●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, January 01, 2026 ●● ● Jan 01 [00:40] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:41] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@r5q5yinz7x7bq.irc) has joined #techrights [00:42] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:42] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@r5q5yinz7x7bq.irc) has joined #techrights [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::2000) has joined #techrights ● Jan 01 [01:07] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [01:20] psydruid https://mwilczynski.dev/posts/riscv-gpu-zink/ [01:20] TR Bot Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V | Linux Kernel Blog ● Jan 01 [02:00] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/im-a-spy#comic [02:00] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [02:30] *oarion7 (~ryan@ebmq5x6cde5zg.irc) has joined #techrights [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[04:18] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@r5q5yinz7x7bq.irc) has joined #techrights [04:50] TR News "I met Mr Gerstner at a book signing for Who Said Elephants Can't dance? My College thesis was based on Mr Gerstners success of bringing IBM Back to profitability. Mr Gerstner is one of the most influential CEOs in the last 100 years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 [04:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 ) [04:51] TR News "There's always a 30 day notice period and they want the people out by quarter end for financial reasons, so it has to happen before the end of February." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y [04:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdmwe55y ) [04:51] TR News "The Indian cabal at IBM has been working hard in recent weeks. IBM is required to notify the state agency of any incoming layoff 90 days in advance. The performance reviews and rankings have been set. So each area affected will receive in few days the number of employees to be thrown away. Many people's fate has been decided before the end of the year. Happy new year." [04:51] TR News "Unless you're me you should expect it real soon now." [04:53] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_December_31_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_December_31_2025.gmi [04:53] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, December 31, 2025 [04:55] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:55] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:55] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... ● Jan 01 [05:03] TR News Techrights Another Very Productive Year Commences https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_Very_Productive_Year_Commences.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_Very_Productive_Year_Commences.gmi [05:03] TR Bot Techrights Another Very Productive Year Commences [05:17] TR News Techrights EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/EPO_People_Power_Part_XXI_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Institution_B.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/EPO_People_Power_Part_XXI_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Institution_B.gmi [05:17] TR Bot Techrights EPO People Power - Part XXI - Europe's Second-Largest Institution Became a Corrupt For-Profit Company Run by Drug Addicts [05:29] TR News "Burn in H E L L, Lou; share a bunk bed with that S-B Jack Welch that you were so in love with." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 [05:32] TR News Techrights Only Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Only_Hours_Into_the_New_Year_People_Already_Discuss_the_Next_Ro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Only_Hours_Into_the_New_Year_People_Already_Discuss_the_Next_Ro.gmi [05:32] TR Bot Techrights Only Hours Into the New Year People Already Discuss the Next Round of Layoffs at Red Hat/IBM [05:41] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [05:42] TR News Techrights Microsoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Budget_Issues_XBox_Thrown_Under_the_Bus.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Budget_Issues_XBox_Thrown_Under_the_Bus.gmi [05:42] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Budget Issues, XBox Thrown Under the Bus [05:42] TR News Old: https://www.eurogamer.net/xbox-reportedly-set-for-major-job-cuts-from-next-week https://www.law.com/corpcounsel/2025/07/18/microsoft-layoffs-hit-legal-department-as-ai-reshapes-staffing-strategy/ [05:42] TR Bot reportedly set for "major" job cuts from next week | Eurogamer.net [05:42] TR Bot Layoffs Hit Legal Department as AI Reshapes Staffing Strategy| Law.com [05:42] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [05:43] TR News Also: Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-layoffs-expected-q1-2026/ [05:43] TR Bot Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round [05:44] TR News IBM to cut thousands of jobs as Red Hat growth slows https://www.cio.com/article/4084855/ibm-to-cut-thousands-of-jobs-as-red-hat-growth-slows.html [05:44] TR Bot to cut thousands of jobs as Red Hat growth slows | CIO [05:44] TR News Red Hat Layoffs Will Continue in 2026 https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/03/Red_Hat_Layoffs_Will_Continue_in_2026.shtml [05:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Layoffs Will Continue in 2026 [05:55] TR News Techrights 2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/2026_IBM_Phaseout_of_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/2026_IBM_Phaseout_of_Red_Hat.gmi [05:55] TR Bot Techrights 2026 IBM Phaseout of Red Hat [05:57] TR News Microsoft pushing lockin: "Mastodon Stories for systemd v259" https://0pointer.net/blog/mastodon-stories-for-systemd-v259.html [05:57] TR Bot Mastodon Stories for systemd v259 [05:57] TR News "How Mozilla can SAVE Firefox" https://odysee.com/@switchedtolinux:0/how-mozilla-can-save-firefox:7 [05:57] TR Bot How Mozilla can SAVE Firefox [05:57] TR News iophk: fatpaks are an intractable mess; "The One Thing I Hate About Linux Flatpaks" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/the-one-thing-i-hate-about-linux:f [05:57] TR Bot The One Thing I Hate About Linux Flatpaks ● Jan 01 [06:04] TR News DRM: "Wheelchairs have paywalls and digital locks now" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/wheelchairs-have-paywalls-and-digital:9 [06:04] TR Bot Wheelchairs have paywalls and digital locks now [06:04] TR News "Jolla's Community Linux Phone Surpasses its Funding Goal" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/29/1810235 [06:04] TR Bot Jolla's Community Linux Phone Surpasses its Funding Goal - SoylentNews [06:05] TR News EFF for GAFAM, CPC https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/states-tried-censor-kids-online-courts-and-eff-mostly-stopped-them-2025-review [06:05] TR Bot States Tried to Censor Kids Online. Courts, and EFF, Mostly Stopped Them: 2025 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation [06:20] *FANTOM (~fantom@90.244.161.115) has joined #techrights [06:25] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-27n.17a.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techrights [06:30] TR News Techrights Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months! https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_3_Million_Dollars_i.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Raised_About_1_3_Million_Dollars_i.gmi [06:30] TR Bot Techrights Free Software Foundation (FSF) Raised About 1.3 Million Dollars in the Past Couple of Months! [06:34] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1522.jpg [06:34] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1872.jpg [06:35] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-01.gmi [06:36] TR News "Search engine are fucked up, LLM ... not usefull ... worse than search engine. Advance search does not working as expected, I wish I can grep the internet. Sometimes things I search didn't show up until I put in exact word/paragraph I already know." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-01-01_search_situation.gmi [06:37] TR News "I was inspired by apalrd's post[1] on setting up a Postmarks server. Postmarks federates public bookmarks so you can easily subscribe to them from a Mastodon, etc., account. He and other creator on YouTube have pointed out the importance of human recommendations to find good stuff online." gemini://lxak.net/posts/2025-12-31.gmi [06:38] TR News December 31: Seventh day of Christmas gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-31-christ.txt [06:39] TR News 2025 Comes to a Close gemini://vigrey.com/journal/2025-comes-to-a-close.gmi "Unfortunately as a result, there was one particular individual who decided that these breaks were signs of mental health decline/collapse and decided to break all contact with me." [06:40] TR News "I wrote a reflection post at the end of 2024, but didn't make a goals post in early 2025. I want to write a reflection, but I don't know that I had a set list of goals to review like I did last year. I won't have this problem next year; I've already created a bingo card of goals. And don't tell anyone, but I've already started on a few of them." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2025-12-31-reflecting-on-2025.gmi [06:40] TR News Mindful computer use: "This is something I've been wanting to work on for a long time. I finally accomplished some real things I can point to regarding that, including spending 2 months without youtube." [06:41] TR News "I'm currently on a two-week streak. On top of that, I'm not spending quite so much time locked in consumption. Reading a couple posts about resilience, doing things scared or alone, etc. have helped motivate me to get out more. Plus, just having friends around who invite me to stuff." [06:41] TR News "In all, it's been a really good year for me. Next year's goals center a lot on gaining confidence in myself - pushing myself to actually spend money and time on my hobbies, actually put effort into learning transition-related skills, actually put myself out there romantically. It's going to be big. I'm excited to begin." [06:42] TR News Last Phost! gopher://sdf.org:70/1/users/xiled/phlog/2025/20251231_last_phost "I will be making the jump at home alone again, like I did for xmas. I have no problems with this and I would actually rather not be around drunk people in the rain, like on xmas. I enjoy my solitude when I can." [06:43] TR News "Have you ever suddenly realised something about yourself that provides a basis for understanding many of your quirks? Like most people, there are certain things that I find fascinating. Lots of technical things. Lots of technical ideas. Certain games. Recently I found a common thread that seems to connect most of them: that of tiny isolated worlds." gopher://thelambdalab.xyz:70/0/phlog/2025-12-31-One-thing.txt [06:43] TR News "Here are some examples: - Computers house incredible complexity within a physically tiny chassis. The cheaper and smaller the computer on the outside and the bigger they are on the inside, the more fascinating I find them." [06:45] TR News "And again a year ended. And as always I'm glad it's over. Although this time the end of the year was not such a pain as last year, which was a real struggle. My mood was relatively well at the end of the old year and I had a lot to do, especially with my GTL Gemini Tinylog Reader/Editor fork from @bacardi55, who seems to have abandoned the project." gopher://redterminal.org:70/0/phlog/2026-01-01-Another_year_is_gone.txt [06:46] TR News "Curiously the annual music festival seemed to end before New Year's Eve this year. No bass notes reverberating from the distant glow of lights, and no mini fireworks display to watch while the sounds of their countdown reaches me." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-01-01A_Chinese_New_year.txt [06:47] TR News "I tried a few square root problems with the A Scale. The A Scale is fairly simple, except one must remember whether to use the first or the last half of the scale, depending on the number of significant digits." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251231-0.gmi [06:49] TR News "I can hardly tell what my New Year's Resolutions will be, or for that matter, if one particularly needs resolutions to start the new year." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2759 [06:49] TR News happy new year, bartender gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2760 [06:49] MinceR 1920x1080, hopefully 3840x2160 [06:54] TR News "Haven't found myself in these parts for years, lot has changed on main street. Almost unrecognizable, not really my type of place anymore to be honest. If memory serves, there's a quiet alley off the main street, something a little more my speed." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2758 [06:55] TR News "My entire gemlog is now in a single file, index and served with a specialized Fornax server from RAM. No disk. I found myself no longer gemlogging, because it became too annoying to deal with hundreds of files! And indices! And making sure names work with dates... And keeping all the links working across the entire site..." gemini://spell.mywire.org:1960/~stack/0250.gmi ● Jan 01 [07:00] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Gemini_Links_01_01_2026_2025_Comes_to_a_Close_and_Capsular_Geml.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Gemini_Links_01_01_2026_2025_Comes_to_a_Close_and_Capsular_Geml.gmi [07:00] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 01/01/2026: 2025 Comes to a Close and Capsular Gemlog Manager [07:08] TR News Techrights A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/A_New_Year_s_Resolution_Maximal_Transparency.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/A_New_Year_s_Resolution_Maximal_Transparency.gmi [07:08] TR Bot Techrights A New Year's Resolution: Maximal Transparency [07:25] TR News Techrights The End of Red Hat https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/The_End_of_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/The_End_of_Red_Hat.gmi [07:25] TR Bot Techrights The End of Red Hat [07:27] TR News (NEW): Puppy Linux vs. Linux Lite: Which distro is right for your old Windows 10 PC? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Puppy_Linux_vs_Linux_Lite_Which_distro_is_right_for_your_old_Wi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Puppy_Linux_vs_Linux_Lite_Which_distro_is_right_for_your_old_Wi.gmi [07:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Puppy Linux vs. Linux Lite: Which distro is right for your old Windows 10 PC? [07:27] TR News Parroting mindless "AI" lies: "BM is eliminating around 3,900 positions, while investing heavily in n AI and hybrid cloud initiatives. While many of these cuts occur worldwide, a meaningful portion affects US employees, even if precise numbers arent publicly available." https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/12/31/major-corporate-layoffs-in-2025-a-year-in-review-472422/ [07:27] TR Bot Major corporate layoffs in 2025: A year in review [07:28] TR News "On with the countdown." https://copyrightlately.com/the-5-worst-copyright-decisions-of-2025/ | Source: CopyrightLately [07:28] TR Bot The 5 Worst Copyright Decisions of 2025 | Copyright Lately [07:28] TR News "Below are just a few of the historical and cultural works that entered the public domain in 2026." https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2025/12/lifecycle-of-copyright-1930-works-in-the-public-domain/ | Source: US Library of Congress [07:28] TR Bot Lifecycle of Copyright: 1930 Works in the Public Domain | Copyright [07:30] TR News (NEW): My Five Linux and Open Source 2026 Resolutions (Oh and BSD) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/My_Five_Linux_and_Open_Source_2026_Resolutions_Oh_and_BSD.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/My_Five_Linux_and_Open_Source_2026_Resolutions_Oh_and_BSD.gmi [07:30] TR Bot Tux Machines My Five Linux and Open Source 2026 Resolutions (Oh and BSD) [07:33] TR News (NEW): Gratitude to publicdomainpictures.net https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Gratitude_to_publicdomainpictures_net.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Gratitude_to_publicdomainpictures_net.gmi [07:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Gratitude to publicdomainpictures.net [07:34] TR News My Five GNU/Linux and Open Source 2026 Resolutions (Oh and BSD) https://fossforce.com/2025/12/my-five-linux-and-open-source-2026-resolutions-oh-and-bsd/ [07:34] TR Bot My Five Linux and Open Source 2026 Resolutions (Oh and BSD) - FOSS Force [07:35] TR News "While the Packers didnt event the foam cap, they did buy the rights to it decades ago and those hats are now official Packers products sold on the teams storefront." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/how-the-viral-cheese-grater-foam-hat-came-from-a-gb-packers-cd-letter/ | Source: Techdirt [07:35] TR Bot The Viral Cheese Grater Foam Hat Came From A GB Packers C&D Letter | Techdirt [07:36] TR News "What if Ed Zitron is an optimist? And for at least some of these companies, their legacy monopoly businesses are in trouble, too?" https://blog.zgp.org/what-if-ed-zitron-is-an-optimist/ | Source: Don Marti [07:36] TR Bot what if Ed Zitron is an optimist? [07:36] TR News "What proponents call Post-Capitalism is merely monopoly extraction optimized for the digital age." https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/post-capitalism-is-dead-long-live | Source: Michael Green [07:36] TR Bot Post-Capitalism is Dead, Long Live Capitalism [07:37] schestowitz[TR2] 1920x1080, hopefully 3840x2160 [07:37] schestowitz[TR2] how large a screen? [07:37] schestowitz[TR2] on a small screen you would need fine glasses [07:38] TR News (NEW): Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Emoji_Selector_An_Intro_to_Kubuntu_Default_Emoji_Picker_Applica.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Emoji_Selector_An_Intro_to_Kubuntu_Default_Emoji_Picker_Applica.gmi [07:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application [07:43] TR News (NEW): 13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/13_Open_Source_Apps_I_Use_from_a_Web_Browser_And_You_Can_Too.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/13_Open_Source_Apps_I_Use_from_a_Web_Browser_And_You_Can_Too.gmi [07:43] TR Bot Tux Machines 13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) [07:49] TR News Techrights Combatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Combatting_Slop_Images_and_ClownFlare.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Combatting_Slop_Images_and_ClownFlare.gmi [07:49] TR Bot Techrights Combatting Slop Images (and ClownFlare) [07:50] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/taylor-swift-uk-vinyl-2025/ | Source: Digital Music News [07:50] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/taylor-swift-uk-vinyl-2025/ ) [07:50] TR News "The fight for net neutrality never seems to be truly won or lost" https://www.theverge.com/report/851629/net-neutrality-fcc-retrospective-2025 | Source: The Verge [07:50] TR Bot Net neutrality was back, until it wasnt | The Verge [07:50] TR News "Today, both 4G and 5G networks have been rolled out and cover large parts of the country." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3015888/time-to-ditch-normal-internet-how-to-know-if-mobile-broadband-is-enough.html | Source: PC World [07:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3015888/time-to-ditch-normal-internet-how-to-know-if-mobile-broadband-is-enough.html ) [07:52] TR News "IPv6 was an extremely conservative protocol that changed as little as possible" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/ipv6_at_30/ | Source: The Register UK [07:52] TR Bot IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasnt taken over the world The Register [07:55] TR News [Old] "I asked myself, as a powerless Black man in America, what can I do to the cops that kicked my door in" https://www.npr.org/2023/03/24/1165822372/afroman-police-raid-lawsuit-music-videos | Source: NPR [07:55] TR Bot Afroman speaks out about being sued by officers who raided his home : NPR [07:56] TR News "Will you help me repair my gate? Will you help me repair my door? Did you find what you was looking for? Will you help me repair my gate and door?" https://genius.com/Afroman-will-you-help-me-repair-my-door-lyrics | Source: ML Genius Holdings LLC [07:56] TR Bot Will You Help Me Repair My Door Lyrics | Genius Lyrics ● Jan 01 [08:00] TR News (NEW): UHU-Linux Linux distribution from Hungary https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/UHU_Linux_Linux_distribution_from_Hungary.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/UHU_Linux_Linux_distribution_from_Hungary.gmi [08:00] TR Bot Tux Machines UHU-Linux Linux distribution from Hungary [08:02] TR News (NEW): These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/These_are_the_Linux_Apps_I_Couldn_t_Live_Without_in_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/These_are_the_Linux_Apps_I_Couldn_t_Live_Without_in_2025.gmi [08:02] TR Bot Tux Machines These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 [08:07] TR News (NEW): Burying and Halting Proliferation of Slop Images by Leveraging the Public Domain https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Burying_and_Halting_Proliferation_of_Slop_Images_by_Leveraging_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Burying_and_Halting_Proliferation_of_Slop_Images_by_Leveraging_.gmi [08:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Burying and Halting Proliferation of Slop Images by Leveraging the Public Domain [08:09] TR News "Emoji Selector is the Kubuntu default emoji selector application. Its purpose is to view a wide range of UTF characters to insert them into a document or a chat in the form of symbols, including country flags" https://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2025/12/emoji-selector-intro-to-kubuntu-default-emoji-picker-application.html | Source: Ubuntubuzz [08:09] TR Bot Emoji Selector - An Intro to Kubuntu Default Emoji Picker Application [08:20] TR News Techrights Another New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_New_Year_s_Resolution_Public_Domain_Sources_Credits.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_New_Year_s_Resolution_Public_Domain_Sources_Credits.gmi [08:20] TR Bot Techrights Another New Year's Resolution: Public Domain Sources, Credits [08:21] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:22] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software [08:25] TR News (NEW): The People of Emacs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/The_People_of_Emacs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/The_People_of_Emacs.gmi [08:25] TR Bot Tux Machines The People of Emacs [08:25] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@r5q5yinz7x7bq.irc) has joined #techrights [08:28] TR News (NEW): VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VisionFive_2_Lite_SBC_Review_Ubuntu_24_04_on_a_low_cost_RISC_V_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VisionFive_2_Lite_SBC_Review_Ubuntu_24_04_on_a_low_cost_RISC_V_.gmi [08:28] TR Bot Tux Machines VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 [08:32] TR News (NEW): Good Start for a Good Year https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Good_Start_for_a_Good_Year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Good_Start_for_a_Good_Year.gmi [08:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Good Start for a Good Year [08:32] TR News (NEW): Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Linux_App_Release_Roundup_December_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Linux_App_Release_Roundup_December_2025.gmi [08:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) [08:35] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:35] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@89kp6hcktzh7n.irc) has joined #techrights [08:39] TR News (NEW): What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/What_exactly_is_Canonical_the_company_behind_Ubuntu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/What_exactly_is_Canonical_the_company_behind_Ubuntu.gmi [08:39] TR Bot Tux Machines What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu? [08:40] TR News (NEW): Improving the Site Some More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Improving_the_Site_Some_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Improving_the_Site_Some_More.gmi [08:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Improving the Site Some More [08:45] TR News (NEW): How-To Geek: Linux terminal and Linux installation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/How_To_Geek_Linux_terminal_and_Linux_installation.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/How_To_Geek_Linux_terminal_and_Linux_installation.gmi [08:45] TR Bot Tux Machines How-To Geek: Linux terminal and Linux installation [08:49] TR News (NEW): Giving Credit to Public Domain Works https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Giving_Credit_to_Public_Domain_Works.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Giving_Credit_to_Public_Domain_Works.gmi [08:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Giving Credit to Public Domain Works [08:51] TR News These are the 3 Linux distros I recommend for servers https://tech.yahoo.com/computing/articles/3-linux-distros-recommend-servers-123116134.html [08:51] TR Bot These are the 3 Linux distros I recommend for servers [08:51] TR News "For the latest example, we can look to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit" https://reason.com/2025/12/29/innocent-man-sues-for-over-60000-after-police-blew-up-his-business-a-court-says-hes-entitled-to-nothing/ | Source: Reason [08:51] TR Bot L.A. man sued after police blew up his business. Courts say he gets nothing. ● Jan 01 [09:00] TR News "Defenders of the ruling (police unions) will insist that letting property owners recover damages would somehow tie the cops' hands and thus end civilization." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/cops-blow-up-the-an-innocent-bystanders-business-courts-shrug.html | Source: BoingBoing [09:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/cops-blow-up-the-an-innocent-bystanders-business-courts-shrug.html ) [09:00] TR News "All three women who spoke to the Guardian and Zan Times, an Afghan news agency, said they had been forced to confess to alleged moral crimes before they were punished." https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians | Source: The Guardian UK [09:00] TR Bot Whipped in front of everyone: three women on being flogged by the Taliban | Women under the Taliban | The Guardian [09:00] TR News "The protests triggered by Aminis death were among the largest Iran had seen in decades, spreading to more than 150 cities." https://sites.uab.edu/humanrights/tag/women/ | [09:00] TR Bot Women UAB Institute for Human Rights Blog [09:00] TR News "One key limitation: agents can only access data stored locally on the device, not cloud content." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/what-travelers-need-to-know-about-phone-searches-at-the-u-s-border.html | Source: BoingBoing [09:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/what-travelers-need-to-know-about-phone-searches-at-the-u-s-border.html ) [09:01] TR News "the ICE tactics are blatantly illegal according to legal experts, they have been allowed by a corrupt Supreme Court that is clearly more intent on enabling authoritarianism than on than protecting the Constitution." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/immigrant-derangement-syndrome | Source: Paul Krugman [09:01] TR Bot Immigrant Derangement Syndrome - Paul Krugman [09:02] TR News "Pseudoterminals, usually known as just PTYs, are important building blocks in UNIX and UNIX-like operating systems." https://blog.jchw.io/grantpt/ | [09:02] TR Bot What Does grantpt() Do? [09:02] TR News "Restic is a modern and open-source backup software that both deduplicates and encrypts file contents at the blob level." https://brandonrozek.com/blog/backups-with-restic-btrfs/ | Source: Brandon Rozek [09:02] TR Bot Backing up my data with Restic, Btrfs, and MinIO | Brandon Rozek [09:03] TR News Yesterday afternoon, my server was graced with a large wave of crawlers, hitting me with over 800 requests / second." https://chronicles.mad-scientist.club/tales/that-wonderful-cloud/ | Source: Gergely Nagy [09:03] TR Bot The rule was not chiefly. [09:03] TR News "This appears because incorrect white balance (WB) exaggerates color shifts, while snow reflects surrounding light more intensely than most surfaces." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/photo-editing/this-is-why-your-snow-images-look-blue-yellow-or-green-and-this-is-how-to-fix-them-after-you-take-the-shot | Source: Digital Camera World [09:03] TR Bot This is why your snow images look blue, yellow, or green and this is how to fix them after you take the shot | Digital Camera World [09:03] TR News How To Install Inkscape on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-inkscape-fedora-43/ [09:03] TR Bot How To Install Inkscape on Fedora 43 - idroot [09:03] TR News How To Install Ansible on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-ansible-rocky-linux-10/ [09:03] TR Bot How To Install Ansible on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [09:04] TR News How To Install NTP Server and Client on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-ntp-opensuse/ [09:04] TR Bot How To Install NTP Server and Client on openSUSE - idroot [09:04] TR News How To Install Shotcut on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-shotcut-fedora-43/ [09:04] TR Bot How To Install Shotcut on Fedora 43 - idroot [09:04] *harrykar (~harrykar@2zixhwiai94ru.irc) has joined #techrights [09:04] *harrykar has quit (connection closed) [09:04] TR News How To Install Micro Text Editor on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-micro-text-editor-debian-13/ [09:04] TR Bot How To Install Micro Text Editor on Debian 13 - idroot [09:05] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_howtos.gmi [09:05] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [09:12] TR News "This was an advantageous arrangement for a few reasons." https://rubenerd.com/a-daiso-stand-for-old-computers/ | Source: Ruben Schade [09:12] TR Bot Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO! [09:12] TR News "Veteran OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) has written another deep dive article on porting our favorite operating system to a new platform and maintaining the code, this time the OpenBSD/hppa platform." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231080327 | Source: Undeadly [09:12] TR Bot Miod talks about HP/PA boot blocks [09:13] TR News Orange Pi Unveils Hey Hi (AI) Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-unveils-ai-station-with-ascend-310-and-176-tops-compute/ [09:13] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/orange-pi-unveils-ai-station-with-ascend-310-and-176-tops-compute/ ) [09:15] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware and Retro/Old: Orange Pi, HP/PA, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Open_Hardware_and_Retro_Old_Orange_Pi_HP_PA_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Open_Hardware_and_Retro_Old_Orange_Pi_HP_PA_and_More.gmi [09:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware and Retro/Old: Orange Pi, HP/PA, and More [09:19] *harrykar (~harrykar@2zixhwiai94ru.irc) has joined #techrights [09:19] *harrykar has quit (connection closed) [09:38] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:39] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@89kp6hcktzh7n.irc) has joined #techrights [09:40] TR News "Salaries are a good indicator for prestige. In the USA, in Australia and in Switzerland" https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/31/the-culture-war-that-we-won/ | Source: Daniel Lemire [09:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/31/the-culture-war-that-we-won/ ) [09:41] TR News "[...] Gary Kildall, of Digital Research fame, was his co-host in many 1980s episodes and the most notable of an august crew that also included George Morrow and Paul Schindler" https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/12/stewart-cheifet-has-died.html | Source: Old VCR [09:41] TR Bot Old Vintage Computing Research: Stewart Cheifet has died [09:41] TR News "Ive reached the point where my homeopathic levels of work (as Tom aptly described them) are so low that Ive begun to say Im pretty much retired." https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/12/31/2025/ | Source: Phil Gyford [09:41] TR Bot (Phil Gyfords website) [09:42] TR News "Gos arithmetic operations on standard integer types are silent by default, meaning overflows wrap around without panicking." https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/31/detect-gos-silent-arithmetic-bugs-with-go-panikint/ | Source: Trail of Bits [09:42] TR Bot Detect Gos silent arithmetic bugs with go-panikint - The Trail of Bits Blog [09:43] TR News "Write a script to return the maximum number of words that appear in a single sentence." https://raku-musings.com/max-validate.html | Source: Arne Sommer [09:43] TR Bot Max Validate with Raku - Arne Sommer [09:43] TR News "The implementation was pretty straight-forward because we did the difficult part (figuring out which direction the arrows should be pointing) before we went to write some code." https://ettolrach.com/blog/bidirectional_inference.html | [09:43] TR Bot Bidirectional Type Inference | ettolrach [09:43] TR News "As we already know, modularity matters more than whether we have one or many deployment units - single monolith or multiple services." https://binaryigor.com/modular-monolith-and-microservices-data.html | [09:43] TR Bot Modular Monolith and Microservices: Data ownership, boundaries, consistency and synchronization [09:44] TR News "So lets do this once and for all." https://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/solid-bull | Source: Loup Vaillant [09:44] TR Bot A SOLID Load of Bull [09:44] TR News "Replay brings it to Swift." https://nshipster.com/replay/ | Source: NSHipster [09:44] TR Bot - NSHipster [09:44] TR News "The answer is at least 4 kibibytes but surely more." https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/30/by-how-much-does-your-memory-allocator-overallocates/ | Source: Daniel Lemire [09:44] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2025/12/30/by-how-much-does-your-memory-allocator-overallocates/ ) [09:45] TR News "The main theme for this year was text." https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-12-29-what-i-did-in-2025/ | Source: Amit Patel [09:45] TR Bot What I did in 2025 [09:45] TR News "Now, what's Lisp, and why would I want to do that? Well, let me tell you a little story about that." https://explainextended.com/2025/12/31/happy-new-year-17/ | Source: Explain Extended [09:45] TR Bot Happy New Year: Lisp interpreter in SQL - EXPLAIN EXTENDED at EXPLAIN EXTENDED [09:47] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [09:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [09:48] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:51] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@f2jh9pjnsg9xw.irc) has joined #techrights [09:54] TR News (NEW): Another 365 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_365.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Another_365.gmi [09:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Another 365 [09:57] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:58] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jan 01 [10:03] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:04] TR News Techrights Microsoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026! https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Mocked_UNIX_Linux_for_Not_Handling_Dates_After_2038_M.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Mocked_UNIX_Linux_for_Not_Handling_Dates_After_2038_M.gmi [10:04] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Mocked UNIX/Linux for Not Handling Dates After 2038, Microsoft Breaks Down on 2026! [10:17] TR News (NEW): Windows Looks Like a Dying Breed in Maharlika https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Windows_Looks_Like_a_Dying_Breed_in_Maharlika.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Windows_Looks_Like_a_Dying_Breed_in_Maharlika.gmi [10:17] TR Bot Tux Machines Windows Looks Like a Dying Breed in Maharlika [10:17] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@89kp6hcktzh7n.irc) has joined #techrights [10:34] TR News Techrights In 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/In_2025_Microsoft_Lost_Palau.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/In_2025_Microsoft_Lost_Palau.gmi [10:34] TR Bot Techrights In 2025 Microsoft Lost Palau [10:38] schestowitz[TR2] s|Microsoft Lost Palau|GNU/Linux is Winning Palau| [10:38] schestowitz[TR2] ;) [10:44] TR News (NEW): VLC 3.0.23 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VLC_3_0_23_Media_Player_Improves_Dark_Palette_in_the_Qt_GUI_Cod.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VLC_3_0_23_Media_Player_Improves_Dark_Palette_in_the_Qt_GUI_Cod.gmi [10:44] TR Bot Tux Machines VLC 3.0.23 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information [10:52] TR News "CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry" https://text.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story | Source: NPR [10:52] TR Bot CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry [10:53] TR News "Ackerman takes great pains to indicate that CBS was never the bastion of independent journalism that commentators with rose-tinted glasses might have suggested: it had a cozy relationship with the CIA and was indisputably an instrument of power." https://werd.io/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [10:53] TR Bot Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS [10:53] TR News "I'M NOTICING A PATTERN among certain people within my profession who've jumped to the defense of Bari Weiss, the oligarch functionary installed at CBS by new owner David Ellison to enforce ideological discipline upon its journalists" https://www.forever-wars.com/watching-bari-weiss-murder-investigative-journalism-at-cbs/ | Source: Forever Wars [10:53] TR Bot Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS [10:54] TR News "Caitlin Flanagan, Chris Cilizzathese are not people who produce investigative journalism. These are take-merchants and mouthpieces who publish what powerful people tell them over text and DM as if it's a transgressive secret and not a comms strategy." [10:54] TR News "Such people would not understand what it means to censor the 60 Minutes piece about the CECOT torture prison, because they don't understand what it takes to produce it. As it happens, I do." [10:54] TR News "Last week the National Security Archive released the transcripts of meetings between then-President George W. Bush and still-President Vladimir Putin, made public as the result of a Freedom of Information lawsuit." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trust-dictators-garry-kasparovs-new | Source: The Next Move [10:54] TR Bot Trust Dictators: Garry Kasparovs New Years Resolution [10:55] TR News "I dont think you can talk about good feature articles in 2025 without talking about the amazing journalism being conducted day after day during the first three months of the year." https://tedium.co/2025/12/31/best-feature-story-2025-white-house-signal-leak/ | Source: Tedium [10:55] TR Bot The Years Best Feature Story: The Absurdity Of The Signal Leak ● Jan 01 [11:05] TR News "As a tradition, we use the last day of the year to look back at some of the biggest stories of the past twelve months." https://torrentfreak.com/2025-two-decades-of-piracy-reporting-torrentfreaks-retrospective/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:05] TR Bot Two Decades of Piracy Reporting: TorrentFreak's Retrospective * TorrentFreak [11:06] TR News "develop tools to combat the spread" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/31/rotc-students-are-helping-the-military-defend-against-ai-deepfakes/ | Source: Sightline Media Group [11:06] TR Bot ROTC students are helping the military defend against AI deepfakes [11:06] TR News "But heres the paradox: If the exact same feature is available in an open source project maintained by an employee, suddenly people get suspicious." https://00f.net/2025/09/01/opensource-by-internal-contributors/ | 0f [11:06] TR Bot Why we trust strangers open source more than our colleagues - Frank DENIS random thoughts. [11:06] TR News "Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiktok-owner-bytedance-to-reportedly-purchase-usd14-billion-worth-of-nvidia-ai-gpus-in-2026-company-betting-on-beijings-approval-following-trump-admins-ease-on-ai-export-controls | Source: Tom's Hardware [11:06] TR Bot TikTok owner ByteDance to reportedly purchase $14 billion worth of Nvidia AI GPUs in 2026 Company betting on Beijing's approval following Trump admin's ease on AI export controls | Tom's Hardware [11:07] TR News "Despite numerous setbacks, ByteDance spent 85 billion yuan on Nvidia chips throughout 2025, marking a significant increase for next year, South China Morning Post reports." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiktok-owner-bytedance-to-reportedly-purchase-usd14-billion-worth-of-nvidia-ai-gpus-in-2026-company-betting-on-beijings-approval-following-trump-admins-ease-on-ai-export-controls [11:07] TR News "If you want to see the past final posts of the year, theyre here: [...]" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/use-the-failures-of-the-past-as-inspiration-for-a-better-future/ | Source: Techdirt [11:07] TR Bot The Failures Of The Past As Inspiration For A Better Future | Techdirt [11:14] TR News (NEW): Firefox is in Trouble https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Firefox_is_in_Trouble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Firefox_is_in_Trouble.gmi [11:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Firefox is in Trouble [11:24] TR News (NEW): Tux Machines Off to a Strong Start https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Tux_Machines_Off_to_a_Strong_Start.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Tux_Machines_Off_to_a_Strong_Start.gmi [11:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Tux Machines Off to a Strong Start [11:27] TR News Watch: President Stubb's New Year address https://yle.fi/a/74-20202187 [11:27] TR Bot Watch: President Stubb's New Year address | Yle News | Yle [11:46] TR News (NEW): Computing Does Not Improve Anymore https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Computing_Does_Not_Improve_Anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Computing_Does_Not_Improve_Anymore.gmi [11:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Computing Does Not Improve Anymore [11:57] TR News (NEW): Microsoft Slides in Central Europe, GNU/Linux Adds "Market Share" in 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Slides_in_Central_Europe_GNU_Linux_Adds_Market_Share_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Microsoft_Slides_in_Central_Europe_GNU_Linux_Adds_Market_Share_.gmi [11:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Microsoft Slides in Central Europe, GNU/Linux Adds "Market Share" in 2025 ● Jan 01 [12:19] TR News (NEW): Keeping the Fish Healthy and Happy https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Keeping_the_Fish_Healthy_and_Happy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Keeping_the_Fish_Healthy_and_Happy.gmi [12:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Keeping the Fish Healthy and Happy [12:34] TR News (NEW): Does GNU/Linux Attract Smart People or Does GNU/Linux Make People Smarter? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/_BThe_Does_GNU_Linux_Attract_Smart_People_or_Does_GNU_Linux_Mak.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/_BThe_Does_GNU_Linux_Attract_Smart_People_or_Does_GNU_Linux_Mak.gmi [12:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Does GNU/Linux Attract Smart People or Does GNU/Linux Make People Smarter? [12:36] TR News "Colossus 2." https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/30/elon-musk-reveals-plan-expand-xais-colossus-data-center-2-gigawatts/ | Source: Silicon Angle [12:36] TR Bot Musk reveals plan to expand xAI's 'Colossus' data center to 2 gigawatts - SiliconANGLE [12:37] TR News "For over 100 years, Wolverine World Wide Tannery made the leather for many well-known shoe brands, many of which were coated with Scotchgard, a water and stain repellent created by 3M." https://truthout.org/articles/millions-across-michigan-may-be-exposed-to-pfas-in-private-water-wells/ | Source: TruthOut [12:37] TR Bot Millions Across Michigan May Be Exposed to PFAS in Private Water Wells | Truthout [12:37] TR News "This year, TOP researchers published four new scholarly studies: [...]" https://overpopulation-project.com/top-end-of-year-roundup/ | Source: Overpopulation [12:37] TR Bot TOP end of year roundup - The Overpopulation Project [12:37] TR News "A while ago, we discovered a way to scrape Spotify at scale. We saw a role for us here to build a music archive primarily aimed at preservation." https://annas-archive.org/blog/backing-up-spotify.html | Source: Annas Archive [12:37] TR Bot Backing up Spotify - Annas Blog [12:40] TR News "Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?" https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/epstein-files-doj-julie-brown-flight-b2891476.html | [12:40] TR Bot Why was the DOJ tracking an investigative journalist who covered Epstein? Dems demand answers | The Independent [12:41] TR News "The document dump has been, in Brown's words, "sloppy at best." She's pointed out that Trump-linked images remain heavily redacted while her unrelated booking details got published for the world to see." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/doj-tracked-journalist-who-exposed-epstein.html | Source: BoingBoing [12:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/31/doj-tracked-journalist-who-exposed-epstein.html ) [12:41] TR News "With 2025 nearly over, Mashable decided to revisit his predictions related to this year. Time has run out" https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-failed-to-deliver-on-2025-promises | Source: Mashable [12:41] TR Bot Elon Musk promised in 2025, but didn't deliver | Mashable [12:42] TR News "wartime preparedness" https://yle.fi/a/74-20202073 | Source: YLE [12:42] TR Bot Finland's hospitals bolster wartime preparedness | Yle News | Yle [12:42] TR News "sea cable disruption" https://yle.fi/a/74-20202087 | Source: YLE [12:42] TR Bot Finnish authorities seize vessel following sea cable disruption | Yle News | Yle [12:43] TR News "Patriots" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/patriots-populists-and-putinists | Source: The Next Move [12:43] TR Bot Patriots, Populists, and Putinists - by Jay Nordlinger [12:43] TR News "suspected of damaging subsea cable in Baltic Sea" https://therecord.media/finland-seizes-ship-suspected-damaging-undersea-cable | Source: The Record [12:43] TR Bot Finland seizes ship suspected of damaging subsea cable in Baltic Sea | The Record from Recorded Future News [12:43] TR News "Authorities are currently investigating whether the vessel's movement and anchoring caused the incident, reports Postimees." https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/cables-connectors/finnish-authorities-seize-ship-and-crew-after-undersea-cable-cut-pursuing-criminal-charges-finnish-special-forces-board-ship-detain-all-14-crewmembers | Source: Tom's Hardware [12:43] TR Bot Finnish authorities seize ship and crew after undersea cable cut, pursuing criminal charges Finnish special forces board ship, detain all 14 crewmembers | Tom's Hardware [12:44] TR News "en route from the Russian port of St Petersburg to Israel at the time of the incident" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251231-finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-undersea-cable-sabotage | Source: France24 [12:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20251231-finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-undersea-cable-sabotage ) [12:44] TR News "According to the Border Guard, the vessel's anchor chain had been lowered into the sea." https://kyivindependent.com/finland-detains-russia-linked-ship-suspected-of-sabotage/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [12:44] TR Bot Finland detains Russia-linked ship suspected of sabotage [12:44] TR News "Responsibility for leading the investigation has been transferred from the Gulf of Finland Coast Guard to the Helsinki Police Department." https://raja.fi/en/-/police-investigate-cable-damage-in-the-gulf-of-finland-in-cooperation-with-other-authorities | [12:44] TR Bot Police Investigate Cable Damage in the Gulf of Finland in Cooperation with Other Authorities | The Finnish Border Guard [12:45] TR News "Neovim is a very powerful text editor that, with some upfront configurations, could replace your current editor for programming and much more." https://thenewstack.io/is-neovim-your-next-favorite-development-tool/ | Source: The New Stack [12:45] TR Bot Is Neovim Your Next Favorite Development Tool? - The New Stack [12:45] TR News "Heres the stats breakdown: 9,485 contributions, 8,893 commits, 127 pull requests (117 merged), 101 issues opened, 336 PR reviews, and 53 new repositories." https://nesbitt.io/2025/12/31/open-source-activity-in-2025.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [12:45] TR Bot Open Source Activity in 2025 | Andrew Nesbitt [12:46] TR News "Until now, 10-bit video support was limited when working outside GPU effects, forcing users to avoid transitions, blending, or many CPU-based filters to prevent a fallback to 8-bit processing." https://linuxiac.com/shotcut-25-12-video-editor-delivers-full-10-bit-cpu-video-processing/ | Source: Linuxiac [12:46] TR Bot Shotcut 25.12 Video Editor Delivers Full 10-Bit CPU Video Processing [12:46] TR News "This release includes the following changes to the previous release: [...]" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=176710395831597&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives [12:46] TR Bot 'OpenBGPD 9.0 released' - MARC [12:46] TR News "The OpenBGPD project have announced their new release, OpenBGPD 9.0." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251231070524 | Source: Undeadly [12:46] TR Bot OpenBGPD 9.0 released [12:49] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [12:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [12:56] TR News Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/linux-release-roundup-december-2025 [12:56] TR Bot Linux App Release Roundup (December 2025) - OMG! Ubuntu [12:57] TR News Gentoo 20251231 is out https://distrowatch.com/gentoo [12:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gentoo ) [12:57] TR News Calam 2026-01 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/calam [12:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/calam ) ● Jan 01 [13:01] TR News "This year, at the inaugural OpenSSL Conference, several talks provided more background information about the performance regressions and other changes in the 3.x branch: [...]" https://www.feistyduck.com/newsletter/issue_132_openssl_performance_still_under_scrutiny | Source: Feisty Duck [13:01] TR Bot OpenSSL Performance Still Under Scrutiny | Feisty Duck [13:02] TR News "The high tech rings which tracks users' health metrics, providing insights about their sleep, activity and stress levels" https://yle.fi/a/74-20201766 | Source: YLE [13:02] TR Bot Smart ring data reveals Finns are most stressed on Fridays, not Mondays | Yle News | Yle [13:02] TR News "you can age gate everything." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/31/judge-to-texas-you-cant-age-gate-the-entire-internet-without-evidence/ | Source: Techdirt [13:02] TR Bot To Texas: You Cant Age-Gate The Entire Internet Without Evidence | Techdirt [13:12] TR News Techrights Red Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Red_Hat_is_Vanishing_Before_Our_Eyes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Red_Hat_is_Vanishing_Before_Our_Eyes.gmi [13:12] TR Bot Techrights Red Hat is Vanishing Before Our Eyes [13:14] TR News "In the name of 'protecting kids online,' Congress pushed forward legislation this year that could have severely undermined our privacy and stifled free speech." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/congresss-crusade-age-gate-internet-2025-review | Source: EFF [13:14] TR Bot Congress's Crusade to Age Gate the Internet: 2025 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation [13:15] TR News Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub): "Im slowly trying to drop GitHub. I moved some of my repositories to Codeberg this month." https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-december-2025/ | Source: Evan Hahn [13:15] TR Bot Notes from December 2025 [13:15] TR News "Finland is no stranger to very volatile spot electricity prices. Last year, Yle News explained the reasons behind those sometimes drastic fluctuations." https://yle.fi/a/74-20202093 | Source: YLE [13:15] TR Bot Electricity pricing 'remains a mystery' to most Finns, survey finds | Yle News | Yle [13:15] TR News Windows TCO: "taking a cut of stolen funds from the cybercriminals" https://www.theverge.com/news/851467/cybersecurity-employees-plead-guilty-alphv-blackcat-ransomware | Source: The Verge [13:15] TR Bot Two cybersecurity employees plead guilty to carrying out ransomware attacks | The Verge [13:16] TR News Windows TCO: "As the first year of the Trump administration approaches its end" https://www.wired.com/story/expired-tired-wired-federal-cybersecurity/ | Source: Wired [13:16] TR Bot Mount That US Federal Cybersecurity Is Stagnatingor Worse | WIRED [13:16] TR News "These platforms dont do anything. It is completely unchecked. They make money and they dont care." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/31/boy-dead-squid-game-prank-yorkshire/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [13:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/31/boy-dead-squid-game-prank-yorkshire/ ) [13:23] TR News (NEW): Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Arch_Linux_Kicks_Off_2026_with_New_ISO_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Arch_Linux_Kicks_Off_2026_with_New_ISO_Powered_by_Linux_Kernel_.gmi [13:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Arch Linux Kicks Off 2026 with New ISO Powered by Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS [13:24] TR News (NEW): IceWM 4.0 Lightweight Window Manager Released with an Improved Alt+Tab Switch https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/IceWM_4_0_Lightweight_Window_Manager_Released_with_an_Improved_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/IceWM_4_0_Lightweight_Window_Manager_Released_with_an_Improved_.gmi [13:24] TR Bot Tux Machines IceWM 4.0 Lightweight Window Manager Released with an Improved Alt+Tab Switch [13:46] TR News "In 2025, I ran ten polls on Mastodon exploring various topics, mostly to outsource my research to the hivemind. Here are the poll results organized by topic, with commentary." https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-mastodon-polls/?mtm_campaign=feed | Source: Abhinav Sarkar [13:46] TR Bot I Ran on Mastodon in 2025 | abhinavsarkar.net [13:46] TR News "These are scams involving fraudulent employers convincing prospective employees to send them money for various fees. There is an entirely different set of scams involving fraudulent employees getting hired for remote jobs." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/linkedin-job-scams.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [13:46] TR Bot Job Scams - Schneier on Security [13:47] TR News "This year I finally realized that I no longer want any social media. Instead, every time I had a spare minute, I improved some detail on my homepage, my very own place in the World Wide Web." https://victor.kropp.name/blog/2025/year-in-review/ | Source: Victor Kropp [13:47] TR Bot 2025 in Review [13:48] TR News "Her movie-length autopsy of cancellation inspired by the incident, Mask Off, is no longer on the video-sharing juggernaut" https://tedium.co/2025/12/30/lindsay-ellis-best-online-video-2025/ | Source: Tedium [13:48] TR Bot The Years Best Online Video: A Complex Take On Empathy [13:50] TR News "She was then charged under section 19(1) of the Public Order Act 1986" https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/society/2025/12/when-should-social-media-posts-have-legal-consequences | Source: New Statesman [13:50] TR Bot Should Alaa Abd El-Fattah's tweets have legal consequences? [13:51] TR News "You can't blame the Sipekne'katik First Nation for wanting to protect its people nor can you blame MacIsaac for feeling that this AI generated bullshit might endanger his life" https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/musician-falsely-accused-of-sex-crimes-by-google-ai.html | Source: BoingBoing [13:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/musician-falsely-accused-of-sex-crimes-by-google-ai.html ) [13:51] TR News "The City of Santa Monica did not suddenly decide it hates technology." https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/waymo-sues-santa-monica-for-trying-to-make-it-stop-beeping-all-night.html | Source: BoingBoing [13:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/30/waymo-sues-santa-monica-for-trying-to-make-it-stop-beeping-all-night.html ) [13:52] TR News "Some people describe LLMs as the ultimate programming tool. Others describe it as an extra machine teammate. It's a dark parody of both." https://orib.dev/nofun.html | [13:52] TR Bot LLMs Are Not Fun [13:52] TR News "For me, the joy of programming is understanding a problem in full depth, so that when considering a change, I can follow the ripples through the connected components of the system." [13:52] TR News "The joy of management is seeing my colleagues learn and excel, carving their own paths as they grow. Watching them rise to new challenges. As they grow, I learn from their growth; mentoring benefits the mentor alongside the mentee. Using LLMs undercuts both." [13:53] TR News "As 2025 comes to a close, some of the artificial intelligence industry's biggest skeptics may be poised for a victory lap." https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/contrarians-no-more-ai-skepticism | Source: Dark Reading [13:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/contrarians-no-more-ai-skepticism ) [13:53] TR News "Most drones require a human pilot. But some new Ukrainian drones, once locked on a target, can use A.I. to chase and strike it with no further human involvement." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html | Source: New York Times [13:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html ) [13:53] TR News "The model captured nearly three times more unemployment disclosures than previous rule-based approaches while maintaining high precision." https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ai-social-media-unemployment.html | Source: Omicron Limited [13:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-ai-social-media-unemployment.html ) [13:54] TR News "advances the Armys ongoing transformation into a data-centric and AI-enabled force" https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/31/army-stands-up-ai-machine-learning-career-field-for-officers/ | Source: Sightline Media Group [13:54] TR Bot Army stands up AI, machine-learning career field for officers [13:54] TR News "Perhaps that puny market penetration would be less alarming if Tesla offered advanced tech and a passenger experience that Waymo doesnt" https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-robotaxi-smoke-mirrors | Source: Futurism https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/ [13:54] TR Bot It's Starting to Feel a Lot Like Tesla's Robotaxi Program Is Mostly Smoke and Mirrors [13:54] TR Bot Tesla engineer says company faked "full autopilot" video: Report - CBS News [13:55] TR News "So I guess it needs to be said: suing your customers is grossand being sued by your customers is shameful." https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/31/love-your-customers/ | Source: Bryan Cantrill [13:55] TR Bot Love your customers | The Observation Deck [13:56] TR News "Unfortunately, Microsoft squandered most of its good will with the Xbox One." https://www.engadget.com/gaming/xbox/2025-was-the-year-xbox-died-130000467.html | Source: Engadget [13:56] TR Bot 2025 was the year Xbox died [13:57] TR News "This is the fifth and final in a series of posts reviewing Apples 2025 across their major product lines. You can also read my wearables (only Apple Watch) 2024 and 2023 report cards." https://birchtree.me/blog/apples-2025-report-card-wearables/ | Source: Matt Birchler [13:57] TR Bot Apples 2025 report card - Wearables [13:58] TR News "all their private Bitbucket repositories as well." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/european_space_agency_hacked/ | Source: The Register UK [13:58] TR Bot European Space Agency hit again as crims claim 200 GB haul The Register ● Jan 01 [14:16] TR News Techrights Ignore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Ignore_the_LLM_Slop_and_the_Noise_Microsoft_is_in_a_Death_Spira.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Ignore_the_LLM_Slop_and_the_Noise_Microsoft_is_in_a_Death_Spira.gmi [14:16] TR Bot Techrights Ignore the LLM Slop and the Noise, Microsoft is in a Death Spiral [14:24] TR News Techrights Firefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Firefox_is_Toast_Because_It_Got_Toasted_by_Mozilla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Firefox_is_Toast_Because_It_Got_Toasted_by_Mozilla.gmi [14:24] TR Bot Techrights Firefox is Toast Because It Got Toasted by Mozilla [14:25] TR News "But! I now have a strong theory as to why my book reading has been down. This was the year that I finally stopped living in denial and bought reading glasses." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/recent-books-5/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [14:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/recent-books-5/ ) [14:26] TR News "Science did lose out this year, though, in ways that researchers are still struggling to tabulate" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2025/12/american-science-2025-trump-ambition/685467/ | Source: The Atlantic [14:26] TR Bot The Trump Administrations Most Paralyzing Blow to Science - The Atlantic [14:28] TR News "On 22 Oct 1925, Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (a Polish1 professor in Germany) patented the field-effect transistor (FET).[LIL1] In 1928," https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/who-invented-the-transistor.html | [14:28] TR Bot Who Invented the Transistor? [14:28] TR News "Weather has always significantly influenced my life." https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/ | Source: Stefano Marinelli [14:28] TR Bot to connect to it-notes.dragas.net port 443 after 180 ms: Couldn't connect to server ( status 0 @ https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/ ) [14:29] TR News "30 years of blogging." https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/30-years-of-blogging.html | Source: Chris O'Donnnell [14:29] TR Bot 30 Years of Blogging [14:29] TR News "Ive also read somewhere that, while the Terrifying Triplets had an identical design, the Palisades version had to fit the same height onto a smaller footprint" https://doc.searls.com/2025/12/30/on-the-scariest-roller-coaster-ever-built/ | Source: Doc Searls [14:29] TR Bot On the Scariest Roller Coaster Ever Built Doc Searls Weblog [14:30] TR News "I created a blogroll that does the same." https://box.matto.nl/added-a-blogroll-like-in-the-old-days.html | Source: MJ Fransen [14:30] TR Bot a blogroll like in the old days - box.matto.nl [14:30] TR News "Over the years, especially as Ive become more competent at this web development thing, Ive rebuilt my blog a few times." https://vereis.com/posts/rebuilding-my-blog | Source: Vereis [14:30] TR Bot My Blog vereis.com [14:30] TR News "All of which made me wonder what other technologies are likely to still be in use 50 or more years after they were first released. Here are the ones my friends and I came up with." https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/ | Source: The Register UK [14:30] TR Bot The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere The Register [14:33] TR News Techrights Links 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery' https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Links_01_01_2026_1930_Works_in_the_Public_Domain_Electricity_Pr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Links_01_01_2026_1930_Works_in_the_Public_Domain_Electricity_Pr.gmi [14:33] TR Bot Techrights Links 01/01/2026: 1930 Works in the Public Domain, Electricity Pricing 'a Mystery' [14:33] TR News 13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) https://itsfoss.com/open-source-apps-from-web-browser/ [14:33] TR Bot 13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too) [14:34] TR News UHU-Linux GNU/Linux distribution from Hungary https://www.linuxlinks.com/uhu-linux-distribution/ [14:34] TR Bot - Linux distribution from Hungary - LinuxLinks [14:34] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: ^ [14:34] schestowitz[TR2] made by DAs [14:35] TR News These are the GNU/Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 https://itsfoss.com/news/my-choice-linux-apps-2025/ [14:35] TR Bot These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 [14:35] TR News Best Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-software-december-2025-updates/ [14:35] TR Bot Free and Open Source Software: December 2025 Updates - LinuxLinks [14:36] TR News Cronicle multi-server task scheduler and runner https://www.linuxlinks.com/cronicle-multi-server-task-scheduler-runner/ [14:36] TR Bot - multi-server task scheduler and runner - LinuxLinks [14:36] TR News orphanhunter identify and remove orphaned packages https://www.linuxlinks.com/orphanhunter-identify-remove-orphaned-packages/ [14:36] TR Bot - identify and remove orphaned packages - LinuxLinks [14:37] TR News Dawn lightweight document drafter https://www.linuxlinks.com/dawn-lightweight-document-drafter/ [14:37] TR Bot - lightweight document drafter - LinuxLinks [14:37] TR News Stormfetch system profiler https://www.linuxlinks.com/stormfetch-system-profiler/ [14:37] TR Bot - system profiler - LinuxLinks [14:38] TR News Pyroscope continuous profiling platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/pyroscope-continuous-profiling-platform/ [14:38] TR Bot - continuous profiling platform - LinuxLinks [14:38] TR News Rare graphical interface for Legendary https://www.linuxlinks.com/rare-graphical-interface-legendary/ [14:38] TR Bot - graphical interface for Legendary - LinuxLinks [14:43] TR News VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/31/visionfive-2-lite-sbc-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-risc-v-sbc-in-2026/ [14:44] TR Bot VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review - Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 - CNX Software [14:44] TR News Amin Bandali: The People of Emacs https://kelar.org/~bandali/2025/12/31/people-of-emacs.html [14:44] TR Bot The People of Emacs - bandali [14:45] TR News "Ian Kelling, president of the Free Software Foundation" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-fsf-president-ian-kelling | Source: FSF [14:45] TR Bot A message from FSF president Ian Kelling Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [14:45] TR News "Instead of "privacy" we really should be talking about "control"" https://toidiu.com/blog/2025-12-25-privacy-and-control/ | [14:45] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-toidiu [14:47] TR News "This is a personal look back at that year" https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/31/looking-back-at-python-pescara-2025/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre [14:47] TR Bot Looking Back at Python Pescara2025 [14:47] TR News "A personal retrospective on Django On The Med, three months later." https://www.paulox.net/2025/12/30/django-on-the-med-a-contributor-sprint-retrospective/ | Source: Paolo Melchiorre [14:47] TR Bot Django On The Med: A Contributor SprintRetrospective [14:48] TR News Timur Kristf: A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025) https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025 [14:48] TR Bot A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025) | Timurs blog [14:51] TR News Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2025 free software activities http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Some_of_my_2025_free_software_activities.html [14:51] TR Bot Petter Reinholdtsen: Some of my 2025 free software activities [14:51] TR News BiglyBT BitTorrent client https://www.linuxlinks.com/biglybt-bittorrent-client/ [14:51] TR Bot - BitTorrent client - LinuxLinks [14:53] TR News kpcyrd: 2025 wrapped https://vulns.xyz/2025/12/2025-wrapped/ [14:53] TR Bot wrapped - vulns.xyz [14:53] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [14:54] TR News Sergio Cipriano: Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF https://sergiocipriano.com/beyla-envoy.html [14:54] TR Bot Zero-Code Instrumentation of an Envoy TCP Proxy using eBPF [14:54] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:56] TR News Having another go at it (he, yes) after putting forth a misguided lawsuit, stealing money to fund it (allegedly, according to the spouse), then asking for help from the Serial Strangler from Microsoft [14:57] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jan 01 [15:04] TR News Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linuxs-contemporary-filesystem-mount-api-went-without-documentation-for-six-years-latest-man-page-package-finally-adds-content-for-2019-code [15:04] TR Bot Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code | Tom's Hardware [15:05] TR News Shotcut 25.12 Released with 12-bit & Improved 10-bit Video Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/shotcut-25-12-12-bit-video-support/ [15:05] TR Bot Shotcut 25.12 Released with 12-bit & Improved 10-bit Video Support | UbuntuHandbook [15:09] MinceR 01 083722 < schestowitz[TR2]> how large a screen? [15:09] MinceR the bigger the better, i guess [15:11] MinceR 01 083733 < schestowitz[TR2]> on a small screen you would need fine glasses [15:11] MinceR i already need glasses [15:11] MinceR in any case, ~4K on a tablet wasn't a problem for me [15:11] TR News (NEW): Software Freedom Means Control. Control Means More Than Just Privacy. https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Software_Freedom_Means_Control_Control_Means_More_Than_Just_Pri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Software_Freedom_Means_Control_Control_Means_More_Than_Just_Pri.gmi [15:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Software Freedom Means Control. Control Means More Than Just Privacy. [15:11] MinceR maybe it was 3K [15:16] TR News Microsoft layoffs soon. "There will be some top-level shuffling, if it hasn't already happened, and large re-organizations / layoffs to follow as the new upper echelon looks to make their marks." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcyazpc9 [15:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kcyazpc9 ) [15:18] TR News "The hate and Bile towards a man who is not here to defend himself. And now trashing Welch? The Venom is spewing here." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 [15:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdkpvc96 ) [15:18] TR News "Well lets see if you change your tune this spring" [15:18] TR News "What does that mean? 2026 Is going t be a big year for me at IBM" [15:32] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [15:33] TR News Techrights Designing a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Designing_a_Better_Mousetrap_or_Tools_for_the_SSG.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Designing_a_Better_Mousetrap_or_Tools_for_the_SSG.gmi [15:33] TR Bot Techrights Designing a Better Mousetrap or Tools for the SSG [15:35] TR News "My reading this year has been dominated by a book club I started going to. I've had little time to read outside of that because my year got rather more interesting than last I left my job and went back to college. I'm proud of making that big change but it does mean life is a lot busier now!" gemini://lim.me.uk/2025-reading.gmi [15:35] TR News SpellBinding CEUGLNF Wordo: SOLAR gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-01.gmi [15:36] TR News When the year starts gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2026-01-01_When_the_year_starts.gmi "I notice a few people mentioning the arbitrariness the first day of the year. It's true, there's no magic to new year's day." [15:38] TR News xkcd Anyone Else Here #3188 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3188.gmi [15:40] TR News [japan] [paper] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-01-01.gmi [15:40] TR News [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-12-31.gmi [15:42] TR News "On the Fediverse, when someone starts to follow me, I look into their account and what they have posted. If there is no history, I ignore them, otherwise I try to get an impression of the kind of posts and decide if I follow back." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/januari-questions-of-christina.txt [15:55] TR News (NEW): Sites About Software... That Build Their Own Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Sites_About_Software_That_Build_Their_Own_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Sites_About_Software_That_Build_Their_Own_Software.gmi [15:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Sites About Software... That Build Their Own Software ● Jan 01 [16:01] TR News Clownflare https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/escaping-the-linux-networking-stack-at-cloudflare/ | Source: Hackaday [16:01] TR Bot The Linux Networking Stack At Cloudflare | Hackaday [16:01] TR News Arch GNU/Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-15-adds-support-for-the-refind-boot-manager [16:01] TR Bot Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager - 9to5Linux [16:01] TR News MidnightBSD 4.0.1 is outn https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd [16:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd ) [16:02] TR News "Pop-ups are back, and theyre worse than ever. The pop-up ad developers have evolved to work around browsers built-in pop-up blockers" https://www.smokingonabike.com/2025/12/31/web-browsers-have-stopped-blocking-pop-ups/ | Source: Andrew Eikum [16:02] TR Bot Web browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups Smoking on a Bike [16:02] TR News "For years, this application seemed pretty trivial and obvious to me, with the only somewhat complex bit being figuring out how the person is holding the phone" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/LevelPhoneAppDesignComplexity | Source: University of Toronto [16:02] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [16:03] TR News "This represents a clear step up (+21%) from 360.4 million downloads in 2024, continuing a multi-year growth trend. For context, total annual downloads stood at 322.7 million in 2023" https://linuxiac.com/flathub-sees-over-435-million-downloads-in-2025/ | Source: Linuxiac [16:03] TR Bot Flathub Sees Over 435 Million Downloads in 2025 [16:06] TR News "One of the most visible changes is that the COSMIC desktop environment is now available without requiring the advanced flag, making it easier to select during installation." https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-15-brings-cosmic-desktop/ | Source: Linuxiac [16:06] TR Bot Archinstall 3.0.15 Brings COSMIC Desktop [16:07] TR News "This sketch leaves a lot of questions open, such as what 'source packages' should look like when published by distributions." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/MyIdealSourcePackageFormat | Source: University of Toronto [16:07] TR News "CSS is a programming language, and you can make games in it. Let's install NoScript and make some together!" https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-css-clicker-training-making-games-in-a-styling-language#t=567 | Source: CCC [16:07] TR Bot Clicker Training: Making games in a "styling" language - media.ccc.de [16:08] TR News "While AMD GPUs generally have a good reputation on Linux, these old GCN graphics cards have been a sore spot for as long as Ive been working on the driver stack" https://timur.hu/blog/2025/love-song-for-linux-gamers-with-old-gpus-eoy2025 | Source: Timur Kristf [16:08] TR Bot A love song for Linux gamers with old GPUs (EOY 2025) | Timurs blog [16:08] TR News "It occurred to me that resolving some of the long-standing issues on these old GPUs might be a great way to get me started on working on the amdgpu kernel driver and would help improve the default user experience of Linux users on these GPUs. I figured that it would give me a good base understanding, and later I could also start contributing code to newer GPUs." [16:09] TR News "This week Steve reviews Expedition 33. We take your feedback, and Steve builds a new PC and talks motherboard." https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/473 | Source: The Ask Noah Show [16:09] TR Bot Ask Noah Show: Ask Noah show 473 [16:13] TR News Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes https://futurism.com/health-medicine/microplastics-clogging-arteries [16:13] TR Bot Doctors Find Evidence Microplastics Are Clogging Arteries, Leading to Heart Attacks and Strokes [16:14] TR News Freexian Collaborators: How files are stored by Debusine (by Stefano Rivera) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debusine-file-storage/ [16:14] TR Bot files are stored by Debusine | Freexian [16:15] TR News European Space Agency Confirms Breach After Hacker Offers to Sell Data https://www.securityweek.com/european-space-agency-confirms-breach-after-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ [16:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/european-space-agency-confirms-breach-after-hacker-offers-to-sell-data/ ) [16:16] TR News Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages Hey Hi (AI) https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/12/31/kubernetes-v1-35-structured-zpages/ [16:16] TR Bot Kubernetes 1.35: Enhanced Debugging with Versioned z-pages APIs | Kubernetes [16:16] TR News (NEW): This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/This_new_Linux_desktop_runs_like_an_app_on_your_existing_deskto.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/This_new_Linux_desktop_runs_like_an_app_on_your_existing_deskto.gmi [16:16] TR Bot Tux Machines This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it [16:17] TR News (NEW): UHU-Linux Linux distribution from Hungary https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/UHU_Linux_Linux_distribution_from_Hungary.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/UHU_Linux_Linux_distribution_from_Hungary.gmi [16:17] TR Bot Tux Machines UHU-Linux Linux distribution from Hungary [16:18] TR News (NEW): Our Top Five Most Underrated Linux Distros for 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Our_Top_Five_Most_Underrated_Linux_Distros_for_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Our_Top_Five_Most_Underrated_Linux_Distros_for_2025.gmi [16:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Our Top Five Most Underrated Linux Distros for 2025 [16:18] TR News Fix for crashing bluetoothd https://bkhome.org/news/202601/fix-for-crashing-bluetoothd.html [16:18] TR Bot Fix for crashing bluetoothd [16:19] TR News Orange-ball apps fix https://bkhome.org/news/202512/orange-ball-apps-fix.html [16:19] TR Bot Orange-ball apps fix [16:20] TR News New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Street Basket Challenge - 2025-12-24 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-12-24-edition/index.html [16:20] TR Bot New Steam Games with Native Linux Clients, including Street Basket Challenge - 2025-12-24 Edition [16:23] TR News (NEW): My job as family admin or Linux rules the house https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/My_job_as_family_admin_or_Linux_rules_the_house.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/My_job_as_family_admin_or_Linux_rules_the_house.gmi [16:23] TR Bot Tux Machines My job as family admin or Linux rules the house [16:28] TR News Workers in South Korea may soon be able to ignore late-night work messages https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/workers-in-south-korea-may-soon-be-able-to-ignore-late-night-work-messages [16:28] TR Bot Workers in South Korea may soon be able to ignore late-night work messages | The Straits Times [16:28] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [16:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [16:32] TR News (NEW): These are the 5 most beautiful Linux distros https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/These_are_the_5_most_beautiful_Linux_distros.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/These_are_the_5_most_beautiful_Linux_distros.gmi [16:32] TR Bot Tux Machines These are the 5 most beautiful Linux distros [16:32] TR News Inside Chinas six-decade campaign to dominate rare earths https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/inside-chinas-six-decade-campaign-to-dominate-rare-earths [16:32] TR Bot Inside Chinas six-decade campaign to dominate rare earths | The Straits Times [16:32] TR News China warns the Netherlands to immediately correct its mistakes over Nexperia saga that has disrupted auto production https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-warns-the-netherlands-to-immediately-correct-its-mistakes-over-nexperia-saga-that-has-disrupted-auto-production-chip-shipments-remain-suspended-auto-industry-suffering-from-undersupply [16:32] TR Bot China warns the Netherlands to immediately correct its mistakes over Nexperia saga that has disrupted auto production chip shipments remain suspended, auto industry suffering from undersupply | Tom's Hardware [16:33] MinceR (cat) https://imgchest.com/p/vj4jd6kx48m [16:33] TR Bot NO TITLE [16:33] TR News (NEW): Zorin OS says Windows users drove nearly 1M downloads, so I installed it to see why https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Zorin_OS_says_Windows_users_drove_nearly_1M_downloads_so_I_inst.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Zorin_OS_says_Windows_users_drove_nearly_1M_downloads_so_I_inst.gmi [16:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Zorin OS says Windows users drove nearly 1M downloads, so I installed it to see why [16:33] TR News Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features https://itsfoss.com/news/hyprland-0-53-release/ [16:33] TR Bot Hyprland Becomes More Attractive with Crash Recovery and Safe Mode Features [16:34] TR News Ravi Dwivedi: Transit through Kuala Lumpur https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/kuala-lumpur/ [16:34] TR Bot Transit through Kuala Lumpur [16:35] TR News (NEW): This fully atomic Linux distro is a challenge to install but a treat to use https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/This_fully_atomic_Linux_distro_is_a_challenge_to_install_but_a_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/This_fully_atomic_Linux_distro_is_a_challenge_to_install_but_a_.gmi [16:35] TR Bot Tux Machines This fully atomic Linux distro is a challenge to install but a treat to use [16:36] TR News My job as family admin or GNU/Linux rules the house https://blog.bembel.net/2025/12/my-job-as-family-admin-or-linux-rules-the-house/ [16:36] TR Bot My job as family admin or Linux rules the house bembel.net [16:37] TR News Shadow-utils 4.19.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1052435/ [16:37] TR Bot 4.19.0 released [LWN.net] [16:41] TR News LOL. "Am excited to be starting my new job on the 5th Jan as a Principle Business Systems Analyst at Red Hat/IBM". Principle? Or Principal? He's in Ireland (first language English) and even his work history now says "Principle". Very bad typo in one's ROLE. [16:41] MinceR :> [16:43] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Android_Leftovers.gmi [16:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers ● Jan 01 [17:08] TR News Techrights IBMs and Red Hats "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/IBM_s_and_Red_Hat_s_Operation_Evolution_initiative_Just_Long_Fa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/IBM_s_and_Red_Hat_s_Operation_Evolution_initiative_Just_Long_Fa.gmi [17:08] TR Bot Techrights IBMs and Red Hats "Operation Evolution initiative" Just Long, Fancy Term for Bluewashing, Redundancies, Layoffs [17:17] TR News 3D Print With Rubber https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/why-cant-i-3d-print-with-rubber/ | Source: Hackaday [17:17] TR Bot Cant I 3D Print With Rubber? | Hackaday [17:25] TR News Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud https://rubenerd.com/ending-2025-with-thoughts-and-a-wordle-cloud/ [17:25] TR Bot Ending 2025 with thoughts and a wordle cloud [17:25] TR News Warner Bros. Board Expected to Vote Against Paramount OfferWill Stay the Course with Netflixs $80B Buyout https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/warner-bros-board-paramount-offer/ [17:25] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/31/warner-bros-board-paramount-offer/ ) [17:26] TR News XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/XBox_is_Likely_Dead_Already_But_the_Threat_It_Posed_to_Us_All_f.shtml [17:26] TR Bot Techrights XBox is Likely Dead Already, But the Threat It Posed to Us All for Two Decades Isn't Over [17:33] TR News Bits from Debian: DebConf26 dates announced https://bits.debian.org/2025/12/debconf26_dates.html [17:33] TR Bot DebConf26 dates announced - Bits from Debian [17:35] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:40] TR News (NEW): DebConf26, Freexian, and Debian Bloggers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/DebConf26_Freexian_and_Debian_Bloggers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/DebConf26_Freexian_and_Debian_Bloggers.gmi [17:40] TR Bot Tux Machines DebConf26, Freexian, and Debian Bloggers [17:44] TR News (NEW): Linux Kernel and Graphics Coverage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Linux_Kernel_and_Graphics_Coverage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Linux_Kernel_and_Graphics_Coverage.gmi [17:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Kernel and Graphics Coverage [17:44] TR News Finland seizes ship sailing from Russia after suspected cable sabotage in Baltic Sea https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/finland-seizes-ship-sailing-from-russia-after-suspected-cable-sabotage-in-baltic-sea [17:44] TR Bot The Straits Times - Breaking news, Singapore news, Asia and world news & multimedia [17:44] TR News Sabotage Suspected in Cutting of Undersea Cable, Finnish Police Say https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/underwater-cable-damaged-sabotage-finland-estonia.html [17:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/underwater-cable-damaged-sabotage-finland-estonia.html ) [17:44] TR News How Thousands of Secret Russian Documents Were Exposed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/russia-ombudsman-complaints.html [17:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/world/europe/russia-ombudsman-complaints.html ) [17:47] TR News Ukraine wants peace, Russia wants a piece (of Ukraine), and Cheeto wants prize (while he commits war crimes he wants to be hailed for "peace") [17:47] TR News Germany to drop Russian oligarch investigation following 10M settlement https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/germany-to-drop-russian-oligarch-investigation-following-e10m-settlement/ [17:47] TR Bot Germany to drop Russian oligarch investigation following 10M settlement - JURIST - News [17:51] TR News Game Engine v0.60 Released [17:51] TR News GNOME Dishonestly Uses LibXML2 Support as Fundraising Tactic https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-dishonestly-uses-libxml2-support [17:51] TR Bot GNOME Dishonestly Uses LibXML2 Support as Fundraising Tactic [17:53] TR News They say stuff like, Free software depends on just one person; proprietary depends on one company. At least that one developer can easily pass on stewardship for maintenance [17:53] TR News Micro Text Editor 2.0.15 Released After More Than a Year of Development https://linuxiac.com/micro-text-editor-2-0-15-released-after-more-than-a-year-of-development/ [17:53] TR Bot Micro Text Editor 2.0.15 Released After More Than a Year of Development [17:54] TR News Wishing All Linuxiac Readers a Happy, Healthy, and Bright 2026 https://linuxiac.com/wishing-all-linuxiac-readers-a-happy-healthy-and-bright-2026/ [17:54] TR Bot All Linuxiac Readers a Happy, Healthy, and Bright 2026 [17:54] TR News Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer https://linuxjedi.co.uk/reviving-a-roland-soundbrush-floppy-midi-playback-without-the-computer/ [17:54] TR Bot Reviving a Roland SoundBrush: Floppy MIDI Playback Without the Computer - LinuxJedis /dev/null [17:55] TR News FOSS Weekly #26.01: Distros of 2026, Terminal Customization, CachyOS Server Edition and More GNU/Linux Stuff https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-01/ [17:55] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.01: Distros of 2026, Terminal Customization, CachyOS Server Edition and More Linux Stuff [17:56] TR News New Year Countdown Quiz for GNU/Linux Users https://itsfoss.com/quiz/new-year-countdown/ [17:56] TR Bot Linux New Year Countdown Quiz [17:56] TR News Match the Resolution: New Year Intentions Meet GNU/Linux Commands https://itsfoss.com/quiz/match-new-year-resolution/ [17:56] TR Bot Fun Puzzle: New Year Intentions Meet Linux Commands [17:57] TR News 6 Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/humanresourcemanagement/ [17:57] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Human Resource Management Software - LinuxLinks [17:57] TR News 13 Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-python-data-analysis/ [17:57] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Python Data Analysis - LinuxLinks [17:59] TR News 9 Top Free and Open Source Graphical User Interfaces for R https://www.linuxlinks.com/guisforr/ [17:59] TR Bot Top Free and Open Source Graphical User Interfaces for R - LinuxLinks ● Jan 01 [18:00] TR News Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cron https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-cron/ [18:00] TR Bot to popular CLI tools: cron - LinuxLinks [18:00] TR News Recruiters Don't Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/Recruiters_Don_t_Use_Microsoft_LinkedIn_Spammers_Use_LinkedIn.shtml [18:00] TR Bot Techrights Recruiters Don't Use Microsoft LinkedIn, Spammers Use LinkedIn [18:00] TR News The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/31/The_Slop_Industry_is_Failing_So_Badly_Mountains_of_Debt_Losses_.shtml [18:00] TR Bot Techrights The Slop Industry is Failing So Badly (Mountains of Debt, Losses) That It's Merging With the SPAM Industry [18:05] TR News (NEW): Software/Applications: FOSS Weekly, Micro Text Editor 2.0.15, EasyOS Software, and Shadow-utils 4.19.0 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Software_Applications_FOSS_Weekly_Micro_Text_Editor_2_0_15_Easy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Software_Applications_FOSS_Weekly_Micro_Text_Editor_2_0_15_Easy.gmi [18:05] TR Bot Tux Machines Software/Applications: FOSS Weekly, Micro Text Editor 2.0.15, EasyOS Software, and Shadow-utils 4.19.0 [18:07] TR News (NEW): Ad, Ed, and Med: FOSS Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Ad_Ed_and_Med_FOSS_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Ad_Ed_and_Med_FOSS_Leftovers.gmi [18:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Ad, Ed, and Med: FOSS Leftovers [18:09] TR News (NEW): End-of-Year GNU/Linux Roundups https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/End_of_Year_GNU_Linux_Roundups.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/End_of_Year_GNU_Linux_Roundups.gmi [18:09] TR Bot Tux Machines End-of-Year GNU/Linux Roundups [18:09] TR News (NEW): Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_leftovers.gmi [18:09] TR Bot Tux Machines today's leftovers [18:13] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Gemini_Links_01_01_2026_Bot_Accounts_Online_and_Reading_in_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Gemini_Links_01_01_2026_Bot_Accounts_Online_and_Reading_in_2025.gmi [18:13] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 01/01/2026: Bot Accounts Online and Reading in 2025 [18:15] TR News Techrights Links 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Links_01_01_2026_Biophobia_and_Renewed_Effort_to_Locate_MH370.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/01/Links_01_01_2026_Biophobia_and_Renewed_Effort_to_Locate_MH370.gmi [18:15] TR Bot Techrights Links 01/01/2026: "Biophobia" and Renewed Effort to Locate MH370 [18:19] TR News "efficient workload scheduling." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-getting-key-performance-boost-feature-that-windows-1110-has-had-for-years/ [18:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-finally-getting-key-performance-boost-feature-that-windows-1110-has-had-for-years/ ) [18:19] TR News "Since I started working here at MUO, I've spent a lot of time trying to find ways to modernize and update my smart home. One of the biggest projects I've undertaken initially started out sounding like the simplest finding a way to turn my washer and dryer into smart appliances." https://www.makeuseof.com/linux-home-assistant-chromebook/ [18:19] TR Bot I turned my old Chromebook into a Linux-powered smart hub, and it's incredible [18:20] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/my-wife-2#comic [18:20] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [18:20] TR News "StarFive has sent me a sample of the VisionFive 2 Lite RISC-V SBC for review. Its a low-cost credit card-sized board based on the StarFive JH7110S quad-core RISC-V SBC and designed to get started with Linux RISC-V on the cheap." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/31/visionfive-2-lite-sbc-review-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-risc-v-sbc-in-2026/ [18:20] TR Bot VisionFive 2 Lite SBC Review - Ubuntu 24.04 on a low-cost RISC-V SBC in 2026 - CNX Software [18:20] TR News How much RAM does your Linux PC actually need in 2025? An expert weighs in https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-ram-does-your-linux-need-2025/ [18:20] TR Bot much RAM does your Linux PC actually need in 2025? An expert weighs in | ZDNET [18:21] TR News Its Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux https://hackaday.com/2025/12/31/its-time-to-make-a-major-change-to-d-bus-on-linux/ [18:21] TR Bot Time To Make A Major Change To D-Bus On Linux | Hackaday [18:22] TR News "2025 has been quite the year for me. It's been full of ups and downs, both on the professional and personal fronts. The challenges I faced this year have made me a stronger person." https://itsfoss.com/news/my-choice-linux-apps-2025/ [18:22] TR Bot These are the Linux Apps I Couldn't Live Without in 2025 [18:22] MinceR 01 192057 < techrights-news> How much RAM does your Linux PC actually need in 2025? An expert weighs in https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-much-ram-does-your-linux-need-2025/ [18:22] MinceR who cares, it's 2026 [18:22] schestowitz[TR2] ram is costly [18:23] schestowitz[TR2] also, some machines cannot be upgraded [18:23] TR News "Something something good code comments itself." https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linuxs-contemporary-filesystem-mount-api-went-without-documentation-for-six-years-latest-man-page-package-finally-adds-content-for-2019-code [18:23] TR Bot Linux's contemporary filesystem mount API went without documentation for six years latest man-page package finally adds content for 2019 code | Tom's Hardware [18:24] TR News "From COBOL and C to Linux and SQL, the unglamorous software that keeps the world running refuses to disappear" https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/ [18:24] TR Bot The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere The Register [18:24] MinceR and linux wastes it [18:24] TR News The most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/31/long_lived_tech/ [18:24] TR News "Looking for a Linux distribution to challenge you? AerynOS delivers that - plus atomic-powered security and stability." https://www.zdnet.com/article/aerynos-linux-distribution-atomic-challenging-install/ [18:24] TR Bot fully atomic Linux distro is a challenge to install but a treat to use | ZDNET [18:25] TR News choose?" https://www.zdnet.com/article/puppy-linux-vs-linux-lite/ [18:25] TR Bot Linux vs. Linux Lite: Which distro is right for your old Windows 10 PC? | ZDNET [18:25] TR News "You can revive your aging PC with a lightweight Linux distro such as Puppy Linux and Linux Lite." [18:26] TR News "As we countdown to 2026, what better way to celebrate than with a quiz about Linux time and date commands? Whether you're a complete beginner or just brushing up on your command-line skills, this festive quiz will test your knowledge of how Linux handles time." https://itsfoss.com/quiz/new-year-countdown/ [18:26] TR Bot Linux New Year Countdown Quiz [18:27] TR News "With Distrobox, you can run and experiment with distributions inside containers. No virtual machine required." https://www.zdnet.com/article/distrobox-test-multiple-linux-distros-in-containers/ [18:27] TR Bot simple Linux tool lets you try multiple distros safely on one desktop - for free | ZDNET [18:31] *techrights-news has quit (Received malformed line) [18:33] *techrights-news (~techrights-news@i8wm8zwjwfwd8.irc) has joined #techrights [18:33] TR News "Tuxedo Computers' InfinityBook 14 Pro runs Tuxedo Linux, based on Ubuntu." https://www.zdnet.com/article/tuxedo-computers-infinitybook-14-pro-review/ [18:33] TR Bot for a Linux laptop? I found one that competes with my MacBook Pro | ZDNET [18:33] TR News How I run Photoshop on Linux with this open-source app (no Windows needed) https://www.howtogeek.com/photoshop-on-linux/ [18:33] TR Bot How to run Photoshop on Linux [18:34] MinceR again, 'how', and no 'why' [18:35] TR News Tim Sweeney highlights satirical Fortnite Linux advocacy https://tradersunion.com/news/billionaires/show/1177541-tim-sweeney-fortnite-linux/ [18:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tradersunion.com/news/billionaires/show/1177541-tim-sweeney-fortnite-linux/ ) [18:35] MinceR 'my life is too nice, it's time to invite some overpriced adobe crapware into it!' [18:35] TR News Microsoft subsidiary of sorts https://www.howtogeek.com/what-is-canonical-the-company-behind-ubuntu/ [18:35] TR Bot What exactly is Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu? [18:36] TR News "The developers announced a dedicated Server Edition coming in 2026 to bring Clear Linux style optimizations to the enterprise" https://dataconomy.com/2025/12/30/cachyos-challenges-ubuntu-in-new-server-benchmarks/ [18:36] TR Bot Challenges Ubuntu In New Server Benchmarks - Dataconomy [18:38] TR News Steven Vaughan-Nichols Promoting Complex, Microsoft-Controlled, Prone-too-Breakage Rust, Then Says "the most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere" (Contradicting Himself) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Steven_Vaughan_Nichols_Promoting_Complex_Microsoft_Controlled_P.shtml [18:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Steven Vaughan-Nichols Promoting Complex, Microsoft-Controlled, Prone-to-Breakage Rust, Then Says "the most durable tech is boring, old, and everywhere" (Contradicting Himself) [18:40] TR News At LF, advice follows the bribes. Slop bad? TAKE BRIBE. Now it's "GOOD"! SHILL it!!! Praise it! Same for Rust, which GAFAM incubated in the corpse of Mozilla. [18:41] TR News LF is a bribery hub, a money laundering org. Buy influence not only over "Linux" but in the media also: https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/08/Linux_Foundation_Research_Marketing_Has_New_Report_About_Open_S.shtml [18:41] TR Bot Techrights 'Linux' Foundation 'Research' (Marketing) Has New Report About "Open Source" and It Was Made Using Proprietary Software and Not Linux [18:42] TR News SJVN is one of their lying operatives, a coin-operated person whom they boast about in their brochures. Jono Bacon was too: http://techrights.org/o/2019/04/08/jono-bacon-works-for-microsoft/ [18:42] TR Bot Jono Bacon Works for Microsoft [18:42] MinceR 01 193500 < techrights-news> Tim Sweeney highlights satirical Fortnite Linux advocacy https://tradersunion.com/news/billionaires/show/1177541-tim-sweeney-fortnite-linux/ [18:42] MinceR i'm more interested in UT3 on GNU/Linux and UT4 on GNU/Linux [18:43] TR News Kubernetes buys a lot of puff pieces about itself because in practice adopting Kubernetes means relying on GAFAM "clown" [18:43] TR News Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1052425/ [18:43] TR Bot updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] [18:43] TR News Kushal Das: johnnycanencrypt 0.18.0 released https://kushaldas.in/posts/johnnycanencrypt-0-18-0-released.html [18:43] TR Bot Kushal Das [18:44] TR News Ncurses 6.6 Released [18:44] TR News Open Source New Year Almanac: What Does 2026 Hold for You? https://itsfoss.com/quiz/open-source-new-year-almanac/ [18:44] TR Bot Open Source New Year Almanac [18:45] TR News OpenCV 4.13 also out [18:46] TR News New year special https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1110/new-year-special [18:46] TR Bot New year special - David Revoy [18:46] TR News TTABlog Test: Is LA PACHANGA MARGARITAS Y FIESTA Confusable with PACHANGA MEXICAN GRILL for Restaurant Services? http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttablog-test-is-la-pachanga-margaritas.html [18:46] TR Bot The TTABlog: TTABlog Test: Is LA PACHANGA MARGARITAS Y FIESTA Confusable with PACHANGA MEXICAN GRILL for Restaurant Services? [18:48] TR News "This release also introduces Zram algorithm configuration support and CUPS installation support, and stable support for the COSMIC desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-15-adds-support-for-the-refind-boot-manager [18:48] TR Bot Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.15 Adds Support for the rEFInd Boot Manager - 9to5Linux [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdxcaev1 [18:55] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kdxcaev1 ) [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] "Arvind's bold leadership.." [18:55] schestowitz[TR2] Sounds like the same PR operatives assigned to the Gerster thread are spiling on the new pages. [18:57] TR News New York's Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero devices join explosives, guns, drones, and beach balls on prohibited items list https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/new-yorks-mayoral-inauguration-bans-raspberry-pi-and-flipper-zero-devices-join-drones-guns-and-beach-balls-on-prohibited-items-list [18:57] TR Bot New York's Mayoral Inauguration bans Raspberry Pi and Flipper Zero devices join explosives, guns, drones, and beach balls on prohibited items list | Tom's Hardware ● Jan 01 [19:00] TR News Judge blocks White Houses attempt to defund the CFPB, ensuring employees get paid https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/12/judge-blocks-white-houses-attempt-to-defund-the-cfpb-ensuring-employees-get-paid/ [19:00] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/12/judge-blocks-white-houses-attempt-to-defund-the-cfpb-ensuring-employees-get-paid/ ) [19:22] *ewig has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) ● Jan 01 [22:29] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware and Retro/Old: Orange Pi, HP/PA, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Open_Hardware_and_Retro_Old_Orange_Pi_HP_PA_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Open_Hardware_and_Retro_Old_Orange_Pi_HP_PA_and_More.gmi [22:29] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [22:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware and Retro/Old: Orange Pi, HP/PA, and More [22:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [22:29] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/today_s_howtos.gmi [22:29] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [22:29] TR News (NEW): Tux Machines Off to a Strong Start https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Tux_Machines_Off_to_a_Strong_Start.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/Tux_Machines_Off_to_a_Strong_Start.gmi [22:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Tux Machines Off to a Strong Start [22:29] TR News (NEW): VLC 3.0.23 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VLC_3_0_23_Media_Player_Improves_Dark_Palette_in_the_Qt_GUI_Cod.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/01/VLC_3_0_23_Media_Player_Improves_Dark_Palette_in_the_Qt_GUI_Cod.gmi [22:29] TR Bot Tux Machines VLC 3.0.23 Media Player Improves Dark Palette in the Qt GUI, Codec Information