIPA settlement.
Tue 14:11:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Numerous people on Reddit say theirs was for $1,262
Tue 14:11:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was due to Motorola violating BIPA when processing mugshots from the police.
Tue 14:12:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was just saying the other day "There's been a dry spell of money coming in from people doing illegal shit to me. I wish there was more. I'm really broke."
Tue 14:12:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Linux gets performance improvements, new default apps and goes all-in on Flatpak | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-linux-gets-performance-improvements-new-default-apps-and-goes-all-in-on-flatpak/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux
Tue 14:13:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, ^
Tue 14:13:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Busy months in KDE Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/08/Busy_months_in_KDE_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/08/Busy_months_in_KDE_Linux.gmi ∎
Tue 14:14:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Discord have announced that beginning in March, they're starting a global rollout of forced age verification to access all features of the platform." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-is-about-to-require-age-verification-for-everyone/
Tue 14:14:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ According to the people on Reddit, the site says the checks would be between $200-$500, but they can be more depending on how many people signed up.
Tue 14:14:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I suppose way fewer people noticed that the "Thug Department" violated their BIPA rights than anticipated.
Tue 14:14:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Richard Stallman refers to the police as the Thug Department.
Tue 14:14:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building a Retro Linux Gaming Computer Part 50: Dawn of Civilization | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/building-a-retro-linux-gaming-computer-part-50-dawn-of-civilization/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux |
Tue 14:17:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: D7VK, Steam, and Retro Linux Gaming Computer ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Games_D7VK_Steam_and_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/10/Games_D7VK_Steam_and_Retro_Linux_Gaming_Computer.gmi ∎
Tue 14:18:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Working with CSV files or unstructured data often requires converting messy output into readable tabular format." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/linux-column-command/ | Source: TecMint
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