●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, August 07, 2026 ●● ● Aug 07 [00:02] *FANTOM_ has quit (Ping timeout: 251 seconds) [00:38] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [00:39] *FANTOM_ (~FANTOM@91ECF4E9.dsl.pool.telekom.hu) has joined #techrights [00:53] IsambardPrince MinceR: Leeloo is having a bad case of Feline Herpes outbreak. [00:53] IsambardPrince I just started her on Famvir again. [00:53] IsambardPrince This is the worst one I've seen. [00:54] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/2510155 [00:54] TR Bot ( status 308 @ http://ircz.de/d?from=%2Fp%2F2510155 ) [00:54] IsambardPrince We have something in common. We both have to take herpes medication. I know some people think it's embarrassing. [00:54] MinceR good luck to her [00:54] IsambardPrince But it's a very common condition. [00:54] IsambardPrince I have type 1, it's the one that causes cold sores on the lips. [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] MinceR give her a slow blink for me [00:55] IsambardPrince It's been getting worse with age so now I just take the medicine every day. [00:55] IsambardPrince I'm pretty sure I know where I got it. [00:55] IsambardPrince There was a guy named Wesley back in 2004. [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights [00:56] IsambardPrince So I've had it for over 20 years now. It's basically a nuisance. [00:56] IsambardPrince One that responds well to medicine. [00:56] IsambardPrince The vets don't take FHV seriously enough. [00:57] IsambardPrince The cat will act like it has a bad cold and cough and sneeze, its eyes will discharge mucus. [00:57] IsambardPrince It will look clear at first, then turn green or black. [00:57] IsambardPrince Bobbi Jo was immunized by the cat shelter. [00:58] IsambardPrince So she's never caught it from Leeloo. ● Aug 07 [01:00] IsambardPrince Feline medicine is not great when they get old. [01:00] IsambardPrince She has three major health conditions that I'm trying to manage now and none of them are easy. [01:00] IsambardPrince FHV, hyperthyroidism, and Osteoarthritis. [01:02] IsambardPrince MinceR: I might start her on an L-Lysine supplement. [01:02] IsambardPrince Back when Valtrex cost $1400 a month I took L-Lysine every day. [01:02] IsambardPrince It does help but it's not as effective as an antivira [01:03] IsambardPrince *antiviral [01:03] MinceR how does that work? [01:45] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:50] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@5arz9p7wg8kqn.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 07 [02:05] IsambardPrince Lysine? [02:05] IsambardPrince Hell if I know. [02:06] IsambardPrince I just read that it worked and I started taking it and got fewer outbreaks over time. [02:07] IsambardPrince https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/cold-sores/lysine-for-cold-sores [02:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.goodrx.com/conditions/cold-sores/lysine-for-cold-sores ) [02:08] IsambardPrince MinceR: I use a number of things. Valtrex, Lysine, Abreva. [02:08] MinceR ic [02:08] IsambardPrince Lysine is a supplement and Abreva is over the countery and has a generic. [02:08] IsambardPrince So you can still get it even without a doctor's permission. [02:09] IsambardPrince I don't like having to ask a doctor over such things. They gatekeep more than they want to help, at least most of them do. [02:10] IsambardPrince It was antibiotics, now it's pain medicine. [02:10] IsambardPrince I ran into one of them that refused to prescribe blood pressure pills and said eat less salt, then turned around and walked off to her next patient. [02:10] IsambardPrince Every system that is theoretically there to help you isn't. [02:11] IsambardPrince They want to extract money from you and keep you in your place. [02:11] IsambardPrince That's how they treat people like me. [02:11] IsambardPrince It's basically structural violence. [02:11] IsambardPrince You never know if it's safe to ask for help with anything. [02:11] IsambardPrince If you say you have pain, they treat you like a junky. [02:12] IsambardPrince When they x-ray your arm and see that it's broken, they say you should try physical therapy. [02:12] IsambardPrince When you go to the police about being a crime victim, they start investigating you instead. [02:12] IsambardPrince If you ask for food stamps, they're constantly auditing your finances with backdoors into the bank system looking for you to get caught screwing up. [02:13] IsambardPrince Then they say you mislead them so they would overpay you by $5. [02:13] IsambardPrince It's more like a "spider web" than a system to help. [02:13] IsambardPrince And once you know that, you can start approaching it as such. [02:13] IsambardPrince They try to keep people from seeing it by using institutional gaslighting. [02:17] IsambardPrince I called the police just now to report people for setting off fireworks outside. [02:17] IsambardPrince It's bothering my cat. [02:24] IsambardPrince MinceR: I called the vet earlier and read them the riot act about my cat. [02:25] IsambardPrince They wouldn't give me any eyedrops for her after I just dumped so much money this month into trying to help. [02:25] IsambardPrince I said "It's in her chart that she gets this sometimes from her last vet." [02:26] IsambardPrince Finally when I said "Well, you can put me on with the vet or you can have me come up there tomorrow and sit until someone talks to me." they suddenly broke protocol and ordered her some and said I can get it tomorrow. [02:27] IsambardPrince MinceR: I came to the conclusion that it's better to act like a jerk sometimes than to be pushed around. [02:27] IsambardPrince The people who designate you as a jerk are the ones that are trying to gatekeep, or extract. [02:28] IsambardPrince What they say: "You're being difficult/rude/unreasonable."What they mean: "My standard script isn't working on you. You are calculating your own risk, protecting your own data, keeping your own cash, and I am completely losing my patience because I can't break your perimeter." [02:29] IsambardPrince Being on the "nice" list usually costs you more than it's worth. [02:30] IsambardPrince The nice list gets you "Just bring her in here and we'll take another $250 exam fee so you can leave with $15 eyedrops." [02:31] IsambardPrince The nice list doesn't get you brown nose points down at the police station at 3 AM. [02:31] IsambardPrince It talks you right into a jail cell. [02:32] IsambardPrince The nice list means you assume that the doctor who said "eat less salt" was the final authority, and don't keep pushing, and eventually have a stroke or vascular dementia. [02:33] IsambardPrince The nice list means you wonder why the physical therapy isn't working instead of going to see the third surgeon. [02:33] MinceR our society doesn't fucking work, it never did, and, if we keep forcing it this way, it never will [02:34] MinceR on the upside, we're going the way of the dodo [02:34] IsambardPrince It eventually works, if you know what you're up against. [02:34] IsambardPrince It shouldn't be that way, but that's how it is. [02:35] IsambardPrince MinceR: Have you ever seen the movie The Naked Prey? [02:35] MinceR we have crispy yellow grass with sand underneath [02:35] IsambardPrince I borrowed it from the library, they had it on Criterion DVD. [02:35] MinceR we keep having heat records broken [02:35] IsambardPrince I love that movie, actually. [02:36] MinceR meanwhile about half of the devil apes believe that we aren't overheating the planet [02:36] MinceR we're turning this country into a desert [02:36] MinceR some nazi retard told me that humanity totally has the technology to unfuck the planet [02:36] MinceR is it happening? nope. [02:36] MinceR i haven't even heard of that movie [02:37] IsambardPrince The wealthy safari leader ignores warnings because he thinks his status and polite rules protect him. He represents the people on the "Nice List" who assume a sketchy mechanic or a lazy doctor is acting in good faith. He plays by the wrong script, and it destroys him. [02:38] IsambardPrince Once Cornel Wilde is stripped naked in the veldt, he has zero resources, zero weapons, and zero institutional backup. He cant reason with his pursuers, and he cant file a complaint. He has to turn into a pure, cold machine. He scans the environment entirely for data like twigs breaking, water locations, snake movementsto intercept his targets before they get him. [02:39] IsambardPrince When you realize that you're Cornel Wilde and the rest of the people you interact with are the bushmen that stripped you naked and told you to run, things make more sense, MinceR [02:39] MinceR except they're just as doomed as i am [02:40] IsambardPrince I used to be more like the safari leader, right? [02:40] IsambardPrince I was young. I had never smacked head first into any of these things. [02:40] IsambardPrince I was raised from childhood thinking that there were rules. The system would protect me. [02:41] MinceR it feels like i'm being punished for something i don't remember by being made to live as a human among humans [02:41] IsambardPrince Then I learned I was not in a civilized place. [02:41] MinceR s/mber/mber doing/ [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-060826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-060826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-060826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-060826.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, August 06, 2026 [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-060826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-060826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-060826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-060826.txt [02:47] TR Bot IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, August 06, 2026 [02:47] IsambardPrince America is no longer a country with opportunities. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-060826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-060826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-060826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-060826.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, August 06, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-06.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-06.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] *superkuh has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-06.txt [02:58] *superkuh (~superkuh@user/superkuh) has joined #techrights ● Aug 07 [03:27] IsambardPrince MinceR: Slipping in lies that turn you into the authority in the room helps sometimes. Especially if people won't want to test that theory. [03:27] IsambardPrince The repair man saw my bug traps. He didn't say a word. [03:28] IsambardPrince If he did, I was going to say "Oh man, I lived in a New York City walk up. All old buildings have issues and I'm just being proactive." [03:28] IsambardPrince I've never gone anywhere near New York City, but he doesn't know that. [03:28] IsambardPrince He doesn't want to test the theory because the minute the subject of cockroaches comes up, he loses control of the narrative. [03:31] IsambardPrince Saying you "lived in a New York City walk-up" to explain pest traps says everything. [03:31] IsambardPrince Almost every building in that city is completely infested. [03:33] IsambardPrince https://www.mystateline.com/hill-politics/trump-orders-limits-on-birthright-citizenship-targets-birth-tourism/ [03:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.mystateline.com/hill-politics/trump-orders-limits-on-birthright-citizenship-targets-birth-tourism/ ) [03:34] IsambardPrince MinceR: Trump orders limits to birthright citizenship which were already in place due to the Constitution, existing laws, and previous court rulings. [03:34] IsambardPrince Then takes a victory lap for not changing anything in practice. [03:35] IsambardPrince An executive order "can" duplicate an existing law or court decision, but it's weird. [03:35] IsambardPrince It basically just repeats that the law that already exists, exists [03:36] MinceR well, if the 77 million idiots fall for it, then it is indeed a victory [03:38] IsambardPrince It doesn't actually change anything in practice, and claiming "children born to foreign terrorist groups" are included, that's actually something new. [03:38] IsambardPrince The only court precedent is during wartime, if part of the US is occupied by a military, then children born to the invading soldiers are not US citizens. [03:39] IsambardPrince However, if one of the parents is a US citizen, it overrides that. [03:39] IsambardPrince So if an occupying soldier impregnates an American woman, then the child is a US citizen. [03:39] IsambardPrince They get their citizenship through the mother. [03:39] IsambardPrince Regardless of how this happened. [03:39] MinceR > children born to foreign terrorist groups [03:39] MinceR i'm sure this could have been made more complicated and specific [03:39] IsambardPrince The "occupied by soldiers" part has literally never happened. [03:40] MinceR yet. [03:40] IsambardPrince The last time the US was occupied by soldiers was part of Alaska during World War II. [03:40] IsambardPrince On an uninhabited island. [03:40] IsambardPrince And all of the soldiers were Japanese men. [03:40] IsambardPrince So that would have been truly interesting. [03:41] IsambardPrince No modern war has resulted in the US being occupied by soldiers that include men and women. [03:41] IsambardPrince The last time it happened, pretty much the norm in the entire world was "all soldiers are men". [03:42] IsambardPrince It's kind of difficult to see this thing actually happening. [03:42] IsambardPrince It requires a hostile military, with male and female soldiers, to actively occupy US territory, and then procreate with each other. [03:42] MinceR is it? [03:43] MinceR didn't the Pedophile King just demonstrate that the US military is a paper tiger? [03:43] MinceR and that he doesn't dare use nuclear weapons? [03:44] MinceR i'm sure iran and the chinese empire were paying attention. [03:44] IsambardPrince MinceR: Well, it's insane because if he tries to say foreign terrorist groups are like enemy soldiers, then where does that leave the Unlawful Enemy Combatant theory George W. Bush leaned on? [03:45] MinceR since when did they have to tell a consistent narrative? [03:45] IsambardPrince Well, I'm just saying that's the sound of John Yoo's head exploding. [03:45] MinceR :> [03:46] MinceR afaict most people on this planet believe that it's possible for any number of sentences that contradict each other to all be true [03:46] MinceR cases in point: bible; putler's propaganda [03:47] IsambardPrince I wonder if CNN will ask the Torture Lawyer what he thinks. [03:47] MinceR \_()_/ [03:49] TR News (NEW): Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Calibre_9_13_E_Book_Manager_Improves_PDF_Output_Content_Server_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Calibre_9_13_E_Book_Manager_Improves_PDF_Output_Content_Server_.gmi [03:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Calibre 9.13 E-Book Manager Improves PDF Output, Content Server, and More ● Aug 07 [04:26] *Goblin (~use@ggawdriywb4qi.irc) has joined #techrights [04:28] *agentcasey has quit (Quit: leaving) [04:34] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [04:35] *Righty (~Username@2r2j25ki42ejy.irc) has joined #techrights [04:36] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [04:37] *Righty (~Username@zjk5zmdmqwx2n.irc) has joined #techrights [04:42] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [04:43] *Righty (~Username@dri3tat42ahac.irc) has joined #techrights [04:58] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [04:59] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Aug 07 [05:03] *Righty (~Username@xy8f3cfvrmnvi.irc) has joined #techrights [05:05] IsambardPrince MinceR: The world was created in a seven day week. Why else would there be a seven day week? Every natural phenomenon out there that points to geological time tables, dinosaur fossils, and direct observations about the universe are a lie from Satan to confuse us and make us go to Hell. [05:05] IsambardPrince Also, God spends all day worried about where you put your penis. [05:06] IsambardPrince Does that satisfy you or do you want to be publicly flogged for not believing? [05:06] IsambardPrince :D [05:07] IsambardPrince God loves us and wants us to be happy, which is why everything hurts, everything you love gets taken away, and you die painfully. [05:07] MinceR yeah, but also, the first female human was created both before and after all the non-human animals [05:07] IsambardPrince He has the power to wipe out evil, which is why there's so many people like Peter Bright who try to fuck 9 year olds and make excuses for themselves. [05:07] IsambardPrince Not to mention serial killers. [05:07] MinceR "God" also loves you if you're a sinner, but he'll torture you forever, while loving you. [05:08] IsambardPrince He gave you a chance to repent. [05:08] MinceR "God" loves you, but maybe he'll make you get cancer and suffer. even if you aren't a sinner. [05:08] IsambardPrince The part about wanting a little evidence was too cheeky. [05:08] MinceR "God" wants you to love and fear him at the same time. [05:08] IsambardPrince Now you burn in Hell forever while he loves you. [05:09] IsambardPrince MinceR: But Adolf Hitler could have repented and be saved, even a moment before dying. [05:09] IsambardPrince Even with everything he had done. [05:09] MinceR also, jesus is "God" who is all-knowing yet he is so surprised by the fact that fig trees don't bear fruit all year that he curses the one that isn't in season when he encounters it [05:09] MinceR he's also very mature. [05:09] IsambardPrince God Hates Figs. [05:09] IsambardPrince :D [05:09] TR News "You'd figure that a politician of that status would have their own official channels to use instead." -Anon https://mexiconewsdaily.com/el-jalapeno/el-jalapeno-sheinbaum-warns-of-the-dangers-of-social-media-on-her-social-media-platforms/ [05:09] TR Bot El Jalapeo: Sheinbaum warns of the dangers of social media on her social media platforms - Mexico News Daily [05:09] MinceR if you have iron chariots, "God" can't do anything about you, but at the same time, he can beat you even then. [05:10] TR News "Right now I am hiding from work, hiding from my boss. I can't stand the guy, I don't quite hate him, though there have been many times in the past when I have hated his guts." gemini://detritus.smol.pub/1786031557 [05:10] IsambardPrince MinceR: Mom's pastor wanted questions about the Bible. [05:10] MinceR it's one thing that bronze age illiterate barbarians came up with all this stupid childish shit, but even today billions of members of this species, which likes to call itself "intelligent", believe it unironically. [05:10] IsambardPrince Mom asked me if I had any. [05:10] MinceR humanity is hopeless. [05:11] IsambardPrince I said, "He probably doesn't want to stand there with a list of about 10,000 just from me." [05:11] TR News "I've spoken to the other two kids, and they have zero interest in taking part in the hobby. I respect that. In fairness, even if they did, the likelihood of either of them picking up a microphone, pressing the button, and (dare I even suggest it) _speak_? Well, that's a definite no." gemini://rawtext.club/~thelovebug/2026-08-06-radio-amateurism.gmi [05:11] MinceR lol [05:11] IsambardPrince When they all boil down to "It's a mystery." [05:11] IsambardPrince What does God need with a starship? That would be a good one but it's taken. [05:11] MinceR what a nice way to say "fuck if i know" [05:11] TR News the monster in this story gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_monster_in_this_story [05:12] TR News "I have still been doing some walks by the Tanana River. The wild flowers now are mostly gone, although occasionally one sees a buttercup or vetch that clings on, and some hawkweed." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260806-0.gmi [05:12] IsambardPrince MinceR: God made everything the way it is for a reason. [05:12] IsambardPrince But not gay men. [05:13] IsambardPrince We can't do that "It happens so it must be part of His Plan." thing about gay men. [05:13] MinceR maybe he is not almighty [05:13] TR News "The first night back, I had the wildest dream of my life. I felt myself rip away from my body, floating above the bed. I was some kind of pure and fiery spirit, and I flew through the wall behind my bed and into something I can't remember anymore." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-06.gmi [05:13] TR News "OK, this is surprisingly cool. In a previous blogpost (2026-08-01 Odd workflow) I made screenshots of this site. Which mean that the background was identical to the background of the actual site on which the screenshots where being shown." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-08-06-css-wherever [05:14] TR News The basics of an indirect threaded code ANS Forth implementation gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/06/04.1 [05:14] MinceR also, christians are supposed to love all humans, yet most of the people i know to be alleged christians are some of the most hateful people i know [05:15] TR News "I use the Shunting Yard algorithm [1] to handle precedence when parsing expressions in my assembler [2]. It's great because not only is it simple to implement, but it simplifies the code in a hand-written recursive descent parser [3]." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/06.1 [05:16] TR News "My co-worker is obsessed with bats. I don't know exactly when it happened, but wow: they fell hard." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/my-batty-coworker [05:16] TR News What is even taste when it comes to programming? gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/08/06.2 [05:16] MinceR apparently muslims and jews are also supposed to love all humans [05:17] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:18] TR News "Toshiba has announced sampling of its enhanced-security TXZ+ M4V microcontroller family, built around an Arm Cortex-M4 core and targeting system control tasks in Internet of Things (IoT) designs." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260806-tosh.gmi [05:18] IsambardPrince MinceR: My grandfather on my mom's side was a church pastor in retirement. [05:18] IsambardPrince He was a decent guy. [05:19] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1732.jpg [05:19] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D2089.jpg [05:19] IsambardPrince American Christianity has become radicalized. [05:19] IsambardPrince It's smaller, but those people are completely nuts. [05:19] MinceR is it though? [05:19] IsambardPrince There are shades. [05:20] TR News party monk gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wakingUp [05:20] IsambardPrince The funny thing is that the Bible is not a progressive book, on the whole. [05:20] MinceR didn't the majority vote for the christian taliban? [05:20] IsambardPrince There is an element of that. [05:20] TR News the echo of solitude gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/echo [05:20] IsambardPrince But you pretty much have to delete most of the Old Testament first. [05:21] IsambardPrince There are moderate or progressive Christian movements. [05:21] IsambardPrince But we're not talking about the majority. [05:22] IsambardPrince And most of those are in large cities where their voting power is watered down due to the electoral college, the fixed formula for representation in Congress, and being in a "first past the post" voting system with too many people sharing the same worldview. [05:22] MinceR cherry-picking in abrahamism isn't exactly new [05:22] IsambardPrince The reason the American Left is thumped every single time is because they're too heavily concentrated in too few places. [05:22] MinceR as long as the believers want to use scripture as a cudgel, they pretty much have to, because it's an inconsistent mess [05:23] IsambardPrince Now we're starting to see the rise of an American Socialist party. [05:23] MinceR yeah, there are too few people in the usa who aren't fucking nutcases [05:23] IsambardPrince But that's basically cannibalizing the Democratic Party. [05:23] IsambardPrince Which isn't a bad thing. [05:23] IsambardPrince But there's no room for this movement to grow past a certain point. [05:23] MinceR yeah, let's try socialism one more time [05:23] IsambardPrince It won't expand and take over areas where the Republicans do well. [05:23] MinceR it never worked, but we haven't all starved to death yet [05:23] IsambardPrince MinceR: It's good because the more factions that are in there fighting... [05:24] MinceR i'm hoping for skynet [05:24] IsambardPrince The "Centrist Democrats" are going to force themselves out into the open. [05:24] IsambardPrince Instead of "Blame Fetterman" it's going to become a lot more obvious. [05:25] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 07/08/2026: Radio Amateurism, Summer Updates, and Programming "Taste" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Gemini_Links_07_08_2026_Radio_Amateurism_Summer_Updates_and_Pro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Gemini_Links_07_08_2026_Radio_Amateurism_Summer_Updates_and_Pro.gmi [05:25] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 07/08/2026: Radio Amateurism, Summer Updates, and Programming "Taste" [05:26] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 06, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_06_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_August_06_2026.gmi [05:26] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, August 06, 2026 [05:27] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [05:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [05:28] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [05:28] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [05:40] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux Approaching 20% in Georgia (the Country) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_Approaching_20_in_Georgia_the_Country.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_Approaching_20_in_Georgia_the_Country.gmi [05:40] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Approaching 20% in Georgia (the Country) [05:51] TR News Techrights The Register MS Took Money From Broadcom to Publish Fake 'News' With "AI" Mentioned 35 Times https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/The_Register_MS_Took_Money_From_Broadcom_to_Publish_Fake_News_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/The_Register_MS_Took_Money_From_Broadcom_to_Publish_Fake_News_W.gmi [05:51] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Took Money From Broadcom to Publish Fake 'News' With "AI" Mentioned 35 Times [05:59] TR News IBM crisis. "Many. Finance for example." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyt763v1 [05:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kyt763v1 ) ● Aug 07 [06:15] *croissant (~croissant@uudy98nj9ntz2.irc) has joined #techrights [06:15] *croissant` has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:26] TR News Techrights IBM Insiders Explain Why IBM is in Very Serious Trouble https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IBM_Insiders_Explain_Why_IBM_is_in_Very_Serious_Trouble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IBM_Insiders_Explain_Why_IBM_is_in_Very_Serious_Trouble.gmi [06:26] TR Bot Techrights IBM Insiders Explain Why IBM is in Very Serious Trouble [06:29] TR News "...Yle radio Vega had an interview with some German and Polish officials about the necessity of open source code in government. It's step in the right direction but great, coordinated effort will be required to ensure that the progress does not stop there." Sompi [06:30] TR News "...Microsoft and other malevolent forces _*are*_ already working to try to derail what little progress has been made to-date." Sompi [06:31] IsambardPrince MinceR: My grandfather on my dad's side drank all the money. [06:31] IsambardPrince So for food, they did things like load the kids up in the car and steal corn. [06:31] schestowitz[TR2] drunk? [06:31] IsambardPrince Or blast fishing. [06:31] IsambardPrince Yeah. [06:32] TR News "Daniel Pocock (Independent)" https://www.essexcountynews.co.uk/news/26443811.clacton-by-election-live-updates-hustings-event/ [06:32] TR Bot Clacton by-election live updates from hustings event | Essex County News [06:51] TR News Techrights At Clacton by-election Hustings Event Daniel Pocock Says "Social [Control] Media Has Contributed to Some of the Anti Social Behaviour." https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/At_Clacton_by_election_Hustings_Event_Daniel_Pocock_Says_Social.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/At_Clacton_by_election_Hustings_Event_Daniel_Pocock_Says_Social.gmi [06:51] TR Bot Techrights At Clacton by-election Hustings Event Daniel Pocock Says "Social [Control] Media Has Contributed to Some of the Anti Social Behaviour." [06:53] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: is that... [06:53] schestowitz[TR2] like using explosives to kill fish? [06:57] TR News Daniel Pocock on Social Control Media https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/daniel-pocock-on-social-control-media/ [06:57] TR Bot Blog Archive Daniel Pocock on Social Control Media ● Aug 07 [07:01] IsambardPrince [00:53] IsambardPrince: is that... [07:01] IsambardPrince [00:53] like using explosives to kill fish? [07:01] IsambardPrince Yes, it was easier to get explosives back then as a civilian. [07:02] IsambardPrince You can still make them but it is now a federal issue for so many reasons. [07:02] IsambardPrince There are a lot of federal terrorism laws that didn't exist when grandpa was throwing bombs in the water to fish. [07:03] TR News (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.7, Linux 6.18.43, Linux 6.6.149, Linux 6.1.181, Linux 5.15.214, and Linux 5.10.263 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_1_7_Linux_6_18_43_Linux_6_6_149_Linux_6_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Stable_kernels_Linux_7_1_7_Linux_6_18_43_Linux_6_6_149_Linux_6_.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 7.1.7, Linux 6.18.43, Linux 6.6.149, Linux 6.1.181, Linux 5.15.214, and Linux 5.10.263 [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] https://megadevices.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Richard-Stallman-says-Microsofts-Windows-OS-and-Apples-Mac-OS-are-malware-What-are-your-views-abou-3 [07:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://megadevices.quora.com/https-www-quora-com-Richard-Stallman-says-Microsofts-Windows-OS-and-Apples-Mac-OS-are-malware-What-are-your-views-abou-3 ) [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] "Richard Stallman says Microsoft's Windows OS and Apple's Mac OS are malware. What are your views about this? [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] Stallman has done some very good and wonderful work in the open software area. Anyone who uses Linux or any version of UNIX today owes him a debt. (And since many/most servers are Linux/UNIX based, that means anyone who does anything with the internet owes him a debt.) [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] But its also true that hes a rigid ideologue too. He has a fixed and unwavering view on things not easily modified by new information. [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] By most peoples definition of malware, even in a very broad sense, most people would not agree with Stallman." [07:06] IsambardPrince The people who accused RMS of being a pervert have often been found to be pedophiles while RMS is free because RMS isn't a criminal. [07:06] IsambardPrince Peter Bright is in prison. [07:07] IsambardPrince But there were many who are obvious pedophiles and nobody is doing anything about it even though they're being very open about it. [07:07] IsambardPrince Thoughts are not an actionable crime. [07:07] *TMF has quit (connection closed) [07:07] IsambardPrince So a person can transmit what a piece of shit they are and they can't be arrested for it. [07:07] IsambardPrince They have to step over the line and take an action. [07:08] IsambardPrince Still, I'm surprised that some of them call so much attention to themselves. [07:08] IsambardPrince It's like they're so disgusting they just can't help themselves. [07:11] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, and Review https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Review.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Review.gmi [07:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, and Review [07:14] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:15] TR News Techrights The GNU/Linux Anniversary is Next Month, Not This Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/The_GNU_Linux_Anniversary_is_Next_Month_Not_This_Month.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/The_GNU_Linux_Anniversary_is_Next_Month_Not_This_Month.gmi [07:15] TR Bot Techrights The GNU/Linux Anniversary is Next Month, Not This Month [07:26] TR News Techrights Some Malware is Legal Because It's Made and Distributed by Politically-Connected GAFAM https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Some_Malware_is_Legal_Because_It_s_Made_and_Distributed_by_Poli.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Some_Malware_is_Legal_Because_It_s_Made_and_Distributed_by_Poli.gmi [07:26] TR Bot Techrights Some Malware is Legal Because It's Made and Distributed by Politically-Connected GAFAM [07:29] TR News "Apparently 250,000,000,000 Euros are wasted on proprietary software and services." (Sompi) [07:29] TR News (NEW): After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/After_Nearly_a_Decade_of_Distro_Hopping_I_Realized_It_Was_Never.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/After_Nearly_a_Decade_of_Distro_Hopping_I_Realized_It_Was_Never.gmi [07:29] TR Bot Tux Machines After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro [07:32] TR News GuruFocus seems to have become LLM slop [07:32] TR News Salesforce cutting 59 jobs across Seattle and Bellevue offices [07:32] TR News Maker of Narcan will lay off 34 at its Gaithersburg headquarters [07:33] TR News Microsoft Halo Studios is facing layoffs once again [07:33] TR News Bill Epsteingate media: "Another round of tech layoffs hit Seattle workers" [07:33] TR News Google lays off 52 employees in Washington [07:34] TR News (NEW): Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Your_favorite_Linux_distro_probably_descends_from_one_of_these_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Your_favorite_Linux_distro_probably_descends_from_one_of_these_.gmi [07:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems [07:38] TR News (NEW): 250 Billion Euros Wasted on Proprietary Stuff (Mostly American) Instead of Investing in Local IT Talent and Free (Libre) Code https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/250_Billion_Euros_Wasted_on_Proprietary_Stuff_Mostly_American_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/250_Billion_Euros_Wasted_on_Proprietary_Stuff_Mostly_American_I.gmi [07:38] TR Bot Tux Machines 250 Billion Euros Wasted on Proprietary Stuff (Mostly American) Instead of Investing in Local IT Talent and Free (Libre) Code [07:46] TR News Techrights Social [Control] Media Needs to Die https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Social_Control_Media_Needs_to_Die.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Social_Control_Media_Needs_to_Die.gmi [07:46] TR Bot Techrights Social [Control] Media Needs to Die [07:56] *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) ● Aug 07 [08:00] TR News Techrights IRC Networks Show No Signs of Going Away, IRC Enters Its 39th Year https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IRC_Networks_Show_No_Signs_of_Going_Away_IRC_Enters_Its_39th_Ye.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/IRC_Networks_Show_No_Signs_of_Going_Away_IRC_Enters_Its_39th_Ye.gmi [08:00] TR Bot Techrights IRC Networks Show No Signs of Going Away, IRC Enters Its 39th Year [08:11] TR News "I have started sending my resumes to other companies. It is unbearable.....I have been waiting for layoffs but they are not coming, so I decided to leave on my own terms. Wish me luck ;-)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzb9fngh [08:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzb9fngh ) [08:12] TR News "he did that the morning after thousands of employees received RSUs for retention incentives. I dont believe it was coincidence." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzc0f867 [08:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzc0f867 ) [08:18] psydroid2 the best way to optimise Windows is to nuke it from orbit [08:20] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:28] TR News Techrights What We Said About Red Hat's Fate Under IBM Turned Out to be Right on the Money (That IBM Lacks) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/What_We_Said_About_Red_Hat_s_Fate_Under_IBM_Turned_Out_to_be_Ri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/What_We_Said_About_Red_Hat_s_Fate_Under_IBM_Turned_Out_to_be_Ri.gmi [08:28] TR Bot Techrights What We Said About Red Hat's Fate Under IBM Turned Out to be Right on the Money (That IBM Lacks) [08:31] TR News "Mexican broadcaster TelevisaUnivision has obtained one of the broadest anti-piracy injunctions ever issued by a U.S. federal court." https://torrentfreak.com/broadcaster-wins-broad-u-s-blocking-injunction-covering-pirate-sites-that-dont-exist-yet/ | Source: Torrent Freak [08:31] TR Bot Wins Broad U.S. Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet * TorrentFreak [08:31] TR News Software Patents: "Autonomous drones can recognize objects with increasing accuracy" https://interestingengineering.com/military/drone-automatic-target-recognition-sodyo | Source: Interesting Engineering [08:31] TR Bot Patented machine vision gives drones automatic target recognition [08:32] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/04/spotify-financials-q2-2026/ | Source: Digital Music News [08:32] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/04/spotify-financials-q2-2026/ ) [08:32] TR News "You know what would be terrible? Terrible in a sort of dystopian, capitalism-run-amok sort of way?" https://www.theautopian.com/bmw-is-showing-commercials-on-their-cars-dash-screens-and-they-want-you-to-think-its-a-treat/ | Source: The Autopian [08:32] TR Bot BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat - The Autopian [08:33] TR News "I dont need a stair-climbing wheelchair that costs $30,000 and requires a maintenance crew. I need better doorknobs and or a ramp." https://sightlessscribbles.com/disability-dongle/ | [08:33] TR Bot The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you., Sightless Scribbles [08:34] TR News "whitelists" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/05/kommersant-only-one-third-of-mobile-internet-traffic-in-central-russia-was-unrestricted-nearly-90-in-border-regions-went-through-whitelists | Source: Meduza [08:34] TR Bot Kommersant: Only one-third of mobile internet traffic in central Russia was unrestricted. Nearly 90% in border regions went through whitelists. Meduza [08:34] TR News "SecurityLab reported that several VPN services experienced outages and connection problems on August 4. According to the outlets journalists" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/08/05/russia-appears-to-be-carrying-out-one-of-its-biggest-vpn-blocking-campaigns-in-recent-memory-here-s-what-we-know | Source: Meduza [08:34] TR Bot Russia appears to be carrying out one of its biggest VPN blocking campaigns in recent memory. Heres what we know. Meduza [08:35] TR News "The company calls the suite of tools Rules Hub, and the tools let mods decide what rules should be automatically enforced and what should happen when a rule is triggered." https://www.theverge.com/tech/975398/reddit-ai-rules-hub-moderator-old-reddit-developer-platform | Source: The Verge [08:35] TR Bot Reddit is introducing a new moderator: AI | The Verge [08:36] TR News "A Reuters investigation found 75 rulings from federal judges that Trump infringed on constitutional freedoms such as religion, freedom, and the press." https://newrepublic.com/post/213980/judges-75-rulings-trump-violating-first-amendment | Source: New Republic [08:36] TR Bot Judges Rip Trump Apart 75 Times for Violating First Amendment | The New Republic [08:37] TR News "The Chief Executive Officer of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, has apologised for the temporary removal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Facebook post." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/national/news/nishikant-dubey-meta-mark-zuckerberg-apology-it-home-ministry-138637664.html | Source: Bhaskar English [08:37] TR Bot Nishikant Dubey Demands Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Apology | IT Ministry [08:39] TR News "Grokipedia, representing Elon Musk's committment and dedication to countering Wikipedia's supposedly leftist bias" https://boingboing.net/2026/08/05/grokipedia-already-an-abandoned-slagheap-of-slop.html | Source: BoingBoing [08:39] TR Bot Grokipedia already an abandoned slagheap of slop - Boing Boing [08:40] TR News "This is The Barn an Orwellian euphemism if there ever was one where Oracle is constructing a massive data center for its OpenAI empire." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-primary-win-1235604379/ | Source: Rolling Stone [08:40] TR Bot Inside Abdul El-Sayed's Improbable Michigan Senate Primary Win [08:41] TR News [Old] "The speed of the projects approvaland the townships seeming inability to stop itleft residents shocked and angry." https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/ | Source: Fortune [08:41] TR Bot giant OpenAI-Oracle data center was voted down by a Michigan farm town. Weeks later, construction began | Fortune [08:41] TR News "xAI acquired X in an all-stock deal valuing the platform at $33 billion in March 2025, with the combined entity valuing xAI at $80 billion." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/reddit-vs-x-statistics/ | Source: SQ Magazine [08:41] TR Bot Reddit vs X Statistics 2026: Users and Revenue SQ Magazine [08:41] TR News "Jeff Dean and other high-profile Google executives have founded Discovery Loop" https://www.wired.com/story/jeff-dean-google-discovery-loop-startup/ | Source: Wired [08:41] TR Bot Top AI Brains Are Leaving to Launch Discovery Loop | WIRED [08:42] TR News "Google is making some significant AI leadership changes, including a major shift for Google DeepMind leader Demis Hassabis." https://www.theverge.com/tech/975677/google-deepmind-ai-demis-hassabis-shakeup | Source: The Verge [08:42] TR Bot Google just announced a major shakeup of its top AI leadership | The Verge [08:42] TR News "The $55 billion deal part-funded with $20 billion borrowed against EA itself" https://www.semafor.com/article/08/05/2026/saudi-fund-leads-buyout-of-video-game-giant-ea | Source: Semafor Inc [08:42] TR Bot fund leads buyout of video game giant EA | Semafor [08:42] TR News "Roblox has lost a staggering $70 billion in value as the gaming platform matures and plateaus in growth." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/05/roblox-lost-billions-as-stock-craters/ | Source: Digital Music News [08:42] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/05/roblox-lost-billions-as-stock-craters/ ) [08:42] TR News "Hassabis will take on two new titles, Alphabet announced on Wednesday: chair of DeepMind and chief scientist of Alphabet." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/google-parent-alphabet-shakes-up-ai-division-1592456448 | Source: RTL [08:42] TR Bot DeepMind: Google-parent Alphabet shakes up AI division - RTL Today [08:48] TR News "AI energy use is a huge and controversial topic at the moment." https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai | [08:48] TR Bot The real energy use of agentic AI - by Zeke Hausfather [08:49] TR News "For decades now, companies like Michelin have been teasing us with futuristic-looking automobile tires that dont use air." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/3d-printing-a-usable-airless-tire/ | Source: Hackaday [08:49] TR Bot Printing A Usable Airless Tire | Hackaday [08:49] TR News "Forty-one minutes is all the time it took for hackers to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin from one of the systems considered the safest in the world to store cryptocurrency" https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2026-08-04/a-116-million-bitcoin-theft-hackers-break-into-one-of-the-safest-places-to-store-cryptocurrencies.html | Source: El Pas [08:49] TR Bot A $116 million bitcoin theft: hackers break into one of the safest places to store cryptocurrencies | Economy and Business | EL PAS English [08:49] TR News "Research published in late 2025 demonstrates that super El Nio events serve as powerful catalysts for climate regime shifts, which are sudden and lasting changes in environmental states" https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/05/how-super-el-nino-could-shift-the-planet-into-a-new-climate-reality/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee [08:49] TR Bot How Super El Nio Could Shift the Planet into a New Climate Reality Ocean to Climate [08:49] TR News "Its smoky in Portland right now. For the moment, weve got the worst AQI of any major city in the world." https://sals.place/blog/pdx-smoke-2026/ | Source: Sal [08:49] TR Bot Smoke in Portland | Sal's [08:51] TR News "New Mexico is one of few jurisdictions that still may have an opportunity to hold Epsteins associates accountable or otherwise provide some sense of justice to survivors" https://edition.cnn.com/2026/08/05/politics/epstein-new-mexico-investigation-zorro-ranch | Source: CNN [08:51] TR Bot Investigations into Epsteins mysterious New Mexico ranch add pressure on the Justice Department | CNN Politics [08:51] TR News "In a 40-page filing, New Mexico asked for access to unredacted documents from the Epstein files that it claimed the DOJ has been intentionally withholding." https://newrepublic.com/post/214026/new-mexico-sues-department-justice-epstein-files-ranch | Source: New Republic [08:51] TR Bot New Mexico Sues Trump DOJ for Blocking Epstein Ranch Investigation | The New Republic [08:51] TR News "The Survivors Truth Commission, which began its work in February, said in an interim report that it has identified 30 other potential victims." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0805/jeffrey-epstein-victims-new-mexico-zorro-ranch | Source: CS Monitor [08:51] TR Bot DOJ become a focus of New Mexico Epstein investigations - CSMonitor.com [08:57] TR News "Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses." https://www.404media.co/apples-private-relay-is-exposing-users-real-ip-addresses/ | Source: 404 Media [08:57] TR Bot Apple's Private Relay Is Exposing Users Real IP Addresses [08:57] TR News "It was with this in mind that the Supreme Court ruled in a 2014 case, Riley v. California" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/airport-warrantless-phone-search/688186/ | Source: The Atlantic [08:58] TR Bot Trump Should Need a Warrant to See Your Phone - The Atlantic [08:58] TR News "A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters free-speech rights" https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-protesters-signal-group-chats/ | Source: Wired [08:58] TR Bot Wants Protesters Signal Group Chats | WIRED ● Aug 07 [09:00] TR News "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)" https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/public-sector/modernizing-the-skies-noaa-google-cloud-collaborate-advance-weather-forecasting | Source: Google [09:00] TR Bot NOAA Selects Google Cloud for Weather Supercomputing | Google Cloud Blog [09:01] TR News "Children who open social media accounts at the start of secondary school appear to perform worse in tests than those who delay" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/aug/03/children-using-social-media-younger-age-worse-school-tests | Source: The Guardian UK [09:01] TR Bot Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests | Science | The Guardian [09:01] TR News "The Atlas findings, from researchers at security firm Zenity" https://www.wired.com/story/openais-browser-could-be-hijacked-to-spam-your-whatsapp-contacts/ | Source: Wired [09:01] TR Bot Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts | WIRED [09:01] TR News "The meeting follows the Centre's recent summons to Meta after a Facebook post by Prime Minister Narendra Modi was briefly restricted on the platform." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-apologises-indian-govt-deepfake-controversy-138639757.html | Source: Bhaskar English [09:02] TR Bot Mark Zuckerberg Apologises to Indian Govt Over Deepfake Controversy [09:02] TR News "That gap explains most of what is currently happening with AI in game production." https://www.productionalchemist.com/p/inever-seen-a-game-fail-because-artists-too-slow | [09:02] TR Bot I Have Never Seen a Game Fail Because the Artists Were Too Slow [09:02] TR News "In a talk that was a last-minute addition to the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday" https://www.wired.com/story/openai-didnt-notice-its-ai-agents-using-a-message-board-to-plan-their-hacking-spree/ | Source: Wired [09:02] TR Bot Didnt Notice Its AI Agents Using a Message Board to Plan Their Hacking Spree | WIRED [09:02] TR News "The problem stems from how the AI agents pull information from multiple sources, such as emails and webpages, while working on a task without reliably distinguishing between trusted and untrusted content." https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-browsers-zero-click-agent-hijacking | Source: Dark Reading [09:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/ai-browsers-zero-click-agent-hijacking ) [09:03] TR News "Lost in the outrage, however, are several unanswered questions." https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/08/ai-companies-buying-used-books-for-data/688167/ | Source: The Atlantic [09:03] TR Bot Someone Is Mysteriously Snapping Up Used Books Around the World - The Atlantic [09:03] TR News "Artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic PBC carried out unsanctioned actions" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openai-anthropic-model-tests-reveal-more-unsanctioned-actions/articleshow/132925850.cms | Source: India Times [09:03] TR Bot OpenAI, Anthropic model tests reveal more unsanctioned actions - The Economic Times [09:03] TR News "On January 28th I messaged Raphael Allstadt on LinkedIn and told him I'd found a huge vulnerability that leaks user data." https://bobdahacker.com/blog/tldv-hack | Source: BobDaHacker [09:03] TR Bot (Too Lazy; Didn't Validate): 181,874 Meetings Left Wide Open | bobdahacker [09:03] TR News "Just for fun, I've use quicksubs' benchmark mode to see how fast the 4 Macs I have access to are and how they heat up when under load." https://birchtree.me/blog/benchmarking-all-the-macs-i-have-around-for-fun/ | Source: Matt Birchler [09:03] TR Bot Benchmarking all the Macs I have around for fun [09:04] TR News "At which point, the alarm clock said enough of this silliness, and shut the alarm off itself. I am not proud to have learned this." https://boston.conman.org/2026/08/05.1 | Source: Sean Conner [09:04] TR Bot Alarm clocks - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [09:04] TR News "Even so, consistency outweighs timing." https://jeroensangers.com/2026/08/04/train-when-your-chronotype-peaks.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers [09:04] TR Bot Jeroen Sangers brain tags - Train when your chronotype peaks, but never let the perfect hour stop you from training [09:04] TR News "Perhaps there are few foods with as much cultural significance as bread." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/know-your-food-our-daily-bread/ | Source: Hackaday [09:04] TR Bot Your Food: Our Daily Bread | Hackaday [09:04] TR News "Vineyards sold dehydrated, concentrated grape bricks (about the size of a pound of butter) that contained pulp, skins, and stems." https://www.vintag.es/2026/08/women-selling-wine-bricks-in-new-york.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [09:04] TR Bot Women Selling Wine Bricks in New York, 1931 ~ Vintage Everyday [09:07] TR News Techrights Links 07/08/2026: "BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat", Software Patents on Drones https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Links_07_08_2026_BMW_Is_Showing_Commercials_On_Their_Car_s_Dash.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Links_07_08_2026_BMW_Is_Showing_Commercials_On_Their_Car_s_Dash.gmi [09:07] TR Bot Techrights Links 07/08/2026: "BMW Is Showing Commercials On Their Car's Dash Screens And They Want You To Think It's A Treat", Software Patents on Drones ● Aug 07 [12:12] TR News "In 2026, I set a goal to read 26 books. I had the lowest expectations of myself, and I stayed true to those expectations, because in January I did not read anything." https://amanhimself.dev/blog/2026-half-year-in-books/ | Source: Aman Mittal [12:12] TR Bot - half year in books | amanhimself.dev [12:13] TR News "Its the present moment. The only thing that is truly real and alive. We may still have plans and strive for change, but this is where we are right now." https://robertbirming.com/weight-waiting/ | Source: Robert Birming [12:13] TR Bot The weight of waiting Robert Birming [12:14] TR News "As we see more widespread use of drones, we also see an uptick in companies that work to keep low-altitude airspace secure, compliant, and deconflicted." https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/05/ana-healander/ | Source: The Drone Girl [12:14] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/08/05/ana-healander/ ) [12:14] TR News "IBM Plex Mono is one of my favourite monospace fonts to have come out in the last decade. And it got an update in May: [...]" https://www.rubenerd.au/ibm-plex-mono-got-an-update/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:14] TR Bot Rubenerd: IBM Plex Mono got an update [12:14] TR News "The country now has one agreed way to capture, maintain and share spatial data." https://techcentral.co.za/south-africa-agrees-on-a-shared-language-for-location/284552/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [12:14] TR Bot South Africa agrees on a shared language for location [12:15] TR News "While playing around with this I also noticed that you can define floats larger than the largest float without warnings." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/05/math-log/ | Source: John D Cook [12:15] TR Bot The code that didnt break [12:16] TR News "Let's talk about fooling around with hand-written lexers in C. It's part of my long running hobby language project." https://soylentnews.org/~istartedi/journal/20564 | Source: Soylent News [12:16] TR Bot Journal of istartedi (123) [12:17] TR News Slop "bringing a bunch of fascinating legal questions that are harder to answer than many expect." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/05/ninth-circuit-your-ai-agent-cant-violate-hacking-law-but-you-might/ | Source: Techdirt [12:17] TR Bot Circuit: Your AI Agent Cant Violate Hacking Law. But You Might. | Techdirt [12:18] TR News [Old] "All data stored in US databases is potentially at risk" https://www.dw.com/en/german-public-sector-keen-to-end-reliance-on-us-tech/a-76548879 | Source: Deutsche Welle [12:18] TR Bot German public sector keen to end reliance on US tech [12:18] TR News "Part of it was just life getting busy, but I think a bigger factor was how hard I made it for myself to write anything." https://benjcal.space/blog/i-built-a-blog-and-forgot-to-write/ | [12:18] TR Bot I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write - Ben's Web Space [12:19] TR News "when scripting it is always important to take a last look at the code after it is "done" to make sure it looks good and will be easily understandable later after things are forgotten" -Anon [12:19] TR News "YottaDB is a multi-process embedded NoSQL key-value DBMS." https://dbdb.io/db/yottadb | [12:19] TR Bot YottaDB Database of Databases [12:20] TR News "Google handled 90.1% of worldwide search across desktop, mobile, tablet" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/search-engine-statistics/ | Source: SQ Magazine [12:20] TR Bot Search Engine Statistics 2026: Market Share, Volume & AI Shift SQ Magazine [12:20] TR News "Irken is an attempt to build a small, functional, IRC client in Tcl/Tk. It aims to honor as much of IRC as possible while still remaining small enough to understand by tinkerers." https://codeberg.org/dlowe/irken | Source: Codeberg [12:20] TR Bot A tiny hackable full-featured IRC client - Codeberg.org [12:20] TR News "In this video I demonstrate the built-in speedbar command. This is the file explorer that Emacs ships with." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-08-05-emacs-speedbar-file-explorer/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [12:20] TR Bot the speedbar built-in file explorer (Emacs 31) | Protesilaos [12:21] TR News Open, as in... https://yle.fi/a/7-10100370 iophk: needs a push for Software Freedom, not just open development cc: FSF ? Sompi [12:21] TR Bot Hr byggs Europas digitala sjlvstndighet frn amerikanska techjttarna | Utrikes | Svenska Yle [12:22] TR News "Once upon a time, telephones were primarily point-to-point communications systems." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/cell-broadcast-the-modern-emergency-alert-system/ | Source: Hackaday [12:22] TR Bot Broadcast: The Modern Emergency Alert System | Hackaday [12:22] TR News "After the release of Googles Chromecast so-called streaming sticks have remained a popular form factor, even though such technology is these days part of smart TVs." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/full-teardown-of-a-2026-amazon-fire-stick-hd/ | Source: Hackaday [12:22] TR Bot Teardown Of A 2026 Amazon Fire Stick HD | Hackaday [12:23] TR News "LCD is in scare quotes there, because while the original display is a character LCD, [Uncle Stem]s embigginated recreation is not." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/addressable-leds-make-giant-16x2-character-display/ | Source: Hackaday [12:23] TR Bot LEDs Make Giant 162 Character Display | Hackaday [12:23] TR News "The potentiometer (instrument) has a galvanometer at its heart." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/05/reading-a-thermocouple-with-mercury-and-a-potentiometer/ | Source: Hackaday [12:23] TR Bot A Thermocouple With Mercury And A Potentiometer | Hackaday [12:26] TR News "In 2022, I established the Nazi.compare web site to look at people and organisations who are going down the slippery slope of Hitler. The Berlin police wrote to me and advised they will not prosecute me for making tactical use of the word Nazi when appropriate to do so: [...]" https://danielpocock.com/en/tolerance-inclusion-clacton-every-vote-counts/ [12:26] TR Bot Tolerance & inclusion in Clacton: every vote counts [12:27] TR News "Finland tells jobseekers: Publish your CV or we'll do it for you" https://yle.fi/a/74-20239879 Anon: Microsoft lock-in byzantine, poisoned by gratuitous javascript / Sompi [12:27] TR Bot Finland tells jobseekers: Publish your CV or we'll do it for you | Yle News | Yle [12:29] TR News marc [12:29] TR News "We have released OpenBGPD 9.2, which will be arriving in the OpenBGPD directory of your local OpenBSD mirror soon." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-announce&m=178602261830583&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives [12:29] TR Bot 'OpenBGPD 9.2 released' - MARC [12:29] TR News "that doesn't mean Linux is immune to malware or virus or every other security threat" https://ostechnix.com/do-you-need-antivirus-on-linux/ | Source: OSTechNix [12:29] TR Bot You Really Need Antivirus on Linux? Here's What New Users Should Know - OSTechNix [12:30] TR News "Thats exactly the kind of situation where Id rather just write it out." https://thoughtbot.com/blog/when-to-use-and-not-use-css-shorthand-properties | Source: Thoughtbot Inc [12:30] TR Bot When to use (and not use) CSS shorthand properties [12:30] TR News "A practical guide to vulnerability scanning that does not stop at a giant report: define scope, scan safely, prioritize risk, verify findings, assign owners, and track fixes." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-blue-team-fundamentals-part-3-vulnerability-scanning-with-real-triage/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [12:30] TR Bot Vulnerability Scanning with Real Triage - CybersecKyle [12:30] TR News "All data referenced in this post was extracted from raw JSON Cowrie logs using jq queries and cross-referenced against AbuseIPDB, VirusTotal, GreyNoise, ISC DShield, AlienVault OTX, Shodan, and Whois." https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33220 | Source: SANS [12:30] TR Bot 22 Seconds to Compromise: How Automated SSH Actors Move From Login to Persistence Before You Can Blink [Guest Diary] [12:31] TR News "Joshua Branson added a pretty cool svg logo for our ethernet multiplexor." https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html | Source: GNU [12:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2026-q2.html ) [12:31] TR News "While this stage of development usually slows down, this specific version arrived with a massive amount of code." https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-2-rc6-released/ | Source: OSTechNix [12:31] TR Bot Kernel 7.2 RC6 Released: The Largest RC6 in Recent Years - OSTechNix [12:32] TR News "FreeBSD 16 goes GPL Free, The computer at the bottom of the lake, FreeBSD's new Board member, Phaethon, a new 68010 based Unix machine and more..." https://www.bsdnow.tv/675 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [12:32] TR Bot BSD Now 675: Going GPL Free [12:32] TR News "What does it mean to preserve culture in an age of disappearing websites, platform-controlled media, and fragile digital memories?" https://blog.archive.org/2026/08/05/vanishing-culture-episode-6-what-weve-learned-with-vida-vojic-alice-bridgwood/ | Source: Internet Archive [12:32] TR Bot Vanishing Culture Episode #6: What Weve Learned with Vida Voji & Alice Bridgwood | Internet Archive Blogs [12:52] TR News Microsoft loophole, secret layoffs https://gamesbeat.com/contractors-lose-jobs-but-xbox-says-no-layoffs-of-staff-at-halo-studios/ [12:52] TR Bot lose jobs but Xbox source says no layoffs of staff at Halo Studios - GamesBeat [12:54] TR News FOSS Weekly #26.32: Kittens, Feed Readers, Free Bash Course, No Hey Hi (AI) in Kernel Staging and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-32/ [12:54] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.32: Kittens, Feed Readers, Free Bash Course, No AI in Kernel Staging and More [12:56] TR News Gunnar Wolf: Subscription Bombing Email under Attack https://gwolf.org/2026/08/subscription-bombing-email-under-attack.html [12:56] TR Bot Gunnar Wolf Subscription Bombing Email under Attack [12:57] TR News Mozilla Addons Blog: How the publicSuffix API was created https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2026/08/06/how-the-publicsuffix-api-was-created/ [12:57] TR Bot How the publicSuffix API was created - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ● Aug 07 [13:02] TR News WordPress 7.0.3 release https://wordpress.org/news/2026/08/wordpress-7-0-3-release/ [13:02] TR Bot WordPress 7.0.3 release WordPress News [13:03] TR News Hylke Bons: Icon for KawaiiFi https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/08/06/kawaiifi [13:03] TR Bot Icon for KawaiiFi Planet Peanut Studio [13:03] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@5arz9p7wg8kqn.irc) has joined #techrights [13:04] TR News "Desktop Linux Just Cracked 10% Market Share - and Windows 11 is Mostly the Reason - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/06/1421244 [13:04] TR Bot Desktop Linux Just Cracked 10% Market Share - and Windows 11 is Mostly the Reason - SoylentNews [13:07] TR News Amnesty International demands China release activist arrested for Dalai Lama photo https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/amnesty-international-demands-china-release-activist-arrested-for-dalai-lama-photo/ [13:07] TR Bot Amnesty International demands China release activist arrested for Dalai Lama photo - JURIST - News [13:07] TR News 675: Going GPL Free https://www.bsdnow.tv/675 [13:15] TR News Six stable kernels with a security fix https://lwn.net/Articles/1087567/ [13:15] TR Bot stable kernels with a security fix [LWN.net] [13:28] TR News Map of Data Centres in Greater Manchester https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/06/map-of-data-centres-in-greater-manchester/ [13:28] TR Bot Blog Archive Map of Data Centres in Greater Manchester [13:29] TR News Election Next Week and Daniel Pococks Policies https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/06/election-next-week-and-daniel-pococks-policies/ [13:29] TR Bot Blog Archive Election Next Week and Daniel Pococks Policies [13:29] TR News SigV4 authentication is surprisingly complicated https://www.tigrisdata.com/blog/sigv4/ [13:29] TR Bot SigV4 authentication is surprisingly complicated | Tigris Object Storage [13:35] TR News Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1087489/ [13:35] TR Bot updates for Thursday [LWN.net] [13:36] TR News Bootlin at Open Source Summit Europe 2026 and Linux Plumbers 2026 https://bootlin.com/blog/bootlin-at-open-source-summit-europe-2026-and-linux-plumbers-2026/ [13:36] TR Bot at Open Source Summit Europe 2026 and Linux Plumbers 2026 Bootlin [13:36] TR News Fedora Server 44 OverlayFS BTRFS setup (Assisted by Surveillance Giant Google AI) https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/08/fedora-server-44-overlayfs-btrfs-setup.html [13:37] TR Bot Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Fedora Server 44 OverlayFS BTRFS setup (Assisted by Google AI) [13:37] TR News Rust Coreutils 0.10 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1087490/ [13:37] TR Bot Coreutils 0.10 released [LWN.net] [13:38] TR News EUs Age Verification Plan Could Lock GNU/Linux Out of the Internet https://linuxstans.com/eus-age-verification-plan-could-lock-linux-out-of-the-internet/ [13:38] TR Bot EU Age Verification Could Lock Out Linux Users [13:39] TR News Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until Hey Hi (AI) Started Poking Around and It Got Removed https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-old-moxa-driver-removal/ [13:39] TR Bot Nobody Touched This Linux Driver for Years, Until AI Started Poking Around and It Got Removed [13:40] TR News Proxmox VE now officially supports 64-bit Arm (Aarch64) targets https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/07/proxmox-ve-now-officially-supports-64-bit-arm-aarch64-targets/ [13:40] TR Bot Proxmox VE now officially supports 64-bit Arm (Aarch64) targets - CNX Software [13:40] TR News This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 663 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/08/05/this-week-in-rust-663/ [13:40] TR Bot This Week in Rust 663 This Week in Rust [13:43] TR News What to know about the total solar eclipse on August 12 https://www.france24.com/en/science/20260806-what-to-know-about-the-total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12 [13:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/science/20260806-what-to-know-about-the-total-solar-eclipse-on-august-12 ) [13:43] TR News Supporters of a bipartisan bill say Americas biotechnology future depends on measurement science https://federalnewsnetwork.com/facilities-construction/2026/08/supporters-of-a-bipartisan-bill-say-americas-biotechnology-future-depends-on-measurement-science/ [13:43] TR Bot Supporters of a bipartisan bill say Americas biotechnology future depends on measurement science | Federal News Network [13:49] TR News Maybe we need more DCs to calculate "stuff" and figure out a solution to climate change while heating us up https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-province-deploys-drones-to-warn-elderly-farmers-amid-heatwave 41.2 deg C! [13:49] TR Bot South Korea province deploys drones to warn elderly farmers amid heatwave | The Straits Times [13:52] TR News After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro https://itsfoss.com/opinion/distrohopping-lesson/ [13:52] TR Bot After Nearly a Decade of Distro Hopping, I Realized It Was Never About the Distro [13:53] TR News Foreigners Behaving Badly in Vietnam Challenge Its Communist Justice System https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/asia/vietnam-tourism-foreigners-crime-law.html [13:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/07/world/asia/vietnam-tourism-foreigners-crime-law.html ) [13:53] TR News India's Modimir turns to Instagram to woo young voters after Gen Z protest https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/indias-modi-turns-to-instagram-to-woo-young-voters-after-gen-z-protest [13:53] TR Bot India's Modi turns to Instagram to woo young voters after Gen Z protest | The Straits Times [13:54] TR News "This is The Barn an Orwellian euphemism if there ever was one where Oracle is constructing a massive data center for its OpenAI empire. It is being built against the wishes of the locals both citizens and the town board, which voted against the building plan." [13:54] TR News "Oracle essentially said fuck off and sued the board into capitulating. A groundbreaking ceremony occurred on June 1 and was attended by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and OpenAI CEO Scam Altman. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/inside-abdul-el-sayed-michigan-senate-primary-win-1235604379/ [13:54] TR Bot Inside Abdul El-Sayed's Improbable Michigan Senate Primary Win [13:57] TR News "Saline Township had been bound by a court order to approve a 12-year, 50% tax break for The Barn, a 250-acre project developed by The Related Cos. for Oracle and its customer, OpenAI." https://bridgemi.com/business-watch/massive-data-center-wins-local-tax-break-but-9-times-smaller-than-requested/ [13:57] TR Bot Massive data center wins local tax break but 9 times smaller than requested - Bridge Michigan [13:57] TR News More in https://techrights.org/datacentre_bibliography.shtml [13:57] TR Bot Selected Data Centre Articles: 1 Jan 2025 - 07 Aug 2026 ● Aug 07 [14:06] TR News The Tribal Broadband Bootcamps Celebrate Their Five-Year Anniversary https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/08/the-tribal-broadband-bootcamps-celebrate-their-five-year-anniversary/ [14:06] TR Bot The Tribal Broadband Bootcamps Celebrate Their Five-Year Anniversary - Internet Society [14:06] TR News Despite federal warnings, thousands of U.S. industrial controllers used in water systems remain exposed online https://cyberscoop.com/exposed-rockwell-controllers-water-system-attacks/ [14:06] TR Bot federal warnings, thousands of U.S. industrial controllers used in water systems remain exposed online | CyberScoop [14:07] TR News Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an Hey Hi (AI) data center https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/kentucky-family-snubs-usd26-million-offer-from-ai-company-to-convert-their-farmland-into-a-data-center-they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-says-landowner [14:07] TR Bot Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but were not,' says landowner | Tom's Hardware [14:08] TR News We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot Thats Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/guy-chatbot-manually-responding-chatjtb [14:08] TR Bot We Talked to the Guy Who Built a Chatbot That's Just Him Manually Responding to People One-by-One [14:10] TR News tech [14:11] TR News Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts That the Companys New Tech Can Fabricate Fake History Like in 1984 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/andreessen-horowitz-chilling-assessment-new-tech [14:11] TR Bot Andreessen Horowitz Partner Boasts That the Company's New Tech Can Fabricate Fake History Like in "1984" [14:11] TR News OpenAI Tried to Hire Influencers to Spread Love for Its Products, But It Backfired Horrendously https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-influencer-campaign-backfired [14:11] TR Bot OpenAI Tried to Hire Influencers to Spread Love for Its Products, But It Backfired Horrendously [14:12] TR News WhatsApp tests age confirmation in largest market India https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/whatsapp-tests-age-confirmation-in-largest-market-india [14:12] TR Bot WhatsApp tests age confirmation in India | The Straits Times [14:12] TR News UMG Says It Owes Nothing to the American Federation of Musicians as Legal Barbs Fly Following Udio Hey Hi (AI) Licensing Deal https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/american-federation-of-musicians-lawsuits-dismissal-motions/ [14:12] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/american-federation-of-musicians-lawsuits-dismissal-motions/ ) [14:14] TR News Forget LawsuitsWMG is Already Counting Its Cash from Hey Hi (AI) Licensing Deals, with Suno Topping the List https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/wmg-ai-licensing-deals-suno-cash/ [14:14] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/wmg-ai-licensing-deals-suno-cash/ ) [14:15] TR News American Oversight Wins Key Court Ruling Striking Down Energy Dept.s Unlawful FOIA Purge Policy https://americanoversight.org/energy-department-foia-purge-policy-lawsuit/ [14:15] TR Bot American Oversight Wins Key Court Ruling Striking Down Energy Dept.s Unlawful FOIA Purge Policy - American Oversight [14:15] TR News Announcing OpenBao v2.6! https://openssf.org/blog/2026/08/06/announcing-openbao-v2-6/ [14:15] TR Bot Announcing OpenBao v2.6! Open Source Security Foundation [14:15] *yellow-pillow has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:17] TR News "Daniel Pocock (Independent)" https://www.tendringdc.gov.uk/news/voters-to-have-their-say-at-record-breaking-clacton-by-election-next-week [14:17] TR Bot Voters to have their say at record-breaking Clacton by-election next week [14:23] TR News Hackers Start Exploiting Recent JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-start-exploiting-recent-jetbrains-teamcity-vulnerability/ [14:23] TR Bot Start Exploiting Recent JetBrains TeamCity Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [14:24] TR News Cisco Patches Critical SD-WAN, IOS XE, FMC Vulnerabilities https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-sd-wan-ios-xe-fmc-vulnerabilities/ [14:24] TR Bot Patches Critical SD-WAN, IOS XE, FMC Vulnerabilities - SecurityWeek [14:24] TR News Critical Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution https://www.securityweek.com/critical-paperclip-flaw-allowed-admin-access-code-execution/ [14:24] TR Bot Paperclip Flaw Allowed Admin Access, Code Execution - SecurityWeek [14:24] TR News Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court https://www.securityweek.com/snowflake-hacker-pleads-guilty-in-us-court/ [14:24] TR Bot Hacker Pleads Guilty in US Court - SecurityWeek [14:25] TR News Union sues TSA over privatization plan records https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/08/union-sues-tsa-over-privatization-plan-records/ [14:25] TR Bot Union sues TSA over privatization plan records | Federal News Network [14:25] TR News IceWM 4.1 released [14:25] TR News Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino UNO Q board https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/06/build-your-own-handheld-retro-console-with-the-arduino-uno-q-board/ [14:25] TR Bot Build your own handheld retro console with the Arduino UNO Q board | Arduino Blog [14:26] TR News The Professor Falsely Accused of Murdering Students https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-professor-falsely-accused-of-murdering-students [14:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-professor-falsely-accused-of-murdering-students ) [14:27] TR News "What happened when a Fentanylware (CheeTok) psychic's claims went viral." [14:27] TR News Previously the CPC's BS platform spread globally this idea Dalai Lama was a pedo [14:28] TR News Googles $19 billion India data centre project battles water, wildlife concerns https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns [14:28] TR Bot Google India data centre faces environmental hurdles | The Straits Times [14:30] TR News Teachers talking about GenAI in schools more trouble than it is worth? https://criticaledtech.com/2026/08/07/teachers-talking-about-genai-in-schools-more-trouble-than-it-is-worth/ "Nearly four years on after the introduction of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot into schools, we are beginning to see signs that GenAI is starting to lose its lustre." [14:30] TR Bot Teachers talking about GenAI in schools more trouble than it is worth? Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY [14:30] TR News Apple is taking Proprietary Chaffbot Company to court over alleged theft of trade secrets Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot maker suggests it doesn't want Cupertino's knowledge anyway https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/apple-is-taking-openai-to-court-over-alleged-theft-of-trade-secrets-chatgpt-maker-suggests-it-doesnt-want-cupertinos-knowledge-anyway [14:30] TR Bot Apple is taking OpenAI to court over alleged theft of trade secrets ChatGPT maker suggests it doesn't want Cupertino's knowledge anyway | Tom's Hardware [14:31] TR News $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/usd1-billion-of-iphone-18-pro-chips-on-the-shelves-awaiting-packaging-due-to-dram-shortages-memory-shortages-reportedly-put-a-wrinkle-in-apples-launch-plans [14:31] TR Bot $1 billion of iPhone 18 Pro chips 'on the shelves awaiting packaging' due to DRAM shortages memory shortages reportedly put a wrinkle in Apple's launch plans | Tom's Hardware [14:32] TR News VPN provider built a script to block Microsoft's hidden GDID tracking on backdoored Windows https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/vpn-provider-windscribe-has-built-a-script-to-block-microsofts-persistent-gdid-tracking-on-windows-degdid-erases-existing-identifiers-and-blocks-new-ones-from-being-created [14:32] TR Bot VPN provider built a script to block Microsoft's hidden GDID tracking on Windows Windscribe's "deGDID" erases existing identifiers and blocks new ones from being created | Tom's Hardware [14:32] TR News Judge Newmans Name may soon be on the Bench, Even if she is Barred from Entry https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/judge-newmans-name-may-soon-be-on-the-bench-even-if-she-is-barred-from-entry.html [14:32] TR Bot Judge Newman's Name may soon be on the Bench, Even if she is Barred from Entry [14:32] TR News SLAPP Censorship - Part 141 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Learn From the Mistakes of the European Patent Office (EPO) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/06/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_141_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_Failed_to.shtml [14:32] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 141 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP Failed to Learn From the Mistakes of the European Patent Office (EPO) [14:33] TR News DynaIP entity, Err Content, media casting patent monopoly confirmed invalid by PTAB https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/8/5/dynaip-entity-err-content-media-casting-patent-confirmed-invalid-by-ptab [14:33] TR Bot DynaIP entity, Err Content, media casting patent confirmed invalid by PTAB Unified Patents [14:34] TR News Well, "a preliminary injunction" means that in context of patents the punishment precedes due process. This seems insane and Draconian. https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/dutch-pharmacy-exemption-defence-fails-in-novo-nordisk-semaglutide-case/ [14:34] TR Bot Dutch pharmacy exemption defence fails in Novo Nordisk semaglutide case [14:36] TR News Philipp Sauberzweig: Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management https://blogs.gnome.org/psauberz/2026/08/06/sovereign-tech-fellowship-for-gnome-design-community-management/ [14:36] TR Bot Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management Code & Community [14:36] TR News PICOTTY project enables multi-target serial remote management through Raspberry Pi Pico boards and Pi Zero 2 W SBC https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/06/picotty-project-enables-multi-target-serial-remote-management-through-raspberry-pi-pico-boards-and-pi-zero-2-w-sbc/ [14:36] TR Bot PICOTTY project enables multi-target serial remote management through Raspberry Pi Pico boards and Pi Zero 2 W SBC - CNX Software [14:38] TR News Halo Studios Suffers Job Losses Shortly After Campaign Evolved Launch https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/08/halo-studios-suffers-job-losses-shortly-after-campaign-evolved-launch [14:38] TR Bot Halo Studios Suffers Job Losses Shortly After Campaign Evolved Launch | Pure Xbox [14:40] TR News Understanding partial reachability in the Internet core https://blog.apnic.net/2026/08/07/understanding-partial-reachability-in-the-internet-core/ [14:40] TR Bot Understanding partial reachability in the Internet core | APNIC Blog [14:43] TR News IBM Red Hat pushing slop. "Something has to change." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/curing-alert-fatigue-how-embedded-ai-redefining-red-hat-openshift-cluster-troubleshooting | Source: Red Hat Official [14:43] TR Bot Curing alert fatigue: How embedded AI is redefining Red Hat OpenShift cluster troubleshooting [14:43] TR News Slop, slop, and more slop. IBM Red Hat knows nothing else anymore. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/cpu-back-rethinking-cpu-gpu-split-llm-inference | Source: Red Hat Official [14:43] TR Bot The CPU is back: Rethinking the CPU-GPU split for LLM inference [14:44] TR News Not slop, for a change https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/migration-catalyst-turning-virtualization-disruption-application-innovation | Source: Red Hat Official [14:44] TR Bot The migration catalyst: turning virtualization disruption into application innovation [14:44] TR News IBM says the future is slop, then tries to upsell https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/why-it-securitys-future-more-just-ai-models | Source: Red Hat Official [14:44] TR Bot Why IT securitys future is more than just AI models [14:45] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [14:46] TR News IBM Red Hat boasts about imperialism, just like GAFAM https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/inside-operation-jailbreak-red-hats-participation-us-armys-open-integration-sprint | Source: Red Hat Official https://techrights.org/o/2020/06/06/regime-change-in-haiti/ [14:46] TR Bot Inside Operation Jailbreak: Red Hats participation in the US Armys open integration sprint [14:46] TR Bot Chairman of the Board of Red Hat Explains He Was Introduced to GNU/Linux When It Helped His Regime Change in Haiti [14:47] TR News "This is the third installment in our MySQL interview series, and every question and example has been verified on a currently supported MySQL release." https://www.tecmint.com/mysql-advance-interview-questions/ | Source: TecMint [14:47] TR Bot 15 MySQL Interview Questions Every Linux User Should Know [14:50] TR News Mesa 26.2.0 released with lots of improvements for Linux / SteamOS graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/mesa-26-2-0-released-with-lots-of-improvements-for-linux-steamos-graphics-drivers/ Source: GamingOnLinux [14:50] TR Bot 26.2.0 released with lots of improvements for Linux / SteamOS graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux [14:50] TR News This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026 https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/06/this-quarter-in-kde-digital-sovereignty-q2-2026/ [14:50] TR Bot This Quarter in KDE Digital Sovereignty: Q2 2026 - KDE Blogs [14:51] TR News CalamaroOS 20260805 https://distrowatch.com/calamaroos [14:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/calamaroos ) [14:51] TR News Beelink SER10 Max Mini PC review: Gorgon Point comes ready to dual-boot backdoored Windows and Ubuntu https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/mini-pcs/beelink-ser10-max-mini-pc-review [14:51] TR Bot Beelink SER10 Max Mini PC review: Gorgon Point comes ready to dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu | Tom's Hardware [14:52] TR News GNOME Boxes Finally Ported to GTK4/LibAdwaita via Version 51 Beta https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/gnome-boxes-finally-ported-to-gtk4-libadwaita-via-version-51-beta/ [14:52] TR Bot GNOME Boxes Finally Ported to GTK4/LibAdwaita via Version 51 Beta | UbuntuHandbook [14:52] TR News GNOME 50.4 Released! Fixed the App Search issue for Ubuntu 26.04 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/gnome-50-4-fixed-app-search-ubuntu-2604/ [14:52] TR Bot GNOME 50.4 Released! Fixed the App Search issue for Ubuntu 26.04 | UbuntuHandbook [14:54] TR News greg k-h removed some stale crap due to fuzzer and slop reports, unverified we have covered it. Linux patches become increasingly questionable as they address mere allegations, handled en masse. [14:55] TR News This is one of many ways slop creates a lot of worthless work, overwhelming a human's capacity to match up the waste of energy. Slop needs stricter obstructions. [14:56] TR News Ponzi Jim (Zemlin) is one of those "Influencers" because he has his fists around Torvalds' pair https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-influencer-campaign-backfired [14:56] TR Bot OpenAI Tried to Hire Influencers to Spread Love for Its Products, But It Backfired Horrendously [14:57] TR News Speaking of pair, have Bill Epsteingate and Torvalds had their second special dinner yet? Did they get to pass some viruses afterwards? [14:58] TR News 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner' https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/long-time-rivals-bill-gates-and-linus-torvalds-meet-for-the-first-time-have-dinner-no-major-kernel-decisions-were-made-but-maybe-next-dinner afterparty? http://techrights.org/n/2026/01/30/The_Epstein_Files_Don_t_Say_the_Ages_of_Those_Russian_Girls_Bil.shtml [14:58] TR Bot Long-time rivals Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds meet for the first time, have dinner 'No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner' | Tom's Hardware [14:58] TR Bot Techrights The Epstein Files Don't Say the Ages of Those "Russian Girls" Bill Epsteingate Exploited [14:59] TR News Resources (Linux system monitor) adds new PowerPC, NPU stats https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/resources-51-beta-npu-powerpc-temps [14:59] TR Bot Resources (Linux system monitor) adds new PowerPC, NPU stats - OMG! Ubuntu [14:59] TR News SmartOS 20260806 https://distrowatch.com/smartos [14:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/smartos ) ● Aug 07 [15:00] TR News The Pretender is not "missing out" a FOSS(y) event in Canada. Gotta search for sex, eh? http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/FOSSY_2025_Conference_Safety.shtml [15:00] TR Bot Techrights FOSSY 2025 Conference Safety [15:01] TR News How my homelab storage evolved over time https://www.rubenerd.au/how-my-homelab-storage-evolved-over-time/ [15:01] TR Bot Rubenerd: How my homelab storage evolved over time [15:02] TR News how to make gnu linux debian 13 mate /usr/bin/fox the default browser (without apt install firefox-esr) https://dwaves.de/2026/08/06/how-to-make-gnu-linux-debian-13-mate-usr-bin-fox-the-default-browser-without-apt-install-firefox-esr/ [15:02] TR Bot how to make gnu linux debian 13 mate /usr/bin/fox the default browser (without apt install firefox-esr) | dwaves.de [15:04] TR News Apropos "he's dead, so" - many people try to find article regarding Williams http://techrights.org/n/2026/07/25/Wife_of_Dan_Williams_Has_Explained_Mental_Factors_Leading_to_Hi.shtml 20 years ago journalism existed, even 10 years (re ian murdock). Now a top 'Linux' Foundation person kills himself, zero news about it [15:04] TR Bot Techrights Wife of Dan Williams Has Explained Mental Factors Leading to His Death [15:04] TR News How To Install OpenCV on Fedora 44 https://idroot.us/install-opencv-fedora-44/ [15:04] TR Bot How To Install OpenCV on Fedora 44 - idroot [15:05] TR News iophk: it's being misrepresented as anything other than an unmitigated disaster :/ https://yle.fi/a/7-10103168 Sompi [15:05] TR Bot Microsoft lmnar in anskan om bygglov fr datacentret blir Korsholms strsta bygglov ngonsin | sterbotten | Svenska Yle [15:06] TR News Colonialism by GAFAM https://yle.fi/a/74-20239822 https://yle.fi/a/7-10103168 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/googles-15-billion-india-data-centre-project-battles-water-wildlife-concerns [15:06] TR Bot Microsoft hakee datakeskukselleen jo rakennuslupaa Mustasaaresta | Pohjanmaa | Yle [15:06] TR Bot Google India data centre faces environmental hurdles | The Straits Times [15:07] TR News "ONLY STUPID PEOPLE OPPOSE COLONIALISM!" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/kentucky-family-snubs-usd26-million-offer-from-ai-company-to-convert-their-farmland-into-a-data-center-they-call-us-old-stupid-farmers-you-know-but-were-not-says-landowner [15:07] TR Bot Kentucky family snubs $26 million offer to convert their farmland into an AI data center 'they call us old stupid farmers, you know, but were not,' says landowner | Tom's Hardware [15:08] TR News This won't age well https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/21/Slop_s_Latest_Casualty_The_Credibility_of_Linus_Torvalds.shtml [15:08] TR Bot Techrights Slop's Latest Casualty: The Credibility of Linus Torvalds [15:08] TR News Many GNU/Linux PCs Are Not Connected to the Net or Don't Use the Web https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/06/Many_GNU_Linux_PCs_Are_Not_Connected_to_the_Net_or_Don_t_Use_th.shtml [15:08] TR Bot Techrights Many GNU/Linux PCs Are Not Connected to the Net or Don't Use the Web [15:10] TR News The characteristics of a truly open document standard format https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/06/truly-open-document-standard-format/ [15:10] TR Bot The characteristics of a truly open document standard format - TDF Community Blog [15:10] TR News EU heavily equips coastguards of Mediterranean neighbours Turkey received particularly large share of funding https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/06/eu-heavily-equips-coastguards-of-mediterranean-neighbours-turkey-received-particularly-large-share-of-funding/ [15:10] TR Bot EU heavily equips coastguards of Mediterranean neighbours Turkey received particularly large share of funding | Matthias Monroy [15:12] TR News Anthropic Pushes for Partial Dismissal in Concord II, Says No Direct Infringement Evidence Exists Against Cofounder Dario Amodei https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/05/concord-v-anthropic-ii-dismissal-motion/ [15:12] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/05/concord-v-anthropic-ii-dismissal-motion/ ) [15:12] TR News Additional Licensing Deals Incoming? Suno Unveils New Downloads Policy, Watermarking Support, Clearer Community Guidelines, and Transparency Tools for Identifying Hey Hi (AI) Tracks https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/suno-changes-2026/ [15:12] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/suno-changes-2026/ ) [15:17] TR News Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/08/canadian-man-pleads-guilty-in-snowflake-extortions/ [15:17] TR Bot Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions Krebs on Security [15:17] TR News Belarusian Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison https://www.securityweek.com/belarusian-ransom-cartel-mastermind-gets-16-years-in-prison/ [15:17] TR Bot Ransom Cartel Mastermind Gets 16 Years in Prison - SecurityWeek [15:19] TR News Banned from Manchester for 2 years because of trans activists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqpel9DvJo [15:19] TR Bot https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=Icqpel9DvJo [15:19] TR Bot certificate subject name 'haproxy-ingress.haproxy-controller' does not match target hostname 'inv.perditum.com' ( status 0 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=Icqpel9DvJo ) [15:24] TR News The Pretender keeps saying evidence against him is... [xyz]... without providing any particulars of alleged falsity. Because those things are true. He types junk into social control media... then dismisses or slags it off as mere "tweets". But not refuting those in ANY way. Also lied to many judges. [15:26] TR News He is also openly collaborating, now in the open, with Lozza. The Pretender quit even _pretending_ to have any standards. http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml [15:26] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them [15:26] TR News The Hey Hi (AI) layer of observability: Making telemetry human-readable https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/06/ai-layer-observability-making-telemetry-human-readable [15:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/06/ai-layer-observability-making-telemetry-human-readable ) [15:28] TR News TikTok Lays Off 250 Employees in Office That Includes Content Moderation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/tiktok-layoffs-nashville.html [15:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/technology/tiktok-layoffs-nashville.html ) [15:28] TR News Anyone Looking for Some Swanky Office Space In Music City? Fentanylware (CheeTok) Guts Its Entire Nashville Office After Just Two Years, Lays Off 250 Employees https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/tiktok-guts-entire-nashville-office-layoffs/ [15:28] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/06/tiktok-guts-entire-nashville-office-layoffs/ ) [15:29] TR News Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/06/sin-is-when/ [15:29] TR Bot Pluralistic: Eternal Sloptember (06 Aug 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [15:29] TR News 3:30PM links finished. August's slow news. [15:31] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-03-24 [15:31] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-03-24 [15:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [15:42] TR News "Follow those influences far enough back, and much of modern Linux converges around three early traditions that found different answers to the same problem: how to turn a kernel and a collection of software into an operating system people could actually install, maintain, and use." https://www.makeuseof.com/favorite-linux-distro-descends-from-one-these-three-operating-systems/ [15:42] TR Bot Your favorite Linux distro probably descends from one of these three operating systems [15:46] TR News Not what is happening https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/linux-use-skyrockets-as-it-becomes-os-of-choice-for-ai-agents/ [15:46] TR Bot Use Skyrockets as It Becomes OS of Choice for AI Agents - CNET [15:46] TR News "Your Windows machine wants to be your friend, but behind your back it tells Microsoft everything you do. Im tired of misbehaving software, and many people are coming to the same realization. Here are four reasons why Linux will be the most attractive choice going into 2027." https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-using-windows-reasons-why-linux-will-be-king/ [15:46] TR Bot 4 reasons why Linux will be king in 2027 [15:47] TR News New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-tontou-cpu-attack-bypasses-spectre-v2-fixes-leaks-linux-password-hashes/ [15:47] TR Bot New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes [15:47] TR News "Linux has always lived in the back of my mind as an operating that system enthusiasts couldn't stop recommending" https://www.xda-developers.com/my-first-linux-experience-was-out-of-necessity-it-made-all-the-difference/ [15:47] TR Bot My first Linux experience was born out of necessity instead of curiosity, and that made all the difference [15:48] TR News Actual Linux, for a change https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-announces-key-industry-support-for-linux-vendor-firmware-service-302844998.html [15:48] TR Bot Linux Foundation Announces Key Industry Support for Linux Vendor Firmware Service [15:50] TR News New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let.html [15:50] TR Bot New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts [15:50] TR News (NEW): 4 reasons why Linux will be king in 2027 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/4_reasons_why_Linux_will_be_king_in_2027.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/4_reasons_why_Linux_will_be_king_in_2027.gmi [15:50] TR News (NEW): Desktop Linux apps on Android proved my phone's biggest bottleneck isn't what I thought https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/Desktop_Linux_apps_on_Android_proved_my_phone_s_biggest_bottlen.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/Desktop_Linux_apps_on_Android_proved_my_phone_s_biggest_bottlen.gmi [15:50] TR Bot Tux Machines 4 reasons why Linux will be king in 2027 [15:50] TR News (NEW): RPCS3 recommends this Linux distro for best PS3 emulation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/RPCS3_recommends_this_Linux_distro_for_best_PS3_emulation.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/RPCS3_recommends_this_Linux_distro_for_best_PS3_emulation.gmi [15:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Desktop Linux apps on Android proved my phone's biggest bottleneck isn't what I thought [15:50] TR Bot Tux Machines RPCS3 recommends this Linux distro for best PS3 emulation [15:50] TR News (NEW): Why some tech users are ditching Android for Linux phones https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Why_some_tech_users_are_ditching_Android_for_Linux_phones.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Why_some_tech_users_are_ditching_Android_for_Linux_phones.gmi [15:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Why some tech users are ditching Android for Linux phones [15:51] TR News "While dual booting isnt the most technically challenging thing, it can present some problems down the line if you dont know what youre doing. Thankfully, you have me, and Ive been using a multi-boot system for a decade now." https://www.howtogeek.com/the-many-things-nobody-tells-you-about-dual-booting-linux-and-windows/ [15:51] TR Bot 7 things nobody tells you about dual booting Linux and Windows [15:52] TR News SynthEdit 1.6 brings native macOS support and Linux experimental after three decades of waiting https://synthanatomy.com/2026/08/synthedit-1-6-brings-native-macos-support-and-linux-experimental-after-three-decades-of-waiting.html [15:52] TR Bot ( status 426 @ https://synthanatomy.com/2026/08/synthedit-1-6-brings-native-macos-support-and-linux-experimental-after-three-decades-of-waiting.html ) [15:53] TR News I got a free Mini PC, and TurnKey Linux made it a cloud-backed NAS https://www.makeuseof.com/i-got-a-free-mini-pc-and-turnkey-linux-made-it-a-cloud-backed-nas/ [15:53] TR Bot I got a free Mini PC, and TurnKey Linux made it a cloud-backed NAS [15:55] TR News How Chroot Explains the Filesystem Isolation Behind Linux Containers https://hackernoon.com/how-chroot-explains-the-filesystem-isolation-behind-linux-containers [15:55] TR Bot [15:55] TR News apropos: https://www.makeuseof.com/favorite-linux-distro-descends-from-one-these-three-operating-systems/ Ian, via Debian, brought package management to the world Package management is now taken for granted [15:55] TR News (NEW): Could your old computer have a second life? https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Could_your_old_computer_have_a_second_life.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Could_your_old_computer_have_a_second_life.gmi [15:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Could your old computer have a second life? [15:56] TR News "PlayStation 3 emulator RPCS3 works the best on Linux, despite having over 90% of its total user base on Windows. However, within the Linux ecosystem, RPCS3 recommends a specific distro." https://www.notebookcheck.net/RPCS3-recommends-this-Linux-distro-for-best-PS3-emulation.1361321.0.html [15:56] TR Bot RPCS3 recommends this Linux distro for best PS3 emulation - Notebookcheck News [15:57] TR News (NEW): Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: Microsoft Pundit Calls "Linux" Users "AI" Because the Data Looks Bad for Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/05/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Microsoft_Pundit_Calls_Linux_Users_AI_Be.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/05/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Microsoft_Pundit_Calls_Linux_Users_AI_Be.gmi [15:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt: Microsoft Pundit Calls "Linux" Users "AI" Because the Data Looks Bad for Windows [15:57] TR News Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026 Schedule Champions Open Source Innovation and Marks 35 Years of Linux https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/open-source-summit--embedded-linux-conference-europe-2026-schedule-champions-open-source-innovation-and-marks-35-years-of-linux-302843979.html [15:57] TR Bot Open Source Summit + Embedded Linux Conference Europe 2026 Schedule Champions Open Source Innovation and Marks 35 Years of Linux [15:58] TR News GNU/Linux turns 43 next month [15:58] TR News CVSS score of 7.8 https://securityaffairs.com/196657/hacking/ovswrap-13-year-old-linux-kernel-flaw-lets-local-users-become-root.html [15:58] TR Bot OVSwrap: 13-Year-Old Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Become Root [15:59] TR News Zero connection to Linux, 100 about promoting slop using the name "Linux" https://www.channeldive.com/news/foundation-tackles-ai-ROI-token-costs/827011/ [15:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.channeldive.com/news/foundation-tackles-ai-ROI-token-costs/827011/ ) ● Aug 07 [16:00] TR News Linux use surges in North America, but real market share growth may wait in Europe https://cybernews.com/tech/linux-north-america/ [16:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://cybernews.com/tech/linux-north-america/ ) [16:01] TR News Linux brand jumping the shark, getting sold to inflate a pyramid scheme instead https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-the-tokenomics-foundation-to-define-the-economics-and-roi-of-ai-value [16:01] TR Bot Linux Foundation Launches the Tokenomics Foundation to Define the Economics and ROI of AI Value [16:01] TR News Have an Intel Mac or Old Windows PC? Revive It With One of These 20 Fun DIY Projects https://uk.pcmag.com/laptops/162776/20-projects-to-give-old-pc-laptop-desktop-intel-mac-new-life [16:01] TR Bot Have an Intel Mac or Old Windows PC? Revive It With One of These 20 Fun DIY Projects [16:04] TR News (NEW): Desktop/Laptop: EUs Age Verification, Old PCs, Trying GNU/Linux, and "Linux Use Surges in North America" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Desktop_Laptop_EU_s_Age_Verification_Old_PCs_Trying_GNU_Linux_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Desktop_Laptop_EU_s_Age_Verification_Old_PCs_Trying_GNU_Linux_a.gmi [16:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Desktop/Laptop: EUs Age Verification, Old PCs, Trying GNU/Linux, and "Linux Use Surges in North America" [16:06] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Internet Archive and BSD Now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Audiocasts_Shows_Internet_Archive_and_BSD_Now.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Audiocasts_Shows_Internet_Archive_and_BSD_Now.gmi [16:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Internet Archive and BSD Now [16:07] TR News (NEW): Kernel: Linux Plumbers 2026, Concerns About Slop Disrupting Developers' Workflow, Aarch64, GNU Hurd Reemerges https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Kernel_Linux_Plumbers_2026_Concerns_About_Slop_Disrupting_Devel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Kernel_Linux_Plumbers_2026_Concerns_About_Slop_Disrupting_Devel.gmi [16:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel: Linux Plumbers 2026, Concerns About Slop Disrupting Developers' Workflow, Aarch64, GNU Hurd Reemerges [16:09] *ubuntourist (~kjcole@freenode-keuhi6.9llj.oapr.0juu4j.IP) has joined #techrights [16:09] TR News (NEW): Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/05/Mesa_26_2_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/05/Mesa_26_2_Open_Source_Graphics_Stack_Officially_Released_Here_s.gmi [16:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Mesa 26.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Heres Whats New [16:10] TR News Popular Steam Deck accessory brand JSAUX announced controller-focused brand Voidjoy | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/popular-steam-deck-accessory-brand-jsaux-announced-controller-focused-brand-voidjoy/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:10] TR Bot Steam Deck accessory brand JSAUX announced controller-focused brand Voidjoy | GamingOnLinux [16:10] TR News Nazi Zombies is a free to play take on the classic Call of Duty Zombies mode | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nazi-zombies-is-a-free-to-play-take-on-the-classic-call-of-duty-zombies-mode/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:10] TR Bot Zombies is a free to play take on the classic Call of Duty Zombies mode | GamingOnLinux [16:11] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/today_s_howtos.gmi [16:11] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [16:12] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Security_Leftovers.gmi [16:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [16:13] TR News
  • Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms [Ed: Paid-for spam from fake, compromised non-experts]
    • [16:13] TR Bot Red Hat Positioned as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms [16:13] TR Bot Gartner Group [16:13] TR News Paid-for spam from fake, compromised non-experts https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/red-hat-positioned-leader-2026-gartnerr-magic-quadranttm-cloud-native-application-platforms http://techrights.org/wiki/Gartner_Group/ [16:14] TR News Paid-for Red Hat spam, paid by Red Hat to sell Red Hat https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/04/red-hat-leads-open-source-project-automate-ai-governance/ [16:14] TR Bot Hat leads open-source project to automate AI governance - SiliconANGLE [16:14] TR News Vendor lock-in is not a gift https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-and-red-hat-offer-lightwell-no-charge-universities-ngos-and-think-tanks [16:14] TR Bot IBM and Red Hat Offer Lightwell at No Charge to Universities, NGOs and Think Tanks [16:15] TR News Pushing slop as a skill, not Linux https://next.redhat.com/2026/07/28/building-skills-for-ai-agents-pitfalls-and-best-practices/ [16:15] TR Bot Building skills for AI agents: pitfalls and best practices - Red Hat Emerging Technologies [16:19] TR News (NEW): Red Hat: Paid-for SPAM (Disguised as Recommendations and Journalism), US Army, Slop Plagiarism, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Red_Hat_Paid_for_SPAM_Disguised_as_Recommendations_and_Journali.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Red_Hat_Paid_for_SPAM_Disguised_as_Recommendations_and_Journali.gmi [16:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat: Paid-for SPAM (Disguised as Recommendations and Journalism), US Army, Slop Plagiarism, and More [16:20] TR News Ready up for the Steam Frame with the In Your World VR Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ready-up-for-the-steam-frame-with-the-in-your-world-vr-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ready-up-for-the-steam-frame-with-the-in-your-world-vr-bundle/ [16:20] TR Bot up for the Steam Frame with the In Your World VR Bundle | GamingOnLinux [16:20] TR News Blood Dungeon from the Wheel World and Nidhogg dev releases August 25 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-from-the-wheel-world-and-nidhogg-dev-releases-august-25/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/blood-dungeon-from-the-wheel-world-and-nidhogg-dev-releases-august-25/ [16:20] TR Bot Dungeon from the Wheel World and Nidhogg dev releases August 25 | GamingOnLinux [16:21] TR News (NEW): Dual Booting Done Wrong, or How Microsoft Has Made It Harder to Boot Into GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Dual_Booting_Done_Wrong_or_How_Microsoft_Has_Made_It_Harder_to_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Dual_Booting_Done_Wrong_or_How_Microsoft_Has_Made_It_Harder_to_.gmi [16:21] TR Bot Tux Machines Dual Booting Done Wrong, or How Microsoft Has Made It Harder to Boot Into GNU/Linux [16:27] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@v8k926mmd7usg.irc) has joined #techrights [16:32] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [16:33] TR News RAM? What RAM? The biggest makers are reportedly now sold out all through 2027 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/ram-what-ram-the-biggest-makers-are-reportedly-now-sold-out-all-through-2027/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:33] TR Bot What RAM? The biggest makers are reportedly now sold out all through 2027 | GamingOnLinux [16:37] TR News FAKE ME aims to take on MECCHA CHAMELEON where you remodel yourself to hide | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/fake-me-aims-to-take-on-meccha-chameleon-where-you-remodel-yourself-to-hide/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:37] TR Bot ME aims to take on MECCHA CHAMELEON where you remodel yourself to hide | GamingOnLinux [16:43] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/07/economy/us-jobs-report-july [16:43] TR Bot The US economy unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs last month | CNN Business [16:43] IsambardPrince We're losing jobs every month because of a President who is laying down destructive economic policies. [16:43] IsambardPrince Somehow having the 12th or 13th bad jobs report in a row is a surprise? [16:46] TR News GOG have a great sale on shooters going on | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/gog-have-a-great-sale-on-shooters-going-on/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:47] TR Bot have a great sale on shooters going on | GamingOnLinux [16:47] TR News The No More Robots Humble Bundle is a great deal with Let's Build a Zoo, Yes, Your Grace and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-no-more-robots-humble-bundle-is-a-great-deal-with-lets-build-a-zoo-yes-your-grace-and-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux [16:47] TR Bot No More Robots Humble Bundle is a great deal with Let's Build a Zoo, Yes, Your Grace and more | GamingOnLinux [16:51] TR News (NEW): Games: DRM-free, MECCHA CHAMELEON, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Games_DRM_free_MECCHA_CHAMELEON_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Games_DRM_free_MECCHA_CHAMELEON_and_More.gmi [16:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: DRM-free, MECCHA CHAMELEON, and More [16:51] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi [16:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and More [16:52] TR News (NEW): GNOME: Icon for KawaiiFi and Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNOME_Icon_for_KawaiiFi_and_Sovereign_Tech_Fellowship_for_GNOME.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNOME_Icon_for_KawaiiFi_and_Sovereign_Tech_Fellowship_for_GNOME.gmi [16:52] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME: Icon for KawaiiFi and Sovereign Tech Fellowship for GNOME Design & Community Management [16:54] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [16:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [16:56] TR News (NEW): Free Software, Digital Sovereignty, and Standards https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Free_Software_Digital_Sovereignty_and_Standards.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Free_Software_Digital_Sovereignty_and_Standards.gmi [16:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Free Software, Digital Sovereignty, and Standards [16:56] TR News (NEW): WordPress 7.0.3 is Out, "I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/WordPress_7_0_3_is_Out_I_Built_a_Blog_and_Forgot_to_Write.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/WordPress_7_0_3_is_Out_I_Built_a_Blog_and_Forgot_to_Write.gmi [16:56] TR Bot Tux Machines WordPress 7.0.3 is Out, "I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write" [16:57] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [16:57] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [16:57] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [16:59] TR News Techrights Links 07/08/2026: UMG and Anthropic in Trouble Over Copyright Infringements Sold as "Training" (Slop) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Links_07_08_2026_UMG_and_Anthropic_in_Trouble_Over_Copyright_In.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Links_07_08_2026_UMG_and_Anthropic_in_Trouble_Over_Copyright_In.gmi [16:59] TR Bot Techrights Links 07/08/2026: UMG and Anthropic in Trouble Over Copyright Infringements Sold as "Training" (Slop) ● Aug 07 [17:03] IsambardPrince MinceR: TNG was so uneven. It had a lot of crap episodes. [17:03] IsambardPrince I'm surprised they spent so much to restore it. [17:04] IsambardPrince One episode introduces an alien race that's advanced enough to wipe the memory of the crew of the Enterprise, change the computer logs, and slip an imposter aboard who was supposedly a human starfleet officer as the XO. [17:05] IsambardPrince But then they were manipulated into winning the war for these people, who were almost 200 years behind the Federation in tech. [17:05] MinceR well, humans like to think of their own species as oh so intelligent and they get manipulated real easily [17:06] IsambardPrince The Satarran spy (Commander MacDuff) manages to completely wipe the memories of the entire crew, bypass the Enterprise's advanced firewalls to alter historical logs, and invent a fake persona out of thin air. That requires an unimaginable level of technological and biological dominance over the Federation. [17:07] IsambardPrince But the grand strategy behind this legendary hack is completely pathetic. The Satarrans are locked in an endless, bloody war with the Lysians. When the Enterprise finally arrives at the Lysian central command, Picard realizes the enemy's maximum defensive capability consists of primitive stationary outposts with weak shields and weapons that couldn't even scratch the paint on a shuttlecraft. [17:13] IsambardPrince MinceR: Leeloo dry heaves sometimes after her FHV pill. [17:14] IsambardPrince So I gave her the thyroid pill an hour early so if she throws up the Famvir it doesn't cause both pills to come back up. [17:19] TR News In 2026, GNU/Linux is No Underdog https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/in-2026-gnulinux-is-no-underdog/ [17:19] TR Bot Blog Archive In 2026, GNU/Linux is No Underdog [17:29] TR News Eradicating Proprietary Software and Their Siblings, Chatbots and Social Control Media https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/07/chatbots-and-social-control-media/ [17:29] TR Bot Blog Archive Eradicating Proprietary Software and Their Siblings, Chatbots and Social Control Media [17:32] IsambardPrince "Video game giant Electronic Arts announced Tuesday that it closed the $55 billion sale of its business to Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund PIF, investment firm Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, which is run by U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner." [17:38] TR News (NEW): Signing Off for a Bit https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Signing_Off_for_a_Bit.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Signing_Off_for_a_Bit.gmi [17:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Signing Off for a Bit [17:46] TR News Techrights Microsoft: Our August 2026 Layoffs Are Not Layoffs Because... Reasons https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Microsoft_Our_August_2026_Layoffs_Are_Not_Layoffs_Because_Reaso.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Microsoft_Our_August_2026_Layoffs_Are_Not_Layoffs_Because_Reaso.gmi [17:46] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft: Our August 2026 Layoffs Are Not Layoffs Because... Reasons [17:54] IsambardPrince MinceR: Someone on Facebook asked why the N-1 Naboo Starfighter was better than the Rebel Alliance's fighters even though it was much older. [17:55] IsambardPrince I said it's basically a luxury vehicle that happens to function as a starfighter. [17:55] IsambardPrince You couldn't field them in a battle like the Empire vs. The Rebellion because they are too expensive, too finicky, require too many custom parts and too much highly skilled labor. [17:56] IsambardPrince You win a war with what you can field, not what you would love to have under ideal circumstances. [17:56] IsambardPrince I used the example of the German King Tiger tank. [17:56] IsambardPrince They produced 492 of them during the course of the war. [17:56] IsambardPrince An amazing tank. [17:56] IsambardPrince The US built 50,000 so-so tanks. [17:56] IsambardPrince Who won that war? [17:58] IsambardPrince When the United States gave Ukraine M1A1 tanks and Germany gave them Leopards, what happened? They got knocked out worse than the old upgraded T-60s and T-72s Ukraine already had. [17:59] IsambardPrince Why did that happen? The M1A1 and Leopard are a very finicky modern tank. They require a lot of support units that Ukraine does not have. ● Aug 07 [18:00] IsambardPrince They require specialized labor and facilities to maintain, that Ukraine does not have. [18:00] IsambardPrince So they get kicked in the teeth by older tanks designed during the Cold War. [18:02] IsambardPrince What Ukraine actually needs are much more basic things. Artillery shells, Medium Range missiles, drones, Javelins, cruise missiles. [18:03] IsambardPrince Some Stingers and more Patriot missiles would be nice too. [18:04] MinceR nuking muscovy would be nice too [18:04] MinceR probably also communist china, at this point [18:04] IsambardPrince Wars never happen under ideal circumstances. [18:04] IsambardPrince They happen in the mud, in the snow, in the trenches. [18:05] IsambardPrince We're laughing at the Russians for welding cages and things to their tanks. [18:06] IsambardPrince But 20 years ago, Americans were foraging through garbage dumps to improvise Humvee armor for IEDs. [18:14] IsambardPrince MinceR: I gave Leeloo half a 250 mg Famvir. [18:15] IsambardPrince I'll give her the other half in a bit. [18:15] IsambardPrince I don't want to rush the dosing and make her throw up. [18:15] IsambardPrince I've just got to be patient with her. [18:15] IsambardPrince Hopefully nurse her back to health. [18:16] IsambardPrince She has OA pain and the "cat flu" (FHV) going on right now. [18:16] MinceR :) [18:17] TR News HTTP/2 vs. HTTP/3 https://www.logicmonitor.com/deep-dive/http3-vs-http2/introduction [18:17] TR Bot vs. HTTP/3 - LogicMonitor [18:19] IsambardPrince MinceR: I moved the food and water over to the living room. [18:19] IsambardPrince She is having trouble sliding on the dining room floor. [18:19] IsambardPrince The carpet gives her traction so she can stand better. [18:19] IsambardPrince I'm hoping this encourages her to eat and drink more. [18:19] MinceR :) [18:20] IsambardPrince I am considering going to Target and getting some cans of wet food and paper plates. [18:20] IsambardPrince I know that this will turn Bobbi into a pest. [18:20] IsambardPrince She still comes running when she hears an electric can opener. [18:21] IsambardPrince She has definitely had canned food before, but I've had her since 2015 and have never fed her that. [18:21] IsambardPrince That tells you how long a cat can remember something. [18:21] TR News Performance Evaluation of HTTP/2 and HTTP/3(QUIC) using Lighthouse https://carleton.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/fd0e7360-db97-467a-81c8-27d7b9ac2096/content [18:26] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/remembering-the-pre-google-web-when-search-was-an-experiment/ [18:26] TR Bot Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment - Ars Technica [18:33] admfubar https://semi-rad.com/2026/08/do-it-14000-times-slower-with-this-one-trick/ [18:33] TR Bot It 14,000 Times Slower With This One Trick Semi-Rad.com [18:35] admfubar https://underpassapp.com/StopTheScript/ [18:35] TR Bot StopTheScript [18:41] admfubar https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/07/developers-beware-ad-libraries-betray-your-users-location-privacy [18:41] TR Bot Developers: Beware of Ad Libraries that Betray Your Users Location Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation [18:45] *Goblin (~use@ggawdriywb4qi.irc) has joined #techrights [18:46] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [18:46] admfubar https://www.fosslinux.com/159862/linux-desktop-7-percent-market-share.htm [18:46] TR Bot Linux Desktop Crosses 7%: A Beginners Guide [18:47] *tessier has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:47] *tessier (~tessier@ca9zudc327676.irc) has joined #techrights [18:48] admfubar horrifying! https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-dispatch-911-new-orleans-emergency-automation [18:48] TR Bot Better Hope You Don't Need an Ambulance in New Orleans, Because the City's 911 Operators Are Now AI [18:50] admfubar and he said this while doing an impression of James Cagney....https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ceo-employees-greedy [18:50] TR Bot Anthropic CEO Says His Employees Are a Bunch of Untrustworthy Rats [18:52] IsambardPrince Vivaldi has been getting hit with ad reinsertion attacks. [18:52] admfubar https://www.geekwire.com/2026/he-it-but-rarely-she-when-ai-models-write-kids-stories-about-animals-female-characters-vanish/ [18:52] TR Bot it, but rarely she: When AI models write kids' stories about animals, female characters vanish GeekWire [18:52] IsambardPrince Something in Chromium seems to have changed that makes the ad blocker hit or miss. [18:56] admfubar https://hackaday.com/2026/08/06/nasas-just-prolonged-voyager-2s-science-mission-with-a-big-bang/ [18:56] TR Bot Just Prolonged Voyager 2s Science Mission With A Big Bang | Hackaday ● Aug 07 [19:04] admfubar https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/the-200-billion-company-you-cant-look-inside/ [19:04] TR Bot Tether: a $200 billion crypto company you cant look inside [19:06] admfubar https://www.ifixit.com/News/118598/why-once-great-brands-are-making-their-products-worse-on-purpose [19:06] admfubar https://www.worseonpurpose.com/ [19:06] TR Bot Once-Great Brands Are Making Their Products Worse on Purpose - iFixit [19:06] TR Bot Worse on Purpose | How Corporate Greed Killed Product Quality | Worse on Purpose [19:14] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 142 Out of 200: GemText is Not a Webpage, Gemini Protocol is Not the Web, and Capsules Are Not Websites https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_142_Out_of_200_GemText_is_Not_a_Webpage_G.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_142_Out_of_200_GemText_is_Not_a_Webpage_G.gmi [19:14] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 142 Out of 200: GemText is Not a Webpage, Gemini Protocol is Not the Web, and Capsules Are Not Websites [19:30] admfubar https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=vZfZrOJf2Mc [19:30] TR Bot Select instance - Invidious [19:32] TR News As far as we can tell, HTTP is now used a lot for video. In newer Samsung "Smart" TVs running Tizen (Linux) the "channels" are streams with HTTP(s), as bugs sometimes reveal. The TV attempts to basically connected to an mpu file. No kidding! [19:32] TR News [get connected] [19:32] TR News "the "video streaming" mentioned by the article cited is not video streaming per se but WWW-based video streaming only, as far as I can tell" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_142_Out_of_200_GemText_is_Not_a_Webpage_G.shtml "And the SQ Magazine bar charge confuses "Internet" with WWW" [19:33] admfubar https://itsfoss.com/news/gnome-shell-extension-instructions-for-bots/ [19:33] TR Bot AI Slop Keeps Flooding GNOME Extensions, So They Wrote a Manual for Bots Instead [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] it's bad everywhere [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] remember gnome-look [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] and kde-look [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] that's for arts [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] then you get ripoffs [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] it was always an issue [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] take icon set [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] change a few [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] upload [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] so lots of clones [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] with slop they can do this faster [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] if not impeded [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] you then go to stores [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] and 90% oklf th results are buggy crap [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] without being able to tell reals from slop [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] same for arts [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] we have this growing problem in: [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.publicdomainpictures.net [19:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.publicdomainpictures.net ) [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] too many results that show up are slop [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] so i began using what you admfubar shared as OPML: [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] https://pdimagearchive.org/ [19:35] TR Bot Public Domain Image Archive [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] no slop here [19:35] schestowitz[TR2] never [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] all images predate computers [19:36] admfubar i did? [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] in many other image sharing sites there is abundant slop [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] outpacing reals over time [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] like in youtube [19:36] admfubar oh them [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] and they don't flag that as slop [19:36] admfubar :P [19:36] schestowitz[TR2] it's terrible [19:36] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:42] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: the web loses value [19:42] schestowitz[TR2] because of the s/n ratio [19:42] schestowitz[TR2] even if you add lots of good to it [19:42] schestowitz[TR2] the bad is added a lot faster [19:42] schestowitz[TR2] then it's heap and needle [19:43] TR News (NEW): GNOME: Enrico Zini Cannot Sleep, Icon for Lockpicker https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/GNOME_Enrico_Zini_Cannot_Sleep_Icon_for_Lockpicker.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/06/GNOME_Enrico_Zini_Cannot_Sleep_Icon_for_Lockpicker.gmi [19:43] TR News (NEW): Next Week It'll be 3 Months of Shell Tank https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Next_Week_It_ll_be_3_Months_of_Shell_Tank.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Next_Week_It_ll_be_3_Months_of_Shell_Tank.gmi [19:43] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME: Enrico Zini Cannot Sleep, Icon for Lockpicker [19:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Next Week It'll be 3 Months of Shell Tank [19:43] admfubar :P is that like a needle in a haystack? [19:43] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/mte-q-how-did-a-cornell-graduate-students-99-line-bootstrap-program-in-november-1988-infect-roughly-6000-machines-about-10-per-cent-of-the-early-internet-and-force-universities/ [19:43] TR Bot How did a Cornell graduate student's 99-line bootstrap program in November 1988 infect roughly 6,000 machines about 10 per cent of the early internet and force universities to invent the first computer emergency response team? - Make Tech Easier [19:44] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/mte-when-you-tap-send-on-an-end-to-end-encrypted-message-the-server-passes-along-a-scrambled-blob-it-cannot-read-but-the-timestamps-your-contact-list-and-who-you-spoke-to-when-are-still-visible-to-the/ [19:44] TR Bot When you tap Send on an end-to-end encrypted message, the server passes along a scrambled blob it cannot read but the timestamps, your contact list and who you spoke to when are still visible to the company running the app - Make Tech Easier [19:48] *ubuntourist has quit (Quit: Leaving) [19:51] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [19:54] TR News Techrights Daniel Pocock 'Punching' Nazis in the UK https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Daniel_Pocock_Punching_Nazis_in_the_UK.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Daniel_Pocock_Punching_Nazis_in_the_UK.gmi [19:54] TR Bot Techrights Daniel Pocock 'Punching' Nazis in the UK [19:59] TR News Techrights Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) & British Democrats in Clacton by-election hustings https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Kai_Stephens_Barkley_Walsh_British_Democrats_in_Clacton_by_elec.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Kai_Stephens_Barkley_Walsh_British_Democrats_in_Clacton_by_elec.gmi [19:59] TR Bot Techrights Kai Stephens (Barkley Walsh) & British Democrats in Clacton by-election hustings ● Aug 07 [20:07] TR News Sponsored by GAFAM https://2026.fossy.ca/sponsorship/ at least they said no to Microsoft, for a CHANGE (unlike prior years) [20:07] TR Bot FOSSY 2026 | Sponsorship [20:08] TR News "Harassment will not be tolerated at FOSSY. Harassment includes offensive verbal comments related to gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation" https://2026.fossy.ca/attend/code-of-conduct/ Hmmm... http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/26/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_88_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_is_Defamin.shtml [20:08] TR Bot FOSSY 2026 | Code of Conduct [20:08] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 88 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP is Defaming Trans People in America Because Garrett Pays Hired Guns to Silence Them [20:08] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:09] TR News We can only guess that _some_ people are CoC-exempted http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/FOSSY_2025_Conference_Safety.shtml [20:09] TR Bot Techrights FOSSY 2025 Conference Safety [20:11] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/mte-j-bluetooth-was-named-after-a-10th-century-viking-king-who-united-denmark-and-norway-the-logo-is-his-initials-in-nordic-runes-and-ericssons-engineers-picked-it-in-1997-as-a-placeholder-that-stuck/ [20:11] TR Bot Bluetooth was named after a 10th-century Viking king who united Denmark and Norway the logo is his initials in Nordic runes, and Ericsson's engineers picked it in 1997 as a placeholder that stuck - Make Tech Easier [20:12] IsambardPrince Okay, I ran down to the vet on the bus and got Leeloo's eye medicine. [20:12] IsambardPrince Gave her a drop in each eye and the other half of that Famvir tablet. [20:13] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [20:15] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [20:17] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [20:18] *TMF (~TMF@gcskfpmudxrrg.irc) has joined #techrights [20:23] admfubar of course they did... private one too.. https://petapixel.com/2026/07/30/meta-says-it-has-scanned-every-single-public-instagram-post-with-its-ai/ [20:23] TR Bot Says It Has Scanned Every Single Public Instagram Post With its AI | PetaPixel [20:26] admfubar https://petapixel.com/2026/07/29/more-young-people-are-being-rescued-from-mountains-after-taking-risks-for-the-perfect-photo/ [20:26] TR Bot Young People Are Being Rescued From Mountains After Taking Risks for the Perfect Photo | PetaPixel [20:28] admfubar schestowitz[TR2] it is really that dry by you? https://petapixel.com/2026/08/05/this-photo-makes-london-look-like-california-amid-the-summer-drought/ [20:28] TR Bot Photo Makes London Look Like California Amid the Summer Drought | PetaPixel [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] let's see [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] wow [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] worse than here in manc [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] but they took extreme example [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] only one photo [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] of one place [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] we were in london a few weeks ago [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] it was not so yellow [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] lately we've had more rainb [20:32] admfubar had rain last night here. ran into the tail of a thunderstorm that was forming as i came back from a linux meeting, had decent showers for a good part of the night [20:39] TR News Techrights Legal Attacks on Techrights Have Made Techrights More Popular and More Widely Read https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Legal_Attacks_on_Techrights_Have_Made_Techrights_More_Popular_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Legal_Attacks_on_Techrights_Have_Made_Techrights_More_Popular_a.gmi [20:39] TR Bot Techrights Legal Attacks on Techrights Have Made Techrights More Popular and More Widely Read [20:43] TR News Salesforce cuts 133 more jobs in its third 2026 round [20:47] *TMF has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:49] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113395-flock-biggest-investor-also-backs-company-can-rewrite.html [20:49] TR Bot biggest investor also backs a company that can rewrite camera footage | TechSpot [20:49] *TMF (~TMF@gcskfpmudxrrg.irc) has joined #techrights [20:49] *tessier has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:50] *tessier (~tessier@ca9zudc327676.irc) has joined #techrights [20:50] TR News "IBM retiree insurance won't cover my son and he is too young to qualify for Medicaid - and for the remaining 3 of us it would cost over $40k PER YEAR!! Insane. I would be lucky to get 9 months from that pitiful Future Health Account. Pathetic. And I was at IBM over 30 years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk [20:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk ) [20:50] TR News "I retired in April 2026 and use the IBM retiree insurance. It's double what I was paying but absolutely worth it to retire." "you either don't have insurance, buy the IBM retiree insurance, or buy it from the exchange. I found the retiree insurance the best fit. twice of what I was paying employeed, but well worth it to retire." [20:51] TR News On IBM layoffs: "its not always early new year . Historically they had a fall one and a spring one but this year there was no spring one" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9tr4dk [20:51] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113397-quake-turns-30-got-two-surprise-expansions-one.html [20:51] TR Bot turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week | TechSpot [20:52] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [20:55] admfubar "ai" gone wild!.. stripping away all the security and showing everyone's private bits!!!... https://www.techspot.com/news/113394-google-ai-somehow-knew-game-secret-existed-only.html [20:55] TR Bot AI somehow knew a game secret that existed only in a private Google Doc | TechSpot [20:56] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113376-mexico-gamer-congresswoman-takes-sony-court-over-physical.html [20:56] TR Bot "Gamer Congresswoman" takes Sony to court over physical game disc shutdown | TechSpot ● Aug 07 [21:00] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113006-spacex-burned-up-260-starlink-satellites-six-months.html [21:00] TR Bot intentionally burned up 260 Starlink satellites in the last six months, with hundreds more set to follow | TechSpot [21:04] admfubar https://www.techspot.com/news/113356-police-departments-told-call-license-plate-readers-county.html [21:04] TR Bot departments are told to call license plate readers "county resources" instead of naming them | TechSpot [21:04] TR News Techrights RA-pocalypse: IBM Tells Workers "Taking a Hike" is Their "Next Step" ('Voluntary' Layoffs), Now It Prepares to Sack Lots of Contractors https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/RA_pocalypse_IBM_Tells_Workers_Taking_a_Hike_is_Their_Next_Step.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/RA_pocalypse_IBM_Tells_Workers_Taking_a_Hike_is_Their_Next_Step.gmi [21:04] TR Bot Techrights RA-pocalypse: IBM Tells Workers "Taking a Hike" is Their "Next Step" ('Voluntary' Layoffs), Now It Prepares to Sack Lots of Contractors [21:06] TR News "When I was RA'd my manager told me the contractor company IBM uses. I politely said thank you but I'm going another direction." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9d2113 [21:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz9d2113 ) [21:06] TR News "he useless POS manager is trying to convince me to join IBM again. He might get fired, since, I refused to return to IBM. The id--t is lying when I asked about the reason, he asking me back. I enjoy more, the POS squirm." [21:07] TR News "When would the PIP RAs be expected for? Will it be after 2H during the performance reviews?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz4mbgha [21:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kz4mbgha ) [21:15] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [21:20] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [21:21] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [21:23] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [21:23] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [21:27] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [21:27] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [21:28] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [21:28] *darwin has quit (connection closed) [21:29] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [21:30] TR News Workers try to escape IBM: "it feels like everyone I know has been on at least 1 interview" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzb9fngh [21:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzb9fngh ) [21:31] TR News "Again you got it. You are running in place at best hoping for an upgrade, and most likely farming an already empty and abandoned marketplace - The SMB and Intel marketplace abandoned IBM for LINUX solutions 10 years ago and they have not looked back - The sooner IBM acknowledges this, the sooner IBM will stop wasting efforts on lost causes" [21:36] *darwin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [21:36] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [21:39] admfubar https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-edge-follows-google-chrome-as-it-begins-killing-ublock-origin-and-all-such-add-ons/ [21:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-edge-follows-google-chrome-as-it-begins-killing-ublock-origin-and-all-such-add-ons/ ) [21:40] admfubar https://www.neowin.net/news/user-laments-removal-of-purchased-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-on-google-play/ [21:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/user-laments-removal-of-purchased-lord-of-the-rings-trilogy-on-google-play/ ) [21:42] admfubar https://www.neowin.net/news/gamer-makes-a-lightweight-free-app-to-save-his-rtx-5090-power-connector-from-melting/ [21:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/gamer-makes-a-lightweight-free-app-to-save-his-rtx-5090-power-connector-from-melting/ ) [21:54] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: maybe canon will buy IBM ;-) [21:54] schestowitz[TR2] you said they 'rebranded' the building already [21:54] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they know something we don't ;-) [21:55] admfubar i think they are leasing it... it is next to the clinic, so they have lots of customers right there.. [21:55] schestowitz[TR2] canon scouting ibm... another year or two til it's cheap enough to buy [21:56] TR News "Maker Cale Loveridge has launched a crowdfunding campaign for playable pinball tables with a difference: they're miniaturized for printability on even compact 3D printers." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260807-minipin.gmi [21:56] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: maybe they can make cameras with POWER mainframes inside them [21:57] schestowitz[TR2] and something "hey hi" and "quantum" [21:57] schestowitz[TR2] for good measure [21:57] admfubar there ya go [21:57] TR News Homeworlds: More About Green Ships gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260806-1.gmi [21:58] TR News "i've been vaguely trying it out this week - not really tracking anything but paying attention whether this makes sense at all. i think the socials and the one-vid-for-eating make sense and are perfectly doable, as is the backgammon." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/internetusetracker [21:59] TR News "Petanque is a boules-type game played with sets of hollow steel balls and a small wooden ball called a "cochonnet". Its modern version originated from southern France in the early part of the 1900's." gemini://mlot.smol.pub/petanque [21:59] admfubar looks like it is being leased from the clinic..... they are owners of the property [21:59] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/annihilate [21:59] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Annihilate ● Aug 07 [22:00] schestowitz[TR2] whose clinic? [22:00] admfubar cleveland [22:00] schestowitz[TR2] medical practice? [22:00] schestowitz[TR2] "somebody call 911, IBM is dying" [22:01] admfubar i think the coroner took them already [22:01] schestowitz[TR2] https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KiNRIR8tjFc Wyclef Jean - 911 (Official Video) ft. Mary J. Blige [22:01] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=KiNRIR8tjFc ) [22:02] admfubar my kitta is hungry, time to feed them.. [22:05] MinceR :3 [22:11] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Desktop Share More Than Doubled in a Year in Guam https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_Desktop_Share_More_Than_Doubled_in_a_Year_in_Guam.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/GNU_Linux_Desktop_Share_More_Than_Doubled_in_a_Year_in_Guam.gmi [22:11] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Desktop Share More Than Doubled in a Year in Guam [22:17] TR News Yandex nearly caught up with Bing (MSFT) in Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/europe/#monthly-200902-202608 [22:17] TR Bot Search Engine Market Share Europe | Statcounter Global Stats [22:19] TR News baidu nd yandex combined about same as bing in asia https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/asia/#monthly-200902-202608 [22:19] TR Bot Search Engine Market Share Asia | Statcounter Global Stats [22:23] TR News Chrome too dominant. Truly monoculture. https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/africa/#monthly-200902-202608 Firefox 2% [22:23] TR Bot Browser Market Share Africa | Statcounter Global Stats [22:30] TR News "The incumbent candidate presents himself as a champion of the imperial units of measure and the contest to be the first person to run one mile under four minutes was a legendary grudge match between and Englishman and an Australian." [22:31] TR News "In earlier blog posts about my nomination in the Clacton by-election, I suggested that running for office should involve some real running." https://danielpocock.com/en/burnham-clacton-pier-mile-run-challenge/ [22:31] TR Bot Burnham-Clacton Pier mile run challenge, Nigel Farage, Count Binface & the rest [22:31] TR News "In earlier blog posts about my nomination in the Clacton by-election, I suggested that running for office should involve some real running." https://danielpocock.com/en/burnham-clacton-pier-mile-run-challenge/ [22:38] TR News Techrights analytics.usa.gov: GNU/Linux Up Some More This Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/analytics_usa_gov_GNU_Linux_Up_Some_More_This_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/analytics_usa_gov_GNU_Linux_Up_Some_More_This_Week.gmi [22:38] TR Bot Techrights analytics.usa.gov: GNU/Linux Up Some More This Week [22:38] TR News (NEW): Billions of Sessions' Web Survey: GNU/Linux at 7% https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Billions_of_Sessions_Web_Survey_GNU_Linux_at_7.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/07/Billions_of_Sessions_Web_Survey_GNU_Linux_at_7.gmi [22:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Billions of Sessions' Web Survey: GNU/Linux at 7% [22:56] TR News Techrights Microsoft Uses Slop to Find Defects and Then Uses Slop to Replace Code, What Could Go Wrong? https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Find_Defects_and_Then_Uses_Slop_to_Repla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/07/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Find_Defects_and_Then_Uses_Slop_to_Repla.gmi [22:56] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Uses Slop to Find Defects and Then Uses Slop to Replace Code, What Could Go Wrong? ● Aug 07 [23:24] *yellow-pillow (~yellow-pillow@5arz9p7wg8kqn.irc) has joined #techrights [23:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Budget is so tight I tend to invent recipes around what we have left from others. [23:33] MinceR (cat) (video) (no audio) https://imgpile.com/p/SFD94qn [23:33] TR Bot up from down there - imgpile