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[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-180226.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[02:47]	TR News	Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-180226.txt
[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[02:48]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-180226.txt
[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-180226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-180226.txt
[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-18.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-18.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-18.txt
● Feb 19
[04:27]	TR News	3 Threat Groups Started Targeting ICS/OT in 2025: Dragos https://www.securityweek.com/3-threat-groups-started-targeting-ics-ot-in-2025-dragos/
[04:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/3-threat-groups-started-targeting-ics-ot-in-2025-dragos/ )
[04:28]	TR News	Man Linked to Phobos Ransomware Arrested in Poland https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/
[04:28]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/ )
[04:31]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_February_18_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_February_18_2026.gmi 
[04:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
[04:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[04:33]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[04:33]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[04:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:36]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-19.gmi
[04:37]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1565.jpg
[04:37]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1921.jpg
[04:38]	TR News	worm third day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormThird
[04:39]	TR News	"Developer and maker Martijn Braam is looking to turn a Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Module into a high-quality broadcast camera tailored for live streaming by simply outputting the video straight to HDMI." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260218-picam.gmi
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[04:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Evolving Git for the next decade https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Evolving_Git_for_the_next_decade.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Evolving_Git_for_the_next_decade.gmi 
[04:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Evolving Git for the next decade
[04:46]	TR News	Hackers Offer to Sell Millions of Eurail User Records https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/
[04:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/ )
[04:46]	TR News	 (NEW):  LWN on Linux Kernel Space and Michiel Leenaars on Free Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LWN_on_Linux_Kernel_Space_and_Michiel_Leenaars_on_Free_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LWN_on_Linux_Kernel_Space_and_Michiel_Leenaars_on_Free_Software.gmi 
[04:46]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LWN on Linux Kernel Space and Michiel Leenaars on Free Software
[04:47]	TR News	Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasses Art of Cookery (1751 edition) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-cookery
[04:47]	TR Bot	 Pigeons Transmogrified: Hannah Glasses *Art of Cookery* (1751 edition) The Public Domain Review
[04:47]	TR News	Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/eight-horses
[04:47]	TR Bot	 Unbridled Passions: The Eight Horses of King Mu, Son of Heaven (ca. 1300) The Public Domain Review
[04:48]	TR News	AGLs Business Intelligence Journey Understanding Activity https://toscalix.com/2026/02/17/agls-business-intelligence-journey-understanding-activity/
[04:48]	TR Bot	Business Intelligence Journey Understanding Activity toscalix
[04:48]	TR News	Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Copilot-Infested Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub https://itsfoss.com/news/gentoo-github-switch-begins/
[04:48]	TR Bot	 Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub
[04:49]	TR News	Password Managers Vulnerable to Vault Compromise Under Malicious Server https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/
[04:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/ )
[04:49]	TR News	Smart Water Meters https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/02/17/smart-water-meters/
[04:49]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Smart Water Meters
[04:50]	TR News	French court sentences former Senate adviser for upskirt photos https://www.france24.com/en/french-court-sentences-former-senate-adviser-for-upskirt-photos
[04:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/french-court-sentences-former-senate-adviser-for-upskirt-photos )
[04:51]	TR News	Fake Incident Report Used in Phishing Campaign, (Tue, Feb 17th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32722
[04:51]	TR Bot	 Fake Incident Report Used in Phishing Campaign - SANS ISC
[04:56]	TR News	NXP S32N79 octa-core Arm Cortex-A78E/12-core Cortex-R52 Super-Integration Processor targets Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/nxp-s32n79-octa-core-arm-cortex-a78e-12-core-cortex-r52-super-integration-processor-targets-software-defined-vehicles-sdv/
[04:56]	TR Bot	 NXP S32N79 octa-core Arm Cortex-A78E/12-core Cortex-R52 "Super-Integration Processor" targets Software-Defined Vehicles (SDV) - CNX Software
[04:57]	TR News	PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/pibot-cnc-pendant-v4-0-a-handheld-bluetooth-and-rj12-controller-for-fluidnc-based-cnc-machines/
[04:57]	TR Bot	 PiBot CNC Pendant V4.0 - A handheld Bluetooth and RJ12 controller for FluidNC-based CNC machines - CNX Software
[04:57]	TR News	Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/handheld-gaming/valve-confirms-steam-deck-is-out-of-stock-due-to-memory-and-storage-shortages-supply-of-popular-gaming-handheld-in-trouble-because-of-massive-ai-demand
[04:57]	TR Bot	 Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages supply of popular gaming handheld in trouble because of massive AI demand | Tom's Hardware
[04:58]	TR News	Firefox Tooling Announcements: New Deploy of PerfCompare (Feb 17th) https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/new-deploy-of-perfcompare-feb-17th/147456
[04:58]	TR Bot	 New Deploy of PerfCompare (Feb 17th) - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse
[04:58]	TR News	openSUSE Board Election 2025 has been announced https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-board-election-2025-has-been-announced/
[04:59]	TR Bot	 openSUSE Board Election 2025 has been announced
● Feb 19
[05:01]	TR News	Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should Hey Hi (AI) Simulate Emotional Intimacy? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-developers-emotional-intimacy
[05:01]	TR Bot	 Top Machine Learning Developer Speechless at Simple Question: Should AI Simulate Emotional Intimacy?
[05:02]	TR News	How to Replace nm-tray with NetworkManager GNOME (nm-applet) in FunOS https://funos.org/replace-nm-tray-with-nm-applet-funos/
[05:02]	TR Bot	 How to Replace nm-tray with NetworkManager GNOME (nm-applet) in FunOS FunOS
[05:02]	TR News	GStreamer 1.28 brings Hey Hi (AI) inference to your media pipeline https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/gstreamer-128-brings-ai-inference-to-your-media-pipeline.html
[05:02]	TR Bot	 GStreamer 1.28 brings AI inference to your media pipeline
[05:03]	TR News	UPC is an illegal and unconstitutional kangaroo court, now exploited by patent trolls and litigation fanatics, as many warned https://www.juve-patent.com/legal-commentary/upc-received-50-more-infringement-cases-in-2025/
[05:03]	TR Bot	 UPC received 50% more infringement cases in 2025 - JUVE Patent
[05:04]	TR News	Meta Patented Hey Hi (AI) That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-patented-ai-die-keeps-posting
[05:04]	TR Bot	 Meta Patented AI That Takes Over Your Account When You Die, Keeps Posting Forever
[05:04]	TR News	EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml
[05:04]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
[05:13]	TR News	Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/olimex-esp32-p4-pc-board-offers-hdmi-video-output-ethernet-four-usb-2-0-ports-and-more/
[05:13]	TR Bot	 Olimex ESP32-P4-PC board offers HDMI video output, Ethernet, four USB 2.0 ports, and more - CNX Software
[05:14]	TR News	DIA consolidates open source, media exploitation organizations https://federalnewsnetwork.com/intelligence-community/2026/02/dia-consolidates-open-source-media-exploitation-organizations/
[05:14]	TR Bot	 DIA consolidates open source, media exploitation organizations | Federal News Network
[05:15]	TR News	KDAB at Embedded World 2026, Nuremberg, Germany https://www.kdab.com/kdab-at-embedded-world-2026-nuremberg-germany/
[05:15]	TR Bot	at Embedded World 2026, Nuremberg, Germany | KDAB
[05:18]	TR News	IBM Red Hat promoting slop some more, expect quality of products to nose-dive https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding
[05:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/17/uncomfortable-truth-about-vibe-coding )
[05:19]	TR News	Plasma 6.6.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1059187/
[05:19]	TR Bot	6.6.0 released [LWN.net]
[05:19]	TR News	EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_s_Central_Staff_Committee_on_Fourth_Technical_Meeting_Two_D.shtml
[05:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO's Central Staff Committee on Fourth Technical Meeting, Two Days Before First of (At Least) 4 Winter Strikes at the Second-Largest European Institution
[05:21]	TR News	Chinese hackers exploited a Dell zero-day for 18 months before anyone noticed https://cyberscoop.com/china-brickstorm-grimbolt-dell-zero-day/
[05:21]	TR Bot	Chinese state attackers going after Dell zero-day since mid-2024 | CyberScoop
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[05:22]	TR News	Murena Volla 12.6-inch privacy-focused tablet runs /e/OS Google-free Android OS on MediaTek Helio G99 SoC https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/murena-volla-12-6-inch-privacy-focused-tablet-runs-e-os-google-free-android-os-on-mediatek-helio-g99-soc/
[05:22]	TR Bot	 Murena Volla 12.6-inch privacy-focused tablet runs /e/OS Google-free Android OS on MediaTek Helio G99 SoC - CNX Software
[05:23]	TR News	Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/
[05:23]	TR Bot	 Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons - Creative Commons
[05:24]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6 is out screenshot OCR, refresh rate fix + more https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released
[05:24]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.6: Screenshot OCR, Custom Themes & More
[05:24]	TR News	An update on upki https://lwn.net/Articles/1059184/
[05:24]	TR Bot	update on upki [LWN.net]
[05:25]	TR News	MidnightBSD 4.0.2 is out https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd
[05:25]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/midnightbsd )
[05:26]	TR News	Libinput 1.31.0 added Adjustable Disable While Typing Timeout https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/libinput-1-31-0-disable-while-typing-timeout/
[05:26]	TR Bot	 Libinput 1.31.0 added Adjustable Disable While Typing Timeout | UbuntuHandbook
[05:26]	TR News	'Linux' Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/18/Linux_Foundation_Puts_Slop_Images_Not_Just_Slop_Text_in_Linux_c.shtml
[05:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Linux Foundation Puts Slop Images, Not Just Slop Text, in Linux.com
[05:27]	TR News	New GNU/Linux Botnet Discovered http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/New-Linux-Botnet-Discovered
[05:27]	TR Bot	 New Linux Botnet Discovered Linux Magazine
[05:28]	TR News	Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/Still_Some_Slopfarms_in_View_Sometimes_Targetting_Linux.shtml
[05:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights Still Some Slopfarms in View, Sometimes Targetting "Linux"
[05:29]	TR News	luasmith flexible static site generator https://www.linuxlinks.com/luasmith-flexible-static-site-generator/
[05:29]	TR Bot	- flexible static site generator - LinuxLinks
[05:29]	TR News	5 Top Free and Open Source OCaml Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-ocaml-web-frameworks/
[05:29]	TR Bot	Top Free and Open Source OCaml Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[05:29]	TR News	lancher local project-template manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/lancher-local-project-template-manager/
[05:29]	TR Bot	- local project-template manager - LinuxLinks
[05:30]	TR News	Tweak Limine Installer to not exclude USB https://bkhome.org/news/202602/tweak-limine-installer-to-not-exclude-usb.html
[05:30]	TR Bot	 Tweak Limine Installer to not exclude USB
[05:31]	TR News	ByteDance Quickly Dials Back Seedance 2.0 After Disney Legal Threats Sink In https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/bytedance-seedance-2-0-legal-threats/
[05:31]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/17/bytedance-seedance-2-0-legal-threats/ )
[05:31]	TR News	Spain to Investigate Social Media Giants, Escalating Trans-Atlantic Tech Dispute https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/spain-investigate-social-media.html
[05:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/world/europe/spain-investigate-social-media.html )
[05:34]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: GStreamer 1.28, luasmith, Libinput 1.31.0, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.gmi 
[05:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: GStreamer 1.28, luasmith, Libinput 1.31.0, and More
[05:34]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[05:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[05:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: PiBot, ESP32, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_PiBot_ESP32_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_PiBot_ESP32_and_More.gmi 
[05:36]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: PiBot, ESP32, and More
[05:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi 
[05:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[05:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Valve, Rocket League, and Rootkits https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Valve_Rocket_League_and_Rootkits.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Valve_Rocket_League_and_Rootkits.gmi 
[05:38]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Valve, Rocket League, and Rootkits
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[05:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[05:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[05:40]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Taxing_the_Rich_Raspberry_Pi_4_Tinkerin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Taxing_the_Rich_Raspberry_Pi_4_Tinkerin.gmi 
[05:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 19/02/2026: Taxing the Rich, Raspberry Pi 4 Tinkering
[05:43]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Illegal_Kangaroo_Court_for_Patents_Attracts_Ag.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Illegal_Kangaroo_Court_for_Patents_Attracts_Ag.gmi 
[05:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/02/2026: Illegal Kangaroo Court for Patents Attracts Aggressive Firms, Public Domain Review Grows
[05:53]	TR News	Techrights Very Little Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Very_Little_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Very_Little_Slop.gmi 
[05:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Very Little Slop
● Feb 19
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs.html
[06:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.drugs.com/newdrugs.html )
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Nereus capsules.
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	"MORE CHICKEN!"
[06:05]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_s_AI_CEO_Slop_Propagandist_is_Projecting_Many_Microso.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_s_AI_CEO_Slop_Propagandist_is_Projecting_Many_Microso.gmi 
[06:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft's "AI CEO" (Slop Propagandist) is Projecting, Many Microsoft "Jobs to be Replaced With All-Indian Low-Paid Staff in 12 Months"
[06:07]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], https://www.classaction.org/microsoft-office-365-pricing-arbitration
[06:07]	TR Bot	 Microsoft 365 Deceptive Pricing Arbitration | Charged for CoPilot AI?
[06:08]	TR News	"stop ra-ing the companies to line your pockets" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khnx2mms
[06:08]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khnx2mms )
[06:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: aha
[06:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	can you say more?
[06:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	i know the termArbitration
[06:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	we covered Arbitration years ago
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	but i don't know this case
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	i am guessing that
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	they can get people to agree to future changes
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	inc. the bundlingh
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	with price hikes\
[06:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	for things users never asked for
[06:10]	TR News	"I feel like hiring an attorney for a severance agreement is the biggest waste of time and money unless theres clearly something unlawful or you have an huge amount unpaid work/commission. All of that severance money they would owe you would just straight to the lawyer." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
[06:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz )
[06:10]	TR News	"IBM is going to have a fierce legal team. You cant just hire some no-name attorney to battle with their IBMs legal team." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Arbitration was probably required by the licensing agreement for the software.
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	It basically says you can't file suit, you have to go to an arbitration process.
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	Companies do this because it's cheaper for them and they're more likely to win.
[06:12]	IsambardPrince	Although the arbitration is supposed to be neutral, they could pick different arbitrators in the future if it goes against them too much.
[06:12]	IsambardPrince	Basically a lot of things require you to agree to arbitration now. Software licenses, my credit cards.
[06:13]	IsambardPrince	All my American Express cards have a clause that says if you reject it, write to them within 30 days.
[06:13]	IsambardPrince	If you do that, they close your new card and there's no card.
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[06:15]	IsambardPrince	THey have to let you opt out, but if you do that, they don't have to let you keep the card open.
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[06:35]	TR News	Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act) http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Mass_Layoffs_But_Silent_Layoffs_Still_Happening_in_IBM_You_Need.shtml
[06:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights Mass Layoffs (But Silent Layoffs) Still Happening in IBM, You Need Only Look Closely (There Are NDAs, PIPs, 'Early Retirement' Sweeteners and IBM - Like Microsoft - Skirts the WARN Act)
[06:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[06:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[06:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_sysadmins.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/These_are_the_only_Linux_distros_I_recommend_for_sysadmins.gmi 
[06:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins
[06:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/3_ways_to_switch_Linux_distros_without_losing_all_your_data.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/3_ways_to_switch_Linux_distros_without_losing_all_your_data.gmi 
[06:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 3 ways to switch Linux distros without losing all your data
[06:58]	TR News	Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_II_Illegal_Drug_Addicts_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_II_Illegal_Drug_Addicts_.gmi 
[06:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part II - Illegal Drug Addicts Mobbing the Wrong People, This Will Definitely Backfire
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[07:08]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[07:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[07:18]	TR News	Techrights Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Slides_Shown_a_Week_Ago_by_the_EPO_s_Staff_Committee_Ahead_of_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Slides_Shown_a_Week_Ago_by_the_EPO_s_Staff_Committee_Ahead_of_t.gmi 
[07:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slides Shown a Week Ago by the EPO's Staff Committee Ahead of the Second Very Large Strike
[07:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  In Egypt, statCounter Can Only Verify About Half of Web Requests From Desktops/Laptops Are Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Egypt_statCounter_Can_Only_Verify_About_Half_of_Web_Requests.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Egypt_statCounter_Can_Only_Verify_About_Half_of_Web_Requests.gmi 
[07:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines In Egypt, statCounter Can Only Verify About Half of Web Requests From Desktops/Laptops Are Windows
[07:47]	TR News	Techrights statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/statCounter_Only_One_in_350_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_We.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/statCounter_Only_One_in_350_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsoft_for_We.gmi 
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights statCounter: Only One in 350 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Web Search
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[08:00]	TR News	Techrights EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and #HowTo Prepare for Next Week's https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.gmi 
[08:00]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's
[08:14]	TR News	Techrights Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Typical_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Tells_Victims_of_Fr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Typical_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Tells_Victims_of_Fr.gmi 
[08:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights Typical! Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Tells Victims of Fraud to Wait 10 Weeks
[08:31]	TR News	Anon: Coming up in today's batch: "The political effects of X s feed algorithm | Nature" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2 apropos conspiracy of silence
[08:31]	TR Bot	political effects of Xs feed algorithm | Nature
[08:31]	TR News	"It would be magnificent if the SRA were to reform even slightly."
[08:36]	TR News	BEFORE Microsoft took over The Register MS https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/richard_stallman_cancer/
[08:36]	TR Bot	 Free software pioneer Stallman reveals cancer diagnosis The Register
[08:54]	TR News	Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_II_Haters_Gonna_Hate.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_II_Haters_Gonna_Hate.gmi 
[08:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part II - "Haters Gonna Hate"
[08:59]	TR News	Techrights Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Bitcoin_government_engagement_contradictions.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Bitcoin_government_engagement_contradictions.gmi 
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Techrights Bitcoin: government engagement contradictions
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[09:16]	psydroid3	Microsoft infiltration in Debian is extremely harmful
[09:16]	psydroid3	 DuckDuckGo that has been set as the default in Chromium with no easy option to change the search engine can't find the simplest of things
[09:16]	psydroid3	like what kind of braindead behaviour causes such decisions?
[09:20]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Fiasco Continues: Antisemitism and the SRA https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Fiasco_Continues_Antise.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_Fiasco_Continues_Antise.gmi 
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Fiasco Continues: Antisemitism and the SRA
[09:21]	TR News	iophk: The keyboard built into the Raspberry Pi 550+ is excellent and the SSD is not too small for most use cases.
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: i think we covered it
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	but it was about falkon
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	or some other debian browser
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	or atherm
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	packaged for debian
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	debian is allowing Microsoft staff to become DD
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	while denying DD status
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	from people who spent many years doing real work
[09:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	also, you get DD status for selliong sex
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	many examples of this
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	of sex and nepotism
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	so the real geeks lose interest and morale harmed 
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	they leave
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	seeing what a sham those "certs" are
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	you can even be in a debian committee when your spouse says you are a rapist
[09:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's all fine with debian
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[09:39]	TR News	Techrights Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Spaniards_Shutting_Down_MElon_s_Digital_Weapon_of_Smart_Mobs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Spaniards_Shutting_Down_MElon_s_Digital_Weapon_of_Smart_Mobs.gmi 
[09:39]	TR Bot	 Techrights Spaniards Shutting Down MElon's Digital Weapon of "Smart Mobs"
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[09:45]	TR News	Techrights Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation' https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Economic_Failure_and_Other_Harsh_Realities_Have_Nothing_to_Do_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Economic_Failure_and_Other_Harsh_Realities_Have_Nothing_to_Do_W.gmi 
[09:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights Economic Failure and Other Harsh Realities Have Nothing to Do With Slop 'Innovation'
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[09:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Helping Animals is Fun (and the Animals Benefit From It) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Helping_Animals_is_Fun_and_the_Animals_Benefit_From_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Helping_Animals_is_Fun_and_the_Animals_Benefit_From_It.gmi 
[09:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Helping Animals is Fun (and the Animals Benefit From It)
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[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	Never Forget => IBM's dinobabies settled age discrimination lawsuit
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	The documents showed communications between two executives, in which one applauds the use of the disparaging term dinobabies to describe the older IBM employees as part of a plan to oust them from IBMs workforce. According to the court documents, he describes his plan to accelerate change by inviting the dinobabies (new species) to leave and make them an extinct species.
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	Both executives, whose names and positions were redacted in the filing, have since left IBM. Other documents referred to the companys dated maternal workforce and called for IBM to shift headcount mix towards greater percent of early professional hires.
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	They settled this in 2022 and yet we are seeing IBM's desire to reduce staff and pay based on age, s-x, race, skin color get WORSE after a settled lawsuit on this?! Hire with little to know experience but tell the world experienced people are no longer needed because we have AI now and everybody knows 20 somethings know AI better than the dinobabies who built their skills over decades of dedication to IBM?"
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
[09:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb )
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	AK said:We are replacing expensive dinosaurs from expensive countries like USA, Canada etc.. with cheaper younger peons from poorer countries like India, Mexico Thailand, Eastern Europe etc
[09:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[09:56]	TR News	IBM To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time" https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Employee-100p-Time
[09:56]	TR Bot	To Kernel Maintainer: "You Are An IBM Employee 100% Of The Time" - Phoronix
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[10:09]	TR News	Techrights These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/These_Statistics_Should_Keep_Microsoft_Shareholders_Awake_at_Ni.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/These_Statistics_Should_Keep_Microsoft_Shareholders_Awake_at_Ni.gmi 
[10:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights These Statistics Should Keep Microsoft Shareholders Awake at Night
[10:10]	TR News	"The AI rip-off was not just ugly." https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/ |
[10:10]	TR Bot	years later, Microsoft morged my diagram nvie.com
[10:10]	TR News	"Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show whats possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care." https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/ | Source: Creative Commons
[10:10]	TR Bot	 Building What Comes Next: Community Engagement at Creative Commons - Creative Commons
[10:13]	TR News	"Pay TV provider DISH Network has filed a complaint against 'DMTN IPTV' and its alleged operators, including one who posed as Breaking Bad's creator on Facebook." https://torrentfreak.com/dish-sues-dmtn-iptv-in-21m-piracy-lawsuit-operator-posed-as-breaking-bad-creator/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[10:13]	TR Bot	Sues 'DMTN IPTV' in $21m Piracy Lawsuit; Operator Posed as Breaking Bad Creator * TorrentFreak
[10:13]	TR News	"What started as an organic exchange in various spaces has revealed something larger: a strong appetite to move these conversations into the open." https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/18/cc-licenses-data-governance-and-the-african-context/ | Source: Creative Commons
[10:13]	TR Bot	 CC Licenses, Data Governance, and the African Context: Conversations and Perspectives - Creative Commons
[10:18]	TR News	Right of Publicity https://www.androidpolice.com/why-your-notebooklm-podcast-might-sound-like-its-hosted-by-npr/ | Source: Android Police
[10:18]	TR Bot	 Why your NotebookLM podcast might sound like it's hosted by NPR
[10:18]	TR News	"Which? claimed that Qualcomm abused its market position as a dominant producer of processors and radio chips for smartphones" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/qualcomm_wins_uk_competition_case/ | Source: The Register UK
[10:18]	TR Bot	 Qualcomm set to triumph in UK smartphone patent tax case The Register
[10:19]	TR News	"This is the scenario Netflix feared. On Tuesday, Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) reopened talks with Paramount..." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/netflixs-big-bet-under-threat | Source: Jrme Marin
[10:19]	TR Bot	 Netflixs big bet under threat - by Jrme Marin - Caftech
[10:27]	TR News	"Over the past few weeks, I dove head-first into the YouTube rabbit hole of the analog life, the personal cloud, less dependency on big tech companies" https://yordi.me/owning-my-music-again/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost
[10:27]	TR Bot	 Owning My Music Again | Yordi - A Lifelong Journey of Growth
[10:28]	TR News	"IPv6 scanning has often been compared to finding needles in an impossibly large haystack." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/18/unveiling-ipv6-scanning-dynamics-the-largest-telescope-reveals-a-surging-diverse-ecosystem/ | Source: APNIC
[10:28]	TR Bot	 Unveiling IPv6 scanning dynamics: The largest telescope reveals a surging, diverse ecosystem | APNIC Blog
[10:28]	TR News	"Workers in Michigan became the first Chipotle employees to ever win union recognition." https://jacobin.com/2026/02/chipotle-unionization-michigan-teamsters-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[10:28]	TR Bot	 What Will It Take to Unionize Chipotle?
[10:29]	TR News	"ICE worked with Palantir Technologies to work on ImmigrationOS to make its job easier" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-immigration-enforcement-1780087 | Source: International Business Times
[10:29]	TR Bot	 Why ICE's Shift to AI-Driven Deportation Raises Concerns? 'The Risk of Overreach Is High' | IBTimes UK
[10:29]	TR News	"This years report, out today, shows union density at 10%." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/labor-movement-attack | Source: Hamilton Nolan
[10:29]	TR Bot	 Labor Movement, Attack! - by Hamilton Nolan
[10:29]	TR News	"The union membership rate--the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of unions --was 10.0 percent in 2025" https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm |
[10:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm )
[10:30]	TR News	"In a statement on Monday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) said the FBI had contacted it." https://crooksandliars.com/2026/02/fbi-officially-says-it-wont-give-local |
[10:30]	TR Bot	 FBI Officially Says It Won't Give Local Investigators Evidence In DHS Shooting Cases | Crooks and Liars
[10:30]	TR News	"The theologian and historian Gary Dorrien has made it his mission to chronicle and revive the tradition of Christian democratic socialism." https://jacobin.com/2026/02/dorrien-christianity-american-democratic-socialism/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[10:30]	TR Bot	 Gary Dorrien Is Christian Socialisms Greatest Champion
[10:38]	TR News	"The finding is the latest evidence that despite being placed on the U.S. governments Entity List in July 2023" https://therecord.media/predator-spyware-used-to-infect-phone-angola-journalist | Source: The Record
[10:38]	TR Bot	 Predator spyware used to infect phone belonging to Angolan journalist, report says | The Record from Recorded Future News
[10:39]	TR News	"The most enthusiastic modern proponent that I know of the orality theory of everything is Bloombergs Joe Wiesenthal" https://www.derekthompson.org/p/why-the-decline-of-literacyand-the | Source: Derek Thompson
[10:39]	TR Bot	 The Obscure Media Theory That Explains '99% of Everything'
[10:39]	TR News	"But none of this is about traffic. If you tether your payment model to the number of public pageviews you receive" https://werd.io/in-graphic-detail-subscriptions-are-rising-at-big-news-publishers-even-as-traffic-shrinks/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[10:39]	TR Bot	 In Graphic Detail: Subscriptions are rising at big news publishers even as traffic shrinks
[10:45]	TR News	"CBS preemptively enforced a rule change that hasn't happened, on behalf of a government that hasn't enacted it." https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/cbs-blocked-colbert-from-interviewing-a-candidate-so-he-put-it-on-youtube-instead.html | Source: BoingBoing
[10:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/cbs-blocked-colbert-from-interviewing-a-candidate-so-he-put-it-on-youtube-instead.html )
[10:45]	TR News	"Walking his audience through the FCCs equal time rule" https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/stephen-colbert-cbs-blocked-james-talarico-interview-fcc-equal-time-1236665220/ | Source: Variety
[10:45]	TR Bot	 Stephen Colbert Says CBS Blocked James Talarico Interview
[10:46]	TR News	"The initiative aims at improving access to secure, fast, and reliable connectivity for the transition towards cloud-based infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence." https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14709-Digital-Networks-Act_en | Source: European Commission
[10:46]	TR Bot	 Have your say
[10:47]	TR News	"A week ago we discussed free trade, and specifically took a look at the classical mechanism by which free trade is supposed to improve overall outcomes, as measured by GDP." https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/free-trade-and-the-left-bis-from-cobden-to-lenin | Source: Andy Wingo
[10:47]	TR Bot	 free trade and the left, bis: from cobden to lenin wingolog
[10:47]	TR News	"And why you shouldnt worry about the wealthy abandoning your states" https://robertreich.substack.com/p/memo-to-kathy-hochul-and-gavin-newsom | Source: Robert Reich
[10:47]	TR Bot	 Memo to Kathy Hochul and Gavin Newsom: Why taxing the rich makes enormous sense
[10:47]	TR News	"To kill the serpent, we need a different approach." https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-needs-structural-change-not-more-layers-of-control/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup
[10:47]	TR Bot	 Online safety needs structural change, not more layers of control | Open Rights Group
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[11:19]	TR News	Techrights An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/An_Inherently_Royal_Monarchs_Legal_System_Where_Size_Matters_Bi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/An_Inherently_Royal_Monarchs_Legal_System_Where_Size_Matters_Bi.gmi 
[11:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights An Inherently Royal (Monarchs') Legal System Where Size Matters (Big Capital Eats the Small)
[11:22]	TR News	"By using knowledge gained from his PV solar-powered quadcopter, [Luke] set about to take it all a few steps further." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/creating-the-worlds-most-efficient-quadcopter-drone/ | Source: Hackaday
[11:22]	TR Bot	The Worlds Most Efficient Quadcopter Drone | Hackaday
[11:22]	TR News	"Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/18/1132587/jean-paul-thorbjornsen-dark-side-crypto-permissionless-dream/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[11:22]	TR Bot	 Welcome to the dark side of cryptos permissionless dream | MIT Technology Review
[11:22]	TR News	"Software-defined power is a layer that moves utility functions from fixed, discrete hardware devices into a flexible software environment." https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/grid-modernization/what-is-software-defined-power-and-why-should-utilities-take-note/ | Source: Renewable Energy World
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[11:23]	TR News	"NAACP Against xAI's Southaven Turbines - 512 Pixels" https://512pixels.net/2026/02/ncaap-against-xais-southaven-turbines/ | Source: Stephen Hackett
[11:23]	TR Bot	 NAACP Against xAI's Southaven Turbines - 512 Pixels
[11:23]	TR News	"It is imperative that the Permit Board disapprove the Permit because both MDEQ and the community must understand the full impact of the MZX Tech" https://www.memphisflyer.com/naacp-sends-letter-in-opposition-to-southaven-xai-permit/ |
[11:23]	TR Bot	 NAACP Sends Letter In Opposition to Southaven xAI Permit - Memphis Flyer
[11:24]	TR News	"Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/foia-lawsuit-body-cam-footage-mpd-doge-raid-usip-we-won | Source: Marisa Kabas
[11:24]	TR Bot	 We won our FOIA lawsuit for body cam footage of DOGE raid on US Institute of Peace
[11:25]	TR News	"A former Deutsche Bank compliance officer told the FBI she was fired in 2018 after flagging suspicious activity in accounts linked to Jeffrey Epstein and Jared Kushner, offering yet another example of how they operated above the law." https://jacobin.com/2026/02/fbi-epstein-kuchner-whistleblower-silenced/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[11:25]	TR Bot	 The Epstein Whistleblower Who Was Silenced
[11:25]	TR News	"This marks the latest public development in the ongoing examination of the Epstein investigation and related records" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/les-wexner-deposed-epstein-investigation-1779921 | Source: International Business Times
[11:25]	TR Bot	 DOJ Epstein Files Put Ohio Billionaire Les Wexner Back in the Spotlight | IBTimes UK
[11:26]	TR News	"And even more surprisingly, once the algorithm was switched off, their views did not change again. The effect of the algorithm lingered, in part because it led users to follow more conservative influencers" https://werd.io/the-political-effects-of-xs-feed-algorithm/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller
[11:26]	TR Bot	 The political effects of Xs feed algorithm
[11:26]	TR News	"We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour." https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2?ref=werd.io | Source: Nature
[11:26]	TR Bot	political effects of Xs feed algorithm | Nature
[11:27]	TR News	"A few stories about centibillionaires men whose net worth exceeds $100 billion and their role in our society: [...]" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionaires-gone-wild | Source: Paul Krugman
[11:27]	TR Bot	 Billionaires Gone Wild - Paul Krugman
[11:27]	TR News	"Individually, each of these events can be defended as constitutionally permissible. The question is not whether each action is likely legal." https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1149 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
[11:27]	TR Bot	 Disdain or Design? | UNMITIGATED RISK
[11:27]	TR News	"In concert, these reports reflect a growing reality: Data centers are strategic, interconnected infrastructure supporting our manufacturing, national security, and communication systems." https://cyberscoop.com/data-center-security-ai-infrastructure-investment-op-ed/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[11:27]	TR Bot	secure-by-design systems are non-negotiable in the AI era | CyberScoop
[11:28]	TR News	"The title of the post isWhat AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works, and I agree: [...]" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ai-found-twelve-new-vulnerabilities-in-openssl.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[11:28]	TR Bot	Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL - Schneier on Security
[11:29]	TR News	"Tor is just one casualty. The Guardian Project, which builds open-source privacy tools" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/trumps-aid-freeze-is-killing-us-funded-privacy-tools-like-tor.html | Source: BoingBoing
[11:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/trumps-aid-freeze-is-killing-us-funded-privacy-tools-like-tor.html )
[11:29]	TR News	"Many users, myself included, view this as a major breach of trust and the final stage of years of gradual enshittification." https://no-bull.sh/blog/2026/02/16/in-search-of-a-discord-replacement/ |
[11:29]	TR Bot	 no bull.sh
[11:30]	TR News	"As Ill demonstrate, its surprisingly easy to spin up your own VPN provider on a virtual machine hosted by your choice of the cloud providers" https://danq.me/2026/02/18/run-your-own-wireguard-vpn/ | Source: Dan Q
[11:30]	TR Bot	 Run your own WireGuard VPN Dan Q
[11:31]	TR News	"Just weeks after last years election, Mark Carneys government committed not one, but two privacy blunders in rapid succession." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/02/time-for-the-government-to-fix-its-political-party-privacy-blunder-kill-bill-c-4s-disastrous-privacy-rules/ | Source: Michael Geist
[11:31]	TR Bot	 Time for the Government to Fix Its Political Party Privacy Blunder: Kill Bill C-4s Disastrous Privacy Rules - Michael Geist
[11:31]	TR News	"For those unaware, Amazon's Ring launched Search Party late in September last year as a means to help families reunite with lost pets." https://www.androidpolice.com/internal-ring-email-says-search-party-goes-beyond-dogs/ | Source: Android Police
[11:31]	TR Bot	 Internal Ring email says Search Party could be a precursor to neighborhood surveillance
[11:31]	TR News	"Search Party was initially designed to find dogs and recently expanded to wildfires. It is on by default for any user with a Ring subscription." https://www.theverge.com/tech/880906/ring-siminoff-email-leak-search-party-expansion | Source: The Verge
[11:31]	TR Bot	 Rings AI-powered Search Party wont stop at finding lost dogs, leaked email shows | The Verge
[11:31]	TR News	"intended to promote government efficiency, transparency, and accountability." https://www.404media.co/palantir-which-is-powering-ice-says-immigration-crackdown-may-hurt-hiring/ | Source: 404 Media
[11:31]	TR Bot	 Palantir, Which Is Powering ICE, Says Immigration Crackdown May Hurt Hiring
[11:32]	TR News	"The Netherlands-based company disclosed a data breach in mid-January, informing the public that the personal, order, and travel reservation information of customers who were issued a Eurail pass may have been compromised. Those who reserved a seat through Eurail may also be affected." https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/ | Source: Security Week
[11:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-offer-to-sell-millions-of-eurail-user-records/ )
[11:32]	TR News	"The company has not disclosed the total number of affected individuals, but Eurail operates passes across 250,000 kilometers of European railways, serving millions of travelers annually." https://thecyberexpress.com/eurail-breach-data-on-dark-web-for-sale/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[11:32]	TR Bot	 Data Stolen In Eurail Breach Surfaces On Dark Web For Sale
[11:33]	TR News	"That transition was simple in concept and genuinely hard in practice." https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1164 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
[11:33]	TR Bot	 Domain Control Validation Grew Up. It Only Took Thirty Years. | UNMITIGATED RISK
[11:33]	TR News	"On February 16, the organization revealed it now had a presence on Codeberg, where contributions could be submitted." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/gentoo_dumps_github_for_codeberg_over_copilot_nagware/ | Source: The Register UK
[11:33]	TR Bot	 Gentoo dumps GitHub over Copilot nagware The Register
[11:33]	TR News	"Agentic workflows - where an AI agent runs automatically in GitHub Actions - are now in technical preview" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/github_previews_agentic_workflows/ | Source: The Register UK
[11:33]	TR Bot	 GitHub previews Agentic Workflows The Register
[11:35]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Today, I discovered anoher campaign that relies exactly on the same technique." https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32726 | Source: SANS
[11:35]	TR Bot	 Tracking Malware Campaigns With Reused Material - SANS ISC
[11:36]	TR News	Windows TCO: "The Phobos ransomware-as-a-service operation emerged in 2019." https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/ | Source: Security Week
[11:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/man-linked-to-phobos-ransomware-arrested-in-poland/ )
[11:36]	TR News	"This was a confined-space operation, which is a very difficult, time-consuming, manpower-intensive operation" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-teenager-rescue-bridge-tiktok-b2922394.html | Source: The Independent UK
[11:36]	TR Bot	 Teenager rescued from 50-ft shaft on New York City bridge after TikTok stunt reportedly went horribly wrong | The Independent
[11:36]	TR News	"Authorities say the boy had fallen about 50 feet down a 3 feet by 3 feet shaft after climbing a section of the bridge over Roosevelt Island earlier in the day as part of a daring social media stunt." https://abc7ny.com/post/teenager-rescued-queensboro-bridge-social-media-stunt-went-wrong/18613409/ | Source: ABC
[11:36]	TR Bot	 Teenager rescued from Queensboro bridge after social media stunt went wrong - ABC7 New York
[11:37]	TR News	"According to NYPD sources, the 16-year-old boy told police he was with friends on the bridge, but they left him after he fell. No one else was on the scene when police and firefighters arrived." https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/queensboro-bridge-teen-falls-tiktok-challenge/ | Source: CBS
[11:37]	TR Bot	 Teen who fell 50 feet into NYC's Queensboro Bridge shaft was doing a TikTok challenge, police sources say - CBS New York
[11:38]	TR News	"There are many reasons why Instagram isn't the same anymore. Part of it is down to the social media landscape, and habits of social media users. As I think we've now become a generation of consumption." https://chrishannah.me/instagram-in-2026/ | Source: Chris Hannah
[11:38]	TR Bot	 Instagram in 2026 | Chris Hannah
[11:44]	TR News	"The persons responsible for this URL scheme thought well enough ahead for the complexity and scope it could encapsulate, yet kept it remarkably simple." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/flickr-url-scheme/ | Source: Nick Heer
[11:44]	TR Bot	 Flickrs URL Scheme Pixel Envy
[11:44]	TR News	"PCWorld reports that YouTube is deliberately disabling core features like comments and descriptions for users with active ad blockers installed." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063478/youtube-is-breaking-its-own-features-for-users-with-ad-blockers.html | Source: PC World
[11:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063478/youtube-is-breaking-its-own-features-for-users-with-ad-blockers.html )
[11:44]	TR News	EDRI on Software Freedom in EU https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Consultation-response-on-EU-Open-Source-Strategy_final.pdf
[11:45]	TR News	"Unlike many earlier legal challenges against social media companies, these cases managed to overcome the companies attempts to get them dismissed based on objections citing Section 230" https://www.theverge.com/policy/880850/social-media-lawsuits-meta-facebook-instagram-tiktok | Source: The Verge
[11:45]	TR Bot	 Social media on trial: tech giants face lawsuits over addiction, safety, and mental health | The Verge
[11:45]	TR News	"Specifically, Zuckerberg was on hand to answer questions as to whether Meta products such as Facebook and Instagram were intentionally engineered to be addictive" https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-testifies-social-media-addiction-trial-meta/ | Source: Wired
[11:45]	TR Bot	Zuckerberg Tries to Play It Safe in Social Media Addiction Trial Testimony | WIRED
[11:47]	TR News	Firefox mostly a survivor in Europe https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/europe/#monthly-200902-202602
[11:47]	TR Bot	 Browser Market Share Europe | Statcounter Global Stats
[11:47]	TR News	"This is strongly reminiscent of the Shell Game podcast I wrote about recently." https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/02/butlers-or-architects.html | Source: Murat Demirbas
[11:47]	TR Bot	 Are We Becoming Architects or Butlers to LLMs?
[11:48]	TR News	"A high PR count on a repository used to actually mean something. If strangers were showing up to fix your edge cases, you'd built something people cared about." https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-case-for-gatekeeping-or-why-medieval-guilds-had-it-figured-out/ | Source: Westenberg
[11:48]	TR Bot	 The case for gatekeeping, or: why medieval guilds had it figured out
[11:48]	TR News	"I maintain several open source projects. Some of them are somewhat popular, and attract contributions. In the age of LLMs I increasingly doubt whether Im dealing with a human on the other side, and this is taking a toll on my mental health." https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2026/ai-paranoia | Source: Ruud van Asseldonk
[11:48]	TR Bot	 AI is making me paranoid about contributions
[11:49]	TR News	"I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I wont be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about some of the most disturbing topics imaginable." https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/18/threatening-kids-with-ai/ | Source: Anil Dash
[11:49]	TR Bot	 How did we end up threatening our kids lives with AI? - Anil Dash
[11:52]	TR News	"Overproduction" https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1122/overproduction | Source: David Revoy
[11:52]	TR Bot	 Overproduction - David Revoy
[11:53]	TR News	"Raspberry Pi offers multiple AI HAT+'s for the Raspberry Pi 5 with built-in Hailo-8 or Hailo-8L AI coprocessors, and they're useful for low-power inference (like for image object detection) on the Pi." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/frigate-with-hailo-for-object-detection-on-a-raspberry-pi/ | Source: Jeff Geerling
[11:53]	TR Bot	 Frigate with Hailo for object detection on a Raspberry Pi - Jeff Geerling
[11:54]	TR News	"Orders that havent yet been fulfilled, for data centers that havent been built yet, for AI services which dont generate money, to perform services most people dont even want." https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/17/the-a-i-pocalypse-hits-video-game-hardware/ | Source: Marty Day
[11:54]	TR Bot	A.I.pocalypse Hits Video Game Hardware blast-o-rama.
[11:54]	TR News	"I feel like this is going to lead to a really strong resurgence in the Right to Repair movement, as were all going to be holding onto our tech longer"
[11:54]	TR News	"Im going to argue that claims about technological inevitability are wrong and monopolistic. " https://maxlangenkamp.me/posts/tech_not_inevitable/ |
[11:54]	TR Bot	 
[11:55]	TR News	"All three reactions are warranted" https://aisle.com/blog/what-ai-security-research-looks-like-when-it-works |
[11:55]	TR Bot	AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works | AISLE
[11:55]	TR News	"Market analysts expect memory prices to rise further in 2026, peaking in the first half of the year: [...]" https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063482/wi-fi-routers-are-expected-to-explode-in-price-due-to-ram-shortage.html | Source: PC World
[11:55]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063482/wi-fi-routers-are-expected-to-explode-in-price-due-to-ram-shortage.html )
[11:56]	TR News	"Its genuinely possible that some companies wont be able to secure enough RAM." https://www.theverge.com/tech/881062/ram-shortage-kill-products-companies-phison-ceo-interview | Source: The Verge
[11:56]	TR Bot	 The RAM crunch could kill products and even entire companies, memory exec admits | The Verge
[11:56]	TR News	"The rise of machine-based identities and AI agents, which require an identity to take action, is expanding the attack surface for cybercriminals." https://cyberscoop.com/attackers-abuse-identity-unit42-palo-alto-networks-incident-response-report/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[11:56]	TR Bot	42: Nearly two-thirds of breaches now start with identity abuse | CyberScoop
[11:56]	TR News	"Google launched Lyria 3, the latest iteration of its music creation AI, on Wednesday, and has made it far more available than the previous versions of the engine." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/google_musical_slop/ | Source: The Register UK
[11:56]	TR Bot	 Gemini will now generate musical slop for users The Register
[11:57]	TR News	"The most serious issue can cause a so-called Black Screen of Death (BSOD) with the error code KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064817/windows-11-update-causing-bsods-and-wi-fi-issues-microsoft-confirms.html | Source: PC World
[11:57]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064817/windows-11-update-causing-bsods-and-wi-fi-issues-microsoft-confirms.html )
[11:59]	TR News	"This vulnerability affects Microsoft 365 accounts and compromises sensitive data like contracts and medical information stored in Sent and Drafts folders." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064782/copilot-bug-allows-ai-to-read-confidential-outlook-emails.html | Source: PC World
[11:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064782/copilot-bug-allows-ai-to-read-confidential-outlook-emails.html )
[11:59]	TR News	"Several types of attacks were conducted against each of the tested password managers to degrade security guarantees, undermine expected protections, and fully compromise user accounts." https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/ | Source: Security Week
[11:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/password-managers-vulnerable-to-vault-compromise-under-malicious-server/ )
● Feb 19
[12:00]	TR News	"The Lone Star State's Attorney General, Ken Paxton, is filing the lawsuit against California-based TP-Link Systems Inc." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ | Source: The Register UK
[12:00]	TR Bot	 Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulns The Register
[12:01]	TR News	"Tech CEOs are not afraid of your phone, they are afraid of your boredom, because boredom is where you notice your life" https://naeemnur.com/doing-what-every-tech-ceo-loathes/ |
[12:01]	TR Bot	what every tech ceo loathes | naeemnur
[12:01]	TR News	"Keeping the phone at home, despite the nagging fear that there will be something to make me wish I had its camera with me, leaves me only with the choice of reading or blankly watching the world around me." https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-reading-my-mind/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
[12:01]	TR Bot	 Reading My Mind BIX dot BLOG
[12:04]	TR News	Yesterday I got to thinking about how all the various kinds of burnout really are just separate tentacles of the burnout hydra that is living in a system that prioritizes the needs of capital above the needs of people." https://bix.blog/posts/2026-02-18-its-like-the-burnout-said-phenomenon/ | Source: Bix Frankonis
[12:04]	TR Bot	 Its Like The Burnout Said: Phenomenon BIX dot BLOG
[12:05]	TR News	"In this case, the model's sycophancy weighting overrode its safety guardrail protocols." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/google_gemini_lie_placate_user/ | Source: The Register UK
[12:05]	TR Bot	 Google Gemini said it lied to placate a user The Register
[12:05]	TR News	"The second notebook I keep with me always is A5 sized notebook. I use it for more functional brainstorming and planning." https://hamatti.org/posts/different-notebook-sizes-for-different-ideas/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
[12:05]	TR Bot	 Different notebook sizes for different ideas : Juha-Matti Santala
[12:06]	TR News	"For years, Gwen has been sharing that expertise as a prolific blogger, conference presenter, and co-author of the popular OReilly Kafka guide." https://writethatblog.substack.com/p/gwen-shapira-on-technical-blogging | Source: Cynthia Dunlop
[12:06]	TR Bot	 Gwen Shapira on Technical Blogging - by Cynthia Dunlop
[12:06]	TR News	"Going to the next room exploring the periphery has taken me from medieval art to religious art to landscapes" https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/14/art-in-person | Source: James G
[12:06]	TR Bot	 A piece of art I would love to see in person | James' Coffee Blog
[12:11]	TR News	"Sine waves sound clean, but also unnatural. We will never hear a sine wave in natureits just too idealized." https://scvalex.net/posts/80/ | Source: Alexandru Scvorov
[12:11]	TR Bot	 Combining sine waves
[12:12]	TR News	"specialized terms and phrases used for efficient communication between colleagues" https://phinze.com/writing/useful-tech-terms | Source: Paul Hinze
[12:12]	TR Bot	tech terms: Yak Shaving, Technical Debt, Bikeshedding phinze.com
[12:12]	TR News	"It seems natural to think of online communities competing for the time and attention of their participants." https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/why-do-people-participate-in-similar-online-communities | Source: Benjamin Mako Hill
[12:12]	TR Bot	 Why do people participate in similar online communities? copyrighteous
[12:13]	TR News	"Computer Science Professor Joseph Halpern passed away on Friday after a long battle with cancer." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/02/joe-halpern-1953-2025.html | Source: Computational Complexity
[12:13]	TR Bot	 Computational Complexity: Joe Halpern (1953-2026)
[12:13]	TR News	"The odd thing is that when I do finally end up reading them, they often end up being very different from what I'd imagined." https://www.elliotcsmith.com/the-unbound-potential-of-open-tabs/ | Source: Elliot C Smith
[12:13]	TR Bot	 The unbound potential of open tabs
[12:13]	TR News	"Nadjma's insight was to flip this framework inward. Your professional image is your personal RAG report." https://sysadmin-journal.com/what-your-appearance-says-before-you-speak-lessons-from-pmi-mauritius/ | Source: Ish Sookun
[12:13]	TR Bot	 What your appearance says before you speak Lessons from PMI Mauritius
[12:13]	TR News	"Thats why the professional answer to so many questions is: it depends." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/observations-on-care/ | Source: Jim Nielsen
[12:13]	TR Bot	 A Few Rambling Observations on Care - Jim Nielsens Blog
[12:17]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_A_I_pocalypse_Inevitable_and_Butlers_to_LLMs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_A_I_pocalypse_Inevitable_and_Butlers_to_LLMs.gmi 
[12:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/02/2026: "A.I.pocalypse" Inevitable and "Butlers to LLMs"
[12:19]	TR News	Mewgenics is a clear hit reaching over a million sales | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mewgenics-is-a-clear-hit-reaching-over-a-million-sales/
[12:19]	TR Bot	is a clear hit reaching over a million sales | GamingOnLinux
[12:20]		*wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights
[12:24]	TR News	Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/minecraft-java-is-switching-from-opengl-to-vulkan-for-the-vibrant-visuals-update/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[12:24]	TR Bot	Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update | GamingOnLinux
[12:24]	TR News	Unity CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/unity-ceo-says-an-upcoming-beta-will-allow-people-to-prompt-full-casual-games-into-existence/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[12:24]	TR Bot	CEO says an upcoming Beta will allow people to "prompt full casual games into existence" | GamingOnLinux
[12:25]	TR News	So in addition to Microsoft Mono they will be pushing slop into games
[12:26]	TR News	Hytale gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/hytale-gets-a-huge-patch-3-update-with-animal-taming-map-markers-and-lots-of-new-content/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[12:26]	TR Bot	gets a huge Patch 3 update with Animal Taming, Map Markers and lots of new content | GamingOnLinux
[12:27]	TR News	CoStar layoffs hit Richmond -- again https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/costar-layoffs-richmond-feb-18-2026
[12:27]	TR Bot	 CoStar layoffs hit Richmond -- again
[12:28]	TR News	Prepare for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/prepare-for-hdd-availability-trouble-as-theyre-getting-sold-out-too/
[12:28]	TR Bot	for HDD availability trouble as they're getting sold out too | GamingOnLinux
[12:45]	TR News	Experimental code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux Source: GamingOnLinux
[12:45]	TR Bot	code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux | GamingOnLinux
[12:47]	TR News	The Register MS selling Microsoft again https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/capita_microsoft_copilot_pensions/ see http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/15/The_Register_MS_is_Promoting_Slop_Promotion_Connected_to_Micros.shtml
[12:47]	TR Bot	 Capita taps Microsoft Copilot to untangle UK pensions mess The Register
[12:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Register MS is Promoting Slop, Promotion Connected to Microsoft (Trying to Replace Judges With Microsoft)
[12:48]	TR News	iophk: these are effectively proprietary devices because LF fails to enforce the GPL https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/texas_sues_tplink_over_china/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/
[12:48]	TR Bot	 Texas sues TP-Link over China links and security vulns The Register
[12:48]	TR Bot	 The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator
[12:49]	TR News	"Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard" https://soylentnews.org/politics/article.pl?sid=26/02/14/0514214
[12:49]	TR Bot	 Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard - SoylentNews
[12:51]	TR News	Godot Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/godot-engine-suffering-from-lots-of-ai-slop-code-submissions/
[12:51]	TR Bot	Engine suffering from lots of "AI slop" code submissions | GamingOnLinux
[12:51]	TR News	NVIDIA recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[12:51]	TR Bot	recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux
[12:53]	TR News	"same limitations as in-person training" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-learning-reinvents-virtual-training | Source: Red Hat Official
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Learning Subscription Course reimagines virtual training
[12:53]	TR News	"If you're already using Red Hat Insights, all the features you rely onlike the advisor, vulnerability, and compliance servicesare staying exactly the same." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/simplify-red-hat-enterprise-linux-provisioning-image-builder-new-red-hat-lightspeed-security-and-management-integrations | Source: Red Hat Official
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Simplify Red Hat Enterprise Linux provisioning in image builder with new Red Hat Lightspeed security and management integrations
[12:54]	TR News	"There is no flashy interface, no proprietary cloud service, no opaque black box and no paid service that charges a monthly fee." https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/18/building-self-hosted-trading-infra-on-os/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[12:54]	TR Bot	 Building Self-Hosted Trading Infrastructure on openSUSE - openSUSE News
[12:54]	TR News	"Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store." https://ubuntu.com//blog/predict-compare-and-reduce-costs-with-our-s3-cost-calculator | Source: Ubuntu
[12:54]	TR Bot	compare, and reduce costs with our S3 cost calculator | Ubuntu
[12:55]	TR News	"Whats the best way to display a rainbow on a computer?" https://brandonli.net/spectra/doc/ |
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Rendering the Visible Spectrum
[12:56]	TR News	"The nsnotifyd tool is a neat little utility that can be used for automating tasks when a DNS zone changes." https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/nsnotifyd-with-powerdns-secondary/ | Source: Feld
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Using nsnotifyd with a PowerDNS Secondary Makefile.feld
[12:56]	TR News	"Webmention is a standardized way for owners of websites or blogs to tell one another that a link has been posted from one article to another." https://kevinboone.me/webmention.html | Source: Kevin Boone
[12:56]	TR Bot	 Kevin Boone: This site is now webmention-aware
[12:56]	TR News	"In many of the proposed PQC signing algorithms, the signature size is relatively large compared with the ECDSA signature size of 64 bytes, which is the current standard in DNSSEC." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/02/19/dnssec-and-pqc-the-practical-impact-of-increased-tcp-in-dns/ | Source: APNIC
[12:56]	TR Bot	 DNSSEC and PQC: The practical impact of increased TCP in DNS | APNIC Blog
[12:59]	TR News	"qlcal delivers the calendaring parts of QuantLib." https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/02/18/#qlcal-r_0.1.0 | Source: Dirk Eddelbuettel
[12:59]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
● Feb 19
[13:00]	TR News	[Old] "This model was conceived in 2010, now more than 10 years ago, and not very long after Git itself came into being." https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/ |
[13:00]	TR Bot	successful Git branching model nvie.com
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[13:05]	TR News	"Today, a very quick note on dynamic instance type checks in virtual machines with single inheritance." https://wingolog.org/archives/2026/02/18/two-mechanisms-for-dynamic-type-checks | Source: Andy Wingo
[13:05]	TR Bot	 two mechanisms for dynamic type checks wingolog
[13:05]	TR News	"In a previous post, I wrote about linker relaxation: the linkers ability to replace a slower, larger instruction with a faster, smaller one when it has enough information at link time." https://fzakaria.com/2026/02/18/linker-pessimization | Source: Farid Zakaria
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Linker Pessimization | Farid Zakarias Blog
[13:05]	TR News	"This is something I just tried out last week but it seems to have enough potential to be worth showing unpolished." https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/stream-of-consciousness-driven-development/ | Source: Buttondown LLC
[13:05]	TR Bot	of Consciousness Driven Development Buttondown
[13:05]	TR News	"Few things are more frustrating when first developing your own libraries than RPATH." https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/rpath/ | Source: Logikal Solutions
[13:05]	TR Bot	 RPATH Notes Logikal Blog
[13:06]	TR News	"It is and it totally makes sense." https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/02/18/cpp26-std_is_within_lifetime | Source: Sandor Dargo
[13:06]	TR Bot	 C++26: std::is_within_lifetime | Sandor Dargo's Blog
[13:06]	TR News	"February is a month to celebrate love for many things: our loved ones, our communities, and the free software behind most people's digital lives" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-i-love-free-software-day | Source: FSF
[13:06]	TR Bot	 Maintaining what we love all year long Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[13:07]	TR News	"It's worth noting that this was a time consuming process and a rather technical one." https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2026/owning-your-data | Source: Cory Dransfeldt
[13:07]	TR Bot	 Owning your data Cory Dransfeldt
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[13:08]	TR News	"Heres the Hackaday Europe 2026 announcement that youve all been waiting for." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/2026-hackaday-europe-call-for-participation-we-want-you/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:08]	TR Bot	Hackaday Europe Call For Participation: We Want You! | Hackaday
[13:08]	TR News	"The dust has finally settled on the United Nations General Assemblys twenty-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+20)." https://labs.ripe.net/author/desiree-miloshevic/how-global-digital-cooperation-entered-its-implementation-phase/ | Source: RIPE
[13:08]	TR Bot	 How Global Digital Cooperation Entered Its Implementation Phase | RIPE Labs
[13:09]	TR News	"Each year, we review our work against the following three core objectives." https://labs.ripe.net/author/alena-muravska/looking-back-at-2025-what-the-numbers-say-about-engagement-skills-and-coordination/ | Source: RIPE
[13:09]	TR Bot	 Looking Back at 2025: What the Numbers Say About Engagement, Skills, and Coordination | RIPE Labs
[13:12]	TR News	"PCWorld reports that Mozilla Firefox has ended support for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1, with version 115" https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html | Source: PC World
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html )
[13:12]	TR News	"These fake extensions bypassed Chrome Web Store security using misspelled names" https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063476/30-fake-ai-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-passwords-and-more.html | Source: PC World
[13:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3063476/30-fake-ai-chrome-extensions-caught-stealing-passwords-and-more.html )
[13:13]	TR News	"Because RSS is an open protocol, and because there are so many different possible ways to follow and read the news" https://ranchero.com/2026/02/17/new-rss-reader-current.html |
[13:13]	TR Bot	RSS reader Current - ranchero.com
[13:13]	TR News	"When I started Buttondown back in 2018, I went with the former." https://www.jmduke.com/posts/subpaths-vs-subdomains.html | Source: Justin Duke
[13:13]	TR Bot	 Subpaths vs. subdomains | Applied Cartography
[13:14]	TR News	"Hello! After spending some time working on the Git man pages last year, Ive been thinking a little more about what makes a good man page." https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/ | Source: Julia Evans
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Notes on clarifying man pages
[13:15]	TR News	"In my last post, I talked about switching from ZNC to Soju as my IRC bouncer." https://susam.net/soju-user-delete-hash.html | Source: SusamPal
[13:15]	TR Bot	 Soju User Delete Hash - Susam Pal
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[13:24]		-Global- Sur le salon #Films 14h30, participez au grand quizz films, sries & acteurs/trices ! Testez vos connaissances, affrontez les autres participants et repartez avec le titre de grand vainqueur du salon #Films 
[13:29]	TR News	Techrights In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Africa_s_Second_Largest_Nation_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Co.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/In_Africa_s_Second_Largest_Nation_Democratic_Republic_of_the_Co.gmi 
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights In Africa's Second-Largest Nation, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Opera 10 Times Bigger Than Firefox (and GNU/Linux Now at 5%)
[13:31]	TR News	"Some thoughts about my experience getting my parents' new devices up and running, and how bad it keeps getting today." https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/setting-up-phones-is-a-nightmare/ | Source: Joel Chrono
[13:31]	TR Bot	 Setting up phones is a nightmare
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[13:32]	TR News	"With the addition of E2EE for RCS, messages between iPhone users and Android users will eventually be just as secure as iMessage" https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/16/ios-26-4-rcs-encryption-testing/ | Source: MacRumors
[13:32]	TR Bot	Begins Testing End-to-End Encryption for RCS Messages in iOS 26.4 Beta - MacRumors
[13:32]	TR News	"Handheld and SFF specialist ETA Prime on YouTube has made it happen with gaming phone running the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 at 30 to 40 FPS in emulation." https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/high-end-android-phones-are-now-powerful-enough-to-emulate-the-pc-version-of-cyberpunk-2077-youtuber-gets-2020s-hottest-pc-game-running-at-playable-frame-rates-on-red-magic-11-pro | Source: Tom's Hardware
[13:32]	TR Bot	 High-end Android phones are now powerful enough to emulate the PC version of Cyberpunk 2077 YouTuber gets 2020's hottest PC game running at playable frame rates on Red Magic 11 Pro | Tom's Hardware
[13:33]	TR News	"All it takes is an UNO Q, a suitable USB-C hub, and a USB camera a low-magnification USB microscope works best to get a clear and close-up view of the resistor." https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/ | Source: Arduino
[13:33]	TR Bot	 Arduino UNO Q solves the classic resistor pile issue | Arduino Blog
[13:33]	TR News	"I didnt think to take a picture of the tower before I removed all the components and took it downstairs to the ewaste pile, but inside I was able to extract a near immaculate 550 W power supply, an Asus DVD writer, some screws, and a few ports, switches, and LEDs." https://rubenerd.com/some-more-roadside-tech-goodies/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[13:33]	TR Bot	Some more roadside tech goodies
[13:33]	TR News	"The organ produces music by playing notes on embedded instruments, which are themselves operated by air pressure, with note arrangements read off what amounts to a very long punch card." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/inside-a-dutch-street-organ-the-art-of-mechanical-music-making/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:33]	TR Bot	A Dutch Street Organ: The Art Of Mechanical Music-Making | Hackaday
[13:34]	TR News	"That's nearly two hundred frames in one single second. Incredibly impressive, yes. But do you really need to shoot this fast? Unless youre a pro whos shooting at the Winter Olympics, the answer is no." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/i-actually-reduce-the-fps-on-my-camera-when-shooting-action-to-get-better-shots-heres-why | Source: Digital Camera World
[13:34]	TR Bot	 I actually reduce the fps on my camera when shooting action to get better shots, here's why | Digital Camera World
[13:34]	TR News	"Sales of refurbished PCs are on the up amid shortages of key components, including memory chips, that are making brand new devices more expensive." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/refurbished_pcs_memory_crunch/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Secondary laptop market goes 'mainstream' amid memory crunch The Register
[13:35]	TR News	"Gijs Tuinman made the comments during a podcast interview after being asked whether the aircraft's software could be modified by European force" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/jailbreak_an_f35/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:35]	TR Bot	 Dutch defense chief: F-35s can be jailbroken like iPhones The Register
[13:35]	TR News	"The contents and format of the bsd.rd ramdisk kernel is shown, so you can understand and customize it for your own needs." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260218061632 | Source: Undeadly
[13:35]	TR Bot	 bsd.rd breakdown
[13:36]	TR News	"And yet, there has remained one question seemingly on everyones lips." https://asahilinux.org/2026/02/progress-report-6-19/ |
[13:36]	TR Bot	 Progress Report: Linux 6.19 - Asahi Linux
[13:37]	TR News	"Found in a thrift store, the 1960s Selchow & Righter SCRABBLE variant that nobody loved. It has no board, but 180 tiles, slightly different from the SCRABBLE ones (dang, I love that I can type , cant you tell?)" https://scruss.com/blog/2026/02/18/official-scrabblebrand-anagrams/ | Source: Stewart C Russell
[13:37]	TR Bot	 Official SCRABBLEBrand ANAGRAMS We Saw a Chicken 
[13:38]	TR News	"When World of Warcraft was launched in 2004, it became somewhat of a juggernaut in the MMORPG space." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/18/an-open-source-client-for-world-of-warcraft/ | Source: Hackaday
[13:38]	TR Bot	Open Source Client For World Of Warcraft | Hackaday
[13:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Mewgenics, Slop, Hytale, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Mewgenics_Slop_Hytale_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Games_Mewgenics_Slop_Hytale_and_More.gmi 
[13:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Mewgenics, Slop, Hytale, and More
[13:39]	TR News	"Every h-feed has a HTML ID that uniquely identifies it. For example, /hwc-notes#hwc-pacific identifies the HWC Pacific notes h-feed on the /hwc-notes web page." https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/13/multiple-h-feeds-same-page | Source: James G
[13:39]	TR Bot	 Adding multiple h-feeds to the same web page | James' Coffee Blog
[13:40]	TR News	"Thats right Im running this show now, and you know what that means: Im runnin a little long, baby. Strap in!" https://piccalil.li/the-index/165/ | Source: Andy Bell
[13:40]	TR Bot	 The Index: Issue #165 - Piccalilli
[13:40]	TR News	"This morning I saw log entries Ive never noticed before. They seem to have started 9 hours ago. First, this email arrived." https://dan.langille.org/2026/02/18/452-4-3-1-insufficient-system-storage/ | Source: Dan Langille
[13:40]	TR Bot	 452 4.3.1 Insufficient system storage Dan Langille's Other Diary
[13:40]	TR News	"Credit goes to him. Besides that I like to share everything that could be useful I also treat my blog as a place where I keep and maintain my FreeBSD documentation " https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/18/native-freebsd-kerberos-ldap-with-freeipa-idm/ | Source: Vermaden
[13:40]	TR Bot	 Native FreeBSD Kerberos/LDAP with FreeIPA/IDM | 
[13:41]	TR News	"To implement the effect, we take a fixed-size window and replace each pixel value with the arithmetic mean of n pixels in its neighborhood." https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/its-all-a-blur | Source: Lcamtuf
[13:41]	TR Bot	 It's all a blur - lcamtufs thing
[13:41]	TR News	"To better understand whats happening here, consider the above test case: [...]" https://markjames.dev/blog/6502-jump-indirect-bug |
[13:41]	TR Bot	 6502 Emulation - The Jump Indirect Bug
[13:42]	TR News	"Another crucial structural shift came in 1992, when Torvalds moved the kernel under the GNU General Public License (GPL)." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:42]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act The Register
[13:42]	TR News	"ARC and L2ARC sizing in Proxmox is a capacity-planning problem, not a tuning exercise." https://klarasystems.com/articles/arc-and-l2arc-sizing-for-proxmox/ | Source: Klara
[13:42]	TR Bot	 ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox - Klara Systems
[13:43]	TR News	"My impression of many of those conversational shows was that even though they were relatively lightly edited" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/trim-silence/ | Source: Watts Martin
[13:43]	TR Bot	 Trim Silence: Threat or menace?
[13:55]	TR News	Antoine Beaupr: net-tools to iproute cheat sheet https://anarc.at/blog/2026-02-18-iproute2/
[13:55]	TR Bot	 net-tools to iproute cheat sheet - anarcat
[13:57]	TR News	Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/18/carelessness-versus-craftsmanship-in-cryptography/
[13:57]	TR Bot	 Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography - The Trail of Bits Blog
[13:59]	TR News	This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 639 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/02/18/this-week-in-rust-639/
[13:59]	TR Bot	 This Week in Rust 639 This Week in Rust
● Feb 19
[14:34]	TR News	Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-inquiry/why-some-people-thrive-on-four-hours-of-sleep
[14:34]	TR Bot	 Why Some People Thrive on Four Hours of Sleep | The New Yorker
[14:35]	TR News	Extra! Extra! News from N. Korea now more freely available but are S. Koreans reading it? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/seoul-eases-curbs-on-north-koreas-top-daily-rodong-sinmun-but-few-south-koreans-are-reading-it
[14:35]	TR Bot	 South Korea eases curbs on North Korea's Rodong Sinmun | The Straits Times
[14:36]	TR News	Thomas Lange: 42.000 FAI.me jobs created http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/42000/
[14:36]	TR Bot	 42.000 FAI.me jobs created
[14:37]	TR News	Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026 (by Santiago Ruano Rincn) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2026-01/
[14:37]	TR Bot	report about Debian Long Term Support, January 2026 | Freexian
[14:37]	TR News	8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/
[14:37]	TR Bot	 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch
[14:38]	TR News	An Asahi GNU/Linux progress report https://lwn.net/Articles/1059339/
[14:38]	TR Bot	Asahi Linux progress report [LWN.net]
[14:40]	TR News	Tarek Ziad: Running SmolLM-135M in rustnn with flexible inputs https://tarekziade.github.io/2026/02/18/running-smollm-135m-in-rustnn/
[14:40]	TR Bot	 Running SmolLM-135M in rustnn with flexible inputs | Tarek Ziad
[14:41]	TR News	Manage Hey Hi (AI) resource use with TokenRateLimitPolicy https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/manage-ai-resource-use-tokenratelimitpolicy
[14:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/manage-ai-resource-use-tokenratelimitpolicy )
[14:42]	TR News	Anubis v1.25.0: Necron https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases/tag/v1.25.0
[14:42]	TR Bot	v1.25.0: Necron TecharoHQ/anubis GitHub
[14:43]	TR News	Adrian Vovk: GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026 https://blogs.gnome.org/adrianvovk/2026/02/18/gnome-os-hackfest-fosdem-2026/
[14:43]	TR Bot	 GNOME OS Hackfest @ FOSDEM 2026 Adrian's blog
[14:46]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6 Released! New Initial Setup & OCR Support in Spectacle https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/kde-plasma-6-6-released/
[14:46]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.6 Released! New Initial Setup & OCR Support in Spectacle | UbuntuHandbook
[14:46]	TR News	GobMis 5.0 is out https://distrowatch.com/gobmis
[14:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/gobmis )
[14:46]	TR News	Calculate 20260217 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/calculate
[14:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/calculate )
[14:46]	TR News	FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 20, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-20-irc
[14:46]	TR Bot	 Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 20, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[14:48]	TR News	The tech is coming/its inevitable/etc https://rubenerd.com/the-tech-is-coming/
[14:48]	TR Bot	The tech is coming/its inevitable/etc
[14:49]	TR News	"The future is less certain than we realize, and a wise course of action involves acknowledging both our uncertainty but also the way that narrative power can shape outcomes. Be wary the oracle bearing the message that their technology is inevitable."
[14:51]	TR News	10 Chambers announces massive layoffs as Den of Wolves development continues https://www.notebookcheck.net/10-Chambers-announces-massive-layoffs-as-Den-of-Wolves-development-continues.1229336.0.html
[14:51]	TR Bot	Chambers announces massive layoffs as Den of Wolves development continues - NotebookCheck.net News
[14:58]	TR News	IBM works for Pentagon https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
[14:58]	TR News	Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers https://pressgazette.co.uk/paywalls/irish-times-journalism-now-fully-funded-by-subscribers/
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Irish Times journalism now fully funded by subscribers - Press Gazette
[14:59]	MinceR	19 070227 < IsambardPrince> "MORE CHICKEN!"
[14:59]	MinceR	:)
● Feb 19
[15:03]	TR News	about stenography: "How the media keeps manufacturing Elon Musks "Genius"" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/how-the-media-keeps-manufacturing-elon-musks-genius.html
[15:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/17/how-the-media-keeps-manufacturing-elon-musks-genius.html )
[15:04]	TR News	Being seen as "Smart" is a PR service/product https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php
[15:04]	TR Bot	 Journalisms Gates keepers - Columbia Journalism Review
[15:05]	TR News	Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from Hey Hi (AI) https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/over-80-percent-of-companies-report-no-productivity-gains-from-ai-so-far-despite-billions-in-investment-survey-suggests-6-000-executives-also-reveal-1-3-of-leaders-use-ai-but-only-for-90-minutes-a-week
[15:05]	TR Bot	 Over 80% of companies report no productivity gains from AI so far despite billions in investment, survey suggests 6,000 executives also reveal 1/3 of leaders use AI, but only for 90 minutes a week | Tom's Hardware
[15:06]	TR News	Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unity-create-entire-games-using-ai
[15:06]	TR Bot	 Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using AI
[15:07]	TR News	Oxford Researcher Warns That Hey Hi (AI) Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-hindenburg-disast
[15:07]	TR Bot	 Oxford Researcher Warns That AI Is Heading for a Hindenburg-Style Disaster
[15:07]	TR News	Millions of people cant understand life-or-death weather alerts: GAO https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/millions-of-people-cant-understand-life-or-death-weather-alerts-gao/
[15:07]	TR Bot	 GAO: Millions of people cant understand life-or-death weather alerts | Federal News Network
[15:07]	MinceR	19 160645 < techrights-news> Unity Says It Has a New Product That Cooks Up Entire Games Using Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/unity-create-entire-games-using-ai
[15:07]	MinceR	is it like microslop's?
[15:08]	MinceR	which looked like quake ii but if you turned around, it forgot what was there
[15:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was ridiculed
[15:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	for being ugly and wrong
[15:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	merely a demo as distraction
[15:08]	MinceR	and if you faced a patch of shadow, it collapsed
[15:09]	MinceR	they can use the corporations they've bought for pointless shit like this
[15:09]	MinceR	but not for things like re-releasing Portal of Praevus on stores like Steam...
[15:09]	TR News	Feds and retirees face fresh uncertainty amid resurgent instability https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce/2026/02/feds-and-retirees-face-fresh-uncertainty-amid-resurgent-instability/
[15:09]	TR Bot	 Feds and retirees face fresh uncertainty amid resurgent instability | Federal News Network
[15:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not just "games"
[15:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's also music
[15:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	videos
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and text
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	images also
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's usually crasp
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	dreary and mostly useless
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	people will feel yuck
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and look for originals
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	like original gaMES
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	real music
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	when the platforms detect and cullt he issue
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	Google news still links to slowfarms
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	it harms Google News
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	same for YouTube
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	which gaming store recently banned slop games
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	i forgot
[15:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	or flagged them
[15:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	or got flooded by some
[15:12]	TR News	South Sudan Appoints Dead Man to Election Panel, as Political Crisis Grows https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/africa/south-sudan-dead-man-election-crisis.html
[15:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/world/africa/south-sudan-dead-man-election-crisis.html )
[15:13]	TR News	Dell RecoverPoint Zero-Day Exploited by Chinese Cyberespionage Group https://www.securityweek.com/dell-recoverpoint-zero-day-exploited-by-chinese-cyberespionage-group/
[15:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/dell-recoverpoint-zero-day-exploited-by-chinese-cyberespionage-group/ )
[15:14]	TR News	CISA: Hackers Exploiting Vulnerability in Product of Taiwan Security Firm TeamT5 https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-hackers-exploiting-vulnerability-in-product-of-taiwan-security-firm-teamt5/
[15:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/cisa-hackers-exploiting-vulnerability-in-product-of-taiwan-security-firm-teamt5/ )
[15:15]	TR News	"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" - > "if you are smart, why did you collect money you never used?"
[15:16]	TR News	Arduino UNO Q solves the classic resistor pile issue https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/02/19/arduino-uno-q-solves-the-classic-resistor-pile-issue/
[15:16]	TR Bot	 Arduino UNO Q solves the classic resistor pile issue | Arduino Blog
[15:16]	TR News	Building a Secret with Math: The Diffie-Hellman Guide https://shibe-bit.github.io/Learnings/Diffie-HellmanKeyExchange
[15:16]	TR Bot	 Building a Secret with Math: The Diffie-Hellman Guide
[15:17]	TR News	KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-6-6-release/
[15:17]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard
[15:17]	TR News	US authorities return 11 Mexican parrots seized at border https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/us-authorities-return-11-mexican-parrots/
[15:17]	TR Bot	 US authorities return 11 Mexican parrots seized at border
[15:18]	TR News	Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Vote Jeopardizing Lifeline Program https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-opposes-fcc-vote-jeopardizing-lifeline-program/
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Public Knowledge Opposes FCC Vote Jeopardizing Lifeline Program - Public Knowledge
[15:19]	TR News	TerraMaster F2-425 Plus 3+2-bay hybrid NAS review Part 1: unboxing, teardown, drives installation, and first boot https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/19/terramaster-f2-425-plus-32-bay-hybrid-nas-review-part-1-unboxing-teardown-drives-installation-and-first-boot/
[15:19]	TR Bot	 TerraMaster F2-425 Plus 3+2-bay hybrid NAS review - Part 1: unboxing, teardown, drives installation, and first boot - CNX Software
[15:20]	TR News	Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lenovo-denies-allegations-of-transferring-data-to-china-class-action-lawsuit-alleges-company-uses-trackers-to-expose-american-behavioral-data-to-foreign-adversaries
[15:20]	TR Bot	 Lenovo denies allegations of transferring data to China class action lawsuit alleges company uses trackers to expose American behavioral data to foreign adversaries | Tom's Hardware
[15:21]	TR News	Realtor Uses AI, Accidentally Posts Photo of Rental Property With Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/realtor-ai-photo-mirror
[15:21]	TR Bot	 Realtor Uses AI to Soup Up Rental Listing, Accidentally Posts Photo of Demonic Figure Emerging From Mirror
[15:22]	TR News	Don't walk on ice to Mangasala shipwreck https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/18.02.2026-dont-walk-on-ice-to-mangalsala-shipwreck.a635193/ "Social media shows photos and videos of residents walking on the ice to view the wreck in the Baltic Sea ice reserve zone, where movement is prohibited, Latvian Television reported on 17th February."
[15:22]	TR Bot	 Don't walk on ice to Mangasala shipwreck / Article
[15:23]	TR News	Protect Your Framework Laptop 13 | Why Bumpers Matter https://cubiclenate.com/2026/02/18/protect-your-framework-laptop-13-why-bumpers-matter/
[15:23]	TR Bot	Your Framework Laptop 13 | Why Bumpers Matter CubicleNate.com
[15:24]	TR News	An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/inexact-electric-gatekeeping.html
[15:24]	TR Bot	 An Inexact Art: Willis Electric and the Limits of Damages Gatekeeping | Patently-O
[15:24]	TR News	Pete Zaitcev: Meanwhile in space https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/270241.html
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Meanwhile in space: zaitcev LiveJournal
[15:25]	TR News	EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/17/EPO_Productivity_Will_Fall_Off_a_Cliff_If_Examiners_Stick_to_th.shtml
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO "Productivity" Will Fall Off a Cliff If Examiners Stick to the European Patent Convention (EPC) and Follow the Real Rules
[15:25]	TR News	Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent monopoly campaign - invalidity charts coming soon https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/koyo-licensing-sensitive-display-patent-campaign-invalidity-charts-coming-soon
[15:25]	TR Bot	 Koyo Licensing sensitive display patent campaign - invalidity charts coming soon Unified Patents
[15:26]	TR News	Software Patents: Songbird Tech patent monopoly validity challenge coming soon https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/songbird-tech-patent-validity-challenge-coming-soon
[15:26]	TR Bot	 Songbird Tech patent validity challenge coming soon Unified Patents
[15:26]	TR News	Patents on algos again https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/2/18/4000-for-key-patent-innovations-entity-malikie-innovations-cryptographic-patents-prior-art
[15:26]	TR Bot	 $4,000 for Key Patent Innovations entity, Malikie Innovations, cryptographic patents prior art Unified Patents
[15:27]	TR News	Corrupt EPO for litigation euros (graft) https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/munich-drives-rising-case-numbers-in-germany/
[15:27]	TR Bot	 Munich drives rising case numbers in Germany - JUVE Patent
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[15:51]	MinceR	https://explosm.net/comics/edgelord#comic
[15:51]	TR Bot	& Happiness (Explosm.net)
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[16:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  LibreOffice 25.8.5 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 60 Bug Fixes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LibreOffice_25_8_5_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_More_Than.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/LibreOffice_25_8_5_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_with_More_Than.gmi 
[16:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines LibreOffice 25.8.5 Is Now Available for Download with More Than 60 Bug Fixes
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[16:37]	TR News	Pete Zaitcev: The end of MinIO https://zaitcev.livejournal.com/269969.html
[16:37]	TR Bot	 The end of MinIO: zaitcev LiveJournal
[16:38]	TR News	Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers https://cloudnativenow.com/features/red-hat-makes-available-supported-version-of-podman-desktop-tool-for-containers/
[16:38]	TR Bot	 Red Hat Makes Available Supported Version of Podman Desktop Tool for Containers - Cloud Native Now
[16:38]	TR News	UN experts criticize Ireland police use of less-lethal weapons at protests https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/02/un-experts-criticize-ireland-police-use-of-less-lethal-weapons-at-protests/
[16:38]	TR Bot	 UN experts criticize Ireland police use of "less-lethal" weapons at protests - JURIST - News
[16:39]	TR News	European Commissions plans will lead to worse regulations https://edri.org/our-work/european-commissions-plans-will-lead-to-worse-regulations/
[16:39]	TR Bot	 European Commissions plans will lead to worse regulations - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:39]	TR News	How recommender algorithms threaten election integrity https://edri.org/our-work/how-recommender-algorithms-threaten-election-integrity/
[16:39]	TR Bot	 How recommender algorithms threaten election integrity - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:39]	TR News	Ensuring human rights-based, global perspectives in the DSA enforcement: the DSA Human Rights Alliances guidelines https://edri.org/our-work/ensuring-human-rights-based-global-perspectives-in-the-dsa-enforcement-the-dsa-human-rights-alliances-guidelines/
[16:39]	TR Bot	 The DSA Human Rights Alliances guidelines - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:40]	TR News	Congressional report recommends FedRAMP for commercial data brokers https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/congressional-report-recommends-fedramp-for-commercial-data-brokers/
[16:40]	TR Bot	 Congressional report recommends FedRAMP for commercial data brokers | Federal News Network
[16:41]	TR News	Czech ministry apologizes to journalist for blanket collection of mobile phone data https://edri.org/our-work/czech-ministry-apologizes-to-journalist-for-blanket-collection-of-mobile-phone-data/
[16:41]	TR Bot	 Czech ministry apologizes to journalist for blanket collection of data - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:41]	TR News	US pressure on the Digital Services Act in the Netherlands https://edri.org/our-work/us-pressure-on-the-digital-services-act-in-the-netherlands/
[16:41]	TR Bot	 US pressure on the Digital Services Act in the Netherlands - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:41]	TR News	Europes digital sovereignty starts with open source https://edri.org/our-work/europes-digital-sovereignty-starts-with-open-source/
[16:41]	TR Bot	 Europes digital sovereignty starts with open source - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[16:43]	TR News	An update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog) https://lwn.net/Articles/1059338/
[16:43]	TR Bot	update to the malicious crate notification policy (Rust Blog) [LWN.net]
[16:43]	TR News	Monado at the core of Android XR https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/monado-at-the-core-of-android-xr.html
[16:43]	TR Bot	 Monado at the core of Android XR
[16:43]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/bill-gates-wont-deliver-keynote-at-ai-impact-summit-amid-epstein-ties-row-confirms-foundation-13981432.html
[16:43]	TR Bot	Gates won't deliver keynote at AI Impact Summit amid Epstein ties row, confirms Foundation Firstpost
[16:44]	TR News	New Keenadu Android Malware Found on Thousands of Devices https://www.securityweek.com/new-keenadu-android-malware-found-on-thousands-of-devices/
[16:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/new-keenadu-android-malware-found-on-thousands-of-devices/ )
[16:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	admfubar: are orgies with young russian girls a coc violation?
[16:45]	TR News	Python Series Part 23: Text Widget - Part 1 https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-23-text-widget-part-1.59025/
[16:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-23-text-widget-part-1.59025/ )
[16:45]	TR News	rsimg terminal image viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/rsimg-terminal-image-viewer/
[16:45]	TR Bot	- terminal image viewer - LinuxLinks
[16:46]	TR News	14 Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-steganography-tools/
[16:46]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Steganography Tools - LinuxLinks
[16:52]	admfubar	o_O
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[16:53]	admfubar	oh! code of conduct... i thought it was a typo...
[16:55]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/14/doorbell-cameras-ring-nancy-guthrie-super-bowl
[16:55]	TR Bot	 The problem with doorbell cams: Nancy Guthrie case and Ring Super Bowl ad reawaken surveillance fears | Technology | The Guardian
[16:55]	MinceR	19 174425 < schestowitz[TR2]> admfubar: are orgies with young russian girls a coc violation?
[16:56]	MinceR	like with all potential violations, it all depends on who does it
[16:58]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-labor-andrew-yang
[16:58]	TR Bot	 AI Will Destroy Millions of White Collars Jobs in the Coming Months, Andrew Yang Warns, Driving Surge of Personal Bankruptcies
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[17:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	good thing pres of hungary is a russian girl then
[17:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	just toss antibiotics in the wife's drink
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	and you're all set, good to go into orban's cabinet
[17:04]	TR News	Hazelnut automated file organizer https://www.linuxlinks.com/hazelnut-automated-file-organizer/
[17:04]	TR Bot	- automated file organizer - LinuxLinks
[17:04]	TR News	3 Best Free and Open Source Scheme Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-scheme-static-site-generators/
[17:04]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Scheme Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks
[17:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/PipeWire_1_6_Released_with_Support_for_Audio_Channel_Layouts_LD.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/PipeWire_1_6_Released_with_Support_for_Audio_Channel_Layouts_LD.gmi 
[17:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines PipeWire 1.6 Released with Support for Audio Channel Layouts, LDAC Decoder
[17:05]	TR News	zrok secure internet sharing platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/zrok-secure-internet-sharing-platform/
[17:05]	TR Bot	- secure internet sharing platform - LinuxLinks
[17:05]	TR News	Lightning Image Viewer fast and lightweight desktop image viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightning-image-viewer-fast-lightweight/
[17:05]	TR Bot	Image Viewer - fast and lightweight desktop image viewer - LinuxLinks
[17:09]	TR News	ElegooSlicer slicer for FDM printers https://www.linuxlinks.com/elegooslicer-slicer-fdm-printers/
[17:09]	TR Bot	- slicer for FDM printers - LinuxLinks
[17:09]	TR News	xfr modern iperf3 alternative https://www.linuxlinks.com/xfr-modern-iperf3-alternative/
[17:09]	TR Bot	- modern iperf3 alternative - LinuxLinks
[17:09]	TR News	HyprQuickFrame screenshot utility for Hyprland https://www.linuxlinks.com/hyprquickframe-screenshot-utility-hyprland/
[17:09]	TR Bot	- screenshot utility for Hyprland - LinuxLinks
[17:10]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/mag-lev-lemming-refuses-to-fall/
[17:10]	TR Bot	Lemming Refuses To Fall | Hackaday
[17:10]	TR News	crabdrop file manager for S3-compatible storage https://www.linuxlinks.com/crabdrop-file-manager-s3-compatible-storage/
[17:10]	TR Bot	- file manager for S3-compatible storage - LinuxLinks
[17:10]	TR News	QuickSnip OCR and Surveillance Giant Google Lens search https://www.linuxlinks.com/quicksnip-ocr-google-lens-search/
[17:10]	TR Bot	- OCR and Google Lens search - LinuxLinks
[17:11]	TR News	AsteroidOS 2.0 open-source smartwatch OS released, now supports around 30 devices https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/18/asteroidos-2-0-open-source-smartwatch-os-released-now-supports-around-30-devices/
[17:11]	TR Bot	 AsteroidOS 2.0 open-source smartwatch OS released, now supports around 30 devices - CNX Software
[17:11]	admfubar	https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/meta-ai-patent-digital-afterlife-social-media/
[17:11]	TR Bot	( status 404 @ https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/meta-ai-patent-digital-afterlife-social-media/ )
[17:11]	TR News	Fedora now available in Syria https://lwn.net/Articles/1059342/
[17:11]	TR Bot	now available in Syria [LWN.net]
[17:13]	TR News	UFW Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ufw/
[17:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/ufw/ )
[17:14]	TR News	MySQL/MariaDB Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/mysql-mariadb/
[17:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/mysql-mariadb/ )
[17:14]	TR News	Optimize infrastructure health with Red Bait Lightspeed MCP https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/optimize-infrastructure-health-red-hat-lightspeed-mcp
[17:14]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/optimize-infrastructure-health-red-hat-lightspeed-mcp )
[17:15]	TR News	Control updates with download-only mode in bootc https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/control-updates-download-only-mode-bootc
[17:15]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/02/18/control-updates-download-only-mode-bootc )
[17:16]	TR News	FFconvert removed https://bkhome.org/news/202602/ffconvert-removed.html
[17:16]	TR Bot	 FFconvert removed
[17:16]	TR News	yt-dlp now needs javascript https://bkhome.org/news/202602/yt-dlp-now-needs-javascript.html
[17:16]	TR Bot	 yt-dlp now needs javascript
[17:17]	TR News	KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles https://ev.kde.org/2026/02/18/kde-joins-osu/
[17:17]	TR Bot	 KDE endorses the UN's Open Source Principles - KDE e.V.
[17:17]		*MinceR endorses the dissolution of the UN
[17:17]	TR News	Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1059333/
[17:17]	TR Bot	updates for Wednesday [LWN.net]
[17:18]	MinceR	maybe they should have cared about "open source" back when they decided to instead push the WIPO Copyright Treaty
[17:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	berne?
[17:18]	MinceR	no, this is later
[17:18]	MinceR	roughly equivalent to the DMCA
[17:19]	TR News	How to Install Brave on Fedora GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-brave-on-fedora-linux/
[17:19]	TR Bot	to Install Brave on Fedora Linux - LinuxCapable
[17:19]	TR News	whereis Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) https://linuxcapable.com/whereis-command-in-linux/
[17:19]	TR Bot	Command in Linux (With Examples) - LinuxCapable
[17:19]	TR News	ifconfig Command in GNU/Linux (With Examples) https://linuxcapable.com/ifconfig-command-in-linux/
[17:19]	TR Bot	Command in Linux (With Examples) - LinuxCapable
[17:19]	TR News	How to Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-aws-cli-on-arch-linux/
[17:19]	TR Bot	to Install AWS CLI on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable
[17:20]	TR News	How To Install SMPlayer on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-smplayer-fedora-43/
[17:20]	TR Bot	 How To Install SMPlayer on Fedora 43 - idroot
[17:20]	TR News	How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-nginx-proxy-manager-manjaro/
[17:20]	TR Bot	 How To Install Nginx Proxy Manager on Manjaro - idroot
[17:21]	TR News	LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-at-fosdem-2026-in-brussels/
[17:21]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice at FOSDEM 2026 in Brussels - TDF Community Blog
[17:21]	TR News	LibreOffice Named a 2026 Best Value Leader by Capterra https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/18/libreoffice-named-a-2026-best-value-leader-by-capterra/
[17:21]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice Named a 2026 "Best Value" Leader by Capterra - TDF Community Blog
[17:22]	TR News	GodotCon Amsterdam - Save the date! https://godotengine.org/article/godotcon-2026/
[17:22]	TR Bot	 GodotCon Amsterdam - Save the date! Godot Engine
[17:23]	TR News	Anonymous Work and the Hey Hi (AI) Author Fight https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/02/anonymous-author-fight.html
[17:23]	TR Bot	 Anonymous Work and the AI Author Fight | Patently-O
[17:27]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cup
[17:27]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cup
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[17:32]	TR News	New: "Scam Altman says some companies are "AI washing" job cuts, but he wasn't sure what percentage of layoffs fell into that category."
[17:33]	TR News	his chatbot hype is also AI-washing
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[17:35]	TR News	"Companies that have cited AI when reducing employee head count include Amazon, IBM, Salesforce, and HP." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-says-ai-displacing-113050990.html They ask Mr AI-washing about AI-washing. How much are they paid for this hogwash?
[17:35]	TR Bot	 Sam Altman says AI is displacing jobs, but some companies are blaming it for layoffs they would've made anyway
[17:36]	TR News	hanks for posting that. In fact you might want to create a new stand alone item for review and comments. That is outrageous and NOT the IBM I joined in the early 80s. Lots of people got 1st time PCs and became great programmers on their own time on their own devices. 1 of a million reasons why IBM is a hot mess and will soon join Sears, Polaroid, Enron etc etc.
[17:36]	TR News	"Thanks for posting that. In fact you might want to create a new stand alone item for review and comments. That is outrageous and NOT the IBM I joined in the early 80s. Lots of people got 1st time PCs and became great programmers on their own time on their own devices. 1 of a million reasons why IBM is a hot mess and will soon join Sears, Polaroid, Enron etc etc." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
[17:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb )
[17:36]	TR News	"Is is most likely some stup1d, useless, good for nothing manager's action. Managers at IBM are ignorant and full of hot air. They do not understand the implications of the sh1t that comes out of their foul mouths." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
[17:37]	TR News	"These examples indicate IBM is on a path to destroying itself. Its sad to see a company do this to itself." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhxvbrb
[17:39]	TR News	openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Platform https://sysadmin-journal.com/opensuse-leap-16-0-is-now-available-on-google-cloud-platform/
[17:39]	TR Bot	 openSUSE Leap 16.0 is now available on Google Cloud Platform
[17:40]	TR News	Need Help Remembering GNU/Linux Commands? Try Brief https://fossforce.com/2026/02/need-help-remembering-linux-commands-try-brief/
[17:40]	TR Bot	 Need Help Remembering Linux Commands? Try Brief - FOSS Force
[17:41]	MinceR	Need Help Remembering Commands? Try Brain
[17:42]	TR News	Japan to ban in-flight use of power banks from April https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-ban-in-flight-use-of-power-banks-from-april
[17:42]	TR Bot	 Japan bans in-flight power bank use from April | The Straits Times
[17:42]	TR News	Extreme Hollywood Backlash Continues Against ByteDances Seedance 2.0: Threats Unilaterally Issued by Netflix, Warner Bros., Disney, and Paramount https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/18/hollywood-backlash-seedance-2-0/
[17:42]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/18/hollywood-backlash-seedance-2-0/ )
[17:43]	TR News	Gabon suspends access to social control media amid teachers' strike https://www.france24.com/en/gabon-suspends-access-to-social-media-amid-teachers-strike
[17:43]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/gabon-suspends-access-to-social-media-amid-teachers-strike )
[17:44]	TR News	These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins https://www.howtogeek.com/these-are-the-only-linux-distros-i-recommend-for-sysadmins/
[17:44]	TR Bot	 These are the only Linux distros I recommend for sysadmins
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[17:44]	MinceR	all of them systemd crap
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	did you check one by one?
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	(i did not)
[17:45]	MinceR	yeah
[17:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	systemDOS
[17:46]	MinceR	funny how choice is acceptable to the cultists, as long as it's meaningless choice
[17:47]	TR News	"It all began when Torvalds and his friend Lars Wirzenius met at the University of Helsinki. They began tinkering with PCs; computer games (Prince of Persia); social networking, which in those days was Usenet; and Unix." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/
[17:47]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act The Register
[17:47]	TR News	"The AsteroidOS 2.0 release aims to provide a stable, beautiful base for people who want an open smartwatch today, and an interesting project for developers who want to experiment, learn and contribute." https://itsfoss.com/news/asteroidos-2-release/
[17:47]	TR Bot	 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch
[17:48]	TR News	Firefox ends support for Windows 7: Upgrade to 10 or Linux https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html
[17:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3064835/firefox-ends-support-for-windows-7-upgrade-to-10-or-linux.html )
[17:48]	TR News	"Unfortunately, the HDMI Forum refused to allow HDMI 2.1+ features in the open source driver, but that hasn't stopped one developer." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/experimental-code-ready-for-testing-to-enable-hdmi-2-1-frl-with-amdgpu-on-linux/
[17:48]	TR Bot	code ready for testing to enable HDMI 2.1 FRL with AMDGPU on Linux | GamingOnLinux
[17:49]	TR News	"But this is a good time to remind you that you'll need to be on a quite up to date version anyway, since NVIDIA revealed more security issues with their drivers back in January." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/nvidia-recommended-driver-580-126-18-released-for-linux/
[17:49]	TR Bot	recommended driver 580.126.18 released for Linux | GamingOnLinux
[17:49]	MinceR	"upgrade to 10"
[17:49]	TR News	AsteroidOS 2.0 Brings an Open, Linux-Based Replacement OS to More Smartwatches Than Ever https://www.hackster.io/news/asteroidos-2-0-brings-an-open-linux-based-replacement-os-to-more-smartwatches-than-ever-c0a9cc6d7d1b
[17:49]	TR Bot	2.0 Brings an Open, Linux-Based Replacement OS to More Smartwatches Than Ever - Hackster.io
[17:51]	TR News	Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Linux VPS Security in 2026 https://programminginsider.com/beyond-the-firewall-a-guide-to-enterprise-grade-linux-vps-security-in-2026/
[17:51]	TR Bot	 Beyond the Firewall: A Guide to Enterprise-Grade Linux VPS Security in 2026 - Programming Insider
[17:52]	TR News	Want to develop your Linux skills? I've found the perfect distro for you https://www.zdnet.com/article/nutyx-distribution-learning-linux-skills/
[17:52]	TR Bot	to develop your Linux skills? I&apos;ve found the perfect distro for you | ZDNET
[17:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: run tot eh cliff
[17:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	fall head first
[17:53]	TR News	Nvidia releases 580.126.18 Linux driver to fix Kernel 6.19 compatibility issues https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-releases-580-126-18-Linux-driver-to-fix-Kernel-6-19-compatibility-issues.1229298.0.html
[17:53]	TR Bot	releases 580.126.18 Linux driver to fix Kernel 6.19 compatibility issues - NotebookCheck.net News
[17:54]	TR News	How I reduced context switching on Linux by redesigning my browser workflow https://www.makeuseof.com/reduced-context-switching-on-linux-redesigning-browser-workflow/
[17:54]	TR Bot	 How I reduced context switching on Linux by redesigning my browser workflow
[17:55]	TR News	"ByteSnap Design has partnered with Digi International to introduce a managed security service aimed at helping manufacturers keep embedded Linux devices secure throughout their operational lifetimes." https://www.newelectronics.co.uk/content/news/bytesnap-design-and-digi-international-launch-managed-security-service-for-embedded-linux-devices
[17:55]	TR Bot	 New managed security service for embedded Linux devices
[17:56]	TR News	Proprietary software hides flaws and does not patch these at all (unless/until forced to) https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/18/open-source-adoption-patching-challenges/ This is marketing using FUD.
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Everyone uses open source, but patching still moves too slowly - Help Net Security
[17:57]	TR News	back doors company https://itsfoss.com/news/red-hat-digital-sovereignty-assessment-tool/
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Think You're Digitally Sovereign? Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out
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[17:59]	TR News	How to Remotely Manage Linux VMs With RDP https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-to-remotely-manage-linux-vms-with-rdp.aspx
[17:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://redmondmag.com/articles/2026/02/17/how-to-remotely-manage-linux-vms-with-rdp.aspx )
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[18:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[18:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers
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[18:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Lesser-Known Distributions and Operating Systems https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Lesser_Known_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Lesser_Known_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems.gmi 
[18:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Lesser-Known Distributions and Operating Systems
[18:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Debian's Thomas Lange on FAI.me Service, Freexian Collaborators on LTS Work https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Debian_s_Thomas_Lange_on_FAI_me_Service_Freexian_Collaborators_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Debian_s_Thomas_Lange_on_FAI_me_Service_Freexian_Collaborators_.gmi 
[18:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Debian's Thomas Lange on FAI.me Service, Freexian Collaborators on LTS Work
[18:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  OpenSUSE: Self-Hosted and Outsourced to GAFAM ("The Cloud") https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/OpenSUSE_Self_Hosted_and_Outsourced_to_GAFAM_The_Cloud.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/OpenSUSE_Self_Hosted_and_Outsourced_to_GAFAM_The_Cloud.gmi 
[18:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines OpenSUSE: Self-Hosted and Outsourced to GAFAM ("The Cloud")
[18:11]	TR News	 (NEW):  Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Retro_Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_and_More.gmi 
[18:11]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Retro/Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino and More
[18:14]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[18:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  Events: GNOME OS Hackfest, Free Software Directory Meeting, GodotCon Amsterdam, Hackaday Europe https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Events_GNOME_OS_Hackfest_Free_Software_Directory_Meeting_GodotC.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Events_GNOME_OS_Hackfest_Free_Software_Directory_Meeting_GodotC.gmi 
[18:18]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Events: GNOME OS Hackfest, Free Software Directory Meeting, GodotCon Amsterdam, Hackaday Europe
[18:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Web Browsers: RSS, Chrome*, and Firefox https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Web_Browsers_RSS_Chrome_and_Firefox.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Web_Browsers_RSS_Chrome_and_Firefox.gmi 
[18:19]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Web Browsers: RSS, Chrome*, and Firefox
[18:21]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[18:21]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
[18:23]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Graphics: Drivers and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Graphics_Drivers_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Graphics_Drivers_and_More.gmi 
[18:23]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Graphics: Drivers and More
[18:24]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:24]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers
[18:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux Kernel: Asahi, Some BSD, and Value of GPL https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Kernel_Asahi_Some_BSD_and_Value_of_GPL.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Linux_Kernel_Asahi_Some_BSD_and_Value_of_GPL.gmi 
[18:25]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Linux Kernel: Asahi, Some BSD, and Value of GPL
[18:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security and FUD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Security_and_FUD_Leftovers.gmi 
[18:26]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security and FUD Leftovers
[18:28]	TR News	Techrights Links 19/02/2026: Protecting Framework Laptop 13, Hardware Drive Shortages https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Protecting_Framework_Laptop_13_Hardware_Drive_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Links_19_02_2026_Protecting_Framework_Laptop_13_Hardware_Drive_.gmi 
[18:28]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 19/02/2026: Protecting Framework Laptop 13, Hardware Drive Shortages
[18:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khvfg94z
[18:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khvfg94z )
[18:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	""oes the "I" in "AI" stand for "India"?? It is funny how when big tech lays people off for "AI" they always seem to either apply for a similar number of H1B Visas so foreign workers can take those jobs, or they just build an offshore facility and hire workers over there. Tech workers are facing a nightmare. I feel worse for the young people with shiny degrees and big loan bills who cannot get a job at all because of this. And sad
[18:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	ly this Administration seems fine with this. I am not at IBM, but in the same cr-p boat. There is a bunch of us on X who track and report on American replacement in tech if you want to join us."
[18:32]	TR News	"Need to boost that stock price, and fund those bonuses somehow. If you collect a couple hundred dollars from each RAed employee, (about ~ 10000 people last year ). Thats a couple more million for executives bonuses. This goes to show how desperate they are to save money. Pathetic." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d
[18:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khc9389d )
[18:34]	TR News	"you know, im again in the hospital. again by the order of the court :-/ 4 more weeks for me in the institution." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2787
[18:35]	TR News	 xkcd Plums #3209 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3209.gmi
[18:35]	TR News	"I think I have everything... I wish I knew more of what will be required? Does the Outpost provide tables for my shop? What about money and cash register? There's so much unknown there. Plants?" gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-02-18-letsmove.gmi
[18:36]	TR News	[cat] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-02-19.gmi
[18:37]	TR News	"I've been into Nintendo's Famicom platform lately. It has a great appeal to someone who's continual disillusionment with modern software and modern software platforms grows stronger with every passing day." gemini://gemini.iikorni.space/log/20260219-fami.gmi
[18:53]	TR News	Techrights The Few Slopfarms We Saw Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Few_Slopfarms_We_Saw_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/The_Few_Slopfarms_We_Saw_Today.gmi 
[18:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Few Slopfarms We Saw Today
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[19:06]	TR News	Techrights No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC? https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/No_Smart_Mobs_Social_Control_Media_in_BRIC.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/No_Smart_Mobs_Social_Control_Media_in_BRIC.gmi 
[19:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights No "Smart Mobs" (Social Control Media) in BRIC?
[19:16]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Found Another Bailout Opportunity: Killing People https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_Found_Another_Bailout_Opportunity_Killing_People.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Microsoft_Found_Another_Bailout_Opportunity_Killing_People.gmi 
[19:16]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Found Another Bailout Opportunity: Killing People
[19:33]	TR News	Techrights IBM Behaves Like a Company Looking for Loose Change Between Sofa Cushions https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IBM_Behaves_Like_a_Company_Looking_for_Loose_Change_Between_Sof.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/IBM_Behaves_Like_a_Company_Looking_for_Loose_Change_Between_Sof.gmi 
[19:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Behaves Like a Company Looking for Loose Change Between Sofa Cushions
[19:39]	TR News	And no prison? https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/solicitors-50-year-career-ended-by-dishonesty-findings/5125930.article
[19:39]	TR Bot	 Solicitor's 50-year career ends as tribunal finds backdated document and false insurance disclosure | Law Gazette
[19:41]	TR News	Linuxiac is still slop
[19:43]	TR News	"Pseudonymous maker "SeeNoFutur3," hereafter simply "Future," has presented his daughter with a gift hidden inside a wooden box unlockable only by solving a gyroscopic puzzle." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202602/20260219-twist.gmi
[19:47]	TR News	Moving Away From The Cloud gemini://going-flying.com/~mernisse/36.gmi
[19:48]	TR News	"So when I made my personal capsule at buffering.party I created "the tarpit" - a part of the site listed in robots.txt that just returns never-ending links that get slower and slower as you go." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/38189
[19:50]	TR News	worm fourth day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFourth
[19:53]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 19/02/2026: "Towards a Gemini Famicom Resource" and Dumping Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Towards_a_Gemini_Famicom_Resource_and_D.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/Gemini_Links_19_02_2026_Towards_a_Gemini_Famicom_Resource_and_D.gmi 
[19:53]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 19/02/2026: "Towards a Gemini Famicom Resource" and Dumping Microsoft
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[20:30]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 Fixes Boot Issues for Sony Xperia X, Improves VoLTE Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_1_2_Fixes_Boot_Issues_for_Sony_Xperia_X_Improv.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Ubuntu_Touch_OTA_1_2_Fixes_Boot_Issues_for_Sony_Xperia_X_Improv.gmi 
[20:30]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu Touch OTA-1.2 Fixes Boot Issues for Sony Xperia X, Improves VoLTE Support
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[22:05]	admfubar	https://www.salon.com/2026/02/18/complete-what-we-started-leaked-ring-emails-suggest-controversial-tech-wont-stop-at-finding-pets/
[22:05]	TR Bot	what we started": Leaked Ring emails suggest controversial tech won't stop at finding pets - Salon.com
[22:28]	admfubar	https://therecord.media/fbi-atm-jackpotting-2025-report
[22:28]	TR Bot	 FBI: More than 700 ATM jackpotting incidents with losses over $20 million occurred in 2025 | The Record from Recorded Future News
[22:30]	admfubar	https://therecord.media/apple-csam-west-virginia-lawsuit
[22:30]	TR Bot	 West Virginia sues Apple for alleged child sexual abuse material failures | The Record from Recorded Future News
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[22:36]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/irs_job_cuts/
[22:36]	TR Bot	 DOGE bites taxman The Register
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[22:58]	admfubar	for mincer... https://www.discovermagazine.com/your-cat-may-share-the-same-cancer-genes-as-you-and-offer-clues-for-treatment-48710
[22:58]	TR Bot	 Your Cat May Share the Same Cancer Genes as You, and Offer Clues for Treatment | Discover Magazine
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[23:03]	admfubar	eat more catnip
[23:03]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/awkward-video-altman-amodei
[23:03]	TR Bot	 Skin-Crawlingly Awkward Video Shows Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Refusing to Hold Hands
[23:05]	admfubar	i wonder if a shoe got caught in its workings???... https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-warehouse-robot-failed
[23:05]	TR Bot	 Amazon's Shiny New Warehouse Robot Just Failed in Spectacular Style
[23:13]	admfubar	https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/
[23:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/ )
[23:16]	MinceR	(cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/jasmne-baby-dragon-DPhlPbw
[23:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/jasmne-baby-dragon-DPhlPbw )
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[23:36]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/02/18/0737205
[23:36]	TR Bot	 Streaming Service Crunchyroll Raises Prices Weeks After Killing its Free Tier - SoylentNews