●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, August 12, 2026 ●● ● Aug 12 [01:26] TR News (NEW): GNOME Devs Share GNOME Shell Design Ideas for Future GNOME Releases https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNOME_Devs_Share_GNOME_Shell_Design_Ideas_for_Future_GNOME_Rele.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNOME_Devs_Share_GNOME_Shell_Design_Ideas_for_Future_GNOME_Rele.gmi [01:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNOME Devs Share GNOME Shell Design Ideas for Future GNOME Releases ● Aug 12 [02:09] TR News "Okay so I went on this rabbithole of anti-smartphone stuff online" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/mandatory-phone-addiction [02:09] TR News "Researchers from Pusan National University, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and the University of Maryland have come up with a new way to 3D-print more flexible soft actuators" gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260811-smec.gmi [02:11] TR News dream of radha gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/radha [02:12] TR News "by the way, this is the first time Im seeing this card to mean these people without any means are seeking sanctuary. Up til this point Ive always read it as the sanctuary having cast them out, the hypocrisy of the church, preaching love but practicing greed and self-preservation, the system and social safty nets failing those in need." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/ttt5p [02:13] TR News ugly ones gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/ugly_ones [02:13] TR News "In my experience, the hardest part about any activity is, by far, beginning it. The second most difficult part about anything, I'd say, is finishing a thing. Sure, if you abuse the nomenclature you might argue that whatever doesn't fit as "beginning" a thing, fits as "finishing" it, but you have done things before, you know what I mean." gemini://sdf.org/fabiozeh/2026-08-11.gmi [02:17] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Sophomore Slump, Mandatory Phone Addiction, and Vintage Web Game Gallery https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_Sophomore_Slump_Mandatory_Phone_Addiction_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_Sophomore_Slump_Mandatory_Phone_Addiction_and_.gmi [02:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Sophomore Slump, Mandatory Phone Addiction, and Vintage Web Game Gallery [02:21] TR News Microsoft layoffs https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1svah00ufl http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/11/Confirmed_Microsoft_Layoffs_in_August_2026_Entire_Operations_Sh.shtml [02:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ynetnews.com | LinkedIn to close Israel R&D center, lay off dozens four years after Oribi acquisitio [02:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Confirmed: Microsoft Layoffs in August 2026, Entire Operations Shut Down Too [02:21] TR News As Xbox head Asha Sharma reportedly visits Bethesda HQ, workers put up red flags representing laid off staff and a giant inflatable rat outside https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/as-xbox-head-asha-sharma-reportedly-visits-bethesda-hq-workers-put-up-red-flags-representing-laid-off-staff-and-a-giant-inflatable-rat-outside [02:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rockpapershotgun.com | As Xbox head Asha Sharma reportedly visits Bethesda HQ, workers put up red flags representing laid off staff and a giant inflatable rat outside | Rock Paper Shotgun [02:21] TR News The Elder Scrolls 6 demo had a surprise guest at Bethesda HQ: a giant inflatable rat set up by protesting employees to watch Xbox execs who oversaw "devastating layoffs" https://www.gamesradar.com/games/the-elder-scrolls/the-elder-scrolls-6-demo-had-a-surprise-guest-at-bethesda-hq-a-giant-inflatable-rat-set-up-by-protesting-employees-to-watch-xbox-execs-who-oversaw-devastating-layoffs/ [02:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Elder Scrolls 6 demo had a surprise guest at Bethesda HQ: a giant inflatable rat set up by protesting employees to watch Xbox execs who oversaw "devastating layoffs" | GamesRadar+ [02:22] TR News In Protest Of Mass Layoffs, Bethesda Devs Greet Xbox Leadership With A Giant Inflatable Rat https://kotaku.com/xbox-protests-zenimax-studios-maryland-scabby-cwa-2000723471 [02:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-In Protest Of Mass Layoffs, Bethesda Devs Greet Xbox Leadership With A Giant Inflatable Rat - Kotaku [02:22] TR News Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gushes About Elder Scrolls VI, Does Not Seem To Notice Giant Rat On Bethesda Office Lawn https://aftermath.site/xbox-asha-sharma-elder-scrolls-vi-bethesda-giant-rat/ [02:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-aftermath.site | Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Gushes About Elder Scrolls VI, Does Not Seem To Notice Giant Rat On Bethesda Office Lawn [02:24] TR News LinkedIn Closes Israel Development Center https://www.jfeed.com/tech/linkedin-israel-development-center [02:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LinkedIn Israel Development Center Closure and Layoffs | JFeed [02:36] TR News "Did IBM stop sending automatic birthday emails to employees?" https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM/comments/1vd4c9g/weekly_employment_discussion_for_august_02_2026/ [02:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-old.reddit.com | Welcome to Reddit [02:40] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-110826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-110826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-110826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-110826.txt [02:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 [02:50] TR News Techrights Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Continue_This_August_Morale_Low.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Continue_This_August_Morale_Low.gmi [02:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-11.txt [02:54] TR News The Grass is Yellow https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-grass-is-yellow/ [02:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The Grass is Yellow [02:56] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [02:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights [02:57] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_August_11_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_August_11_2026.gmi [02:57] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [02:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 11, 2026 [02:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines... ● Aug 12 [03:12] TR News Techrights Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Even_ZDNet_Accepts_That_Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_May_Have_Doub.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Even_ZDNet_Accepts_That_Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_May_Have_Doub.gmi [03:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops [03:20] TR News Seeking Clarity on Whether Tor is Blocked or Not https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/whether-tor-is-blocked/ [03:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Seeking Clarity on Whether Tor is Blocked or Not [03:24] TR News Putting the camel through a needle's eye: Billionaires go to a special heaven. "Billionaire Heaven" https://www.patreon.com/noneofthisisok/posts/billionaire-165838832 "Zuckerberg is next in the "Billionaire Heaven" series, but stay tuned for a poll soon for paid patrons where you get to vote on who's next." [03:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.patreon.com/noneofthisisok/posts/billionaire-165838832 ) [03:37] TR News Heavy Lifting, Heavy Work Around Manchester City (ManCity) Stadium https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/heavy-lifting-heavy-work-around-manchester-city-mancity-stadium/ [03:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Heavy Lifting, Heavy Work Around Manchester City (ManCity) Stadium [03:43] TR News The SLAPP Industry Need Sunshine https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-slapp-industry-need-sunshine/ [03:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive The SLAPP Industry Need Sunshine ● Aug 12 [04:18] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 148 Out of 200: The SLAPP Series is 'Slow' Because Timing Matters https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_148_Out_of_200_The_SLAPP_Series_is_Slow_B.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_148_Out_of_200_The_SLAPP_Series_is_Slow_B.gmi [04:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 148 Out of 200: The SLAPP Series is 'Slow' Because Timing Matters [04:33] TR News They Used to Try to Nourish Us https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/they-used-to-try-to-nourish-us/ [04:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive They Used to Try to Nourish Us [04:38] TR News (NEW): Election Tomorrow Has Daniel Pocock on the Ballot https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Election_Tomorrow_Has_Daniel_Pocock_on_the_Ballot.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Election_Tomorrow_Has_Daniel_Pocock_on_the_Ballot.gmi [04:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Election Tomorrow Has Daniel Pocock on the Ballot [04:41] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) [04:47] TR News (NEW): We Don't Need Search Engines and Social Control Media https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/We_Don_t_Need_Search_Engines_and_Social_Control_Media.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/We_Don_t_Need_Search_Engines_and_Social_Control_Media.gmi [04:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines We Don't Need Search Engines and Social Control Media [04:51] TR News Need Rain, Not Sun https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/need-rain-not-sun/ [04:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Need Rain, Not Sun [04:58] TR News "Oct 1st last day? Are these just more contractors? https://lnkd.in/p/g7NBV3pr " https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty [04:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.linkedin.com | After two great years covering AI, data, robotics and emerging tech for IBM's Think newsletter, Ialong with our entire IBM editorial contract teamam wrapping up, following a company-wide reorg. As | Antonia Davison [04:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kze4zqty ) ● Aug 12 [05:09] TR News Techrights Company-Wide 'Reorg' ('Redundancies') at IBM, Mark October 1st 2026 in the Calendar https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Company_Wide_Reorg_Redundancies_at_IBM_Mark_October_1st_2026_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Company_Wide_Reorg_Redundancies_at_IBM_Mark_October_1st_2026_in.gmi [05:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Company-Wide 'Reorg' ('Redundancies') at IBM, Mark October 1st 2026 in the Calendar [05:14] *parsifal (~parsifal@rpcdzuq4hszjw.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [05:16] TR News Tor Users Cannot Access This Site https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/tor-users-cannot-access-this-site/ [05:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Tor Users Cannot Access This Site [05:19] TR News "Historical accounts confirm that Symbolics ended the agreement on March 16, 1982, Stallman's birthday, forcing him to work without access to their source code." True or mindless gossip? https://www.reddit.com/r/LinuxTeck/comments/1vlhwj3/before_linux_one_hacker_decided_to_fight_for_free/ LinuxTeck is slopfarm [05:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Reddit [05:39] TR News Techrights GNU in 1991 (35 Years Ago): Compiler and Lots More Ready, Linux Now Becoming 'Vibe Heap' (Slop Replaces Real Code) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_in_1991_35_Years_Ago_Compiler_and_Lots_More_Ready_Linux_Now.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_in_1991_35_Years_Ago_Compiler_and_Lots_More_Ready_Linux_Now.gmi [05:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GNU in 1991 (35 Years Ago): Compiler and Lots More Ready, Linux Now Becoming 'Vibe Heap' (Slop Replaces Real Code) [05:50] TR News (NEW): QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/QEMU_11_1_Released_with_Universal_Flash_Storage_UFS_Emulation_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/QEMU_11_1_Released_with_Universal_Flash_Storage_UFS_Emulation_S.gmi [05:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines QEMU 11.1 Released with Universal Flash Storage (UFS) Emulation Support [05:57] TR News Blogging Never Went Away, It Also Deserves a Giant Comeback https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/blogging-never-went-away-it-also-deserves-a-giant-comeback/ [05:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Blogging Never Went Away, It Also Deserves a Giant Comeback ● Aug 12 [06:09] TR News Techrights Enshittification More Than a Century Ago https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Enshittification_More_Than_a_Century_Ago.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Enshittification_More_Than_a_Century_Ago.gmi [06:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Enshittification More Than a Century Ago [06:25] TR News Techrights METRO Interviews Daniel Pocock a Day Before Election https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/METRO_Interviews_Daniel_Pocock_a_Day_Before_Election.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/METRO_Interviews_Daniel_Pocock_a_Day_Before_Election.gmi [06:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights METRO Interviews Daniel Pocock a Day Before Election [06:42] TR News Techrights More Mass Layoffs Due to Monumental Debt Excused as "Investment" (in Slop) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/More_Mass_Layoffs_Due_to_Monumental_Debt_Excused_as_Investment_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/More_Mass_Layoffs_Due_to_Monumental_Debt_Excused_as_Investment_.gmi [06:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights More Mass Layoffs Due to Monumental Debt Excused as "Investment" (in Slop) [06:49] TR News Make American Debt Again: US Debt Grew $3.6 Trillion in 13 Months https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/make-american-debt-again-us-debt-grew-3-6-trillion-in-13-months/ [06:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Make American Debt Again: US Debt Grew $3.6 Trillion in 13 Months [06:54] TR News LinkedIn to close Israel R&D center, lay off dozens four years after Oribi acquisition https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/s1svah00ufl [06:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ynetnews.com | LinkedIn to close Israel R&D center, lay off dozens four years after Oribi acquisitio [06:55] TR News They cannot hide it https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Shutdowns_Continue_This_August_Morale_Low.shtml [06:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO [06:58] TR News "There are 5115 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3507 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi ● Aug 12 [07:00] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:09] TR News Techrights Clownflare: In Finland, Birthplace of Linux Kernel, GNU/Linux Now Bigger Than Apple's MacOS https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clownflare_In_Finland_Birthplace_of_Linux_Kernel_GNU_Linux_Now_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clownflare_In_Finland_Birthplace_of_Linux_Kernel_GNU_Linux_Now_.gmi [07:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Clownflare: In Finland, Birthplace of Linux Kernel, GNU/Linux Now Bigger Than Apple's MacOS [07:20] TR News Right of Publicity https://www.ksl.com/article/51608219/tech-experts-warn-against-using-ai-clone-of-murdered-womans-voice-in-court | Source: Deseret Media [07:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Tech experts warn against using AI clone of murdered woman's voice in court | KSL.com [07:20] TR News Software Patents https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/video-cameras/panasonic-scores-a-major-win-against-reds-controversial-compressed-raw-patent | Source: Digital Camera World [07:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.digitalcameraworld.com | Panasonic scores a major win against Reds controversial compressed RAW patent | Digital Camera World [07:20] TR News "in the years since, I've grown increasingly convinced that Snowden and Piketty can only be properly understood as describing two aspects of the same phenomenon." https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/11/tragedy-of-the-commoners/#piketty-snowden | Source: CoryDoctorow [07:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Surveillance vs guillotines (11 Aug 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [07:21] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/08/11/sony-removing-purchased-content/ | Source: Michael Tsai [07:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mjtsai.com | Michael Tsai - Blog - Sony Removing Purchased Content [07:42] TR News "They were interrogated there for several weeks while being denied access to a lawyer and family visits, before being transferred to Orumiyeh Central Prison." https://english.anf-news.com/kurdistan/two-kurdish-researchers-remain-detained-in-orumiyeh-prison-86694 | Source: ANF News [07:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-english.anf-news.com | ANF | Two Kurdish researchers remain detained in Orumiyeh prison [07:42] TR News "I have been an academic for nearly 30 years, working in an environment where inclusion and safe spaces for all students to be their best were unquestioned priorities." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/08/caseantisemitismsurvey/ | Source: Michael Geist [07:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.michaelgeist.ca | Canada's Campus Antisemitism Crisis: National Survey Finds Antisemitism Nearly Everywhere and University Responses Nowhere - Michael Geist [07:42] TR News "While the list of waiver recipients includes fire departments and other first responders, the vast majority are law enforcement agencies, including police in cities large and small" https://truthout.org/articles/first-came-the-flock-cameras-now-local-cops-want-autonomous-drones/ | Source: TruthOut [07:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | First Came the Flock Cameras. Now Local Cops Want Autonomous Drones. | Truthout [07:43] TR News "Its hard not to see these startling statistics as part of the Trump administrations broader campaign to undermine womens rights and autonomy." https://newrepublic.com/post/214107/women-100-percent-jobs-lost-july-donald-trump | Source: New Republic [07:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Trumps Terrible July Jobs Numbers Only Hurt Women | The New Republic [07:44] TR News "their opposition to Chinese communist rule, greeted his passing with anguish and respect" https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/anguish-and-hope-why-tibetan-activist-lobga-rangzen-set-himself-on-fire-in-new-york/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [07:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Anguish and hope: why a Tibetan set himself on fire in New York [07:44] TR News "The Taliban authorities justify the ban -- the only one of its kind in the world -- on their interpretation of Islamic law." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/torment-of-afghan-fathers-as-daughters-deprived-of-education-1940247971 | Source: RTL [07:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-today.rtl.lu | 'Only for men': Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education - RTL Today [07:45] TR News "Narratives about a censorship-industrial complex spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. Whatand whois behind them?" https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/07/1141105/how-ideas-of-a-vast-censorship-network-moved-from-the-online-fringe-to-trump-policy/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [07:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.technologyreview.com | How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy | MIT Technology Review [07:45] TR News "Forts lawyers want more information about what prosecutors told the federal grand jury before it decided to indict the journalist" https://newrepublic.com/post/214096/federal-law-enforcement-lied-journalist-arrested-anti-ice-protest | Source: New Republic [07:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-newrepublic.com | Feds Gave False Information About Journalist Arrested for Covering ICE | The New Republic ● Aug 12 [08:04] TR News Techrights Before the "Big Tech" (That Almost Everybody is Forced to Use) Was Controlled by Men Who Hate Women https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Before_the_Big_Tech_That_Almost_Everybody_is_Forced_to_Use_Was_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Before_the_Big_Tech_That_Almost_Everybody_is_Forced_to_Use_Was_.gmi [08:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SSL: no alternative certificate subject name matches target hostname 'techrights.org' ( status 0 @ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Before_the_Big_Tech_That_Almost_Everybody_is_Forced_to_Use_Was_.shtml ) [08:11] TR News "Nepals government denied that it had ordered the change" https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/09/tibet-conference-in-nepal-pushed-online/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [08:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Tibet conference in Nepal pushed online [08:13] TR News "Instead, the end of the Bronze Age was followed by a centuries-long Dark Age, with regression much more complete than after the fall of the Western Roman Empire." https://crookedtimber.org/2026/08/11/the-odyssey-and-the-bronze-age-collapse/ | Source: Crooked Timber [08:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-crookedtimber.org | The Odyssey and the Bronze Age Collapse Crooked Timber [08:13] TR News "Moral character presents the same measurement problem, and the last decade of American politics accidentally ran the same solution at national scale." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-great-moral-sorting | Source: Mike Brock [08:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | The Great Moral Sorting - by Mike Brock [08:13] TR News "The move is a retrenchment from the social video companys expansion into Nashville in 2024 and comes as many tech companies are reevaluating their workforce amid the growth of artificial intelligence." https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-08-06/tiktok-to-close-nashville-office-lay-off-250-employees | Source: Los Angeles Times [08:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.latimes.com | TikTok to close Nashville office, lay off 250 employees - Los Angeles Times [08:13] TR News "There was a study that popped up in the news recently that 90-something percent of posts on Instagram are ads." https://lawver.net/2026/08/stop-feeding-the-algorithm-stop-feeding-the-billio/ | Source: Kevin Lawver [08:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lawver.net | Stop feeding the algorithm, stop feeding the billionaires | Ultranormal [08:14] TR News "By the way, how is X doing from a financial perspective?" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/x-advertising-tanking/ | Source: Nick Heer [08:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pxlnv.com | Xs Advertising Business Continues to Tank Pixel Envy [08:14] TR News "I could hear this moth before I could see it; its wings are so loud! Then I looked up and thought it was some kind of massive wasp." https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/hummingbird-hawk-moth | Source: Jasper Tandy [08:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jasper.tandy.is | Jasper is blogging: Hummingbird hawk-moth [08:15] TR News "U.S. Representative Hillary Scholten (D-MI) recently introduced two bills to bring more transparency and accountability to data centers water and energy use." https://insidetowers.com/house-bill-requires-data-center-water-power-tracking/ | Source: Inside Towers [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | House Bill Requires Data Center Water, Power Tracking - Inside Towers [08:15] TR News "the DOE has also stalled projects for a large number of awardees who have never appeared on any list, the report found." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-is-blocking-billions-of-dollars-of-grants-to-fix-the-grid/ | Source: Truthdig [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/trump-is-blocking-billions-of-dollars-of-grants-to-fix-the-grid/ ) [08:15] TR News "ERCOT is currently tracking more than 1,800 projects in the queue, representing over 474 gigawatts of electricity" https://www.texastribune.org/2026/08/03/texas-data-center-project-audit-greg-abbott/ | Source: The Texas Tribune [08:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.texastribune.org | New Texas data center projects frozen until state audits them [08:24] TR News Slippery Slope of Modern Society https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/slippery-slop-of-modern-society/ [08:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Slippery Slope of Modern Society [08:24] TR News "The scale of the proposed data center buildout is staggering." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/texas-data-centers-reality-grid | Source: Futurism [08:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Texas Data Centers Suffer Brutal Collision With Reality [08:25] TR News "After popping open the pack and measuring the thermistors, the faulty one registered as infinite resistance thus confirming that it had failed" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/fixing-a-dead-makita-battery-with-a-20-cent-part/ | Source: Hackaday [08:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Fixing A Dead Makita Battery With A 20 Cent Part | Hackaday [08:27] TR News "As The Verge points out, astronomers wont even be warned of when and where the mirror satellite will be in the night sky, which could result in them gazing at it inadvertently." https://futurism.com/space/scientists-warn-new-satellites-eye-damage | Source: Futurism [08:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Scientists Warn That New Satellites Could Cause Eye Damage for People on the Ground [08:28] TR News "The creation of these entirely new viruses was based on Evo 1 and Evo 2, foundational AI models developed for computational biology applications." https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-used-ai-to-create-16-new-viruses/ | Source: Wired [08:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses | WIRED [08:28] TR News "A recent Gallup survey found the majority of Americans are now opposed to datacenters being built in their area, many so strongly opposed that they would sooner see a nuclear power plant built nearby." https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/08/10/as-datacenters-expand-so-does-public-opposition-to-them/5285449 | Source: The Register UK [08:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | As datacenters expand, so does public opposition to them [08:28] TR News "Storing water underground during wet years can soften the blow of drought, but it cannot promise a full supply when a dry spell drags on. That is the central finding of a studyOpens in a new tab." https://www.western-water.com/2026/08/11/banking-water-underground-for-the-next-drought/ | Source: Western Water [08:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.western-water.com | Banking water underground for the next drought | Western Water [08:29] TR News "And as more data centers crop up throughout the US, that problem of rising emissions linked to the accelerating demand for any kind of electricity is only going to get worse." https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-data-centers-air-pollution-generators-worse | Source: Futurism [08:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | AI Data Centers Are Causing Unfathomable Amounts of Air Pollution, and It Gets Worse With Each New One They Build [08:29] TR News "The stench of rotten eggs and burning debris fills the air in Boxtown, a predominantly Black neighborhood in Memphis." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/memphis-ai-data-center-fuels-pollution-fight-in-black-neighborhood/articleshow/133140455.cms | Source: India Times [08:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Memphis AI data center pollution: Memphis AI data center fuels pollution fight in Black neighborhood - The Economic Times [08:29] TR News "Public Certificate Logs" https://naveensrinivasan.com/posts/2026-08-07-finding-hidden-internal-apps-through-public-certificate-logs/ | Source: Naveen Srinivasan [08:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-naveensrinivasan.com | Finding Hidden Internal Apps Through Public Certificate Logs :: naveen srinivasan Write code.Loves to read [08:29] TR News "Doesnt Want You To See" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/the-code-the-british-government-doesnt-want-you-to-see-any-more/ | Source: Hackaday [08:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Code The British Government Doesnt Want You To See (Any More) | Hackaday [08:30] TR News "Asking the federal government for public records didnt always feel like a shell game. But bounced emails and broken portals seem like the new normal." https://www.propublica.org/article/foia-requests-responses | Source: Pro Publica [08:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.propublica.org | Is There Anyone Who Can Respond to My FOIA Requests? ProPublica [08:30] TR News "Well, I find it deeply troubling that faux centrist groups are declaring war on progressives in the pages of The New York Times, without the Times revealing who they really are." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-moronic-bullshit-of-the-third | Source: Robert Reich [08:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | The Moronic Bullshit of the "Third Way" - Robert Reich [08:30] TR News "The research is published in the journal npj Clean Water." https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quality-scarcity-future-competition-limited.html | Source: Omicron Limited [08:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-08-quality-scarcity-future-competition-limited.html ) [08:31] TR News "If the warming rate of the past 10 years continues, it would lead to a long-term exceedance of the 1.5 degree C limit of the Paris Agreement before 2030." https://futurism.com/future-society/global-warming-accelerating-paper | Source: Futurism [08:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds [08:31] TR News "forced residents in several regions to record video apologies afterward" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/10/russians-are-being-arrested-for-photographing-soldiers-graves-some-face-treason-charges | Source: Meduza [08:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Russians are being arrested for photographing soldiers graves. Some face treason charges. Meduza [08:33] TR News "Wealth inequality is already at record levels, and wealth at the top is quickly morphing into political power." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/stop-ai | Source: Robert Reich [08:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | Stop AI Before it's Too Late - Robert Reich [08:34] TR News "First you find a couple 1000-digit primes." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/11/manually-unbreakable-cryptography/ | Source: John D Cook [08:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.johndcook.com | Manually unbreakable cryptography [08:42] TR News Techrights Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Lack_of_Empathy_Rampant_in_the_Sector.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Lack_of_Empathy_Rampant_in_the_Sector.gmi [08:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector [08:45] TR News "That would be like writing a biology paper contradicting Trofim Lysenko back when he was a big shot." https://blog.zgp.org/substitution-effects/ | Source: Don Marti [08:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.zgp.org | substitution effects [08:47] TR News "As 404 Media reports, the controversial company drew up plans to use the dashcams installed in Uber and Lyft drivers cars to scan the license plates of every vehicle that drove past them" https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-rideshare-surveillance-plan | Source: Futurism [08:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Flock's Secret Surveillance Plan Will Make You Gasp [08:47] TR News "While [Reed] championed this partnership as a way to drive revenue, we believe it threatens to undermine trust in our news outlets and raises serious questions about the data security of our readers" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/usa-today-journalists-horrified-partnership-palantir | Source: Futurism [08:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | USA Today Journalists Horrified by Newspaper's Partnership With Palantir [08:47] TR News "Grandma and grampa think its cute to use AI to churn out a picture book with their grandchildren in it. But the parents often arent impressed" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/parents-horrified-ai-children-book | Source: Futurism [08:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Parents Horrified as Boomer Mawmaws Gift Children Blatant AI Slop Picture Books [08:47] TR News "StartMail describes its storage as zero access meaning they cannot read your decrypted mail content once stored." https://greycoder.com/startmail-review-2026-the-privacy-email-for-people-who-email-clients/ | Source: GreyCoder [08:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-StartMail Review 2026: The Privacy Email for People Who Use Email Clients - GreyCoder [08:48] TR News "While certain differences will kill the bill if left unresolved, experts and advocates are still cheering the compromises they have won from lawmakers who have flipped positions and agreed to tougher standards on some issues." https://therecord.media/kids-online-safety-act-congress | Source: The Record [08:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Kids online safety bill faces dim prospects of passage this session despite progress | The Record from Recorded Future News [08:48] TR News Windows TCO https://therecord.media/ransomware-group-hijacks-hospital-facebook-amid-cyberattack-response | Source: The Record [08:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Ransomware group hijacks hospital systems Facebook page amid ongoing cyberattack fallout | The Record from Recorded Future News [08:48] TR News Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/ransomware-attacks-spike-as-world-distracted-by-ai/5284934 | Source: The Register UK [08:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Ransomware attacks spike as world distracted by AI [08:49] TR News "Last night, after a few months on and off of problems with EchoFeed from my side and general feed problems I made the decision to shut it down." https://rknight.me/blog/shutting-down-echofeed/ | Source: Rob Knight [08:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rknight.me | Shutting Down EchoFeed Robb Knight [08:49] TR News "The word human certainly does a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/reddit-mods-worse-replace-ai | Source: Futurism [08:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Reddit Finally Found a Way to Make Its Mods Even Worse: Replace Them With AI [08:49] TR News "Big Techs overbroad arguments that their addictive social media features are protected speech were dealt a major blow in an order issued Thursday in the combined TikTok, Meta, and Google v. Bonta cases." https://epic.org/judges-sides-with-epic-and-ag-telling-google-tiktok-and-meta-their-addictive-social-media-features-are-not-1a-speech/ | Source: EPIC [08:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-epic.org | Judges Sides with EPICand AG, Telling Google, TikTok, and MetaTheir Addictive Social Media Features Are Not 1A Speech EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center [08:50] TR News "EPICs brief also explained why the Court should view NetChoices claim that the law regulates expression with skepticism." https://epic.org/documents/tiktok-google-meta-v-bonta/ | Source: EPIC [08:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-epic.org | Tiktok, Google & Meta v. Bonta EPIC Electronic Privacy Information Center [08:50] TR News "With 10 trillion parameters, the model would be more than three times the size of Chinese start-up Moonshot AIs Kimi K3, which has 2.8 trillion parameters" https://techcentral.co.za/bytedance-goes-big-very-big-on-ai/284623/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [08:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techcentral.co.za | ByteDance goes big - very big - on AI [08:51] TR News "I miss when I used Twitter and people had the #rstats hashtag that lead to a nice community." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/r-community-a-moderated-google-group-to-share-r-knowledge/ | Source: Rlang [08:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-R-Community A moderated Google Group to share R knowledge | R-bloggers [08:51] TR News "I cant expect or demand anyone else be a weirdo like me and become an offline pariah. Thats not what this is about." https://idiomdrottning.org/mandatory-phone-addiction | Source: Idiomdrottning [08:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idiomdrottning.org | The Mandatory Phone Addiction [08:51] TR News "The prevailing narrative in AI-driven security claims that discovering novel vulnerabilities is a frontier feature reserved for restricted models like Anthropics recently announced Mythos Preview." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/11/finding-zero-days-with-any-model/ | Source: APNIC [08:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Finding zero-days with any model | APNIC Blog [08:52] TR News "pretending theres a boom, when really we normal folks are feeling the recession squeeze" https://seancoates.com/blogs/how-we-got-here | Source: Sean Coates [08:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-seancoates.com | How We Got Here [08:52] TR News "AI for Military Support" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-for-military-support.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [08:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AI for Military Support - Schneier on Security [08:52] TR News "The story is from Australia. Someone named Andrew tasked OpenClaw to book gym classes for him. And." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/08/ai-genie-in-the-wild.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [08:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AI Genie in the Wild - Schneier on Security [08:52] TR News "In any rational jurisdiction, six times worse than the competition even with a safety driver would get the regulators to force Tesla back to the drawing board." https://blog.dshr.org/2026/08/more-on-robotaxis.html | Source: David Rosenthal [08:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.dshr.org | DSHR's Blog: More On Robotaxis [08:53] TR News "His 8-year-old daughter, he wrote, can already code her ideas and quickly produce videos." https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260811-zuckerberg-envisions-superintelligence-for-everyone-in-ai-manifesto | Source: France24 [08:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260811-zuckerberg-envisions-superintelligence-for-everyone-in-ai-manifesto ) [08:53] TR News "One point was a general sense that a lot of teachers are not really in the mood anymore to talk about GenAI." https://criticaledtech.com/2026/08/07/teachers-talking-about-genai-in-schools-more-trouble-than-it-is-worth/ | Source: Neil Selwyn [08:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-criticaledtech.com | Teachers talking about GenAI in schools more trouble than it is worth? Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY [08:53] TR News "Proof News found evidence of at least 21 security robot deployments since 2015. We contacted contract holders and combed news articles and determined that at least 13 of those programs have ended" https://www.404media.co/the-roboguard-revolution-is-short-circuiting/ | Source: 404 Media [08:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.404media.co | The Roboguard Revolution is Short-Circuiting [08:53] TR News "How is Knightscope dealing with its expensive robots not working?" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/10/robot-mall-cops-are-being-replaced-by-humans/ | Source: Pivot to AI [08:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | His glass and. [08:54] TR News "Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg just dumped a lengthy manifesto on his utopian vision for an AI superintelligence-driven future." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zuckerbergs-manifesto-contradicted-cto | Source: Futurism [08:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Zuckerberg's Manifesto About the Glorious Freedoms AI Will Bring Was Completely Contradicted by His Own CTO During a Company Meeting [08:54] TR News "A passwordless system is exactly as strong as the flow that re-establishes it" https://jwgoerlich.com/synced-passkey-security-issues-could-allow-account-takeover/ | Source: J Wolfgang Goerlich [08:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jwgoerlich.com | Synced passkey security issues could allow account takeover | J Wolfgang Goerlich [08:54] TR News "It is hard to reckon with the notion that Google was only incidentally a utility." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/end-of-google-search/ | Source: Nick Heer [08:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pxlnv.com | The End of Google Search as We Know It Pixel Envy [08:55] TR News "But the thread as a whole left me with the idea that there's still a lot of people out there that barely understand email and aren't even sure what their own email even is. Sad." https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/11.1 | Source: Sean Conner [08:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boston.conman.org | Gmail might partially be to blame for me receiving emails from other Sean Conners - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [08:55] TR News "Anyone on a call that involved screen sharing, whether participants or the host, would have been vulnerable to a silent attack that could be carried out with no indication and no interaction from the victim." https://www.wired.com/story/a-zoom-screen-sharing-bug-let-anyone-take-over-other-devices-on-a-call/ | Source: Wired [08:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A Zoom Screen-Sharing Bug Let Anyone Take Over Other Devices on a Call | WIRED [08:55] TR News "Well, if that is the criterion then much of U.S. healthcare is already socialist." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-us-healthcare-system-is-already | Source: Paul Krugman [08:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | The U.S. Healthcare System is Already Mostly Socialized [08:55] TR News "Papas got a brand new in-box. Picked up at thrift for $3.30." https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/11/wooden-letter-tray-stock-no-721/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [08:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boffosocko.com | | Chris Aldrich [08:55] TR News "We've recently wound up with some unusually big (x86) servers, from a vendor we don't normally get servers from." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SlowFirmwareBootPainful | Source: University of Toronto [08:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser [08:56] TR News "Since January, when the first Panther Lake laptops hit store shelves, reviews keep repeating a sentence that would have sounded absurd five years ago: an Intel x86 chip going toe to toe with the Apple M5." https://akitaonrails.com/en/2026/08/11/intels-comeback-arm64-vs-x86-64-is-not-what-you-think/ | Source: Fabio Akita [08:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Intel's Comeback: ARM64 vs X86-64 Is Not What You Think AkitaOnRails.com [08:56] TR News "Besides taking up more room, thermal expansion also means that its difficult to apply a consistent preload force between two ball bearings." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/splitting-a-ball-bearing-to-cut-out-backlash/ | Source: Hackaday [08:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Splitting A Ball Bearing To Cut Out Backlash | Hackaday [08:56] TR News "We have recently secured a confirmed good stockpile of Rafael R828S chips via our contract manufacturer" https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-blog-v4l-lite-now-available-for-purchase/ | Source: RTL-SDR [08:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-RTL-SDR Blog V4L (Lite) Now Available for Purchase! [08:59] TR News Techrights Links 12/08/2026: "Xs Advertising Business Continues to Tank", "Stop Feeding the Billionaires" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_X_s_Advertising_Business_Continues_to_Tank_Sto.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_X_s_Advertising_Business_Continues_to_Tank_Sto.gmi [08:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 12/08/2026: "Xs Advertising Business Continues to Tank", "Stop Feeding the Billionaires" ● Aug 12 [09:03] *parsifal has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Aug 12 [12:14] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 12 [13:23] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [13:23] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 12 [14:13] TR News "One Source of Paxtons Wealth: A Cell Tower at a Hospital He Knew Well - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/paxton-cell-tower-company-texas-senate.html [14:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/paxton-cell-tower-company-texas-senate.html ) [14:13] TR News "A previously unpublished translation by J. R. R. Tolkien is offering new insights into his decades of work as a scholar of medieval English." [14:14] TR News "Entitled Souls Ward, the ten-page typescript translates an early thirteenth-century religious work that Tolkien studied, edited and taught during his academic career." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/unpublished-tolkien-translation-of-a-medieval-text-brought-to-light/ [14:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unpublished Tolkien Translation of a Medieval Text Brought to Light - Medievalists.net [14:14] TR News "Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html [14:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/politics/trump-plane-ruse.html ) [14:14] TR News "The de-Christianisation of the nation | The Spectator Australia" https://www.spectator.com.au/2026/08/the-de-christianisation-of-the-nation/ [14:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.spectator.com.au | The de-Christianisation of the nation | The Spectator Australia [14:14] TR News "Oliver Larkin Wants to End the "Reflexive Moderation" of Florida Democrats" https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/oliver-larkin-wants-to-end-the-reflexive [14:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hamiltonnolan.com | Oliver Larkin Wants to End the "Reflexive Moderation" of Florida Democrats [14:15] TR News "Resisting Total Electoral Absorption" https://organizingmythoughts.org/resisting-total-electoral-absorption/ [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-organizingmythoughts.org | Resisting Total Electoral Absorption [14:15] TR News "The Rebels Already Won - Ken Klippenstein" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-rebels-have-already-won [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kenklippenstein.com | The Rebels Already Won - Ken Klippenstein [14:15] TR News "Warming the Word - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck" https://richardbeck.substack.com/p/warming-the-word [14:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-richardbeck.substack.com | Warming the Word - Experimental Theology with Richard Beck [14:16] TR News "I have been dreading this moment all summer." https://jeffbridgforth.com/this-goodbye-is-different/ | Source: Jeff Bridgforth [14:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jeffbridgforth.com | This goodbye is different | Jeff Bridgforth [14:16] TR News "Until, I dont know, five years ago or so, every building was wide open as long as students were on campus." https://blog.jimgrey.net/2026/08/11/summer-scenes-from-my-alma-mater-on-the-nikon-df/ | Source: Jim Grey [14:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.jimgrey.net | Summer scenes from my alma mater - Down the Road [14:16] TR News "The ransomware decryption didnt work, so there was no way to decrypt files once encrypted (it was effectively a wiper)." https://www.securityweek.com/hacker-conversations-marcus-hutchins/ | Source: Security Week [14:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption - SecurityWeek [14:16] TR News "Papyrus conservation is an exceptionally specialized area, and hands-on training opportunities are rare" https://news.umich.edu/preserving-the-worlds-oldest-paper-trail/ | Source: University of Michigan [14:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://news.umich.edu/preserving-the-worlds-oldest-paper-trail/ ) [14:17] TR News "My 5 years of high school were spent at an art school, studying traditional goldsmithing, as well as art in general." https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-content-writing-and-art | Source: Manuel Moreale [14:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-manuelmoreale.com | On content, writing, and art Manu [14:17] TR News "Instead, she explained that it's all about time. She puts a lot of time into the work she does, and she's been doing that kind of work for a long time." https://robertbirming.com/building-trust/ | Source: Robert Birming [14:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertbirming.com | Building trust Robert Birming [14:17] TR News "I have never done any timefrequency transformations. I understand the general idea, but I have never worked with the details." https://entropicthoughts.com/fft | Source: Chris [14:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-entropicthoughts.com | A noob learns FFT [14:17] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [14:18] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [14:18] TR News "I use the Shunting Yard algorithm to handle precedence when parsing expressions in my assembler." https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/06.1 | Source: Sean Conner [14:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boston.conman.org | Unary operators and the Shunting Yard algorithm - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [14:24] TR News "My mum was born in the British Isles in the 1950s. Sure, she didn't have the internet, but it's not like she was born into a 17th-century Amish community!" https://thomasrigby.com/posts/old-people-arent-tech-savvy/ | Source: Thomas Rigby [14:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Old people aren't tech savvy | thomasrigby.com [14:24] TR News "Why do we reply to a thank you with a thank you, and why did it make sense to me? Im going to try and answer that with real-life examples that Ive experienced myself." https://abhi.now/blog/thank-you-thank-you/ | Source: Abhigyan Tripathi [14:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-abhi.now | thank you, thank you | abhigyan trips. [14:26] TR News "Im not sure how one measures the passage of time for a blog. Posterities? RSS-uscitations? Whatever the unit, today marks my blogs twenty-fifth birthday." https://davepeck.org/2026/08/11/twenty-five-in-blog-years/ | Source: Dave Peck [14:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-davepeck.org | Twenty-Five in Blog Years | Dave Peck [14:26] TR News "She Remains Undefeated" https://louplummer.lol/wonder-woman-undefeated/ | Source: Lou Plummer [14:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-louplummer.lol | Wonder Woman vs. Me - She Remains Undefeated Living Out Loud [14:28] TR News "I have music collection of over 12,000 tracks." https://chuck.is/opus/ | Source: Chuck Carroll [14:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-chuck.is | Converting FLACs to Opus | Chuck Carroll [14:28] TR News "Suppose that you have a URL in the form of a UTF-8 or Unicode text string and you want to show it to people in a web context" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/URLsAreNotStringsMyCase | Source: University of Toronto [14:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser [14:28] TR News "In this post, I'll share the challenge I've come across with a naive approach to parsing large game files, and share a more efficient approach I've been curious to explore." https://www.mostlypython.com/parsing-large-ish-data-files/ | Source: Eric Matthes [14:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.mostlypython.com | Parsing large(ish) data files [14:29] TR News "One tool to validate input data is Pydantic. This is a quick tutorial to show how it works." https://hamatti.org/posts/j-is-for-json-validation-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [14:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hamatti.org | J is for JSON validation - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [14:29] TR News "Someone comes hype the idea of functional programming that youve never heard of." https://hamatti.org/posts/i-is-for-immutable-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [14:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hamatti.org | I is for immutable - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [14:31] TR News "I therefore started looking for a reasonable solution and eventually found my way. I would like to share it in this post." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/dual-scaled-y-axis-with-ggplot/ | Source: Rlang [14:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Dual scaled y-axis with ggplot() | R-bloggers [14:33] TR News "Its time to compare those two languages." https://chshersh.com/blog/2023-12-16-8-months-of-ocaml-after-8-years-of-haskell.html | Source: Dmitrii Kovanikov [14:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-chshersh.com | 8 months of OCaml after 8 years of Haskell in production [14:33] TR News "Heres a seemingly simple question: given a chunk of multi-line text, how do you split it and return an array whose members are the constituent lines of the text?" https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/aug/10/newlines/ | Source: James Bennett [14:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.b-list.org | Breaking up (lines) is hard to do [14:34] TR News "Ive spent the majority of my professional career working on software libraries, chunks of reusable code that other people stack together to make their code." https://jacobtomlinson.dev/posts/2026/open-source-libraries-are-evolving-into-reference-implementations/ | Source: Jacob Tomlinson [14:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobtomlinson.dev | Open Source libraries are evolving into reference implementations - Jacob Tomlinson [14:34] TR News "Three things I want to make clear: [...]" https://rapha.land/closing-canario-terminal-source-code/ | Source: Raphael Amorim [14:34] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rapha.land | Closing Canario Terminal source code Raphael Amorim [14:36] TR News "This post is a tour of yy through a small visualization, with a close look at one boundary case." https://vitaut.net/posts/2026/yy-dtoa/ | Source: Victor Zverovich [14:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-vitaut.net | The fastest double-to-string algorithm youve never heard of [14:36] TR News "I was tired of bolting solutions onto my SSGs, so I built my own." https://cleberg.net/blog/orgo.html | Source: Christian Cleberg [14:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-I Built My Own Org-Mode Static Site Generator - cleberg.net [14:36] TR News "Mozilla has added a new kill switch for AI features to its Firefox browser." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3210537/disable-all-ai-features-in-firefox-with-just-one-click.html | Source: PC World [14:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Don't want AI in your browser? Firefox now lets you shut it off | PCWorld [14:37] TR News "We have seen a number of cases where a security bug identified by AI tools is subsequently independently discovered by a different researcher." https://www.openssh.org/txt/release-10.5 | Source: OpenSSH [14:37] TR News "The organisations set up to address open source sustainability have the same funding problem as the maintainers they are trying to help" https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/07/the-software-stewardship-lab.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [14:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nesbitt.io | The Software Stewardship Lab | Andrew Nesbitt [14:38] TR News "Although the difference isnt night and day, the tuned profile was faster due to less conservative settings and had better accuracy on the final print due to taking the target FDM printers performance into account." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/is-manual-filament-tuning-still-worth-it/ | Source: Hackaday [14:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Is Manual Filament Tuning Still Worth It? | Hackaday [14:38] TR News "Of those, the biggest were a clock speed of 62 MHz instead of the typical 194 MHz as well as a lack of sound." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/running-doom-on-a-cheap-104-in-one-handheld/ | Source: Hackaday [14:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Running DOOM On A Cheap 104-in-One Handheld | Hackaday [14:39] TR News "For the last few years Ive been trying to source an II, Apples last major hurrah for the Apple II platform, and the only 16-bit model in the lineup." https://www.rubenerd.au/i-have-an-apple-iigs/ | Source: Ruben Schade [14:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: I finally have an Apple II! Kinda [14:39] TR News "The keyboard starts off in a browser running on a standard smartphone." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/a-keyboard-with-no-keys/ | Source: Hackaday [14:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A Keyboard With No Keys | Hackaday [14:39] TR News "Thank you to Esteban Benito (EA8DGL) for writing in and sharing news of a bare-metal open source firmware for the GD32F450-based DeepSDR 101." https://www.rtl-sdr.com/open-source-firmware-for-the-deepsdr-101/ | Source: RTL-SDR [14:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rtl-sdr.com | Open Source Firmware for the DeepSDR 101 [14:39] TR News "BMW, showing that it was about as in-touch as its drivers are familiar with turn signals, teased the promotion as a special surprise." https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/bmw-suddenly-blasts-cars-advertisements | Source: Futurism [14:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | BMW Suddenly Blasts Its Cars' Internal Screens With Aggressive Advertisements [14:47] TR News "Before we begin, let me thank all our donors and sponsors. Many thanks to all of you for the help youre providing us!" https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=5050 | Source: Linux Mint [14:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.linuxmint.com | NO TITLE [14:48] TR News "Before we take a look at the chart, the usual disclaimer that you love: [...]" https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-king-now-and-the-distro-world-settles/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam [14:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-boilingsteam.com | CachyOS is King Now, and the Distro World Settles [14:48] TR News "Now, onto the interesting parts." https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html | Source: Brian Callahan [14:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-briancallahan.net | Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan [14:52] TR News "os8088 is a single-floppy OS that provides preemptive multitasking and fully loadable software alongside that GUI" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/11/the-pc-os-that-would-have-blown-your-mind-back-in-1984/ | Source: Hackaday [14:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The PC OS That Would Have Blown Your Mind Back In 1984 | Hackaday [14:52] TR News "Writing up the package manager CWEs list and then the --end-of-options survey, both of which come down to the same bug being fixed independently in tool after tool" https://nesbitt.io/2026/08/11/package-manager-library-reuse.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [14:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nesbitt.io | Shared Code Between Package Managers | Andrew Nesbitt [14:54] TR News Price of Storage https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/price-of-storage/ [14:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Price of Storage [14:54] TR News "Armada has many deep and tactically interesting features" https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/11/keep-your-community-afloat-with-the-right-defense-tokens/ | Source: Nate Graham [14:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pointieststick.com | Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens Adventures in Linux and KDE [14:54] TR News "This post is the story of that bug, why my fix was wrong, why theirs was better, how bad this thing actually is" https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/08/i-found-a-kvm-guest-to-host-heap-corruption-bug-and-someone-else-got-there-first/ | Source: Himanshu Anand [14:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.himanshuanand.com | I found a KVM guest-to-host heap corruption bug and someone else got there first :: Himanshu Anand :: Security & Other Notes [14:59] TR News "In Episode 14, I chat with Robb, the author of rknight.me about, among other things, metaphors for websites" https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/14 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving [14:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-web-weaving.jamesg.blog | #14: Robb (rknight.me) - Wonders of Web Weaving [14:59] TR News "A full transcript is available on the website." https://rknight.me/blog/i-was-a-guest-on-web-weaving/ | Source: Rob Knight [14:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rknight.me | I Was a Guest on Web Weaving Robb Knight [14:59] TR News "But Im spending less time in the terminal and IDE these days." https://bentsai.org/posts/monospace | Source: Ben Tsai [14:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bentsai.org | Monospace - Ben Tsai ● Aug 12 [15:00] TR News "Independent candidate Daniel Pocock is concerned about media issues." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/when-is-clacton-byelection-nigel-farage-count-binface-laurence-fox-b3031696.html [15:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.independent.co.uk | When is the Clacton by-election and who are the dozens of candidates standing against Nigel Farage? | The Independent [15:04] TR News Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/11/421-bugs-in-microsofts-patch-tuesday-release-and-the-norks-have-already-attacked-one/5286483 [15:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | 421 bugs in Microsoft's Patch Tuesday release, and the Norks have already attacked one [15:11] TR News Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article About Replacing Linux With Proprietary Google System, "Sponsored by ASUS." https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Fake_Article_About_Replacing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Fake_Article_About_Replacing.gmi [15:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article About Replacing Linux With Proprietary Google System, "Sponsored by ASUS." [15:18] TR News Techrights statCounter Today: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux Measured at 10.98% Globally (Desktops and Laptops) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/statCounter_Today_ChromeOS_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_10_98_Globally.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/statCounter_Today_ChromeOS_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_10_98_Globally.gmi [15:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights statCounter Today: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux Measured at 10.98% Globally (Desktops and Laptops) [15:20] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux at 11% Globally https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_Linux_at_11_Globally.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_Linux_at_11_Globally.gmi [15:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNU/Linux at 11% Globally [15:20] TR News Extending immutability: deletion without losing data https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/soft-delete-deep-dive/ [15:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tigrisdata.com | Extending immutability: deletion without losing data | Tigris Object Storage [15:21] TR News August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day https://www.securityweek.com/august-2026-patch-tuesday-microsoft-fixes-421-cves-one-exploited-zero-day/ [15:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-August 2026 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Fixes 421 CVEs, One Exploited Zero-Day - SecurityWeek [15:22] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:41] TR News Techrights Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clacton_manifesto_Reform_UK_hacking_leaks_raw_sewage_8GB_Swiss_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clacton_manifesto_Reform_UK_hacking_leaks_raw_sewage_8GB_Swiss_.gmi [15:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive [15:45] TR News Bernard: GNOME Shell design dreams https://lwn.net/Articles/1088238/ [15:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Bernard: GNOME Shell design dreams [LWN.net] [15:46] TR News GNOME Shell and Mutter Development: GNOME Shell Design Dreams https://blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2026/08/11/gnome-shell-design-dreams/ [15:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blogs.gnome.org | GNOME Shell Design Dreams GNOME Shell & Mutter [15:52] TR News Daniel Pococks Final Statement https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/daniel-pococks-final-statement/ [15:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Daniel Pococks Final Statement [15:56] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social ● Aug 12 [16:03] TR News You Know They Lost When https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/you-know-they-lost-when/ [16:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive You Know They Lost When [16:10] TR News Keep your community afloat with the right defense tokens https://pointieststick.com/2026/08/11/keep-your-community-afloat-with-the-right-defense-tokens/ [16:10] TR News CachyOS is King Now, and the Distro World Settles https://boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-king-now-and-the-distro-world-settles/index.html [16:11] TR News I finally have an Fashion Company Apple II! Kinda https://www.rubenerd.au/i-have-an-apple-iigs/ [16:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rubenerd.au | Rubenerd: I finally have an Apple II! Kinda [16:21] TR News "To bridge this gap, enterprises useRed Hat Technical Account Managers (TAMs) as an extension of their teams" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/4-ways-red-hat-tam-maximizes-it-investments-according-forrester-tei-study | Source: Red Hat Official [16:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | 4 ways a Red Hat TAM maximizes IT investments, according to Forrester TEI study [16:22] TR News "First, lets examine your current production environment. Compliance, governance, and security aligned with specific standards represent an ongoing and essential need." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/policy-code-what-happens-when-you-layer-policy-enforcement-automation-you-already-have | Source: Red Hat Official [16:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Policy as code: What happens when you layer policy enforcement onto the automation you already have [16:22] TR News "an informatics nerd " https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-fhir-why-informatics-nerd-joined-red-ha | Source: Red Hat Official [16:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Red Hat on FHIR: Why an informatics nerd joined Red Hat [16:22] TR News "The work itself is familiar: generate the replacement certificate, apply it to the server, confirm the service is healthy, and update the support ticket." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-preventable-outages-intelligent-windows-certificate-rotation-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform | Source: Red Hat Official [16:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Stop preventable outages: Intelligent Windows certificate rotation with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform [16:23] TR News A promotion of Windows, sort of [16:26] TR News Slop promotion. "NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning is an open 30B hybrid Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 3B active parameters, designed for high-throughput agentic workloads." https://ubuntu.com//blog/nvidia-nemotron-3-5-lightning | Source: Ubuntu [16:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Canonical integrates NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning with Ubuntu for always-on AI agents | Ubuntu [16:27] TR News "Shuttles XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 Arrow Lake-S processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU." https://linuxgizmos.com/1-35-liter-mini-pc-runs-core-ultra-200-with-triple-displays-and-24-7-operation/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [16:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/1-35-liter-mini-pc-runs-core-ultra-200-with-triple-displays-and-24-7-operation/ ) [16:27] TR News Be more prepared for the Steam Frame with Digiphile's new VR Games Showcase Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/be-more-prepared-for-the-steam-frame-with-digiphiles-new-vr-games-showcase-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Be more prepared for the Steam Frame with Digiphile's new VR Games Showcase Bundle | GamingOnLinux [16:29] TR News The chilled co-op off-roading game 'over the hill' arrives October 14 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-chilled-co-op-off-roading-game-over-the-hill-arrives-october-14/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The chilled co-op off-roading game 'over the hill' arrives October 14 | GamingOnLinux [16:35] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:43] TR News Techrights The Slop Debt (Trillions of Dollars, Money That Does Not Exist) is Causing the Collapse of GAFAM et al https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/The_Slop_Debt_Trillions_of_Dollars_Money_That_Does_Not_Exist_is.shtml | Gemini address: 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-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 23 Years After GNU/Linux Was a Neglected Niche [17:15] TR News Techrights Clownflare and statCounter See GNU/Linux at ~8% in Norway https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clownflare_and_statCounter_See_GNU_Linux_at_8_in_Norway.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Clownflare_and_statCounter_See_GNU_Linux_at_8_in_Norway.gmi [17:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Clownflare and statCounter See GNU/Linux at ~8% in Norway [17:15] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [17:16] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [17:28] TR News (NEW): Bullying Women During Family Events and Holidays https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Bullying_Women_During_Family_Events_and_Holidays.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Bullying_Women_During_Family_Events_and_Holidays.gmi [17:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Bullying Women During Family Events and Holidays [17:28] TR News (NEW): Shelly 3.0.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds New Search Experience https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Shelly_3_0_4_GUI_Package_Manager_for_Arch_Linux_Adds_New_Search.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Shelly_3_0_4_GUI_Package_Manager_for_Arch_Linux_Adds_New_Search.gmi [17:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Shelly 3.0.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds New Search Experience [17:38] TR News Techrights Simpler Means More Reliable https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Simpler_Means_More_Reliable.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Simpler_Means_More_Reliable.gmi [17:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Simpler Means More Reliable [17:41] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [17:41] TR News Its Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been https://futurism.com/science-energy/official-hottest-america-ever-been [17:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | It's Official: This Is the Hottest America Has Ever Been [17:42] TR News Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux [17:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux [17:42] TR News Gamble your way out of a contract in the occult roulette roguelite deckbuilder 'Teufelskreis' | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gamble-your-way-out-of-a-contract-in-the-occult-roulette-roguelite-deckbuilder-teufelskreis/ Source: GamingOnLinux [17:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Gamble your way out of a contract in the occult roulette roguelite deckbuilder 'Teufelskreis' | GamingOnLinux [17:42] TR News University of Michigan Will Ease Up on Grades for Student Mental Health https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/university-michigan-grades-freshmen-pass-fail.html [17:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/university-michigan-grades-freshmen-pass-fail.html ) [17:43] TR News At least 2,000 die in DR Congo's fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-thousands-die-as-dr-congo-faces-fastest-growing-ebola-outbreak-on-record [17:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ 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https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/vietnam-starts-building-largest-homemade-anti-submarine-warship [17:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Vietnam starts building largest domestic-made anti-submarine warship | The Straits Times [17:47] TR News Australia, Vietnam boost ties in hedge against China in a world becoming more uncertain https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-vietnam-boost-ties-to-hedge-against-china-in-a-world-becoming-more-uncertain [17:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Australia, Vietnam boost ties in hedge against China in a world becoming more uncertain | The Straits Times [17:48] TR News Spore firms ink new deals in Liaoning as Chinas rust belt seeks economic turnaround https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/spore-firms-ink-new-deals-in-liaoning-as-chinas-rust-belt-seeks-economic-turnaround [17:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Spore firms ink new deals in Liaoning as Chinas rust belt seeks economic turnaround | The Straits Times [17:48] TR News FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers blockade targets key Hey Hi (AI) interconnects as China holds 56% global market share https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/fcc-proposes-import-ban-on-chinese-optical-transceivers-blockade-targets-key-ai-interconnects-as-china-holds-56-percent-global-market-share [17:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | FCC proposes import ban on Chinese optical transceivers blockade targets key AI interconnects as China holds 56% global market share | Tom's Hardware [17:48] TR News SK hynix to expand production capacity in China as it mulls Solidigm IPO, report claims second phase of fab could boost local production by 50% https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/sk-hynix-to-expand-production-capacity-in-china-as-it-mulls-solidigm-ipo-report-claims-second-phase-of-fab-could-boost-local-production-by-50-percent [17:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | SK hynix to expand production capacity in China as it mulls Solidigm IPO, report claims second phase of fab could boost local production by 50% | Tom's Hardware [17:49] TR News China rocket launch fails after flight anomaly, reports of explosion https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/11/china-rocket-launch-fails-after-flight-anomaly-reports-of-explosion/ [17:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | China rocket launch fails after 'flight anomaly', reports of explosion [17:49] TR News Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Latest from Restart, Chattanooga Times Free Press and Buzzfeed https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/ [17:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Rolling updates - Press Gazette ● Aug 12 [18:05] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:10] TR News Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Slop Spam for NVIDIA and HP, It Says "AI" 43 Times https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Slop_Spam_for_NVIDIA_and_HP_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_Slop_Spam_for_NVIDIA_and_HP_.gmi [18:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published Slop Spam for NVIDIA and HP, It Says "AI" 43 Times [18:14] TR News Test Yourself: This Week's Microscope Mystery https://www.sciencealert.com/happy-monday-heres-your-weekly-microscope-mystery [18:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Test Yourself: This Week's Microscope Mystery : ScienceAlert [18:14] TR News FDA Finds Bacteria in a Third of 'Sterile' Tattoo Inks, And That's a Problem https://www.sciencealert.com/tattoo-ink-isnt-as-sterile-as-we-thought-and-thats-a-problem [18:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-FDA Finds Bacteria in a Third of 'Sterile' Tattoo Inks, And That's a Problem : ScienceAlert [18:15] TR News A Week-Long Meditation Retreat Produced Psychedelic-Like Brain Changes, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/just-7-days-of-meditation-can-rewire-your-brain-study-suggests [18:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A Week-Long Meditation Retreat Produced Psychedelic-Like Brain Changes, Study Finds : ScienceAlert [18:15] TR News No Palaces, No Pyramids: How This Ancient City Got Rich Without Inequality https://www.sciencealert.com/lesson-for-modern-societies-this-4000-year-old-city-defied-the-rules-of-history [18:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-No Palaces, No Pyramids: How This Ancient City Got Rich Without Inequality : ScienceAlert [18:15] TR News KEcoLab Sprint 26 https://chucklesdroid.xyz/posts/kecolabsprint26/kecolabsprint26/ [18:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-chucklesdroid.xyz | KEcoLab Sprint 26 - Chucklesdroid blogs [18:17] TR News The Fruits of Hey Hi (AI) https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/fruit-of-ai/ [18:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.jim-nielsen.com | The Fruits of AI - Jim Nielsens Blog [18:17] TR News ExTiX 260811 https://distrowatch.com/extix [18:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/extix ) [18:18] TR News DietPi 10.6 https://distrowatch.com/dietpi [18:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi ) [18:18] TR News Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Even_ZDNet_Accepts_That_Market_Share_of_GNU_Linux_May_Have_Doub.shtml [18:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops [18:19] TR News The AirDrop Alternative LocalSend 1.18.0 Released with CLI Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/the-airdrop-alternative-localsend-1-18-0-released-with-cli-support/ [18:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | The AirDrop Alternative LocalSend 1.18.0 Released with CLI Support | UbuntuHandbook [18:19] TR News Linux Mint 22.3 Updated with 7.0 Kernel & New Kernel Management UI https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/linux-mint-22-3-with-7-0-kernel/ [18:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | Linux Mint 22.3 Updated with 7.0 Kernel & New Kernel Management UI | UbuntuHandbook [18:19] TR News ZimaOS 1.7.1-beta1 https://distrowatch.com/zimaos [18:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/zimaos ) [18:19] TR News Vincent 1.2 https://distrowatch.com/vincent [18:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vincent ) [18:20] TR News Colin Watson: Free software activity in July2026 https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-07.html [18:20] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.chiark.greenend.org.uk | Free software activity in July2026 | Colin Watson's blog [18:21] TR News Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/initial-seeder-on-popular-anime-torrenting-site-nyaa-arrested-by-japanese-authorities-anti-piracy-group-claims-it-identified-user-without-torrent-swarm-monitoring [18:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Japanese authorities use new tool to identify initial torrent uploaders anti-piracy group says it identified seeder on popular anime torrenting website without torrent swarm monitoring | Tom's Hardware [18:21] TR News This Deadly Brain Cancer Hijacks Brain Activity to Fuel Its Growth, Study Reveals https://www.sciencealert.com/this-deadly-brain-cancer-hijacks-brain-activity-to-fuel-its-growth-study-reveals [18:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-This Deadly Brain Cancer Hijacks Brain Activity to Fuel Its Growth, Study Reveals : ScienceAlert [18:21] TR News Weird 'Loophole' Could Finally Let Energy Move Faster Than The Speed of Light https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-a-way-that-energy-could-outpace-the-speed-of-light [18:21] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Weird 'Loophole' Could Finally Let Energy Move Faster Than The Speed of Light : ScienceAlert [18:22] TR News Never-Before-Seen Type of Amyloid May Explain a Devastating Form of Alzheimer's https://www.sciencealert.com/never-before-seen-type-of-amyloid-may-explain-a-devastating-form-of-alzheimers [18:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Never-Before-Seen Type of Amyloid May Explain a Devastating Form of Alzheimer's : ScienceAlert [18:22] TR News Internet slowdown and drones in the Strait: Taiwan preps for potential China conflict https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0811/taiwan-internet-blackout-military-exercises [18:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Internet slowdown and drones in the Strait: Taiwan preps for potential China conflict - CSMonitor.com [18:23] TR News Brad Lightcap, a Top Proprietary Chaffbot Company Executive, Steps Down https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/technology/brad-lightcap-openai.html http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/09/2026_The_Year_Slop_Companies_Made_an_Exit_Threw_in_the_Towel_Ov.shtml [18:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/technology/brad-lightcap-openai.html ) [18:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights 2026: The Year Slop Companies "Made an Exit" (Threw in the Towel Over to Wall Street) [18:23] TR News Spotify Will Label Hey Hi (AI) Artists and Avoid Promoting Them https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/arts/music/spotify-artificial-intelligence-music.html [18:23] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/arts/music/spotify-artificial-intelligence-music.html ) [18:25] TR News AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-investors-suddenly-quaking-boots [18:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | AI Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots [18:26] TR News Nvidia: HELP!!!! THE BUBBLE IS IMPLODING!!! LEND US TRILLIONS!! https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-teams-up-with-financial-giants-to-create-usd500-billion-ai-infrastructure-funds-six-investment-firms-to-enable-access-to-long-term-funding-at-attractive-rates [18:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Nvidia teams up with financial giants to create $500 billion AI infrastructure funds six investment firms to enable access to long-term funding at attractive rates | Tom's Hardware [18:26] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [18:26] TR News Protesters Arrested After Storming Proprietary Chaffbot Company Lobbying Office https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/protesters-arrested-protest-openai-washington-dc [18:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Protesters Arrested After Storming OpenAI Lobbying Office [18:26] TR News Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras Electronic Brains https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/man-covers-car-special-wrap-flock-cameras [18:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Man Covers Car in Special Wrap That Breaks Flock Cameras' Electronic Brains [18:27] TR News Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/doctors-med-students-brains-ai [18:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Doctors Warn That Med Students Are Surrendering Their Brains to Medical AIs That Are Even Worse than Regular Chatbots [18:27] TR News ArtificiaI Intelligence event 'AI Connect' to take place in Rga https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/11.08.2026-artificiai-intelligence-event-ai-connect-to-take-place-in-riga.a658294/ [18:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | ArtificiaI Intelligence event 'AI Connect' to take place in Rga / Article [18:27] TR News David Ellison Floats Hollywood Exit as States Threaten His Warner Bros. Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/business/media/david-ellison-hollywood-paramount-warner-bros.html [18:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/business/media/david-ellison-hollywood-paramount-warner-bros.html ) [18:28] TR News Beyonc Hit with Lawsuit Over Allegedly Unauthorized Sample https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/beyonce-hit-with-lawsuit-over-allegedly-unauthorized-sample/ [18:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/beyonce-hit-with-lawsuit-over-allegedly-unauthorized-sample/ ) [18:28] TR News States are Punishing Women Who Survive Violence with Incarceration. They Deserve Clemency. https://www.aclu.org/news/criminal-law-reform/states-are-punishing-women-who-survive-violence-with-incarceration-they-deserve-clemency [18:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aclu.org | States are Punishing Women Who Survive Violence with Incarceration. They Deserve Clemency. | American Civil Liberties Union [18:28] TR News Lawsuit over Armys use of Hey Hi (AI) in contract award could increase transparency around proposal evaluations https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2026/08/lawsuit-over-armys-use-of-ai-in-contract-award-could-increase-transparency-around-proposal-evaluations/ [18:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-federalnewsnetwork.com | Lawsuit over Armys use of AI in contract award could increase transparency around proposal evaluations | Federal News Network [18:29] TR News CRA Readiness: A Practitioners Guide to Compliance https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/11/cra-readiness-a-practitioners-guide-to-compliance/ [18:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openssf.org | CRA Readiness: A Practitioners Guide to Compliance Open Source Security Foundation [18:29] TR News Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-join-the-defence-bank-that-named-it-as-a-priority-partner/ [18:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner | The Strategist [18:30] TR News Iran's New Security Chief Demands US End War To Reopen Hormuz Strait https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html [18:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | EU, Western States Condemn Iranian Executions In 'Strongest Terms' [18:30] TR News Libyan military intelligence chief assassinated in car bombing https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-libyan-military-intelligence-chief-assassinated-in-car-bombing [18:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-libyan-military-intelligence-chief-assassinated-in-car-bombing ) [18:31] TR News NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the Hey Hi (AI) age https://cyberscoop.com/nist-national-vulnerability-database-ai-overhaul/ [18:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-NIST wants to overhaul its vulnerability database for the AI age | CyberScoop [18:31] TR News US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and Water Watch Center https://www.securityweek.com/us-water-systems-get-cyber-boost-from-new-senate-bill-and-water-watch-center/ [18:31] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and 'Water Watch Center' - SecurityWeek [18:32] TR News SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/sap-patches-critical-code-injection-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities/ [18:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek [18:32] TR News Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/zoom-patches-zero-click-code-execution-vulnerability/ [18:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Zoom Patches Zero-Click Code Execution Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [18:33] TR News Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-urges-immediate-patching-of-critical-coldfusion-campaign-classic-flaws/ [18:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Adobe Urges Immediate Patching of Critical ColdFusion, Campaign Classic Flaws - SecurityWeek [18:33] TR News Flatpak 1.19 Released [18:33] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi [18:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [18:35] TR News Run Hermes on Raspberry Pi, Control It from Your Laptop https://itsfoss.com/hermes-desktop-remote-gateway/ [18:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Run Hermes on Raspberry Pi, Control It from Your Laptop [18:36] TR News Amazons New Hey Hi (AI) Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/amazon-data-center-largest-pollution-source-texas-usa [18:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Amazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United States [18:36] TR News French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's Hey Hi (AI) summaries https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260811-french-newspapers-target-google-over-ai-summaries [18:36] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260811-french-newspapers-target-google-over-ai-summaries ) [18:37] TR News Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/homeschool-parents-chatpgt-ai-chatbots-lesson-plans-education [18:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT [18:37] TR News France: Drought's impact on the cheese industry https://www.france24.com/en/france-drought-s-impact-on-the-cheese-industry [18:37] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france-drought-s-impact-on-the-cheese-industry ) [18:40] TR News (NEW): 6 essential Linux desktop features that still havent made it to Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/6_essential_Linux_desktop_features_that_still_haven_t_made_it_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/6_essential_Linux_desktop_features_that_still_haven_t_made_it_t.gmi [18:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 6 essential Linux desktop features that still havent made it to Windows [18:44] TR News Training the Birds https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/training-the-birds/ [18:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Training the Birds [18:45] TR News backdoored Windows 11 pre-loaded... nope! https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/12/minisforum-elite-mini-m2-air-304-barebone-wildcat-lake-mini-pc/ [18:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | MINISFORUM Elite Mini M2 Air-304 barebone Wildcat Lake mini PC sells for $263 - CNX Software [18:46] TR News NXP FRDM-IMX95-PRO i.MX 95 board features 10GbE, faster 6400 MT/s LPDDR5 memory, dual M.2 expansion https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/11/nxp-frdm-imx95-pro-i-mx-95-board-features-10gbe-faster-6400-mt-s-lpddr5-memory-dual-m-2-expansion/ [18:46] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | NXP FRDM-IMX95-PRO i.MX 95 board features 10GbE, faster 6400 MT/s LPDDR5 memory, dual M.2 expansion - CNX Software [18:47] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Android_Leftovers.gmi [18:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers [18:47] TR News Miscarriages triple, healthcare access worsens the nightmare for pregnant women in Gaza https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260811-miscarriages-healthcare-pregnant-women-gaza [18:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260811-miscarriages-healthcare-pregnant-women-gaza ) [18:47] TR News Allowing Tor Users https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/11/allowing-tor-users/ [18:47] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Allowing Tor Users [18:48] TR News Hong Kong police arrest 10 for dangerous driving in first drone-assisted traffic crackdown https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/11/hong-kong-police-arrest-10-for-dangerous-driving-in-first-drone-assisted-traffic-crackdown/ [18:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | In first, HK police deploy drones to help combat dangerous driving, 10 arrests [18:48] TR News Parisians get ready for the eclipse https://www.france24.com/en/parisians-get-ready-for-the-eclipse [18:48] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/parisians-get-ready-for-the-eclipse ) [18:49] TR News Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026, (Tue, Aug 11th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33236 [18:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-isc.sans.edu | Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2026 - SANS ISC [18:49] TR News Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia over atrocities https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia-over-atrocities [18:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia-over-atrocities ) [18:51] TR News Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 https://news.opensuse.org/2026/08/10/venue-update-opensuse-asia-summit-2026/ [18:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.opensuse.org | Venue Update for openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 - openSUSE News [18:51] TR News New visa rules limit foreign journalists to 240-day stays in the US https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/new-visa-rules-limit-foreign-journalists-to-240-day-stays-in-the-us/ [18:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | New visa rules limit foreign journalists to 240-day stays in the US - Press Gazette [18:52] TR News OptiScaler Client 1.0.6 adds Heroic Games Launcher support, experimental gamepad support, FSR 4.1.1 for older GPUs | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/optiscaler-client-1-0-6-adds-heroic-games-launcher-support-experimental-gamepad-support-fsr-4-1-1-for-older-gpus/ Source: GamingOnLinux [18:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-OptiScaler Client 1.0.6 adds Heroic Games Launcher support, experimental gamepad support, FSR 4.1.1 for older GPUs | GamingOnLinux [18:54] TR News SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/steamvr-beta-2-17-7-brings-improvements-to-wired-headset-support-on-linux-steamos Source: GamingOnLinux [18:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux [18:55] TR News XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/xbox-pc-and-game-pass-coming-to-linux-with-the-xodus-project/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/xbox-pc-and-game-pass-coming-to-linux-with-the-xodus-project/ [18:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-XBOX PC and Game Pass coming to Linux with the 'Xodus' project | GamingOnLinux [18:55] TR News "GE-Proton 11-5 was released after as a hotfix for Easy Anti-Cheat." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ge-proton-11-4-brings-lots-of-controller-improvements/ [18:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-GE-Proton 11-4 brings lots of controller improvements | GamingOnLinux [18:56] TR News The Trail Guide Problem: Judge, Jury, and Design Patent Claim Construction https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/the-trail-guide-problem-judge-jury-and-design-patent-claim-construction.html [18:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | The Trail Guide Problem: Judge, Jury, and Design Patent Claim Construction | Patently-O [18:56] TR News Munich Regional Court grants fresh PIs to WobbleWorks in 3D pen dispute https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/munich-regional-court-grants-fresh-pis-to-wobbleworks-in-3d-pen-dispute/ [18:56] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | Munich Regional Court grants fresh PIs to WobbleWorks in 3D pen dispute [18:57] TR News Ponzi, asking for people to gamble on a scam https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/10/intel-launch-15b-stock-sale-amid-ai-boom-advanced-packaging-demand/ [18:57] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Intel launches $20B stock sale amid AI boom, advanced packaging demand - SiliconANGLE [18:58] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:58] TR News FuguIta 7.9-20260811 https://distrowatch.com/fuguita [18:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/fuguita ) [18:58] TR News 2026-08-11: Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag https://briancallahan.net/blog/20260811.html [18:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #boycottnovell-social [18:58] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-briancallahan.net | Cleaning costs, or, examining the OpenBSD -fret-clean flag - Dr. Brian Robert Callahan [18:59] TR News Skrooge 26.8.0 released https://skrooge.org/news/2026-08-10-skrooge_26.8.0_released/ [18:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-skrooge.org | Skrooge 26.8.0 released - Skrooge [18:59] TR News Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmar-military-intensified-air-attacks-and-abuses-during-election-un-investigators-say [18:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say | The Straits Times [18:59] TR News Damascus court sentences Assad to death for the crackdown that started a civil war https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/damascus-court-sentences-assad-to-death-for-the-crackdown-that-started-a-civil-war/ [18:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Damascus court sentences Assad to death for the crackdown that started a civil war - JURIST - News ● Aug 12 [19:00] TR News Adding voice chat for Mankala https://sayandeep.bearblog.dev/adding-voice-chat-for-mankala/ [19:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sayandeep.bearblog.dev | Adding voice chat for Mankala A blog for eternal code [19:01] TR News Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the Search Button With a Bunch of Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-update-home-page-ai [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Google Just Updated Its Home Page to Replace the "Search" Button With a Bunch of AI [19:01] TR News Extension Banned for Stealing Hey Hi (AI) Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities https://www.securityweek.com/extension-banned-for-stealing-ai-chats-returns-to-chrome-store-resumes-malicious-activities/ [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities - SecurityWeek [19:01] TR News ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-agents-to-wear-body-cameras-but-the-fix-is-in [19:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.aclu.org | ICE Agents to Wear Body Cameras But the Fix is In | American Civil Liberties Union [19:02] TR News Lack of transparency and national guidelines mark the expansion of facial recognition in brazilian education http://privacyinternational.org/key-resources/5851/lack-transparency-and-national-guidelines-mark-expansion-facial-recognition [19:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-internetlab.org.br | Lack of transparency and national guidelines mark the expansion of facial recognition in brazilian education | InternetLab InternetLab [19:02] TR News Deported From the U.S., Trapped in a Prison in Africa https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000011032450/deported-from-the-us-trapped-in-a-prison-in-africa.html [19:02] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/africa/100000011032450/deported-from-the-us-trapped-in-a-prison-in-africa.html ) [19:03] TR News Four Killed in Houthi Strike on Red Sea Ship, Yemeni Government Says https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/deadly-houthi-strike-red-sea.html [19:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/deadly-houthi-strike-red-sea.html ) [19:03] TR News How Iran Adapted Its Attacks as U.S. War Munitions Dwindled https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/politics/iran-military-base-attacks-us-munitions.html [19:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/us/politics/iran-military-base-attacks-us-munitions.html ) [19:03] TR News #KeepItOn @10: celebrating a decade of fighting internet shutdowns https://www.accessnow.org/keepiton-10-years-fighting-internet-shutdowns/ [19:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.accessnow.org | #KeepItOn @10: celebrating a decade of fighting internet shutdowns - Access Now [19:04] TR News Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say https://cyberscoop.com/kimwolf-botnet-palo-alto-unit-42-android-tv-boxes/ [19:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Kimwolf botnet rebuilt to survive takedowns, researchers say | CyberScoop [19:05] TR News Ubuntu 26.10 Wallpaper Competition is Open! Submit / Vote Your Favorite https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/ubuntu-26-10-wallpaper-competition/ [19:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | Ubuntu 26.10 Wallpaper Competition is Open! Submit / Vote Your Favorite | UbuntuHandbook [19:05] TR News GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/gnome-51-search-redesign [19:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | GNOME 51 could bring a floating search overlay to the Shell [19:06] TR News Arduino UNO Q: A Debian GNU/Linux Board for Headless Projects https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-uno-q-a-debian-linux-board-for-headless-projects.66951/ [19:06] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Arduino UNO Q: A Debian Linux Board for Headless Projects | Linux.org [19:07] TR News Get Agama dressed for success https://agama-project.github.io/blog/2026/08/11/dressed-for-success [19:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-agama-project.github.io | Get Agama dressed for success | Agama [19:07] TR News Linux Kernel 7.2 RC7 Released: Stable Version Scheduled for Next Weekend https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc7-released/ [19:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Kernel 7.2 RC7 Released: Stable Version Scheduled for Next Weekend - OSTechNix [19:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [19:09] TR News Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/ [19:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago [19:09] TR News These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for GNU/Linux https://itsfoss.com/news/xodus-xbox-gamepass-linux/ [19:09] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | These Open Source Devs Are Reverse-Engineering Xbox Game Pass for Linux [19:10] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1088226/ [19:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [19:11] TR News How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/11/how-trail-of-bits-helps-verify-the-integrity-of-your-signal-chats/ [19:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.trailofbits.com | How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats - The Trail of Bits Blog [19:11] TR News How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/08/11/how-to-pretty-print-kubernetes-yaml-as-kyaml/ [19:11] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kubernetes.io | How to Pretty-Print Your Kubernetes YAML as KYAML and Why You'd Want To | Kubernetes [19:12] TR News How to Tail and Filter Logs in Real Time on GNU/Linux https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-tail-and-filter-logs-in-real-time/ [19:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How to Tail and Filter Logs in Real Time on Linux | Linuxize [19:12] TR News How to Drain Convicted Felons Corruption Pool https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/11/how-to-drain-trumps-corruption-pool/ [19:12] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | How to Drain Trump's Corruption Pool - emptywheel [19:13] TR News Lithuania selects How to Divorce During the War as its Oscar contender https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018204/lithuania-selects-how-to-divorce-during-the-war-as-its-oscar-contender [19:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Lithuania selects How to Divorce During the War as its Oscar contender - LRT [19:15] TR News How To Install Telegram on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-telegram-ubuntu-26-04/ [19:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Telegram on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [19:15] TR News How To Install LocalSend on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-localsend-ubuntu-26-04/ [19:15] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install LocalSend on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [19:16] TR News How To Install Plex Media Server on Fedora 44 https://idroot.us/install-plex-media-server-fedora-44/ [19:16] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Plex Media Server on Fedora 44 - idroot [19:18] TR News "Microsoft is doing something similar." PIPs and worse. https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk [19:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk ) [19:25] TR News Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/microsoft-plugs-nearly-400-security-holes/ [19:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-krebsonsecurity.com | Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes Krebs on Security [19:26] TR News Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79 https://www.rferl.org/a/alyaksandr-milinkevich-belarus-opposition-leader-dies-79-/33826702.html [19:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79 [19:26] TR News First illegal border tunnel found at Silene, Latvia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/11.08.2026-first-illegal-border-tunnel-found-at-silene-latvia.a658310/ [19:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | First illegal border tunnel found at Silene, Latvia / Article [19:26] TR News Syria Sentences Former President al-Assad to Death for Crimes Against Humanity https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-sentence.html [19:26] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-sentence.html ) [19:27] TR News Ex-Marine Robert Gilman Is Freed by Russia After 4 Years in Prison https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html [19:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html ) [19:27] TR News (NEW): Microsoft Ha 62 Critical Holes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Ha_62_Critical_Holes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Microsoft_Ha_62_Critical_Holes.gmi [19:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Microsoft Ha 62 Critical Holes [19:27] TR News How the censorship-industrial complex is changing the Internet and US policy https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/11/1141635/how-the-censorship-industrial-complex-is-changing-the-internet-and-us-policy/ [19:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.technologyreview.com | How the censorship-industrial complex is changing the internet and US policy | MIT Technology Review [19:28] TR News Former US Marine, Jailed In Russia And Hospitalized In Serious Condition, Is Freed https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-former-marine-robert-gilman-freed-medical-/33826753.html [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Former US Marine, Jailed In Russia And Hospitalized In Serious Condition, Is Freed [19:28] TR News Minister criticises Vilnius policy to end written Russian-language requests https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018078/minister-criticises-vilnius-policy-to-end-written-russian-language-requests [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Minister criticises Vilnius policy to end written Russian-language requests - LRT [19:28] TR News Russia frees ailing ex-US marine after four years in prison on disputed charges https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260811-russia-frees-ex-us-marine-after-four-years-imprisonment-on-disputed-charges [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260811-russia-frees-ex-us-marine-after-four-years-imprisonment-on-disputed-charges ) [19:28] TR News Russian Civilian Deaths Are Growing Rapidly as Ukraine Expands Its Air War https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-ukraine-civilian-casualties.html [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-ukraine-civilian-casualties.html ) [19:28] TR News In Ukraine, a city waits to rebuild a symbol of resistance https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0811/Irpin-Ukraine-State-Tax-University-Build-Forward-Ukraine [19:28] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-In Ukraine, plans to rebuild Irpin university with US help - CSMonitor.com [19:29] TR News Ukraine Says Russia Fired North Korean Missiles In Deadly Strike https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-north-korean-missile-attack/33827030.html [19:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Ukraine Says Russia Fired North Korean Missiles In Deadly Strike [19:29] TR News Civilian casualties climb as Russia and Ukraine exchange fresh strikes https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-civilian-casualties-climb-as-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-fresh-strikes [19:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-civilian-casualties-climb-as-russia-and-ukraine-exchange-fresh-strikes ) [19:29] TR News Ukraine says Russia fired North Korean missiles https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-says-russia-fired-north-korean-missiles [19:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/ukraine-says-russia-fired-north-korean-missiles ) [19:29] TR News Fast and fearless: Baltic defence startups innovate to counter Russian threat https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260811-fast-and-fearless-baltic-defence-startups-innovate-to-counter-russian-threat [19:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260811-fast-and-fearless-baltic-defence-startups-innovate-to-counter-russian-threat ) [19:29] TR News 31,000 Ukrainians currently have refuge in Latvia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/11.08.2026-31000-ukrainians-currently-have-refuge-in-latvia.a658368/ [19:29] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | 31,000 Ukrainians currently have refuge in Latvia / Article [19:30] TR News DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/case-mods/diy-modder-creates-heat-engine-computing-device-powered-by-a-stirling-engine-80-mhz-esp32-can-run-tetris-snake-and-pong-on-just-150-milliwatts-of-power [19:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | DIY modder creates 'heat engine computing device' powered by a Stirling engine, can run Tetris, Snake, and Pong 80 MHz processor operates on just 150 milliwatts of power | Tom's Hardware [19:30] TR News Infamous 17th-Century Shipwreck Reveals Trade Route Secrets of The Dutch East India Company https://www.sciencealert.com/infamous-17th-century-shipwreck-reveals-trade-route-secrets-of-the-dutch-east-india-company [19:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Infamous 17th-Century Shipwreck Reveals Trade Route Secrets of The Dutch East India Company : ScienceAlert [19:31] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [19:32] TR News Total moron, zero tact, incel culture https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-pm-under-fire-for-melons-gag-about-japanese-leader [19:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Australian PM under fire for melons gag about Japanese leader | The Straits Times [19:33] TR News Whats in the SOSS? Podcast #68 S3E20 CRA Readiness: Practical Strategies for Open Source Communities with Megan Knight https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/08/11/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-68-s3e20-cra-readiness-practical-strategies-for-open-source-communities-with-megan-knight/ [19:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openssf.org | CRA Readiness for Open Source Communities | What's in the SOSS [19:33] TR News U-M affirms Ypsilanti $1.2B computing center site; township officials vow fight https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/u-m-affirms-ypsilanti-1-2b-computing-center-site-township-officials-vow-fight/ [19:33] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | U-M affirms Ypsilanti $1.2B computing center site; township officials vow fight - Bridge Michigan [19:35] TR News Word Collections, Songwriters Guild of America, and Several Others Formally Object to the Demonstrably Unreasonable Phonorecords V Settlement Proposal https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/phonorecords-v-objections/ [19:35] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/11/phonorecords-v-objections/ ) [19:38] TR News "Today, the Linux Mint project released a new set of ISO images for the latest Linux Mint 22.3 release to offer users the latest Linux 7.0 HWE (Hardware Enablement) kernel from the upstream Ubuntu repositories." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-22-3-hwe-isos-now-available-for-download-with-linux-kernel-7-0 [19:38] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Mint 22.3 HWE ISOs Now Available for Download with Linux Kernel 7.0 - 9to5Linux [19:39] TR News Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch: Is It Feasible? 2026 Guide https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/10565/fairphone-ubuntu-touch-feasible-guide [19:39] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://pasqualepillitteri.it/en/news/10565/fairphone-ubuntu-touch-feasible-guide ) [19:40] TR News 6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/the-bsds-worth-trying-instead-of-linux/ [19:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | 6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux [19:41] TR News These 3 Linux distros make leaving Windows feel natural https://www.howtogeek.com/these-3-linux-distros-make-leaving-windows-feel-natural/ [19:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | These 3 Linux distros make leaving Windows feel natural [19:41] TR News Latest Proton GE update improves controller support and more for Linux gamers and Steam Deck owners https://www.pcguide.com/news/latest-proton-ge-update-improves-controller-support-and-more-for-linux-gamers-and-steam-deck-owners/ [19:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.pcguide.com | Latest Proton GE update improves controller support and more for Linux gamers and Steam Deck owners - PC Guide [19:42] TR News Modders are bringing Xbox and PC Game Pass to Linux and Mac https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113074/modders-are-bringing-xbox-and-pc-game-pass-to-linux-and-mac/index.html [19:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tweaktown.com | Modders are bringing Xbox and PC Game Pass to Linux and Mac [19:42] TR News "if you have a gaming handheld, it's a different story. I installed Bazzite on mine, and suddenly the idea of an immutable distro made a lot more sense." https://www.xda-developers.com/ditched-traditional-linux-immutable-distro-only-gaming-handheld/ [19:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | I ditched traditional Linux for an immutable distro, but only on my gaming handheld [19:43] TR News This open-source VPN manager is secretly owned by an attacker, researchers warn https://cybernews.com/security/firewallfalcon-manager-free-vpn-tool-backdoor/ [19:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://cybernews.com/security/firewallfalcon-manager-free-vpn-tool-backdoor/ ) [19:43] TR News "Ever since my first experience with Arch Linux last year, my preference when it comes to Linux desktops has been KDE. It has enough familiarity with Windows, but a ton of useful features built on top it that make it all the more useful." https://www.xda-developers.com/finally-switched-linux-desktops-cosmic-the-one-to-blame/ [19:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | I finally switched Linux desktops, and COSMIC is the one to blame [19:44] TR News Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/mozilla-revokes-firefox-and-thunderbird.html [19:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thehackernews.com | Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo [19:45] TR News The best Linux distribution doesn't exist - Here's yours https://korben.info/en/best-linux-distribution-doesnt-exist-heres-yours.html [19:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-korben.info | The best Linux distribution doesn't exist - Here's yours - Korben [19:49] TR News "Flatpak 1.18.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update in the stable Flatpak 1.18 series of this popular Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework, with various bug and security fixes." https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-18-1-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-brings-bug-and-security-fixes [19:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Flatpak 1.18.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Bug and Security Fixes - 9to5Linux [19:50] TR News "The work-in-progress feature would clear out old, unused kernels automatically every week." https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-mint-kernel-removal-feature/ [19:50] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Linux Mint Teases A Kernel Cleanup Trick That Fedora Figured Out Years Ago [19:51] TR News Six Agencies Warn Gunra Ransomware Hacked MFA at Server Level; Linux Victims May Recover Files Free https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323932/20260811/six-agencies-warn-gunra-ransomware-hacked-mfa-server-level-linux-victims-may-recover-files-free.htm [19:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.techtimes.com | Six Agencies Warn Gunra Ransomware Hacked MFA at Server Level; Linux Victims May Recover Files Free [19:51] TR News Gunra Ransomware Hit Hospitals and Governments; Linux Victims Should Not Pay Ransom https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323965/20260811/gunra-ransomware-hit-hospitals-governments-linux-victims-should-not-pay-ransom.htm [19:51] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.techtimes.com | Gunra Ransomware Hit Hospitals and Governments; Linux Victims Should Not Pay Ransom [19:52] TR News DualSense Haptics Land on Linux After Six Years: GE-Proton 11-4 Ships Today https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323961/20260811/dualsense-haptics-la [19:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.techtimes.com | DualSense Haptics Land on Linux After Six Years: GE-Proton 11-4 Ships Today [19:52] TR News "Asobi: Remote Play is already available on mobile, and they have a Steam Playtest ongoing for Linux (Windows is to come later)." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/asobi-remote-play-is-a-new-way-to-play-playstation-games-on-steamos-linux/ [19:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Asobi: Remote Play is a new way to play PlayStation games on SteamOS / Linux | GamingOnLinux [19:53] TR News Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux https://www.techspot.com/news/113428-modders-trying-bring-game-pass-xbox-games-mac.html [19:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Modders are trying to bring Game Pass and Xbox games to Mac and Linux | TechSpot [19:53] TR News Xodus Cracks Xbox Authentication and Game Package Decryption to Bring PC Game Pass to Linux https://www.techtimes.com/articles/323943/20260811/xodus-cracks-xbox-authentication-game-package-decryption-bring-pc-game-pass-linux.htm [19:53] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.techtimes.com | Xodus Cracks Xbox Authentication and Game Package Decryption to Bring PC Game Pass to Linux [19:54] TR News Xbox PC Game Pass titles could soon be playable on Steam Deck, thanks to this Linux project https://www.club386.com/xbox-game-pass-linux-steam-deck/ [19:54] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Xbox PC Game Pass titles could soon be playable on Steam Deck, thanks to this Linux project | Club386 [19:59] TR News STM32CubeProgrammer 2.23: From Linux CLI to new security features, its about doing more while eliminating friction https://www.electronicsmedia.info/2026/08/11/stm32cubeprogrammer-2-23/ [19:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.electronicsmedia.info | STM32CubeProgrammer 2.23: From Linux CLI to new security features, its about doing more while eliminating friction [19:59] TR News Xodus: Project to Run Xbox PC Games on Linux and Mac Hits Important Milestone https://www.digitalfoundry.net/news/2026/08/xodus-project-to-run-xbox-pc-games-on-linux-and-mac-hits-important-milestone [19:59] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.digitalfoundry.net | Xodus: Project to Run Xbox PC Games on Linux and Mac Hits Important Milestone | Digital Foundry ● Aug 12 [20:00] TR News Linux May Soon Get PC Game Pass via Open-Source Project https://www.techpowerup.com/351493/linux-may-soon-get-pc-game-pass-via-open-source-project [20:00] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux May Soon Get PC Game Pass via Open-Source Project | TechPowerUp [20:01] TR News Xbox Game Pass and Xbox PC Games May Soon Be Playable On Steam Deck https://steamdeckhq.com/news/xodus-xbox-game-pass-on-steam-deck/ [20:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-steamdeckhq.com | Xbox Game Pass May Soon Work on Linux - Steam Deck HQ [20:01] TR News Linus Torvalds calls AI code review the new normal as Linux 7.2 nears release https://betanews.com/article/linux-7-2-rc7-ai-review-new-normal/ [20:01] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-betanews.com | AI code review is the new normal for Linux 7.2 [20:03] TR News "The SparkyLinux team announced the release and general availability of SparkyLinux 8.4 as the latest stable update in the SparkyLinux 8 Seven Sisters series of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution." https://9to5linux.com/sparkylinux-8-4-released-with-support-for-linux-kernel-7-1-debian-13-6-base [20:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SparkyLinux 8.4 Released with Support for Linux Kernel 7.1, Debian 13.6 Base - 9to5Linux [20:03] TR News Linux 7.2 - AI reviews kernel code and Torvalds finds the bill steep https://korben.info/en/linux-7-2-ai-kernel-code-review-torvalds.html [20:03] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-korben.info | Linux 7.2 - AI reviews kernel code and Torvalds finds the bill steep - Korben [20:04] TR News Linux Mint's new kernel cleanup feature makes it even more appealing for people escaping Windows https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-mints-new-kernel-cleanup-feature-makes-it-even-more-appealing-for-people-escaping-windows/ [20:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | Linux Mint's new kernel cleanup feature makes it even more appealing for people escaping Windows [20:04] TR News "Transforming an old Fire Tablet into a Linux Terminal is a fun weekend project for modding and home lab enthusiasts. These are Android devices, after all, and once you remove some of the Amazon bloatware with a tool, you can unlock their potential." https://www.howtogeek.com/how-i-turned-my-old-fire-tablet-into-a-portable-linux-terminal/ [20:04] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | How I turned my old Fire Tablet into a portable Linux terminal [20:05] TR News 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one https://www.howtogeek.com/the-apps-new-linux-users-should-install-on-day-one/ [20:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | 5 apps new Linux users should install on day one [20:05] TR News This blazing-fast, super-private browser delivers a brand new beta - try it for free https://www.zdnet.com/article/orion-browser-linux-beta/ [20:05] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-This blazing-fast, super-private browser delivers a brand new beta - try it for free | ZDNET [20:07] TR News "For most of my computing life, Debian and Ubuntu have been my go-to Linux distros. That will likely stay the same, even as Fedora gains traction, likely because I'm not ready to uproot my life into a new distro." https://www.howtogeek.com/if-i-were-starting-over-with-linux-heres-why-id-choose-fedora/ [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | If I were starting over with Linux, here's why I'd choose Fedora [20:07] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Pushing Slop and Paying the Price for Outsourcing to Microsoft (Proprietary GitHub) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Mozilla_Pushing_Slop_and_Paying_the_Price_for_Outsourcing_to_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Mozilla_Pushing_Slop_and_Paying_the_Price_for_Outsourcing_to_Mi.gmi [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Mozilla Pushing Slop and Paying the Price for Outsourcing to Microsoft (Proprietary GitHub) [20:07] TR News (NEW): Proton GE Updated https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Proton_GE_Updated.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Proton_GE_Updated.gmi [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Proton GE Updated [20:07] TR News "Linux Mint project leader Clement Lefebvre has published a new monthly newsletter today, where he talks about how Linux kernels will be managed inside future releases of Linux Mint and LMDE." https://9to5linux.com/linux-mint-devs-change-the-way-linux-kernels-are-tracked [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Mint Devs Change the Way Linux Kernels Are Tracked - 9to5Linux [20:07] TR News "If youve done much networking, you surely know the frustration of trying to connect to something, say a Raspberry Pi, that lives behind your consumer router. There are a number of solutions for this, ranging from opening ports on your router along with dynamic DNS." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/10/linux-fu-heads-or-tails-for-vpn/ [20:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Fu: Heads Or Tails For VPN | Hackaday [20:10] TR News (NEW): Games: Armada, Steam, Teufelskreis, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Games_Armada_Steam_Teufelskreis_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Games_Armada_Steam_Teufelskreis_and_More.gmi [20:10] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Games: Armada, Steam, Teufelskreis, and More [20:17] TR News (NEW): Linux Devices and Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Linux_Devices_and_Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi [20:17] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux Devices and Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers [20:19] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/today_s_howtos.gmi [20:19] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos [20:22] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [20:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [20:24] TR News (NEW): IBM Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/IBM_Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/IBM_Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi [20:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines IBM Red Hat Leftovers [20:24] TR News (NEW): Update on openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Gettinf Agama dressed for success https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Update_on_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_2026_Gettinf_Agama_dressed_for_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Update_on_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_2026_Gettinf_Agama_dressed_for_s.gmi [20:24] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Update on openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 Gettinf Agama dressed for success [20:25] TR News (NEW): Exploring OpenBSD and "6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Exploring_OpenBSD_and_6_BSDs_worth_trying_instead_of_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Exploring_OpenBSD_and_6_BSDs_worth_trying_instead_of_Linux.gmi [20:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Exploring OpenBSD and "6 BSDs worth trying instead of Linux" [20:25] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Security_Leftovers.gmi [20:25] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers [20:27] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software; Standards Discussed https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Standards_Discussed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Standards_Discussed.gmi [20:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software; Standards Discussed [20:27] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi [20:27] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems [20:30] TR News (NEW): KDE: KEcoLab, Skrooge, and Mankala https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/KDE_KEcoLab_Skrooge_and_Mankala.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/KDE_KEcoLab_Skrooge_and_Mankala.gmi [20:30] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE: KEcoLab, Skrooge, and Mankala [20:32] TR News (NEW): CachyOS Has New Release https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/11/CachyOS_Has_New_Release.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/11/CachyOS_Has_New_Release.gmi [20:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines CachyOS Has New Release [20:32] TR News (NEW): Canonical Promotes Slop to Participate in the Pyramid Scheme, Ubuntu 26.10 Wallpaper Competition https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Canonical_Promotes_Slop_to_Participate_in_the_Pyramid_Scheme_Ub.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Canonical_Promotes_Slop_to_Participate_in_the_Pyramid_Scheme_Ub.gmi [20:32] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Canonical Promotes Slop to Participate in the Pyramid Scheme, Ubuntu 26.10 Wallpaper Competition [20:41] TR News (NEW): BMW Suddenly Blasts Its Cars Internal Screens With Aggressive Advertisements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/BMW_Suddenly_Blasts_Its_Cars_Internal_Screens_With_Aggressive_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/BMW_Suddenly_Blasts_Its_Cars_Internal_Screens_With_Aggressive_A.gmi [20:41] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines BMW Suddenly Blasts Its Cars Internal Screens With Aggressive Advertisements [20:42] TR News Techrights Daniel Pocock in National News in Australia the Day of the Election https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Daniel_Pocock_in_National_News_in_Australia_the_Day_of_the_Elec.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Daniel_Pocock_in_National_News_in_Australia_the_Day_of_the_Elec.gmi [20:42] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Daniel Pocock in National News in Australia the Day of the Election [20:44] TR News (NEW): Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/today_s_leftovers.gmi [20:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's leftovers [20:49] TR News Techrights Links 12/08/2026: Trouble in Proprietary Chaffbot Company 'Open' 'AI' and Slop "Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_Trouble_in_Proprietary_Chaffbot_Company_Open_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Links_12_08_2026_Trouble_in_Proprietary_Chaffbot_Company_Open_A.gmi [20:49] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 12/08/2026: Trouble in Proprietary Chaffbot Company 'Open' 'AI' and Slop "Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots" [20:55] TR News Techrights Voluntary' Layoffs and 'Proper' Layoffs at IBM This Year https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/3_Voluntary_Layoffs_and_Proper_Layoffs_at_IBM_This_Year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/3_Voluntary_Layoffs_and_Proper_Layoffs_at_IBM_This_Year.gmi [20:55] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Voluntary' Layoffs and 'Proper' Layoffs at IBM This Year ● Aug 12 [21:00] TR News A dam fine colony gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/morningCeremony [21:01] TR News "Just found this talk from a guy at google. He talks about many of the problems that software engineers are encountering and will be encountering over the next few years." gemini://xoc3.io/blog/2026-08-12 [21:01] TR News "I left my job a few months ago, but when/if I go back into software engineering after my current hiatus, I will most likely be dealing with LLMs again and the problems he is addressing would become applicable to me too." [21:01] TR News Die Ablenkungsmanver in der Ethik gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-12-ablenkungsmanoever [21:02] TR News "Instead, I want to talk free software and large language models. I have rejected a contribution from a large language model to one of my projects." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-12-community-building [21:02] TR News "Researchers from China's Harbin Institute of Technology have developed a multifunctional light detection and ranging (lidar) system that, they say, is able to both provide high-precision ranging information alongside multi-parameter sensing from ambient temperatures to liquid densities and gas concentrations." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260812-lidar.gmi [21:03] TR News "I was reading the Lobsters thread [1] about the article A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets [2] when I left a comment [3] about my own struggles with receiving emails for other Sean Conners [4]." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/11.1 [21:04] TR News "I thrive in small groups and can be extremely chatty and even somewhat gossipy under the right conditions. In groups larger than 6-8 people, I generally recede into the background and become one of the quiet ones that listens but doesn't contribute much to the conversation." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/ten-random-facts-about-me [21:05] TR News "I understand why they say you need to take time for yourself to decompress and process things. I never feel like I can take that time unless its past midnight and the rest of the family is asleep. And at that point the benefits have diminishing returns over sleep." gemini://gemini.sh0.xyz/cgi-bin/gemlog.py/post/cant-sleep-make-stuff.gmi [21:05] TR News "I'm not eating that under-cooked steak -- getting dysentery isn't on my bucket list." gemini://larsthebear.me/bucket_list.gmi [21:07] TR News "There's this annoying duality in my metabolism that makes me love coffee and, at the same time, be very sensitive to caffeine. And its effect on me is not what I'd expect. I can, actually, sleep. It's just that I never try." gemini://sdf.org/fabiozeh/2026-08-05.gmi [21:08] TR News "A few months ago my daughter passed away. Since then, I have been evaluating what is really important me. I decided that getting my MA in Ancient and Classical History was something I wanted to do." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/my-music-lifes-new-direction.gmi [21:10] TR News "So, if I am being frank, I am the last person you would expect to tout "diversity." That is a WHOLE other post, but in a nutshell, I think the current worldview of diversity is fucked up and is highly, I mean HIGHLY, hypocritical." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/the-openweb-needs-diversity-not-monoculture.gmi [21:14] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Losing a Child, "The OpenWeb Needs Diversity", and Gmail Woes https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Gemini_Links_12_08_2026_Losing_a_Child_The_OpenWeb_Needs_Divers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/12/Gemini_Links_12_08_2026_Losing_a_Child_The_OpenWeb_Needs_Divers.gmi [21:14] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Losing a Child, "The OpenWeb Needs Diversity", and Gmail Woes [21:22] TR News Gernimo Rulli in the Stadium Store https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/12/the-stadium-store/ [21:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Gernimo Rulli in the Stadium Store [21:30] *parsifal (~parsifal@rpcdzuq4hszjw.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social [21:52] TR News (NEW): Wireshark 4.6.8 Improves Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Wireshark_4_6_8_Improves_Protocol_and_Capture_File_Support_Fixe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/12/Wireshark_4_6_8_Improves_Protocol_and_Capture_File_Support_Fixe.gmi [21:52] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Wireshark 4.6.8 Improves Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs [21:56] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 12 [02:37] admfubar https://www.rawstory.com/max-miller-daughter-warning/ [02:37] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | Max Miller promotes warning that he should be kept away from people's daughters - Raw Story ● Aug 12 [03:51] admfubar https://www.rawstory.com/kennedy-center-2677688320/ [03:51] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | Trump's attempt to silence jazz musician backfires - Raw Story [03:54] admfubar https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-2677686388/ [03:54] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | Purple state stuck with massive tab for Trump's deportations: 'Huge waste' - Raw Story ● Aug 12 [04:00] admfubar https://www.rawstory.com/maga-gun-rights/ [04:00] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | MAGA fan caught running a massive and 'clearly fraudulent' anti-trans bot campaign - Raw Story [04:51] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/us-mexico-border-area-money-transfer-rule-change-small-businesses [04:51] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.theguardian.com | The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering. 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They Deserve Clemency. | American Civil Liberties Union [18:29] TR News Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-should-join-the-defence-bank-that-named-it-as-a-priority-partner/ [18:29] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.aspistrategist.org.au | Australia should join the defence bank that named it as a priority partner | The Strategist [18:30] TR News Iran's New Security Chief Demands US End War To Reopen Hormuz Strait https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-live-blog-trump-middle-east/33803414.html [18:30] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | EU, Western States Condemn Iranian Executions In 'Strongest Terms' [18:30] TR News Libyan military intelligence chief assassinated in car bombing https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-libyan-military-intelligence-chief-assassinated-in-car-bombing [18:30] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20260811-libyan-military-intelligence-chief-assassinated-in-car-bombing ) [18:49] TR News Syria sentences Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia over atrocities https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia-over-atrocities [18:49] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260811-syria-sentences-bashar-al-assad-to-death-in-absentia-over-atrocities ) [18:58] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:58] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techpol [18:59] TR News Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/myanmar-military-intensified-air-attacks-and-abuses-during-election-un-investigators-say [18:59] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Myanmar military intensified air attacks and abuses before election, UN investigators say | The Straits Times [18:59] TR News Damascus court sentences Assad to death for the crackdown that started a civil war https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/damascus-court-sentences-assad-to-death-for-the-crackdown-that-started-a-civil-war/ [18:59] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.jurist.org | Damascus court sentences Assad to death for the crackdown that started a civil war - 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emptywheel [19:26] TR News Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79 https://www.rferl.org/a/alyaksandr-milinkevich-belarus-opposition-leader-dies-79-/33826702.html [19:26] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Veteran Belarusian Opposition Figure Alyaksandr Milinkevich Dies Aged 79 [19:26] TR News First illegal border tunnel found at Silene, Latvia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/11.08.2026-first-illegal-border-tunnel-found-at-silene-latvia.a658310/ [19:26] -TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | First illegal border tunnel found at Silene, Latvia / Article [19:26] TR News Syria Sentences Former President al-Assad to Death for Crimes Against Humanity https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-sentence.html [19:26] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/middleeast/syria-bashar-al-assad-death-sentence.html ) [19:27] TR News Ex-Marine Robert Gilman Is Freed by Russia After 4 Years in Prison https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html [19:27] -TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/11/world/europe/russia-robert-gilman-release.html ) [19:28] TR News Former US Marine, Jailed In Russia And Hospitalized In Serious Condition, Is Freed https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-us-former-marine-robert-gilman-freed-medical-/33826753.html [19:28] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Former US Marine, Jailed In Russia And Hospitalized In Serious Condition, Is Freed [19:28] TR News Minister criticises Vilnius policy to end written Russian-language requests https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/3018078/minister-criticises-vilnius-policy-to-end-written-russian-language-requests [19:28] -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Minister criticises Vilnius policy to end written Russian-language requests - 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