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[02:40]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-170226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-170226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-170226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-170226.txt
[02:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
[02:41]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-170226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-170226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-170226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-170226.txt
[02:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
[02:42]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-170226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-170226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-170226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-170226.txt
[02:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
[02:43]	TR News	Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-170226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-170226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-170226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-170226.txt
[02:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-17.txt
● Feb 18
[04:23]	TR News	"IBM is synonymous with layoff" www.thelayoff.com/t/1khcfn7v1
[04:24]	TR News	"Layoff Severance negotiation - Has anybody been involved with IBM for severance negotiation during layoff in the united states through an attorney . What is the outcome when the attorney is not successful in getting a bigger package . Does IBM still pay the 3 month severance even if you tried to negotiate through an attorney ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
[04:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz )
[04:25]	TR News	Amazon Scraps Partnership With Surveillance Company After Super Bowl Ad Backlash https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-13/amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash
[04:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2026-02-13/amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash )
[04:26]	TR News	The Surveillance State Just Bought a Super Bowl Ad https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/13/amazons-ring-and-googles-nest-unwittingly-reveal-the-severity-of-the-u-s-surveillance-state/
[04:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-scheerpost.com | The Surveillance State Just Bought a Super Bowl Ad
[04:26]	TR News	Protesters Demand Amazon Cut Ties With ICE and Palantir https://truthout.org/articles/protesters-demand-amazon-cut-ties-with-ice-and-palantir/
[04:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Protesters Demand Amazon Cut Ties With ICE and Palantir | Truthout
[04:27]	TR News	The Amazon Imperative: Unions Must Join Forces https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-amazon-imperative-unions-must-join-forces/
[04:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-amazon-imperative-unions-must-join-forces/ )
[04:32]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_17_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_17_2026.gmi 
[04:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
[04:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[04:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[04:33]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[04:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:43]	TR News	Does the cold really seep into your bones? https://theconversation.com/does-the-cold-really-seep-into-your-bones-275870
[04:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-theconversation.com | Does the cold really seep into your bones?
[04:44]	TR News	Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026 https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/02/sharding-a-database---presentation-at-the-german-perl-workshop-2026.html
[04:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Sharding a Database - presentation at the German Perl Workshop 2026 | Max Maischein [blogs.perl.org]
[04:45]	TR News	ANN: CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.08, Perl.Wiki V 1.40 etc https://blogs.perl.org/users/ron_savage/2026/02/ann-cpanmetacurator-v-108-perlwiki-v-140-etc.html
[04:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ANN: CPAN::MetaCurator V 1.08, Perl.Wiki V 1.40 etc | Ron Savage [blogs.perl.org]
[04:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Recursive Resolver Upgrade https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Recursive_Resolver_Upgrade.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Recursive_Resolver_Upgrade.gmi 
[04:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Recursive Resolver Upgrade
[04:52]	TR News	Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion https://linmob.net/weekly-update-07-2026/
[04:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LINMOB.net - Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (07/2026): Foundations and Forward Motion
[04:54]	TR News	Slashdot got very badly confused. Linked to 2 pages from 4 years ago, called it "news" or "new" https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/0249259/oldest-active-linux-distro-slackware-finally-releases-version-150
[04:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linux.slashdot.org | Oldest Active Linux Distro Slackware Finally Releases Version 15.0 - Slashdot
● Feb 18
[05:01]	TR News	Paris Court of Appeal clarifies platforms obligations under Article 15 DSM Directive in twin decisions against X http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/guest-post-paris-court-of-appeal.html
[05:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | [Guest post] Paris Court of Appeal clarifies platforms obligations under Article 15 DSM Directive in twin decisions against X - The IPKat
[05:01]	TR News	creative fairness http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/02/rethinking-creative-fairness-under-uks.html
[05:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Rethinking creative fairness under the UKs new automated decision-making rules - The IPKat
[05:02]	TR News	The economy's secret lifeline? Nature https://www.dw.com/en/the-economy-s-secret-lifeline-nature/a-75873269
[05:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Nature: the economy's secret lifeline?
[05:04]	TR News	Wrong approach https://www.dw.com/en/nigerian-lawmakers-approve-real-time-online-election-results/a-75901046
[05:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.dw.com | Nigerian lawmakers approve real-time online election results
[05:22]	TR News	Techrights The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Register_MS_Paid_for_Articles_Ads_Seem_to_be_LLM_Slop_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Register_MS_Paid_for_Articles_Ads_Seem_to_be_LLM_Slop_Again.gmi 
[05:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Register MS Paid-for 'Articles' (Ads) Seem to be LLM Slop Again
[05:35]	TR News	Techrights Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.gmi 
[05:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
[05:47]	TR News	Techrights "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Senior_AI_Reporter_at_Slop_Technica_Ars_Sloppica_Has_Written_No.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Senior_AI_Reporter_at_Slop_Technica_Ars_Sloppica_Has_Written_No.gmi 
[05:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights "Senior AI Reporter" at Slop Technica/Ars Sloppica Has Written Nothing in Nearly a Week, Did Conde Nast Suspend Him for Fake Articles With Fake Quotes?
[05:49]	TR News	"Pluralistic: The online community trilemma" https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up
[05:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
● Feb 18
[06:02]	TR News	Techrights France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/France_Does_Not_Need_Digital_Weapons_Disguised_as_Social_and_as.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/France_Does_Not_Need_Digital_Weapons_Disguised_as_Social_and_as.gmi 
[06:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights France Does Not Need Digital Weapons Disguised as Social and as Media
[06:14]	TR News	Techrights "How Many Friends Do You Have? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/How_Many_Friends_Do_You_Have.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/How_Many_Friends_Do_You_Have.gmi 
[06:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights "How Many Friends Do You Have?
[06:18]	TR News	"OK, that claim needs some backup, doesn't it? You can't jump that high on Earth. Big rockets are needed to get into space here. The moon isn't as big, so you could jump higher but you'd still come back down. We need to go somewhere smaller." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-02-17_Astronomical_fact_of_the_day.gmi
[06:18]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-18.gmi
[06:21]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1564.jpg
[06:21]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1920.jpg
[06:22]	TR News	"I have been a fan of Texinfo for quite some time. The option to link pages, read info pages in the terminal, and the immutability of the pages, including the ones you have written yourself for your self, makes this a great information and knowledge system." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/use-texinfo-to-create-gorgeous-pdf-files.txt
[06:22]	TR News	worm second day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormSecond
[06:30]	TR News	"Helen and Andy review recent episodes and plans for 2026 (with potty-mouth warning). Side effects and backlash to Online Safety Act. Tech collapsing at scale. Funding and sposorship for show." https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=59
[06:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cybershow.uk | The Cyber Show - Episodes
[06:47]	TR News	Techrights Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Are_IBM_CEO_and_IBM_CFO_Ready_for_Financial_Audit_That_Topples_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Are_IBM_CEO_and_IBM_CFO_Ready_for_Financial_Audit_That_Topples_.gmi 
[06:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Are IBM CEO and IBM CFO Ready for Financial Audit That Topples the Shares by 50% in One Day?
[06:54]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2026_Astronomy_and_Texinfo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Gemini_Links_18_02_2026_Astronomy_and_Texinfo.gmi 
[06:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 18/02/2026: Astronomy and Texinfo
● Feb 18
[07:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Mrhbaan_Syria_Fedora_now_available_in_Syria.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Mrhbaan_Syria_Fedora_now_available_in_Syria.gmi 
[07:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Mrhbaan Syria! Fedora now available in Syria
[07:09]	TR News	Techrights Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Mozilla_Firefox_Died_in_Afghanistan.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Mozilla_Firefox_Died_in_Afghanistan.gmi 
[07:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Mozilla Firefox Died in Afghanistan
[07:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_6_26_02_for_Slackware_current.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_6_26_02_for_Slackware_current.gmi 
[07:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current
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[07:25]	TR News	Techrights The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Techrights_Team_Makes_the_Platform_Faster.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/The_Techrights_Team_Makes_the_Platform_Faster.gmi 
[07:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Techrights Team Makes the Platform Faster
[07:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/8_Years_Later_Linux_based_AsteroidOS_2_0_is_Here_to_Add_New_Lif.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/8_Years_Later_Linux_based_AsteroidOS_2_0_is_Here_to_Add_New_Lif.gmi 
[07:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch
[07:31]	TR News	 (NEW):  Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Someone_Just_Made_an_Immutable_Gentoo_Based_Distro_Tailored_for.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Someone_Just_Made_an_Immutable_Gentoo_Based_Distro_Tailored_for.gmi 
[07:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming
[07:40]	TR News	Microsoft lying to and INSULTING people. Good strategy? https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/information-technology/ai-summit-microsoft-india-continues-to-hire-for-demand-driven-skills-says-puneet-chandok-13833291.html https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological
[07:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.moneycontrol.com | AI Summit: Microsoft India continues to hire for demand-driven skills, says Puneet Chandok
[07:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They're About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects
[07:43]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[07:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[07:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_is_Debian_Called_the_Universal_Operating_System_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_is_Debian_Called_the_Universal_Operating_System_Again.gmi 
[07:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again?
[07:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  Maintaining what we love all year long https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Maintaining_what_we_love_all_year_long.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Maintaining_what_we_love_all_year_long.gmi 
[07:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Maintaining what we love all year long
[07:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  Why We Still Won't Link to Linuxiac (Anymore) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_We_Still_Won_t_Link_to_Linuxiac_Anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Why_We_Still_Won_t_Link_to_Linuxiac_Anymore.gmi 
[07:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Why We Still Won't Link to Linuxiac (Anymore)
[07:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_developers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_developers.gmi 
[07:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers
[07:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/I_just_set_up_a_new_Linux_desktop_here_are_the_first_5_things_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/I_just_set_up_a_new_Linux_desktop_here_are_the_first_5_things_I.gmi 
[07:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did
● Feb 18
[08:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/5_atomic_Linux_distros_I_trust_for_stress_free_OS_updates_and_w.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/5_atomic_Linux_distros_I_trust_for_stress_free_OS_updates_and_w.gmi 
[08:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why
[08:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_5_underrated_Linux_desktop_environments_need_more_attenti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/These_5_underrated_Linux_desktop_environments_need_more_attenti.gmi 
[08:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention
[08:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/The_14th_Anniversary_of_Our_Foundation.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/The_14th_Anniversary_of_Our_Foundation.gmi 
[08:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation
[08:12]	TR News	Techrights Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Responds_to_Crises_Only_Aft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Responds_to_Crises_Only_Aft.gmi 
[08:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Responds to Crises Only After It's Way Too Late
[08:23]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[08:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  A Unique 22nd Anniversary for Tux Machines, Motif Will be Green https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/A_Unique_22nd_Anniversary_for_Tux_Machines_Motif_Will_be_Green.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/A_Unique_22nd_Anniversary_for_Tux_Machines_Motif_Will_be_Green.gmi 
[08:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines A Unique 22nd Anniversary for Tux Machines, Motif Will be Green
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[08:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Firms That Have Nothing Left Except a Legal Licence https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_on_Firms_That_Have_Nothing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_on_Firms_That_Have_Nothing_.gmi 
[08:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) on Firms That Have Nothing Left Except a Legal Licence
● Feb 18
[09:02]	TR News	Techrights Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Twitter_Falling_to_1_in_Africa_s_Largest_Nation_Algeria.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Twitter_Falling_to_1_in_Africa_s_Largest_Nation_Algeria.gmi 
[09:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Twitter Falling to 1% in Africa's Largest Nation (Algeria)
[09:05]	TR News	"The entertainment industrys legal claims in AI copyright cases are strong, but the launch of Bytedances Seedance 2.0 highlights the harder challenge: enforcing them across borders." https://copyrightlately.com/meet-seedance-2-0-hollywoods-newest-ai-copyright-headache/ | Source: CopyrightLately
[09:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-copyrightlately.com | Meet Seedance 2.0, Hollywoods Newest AI Copyright Headache | Copyright Lately
[09:05]	TR News	"In a first-of-its-kind ruling, a Spanish court has labeled VPN services as "technological intermediaries," ordering them to actively block IP addresses that host illegal LaLiga matches." https://torrentfreak.com/spanish-court-orders-protonvpn-and-nordvpn-to-block-pirate-football-streams/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[09:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Spanish Court Orders ProtonVPN and NordVPN to Block Pirate Football Streams * TorrentFreak
[09:06]	TR News	"Day 2 of the India AI Impact Summit featured additional announcements, sessions, and policy discussions focused on emerging technology." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/newsletters/tech-top-5/balancing-ai-and-copyright-adanis-100b-bet/articleshow/128467239.cms | Source: India Times
[09:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-economictimes.indiatimes.com | Balancing AI and copyright; Adani's $100B bet
[09:06]	TR News	"A fight between Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt on the rooftop of a building in a devastated city." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-chinese-ai-threatening-hollywood | Source: Jrme Marin
[09:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cafetechinenglish.substack.com | The Chinese AI threatening hollywood - by Jrme Marin
[09:07]	TR News	"On the latest episode of ATP, a show I should mention that I really love" https://birchtree.me/blog/a-passionate-defense-of-the-m-pro-series-of-chips/ | Source: Matt Birchler
[09:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-birchtree.me | A passionate defense of the M Pro series of chips
[09:07]	TR News	"The Turkish government has used internal codes like N-82 and G-87 to issue entry bans or deny permit renewals to at least 160 foreign Christians since 2019, according to the legal advocacy group ADF International." https://www.christianpost.com/news/christians-being-labeled-security-threat-in-turkey.html | Source: Christian Post
[09:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.christianpost.com | Christians being labeled security threat in Turkey | World
[09:08]	TR News	"Homeland Security Demands Social Media Sites Reveal Names Behind Anti-ICE Posts" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html | Source: New York Times
[09:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html )
[09:08]	TR News	"It's a whole other level of frequency and lack of accountability." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/dhs-sent-hundreds-of-subpoenas-to-google-meta-and-reddit-demanding-names-of-people-who-criticize-ice.html | Source: BoingBoing
[09:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/dhs-sent-hundreds-of-subpoenas-to-google-meta-and-reddit-demanding-names-of-people-who-criticize-ice.html )
[09:08]	TR News	"He did, in the end, get something in return a trip in the back of a police car." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/dutch_cops_breach/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Dutch cops arrest man after sending him confidential files The Register
[09:09]	TR News	"I'm not talking about stealing tips here (though gig-work platforms do steal tips, like crazy): [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/17/no-piecework/#no-justice | Source: CoryDoctorow
[09:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: Whats a gig work minimum wage (17 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[09:10]	TR News	"The company, Xcelerate Solutions, is looking for a Top Secret-cleared analyst to join the watchlisting team for the purpose of Supporting US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), to quote from the job announcement." https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-expands-watchlist-effort | Source: Ken Klippenstein
[09:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kenklippenstein.com | ICE Expands Watchlist Effort - Ken Klippenstein
[09:12]	TR News	"DHS is using a repurposed Navy logistics program to fund the buildings and materials necessary to create these concentration camps quickly, as first reported by CNN in October." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-concentration-camps-wexmac-titus | Source: Marisa Kabas
[09:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thehandbasket.co | For ICE to build concentration camps quickly, they're leaning on this Dept. of War program
[09:14]	TR News	"use of force" https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501 | Source: Politico LLC
[09:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/17/ice-officials-use-of-force-00782501 )
[09:14]	TR News	"requested records from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The agencies failed to release the records as required by law, so we sued for their release in Jun" https://americanoversight.org/what-we-know-about-how-ice-is-being-trained-on-the-use-of-force/ | Source: American Oversight
[09:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-americanoversight.org | What We Know About How ICE is Being Trained on the Use of Force - American Oversight
[09:15]	TR News	"sharp escalation in use-of-force incidents" https://americanoversight.org/report-ice-officials-knew-use-of-force-was-rising-well-before-minneapolis-shootings/ | Source: American Oversight
[09:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-americanoversight.org | Report: ICE Officials Knew Use of Force Was Rising Well Before Minneapolis Shootings - American Oversight
[09:15]	TR News	Microsoft abusing people using words https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-effects-workers-psychological | Source: Futurism
[09:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | It Turns Out That Constantly Telling Workers They're About to Be Replaced by AI Has Grim Psychological Effects
[09:17]	TR News	"The revocation of Reuters credentials is the latest in a troubling pattern of repressive regulatory action against international and independent press in Ethiopia" https://cpj.org/2026/02/ethiopia-revokes-reuters-journalists-accreditation-following-investigative-report/ | Source: CPJ
[09:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cpj.org | Ethiopia revokes Reuters journalists accreditation following investigative report - Committee to Protect Journalists
[09:17]	TR News	"The commercially available spyware can provide access to an infected devices microphone, camera, and data, including contacts, messages, photos, and videos, without the users knowledge." https://cpj.org/2026/02/i-literally-felt-naked-angolan-journalist-teixeira-candido-targeted-with-predator-spyware/ | Source: CPJ
[09:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cpj.org | I literally felt naked: Angolan journalist Teixeira Cndido targeted with Predator spyware - Committee to Protect Journalists
[09:19]	TR News	"Project Censoreds fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention." https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-january-2026/?doing_wp_cron=1771401594.2710061073303222656250 | Source: Project Censored
[09:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-january-2026/?doing_wp_cron=1771401594.2710061073303222656250 )
[09:19]	TR News	"an absolute exodus" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wapo-layoffs-are-another-way-for-bezos-to-suck-up-to-trump/ | Source: Truthdig
[09:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wapo-layoffs-are-another-way-for-bezos-to-suck-up-to-trump/ )
[09:19]	TR News	"The network tried to bury an interview critical of Trump. Stephen Colbert made it an indictment of the administrations assaults on the First Amendment." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cbs-stephen-colbert-equal-time-doctrine-bari-weiss/ | Source: The Nation
[09:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | CBS Surrenders to Trump | The Nation
[09:20]	TR News	"In the first case, Siahgourabi was sentenced to one year and ten months in prison. The second case remains open, Efe said." https://bianet.org/haber/iranian-journalist-faces-deportation-from-turkey-despite-protection-request-316814 | Source: BIA Net
[09:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Iranian journalist faces deportation from Turkey despite protection request
[09:20]	TR News	"Now, however, Save This Life has gone out of business and gone offline, leaving all the microchips in their database unregistered." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/pet-microchip-company-went-out-of-business-and-took-your-pets-info-with-it.html | Source: BoingBoing
[09:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/pet-microchip-company-went-out-of-business-and-took-your-pets-info-with-it.html )
[09:20]	TR News	"Show ID or pay a fee to attend a public meeting?" https://papersplease.org/wp/2026/02/17/show-id-or-pay-a-fee-to-attend-a-public-meeting/ | Source: Papers Please
[09:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-papersplease.org | Show ID or pay a fee to attend a public meeting? Papers, Please!
[09:21]	TR News	"Hornes warning is blunt: the gap between knowing cybersecurity is important and actually implementing protective measures is widening." https://thecyberexpress.com/cyber-essentials-in-focus-ncsc-warns/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[09:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | NCSC To SMEs: Adopt Cyber Essentials Before Its Too Late
[09:21]	TR News	"Specifically, H.R.5419 directs federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of administrative barriers that delay the review of communications" https://insidetowers.com/house-panel-advances-bill-to-boost-broadband-deployment/ | Source: Inside Towers
[09:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | House Panel Advances Bill to Boost Broadband Deployment - Inside Towers
[09:22]	TR News	"You cant profit maximize your way to greatness." https://seths.blog/2026/02/misguided-optimization/ | Source: Seth Godin
[09:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-seths.blog | Misguided optimization | Seth's Blog
[09:22]	TR News	"In 1991, the American astronomer and superstar science popularizer Carl Sagan was nominated for membership in the National Academy of Sciences" https://en.neritam.com/2026/02/17/why-was-carl-sagan-blackballed-from-the-national-academy-of-sciences/ | Source: Neritam
[09:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-en.neritam.com | Why Was Carl Sagan Blackballed from the National Academy of Sciences? Neritam
[09:23]	TR News	"The openSUSE Project is a worldwide community effort promoting the use of Linux everywhere." https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/ | Source: Ish Sookun
[09:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sysadmin-journal.com | openSUSE Board Election 2025 has been announced
[09:23]	TR News	"Deneens explanation depends on specific but mostly unstated meanings for the operative words. Heres my best guess at definitions." https://emptywheel.net/liberalism-has-failed/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[09:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-emptywheel.net | Liberalism Has Failed - emptywheel
[09:23]	TR News	"A crucial aspect of the proposal, which Jacob Kaplan-Moss calls the one weird trick, is to "decide who decides"." https://blog.torproject.org/tpa-adr/ | Source: Tor
[09:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.torproject.org | Keeping track of decisions using the ADR model | The Tor Project
[09:24]	TR News	"But we wouldnt refer to the distrustful survivors as Naziphobes. Why? Because their fear of Nazism was perfectly rational." https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamophobia-and-islamoignorance-william-kilpatrick/ | Source: Frontpage Magazine
[09:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.frontpagemag.com | Islamophobia and Islamoignorance | Frontpage Mag
[09:24]	TR News	"Under the planned shake-up, St Pancras passengers will be able to board Eurostar trains straight away rather than having to wait in the departures hall." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/16/eurostar-to-cut-boarding-times-by-30-minutes/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[09:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/02/16/eurostar-to-cut-boarding-times-by-30-minutes/ )
[09:25]	TR News	"The figures each Lambda model card gives us that are relevant for calculating the energy per query are: the hardware used, token generation throughput and total token throughput (input+output tokens)." https://muxup.com/2026q1/minipost-additional-figures-for-per-query-energy-consumption-of-LLMs | Source: Muxup
[09:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Minipost: Additional figures for per-query energy consumption of LLMs - Muxup
[09:25]	TR News	"I don't know how well this one bag journey will go but I have given myself the best possible chance of success." https://merecivilian.com/1-bag-1-device-10-days-in-bali/ | Source: Mere Civilian
[09:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-merecivilian.com | 1 bag 1 device 10 days in Bali
[09:27]	TR News	"The collapse itself, if triggered, might unfold over 50 to 100 years rather than happening suddenly. Still, scientists describe the probability as higher than past estimates." https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/scientists-warn-gulf-stream-collapse-could-trigger-severe-global-disruption/articleshow/128431569.cms | Source: India Times
[09:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-timesofindia.indiatimes.com | Scientists warn! Gulf Stream collapse could trigger severe global disruption | - The Times of India
[09:28]	TR News	"The consequences of such an event would be severe. The tropical rainfall belt, on which millions depend for food production, could shift dramatically." https://arcticportal.org/ap-library/news/3785-new-research-warns-of-growing-risk-of-gulf-stream-collapse | Source: Arctic Portal
[09:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-arcticportal.org | New Research Warns of Growing Risk of Gulf Stream Collapse - Arctic Portal
[09:28]	TR News	"This became known as the Kessler Syndrome." https://blog.dshr.org/2026/02/the-kessler-syndrome.html | Source: David Rosenthal
[09:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.dshr.org | DSHR's Blog: The Kessler Syndrome
[09:28]	TR News	"In January, the EPA ruled against xAI in a case in which Elon Musks CSAM machine/AI company said that if gas turbines were used in a temporary fashion, they were exempt from regulations." https://512pixels.net/2026/02/xai-ramps-turbine-usage-in-southaven-repeating-its-actions-in-memphis/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
[09:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-512pixels.net | xAI Ramps Up Turbine Usage in Southaven, Repeating Its Actions in Memphis - 512 Pixels
[09:28]	TR News	"AI facilities may end up emitting carbon dioxide at levels equivalent to millions of passenger cars each year." https://truthout.org/articles/data-center-boom-is-fueling-an-expansion-of-natural-gas-projects/ | Source: TruthOut
[09:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-truthout.org | Data Center Boom Is Fueling an Expansion of Natural Gas Projects | Truthout
[09:29]	TR News	"Allegedly." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ars-technica-fabricated-quotes/ | Source: Nick Heer
[09:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pxlnv.com | An Ars Technica Reporter Blamed A.I. Tools for Fabricating Quotes in a Bizarre A.I. Story Pixel Envy
[09:29]	TR News	"Though shed done this work for more than a decade, Nixon couldnt understand why the person behind the Waifu/Judische accounts was suddenly threatening her." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[09:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.technologyreview.com | Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake. | MIT Technology Review
[09:30]	TR News	"The experts said crimes outlined in documents released by the US Justice Department were committed against a backdrop of supremacist beliefs, racism, corruption, and extreme misogyny." https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/allegations-in-epstein-files-may-amount-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts-11051701#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV
[09:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/allegations-in-epstein-files-may-amount-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts-11051701#publisher=newsstand )
[09:30]	TR News	"So grave is the scale, nature, systematic character, and transnational reach of these atrocities against women and girls, that a number of them may reasonably meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/epstein-files-crimes-against-humanity-un-experts | Source: The Guardian UK
[09:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theguardian.com | Epstein files suggest acts that may amount to crimes against humanity, say UN experts | Jeffrey Epstein | The Guardian
[09:31]		*wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s)
[09:31]	TR News	"Mark Zuckerberg is due to take the stand in a landmark trial that could set a precedent for thousands of lawsuits alleging major social media platforms intentionally engineered addictive features" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/zuckerberg-to-testify-in-landmark-social-media-addiction-trial-2016788999 | Source: RTL
[09:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-today.rtl.lu | Anticipated witness: Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media addiction trial - RTL Today
[09:32]	TR News	"The Irish Examiner understands the plan will confirm Irelands intention to introduce legislation to restrict social media for under-16s." https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41795567.html | Source: Irish Examiner
[09:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.irishexaminer.com | Government to introduce social media ban for under-16s in online safety push
[09:32]	TR News	"blatant From Apple Music label on playback in the TikTok" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-apple-music-integrations/ | Source: Digital Music News
[09:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/16/tiktok-apple-music-integrations/ )
[09:32]	TR News	"Since then, criticism of CAIR, especially among Republicans in Texas, has only intensified." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cair-muslims-texas-abbott-islamophobia/ | Source: The Nation
[09:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Muslims in Texas Are Harassed and Surveilled. Greg Abbott Is Making It Worse. | The Nation
[09:33]	TR News	"The Paradox of Tolerancefirst introduced by that brilliant old geezer of Karl Popper" https://mon0.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-persuasion |
[09:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mon0.substack.com | The Paradox of Persuasion - Mon0s Substack
[09:33]	TR News	"That was February 2025. It is now February 2026. And I am here to tell you: the gates did not hold." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america-one-year | Source: Mike Brock
[09:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | The Plot Against America, One Year Later - by Mike Brock
[09:33]	TR News	"The key driver is climate change. Were living in a world that will have fewer livable places and fewer resources. This will happen quickly." https://werd.io/an-increasingly-dangerous-world/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[09:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-werd.io | An increasingly dangerous world
[09:34]	TR News	"around 40 Hindu families" https://hindupost.in/crime/agras-exodus-alert-40-hindu-families-hang-house-for-sale-posters-amid-repeated-attacks-on-hindu-families/ | Source: Hindu Post
[09:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hindupost.in | Agra's exodus alert: 40 Hindu families hang 'House for Sale' posters amid repeated attacks on Hindu families
[09:34]	TR News	"a man under investigation" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-arrest-suspect-with-ties-islamic-state-source-says-2026-01-29/ | Source: Reuters
[09:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-arrest-suspect-with-ties-islamic-state-source-says-2026-01-29/ )
[09:34]	TR News	"Oxymoron" https://www.raymondibrahim.com/03/26/2014/why-moderate-islam-is-an-oxymoron | Source: Raymond Ibrahim
[09:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.raymondibrahim.com | Why Moderate Islam is an Oxymoron
[09:34]	TR News	"Not only has this incident been widely condemned throughout the West and rightfully so." https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18532/mosque-church-massacres | Source: Gatestone Institute
[09:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.gatestoneinstitute.org | Why, for the UN, Is One Mosque Massacre So Much Worse than Countless Church Massacres? :: Gatestone Institute
[09:35]	TR News	"The Register contacted the European Parliament for comment." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/european_parliament_bars_lawmakers_from/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | European Parliament bars lawmakers from AI tools The Register
[09:35]	TR News	"So, at that point, my public stance on Matrix became, simply: Dont use Matrix" https://soatok.blog/2026/02/17/cryptographic-issues-in-matrixs-rust-library-vodozemac/ | Source: Dhole Moments
[09:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-soatok.blog | Cryptographic Issues in Matrixs Rust Library Vodozemac - Dhole Moments
[09:36]	TR News	"Since it aired for a massive audience at the Super Bowl, Rings Search Party commercial has become a lightning rod for controversy" https://www.theverge.com/podcast/879203/ring-search-party-super-bowl-ai-surveillance-privacy-security | Source: The Verge
[09:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | Lets talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state | The Verge
[09:36]	TR News	"Palantir is the most dangerous tech company you may not have heard of." https://afsc.org/palantir-explainer |
[09:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-afsc.org | What is Palantir? And why is this corporation so dangerous? | American Friends Service Committee
[09:37]	TR News	"Apple AirTags have speakers in them, and the speaker is not entirely under the owners control." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/airtag-has-hole-behind-the-battery-its-likely-been-silenced/ | Source: Hackaday
[09:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AirTag Has Hole Behind The Battery? Its Likely Been Silenced | Hackaday
[09:37]	TR News	"Below is my opening statement from the debate." https://nbtv.substack.com/p/privacy-is-not-a-price-you-pay-for | Source: Ludlow Institute
[09:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nbtv.substack.com | Privacy Is Not a Price You Pay for Growth - by NBTV Media
[09:38]	TR News	"VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea | Source: EFF
[09:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | EFF to Wisconsin Legislature: VPN Bans Are Still a Terrible Idea | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[09:38]	TR News	EFF letter re: WI S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 https://www.eff.org/document/eff-letter-re-wi-sb-130-ab-105 | Source: EFF
[09:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | EFF letter re: WI S.B. 130 / A.B. 105 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[09:38]	TR News	Social Control Media https://bianet.org/haber/seventeen-adult-content-creators-formally-arrested-for-laundering-onlyfans-income-316766 | Source: BIA Net
[09:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Seventeen adult content creators formally arrested for 'laundering OnlyFans income'
[09:39]	TR News	"Meta's changes do not shut down the Messenger service" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meta-retire-messenger-desktop-website-2026-1779840 | Source: International Business Times
[09:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ibtimes.co.uk | Is Facebook Messenger App Getting Phased Out? More Than 900 Million Users Could Lose Their Access - Here's What We Know | IBTimes UK
[09:39]	TR News	"The pattern is eerily reminiscent of how the xz-utils supply chain attack began, and the security community is still on high alert after that incident nearly succeeded." https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach | Source: Socket Inc
[09:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach )
[09:39]	TR News	"The Conde Nast-owned tech publication Ars Technica has retracted an article that contained fabricated, AI-generated quotes, according to an editors note posted to its website." https://www.404media.co/ars-technica-pulls-article-with-ai-fabricated-quotes-about-ai-generated-article/ | Source: 404 Media
[09:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.404media.co | Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article
[09:40]	TR News	"Semantic ablation is the algorithmic erosion of high-entropy information." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/semantic_ablation_ai_writing/ | Source: The Register UK
[09:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous The Register
[09:40]	TR News	"Commercial real estate stocks took a big dip last Thursday 12 February one day after the SaaSpocalypse and theyre trying to blame AI: [...]" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/17/the-ai-scare-trade-the-all-purpose-excuse-for-number-go-down/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[09:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | Being trained.
[09:40]	TR News	"ES (Evolution Strategies) is a relatively generic optimization method, but lets talk about it in terms of neural networks, because that is what Im thinking about, and also what the elderly literature needs updating for." https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/evolution_strategy.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay
[09:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danmackinlay.name | Evolution strategies The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-considerd enterprises
[09:41]	TR News	"You and I know this was really obviously not some sort of rogue bot it was a rogue human. They might even be running some sort of scam." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-openclaw-ai-bot-is-a-crypto-bro/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[09:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | And happi- ness. Other people's-not mine. It's.
[09:43]	TR News	"Say youre working with a LLM and training it to write good frontend code. Good frontend code is accessible code, so of course you want to instruct the LLM to produce it." https://ericwbailey.website/published/heres-how-to-instruct-a-llm-to-reference-the-aria-authoring-practices-guide/ | Source: Eric Bailey
[09:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ericwbailey.website | Heres how to instruct a LLM to reference the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide Eric Bailey
[09:43]	TR News	"I dont want to live in a world where everything is outsourced, handed to the lowest bidder while I have no idea about the systems that I use, the food that I eat, the religion I participate in, the house I live in." https://joshblais.com/blog/a-pursuit-of-mastery/ | Source: Joshua Blais
[09:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-joshblais.com | A Pursuit of Mastery - The Universe of Joshua Blais
[09:43]	TR News	"Here are three papers describing different side-channel attacks against LLMs. " https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/side-channel-attacks-against-llms.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[09:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Side-Channel Attacks Against LLMs - Schneier on Security
[09:43]	TR News	"Cognitive debt is likely a much bigger threat than technical debt, as AI and agents are adopted." https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/ |
[09:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-margaretstorey.com | How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
[09:44]	TR News	"Some programmers have started to warn that similar advances could cannibalize all kinds of knowledge work." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/02/post-chatbot-claude-code-ai-agents/686029/ | Source: The Atlantic
[09:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theatlantic.com | AI Agents Are Taking America by Storm - The Atlantic
[09:44]	TR News	"Yes, hard drives. Spinning disks that hold ones and zeroes." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063473/western-digital-is-out-of-hard-drives-because-ai-of-course.html | Source: PC World
[09:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063473/western-digital-is-out-of-hard-drives-because-ai-of-course.html )
[09:44]	TR News	"While Western Digital hard drives will remain on the shelves for now" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-centers-spiking-hard-drive-prices | Source: Futurism
[09:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices
[09:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux, 'FSFE', and Perl https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_FSFE_and_Perl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_FSFE_and_Perl.gmi 
[09:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux, 'FSFE', and Perl
[09:47]	TR News	Techrights Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_Gig_Economy_Condemned_Microsoft_Insulting_Stre.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_Gig_Economy_Condemned_Microsoft_Insulting_Stre.gmi 
[09:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 18/02/2026: Gig 'Economy' Condemned, Microsoft Insulting/Stressing People With False Slop Predictions
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[14:39]	TR News	"Childhood vaccination is one of public policys greatest success stories." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-kakistocracy-became-a-quackistocracy | Source: Paul Krugman
[14:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy
[14:40]	TR News	"Thats remarkable, given that the camera sold for $89.95 or about $970 / 710 / AU$1,370 in today's money" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/instant-cameras/a-3-year-old-girl-asked-a-simple-question-and-sparked-a-us-usd600-million-camera-revolution | Source: Digital Camera World
[14:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.digitalcameraworld.com | A 3-year-old girl asked a simple question and sparked a US$600 million camera revolution | Digital Camera World
[14:40]	TR News	"The problem with Qwerty keyboards on small touchscreen devices is that they are designed for ten-finger typing, and we typically only use two thumbs to type." https://entropicthoughts.com/learning-keybee | Source: Chris
[14:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-entropicthoughts.com | Learning KeyBee
[14:41]	TR News	"I could go into pros and cons but honestly it's mostly pros at this point since it's turned out to be a great little device for my use case." https://smallcypress.bearblog.dev/first-impressions-of-my-mp3-player-innioasis-y1/ | Source: Small Cypress
[14:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-smallcypress.bearblog.dev | first impressions of my MP3 player (Innioasis Y1) | small cypress
[14:41]	TR News	"How is a manger to make sense of this mess?" https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/16/poor-deming-never-stood-a-chance/ | Source: Lorin Hochstein
[14:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-surfingcomplexity.blog | Poor Deming never stood a chance Surfing Complexity
[14:41]	TR News	"Last Friday was my last day at Oracle. Today is my first day at MariaDB.org!" https://lefred.be/content/i-joined-the-mariadb-foundation/ |
[14:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lefred.be | I joined the MariaDB Foundation - lefred blog: tribulations of a MariaDB Community Advocate
[14:42]	TR News	"Full Sail University just opened its Drone Innovation Center on its Winter Park, Florida campus a 7,870-square-foot facility complete with indoor flight zones" https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/02/17/full-sail-university/ | Source: The Drone Girl
[14:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/02/17/full-sail-university/ )
[14:43]	TR News	"Sorting is one of the most studied problems in computer science." https://00f.net/2026/02/17/sorting-without-leaking-secrets/ | 0f
[14:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-00f.net | Fast sorting, branchless by design - Frank DENIS random thoughts.
[14:43]	TR News	"Last time, we did load-store forwarding in the context of our Toy Optimizer. We managed to cache the results of both reads from and writes to the heapat compile-time!" https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-tbaa/ | Source: Max Bernstein
[14:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bernsteinbear.com | Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer | Max Bernstein
[14:48]	TR News	"short, cube-shaped bone" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[14:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearthed-a-2200-year-old-bone-they-say-it-could-be-the-first-direct-evidence-of-hannibals-legendary-war-elephants-180988185/ )
[14:48]	TR News	"For over 30 years, complexity theorists have used this theoretical framework to identify problems where quantum computers surpass classical ones." https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-new-complexity-theory-for-the-quantum-age-20260217/ | Source: Quanta Magazine
[14:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.quantamagazine.org | A New Complexity Theory for the Quantum Age | Quanta Magazine
[14:49]	TR News	"The FOCUS project worked by deploying a specially designed strain cable across the newly mapped fault in hopes of detecting tectonic movement." https://phys.org/news/2026-02-million-km-undersea-internet-cables.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[14:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-02-million-km-undersea-internet-cables.html )
[14:53]	TR News	iophk: Oura is now officially malevolent surveillance hardware if it wasn't before; bought out / sold out: https://www.kauppalehti.fi/uutiset/a/df9f08af-ef2c-425d-b640-a2b42ef1d905 Sompi
[14:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kauppalehti.fi | Oura myytiin ulkomaille Suomalaiset eivt vain tajunneet sit | Kauppalehti
[14:53]	TR News	"A friend of mine suggested I ask people to respond to the email on occasion to help improve its reputation with Gmail/spam filters. When I did that this past month, my inbox was flooded with responses." https://cassidoo.co/post/do-not-scale-2/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[14:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cassidoo.co | Improving my newsletter's open rate the hard(er) way
[14:54]	TR News	"They want to be able to shock you but then insist theres no real provocation because in the endif youll just shut up and keep reading until you find out what happens in the endeverything comes out just fine." https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-16-the-serialized-series/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
[14:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bix.blog | The Serialized Series BIX dot BLOG
[14:54]	TR News	"[...] It will go away in a blink of an eye." https://atharvaraykar.com/likejunkies/ | Source: Atharva Raykar
[14:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-atharvaraykar.com | Likejunkies
[14:55]	TR News	"But obsessions like these also tend to lead to burnout. So far I have been lucky to mostly dance around it" https://cliophate.wtf/posts/reasonable-overkill | Source: Kevin Wammer
[14:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A reasonable amount of overkill - cliophate.wtf
[14:55]	TR News	"I still want it, just a little." https://haleynahman.substack.com/p/172-the-pleasure-of-not-knowing |
[14:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-haleynahman.substack.com | #172: Trick questions - by Haley Nahman - Maybe Baby
[14:57]	TR News	"Recent events in Europe have underscored these risks." https://insidetowers.com/report-protecting-gps-is-crucial/ | Source: Inside Towers
[14:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | Report: Protecting GPS is Crucial - Inside Towers
[14:57]	TR News	"I was talking to my friend acdw about Discord and IRC because dozens had posted the link to New And Upcoming IRCv3 Features for Libera.chat, on Linkbudz." https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2026-02-11-discord-features | Source: Alex Schroeder
[14:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-alexschroeder.ch | 2026-02-11 Discord features to emulate
[14:57]	TR News	"Web fonts are usually defined by the CSS @font-face rule. The font-display property allows us some control over how fonts are loaded." https://dbushell.com/2026/02/17/web-font-choice-and-loading-strategy/ | Source: David Bushell
[14:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dbushell.com | Web font choice and loading strategy David Bushell Web Dev (UK)
[14:57]	TR News	"For some reason, a bunch of big companies are really leaning into Markdown right now. AI may be the reason, but I kind of love the possible side benefits." https://tedium.co/2026/02/17/markdown-growing-influence-cloudflare-ai/ | Source: Tedium
[14:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tedium.co | The Great Markdown Rebranding Of 2026
[14:58]	TR News	"Learning Python often starts with the same building blocks: variables, functions, and loops." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/levelling-up-with-python-create-with-data/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[14:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.raspberrypi.org | Levelling up with Python: Create with data - Raspberry Pi Foundation
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[15:00]	TR News	"If you are interested in continued collaboration with the Vinyl Cache project, please register an account on our self hosted forgejo instance following this link." https://vinyl-cache.org/organization/moving.html |
[15:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-vinyl-cache.org | Vinyl Cache has left github Varnish HTTP Cache
[15:00]	TR News	"Ask a dozen ecosystems what platform youre running on and youll get a dozen different answers." https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/17/platform-strings.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[15:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nesbitt.io | Platform Strings | Andrew Nesbitt
[15:00]	TR News	"I know this might be slightly controversial for my fellow developers, but: I tend to prefer a (good) GUI over the CLI." https://lostfocus.de/2026/02/17/gui-cli/ | Source: Dominik Schwind
[15:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lostfocus.de | GUI > CLI | LostFocus
[15:01]	TR News	"Compared with Deferred, this IOPromise allows for completing the promise via unsafeTryComplete, which can be used in an imperative (non-IO) context, but it still exposes an IO-driven API." https://alexn.org/blog/2026/02/17/hybrid-io-driven-promise-in-scala-snippet/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu
[15:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-alexn.org | Hybrid IO-driven Promise (Scala snippet) - Alexandru Nedelcu
[15:08]	TR News	Open Data https://datageeek.com/2026/02/17/modeling-bitcoin-volatility-through-structural-breaks-a-compositional-perspective/ | Source: DataGeeek
[15:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Modeling Bitcoin Volatility Through Structural Breaks: A Compositional Perspective DataGeeek
[15:12]	TR News	"The 13th ROS-Industrial Europe Conference 2025 took place on 1718 November 2025 in Strasbourg, co-located with ROSCon FR&DE." https://rosindustrial.org/news/2026/2/17/ros-2-in-industry-key-takeaways-from-the-ros-industrial-conference-2025 | Source: ROS Industrial
[15:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-rosindustrial.org | ROS 2 in Industry: Key Takeaways from the ROS-Industrial Conference 2025 ROS-Industrial
[15:13]	TR News	"In this post I describe different approaches for client-libraries to implement Redis protocol pipelining." https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-02-17-archive-redis-pipelining/ | Source: Ian Duncan
[15:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.iankduncan.com | Archive: Automatic Optimal Pipelining of Redis Commands - Ian Duncan
[15:14]	TR News	"I was able to exploit it to gain Code Execution inside the Firefox renderer process and reported my findings to Mozilla." https://kqx.io/post/firefox0day/ |
[15:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kqx.io | How a single typo led to RCE in Firefox kqx
[15:14]	TR News	"The vulnerability comes from the Google Stable Channel Update for Desktop." https://thecyberexpress.com/cve-2026-2441-google-chrome/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[15:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | Chrome RCE Flaw CVE-2026-2441Exploited In Wild
[15:15]	TR News	"Tor Browser 15.0.6 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1506/ | Source: Tor
[15:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.torproject.org | New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.6 | The Tor Project
[15:15]	TR News	Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only.
[15:15]	TR News	"Reminder: The Tor Browser Alpha release-channel is for testing only." https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/ | Source: Tor
[15:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.torproject.org | New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a3 | The Tor Project
[15:16]	TR News	"This is a really old question/debate in online community design." https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up | Source: CoryDoctorow
[15:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pluralistic.net | Pluralistic: The online community trilemma (16 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[15:16]	TR News	"The other day, I decided it was finally time. It was finally time to open Emacs to demonstrate certain code functionalities in class. The result was predictable: it caused further confusion among already confused students." https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/a-note-on-presenting-code-in-emacs/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld
[15:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/02/a-note-on-presenting-code-in-emacs/ )
[15:17]	TR News	Slop and sloppers https://text.npr.org/1199885893
[15:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-text.npr.org | The do's and don'ts of writing a good resume
[15:17]	TR News	microsoft relaying FUD via The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/open_source_registries_fund_security/
[15:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Open source registries underfunded as security costs rise The Register
[15:18]	TR News	"How GoReleaser strengthened security through GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund - GoReleaser" https://goreleaser.com/blog/github-secure-fund/ GitHub = NSA back doors
[15:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How GoReleaser strengthened security through GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund - GoReleaser
[15:18]	TR News	"Jesse Jacksons speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 19, 1988" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jesse-jacksons-speech-to-the-democratic
[15:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | Jesse Jacksons speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 19, 1988
[15:18]	TR News	"Further | Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/fuck-this-guy-the-hunted-becomes-the-beached
[15:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.commondreams.org | Further | Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached | Opinion
[15:18]	TR News	"European leaders warn that US ties have shifted permanently" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/16/2026/european-leaders-warn-that-us-ties-have-shifted-permanently
[15:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-European leaders warn that US ties have shifted permanently | Semafor
[15:19]	TR News	"No, Its Not Back to Business as Usual" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/for-europe-its-not-back-to-business-as-usual/686023/
[15:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theatlantic.com | No, Its Not Back to Business as Usual - The Atlantic
[15:19]	TR News	"Bill Gates-Backed Breakthrough Energy Halts New Investment, Lays Off Staff" https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bill-gates-backed-breakthrough-energy-halts-new-investment-lays-off-staff-11051620 http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml
[15:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/bill-gates-backed-breakthrough-energy-halts-new-investment-lays-off-staff-11051620 )
[15:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited
[15:19]	TR News	"Please Advise! Is Trumps Brain Totally Pucked? | The Tyee" https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Please-Advise-Trump-Brain-Pucked/
[15:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Please-Advise-Trump-Brain-Pucked/ )
[15:20]	TR News	"Dispatch from Munich: Europe is growing stronger, but will it be fast enough to save Ukraine?" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/dispatch-from-munich-europe-is-growing-stronger-but-will-it-be-fast-enough-to-save-ukraine/
[15:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Dispatch from Munich: Europe is growing stronger, but will it be fast enough to save Ukraine? - Atlantic Council
[15:21]	TR News	"A team of scientists have revealed a new technique for the super-high-speed 3D printing of complex objects." https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/chinese-scientists-3d-print-tiny-items-in-half-a-second-using-holographic-light-fields-scientists-precision-fabricate-complex-millimeter-scale-objects-in-record-time | Source: Tom's Hardware
[15:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Chinese scientists 3D print tiny items in half a second using holographic light fields scientists precision fabricate complex millimeter-scale objects in record time | Tom's Hardware
[15:21]	TR News	"Built around the powerful dual-core ESP32-P4 RISC-V SoC, this board delivers serious performance and unmatched peripheral integration for advanced embedded and IoT development." https://olimex.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/esp32-p4-pc-open-source-hardware-board-the-most-comprehensive-and-feature-rich-esp32-p4-board-on-the-market/ | Source: Olimex
[15:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-olimex.wordpress.com | ESP32-P4-PC Open Source Hardware Board the most comprehensive and feature-rich ESP32-P4 board on the market | olimex
[15:25]	TR News	"However, I can try and get as close as possible to the signal generation process as possible with what I do have: A games console from the 1970s and the ability to code in assembly language." https://heliomass.com/posts/2602-i-see-colour-bars/ | Source: Heliomass
[15:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-I See Colour Bars | heliomass.com
[15:25]	TR News	"What we got was the Y3506_V05_20251215 revision. It's a clone of a clone" https://www.eliseomartelli.it/blog/2026-02-17-less-but-better-a-braun-clock-for-the-r36s | Source: Eliseo Martelli
[15:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eliseomartelli.it | A Braun clock for a $30 handheld | Eliseo Martelli
[15:26]	TR News	"Printed a couple of card boxes for our new-found card game phase, and I had just enough filament for the final one!" https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/filament-chicken | Source: Jasper Tandy
[15:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jasper.tandy.is | Jasper is blogging: Filament Chicken
[15:27]	TR News	"Today was a hard day for $reasons, so it was a tremendous joy to receive a notification from the local Australia Post parcel locker that my latest shipment from Ukraine arrived!" https://rubenerd.com/my-childhood-motherboard-arrived/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[15:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Rubenerd: My childhood motherboard arrived
[15:27]	TR News	"If youre looking to jack up your car and you dont have anything on hand, your 3D printer might not be the first tool you look towards." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/3d-printed-jack-mixes-two-filaments-for-great-performance/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-3D Printed Jack Mixes Two Filaments For Great Performance | Hackaday
[15:27]	TR News	"The setup removes just five LEGO pieces from the original design, eliminating the hand crank from the mechanism." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/lego-orrery-gets-a-real-time-drive-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LEGO Orrery Gets A Real-Time Drive Upgrade | Hackaday
[15:28]	TR News	"Antenna design is often referred to as a black art or witchcraft, even by those experienced in the space." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/bruteforcing-accidental-antenna-designs/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Bruteforcing Accidental Antenna Designs | Hackaday
[15:30]	TR News	"Every OpenBSD admin has booted bsd.rd at least once to install, upgrade, or rescue a broken system." https://openbsdjumpstart.org/bsd.rd/ |
[15:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openbsdjumpstart.org | OpenBSD Jumpstart | bsd.rd
[15:30]	TR News	"With that in mind, weve improved Plasmas usability and accessibility, and added practical new features into the mix." https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.6.0/ | Source: KDE
[15:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kde.org | Plasma 6.6 - KDE Community
[15:31]	TR News	"On OpenBSD, the built-in httpd runs inside a strict chroot located at /var/www" https://www.vincentdelft.be/post/post_20260217 | Source: Vincent Delft
[15:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.vincentdelft.be | Vincent's blog
[15:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_endorses_the_UN_s_Open_Source_Principles.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/KDE_endorses_the_UN_s_Open_Source_Principles.gmi 
[15:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles
[15:36]	TR News	"There are two general challenges that make incremental backups more complicated than full backups." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/IncrementalBackupsTwoChallenges | Source: University of Toronto
[15:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser
[15:36]	TR News	"Modern CSS code snippets, side by side with the old hacks they replace. Every technique you still Google has a clean, native replacement now." https://modern-css.com/ |
[15:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-modern-css.com | Modern CSS Code Snippets | modern.css
[15:39]	TR News	"The algorithms have gotten wildly sophisticated over the decades. Modern engines dont just swap between a few discrete models." https://phinze.com/writing/level-of-detail |
[15:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Level of Detail phinze.com
[15:40]	TR News	"The code hasn't been functional since 2007 due to incompatibilities with the more widely used Intel AGP driver." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-kernel-7-0-finally-abandons-intel-440bx-edac-driver-removal-marks-another-goodbye-to-the-legendary-motherboard-chipset | Source: Tom's Hardware
[15:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset's EDAC driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset | Tom's Hardware
[15:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  Oh L L! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Oh_La_La_Red_Hat_Open_Sources_Digital_Sovereignty_Readiness_Too.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Oh_La_La_Red_Hat_Open_Sources_Digital_Sovereignty_Readiness_Too.gmi 
[15:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Oh L L! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool
[15:42]	TR News	"I just have to tell you my current state with my migration to OpenCloud" https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/update-home-server |
[15:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-janlukas.blog | My updated Home Server setup - Jan-Lukas Else
[15:46]	TR News	Earth vs Mars the Advance Wars-like from Relic Entertainment gets Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/earth-vs-mars-the-advance-wars-like-from-relic-entertainment-gets-steam-deck-verified/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Earth vs Mars the Advance Wars-like from Relic Entertainment gets Steam Deck Verified | GamingOnLinux
[15:46]	TR News	SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/scopecreep-is-a-curious-mix-of-tower-defense-and-active-incremental-where-you-collect-souls/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-SCOPECREEP is a curious mix of tower defense and active incremental where you collect souls | GamingOnLinux
[15:48]	TR News	Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/
[15:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone | GamingOnLinux
[15:49]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi 
[15:49]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[15:50]	TR News	"when you pay peanuts, you hire monkeys .....and d-mb Indian monkeys @IBM at that. Posing, Posturing and Upskilling about AI and Quantum from Alvind and Krabanaugh doesn't change a single thing. (Or Kyndryl !)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef
[15:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kha4h3ef )
[15:52]	TR News	Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/astro-protocol-is-a-tactical-space-4x-game-designed-for-people-with-little-time/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Astro Protocol is a tactical space 4x game designed for people with little time | GamingOnLinux
[15:54]	TR News	Brotato gets a major update with Paws - Claws adding pets | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/brotato-gets-a-major-update-with-paws-claws-adding-pets/
[15:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Brotato gets a major update with Paws & Claws adding pets | GamingOnLinux
[15:58]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released-with-improved-accessibility-new-on-screen-keyboard-and-lots-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[15:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-KDE Plasma 6.6 released with improved accessibility, new on-screen keyboard and lots more | GamingOnLinux
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[16:07]	TR News	Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/game-manager-lutris-v0-5-20-released-with-proton-upgrades-store-updates-and-much-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[16:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Game manager Lutris v0.5.20 released with Proton upgrades, store updates and much more | GamingOnLinux
[16:08]	TR News	Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages" | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/valve-confirm-steam-deck-stock-issues-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[16:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Valve confirm Steam Deck stock issues due to "memory and storage shortages" | GamingOnLinux
[16:08]	TR News	Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/rocket-league-is-adding-easy-anti-cheat-psyonix-say-linux-will-still-be-supported-with-proton/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[16:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Rocket League is adding Easy Anti-Cheat, Psyonix say Linux will still be supported with Proton | GamingOnLinux
[16:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: SCOPECREEP, Astro Protocol, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Games_SCOPECREEP_Astro_Protocol_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Games_SCOPECREEP_Astro_Protocol_and_More.gmi 
[16:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Games: SCOPECREEP, Astro Protocol, and More
[16:17]	TR News	"In response to these challenges, were excited to announce today thegeneral availability (GA) of theRed Hat build of Podman Desktop." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-build-podman-desktop-enterprise-ready-local-container-development-environments | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Introducing Red Hat build of Podman Desktop: Enterprise-ready local container development environments
[16:18]	TR News	"As automation expanded across teams, systems, and domains, Bradesco reached a new stage of maturity. Execution at scale was already well established, delivering efficiency and speed. " https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/redefining-automation-governance-execution-observability-bradesco | Source: Red Hat Official
[16:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | Redefining automation governance: From execution to observability at Bradesco
[16:18]	TR News	IBM Red Hat promoting slop https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-llm-d-brings-critical-resource-optimization-softbanks-ai-ran-orchestrator
[16:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.redhat.com | How llm-d brings critical resource optimization with SoftBanks AI-RAN orchestrator
[16:19]	TR News	"ifconfig (Interface Configuration is a utility for system/network administration in Unix/Linux operating systems used to configure, manage, and query network interface parameters via the command-line interface or in system configuration scripts." https://www.tecmint.com/ifconfig-command-examples/ | Source: TecMint
[16:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tecmint.com | 15 Useful ifconfig Commands to Configure Network in Linux
[16:23]	TR News	"As part of this certification process, we have also included Ubuntu Core as a fully certified Operating Environment for the first time, starting with Ubuntu Core 22, and will continue to support Ubuntu Core with future FIPS certifications." https://ubuntu.com//blog/announcing-fips-140-3-for-ubuntu-core22 | Source: Ubuntu
[16:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Announcing FIPS 140-3 for Ubuntu Core22 | Ubuntu
[16:24]	TR News	"A little over one year ago, our team began to recognize this pattern in our own work." https://ubuntu.com//blog/a-year-of-documentation-driven-development | Source: Ubuntu
[16:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-A year of documentation-driven development | Ubuntu
[16:36]	TR News	Translate Texinfo files using po4a https://box.matto.nl/translate-texinfo-files-using-po4a.html
[16:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Translate Texinfo files using po4a - box.matto.nl
[16:38]	TR News	MODICIA 6.12.69 is out https://distrowatch.com/modicia
[16:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/modicia )
[16:38]	TR News	Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
[16:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal
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[16:40]	TR News	CentOS 10-20260216 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/centos
[16:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/centos )
[16:40]	TR News	Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
[16:41]	TR News	Plasma Setup Released https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/02/17/2026/_plasma-setup-release
[16:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-merritt.codes | Plasma Setup Released | Merritt Codes
[16:42]	TR News	Coalition sues to block removal of history, science displays from US national parks https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/coalition-sues-to-block-removal-of-history-science-displays-from-us-national-parks/
[16:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Coalition sues to block removal of history, science displays from US national parks - JURIST - News
[16:44]	TR News	Height Surgery for Men Can Add Inches But Has Risks https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/height-surgery-limb-lengthening-men-health.html
[16:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/height-surgery-limb-lengthening-men-health.html )
[16:44]	TR News	Got raw milk? Michigan proposal would legalize wider sales https://bridgemi.com/michigan-government/got-raw-milk-michigan-proposal-would-legalize-wider-sales/
[16:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | Got raw milk? Michigan proposal would legalize wider sales - Bridge Michigan
[16:44]	TR News	amid
[16:45]	TR News	Oakland County diverts mental health patients to ERs amid crisis center takeover https://bridgemi.com/michigan-health-watch/oakland-county-diverts-mental-health-patients-to-ers-amid-crisis-center-takeover/
[16:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bridgemi.com | Oakland County diverts mental health patients to ERs amid crisis center takeover - Bridge Michigan
[16:46]	TR News	The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/opinion/the-rise-in-transgender-killers-proves-that-we-have-a-major-mental-health-crisis-unfolding/
[16:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nypost.com | The rise in transgender killers proves that we have a major mental health crisis unfolding
[16:46]	TR News	filebyte list files and directories https://www.linuxlinks.com/filebyte-list-files-directories/
[16:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-filebyte - list files and directories - LinuxLinks
[16:46]	TR News	Couik terminal-based typing test https://www.linuxlinks.com/couik-terminal-based-typing-test/
[16:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Couik - terminal-based typing test - LinuxLinks
[16:51]	TR News	picocom minimal dumb-terminal emulation program https://www.linuxlinks.com/picocom-minimal-dumb-terminal-emulation-program/
[16:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-picocom - minimal dumb-terminal emulation program - LinuxLinks
[16:51]	TR News	up write GNU/Linux pipes https://www.linuxlinks.com/up-write-linux-pipes/
[16:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-up - write Linux pipes - LinuxLinks
[16:56]	TR News	Discordo feature-rich terminal Discord client https://www.linuxlinks.com/discordo-feature-rich-terminal-discord-client/
[16:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Discordo - feature-rich terminal Discord client - LinuxLinks
[16:57]	TR News	StarPSX PlayStation 1 emulator https://www.linuxlinks.com/starpsx-playstation1-emulator/
[16:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-StarPSX - PlayStation 1 emulator - LinuxLinks
[16:58]	TR News	Spent minimalist personal finance tracker https://www.linuxlinks.com/spent-minimalist-personal-finance-tracker/
[16:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Spent - minimalist personal finance tracker - LinuxLinks
[16:58]	TR News	How the contextual SBOM pattern improves vulnerability management https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-contextual-sbom-pattern-improves-vulnerability-management
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[16:59]	TR News	Linux Matters 75: Mark's Meshing About https://linuxmatters.sh/75/
[16:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linuxmatters.sh | Mark's Meshing About
● Feb 18
[17:00]	TR News	Oh L L! Red Bait Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool https://fossforce.com/2026/02/oh-la-la-red-hat-open-sources-digital-sovereignty-readiness-tool/
[17:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fossforce.com | Oh L L! Red Hat Open Sources Digital Sovereignty Readiness Tool - FOSS Force
[17:01]	TR News	Huge Web of Hidden Electromagnetic Waves Discovered Around Tiny Ice World https://www.sciencealert.com/huge-web-of-hidden-electromagnetic-waves-discovered-around-tiny-ice-world
[17:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Huge Web of Hidden Electromagnetic Waves Discovered Around Tiny Ice World : ScienceAlert
[17:01]	TR News	NASA Restarts Countdown After Fixing Hydrogen Leaks on Its Moon Rocket https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-restarts-countdown-after-fixing-hydrogen-leaks-on-its-moon-rocket
[17:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-NASA Restarts Countdown After Fixing Hydrogen Leaks on Its Moon Rocket : ScienceAlert
[17:02]	TR News	First-of-Its-Kind Map of Alzheimer's Reveals Hidden Gene Activity https://www.sciencealert.com/first-of-its-kind-map-of-alzheimers-reveals-hidden-gene-activity
[17:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-First-of-Its-Kind Map of Alzheimer's Reveals Hidden Gene Activity : ScienceAlert
[17:02]	TR News	Daily Mails Stephen Wright devastated by Doreen Lawrence hacking claims https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/daily-mails-stephen-wright-devastated-by-doreen-lawrence-hacking-claims/
[17:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Daily Mail's Stephen Wright 'devastated' by Doreen Lawrence hacking claims - Press Gazette
[17:05]	TR News	Suicide https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/mediahuis-trials-use-of-ai-agents-to-carry-out-first-line-news-reporting/
[17:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pressgazette.co.uk | Mediahuis plans to automate 'first-line news' with AI agents - Press Gazette
[17:06]	TR News	Simple Lifelong Habits Can Cut Your Alzheimer's Risk by 38%, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/simple-lifelong-habits-can-cut-your-alzheimers-risk-by-38-study-finds
[17:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Simple Lifelong Habits Can Cut Your Alzheimer's Risk by 38%, Study Finds : ScienceAlert
[17:08]	TR News	Radio Free Asia says it has resumed broadcaststo China https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/radio-free-asia-says-it-has-resumed-broadcasts-to-china
[17:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Radio Free Asia says it has resumed broadcaststo China | The Straits Times
[17:09]	TR News	Malaysia drops defamation case against Australian writer in Thailand https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-drops-defamation-case-against-australian-writer-in-thailand
[17:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Malaysia drops defamation case against Australian writer in Thailand | The Straits Times
[17:09]	TR News	85% of TB cases in Malaysia involve locals, says health minister https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/85-of-tb-cases-in-malaysia-involve-locals-says-health-minister
[17:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | 85% of TB cases in Malaysia involve locals, says health minister | The Straits Times
[17:10]	TR News	Seoul eases curbs on North Koreas top daily Rodong Sinmun, but few South Koreans are reading it https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-eases-curbs-on-north-koreas-top-daily-rodong-sinmun-but-few-south-koreans-are-reading-it
[17:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | South Korea eases curbs on North Korea's Rodong Sinmun | The Straits Times
[17:10]	TR News	Tiny Supernova Error Could Make The Dark Energy 'Crisis' Vanish, New Paper Suggests https://www.sciencealert.com/tiny-supernova-error-could-make-the-dark-energy-crisis-vanish-new-paper-suggests
[17:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Tiny Supernova Error Could Make The Dark Energy 'Crisis' Vanish, New Paper Suggests : ScienceAlert
[17:10]	TR News	The Link Between Air Pollution And Alzheimer's Is Now Clearer Than Ever https://www.sciencealert.com/the-link-between-air-pollution-and-alzheimers-is-now-clearer-than-ever
[17:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Link Between Air Pollution And Alzheimer's Is Now Clearer Than Ever : ScienceAlert
[17:11]	TR News	Common Diabetes Drug Linked With 'Exceptional Longevity' in Women https://www.sciencealert.com/common-diabetes-drug-linked-with-exceptional-longevity-in-women
[17:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Common Diabetes Drug Linked With 'Exceptional Longevity' in Women : ScienceAlert
[17:11]	TR News	New Light Therapy Can Suppress a Key Marker of Hair Loss by 92% https://www.sciencealert.com/new-light-therapy-can-suppress-a-key-marker-of-hair-loss-by-92
[17:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-New Light Therapy Can Suppress a Key Marker of Hair Loss by 92% : ScienceAlert
[17:13]	TR News	Do Positive Affirmations Really Work? A Psychologist Explains The Science https://www.sciencealert.com/do-positive-affirmations-really-work-a-psychologist-explains-the-science
[17:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Do Positive Affirmations Really Work? A Psychologist Explains The Science : ScienceAlert
[17:14]	TR News	Beating 'Heart-on-a-Chip' Could Help Fight The World's Leading Cause of Death https://www.sciencealert.com/beating-heart-on-a-chip-could-help-fight-the-worlds-leading-cause-of-death
[17:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Beating 'Heart-on-a-Chip' Could Help Fight The World's Leading Cause of Death : ScienceAlert
[17:14]	TR News	Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool https://thenewstack.io/simplify-managing-your-docker-compose-files-with-this-handy-tool/
[17:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thenewstack.io | Simplify managing your Docker compose files with this handy tool - The New Stack
[17:15]	TR News	Qt for MCUs 2.11.2 LTS is released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-mcus-2.11.2-lts-is-released
[17:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.qt.io | Qt for MCUs 2.11.2 LTS is released
[17:22]	TR News	Question of True Remorse When Hey Hi (AI) Helps Write Your Court Apology https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/asia/new-zealand-court-ai-apology.html
[17:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/asia/new-zealand-court-ai-apology.html )
[17:24]	TR News	Spain launches probe into social control media giants as European regulation starts to boil https://siliconangle.com/2026/02/17/spain-launches-probe-social-media-giants-european-regulation-starts-boil/
[17:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Spain launches probe into social media giants as European regulation starts to boil - SiliconANGLE
[17:25]	TR News	Software Patents https://mexiconewsdaily.com/business/mexico-canada-economic-action-plan-usmca/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/18/Software_Patents_and_USMCA_or_NAFTA.shtml
[17:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mexiconewsdaily.com | Mexico, Canada announce joint economic action plan for a post-USMCA future
[17:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Software Patents and USMCA (or NAFTA)
[17:25]	TR News	AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-abuse-harassment-stalking
[17:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | ChatGPT Is Encouraging Stalkers
[17:27]	TR News	Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/pentagon-issues-threat-anthropic
[17:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Pentagon Issues Threat to Anthropic
[17:29]	TR News	Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian Forky (VENV) https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/02/build-cachyos-kernel-6192-on-debian.html
[17:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dbaxps.blogspot.com | Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Build CachyOS Kernel 6.19.2 on Debian Forky (VENV)
[17:32]	TR News	Chmod Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/chmod/
[17:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/chmod/ )
[17:33]	TR News	Out soon: EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II
[17:34]	TR News	5 Best Free and Open Source Lua Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-lua-static-site-generators/
[17:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-5 Best Free and Open Source Lua Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks
[17:34]	TR News	Pixi pixel art editor and animation editor https://www.linuxlinks.com/pixi-pixel-art-animation-editor/
[17:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Pixi - pixel art editor and animation editor - LinuxLinks
[17:35]	TR News	Russell Coker: Links February 2026 https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/02/17/links-february-2026/
[17:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-etbe.coker.com.au | Links February 2026 etbe - Russell Coker
[17:35]	TR News	Sons of sanctioned Belarusian oligarch held Lithuanian citizenship media https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842278/sons-of-sanctioned-belarusian-oligarch-held-lithuanian-citizenship-media
[17:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Sons of sanctioned Belarusian oligarch held Lithuanian citizenship media - LRT
[17:36]	TR News	Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Only_One_in_50_Saudis_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_Search_Almost_Sam.shtml
[17:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Only One in 50 Saudis Would Use Microsoft for Search, Almost Same as Would Use Russia's Yandex
[17:36]	TR News	State Department: No 'Gentleman's Agreement' Between US, Russia On Expired Nuclear Treaty https://www.rferl.org/a/us-russia-nuclear-start-treaty/33680877.html
[17:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | State Department: No 'Gentleman's Agreement' Between US, Russia On Expired Nuclear Treaty
[17:36]	TR News	Buying pets in Russia, Belarus unsafe, says Latvian authority https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/17.02.2026-buying-pets-in-russia-belarus-unsafe-says-latvian-authority.a635070/
[17:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | Buying pets in Russia, Belarus unsafe, says Latvian authority / Article
[17:37]	TR News	Talks on Russia-Ukraine War Enter 2nd Day in Geneva https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-talks-war.html
[17:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-talks-war.html )
[17:37]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Bets on Diplomacy Without Diplomats https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/trump-witkoff-kushner-diplomacy.html
[17:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/trump-witkoff-kushner-diplomacy.html )
[17:37]	TR News	With Russia grinding closer, Ukrainians weigh the cost of land for peace https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0217/ukraine-peace-talks-russia-donbas-territory-concessions
[17:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Russia peace talks do little to assuage Ukrainian public - CSMonitor.com
[17:38]	TR News	Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/foreign-cars-flow-to-russia-through-china-skirting-ukraine-war-sanctions
[17:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions | The Straits Times
[17:40]	TR News	Ukraine, Russia Wrap First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Amid Fresh Strikes https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-geneva-attacks/33680422.html
[17:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Witkoff Cites 'Meaningful Progress' On First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Between Russia, Ukraine
[17:40]	TR News	EU Pushes Ukraine On Repair Of Druzhba Pipeline Carrying Russian Oil To Hungary, Slovakia https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ukraine-druzhba-russian-oil-pipeline-hungary-slovakia/33680685.html
[17:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | EU Quizzes Ukraine On Timeline For Repair Of Druzhba Oil Pipeline
[17:41]	TR News	Lithuanian agency to run international fund for Ukraine transport rebuild https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842324/lithuanian-agency-to-run-international-fund-for-ukraine-transport-rebuild
[17:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Lithuanian agency to run international fund for Ukraine transport rebuild - LRT
[17:41]	TR News	Russians, Belarusians to compete under own flags at Paralympics: IPC tells AFP https://www.france24.com/en/russians-belarusians-to-compete-under-own-flags-at-paralympics-ipc-tells-afp
[17:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/russians-belarusians-to-compete-under-own-flags-at-paralympics-ipc-tells-afp )
[17:41]	TR News	Russia, Ukraine seem to be 'putting up a performance for president Convicted Felon', analyst says https://www.france24.com/en/russia-ukraine-seem-to-be-putting-up-a-performance-for-president-trump-analyst-says
[17:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/russia-ukraine-seem-to-be-putting-up-a-performance-for-president-trump-analyst-says )
[17:41]	TR News	Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the nationalist historian leading Russias peace talks delegation? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-who-is-vladimir-medinsky-the-nationalist-historian-leading-russia-s-peace-talks-delegation
[17:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-who-is-vladimir-medinsky-the-nationalist-historian-leading-russia-s-peace-talks-delegation )
[17:42]	TR News	First day of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Geneva ends with no breakthroughs https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs
[17:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs )
[17:42]	TR News	LIVE: Ukraine war talks to resume in Geneva with no sign of breakthrough https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260218-live-ukraine-war-talks-to-resume-in-geneva-with-no-sign-of-breakthrough
[17:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260218-live-ukraine-war-talks-to-resume-in-geneva-with-no-sign-of-breakthrough )
[17:43]	TR News	Project Management Web Platform with Redmine on Raspberry PI and Docker https://peppe8o.com/redmine-raspberry-pi/
[17:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-peppe8o.com | Project Management Web Platform with Redmine on Raspberry PI and Docker
[17:44]	TR News	NGO: Some Latvian employers exploit Ukrainians https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/employment/17.02.2026-ngo-some-latvian-employers-exploit-ukrainians.a635001/
[17:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | NGO: Some Latvian employers exploit Ukrainians / Article
[17:44]	TR News	Baltics, Nordics, Poland and Ukraine are 'Europe's shield' https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-baltics-nordics-poland-and-ukraine-are-europes-shield.a635056/
[17:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | Baltics, Nordics, Poland and Ukraine are 'Europe's shield' / Article
[17:44]	TR News	Latvia to give another 10 million euros to support Ukraine's military https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-latvia-to-give-another-10-million-euros-to-support-ukraines-military.a635085/
[17:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | Latvia to give another 10 million euros to support Ukraine's military / Article
[17:45]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Said Hed End the War in Ukraine in a Day. Its Harder Than He Thought. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/trump-ukraine-war-putin.html
[17:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/trump-ukraine-war-putin.html )
[17:45]	TR News	Belarus in isolation only benefits Putin: released activist starts over in Germany https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842356/belarus-in-isolation-only-benefits-putin-released-activist-starts-over-in-germany
[17:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Belarus in isolation only benefits Putin: released activist starts over in Germany - LRT
[17:45]	TR News	Putin, women, favours: DOJ files reveal Jeffrey Epsteins efforts to build Russian ties https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260217-putin-women-doj-files-reveal-jeffrey-epstein-build-russian-ties
[17:45]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260217-putin-women-doj-files-reveal-jeffrey-epstein-build-russian-ties )
[17:46]	TR News	The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/17/the-14th-anniversary-of-our-foundation/
[17:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.documentfoundation.org | The 14th Anniversary of Our Foundation - TDF Community Blog
[17:46]	TR News	Xorg Officially Abandons "Master" Branch for "Main", Throws Away 2 Years of Code https://lunduke.substack.com/p/xorg-officially-abandons-master-branch
[17:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lunduke.substack.com | Xorg Officially Abandons "Master" Branch for "Main", Throws Away 2 Years of Code
[17:48]	TR News	How To Install Fish Shell on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-fish-shell-almalinux-10/
[17:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Fish Shell on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[17:48]	TR News	How To Install Piwigo on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-piwigo-debian-13/
[17:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Piwigo on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:48]	TR News	How To Install Brackets Code Editor on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-brackets-code-editor-debian-13/
[17:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Brackets Code Editor on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:50]	TR News	How To Install Odoo on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-odoo-debian-13/
[17:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Odoo on Debian 13 - idroot
[17:51]	TR News	How to Install SMPlayer on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-smplayer-on-ubuntu-linux/
[17:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-smplayer-on-ubuntu-linux/ )
[17:51]	TR News	How to Install LibreCAD on Ubuntu (26.04, 24.04, 22.04) https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librecad-on-ubuntu-linux/
[17:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-librecad-on-ubuntu-linux/ )
[17:52]	TR News	Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1059176/
[17:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Tuesday [LWN.net]
[17:53]	TR News	High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/high-end-android-phones-are-now-powerful-enough-to-emulate-the-pc-version-of-cyberpunk-2077-youtuber-gets-2020s-hottest-pc-game-running-at-playable-frame-rates-on-red-magic-11-pro
[17:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 YouTuber gets 2020's hottest PC game running at playable frame rates on Red Magic 11 Pro | Tom's Hardware
[17:53]	TR News	Despite a Court-Ordered Injunction, Annas Archive Releases Millions of Spotify Tracks OnlineWith More Likely On the Way https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/annas-archive-releases-spotify-tracks/
[17:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/annas-archive-releases-spotify-tracks/ )
[17:57]	TR News	Boneless Wings Are Still Wings, Judge Rules https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ruling.html
[17:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/boneless-chicken-wings-lawsuit-ruling.html )
[17:58]	TR News	California Judge Delivers a Major Setback for Global Piracy Crackdowns The DMCA Suddenly Has a Lot Less Bite https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/dmca-limits-global-lawsuit/
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/dmca-limits-global-lawsuit/ )
[17:58]	TR News	Mamdani Threatens 9.5% Property Tax Increase if Wealth Tax Is Not Passed https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/budget-mamdani-property-taxes.html
[17:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/nyregion/budget-mamdani-property-taxes.html )
[17:59]	TR News	EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Practice @ FOSDEM 2026: From Awareness to Action https://openssf.org/blog/2026/02/17/eu-cyber-resilience-act-cra-in-practice-fosdem-2026-from-awareness-to-action/ http://techrights.org/o/2020/10/30/openssf-microsoft/
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-openssf.org | EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) in Practice @ FOSDEM 2026: From Awareness to Action Open Source Security Foundation
[17:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | With Microsoft in Charge, OpenSSF Seems More Like It's About Back Doors -- Not Real Security -- Inside the Linux Foundation
● Feb 18
[18:00]	TR News	A Road Trip from Kandahar to Kabul on Highway 1 in Afghanistan https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/asia/afghanistan-highway-taliban-security.html
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/asia/afghanistan-highway-taliban-security.html )
[18:00]	TR News	Militants kill 11 Pakistani security personnel, one child near Afghan border, army says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/militants-kill-11-pakistani-security-personnel-one-child-near-afghan-border-army-says
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Militants kill 11 Pakistani security personnel, one child near Afghan border, army says | The Straits Times
[18:01]	TR News	How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-immigration/how-legal-immigration-became-a-deportation-trap
[18:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.newyorker.com | How Legal Immigration Became a Deportation Trap | The New Yorker
[18:01]	TR News	Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/engineer-finds-his-smart-sleep-mask-can-read-other-peoples-brainwaves-superpower-granted-via-poor-quality-software-with-hardcoded-high-level-credentials
[18:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security superpower granted via poor-quality software with hardcoded high-level credentials | Tom's Hardware
[18:02]	TR News	Unit 42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/
[18:02]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unit 42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse | CyberScoop
[18:05]	TR News	https
[18:05]	TR News	KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current https://blog.slackware.nl/kde-6_26-02-for-slackware-current/
[18:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.slackware.nl | KDE 6_26.02 for Slackware-current Alien Pastures
[18:06]	TR News	A Deadly Medieval Path in England Claims a Modern Victim: An Amazon Van https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/broomway-england-amazon-van.html
[18:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/broomway-england-amazon-van.html )
[18:07]	TR News	Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? https://itsfoss.com/debian-universal-operating-system/
[18:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again?
[18:07]	TR News	Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming https://itsfoss.com/matrixos/
[18:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming
[18:08]	TR News	FSF Blogs: Maintaining what we love all year long http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day
[18:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | Maintaining what we love all year long Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[18:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Spain: Windows at All-Time Low https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Spain_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Spain_Windows_at_All_Time_Low.gmi 
[18:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Spain: Windows at All-Time Low
[18:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal and Docker https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Applications_Give_Your_Weather_Report_an_Animated_ASCII_Spin_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Applications_Give_Your_Weather_Report_an_Animated_ASCII_Spin_in.gmi 
[18:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Applications: Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in GNU/Linux Terminal and Docker
[18:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[18:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos
[18:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  3D Printing, Retro, Olimex, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/3D_Printing_Retro_Olimex_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/3D_Printing_Retro_Olimex_and_More.gmi 
[18:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 3D Printing, Retro, Olimex, and More
[18:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers
[18:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[18:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's leftovers
[18:25]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[18:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Tor Browser 15.0.6 and 16.0a3 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Tor_Browser_15_0_6_and_16_0a3.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Tor_Browser_15_0_6_and_16_0a3.gmi 
[18:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Tor Browser 15.0.6 and 16.0a3
[18:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Web, Standards, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Web_Standards_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Web_Standards_and_More.gmi 
[18:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Web, Standards, and More
[18:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/18/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[18:28]	TR News	Techrights Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Annas Archive Still Thriving https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_DMCA_Weakened_Anna_s_Archive_Still_Thriving.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Links_18_02_2026_DMCA_Weakened_Anna_s_Archive_Still_Thriving.gmi 
[18:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 18/02/2026: DMCA Weakened, Annas Archive Still Thriving
[18:30]	TR News	"Tax progressively, with richer people paying higher rates. Don't use value added tax (VAT) or head taxes because these don't scale up. Ignore the people who say that the rich are going to leave. Ignore the people who say that this is socialism, communism or whatever. Ignore the people who say that this is unfair to those who worked hard to build their wealth. It's all bullshit." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-18-taxes
[18:34]	TR News	These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-developers/
[18:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | These are the only Linux distros I recommend for developers
[18:34]	TR News	These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention https://www.howtogeek.com/underrated-linux-desktop-environments-that-need-more-attention/
[18:34]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | These 5 underrated Linux desktop environments need more attention
[18:35]	TR News	REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/17/remnux-8-linux-malware-analysis-toolkit/
[18:35]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.helpnetsecurity.com | REMnux v8 brings AI integration to the Linux malware analysis toolkit - Help Net Security
[18:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Reverse_Engineering_Linux_Distro_REMnux_Marks_15_Years_With_Maj.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/17/Reverse_Engineering_Linux_Distro_REMnux_Marks_15_Years_With_Maj.gmi 
[18:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support
[18:37]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released https://www.techpowerup.com/346467/kde-plasma-6-6-officially-released
[18:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-KDE Plasma 6.6 Officially Released | TechPowerUp
[18:38]	TR News	I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did https://www.howtogeek.com/i-just-set-up-a-new-linux-desktop-here-are-the-first-things-i-did/
[18:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | I just set up a new Linux desktop, here are the first 5 things I did
[18:39]	TR News	Propping up a scam (slop) and outsourcing - lowering salaries https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-research-finds-open-source-is-key-to-driving-indias-ai-market-302688143.html
[18:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.prnewswire.com | Linux Foundation Research Finds Open Source Is Key To Driving India's AI Market
[18:40]	TR News	"Atomic Linux distros keep updates from breaking your system. Here's how, and which ones I prefer.' https://www.zdnet.com/article/atomic-linux-distros-stress-free-os-updates/
[18:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-5 atomic Linux distros I trust for stress-free OS updates - and why | ZDNET
[18:40]	TR News	Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban mod users when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added https://www.pcguide.com/news/rocket-league-devs-promise-not-to-break-linux-support-or-ban-modders-when-easy-anti-cheat-gets-added/
[18:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.pcguide.com | Rocket League devs promise not to break Linux support or ban mod users when Easy Anti-Cheat gets added - PC Guide
[18:41]	TR News	Gentoo https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/after-microsoft-couldnt-keep-its-ai-hands-to-itself-a-notoriously-complex-linux-distro-has-started-its-long-march-away-from-github/
[18:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.pcgamer.com | After Microsoft couldn't keep its AI hands to itself, a notoriously complex Linux distro has started its long march away from GitHub | PC Gamer
[18:42]	TR News	"In this one we go over topics like the Steam Machine and Steam Frame timing, Steam Deck stock, Discord, the Open Gaming Collective, the GDC 2026 report and much more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/check-out-the-full-second-episode-of-games-for-everyone/
[18:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Check out the full second episode of Games For Everyone | GamingOnLinux
[18:42]	TR News	Rootkit is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs https://www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/easy-anti-cheat-is-coming-to-rocket-league-but-psyonix-promises-not-to-get-all-fortnite-with-it-and-hose-your-steam-deck-and-linux-installs/
[18:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.pcgamer.com | Easy Anti-Cheat is coming to Rocket League, but Psyonix promises not to get all Fortnite with it and hose your Steam Deck and Linux installs | PC Gamer
[18:43]	TR News	"Who said weather reports have to be boring and I am not even talking about the Maxican Weather" https://itsfoss.com/weathr/
[18:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-itsfoss.com | Give Your Weather Report an Animated ASCII Spin in Linux Terminal
[18:44]	TR News	This one command-line app saves me an hour every day https://www.howtogeek.com/this-one-command-line-app-saves-me-an-hour-every-day/
[18:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.howtogeek.com | This one command-line app saves me an hour every day
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[03:58]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/jetblue-donald-trump/
[03:58]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | JetBlue under fire for pro-Trump message: 'Last time I choose your airline' - Raw Story
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[05:23]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-2675274218/
[05:23]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rawstory.com | Steve Bannon lands in hot legal waters with MAGA memecoin: report - Raw Story
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[09:23]	TR News	"Deneens explanation depends on specific but mostly unstated meanings for the operative words. Heres my best guess at definitions." https://emptywheel.net/liberalism-has-failed/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[09:23]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-emptywheel.net | Liberalism Has Failed - emptywheel
[09:24]	TR News	"But we wouldnt refer to the distrustful survivors as Naziphobes. Why? Because their fear of Nazism was perfectly rational." https://www.frontpagemag.com/islamophobia-and-islamoignorance-william-kilpatrick/ | Source: Frontpage Magazine
[09:24]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.frontpagemag.com | Islamophobia and Islamoignorance | Frontpage Mag
[09:32]	TR News	"Since then, criticism of CAIR, especially among Republicans in Texas, has only intensified." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cair-muslims-texas-abbott-islamophobia/ | Source: The Nation
[09:32]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.thenation.com | Muslims in Texas Are Harassed and Surveilled. Greg Abbott Is Making It Worse. | The Nation
[09:33]	TR News	"The Paradox of Tolerancefirst introduced by that brilliant old geezer of Karl Popper" https://mon0.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-persuasion |
[09:33]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-mon0.substack.com | The Paradox of Persuasion - Mon0s Substack
[09:33]	TR News	"That was February 2025. It is now February 2026. And I am here to tell you: the gates did not hold." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america-one-year | Source: Mike Brock
[09:33]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.notesfromthecircus.com | The Plot Against America, One Year Later - by Mike Brock
[09:34]	TR News	"around 40 Hindu families" https://hindupost.in/crime/agras-exodus-alert-40-hindu-families-hang-house-for-sale-posters-amid-repeated-attacks-on-hindu-families/ | Source: Hindu Post
[09:34]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-hindupost.in | Agra's exodus alert: 40 Hindu families hang 'House for Sale' posters amid repeated attacks on Hindu families
[09:34]	TR News	"a man under investigation" https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-police-arrest-suspect-with-ties-islamic-state-source-says-2026-01-29/ | Source: Reuters
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[09:34]	TR News	"Oxymoron" https://www.raymondibrahim.com/03/26/2014/why-moderate-islam-is-an-oxymoron | Source: Raymond Ibrahim
[09:34]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.raymondibrahim.com | Why Moderate Islam is an Oxymoron
[09:34]	TR News	"Not only has this incident been widely condemned throughout the West and rightfully so." https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/18532/mosque-church-massacres | Source: Gatestone Institute
[09:35]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.gatestoneinstitute.org | Why, for the UN, Is One Mosque Massacre So Much Worse than Countless Church Massacres? :: Gatestone Institute
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[15:18]	TR News	"Jesse Jacksons speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 19, 1988" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/jesse-jacksons-speech-to-the-democratic
[15:18]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-robertreich.substack.com | Jesse Jacksons speech to the Democratic National Convention, July 19, 1988
[15:18]	TR News	"Further | Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached | Opinion" https://www.commondreams.org/further/fuck-this-guy-the-hunted-becomes-the-beached
[15:18]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.commondreams.org | Further | Fuck This Guy: The Hunted Becomes the Beached | Opinion
[15:19]	TR News	"Please Advise! Is Trumps Brain Totally Pucked? | The Tyee" https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/02/17/Please-Advise-Trump-Brain-Pucked/
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[15:20]	TR News	"Dispatch from Munich: Europe is growing stronger, but will it be fast enough to save Ukraine?" https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inflection-points/dispatch-from-munich-europe-is-growing-stronger-but-will-it-be-fast-enough-to-save-ukraine/
[15:20]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.atlanticcouncil.org | Dispatch from Munich: Europe is growing stronger, but will it be fast enough to save Ukraine? - Atlantic Council
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[17:35]	TR News	Sons of sanctioned Belarusian oligarch held Lithuanian citizenship media https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842278/sons-of-sanctioned-belarusian-oligarch-held-lithuanian-citizenship-media
[17:36]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Sons of sanctioned Belarusian oligarch held Lithuanian citizenship media - LRT
[17:36]	TR News	State Department: No 'Gentleman's Agreement' Between US, Russia On Expired Nuclear Treaty https://www.rferl.org/a/us-russia-nuclear-start-treaty/33680877.html
[17:36]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | State Department: No 'Gentleman's Agreement' Between US, Russia On Expired Nuclear Treaty
[17:36]	TR News	Buying pets in Russia, Belarus unsafe, says Latvian authority https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/health/17.02.2026-buying-pets-in-russia-belarus-unsafe-says-latvian-authority.a635070/
[17:36]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Buying pets in Russia, Belarus unsafe, says Latvian authority / Article
[17:37]	TR News	Talks on Russia-Ukraine War Enter 2nd Day in Geneva https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-talks-war.html
[17:37]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/europe/russia-ukraine-us-talks-war.html )
[17:37]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Bets on Diplomacy Without Diplomats https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/trump-witkoff-kushner-diplomacy.html
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[17:37]	TR News	With Russia grinding closer, Ukrainians weigh the cost of land for peace https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0217/ukraine-peace-talks-russia-donbas-territory-concessions
[17:37]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-Russia peace talks do little to assuage Ukrainian public - CSMonitor.com
[17:38]	TR News	Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/foreign-cars-flow-to-russia-through-china-skirting-ukraine-war-sanctions
[17:38]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Foreign cars flow to Russia through China, skirting Ukraine war sanctions | The Straits Times
[17:40]	TR News	Ukraine, Russia Wrap First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Amid Fresh Strikes https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-russia-peace-talks-geneva-attacks/33680422.html
[17:40]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Witkoff Cites 'Meaningful Progress' On First Day Of US-Brokered Talks Between Russia, Ukraine
[17:40]	TR News	EU Pushes Ukraine On Repair Of Druzhba Pipeline Carrying Russian Oil To Hungary, Slovakia https://www.rferl.org/a/eu-ukraine-druzhba-russian-oil-pipeline-hungary-slovakia/33680685.html
[17:40]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | EU Quizzes Ukraine On Timeline For Repair Of Druzhba Oil Pipeline
[17:41]	TR News	Lithuanian agency to run international fund for Ukraine transport rebuild https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842324/lithuanian-agency-to-run-international-fund-for-ukraine-transport-rebuild
[17:41]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Lithuanian agency to run international fund for Ukraine transport rebuild - LRT
[17:41]	TR News	Russians, Belarusians to compete under own flags at Paralympics: IPC tells AFP https://www.france24.com/en/russians-belarusians-to-compete-under-own-flags-at-paralympics-ipc-tells-afp
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[17:41]	TR News	Russia, Ukraine seem to be 'putting up a performance for president Convicted Felon', analyst says https://www.france24.com/en/russia-ukraine-seem-to-be-putting-up-a-performance-for-president-trump-analyst-says
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[17:41]	TR News	Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the nationalist historian leading Russias peace talks delegation? https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-who-is-vladimir-medinsky-the-nationalist-historian-leading-russia-s-peace-talks-delegation
[17:41]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-who-is-vladimir-medinsky-the-nationalist-historian-leading-russia-s-peace-talks-delegation )
[17:42]	TR News	First day of Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Geneva ends with no breakthroughs https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260217-first-day-of-ukraine-russia-peace-talks-in-geneva-ends-with-no-breakthroughs
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[17:42]	TR News	LIVE: Ukraine war talks to resume in Geneva with no sign of breakthrough https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260218-live-ukraine-war-talks-to-resume-in-geneva-with-no-sign-of-breakthrough
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[17:44]	TR News	NGO: Some Latvian employers exploit Ukrainians https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/employment/17.02.2026-ngo-some-latvian-employers-exploit-ukrainians.a635001/
[17:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | NGO: Some Latvian employers exploit Ukrainians / Article
[17:44]	TR News	Baltics, Nordics, Poland and Ukraine are 'Europe's shield' https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-baltics-nordics-poland-and-ukraine-are-europes-shield.a635056/
[17:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Baltics, Nordics, Poland and Ukraine are 'Europe's shield' / Article
[17:44]	TR News	Latvia to give another 10 million euros to support Ukraine's military https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/17.02.2026-latvia-to-give-another-10-million-euros-to-support-ukraines-military.a635085/
[17:44]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Latvia to give another 10 million euros to support Ukraine's military / Article
[17:45]	TR News	Dihydroxyacetone Man Said Hed End the War in Ukraine in a Day. Its Harder Than He Thought. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/trump-ukraine-war-putin.html
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[17:45]	TR News	Belarus in isolation only benefits Putin: released activist starts over in Germany https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2842356/belarus-in-isolation-only-benefits-putin-released-activist-starts-over-in-germany
[17:45]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Belarus in isolation only benefits Putin: released activist starts over in Germany - LRT
[17:45]	TR News	Putin, women, favours: DOJ files reveal Jeffrey Epsteins efforts to build Russian ties https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260217-putin-women-doj-files-reveal-jeffrey-epstein-build-russian-ties
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[18:00]	TR News	A Road Trip from Kandahar to Kabul on Highway 1 in Afghanistan https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/asia/afghanistan-highway-taliban-security.html
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[18:00]	TR News	Militants kill 11 Pakistani security personnel, one child near Afghan border, army says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/militants-kill-11-pakistani-security-personnel-one-child-near-afghan-border-army-says
[18:00]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Militants kill 11 Pakistani security personnel, one child near Afghan border, army says | The Straits Times
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[23:09]	admfubar	https://scheerpost.com/2026/02/18/the-big-tech-flex-silicon-valleys-money-machine-takes-on-bernie-sanders/
[23:09]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-scheerpost.com | The Big Tech Flex: Silicon Valleys Money Machine Takes on Bernie Sanders