●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, August 19, 2026 ●● ● Aug 19 [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● Aug 19 [01:13] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@vjp4ik9gk9aje.irc) has joined #techrights [01:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush of the Roach Mahal wants me to call him. [01:16] MinceR lol [01:16] IsambardPrince He said "this is Piyush the Excellent Landlord". [01:17] IsambardPrince I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree what excellent landlord means. [01:17] IsambardPrince You know, I felt like I was living in a concentration camp where they wanted to come by with some Zyklon B to gas my apartment. [01:18] IsambardPrince I don't know what in the hell he would want from me after more than a year. [01:18] IsambardPrince I paid my lease off he gave me my security deposit back. [01:21] IsambardPrince Is it halloween already? Attack of the Zombie Slumlords? [01:22] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [01:23] MinceR :> [01:23] IsambardPrince I doubt he's trying to chase me down saying wait I have money for you. [01:23] IsambardPrince "Yes, that is my 24 karat gold brick, thank you." [01:24] IsambardPrince "I was using it to clobber cockroaches. [01:31] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 19 [02:05] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:07] *admfubar (~admfubar@hwnenetx9kxy8.irc) has joined #techrights [02:13] admfubar https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/at-t-and-verizon-lose-supreme-court-case-over-fines-for-selling-location-data.460032/ [02:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/at-t-and-verizon-lose-supreme-court-case-over-fines-for-selling-location-data.460032/ ) [02:16] IsambardPrince MinceR: He said the next tenant was having mold growth issues and he ripped out the carpet and he wanted to know how I managed that. [02:16] MinceR aaaaaaaaaaand then? [02:16] IsambardPrince I told him "Well, it was very humid and dank in there and without a dehumidifier it would reach 86% Relative Humidity sometimes, so I had a big dehumidifier running every day and had to dump out the bucket every day." [02:17] IsambardPrince "Most of the other apartments were $400-500 a month more so while it cost something to run the dehumidifier, it did not cost $400-500 more." [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-180826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-180826.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-180826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-180826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-180826.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-18.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-18.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-2026-08-18.txt ● Aug 19 [03:00] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/comcast-adds-motion-sensing-to-millions-of-its-newer-routers-with-a-privacy-catch/ [03:00] TR Bot adds motion sensing to millions of its newer routers, with a privacy catch | TechCrunch [03:26] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-high-materials-surface-beneath.html [03:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-08-high-materials-surface-beneath.html ) [03:39] IsambardPrince MinceR: Here's another dumb Amazon customers story. [03:39] IsambardPrince They bought an Amazon Basics Large Room air purifier. [03:39] IsambardPrince And then complained they couldn't buy replacement filters for it. [03:39] IsambardPrince The replacement filter is for purchase on the same page and it's telling me no limit and they can get them to me in two days. [03:40] IsambardPrince I have a Levoit air purifier. The Vital 200S-P. [03:41] admfubar mvphttps://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/08/18/0827253/microsoft-mvp-creates-site-to-remind-you-of-all-the-brands-redmond-replaced [03:41] IsambardPrince It seems to do a fine job with a large apartment, at least on the highest setting. [03:41] IsambardPrince For some reason, air quality seems to be a bigger problem indoors than outdoors usually. [03:45] admfubar https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/18/who-owns-you-in-the-age-of-ai/ [03:45] TR Bot Who Owns You in the Age of AI? [03:48] admfubar https://thenewstack.io/cursor-origin-github-alternative/ [03:48] TR Bot "If GitHub was stable, these alternatives would not be as interesting": Cursor launches Origin as GitHub goes dark - The New Stack [03:58] IsambardPrince There have been a lot more CVEs closed in Firefox lately. [03:58] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [03:58] IsambardPrince Many credit "AI" companies. ● Aug 19 [04:00] MinceR well, mozilla is mostly funded by "ai" companies :> [04:07] *parsifal (~parsifal@rpcdzuq4hszjw.irc) has joined #techrights [04:14] schestowitz[TR2] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- scheerpost.com | Who Owns You in the Age of AI? [04:14] schestowitz[TR2] "Age of AI?" [04:14] schestowitz[TR2] I thought we were in age of quantumv erse [04:15] schestowitz[TR2] and summer of Capricorn [04:15] MinceR lol [04:15] MinceR i thought we were in the new dark ages [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] I doubt he's trying to chase me down saying wait I have money for you. [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] we have a joke here [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] i say [04:16] schestowitz[TR2] so we got some post, so what? [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] very unlikely it's someone offering us something [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] unlike "credit card" offers [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] if people pay postage [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] they want something in return [04:17] schestowitz[TR2] piyush would not chase you to offer you a job or money [04:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush asked me how was I managing that unit. [04:18] IsambardPrince Because apparently humidity caused black mold to grow everywhere. [04:18] IsambardPrince And they had to rip into the subfloor because the new tenant went after him due to health problems. [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] that's what roof leaks do [04:18] IsambardPrince The wall was leaking too. [04:18] IsambardPrince RH was usually 86% without a dehumidifier running constantly. [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] first Balllser, not this [04:19] schestowitz[TR2] *now [04:21] TR News Englands ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather | Trees and forests | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/18/england-ancient-oak-trees-dying-extreme-hot-dry-weather Source: The Guardian UK [04:21] TR Bot Englands ancient oak trees dying in extreme hot and dry weather | Trees and forests | The Guardian [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] so piyush contacted you for advice [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] tell him your consulting rates :) [04:23] TR News Trump sued the BBC now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it - Salon.com https://www.salon.com/2026/08/18/trump-sued-the-bbc-now-jared-and-ivanka-may-pay-for-it/ Source: Salon | "Secret Service agents blocked the subpoena at the door, but Trump's suit could still force testimony" [04:23] TR Bot sued the BBC now Jared and Ivanka may pay for it - Salon.com [04:24] TR News "I loved that it ran on InkPalm Plus, the modded Light Phone III, on my old iPad, and on the Paper 7. (I didn't have the Retroid then.) On the two former devices I could use a capacitive stylus (which worked well) or even just fingers." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/usi-handwriting [04:26] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I told him that apartment was pretty dank and humid and we had constant humidity and water intrusion problems. [04:26] TR News be gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/be [04:26] IsambardPrince Including the backyard flooding over into through the windows and the upstairs plumbing leaking into my bathroom ceiling. [04:27] TR News "I've been wanting to experiment with the gemini protocol for a while, but never quite managed to get around to it. Tonight I came across Smol Pub, and decided to take the leap." gemini://zenith.smol.pub/my-first-night-in-geminispace [04:27] IsambardPrince I said I wouldn't even want to guess at what the cause of that was. I had constant problems with humidity and dirty air the 5 years I lived there. [04:28] IsambardPrince But "all the other apartments in town were way more expensive". I said, "Finally the cockroach issue became too much to deal with that anymore. You could have cut our rent $300 and I wouldn't have stayed." [04:28] TR News "Last month I picked up a new shirt for one of my gigs (I only had one that fit), and got a $40 off coupon for my next purchase, good for this week. I put the reminder in my calendar." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2026/8-18.gmi [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] so he wanted free advice from you [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] after being a lousdy landlord [04:30] schestowitz[TR2] which he clearly still is [04:30] schestowitz[TR2] to the people "left behind" [04:30] IsambardPrince Yeah, basically. I told him the building was falling apart and about all I could do to make it work was put bandaids on it since neither he nor Mark were going to fix any of those problems. [04:30] IsambardPrince And "that's why Mark sold it". [04:30] schestowitz[TR2] :D [04:30] schestowitz[TR2] and then it sank it [04:30] schestowitz[TR2] "dang": [04:31] schestowitz[TR2] I got fooled" [04:31] schestowitz[TR2] fool can't get fooled again -bush the second [04:31] schestowitz[TR2] somethiung like that [04:32] MinceR lol [04:34] IsambardPrince You literally just can't set off enough cockroach grenades to make that place livable. [04:34] IsambardPrince Tenants have a legal right to a safe and habitable apartment. [04:35] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 19/08/2026: Shirts, Handwriting, and Fights in Geminispace https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Gemini_Links_19_08_2026_Shirts_Handwriting_and_Fights_in_Gemini.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Gemini_Links_19_08_2026_Shirts_Handwriting_and_Fights_in_Gemini.gmi [04:35] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 19/08/2026: Shirts, Handwriting, and Fights in Geminispace [04:35] IsambardPrince When the landlord ignores things like all the toilets in the building failing at once and hops on a plane to India and lets everyone live without toilets for 11 days.... [04:35] IsambardPrince That's not even the biggest problem, but that alone is not safe and habbitable. [04:36] IsambardPrince he stuffed his leases with things that are not even legal under the Landlord-Tenant Act. [04:36] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_August_18_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_August_18_2026.gmi [04:36] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 18, 2026 [04:37] IsambardPrince Like, one clause says if the refrigerator or oven breaks down, it does not mean there was a constructive eviction. [04:38] IsambardPrince If a lease includes something that violates the law, it's null and void. It doesn't matter if you sign it or not. [04:38] IsambardPrince You can't agree to something that is not legal. [04:38] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:38] IsambardPrince My current lease has a non-disparagement clause. [04:38] IsambardPrince The County law says that leases in this county cannot include non-disparagement clauses and if they have one, they're null and void. [04:40] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:40] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:40] IsambardPrince The landlord knows this is illegal. [04:40] IsambardPrince One tenant had their ceiling fall in. [04:41] IsambardPrince When they reviewed the landlord, with pictures, the landlord attempted to circumvent the RTLO by offering them $800 off their rent one time in exchange for signing a NDA on the side. [04:42] IsambardPrince In Chicago and Cook County housing courts, if a tenant sues over an unabated dangerous condition like a structural ceiling cave-in, the RTLO authorizes the tenant to sue for up to two months' rent or actual economic damages (whichever is greater), plus 100% of their attorney fees and legal costs. [04:43] IsambardPrince For example, if your rent is $1500 a month, you could get $3000 plus court and attorney's costs. If the collapse destroyed more than $3000 worth of your things, you could get more. [04:43] schestowitz[TR2] When they reviewed the landlord, with pictures, the landlord attempted to circumvent the RTLO by offering them $800 [04:43] schestowitz[TR2] upload photo, get money :) [04:43] schestowitz[TR2] but yes, NDAs are not eenforceable [04:44] schestowitz[TR2] not sure if they can have him fined for it [04:44] schestowitz[TR2] in a civil case or complaint [04:44] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The ceiling collapse would net them $3,000 plus the landlord would pay for their attorney and court costs. [04:45] IsambardPrince So the tenant walks away with $3000 and the management company also has to pay the lawyer like $2500 on top of that, and $300 for filing and service. [04:45] IsambardPrince So they tried to stick out an $800 bribe to save themselves from $5800 liability. [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] seems cheap [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] my solicitorr years ago told me, [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] in the us, the courts cost a lot [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] and attorneys are a lot cheaper [04:45] IsambardPrince Yeah, suing a landlord over a ceiling collapse is probably 5 hours or less. [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] here it is the opposite [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] our attorney rate was like $700/hr [04:46] IsambardPrince I mean the judge looks at some pictures. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] but sstill [04:46] IsambardPrince The landlord answers some questions under oath. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] it''s not just writing words [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] it always takes longer than you expect [04:46] IsambardPrince Well, whatever it is. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] i spent years as litigant in person [04:46] IsambardPrince The management company pays that and $3000 [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] apropos bad reviews online [04:47] IsambardPrince It can turn into a big headache that completely wipes that year's lease profits. [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] one "service" the puppy breaker lawyer offer is [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] stuff like removing negatgive reviews [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] they even tried to deplatform whole sites [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] over a review [04:47] IsambardPrince Yes, there's those companies here. [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] inc. one left by their owwn clients [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] in some OTHER site [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] they are basically crazy [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] like the puppy breaker [04:47] IsambardPrince They try to get bad google reviews taken down due to "policy violations". [04:47] IsambardPrince They say you "only pay if it gets deleted". [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] you don't talk to people like that, you show the world what they are [04:48] IsambardPrince Hae you tried not getting bad reviews? [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] did he also sign NDA with Isis? [04:48] IsambardPrince :D [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] reminder:" [04:48] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Those apartments Piyush invests in are all "distressed", he even says it himself. [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] he sort of went after you [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] over this: [04:49] IsambardPrince Then he's surprised how accurate the "distressed apartment" label really is. [04:49] IsambardPrince And calls me going "Why didn't you have mold?" [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] [cannot find it, the baronhk blog post regarding tips] [04:49] IsambardPrince I had aspergillus growing in my dehumidifier. [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] it bothered him people would know he was stingy [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] and classist [04:49] IsambardPrince I bleached the tank out every few days when I dumped it. [04:50] IsambardPrince It killed the spores, mostly. [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] yeah [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] well... [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] not sure what he can do with that dump now [04:52] IsambardPrince Piyushs new tenant isn't "dirty" they are simply a normal consumer who isn't spending hours of weekly personal labor running a miniature toxic waste containment facility to cover up a slumlord's structural failure. [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] it seems of no real worth [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] and he will pretend "this is fine!" [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] it mighht cost him more to have tenants [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] than none at all [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] if all he gets for it in trouble [04:53] IsambardPrince Even if he somehow got rid of the severe roach infestation, he'd still have at least 20 other problems with that building that are that bad or worse. [04:53] IsambardPrince The millions of roaches are thriving because of the advanced state of decay the building is in. [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] so they are a symmptom [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] not the core issue [04:54] IsambardPrince They are. [04:54] IsambardPrince They're not the core problem. [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] india has a cockroach party [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] or movement [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] or something [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] it's the yough against a failing system [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] and moddimiir tries to ban it\ [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] modi-vladimir [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] and does it putins tyle [04:55] IsambardPrince The core problem is things like broken plumbing and leaking roofs, and lack of proper sealant of gaps and cracks. [04:55] IsambardPrince The entire building would have to be condemned and demolished. [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] or rredone [04:55] IsambardPrince What his investors are actually sitting on is a building that's worth less than the land it sits on. [04:56] IsambardPrince The foundation is bad. [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] that';s why they ruin this: [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/10/the-bank-of-england-in-manchester/ [04:56] TR Bot Blog Archive The Bank of England in Manchester Becoming Residential Building [04:56] IsambardPrince The wall next to my window in the livingroom was cracking in half. [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] they demolished it this month [04:56] IsambardPrince Because the foundation was cracked. [04:57] IsambardPrince Foundation cracks cost a lot to repair. There's so many problems in that building that it would be cheaper to knock it over and make a new building. [04:57] IsambardPrince When they made that building back in the 1970s, they did not use proper construction methods. [04:57] IsambardPrince Even for the time. [04:58] IsambardPrince They literally hooked up the sewage connections to a pump that belonged to a farm in 1921. [04:58] IsambardPrince Without that pump to take sewage to the street level, it backs up raw sewage into the building through the toilets and bathtubs. [04:59] IsambardPrince Ask me how I know. [04:59] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: That building was like the place that poor family lived in, in the movie Parasite. [04:59] IsambardPrince The only reason my toilet and bathtub didn't back up with raw sewage including urine and shit, is because the other building was closer to the pump. ● Aug 19 [05:00] IsambardPrince He had people who had raw sewage back up into their apartments. [05:02] TR News Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/tim-king-amigados-royalty-dies-aged-70/5289101 [05:02] TR Bot Tim King, AmigaDOS royalty, dies aged 70 [05:03] TR News Or maybe this is better for the locals and the UK already has the skills needed, no shortage as companies advertise to lower salaries https://www.theregister.com/cxo/2026/08/18/uks-tech-talent-pipeline-shrinks-as-overseas-worker-visa-applications-fall-7/5288476 [05:03] TR Bot UK's tech talent pipeline shrinks as overseas worker visa applications fall 7% [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] Ask me how I know. [05:04] schestowitz[TR2] which tennat? [05:06] TR News Hunt Valley Microsoft gaming employees outraged by mass layoffs https://www.wmar2news.com/news/region/baltimore-county/hunt-valley-microsoft-gaming-employees-outraged-by-mass-layoffs [05:06] TR Bot Hunt Valley Microsoft gaming employees outraged by mass layoffs [05:06] TR News Bethesda game developers keep up fight against XBOX layoffs https://www.mymcmedia.org/bethesda-game-developers-keep-up-fight-against-xbox-layoffs/ [05:06] TR Bot Bethesda game developers keep up fight against XBOX layoffs - Montgomery Community Media [05:07] TR News Bethesda Dev Says Cuts Were Rare Before Xbox Took Over: All Of A Sudden We Have Yearly Layoffs https://kotaku.com/xbox-layoffs-rallies-cwa-bethesda-employee-interview-2000725366 [05:07] TR Bot Dev Says Cuts Were Rare Before Xbox Took Over: 'All Of A Sudden We Have Yearly Layoffs' - Kotaku [05:07] IsambardPrince [23:04] Ask me how I know. [05:07] IsambardPrince There were two buildings in that complex. [05:07] IsambardPrince The other building was apparently closest to the pump. [05:07] IsambardPrince So it would back up there first. [05:08] IsambardPrince Then it overflowed into the other side of our building. [05:08] IsambardPrince One more rainy day while the pump was down, would have gotten us too. [05:15] IsambardPrince https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-workers-new-responsibility-correcting-ai-errors-retail-2026-7 [05:15] TR Bot Walmart Workers' New Responsibility: Correcting AI Errors - Business Insider [05:15] IsambardPrince I'd say "Gee I thought the computer was always right." [05:16] IsambardPrince Fixing AI slop for minimum wage while they scream that you're not productive enough isn't my bag, baby. [05:20] TR News Techrights Microsoft is 'Angel of Death' to Developers (Even Its Own), 'Voluntary' Layoffs Happening Again https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_is_Angel_of_Death_to_Developers_Even_Its_Own_Voluntar.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_is_Angel_of_Death_to_Developers_Even_Its_Own_Voluntar.gmi [05:20] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is 'Angel of Death' to Developers (Even Its Own), 'Voluntary' Layoffs Happening Again [05:27] TR News GNU/Linux peaking at about 15% in US every day https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [05:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=US&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.businessinsider.com/walmart-workers-new-responsibility-correcting-ai-errors-retail-2026-7 [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] it does not scale [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] you get something done shoddily [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] for example, a prescription [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] and it's wrong [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] then you ask people to correct it [05:28] schestowitz[TR2] correcting it takes longer [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] than doing it right in the first place [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] the sam walton company will learn it the hard way [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] it also pisses off customers [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] suppose you get given a text [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] like template mail [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] bearing your name [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] to check and rephrase [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] might take longeer [05:29] schestowitz[TR2] than doing it riight the first time [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] and "summaries" by slop can mislead [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] it mmight take longer to read the original [05:30] schestowitz[TR2] but you take more out from it [05:31] TR News Aruba 5% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AW&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [05:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AW&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [05:33] TR News Yesterday GNU/Linux touches 15% in Costa Rica https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [05:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=CR&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [05:33] *pi has quit (Quit: https://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. Anywhere.) [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] spot on [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] but this is not about productivity [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] its about keeping people under the broligarch's thumb [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] and if they're overwhelmed and underpaid they don't have time [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] to unionize etc [05:34] schestowitz[TR2] " [05:35] *pi (~quassel@agjs4m3wtva2n.irc) has joined #techrights [05:44] TR News GNU/Linux 7.1% in Andorra https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [05:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AD&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [05:47] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Moderna got their mRNA flu shots approved for people over 50. [05:48] IsambardPrince If it eventually replaces the current flu shot I just won't take the flu shot anymore. [05:48] IsambardPrince This platform is infamous for lots of deadly side effects and no medical benefit when it was used for COVID-19. ● Aug 19 [06:00] TR News (NEW): Clownflare Saw GNU/Linux at Over 10% in Andorra https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Clownflare_Saw_GNU_Linux_at_Over_10_in_Andorra.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Clownflare_Saw_GNU_Linux_at_Over_10_in_Andorra.gmi [06:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Clownflare Saw GNU/Linux at Over 10% in Andorra [06:01] schestowitz[TR2] what's wrong with the current "old" flu shots? [06:01] schestowitz[TR2] expired patents? [06:01] schestowitz[TR2] seems like evergreening [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] "Liechtenstein is a member of the Forum of Small States, a group founded in 1992 by Singapore currently containing 108 nations that have fewer than ten million inhabitants at the time of joining" [06:02] schestowitz[TR2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtenstein [06:02] TR Bot Liechtenstein - Wikipedia [06:03] TR News "We do not need to create new rules for LLM usage, we already have our DFSG and our social contract." http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/llm-usage-gr/ [06:03] TR Bot LLM usage in Debian [06:05] TR News Mass layoffs at Dropbox [06:18] TR News (NEW): COSMIC 1.6 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/COSMIC_1_6_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_More_Improvements.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/COSMIC_1_6_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_More_Improvements.gmi [06:18] TR Bot Tux Machines COSMIC 1.6 Desktop Environment Released with More Improvements [06:21] TR News (NEW): Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.gmi [06:21] TR Bot Tux Machines Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors [06:23] TR News Techrights Mass Layoffs at Dropbox, Blame the Debt, Not Slop Hype https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Mass_Layoffs_at_Dropbox_Blame_the_Debt_Not_Slop_Hype.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Mass_Layoffs_at_Dropbox_Blame_the_Debt_Not_Slop_Hype.gmi [06:23] TR Bot Techrights Mass Layoffs at Dropbox, Blame the Debt, Not Slop Hype [06:25] TR News (NEW): I tested GNOME's glassy new look - and it's simply spectacular https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_tested_GNOME_s_glassy_new_look_and_it_s_simply_spectacular.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_tested_GNOME_s_glassy_new_look_and_it_s_simply_spectacular.gmi [06:25] TR Bot Tux Machines I tested GNOME's glassy new look - and it's simply spectacular [06:26] TR News (NEW): Want to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Want_to_run_a_full_Linux_distro_on_your_Android_phone_I_found_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Want_to_run_a_full_Linux_distro_on_your_Android_phone_I_found_t.gmi [06:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Want to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way [06:36] TR News (NEW): Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform and What That Actually Means https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Why_Digital_Sovereignty_Requires_an_Open_Document_Platform_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Why_Digital_Sovereignty_Requires_an_Open_Document_Platform_and_.gmi [06:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform and What That Actually Means [06:49] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Nothing wrong with the current ones except they aren't expensive and enshittified enough. [06:49] IsambardPrince So they do mRNA now. [06:49] IsambardPrince A normal flu shot costs $29-42 without insurance. [06:49] IsambardPrince The mRNA one increases that cost to almost $200. [06:49] IsambardPrince So you see why they do it. [06:50] IsambardPrince They start out by approving it on the elderly because they devalue the lives of old people anyway. [06:50] IsambardPrince They're past the prime working years if something bad happens. [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] i see [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] well, nhs might be less susceptible to this [06:50] IsambardPrince And they get Medicare to pay for it when private insurers want the cost-effective option. [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] it is more cost-aware [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] for instance, blood pressure checks [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] unless at gp, not it's down to every 5 years [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] for basic bnlood test [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] and pap smear is down to once in 4 years to once in 5 years [06:51] IsambardPrince Yes, I take my partner to a local clinic that manages his primary care on a sliding fee scale. [06:51] IsambardPrince I've shopped at their resale store that helps fund the clinic though. [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml [06:51] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml ) [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] draft; 7501 [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] to access [06:51] schestowitz[TR2] re walmart [06:51] IsambardPrince I got a dining set that looks like I paid a lot for it. [06:52] IsambardPrince Few other things. [06:53] *croissant (~croissant@uudy98nj9ntz2.irc) has joined #techrights [06:53] *croissant` has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:54] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Many Walmart employees say this thing is bothering them on their ME@Walmart app. [06:54] IsambardPrince Sending them hundreds of alerts that do not even apply to their department. [06:55] schestowitz[TR2] will add [06:55] IsambardPrince There's a whole lot of me too in retail right now. [06:56] IsambardPrince Because there's too many companies chasing too few customers that have discretionary income. [06:56] IsambardPrince Speaking for our budget, we can only get by because I scuttled the car. Because I very carefully coupon and shop sales. [06:56] IsambardPrince Because we waste nothing. [06:57] IsambardPrince Because I have even started cutting out pre-packaged consumables for things like cleaning supplies. I can make my own cleaning formulas. Use rags instead of paper towels, wash the rags. [06:57] IsambardPrince I use resale shops and thrift stores. [06:57] schestowitz[TR2] like old diapers [06:58] IsambardPrince I mean, I use Amazon sometimes, sometimes, but it's not often, and usually not for big stuff. [06:58] IsambardPrince The money simply doesn't exist, and I'm not the only one. [06:59] IsambardPrince We're living in an era of extreme corporate greed where they want to fire everyone and pay almost nothing to the people who are left. [06:59] IsambardPrince And they want twice as much work out of those people. [06:59] IsambardPrince So there's not many people who have "excess money" anymore. [06:59] IsambardPrince Debt works until it does not work. [06:59] IsambardPrince Once you start spending more money than you make you have between 1-6 years before it's terminal and you go bankrupt. ● Aug 19 [07:01] IsambardPrince You get locked out of bankruptcy court for 8 years, but most people who file once will file again. They need it 3-4 years after the first one, but they have to agonize and learn how to exist without the banking system until the 8 years are up. [07:01] IsambardPrince And that's just "the new normal". [07:02] *croissant` (~croissant@uudy98nj9ntz2.irc) has joined #techrights [07:03] *croissant has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] One generation before ours people used to mostly wash the diapers, to reuse thick and high absorbance stuff. Now, instead, we have mountains of waster and stink inside the bins, and the US government keeps reminding people to not "save money" by putting condoms in dishwashers (some idiots put cum stains on their wishes and their kids pacifiers). [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] back then the world's population was about 4 billion [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] nnnot 8+ billion [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] and they knew how to limit waste [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- ( status 401 @ https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml ) [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] draft; 7501 [07:07] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml ) [07:21] TR News (NEW): Planet KDE: Bigger Wasn't Better: Benchmarking Small Models for digiKam's Natural Language Search https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Planet_KDE_Bigger_Wasn_t_Better_Benchmarking_Small_Models_for_d.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Planet_KDE_Bigger_Wasn_t_Better_Benchmarking_Small_Models_for_d.gmi [07:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Planet KDE: Bigger Wasn't Better: Benchmarking Small Models for digiKam's Natural Language Search [07:25] TR News Techrights Improving techrights.org https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Improving_techrights_org.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Improving_techrights_org.gmi [07:25] TR Bot Improving techrights.org [07:27] TR News Maybe they will petition for themselves to wind up some time soon, seeing they're deep in debt and dealt with by police for issuing death threats https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/5194179 [07:34] TR News "What is the mailing list for suggesting improvements to text on the fsf." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00004.html [07:34] TR Bot timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-08/msg00004.html ) [07:35] TR News (NEW): SkillFishOS Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/SkillFishOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/SkillFishOS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [07:35] TR Bot Tux Machines SkillFishOS Debian-based Linux distribution [07:37] TR News (NEW): I tested Omarchy Quattro, one of the first Linux distros to go all in on AI - and I didn't hate it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_tested_Omarchy_Quattro_one_of_the_first_Linux_distros_to_go_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_tested_Omarchy_Quattro_one_of_the_first_Linux_distros_to_go_a.gmi [07:37] TR Bot Tux Machines I tested Omarchy Quattro, one of the first Linux distros to go all in on AI - and I didn't hate it [07:39] TR News Austria 6% GNU/Linux https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AT&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [07:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&dt=28d&loc=AT&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [07:52] TR News Techrights Slop's Achilles Heel: It Increases the Workload, Not Just Costs https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Slop_s_Achilles_Heel_It_Increases_the_Workload_Not_Just_Costs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Slop_s_Achilles_Heel_It_Increases_the_Workload_Not_Just_Costs.gmi [07:52] TR Bot Techrights Slop's Achilles Heel: It Increases the Workload, Not Just Costs [07:57] TR News Puppy breaker thinks merely taking a photograph of an animal can disprove his lack of empathy towards animals (he used to kill them to do his degree) [07:58] TR News "Several of the big providers will now indemnify you against intellectual property claims on generated code." https://www.jamesdrandall.com/posts/someone-still-has-to-sign-it/ | Source: James Randall [07:58] TR Bot Someone still has to sign it - and the research says they'll stop reading | James Randall [07:58] TR News "Ursula LeGuin's Earthsea fantasy stories make a terrible surrender to artificial scarcity with the idea that a rune could be lost." https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=67831 | Source: Soylent News [07:58] TR Bot SoylentNews Comments | How copyright warped Earthsea [07:58] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [07:59] TR News "The trademark application has been registered with the Office." https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results/86191623 | [07:59] TR Bot Trademark search [07:59] TR News Software Patents: "The illustrations in this patent are great, they read like a silent children's book about a smirking creeper." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/relatable-patent-art/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [07:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/relatable-patent-art/ ) [07:59] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://filamentmap.com/blog/ghost-gun-crackdown-3d-printing | [07:59] TR Bot here. 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[08:12] TR News "From welcoming a record number of foreign tourists including growing numbers of U.S. citizens" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0818/mahjong-chinamaxxing-China-soft-power | Source: CS Monitor [08:12] TR Bot Chinamaxxing says about Chinese soft power - CSMonitor.com [08:13] TR News ">A centuries-old witness tree that stood through a Revolutionary War battle in South Carolina" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/inside-fight-to-save-300-year-old-tree-that-survived-revolutionary-war-battle-180989357/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [08:13] TR Bot Inside the Fight to Save a 300-Year-Old Tree That Survived a Revolutionary War Battle [08:14] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [08:14] TR News "The animal behavioralist and marine mammal expert explained that the dolphins use 'shelling' to hunt for fish" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/nature-and-wildlife-photography/i-started-screaming-because-i-know-what-shelling-looks-like-dolphin-photographed-performing-extremely-rare-behavior | Source: Digital Camera World [08:14] TR Bot I started screaming because I know what shelling looks like dolphin photographed performing extremely rare behavior | Digital Camera World [08:14] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [08:14] TR News "Fools have said that the Prairies are boring." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/08/17/Prairie-Views | Source: Tim Bray [08:14] TR Bot ongoing by Tim Bray Five Views of the Wilcox Prairie [08:15] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [08:15] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [08:22] TR News Microsoft is in Serious Trouble, Even Microsoft Staff Knows It https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/microsoft-is-in-serious-trouble-even-microsoft-staff-knows-it/ [08:22] TR Bot Blog Archive Microsoft is in Serious Trouble, Even Microsoft Staff Knows It [08:24] TR News Many people who read techrights are Microsoft staff desperate for info that does not conform to the 'Microsoft religion'. Then, instead of insults it helps to 'incite' them against the employer they already hate, are angry at, may have ruined their lives. This weakens the company's "faith". [08:25] TR News "Finland is now plugged into the EU rail network. (Yle)" https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/new-rail-link-reconnects-finland-and-sweden-in-north/455851 | Source: The Barents Observer [08:25] TR Bot New rail link reconnects Finland and Sweden in North [08:26] TR News "Beginning on the effective date of this Ordinance" https://media.512pixels.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Data-Center-Temporary-Moratorium-Ordinance-v2-1.pdf | [08:26] TR News "Whys Abbot doing this? Because in Republican Texas, even Fox News has Abbott only 1% ahead of his Democratic opponent, Gina Hinojosa." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/18/data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians/ | Source: Pivot to AI [08:26] TR Bot Silent again, then continued speaking, with a sort of saving yourself, and youre quite. [08:26] TR News "This evening, the Memphis City Council acted on a year-long moratorium on new data centers." https://512pixels.net/2026/08/memphis-data-center-moratorium/ | Source: Stephen Hackett [08:26] TR Bot Memphis Moves Forward on Proposed 12-Month Data Center Moratorium - 512 Pixels [08:27] TR News "The environmental establishment has apparently moved onto technological solutions, social justice" https://overpopulation-project.com/reality-check-were-still-overpopulated-and-its-still-a-problem/ | Source: Overpopulation [08:27] TR Bot Reality Check: Were Still OverpopulatedAnd Its Still A Problem - The Overpopulation Project [08:32] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:32] TR News Taking Photographs of Animals Does Not Help These Animals, Feeding Them Helps https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/taking-photographs-of-animals-does-not-help-these-animals-feeding-them-helps/ [08:32] TR Bot Blog Archive Taking Photographs of Animals Does Not Help These Animals, Feeding Them Helps [08:40] TR News Source [08:40] TR News "Support was strongest among voters of the two largest right-leaning parties." https://yle.fi/a/74-20241545 | Source: Yle [08:40] TR Bot Broad support in Finland for banning social media for under-15s | Yle News | Yle [08:41] TR News "Drones controlled via mobile networks are equipped with commercially available modules for one or more SIM cards." https://digit.site36.net/2026/08/17/secret-services-in-some-countries-operate-explosive-drones-via-sim-cards-now-the-technique-hits-germany/ | Source: Site36 [08:41] TR Bot Secret services in some countries operate explosive drones via SIM cards. Now the technique hits Germany | Matthias Monroy [08:43] TR News "Webmail has been around for decades and it's always had to solve a very difficult problem of taking untrusted HTML and displaying it to the user in a safe way." https://portswigger.net/research/css-the-bomb-inside-your-inbox | Source: Port Swigger [08:43] TR Bot CSS:the bomb inside your inbox | PortSwigger Research [08:43] TR News "At a second level, this was a motion for more discovery, which Ill explain in this post" https://emptywheel.net/2026/08/18/doj-used-pam-bondis-trophy-arrests-as-predicate-to-infiltrate-minnesotas-anti-ice-community/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [08:43] TR Bot DOJ Used Pam Bondi's Trophy Arrests as an Excuse to Spy on Minnesota's Anti-ICE Community - emptywheel [08:44] TR News "I have no words for this if its real, apart from I know that I wont be making a purchase myself." https://jimmitchell.org/2026/08/18/oh-hell-no-apple-count-me-out/ | Source: Jim Mitchell [08:44] TR Bot Oh Hell No, Apple! Count Me Out... Jim Mitchell [08:44] TR News "social media and personal accounts" https://www.pcworld.com/article/3211839/hackers-want-your-nudes-heres-how-to-keep-your-privates-private.html | Source: PC World [08:44] TR Bot want your nudes. Heres how to keep your privates, private | PCWorld [08:44] TR News "is selling all its assets in bankruptcy court auctions to pay off its roughly $8.1 billion in debt." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/google-buys-spirit-airlines-data-for-ai-training-for-just-usd10-million-purchase-includes-hundreds-of-millions-of-emails-microsoft-teams-chats-billions-of-flight-pricing-records-and-anonymized-passenger-records | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:44] TR Bot Google buys Spirit Airlines data for AI training for just $10 million purchase includes hundreds of millions of emails, Microsoft Teams chats, billions of flight pricing records, and anonymized passenger records | Tom's Hardware [08:45] TR News "GitHub, the code-hosting platform used by millions of developers, went down for users across the US, India and other countries" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/github-down-outage-thousands-users/ | Source: SQ Magazine [08:45] TR Bot GitHub Down: Thousands Report Outage Monday [08:46] TR News Windows TCO: "For those familiar with Americas cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the attacks were not a surprise." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2026/0818/cyberattacks-iran-water-utilities | Source: CS Monitor [08:46] TR Bot on water facilities test US defenses, reveal gaps - CSMonitor.com [08:47] TR News (NEW): KDE Announces Bulletproof KDE Suite with Three Years of Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/13/KDE_Announces_Bulletproof_KDE_Suite_with_Three_Years_of_Support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/13/KDE_Announces_Bulletproof_KDE_Suite_with_Three_Years_of_Support.gmi [08:47] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Announces Bulletproof KDE Suite with Three Years of Support [08:47] TR News Windows TCO: "Once inside a network, they use common utilities and tools to support credential access, data exfiltration, and ransomware deployment." https://cyberscoop.com/medusa-ransomware-tactics-cisa-advisory/ | Source: Scoop News Group [08:47] TR Bot ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on groups tactics | CyberScoop [08:47] TR News Windows TCO: "Ransom Busters" https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransom-busters-ransomware-actor-incident-recovery-service | Source: Dark Reading [08:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/ransom-busters-ransomware-actor-incident-recovery-service ) [08:47] TR News Windows TCO: "newly announced exploits within 24 hours." https://therecord.media/more-than-200-medusa-ransomware-victims-in-last-year-cisa | Source: The Record [08:47] TR Bot More than 200 victims of Medusa ransomware identified over the last year, CISA says | The Record from Recorded Future News [08:48] TR News Windows TCO: "forcing them to communicate by telephone, text message and fax, according to RBB." https://therecord.media/berlin-cuts-two-state-ministries-off-government-breach | Source: The Record [08:48] TR Bot Berlin cuts two state ministries off government network after security breach | The Record from Recorded Future News [08:48] TR News [Old] Windows TCO: "The attack occurred from Aug. 23 through Aug. 27" https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/10/25/hackers-access-data-230k-university-michigan | Source: Inside Higer Ed [08:48] TR Bot Hackers access data of 230K at University of Michigan [08:48] TR News [Old] Windows TCO: "In August 2023, the University of Michigan faced a data breach when an unauthorized third party accessed personal information of various individuals connected to the institution." https://www.twingate.com/blog/tips/University%20of%20Michigan-data-breach | [08:48] TR Bot of Michigan Data Breach: What & How It Happened? | Twingate [08:48] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:48] TR News [Old] Windows TCO: "social security numbers, drivers licenses, financial information and health information that could be used for fraud" https://www.wxyz.com/news/university-of-michigan-says-230-000-peoples-information-affected-by-august-data-breach | Source: Scripps Media Inc [08:49] TR Bot University of Michigan says 230,000 people affected by August data breach [08:49] TR News [Old] Windows TCO: "Campus computers are generally cut off from the public internet, but students were finding workarounds via their cell phones." https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/29/politics/university-of-michigan-cyber-incident-offline | Source: CNN [08:49] TR Bot University of Michigan shuts down public inter following significant cybersecurity incident | CNN Politics [08:49] TR News Windows TCO: "The [Internet] shutdown extended into the first day of classes at the UM on Aug. 28 and affected the Ann Arbor and Dearborn campuses. UM's Flint campus was not affected." https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/10/23/um-3rd-party-accessed-school-systems-personal-information-for-5-days/71292044007/ | Source: Digital First Media [08:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/10/23/um-3rd-party-accessed-school-systems-personal-information-for-5-days/71292044007/ ) [08:49] TR News "I could go on but its clear youre fine with all of that." https://zottmann.org/2026/08/18/creators-returning-to-x.html | Source: Carlo Zottmann [08:49] TR Bot Carlo Zottmann - Creators *returning* to X [08:50] TR News "People are quite mad about Anthropics watermarking system, and understandably so." https://www.404media.co/anthropics-text-watermarking-proves-ai-companies-do-not-care-at-all-about-writing/ | Source: 404 Media [08:50] TR Bot Anthropics Text Watermarking Proves AI Companies Do Not Care at All About Writing [08:50] TR News "Xs algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)." https://www.404media.co/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/ | Source: 404 Media [08:50] TR Bot X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds [08:50] TR News (NEW): Still using Linux Mint? Here are the 6 Ubuntu features you're missing out on https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Still_using_Linux_Mint_Here_are_the_6_Ubuntu_features_you_re_mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Still_using_Linux_Mint_Here_are_the_6_Ubuntu_features_you_re_mi.gmi [08:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Still using Linux Mint? Here are the 6 Ubuntu features you're missing out on [08:50] TR News "Many apps are now also using AI to help users chat with each other or optimize their profiles" https://nltimes.nl/2026/08/18/dating-apps-quickly-falling-favor-dutch-users | Source: NL Times [08:50] TR Bot Dating apps quickly falling out of favor with Dutch users | NL Times [08:50] TR News "A bipartisan group of 29 U.S. states is suing Meta, seeking potentially tens or hundreds of billions of dollars in penalties and changes to how Meta does business." https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/meta-trial-opens-instagram-facebook-9.7311852 | Source: CBC [08:50] TR Bot Meta trial begins with states accusing social media giant of exploiting, intentionally addicting children | CBC News [08:51] TR News "Mozilla said it has partnered with Exa Labs Inc., an AI [sic] search company" https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/firefox-updates-smart-window-a-new-in-browser-ai-assistant-that-can-keep-up-with-you/ | Source: Silicon Angle [08:51] TR Bot updates Smart Window, a new in-browser AI assistant that can keep up with you - SiliconANGLE [08:51] TR News "Highly consequential decisions about AIs benefits and risks are currently being made on the basis of very limited dat" https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142226/how-people-use-ai/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [08:51] TR Bot We still dont know how people are really using AI | MIT Technology Review [08:51] TR News "Theres one thing uniting Americas warring generations: revulsion toward artificial intelligence." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/18/americans-under-30-are-becoming-more-pessimistic-about-artificial-intelligence/ | Source: The Washington Post [08:51] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/08/18/americans-under-30-are-becoming-more-pessimistic-about-artificial-intelligence/ ) [08:52] TR News "For the first time, a majority of adults under 30 (55%) now say theyre more concerned than excited about AI" https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/08/18/young-adults-in-the-us-are-increasingly-wary-of-ai-concerned-it-will-take-jobs/ | Source: Pew Reseach Center [08:52] TR Bot Young US adults are increasingly wary of AI, concerned it will take jobs | Pew Research Center [08:52] TR News "I feel revulsion toward AI-created content." https://overkill.wtf/posts/the-smell-of-ai | Source: Kevin Wammer [08:52] TR Bot smell of AI - overkill.wtf [08:52] TR News "When any piece of art, no matter the format, has the slightest smell of AI, I'm out. It doesn't even matter if any AI was actually used; the mere suggestion of AI is enough. I'm aware this is unfair towards people that happen to talk/write/sound like AI, especially when it's their content AI was trained on." [08:53] TR News "Coding is dead!" https://joshblais.com/blog/if-programming-is-dead-why-am-i-going-all-in-on-programming/ | Source: Joshua Blais [08:53] TR Bot If programming is dead why go all in - The Universe of Joshua Blais [08:53] TR News "So the Internet honesty boxes are going. And I think the World is worse for it." https://benfrain.com/well-done-ai-thats-the-end-of-the-honest-boxes/ | Source: Ben Frain [08:53] TR Bot Well done AI, thats the end of the honest boxes Ben Frain [08:53] TR News "But the bros are screaming now that its in Claude." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/ | Source: Pivot to AI [08:53] TR Bot On at last, with a. [08:53] TR News "But Edge Link doesn't stop at moving data around. It combines data acquisition, industrial connectivity, edge computing, and machine learning in a single system at the machine level." https://www.hackster.io/Mukesh_Sankhla/edge-link-26e6fb | Source: Hackster [08:53] TR Bot Link - Hackster.io [08:53] TR News (NEW): I ignored Linux for years because of its reputation, and it's my daily driver now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_ignored_Linux_for_years_because_of_its_reputation_and_it_s_my.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/I_ignored_Linux_for_years_because_of_its_reputation_and_it_s_my.gmi [08:53] TR Bot Tux Machines I ignored Linux for years because of its reputation, and it's my daily driver now [08:54] TR News "Artificial intelligence companies are facing lawsuits by family members of individuals who died by suicide after prolonged interactions with chatbots." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5929575 | Source: NPR [08:54] TR Bot She told no one about her agony except ChatGPT. What her death reveals about AI risks [08:54] TR News "As mentioned, this only happens on one system (running Ubuntu 26.04). Other systems, with the same software configuration and the same NFS mounted home directories, don't have anything like this slow login." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/SystemdSlowSessionStartProblem | Source: University of Toronto [08:54] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [08:54] TR News "allegedly exfiltrated from the Azure and Entra tenants of McDonalds" https://sqmagazine.co.uk/azure-data-breach-mcdonalds-vodafone-tcs-thehatman/ | Source: SQ Magazine [08:54] TR Bot Azure Data Breach Hits McDonald's, Vodafone, TCS, More [08:55] TR News "Engineers connect to Linux hosts running in cloud, on-premises and edge environments without opening a port." https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/teleport-puts-developer-linux-desktops-under-production-access-controls/ | Source: Silicon Angle [08:55] TR Bot puts developer Linux desktops under production access controls - SiliconANGLE [08:55] TR News (NEW): These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/These_5_simple_Linux_tools_make_Windows_11_look_outdated.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/These_5_simple_Linux_tools_make_Windows_11_look_outdated.gmi [08:55] TR Bot Tux Machines These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated [08:55] TR News "Me too, probably; there seems to be something wrong with me, its probably my autism. But at least I try, which is more than I can say for most people who live close" https://blog.avas.space/friendships/ | Source: Ava [08:55] TR Bot thinking about friendships ava's blog [08:56] TR News "how the shifting definition of these devices can inform the communitys efforts to develop open hardware solutions" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/smartphones-and-the-next-generation-of-hearing-aids/ | Source: Hackaday [08:56] TR Bot And The Next Generation Of Hearing Aids | Hackaday [08:56] TR News "taken a second to appreciate how fantastic the falls look amid the surrounding nature, he mightve realized that the better, and non-life-risking, option wouldve been to shoot it from afar." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/landscape-photography/this-man-died-at-a-waterfall-for-what-was-likely-a-crap-photo-sometimes-its-safer-and-better-to-compose-landscapes-from-afar | Source: Digital Camera World [08:56] TR Bot This man died at a waterfall for what was likely a crap photo sometimes its safer and better to compose landscapes from afar | Digital Camera World [08:56] TR News "In other parts of the world that have let their guard down to vaccine-preventable diseases, long-forgotten scourges have roared back and killed and disabled children." https://www.propublica.org/article/measles-cases-vaccines | Source: Pro Publica [08:56] TR Bot Measles Cases Are Reaching Record Highs in America ProPublica [08:58] TR News "Acupuncture shows promise as an adjunctive therapy for depression, but its neurobiological mechanisms remain incompletely understood" https://www.sciencealert.com/acupuncture-seems-to-rewire-the-brain-in-depression-scans-reveal | Source: Science Alert [08:58] TR Bot Seems to Rewire The Brain in Depression, Scans Reveal : ScienceAlert [08:58] TR News "Such a description is instantly recognizable in the current crisis, with its senseless waste of academic talent, curiosity" https://jacobin.com/2026/08/uk-cambridge-oxford-dons-universities | Source: Jacobin Magazine [08:58] TR Bot The Rise and Fall of the Elite University [08:58] TR News (NEW): After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/After_Europe_ditched_Windows_China_follows_suit_with_its_own_ho.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/After_Europe_ditched_Windows_China_follows_suit_with_its_own_ho.gmi [08:58] TR Bot Tux Machines After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros [08:59] TR News "He says we're calling it burnout. But it's not burnout. Not exclusively." https://ryancheley.com/2026/08/17/what-if-maintainer-burnout-isn-t-burnout/ | [08:59] TR Bot What if Maintainer Burnout Isn't Burnout [08:59] TR News "Had to chuckle quite a bit while reading this article: Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape" https://blog.x-way.org/Misc/2026/08/18/18-new-words-to-describe-our-tech-hellscape.html | [08:59] TR Bot 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape ● Aug 19 [09:00] TR News "We shouldnt fool ourselves into thinking that dickovers are the only terrible thing about technology in 2026. Until now, though, we have lacked the vocabulary to describe them, so here are some suggestions." https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/18/dickovers-baggravation-botiquette-18-new-words-tech-hellscape | Source: The Guardian UK [09:00] TR Bot Dickovers, baggravation and botiquette: 18 new words to describe our tech hellscape | Technology | The Guardian [09:00] TR News "Weve been living here full-time for a year and its really ideal. It feels like custom tailored clothing." https://sive.rs/fit | Source: Derek Sivers [09:00] TR Bot Building without predicting | Derek Sivers [09:01] TR News "We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/amazons-book-woodchipper-facility-has-a-cartoonishly-evil-logo-because-of-course-it-does/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [09:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08/amazons-book-woodchipper-facility-has-a-cartoonishly-evil-logo-because-of-course-it-does/ ) [09:01] TR News "One of the first satisfying things I did this morning was donating a sealed white envelope into a red mailbox." https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/08/a-beginners-guide-to-writing-snail-mail/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld [09:01] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/08/a-beginners-guide-to-writing-snail-mail/ ) [09:01] TR News "The purpose of MeltCalc is simpleit collates data on hot ends and materials regarding factors like maximum flow rate, print speeds, and heater requirements." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/a-hot-end-and-material-database-for-3d-printing/ | Source: Hackaday [09:01] TR Bot Hot End And Material Database For 3D Printing | Hackaday [09:02] TR News (NEW): Yes, Linux can do 'real work'here are 5 things I do on my Linux PC https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Yes_Linux_can_do_real_work_here_are_5_things_I_do_on_my_Linux_P.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Yes_Linux_can_do_real_work_here_are_5_things_I_do_on_my_Linux_P.gmi [09:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Yes, Linux can do 'real work'here are 5 things I do on my Linux PC [09:02] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [09:03] TR News "This particular rabbit hole started somewhere else." https://tara.sh/posts/2026/2026-08-13_seaweedfs_freebsd_rabbithole/ | [09:03] TR Bot SeaweedFS, FreeBSD and a rather deep rabbit hole [09:03] TR News (NEW): Fairphone 6 turns into a Linux phone running Fedora 44 with working cameras https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fairphone_6_turns_into_a_Linux_phone_running_Fedora_44_with_wor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fairphone_6_turns_into_a_Linux_phone_running_Fedora_44_with_wor.gmi [09:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Fairphone 6 turns into a Linux phone running Fedora 44 with working cameras [09:04] TR News Techrights Links 19/08/2026: Timothy James King (AmigaDOS) Dies, GitHub Goes Offline, Finland Wants to Shun Social Control Media https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Links_19_08_2026_Timothy_James_King_AmigaDOS_Dies_GitHub_Goes_O.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Links_19_08_2026_Timothy_James_King_AmigaDOS_Dies_GitHub_Goes_O.gmi [09:04] TR Bot Techrights Links 19/08/2026: Timothy James King (AmigaDOS) Dies, GitHub Goes Offline, Finland Wants to Shun Social Control Media [09:04] TR News "I have to link to Codeberg Pages docs for fairness." https://aartaka.me/codeberg-pages-2.html | Source: Artyom Bologov [09:04] TR Bot Codeberg Pages 2: Setting Up Subdomain for git-pages Back-end [09:04] TR News "I was disappointed to learn that the bot never posted off the Bot Forensics beacon." https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/foiling-protohackers-spam-bot.html | Source: James Stanley [09:04] TR Bot James Stanley - Foiling a Protohackers email spam bot [09:04] TR News "We setup all of our FreeBSD servers to be accessed via Tailscale's SSH so we documented it here for our quick reference in the future for new server setup. Hope it helps someone else as well." https://conradresearch.com/design-distilled/tailscale-ssh-server-access-on-freebsd | [09:04] TR Bot Tailscale SSH Server Access on FreeBSD [09:06] TR News Framework's most affordable laptop finally gets Linux (and a hardware upgrade) https://www.howtogeek.com/framework-laptop-12-linux-core-series-3-launch/ [09:06] TR Bot Framework's most affordable laptop finally gets Linux (and a hardware upgrade) [09:07] TR News "pre-builts to ship with Fedora KDE 44" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/framework-laptop-12-gets-fedora-kde-linux-on-pre-builts-along-with-new-intel-core-series-3-processors/ [09:07] TR Bot Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors | GamingOnLinux [09:08] TR News Bethesda finally fix the Fallout 4 on-screen keyboard crashing on Steam Deck / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/bethesda-finally-fix-the-fallout-4-on-screen-keyboard-crashing-on-steam-deck-steamos/ Source: GamingOnLinux [09:08] TR Bot finally fix the Fallout 4 on-screen keyboard crashing on Steam Deck / SteamOS | GamingOnLinux [09:08] TR News Get some ace strategy games in the RTS Renaissance Digiphile Bundle | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/get-some-ace-strategy-games-in-the-rts-renaissance-digiphile-bundle/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/get-some-ace-strategy-games-in-the-rts-renaissance-digiphile-bundle/ [09:08] TR Bot some ace strategy games in the RTS Renaissance Digiphile Bundle | GamingOnLinux [09:12] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:12] TR News iophk: bored? lonely? nothing to do? no friends? throw a meeting! https://manualdousuario.net/en/theory-people-addicted-meetings-work/ [09:12] TR Bot My conspiracy theory is that some people at work are addicted to setting up meetings because no one listens to them at home, and they dont know how to start a podcast. Manual do Usurio [09:12] TR News "Jasper is blogging: Pete the Pond" https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/pete-the-pond [09:12] TR Bot Jasper is blogging: Pete the Pond [09:13] TR News Data Center Waste Heat as an Emerging Urban Thermal Hazard: First Field Measurements of Neighborhood-Scale Air Temperature Impacts Open Access https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Center-Waste-Heat-as-an-Emerging-Urban [09:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/sustainablebuildings/article/7/2/024501/1233035/Data-Center-Waste-Heat-as-an-Emerging-Urban ) [09:14] TR News "What did you fall for? The mentalist effect." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/18/0350221#1451701 [09:14] TR Bot Scientists Increasingly Depend on Black-Box Tools They Cannot Control or Fully Understand - SoylentNews [09:44] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [09:44] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@kcvnmgbxt8eqq.irc) has joined #techrights [09:49] psydroid3 lol, somehow when I wasn't even at home my host was added to the dronedb database or something [09:49] psydroid3 so now I can only connect to this IRC server [09:49] psydroid3 way to go to kill IRC [09:50] psydroid3 even more so than it is already being killed ● Aug 19 [11:36] *schestowitz[TR2] has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:36] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). 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For scrollback see http://techrights.org/irc-channel/ [11:37] *Topic for #techrights set by schestowitz!~roy@22e8m8t4gqjin.irc at Fri Jun 18 16:51:47 2021 ● Aug 19 [12:07] TR News NVIDIA GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/ [12:07] TR Bot GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support | GamingOnLinux [12:07] TR News Maths and logic puzzles in a colourful platformer setting | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/maths-and-logic-puzzles-in-a-colourful-platformer-setting-nero-sci-integral-edition-is-out-now/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:07] TR Bot and logic puzzles in a colourful platformer setting - Nro & Sci Integral Edition is out now | GamingOnLinux [12:09] TR News ZOOM Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/zoom-platform-announced-you-are-empty-absolute-edition-a-revival-of-the-retro-ukrainian-fps/ Source: GamingOnLinux [12:09] TR Bot Platform announced You Are Empty: Absolute Edition - a revival of the retro Ukrainian FPS | GamingOnLinux [12:11] TR News "a traditional URL shortener like tinyurl just generates a random code and associates that with your original link" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/18/compress-links-for-optimal-qr-codes/ | Source: Hackaday [12:11] TR Bot Links For Optimal QR Codes | Hackaday [12:12] TR News "Some [Internet] standards only support ASCII characters, but the world uses much more than the Latin alphabet." https://sethmlarson.dev/when-str-lower-is-a-security-vulnerability | Source: Seth Michael Larson [12:12] TR Bot When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python Seth Larson [12:12] TR News "If youre a developer, you should start reading PEPs (or equivalents proposals in your language if such exist)." https://hamatti.org/posts/p-is-for-python-enhancement-proposal-pep-python-a-to-z/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [12:12] TR Bot P is for Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [12:13] TR News "This year, the UK weather hasnt so much been unpredictable as relentlessly, record-breakingly hot. Which, if youre a data person, is still a great excuse to explore." https://www.jumpingrivers.com/blog/a-summer-explained-with-r/ | Source: Jumping Rivers [12:13] TR Bot A Summer, Explained with R [12:13] TR News "In other words, Vim gives you incredible programmatic control over the state of the editor. Want to make typing ;r paste from the clipboard? Easy." https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/vim-wants-you-to-control-vscode-wants-you-to/ | Source: Buttondown LLC [12:13] TR Bot wants you to control, VSCode wants you to consume Buttondown [12:13] TR News "The first lab does not need a cluster. It needs one analysis system, one target, an explicit network design, and a reset that has been tested." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/cyberseckyle-security-how-to-series-light-offensive-to-think-defensively-part-1-build-a-safe-lab-with-snapshots/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [12:14] TR Bot Build a Safe Cybersecurity Lab with Snapshots - CybersecKyle [12:14] TR News "To overcome the performance bottlenecks and dependency friction of cross-language bridging, we engineered a pure R-native DeepAR forecasting engine." https://datageeek.com/2026/08/18/breaking-the-python-barrier-building-a-pure-r-native-deepar-engine-with-libtorch/ | Source: DataGeeek [12:14] TR Bot the Python Barrier: Building a Pure R-Native DeepAR Engine with LibTorch DataGeeek [12:15] TR News "The workshop will take place next year from Wednesday, April 14, through Friday, April 16" https://blogs.perl.org/users/max_maischein/2026/08/german-perlraku-workshop-2027-in-hanover---14042027-16042027.html | Source: Perl [12:15] TR Bot Perl/Raku Workshop 2027 in Hanover - 14.04.2027-16.04.2027 | Max Maischein [blogs.perl.org] [12:15] TR News "Defcon featured talks and scheduled events" https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/inside-defcon-the-conference-that-made-cybersecurity-noob-friendly/ | Source: CNET [12:15] TR Bot Defcon, the Conference That Made Cybersecurity Noob-Friendly - CNET [12:15] TR News "This version includes important security updates to Firefox." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-15020/ | Source: Tor [12:15] TR Bot New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.20 | The Tor Project [12:16] TR News "Actually, my first choice to browse the web are text based browsers like eww, links, offpunk." https://untrusem.party/blog/how-I-browse-the-web-with-Ublock-Hard-Mode.html | [12:16] TR Bot How I browse the Web with uBlock (Hard Mode) [12:16] TR News "What I called a rectangle selection is more correctly called a region rectangle, a rectangular region." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/EmacsRectangleRegionNotes | Source: University of Toronto [12:16] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [12:17] TR News "While some of these Android emergency features can be helpful while traveling" https://www.androidpolice.com/android-emergency-features-standard/ | Source: Android Police [12:17] TR Bot My safety shouldn't depend on which Android phone I buy [12:26] TR News "Framework Laptop 12 is our colorful, little, durable 12.2 convertible laptop." https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-laptop-12-now-with-core-series-3 | Source: Framework Computer BV [12:26] TR Bot Framework | Framework Laptop 12, now with Core Series 3 [12:27] TR News "I continue to complete work on my next post on using the R wordcloud package." https://dmwiig.net/2026/08/18/take-your-r-projects-on-the-road-using-r-on-your-raspberry-pi-adroid-device-and-iphone/ | [12:27] TR Bot Take Your R Projects on the Road: Using R on Your Raspberry Pi, Android Device, and iPhone | R Statistics and Programming [12:27] TR News "Edge Link is a small device that fits onto a standard DIN rail inside any machines electrical cabinet." https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/19/edge-link-is-a-diy-solution-to-upgrade-old-industrial-equipment/ | Source: Arduino [12:27] TR Bot Edge Link is a DIY solution to upgrade old industrial equipment | Arduino Blog [12:27] TR News "Mainstream OS, an Arch-based, user-friendly Linux distribution with a highly customised desktop that uses the Quickshell toolkit" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12925 | Source: Distro Watch [12:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12925 ) [12:28] TR News Yesterday, I learned that security/pam-ssh-agent-auth is abandoned and deprecated." https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/17/replacing-security-pam-ssh-agent-auth-with-security-pam-ssh-agent/ | Source: Dan Langille [12:28] TR Bot Replacing security/pam-ssh-agent-auth with security/pam_ssh_agent Dan Langille's Other Diary [12:28] TR News "In Episode 15, I chat with Zoe, the author of zoeloukia.bearblog.dev about, among other things, writing on personal websites" https://web-weaving.jamesg.blog/15 | Source: Wonders of Web Weaving [12:28] TR Bot #15: Zoe (zoeloukia.bearblog.dev) - Wonders of Web Weaving [12:28] TR News "James talks about what has been done so far, the importance of getting more people involved, quickly, technical solutions" https://kodsnack.se/international/716/ | Source: Kodsnack [12:28] TR Bot Kodsnack 716 - Dubious lifestyle decisions, with James Smith [12:29] TR News "Nextcloud provides a large public PHP interface to developers to use for building their application." https://carlschwan.eu/2026/08/18/modern-stable-apis-for-your-nextcloud-application/ | Source: Carl Schwan [12:29] TR Bot Modern, Stable APIs for Your Nextcloud Application [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: we have a new joke [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] since we call the crowd MinceR [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] and the magpies were near one today [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] we said a cross breed would be called mincepie [12:51] TR News GitLab Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/gitlab-patches-critical-code-injection-vulnerability/ [12:51] TR Bot Patches Critical Code Injection Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [12:52] TR News Apple Removes Some Fees for App Developers in European Union https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/apple-fees-european-union.html [12:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/apple-fees-european-union.html ) [12:53] TR News Hong Kong court orders now-defunct Apple Daily to pay HK$1.5 million to couple in defamation lawsuit over 2019 articles https://hongkongfp.com/2026/08/19/hong-kong-court-orders-now-defunct-apple-daily-to-pay-hk1-5-million-to-couple-in-defamation-lawsuit-over-2019-articles/ [12:53] TR Bot HK court orders now-defunct Apple Daily to pay HK$1.5 million in defamation suit [12:53] TR News Man Obliterated When Court Obtains His Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Transcripts https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/expert-witness-chatgpt-logs-court [12:53] TR Bot Man Obliterated When Court Obtains His ChatGPT Transcripts [12:54] TR News Cybersecurity concerns prompt Proprietary Chaffbot Company to pause some Hey Hi (AI) training runs https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-paused-some-ai-training-runs-over-cybersecurity-concerns/ [12:54] TR Bot concerns prompt OpenAI to pause some AI training runs - SiliconANGLE [12:55] TR News China removes Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows at state users ahead of plan https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-removes-microsoft-windows-at-state-users-ahead-of-plan [12:55] TR Bot China removes Microsoft Windows at state users ahead of plan | The Straits Times ● Aug 19 [13:04] TR News Techrights Instant Impact: GNU/Linux Skyrockets to 10% in China Days After Policy Changes https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Instant_Impact_GNU_Linux_Skyrockets_to_10_in_China_Days_After_P.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Instant_Impact_GNU_Linux_Skyrockets_to_10_in_China_Days_After_P.gmi [13:04] TR Bot Techrights Instant Impact: GNU/Linux Skyrockets to 10% in China Days After Policy Changes [13:06] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.0.0 Aria http://www.kvirc.net/) [13:06] TR News Universities Were Forced to Pay Up Despite Little Evidence of Antisemitism, Convicted Felon Whistleblowers Say https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say [13:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/universities-were-forced-to-pay-up-despite-little-evidence-of-antisemitism-trump-whistleblowers-say ) [13:07] TR News The Case for Reticence https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-case-for-reticence [13:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-case-for-reticence ) [13:08] TR News Amazon Uses Rare Books for Hey Hi (AI) Training, Destroys Copies https://www.cloudbooklet.com/amazon-uses-rare-books-for-ai-training [13:08] TR Bot Uses Rare Books for AI Training, Destroys Copies - Cloudbooklet [13:08] TR News Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility destroying books to train Hey Hi (AI) models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secret-tracking-device-placed-in-rare-book-ends-up-in-amazon-processing-facility-destroying-books-to-train-ai-models-is-all-the-vegas-warehouse-does [13:08] TR Bot Secret tracking device placed in rare book ends up in Amazon processing facility destroying books to train AI models is 'all' the Vegas warehouse does | Tom's Hardware [13:09] TR News Hylke Bons: Icon for Metamorphosis https://planetpeanut.studio/post/2026/08/18/metamorphosis [13:09] TR Bot Icon for Metamorphosis Planet Peanut Studio [13:09] TR News Thomas Lange: LLM usage in Debian http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/llm-usage-gr/ [13:09] TR Bot LLM usage in Debian [13:11] TR News Edge Link is a DIY solution to upgrade old industrial equipment https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/08/19/edge-link-is-a-diy-solution-to-upgrade-old-industrial-equipment/ [13:11] TR News Pluralistic: IP can't save you from Hey Hi (AI) (18 Aug 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/18/enron-corpus/ [13:11] TR Bot Pluralistic: IP cant save you from AI (18 Aug 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [13:12] TR News Acupuncture Seems to Rewire The Brain in Depression, Scans Reveal https://www.sciencealert.com/acupuncture-seems-to-rewire-the-brain-in-depression-scans-reveal [13:12] TR Bot Seems to Rewire The Brain in Depression, Scans Reveal : ScienceAlert [13:13] TR News Medusa ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on groups tactics https://cyberscoop.com/medusa-ransomware-tactics-cisa-advisory/ [13:13] TR Bot ransomware tallies hundreds of new victims, says updated advisory on groups tactics | CyberScoop [13:14] TR News From mahjong clubs to Chinamaxxing, why Chinese culture seems to be everywhere https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2026/0818/mahjong-chinamaxxing-China-soft-power [13:14] TR Bot Chinamaxxing says about Chinese soft power - CSMonitor.com [13:14] TR News Beijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery shows https://rfa.org/english/tibet/2026/08/19/larung-gar-china-demolition-buddhist-monks/ [13:15] TR Bot Beijing resumes demolition of major Tibetan Buddhist academy, satellite imagery shows Radio Free Asia [13:16] TR News "a common theme with some of our customers is that they remain several versions behind the newest release of Ansible Automation Platform" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/evolving-your-automation-pt1-why-its-worth-upgrading-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-27 | Source: Red Hat Official [13:16] TR Bot Evolving your automation (Pt.1): Why its worth upgrading to Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 [13:16] TR News Slop plagiarism, false hopes, false promises https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/llm-d-breaking-cost-and-capacity-barriers | Source: Red Hat Official [13:16] TR Bot llm-d: Breaking the cost and capacity barriers [13:17] TR News Red Hat invites public humiliation by associating closely with slop https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/stop-paying-same-prompt-optimize-ai-costs-redis-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official [13:17] TR Bot Stop paying for the same prompt: Optimize AI costs with Redis on Red Hat OpenShift [13:17] TR News "Crowd Supply recently featured the USBridge-KVM 2.0, a compact IP-KVM designed for remote system administration, debugging, and bare-metal recovery." https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-zero-3w-powers-compact-ip-kvm-with-bios-ocr/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [13:17] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/radxa-zero-3w-powers-compact-ip-kvm-with-bios-ocr/ ) [13:17] TR News "Nordic Semiconductors nRF93M1 Development Kit is now available through multiple distributors, providing a platform for evaluating the companys nRF93M1 LTE Cat 1 bis cellular module." https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [13:17] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/ ) [13:19] TR News Slop is not search, it's a form of useless plagiarism served like junk food https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-exa-partnership/ | Source: Mozilla [13:19] TR Bot Announcing Firefox and Exa Partnership [13:19] TR News What they mean by smart is slop https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/firefox-smart-window/ | Source: Mozilla [13:19] TR Bot Smart Window, privacy-first, AI-powered browsing with Firefox [13:20] TR News Startpage gives its data to a spying company https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/startpage-on-firefox/ | Source: Mozilla https://techrights.org/wiki/Startpage/ [13:20] TR Bot Startpage comes to Firefox [13:20] TR Bot Startpage [13:21] TR News "Gamers have asked for GeForce NOW support for years. 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Utter failures, NO VALUE to society either. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-falls-further-behind-anthropic-with-disappointing-revenue-growth-and-mounting-losses/ https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/openai-falls-further-behind-anthropic-with-disappointing-revenue-growth-and-mounting-losses/ [13:56] TR Bot falls further behind Anthropic, with disappointing revenue growth and mounting losses - SiliconANGLE [13:56] TR News That's like saying "porn for kids"; the very idea is absurd, kids don't need brainless chatbots https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/chatgpt-for-teens-openai.html [13:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/chatgpt-for-teens-openai.html ) [13:57] TR News FALSE assertion that Hey Hi (AI) losses and plagiarism is something that Australia NEEDS https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-win-the-ai-rush-australia-needs-expert-humans/ [13:57] TR Bot To win the AI rush, Australia needs expert humans | The Strategist [13:58] TR News Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to Hey Hi (AI) and still can't be sued federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/judges-who-use-ai-to-make-decisions-still-protected-by-judicial-immunity-court-ruling-protects-outcomes-regardless-of-ai-usage [13:58] TR Bot Judge allegedly outsourced entire ruling to AI and still can't be sued federal court upholds blanket judicial immunity | Tom's Hardware [13:58] TR News ABC/Disney Sues Convicted Felons FCC as Contentious Broadcast Licensing Dispute Intensifies https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/abc-disney-sues-trump-fcc/ [13:58] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/abc-disney-sues-trump-fcc/ ) [13:59] TR News Paramount Pictures and Romans Officially Settle Their Smurfs Songs Lawsuit Studio Allegedly Decided to Punish the Songwriter Because It Was Mad at Rihanna https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/romans-rihanna-paramounts-smurfs-lawsuit/ [13:59] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/romans-rihanna-paramounts-smurfs-lawsuit/ ) ● Aug 19 [14:00] TR News Federal grants run on more than money; 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Now He's Trying It Again https://itsfoss.com/stillos-review/ [14:23] TR Bot This Solo Dev Already Built a Popular Distro. Now He's Trying It Again [14:23] TR News AUSTRUMI 5.2.6 https://distrowatch.com/austrumi [14:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/austrumi ) [14:23] TR News CapivaraOS 1.2.4 https://distrowatch.com/capivaraos [14:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/capivaraos ) [14:23] TR News CobaltX 0.2 https://distrowatch.com/cobaltx [14:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/cobaltx ) [14:24] TR News LattePanda Mu MXM carrier kits with choice of Arc A380 or RTX 3060 graphics https://linuxgizmos.com/lattepanda-mu-mxm-carrier-kits-with-choice-of-arc-a380-or-rtx-3060-graphics/ [14:24] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/lattepanda-mu-mxm-carrier-kits-with-choice-of-arc-a380-or-rtx-3060-graphics/ ) [14:24] TR News nRF93M1 DK with LTE Cat 1 bis, nRF54L15, and nRF Cloud support https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/ [14:24] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/nrf93m1-dk-with-lte-cat-1-bis-nrf54l15-and-nrf-cloud-support/ ) [14:25] TR News The Smell of Hey Hi (AI) https://kevquirk.com/the-smell-of-ai [14:25] TR Bot The Smell of AI - Kev Quirk [14:27] TR News China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of backdoored Windows 10 Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/china-reportedly-orders-state-agencies-to-uninstall-its-government-only-edition-of-windows-10 [14:27] TR Bot China reportedly orders state agencies to uninstall its government-only edition of Windows 10 Beijing accelerates planned retirement over data security concerns | Tom's Hardware [14:28] TR News [Proprietary / Vendor Lock-in] Qt 6.11.2 Released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.11.2-released [14:28] TR Bot Qt 6.11.2 Released [14:30] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@ayqnq8v534w9q.irc) has joined #techrights [14:32] TR News Dozens of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates https://www.securityweek.com/dozens-of-webkit-vulnerabilities-patched-with-fresh-macos-ios-security-updates/ [14:32] TR Bot of WebKit Vulnerabilities Patched With Fresh macOS, iOS Security Updates - 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Schneier on Security [14:34] TR News ICE Bars Its Workers From Wearing Metas Smart Glasses on the Job https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/ice-meta-smart-glasses.html [14:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/technology/ice-meta-smart-glasses.html ) [14:35] TR News Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform and What That Actually Means https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/18/why-digital-sovereignty-requires-an-open-document-platform/ [14:35] TR Bot Why Digital Sovereignty Requires an Open Document Platform and What That Actually Means - TDF Community Blog [14:35] TR News Digital Sovereignty Without Open Standards Spells Defeat https://fossforce.com/2026/08/digital-sovereignty-without-open-standards-spells-defeat/ [14:35] TR Bot Digital Sovereignty Without Open Standards Spells Defeat - FOSS Force ● Aug 19 [15:03] TR News Techrights Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Active_Directory_AD_and_Entra_Are_National_Security.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Active_Directory_AD_and_Entra_Are_National_Security.gmi [15:03] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats [15:12] IsambardPrince MinceR: The grocery store has 4 ounce mini-pub burgers on sale for 99 cents each limit 8. [15:13] IsambardPrince I said, "So tell me you're charging $3.96 a pound for ground chuck without telling me you're charging $3.96 a pound limit two pounds." [15:19] bms Dan Geer was fired from @Stake for sayign Microsoft products were a national security threat inthe 00s. [15:20] IsambardPrince https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.99422-6/773613000_1780549246323899_5429679471112857654_n.png?stp=dst-jpg_tt6&cstp=mx1080x1350&ctp=s1080x1350&_nc_cat=103&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=JAFhvBZm3QQQ7kNvwFjhcbz&_nc_oc=AdpDhWBrkn_U6Ge0cD-VcogdLaSQrL9LwKq3QHPXtG-Cab1dChghN576bymfPJ2Z6OE&_nc_zt=14&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&_nc_gid=7mvqTY752D8RuxPRiCVT1Q&_nc_ss=7b2a8&oh=00_AQFwibUWhZyaINSY8M_FJI5pLkp3JXlyMai9iv-0vlRa8A&oe=6A8B99C4 [15:21] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: MinceR ^ [15:21] IsambardPrince Applying for a job in 2026. [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] let's see [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] bms: we ciovwered it [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] ages ago [15:21] schestowitz[TR2] *covere [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: did puppy breaker change name to mike layne? [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] bms: [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] See part 3: [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] http://geer.tinho.net/geer.blackhat.6viii14.txt [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] The Cost of Monopoly - Schneier on Security" [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2003/09/cyberinsecurity_the.html [15:23] TR Bot The Cost of Monopoly - Schneier on Security [15:23] IsambardPrince That appears to be how Walmart and Sam's Club are hiring people in 2026. [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] "Dan"s famous for many things. The creation of Kerberos, of course, the X Window System, and als [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] o his letter about monocultures in cybersecurity that got him fired from the early security power [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] house company: ..." [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] "Our Influences: Dan Geer | Wirespeed" [15:23] schestowitz[TR2] https://wirespeed.co/posts/our-influences-dan-geer [15:23] TR Bot Our Influences: Dan Geer | Wirespeed [15:23] IsambardPrince A simple 47 step 3 hour process so your inbox can get full of automated rejection letters three weeks later. [15:24] IsambardPrince Then everyone around you says "There's jobs. People without a job just don't want to work. I have a job." [15:24] schestowitz[TR2] bms: above from anon [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: hey, fatty, stop being fat [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] versus [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] hey, baldyyy, grow some hair [15:29] TR News Techrights Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Impact_the_Ability_to_Run_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Mass_Layoffs_Impact_the_Ability_to_Run_Microsoft.gmi [15:29] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Impact the Ability to Run Microsoft [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, the us employment data is false [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] or, at best, doctored to mislead [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] it helps point back at the victim of the regime [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] while the regime gives trillions in tax breaks and bailouts to billionaires [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] bms: [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] more: " [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] There was also a former microsofter (stutz?) who wrote about that first. [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] You have the link somewere [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] IIRC it included the quote, "stop looking over your shoulder and invent [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] something" [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] not that one, but newer: [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/LC73732/text [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] (blocked by gratuitous javascript) [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] in case you find it handy [15:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/LC73732/text ) [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2021/10/29/microsoft-national-security-threat/index.shtml [15:31] TR Bot Microsoft: Still a National Security Threat [15:33] TR News Linux Matters 88: Talking to my Computer https://linuxmatters.sh/88/ [15:33] TR Bot Talking to my Computer [15:34] IsambardPrince MinceR: https://old.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/1vsgbyr/most_genii_plots_didnt_make_much_sense_after_s1/ [15:34] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit [15:34] TR News Whats in the SOSS? Podcast #69 S3E21 Watering the Community Garden: Navigating the EU CRA for Open Source with Roman Zhukov https://openssf.org/podcast/2026/08/18/whats-in-the-soss-podcast-69-s3e21-watering-the-community-garden-navigating-the-eu-cra-for-open-source-with-roman-zhukov/ [15:34] TR Bot Whats in the SOSS? Podcast #69 S3E21 Watering the Community Garden: Navigating the EU CRA for Open Source with Roman Zhukov Open Source Security Foundation [15:34] TR News The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is all about giving you more https://www.fairphone.com/stories/the-fairphone-gen-6-is-all-about-giving-you-more [15:34] TR Bot Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is all about giving you more [15:35] TR News LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit adds a keyboard shield to the nrRF52840-based ePaper LoRa and GPS development board https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/18/lilygo-t-echo-lite-kit-adds-a-keyboard-shield-to-the-nrrf52840-based-epaper-lora-and-gps-development-board/ [15:35] TR Bot LILYGO T-Echo Lite Kit adds a keyboard shield to the nrRF52840-based ePaper LoRa and GPS development board - CNX Software [15:35] MinceR IsambardPrince: lol [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] bms: more: [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] Found a related citation but not the one I am looking for [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] Daniel Geer, Charles P Pfleeger, Bruce Schneier, John [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] S Quarterman, Perry Metzger, Rebecca Bace, and Peter [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] Gutmann. 2003. CyberInsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] How the Dominance of Microsofts Products Poses a Risk to [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] Security. Technical Report. Computer & Communications Industry [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] Association. [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] However, I can't find even that one (2003) at all. [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] There are a lot of new articles about m$ being a national security threat [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] 2024 and onwards [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:38] TR News Bethesda Artist Says Microsofts Xbox Ended a No-Layoff Era, Turning Studio Retirement Dreams into Yearly Job Cuts https://wccftech.com/bethesda-artist-microsoft-xbox-no-layoff-era-yearly-cuts/ [15:38] TR Bot Bethesda Artist Says Microsoft's Xbox Ended a No-Layoff Era, Turning Studio Retirement Dreams into Yearly Job Cuts [15:38] TR News Bethesda Layoffs Were Rare Before Acquisition by Microsoft, Says Developer https://gamingbolt.com/layoffs-at-bethesda-were-rare-before-microsofts-acquisition-says-developer [15:38] TR Bot Bethesda Layoffs Were Rare Before Acquisition by Microsoft, Says Developer [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] Found the 2003 article: [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] "Cyberinsecurity: The Cost of Monopoly -- How The Dominance of Microsoft's Products Poses a Risk [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] to Security" [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] https://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] but have not found the "stop looking over your shoulder" one [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://cryptome.org/cyberinsecurity.htm ) [15:41] TR News After Most of Europe Said No, Kanye West Heads to Russia https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/after-most-of-europe-said-no-kanye-west-heads-to-russia/ [15:41] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/18/after-most-of-europe-said-no-kanye-west-heads-to-russia/ ) [15:41] TR News AI-assisted tool helped secure satellite communication system after 2022 Russian hacking https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/08/ai-assisted-tool-helped-secure-satellite-communication-system-after-2022-russian-hacking/ [15:41] TR Bot AI-assisted tool helped secure satellite communication system after 2022 Russian hacking | Federal News Network [15:45] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: It looks like that construction company shut down, the one that my dad told me sent "ghost workers" to RCA. [15:45] IsambardPrince They billed for hours of labor that were never performed. [15:45] TR News ISS: Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon conduct spacewalk to replace space-to-ground antenna https://www.france24.com/en/iss-sophie-adenot-and-anil-menon-conduct-spacewalk-to-replace-space-to-ground-antenna [15:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/iss-sophie-adenot-and-anil-menon-conduct-spacewalk-to-replace-space-to-ground-antenna ) [15:46] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]: It looks like that construction company shut down, [15:46] schestowitz[TR2] whic one? [15:47] TR News A Little Venue In Vermont Is Dragging StubHub Into a High-Stakes David vs. Goliath Legal Battle https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/vermont-venue-v-stubhub-lawsuit/ [15:47] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/08/17/vermont-venue-v-stubhub-lawsuit/ ) [15:48] TR News Maintenance release: Godot 4.7.2 https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-4-7-2/ [15:48] TR Bot Maintenance release: Godot 4.7.2 Godot Engine [15:49] TR News A deck-builder where you burn your cards - Burn With Me releases October 12 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/a-deck-builder-where-you-burn-your-cards-burn-with-me-releases-october-12/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:49] TR Bot deck-builder where you burn your cards - Burn With Me releases October 12 | GamingOnLinux [15:49] TR News The viral 'Normal Golf Game' from Fruit Ninja dev launches September 21 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/the-viral-normal-golf-game-from-fruit-ninja-dev-launches-september-21/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:49] TR Bot viral 'Normal Golf Game' from Fruit Ninja dev launches September 21 | GamingOnLinux [15:50] TR News Make funny looking heroes in the physics-based brawler Spectacular Team: Assemble | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/make-funny-looking-heroes-in-the-physics-based-brawler-spectacular-team-assemble/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:50] TR Bot funny looking heroes in the physics-based brawler Spectacular Team: Assemble | GamingOnLinux [15:52] *TMF (~TMF@gcskfpmudxrrg.irc) has joined #techrights [15:53] TR News How to Install Odoo 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-odoo-18-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [15:53] TR Bot 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 : Your How To Install Guide | LinuxCloudVPS Blog [15:53] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The Measles is spreading again. [15:53] IsambardPrince I'm fortunate that I was a child in an era where we did not have so many stupid dumbasses running around, and that my parents said "Roll up your sleeve so you can go to school." [15:54] IsambardPrince [09:46] whic one? [15:54] IsambardPrince Jer-Peg. [15:54] TR News The PR adds Native Validity Fingerprint Sensors Support to Linux https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/validity-fingerprint-sensors-libfprint/ [15:54] TR Bot The PR adds Native Validity Fingerprint Sensors Support to Linux | UbuntuHandbook [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] Jer-Peg. [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] Bundy [15:54] schestowitz[TR2] ? [15:54] IsambardPrince My dad said that RCA caught them logging workers that they never sent to the plant. [15:55] TR News Firefox 154.0 added Old Fashioned, Pride, Minimal App Icons Support https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/08/firefox-154-0-app-icons/ [15:55] TR Bot Firefox 154.0 added Old Fashioned, Pride, Minimal App Icons Support | UbuntuHandbook [15:56] TR News FSF Blogs: Six more global stories: LibreLocal 2026, part two http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/2026-librelocal-report-part-2 [15:56] TR Bot Six more global stories: LibreLocal 2026, part two Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [15:56] TR News IBM Red Hat pushing slop plagiarism https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/18/securing-claude-code-plug-ins-best-practices-repository-security [15:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/08/18/securing-claude-code-plug-ins-best-practices-repository-security ) [15:58] TR News Firefox 154 released with translation, Hey Hi (AI) and UI tweaks https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/firefox-154-released [15:58] TR Bot Firefox 154 released with translation, AI and UI tweaks - OMG! Ubuntu [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: in the uk, [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] companies that i knew [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] from the inside [15:58] schestowitz[TR2] clients and employers [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] staff lists were faked [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] many people listed [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] few actually worked [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] some used to work [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] some were "fillers" [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] seems a common prictaice [15:59] schestowitz[TR2] to inflate a sense of worth and authority ● Aug 19 [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] i have just checked the sirius site for example [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] another was surevine [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] ages ago [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] it's like only 10% of those listed are still there [16:00] schestowitz[TR2] an outsider would not know [16:01] IsambardPrince I was watching the remake of The Toxic Avenger where Peter Dinklage finds out he has brain tumors and the doctor says there's an experimental procedure. He calls his insurer and they say yes you have the platinum plan, and it excludes the gold plan's coverages. He goes "but it's platinum", and the woman says "exactly, you didn't sign up for the co-tiers", and he says "I don't even know what any of this means." [16:01] IsambardPrince It's funny because that's exactly how health insurance works. They come up with "metal levels" and nobody knows what those mean so they just sign up for something and then find out it doesn't cover that specialist, or those procedures, or that medicine. [16:01] IsambardPrince How do they keep the premiums down? Oh that's what the $12,000 deductibles and prescription plan that only covers things that are on the $4 list achieves. You can only go to one hospital without prior approval and it's the one that got an F. [16:02] IsambardPrince You need prior authorization for an air ambulance, which they only use when seconds count. Prior authorizations take over a week. [16:02] TR News Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them Cockroaches and Saying Its Time for Hunting https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/meta-facebook-declines-moderation-ai-slop-islamophobia-muslims [16:02] TR Bot Meta Declines to Remove Horrific Posts Calling for Violence Against Muslims, Calling Them "Cockroaches" and Saying It's "Time for Hunting" [16:03] IsambardPrince So they air lift you to a trauma center and then you get the bill and the insurance company said nobody filed it with a claims adjuster because they didn't have a week. So now you have to pay $100,000. [16:03] TR News World Humanitarian Day https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/statement_26_1741 [16:03] TR Bot Press corner | European Commission [16:03] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [16:04] *Righty (~Username@7hvjqzwbc6mra.irc) has joined #techrights [16:05] TR News Firefox 154.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1089386/ [16:05] TR Bot 154.0 released [LWN.net] [16:05] TR News Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-14) https://openbuildservice.org/2026/08/14/tiny-wins// [16:05] TR Bot Tiny Wins for Packagers: End-of-Week Update (2026-08-14) - Open Build Service [16:06] TR News openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available https://news.opensuse.org/2026/08/17/pre-schedule-opensuse-asia-summit/ [16:06] TR Bot openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available - openSUSE News [16:07] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Mark Hamill said when he met Peter Cushing, the guy was wearing a lavender glove, and he asked why, and the dresser said "He does that so when he smokes he doesn't get any of the nicotine or smell on his hand, because he doesn't want to get that on you when he shakes your hand." [16:07] IsambardPrince And Hamill said "Oh my God, we don't have anyone that polite in America." [16:08] TR News I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful https://itsfoss.com/rewaita/ [16:08] TR Bot I Found an Easy Way to Make GNOME More Colorful [16:09] schestowitz[TR2] who are they? [16:10] TR News Allowable, Not Allowed: What the First Action Predicts https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/08/allowable-not-allowed-what-the-first-action-predicts.html [16:10] TR Bot Allowable, Not Allowed: What the First Action Predicts | Patently-O [16:10] IsambardPrince Luke Skywalker and Grand Moff Tarkin, from Star Wars. [16:11] TR News Unified Patent Court is illegal and unconstitutional; here they are bickering over patents on controversial things, in a court that ought not even exist https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/the-mrna-wars-are-escalating-with-new-claims-from-arbutus/ [16:11] TR Bot The mRNA wars are escalating with new claims from Arbutus - JUVE Patent [16:12] TR News Interjecting slop plagiarism into the patent system https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/18/nlpatent-rebrands-as-clerq-launches-agentic-patent-research-workflows/ [16:12] TR Bot rebrands as Clerq, launches agentic patent research workflows - SiliconANGLE [16:20] TR News Rakudo Weekly 2026.33 All The Way To Infinity https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/08/18/2026-33-all-the-way-to-infinity/ [16:20] TR Bot 2026.33 All The Way To Infinity Rakudo Weekly News [16:21] TR News Waveshare PiRack-M6F 6-node rack unit for Raspberry Pi 4/5 brings all ports to the front https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/18/waveshare-pirack-m6f-6-node-rack-unit-for-raspberry-pi-4-5-brings-all-ports-to-the-front/ [16:21] TR Bot Waveshare PiRack-M6F 6-node rack unit for Raspberry Pi 4/5 brings all ports to the front - CNX Software [16:22] TR News NXP MCX A5 Cortex-M33 MCU family supports 10BASE-T1S Single Pair Ethernet and Post-Quantum Cryptography https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/08/19/nxp-mcx-a5-cortex-m33-mcu-family-supports-10base-t1s-single-pair-ethernet-and-post-quantum-cryptography/ [16:22] TR Bot NXP MCX A5 Cortex-M33 MCU family supports 10BASE-T1S Single Pair Ethernet and Post-Quantum Cryptography - CNX Software [16:22] IsambardPrince I thought I caught another roach. [16:22] *TMF has quit (Quit: Leaving) [16:22] IsambardPrince Turns out a housefly that got in the other day got stuck to the trap. [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] no roach? [16:22] schestowitz[TR2] or no catch? [16:23] IsambardPrince It was just a housefly. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] remove its uterus [16:23] IsambardPrince ovaries [16:23] TR News Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 154 https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-154/ [16:23] TR Bot Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 154 Firefox Developer Experience [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] ah, yes [16:23] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Piyush was a chemistt. [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] ovaries [16:23] schestowitz[TR2] was [16:23] IsambardPrince A chemist who doesn't understand what RAID actually is. [16:24] schestowitz[TR2] spices chemist [16:24] MinceR an orchestrated approach to data storage [16:24] MinceR Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks [16:24] TR News iophk: TR-TM were ahead of the trend: https://joecode.com/2026-08-19-sqlite3/ ("SQLite for Everything") [16:24] TR Bot for Everything | JoeCode [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] several cans of spray [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] in an array [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: didn't piyush worked in IT company later? [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] maybe he can toss seagate drives at cockroaches? [16:25] schestowitz[TR2] with roachDB [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] "i found a bug" [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: the bugs manifest through leaks [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] the leaks come from holes [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] some holes are CVEs [16:26] schestowitz[TR2] in an old buillding [16:27] MinceR :) [16:27] TR News In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-ceo-new-low-alpr-nancy-guthrie-tucson-arizona [16:27] TR Bot In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guthrie Case [16:27] MinceR or get a really old HDD and bludgeon roaches with it [16:27] MinceR though that's just one [16:27] schestowitz[TR2] it's possible [16:27] schestowitz[TR2] ask IsambardPrince [16:27] schestowitz[TR2] about his chromebook [16:27] MinceR maybe screw multiple HDDs together on something [16:28] MinceR s/on s/or s/ [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince was a driver [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] in the buick [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] he had a chromebook with bugs inside it [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] at the boot fo the car [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] it didn't boot [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] for almost a year [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince said, [16:28] schestowitz[TR2] wait [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] if i wait long enough [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] it might boot [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] after a year in the boot [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] nno more bugs [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] he squashed them by starving the bugs [16:29] schestowitz[TR2] welcome to 2024 [16:35] TR News This turns out to be disinformation from a Microsoft site https://www.zdnet.com/article/ubuntu-on-windows-outgrowing-native-installs-not-according-to-canonicals-jon-seager/ [16:35] TR Bot on Windows outgrowing native installs? Not according to Canonical's Jon Seager | ZDNET [16:36] TR News "Kubuntu 26.04 gets three years of fixes for the desktop, frameworks, and apps" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/08/18/sponsor-gives-kde-plasma-66-the-lts-treatment/5288531 [16:36] TR Bot Sponsor gives KDE Plasma 6.6 the LTS treatment [16:36] TR News (NEW): Ubuntus App Center Issues, Canonical Helps Microsoft's User Retention in Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Ubuntu_s_App_Center_Issues_Canonical_Helps_Microsoft_s_User_Ret.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/18/Ubuntu_s_App_Center_Issues_Canonical_Helps_Microsoft_s_User_Ret.gmi [16:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntus App Center Issues, Canonical Helps Microsoft's User Retention in Windows [16:36] TR News Still using Linux Mint? Here are the 6 Ubuntu features you're missing out on https://www.howtogeek.com/still-using-linux-mint-here-are-the-6-ubuntu-features-youre-missing-out-on/ [16:36] TR Bot Still using Linux Mint? Here are the 6 Ubuntu features you're missing out on [16:48] TR News Techrights No, WSL (Windows With Fake 'Linux') Isn't Growing Faster Than Ubuntu, This Was Disinformation Spread by a Microsoft Propaganda Site, Then Spread by Slopfarms https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/No_WSL_Windows_With_Fake_Linux_Isn_t_Growing_Faster_Than_Ubuntu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/No_WSL_Windows_With_Fake_Linux_Isn_t_Growing_Faster_Than_Ubuntu.gmi [16:48] TR Bot Techrights No, WSL (Windows With Fake 'Linux') Isn't Growing Faster Than Ubuntu, This Was Disinformation Spread by a Microsoft Propaganda Site, Then Spread by Slopfarms [16:52] TR News Linux can be your college PCand these 4 apps prove it https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-can-be-your-college-pcand-these-4-apps-prove-it/ [16:52] TR Bot Linux can be your college PCand these 4 apps prove it [16:52] TR News I compressed my entire Linux drive and got 6GB back without deleting a thing https://www.makeuseof.com/compressed-entire-linux-drive-got-6gb-back-without-deleting-a-thing/ [16:52] TR Bot I compressed my entire Linux drive and got 6GB back without deleting a thing [16:53] TR News (NEW): Virtual desktops, docks, and tabbed windowsLinux had them first https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Virtual_desktops_docks_and_tabbed_windows_Linux_had_them_first.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Virtual_desktops_docks_and_tabbed_windows_Linux_had_them_first.gmi [16:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Virtual desktops, docks, and tabbed windowsLinux had them first [16:53] TR News Proprietary systems in question here https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/linux-botnet-turns-devices-persistent-attacker-m6rke/ [16:53] TR Bot Linux Botnet Turns Devices Including Routers Into Persistent Attacker Infrastructure [16:54] TR News This seems to be a slopfarm https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/linux-7-2-drops-ai-cache-scheduling-sweeping-hardware-gains [16:54] TR Bot Linux 7.2 drops AI cache scheduling, sweeping hardware gains | The Tech Buzz [16:55] TR News "Developer Krzysztof Sokoowski has released astral-hwmon, an open-source kernel driver that reads current and voltage from each of the six +12V power connections individually." https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-rog-astral-rtx-50-gets-12v-2x6-per-pin-monitoring-on-linux [16:56] TR Bot ROG Astral RTX 50 gets 12V-2x6 per-pin monitoring on Linux - VideoCardz.com [16:56] TR News Cyberpunk 2077 Blue flashes have appeared on AMD graphics cards running Linux. https://en.gamegpu.com/news/igry/v-cyberpunk-2077-na-videokartakh-amd-pod-linux-voznikli-sinie-vspyshki [16:56] TR Bot Cyberpunk 2077 Blue flashes have appeared on AMD graphics cards running Linux. [16:57] TR News Proprietary https://www.manilatimes.net/2026/08/18/tmt-newswire/globenewswire/teleport-brings-infrastructure-identity-to-linux-desktops/2407610 [16:57] TR Bot Teleport Brings Infrastructure Identity to Linux Desktops | The Manila Times [16:57] TR News Slop galore https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-linux-7-2-release-cache-aware-scheduling/ [16:57] TR Bot Linux 7.2 delivers cache-aware scheduling - here's everything new | ZDNET ● Aug 19 [17:00] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [17:00] *Righty (~Username@52umg7iqmyvs2.irc) has joined #techrights [17:00] TR News Slopfarms covering slop-filled Linux https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/linux-7-2-adds-ai-aware-cache-scheduling/ [17:00] TR Bot Linux 7.2 Adds AI-Aware Cache Scheduling - Open Source For You [17:01] TR News "NVIDIA GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support. On Windows, that is. Sadly, any mention of Linux was left out of the announcements today. At least NVIDIA do now have an official supported GeForce NOW app for Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/nvidia-geforce-now-finally-adds-official-firefox-support/ [17:01] TR Bot GeForce NOW finally adds official Firefox support | GamingOnLinux [17:01] TR News GeForce NOW Linux App Leaves Beta With Cloud Gaming Upgrades https://techmymoney.com/2026/08/17/geforce-now-linux-app-leaves-beta-with-cloud-gaming-upgrades/ [17:01] TR Bot GeForce NOW Linux App Leaves Beta With Cloud Upgrades [17:03] TR News (NEW): Firefox Support in NVIDIA GeForce NOW https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Firefox_Support_in_NVIDIA_GeForce_NOW.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Firefox_Support_in_NVIDIA_GeForce_NOW.gmi [17:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Firefox Support in NVIDIA GeForce NOW [17:03] TR News The CVEs are not in Linux https://securityaffairs.com/197434/malware/new-mirai-based-evooo1bot-botnet-targets-linux-devices.html [17:03] TR Bot New Mirai-Based Evooo1Bot Botnet Targets Linux Devices [17:04] TR News "I didn't hate it" does not sound like a compliment https://www.zdnet.com/article/omarchy-quattro-linux-distro-power-users-ai/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/Omarchy_is_Already_Dying.shtml [17:04] TR Bot tested Omarchy Quattro, one of the first Linux distros to go all in on AI - and I didn't hate it | ZDNET [17:04] TR Bot Techrights Omarchy is Already Dying [17:05] TR News Defective CPUs https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/framework-laptop-12-gets-fedora-kde-linux-on-pre-builts-along-with-new-intel-core-series-3-processors/ [17:05] TR Bot Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors | GamingOnLinux [17:06] TR News "Have you ever wanted to run a Linux distribution on your Android device? If so, your best bet is UserLAnd." https://www.zdnet.com/article/userland-makes-it-easy-to-run-a-full-linux-distribution-on-an-android-device/ [17:06] TR Bot to run a full Linux distro on your Android phone? I found the easiest way | ZDNET [17:06] TR News Techrights Omarchy is Already Dying https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/Omarchy_is_Already_Dying.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/15/Omarchy_is_Already_Dying.gmi [17:06] TR News RedGNU https://www.xda-developers.com/after-europe-ditched-windows-china-follows-suit-with-its-own-home-grown-linux-distros/ [17:06] TR Bot After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros [17:07] TR News Linux 7.2 makes TSC support mandatory for x86 CPUs, but it's not like Windows 11's TPM 2.0 check https://www.tweaktown.com/news/113142/linux-7-2-makes-tsc-support-mandatory-for-x86-cpus-but-its-not-like-windows-11s-tpm-2-0-check/index.html [17:07] TR Bot Linux 7.2 makes TSC support mandatory for x86 CPUs, but it's not like Windows 11's TPM 2.0 check [17:08] TR News (NEW): Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Linux_Kernel_7_2_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Linux_Kernel_7_2_Officially_Released_This_Is_What_s_New.gmi [17:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Kernel 7.2 Officially Released, This Is Whats New [17:08] TR News Plan 9 https://www.xda-developers.com/docker-secret-ingredient-1992-os/ [17:08] TR Bot Docker's secret ingredient came from a 1992 operating system that almost nobody used [17:11] TR News (NEW): Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization in Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Kernel_Space_File_Systems_Virtualization_in_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Kernel_Space_File_Systems_Virtualization_in_Linux.gmi [17:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization in Linux [17:14] TR News (NEW): Bethesda Staff Furious at Microsoft, Progress Made on GNU/Linux Compatibility https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Bethesda_Staff_Furious_at_Microsoft_Progress_Made_on_GNU_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Bethesda_Staff_Furious_at_Microsoft_Progress_Made_on_GNU_Linux_.gmi [17:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Bethesda Staff Furious at Microsoft, Progress Made on GNU/Linux Compatibility [17:16] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [17:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [17:16] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Security_Leftovers.gmi [17:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [17:19] TR News "I do put "my email" in geminispace and on the open web and make no effort to obfuscate it. Why did I use quotes above? I have a lot of email addresses: definitely dozens, and probably over a hundred." gemini://nullish.smol.pub/re-a-question-of-email [17:20] TR News "I was thinking yesterday how much this space reminds me of the way the internet used to be. That thought led me to nostalgia for my old blog, which I'd thought was lost but has been mostly preserved by the Internet Archive. I found this post from February 2002..." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-19-0715 [17:21] TR News "Okay, my gemsite had too many logs and it became annoying, always having to decide if this is a whisper, a scream, a mumble or anything else. So I have boiled it down to 3 logs." gemini://sojuz.v-tr.org/mumble/restructuring-and-a-new-feed.gmi [17:22] TR News "My smol space now points directly to a domain I own. The fact that it works has made me happier than is reasonable. Hurrah!" gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/2026-08-19-1241 [17:22] TR News "hey everybody, autumn is here! i think? it kind of snuck up on me. we've gone straight from Heatwave to a 12C minimum and 22C maximum temperature, cool and rainy." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260819 [17:24] TR News "I like this path-optimisation word game, and it occasionally gets players, but the one-game-per-day schedule was too fast for the tiny playerbase. It's most interesting when you're competing with others on a single puzzle, and the chances of two players coming along within the same day are small" gemini://gemini.thegonz.net/glog/260819-updates.gmi [17:28] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/17/Mozilla_Firefox_154_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/17/Mozilla_Firefox_154_Is_Now_Available_for_Download_Here_s_What_s.gmi [17:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla Firefox 154 Is Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New [17:30] TR News (NEW): Mozilla: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter, MozPhab 2.17.0 Released, Tor Browser 15.0.20, and Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Mozilla_Firefox_WebDriver_Newsletter_MozPhab_2_17_0_Released_To.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Mozilla_Firefox_WebDriver_Newsletter_MozPhab_2_17_0_Released_To.gmi [17:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter, MozPhab 2.17.0 Released, Tor Browser 15.0.20, and Slop [17:31] TR News (NEW): Latest From Linux Gizmos, CNX Software, Arduino, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Latest_From_Linux_Gizmos_CNX_Software_Arduino_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Latest_From_Linux_Gizmos_CNX_Software_Arduino_and_More.gmi [17:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Latest From Linux Gizmos, CNX Software, Arduino, and More [17:36] TR News "If you are in the US and were put on a PIP today, they will exit you via the PIP. Severance for a PIP is 30 days, RA is 90 days. Cost less to exit someone via a PIP" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m00xx73f [17:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m00xx73f ) [17:48] TR News (NEW): Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers (75% is Promotion of Slop Plagiarism for IBM) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers_75_is_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers_75_is_Promotion_of_Slop_Plagiarism.gmi [17:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers (75% is Promotion of Slop Plagiarism for IBM) [17:48] TR News (NEW): OBS End-of-Week Update and openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/OBS_End_of_Week_Update_and_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_Pre_Schedule_Is.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/OBS_End_of_Week_Update_and_openSUSE_Asia_Summit_Pre_Schedule_Is.gmi [17:48] TR Bot Tux Machines OBS End-of-Week Update and openSUSE Asia Summit Pre-Schedule Is Now Available [17:51] TR News (NEW): Games: Godot 4.7.2, You Are Empty, GOG Preservation Program, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Games_Godot_4_7_2_You_Are_Empty_GOG_Preservation_Program_and_Mo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Games_Godot_4_7_2_You_Are_Empty_GOG_Preservation_Program_and_Mo.gmi [17:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Godot 4.7.2, You Are Empty, GOG Preservation Program, and More [17:51] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/today_s_howtos.gmi [17:51] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [17:52] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[18:56] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@ayqnq8v534w9q.irc) has joined #techrights [18:57] IsambardPrince Time to shut everything down and unplug the laptop and freeload off a wifi hotspot. [18:57] IsambardPrince The power company did a Peak Time Savings alert today. ● Aug 19 [19:01] IsambardPrince They usually pay $6-7 for participating. [19:01] IsambardPrince Basically unplug everything for a couple hour. [19:01] IsambardPrince *hoours [19:01] IsambardPrince *hours (agh) [19:06] schestowitz[TR2] don't get it... [19:13] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [19:13] bms have you seen the SourceHut lists? [19:14] bms users are overwhelimingly in support of an "AI" ban [19:18] schestowitz[TR2] we avoid SourceHut [19:18] schestowitz[TR2] https://dmpwn.info/ [19:18] TR Bot The DeVault report [19:27] IsambardPrince I noticed there's more PTS hours since all those datacenters went in. [19:28] IsambardPrince You used to get 2-3 PTS days during summer and usually only on days where the temperature went over 90. [19:28] IsambardPrince The electric company offers you like $1 per kilowatt hour you save, so they can turn around and sell it at commercial prices to a datacenter. [19:29] IsambardPrince The power companies like datacenters. [19:29] IsambardPrince They're not only an electric hog, they pay commercial rates for it. [19:31] IsambardPrince Right now they are drawing about 1.2 gigawatts out of the ComEd grid continuously. [19:31] IsambardPrince But this is forecast to increase to about 4 gigawatts. [19:31] IsambardPrince There's just not that much power in the system. [19:31] IsambardPrince France is a pathetic failure of a country. [19:32] IsambardPrince What the hell sort of a failed "modern" country lets 6,000 people die in a heat wave and then says stupid nonsense like "individual air conditioning is a scourge"? [19:33] schestowitz[TR2] france [19:34] IsambardPrince Their shitty Socialist party, which has failed them and left 6,000 French to die because they can't get an air conditioner even if they have money (which is hard given that the government has made unemployment and super high living costs the default there), they have to scapegoat America, where this doesn't really happen. [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] i wrote this before i scrolled up [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] and you already said "france" [19:34] IsambardPrince We didn't cause 6,000 French people to die in a heatwave. [19:34] IsambardPrince Their own government did and they don't want to "take the heat". [19:35] IsambardPrince They're using Anti-American bias which is common among the French, to try to deflect from a domestic policy crisis that has a body count. [19:36] IsambardPrince They're being institutionally gaslit by their own government. [19:36] IsambardPrince And it only works if the French people are dumb enough to think Americans had anything to do with no air conditioners for sale in French shops and a failed French power grid. [19:37] IsambardPrince It got fucking ugly in Paris, people were beating each other up trying to fight over 1 air conditioner. It turned into riots and brawls. [19:37] IsambardPrince Very civilized brawls, you know. [19:37] IsambardPrince "Give me the fucking air conditioner you fucking fuck!" Then you know, a donnybrook. [19:38] admfubar Apple Reacts to the New Framework Laptop 12... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF2WniCfmEE [19:38] TR Bot https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XF2WniCfmEE [19:38] TR Bot yewtu.be | Verifying your browser [19:39] IsambardPrince When the indoor temperature hits unendurable baselines, the public panics. Money loses its utility because there is no inventory left to buy. The remaining physical assets become so highly valued that citizens actively riot in retail aisles, reducing a modern metropolis to raw survival of the fittest. [19:41] IsambardPrince And that's another thing. So what were all these haughty French politicians that hate Americans and think air conditioning is a scourge doing during the heat wave? [19:41] IsambardPrince You mean to tell me that they're not air conditioning the Presidential Palace? [19:43] IsambardPrince The administrative elite expects the average senior citizen to sit in an 110-degree, unventilated top-floor Parisian flat and have a heat stroke on "principle," while they sit behind thick stone walls breathing crisp, mechanically chilled air subsidized entirely by public taxes. [19:44] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/mrna-cancer-vaccine-succeeded-in-phase-3-melanoma-trial-moderna-and-merck-say/ [19:44] TR Bot mRNA cancer vaccine succeeded in Phase 3 melanoma trial, Moderna and Merck say - Ars Technica [19:45] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:46] IsambardPrince Then they blamed Americans for having high emissions. So do the French. [19:46] IsambardPrince Most of Western Europe phased out nuclear power and went back to burning coal or made deals to prop up Russia buying natural gas. [19:48] IsambardPrince Air conditioning in America is not causing a heat wave anywhere in the world. [19:49] IsambardPrince Air conditioning is less than 7% of all power consumption in the United States, for about 3 months of the year. [19:49] IsambardPrince Europe is gas rationing now too because it's not cheap now that they don't want to be seen directly funding Putin's war. [19:49] IsambardPrince So it gets cold I'm sure. [19:50] IsambardPrince That's probably our fault too. [19:51] IsambardPrince Really, I mean it's kind of everyone's fault for the shape the world is in. [19:51] IsambardPrince There are reasons foreign governments prop up the US Dollar and it's not because they love Americans and think we're awesome. [19:51] IsambardPrince It's because they want to keep feeding off of us. [19:52] IsambardPrince If the Dollar collapses, they don't have an export market. So they have to prop up their customer otherwise they lose politically at home when all those people become unemployed. [19:52] schestowitz[TR2] it's not that simple [19:52] IsambardPrince Then once they have the Dollars, they have a different problem. [19:52] schestowitz[TR2] france has nukes, nuclear energy [19:52] IsambardPrince If they do anything to weaken the Dollar, it sucks the purchase power out of the ones they have left. [19:52] schestowitz[TR2] in many ways, with EU, it is self-sufficent [19:53] IsambardPrince So they have to find something denominated in US Dollars to buy. [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] but it would be wealthier if it keeps its island and african colonies [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] the us is "rich" [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] but in an odd way [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] liuke you mentioned before [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] very lopsided [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] to you, impossible job application paths [19:53] IsambardPrince It's extremely lopsided. [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] and some sergey brin, born in moscow, spends 102 million dollars lobbying in cali alone [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] to avoid paying tax [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] 102 ml [19:53] IsambardPrince The vast majority end the month out with no money and making "struggle meals" based on whatever's cheap and left in the cabinets. [19:53] schestowitz[TR2] he could donate to charities [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] but no [19:54] IsambardPrince And then we have a few people like Gates, Musk, or Bezos. [19:54] schestowitz[TR2] pay some asshats to protect you from paying your share [19:54] IsambardPrince Illinois has different problems than Indiana. [19:55] IsambardPrince I wouldn't say one is inherently better than another. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: "U 'JUS' JEALES" [19:55] IsambardPrince Thee economic outlook and jobs situation is bad in both states. [19:55] IsambardPrince The taxes and rent are lower in Indiana, but so are the wages, and you must own a car. [19:55] IsambardPrince So there goes all the savings. [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] and cars got more pricey [19:55] schestowitz[TR2] and they last fewer years [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] so the average per year is also up [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] we mentioned it here the other day [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] i gforgot the context [19:56] IsambardPrince In Indiana, they get out ahead of federal deadlines to cut people off from food and healthcare, while Illinois tries harder to make sure people are eating and have some medical care. [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] we saw some car with an issue [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] and i said [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] "there go some months of salaries" [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] you can tell the bill estimate [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] when it's some brand like BMW [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] at least 2k [19:56] IsambardPrince Like if the feds pass a law that says the deadline to end enhanced food stamp benefits is September 1st, Indiana will do it in June. [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] and average pay leaves you with very little saved per month [19:56] IsambardPrince Even though it's federal money that doesn't cost them anything. [19:56] schestowitz[TR2] even without having any kids [19:57] IsambardPrince It's sort of the "politics of meanness". [19:57] IsambardPrince So the people at the bottom have absolutely no help from the government and go ahead and fall over. [19:57] schestowitz[TR2] "try harder, chuck!" [19:57] IsambardPrince That's Indiana. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/26/jared-kushner-criticized-saying-black-people-need-want-successful/6043088002/ [19:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/10/26/jared-kushner-criticized-saying-black-people-need-want-successful/6043088002/ ) [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2020/10/26/jared-kushner-african-americans-must-want-to-be [19:58] TR Bot Jared Kushner: African Americans must want to be successful | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera [19:58] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: They do this for other reasons too. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] you can tell jared was: [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] never black [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] never poor [19:58] IsambardPrince Indiana wants the safety net to be churches. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] "successful" [19:58] IsambardPrince It gets people in church because then other people in church feel the obligation to help out. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] he means money [19:58] IsambardPrince But only if you attend church. [19:58] schestowitz[TR2] to rich people successful is a code word [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] like "pizza" for pedos [19:59] IsambardPrince So you have all these poor people in church. [19:59] IsambardPrince It's not because they believe. [19:59] IsambardPrince It's because if they don't go, they don't eat. [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/09/25/553496462/trump-s-friends-are-going-to-africa-to-get-rich-that-s-not-a-bad-idea [19:59] TR Bot Trump Says Friends Go To Africa To 'Get Rich.' African Entrepreneurs React : Goats and Soda : NPR [19:59] schestowitz[TR2] https://time.com/4951006/trump-africa-get-rich/ [19:59] TR Bot ( status 406 @ https://time.com/4951006/trump-africa-get-rich/ ) ● Aug 19 [20:00] IsambardPrince There was an old song sung by trade unionists that called the Salvation Army the "Starvation Army". [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] Salvation is against starvation [20:00] IsambardPrince Something like you can have pie in the sky when you die. [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] so there is walways wordplay there [20:00] schestowitz[TR2] same for blue cross and red cross [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: having leeeloo must have been expensive at an old age [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] not just the meds [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] but the vetys [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] or pet insurance [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] if you can afford that [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] "daddy, i don't wannt die" [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] "daddy, buy innsurance, ok?" [20:01] schestowitz[TR2] "dadd, can you afford?" [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] "am i gonna die, daddy?" [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] today we fed many flocks of birds [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] no insurance needed [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] just the best seedcs available [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] no breds and junk\ [20:02] schestowitz[TR2] (breads) [20:02] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Pet insurance is basically a scam. [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] it's abovbe incident ptice [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] it is sold as "peace of mind" [20:03] IsambardPrince You donate your money to a company, in turn they have their lawyers write up a contract designed to fuck you. [20:03] IsambardPrince And give you less of it back. [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] like shops that sell extended warranty [20:03] IsambardPrince Yes. [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] in know some who took it [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] for appliances [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] and for pets [20:03] IsambardPrince There's a credit card called Nibbles that has a very basic skimpy policy that comes with the card. [20:03] schestowitz[TR2] you look at the price [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] then you estimate cost of surgery [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] for a cat [20:04] IsambardPrince But then there's all these paid add-ons if you want it to cover anything. [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] and how many years between necessaity of it [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] and how much paperwork [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] then you go full luigi [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] f* it, i will pay whenm s* happens [20:04] IsambardPrince Then you look at this and realize you're paying over $800 a year for something that has a $900 deductible and then only pays out 70% of "approved claims". [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] car insurance is obligatory [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] and you know why [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] there are some good reasons [20:04] schestowitz[TR2] but some premium coverage is not mandatory [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] like if someone bangs your car when you are parked [20:05] schestowitz[TR2] people don't read fine prints [20:05] IsambardPrince So you're like $1700 in the hole before it might pay 70%. [20:05] IsambardPrince After you pay them $1700 a year guaranteed. [20:05] IsambardPrince And then it pays 70% of covered claims, whatever those are, after that. [20:05] IsambardPrince And you still pay 30%. [20:05] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:05] IsambardPrince And whatever gets denied. [20:06] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: A typical vet visit costs like $200-300, maybe $500 if they run more tests. [20:06] IsambardPrince The insurance doesn't cover any medicine they prescribe. [20:06] IsambardPrince So that's still out of pocket if you have to pill the cat. [20:07] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:07] IsambardPrince The insurance turns an "I might go broke because of this thing." into an "I will go broke and then I have to hope insurance covers it because I now have no money at all." [20:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I was talking to someone from the property management about when they would send the exterminator. [20:09] IsambardPrince I said "Roaches are a building problem. One person brings them then they're in." [20:09] IsambardPrince "They migrate from apartment to apartment." [20:09] IsambardPrince "If someone is living like pigs and they're breeding like crazy, then everyone near that unit has an even bigger problem." [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] yes, i suppose [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] i never saw a roach here [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] i am szsure i did [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] at one point [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] but cannot remember [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] i do see those in other countries I visit [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] we also have no snakes [20:10] *Righty (~Username@hdfxgi5dw6eha.irc) has joined #techrights [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] unless you try hard to find one outside the Big Cities [20:10] schestowitz[TR2] flies eixst but not m,any [20:11] schestowitz[TR2] i saw a bee near my door today [20:15] *admfubar (~admfubar@v8k6zq2igu7aw.irc) has joined #techrights [20:17] IsambardPrince My mother saw roaches at her sister's house in the 90s. [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: found it. https://techrights.org/o/2021/11/08/matthew-gafam-hypocrisy/ [20:17] TR Bot Corporate Troll Matthew GAFAM Garrett Complains About Computer Devices Called Master/Slave While Using Slave Labor [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] 2021 [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] that one really annoyed him [20:17] IsambardPrince And she said she brought one back from the laundromat and smashed it in the 90s. [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] turns out isis was a slave to him [20:17] IsambardPrince The dryer went out and she used the one at the laundromat. [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] he used isis like a rag [20:17] IsambardPrince A roach apparently hopped in the basket. [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] i totalyl understand why isis hates him so much right now [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] and we hope isis will, eventually, escalate the matter [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] might have a good case for a police report [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] if not out of time [20:18] IsambardPrince All the delivery apps have an explainer that if you offer no tip or a bad one, or someone else offers a better one, it will take you longer to get your order. [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] i seee [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] i never used that [20:19] IsambardPrince They slowly increase the base rate by like 50 cents every time a driver rejects it. [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] i don't use "apps" [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] if i weant to eat something, then i prepare it [20:19] IsambardPrince So if you don't leave a tip you might have to wait all day before it's worth taking. [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] you did that gig before [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] did they pay flat rate [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] salary? [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] back then? [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] or was it already gig economy-like bs? [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] and i bet they doidn't [pay for your cat upkeep [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] only petrol [20:20] IsambardPrince They start out like $5-6 usually. [20:20] schestowitz[TR2] *car [20:20] IsambardPrince If you don't tip at least $10 you're not getting your order [20:20] IsambardPrince If you don't tip at least $20 you'll get it, but slower than the guy that paid more. [20:20] IsambardPrince At least that's how it works locally. [20:21] IsambardPrince If you don't leave anything, what happens is the app offers it, but only for base pay. [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] do you use android? [20:21] IsambardPrince After 10-15 drivers reject it, the app dials up the base pay enough that it essentially becomes desirable. [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] i lost touch with android [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] i has an android device well over a decade ago [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] i developed for android [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] as a postdoc [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] several applications [20:22] IsambardPrince The gig app will eventually make up for no tip or lousy tip. [20:22] IsambardPrince But very slowly. [20:22] IsambardPrince And by then the food is cold and gets to you two hours later. [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] soy uo deletee the "app" [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] download another [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] and start with neutral karma [20:22] IsambardPrince Karma doesn't really matter much on food apps. [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] how so? [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] zero karma = enigma [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] "risk" [20:23] IsambardPrince Not tipping enough to be worth driving from the restaurant is often the problem, and the apps themselves make it more of a problem. [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] "just da tip!!" [20:23] IsambardPrince For example there may be a five guys burgers and fries 5 blocks down. [20:23] IsambardPrince But then the app doesn't tell the customer where it's at, they assume. [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] so go buy it [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] 5 blocks down [20:23] schestowitz[TR2] fresh [20:24] IsambardPrince Then it's the one that's 8 miles away in another city. [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] ordering might take a few mins [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] talking might be 5-10 mins [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] *walking and talking\ [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] and you can eat on the way back while it is still warm and fresh [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] so it beats the point [20:24] schestowitz[TR2] of all this "app" frenzy [20:24] IsambardPrince So obviously, even if you toss in a $10-20 tip, if gas is so expensive and the traffic is backed up, maybe nobody wants to drive 8 miles with it. [20:24] IsambardPrince Even for $20. So it's possible no tip is a sufficient amount. [20:25] IsambardPrince Apps have ways of eventually getting your order to you. [20:25] IsambardPrince Dialing up the base rate every reject is only one. [20:25] IsambardPrince They can also mask that the driver is picking up multiple orders. [20:25] IsambardPrince So the driver might see "Head to Jewel, you will make $40." [20:26] schestowitz[TR2] no delivery neutrality then [20:26] schestowitz[TR2] it's the same with Locums here [20:26] IsambardPrince What they don't see is that $35 of that came from a very generous guy with a larger order, and $5 of it came from some tightwad along the way who just wanted beer and a chicken. [20:26] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.globelocums.co.uk/news/article/thriving-under-pressure-navigating-stress-as-a-locum [20:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.globelocums.co.uk/news/article/thriving-under-pressure-navigating-stress-as-a-locum ) [20:26] schestowitz[TR2] not sure what the us equiv is [20:26] IsambardPrince You can't unbundle the order if you want the $40. [20:26] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [20:27] IsambardPrince So you have to go to the tightwad first. [20:27] *Righty (~Username@fezuqr5z4z5pi.irc) has joined #techrights [20:27] IsambardPrince So I mean, are lower/no tips ethical? [20:27] IsambardPrince Well, I don't *always* tip. [20:28] IsambardPrince It depends on if I care when it arrives or not. [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] depends [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] on where [20:28] IsambardPrince Case in point. [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] i was told in wash/arlingto n(VA) you MUST tip in pubs [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] which to brits is... strange [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] we never do... we are discouraged from doing so [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] unlike places where you eat [20:28] IsambardPrince If I just want two cases of beer that went on sale, what I do is $0 tip, then I just let it sit there until 20 drivers reject it and then someone picks it up and gets $13-14 from the app. [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] you don't tip bartenders here [20:28] schestowitz[TR2] you might have a jar for tips [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] but if you give gift to the "pretty lady" behind the counter she might think you're some "horny bastard" [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] in the us, they give a face [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] if you don't [20:29] IsambardPrince You can work the app's base rate to your advantage. [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] they always need to remind us [20:29] schestowitz[TR2] bars = tip every time [20:30] schestowitz[TR2] don't be some "auslander" [20:30] IsambardPrince Yeah. [20:30] schestowitz[TR2] must tip for booze [20:30] schestowitz[TR2] they also drive on other side off road [20:30] IsambardPrince What I do at bars is I look at what the drink specials are and drink that. [20:30] schestowitz[TR2] and look opps. direction wehen crossing [20:30] IsambardPrince If you get a $5 20 ounce draft beer and it's Sam Adams, then go for that if the other ones are like $8. [20:31] *\join_podcast (~join_podcast@59sxcwh9gjvaq.irc) has joined #techrights [20:31] IsambardPrince They always have $5 Sam Adams specials where we go sometimes. [20:31] IsambardPrince Because they always order too much of the seasonal one for the last season. [20:31] IsambardPrince Then they need to use it up. [20:31] IsambardPrince :) [20:31] IsambardPrince So you're getting last season's beer, but it's still good. [20:31] IsambardPrince Pair it with a half-price pizza on Monday or half-price burgers on Thursday. [20:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I don't like tipping honestly. [20:32] IsambardPrince If I have two options for restaurants and I know one of them is no-tip expected/allowed, we almost always choose that one. [20:33] IsambardPrince Why should I have to pay for a meal and then after this place gouges the fuck out of me for that, I also have to pay their worker that they aren't payin'? [20:33] IsambardPrince I mean, it's ridiculous. [20:33] IsambardPrince Every screen has a tip on it now. [20:34] IsambardPrince We went to Al's Beef yesterday where it was like $40 for two people, and no table service. [20:34] IsambardPrince The thing wanted a tip so I did my usual no tip, enter real quick. [20:35] IsambardPrince I mean, what am I tipping these people for? They make more money than I do for starters, and it's not even the regular minimum wage, they're making over $20 an hour back there to run a cash register and assemble sandwiches. [20:35] IsambardPrince I get that it's repetitive but it's basically like asking your broke customers to tip the staff that's better paid than the customers are. [20:37] IsambardPrince It's just so vulgar. [20:46] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [20:48] schestowitz[TR2] sorry, was typing [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] not sure why we talk about food [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] not "apps" [20:49] IsambardPrince Delivery is bad. [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] it's wasteful [20:49] IsambardPrince The apps mark up the menu prices a lot. [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] here, in the uk [20:49] IsambardPrince And then they also want tips. [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] not sure about us (probably the same) [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] there are people riding bikes [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] in the dark [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] in the snow [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] many are from east afrfica [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] barely speak english [20:49] schestowitz[TR2] their task is to take food from some eatery to some home [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] and they risk their lives on busy roads [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] we used to teach cooking in schools [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] men too [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] how to make food [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] i ghuiess the GAFAMS did not like it [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] need to treach people to use google things [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] and how to use slop [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] to "propmpt" [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] not how to make food [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] fresh things [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] and save money [20:50] schestowitz[TR2] save energy [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] how much energy is wasted on moving cooked food around? [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] i see people here with carbiaord things [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] even today [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] taking some slush things [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] or coffees [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] in a f-ing tray [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] disposable [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] what a waste [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] buy a f-ing thermos [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] and reuse the darn thing [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] make more copffee [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] no "starbucks" [20:51] schestowitz[TR2] and no walking around [20:52] schestowitz[TR2] the media encourages this waste [20:52] schestowitz[TR2] and then says, use paper straws [20:52] MinceR no more happy hardcore [20:52] schestowitz[TR2] as if the teal issues is paper or plastic [20:52] schestowitz[TR2] *issue [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] do young people even know what a thermos is? [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] ever seen one? [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] so much trashable stuff [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] thrown about [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] to carry 3 pound coffee that costs 20p to make [20:53] IsambardPrince I used to put hot soup in a thermos. [20:53] IsambardPrince Take it to the factory with some coffee in another one. [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] why not? [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] good in winter [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] taking to car [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] east while in traffic light [20:53] schestowitz[TR2] warm up [20:54] schestowitz[TR2] *eat [20:55] MinceR i have a little thermo bottle for cold water to take on walks [20:55] MinceR it's surprisingly good [20:56] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [20:58] schestowitz[TR2] thermos had many years to mature [20:58] schestowitz[TR2] even in the 80s [20:58] schestowitz[TR2] the material and structure [20:58] schestowitz[TR2] the carton things you get in a starbucks [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] that's a joke [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] no insulationm [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] it's meant to be as cheap as possible [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] like some cardboard to protect your fingers [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] because the cup you take out is SO thin [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] when you sip it is plastic [20:59] schestowitz[TR2] and you can burn your tongue easily ● Aug 19 [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] through that hole [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] that spews out steam [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] vapour [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] how is that evn enjoyable? [21:00] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/meta-safety-trial-whistleblower-testimony [21:00] TR Bot Zuckerberg lied about concern for child safety, Meta whistleblower testifies at landmark trial | Meta | The Guardian [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, they still charge more to serve it in glass [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] in the shop [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] soi you are incentivised to take carton with hot juice in it [21:01] schestowitz[TR2] and pay like 1500% what it costs to make [21:04] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [21:07] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@ayqnq8v534w9q.irc) has joined #techrights [21:07] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [21:08] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@92k8df92h59wi.irc) has joined #techrights [21:15] *\join_podcast has quit (Quit: leaving) [21:20] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/19/ai-hiring-tools-discrimination [21:20] TR Bot Will AI give you the job? Automated hiring tools spark discrimination and secrecy lawsuits | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian [21:25] schestowitz[TR2] hype [21:25] schestowitz[TR2] those are not "Automated" [21:25] schestowitz[TR2] they always use those things [21:25] schestowitz[TR2] like questions to answer [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] now they use more slop under the false assumptions [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] that they "understand" [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] so they can bin applications [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] and applicants [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] based on scanning words, which is what they did regardless [21:26] schestowitz[TR2] even decades back [21:27] schestowitz[TR2] and before computers humans just looked for words of interest [21:27] schestowitz[TR2] on paper [21:27] schestowitz[TR2] and decided based on that [21:42] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 154 Out of 200: Computer-Generated Legal Filings From Men Who Are Salaried by Mass Plagiarism Companies in Another Continent (America) https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_154_Out_of_200_Computer_Generated_Legal_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_154_Out_of_200_Computer_Generated_Legal_F.gmi [21:42] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 154 Out of 200: Computer-Generated Legal Filings From Men Who Are Salaried by Mass Plagiarism Companies in Another Continent (America) [21:47] IsambardPrince https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/retail-stagnates-ad-dollars-help-walmart-stay-course-2026-08-18/ [21:47] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/retail-stagnates-ad-dollars-help-walmart-stay-course-2026-08-18/ ) [21:48] IsambardPrince "As Walmart's same-store sales growth has leveled off and a cautious annual outlook dented its stock, investors are increasingly looking to the retailer's advertising business to support profits. [21:48] IsambardPrince Walmart Connect has helped the company maintain margins, helping offset the cost of keeping prices low and delivery speeds high as shoppers strained by bigger gasoline bills seek cheaper groceries and essentials, prompting Walmart to lower prices on some 7,000 items." [21:48] IsambardPrince Which 7,000 items are those and will I still have to wait 3 hours outside because they can't find a broom? [21:48] admfubar no need to say more... https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/gwyneth-paltrow-allegedly-set-to-throw-dinner-in-honor-of-sam-altman/ [21:48] TR Bot Paltrow allegedly set to throw dinner in honor of Sam Altman | TechCrunch [21:50] IsambardPrince "Launched in 2019 and rebranded as Walmart Connect in 2021, Walmart's retail media business uses its shopper data to help brands target consumers across the company's website, app and stores, while showing whether ads translate into purchases." [21:50] IsambardPrince It's actually just pissed me off to the point I hardly buy anything there at all anymore because I can't stand opening their app. [21:50] IsambardPrince Seeing full motion video ads. [21:50] IsambardPrince Getting my product searches rewritten and stomped with something I did not search for. [21:51] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-was-supposed-to-win-people-over-by-now-it-hasnt/ [21:51] TR Bot was supposed to win people over by now -- it hasn't | TechCrunch [21:51] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/t-mobile-chopped-a-cable-to-expel-chinese-hackers-from-its-network/ [21:51] TR Bot 'chopped a cable' to expel Chinese hackers from its network | TechCrunch [21:54] IsambardPrince Walmart is probably fucking up its own long term profits to try to squeeze people who haven't gotten fed up enough to quit their app yet. [21:55] TR News TikTok cuts 75 jobs in Seattle area, hitting e-commerce teams [21:55] admfubar https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/you-can-venmo-your-college-tuition-for-some-reason/ [21:55] TR Bot can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason | TechCrunch ● Aug 19 [22:00] TR News Feeding the Wildlife https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/feeding-the-wildlife/ [22:00] TR Bot Blog Archive Feeding the Wildlife [22:00] admfubar https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/china-shifting-massive-ai-data-center-complexes-to-rural-provinces-to-tap-surplus-energy-eastern-data-western-computing-strategy-has-chinese-tech-giants-huawei-and-tencent-building-ai-infrastructure-guizhou [22:00] TR Bot China shifting massive AI data center complexes to rural provinces to tap surplus energy Eastern Data, Western Computing strategy has Chinese tech giants Huawei and Tencent building AI infrastructure Guizhou | Tom's Hardware [22:17] TR News Techrights Clownflare: More Than 1 in 5 Laptops or Desktops in El Salvador Run GNU/Linux or ChromeOS https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Clownflare_More_Than_1_in_5_Laptops_or_Desktops_in_El_Salvador_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Clownflare_More_Than_1_in_5_Laptops_or_Desktops_in_El_Salvador_.gmi [22:17] TR Bot Techrights Clownflare: More Than 1 in 5 Laptops or Desktops in El Salvador Run GNU/Linux or ChromeOS [22:19] TR News "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Sandia National Laboratories have taught drones to play a game of tag via reinforcement learning with a view to improving how autonomous systems can respond to rapid changes in environment during pursuit, evasion, or coordination." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202608/20260819-tag.gmi [22:19] TR News "Nobody neeeds to read this, so nobody's life but mine is worse if it doesn't work. Of course, if it does work I'll have another to smile. Which is nice." gemini://kunulo.smol.pub/first-cli-post [22:20] TR News "It pointed out, just how well, unsignificant the geminispace is compared to the big web. The chances of spambots and the likes hitting us here should just be so much smaller. And thus, I felt enbravent. ( I've used it, thus it's a real word now.)" gemini://kelaino.gemcities.com/gemlog/260819mails.gmi [22:21] TR News "There are 5229 capsules. We successfully connected recently to 3513 of them." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi [22:22] admfubar https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/08/19/1931220/music-publisher-round-hill-files-1-billion-copyright-infringement-suits-against-suno-anthropic [22:22] TR Bot Music Publisher Round Hill Files $1 Billion Copyright Infringement Suits Against Suno, Anthropic - Slashdot [22:24] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/a/5289701 [22:24] TR Bot Flock surveillance backlash mounts as fiendish Halloween plans circulate [22:40] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My bait strategy seems to be working. [22:40] IsambardPrince I told the property manager I used gel on th cabinet hinges where my cat can't get it. [22:40] IsambardPrince But for bait stations, I went expensive, cheap, expensive, cheap all through the house. The Advion is pro-grade but the Combat Max is cheaper and the poison kills them a different way. [22:41] IsambardPrince I want to make sure that roaches that can survive one can't survive them all. [22:41] IsambardPrince And the sticky traps will physically catch and hold many of the rest. [22:41] IsambardPrince You have to turn the place into a death trap for roaches. [22:42] IsambardPrince I don't think I've caught anything in like 4 days now. [22:42] IsambardPrince I'm not going to let up though. I'll be leaving most of the sticky trap emplacements and bait stations after I haven't seen any for a while. [22:45] TR News Techrights Firefox in Trouble in the US, Down to Lowest Level in 20+ Years https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Firefox_in_Trouble_in_the_US_Down_to_Lowest_Level_in_20_Years.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Firefox_in_Trouble_in_the_US_Down_to_Lowest_Level_in_20_Years.gmi [22:45] TR Bot Techrights Firefox in Trouble in the US, Down to Lowest Level in 20+ Years [22:51] IsambardPrince MinceR: These things remind me of that "It's a plant!" plant from SG-1 [22:52] IsambardPrince He flips off the light and Felger says "We already tried that, it seems that if any part of the plant is exposed to sunlight it feeds the rest." [22:52] MinceR Obvious Plant [22:54] bms Battlestar Galactica reference: Felgercarb. [22:55] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: https://old.reddit.com/r/tesco/comments/1vqse0c/tesco_handing_out_warnings_now_after_cutting_all/ [22:55] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit ● Aug 19 [23:04] TR News Focusing on the Past, Not the Future https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/focusing-on-the-past-not-the-future/ [23:04] TR Bot Blog Archive Focusing on the Past, Not the Future [23:06] TR News Not "cashless", "SERVICELESS" https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/25467946/asda-stores-going-cashless-petrol-stations/ [23:06] TR Bot Verifying Device [23:26] TR News Autumn Around the Corner Already https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/19/autumn-around-the-corner-already/ [23:26] TR Bot Blog Archive Autumn Around the Corner Already [23:27] TR News fear of everything gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/fear_of_everything [23:30] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 19/08/2026: "Big Boost in Autonomy" and "Answer of E-Mail" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Gemini_Links_19_08_2026_Big_Boost_in_Autonomy_and_Answer_of_E_M.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Gemini_Links_19_08_2026_Big_Boost_in_Autonomy_and_Answer_of_E_M.gmi [23:30] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 19/08/2026: "Big Boost in Autonomy" and "Answer of E-Mail"