●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, July 20, 2024 ●● ● Jul 20 [00:03] psydruid I mean they had to run more and more "critical" infrastructure on Backdoors [00:06] TR News "This collaboration aims to increase awareness and participation in SFD." https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-partners-with-digital-freedom-foundation-to-promote-software-freedom-day/ | Source: System76 [00:06] TR Bot System76 Press Release: Software Freedom Day - System76 Blog [00:06] TR News "While SQLite can be the perfect choice for many web applications" https://blog.pecar.me/sqlite-prod | [00:06] TR Bot Gotchas with SQLite in Production [00:07] TR News "Ive recorded a video covering the overall process described it." https://www.tumfatig.net/2024/openbsd-workstation-for-the-people/ | Source: TuMFatig [00:07] TR Bot TuM'Fatig - OpenBSD Workstation for the People [00:10] TR News (NEW): A new Windows alternative could launch on PCs later this year https://tuxmachines.org/n/2024/07/18/A_new_Windows_alternative_could_launch_on_PCs_later_this_year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/07/18/A_new_Windows_alternative_could_launch_on_PCs_later_this_year.gmi [00:10] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2024/07/18/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/07/18/today_s_howtos.1.gmi [00:10] TR Bot Tux Machines A new Windows alternative could launch on PCs later this year [00:10] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [00:12] IsambardPrince Wells Fargo used to run it on Solaris 8 and even that was more reliable than Microsoft Azure is now. [00:12] IsambardPrince I never had a problem logging in or with the account not available due to ransomware until Microsoft came in. [00:12] TR News Crowdstrike is Microsoft http://techrights.org/o/2015/05/14/venom-is-not-a-serious-bug-its-just-a-marketing-campaign-from-crowdstrike/ http://techrights.org/o/2015/05/14/venom-heartbleed-microsoft/ https://techrights.org/o/2022/02/02/security-perception-manipulation/ [00:12] TR Bot VENOM is Not a Serious Bug, It's Just a Marketing Campaign From CrowdStrike [00:12] TR Bot "VENOM" FUD Attack -- Like "Heartbleed" FUD Attack -- Linked to Microsoft [00:12] TR Bot Darkening the Counterpart's Reputation: Microsoft-Friendly (Sometimes Microsoft-Funded) Media Describing Every Security Issue -- Even Windows Issues -- as 'Linux' [00:12] IsambardPrince Like schestowitz[TR2] said. [00:13] IsambardPrince Everyone lost their mind and decided it would be cheaper to outsource. [00:20] TR News Seoul sanctions Hong Kong shipping firm over North Korea breach https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/hong-kong-shipping-sanction-07182024042645.html [00:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/hong-kong-shipping-sanction-07182024042645.html ) [00:21] TR News Rare video footage from North Korea shows people panning for gold https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/panning-for-gold-in-north-korea-07182024103701.html [00:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/panning-for-gold-in-north-korea-07182024103701.html ) [00:22] TR News Over 80% of Hongkongers think criticism of govt should be allowed, survey finds https://hongkongfp.com/2024/07/18/over-80-of-hongkongers-think-criticism-of-govt-should-be-allowed-survey-finds/ [00:22] TR Bot Over 80% of Hongkongers think criticism of gov't should be allowed [00:23] TR News Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong journalist who took up union role https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-wall-street-journal-selina-cheng-07182024114204.html [00:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/hong-kong-wall-street-journal-selina-cheng-07182024114204.html ) [00:24] MinceR https://pleated-jeans.com/2024/07/12/funny-midwest-memes-7-12-24/ [00:24] TR Bot 40 Funny Midwest Memes Straight Outta The Heartland (July 12, 2024) [00:26] TR News Free daily Metro now profitable after 2023 restructure https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/free-daily-metro-now-very-profitable-after-2023-restructure/ [00:26] TR Bot Free daily Metro now profitable after 2023 restructure - Press Gazette [00:26] TR News Newspaper ABCs: i circulation higher than Daily Star for first time https://pressgazette.co.uk/media-audience-and-business-data/media_metrics/most-popular-newspapers-uk-abc-monthly-circulation-figures-2/ [00:26] TR Bot Latest ABC UK newspaper circulations: Updated monthly [00:30] TR News TSMC tops quarterly expectations with 40% revenue growth https://siliconangle.com/2024/07/18/tsmc-tops-quarterly-expectations-40-revenue-growth/ [00:30] TR Bot tops quarterly expectations with 40% revenue growth - SiliconANGLE [00:33] TR News As Many South Koreans Shun Marriage, Two Women Try to Redefine Family https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/18/world/asia/south-korea-family.html [00:33] TR Bot As Many South Koreans Shun Marriage, Two Women Try to Redefine Family - The New York Times [00:34] TR News AMD's flagship Zen 5 desktop CPU impresses in new rendering benchmarks Ryzen 9 9950X outperforms Ryzen 9 7950X by 24% https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-flagship-zen-5-desktop-cpu-impresses-in-new-rendering-benchmarks [00:34] TR Bot AMD's flagship Zen 5 desktop CPU impresses in new rendering benchmarks Ryzen 9 9950X outperforms Ryzen 9 7950X by 24% | Tom's Hardware [00:37] TR News CrowdStrike = Microsoft people. Microsoft tries to throw someone else under the bus. Check who created CrowdStrike. [00:37] TR News "Microsoft right now." https://x.com/MattHighton/status/1814210407445201131 [00:37] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-x.com [00:39] TR News Microsoft-bribed media such as this one tries to shift the blame https://www.geekwire.com/2024/a-little-frightening-crowdstrike-outage-puts-microsofts-role-in-critical-infrastructure-back-in-the-spotlight/ [00:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2024/a-little-frightening-crowdstrike-outage-puts-microsofts-role-in-critical-infrastructure-back-in-the-spotlight/ ) [00:40] TR News No, it is Microsoft https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/19/what-we-know-about-crowdstrikes-update-fail-thats-causing-global-outages-and-travel-chaos/ [00:40] TR Bot we know about CrowdStrike's update fail that's causing global outages and travel chaos | TechCrunch [00:52] TR News Techrights Microsoft Lays Off Half of Its Workforce in Nigeria https://techrights.org/n/2024/07/19/Microsoft_Lays_Off_Half_of_Its_Workforce_in_Nigeria.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/07/19/Microsoft_Lays_Off_Half_of_Its_Workforce_in_Nigeria.gmi [00:52] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Lays Off Half of Its Workforce in Nigeria [00:52] *parsifal (~parsifal@6thegygyadsu4.irc) has joined #techrights [00:53] TR News "Is not that I'm going to do this *this year*, but I'm writing a note here so I can remember about it for 2025, perhaps." gemini://capsule.usebox.net/gemlog/20240719-old-computer-challenge.gmi [00:54] TR News SpellBinding: DGHOUSR Wordo: DOERS gemini://capsule.usebox.net/gemlog/20240719-old-computer-challenge.gmi [00:54] TR News SpellBinding: DGHOUSR Wordo: DOERS gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-07-19.gmi [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] TR News Rubbish gopher://dataswamp.org:70/1/~solene/article-cloud-gaming-xbox-luna [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl21-236-167.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:56] TR News Galatea gemini://thurk.org/blog/622.gmi [00:56] TR News Janet for Mortals gemini://whyread.us/en/computers/languages/henry--janet_for_mortals/chapter-01.gmi [00:57] TR News how to kill a ghost gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-07-19-how-to-kill-a-ghost.txt [00:58] TR News "I've complained before about not having enough to say[1], but recently I've run into an extremely specific version of this, which although not as much of an impediment in my life, is still quite annoying." gemini://axxuy.xyz/posts/2024/onestepshort.gmi [00:59] TR News "I have been living in Oslo for the past two years and there are many good things I can say about the city." gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~user18130814200115/posts/0022-oslos-public-transport-is-unfriendly-to-forgeiners.txt [00:59] TR News Project Typewriter 2.0 gopher://tilde.club:70/0/~user18130814200115/posts/0023-project-typewriter-2-0.txt ● Jul 20 [01:01] TR News "@sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social recently announced an IRC server with a self-signed certificate. What if you have an IRC client that keeps complaining about this? On a system like Debian, you can download the certificate and install it such that all applications trust it." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2024-07-19-self-signed [01:02] TR News Now down to 4.0%: "2517 (90.7 %) capsules are self-signed, 111 (4.0 %) use the Certificate Authority Let's Encrypt, 146 (5.3 %) are signed by another CA (may be not a trusted one)." gemini://gemini.bortzmeyer.org/software/lupa/stats.gmi [01:03] TR News Last day of the Old Computer Challenge 2024 gopher://box.matto.nl/0/last-day-of-the-old-computer-challenge-2024.txt [01:04] TR News cgNAT Blues gopher://thelambdalab.xyz:70/0/phlog/2024-06-16-cgNAT-blues.txt [01:04] TR News Bad AI gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~slugmax/phlog/2024-06-30-bad-ai [01:06] TR News Old Computer Challenge, 2024 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20240713-occ.txt [01:06] TR News Retro Workshop, Part 2 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jdd/phlog/20240707-workshop-2.txt [01:07] TR News