●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, August 23, 2026 ●● ● Aug 23 [00:02] *isak has quit (Quit: leaving) [00:03] *isak (~andreas@m4ykdtahh5hq8.irc) has joined #techrights [00:04] MinceR :) [00:07] admfubar we're safe for now!!... https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Gas-Turbine-Shortage-Just-Became-AIs-Biggest-Constraint.html [00:07] TR Bot Gas Turbine Shortage Just Became AIs Biggest Constraint | OilPrice.com [00:08] admfubar https://www.wired.com/story/flock-safety-os-investigate/ [00:08] TR Bot Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code | WIRED [00:21] *Guest21168 has quit (Ping timeout: 180 seconds) [00:52] *infecticide (quassel@A0D2877A.653BD565.72CA7C8.IP) has joined #techrights [00:53] *infecticide is now known as Guest64796 [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● Aug 23 [01:15] TR News "When I was 11, back in the mid-1970s, my parents bought me a transistor radio for Christmas. It was a Benkson medium wave and longwave portable, made in Hong Kong, which fitted nicely in the hand, ran for ever on a PP9 battery, and with it I discovered (although I didn't understand the physics at the time) the wonder of over-the-horizon radio communications." gemini://kdan.smol.pub/steam_radio [01:16] TR News "I start the first class in pursuit of my Masters degree in American History a little over a week from today and my focus has been on gathering books that will lean into a couple candidates for my thesis. Also, I am actively reading the required reading for the first course "From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods" by Martha Howell." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-21-reading.gmi [01:19] IsambardPrince MinceR: https://i.imgur.com/xfeHNnb.jpeg [01:19] schestowitz[TR2] good that you get a cat from a shelter [01:19] IsambardPrince Her name is Kiki. [01:19] IsambardPrince I decided to keep it. [01:19] IsambardPrince Like Kiki's Delivery Service. [01:20] TR News "This gemlog post turned out a bit like one of those those "using X-lang in production" articles, but with more sloppiness." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2026-08-22.gmi [01:21] TR News "Thundermail is (or will be) an email service operated by the folk behind Thunderbird, the open source email client under the Mozilla umbrella. It is currently in closed beta, with early access being offered in waves to people on a waitlist." gemini://gemini.bunburya.eu/gemlog/posts/2026-08-22-thundermail.gmi [01:21] TR News distance away gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/distance_away [01:23] TR News broken car gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/brokenCar [01:23] schestowitz[TR2] kiki is a nickname of a friend [01:23] schestowitz[TR2] real name kieran [01:24] MinceR :3 [01:24] TR News "A while ago I installed Devuan on one of my laptops. It took a few tries, probably due to user error, but I got it working. That machine (which I'm currently using) is not my primary, but I semi-regularly switch between stretches on certain laptops." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260822-devuan.txt [01:27] IsambardPrince [19:19] good that you get a cat from a shelter [01:27] IsambardPrince I wouldn't get one from a pet shop. [01:28] TR News Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [01:28] TR Bot Techrights [01:28] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 22/08/2026: Broken Car, Devuan, and Thundermail https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Gemini_Links_22_08_2026_Broken_Car_Devuan_and_Thundermail.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Gemini_Links_22_08_2026_Broken_Car_Devuan_and_Thundermail.gmi [01:28] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 22/08/2026: Broken Car, Devuan, and Thundermail [01:29] IsambardPrince Pet shops sponsor irresponsible and cruel breeding habits. [01:30] IsambardPrince Many cats have litters they can't take care of. The shelters get them all fixed up and ready to be adopted. [01:32] TR News "I is rare, but I know of a few managers at IBM who quit after being asked to do things to fire some of their employees." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0ejt3qg [01:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0ejt3qg ) [01:32] TR News "There are exceptions to the rule: Managers at IBM are useless POS." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0ejt3qg [01:32] TR News They ensure to extend the survival for their own undeserved paychecks for as long as possible. Managers follow the lead of the slimy Indian at the top, to lie, cheat, scam and kick the can down the road." https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_But_Mostly_in_Secret_PIPs_and_Voluntary_Red.shtml [01:32] TR Bot Techrights Mass Layoffs at IBM, But Mostly in Secret (PIPs and 'Voluntary' Redundancies) [01:33] TR News "When managers make decision, it is not based on ethics or morality. It is for their own survivals. Managers know quite well, they are useless POS." [01:33] IsambardPrince MinceR: They had a half off adoption fee day today. Lots of people there. [01:34] TR News "Indians generally don't even like other Indians unless they're from the same region of India, of the same caste, and speak the same language. Go to Blind or any other Indian dominated forum and you will constantly hear Telugu this, Gujarati that, etc. They stereotype and look down on each other all day. It's honestly disturbing and wouldn't be tolerated if it was coming from any other ethnicity" [01:34] TR News Mentioned caste https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0fksf6m [01:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0fksf6m ) [01:34] IsambardPrince Hmm, she heard my tea kettle and ran out of the kitchen. [01:34] schestowitz[TR2] :D [01:34] schestowitz[TR2] cute. [01:34] IsambardPrince Now she's up in the window looking out at the birds and trees. [01:34] schestowitz[TR2] kiki, that's your friend, kettle [01:35] TR News "Goals are usually defined in such a way that it is impossible to achieve them completely. The goal of IBM is termination (or firing/layoffs)." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm [01:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm ) [01:35] IsambardPrince The shelter said I have to go back on Monday so they can finish her distemper vaccination series. [01:36] TR News "PIP goals are mostly legalistic. Everything right now is about proving that they did nothing wrong by walking you to the door when they finally do that. Obviously, you should demonstrate your competence and worth in the coming days but understand that this is not a fair game; they want you gone." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx2djm [01:38] TR News "He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared." Sun Tzu https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy [01:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mdhdyy ) [01:39] TR News "In the final analysis, at IBM at least, "AI" has been nothing but cover for an unprecedented increase of outsourcing to India. There too they never show it has actually "replaced" the jobs of the original workers; they're simply occupying the same seats without regards to quality or outcome. Thanks to McKinsey that that's the IBM way." [01:39] TR News "IBM AI = substituting high cost labor for low cost labor accomplished via offshoring. There is a reason IBM NA headcount and Northern Europe headcount has gone down by 100k while Indias headcount has gone up by 100k. Its all about costs" [01:40] IsambardPrince She seems to like my recliner. [01:40] TR News "Another PIP, another dollar in Alvind's bonus" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0j6cr5d [01:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0j6cr5d ) [01:41] IsambardPrince She's growing very fast. I saw a list of her medical info and her weight increased by 12% in the last three weeks. [01:41] IsambardPrince She'll probably keep growing for about another 5-6 months. [01:41] TR News IBM mass layoffs "definitely coming you can feel it in the air during work hours" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx49z9 [01:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0hx49z9 ) [01:41] TR News "If past behavior holds true then late next week or early the following will tell the tale" [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] if leeloo made 12 years [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] then maybe you will have this one till you are 55 [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] carry thought [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] 55! [01:42] schestowitz[TR2] *scary [01:43] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:43] TR News "A fire sale to payoff the debts they accumulated buying other companies ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0gb74cq "Some useful info. here, plus, videos! https://www.persistent.com/partner-ecosystem/ibm/ " [01:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0gb74cq ) [01:43] TR Bot rejected: Malformed input to a URL function ( status 0 @ https://validate.perfdrive.com/?ssa=559f1999-b5d5-49ca-96b3-9a211f400b9c&ssb=75156294718&ssc=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.persistent.com%2Fpartner-ecosystem%2Fibm%2F&ssi=3c7549c8-d452-4cc0-9a21-e1950756cdc0&ssk=botmanager_support@radware.com&ssm=68335044113333794104826258687749&ssn=c1d4abdc9e970174f09f5b73e9501877ccd953315a7b-8933-4de2-a3232e&sso=298809b4-daba0c81ce1659bc3bba8bbdac1 ... [01:44] TR News IBM: "DamnI thought I was going to get a 2nd severance." https://old.reddit.com/r/IBM_Employees/s/NIb64DW7VI [01:44] TR Bot Welcome to Reddit [01:45] TR News "If the separation documents have been updated with the new dates, it should give an idea of when the next round of layoffs are hitting." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 [01:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1m0mxpee6 ) [01:47] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [01:48] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Probably longer. [01:48] IsambardPrince Leeloo was already 4-5 years old when I found her 11 years ago. [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] nice [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] well done [01:51] schestowitz[TR2] you were a good daddy to leeloo [01:55] TR News How Winning Happens https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/how-winning-happens/ [01:55] TR Bot Blog Archive How Winning Happens [01:59] IsambardPrince They have too many cats in almost every shelter. ● Aug 23 [02:00] IsambardPrince About half the cats in this shelter had to be adopted in pairs. [02:00] IsambardPrince Either because they were siblings or because they were sorted by ones that had Feline Leukemia Virus or something. [02:00] IsambardPrince You can't take a cat that has that home if you have one that doesn't have it. [02:01] IsambardPrince All it takes is a few seconds of horseplay and the one that doesn't have it gets it. [02:01] IsambardPrince From a bite or a scratch. [02:03] TR News (NEW): Clownflare Numbers: GNU/Linux Reaching 13% in China This Weekend https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Clownflare_Numbers_GNU_Linux_Reaching_13_in_China_This_Weekend.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Clownflare_Numbers_GNU_Linux_Reaching_13_in_China_This_Weekend.gmi [02:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Clownflare Numbers: GNU/Linux Reaching 13% in China This Weekend [02:06] *hvxgr_ has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [02:07] TR News Baidu up by a lot https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202608 [02:07] TR Bot Search Engine Market Share China | Statcounter Global Stats [02:09] TR News This one says Chrome 55% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202608 this one says 80% https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=browser&dt=14d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP so which is it? Very far apart... [02:09] TR Bot Browser Market Share China | Statcounter Global Stats [02:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=browser&dt=14d&loc=CN&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [02:11] TR News Clownflare does not get much international data out of China, only 2.5% of the whole https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=location&dt=14d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP [02:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=location&dt=14d&filters=deviceType%253DDESKTOP ) [02:19] TR News Techrights Clownflare Data US-Centric https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Clownflare_Data_US_Centric.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Clownflare_Data_US_Centric.gmi [02:19] TR Bot Techrights Clownflare Data US-Centric [02:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Mom's landlord got mad at her for feeding stray cats. [02:20] IsambardPrince I don't know why. That landlord is notorious for letting tenants move in when they're paying their first week's rent with a trustee voucher and it's the last money she gets. [02:20] IsambardPrince Other people tear things up. [02:20] IsambardPrince Move in vicious dogs. [02:22] *Disconnected (Connection timed out). [02:30] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]: Mom's landlord got mad at her for feeding stray cats. [02:30] schestowitz[TR2] i heard a story like this months ago [02:30] admfubar https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking [02:30] TR Bot 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs - Phoronix [02:30] schestowitz[TR2] they should thank the person feeding [02:30] schestowitz[TR2] admfubar: yes, covered that [02:31] admfubar :) [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/21/Slop_ware_Nobody_Knows_What_Code_Goes_Into_Linux_and_Most_Devel.shtml [02:31] TR Bot Techrights Slop-ware: Nobody Knows What Code Goes Into Linux and Most Developers Cannot Understand the Rust Code (Even If They Tried) [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] bnots run a shitshow [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] and many devs will leave [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] not "replaced by bots" [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] just bots demoralising them [02:31] schestowitz[TR2] and nobody checking the code [02:34] TR News Techrights Microsoft to Its Workers in April-May: You're Too Old, Go Away. Microsoft in August: Young People, Go Away. https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Microsoft_to_Its_Workers_in_April_May_You_re_Too_Old_Go_Away_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Microsoft_to_Its_Workers_in_April_May_You_re_Too_Old_Go_Away_Mi.gmi [02:34] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft to Its Workers in April-May: You're Too Old, Go Away. Microsoft in August: Young People, Go Away. [02:45] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 22, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_August_22_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_August_22_2026.gmi [02:45] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, August 22, 2026 [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-220826.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-220826.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-220826.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-220826.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, August 22, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-08-22.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-08-22.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-08-22.txt [02:55] *hvxgr_ (~wl2v_usrn@freenode-ong.pov.c33bnd.IP) has joined #techrights ● Aug 23 [03:06] TR News Offline Birthdays https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/offline-birthdays/ [03:06] TR Bot Blog Archive Offline Birthdays [03:11] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [03:11] *Righty (~Username@qnjnrbiaw9qfs.irc) has joined #techrights [03:12] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [03:12] *Righty (~Username@b2h72tvf2up88.irc) has joined #techrights [03:36] *\join_subline has quit (Quit: leaving) [03:37] *\join_subline (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights [03:38] TR News Slopmatt is now openly pro-slop. This is unhelpful to his position or any moral advantage he ever pretended to have. [03:39] TR News "slop-o-matt-ic - being pro-slop is not what it appears to be on the surface there is some kind of threat underneath, something more evil than it first appears" [03:40] TR News Being pro-slop is very common among non-Computer Scientists who work in computing, i.e. imposters [03:41] TR News Anon: I see more and more people promoting slop out of some kind of personal fright (from what I can tell). It's not quite like what happened to Patrick Durusau but there something nasty under the surface... https://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&query1=Durusau&set1=any [03:41] TR Bot Techrights Search ● Aug 23 [04:19] TR News 10cc Still Active https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/10cc-still-active/ [04:19] TR Bot Blog Archive 10cc Still Active [04:19] admfubar https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/23/0027208/battery-fires-at-recycling-centres-are-costing-the-uk-1bn-a-year [04:19] TR Bot Battery Fires At Recycling Centres Are Costing the UK 1bn a Year - Slashdot [04:21] TR News Signal-to-Noise Ratio https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/signal-to-noise-ratio/ [04:21] TR Bot Blog Archive Signal-to-Noise Ratio [04:39] TR News Focusing More on GNU/Linux, as It Grows Fast This Summer https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/focusing-more-on-gnulinux-as-it-grows-fast-this-summer/ [04:39] TR Bot Blog Archive Focusing More on GNU/Linux, as It Grows Fast This Summer ● Aug 23 [05:00] MinceR https://i.ibb.co/QFqHpFqq/bang.jpg [05:00] *Now talking on #techrights [05:00] *irc.soylentnews.org sets mode +n #techrights [05:00] *irc.soylentnews.org sets mode +t #techrights [05:01] TR News Techrights "AGI" is Decades Old and It Never Found a Viable Business Model or Real, Actually Useful Use Cases https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/AGI_is_Decades_Old_and_It_Never_Found_a_Viable_Business_Model_o.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/AGI_is_Decades_Old_and_It_Never_Found_a_Viable_Business_Model_o.gmi [05:01] TR Bot Techrights "AGI" is Decades Old and It Never Found a Viable Business Model or Real, Actually Useful Use Cases [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: haha [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] took me a while to figure out whewre the comma goes [05:03] schestowitz[TR2] before "my" [05:06] *Guest64796 has quit (Quit: http://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. Anywhere.) [05:06] MinceR :> [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] my oh my [05:16] MinceR (cat) https://i.ibb.co/bMQR10Kc/emoji.jpg [05:16] *infecticide (quassel@A0D2877A.653BD565.72CA7C8.IP) has joined #techrights [05:17] *infecticide is now known as Guest2255 [05:23] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Mom's landlord got really shitty with her while my mom was in the ER over mom feeding the stray cats. [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: they should get none [05:23] schestowitz[TR2] my own take on emojis is like this [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] man or woman sends some emoji [05:24] IsambardPrince Mom thinks it was the neighbor in the other side of the duplex that ratted her out. [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] and you want to render if somehow [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] or interpret it [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] not like utf8_x3498347498374398 [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] so that forces you to get some emji lib [05:24] IsambardPrince The guy is just a tenant and apparently he's out there every two days mowing the lawn whether it needs it or not. [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] and they make complex ones [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] and add colours [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] like black hanmd thumbs up [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] green hand thbumbs up [05:24] schestowitz[TR2] it bloats your device [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] and sometimes the device caches it in RAM [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] so oyou need a device with more RAM [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] just to render some buffer [05:25] IsambardPrince I'd mow the lawn here if they supplied the mower and gas and knocked $50 off my rent every time I mowed. [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] with emojis in it [05:25] IsambardPrince Otherwise nope. [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] you want 20 cat photos? [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] in cache? [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] for some irc session/buffer? [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] no thanks! [05:25] MinceR i think emoji are fine, they just don't belong in unicode [05:25] IsambardPrince Why would you mow the lawn for free, and do it every two days [05:25] IsambardPrince With your own mower and gas. [05:25] IsambardPrince That's just insane. [05:26] MinceR they should have avoided han unification instead of adding emoji [05:26] IsambardPrince That's beyond insane. [05:26] IsambardPrince You're handling something you pay rent for. [05:26] schestowitz[TR2] right [05:27] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I worked out a deal like that with a landlord once. [05:27] IsambardPrince I cleaned the common areas and did landscaping. [05:27] IsambardPrince He credited my rent. [05:28] IsambardPrince It ended up going further. He paid me cash to do painting and stain a deck and some other odd jobs. [05:29] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I've done some funny stuff before. [05:29] IsambardPrince Mom and Dave's house wasn't wired for cable. [05:29] IsambardPrince Comcast wanted $350 to come out there and do it. [05:29] IsambardPrince So I climbed the line and ran cable to the house and through all the rooms they wanted a TV in. [05:30] IsambardPrince You couldn't use it without subscribing and getting a descrambler box so it wasn't "pirate cable". [05:30] IsambardPrince I completely gutted that house. [05:30] IsambardPrince The county tax assessor has no idea. [05:31] IsambardPrince They've been taxing it at an unapproved value that does not account for any of that. [05:31] IsambardPrince *unimproved [05:31] IsambardPrince (tired) [05:31] IsambardPrince If you make improvements, you have to get a building permit and have the assessor come out and look so they can adjust your tax bill later. [05:32] IsambardPrince The government wants to steal your money. They say it's to make sure you're "up to code" but it really has nothing to do with that. [05:32] IsambardPrince They want to see if they can double your property tax bill when you're done even though they did nothing to improve your house. [05:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Trump's tariffs on Canada will make life shittier and more expensive down here. [05:33] IsambardPrince But it's going to hurt the Canadians more. [05:33] IsambardPrince Even if they retaliate it will hurt them more. [05:34] IsambardPrince Carney is up there acting tough and saying "war", but it's Canada so whatever. [05:35] IsambardPrince Carney is the Prime Minister of a country that accuses the United States of "signing deals in pencil", I assume he includes the Paris Accords, while Canada is suing us over getting rid of Keystone XL which is how they wanted to sell the filthiest oil in the world to China [05:35] IsambardPrince They signed Paris too, and they "signed it in pencil". [05:35] IsambardPrince They're more worried about pissing off oil politics in Alberta than they are about an international agreement on the climate. [05:36] IsambardPrince At the end of the day, everyone always wants to take care of their own first. [05:36] IsambardPrince And if that means "signing deals in pencil", well, Canada does too. [05:37] schestowitz[TR2] carney is a smart man [05:37] schestowitz[TR2] i spoke to my dad about him yesterday [05:37] schestowitz[TR2] he knwos that [05:37] schestowitz[TR2] 1) canadians don't trust cheeto) [05:37] schestowitz[TR2] 2) being "anti-cheeto" is helpful to him poltiically [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] 3) cheto will capitulate at the end [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] he was in goldman sachs [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] my dad didn't know that [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] he thought he was in the public sector mostly [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] after he was our head of banksters [05:38] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, he also holds irish passport [05:39] IsambardPrince Yeah, the Irish, they're good at two things. [05:39] IsambardPrince Car bombs, and carb bombs (beer). [05:40] IsambardPrince Horrible at everything else. [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] your mom is irtish [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] harmine [05:41] schestowitz[TR2] *mone [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] and iirc, your dad was some sort of nordic something [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] or german [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] felta the vinking? [05:42] IsambardPrince LOL [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] Carl VHS Felta [05:42] IsambardPrince A lot of dad's family tree was German. [05:42] schestowitz[TR2] *viking [05:43] IsambardPrince Oh he easily had every movie they ever put on VHS down there in banker's boxes. [05:43] IsambardPrince It was unbelievable. [05:43] IsambardPrince 90% of that was stuff we rented and ran off to blanks. [05:43] IsambardPrince The Germans are better at beer than the Irish. [05:44] IsambardPrince They're better at everything than the Irish for that matter. [05:46] IsambardPrince They have a "world beer" selection at World Market. [05:47] IsambardPrince This is not the stuff you knock back for 50 cents a bottle from the supermarket. [05:48] IsambardPrince Most of what I drink is at that price level just because I'm fairly broke. [05:49] TR News Techrights The Slop Industry Bribed the Media to Pretend It Has Something New and Revolutionary. Now It Bribes Politicians Too. Anything to Avoid Scrutiny and Regulation. https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/The_Slop_Industry_Bribed_the_Media_to_Pretend_It_Has_Something_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/The_Slop_Industry_Bribed_the_Media_to_Pretend_It_Has_Something_.gmi [05:49] TR Bot Techrights The Slop Industry Bribed the Media to Pretend It Has Something New and Revolutionary. Now It Bribes Politicians Too. Anything to Avoid Scrutiny and Regulation. [05:51] TR News BS SPAM about HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI HEY HI https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/22/if-youre-not-using-ai-to-attack-your-own-systems-your-adversaries-will/5291346 follow the hype budget https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/14/The_Register_MS_Has_Just_Published_AI_Webspam_That_Mentions_AI_.shtml [05:51] TR Bot If you're not using AI to attack your own systems, your adversaries will [05:51] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Has Just Published "AI" Webspam That Mentions "AI" 54 Times. It Was Paid to Do This. ● Aug 23 [06:00] TR News (NEW): Not a Mistake, Not "Bots": GNU/Linux Really is Growing Very Fast https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Not_a_Mistake_Not_Bots_GNU_Linux_Really_is_Growing_Very_Fast.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Not_a_Mistake_Not_Bots_GNU_Linux_Really_is_Growing_Very_Fast.gmi [06:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Not a Mistake, Not "Bots": GNU/Linux Really is Growing Very Fast [06:07] TR News Techrights Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Microsoft_is_in_Double_Trouble_in_Singapore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Microsoft_is_in_Double_Trouble_in_Singapore.gmi [06:07] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is in Double Trouble in Singapore [06:12] TR News "That triggered 50-percent US tariffs impacting some $20 billion worth of goods, from hockey sticks to cement, effective Saturday." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/canadas-carney-stands-up-to-trump-despite-risks-1875992551 | Source: RTL [06:12] TR Bot Canada's Carney stands up to Trump, despite risks - RTL Today [06:12] TR News (NEW): Windows is a Minority Platform in Singapore https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Windows_is_a_Minority_Platform_in_Singapore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Windows_is_a_Minority_Platform_in_Singapore.gmi [06:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Windows is a Minority Platform in Singapore [06:12] TR News "Weve been under no illusions. We recognized, from the start, that America has changed." https://thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-why-i-rejected-trumps-trade-deal/ | Source: The Walrus [06:12] TR Bot Mark Carney: Why I Rejected Trumps Trade Deal | The Walrus [06:12] TR News Patents at stakes here. It is about MONOPOLIES. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/08/why-us-canada-trade-talks-fell-apart/688386/ | Source: The Atlantic [06:12] TR Bot Why the U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Fell Apart - The Atlantic [06:12] TR News "Who ends up paying the more than $50 billion a year spent on these ads? Its not the sellers." https://seths.blog/2026/08/the-amazon-tax/ | Source: Seth Godin [06:12] TR Bot The Amazon tax | Seth's Blog [06:13] TR News "Sure, Apple Pay will work, but so will Google Pay and Samsung Pay, other niche digital wallets, as well as just tapping your plastic card to the reader." https://birchtree.me/blog/walmart-is-the-last-major-us-company-to-add-tap-to-pay/ | Source: Matt Birchler [06:13] TR Bot Walmart is the last major US company to add Tap to Pay [06:13] TR News "In May 2025, streaming accounted for 44.8% of total US television viewing, compared with 20.1% for broadcast and 24.1% for cable. That gives sports companies a very different starting point when they think about where live coverage belongs." https://sqmagazine.co.uk/polymarket-live-sports-data-streaming/ | Source: SQ Magazine [06:13] TR Bot Polymarket Enters Live Sports With Data and Streaming [06:14] TR News "Many people lost even more weight," https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-08-22/the-business-of-hunger-in-ice-centers-migrants-spend-thousands-of-dollars-to-avoid-eating-dog-food.html | Source: El Pas [06:14] TR Bot The business of hunger in ICE centers: Migrants spend thousands of dollars to avoid eating dog food | U.S. | EL PAS English [06:14] TR News "for a president of the United States to employ a personal lawyer to make such a legal threat takes Trumps rage to a new and bizarre level." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/he-really-is-stark-raving-mad | Source: Robert Reich [06:14] TR Bot He Really IS Stark-Raving Mad - Robert Reich [06:15] TR News "Max Lederer, publisher of Stars and Stripes, as well as the newspapers editor-in-chief, Erik Slavin, and a reporter, Lara Korte, were all fired on Friday for insubordination." https://www.notus.org/defense/pentagon-defense-department-fires-editor-publisher-stars-and-stripes-military-newspaper | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute [06:15] TR Bot Pentagon Purges Leaders at Military Newspaper Stars & Stripes - NOTUS News of the United States [06:15] TR News "informed that the Department of Defense is firing me for insubordination after I told a CBS reporter that I work for Stars and Stripes not the Pentagon, not any administration, and not any policy maker." https://truthout.org/articles/journalists-fired-from-military-newspaper-for-asserting-editorial-independence/ | Source: TruthOut [06:15] TR Bot Journalists Fired From Military Newspaper for Asserting Editorial Independence | Truthout [06:16] TR News "occupies a unique place in American journalism." https://www.salon.com/2026/08/22/hegseth-fires-stars-and-stripes-journalists-deepens-pentagon-press-crackdown/ | Source: Salon [06:16] TR Bot fires "Stars and Stripes" journalists, deepens Pentagon press crackdown - Salon.com [06:16] TR News Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK https://techrights.org/n/2025/11/11/Like_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Donald_Trump_is_Out_of.shtml [06:16] TR Bot Techrights Like the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Donald Trump is Out of Time and Has Jurisdiction Issues in the UK [06:17] TR News "A Moscow court sentences exiled comedian Semyon Slepakov (in absentia) to 400 hours of community service over a song mocking Putin as an eternal little president" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/08/21/a-moscow-court-sentences-exiled-comedian-semyon-slepakov-in-absentia-to-400-hours-of-community-service-over-a-song-mocking-putin-as-an-eternal-little-president | Source: Meduza [06:17] TR Bot A Moscow court sentences exiled comedian Semyon Slepakov (in absentia) to 400 hours of community service over a song mocking Putin as an eternal little president Meduza [06:17] TR News "This post assumes a basic familiarity with the Rust programming language. It will only explain Rust constructs when we encounter code that wouldn't appear in an introductory book or tutorial." https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/concurrent-servers-part-7-rust/ | Source: Eli Bendersky [06:17] TR Bot Concurrent Servers: Part 7 - Rust - Eli Bendersky's website [06:17] TR News "Which in turn means that people can, and do, choose based on the marketing of languages much more." https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fast-hard-code/ | Source: Armin Ronacher [06:17] TR Bot Fast and Hard Code | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [06:19] TR News "These two guys was Mamdani and Hasan Piker at the time he said it. It has since expanded." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-framework-needs-the-enemy | Source: Mike Brock [06:19] TR Bot The Framework Needs the Enemy - by Mike Brock [06:19] TR News "OpenRouter helps customers select different AI models to perform different tasks, depending on their specific needs and budget." https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/16/stripe-will-reportedly-acquire-ai-gateway-startup-openrouter-for-7b/ | Source: TechCrunch [06:19] TR Bot will reportedly acquire AI gateway startup OpenRouter for $7B+ | TechCrunch [06:19] TR News "With a deal, OpenRouters business could be destined for commoditization, and thats actually kind of the point." https://www.semafor.com/article/08/21/2026/stripe-agrees-to-acquires-openrouter | Source: Semafor Inc [06:19] TR Bot agrees to acquire OpenRouter for $8 billion | Semafor [06:19] TR News "I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies." https://www.seangoedecke.com/you-should-never-be-angry-at-work/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [06:19] TR Bot You should never be angry at work [06:20] TR News "In recent discussions with potential investors, Anthropics bankers said the San Francisco company could seek to raise more than $100 billion in its initial public offering" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/anthropic-ipo-100-billion.html | Source: New York Times [06:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/technology/anthropic-ipo-100-billion.html ) [06:20] TR News "The memo addresses the Democratic campaign to unseat Ohio Senator Jon Husted, who filled the hole left when JD Vance ascended to the Vice Presidency." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/leaked-memo-data-centers-ai-ohio-republicans-election | Source: Futurism [06:20] TR Bot Leaked Memo Shows Republicans Are Terrified of the Backlash Against AI Data Centers [06:21] TR News "I suspect that the gun naming stemmed from the fact that longboards, 12 feet long, originally made to ride massive waves at places like Hawaiis pipeline" https://artlung.com/blog/2026/08/22/handgun-discussed-handgun-lost/ | Source: Joe Crawford [06:21] TR Bot handgun: discussed; handgun: lost ~ 22 Aug 2026 [06:22] TR News "I have spent much of my life despairing at how to explain my love of, and connection to, wild places." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-08-22 | Source: Dr Molly Tov [06:22] TR Bot i am the lorax and i speak for the trees. the trees say "why don't you call?" [06:22] TR News "This research utilizes historical wind observations from the English Channel to reconstruct a 330-year record of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and East Atlantic (EA) patterns." https://ocean2climate.org/2026/08/22/a-330-year-record-of-ships-logbooks-reveal-strong-interplay-between-the-north-atlantic-oscillation-nao-and-east-atlantic-ea-patterns/ | Source: Sang-Ki Lee [06:22] TR Bot A 330-Year Record of Ships Logbooks Reveal Strong Interplay Between theNorth Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)andEast Atlantic (EA)patterns Ocean to Climate [06:22] TR News "In one image, this is why politicians are screaming at anyone who will listen that they loathe these data centers just as much as you do and want to stop Big Tech from building any more." https://www.vox.com/today-explained-newsletter/500158/data-centers-2026-election-texas-ohio-michigan | Source: Vox [06:22] TR Bot centers are being built across the US and Americans are fed up. Its shaking up the 2026 elections. | Vox [06:25] TR News "Jason Arday wasnt the first person to have been hounded by the UK press and he wont be last." https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-arday-reckoning | Source: Carole Cadwalladr [06:25] TR Bot The Jason Arday Reckoning - by Carole Cadwalladr [06:27] TR News "coordinated, multi-domain campaign" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-marines-warning-personnel-bases/ | Source: Task And Purpose [06:27] TR Bot Sailors and Marines advised to hide military ties on social media [06:28] TR News "Despite the evidence against him, the jury declined to indict Morelock, resulting in all charges being dropped." https://futurism.com/future-society/grand-jury-ohio-flock-alpr-surveillance-felony-legal | Source: Futurism [06:28] TR Bot Grand Jury Declines to Indict Man Caught on Camera Destroying Flock Pole [06:28] TR News "at distances that leave subjects of surveillance completely unaware of the spy in the sky." https://futurism.com/future-society/flock-quietly-selling-drones-scan-license-plates | Source: Futurism [06:28] TR Bot Flock Is Quietly Selling Powerful Drones That Scan License Plates From the Sky [06:28] TR News "Federal agencies work hard to secure their online presence, but some website compromises are being uncovered through an unlikely source." https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/08/a-surprising-source-is-helping-uncover-compromised-government-websites/ | Source: Federal News Network [06:28] TR Bot A surprising source is helping uncover compromised government websites | Federal News Network [06:41] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_159_Out_of_200_Telling_Courts_False_Infor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_159_Out_of_200_Telling_Courts_False_Infor.gmi [06:41] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 159 Out of 200: Telling Courts False Information and Spoon-feeding Them Insults, Hoping or Expecting Them to Repeat These Insults [06:47] TR News "I caught wind of the news that MacStories is back posting on X, the everything platform, and that seems to have caused some backlash." https://manuelmoreale.com/thoughts/on-values-morals-and-doing-business | Source: Manuel Moreale [06:47] TR Bot On values, morals, and doing business Manu [06:47] TR News "I understand why MacStories returned to X. My concern is how the decision was handled and communicated to its team, members, and wider community." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/i-understand-why-macstories-returned-to-x-but-not-how-it-happened/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [06:47] TR Bot How MacStories Handled Its Return to X - CybersecKyle [06:47] TR News "one of the largest recoveries ever obtained in a COPPA case." https://www.theverge.com/tech/983531/tiktok-settle-doj-lawsuit-coppa | Source: The Verge [06:47] TR Bot TikTok will pay $400 million to settle DOJ child privacy lawsuit | The Verge [06:48] TR News "The case, In re: Social Media Adolscent Addiction/Personal Injury Products Litigation, is a consolidated multi-district litigation (MDL) under 28 USC 1407." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/meta-disputes-claims-of-deliberately-addicting-minors-as-landmark-social-media-trial-begins/ | Source: JURIST [06:48] TR Bot Meta disputes claims of deliberately addicting minors as landmark social media trial begins - JURIST - News [06:48] TR News "The destination is irrelevant, for this is a show an exhibition of audacity, lawlessness and recklessness that draws viewers to TikTok" https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/22/deadly-tiktok-motorway-driving-trend-horrifies-ireland | Source: The Guardian UK [06:48] TR Bot Theyre thinking about the likes: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland | Social media | The Guardian [06:48] TR News "LinkedIn actually announced a Seems like AI slop button on July 30th, and the company says that a lot of people have already used it." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/983502/linkedin-ai-slop-button-one-million-people-message | Source: The Verge [06:48] TR Bot Over 1 million people have clicked LinkedIns AI slop button | The Verge [06:48] TR News "Researchers at Adversa AI discovered a new attack technique and named it Cryptographic Context Injection." https://www.securityweek.com/encrypted-prompts-bypass-ai-safety-guardrails-in-grok-and-gemini/ | Source: Security Week [06:48] TR Bot Prompts Bypass AI Safety Guardrails in Grok and Gemini - SecurityWeek [06:49] TR News "But were they really learning, or were they using AI as a crutch to breeze through the assignments?" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/results-high-school-students-ai | Source: Futurism [06:49] TR Bot The Results of Middle and High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous [06:49] TR News "Its not the only slop targeted at children that tends to follow a formula." https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-kids-stories-patterns | Source: Futurism [06:49] TR Bot AI-Generated Children's Stories Contain Bizarre Patterns [06:49] TR News "I'm not predicting elections, and I'm not making a claim of causality." https://onlinecollegemathteacher.blogspot.com/2026/08/does-state-life-expectancy-correlate.html | [06:49] TR Bot Online College Math Teacher: Does state life expectancy correlate with political party voting? [06:49] TR News "I read on a few forums that UV was effective at killing mould spores, so I disassembled the case and put the various components out on the balcony for some Australian sun." https://www.rubenerd.au/musty-computer-use-uv/ | Source: Ruben Schade [06:49] TR Bot Rubenerd: Musty computer? Use UV [06:49] TR News "California nearly reached universal coverage, with a record 95% insured, but budget cuts and federal rules now threaten to double the uninsured rate by 2030, stripping coverage from 2.2 million residents." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-08-21/california-nearly-achieved-universal-healthcare-now-millions-are-losing-coverage | Source: Los Angeles Times [06:49] TR Bot California nearly achieved universal healthcare. Now, millions are losing coverage - Los Angeles Times [06:50] TR News "I could never get it to understand me, saying that I ended up just hanging up and not bothering to try and book an appointment" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/patients-skipping-doctor-ai-receptionist | Source: Futurism [06:50] TR Bot Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because AI "Receptionists" Can't Understanding What They're Saying [06:51] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [06:54] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:54] TR News Techrights Links 23/08/2026: Slop "Children's Stories Contain Bizarre Patterns" and "Butterflies at the One Garden" https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Links_23_08_2026_Slop_Children_s_Stories_Contain_Bizarre_Patter.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Links_23_08_2026_Slop_Children_s_Stories_Contain_Bizarre_Patter.gmi [06:54] TR Bot Techrights Links 23/08/2026: Slop "Children's Stories Contain Bizarre Patterns" and "Butterflies at the One Garden" ● Aug 23 [07:13] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [07:35] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [07:37] TR News (NEW): 17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/17_GNOME_Extensions_To_Help_You_Customization_Desktop_Looks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/17_GNOME_Extensions_To_Help_You_Customization_Desktop_Looks.gmi [07:37] TR Bot Tux Machines 17 GNOME Extensions To Help You Customization Desktop Looks [07:39] TR News (NEW): Proton OS Debian-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Proton_OS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Proton_OS_Debian_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [07:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Proton OS Debian-based Linux distribution [07:52] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:52] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:54] TR News (NEW): Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/19/Framework_Laptop_12_gets_Fedora_KDE_Linux_on_pre_builts_along_w.gmi [07:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Framework Laptop 12 gets Fedora KDE Linux on pre-builts, along with new Intel Core Series 3 processors [07:55] TR News (NEW): 3 signs you've outgrown Linux Mint https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/3_signs_you_ve_outgrown_Linux_Mint.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/3_signs_you_ve_outgrown_Linux_Mint.gmi [07:55] TR Bot Tux Machines 3 signs you've outgrown Linux Mint [07:59] TR News (NEW): Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linux_isn_t_for_everyone_but_these_5_types_of_people_should_ser.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linux_isn_t_for_everyone_but_these_5_types_of_people_should_ser.gmi [07:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux isn't for everyone, but these 5 types of people should seriously consider it ● Aug 23 [08:02] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:03] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:09] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [08:10] TR News (NEW): Debian GNU/Linux is 33 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Debian_GNU_Linux_is_33.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/16/Debian_GNU_Linux_is_33.gmi [08:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian GNU/Linux is 33 [08:11] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [08:12] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:19] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:21] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [08:25] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 23 [09:58] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Aug 23 [10:02] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [10:06] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:20] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [10:34] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [10:56] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Aug 23 [11:00] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [11:10] TR News "Almost Nobody Pays Attention to Web Standards Anymore - SoylentNews" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/08/21/1222236 [11:10] TR Bot Almost Nobody Pays Attention to Web Standards Anymore - SoylentNews [11:10] TR News "Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation - The New York Times" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.r3Ue.GTc_tOhX0qSn [11:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7VA.r3Ue.GTc_tOhX0qSn ) [11:10] TR News "The DHH Problem by @davidcelis" x https://davidcel.is/articles/the-dhh-problem [11:10] TR Bot The DHH Problem by @davidcelis [11:12] TR News notice that they kept it out of the newscycle until the could claim to have a patch https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-rolls-out-22-fresh-security-patches/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/08/19/Microsoft_s_Active_Directory_AD_and_Entra_Are_National_Security.shtml [11:12] TR Bot Patches Exploited Entra ID Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [11:12] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Active Directory ("AD") and "Entra" Are National Security Threats [11:13] TR News siliconangle is bribed by slop pyramid scheme and it shows. siliconangle does exactly what it is paid to do, which is basically advocate for white-collar criminals. https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/21/politics-hits-data-centers-openai-falls-behind-anthropic-and-now-ai-is-too-big-to-fail-quietly/ [11:13] TR Bot hits data centers, OpenAI falls behind Anthropic and now AI is too big to fail... quietly - SiliconANGLE [11:13] TR News Wine 11.16 brings more ARM64 support improvements | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-16-brings-more-arm64-support-improvements/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/wine-11-16-brings-more-arm64-support-improvements/ [11:13] TR Bot 11.16 brings more ARM64 support improvements | GamingOnLinux [11:20] TR News "I had some time off over the past few weeks and, looking for a change from playing with ARM7, I picked up my Terasic DE0-Nano-SOC." https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2026-08-22/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant [11:20] TR Bot JP's Website 2026-08-22 Why aren't my two Cortex-A9 cores cache coherent? [11:20] TR News "Which one would you have chosen?" https://boffosocko.com/2026/08/22/comparison-of-the-1971-hermes-3000-and-the-1971-sears-newport/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [11:20] TR Bot | Chris Aldrich [11:21] TR News "Digital or analog, the common ground here is that we all thought that some project was cool enough to warrant the sweat of learning enough to do it" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/you-gotta-want-it/ | Source: Hackaday [11:21] TR Bot Gotta Want It | Hackaday [11:21] TR News "The gift will directly support ARRL programs and activities, including the ARRL STEM education initiative within the Education and Technology Program" https://www.arrl.org/news/view/entrepreneur-and-amateur-radio-operator-invests-in-the-next-generation-of-problem-solvers | Source: ARRL [11:21] TR Bot Entrepreneur and Amateur Radio Operator Invests in the Next Generation of Problem Solvers [11:21] TR News "The ABA continues to maintain that it is operating well within the Education Departments requirements." https://newrepublic.com/post/214597/trump-american-bar-association-power-accreditation | Source: New Republic [11:21] TR Bot Trump Moves to Strip American Bar Association of Its Power | The New Republic [11:24] TR News "University students complaining about money is hardly a modern phenomenon." https://www.medievalists.net/2026/08/letters-students-middle-ages/ | Source: Medievalists.net [11:24] TR Bot Dad, Send Money: Letters from Students in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net [11:24] TR News "Suppose you wanted to find the distance between Earth and Mars over time. To first approximation, both planets orbit the sun in elliptic orbits in the same plane." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/08/22/inclination/ | Source: John D Cook [11:24] TR Bot The difference orbit inclination makes [11:25] TR News "Mathematical Discourse publishes research talks in pure mathematics of the highest quality, promoting a culture which values communication as an essential part of the research process." https://www.mathematicaldiscourse.org/about | [11:25] TR Bot About - Mathematical Discourse [11:25] TR News "Our goal is to promote and nourish a culture which values communication as an essential part of the research process." https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/mathematical-discourse/ | Source: Terence Tao [11:25] TR Bot Mathematical Discourse | What's new [11:25] TR News "This generalizes the famous theorem of Szemerdi in two ways: firstly, by considering polynomial progressions instead of arithmetic progressions" https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/20/quantitative-bounds-for-sets-lacking-polynomial-progressions-with-shifted-prime-difference/ | Source: Terence Tao [11:25] TR Bot Quantitative bounds for sets lacking polynomial progressions with shifted prime difference | What's new [11:25] TR News "If youve been to my site beforeyou may have noticed a bit of a change since yesterday." https://burgeonlab.com/notes/2026/0822-2012/ | Source: Naty S [11:25] TR Bot the Revamp BurgeonLab [11:26] TR News "Today I saw a question posted on Reddit from someone whos deploying to Mildenhall from the US." https://petewarden.com/2026/08/22/how-to-see-hidden-east-anglia-as-a-us-service-member/ | Source: Pete Warden [11:26] TR Bot How to see hidden East Anglia as a US service member Pete Warden's blog [11:26] TR News "Finding your voice aint like finding lost keys. Its not like solving the mystery of why your keys are always in the last place you look." https://robertbirming.com/your-voice-is-here/ | Source: Robert Birming [11:26] TR Bot Your voice is here Robert Birming [11:27] TR News "Ribbons and medals, though, do not quite capture the breadth of Hotine's work. His greatest memorial is an artifact of his work: squat concrete pillars surmounted by a triangular brass plate" https://computer.rip/2026-08-22-figure-of-the-earth.html | Source: J B Crawford [11:27] TR Bot the figure of the earth [11:41] *\join_podcast has quit (Quit: leaving) [11:44] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Has Been Measured at 14% in Italy, 13% Last Week https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/GNU_Linux_Has_Been_Measured_at_14_in_Italy_13_Last_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/GNU_Linux_Has_Been_Measured_at_14_in_Italy_13_Last_Week.gmi [11:44] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Has Been Measured at 14% in Italy, 13% Last Week [11:47] TR News GNU/Linux has grown some more this morning https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-200902-202608 [11:47] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats [11:47] TR News "EPUB is a zip file that contains some metadata files and a bunch of XHTML. That is all." https://www.jmduke.com/posts/epub.html | Source: Justin Duke [11:47] TR Bot EPUB is not that scary | Applied Cartography [11:48] TR News "How hard can emails be? Or so I thought. Boy, was I wrong. This post is basically me fucking around with email infrastructure and finding out the hard way." https://yashgarg.dev/posts/the-schrodinger-email/ | Source: Yash Garg [11:48] TR Bot The Schrdinger Email [11:49] TR News "The Java implementation is much more sophisticated, and it is highly accelerated." https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/ | Source: Daniel Lemire [11:49] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/ ) [11:49] TR News "This is part 8 in a series of posts on writing concurrent network servers." https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2026/concurrent-servers-part-8-go/ | Source: Eli Bendersky [11:49] TR Bot Concurrent Servers: Part 8 - Go - Eli Bendersky's website [11:50] TR News "Time is wibbly wobbly as my favourite Doctor would say and when writing tests, it means that we need tools to control time." https://hamatti.org/posts/t-is-for-time-machine/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [11:50] TR Bot T is for time-machine - Python A to Z : Juha-Matti Santala [11:50] TR News "One of the things that ruff can be is a Python linter (in addition to at least a formatter and a not very attractive language server)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/python/TamingRuffAndMypy | Source: University of Toronto [11:51] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [11:51] *lxo has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:52] TR News "Data::Checks and its associated ecosystem of attributes allows for convenient definition of runtime value constraint assertions." https://fuzzix.org/perls-datachecks-and-tagged-types-of-a-sort | Source: Fuzzix [11:52] TR Bot Perl's Data::Checks and Tagged Types, of a Sort :: fuzzix dot org [11:53] TR News "well-intentioned but incorrect" https://typesanitizer.com/blog/performance-issues.html | Source: Varun Gandhi [11:53] TR Bot There continue to be reasons for software to be slow [11:53] TR News "Today I learned: When using the git CLI you can reference a commit by its commit message using the :/some text syntax." https://hamvocke.com/blog/git-revisions-by-text/ | Source: Ham Vocke [11:53] TR Bot Find Git Commits by Commit Message Text - Ham Vocke [11:53] TR News "This policy reaffirms the British Librarys commitment to making metadata as open as possible, and confirms the terms of licence" https://www.bl.uk/about/governance/policies/sharing-british-library-open-metadata-with-our-communities | Source: British Library [11:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.bl.uk/about/governance/policies/sharing-british-library-open-metadata-with-our-communities ) [11:55] TR News "So, I have this little app, Epoch, that I use to keep a journal. Its a tiny Rust web app that runs as a systemd service and uses SQLite as the database." https://borretti.me/article/a-syncthing-and-sqlite-gotcha | Source: Fernando Borretti [11:55] TR Bot A Syncthing and SQLite Gotcha [11:57] TR News "The online version of Think Java now features interactive widgets that run the code examples in the browser." https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2026/08/22/think-java-but-interactive/ | Source: Allen Downey [11:57] TR Bot Think Java, but interactive - Probably Overthinking It [11:57] TR News "Ive released WebDyne 3.0, an update to the Perl-based dynamic HTML engine I have created" https://blogs.perl.org/users/aspeer/2026/08/ive-released-webdyne-30-an.html | Source: Perl [11:57] TR Bot 3.0 released -- now with PAGI, Server-Sent Events and WebSockets | aspeer [blogs.perl.org] [11:57] TR News "Vim has over 100 events, from buffer was created to file was saved. But one of them sticks out to me: UserGettingBored. Heres the documentation: [...]" https://evanhahn.com/usergettingbored-vim/ | Source: Evan Hahn [11:57] TR Bot Vim's UserGettingBored autocmd [11:58] TR News "I'm not talking about the AI or Pixel-exclusive features, but the OS's overall look and feel." https://www.androidpolice.com/no-stock-android-in-2026/ | Source: Android Police [11:58] TR Bot There's no such thing as stock Android anymore, and that's completely fine [11:58] TR News "I'm using a Framework 13 as my personal computer now and its pretty darn close to what Id describe as perfect. But there are a some things that Id change: [...]" https://initialcharge.net/2026/08/perfect-laptop-harley/ | Source: Mike Rockwell [11:58] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://initialcharge.net/2026/08/perfect-laptop-harley/ ) [11:59] TR News "Up to a certain point, the simplest way to increase a radios range is to lower the frequency; lower radio frequencies penetrate better through most materials and dont attenuate as quickly with distance." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/open-source-expresslrs-receiver-reaches-for-range/ | Source: Hackaday [11:59] TR Bot ExpressLRS Receiver Reaches For Range | Hackaday [11:59] TR News "Its not the first printable shutter weve seen, but it remains the first variable one" https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/the-shutter-makes-this-3d-printed-camera-special/ | Source: Hackaday [11:59] TR Bot Shutter Makes This 3D Printed Camera Special | Hackaday ● Aug 23 [12:00] TR News "There are two ranges to use, depending on the magnitude of the radiation source1 uSv/h, and 10 uSv/h." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/building-an-analog-geiger-counter/ | Source: Hackaday [12:00] TR Bot An Analog Geiger Counter | Hackaday [12:00] TR News "The build in question concerns the use of a 555 timer IC." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/555-makes-a-useful-beat-frequency-oscillator/ | Source: Hackaday [12:00] TR Bot Makes A Useful Beat Frequency Oscillator | Hackaday [12:01] TR News "The actors leverage Internet scanning services to find Internet-exposed PLCs running outdated software or that are otherwise poorly protected" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/us-authorities-say-siemens-controllers-used-for-water-and-other-infrastructure-are-being-targeted-by-hackers-agencies-claim-threat-actors-use-ai-tools-to-generate-exploitation-scripts | Source: Tom's Hardware [12:01] TR Bot US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts | Tom's Hardware [12:03] TR News "The chip in question is a SST39SF040, an EEPROM in a PLCC package. This necessitated buying a carrier adaptor from AliExpress to allow the T48 to interface with it: [...]" https://www.rubenerd.au/programming-an-sst39sf040-with-the-t48-and-minipro/ | Source: Ruben Schade [12:03] TR Bot Rubenerd: Programming an SST39SF040 with the T48 and minipro [12:05] TR News "After some debugging I found two problems." https://blog.feld.me/posts/2026/08/debian-not-reusing-dhcp-leases/ | Source: Feld [12:05] TR Bot Debian Not Reusing DHCP Leases Makefile.feld [12:08] TR News "The biggest feature is probably HDMI 2.1 support. With my 9070 XT connected to my LG TV, I can now enable 4K HDR VRR. And the TV correctly recognizes FreeSync Premium." https://overkill.wtf/notes/bazzite-44-launched | Source: Kevin Wammer [12:08] TR Bot is the biggest update Bazzite has ever seen. - overkill.wtf [12:09] TR News "If you've spent any time configuring Arch Linux with a tiling window manager, you know the drill." https://fivenines.io/blog/omarchy-what-it-is-how-it-works/ | [12:09] TR Bot Omarchy: DHH Made an Arch Linux Distro, and It's Actually Pretty Good [12:09] TR News "Thats why I built Omarchy: to create a stellar, developer-focused Linux system using the beautiful Hyprland tiling window manager on up-to-date Arch underpinnings." https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/year-of-the-linux-laptop-omarchy-on-xps/ | [12:09] TR Bot of the Linux Laptop: Omarchy on XPS | Dell [12:09] TR News [Old] "Omarchy and Arch Linux both belong to the world of lightweight, customizable Linux distributions, yet each serves a very different user base." https://omarchy.net/omarchy-vs-arch-linux-understanding-main-differences/ | [12:09] TR Bot Omarchy vs Arch Linux: Understanding the Main Differences - omarchy [12:10] TR News "One of the monitoring checks I have in place will identify any installed package which is not in the package repository." https://dan.langille.org/2026/08/21/freebsd-backup-libraries-such-as-base-freebsd-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile-so/ | Source: Dan Langille [12:10] TR Bot FreeBSD backup libraries such as base/FreeBSD-kerberos-lib-backup-libkrb5profile.so Dan Langille's Other Diary [12:12] TR News "Today I use an extensively customized X environment, and I have every intention of clinging grimly to it for as long as I can." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/WaylandOptionsOptimism | Source: University of Toronto [12:12] TR News "We should in all fairness start by saying its not real TOS, but EmuTOS, an open-source drop-in replacement." https://hackaday.com/2026/08/22/an-atari-desktop-on-a-sega/ | Source: Hackaday [12:12] TR Bot Atari Desktop On A Sega | Hackaday [12:13] TR News Anon: Microsoft hates SSH in a _*big*_ way and has been maneuvering against it for 10+ years - I guess the hostile fork was made 10 years ago, november, see: https://github.com/powershell/win32-openssh [12:13] TR Bot - PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH: Win32 port of OpenSSH GitHub [12:14] TR News ...The original project has done very poor by failing to protect the name or trademark (Same as in http://techrights.org/n/2024/05/02/Embrace_Extend_Replace_the_Original_Or_Just_Hijack_the_Word_Sud.shtml ) [12:14] TR Bot Techrights Embrace, Extend, Replace the Original (Or Just Hijack the Word 'Sudo') [12:14] TR News ...University of Kent has some old, related sources: https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.wiretapped.net/pub/security/cryptography/apps/ssh/OSSH/ However, none of the corresponding OpenPGP signatures are there for Ylnen's SSH 1.2.12 which was his last FOSS edition. So there is no real way to know whether the tarball there at Kent is authentic or not. [12:14] TR Bot Index of /sites/ftp.wiretapped.net/pub/security/cryptography/apps/ssh/OSSH [12:16] TR News "To do just that, Im incorporating the Omacom Foundation to ensure that this mission is fully funded, durable, and ready to accelerate." https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/ | [12:16] TR Bot Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million Omarchy News [12:24] TR News Slopfarm? https://www.storyboard18.com/trending/sole-earner-microsoft-techie-says-he-was-laid-off-for-being-young-post-sparks-debate-108519.htm [12:24] TR Bot earner: Microsoft techie says he was laid off for being young; post sparks debate - Storyboard18 [12:31] TR News Jon Chiappetta: Trying Out A Set Of Hacky Tampermonkey Javascript Modifications For A Better kick.com Live Stream Video Experience https://fossjon.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/trying-out-a-set-of-hacky-tampermonkey-javascript-modifications-for-a-better-kick-com-live-stream-video-experience/ [12:31] TR Bot Trying Out A Set Of Hacky Tampermonkey Javascript Modifications For A Better kick.com Live Stream Video Experience | Jon's FOSS Blog [12:32] TR News '$200 Billion in Lost Market Cap': Alphabet Stock Rocked by Brutal Hey Hi (AI) Brain Drain and DeepMind Rumours https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/alphabet-invests-departing-ai-talent-1815662 https://techrights.org/n/2026/07/24/Google_s_Debt_Trebled_in_Only_9_Months_and_It_s_Not_Even_the_Fu.shtml [12:32] TR Bot '$200 Billion in Lost Market Cap': Alphabet Stock Rocked by Brutal AI Brain Drain and DeepMind Rumours | IBTimes UK [12:32] TR Bot Techrights Google's Debt Trebled in Only 9 Months and It's Not Even the Full Picture (There's Secret Debt, Too) [12:32] TR News Surveillance Prices. Hidden Fees. Shifting Costs. This Madness Must Stop. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html [12:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/opinion/surveillance-pricing-data-companies.html ) [12:33] TR News Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students https://futurism.com/science-energy/school-district-police-electric-shock-torture-gloves [12:33] TR Bot Horrified School District Pleads Police to Stop Using Electric Shock Torture Gloves on Students [12:33] TR News "Whether you do not subscribe to the current fashion in (claim) interpretation principles at the EPO is actually irrelevant, as it is not for you to decide, since at the end of the day it is for the boards of appeal to decide" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/claim-construction-checkpoints.html?showComment=1787339184598#c4663505536962821041 [12:33] TR Bot Claim construction checkpoints: Application as filed versus granted patent (T 0715/24) - The IPKat [12:35] TR News Javas String.indexOf can be slow (quadratic) https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/ [12:35] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://lemire.me/blog/2026/08/22/javas-string-indexof-can-be-slow-quadratic/ ) [12:36] TR News Russell Coker: Links August 2026 https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/08/23/links-august-2026/ [12:36] TR Bot Links August 2026 etbe Russell Coker [12:37] TR News Sam Thursfield: 23rd August 2026 https://samthursfield.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/23rd-august-2026/ [12:37] TR Bot 23rd August 2026 Sam Thursfield [12:41] TR News Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because Hey Hi (AI) Receptionists Cant Understanding What Theyre Saying https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/patients-skipping-doctor-ai-receptionist [12:41] TR Bot Patients Are Skipping Going to the Doctor Because AI "Receptionists" Can't Understanding What They're Saying [12:42] TR News The Results of Middle and High School Students Using Hey Hi (AI) Are Extremely Ominous https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/results-high-school-students-ai [12:42] TR Bot The Results of Middle and High School Students Using AI Are Extremely Ominous [12:55] TR News Proton OS Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/proton-os-debian-based-linux-distribution/ [12:55] TR Bot OS - Debian-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks ● Aug 23 [13:00] TR News Emmanuel Kasper: Create a development VM using Debian cloud images https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2026/08/22/create-a-development-vm-using-debian-cloud-images/ [13:00] TR Bot Create a development VM using Debian cloud images formicapunk [13:01] TR News Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used Hey Hi (AI) to Fix a Kernel Bug https://itsfoss.com/news/torvalds-used-ai-fix-kernel-bug/ [13:01] TR Bot Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug [13:01] TR News Linus Torvalds Made an Hey Hi (AI) Debug a GPU Bug, and It Tried to Quit Twice https://linuxstans.com/linus-torvalds-made-an-ai-debug-a-gpu-bug-and-it-tried-to-quit-twice/ [13:01] TR Bot Linus Torvalds Uses AI to Crack a Nasty GPU Bug [13:02] TR News If bugs take this much work to fix, why allow slop bots to add code? Mistakes can take a lot of work to identify and fix. [13:02] TR News "The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix." [13:03] TR News Pulseaudio mixer causes apps to crash https://bkhome.org/news/202608/pulseaudio-mixer-causes-apps-to-crash.html [13:03] TR Bot Pulseaudio mixer causes apps to crash [13:14] TR News Hidden Pulses Within Your Brain May Hold Your Thoughts Together https://www.sciencealert.com/hidden-pulses-within-your-brain-may-hold-your-thoughts-together [13:14] TR Bot Pulses Within Your Brain May Hold Your Thoughts Together : ScienceAlert [13:15] TR News Michael Calabrese: Pitivi Timeline Ruler https://mccalabrese.github.io/gnome-blog/posts/final/ [13:15] TR Bot Michael Calabrese | Pitivi Timeline Ruler [13:16] TR News Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits: third week of aug 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/08/22/misc-fedora-bits-third-week-of-aug-2026/ [13:16] TR Bot misc fedora bits: third week of aug 2026 | Kevin's musings [13:20] TR News "Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury | Tom's Hardware" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-fights-to-keep-chatgpt-lawsuit-away-from-a-state-jury [13:20] TR Bot Florida seeks court ruling to officially classify Sam Altman and ChatGPT as a 'public nuisance' OpenAI fights to keep lawsuit away from a state jury | Tom's Hardware [13:23] TR News Laureen Caliman: GSoC 2026 Final Report Laureen Caliman https://blogs.gnome.org/laureen/2026/08/22/gsoc-2026-final-report-laureen-caliman/ [13:23] TR Bot GSoC 2026 Final Report Laureen Caliman crosswordsgsoc [13:44] *lxo (~lxo@b4xjcexteeqvi.irc) has joined #techrights ● Aug 23 [14:00] TR News UN announces new initiative to protect terrorism victims from online harm and retraumatisation https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/un-announces-new-initiative-to-protect-terrorism-victims-from-online-harm-and-retraumatisation/ [14:00] TR Bot UN announces new initiative to protect terrorism victims from online harm and re-traumatization - JURIST - News [14:04] TR News Devious New Font Turns Hey Hi (AI) Scrapers Into Mincemeat https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/devious-new-font-turns-ai-scrapers-into-mincemeat [14:04] TR Bot Devious New Font Turns AI Scrapers Into Mincemeat [14:05] TR News This Is Probably Not the AI-Generated Version of The Odyssey That MElon Was Imagining https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/not-elon-musk-ai-odyssey [14:05] TR Bot This Is Probably Not the AI-Generated Version of "The Odyssey" That Elon Musk Was Imagining [14:05] TR News Hyping up anything a crooked man says like he is a genius in proportion to alleged wealth [14:05] TR News Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff-justified price increases https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/logitech-faces-lawsuit-for-withholding-usd61m-in-tariff-refunds-from-customers-lawsuit-claims-company-extracted-up-to-usd97m-from-consumers-in-2026-through-tariff-justified-price-increases [14:05] TR Bot Logitech faces lawsuit for withholding $61M in tariff refunds from customers lawsuit claims company extracted up to $97M from consumers in 2026 through tariff-justified price increases | Tom's Hardware [14:06] TR News Rights group sues Canada and Manitoba for extremely underfunded criminal legal aid https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/08/rights-group-sues-canada-and-manitoba-for-extremely-underfunded-criminal-legal-aid/ [14:06] TR Bot Rights group sues Canada and Manitoba for 'extremely underfunded' legal aid - JURIST - News [14:09] TR News Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing backdoored Windows 11 RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-blames-rgb-peripherals-for-crashing-windows-11-rgb-software-is-causing-blue-screens-crashes-and-game-freezes [14:09] TR Bot Microsoft blames RGB peripherals for crashing Windows 11 RGB software is causing blue screens, crashes, and game freezes | Tom's Hardware [14:09] TR News Science Weighs in on Whether All Those Photos Are Helping or Hurting Your Memory https://www.sciencealert.com/science-weighs-in-on-whether-all-those-photos-are-helping-or-hurting-your-memory [14:09] TR Bot Weighs in on Whether All Those Photos Are Helping or Hurting Your Memory : ScienceAlert [14:10] TR News GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for backdoored Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/console-gaming/take-two-subpoenas-microsoft-for-windows-device-ids-of-everyone-in-three-discord-servers-in-gta-6-leak-hunt [14:10] TR Bot GTA 6 leaks prompt Take-Two to subpoena Microsoft for Windows device IDs of everyone in three Discord servers daily gameplay leaks shatter cloud of secrecy around the much-hyped game | Tom's Hardware [14:13] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: RProtoBuf 0.4.28 on CRAN: Small Updates http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/08/22#rprotobuf_0.4.28 [14:13] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [14:13] TR News Carney Slams U.S.-Canada Trade Proposal and Vows Retaliation https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html [14:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/22/world/canada/carney-tariffs-trade-trump.html ) [14:14] TR News Qubes OS Summit 2026: Proposals closing soon; tickets still available! https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/08/22/qubes-os-summit-2026-proposals-closing-soon-tickets-still-available/ [14:14] TR Bot Qubes OS Summit 2026: Proposals closing soon; tickets still available! | Qubes OS [14:17] TR News Tomeu Vizoso: Etnaviv NPU update 22: YOLOX support https://blog.tomeuvizoso.net/2026/08/etnaviv-npu-update-22-yolox-support.html [14:17] *lxo has quit (connection closed) [14:17] TR Bot Tomeu Vizoso: Etnaviv NPU update 22: YOLOX support [14:17] *lxo (~lxo@b4xjcexteeqvi.irc) has joined #techrights [14:17] TR News Banking Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight https://www.securityweek.com/banking-trojans-manic-grandoreiro-toxicpanda-2-0-in-the-spotlight/ [14:17] TR Bot Trojans Manic, Grandoreiro, ToxicPanda 2.0 in the Spotlight - 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Do not touch. Do not share. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/postcard-gnome-email-client [14:18] TR Bot Postcard is a new email client for GNOME, built with AI - OMG! Ubuntu [14:18] TR News SeqKit manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files https://www.linuxlinks.com/seqkit-manipulate-fasta-fastq-files/ [14:18] TR Bot - manipulate FASTA and FASTQ files - LinuxLinks [14:19] TR News Proxmox VE Series Part 5: backdoored Windows Virtual Machine https://www.linux.org/threads/proxmox-ve-series-part-5-windows-virtual-machine.63049/ [14:19] TR Bot VE Series Part 5: Windows Virtual Machine | Linux.org [14:21] TR News Microsoft https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change [14:21] TR Bot Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away - Phoronix [14:23] TR News Does state life expectancy correlate with political party voting? https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/08/does-state-life-expectancy-correlate-with-political-party-voting/ [14:23] TR Bot state life expectancy correlate with political party voting? | R-bloggers [14:29] TR News Each time slopmatt is called out on his lack of qualifications in security he'd post some circle-jerking self-praise and buzzword-dropping in social control media [14:29] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [14:30] TR News ACPI training you at security like writing a CS thesis trains you to be a good physician [14:30] TR News GSoC 2026: Building Join.Kde.Org https://blogs.kde.org/2026/08/22/gsoc-2026-building-join.kde.org/ [14:30] TR Bot GSoC 2026: Building Join.Kde.Org - KDE Blogs [14:32] TR News Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.3 https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-6-3/ [14:32] TR Bot Maintenance release: Godot 3.6.3 Godot Engine [14:33] TR News MagOS 2025_20260821 https://distrowatch.com/magos [14:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/magos ) [14:35] TR News Why smartphones prices are increasing so much https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/08/why-smartphones-prices-are-increasing-so-much/ http://techrights.org/n/2026/05/02/Storage_and_Memory_Prices_Are_Rising_Not_Because_of_High_Demand.shtml [14:35] TR Bot ( status 428 @ https://www.techzim.co.zw/2026/08/why-smartphones-prices-are-increasing-so-much/ ) [14:35] TR Bot Techrights Storage and Memory Prices Are Rising Not Because of High Demand (Production Can Match Demand), It's Partly Because of Price-Fixing (Same as Food Price Increases) [14:39] TR News (NEW): Debian Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Debian_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Debian_Leftovers.gmi [14:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian Leftovers [14:41] TR News (NEW): Fedora Report, Fedora-Based Bazzite and Qubes OS https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Fedora_Report_Fedora_Based_Bazzite_and_Qubes_OS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Fedora_Report_Fedora_Based_Bazzite_and_Qubes_OS.gmi [14:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora Report, Fedora-Based Bazzite and Qubes OS [14:41] bms yes, FreeBSD has slopped the slop. But I think this is about people being sloppy. Someone claimed a change was human-reviewed, but went ahead and committed it anyway, despite the change awaiting another human to review it. [14:42] bms He shouldn't have been using Claude Code in the first place for open source work, but no one stopped him, and the company actively lobbies open source projects. [14:42] bms What part of "These guys prompted models to pretend to be human", in direct violation of decades-old "AI" safety rules, and backed by even more HCI research, did these people not understand? [14:43] TR News (NEW): GNOME: Sam Thursfield, GSoC, and Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/GNOME_Sam_Thursfield_GSoC_and_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/GNOME_Sam_Thursfield_GSoC_and_Slop.gmi [14:43] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME: Sam Thursfield, GSoC, and Slop [14:43] TR News (NEW): Omarchy Quattro and Raising Money for Desktop/Laptop Efforts https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Omarchy_Quattro_and_Raising_Money_for_Desktop_Laptop_Efforts.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Omarchy_Quattro_and_Raising_Money_for_Desktop_Laptop_Efforts.gmi [14:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Omarchy Quattro and Raising Money for Desktop/Laptop Efforts [14:46] TR News (NEW): Devices, Open Hardware, and Mobile https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Mobile.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Mobile.gmi [14:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Devices, Open Hardware, and Mobile [14:46] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [14:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [14:49] TR News (NEW): Linus Torvalds turns to slop (while Linux gets contaminated with slop), Pulseaudio mixer causes apps to crash https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linus_Torvalds_turns_to_slop_while_Linux_gets_contaminated_with.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linus_Torvalds_turns_to_slop_while_Linux_gets_contaminated_with.gmi [14:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Linus Torvalds turns to slop (while Linux gets contaminated with slop), Pulseaudio mixer causes apps to crash [14:51] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [14:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [14:51] TR News (NEW): Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [14:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux and BSD Leftovers [14:57] TR News Techrights Links 23/08/2026: Water Crises, Illegal Tariffs, and Carney Confronts US Over Patent Imperialism https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Links_23_08_2026_Water_Crises_Illegal_Tariffs_and_Carney_Confro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Links_23_08_2026_Water_Crises_Illegal_Tariffs_and_Carney_Confro.gmi [14:57] TR Bot Techrights Links 23/08/2026: Water Crises, Illegal Tariffs, and Carney Confronts US Over Patent Imperialism ● Aug 23 [15:08] TR News Techrights France: GNU/Linux Averaging at 7%, Peaked at 14% Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/France_GNU_Linux_Averaging_at_7_Peaked_at_14_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/France_GNU_Linux_Averaging_at_7_Peaked_at_14_Today.gmi [15:08] TR Bot Techrights France: GNU/Linux Averaging at 7%, Peaked at 14% Today [15:14] TR News A "Pep" Deja Vu https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/a-pep-deja-vu/ [15:14] TR Bot Blog Archive A Pep Deja Vu [15:15] MinceR (audio:unimportant) https://files.ioc.exchange/iocexchange/cache/media_attachments/files/117/143/649/138/071/668/original/1192194435b44e4b.mp4 [15:15] MinceR Apep Deja Vu [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] josep [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzxj9nds [15:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kzxj9nds ) [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] Did PJ C. address either of these on his Reddit AMA: IBM Bobs spectacular failure or IBMs record-setting one-day market-cap collapse on July 14, 2026a selloff substantially tied to concerns about weakness in his IBM Z/mainframe systems? [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] Or were those topics quietly and conveniently left in the lets not talk about that section of the AMA? [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:42] TR News Techrights PIPs and Lawsuits: On the Future of IBM Trying to Spit Out Its Own Staff at Minimal Cost https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/PIPs_and_Lawsuits_On_the_Future_of_IBM_Trying_to_Spit_Out_Its_O.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/PIPs_and_Lawsuits_On_the_Future_of_IBM_Trying_to_Spit_Out_Its_O.gmi [15:42] TR Bot Techrights PIPs and Lawsuits: On the Future of IBM Trying to Spit Out Its Own Staff at Minimal Cost [15:49] TR News I Never Claimed to be a Medical Doctor https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/i-never-claimed-to-be-a-medical-doctor/ [15:49] TR Bot Blog Archive I Never Claimed to be a Medical Doctor [15:57] TR News They Fought Til the End https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/they-fought-til-the-end/ [15:57] TR Bot Blog Archive They Fought Til the End ● Aug 23 [16:10] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:10] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [16:26] TR News When Butterflies Come Visit https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/23/when-butterflies-come-visit/ [16:26] TR Bot Blog Archive When Butterflies Come Visit [16:39] TR News Techrights Northern Africa: GNU/Linux Measured at Around 5% https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Northern_Africa_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_Around_5.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Northern_Africa_GNU_Linux_Measured_at_Around_5.gmi [16:39] TR Bot Techrights Northern Africa: GNU/Linux Measured at Around 5% [16:46] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [16:46] TR News (NEW): India and Africa Phasing Windows Out https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/India_and_Africa_Phasing_Windows_Out.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/India_and_Africa_Phasing_Windows_Out.gmi [16:46] TR Bot Tux Machines India and Africa Phasing Windows Out ● Aug 23 [17:44] TR News Australian court orders withdrawal of patent applications prior to publication http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/08/australian-court-orders-withdrawal-of.html [17:44] TR Bot Australian court orders withdrawal of patent applications prior to publication - The IPKat [17:44] TR News Amici Address Section 1498 Scope in Moderna COVID-19 Infringement Appeal: In Favor of Reversal https://patentdocs.org/2026/08/19/amici-address-section-1498-scope-in-moderna-covid-19-infringement-appeal-in-favor-of-reversal/ [17:44] TR Bot Amici Address Section 1498 Scope in Moderna COVID-19 Infringement Appeal: In Favor of Reversal Patent Docs [17:45] TR News Green Amendments https://scheerpost.com/2026/08/18/people-are-taking-power-for-climate-action-through-green-amendments/ [17:45] TR Bot People Are Taking Power For Climate Action Through Green Amendments [17:46] TR News "To reduce the lure of my smartphone, I enabled greyscale on it. 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[19:09] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I might send a certified letter to the landlord demanding performance of the lease and the RTLO. [19:10] TR News Techrights Things Not to Fear Missing Out on https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Things_Not_to_Fear_Missing_Out_on.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Things_Not_to_Fear_Missing_Out_on.gmi [19:10] TR Bot Techrights Things Not to Fear Missing Out on [19:10] schestowitz[TR2] because of bobbi jo and kiki? [19:11] schestowitz[TR2] you want a bargaining chip? [19:11] IsambardPrince I will state that in accordance with the RTLO, this letter is their 14 day notice to perform pest control, or else I will hire a contractor of my choosing and deduct "an amount of actual costs, not to exceed $500 a month or half my rent" and "if management does not respond within 14 day, I plan to hire this contractor, who will charge this much", and "the only thing management gets by refusing to perform the contract is that they will [19:11] IsambardPrince lose control over which contrator does the work and how much it will cost them". [19:12] IsambardPrince MinceR: Approach maniac. in a firmer tone of voice restate commands. Add the words, 'or else'. [19:12] IsambardPrince :D [19:13] schestowitz[TR2] :D [19:13] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Yeah, I'm sort of pissed. [19:13] schestowitz[TR2] "or else WHAT!!" [19:14] IsambardPrince Or else I perform pest control and replace both dead smoke alarms and deduct it from my rent. [19:15] TR News Incredible that 10cc can perform in their 70s almost the same as they did in their 20s https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rijHiyfzSVI [19:15] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=rijHiyfzSVI ) [19:22] TR News Techrights GNU/Linux Usage Measured at 23% in Russia Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/GNU_Linux_Usage_Measured_at_23_in_Russia_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/GNU_Linux_Usage_Measured_at_23_in_Russia_Today.gmi [19:22] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Usage Measured at 23% in Russia Today [19:38] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Kiki hopped up on me and fell asleep while I was watching a movie last night. [19:38] IsambardPrince Then she followed me when I went to bed and fell asleep right next to me there too and didn't move for several hours. [19:39] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Having cats limits you on how you can perform roach control. [19:39] IsambardPrince You can still bait the house but you have to do it in a way that the cats won't get into it. [19:40] IsambardPrince Those bait stations do work, but I recommend setting out 2-3 different brands and poison types. [19:40] IsambardPrince Roaches are finicky. Some have resistance to certain pesticides or aversion to certain types of bait. [19:40] IsambardPrince But they probably won't resist all of them. [19:40] schestowitz[TR2] so kiki trusts you already [19:40] schestowitz[TR2] that was fast [19:41] IsambardPrince Yeah, I'm good with cats. [19:41] IsambardPrince My mom asked me how I always get the cats that don't tear the furniture up, scratch the walls, pee all over everything. [19:41] schestowitz[TR2] also with jabbascript? [19:42] IsambardPrince I told her "Well, when I go to the shelter to pick one, I listen to what the cat tells me. If the cat there tries to bite me or scratch me, we move right along. And you have to give them attention and love and you have to redirect destructive impulses like scratching to designated things, like those $50-60 scratching posts that last forever." [19:43] IsambardPrince She had almost no luck with cats because when she went to the shelter to try to get one, she didn't listen to the cat. [19:43] IsambardPrince She just said "Oh that one looks nice!" [19:44] IsambardPrince And then she takes it home and it pees on the laundry and she doesn't get that you have to sort of get a sense for what it's trying to tell you. [19:44] IsambardPrince The odd thing about cats is that one that doesn't like you might decide to like someone else. [19:45] IsambardPrince Nobody understood how my great-grandmother got her cat Sunny Boy to behave. [19:45] IsambardPrince It turned out that it loved her and behaved for her, but it would attack everyone else. [19:45] IsambardPrince He was declawed but he still knew how to atttack. [19:46] IsambardPrince He would hide under furniture and wait for people to go by and jump out and ball up his paw and punch into the leg repeatedly and bite. [19:46] IsambardPrince But he never did that to my great-grandmother. [19:46] IsambardPrince He'd hop up into her lap and chill out. [19:46] IsambardPrince So he was a good cat, for her. [19:47] IsambardPrince She went into the hospital for a couple weeks and mom and dad had to watch Sunny Boy. [19:47] IsambardPrince By the end of the two weeks, he had started to behave for them. [19:47] IsambardPrince Then she got out and they gave the cat back. Next time they went over to visit, Sunny Boy was back to attacking them. [19:47] IsambardPrince Cat behavior is unique to the cat. [19:48] IsambardPrince There's cats that like one person better than others, cats that like everyone, and cats that only like one person. [19:48] IsambardPrince Leeloo was the kind that likes everyone. [19:48] IsambardPrince But Bobbi Jo and Kiki are the ones that like me better than others, but tolerate other people. [19:49] IsambardPrince I can already tell I have a second one like that now. [19:49] IsambardPrince Bobbi will go and hide if a new person is in the house, until they leave. [19:49] IsambardPrince If they don't leave, she stops hiding after a couple of weeks. [19:50] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I think Kiki will be a decent size cat when she's finished growing. [19:50] IsambardPrince I think at least 10 pounds by December. [19:56] TR News Techrights You Can Lose Some Battles and Still Win the War https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/You_Can_Lose_Some_Battles_and_Still_Win_the_War.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/You_Can_Lose_Some_Battles_and_Still_Win_the_War.gmi [19:56] TR Bot Techrights You Can Lose Some Battles and Still Win the War [19:59] IsambardPrince MinceR: I was commenting on a review of a B5 episode. I went on for a while comparing Cartagia to Trump. [19:59] IsambardPrince I added: [19:59] IsambardPrince Cartagia was the worst kind. He was a narcissist, a megalomaniac, the only public projects he was concerned with were vanity projects, like the architecture he saw every day. Filling up public square with statues of himself, naming everything after himself, building temples to himself, presumably blowing up all the monuments to previous leaders. [19:59] IsambardPrince He probably had a reflecting pond somewhere and if there were reporters on Centauri Prime he was probably on video obsessing about angular cuts into a driveway while they were in the middle of a war. ● Aug 23 [20:00] TR News (NEW): Losing a Million Pounds Is Not Winning https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Losing_a_Million_Pounds_Is_Not_Winning.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/08/23/Losing_a_Million_Pounds_Is_Not_Winning.gmi [20:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Losing a Million Pounds Is Not Winning [20:11] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: good for kiki then [20:11] schestowitz[TR2] we joje about the name here [20:11] schestowitz[TR2] because rianne knows kieran "kiki" [20:12] schestowitz[TR2] mentioned that this morn [20:12] TR News Techrights Cloudflare Sees a Quarter of Requests in China Coming From GNU/Linux Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Cloudflare_Sees_a_Quarter_of_Requests_in_China_Coming_From_GNU_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Cloudflare_Sees_a_Quarter_of_Requests_in_China_Coming_From_GNU_.gmi [20:12] TR Bot Techrights Cloudflare Sees a Quarter of Requests in China Coming From GNU/Linux Today [20:13] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: My partner had a home health client we called The Whale. [20:13] IsambardPrince She is very mean and weird. [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] i know [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] it's not so funnt [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] but you told me she misused that position [20:13] schestowitz[TR2] to get massages [20:13] IsambardPrince Not even normal massages. [20:14] IsambardPrince She wanted him to do perverse sexual things. [20:14] schestowitz[TR2] so she thought she had a gigolo [20:14] IsambardPrince Anyway, her dog's name is Killer, but she calls the dog Kiki. [20:14] schestowitz[TR2] "killer" [20:14] IsambardPrince So my partner thought it was funny when I told him the cat's name. [20:14] schestowitz[TR2] maybe puppy breaker likes the name [20:14] IsambardPrince I said, "Hmm, Killer Whale." [20:14] schestowitz[TR2] he is... weird [20:15] IsambardPrince Yeah. [20:15] IsambardPrince I prefer pets that are well adjusted. [20:16] IsambardPrince And I try to take excellent care of them. [20:16] IsambardPrince A cat will only live so long. Leeloo was probably closer to 17 or even 18. [20:16] IsambardPrince That's like 95 or 100 for a cat. [20:16] schestowitz[TR2] we just spoke about this [20:16] schestowitz[TR2] i sid 11+5 [20:16] schestowitz[TR2] *did [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] or said [20:17] IsambardPrince At that point it isn't unexpected, it's just pushing the limit. [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/08/10/rip-leeloo/ [20:17] TR Bot Blog Archive RIP, Leeloo [20:17] schestowitz[TR2] do you have photo of kiki [20:17] IsambardPrince At the extreme end of a natural life for an indoor cat, Kiki could still be around in my early 60s. [20:17] IsambardPrince https://i.imgur.com/xfeHNnb.jpeg [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] blocked in uk [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] hang on [20:18] schestowitz[TR2] https://archive.ph/wip/JoIxv [20:18] TR Bot NO TITLE [20:18] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I was being cautiously optimistic when they told me Leeloo had feline OA. [20:19] IsambardPrince Once they're on Solensia you're just trying to make them more comfortable so the cat lives another year or two. [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] taurine is used for some cat food [20:19] IsambardPrince It should be in all cat food. [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] humans' also [20:19] IsambardPrince Cats are Taurine deficient. [20:19] IsambardPrince They will go blind without it. [20:19] schestowitz[TR2] there are supplements of it [20:19] IsambardPrince So even the cheapest cat foods are fortified with it. [20:19] IsambardPrince Because they don't want lawsuits over blind cats. [20:20] IsambardPrince And it traces back to something they told you to feed to a cat. [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] kiki is cure but looks nothing like leeloo [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] and it does look young [20:21] schestowitz[TR2] under 1 [20:21] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: That's something that sadly happened in the 1970s and 80s. [20:21] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [20:21] IsambardPrince When cheap ultra processed cat food became common. [20:22] IsambardPrince And vets backed it. [20:22] IsambardPrince Thousands of cats had to be euthanized due to blindness and heart failure because they didn't put Taurine in it. [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] we take taurine [20:22] IsambardPrince There were huge lawsuits against the cat food companies and they decided it was cheaper to fortify than face another lawsuit. [20:28] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [20:31] TR News Techrights The Sniff Test https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/The_Sniff_Test.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/The_Sniff_Test.gmi [20:31] TR Bot Techrights The Sniff Test [20:40] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: It's likely that Piyush contributed to his black mold problem when he gave me an air conditioner full of black mold. [20:41] IsambardPrince I removed the front cover of it and wore a respirator and had HEPA purifiers going and chisled it off the fins and pulled the filter nobody ever cleaned and cleaned it out with a toothbrush and dawn and bleached it. [20:41] IsambardPrince But it was pretty bad. [20:41] IsambardPrince I'm sure that it put out mold spores anyway. [20:41] IsambardPrince I grabbed a can of compressor/condensor cleaner and went after it as well as I could, outside, taken apart. [20:42] IsambardPrince He was wondering why there was black mold in the carpet and he's having to pay a contractor to tear into the subfloor. [20:42] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [20:44] IsambardPrince I told him, "Well, off the top of my head, without a dehumidifier running constantly, that apartment hovers around 86% RH, I don't know why. The back yard floodeed that year you left the tree laying where it fell and the flood water came through my window and breached the foundation. Then there was the time the upstairs neighbor's plumbing faileed and every time they took a shower it came through my ceiling while you said I was being [20:44] IsambardPrince hysterical when I asked you calmly to fix it. Then there were all the times I told you and Mark that the kitchen sink was backing up and overflowing with other people's dirty dish water. I have pictures and videos of it doing that." [20:45] IsambardPrince I ran him through all of the things he did that certainly weren't helping and told him the only reason I put up with it until the building was completely taken over by cockroaches, was that he was cheaper than other landlords. [20:45] schestowitz[TR2] very valuable memory? [20:45] schestowitz[TR2] all those bad experiences? [20:45] IsambardPrince Valuable in court maybe. [20:45] schestowitz[TR2] mayube [20:45] schestowitz[TR2] just maybe [20:45] schestowitz[TR2] videos [20:45] IsambardPrince I don't know where he was going with all that but I told him I saved all the evidence to my Google Drive. [20:46] schestowitz[TR2] that is not easy to facilitate [20:46] schestowitz[TR2] in a court [20:46] IsambardPrince Like, "Go ahead and make something of it." [20:46] schestowitz[TR2] videos [20:46] schestowitz[TR2] as they prefer paper [20:46] IsambardPrince You can hand the judge your phone and play a video. [20:46] IsambardPrince I have videos and pictures of all of that. [20:47] IsambardPrince As well as the time stamped text messages to Piyush. [20:47] IsambardPrince I told him I saved all of it. [20:47] IsambardPrince I told him if anything, it would "bring attention to how you were managing that unit, not me". [20:48] IsambardPrince I said "I also have videos of all the dead cockroaches in the common areas, all the live ones crawling around too." [20:48] IsambardPrince RAID says it kills the ones you spray. I sprayed some of them with RAID and they were like "Thanks for the bath, human!" [20:49] IsambardPrince These roaches were so used to cheap landlords and other people spraying them with RAID that it no longer had any effect on them. [20:49] IsambardPrince He killed a few of the weaker ones and then the ones that were unfazed by it were 100% of the breeding population. [20:57] TR News Techrights Will Your "Modern" New Car Still be on the Road in 2060? https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Will_Your_Modern_New_Car_Still_be_on_the_Road_in_2060.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Will_Your_Modern_New_Car_Still_be_on_the_Road_in_2060.gmi [20:57] TR Bot Techrights Will Your "Modern" New Car Still be on the Road in 2060? [20:58] schestowitz[TR2] quite a life you live.. ● Aug 23 [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] this reminds me [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] isis spoke of how gorss and disgusting and dirty slaopmatt is [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] like no hot water and all that [21:00] schestowitz[TR2] it's just showing we were right [21:01] schestowitz[TR2] knew enough about genetics not to pass his own genes [21:01] TR News "I recently came across a long argument about consciousness, quantum physics, and the nature of reality that ended in a place I did not expect." gemini://gemini.madsweeney.me/articles/2026-08-22-blog.gmi [21:02] TR News "A few months ago I hit age 60. I want to say it felt like any other birthday, and for the most part it did, but I realized how much my life has changed leading up to 60." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-22-sixtyish.gmi [21:02] TR News "I saw this on a Mastodon post that lead to a smallweb/Gemcapsule post who claimed they nicked it from a "bloke" who nicked it from someone else." gemini://calvusrex.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-08-23-gemlog.gmi [21:03] TR News "So I was browsing the fediverse and one of the ways I do that is solely by hashtags that represent things I am interested in or drawn to. So, I looked up #middleaged." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-23-sixtyish.gmi [21:04] TR News "My drive to the office during the week is not far, maybe 5 minutes away from my apartment. Even if I go to other parts of town, 15 minutes max is all it takes. But it's funny the things you notice on an otherwise ordinary drive." gemini://widdershins.verja.net/notgemlog/2026-08-20-field.gmi [21:06] TR News "I got a PineTime smartwatch (USD $26.99 + shipping) which I've been wearing for 10 days now. I quite like this thing, and I got almost the whole 10 days on one charge." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/nm03/2026/AUG2026/entry-3 [21:07] TR News Should GooTube Die? gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20260823-should_gootube_die.txt [21:11] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 23/08/2026: Turning 60, PineTime, and Simulation Hypothesis https://techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Gemini_Links_23_08_2026_Turning_60_PineTime_and_Simulation_Hypo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/08/23/Gemini_Links_23_08_2026_Turning_60_PineTime_and_Simulation_Hypo.gmi [21:11] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 23/08/2026: Turning 60, PineTime, and Simulation Hypothesis [21:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Amazon was running some coupons and promos on P&G stuff, which also has a rebate. [21:17] IsambardPrince So I stocked up on some household supples and more roach bait. [21:18] IsambardPrince I don't know how well RAID roach bait stations work but that's a third poison type and it lets me spread out my anti--roach stations further into the apartment to potentially catch stragglers on the cheap. [21:19] IsambardPrince I like to alternate between the Advion and the cheaper stuff like RAID and Combat stations throughout the house. It fucks up their ability to adapt and keeps the overall cost down. [21:20] admfubar now that is desperation... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/microsoft-now-pays-you-if-you-invite-your-friends-to-use-edge-browser-on-mobile.460566/ [21:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/microsoft-now-pays-you-if-you-invite-your-friends-to-use-edge-browser-on-mobile.460566/ ) [21:20] IsambardPrince This will put Indoxacarb, Fipronil, and Abamectin B1 in the mix as far as insecticides. [21:20] IsambardPrince And the bait stations make it harder for the cats to accidentally get in them. [21:21] IsambardPrince Now that I'm not catching roaches in my sticky traps I plan to back off from those on the floors and move some that were on the floors into the cabinets to lower the odds of the cats stepping in one. [21:22] IsambardPrince I only use the gel syringes to apply bait matrix to the cabinet hinges in the kitchen, and only where the cats can't get in the cabinets. [21:22] IsambardPrince I store all food in the fridge or the freezer, or sealed in plastic containers that the roaches can't breach. [21:23] IsambardPrince You want to turn your apartment into as much of a desert as you can. Then you offer the roaches poisoned food. [21:24] IsambardPrince Then if you're doing it right, you stop seeing any because they're dying so fast. [21:26] *fantom has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [21:27] MinceR "We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!" [21:28] IsambardPrince Roaches are like fighting the Borg. [21:28] IsambardPrince You get to shoot them with phasers like 5-6 times and then the phaser doesn't work anymore. [21:28] IsambardPrince So you need to mix poisons so they don't adapt to any one particular thing. [21:31] *fantom (~fantom@freenode-crc.udo.r9g5d1.IP) has joined #techrights [21:35] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/aug/23/ella-baron-on-ai-and-the-drought-cartoon [21:35] TR Bot Ella Baron on AI and the drought cartoon | Ella Baron | The Guardian [21:44] IsambardPrince Mom called. [21:44] IsambardPrince She said my grandmother is not doing well. [21:44] IsambardPrince She says prepare for a funeral. [21:44] IsambardPrince I'm honestly more broken up about Leeloo dying than my grandmother. [21:44] IsambardPrince My grandmother was vicious to me. So I was never fond of her to begin with. [21:44] IsambardPrince [15:27] "We're police officers! We're not trained to handle this kind of violence!" [21:44] IsambardPrince Fuckers are fast too. [21:45] IsambardPrince *ONK!* [21:47] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: Yes, I use a lot of roach bait. The time to be "proactive" is before they're spilling out of your cabinets and no amount of zapping thm with an electric flyswatter makes any difference. [21:48] IsambardPrince MinceR: "Oh my God! Their approach is ballistic!" [21:48] IsambardPrince Weir says: "What does that mean?" [21:48] IsambardPrince I'm sorry, who put you in charge when you don't understand what "ballistic" means? [21:49] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/23/personal-care-products-unlabeled-toxic-chemicals [21:49] TR Bot Personal care products are awash in unlabeled toxic chemicals, study finds | US news | The Guardian [21:51] IsambardPrince I had no idea what cockroaches were like when I first encountered them at Piyush's apartment. I figured that I would eventually zap enough or there was something I could spray that I got from Amazon that would eventually get them out of my apartment or at least under control. But they reproduce so fast that by the time you're seeing that many, it means the walls are full and the ones you are seeing are being pushed into taking [21:51] IsambardPrince suicidal risks to look for food during daylight. [21:54] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/23/iran-linked-hackers-blamed-cyber-attack-british-power-plant [21:54] TR Bot Iran-linked hackers blamed for cyber-attack that shut down UK power plant | Iran | The Guardian ● Aug 23 [22:18] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techrights [22:32] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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