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[00:31]	IsambardPrince	American Express shut off my credit card and complained that they did not have a physical address for me.
[00:32]	IsambardPrince	It was just a nuisance. They're not the only game in town.
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● Feb 21
[01:17]	lxo	https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo/p/1771636347.746644 GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight
[01:17]	TR Bot	Oliva (@lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)
● Feb 21
[02:15]	admfubar	https://thenewstack.io/llm-database-context-mcp/
[02:15]	TR Bot	 How your LLM is silently hallucinating company revenue - The New Stack
[02:30]	admfubar	your slipped slip is showing... https://it.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/1559212/email-blunder-exposes-90-billion-russian-oil-smuggling-ring
[02:30]	TR Bot	 Email Blunder Exposes $90 Billion Russian Oil Smuggling Ring - Slashdot
[02:36]	MinceR	(cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/february-15-VuDkyT6
[02:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/february-15-VuDkyT6 )
[02:38]	admfubar	https://theeclipse.app/
[02:38]	TR Bot	 Your Eclipse Viewing Guide | The Eclipse App
[02:40]	MinceR	see also: Eclipse IDE; Mitsubishi Eclipse
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-200226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-200226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-200226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-200226.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 20, 2026
[02:47]	TR News	Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-200226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-200226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-200226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-200226.txt
[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 20, 2026
[02:48]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-200226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-200226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-200226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-200226.txt
[02:48]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 20, 2026
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-200226.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-200226.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-200226.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-200226.txt
[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, February 20, 2026
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-02-20.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-02-20.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
[02:50]	admfubar	https://petapixel.com/2026/02/19/with-sandisk-spun-off-wd-is-reviving-and-relaunching-the-g-drive-brand/
[02:50]	TR Bot	SanDisk Spun Off, WD is Reviving and Relaunching the G-Drive Brand | PetaPixel
[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-02-20.txt
[02:55]	admfubar	https://www.maketecheasier.com/scream-to-unlock-chrome-extension/
[02:55]	TR Bot	 I Spent Three Days Yelling at My Laptop to Gain Access to Social Media Here's What Happened - Make Tech Easier
[02:56]	MinceR	scream-o-vision
[02:57]	MinceR	> and it starts blocking [...] Reddit, [...] by default.
[02:57]	MinceR	> You can add custom sites such as Reddit,
[02:57]	MinceR	what?
● Feb 21
[03:01]	MinceR	> Your coworkers will think youre unhinged.
[03:01]	MinceR	and they'll be right!
[03:03]	admfubar	oh they already knew....
[03:03]	admfubar	https://www.discovermagazine.com/mysterious-virus-hiding-inside-common-gut-bacterium-linked-to-colorectal-cancer-48718
[03:03]	TR Bot	 Mysterious Virus Hiding Inside Common Gut Bacterium Linked to Colorectal Cancer | Discover Magazine
[03:09]	admfubar	https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Jobs-February-2026
[03:09]	TR Bot	Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack - Phoronix
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● Feb 21
[06:10]	TR News	iophk: I am not sure why they are pretending to be so obtuse, the message is crystal clear: https://yle.fi/a/74-20211291
[06:10]	TR Bot	 "We wonder if we're welcome here" Immigrant groups express uncertainty and anxiety over Finland's citizenship test | Yle News | Yle
[06:13]	TR News	worm fourth eve gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFourthEve
[06:14]	TR News	worm fifth day gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/wormFifth
[06:15]	TR News	gopherproxy.sh down again due to bot abuse gopher://gopher.zcrayfish.soy:70/1/phlog/20260221-gopherproxy-sh-down-again-due-to-bot-abuse
[06:15]	TR News	Producing garbage for the AI scrapers gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-02-20-garbage
[06:17]	TR News	"I am a crappy anarchist. I don't appreciate governments for the mass-scale murder and suffering (and to a lesser but tangible degree, corruption and lies) they cause and participate in. But I also don't feel a strong need to fight the State, as another and possibly worse State will take its place. As bad as things are where I am, I have personally witnessed much worse." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/stack/38259
[06:17]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-02-21.gmi
[06:18]	TR News	"If you laugh at the World of Warcraft German teenager, you need to face the fact that youre (probably) laughing at an autistic teenager." gemini://tilde.pink/~oce/en/internet-social-network.gmi
[06:19]	TR News	"Misfin B has also not been updated in almost three whole years; for what it's worth, the site hosting Misfin's original specification is still up, but the server's certificate expired some time in 2024." gemini://gemini.iikorni.space/log/20260221-misfin.gmi
[06:20]	TR News	"The dividers can be replaced by two coefficient potentiometers. However, since both potentiometers would be representing the same input mass then I have to make sure those two potentiometers are always set to the same ratio." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260220-0.gmi
[06:21]	TR News	"Some TLS libraries like OpenSSL are able to initiate Kernel TLS automatically when it's available, however it is difficult to configure OpenSSL to _*require*_ Kernel TLS. It's also appealing to be able to use a smaller TLS library like BearSSL. However, BearSSL has no support for Kernel TLS. They must be bridged manually." gemini://jeffrey.cam/log/bearssl_ktls.gmi
[06:22]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1567.jpg
[06:22]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1923.jpg
[06:26]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 21/02/2026: "The Evil of Action" and Slop Bots Causing Great Harm Online (Not Just the Web) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Gemini_Links_21_02_2026_The_Evil_of_Action_and_Slop_Bots_Causin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Gemini_Links_21_02_2026_The_Evil_of_Action_and_Slop_Bots_Causin.gmi 
[06:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 21/02/2026: "The Evil of Action" and Slop Bots Causing Great Harm Online (Not Just the Web)
[06:28]	TR News	Xbox's new chief content officer Matt Booty says "there are no organizational changes underway".... HAHA!!! Except laying off ALL the leadership!! But "no organizational changes"... firing the managers... that' NOTHING!
[06:29]	TR News	"content officer"... let that sink in. They now throw XBox in the "HEY HI" bucket.
[06:29]	TR News	Media = parrots. Anything Microsoft says, it'll repeat.
[06:30]	TR News	"whoa, don't tell them the secret to success ... you have to fork over a fortune to an ivy league school to learn that ... 101 ways to commit financial fraud" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhc3y9q
[06:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khhc3y9q )
[06:32]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 20, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_February_20_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_February_20_2026.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 20, 2026
[06:32]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[06:32]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
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[06:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  "GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/_GNU_Linux_libre_turns_18_tonight.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/_GNU_Linux_libre_turns_18_tonight.gmi 
[06:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines "GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight"
[06:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	<lxo> https://snac.lx.oliva.nom.br/lxo/p/1771636347.746644 GNU Linux-libre turns 18 tonight
[06:42]	TR Bot	Oliva (@lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)
[06:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	thanks for your devotion
[06:42]	TR News	Techrights GNU Linux-libre is a Grown-Up Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/GNU_Linux_libre_is_a_Grown_Up_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/GNU_Linux_libre_is_a_Grown_Up_Today.gmi 
[06:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU Linux-libre is a Grown-Up Today
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[06:44]	TR News	Copyrights issue: "The plaintiffs seek injunctive relief, saying Google needs to be transparent when it tries to use copyrighted work, and ask for owners consent before use." https://www.courthousenews.com/authors-illustrators-push-for-copyright-owner-class-in-case-against-google-ai/ | Source: Court House News
[06:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/authors-illustrators-push-for-copyright-owner-class-in-case-against-google-ai/ )
[06:44]	TR News	"Despite fighting an existential war against Russia, Ukraine continues to make progress in the fight against online piracy." https://torrentfreak.com/ukraine-paves-the-way-for-pirate-site-blocking-despite-ongoing-war/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[06:44]	TR Bot	Paves the Way for Pirate Site Blocking, Despite Ongoing War * TorrentFreak
[06:44]	TR News	"an interesting thing happened: a private company that manages Trumps intellectual [sic] property [sic] licensing filed for trademarks" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/trump-wants-an-airport-renamed-after-him-while-his-company-trademarks-those-same-names/ | Source: Techdirt
[06:44]	TR Bot	Wants An Airport Renamed After Him While His Company Trademarks Those Same Names | Techdirt
[06:45]	TR News	"This post is not about debating the larger legitimacy of gun control." https://michaelweinberg.org/blog/2026/02/04/3d-printer-gun-screen/ | Source: Michael Weinberg
[06:45]	TR Bot	 3D Printers Cannot Effectively Screen for Gun Parts Michael Weinberg
[06:45]	TR News	"significant technical skill" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/stupidity-on-steroids-three-u-s-states-want-your-3d-printer-to-snitch-on-what-you-print.html | Source: BoingBoing
[06:45]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/stupidity-on-steroids-three-u-s-states-want-your-3d-printer-to-snitch-on-what-you-print.html )
[06:45]	TR News	"In addition, manufacturers are pivoting towards consumer hardware subscriptions, where you never own the hardware and in the most dystopian trajectory, consumers might not buy any hardware at all" https://xn--gckvb8fzb.com/hold-on-to-your-hardware/ | Source: 
[06:45]	TR Bot	 . Hold on to Your Hardware
[06:46]	TR News	"Open tends to get thrown around a lot when talking about the Internet: Open Source, Open Standards, Open APIs." https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/20/open_systems | Source: Mark Nottingham
[06:46]	TR Bot	 The Internet Isnt Facebook: How Openness Changes Everything
[06:46]	TR News	"Logical Dominance" https://kmcd.dev/posts/internet-map-2026/ | Source: Kevin McDonald
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Visualizing the Internet (2026)
[06:47]	TR News	"Ruben Ray Martinez was killed during a traffic stop on South Padre Island in Texas last March, several outlets, citing documents obtained by nonprofit watchdog American Oversight" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ruben-ray-martinez-ice-shooting-good-pretti-b2924800.html | Source: The Independent UK
[06:47]	TR Bot	 Another American citizen was shot dead by ICE months before deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, records show | The Independent
[06:47]	TR News	"European settlers" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-grok-america-stolen-land | Source: Futurism
[06:47]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk Boasts That Grok Says America Isn't Built on Stolen Land, Which It Obviously Is
[06:48]	TR News	"That is why we, joined by the ACLU of Northern California, have asked several large tech platforms to do more to protect their users, including: [...]" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/open-letter-to-tech-companies-protect-your-users-from-lawless-dhs-subpoenas/ | Source: Techdirt
[06:48]	TR Bot	Letter To Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas | Techdirt
[06:48]	TR News	"Ready for this? $432. Per hour." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-if-the-typical-workers-pay-had | Source: Robert Reich
[06:48]	TR Bot	 What if the typical worker's pay had risen like CEO salaries?
[06:49]	TR News	"Thats when it fully clicked: this is what independent journalism looks like now. Agile. Embedded. Uncomfortable. Sometimes frightening. Often lonely. And absolutely essential." https://www.lonestarlive.com/palabra/2026/02/trump-mass-deportation-a-journalists-fear-from-the-inside.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
[06:49]	TR Bot	mass deportation: A journalists fear from the inside - lonestarlive.com
[06:50]	TR News	"Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr joked that Stephen Colbert had been prevented from airing an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico" https://www.rawstory.com/brendan-carr-stephen-colbert-maga/ | Source: Raw Story
[06:50]	TR Bot	 FCC chair makes wishful joke about Stephen Colbert: 'These are MAGA airwaves now' - Raw Story
[06:50]	TR News	"An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit." https://www.404media.co/man-opposing-data-center-arrested-for-speaking-slightly-too-long/ | Source: 404 Media
[06:50]	TR Bot	 Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long
[06:50]	TR News	"One or two guys spoke in favor of it, they let one of those guys go over several seconds, probably 20, 30 seconds, really said nothing about him going over but when Darren Blanchard did it" https://ktul.com/news/local/community-activist-arrested-at-data-center-meeting-in-claremore | Source: Sinclair Inc
[06:50]	TR Bot	 Community activist arrested at data center meeting in Claremore
[06:50]	TR News	"Under the rule, USCIS will collect social media handles and messaging app information from individuals applying to change their immigration status, and may also request information from their family members." https://truthout.org/articles/uscis-aims-to-expand-social-media-surveillance-of-immigrants-and-us-citizens/ | Source: TruthOut
[06:50]	TR Bot	 USCIS Aims to Expand Social Media Surveillance of Immigrants and US Citizens | Truthout
[06:51]	TR News	"The suit alleges that Bondi and Noem coerced Facebook into disabling the group and coerced Apple into pulling the app from its App Store, in direct violation of the First Amendment. Because, you know, government officials calling social media companies and demanding they remove content is bad." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/bondi-bragged-about-forcing-facebook-to-censor-speech-now-fire-is-suing/ | Source: Techdirt
[06:51]	TR Bot	Bragged About Forcing Facebook To Censor Speech. Now FIRE Is Suing. | Techdirt
[06:51]	TR News	"The complaint lays out a fairly astonishing abuse of government power. Lets start with the Civil Investigative Demand (fancy term for a subpoena) the FTC sent to NewsGuard last May." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/20/newsmax-didnt-like-its-newsguard-rating-so-the-ftc-attacked-newsguard-and-now-newsguard-is-suing/ | Source: Techdirt
[06:51]	TR Bot	Didnt Like Its NewsGuard Rating, So The FTC Attacked NewsGuard, And Now NewsGuard Is Suing | Techdirt
[06:52]	TR News	"The European Commissions fine in December was the first-ever penalty under the blocs Digital Services Act (DSA)" https://therecord.media/musk-x-appeal-europe-fine | Source: The Record
[06:52]	TR Bot	 Musk and X launch legal appeal against EUs record 120 million fine | The Record from Recorded Future News
[06:52]	TR News	"directed the removal or flagging" https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/outside-magazines-list-of-nps-signs-altered-by-the-trump-administration.html | Source: BoingBoing
[06:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/outside-magazines-list-of-nps-signs-altered-by-the-trump-administration.html )
● Feb 21
[07:02]	TR News	"I think Ive been listening to the pessimists too much. Its true that some things are bad, and Ive blogged about many of them, but the only way out is hope." https://www.manton.org/2026/02/19/pessimism.html | Source: Manton Reece
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Manton Reece - Pessimism
[07:02]	TR News	"Beloved British single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi has achieved meme stock stardom, as its share price surged 90 percent over the course of a couple of days earlier this week." https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/raspberry_pi_meme_stock_disorder/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:02]	TR Bot	 Using a Raspberry Pi to run OpenClaw makes no sense The Register
[07:02]	TR News	"Metas biggest election investment aims to prevent state legislation that it fears could inhibit artificial intelligence development. Its spending starts this week in Texas and Illinois." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/meta-65-million-election-ai.html | Source: New York Times
[07:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/meta-65-million-election-ai.html )
[07:03]	TR News	"Crime is legal" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/epstein-maga-trump-morals/ | Source: The Nation
[07:03]	TR Bot	 MAGAs Reaction to the Epstein Files Reveals Total Moral Collapse | The Nation
[07:10]	TR News	"Skeptics, however, are far more pessimistic about Bitcoins chances in the long run, saying the [cryptocurrency] has lost its way" https://futurism.com/future-society/concern-bitcoin-value-destroyed | Source: Futurism
[07:10]	TR Bot	 Concern Grows That Bitcoin's Value Could Be Entirely Destroyed
[07:10]	TR News	"But Evan, no one needs to own a gun, but we all need to own cars." https://darthmall.net/notes/2026/subaru-part-of-the-problem/ | Source: W Evan Sheehan
[07:10]	TR Bot	 Subaru: Be Part of the Problem - Evan Sheehan
[07:10]	TR News	"With Trump faltering and their policy agenda incomplete" https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-super-pacs-2026-midterms/ | Source: Molly White
[07:10]	TR Bot	 Crypto super PACs have hundreds of millions ready to spend on the midterms
[07:11]	TR News	"Jeffrey Epsteins interest in Vladimir Putin is well documented in the files released by the U.S. Justice Department in late January" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/02/21/ex-microsoft-executive-nathan-myhrvold-told-jeffrey-epstein-he-hosted-putin-s-wife-and-daughter-on-his-superyacht | Source: Meduza
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Ex-Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold told Jeffrey Epstein he hosted Putins wife and daughter on his superyacht Meduza
[07:11]	TR News	"Inadvertently, this inside view has reaffirmed what incarcerated journalists have long reported: rampant deprivation of basic human necessities" https://truthout.org/articles/journalists-jailed-by-ice-are-revealing-the-horrors-of-incarceration/ | Source: TruthOut
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Journalists Jailed by ICE Are Revealing the Horrors of Incarceration | Truthout
[07:14]	TR News	microsoft layoffs happening, XBox replaced by slop to pretend it is not dead
[07:14]	TR News	they call it "coreAI", which is a fiction, a shell
[07:17]	TR News	"Blue states would have a major tool to push back. Whether they would use it is less clear." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/20/repub/as-trump-pushes-voting-restrictions-states-have-a-rarely-used-option-to-push-back/ | Source: Michigan Advance
[07:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/02/20/repub/as-trump-pushes-voting-restrictions-states-have-a-rarely-used-option-to-push-back/ )
[07:17]	TR News	"Many discussions of inequality in America fail to grapple with the way we have become an oligarchy" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-rich-are-different-from | Source: Paul Krugman
[07:17]	TR Bot	 The Ultra-Rich Are Different from You and Me
[07:18]	TR News	"I dont talk about big A in this guide. I have no idea what the deal is vis--vis security, privacy or anonymity when it comes to the fruit company." https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2022/03/guide-privacy/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz
[07:18]	TR Bot	Friction Introduction to Digital Privacy | BobbyHiltz.com
[07:19]	TR News	"Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup thats used by Discord for biometric identity verification and found a Persona frontend exposed to the open [Internet] on a US government authorized server." https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/ | Source: The Rage
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
[07:20]	TR News	"My daughter just got asked by Roblox to prove her age with a photo. Her account is managed by me through parent controls where I have already set her age. I did not authorise Roblox taking a photo of my child. Im not impressed." https://superdavey.com/posts/roblox-age-verification | Source: Superdavey
[07:20]	TR Bot	age verification - Superdavey
[07:20]	TR News	Arizona Age Verification Bill https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/02/20/arizona-age-verification-bill/ | Source: Michael Tsai
[07:20]	TR Bot	 Michael Tsai - Blog - Arizona Age Verification Bill
[07:21]	TR News	"As Hamilton Nolan advises, remove your Ring doorbell." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/ring-cancels-its-partnership-with-flock.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
[07:21]	TR Bot	Cancels Its Partnership with Flock - Schneier on Security
[07:21]	TR News	"Though that might sound pretty tame on paper, there are some unsettling implications that could arise from this feature." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3003806/microsoft-teams-will-soon-snitch-on-your-location-to-your-organization.html | Source: PC World
[07:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3003806/microsoft-teams-will-soon-snitch-on-your-location-to-your-organization.html )
[07:24]	TR News	"The agency is asking private biometric contractors how to build a unified platform that would let employees search faces and fingerprints across large government databases already filled with biometrics gathered in different contexts." https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-wants-a-single-search-engine-to-flag-faces-and-fingerprints-across-agencies/ | Source: Wired
[07:24]	TR Bot	Wants a Single Search Engine to Flag Faces and Fingerprints Across Agencies | WIRED
[07:25]	TR News	"Rackspace Technology, a hybrid multicloud and AI solutions company, and Palantir Technologies Inc." https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/rackspace-and-palantir-partner-to-run-foundry-and-aip-in-production-with-governed-managed-operations.html | Source: IT Wire
[07:25]	TR Bot	- Rackspace and Palantir Partner to Run Foundry and AIP in Production with Governed Managed Operations
[07:25]	TR News	"Discord's push towards mandatory age verification had already drawn sharp criticism before this incident." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/discord-age-verification-security-breach-1780591 | Source: International Business Times
[07:25]	TR Bot	 Hackers Expose Discord Age Verification System Issue After Persona Frontend Code Left Wide Open | IBTimes UK
[07:28]	TR News	"To be clear: Geek Squad is Best Buys legitimate tech support service, but scammers exploit its good reputation to deceive their victims." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/how-to-spot-a-geek-squad-scam-email/ | Source: PIA
[07:28]	TR Bot	 Geek Squad Email Scam: How to Spot It and What to Do
[07:28]	TR News	"Most phishing websites are little more than static copies of login pages for popular online destinations" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/starkiller-phishing-service-proxies-real-login-pages-mfa/ | Source: Krebs On Security
[07:28]	TR Bot	 Starkiller Phishing Service Proxies Real Login Pages, MFA Krebs on Security
[07:29]	TR News	Privatisation https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-report-reveals-the-failures-that-left-two-astronauts-stranded-on-the-international-space-station-180988233/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[07:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-report-reveals-the-failures-that-left-two-astronauts-stranded-on-the-international-space-station-180988233/ )
[07:29]	TR News	"NASA administrator Jared Isaacman copped to leadership failures across the org during a press conference on Thursday" https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/19/nasa_starliner_blame/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:29]	TR Bot	 NASA says Boeing, leadership to blame for Starliner The Register
[07:30]	TR News	Windows TCO: "The closure affects all 35 of the University of Mississippi Medical Centers health clinics, which provide a range of care to patients from cancer treatment to chronic-pain management" https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/cyberattack-closes-clinics-mississippi | Source: CNN
[07:30]	TR Bot	 Major cyberattack forces closure of clinics across Mississippi | CNN Politics
[07:33]	TR News	Windows TCO: "University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) has temporarily closed most of its clinics following a ransomware attack" https://www.hipaajournal.com/ummc-ransomware-attack/ | Source: HIPAA
[07:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.hipaajournal.com/ummc-ransomware-attack/ )
[07:34]	TR News	Windows TCO: "University officials warned that the shutdown could continue for days as they try to evaluate the extent of the attack, including whether patients sensitive information was compromised" https://apnews.com/article/cyberattack-university-mississippi-clinics-hospital-4b27a578a5e095c5a7d25c90768a5312 | Source: Associated Press
[07:34]	TR Bot	 Mississippi hospital system closes all clinics after ransomware attack | AP News
[07:34]	TR News	Windows TCO: "Emergency services are still available at UMMC, with downtime protocols in effect." https://www.mississippifreepress.org/university-of-mississippi-medical-center-hit-by-ransomware-attack-closes-clinics-and-cancels-services/ | Source: Mississippi Journalism and Education Group
[07:34]	TR Bot	 University of Mississippi Medical Center Hit by Ransomware Attack
[07:35]	TR News	"ActivityPub is a federated protocol used by public houses in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland for announcing scheduled events, drink promotions" https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/20/activitypub.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[07:35]	TR Bot	 ActivityPub | Andrew Nesbitt
[07:35]	TR News	"At the end of the day, the business goal of GenAI is to boost monopolist profits by eliminating decent jobs, and damn the consequences." https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/16/GenAI-and-OSS-opinion | Source: Tim Bray
[07:35]	TR Bot	 ongoing by Tim Bray Open Source and GenAI?
[07:36]	TR News	"The person behind MJ Rathbun has anonymously come forward." https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/ | Source: Scott Shambaugh
[07:36]	TR Bot	 An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me The Operator Came Forward The Shamblog
[07:44]	TR News	"A lot of people may already work for very little, but Artificial Intelligence never does." https://emptywheel.net/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-five/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
[07:44]	TR Bot	 What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Five) - emptywheel
[07:45]	TR News	"It still just statistically picks a next word, the next symbol, though with more parameters than it used to. This fine tunes the answer more, but it still cant tell what is true or useful, it still isnt thinking like a living being. AI still doesnt know in a human way."
[07:45]	TR News	Yesterday, Dependabot opened thousands of PRs against unaffected repositories to update filippo.io/edwards25519. These PRs were accompanied by a security alert with a nonsensical, made up CVSS v4 score and by a worrying 73% compatibility score" https://words.filippo.io/dependabot/ | Source: Filippo Valsorda
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Turn Dependabot Off
[07:45]	TR News	"Pitch Us Freelance Yes it is. It is still exactly as simple as it sounds." https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/ | Source: Aftermath Site LLC
[07:45]	TR Bot	 The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited
[07:46]	TR News	"If Im doing math billions of times that doesnt make the base process somehow more substantial. Its still math, still a machine designed to predict the next token without being able to reason, meaning that yes, they are just fancy pattern-matching machines."
[07:46]	TR News	"The previous outage used Amazons old Q vibe coder, not the new Kiro vibe coder." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/20/amazon-web-services-vibe-codes-itself-an-outage-or-two/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Them- selves, and therefore the more I love new clothes, I love new.
[07:46]	TR News	"When you ask the chatbot for a strong password, it doesnt generate a password it picks example patterns of random passwords from its training." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/19/ai-vibe-generates-the-same-random-passwords-over-and-over/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[07:46]	TR Bot	 Labelled as.
[07:47]	TR News	"There is a historic data center buildup going on to fuel this bubble, and what used to be reliable, cheap and boring parts have shot through the roof price wise." https://aftermath.site/ram-prices-hdd-prices-ai-bubble-computer-expensive/ | Source: Aftermath Site LLC
[07:47]	TR Bot	 Im Tired Of These Useless Jackasses Making The Computer Expensive
[07:47]	TR News	"But theres a bigger, more disturbing issue at play. Will government demands for military use make AI itself less safe?" https://www.wired.com/story/backchannel-anthropic-dispute-with-the-pentagon/ | Source: Wired
[07:47]	TR Bot	Safety Meets the War Machine | WIRED
[07:47]	TR News	"Controversy over the chatbot Grok escalated rapidly through the early weeks of 2026." https://theconversation.com/the-furore-over-groks-sexualised-images-has-begun-an-ai-reckoning-275448 | Source: The Conversation
[07:47]	TR Bot	 The furore over Groks sexualised images has begun an AI reckoning
[07:48]	TR News	"Doctrine development has historically been a time consuming and tedious process that stretches years, and officials are looking to speed it up by incorporating AI into the writing process, the Army said." https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/02/20/army-using-ai-to-update-doctrine/ | Source: Sightline Media Group
[07:48]	TR Bot	 Army using AI to update doctrine
[07:52]	TR News	"We recently introduced a policy governing large language model (LLM) assisted contributions to EFF's open-source projects." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/effs-policy-llm-assisted-contributions-our-open-source-projects | Source: EFF
[07:52]	TR Bot	 EFFs Policy on LLM-Assisted Contributions to Our Open-Source Projects | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[07:52]	TR News	"In a new analysis of a survey published by the National Bureau of Economic Research and highlighted by Fortune, around 90 percent of the nearly 6,000 interviewed CEOs" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/survey-ceos-ai-workplace | Source: Futurism
[07:52]	TR Bot	 A Huge Survey of CEOs and Other Execs Just Found Something Damning About AI's Effects on Productivity
[07:53]	TR News	"A few weeks ago, after going to FOSDEM, I finally decided to move away from Cloudflare. Thats something that has been on my mind for quite a while, but I guess the law of inertia was keeping me from doing it" https://hacdias.com/2026/02/20/cloudflare/ | Source: Henrique Dias
[07:53]	TR Bot	 Moving Away From Cloudflare - Henrique Dias
[07:53]	TR News	"I love seeing new approaches to things, so I bought Terry Godier's new RSS app, Current, which is designed in a way meant to avoid the sense of obligation around unread articles." https://baty.blog/trying-current-a-new-rss-reader | Source: Jack Baty
[07:53]	TR Bot	 Trying Current, a new RSS reader - Jack Baty
[07:53]	TR News	"Like many in the early days, I used a ton of Google services over the years. But recently with all the news about what information Google has been giving to the Government, I decided to get rid of all of my other Google stuff and just keep YouTube." https://jarunmb.com/posts/just-youtube-now | Source: MB
[07:54]	TR Bot	Just YouTube Now - jarunmb.com
[07:54]	TR News	"E-commerce hub Shopify and file transfer service Dropbox were also affected by the November outage." https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/cloudflare-outage-down-disruption-b2924706.html | Source: The Independent UK
[07:54]	TR Bot	 Cloudflare outage causes service disruptions with users reporting issues | The Independent
[07:55]	TR News	"The farmer was offered $60,000 per acre to build a data center on his property. But giving up his family legacy wasnt in the cards for him." https://futurism.com/future-society/farmer-hero-rejecting-payment-data-center | Source: Futurism
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Farmer Hailed as Hero for Rejecting Huge Payment to Turn His Land Into a Giant Data Center
[07:55]	TR News	"digital casino" https://gregmorris.co.uk/social-media-health-warnings/ | Source: Greg Morris
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Social Media Health Warnings
[07:56]	TR News	"When the ban went into effect in August, each student received a pouch with their name on it. Immediately, says O'Neil, students began finding hacks to get around the system." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5675979 | Source: NPR
[07:56]	TR Bot	 What worked and what didn't with a cellphone ban at a Kentucky school
[07:57]	TR News	"But theres one more show to go for me, and were gonna blow it out" https://blast-o-rama.com/2026/02/20/i-say-so-long-and-farewell-to-super-art-fight-march-28th/ | Source: Marty Day
[07:57]	TR Bot	Say So Long And Farewell to Super Art Fight, March 28th blast-o-rama.
[07:58]	TR News	[Old] "The similarities between his fictional corporate and my everyday reality is just too eerie for words sometimeslike this strip, for instance: [...]" https://taoofmac.com/space/corporate/dilbert | Source: Rui Carmo
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Dilbert - Tao of Mac
[07:58]	TR News	"Thats because, even though Congress appears unwilling to totally destroy the NIH" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nih-research-cuts-trump/ | Source: The Nation
[07:58]	TR Bot	 The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves | The Nation
[07:58]	TR News	"A union find variant I think is simple and interesting is the weighted union find." https://www.philipzucker.com/weighted_uf/ | Source: Philip Zucker
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Weighted Union Find and Ground Knuth Bendix Completion | Hey There Buddo!
[07:59]	TR News	"According to reports, which are being understandably kept high-level to avoid copycats, the attack did not meddle with the price displayed on the hotel booking site" https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/spanish-police-say-they-have-arrested-hacker-who-booked-luxury-hotel-rooms-for-just-one-cent | Source: Bitdefender
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Spanish police say they have arrested hacker who booked luxury hotel rooms for just one cent
[07:59]	TR News	"I built Wayback Link Preserver to do something about it, specifically for Micro.blog." https://gunnar.se/2026/02/21/introducing-wayback-link-preserver-for.html | Source: Gunnar
[07:59]	TR Bot	Wayback Link Preserver for Micro.blog | gunnar.se
● Feb 21
[08:00]	TR News	"True or false? Your green laser pointer is more powerful than your red one. The answer is almost certainly false." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/displaying-the-rainbow/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:00]	TR Bot	The Rainbow | Hackaday
[08:02]	TR News	Techrights Links 21/02/2026: "Moving Away From Cloudflare", Many Layoffs or Shutdowns in Games (Including XBox/Microsoft) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Links_21_02_2026_Moving_Away_From_Cloudflare_Many_Layoffs_or_Sh.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Links_21_02_2026_Moving_Away_From_Cloudflare_Many_Layoffs_or_Sh.gmi 
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 21/02/2026: "Moving Away From Cloudflare", Many Layoffs or Shutdowns in Games (Including XBox/Microsoft)
[08:04]	TR News	Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/turn-recipes-into-huge-cooking-production-lines-in-the-new-snacktorio-demo/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:04]	TR Bot	recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo | GamingOnLinux
[08:05]	TR News	Truly horrinle advice made to boost a Ponzi scheme https://probably.co.uk/posts/ai-prompting-for-early-careers/
[08:05]	TR Bot	 Using LLMs in early stage careers
[08:06]	TR News	iophk: mistakes Microsoft GitHub for being important or useful https://source.opennews.org/articles/journalism-lost-sharing-culture/
[08:06]	TR Bot	 Journalism lost its culture of sharing - Features - Source: An OpenNews project
[08:07]	TR News	"Activity on GitHub has cratered. In 2016, news organizations posted more than 2,000 public projects to the code-sharing site. Last year, that number slumped below 400, an 80% decline." https://source.opennews.org/articles/journalism-lost-sharing-culture/
[08:08]	TR News	Anon: spin, see: 404 Media instead https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/arrest-made-during-heated-claremore-meeting-over-proposed-data-center
[08:08]	TR Bot	made during heated Claremore meeting over proposed data center - Newson6.com
[08:08]	TR News	MIT takes Microsoft bribes for propaganda such as this https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/19/1133360/microsoft-has-a-new-plan-to-prove-whats-real-and-whats-ai-online/
[08:08]	TR Bot	 Microsoft has a new plan to prove whats real and whats AI online | MIT Technology Review
[08:09]	TR News	UK: Age limit for VPNs, part 2 | "UK: ldersgrns fr VPN, del 2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/02/20/uk-aldersgrans-for-vpn-del-2/
[08:09]	TR Bot	 UK: ldersgrns fr VPN, del 2
[08:10]	TR News	Going in the WRONG direction: "Converting a bunch of HTML files to DOCX using batch processing DSPACE" https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2026/02/20/converting-a-bunch-of-html-files-to-docx-automatically/
[08:10]	TR Bot	 Converting a bunch of HTML files to DOCX using batch processing DSPACE
[08:11]	TR News	"Discord Will Be Used To Spy On You https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/discord-will-be-used-to-spy-on-you:d Sompi
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Discord Will Be Used To Spy On You
[08:12]	TR News	The Wolf Among Us, The Last Express and more join the GOG Preservation Program | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/the-wolf-among-us-the-last-express-and-more-join-the-gog-preservation-program/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:12]	TR Bot	Wolf Among Us, The Last Express and more join the GOG Preservation Program | GamingOnLinux
[08:14]	TR News	MOUSE: P.I. For Hire looks awesome in the new boss trailer | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mouse-p-i-for-hire-looks-awesome-in-the-new-boss-trailer/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/mouse-p-i-for-hire-looks-awesome-in-the-new-boss-trailer/
[08:14]	TR Bot	P.I. For Hire looks awesome in the new boss trailer | GamingOnLinux
[08:24]	TR News	It's now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/its-now-easier-to-install-mgshdfix-for-metal-gear-games-on-linux-steam-deck/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:24]	TR Bot	now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux
[08:25]	TR News	"Suppose, not hypothetically, that you have a program that optionally takes a time in the past to, for example, report on things as of that time instead of as of right now" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/HoursMinutesToTime | Source: University of Toronto
[08:25]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[08:26]	TR News	"Haskell binaries can get quite large (think ~100MB), especially for projects with many transitive dependencies. Here are two strategies that can help at link time, the latter being more experimental." https://brandon.si/code/linking-smaller-haskell-binaries/ | Source: Brandon Simmons
[08:26]	TR Bot	 Linking Smaller Haskell Binaries | Brandon Simmons' website
[08:26]	TR News	"In 2017, WikiLeaks published Vault7" https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branches-a-one-liner-from-the-cias-leaked-dev-docs.html | Source: Spencer Lloyd DixoLloyd Dixon
[08:26]	TR Bot	up merged git branches: a one-liner from the CIA's leaked dev docs | spencer.wtf
[08:27]	TR News	"I procrastinated a long time, but I finally migrated my self-hosted Git instance from Gitea to Forgejo. I still dont know how to pronounce it, but its maintained by Codeberg e.V., where Im also a member." https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/02/hey-forgejo | Source: Jan-Lukas Else
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Bye Gitea, hey Forgejo! - Jan-Lukas Else
[08:27]	TR News	"A little piece about dealing with security providers and clearing my side project's reputation after a false positive flagging." https://trysound.io/how-my-side-project-got-banned-from-the-internet/ | Source: Bogdan Chadkin
[08:27]	TR Bot	 How my side project got banned from the internet | Bogdan Chadkin
[08:27]	TR News	"I generally use OWASP SAMM as a framework to measure what needs to be done (sticking largely to the Design, Implementation & Verification functions), but it boils down to a number of phases to raise the bar: [...]" https://neilmadden.blog/2026/02/20/looking-for-vulnerabilities-is-the-last-thing-i-do/ | Source: Niel Madden
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Looking for vulnerabilities is the last thing I do Neil Madden
[08:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  You can control your Linux PC from your Android phone - here's how https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/You_can_control_your_Linux_PC_from_your_Android_phone_here_s_ho.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/You_can_control_your_Linux_PC_from_your_Android_phone_here_s_ho.gmi 
[08:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines You can control your Linux PC from your Android phone - here's how
[08:29]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu kernel 6.8.0-100-generic has buggy networking https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Ubuntu_kernel_6_8_0_100_generic_has_buggy_networking.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Ubuntu_kernel_6_8_0_100_generic_has_buggy_networking.gmi 
[08:29]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu kernel 6.8.0-100-generic has buggy networking
[08:33]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_6_is_Here.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/This_Week_in_Plasma_6_6_is_Here.gmi 
[08:33]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here!
[08:39]	TR News	"When I decided to build my startup on European infrastructure, I thought it would be a straightforward swap. Ditch AWS, pick some EU providers, done. How hard could it be?" https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/ | Source: Coinerella
[08:39]	TR Bot	 "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought.
[08:40]	TR News	"So, physical music stores have been my first source for buying music to own." https://yordi.me/how-i-built-my-own-music-streaming-setup/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost
[08:40]	TR Bot	 How I Built My Own Music Streaming Setup | Yordi - A Lifelong Journey of Growth
[08:40]	TR News	"Meetups were held in Brazil, Canada, the Canary Islands of Spain, China, Croatia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, France, Germany, Greece, India, Iran, Kenya, Poland, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/librelocal-2026-is-in-may-start-organizing-meetups | Source: FSF
[08:40]	TR Bot	 LibreLocal 2026 is in May: Start organizing meetups we'll help Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
[08:41]	TR News	"If you're looking to become involved in PostgreSQL development and have a chance to interact with senior hackers, this event might be for you!" https://rhaas.blogspot.com/2026/02/hacking-workshop-for-march-2026.html | Source: Robert Haas
[08:41]	TR Bot	 Robert Haas: Hacking Workshop for March 2026
[08:44]	TR News	"The really big issue was when I went to check updates page within the WordPress Admin panel and was met with an error page. Hm." https://troypatterson.me/2026/02/20/bluehost-blues/ | Source: Troy Patterson
[08:44]	TR Bot	 Bluehost Blues - Troy Patterson
[08:46]	TR News	"As of this commit it looks like they've changed their mind: [...]" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/19/ladybird/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
[08:46]	TR Bot	 LadybirdBrowser/ladybird: Abandon Swift adoption
[08:46]	TR News	"I only have a moment to gush today, so Ill cut right to it." https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/02/dillo-appreciation/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz
[08:46]	TR Bot	Dillo Appreciation Post | BobbyHiltz.com
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[08:47]	TR News	"Especially in 2026" https://medv.io/blog/your-personal-blog-should-have-comments | Source: Anton Medvedev
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Your Personal Blog Should Have Comments
[08:47]	TR News	[Old] "Explore why Google search may feel worse, why it isnt necessarily worse, and how shifting dynamics shape the search experience." https://searchengineland.com/is-google-really-getting-worse-actually-its-complicated-455079?ref=gregmorris.co.uk | Source: Third Door Media LLC
[08:47]	TR Bot	( status 502 @ https://searchengineland.com/is-google-really-getting-worse-actually-its-complicated-455079?ref=gregmorris.co.uk )
[08:47]	TR News	"Googles search results are now so bad that appending reddit to every query has become a mainstream coping strategy." https://gregmorris.co.uk/letting-go-of-the-old-web/ | Source: Greg Morris
[08:47]	TR Bot	 Letting Go Of The Old Web
[08:47]		*openJ (~sid276354@nuh3iep92zvge.irc) has joined #techrights
[08:47]	TR News	[Old] "Abstract Many users of web search engines have been complaining in recent years about the supposedly decreasing quality of search results" https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf?ref=gregmorris.co.uk | Source: Webis Group
[08:47]	TR News	"Cache busting is a way to make sure visitors always load the most up-to-date version of your website even if their browser has an older copy stored in cache." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/cache-busting/ | Source: PIA
[08:47]	TR Bot	 What Is Cache Busting and How Does It Work?
[08:48]	TR News	"I long back to the [Internet] of old, where not everything is dominated by algorithms that determine what is interesting for you." https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/the-internet-of-old | Source: Arjen Wiersma
[08:48]	TR Bot	 The internet of old Arjen Wiersma
[08:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/15/KaOS_Linux_Drops_KDE_Plasma_After_12_Years_for_Niri_Noctalia_to.gmi 
[08:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KaOS Linux Drops KDE Plasma After 12 Years for Niri/Noctalia to Escape systemd
[08:48]	TR News	"The malware primarily targets users in Argentina through financial fraud campaigns." https://thecyberexpress.com/first-android-malware-promptspy/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[08:48]	TR Bot	 Android Malware Weaponizes Gemini AI To Evade Detection
[08:49]	TR News	"The custom-built camera works by taking a standard roll of 35mm film, which is standardized to take 36 pictures, and exposing a wider section of the film to create a panorama." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/panoramic-film-camera-made-from-3d-printed-parts/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:49]	TR Bot	Film Camera Made From 3D Printed Parts | Hackaday
[08:50]	TR News	"In addition to a couple of physical systems, I run roughly two dozen Linux virtual machines, most of them Ubuntu-based." https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/ubuntu-kernel-6-8-100-buggy-network.html | Source: Dedoimedo
[08:50]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu kernel 6.8.0-100-generic has buggy networking
[08:50]	TR News	"Because of this unlikely high count of systems, I often encounter problems most other people don't see. Case in point: random networking connectivity issues in Ubuntu (or flavors) running with the latest available kernel at the time of writing."
[08:51]	TR News	"One of the primary benefits of the new implementation is that you can have a single bridge for everything and the packet processing has been optimized." https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/02/using-new-bridges-freebsd-15/ | Source: Feld
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Using The New Bridges of FreeBSD 15 Makefile.feld
[08:52]	TR News	Moomintroll: Winter's Warmth arrives April 27, will run "great" on Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/moomintroll-winters-warmth-arrives-april-27-will-run-great-on-steam-deck/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/moomintroll-winters-warmth-arrives-april-27-will-run-great-on-steam-deck/
[08:52]	TR Bot	Winter's Warmth arrives April 27, will run "great" on Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux
[08:52]	TR News	Lexispell is a Balatro-styled roguelike word game with a demo worth trying | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lexispell-is-a-balatro-styled-roguelike-word-game-with-a-demo-worth-trying/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/lexispell-is-a-balatro-styled-roguelike-word-game-with-a-demo-worth-trying/
[08:52]	TR Bot	is a Balatro-styled roguelike word game with a demo worth trying | GamingOnLinux
[08:52]	TR News	Slay the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/slay-the-spire-2-arrives-march-5-with-4-player-co-op/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/slay-the-spire-2-arrives-march-5-with-4-player-co-op/
[08:52]	TR Bot	the Spire 2 arrives March 5 with 4-player co-op | GamingOnLinux
[08:53]	TR News	Widelands, the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/widelands-the-open-source-settlers-like-devs-plan-to-ban-all-ai-generated-contributions/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[08:53]	TR Bot	the open source Settlers-like, devs plan to ban all AI generated contributions | GamingOnLinux
[08:54]	TR News	Steam Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-now-out-of-stock-in-the-eu-in-addition-to-usa-canada-and-japan/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/steam-deck-now-out-of-stock-in-the-eu-in-addition-to-usa-canada-and-japan/
[08:54]	TR Bot	Deck now out of stock in the EU in addition to USA, Canada and Japan | GamingOnLinux
[08:54]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Snacktorio, Lexispell, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Games_Snacktorio_Lexispell_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Games_Snacktorio_Lexispell_and_More.gmi 
[08:54]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Snacktorio, Lexispell, and More
[08:55]	TR News	"Most of what I use on my Linux machine is great, but some applications just arent up to par with whats available on macOS." https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/baty-mac-polish/ | Source: Mike Rockwell
[08:55]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://initialcharge.net/2026/02/baty-mac-polish/ )
[08:55]	TR News	"What I miss most about running macOS is not macOS. Its the software. The polish." https://baty.net/posts/2026/01/linux-and-or-macos/ | Source: Jack Baty
[08:55]	TR Bot	and/or macOS | Baty.net
[08:55]	TR News	"The key here is NitroFS, which allows you to implement a similar kind of segmented loading as the N64 uses." https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/porting-super-mario-64-to-the-original-nintendo-ds/ | Source: Hackaday
[08:55]	TR Bot	Super Mario 64 To The Original Nintendo DS | Hackaday
[08:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi 
[08:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[08:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  Web Browsers/Web Servers: Cache Busting, Letting Go Of The Old Web, and The Dillo Appreciation Post https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Cache_Busting_Letting_Go_Of_The_Old_We.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Cache_Busting_Letting_Go_Of_The_Old_We.gmi 
[08:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Web Browsers/Web Servers: Cache Busting, Letting Go Of The Old Web, and The Dillo Appreciation Post
[08:59]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Ubuntu_26_04_is_replacing_its_classic_tools_and_I_actually_pref.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Ubuntu_26_04_is_replacing_its_classic_tools_and_I_actually_pref.gmi 
● Feb 21
[09:00]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones
[09:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  I tried Mint, Kubuntu, and Debian heres what actually matters for Windows refugees https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/I_tried_Mint_Kubuntu_and_Debian_here_s_what_actually_matters_fo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/I_tried_Mint_Kubuntu_and_Debian_here_s_what_actually_matters_fo.gmi 
[09:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I tried Mint, Kubuntu, and Debian heres what actually matters for Windows refugees
[09:05]	TR News	"The community blog feed aggregator lists the featured highlights below from Feb. 13 to 19." https://news.opensuse.org/2026/02/20/planet-roundup/ | Source: OpenSUSE
[09:05]	TR Bot	 Planet News Roundup - openSUSE News
[09:06]	TR News	"Collabora has announced GStreamer 1.28, expanding its machine learning and AI inference capabilities for media pipelines." https://linuxgizmos.com/gstreamer-1-28-adds-ai-inference-engines-yolo-decoders-and-tensor-auto-discovery/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[09:06]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/gstreamer-1-28-adds-ai-inference-engines-yolo-decoders-and-tensor-auto-discovery/ )
[09:07]	TR News	"The ESP32 Bus Pirate reimplements that concept in firmware form, allowing low-cost ESP32-S3 development boards to function as multi-protocol debugging and experimentation platforms." https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bus-pirate-update-adds-rf-tools-usb-host-mode-signal-analysis-and-cellular-plans/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[09:07]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/esp32-bus-pirate-update-adds-rf-tools-usb-host-mode-signal-analysis-and-cellular-plans/ )
[09:07]	TR News	"The platform is based on an 8-core Qualcomm Kryo 670 CPU clocked at up to 2.1GHz, paired with 8GB of LPDDR4x memory (3200MT/s, single-channel)." https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-factor-101-arrives-with-qualcomm-qcs6490-and-10gbe-networking/ | Source: Linux Gizmos
[09:07]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/fanless-factor-101-arrives-with-qualcomm-qcs6490-and-10gbe-networking/ )
[09:07]	TR News	"Oracle Database Appliance is an engineered system designed to simplify Oracle Database deployments for small to medium organizations and distributed environments." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-421-brings-kubernetes-oracle-database-appliance | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 brings Kubernetes to Oracle Database Appliance
[09:08]	TR News	IBM pushing slop to inflate the bubble https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/small-models-big-impact-future-scaling-enterprise-ai-agents | Source: Red Hat Official
[09:08]	TR Bot	 Small models, big impact: The future of scaling enterprise AI agents
[09:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/I_waited_years_for_Windows_updates_to_get_exciting_Linux_did_it.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/I_waited_years_for_Windows_updates_to_get_exciting_Linux_did_it.gmi 
[09:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months
[09:08]	TR News	Fedora Community Blog: Community Update Week 8 2026 https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/community-update-week-8-2026/
[09:08]	TR Bot	 Community Update - Week 8 2026 Fedora Community Blog
[09:09]	TR News	Felipe Borges: GNOME is participating in Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/gnome-is-in-gsoc-2026/
[09:09]	TR Bot	 GNOME is participating in Google Summer of Code 2026! Felipe Borges
[09:09]	TR News	ScummVM has been accepted to the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026 https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260220/
[09:09]	TR Bot	 ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: ScummVM has been accepted to the Google Summer of Code 2026
[09:20]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[09:22]	TR News	A Powerful To-Do App for Android That Collects Absolutely None of Your Data https://itsfoss.com/super-productivity-android-app/
[09:22]	TR Bot	 A Powerful To-Do App for Android That Collects Absolutely None of Your Data
[09:26]		*aurora78 (~aurora78@zjqc8vv3v6vis.irc) has joined #techrights
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[09:37]	TR News	This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here! https://blogs.kde.org/2026/02/21/this-week-in-plasma-6.6-is-here/
[09:37]	TR Bot	 This Week in Plasma: 6.6 is Here! - KDE Blogs
[09:38]	TR News	Ratado keyboard-driven terminal task manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/ratado-keyboard-driven-terminal-task-manager/
[09:38]	TR Bot	- keyboard-driven terminal task manager - LinuxLinks
[09:38]	TR News	Soundboardd small local soundboard daemon https://www.linuxlinks.com/soundboardd-small-local-soundboard-daemon/
[09:38]	TR Bot	- small local soundboard daemon - LinuxLinks
[09:39]	TR News	CNCjs web-based interface for CNC milling controller https://www.linuxlinks.com/cncjs-web-based-interface-cnc-milling-controller/
[09:39]	TR Bot	- web-based interface for CNC milling controller - LinuxLinks
[09:39]	TR News	Kanha web-app pentesting suite https://www.linuxlinks.com/kanha-web-app-pentesting-suite/
[09:39]	TR Bot	- web-app pentesting suite - LinuxLinks
[09:39]	TR News	typtea terminal-based typing speed tester https://www.linuxlinks.com/typtea-terminal-based-typing-speed-tester/
[09:39]	TR Bot	- terminal-based typing speed tester - LinuxLinks
[09:40]	TR News	tmpo minimal CLI time tracker for developers https://www.linuxlinks.com/tmpo-minimal-cli-time-tracker-developers/
[09:40]	TR Bot	- minimal CLI time tracker for developers - LinuxLinks
[09:40]	TR News	14 Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data https://www.linuxlinks.com/keyvaluestores/
[09:40]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Key Value Stores for Big Data - LinuxLinks
[09:41]	TR News	Linux Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-candy-lolcat-rewrite-popular-lolcat/
[09:41]	TR Bot	Candy: Lolcat++ is a rewrite of the popular LOLCAT - LinuxLinks
[09:41]	TR News	corner terminal-based task journal for developers https://www.linuxlinks.com/corner-terminal-based-task-journal/
[09:41]	TR Bot	- terminal-based task journal for developers - LinuxLinks
[09:41]	TR News	ClockTemp TUI clock https://www.linuxlinks.com/clocktemp-tui-clock/
[09:41]	TR Bot	- TUI clock - LinuxLinks
[09:41]	TR News	8 Top Free and Open Source Dart Web Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-dart-web-frameworks/
[09:41]	TR Bot	Top Free and Open Source Dart Web Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[09:42]	TR News	Jaspr modern web framework for building websites in Dart https://www.linuxlinks.com/jaspr-modern-web-framework/
[09:42]	TR Bot	- modern web framework for building websites in Dart - LinuxLinks
[09:42]	TR News	krep optimized string search utility https://www.linuxlinks.com/krep-optimized-string-search-utility/
[09:42]	TR Bot	- optimized string search utility - LinuxLinks
[09:42]	TR News	Kyma terminal-based presentation tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/kyma-terminal-based-presentation-tool/
[09:42]	TR Bot	- terminal-based presentation tool - LinuxLinks
[09:43]	TR News	13 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Calendar Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-terminal-based-calendar-tools/
[09:43]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based Calendar Tools - LinuxLinks
[09:43]	TR News	hapless run and manage background processes https://www.linuxlinks.com/hapless-run-and-manage-background-processes/
[09:44]	TR Bot	- run and manage background processes - LinuxLinks
[09:44]	TR News	PRS web security scanner https://www.linuxlinks.com/prs-web-security-scanner/
[09:44]	TR Bot	- web security scanner - LinuxLinks
[09:45]	TR News	How to manage your productive life with BASB, GTD, and Scrum https://www.reallinuxuser.com/how-basb-gtd-and-scrum-help-me-to-manage-my-productive-life/
[09:45]	TR Bot	to manage your productive life with BASB, GTD, and Scrum - RealLinuxUser.com
[09:46]	TR News	LibreOffice is in the Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2026! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/02/20/libreoffice-is-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2026/
[09:46]	TR Bot	 LibreOffice is in the Google Summer of Code 2026! - TDF Community Blog
[09:48]	TR News	How To Install XnView MP on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-xnview-mp-debian-13/
[09:48]	TR Bot	 How To Install XnView MP on Debian 13 - idroot
[09:48]	TR News	How To Install Apache Tomcat on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-apache-tomcat-linux-mint-22/
[09:48]	TR Bot	 How To Install Apache Tomcat on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[09:49]	TR News	How To Install SMPlayer on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-smplayer-almalinux-10/
[09:49]	TR Bot	 How To Install SMPlayer on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot
[09:50]	TR News	How to Install Wget on Debian 13 https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-wget-on-debian-13/
[09:50]	TR Bot	to Install Wget on Debian 13 | LinuxCloudVPS Blog
[09:50]	TR News	How To Install Pritunl on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-pritunl-fedora-43/
[09:50]	TR Bot	 How To Install Pritunl on Fedora 43 - idroot
[09:50]	TR News	How To Install proprietary trap AWS CLI on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-aws-cli-debian-13/
[09:50]	TR Bot	 How To Install AWS CLI on Debian 13 - idroot
[09:51]	TR News	PromptSpy Android Malware Abuses Gemini Hey Hi (AI) at Runtime for Persistence https://www.securityweek.com/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-gemini-ai-at-runtime-for-persistence/
[09:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/promptspy-android-malware-abuses-gemini-ai-at-runtime-for-persistence/ )
[09:52]	TR News	Transmission 4.1.1 Released with Many Fixes [Ubuntu PPA Updated] https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/02/transmission-4-1-1-released-with-many-fixes-ubuntu-ppa-updated/
[09:52]	TR Bot	 Transmission 4.1.1 Released with Many Fixes [Ubuntu PPA Updated] | UbuntuHandbook
[09:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Transmission 4.1.1 BitTorrent Client Released with Bug Fixes and Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/20/Transmission_4_1_1_BitTorrent_Client_Released_with_Bug_Fixes_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/20/Transmission_4_1_1_BitTorrent_Client_Released_with_Bug_Fixes_an.gmi 
[09:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Transmission 4.1.1 BitTorrent Client Released with Bug Fixes and Improvements
[09:58]	TR News	Second beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 https://krita.org/en/posts/2026/krita-6.0.0-beta2-released/ "Note that 6.0.0-beta2 has more issues, especially on GNU/Linux and Wayland"
[09:58]	TR Bot	 Second beta for Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 | Krita
● Feb 21
[10:02]	TR News	Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals https://futurism.com/science-energy/headphone-chemicals-bpa
[10:02]	TR Bot	 Every Single Headphone That Researchers Tested Contained Horrifying Chemicals
[10:05]	TR News	Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says https://futurism.com/science-energy/f35-jailbreak-dutch
[10:05]	TR Bot	 Lockheed Martin F-35s Can Be Jailbroken Like $80 Million iPhones, European Military Chief Says
[10:10]	TR News	A Cancer Detection Test Fails in Major Study https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/health/cancer-detection-test-grail.html
[10:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/health/cancer-detection-test-grail.html )
[10:12]	TR News	Michigan countys argument against solar farms? Theyre a health hazard https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/michigan-countys-argument-against-solar-farms-theyre-a-health-hazard/
[10:12]	TR Bot	 Michigan countys argument against solar farms? Theyre a health hazard - Bridge Michigan
[10:18]	TR News	US imports more from Taiwan than China for first time in decades https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/us-imports-more-from-taiwan-than-china-for-first-time-in-decades
[10:18]	TR Bot	 US imports more from Taiwan than China for first time in decades | The Straits Times
[10:18]	TR News	'Made in China 2025' initiative https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/the-state-of-chinas-decade-long-semiconductor-push-still-a-decade-behind-despite-hundreds-of-billions-spent-and-significant-progress-examining-the-original-made-in-china-2025-initiative
[10:18]	TR Bot	 The state of China's decade-long semiconductor push: still a decade behind, despite hundreds of billions spent and significant progress examining the original 'Made in China 2025' initiative | Tom's Hardware
[10:21]	TR News	Chris Boffey: Star reporter, news editor, mentor and great human being https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/obituaries/chris-boffey-star-reporter-news-editor-mentor-and-great-human-being/
[10:21]	TR Bot	 Chris Boffey: Star reporter, news editor, mentor and 'great human being' - Press Gazette
[10:26]	TR News	There's a Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-critical-thing-you-can-do-to-keep-alzheimers-symptoms-at-bay
[10:26]	TR Bot	a Critical Thing You Can Do to Keep Alzheimer's Symptoms at Bay : ScienceAlert
[10:38]	TR News	Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is. https://thenewstack.io/want-an-easy-way-to-manage-podman-containers-here-it-is/
[10:38]	TR Bot	 Want an easy way to manage Podman containers? Here it is. - The New Stack
[10:43]	TR News	Liquid Now Offering 4 Hours of Free Public WiFi, Heres What You Should Know https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/02/liquid-offering-for-hours-free-wifi-to-everyone/
[10:43]	TR Bot	( status 428 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/02/liquid-offering-for-hours-free-wifi-to-everyone/ )
[10:46]	TR News	Using threat modeling and prompt injection to audit Comet https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/02/20/using-threat-modeling-and-prompt-injection-to-audit-comet/
[10:46]	TR Bot	 Using threat modeling and prompt injection to audit Comet - The Trail of Bits Blog
[10:46]	TR News	Mozilla Privacy Blog: Behind the Velvet Rope: The Hey Hi (AI) Divide on Display at the India Hey Hi (AI) Impact Summit 2026 https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/02/20/behind-the-velvet-rope-the-ai-divide-on-display-at-the-india-ai-impact-summit-2026/
[10:46]	TR Bot	 Behind the Velvet Rope: The AI Divide on Display at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 - Open Policy & Advocacy
[10:48]	TR News	This Week in GNOME: #237 Article Rendering https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2026/02/twig-237/
[10:48]	TR Bot	 #237 Article Rendering
[10:49]	TR News	5 Best Free and Open Source C++ Application Servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-cplusplus-application-servers/
[10:49]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source C++ Application Servers - LinuxLinks
[10:51]	TR News	Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/8 https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2026/02/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2026-8/
[10:51]	TR Bot	 Tumbleweed Review of the week 2026/8 Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)
[10:52]	TR News	Security updates for Friday https://lwn.net/Articles/1059638/
[10:52]	TR Bot	updates for Friday [LWN.net]
[10:53]	TR News	The Book of Remind https://lwn.net/Articles/1059641/
[10:53]	TR Bot	Book of Remind [LWN.net]
[10:53]	TR News	ZIP/UNZIP Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/zip-unzip/
[10:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/zip-unzip/ )
[10:54]	TR News	Buying a new ThinkPad for the first time! https://rubenerd.com/buying-a-new-thinkpad-for-the-first-time/
[10:54]	TR Bot	Buying a new ThinkPad for the first time!
[10:55]	TR News	Kiwi TCMS: Community Edition Explained https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/02/18/community-edition-explained/
[10:55]	TR Bot	 Kiwi TCMS - Community Edition Explained
[10:55]	TR News	Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits 2nd week of feb 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/02/14/misc-fedora-bits-2nd-week-of-feb-2026/
[10:55]	TR Bot	 misc fedora bits 2nd week of feb 2026 | Kevin's musings
[10:58]	TR News	Kiwi TCMS: Private Tenant Extras Subscription Explained https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2026/02/17/private-tenant-extras-subscription-explained/
[10:58]	TR Bot	 Kiwi TCMS - Private Tenant Extras Subscription Explained
[10:58]	TR News	Fedora Community Blog: Master Podman 5.8: Join Fedora Test Week https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/master-podman-5-8-join-fedora-test-week/
[10:58]	TR Bot	 Master Podman 5.8: Join Fedora Test Week Fedora Community Blog
● Feb 21
[11:00]	TR News	Pravin Satpute: The Performance and Scale Booth at DevConf 2026 http://pravin-s.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-performance-and-scale-booth-at.html
[11:00]	TR Bot	 Pravin Satpute: The Performance and Scale Booth at DevConf 2026
[11:00]	TR News	FreeBSD 14.4-BETA3 is out https://distrowatch.com/freebsd
[11:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd )
[11:01]	TR News	Thomas Goirand: Seamlessly upgrading a production OpenStack cluster in 4 hours : with 2k lines shell script http://thomas.goirand.fr/blog/?p=426
[11:01]	TR Bot	 Seamlessly upgrading a production OpenStack cluster in 4 hours : with 2k lines shell script Zigo's blog
[11:03]	TR News	Bits from Debian: Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf26 https://bits.debian.org/2026/02/proxmox-platinum-debconf26.html
[11:03]	TR Bot	 Proxmox Platinum Sponsor of DebConf26 - Bits from Debian
[11:04]	TR News	Christian Gmeiner: GLES3 on etnaviv: Fixing the Hard Parts https://christian-gmeiner.info/2026-02-20-gles3-on-etnaviv-fixing-the-hard-parts/
[11:04]	TR Bot	 GLES3 on etnaviv: Fixing the Hard Parts | Christian Gmeiner
[11:05]	TR News	2.1-channel audioHAT for Raspberry Pi features Texas Instruments TAS5825M class-D amplifier https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/2-1-channel-audio-hat-for-raspberry-pi-features-texas-instruments-tas5825m-class-d-amplifier/
[11:05]	TR Bot	 2.1-channel audioHAT for Raspberry Pi features Texas Instruments TAS5825M class-D amplifier - CNX Software
[11:05]	TR News	Raoul Peck documents the dystopian warnings from '1984' https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260220-raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984
[11:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/arts24/20260220-raoul-peck-documents-the-dystopian-warnings-from-1984 )
[11:07]	TR News	A.I. Isnt Coming for Every White-Collar Job. At Least Not Yet. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/technology/ai-coding-software-jobs.html
[11:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/technology/ai-coding-software-jobs.html )
[11:10]	TR News	EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/19/EPO_Union_Leaders_in_Rijswijk_Explain_Where_EPO_Strikes_Stand_a.shtml
[11:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO Union Leaders in Rijswijk Explain Where EPO Strikes Stand and How to Prepare for Next Week's
[11:14]		*x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!)
[11:15]	TR News	Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent monopoly dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/acer-and-asus-shut-down-support-for-pc-and-laptops-in-wake-of-patent-dispute-ruling-drivers-and-updates-inaccessible-to-existing-customers-german-website-finds-a-workaround
[11:15]	TR Bot	 Acer and Asus shut down support for PC and laptops in wake of patent dispute ruling, drivers and updates inaccessible to existing customers German website finds a workaround (Update) | Tom's Hardware
[11:15]	TR News	BMS and Johnson & Johnson battle over novel CAR-T cell therapy in Europe https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/bms-battles-johnson-johnson-over-novel-cell-therapy-in-europe/
[11:15]	TR Bot	 BMS and Johnson & Johnson battle over novel CAR-T cell therapy in Europe
[11:16]	TR News	OpenAI's Scam Altman warns that firms are using 'AI washing' to mask layoffs across the globe https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-sam-altman-warns-that-firms-are-using-ai-washing-to-mask-layoffs-across-the-globe-ai-boss-calls-out-corporate-excuses-while-warning-of-palpable-job-disruption-ahead
[11:16]	TR Bot	 OpenAI's Sam Altman warns that firms are using 'AI washing' to mask layoffs across the globe AI boss calls out corporate excuses while warning of 'palpable' job disruption ahead | Tom's Hardware
[11:17]	TR News	Lithuanian military intelligence warns of hostile state recruitment on social control media https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2845081/lithuanian-military-intelligence-warns-of-hostile-state-recruitment-on-social-media
[11:17]	TR Bot	 Lithuanian military intelligence warns of hostile state recruitment on social media - LRT
[11:18]	TR News	Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits Hey Hi (AI) Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-perplexity-admits-ai-adverts-mistake
[11:18]	TR Bot	 Look Out, OpenAI: Perplexity Admits AI Adverts Were a Mistake, Is Now Getting Rid of Them
[11:18]		*x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@wi6y8fnbpfcy6.irc) has joined #techrights
[11:18]	TR News	Jack Dorseys New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use Hey Hi (AI) https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/jack-dorsey-block-falling-apart-ai
[11:18]	TR Bot	 Jack Dorsey's New Company Falling Apart as It Forces Employees to Use AI
[11:19]	TR News	OpenAIs Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-hardware-device-leaked-cringe
[11:19]	TR Bot	 OpenAI's Hardware Device Just Leaked, and You Will Cringe
[11:22]	TR News	Librsvg got its first Hey Hi (AI) slop pull request https://viruta.org/librsvg-ai-slop.html
[11:22]	TR Bot	 Librsvg got its first AI slop pull request - Federico's Blog
[11:37]	TR News	Chinas King of Banned Films Wants to Change the Subject https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/asia/lou-ye-china-film-director.html
[11:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/asia/lou-ye-china-film-director.html )
[11:38]	TR News	Package Version Tracking Gains New Capabilities https://openbuildservice.org/2026/02/20/version-tracking-improvements//
[11:38]	TR Bot	 Package Version Tracking Gains New Capabilities - Open Build Service
[11:40]	TR News	Los Angeles County Files a Major Lawsuit Against RobloxBreeding Ground for Predators https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/los-angeles-county-lawsuit-roblox/
[11:40]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/los-angeles-county-lawsuit-roblox/ )
[11:41]	TR News	U.S. Senators Are Officially Throwing Their Weight Around In the FTC v. Live Nation Lawsuit With the BOTS Act Taking Center Stage https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/bots-act-lawsuit-live-nation-senators-brief/
[11:41]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/02/19/bots-act-lawsuit-live-nation-senators-brief/ )
[11:42]	TR News	WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 https://wordpress.org/news/2026/02/wordpress-7-0-beta-1/
[11:42]	TR Bot	 WordPress 7.0 Beta 1 WordPress News
[11:43]	TR News	#KeepItOn: authorities must reverse social control media shutdown order and restore access in Gabon https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/keepiton-social-media-restore-access-in-gabon/
[11:43]	TR Bot	 Access Now - #KeepItOn: authorities must reverse social media shutdown order and restore access in Gabon
[11:43]	TR News	$20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/usd20-million-lost-in-jackpotting-atm-malware-attacks-in-2025-fbi-reports-scheme-forces-machines-to-spit-out-cash-targets-banks-and-atm-operators
[11:43]	TR Bot	 $20 million lost in 'jackpotting' ATM malware attacks in 2025, FBI reports scheme forces machines to spit out cash, targets banks and ATM operators | Tom's Hardware
[11:44]	TR News	FBI: $20 Million Losses Caused by 700 ATM Jackpotting Attacks in 2025 https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-20-million-losses-caused-by-700-atm-jackpotting-attacks-in-2025/
[11:44]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-20-million-losses-caused-by-700-atm-jackpotting-attacks-in-2025/ )
[11:45]	TR News	Rudra is a new keyboard-driven launcher for GNOME Shell https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/rudra-gnome-keyboard-launcher
[11:45]	TR Bot	 Rudra is a new keyboard-driven launcher for GNOME Shell - OMG! Ubuntu
[11:46]	TR News	Ghostty terminal is finally adding scrollbar support https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/ghostty-linux-scrollbars-coming
[11:46]	TR Bot	 Ghostty 1.3 wil bring Adds Scrollbar Support
[11:46]	TR News	Argent 1.5.3-rc6 is out https://distrowatch.com/argent
[11:46]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/argent )
[11:48]	TR News	How to Install Gateway API in Kubernetes https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-gateway-api-in-kubernetes/
[11:48]	TR Bot	 How to Install Gateway API in Kubernetes
[11:48]	TR News	Chaos Comes to KDE in KaOS http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Chaos-Comes-to-KDE-in-KaOS
[11:48]	TR Bot	 Chaos Comes to KDE in KaOS Linux Magazine
[11:49]	TR News	MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets a GNU/Linux driver https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/mediatek-mt7902-wireless-chipset-finally-gets-linux-drivers/
[11:49]	TR Bot	 MediaTek MT7902 wireless chipset finally gets a Linux driver - CNX Software
[11:50]	TR News	Russia Takes the Gulag Out of the Gulag History Museum in Moscow https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/russia-gulag-history-museum-stalin.html
[11:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/russia-gulag-history-museum-stalin.html )
[11:53]	TR News	Fluff 2026.02.18 is out https://distrowatch.com/fluff
[11:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/fluff )
[11:55]	TR News	Japanese-Language Phishing Emails, (Sat, Feb 21st) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32734
[11:55]	TR Bot	 Japanese-Language Phishing Emails - SANS Internet Storm Center
[11:56]	TR News	Latvian nature museum wants your best bird photos https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/environment/20.02.2026-latvian-nature-museum-wants-your-best-bird-photos.a635584/
[11:56]	TR Bot	 Latvian nature museum wants your best bird photos / Article
[11:57]	TR News	Hong Kong jobless rate rises slightly to 3.9% https://hongkongfp.com/2026/02/20/hong-kong-jobless-rate-rises-slightly-to-3-9/
[11:57]	TR Bot	 Hong Kong jobless rate rises slightly to 3.9%
[11:59]	TR News	Nazi Execution Photos Went Up For Sale. Greece Stopped It. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/greece-nazi-execution-photos.html
[11:59]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/world/europe/greece-nazi-execution-photos.html )
● Feb 21
[12:01]	TR News	Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/20/karioca-konzernrecht/
[12:01]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: A perforated corporate veil (20 Feb 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[12:02]	TR News	Reproducible Builds (diffoscope): diffoscope 313 released https://diffoscope.org/news/diffoscope-313-released/
[12:02]	TR Bot	 diffoscope 313 released
[12:02]	TR News	Guide: Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client https://shibe-bit.github.io/Guides/OmemoClient
[12:02]	TR Bot	 Guide: Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client
[12:03]	TR News	DOJs first $1M antitrust whistleblower award may sway corporate views on riskand on employees https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2026/02/dojs-first-1m-antitrust-whistleblower-award-may-sway-corporate-views-on-risk-and-on-employees/
[12:03]	TR Bot	 DOJs first $1M antitrust whistleblower award may sway corporate views on riskand on employees | Federal News Network
[12:09]	TR News	The White House scrapped SBOMs in favor of agency-managed cyber risk. Flexibility, meet accountability. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/the-white-house-scrapped-sboms-in-favor-of-agency-managed-cyber-risk-flexibility-meet-accountability/
[12:09]	TR Bot	 The White House scrapped SBOMs in favor of agency-managed cyber risk. Flexibility, meet accountability. | Federal News Network
[12:10]	TR News	In Other News: Ransomware Shuts US Clinics, ICS Vulnerability Surge, European Parliament Bans Hey Hi (AI) https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ransomware-shuts-us-clinics-ics-vulnerability-surge-european-parliament-bans-ai/
[12:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-ransomware-shuts-us-clinics-ics-vulnerability-surge-european-parliament-bans-ai/ )
[12:10]	TR News	Chip Testing Giant Advantest Hit by Ransomware https://www.securityweek.com/chip-testing-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware/
[12:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/chip-testing-giant-advantest-hit-by-ransomware/ )
[12:10]	TR News	NIST agentic Hey Hi (AI) initiative looks to get handle on security https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/02/nist-agentic-ai-initiative-looks-to-get-handle-on-security/
[12:10]	TR Bot	 NIST agentic AI initiative looks to get handle on security | Federal News Network
[12:10]	TR News	BeyondTrust Vulnerability Exploited in Ransomware Attacks https://www.securityweek.com/beyondtrust-vulnerability-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/
[12:10]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/beyondtrust-vulnerability-exploited-in-ransomware-attacks/ )
[12:12]	TR News	3 in 5 US undergrads struggle with basic needs. How some colleges are helping. https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2026/0220/college-students-campus-help-food-housing
[12:12]	TR Bot	in 5 US undergrads struggle with basic needs. How some colleges are helping. - CSMonitor.com
[12:13]	TR News	Suspect used Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot in planning drug killings in South Korea: Police https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/suspect-used-chatgpt-in-planning-drug-killings-in-south-korea-police
[12:13]	TR Bot	 Suspect used ChatGPT in planning drug killings in South Korea: Police | The Straits Times
[12:14]	TR News	Canadian trans shooters disturbing Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot messages alarmed employees but company never alerted cops https://nypost.com/2026/02/20/world-news/canadian-trans-shooter-jesse-van-rootselaars-disturbing-chatgpt-messages-alarmed-openai-employees-but-company-never-alerted-cops/
[12:14]	TR Bot	 Canadian trans shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar's disturbing ChatGPT messages alarmed OpenAI employees -- but company never alerted cops
[12:15]	TR News	OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooters Troubling Conversations With Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-mass-shooter
[12:15]	TR Bot	 OpenAI Flagged a Mass Shooter's Troubling Conversations With ChatGPT Before the Incident, Decided Not to Warn Police
[12:16]	TR News	Future of music is human, says Latvia's Sonarworks https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/features/20.02.2026-future-of-music-is-human-says-latvias-sonarworks.a635557/
[12:16]	TR Bot	 Future of music is human, says Latvia's Sonarworks / Article
[12:21]	TR News	MediaTek Genio 360/360P hexa/octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AIoT SoC features 8 TOPS NPU for cost-sensitive embedded applications https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/20/mediatek-genio-360-360p-hexa-octa-core-cortex-a76-a55-aiot-soc-features-8-tops-npu-for-cost-sensitive-embedded-applications/
[12:21]	TR Bot	 MediaTek Genio 360/360P hexa/octa-core Cortex-A76/A55 AIoT SoC features 8 TOPS NPU for cost-sensitive embedded applications - CNX Software
[12:24]	TR News	How To Install Transmission on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-transmission-fedora-43/
[12:24]	TR Bot	 How To Install Transmission on Fedora 43 - idroot
[12:25]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[12:25]	TR Bot	not resolve host: tuxmachines.org ( status 0 @ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/today_s_howtos.shtml )
[12:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: Ghostty, Diffoscope, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Applications_Ghostty_Diffoscope_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Applications_Ghostty_Diffoscope_and_More.gmi 
[12:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: Ghostty, Diffoscope, and More
[12:27]	TR News	Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones https://www.makeuseof.com/ubuntu-2604-replacing-classic-tools-i-actually-prefer-the-new-ones/
[12:27]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu 26.04 is replacing its classic tools, and I actually prefer the new ones
[12:28]	TR News	I found the best Linux server distros for your home lab https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-server-distros-for-your-home-lab/
[12:28]	TR Bot	found the best Linux server distros for your home lab | ZDNET
[12:30]	TR News	I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months https://www.xda-developers.com/i-waited-years-for-windows-updates-to-get-exciting-linux-did-it-in-six-months/
[12:30]	TR Bot	 I waited years for Windows updates to get exciting. Linux did it in six months
[12:32]	TR News	3 handy Linux apps to try this weekend (February 20 - 22) https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-february-20/
[12:32]	TR Bot	 3 handy Linux apps to try this weekend (February 20 - 22)
[12:33]	TR News	RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation forever in face of DMCA strikes https://www.pcguide.com/news/retrodeck-for-linux-steam-deck-removes-nintendo-switch-emulation-forever-in-face-of-dmca-strikes/
[12:33]	TR Bot	 RetroDECK for Linux & Steam Deck to remove Nintendo Switch emulation "forever" in face of DMCA strikes - PC Guide
[12:33]	TR News	"Over the past few updates though, Luxtorpeda has also expanded to include running popular patches and mod packs for certain Windows games with Proton - with it doing all of the work for you. All you need to do is just set the games to use Luxtorpeda." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/its-now-easier-to-install-mgshdfix-for-metal-gear-games-on-linux-steam-deck/
[12:33]	TR Bot	now easier to install MGSHDFix for Metal Gear games on Linux / Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux
[12:35]	TR News	 (NEW):  Users are ditching Windows for Linux. Heres why https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Users_are_ditching_Windows_for_Linux_Here_s_why.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Users_are_ditching_Windows_for_Linux_Here_s_why.gmi 
[12:35]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Users are ditching Windows for Linux. Heres why
[12:43]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Programming_Leftovers.gmi 
[12:43]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[12:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Applications: GStreamer 1.28, luasmith, Libinput 1.31.0, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/19/Applications_GStreamer_1_28_luasmith_Libinput_1_31_0_and_More.gmi 
[12:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Applications: GStreamer 1.28, luasmith, Libinput 1.31.0, and More
[12:45]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, ESP32, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_3D_Printing_ESP32_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_3D_Printing_ESP32_and_More.gmi 
[12:45]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, 3D Printing, ESP32, and More
[12:47]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi 
[12:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
[12:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Tumbleweed/OpenSUSE Leftovers/Outline https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Tumbleweed_OpenSUSE_Leftovers_Outline.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Tumbleweed_OpenSUSE_Leftovers_Outline.gmi 
[12:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Tumbleweed/OpenSUSE Leftovers/Outline
[12:50]	TR News	 (NEW):  Content Management Systems (CMSs): WordPress 7.0 Beta 1, Kiwi TCMS, Bluehost https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Content_Management_Systems_CMSs_WordPress_7_0_Beta_1_Kiwi_TCMS_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Content_Management_Systems_CMSs_WordPress_7_0_Beta_1_Kiwi_TCMS_.gmi 
[12:50]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMSs): WordPress 7.0 Beta 1, Kiwi TCMS, Bluehost
[12:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code and Hacking Workshop for March 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Surveillance_Giant_Google_Summer_of_Code_and_Hacking_Workshop_f.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Surveillance_Giant_Google_Summer_of_Code_and_Hacking_Workshop_f.gmi 
[12:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code and Hacking Workshop for March 2026
[12:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in GNOME, Rudra, and Boycotting Microsoft GitHub (Slop Hub) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/This_Week_in_GNOME_Rudra_and_Boycotting_Microsoft_GitHub_Slop_H.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/This_Week_in_GNOME_Rudra_and_Boycotting_Microsoft_GitHub_Slop_H.gmi 
[12:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in GNOME, Rudra, and Boycotting Microsoft GitHub (Slop Hub)
[12:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  "I am starting to prefer being in Linux than being in macOS." https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/_I_am_starting_to_prefer_being_in_Linux_than_being_in_macOS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/_I_am_starting_to_prefer_being_in_Linux_than_being_in_macOS.gmi 
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines "I am starting to prefer being in Linux than being in macOS."
[12:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Porting Super Mario 64 To The Original Nintendo DS and Nintendo Getting Aggressive https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Porting_Super_Mario_64_To_The_Original_Nintendo_DS_and_Nintendo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Porting_Super_Mario_64_To_The_Original_Nintendo_DS_and_Nintendo.gmi 
[12:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Porting Super Mario 64 To The Original Nintendo DS and Nintendo Getting Aggressive
[12:55]	TR News	 (NEW):  FSF / Software Freedom: LibreLocal, Music Streaming Setup, and "Made in EU" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/FSF_Software_Freedom_LibreLocal_Music_Streaming_Setup_and_Made_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/FSF_Software_Freedom_LibreLocal_Music_Streaming_Setup_and_Made_.gmi 
[12:55]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FSF / Software Freedom: LibreLocal, Music Streaming Setup, and "Made in EU"
[12:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE: Krita Has Issues With Wayland, "Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/KDE_Krita_Has_Issues_With_Wayland_Building_and_Using_the_OMEMO_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/KDE_Krita_Has_Issues_With_Wayland_Building_and_Using_the_OMEMO_.gmi 
[12:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines KDE: Krita Has Issues With Wayland, "Building and Using the OMEMO Sync Client"
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[13:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  BSD and Linux Kernel Space https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Space.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Space.gmi 
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines BSD and Linux Kernel Space
[13:02]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/today_s_leftovers.gmi 
[13:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[13:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[13:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[13:05]	TR News	Techrights Links 21/02/2026: Tensions Over Iran and Illegal Cheeto Tariffs, Presidential Approval Sags https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Links_21_02_2026_Tensions_Over_Iran_and_Illegal_Cheeto_Tariffs_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Links_21_02_2026_Tensions_Over_Iran_and_Illegal_Cheeto_Tariffs_.gmi 
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 21/02/2026: Tensions Over Iran and Illegal Cheeto Tariffs, Presidential Approval Sags
[13:38]	TR News	Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part III - It's in His Eyes https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_III_It_s_in_His_Eyes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/EPO_Cocaine_Communication_Manager_Part_III_It_s_in_His_Eyes.gmi 
[13:38]	TR Bot	 Techrights EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part III - It's in His Eyes
[13:55]	TR News	Techrights Firefox is No-Go in China, Not Even 1% "Market Share" Anymore https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Firefox_is_No_Go_in_China_Not_Even_1_Market_Share_Anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Firefox_is_No_Go_in_China_Not_Even_1_Market_Share_Anymore.gmi 
[13:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights Firefox is No-Go in China, Not Even 1% "Market Share" Anymore
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[14:03]	TR News	Techrights Going for 1,000 (Days of Uptime) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Going_for_1_000_Days_of_Uptime.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Going_for_1_000_Days_of_Uptime.gmi 
[14:03]	TR Bot	 Techrights Going for 1,000 (Days of Uptime)
[14:15]	TR News	Techrights Slop Hype Makes Our Core Technology Less Reliable and Far Less Resilient (We Pay for the Catastrophe That Follows) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Slop_Hype_Makes_Our_Core_Technology_Less_Reliable_and_Far_Less_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Slop_Hype_Makes_Our_Core_Technology_Less_Reliable_and_Far_Less_.gmi 
[14:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slop Hype Makes Our Core Technology Less Reliable and Far Less Resilient (We Pay for the Catastrophe That Follows)
[14:17]	TR News	Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round https://tech4gamers.com/xbox-layoffs-expected-q1-2026/ https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/20/Not_Only_Leaders_of_XBox_Got_Sacked_Layoffs.shtml
[14:17]	TR Bot	 Massive Xbox Layoffs Expected Again in Q1 2026, Likely as Big as the Last Round
[14:17]	TR Bot	 Techrights Not Only Leaders of XBox Got Sacked (Layoffs)
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[14:33]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft-Controlled Media With Embargo and Press Operatives https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Microsoft_Controlled_Media_With_Embargo_and_Press_Operatives.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Microsoft_Controlled_Media_With_Embargo_and_Press_Operatives.gmi 
[14:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft-Controlled Media With Embargo and Press Operatives
[14:36]	TR News	Blidnly parroting slop as excuse https://thecsrjournal.in/livspace-lays-off-1000-employees-amid-ai-transition-in-bengaluru/
[14:36]	TR Bot	 Livspace Lays Off 1,000 Employees Amid AI Transition in Bengaluru - The CSR Journal
[14:43]	TR News	Techrights Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied, There Are Definitely Microsoft Layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Waggener_Edstrom_Frank_Shaw_Lied_There_Are_Definitely_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Waggener_Edstrom_Frank_Shaw_Lied_There_Are_Definitely_Microsoft.gmi 
[14:43]	TR Bot	 Techrights Waggener Edstrom/Frank Shaw Lied, There Are Definitely Microsoft Layoffs
[14:46]	TR News	 xkcd: Eliminating the Impossible #3210 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3210.gmi
[14:47]	TR News	"On my desk sits a small rack that keeps audio gear, power, and network in one place: the DeskPi RackMate T0. Here's what lives in it and how it's wired." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-02-22-my-desk-rack.gmi
[14:47]	TR News	"Im going to address homologies between the adoption of Unix systems and of a vegan diet. If youre already a RYF or a BSD user, you may infer from this flight log POST strategies for adopting a vegan diet; its also true the other way around." gemini://tilde.pink/~oce/mainstream-unix.gmi
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[15:11]	TR News	Techrights Your "Likes" Aren't Yours and They're Mostly &quot;Worthless Clicks&quot; https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Your_Likes_Aren_t_Yours_and_They_re_Mostly_Worthless_Clicks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Your_Likes_Aren_t_Yours_and_They_re_Mostly_Worthless_Clicks.gmi 
[15:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Your "Likes" Aren't Yours and They're Mostly "Worthless Clicks"
[15:20]	TR News	Techrights 2026 a Year of 'Top-Down' Microsoft Layoffs (Management First) https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/2026_a_Year_of_Top_Down_Microsoft_Layoffs_Management_First.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/2026_a_Year_of_Top_Down_Microsoft_Layoffs_Management_First.gmi 
[15:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights 2026 a Year of 'Top-Down' Microsoft Layoffs (Management First)
[15:41]	TR News	Techrights On The Web, XBox Already a Dying Breed https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/On_The_Web_XBox_Already_a_Dying_Breed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/On_The_Web_XBox_Already_a_Dying_Breed.gmi 
[15:41]	TR Bot	 Techrights On The Web, XBox Already a Dying Breed
[15:54]	TR News	economic crisis https://www.dw.com/en/macron-warns-europe-faces-political-and-economic-crisis/a-75890865
[15:54]	TR Bot	 Macron warns Europe faces political and economic crisis
[15:54]	TR News	strike https://www.dw.com/en/lufthansa-pilots-crew-to-strike-on-thursday/a-75901363
[15:54]	TR Bot	 Lufthansa pilots, crew to strike on Thursday
● Feb 21
[16:01]	TR News	Capitalisme gemini://ploum.net/2026-02-21-capitalisme_et_education.gmi
[16:02]	MinceR	(cat) (video) (audio:important) https://imgur.com/gallery/big-orange-cat-has-only-one-working-brain-cell-6cCEtNl
[16:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/big-orange-cat-has-only-one-working-brain-cell-6cCEtNl )
[16:08]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 21/02/2026: Veganism and DeskPi RackMate T0 https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Gemini_Links_21_02_2026_Veganism_and_DeskPi_RackMate_T0.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Gemini_Links_21_02_2026_Veganism_and_DeskPi_RackMate_T0.gmi 
[16:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 21/02/2026: Veganism and DeskPi RackMate T0
[16:23]	TR News	Techrights Digg's Latest Incarnation Already Failed, It's Infested With LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Digg_s_Latest_Incarnation_Already_Failed_It_s_Infested_With_LLM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Digg_s_Latest_Incarnation_Already_Failed_It_s_Infested_With_LLM.gmi 
[16:23]	TR Bot	 Techrights Digg's Latest Incarnation Already Failed, It's Infested With LLM Slop
[16:31]	TR News	"I'm not going to dig into the archive because basic human respect shouldn't be this difficult and it's why Debian is losing active contributors." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00058.html
[16:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00058.html )
[16:33]	TR News	"Unproductive behaviour on Debian mailing lists - including excessively long, complex, and unfocused messages that consume disproportionate attention and discourage participation - is not acceptable." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00060.html
[16:33]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00060.html )
[16:33]	TR News	Wow, long writing discouraged by Debian?
[16:36]	TR News	"I am sad that you leave. Debian needs your criticism." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00062.html
[16:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00062.html )
[16:37]	TR News	"I agree what Jonas said. In my opinion, it was not the contents of the messages you sent, it was the way and the choice of words that let where we are not. You could have changed that without throwing decades of Debian membership away, just by toning down yourself. I am sad to see that you chose the nuclear option." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00065.html
[16:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00065.html )
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00066.html
[16:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00066.html )
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	I don't know if Mark suggests that you could have toned down yourself
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	just to avoid Community Team's mails or because he thinks that you
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	actually were too aggressive in your choices of words, but I fully agree
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	if it were the latter.
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	There is so many ways to share the same idea with someone without being
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	perceived as unneededly blunt or aggressive, and most of the time, you
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	seemed to willingly chose the unneeded way while, unsurprisingly, others
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	managed to share the same opinion in a way that was far more efficient
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	because the person receiving the opinion was not immediatly on the
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	defensive due to a questionable choice of words.
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	Since you were mentioning your own term, I can't resist to mention that,
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	a few years ago, I read this interview you gave when you eventually
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	succeeded at becoming a DPL:
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.linux.com/news/interview-branden-robinson-new-debian-project-leader-0/
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	It's sad to see yourself falling in some pitfalls your past self seemed
[16:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	to see clearly more than twenty years ago."
[16:39]	TR Bot	Branden Robinson, new Debian Project Leader - Linux.com
[16:40]	TR News	"Indeed. I had my share of disagreements with Branden over the years, but his recent emails have been a pleasure to read." https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00070.html So now Debian people can see that it's like a kind of cult, where everyone can be ousted for the lousiest reason
[16:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00070.html )
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	This exchange uses a great many words to arrive at very little, and I dont see
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	it producing anything constructive.
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	What Im seeing is entrenched positions restated at length, with no apparent
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	interest on either side in narrowing disagreements or identifying a path
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	forward. That may be cathartic, but it isn't progress.
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	I attempted to offer a response that might shift the conversation in a more
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	productive direction, and clearly failed to do so.
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	This outcome appears to be the usual fate of concerns raised by anyone without a
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	close connection to the current DPL.
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	Such is the world we live in,
[16:41]	schestowitz[TR2]	- Cheers"
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	I'm sorry to hear this.  You provided us with many valuable insights in
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	many of your messages.  I would hope that you could stay on and seek
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	feedback from the many of us who would be up for helping you avoid ire,
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	but I understand thinking that enough is enough."
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00069.html
[16:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00069.html )
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00063.html
[16:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2026/02/msg00063.html )
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yeah...my time for emeritus is long overdue.
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Anything significant that was underway has been handed off, any remaining 
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	code or predictive warnings have been shared, and TDC only  changes for
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	breaking gcc updates.
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	pabs: You shaped my career and countless others. You are my vision of 
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	Debian's strengths and potential.
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	yadd: We realized an ambitious vision with tremendous potential. You are 
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	truly a code wizard.
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	kartik: You pushed me to understand the Debian constitution beyond 
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	surface-level memorization. This moment is bittersweet.
[16:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	debian: So long, and good luck."
[16:54]	TR News	Techrights Debian's Master is Deleting Criticism of SystemD and Other Things (On-Topic and Published by Debian Developers), Resorts to the Excuse Messages Are "Too Long" https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Debian_s_Master_is_Deleting_Criticism_of_SystemD_and_Other_Thin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Debian_s_Master_is_Deleting_Criticism_of_SystemD_and_Other_Thin.gmi 
[16:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights Debian's Master is Deleting Criticism of SystemD and Other Things (On-Topic and Published by Debian Developers), Resorts to the Excuse Messages Are "Too Long"
● Feb 21
[17:29]	TR News	Firefox at meagre 1.5% in Ireland https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/ireland/#monthly-200902-202602
[17:29]	TR Bot	 Browser Market Share Ireland | Statcounter Global Stats
[17:32]	TR News	"A lawyer found guilty of stalking has been sanctioned by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), who said they had "serious concerns" over his conviction." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjwzqn6x948o http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/10/23/Microsoft_s_Graveley_a_Serial_Strangler_of_Women_Pays_People_on.shtml
[17:32]	TR Bot	 Sheffield lawyer sanctioned by regulator over stalking conviction - BBC News
[17:32]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Microsoft's Graveley, a Serial Strangler of Women, Pays People on Motorcycle (Dressed Like Hells Angels) to Drive in Heavy Rain From London to My Home's Doorstep
[17:39]	TR News	On RMS: "Be polite when responding to them so that it's them who seem rude and unreasonably to any outsider/s."
[17:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	we received some information/tips
[17:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Please keep this part between us!"
[17:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	working on it todaay
[17:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	"This is actually the main reason I wanted to reach out today."
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	(If you want to see more just let me know, I'd be happy to send you
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	her terrible behavior - although I fear you've definitely seen it before
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	somewhere else!) 
[17:49]	schestowitz[TR2]	Best Regards,"
● Feb 21
[18:08]	TR News	Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part III - Georgia Tech Did a Fine Job Upholding Free Speech Principles https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_III_Georgia_Tech_Did.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Richard_Stallman_in_the_United_States_Part_III_Georgia_Tech_Did.gmi 
[18:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Richard Stallman in the United States - Part III - Georgia Tech Did a Fine Job Upholding Free Speech Principles
[18:19]	TR News	EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part IV will probably come out on Monday during the EPO strike. The timing is critical.
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[18:31]	IsambardPrince	I still can't find anything on ZipRecruiter.
[18:31]	IsambardPrince	But you know it's bad when the hiring companies are having mass layoffs.
[18:31]	IsambardPrince	I don't even shave anymore except on days when I have a medical appointment or something.
[18:32]	IsambardPrince	I got some Eddie Merlot's gift cards in the mail from American Express so I took the person I'm dating there the other day.
[18:32]	IsambardPrince	That place was nice.
[18:33]	IsambardPrince	I haven't eaten that well in years, but when the bank is paying most of the bill, it's hard to say no to that I guess.
[18:33]	TR News	Techrights Measuring the Growth of Our Mission and Community https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Measuring_the_Growth_of_Our_Mission_and_Community.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Measuring_the_Growth_of_Our_Mission_and_Community.gmi 
[18:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Measuring the Growth of Our Mission and Community
[18:34]	IsambardPrince	I can make a pretty good steak in my air fryer. I do that sometimes. But I'm certainly no chef.
[18:35]	IsambardPrince	The nice thing about that air fryer is it's dual basket so I can do a steak on one side while I'm finishing up a baked potato on the other, and there's no spots where it didn't evenly cook.
[18:35]	IsambardPrince	https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/20/anti-tariff-republicans-cheer-supreme-court-decision-checking-trump-00790772
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[18:36]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I'm not quite sure what Trump can legally do on tariffs, but he does not have the broad unchecked authority he claimed he did.
[18:36]	IsambardPrince	They left some of them in place but everything claiming to be rooted in the International Emergency Economic Powers Act is gone.
[18:37]	IsambardPrince	If there really was some other law that clearly gave him unchecked power to levy tariffs, he would have gont to that one first.
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[18:51]	admfubar	https://themarkup.org/artificial-intelligence/2026/02/21/california-tried-to-protect-students-data-tech-companies-found-loopholes
[18:51]	TR Bot	 California tried to protect students data. Tech companies found loopholes The Markup
[18:55]	TR News	Techrights Why IBM is Still Scary and Dangerous https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Why_IBM_is_Still_Scary_and_Dangerous.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Why_IBM_is_Still_Scary_and_Dangerous.gmi 
[18:55]	TR Bot	 Techrights Why IBM is Still Scary and Dangerous
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	admfubar: it's a genie
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	once out of the bottle
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	if privacy lost
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Cali is too late
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	too much data hoarded already
[18:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: king cheeto gonna TACO
● Feb 21
[19:00]	TR News	"You are wasting your time and money. Start focusing on your next steps NOW. No company negotiates severance related to layoffs. They have the law on their side at this moment. Everyone laid off will get the same package. If down the road it can be proved the scope of the layoff was discriminatory that will be the time to get representation and negotiate. This is for US."
[19:00]	TR News	"if you take the severance and sign you waive your right to sue. I would think if you sue and lose you dont get the twelve weeks as you wouldnt have signed" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz
[19:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1khpvk7zz )
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Those credit report sites have a thing where you can have them scan your bank account and look for things like rent payments or the electric company or something, and they're supposed to "boost" your FICO score.
[19:05]	IsambardPrince	But they're very buggy.
[19:06]	IsambardPrince	Someone said they had Credit Karma connect and report their rent payments to TransUnion, except that it only added their three most recent payments and it penalized them for a new account, and the score dropped.
[19:06]	IsambardPrince	There's a reason why Experian Boost, or Credit Karma want access to your bank account and it's not to boost your credit score.
[19:07]	IsambardPrince	It may boost it a few points, at least on some models.
[19:07]	IsambardPrince	It may also lower it.
[19:07]	IsambardPrince	FICO 8 and older don't consider rent payments, your Netflix subscription, the power company, or anything like that, and over 90% of lenders are still using scores based on FICO 8 or older.
[19:07]	IsambardPrince	Mortgages use models 2, 3, 4, and 5.
[19:08]	IsambardPrince	Almost no lenders use FICO models 9 or 10, some do. Wells Fargo, PNC, and US Bank are using models 9 and 10, but it's fairly rare to see a bank do that.
[19:08]	IsambardPrince	So even if your score gets boosted at all on those models, most lenders are not using those models.
[19:08]	IsambardPrince	But these companies want access to your bank so they have more data on you.
[19:09]	IsambardPrince	Even if it is secure and read-only, and that's a big if, and even if they store this data somewhere it won't be breached, lol, then they're going to use it to do bad things to you somehow.
[19:10]	IsambardPrince	And it's buried in the user agreement, so even if you boost some FICO scores that most lenders don't use and it doesn't backfire and lower your score, they will sell the data about your bank account.
[19:10]	IsambardPrince	To advertisers, to banks. Who knows?
[19:10]	IsambardPrince	They can give it to anyone once they collect it, and that's why it's "free".
[19:11]	IsambardPrince	And they wouldn't even let me see the sign up screen on Credit Karma because it says my FICO score isn't low enough that it would improve it, so they're not even going to let me use it.
[19:11]	IsambardPrince	It's for people with horrible or no credit.
[19:11]	IsambardPrince	And are lenders really going to care that you pay Netflix if you have bad things on your credit report like unpaid credit cards or hospital bills? Nope.
[19:12]	IsambardPrince	It shows them that you're the kind of customer they don't want. You subscribe to $150 Verizon bills and spend money on Netflix and Spotify while you're letting the important stuff slip.
[19:17]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/future-society/court-trouble-jury-hates-elon-musk
[19:17]	TR Bot	 Court Having Trouble Assembling Jury for Elon Musk Because People Hate Him So Much
[19:17]	MinceR	lol
[19:18]	admfubar	https://futurism.com/health-medicine/stanford-universal-vaccine-mice
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Stanford's New "Universal Vaccine Formula" Nasal Spray Protects Mice Against Stunning Range of Diseases
[19:18]	TR News	Techrights The Brand 'Watsonx' is a Terrible Name for IBM 'Hey Hi' (Chatbots) Because Watson Agreed With Adolf Hitler https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/The_Brand_Watsonx_is_a_Terrible_Name_for_IBM_Hey_Hi_Chatbots_Be.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/The_Brand_Watsonx_is_a_Terrible_Name_for_IBM_Hey_Hi_Chatbots_Be.gmi 
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Brand 'Watsonx' is a Terrible Name for IBM 'Hey Hi' (Chatbots) Because Watson Agreed With Adolf Hitler
[19:20]	MinceR	well, it would be, if there weren't so many nazis around
[19:22]	MinceR	or should i say, pedonazis
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: just added https://techrights.org/i/2026/02/watson-nazis.png
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	made quickly with gimp
[19:26]	MinceR	:>
[19:26]	IsambardPrince	I voted in the Primary Election. It's the closest thing we have to an actual election here.
[19:26]	MinceR	maybe the 'x' stands for MechaHitler
[19:26]	IsambardPrince	Deciding which Democrat will be in office.
[19:27]	IsambardPrince	We actually have a contender this time that sounds like Zohran Mamdani, who is running for Congress.
[19:27]	IsambardPrince	I voted for that guy.
[19:27]	IsambardPrince	Even if we can't pry the Republicans out of the House, we can throw out the Democrats who are known to work with them, if we try very hard.
[19:28]	IsambardPrince	The next best thing to the Republicans losing the House is getting to where the opposition party forces them to pass everything with only their own votes.
[19:28]	IsambardPrince	Frequently if we only had this, then what they were doing would fail.
[19:28]	IsambardPrince	Because there's almost always 2-6 Republicans that vote against the bill, and they only have a 1 seat majority.
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[19:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[19:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  In the US, Apple's Operating Systems Seem to Have Already Outpaced Microsoft's (Linux Also Nearly Catching Up) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/In_the_US_Apple_s_Operating_Systems_Seem_to_Have_Already_Outpac.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/In_the_US_Apple_s_Operating_Systems_Seem_to_Have_Already_Outpac.gmi 
[19:41]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines In the US, Apple's Operating Systems Seem to Have Already Outpaced Microsoft's (Linux Also Nearly Catching Up)
[19:54]	TR News	Techrights New Article Challenges Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Choosing the Wrong SLAPP Cases to Investigate https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/New_Article_Challenges_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_for_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/New_Article_Challenges_Solicitors_Regulation_Authority_SRA_for_.gmi 
[19:54]	TR Bot	 Techrights New Article Challenges Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Choosing the Wrong SLAPP Cases to Investigate
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[20:02]	TR News	Techrights Techrights Has Over 1,000 Good Articles 'in the Tank' https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Techrights_Has_Over_1_000_Good_Articles_in_the_Tank.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/Techrights_Has_Over_1_000_Good_Articles_in_the_Tank.gmi 
[20:02]	TR Bot	 Techrights Techrights Has Over 1,000 Good Articles 'in the Tank'
[20:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: just started https://www.mancity.com/matchday/fixtures/mens/2025/premier-league/man-city-v-newcastle-21-feb-2026?page=Commentary
[20:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.mancity.com/matchday/fixtures/mens/2025/premier-league/man-city-v-newcastle-21-feb-2026?page=Commentary )
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[20:23]	TR News	increase in global graft https://www.dw.com/en/corruption-watchdog-reports-increase-in-global-graft/a-75838368
[20:23]	TR Bot	 Corruption watchdog reports increase in global graft
[20:23]	MinceR	(audio:important) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixgzbL0r0s0   =   https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=ixgzbL0r0s0
[20:23]	TR Bot	https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=ixgzbL0r0s0
[20:23]	TR Bot	invidious.nerdvpn.de | Making sure you're not a bot!
[20:23]	TR Bot	 Select instance - Invidious
[20:24]	TR News	crimes against journalists https://www.dw.com/en/germany-logs-rising-rate-of-crimes-against-journalists/a-75899832
[20:24]	TR Bot	 Germany logs rising rate of crimes against journalists
[20:24]	TR News	2025 Corruption Index flags drops in Western nations https://www.dw.com/en/2025-corruption-index-flags-drops-in-western-nations/a-75838368
[20:27]	TR News	Hollywood Groups Condemn ByteDance's AI Video Generator, Claiming Copyright Infringement https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2026-02-15/hollywood-groups-condemn-bytedances-ai-video-generator-claiming-copyright-infringement
[20:27]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2026-02-15/hollywood-groups-condemn-bytedances-ai-video-generator-claiming-copyright-infringement )
[20:27]	TR News	How Linux reduces context switching without special apps https://www.makeuseof.com/how-linux-reduces-context-switching-without-special-apps/
[20:28]	TR Bot	 How Linux reduces context switching without special apps
[20:28]	TR News	5 things your Chromebook can do that most people don't realize https://www.makeuseof.com/5-hidden-things-chromebooks-do/
[20:28]	TR Bot	 5 things your Chromebook can do that most people don't realize
[20:30]	TR News	Stop Constantly Breaking Your Linux Desktop https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=PKSb1VqPbFc
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[20:31]	TR News	Wayland catching up with DECADES-OLD features "><span class="date">2026-02-11</span> [Older] Wayland Positioning Protocol Is Finally Merged</a></h5></li>
[20:31]	TR News	Wayland catching up with DECADES-OLD features https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=s-W7mZhx7QQ
[20:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=s-W7mZhx7QQ )
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[20:40]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I think the most horrific thing about credit reporting in the US is probably that there's no security built-in by default.
[20:40]	IsambardPrince	If you are not actively maintaining fraud alerts and credit file freezes on your report, someone can just claim to be you and get a loan, and there's all of these data breaches that spill out all the information they could ever need to apply for most loans.
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	And most lenders will just assume they're you and send them credit cards and stuff.
[20:41]	IsambardPrince	The system is built to approve loans quickly and leave the victim cleaning up the mess later.
[20:42]	IsambardPrince	So when you freeze your file, nobody can pull your credit report, so the loan should be denied.
[20:42]	IsambardPrince	But they removed one of the safeguards which was a security PIN that was required to remove the freeze.
[20:43]	IsambardPrince	So if an attacker knows where you live and your Social Security Number, they can call in and use the automated system, impersonate you, and potentially remove that freeze.
[20:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	most things you can purchase with cash
[20:43]	IsambardPrince	That's why I also have Fraud Alerts where they have to contact me directly and ask for ID. It's more difficult to get fraud alerts removed, because you have to call the bureau and identify yourself to a live person and they will ask security questions from your credit file.
[20:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	if not happy, you walk bacccck
[20:43]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> most things you can purchase with cash
[20:44]	IsambardPrince	This has nothing to do with that.
[20:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	and can have it refunded
[20:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	you mentioned the credit cartd recovery schemes
[20:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	they can be a lot of work
[20:44]	IsambardPrince	The credit bureaus have a file on nearly anyone who has ever done business with a bank or utility company.
[20:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	phonecalls, paperwork
[20:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	buy from vendors you trust, in person
[20:44]	IsambardPrince	Even if you do not want a loan, that doesn't mean a fraudster can't impersonate you and get one in your name.
[20:45]	IsambardPrince	You'll find out about the loan when the bank starts threatening to sue you because the fraudster obviously isn't going to pay.
[20:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	marisol mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyybe
[20:45]	schestowitz[TR2]	geez, barrier gonemad
[20:45]	IsambardPrince	Yes, MARICEL.
[20:45]	IsambardPrince	She pretended to be her husband and ruined his credit.
[20:45]	IsambardPrince	By taking out 9 credit cards she maxed out on garbage and crap they didn't need.
[20:45]	IsambardPrince	After the banks cut her off for doing the same thing.
[20:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	that is blacmail
[20:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	and fraud
[20:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	and she covers up the fraud
[20:46]	IsambardPrince	It is.
[20:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	by blacmmail
[20:46]	IsambardPrince	Then she bought a million dollar life insurance policy on Mandy and forged his signature.
[20:46]	IsambardPrince	It came to my PO Box because of a change of address.
[20:47]	IsambardPrince	And we contacted the insurance company and filed an Affidavit of Fraud and accused her of defrauding him.
[20:47]	TR News	No, Seriously! Your Ubuntu Can Run Arch Linux Apps Heres How "https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=Ok_oFKC9iHU
[20:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ok_oFKC9iHU )
[20:47]	TR News	Systemd from scratch https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=OHyWs323uPc
[20:47]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=OHyWs323uPc )
[20:47]	IsambardPrince	All they did was refund her money and cancel the policy and report her to the Department of Insurance and FinCEN.
[20:47]	TR News	Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Quick Overview https://www.yewtu.be/shorts/FClZ6cRnA1g
[20:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/shorts/FClZ6cRnA1g )
[20:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], She doesn't have any boundaries. She's a psychopath.
[20:48]	TR News	CentOS Stream 10 overview https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=RRoqTyarLIM
[20:48]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RRoqTyarLIM )
[20:48]	IsambardPrince	If the church made her their Treasurer, I guarantee she's spending their money on herself and putting fake entries in the accounting system.
[20:49]	IsambardPrince	Embezzlement can go on for years before anyone figures it out, but eventually they usually do.
[20:49]	TR News	New kernel boosts Linux performance, Mint makes big changes, Discord Backlash - Linux Weekly News https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=9ymhN8q3_d0
[20:49]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=9ymhN8q3_d0 )
[20:49]	IsambardPrince	Especially when it becomes egregious.
[20:49]	IsambardPrince	Like, it builds up to hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars over time.
[20:49]	TR News	I Tested 50+ Linux Distros in 2026! https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=TW-93uvVKPQ
[20:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=TW-93uvVKPQ )
[20:50]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Take a little of the church money, pay her AmEx cards.
[20:50]	TR News	Debian Linux Is Going Through A Crisis https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=ldoHviThNqQ
[20:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ldoHviThNqQ )
[20:50]	IsambardPrince	Maybe some for Mark too if he behaves and doesn't divorce her.
[20:50]	TR News	A Quick First Look AT iDeal OS https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=7HW1c-_mrrg"
[20:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=7HW1c-_mrrg )
[20:51]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I noticed that some tenant screening companies pull your credit report and look for past addresses to clue them in on where to search for a criminal record.
[20:51]	IsambardPrince	This was before the expungement. If you just disputed those addresses, they wouldn't search the local records.
[20:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  Recent Videos About GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Recent_Videos_About_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/02/21/Recent_Videos_About_GNU_Linux.gmi 
[20:53]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Recent Videos About GNU/Linux
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[21:05]	TR News	Techrights GNU/Linux Grew a Lot in Nicaragua https://techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/GNU_Linux_Grew_a_Lot_in_Nicaragua.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/02/21/GNU_Linux_Grew_a_Lot_in_Nicaragua.gmi 
[21:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights GNU/Linux Grew a Lot in Nicaragua
[21:10]	TR News	[uk] [photos] gemini://rainywhile.net/photos/2026-02-21/
[21:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> This was before the expungement. If you just disputed those addresses, they wouldn't search the local records.
[21:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	it is worse if your spouse calls you rapist in public
[21:12]	TR News	"I did my checklist before leaving earth, but I feel like I forgot something important... Not a fun feeling but I won't really know until I get settled." gemini://orbitaloutpost.club/~kaze/gemlog/2026-02-21-intransit.gmi
[21:14]	TR News	"The layoff was extremely abrupt. We had been given no indication that the organization faced any actual financial trouble, let alone the idea of shrinking its workforce. But my dismissal was effective immediately; I wasn't allowed to finish the workday or transfer any knowledge or outstanding tasks to the rest of my team" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202602/20260221-the-dream-job-gone.gmi
[21:15]	TR News	"My LDAP credentials were actually yanked out from under me while I was in the meeting in which they broke the news to me."
[21:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I got into a mood and played the Horst Wessel Song on my recorder from Fourth Grade.
[21:19]	IsambardPrince	It's in my brain now because of Wolfenstein 3d.
[21:20]	IsambardPrince	I wish I knew how to play that when I was in fourth grade.
[21:20]	IsambardPrince	They might have suspended me for a few days.
[21:24]	MinceR	"it's in my head now / it's in my mind now / it's in my face now / it's in my brain now"
[21:32]	MinceR	lol @ suspension
[21:32]	MinceR	would they have recognized it?
[21:35]	IsambardPrince	Who knows? People were not as dumb back then.
[21:36]	IsambardPrince	I did try ChromeOS Flex for a while. There's no Android runtime or Google Play store.
[21:36]	IsambardPrince	But it does have Crostini.
[21:36]	MinceR	sounds like a cocktail
[21:37]	IsambardPrince	It doesn't have the same security guarantees as the Chromebooks though, for many reasons, because it's targeting a PC with UEFI that's relying on Secure Boot to work.
[21:37]	IsambardPrince	And Secure Boot doesn't actually work.
[21:37]	MinceR	can you get adblocking to work on chromeos?
[21:38]	IsambardPrince	Yes, it uses ManifestV3 now. ublock-Origin does have a MV3 port.
[21:38]	IsambardPrince	And it's nowhere near as bad as some people suggest.
[21:38]	IsambardPrince	It doesn't have exactly the same abilities that MV2 did, but it works well in my observation.
[21:39]	IsambardPrince	Google was moving to MV3 for mostly good reasons.
[21:39]	IsambardPrince	MV2 did create some security issues and some of the problems affected the stability of the browser.
[21:40]	MinceR	meh
[21:40]	IsambardPrince	When you're designing something like an extensions system, the more you define it, the more abilities to extend the program go away, because when Firefox had XUL extensions, nothing was off limits, but they could make the browser crash or cause security problems if they were badly written.
[21:40]	MinceR	and since it was more capable, it gave people reason to use firefox, so, naturally, it had to go
[21:41]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, Firefox is falling behind Chrome a lot in web compatibility.
[21:41]	MinceR	all control must be in the hands of megacorporations based in nazi america
[21:41]	IsambardPrince	So when it fails to do something and you have to go open Chrome to handle that, why use Firefox?
[21:41]	IsambardPrince	Especially since Firefox has been buried under adware and spyware anyway.
[21:41]	IsambardPrince	And is more annoying than Chrome.
[21:41]	MinceR	well, recently there was a period when font rendering was fucked in chromium-based browsers
[21:42]	MinceR	so i started using firecocks more
[21:42]	MinceR	then i noticed that it used a lot more RAM than brave
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[23:35]	CrystalMath	why not librewolf?
[23:35]	CrystalMath	i can't stand chrome's idiotic engine
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[23:36]	MinceR	there's no librewolf package in void or in ports, and i'm not motivated to look further
[23:41]	MinceR	https://keepandroidopen.org/
[23:41]	TR Bot	 Keep Android Open
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