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● Feb 26
[00:00]	IsambardPrince	CDs also have no expense ratio, and they don't require being reported as investment income, and they have deposit insurance.
[00:01]	IsambardPrince	I looked at some money market accounts and they are tending to return about what a good bank CD does, only with no insurance.
[00:01]	IsambardPrince	The fund might get FDIC or NCUA insurance on some of the investments if they're CDs or Share Certificates, but you can do that yourself without paying a fund manager.
[00:01]	IsambardPrince	:)
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	Then after 2008 and 2020, Ramsey's website was updated to say just use bank products.
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	Because Money Market Mutual Funds have failed before.
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	:D
[00:07]	MinceR	it just occurred to me that if this massive overrated multi-process browser bullshit was actually properly engineered, it would be possible to just close an unresponsive tab
[00:07]	MinceR	but, naturally, it wasn't
[00:11]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Apparently, Trump plans to sell $5 million Green Cards to wealthy foreigners.
[00:11]	Sompi	01:32 < nobody> you could rebuild some z80/mos6502/whatever, but for those i am not aware of any complete bootstrapping chain for any 16bit DOS
[00:11]	IsambardPrince	I don't think he mentions whether the $5 million goes to the government or him.
[00:11]	Sompi	what about 8088?
[00:11]	MinceR	lol
[00:12]	MinceR	is there a distinction?
[00:12]	psydruid	CP/M was started in 1974 and UNIX in 1969
[00:15]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-stocks-still-falling-market-205032786.html
[00:15]	TR Bot	 Why are stocks still falling? Market awaits Nvidia earnings and inflation data with bated breath
[00:15]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Wonder what Trump's up to today.
[00:15]	IsambardPrince	Probably still figuring out ways to lose us money.
[00:15]	IsambardPrince	:)
[00:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Framework_Announces_Framework_Desktop_and_2_in_1_Framework_Lapt.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Framework_Announces_Framework_Desktop_and_2_in_1_Framework_Lapt.gmi 
[00:16]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12
[00:18]	IsambardPrince	https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/nyc-to-close-migrant-center-in-roosevelt-hotel-as-crisis-eases
[00:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/nyc-to-close-migrant-center-in-roosevelt-hotel-as-crisis-eases )
[00:18]	IsambardPrince	NYC to shut migrant center "as crisis eases".
[00:19]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Trump's people reached in and took $80 million dollars out of NYC's bank account that was earmarked for this.
[00:19]	IsambardPrince	I don't suppose that had anything to do with it.
[00:20]	MinceR	sounds super corrupt
[00:20]	IsambardPrince	The $5 million green cards?
[00:21]	MinceR	but i guess the "party of law and order" thinks that once they get their king elected, they get to do whatever the fuck they feel like to state funds
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	Ahh.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	It was a FEMA grant.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	So the way those work is the federal government approves them.
[00:21]	IsambardPrince	But they don't actually go in until the state makes drawdowns.
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	So because they didn't mark it all committed when Biden approved it on the way out, Trump snatched it.
[00:22]	MinceR	snatch!
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	zoink
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	You know.
[00:22]	IsambardPrince	A clawback.
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	Department of Government Efficiency
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	@DOGE
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	US taxpayer dollars were going to be spent on the following items, all which have been cancelled: 
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$69mm for the Eurasia Foundation to do "digital transformation activity" in Europe
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$32mm to Internews for programs including "media enabling democracy, inclusion, and accountability in Moldova" and the promotion of sustainable media outlets"
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$7mm for the American Bar Association to promote the "resilience" of the "Eurasian legal sector and civic society"
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$520mm for a consultant to do ESG investments in Africa and "mobilize private sector resources and expertise
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$25mm to promote biodiversity conservation and promote licit livelihoods by developing socially responsible behaviors in Colombia
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$40mm to "improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants"
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$42mm for Johns Hopkins to research and drive "social and behavior change" in Uganda
[00:23]	IsambardPrince	-$45mm to "address[] the needs, opportunities, and challenges identified by activists and other civic actors engaged in nonviolent collective action"
[00:24]	IsambardPrince	-$52mm for the World Economic Forum
[00:24]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, 
[00:24]	IsambardPrince	They spelled canceled wrong.
[00:24]	IsambardPrince	The other day they said "Loredo, Texas"
[00:24]	IsambardPrince	It's Laredo.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, Microsoft down 10.39% in the past 30 days.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	:)
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	Down 5.6% YTD/
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-microsoft-msft-losing-ground-193221927.html
[00:28]	TR Bot	 Why Microsoft (MSFT) Is Losing Ground Today
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	"Microsoft (MSFT) is falling 1.3% after the tech giant decided to invest in AI start-up Veeam Software and widen its partnership with Veeam, the latter company disclosed. Veeam did not note the amount of money that it plans to receive from MSFT.
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	More Information About the Deal
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	MSFT and Veeam will collaborate "to build AI solutions that help customers protect, recover, and unlock more value from their data," the start-up reported. Under the deal, the start-up "will focus on research and development investments, architectural expertise, and design collaboration with the support of Microsoft to accelerate AI-powered innovations for customers." Additionally, Veeam will utilize MSFT's AI services."
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	----
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	Buying another startup that burns cash.
[00:33]	nobody	psydruid: "Launched in 1967, TOPS-10 evolved from the earlier "Monitor" software for the PDP-6 and PDP-10 computers"
[00:34]	nobody	DOS type systems predate Unix
[00:34]	MinceR	what does TOPS-10 have to do with CP/M?
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[00:34]	nobody	"Various aspects of CP/M were influenced by the TOPS-10 operating system of the DECsystem-10 mainframe computer, which Kildall had used as a development environment."
[00:36]	MinceR	is that how we play this game?
[00:37]	psydruid	apparently
[00:37]	psydruid	the boner for Microsoft stuff is huge here today
[00:38]	nobody	this wasn't micros~1 products, it was DEC which is defunct since 1998
[00:38]	MinceR	if CP/M is TOPS-10, then surely hp is DEC
[00:38]	psydruid	and conveniently forgets mentioning Multics
[00:39]	psydruid	HP *is* DEC after gutting everything that made DEC DEC and made HP HP
[00:39]	nobody	the important detail is this: most *nix/linux are booted with 16 bit real-mode BIOS
[00:40]	psydruid	no, it's not
[00:40]	psydruid	only on x86 is it
[00:40]	MinceR	most linux systems are booted with some ARM-specific boot firmware
[00:40]	nobody	and again, you missed the bootstrapping chain
[00:41]	nobody	ARM hasn't got any
[00:41]	nobody	none at all
[00:41]	MinceR	so ARM devices can never run anything?
[00:41]	psydruid	yes
[00:41]	nobody	most if not all of their stuff was cross-compiled from some x86 host
[00:41]	psydruid	ARM is imaginary
[00:41]	nobody	their bootstrapping chain is
[00:42]	MinceR	"ARM doesn't exist, it can't hurt you" "ARM:"
[00:42]	psydruid	what is the x86-dependent bootstrapping chain for ARM?
[00:43]	nobody	x86 got a bootstrapping chain, arm hasn't, ARM got cross-compiled (not bootstrapped) from x86 hosts
[00:44]	nobody	same with RISC-V, that's why it's entertaining
[00:44]	psydruid	where is the x86 bootstrapping chain?
[00:44]	nobody	bootstrappable.org salvaged some, although it didn't break circular dependencies completely
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[00:45]	nobody	for BIOS in particular
[00:45]	nobody	for neither ARM nor RISC-V theres no realistic chance to salvage any
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	That salt is still going all over the place even though it hasn't snowed in weeks.
[00:45]	nobody	in particular with regards to u-boot you're bragging about
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	It melted and rained yesterday and today.
[00:45]	nobody	which reveals you haven't the slightest clue what bootstrapping was psydruid 
[00:45]	IsambardPrince	So I had to go out and wash my car again.
[00:46]	IsambardPrince	Some people buy a new car and jsut let the salt cake on so much their white car turns black.
[00:46]	psydruid	nobody, right, only hermits working on HermitOS do
[00:47]	nobody	recently someone mentioned a research unix project from MIT, some unix v6 for PDP hardware
[00:48]	nobody	which they kept on lecture until few years ago, but ported this to RISC-V meanwhile
[00:48]	psydruid	I'd rather have free u-boot than some closed source BIOS
[00:49]	nobody	that's a valid argument, nonetheless u-boot load hasn't got a bootstrapping chain
[00:49]	nobody	simple as that
[00:49]	nobody	er
[00:50]	nobody	and that's the honest answer some GNU guys will give you in their bootstrappable channel
[00:50]	MinceR	i think two senses of bootstrapping got entangled here
[00:50]	nobody	i think you weren't aware of the definition of bootstrapping
[00:51]	nobody	but to my understanding GNU invested significant efforts into salvaging a bootsrappting chain
[00:51]	nobody	and the one they got is mostly complete for x86, not ARM, not RISC-V, x86
[00:52]	nobody	although there is significant effort for RISC-V, i fear they'll end up with the chaos that ARM is with regards to this problem
[00:52]	psydruid	isn't that a GNU problem rather than an ISA problem?
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNUXicpSPZQ
[00:53]	TR Bot	https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/watch?v=dNUXicpSPZQ
[00:53]	TR Bot	not resolve host: yt.oelrichsgarcia.de ( status 0 @ https://yt.oelrichsgarcia.de/watch?v=dNUXicpSPZQ )
[00:53]	nobody	GNU solved many problems, that micros~1/ibm/intel/dec caused
[00:53]	psydruid	what about bootstrapping for any of the ISAs that predate x86?
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, This guy is my favorite.
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	"Court Cam: Sovereign Citizen Wears "No Trespassing" Sign, Fights Court Officers | A&E"
[00:53]	IsambardPrince	The Natural Living Man.
[00:53]	MinceR	:)
[00:55]	nobody	2025-02-26 00:53:18 <psydruid> what about bootstrapping for any of the ISAs that predate x86?
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[00:55]	nobody	what about
[00:55]	nobody	2025-02-26 00:47:21 <nobody> recently someone mentioned a research unix project from MIT, some unix v6 for PDP hardware
[00:55]	nobody	i haven't got time for this
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[00:56]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LwR0c-CE5g
[00:56]	TR Bot	https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=_LwR0c-CE5g
[00:56]	IsambardPrince	"Raw footage of Ernie Wayne Tertelgte in Three Forks Justice Court"
[00:56]	TR Bot	connection timeout ( status 0 @ https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=_LwR0c-CE5g )
[00:56]	psydruid	just keep working on HermitOS
● Feb 26
[01:01]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, "I never plead! Animals plead! Sounds like baaaahh oink oink!" -Ernie Tertelgte
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	I need to get that on a t-shirt.
[01:02]	MinceR	:)
[01:04]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbVWY_dQQoc
[01:04]	TR Bot	https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=RbVWY_dQQoc
[01:04]	TR Bot	( status 500 @ https://nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=RbVWY_dQQoc )
[01:04]	IsambardPrince	"Tertelgte hearing raw footage, Nov. 22, 2013 KBZK.com"
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK7MYr_4z4k
[01:10]	TR Bot	https://inv.makerlab.tech/watch?v=gK7MYr_4z4k
[01:10]	TR Bot	not resolve host: inv.makerlab.tech ( status 0 @ https://inv.makerlab.tech/watch?v=gK7MYr_4z4k )
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	"Montanas Natural Man back in court again. Exclusive coverage."
[01:13]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The Republican guy who complains of Mexicans with loud mufflers is running for Mayor again, in a city where half the population is of Mexican descent.
[01:13]	IsambardPrince	In a six way election.
[01:13]	IsambardPrince	This should be fun.
[01:14]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Voting as a white guy in these parts is like.
[01:14]	MinceR	well, the "republic" motto already seems to be "vote against your own interests"
[01:14]	MinceR	so it should work fine
[01:14]	MinceR	s/lic/lican/
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[01:14]	IsambardPrince	"Hmm, the blacks and the Mexicans....The Mexicans, the Mexicans, the woman from England I guess, the Mexicans, the Mexicans..."
[01:15]	IsambardPrince	That black guy that used to be our mayor is running again.
[01:15]	IsambardPrince	The one who broke the law and cooperated with ICE.
[01:15]	IsambardPrince	4 years, 4 tax hikes.
[01:15]	IsambardPrince	No visible improvements to the city.
[01:15]	IsambardPrince	Threatening to throw his critics out of low income housing.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I cannot stop ICE from coming to our city.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	But I can vote for the mayor who does not cooperate with ICE.
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	Resistance is not futile.
[01:16]	MinceR	you will not be assimilated
[01:16]	IsambardPrince	People in charge of ICE are losing their jobs because they can't deport the number of people Trump wants to find.
[01:17]	IsambardPrince	It is impossible to find that many people when the local governments say go jump in the lake.
[01:17]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Without local cooperation ICE arrests in an area drop by over 70%.
[01:17]	IsambardPrince	This has caused Republican MAGA idiots to go thermal.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	Now they are fighting us in court, and their evidence is a Supreme Court ruling that says we do not have to do that.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	Brrilliant.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	Just brilliant
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	They have to do what we say, because of your ruling from 2013 that says they do not have to do what we say.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	We have the best words.
[01:18]	IsambardPrince	Some would say the biggest.
[01:19]	IsambardPrince	I would say they are beautiful.
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[01:20]	MinceR	the biggest, the best, better than the rest, better than the rest
[01:28]	MinceR	(cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/BvKm34N   =   https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/gallery/BvKm34N
[01:28]	TR Bot	sweet Fergie in the window. - Album on Imgur
[01:28]	TR Bot	 My sweet Fergie in the window. - rimgo
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I left this for a Trump supporter:
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	"Trump wants to sell citizenship to anyone who will pay him $5 million, including sex traffickers and Russian birth tourists and anyone else who will pay him. We get to find out what they do once we cannot get rid of them, I guess.
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	Isn't letting people in just because they're wealthy how we got Michael Pratt?
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	Are you saying you think Michael Pratt should have been officially allowed in just because he had $5 million and we get to find out what people like this do in our country after they pay it?
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	It is shameful that you Trump supporters apparently want to sell US citizenship to convicted sex traffickers and oligarchs without a background check.
[01:30]	IsambardPrince	https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/twenty-year-sentence-girlsdoporn-sex-trafficking-conspiracy
[01:30]	TR Bot	 Southern District of California | Twenty-Year Sentence in GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Conspiracy | United States Department of Justice
[01:30]	MinceR	even the tories don't have a rosy picture of this... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/25/economists-starting-worry-serious-trump-recession/
[01:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/25/economists-starting-worry-serious-trump-recession/ )
[01:31]	IsambardPrince	"When you're friends with Trump you can now commit any federal felony you want and he claims that he can pardon these people for all crimes forever into the future. The Department of Injustice is now claiming that his pardon covers crimes for his rioters for the rest of their lives."
[01:33]	IsambardPrince	"At the United Nations, the US is now voting alongside Russia, North Korea, and Hungary, even when the rest of the world is against something because it is so rotten and terrible. Trump's America is a client state of Putin."
[01:41]	IsambardPrince	https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/politics/house-gop-budget-trump-agenda/index.html
[01:41]	TR Bot	 House GOP votes to advance Trump agenda after successful pressure campaign from Speaker Johnson | CNN Politics
[01:41]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The Democrats worked with Republican extremists to tank the Republican budget blueprint.
[01:43]	IsambardPrince	If the Republicans cut deeper to go after them, they'll get different Republicans to vote against it because some are saying no cuts to Medicaid because their district depends on it heavily.
[01:43]	IsambardPrince	This is funny.
[01:43]	IsambardPrince	There may be a vote tonight, there may not be. Stay tuned,
[01:44]	IsambardPrince	Instead, they voted to "consider" the bill.
[01:44]	IsambardPrince	Which doesn't mean anything.
[01:44]	IsambardPrince	You don't have to vote to consider a bill.
[01:45]	IsambardPrince	The House Speaker can bring any bill he wants to the floor for debate.
[01:46]	MinceR	"Mr. Kaiba! I beg you to reconsider!" "'Kay." (Research lab explodes) "But you said you'd reconsider!" "I did. I WAS going to have the building renovated after I shut it down." "But why did you" "I reconsidered."
[01:48]	IsambardPrince	https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00091.htm
[01:48]	TR Bot	 U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 119th Congress - 1st Session
[01:48]	IsambardPrince	The Republicans have agreed to move to their first potential use of the Congressional Review Act to kill a Biden regulation.
[01:49]	MinceR	https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/petition-asking-pm-to-revoke-elon-musks-canadian-citizenship-garners-support/
[01:49]	TR Bot	 Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Skimmed the regulation they're trying to kill.
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	Seems like something Biden left behind intentionally that doesn't do anything important but he knew the Republicans wouldn't want to leave there.
[01:51]	IsambardPrince	Forces them to waste time dealing with something.
[01:52]	IsambardPrince	There's a clock running for the CRA before you can't use it on a rule anymore.
[01:52]	IsambardPrince	So you leave behind a bunch of rules the other party doesn't want and they have to waste floor time getting rid of them one at a time.
● Feb 26
[02:05]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I told a Trump supporter:
[02:05]	IsambardPrince	"I know you can't grasp why people fight for others. It's a character flaw among Cluster B Personality Disorder types, like the MAGA cult. They cannot fathom what it is like to be another person. They have no empathy. They only do what they think will serve themselves. It's called the Dark Triad for a reason. Sociopathy and Narcissism are closely related, and are intertwined with DSM-defined mental disorders such as antisocial 
[02:05]	IsambardPrince	personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, and borderline personality disorder. I've met a lot of MAGA people and I've come to expect that they fall somewhere within Cluster B most of the time.
[02:05]	IsambardPrince	My conclusion comes from the fact that these people tend to exhibit impulsive and reckless behavior, are generally emotionally unstable, have callous disregard for others, a lack of remorse, frequently suffer from delusions of grandeur, and have other issues.
[02:06]	IsambardPrince	When you remind Trump supporters that there are "other people in the world", it frequently leads to an explosive meltdown."
[02:06]	MinceR	indeed
[02:07]	MinceR	and yet, curiously, many of them are harming themselves viciously
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Like my mother.
[02:08]	IsambardPrince	Penniless and cries and hangs up the phone when I ask "Are you paying the credit cards? I really want to see you stop losing."
[02:09]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Neuro-Linquistic Programming does not work with my mother.
[02:09]	IsambardPrince	I've tried it. 
[02:10]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, There's basically two ways you can frame statements. Positive, and negative.
[02:10]	IsambardPrince	Using "and" is positive, using "but" is negative.
[02:11]	IsambardPrince	People sometimes respond better to criticism if you can work in the positive over the negative.
[02:12]	IsambardPrince	Like "I noticed you were our top performing employee last month, and you missed your quota this month."
[02:12]	IsambardPrince	Or....
[02:13]	IsambardPrince	"I noticed you missed your quota this month, but you were our top performer last month."
[02:14]	IsambardPrince	With and, you put the emphasis on crediting their achievement last month. This month becomes constructive criticism.
[02:14]	IsambardPrince	With but, you put more emphasis on missing the quota this month and make the footnote that they're capable of more.
[02:15]	IsambardPrince	By using "but", you put them on notice that they need to shape up.
[02:15]	IsambardPrince	You're not going soft on them.
[02:15]	IsambardPrince	NLP is not scientific though. It was never accepted by mainstream psychology.
[02:16]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Unfortunately, crude manipulation tends to be the most effective.
[02:16]	IsambardPrince	Because it directly exploits people's feelings of what is expected of them.
[02:17]	IsambardPrince	A manipulator can have no background in psychology whatsoever, and be very good at it.
[02:17]	IsambardPrince	Their goal is to fuck with other people's thoughts and feelings.
[02:29]	admfubar	whooda thunk that cheaper is what people are looking for in an ev?  https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Automakers-Shift-Gears-Towards-Affordable-EVs.html
[02:29]	TR Bot	Automakers Shift Gears Towards Affordable EVs | OilPrice.com
[02:32]	nobody	that's all propaganda and distractoin, Tesla type EVs are not designed for mass production, it's the financial utility to harvest "carbon certificates"
[02:34]	nobody	big car makers may either produce EVs themselvs or they must acquire those carbon certificates, from Tesla
[02:34]	admfubar	try it! just give it a wipe...    https://www.linuxlinks.com/arsh-statically-typed-scripting-language/
[02:34]	TR Bot	- statically typed scripting language - LinuxLinks
[02:35]	nobody	the rationale behind is the permission to produce as many combustion engine vehicles as possible, which "climate agreements" regulate with certificates
[02:36]	nobody	EU is dictating maximum carbon emissions for combustion engines, which can be compensated by EV engines produced
[02:37]	nobody	the trick is, noone wants to buy nor mass-produce those, hence EU got a leverage for taxation which it didn't have before
[02:38]	nobody	Tesla/USA seem the main benefitiary (and whoever else was a "shareholder", such as norwegian pension fund)
[02:39]	nobody	the scandalous aspect is this, EU is rating "EV engines" as "carbon neutral", even when their batteries were re-charged with electricity from coal power plants
[02:39]	nobody	which then, enabled their next propanda plot for another subsidy scam: "renewable energy"
[02:39]	admfubar	sounds like the uefi scam
[02:39]	IsambardPrince	https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/02/25/repub/dhs-will-require-migrants-without-legal-status-to-register-with-u-s-government/
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[02:40]	nobody	it's much worse, because the subsidy scam for "renewable" surpassed a trillion cash in germany alone, round about
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	If you leave now, you may have the opportunity to return and enjoy our freedom and live the American dream, a DHS spokesperson said in a statement.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	Ah yes, the American dream. I'd recognize it anywhere.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	Especially the part where the Chair of the Central Bank said that soon nobody will be able to afford a mortgage anywhere in the country.
[02:40]	IsambardPrince	:D
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[02:53]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I posted:
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	"You'd be surprised what kind of human garbage has come here, flashed cash at the government and USCIS, and became a citizen.
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	Consider Michael Pratt of GirlsDoPorn. Mr. Pratt came from New Zealand. He was rich and white, so USCIS didn't give him any trouble at all. He got a Green Card as a "small business owner" (the porn company), and eventually became a US Citizen.
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	He and his friend got 20 years for various charges including rape, sex trafficking, statutory rape, and production of illegal pornography (underage), as it related to hundreds of victims who were lured in and physically barricaded into the room by he and his co-defendants.
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/twenty-year-sentence-girlsdoporn-sex-trafficking-conspiracy
[02:53]	TR Bot	 Southern District of California | Twenty-Year Sentence in GirlsDoPorn Sex Trafficking Conspiracy | United States Department of Justice
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	When Mr. Pratt was facing lawsuits from the victims, he declared bankruptcy, which was dismissed when the judge ruled it was fraud, and then when the criminal charges became likely, Pratt fled the country and was briefly on the FBI Most Wanted list. He eventually was extradited to face the charges years later.
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	It's nice of Mr. Trump to want to make this policy of selling Green Cards official so we can get oligarchs, Russian birth tourists, and more people like Mr. Pratt, and have it be official American policy, while good honest hard-working people are being deported indiscriminately merely for not being rich enough to buy a golden passport.
[02:53]	IsambardPrince	Trump's only qualification for this program is paying him $5 million to get a Green Card. Imagine how we'll get in that way, and what we'll find out after they're here. Have fun."
[02:54]	IsambardPrince	*who
[02:56]	nobody	"no immigration into social security system" is the slogan here
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	They lie about that here, the Republicans do.
[02:56]	nobody	politics argue for immigration, all political parties do, but insist upon low social security standards
[02:56]	IsambardPrince	You can't get Social Security unless you are a citizen or green card holder with enough work credits.
[02:57]	nobody	my job placement inquiries are denied, although i got a passport
[02:57]	IsambardPrince	You need 10 years, but they go by your highest 20 years, so if you work less than 20, then you get a $0 for each year you did not work.
[02:57]	IsambardPrince	So your benefits are generally based on what you paid.
[02:57]	nobody	they effectively strip you of your rights regardless of any green card or passport
[02:58]	nobody	that's interesting too, if you're not paid for your work, it's not considered work
[02:58]	nobody	nor contribution to society
[02:58]	IsambardPrince	For example, if you worked 10 years, they would give you 10 years at whatever your Social Security earnings were for those 10, and you'd get a check.
[02:58]	IsambardPrince	But you'd get 10 years of $0s as well.
[02:58]	IsambardPrince	So you would lose half your monthly benefit, roughly.
[02:59]	IsambardPrince	So you need 20 years to get your "full" allotment.
[02:59]	nobody	our "social democrats" and their corrupt labor unions lost another 50% of their voters last sunday
[02:59]	IsambardPrince	But the clock is frozen for any year you were on Social Security Disability.
[02:59]	IsambardPrince	So those years count.
[02:59]	IsambardPrince	If you reach retirement age on Disability, it changes into a Retirement check.
● Feb 26
[03:00]	nobody	my public pension fund record is down to zero effectively already
[03:00]	IsambardPrince	But you need work credits for Disability too.
[03:00]	IsambardPrince	The number of credits increases as you get older.
[03:00]	nobody	anyway, i shit onto EU
[03:01]	IsambardPrince	The EU seems sort of duplicative, bureaucratic, and lets authoritarian members who barely contribute stifle anything good and call the shots.
[03:01]	IsambardPrince	While the currency more or less gets propped up by France and Germany.
[03:02]	nobody	with energy bills it's excess inflation due to their corruption and mis-management
[03:02]	IsambardPrince	Germany is still strong enough that it would do fine on its own. France too.
[03:02]	nobody	it isn't
[03:02]	IsambardPrince	Others in the EU realize they need it because of economic parasitism.
[03:03]	IsambardPrince	Mutual defense treaties don't really work well.
[03:03]	IsambardPrince	They turn into this thing where some don't spend and expect others to cover the slack.
[03:03]	IsambardPrince	Trump actually is right about that part.
[03:03]	IsambardPrince	Why in the hell should the US be on the hook to cover people who don't spend on their own military?
[03:04]	nobody	since AfD doubled their votes last sunday, they'll fill up seats in parliament with some rather straight type of Nazis
[03:04]	IsambardPrince	These sudden initiatives in Europe like Denmark going oh fuck oh fuck and spending 70% more all of a sudden.
[03:04]	IsambardPrince	That's because of Trump.
[03:04]	IsambardPrince	Yes, the Nazis did not need a majority to fuck shit up sideways, really fast.
[03:04]	IsambardPrince	They only needed 37%.
[03:04]	nobody	although, most of the extremist fringe is subverted by government secret service anyway
[03:05]	IsambardPrince	Once they were at 37%, they obstructed and caused so many problems that Hitler eventually became Chancellor.
[03:05]	IsambardPrince	And from there it took something like 59 days I think to dismantle the Constitution and rule by decree.
[03:05]	nobody	currently politicians argue "criminal immigrants must be deported"...
[03:06]	IsambardPrince	Yes, nothing good happens when Germans start talking like this.
[03:06]	nobody	anyway, one example, there's several families living here, from Morocco, from Moldova/Romania, they're not criminals
[03:06]	nobody	they're not hostile, just normal families, and i don't wish them any harm at all
[03:07]	nobody	but, they and their children do not belong here
[03:07]	nobody	they do not speak german language, to begin with
[03:07]	nobody	the city is overcrowded
[03:07]	nobody	and besides, those families aren't "poor" by common standards
[03:08]	nobody	in comparison to what i remember of my childhood in GDR, we didn't afford any car, and my mother couldn't afford to stay at home either
[03:09]	nobody	there's no economic nor other legal reason for such families to re-settle into germany, none at all
[03:09]	nobody	Morocco is a tourist destination for germans, and although Moldovoa/Romania aren't rich by EU standards, Romania is EU member
[03:09]	nobody	and such countries can provide housing and whatever families need
[03:10]	nobody	furthermore, alot of money is routed through EU cashpots, to support Ukraine, Romania etc..
[03:10]	nobody	nonetheless, they come here
[03:10]	nobody	few years ago, since when energy consumption of this appartment block exploded
[03:10]	nobody	and that's what they stamp onto MY energy bill, not theirs
[03:11]	nobody	because, poor children, this and that, doesn't make a difference such "poor" families can afford several cars for themselves
[03:11]	nobody	answer from politics "deport criminals" and those "unwilling to integrate into society"... which society?
[03:12]	nobody	i am fluent german and english speaker, the Moroccon and Romanian families aren't
[03:12]	nobody	they're the 99% majority in the city
[03:12]	nobody	it's not enough still
[03:14]	nobody	EU is totally rigged
[03:14]	nobody	this wouldn't have been possible, if strict EU fiscal policies were applied
[03:14]	nobody	but instead they blew up finance beyond repair
[03:15]	nobody	that attracted the type of migration, which it wouldn't have otherwise
[03:15]	nobody	but the cities know, they can cash in higher taxes on real-estate and appartment rent, if city is overcrowded
[03:16]	nobody	"social democrats" got one of their major bavarian headquarters a few meters distant from my appartment
[03:17]	nobody	and the central headquarter of both bavarian and german employment agency and their financial department
[03:17]	nobody	the "central immigration office" (BAMF) is 5 minutes cycling distance... right besides Hitlers former party ralley area
[03:18]	nobody	it's the global madhouse center here, of immigration and international policy
[03:18]	nobody	but, it's _all_ german major metropolitan areas, which were overrun with ~90% immigrants, for decades
[03:19]	nobody	the "allies" intended to "re-educate" and "de-nazify", that's my interpretation of the facts
[03:19]	nobody	another propaganda lie during the recent election campaign, was their focus on "syrians" and "afghans"
[03:20]	nobody	although, the war that had ended almost 30years ago was the Yugo war, and that's the "refugees" who might be asked to return home
[03:21]	nobody	there's no legal basis for migration from romania/moldova either
[03:22]	nobody	that's not countries in the middle of some war torn desert
[03:22]	nobody	"need cheap workforce", AfD, Trump, doesn't make a difference
[03:23]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, For just $5 million you too can have the United States IRS tax you everywhere in the world!
[03:23]	IsambardPrince	Sign up today!
[03:24]	IsambardPrince	It gets better!
[03:24]	IsambardPrince	When you have children they too will be taxed even if they've never been to the US.
[03:30]	admfubar	imagines yugos being used as tanks...
[03:30]	nobody	"immigration benefits labor market"... it's true many work in construction sector, but i couldn't afford any construction worker myself, or plumber or wall painter
[03:31]	nobody	whenver i had to re-locate into yet another shithole appartment, i had to do it all myself alone, after working full-time as programmer or whatever
[03:31]	nobody	corrupt labor unions and immigrants cash into their own pockets, _only_, all that remains for anyone else is the "generous" social security
[03:32]	nobody	because it's too difficult to quantify the "value" of a few lines of code in comparison to a square meter of a painted wall, it's not quantified, hence unproductive and non-competive
[03:33]	nobody	it's insane
[03:34]	nobody	best argument was comming from AfD, who promised joe the plumber 70000cash/year without taxation
[03:34]	nobody	insane
[03:34]	nobody	but i think all other political parties we got aren't much different
[03:36]	nobody	any political prominence we got, is affiliated with the "global young leaders" organization of the "atlantics council"
[03:36]	nobody	they've all received the same brain washing, articulate the same word bubbles
[03:37]	nobody	since 1990 they land and power-grabbed into former GDR
[03:37]	nobody	it's foreign agents
[03:38]	nobody	psycho sectarians
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[03:38]	nobody	i am glad my mother got a comfortable appartment in Leipzig
[03:39]	admfubar	https://fossforce.com/2025/02/how-to-tell-a-really-smart-home-from-a-not-so-smart-home-that-only-thinks-its-smart/
[03:39]	TR Bot	 How to Tell a Really Smart Home From a Not-So-Smart Home That Only Thinks It's Smart - FOSS Force
[03:39]	nobody	former east-german cities weren't overrun yet
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[03:40]	nobody	but they already had installed their political minions into leading positions everywhere in "east germany"
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[03:40]	nobody	AfD is an organization controlled by western political prominence, although they acquire majority of votes in the east
[03:41]	nobody	i question their motives
[03:41]	nobody	in the end it's probably just another land and power-grab
[03:43]	nobody	you either got the former "socialist union party" minions that were controlled by the soviets, and nowadays the "democratic" and some catholics who hoola hoop for the pope or washington
[03:43]	nobody	in any case, foreign agents, foreign interests, that land and power grab
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[03:44]	nobody	Alice Weidel meeting Elon Musk... and those type of people intend to rule over MY homeland
[03:44]	nobody	no thanks
[03:45]	nobody	since 1990 the "west" celebrated their victory, winner mentality, over having won the "cold war"
[03:45]	nobody	35years have past since then, to remind you former GDR lasted 40years
[03:46]	nobody	it's a "running gag", our GDR political prominence continued celebrating workers day may 1st each year
[03:46]	TR News	"Asked manager again about Canada consulting layoffs that were supposed to be coming as of some weeks ago. Was told they are in progress, and some already done." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmr1wn7e
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[03:46]	nobody	few weeks later "40years GDR" had ended
[03:46]	TR News	"Usually when real layoffs are in progress this board lights up. What's going on? Could everybody have been given a fat severance in exchange for being completely quiet about it? Definitely not seeing the usual pattern." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmr1wn7e
[03:46]	nobody	same in former soviet union, Tschernobyl detonated, but they rather celebrated another victory day
[03:47]	nobody	give or take a few more month, and it's over
[03:47]	TR News	"I am shocked and horrified that Alvind and the Pipmunks missed the opportunity to buy both Microsoft and NVIDIA." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmzby0p3
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[03:47]	nobody	although, this time, i doubt the economic and political chaos will end with a "peaceful revolution"
[03:48]	nobody	cars smashing into christmas markets... what is this? peace?
[03:48]	TR News	IBM's "Krabanaugh ... Other than being Alvind's personal boot li---r and a--wipe, perhaps someone can explain what skills Krabanaugh the lapdog brings to the table; other than pretending to be a wise finance leader which he ain't, of course." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmyjj33q
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[03:49]	lxo	kudos, I LOLed at http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/24/Meme_It_s_Over_Microsoft.shtml
[03:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights [Meme] It's Over, Microsoft
[03:49]	nobody	i've quit counting the number of terror attacks, the Magdeburg one just marked another cornerstone in history, terror had arrived in former GDR
[03:49]	lxo	I've been thinking of the term "artificial quantum of intelligence" since I first heard of MS's latest hype psycho
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[03:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	quantum chios
[03:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI quantum chios
[03:50]	schestowitz[TR2]	AI chios
[03:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	smart chips
[03:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	blockchaIn chips
[03:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	those are usually just GPUs
[03:51]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Know of any criminals with $5 million?
[03:51]	IsambardPrince	The US is going to sell citizenship apparently now.
[03:52]	IsambardPrince	And it's going pretty cheap by oligarch standards.
[03:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi, Microsoft down 10.39% in the past 30 days.
[03:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: <IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi, Microsoft down 10.39% in the past 30 days.
[03:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi, Microsoft down 10.39% in the past 30 days.
[03:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	It also publicly admits "AI" was mostly hype.
[03:53]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, "I am the natural living man making a special appearance, I do not have a contract with you! Get your hands off me! I do not plead. Animals plead. Sounds like baaah oink oink!"
[03:54]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], It's going to keep falling.
[03:54]	IsambardPrince	Question is, where does it end up at?
[03:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	at HEY HI
[03:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	of course
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	Committing more money to "AI" is what they released today, and the stock fell another 1.5%.
[03:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	so quantum
[03:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	and smart
[03:55]	IsambardPrince	If they pull the plug, they have to admit they wasted a lot of money, have nothing.
[03:57]	nobody	normally you would place short-sell orders, if it was a "market" that sanctioned "mal-investment", but it isn't
[03:57]	nobody	today Blackrock Capital CEO F.Merz proposed another "special budget" of 200billion to funnel into military spendings
[03:58]	nobody	big hey hi for defence, they just invent another bunch of word bubbles and excuses
[03:58]	nobody	Trump wanted another 300billion for Ukraine something, Ukraine wants another 700billion total, and 0.5% of german gdp for whatever economic miracle
[03:59]	nobody	magic mario draghi wanted another 800 billion
[03:59]	nobody	the nvidia one that busted 500billion alone
[03:59]	nobody	"hyper hyper"
● Feb 26
[04:01]	nobody	ah, now it's on the news here: "Trump wants to abandon the green card in favor of the gold card for rich"
[04:01]	MinceR	is everybody on the floor?
[04:01]	MinceR	we put some energy into this place!
[04:02]	schestowitz[TR2]	the rich do not flock to USA
[04:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	t hey did ages ago
[04:03]	nobody	although, that's not news, because an EU passport could be acquired in cyprys/greece before
[04:03]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Since FATCA, more people are renouncing.
[04:03]	IsambardPrince	It used to be something like 20-30 a year, now it's over 2,000 some years.
[04:04]	IsambardPrince	Obama tried to go after "Swiss bank accounts", so the rich just said fuck it, we're leaving.
[04:04]	IsambardPrince	Now the US runs out of money even faster.
[04:04]	IsambardPrince	And panics and tries to cut everything.
[04:05]	IsambardPrince	The Republicans should kill FATCA, not cut the budget.
[04:05]	IsambardPrince	FATCA is driving out people who were evading taxes, but now they're gone and they pay nothing.
[04:05]	IsambardPrince	Ever again.
[04:05]	IsambardPrince	The only thing that would have worked would have been an exit tax.
[04:05]	nobody	i was accused of not having reported income to financial department, which was an outrageous lie
[04:06]	IsambardPrince	You can leave but 2/3rds of your wealth is the "processing fee"
[04:06]	nobody	i was drowning in letters i sent to them
[04:06]	nobody	but it seems their hey hi database system for efficient digital bureaucracy whatever, wasn't able to process the nonsense
[04:07]	nobody	the city had granted excess "heating" costs, for _tampered_ energy bills, to cash in the money themselves, not me, they
[04:07]	IsambardPrince	People who renounce US citizenship still have problems if they ever were an American.
[04:07]	IsambardPrince	Like foreign banks don't want touch that.
[04:07]	IsambardPrince	Too risky.
[04:07]	nobody	then they accused me, although it was them who tampered the accounting
[04:08]	IsambardPrince	If they catch wind you were born in the United States, many will not open an account even if you have the renunciation receipt.
[04:08]	nobody	few weeks ago, they insisted upon a hearing at court, against me, based upon their tampered accounting
[04:09]	nobody	strangely, this "afghan body builder" immigrant, was accused of "social security fraud" too
[04:09]	nobody	then he rammed his car into labor union protesters
[04:10]	nobody	although "government psychological service" was obigated to "take care"
[04:10]	nobody	they're arbitrarily dragging anyone into their bureaucratic madhouse
[04:11]	nobody	my mother said at the phone, those labor union employees in public institutions think i was drowning in money
[04:11]	nobody	because guys like Musk got hundreds of billions at his disposal
[04:11]	nobody	they only watched at my CV, and went full scale "fuck this jew"
[04:11]	nobody	not aware of the fact, contracting with Telekom left me with nothing but debt, lung cancer, and below minimum wage for decades
[04:12]	nobody	since all this got "privatized" for "shareholder value"
[04:14]	nobody	i am not sure yet what to think of the recent election results in germany
[04:15]	nobody	because "christian" conservatives intend to lower "social standards" even further
[04:15]	nobody	the official "minimum wage" that is announced is fraudulent anyway, because they cheat with it in several ways
[04:16]	nobody	anyway, "social democrats" lost another few millions of their voters
[04:18]	nobody	throwing around of another 200billions bonus into the pockets of corrupt labor unions?
[04:18]	nobody	and EU is negotiation with Ukraine, because a few pipelines route Gas/Oil into EU
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[04:18]	nobody	but that's all energy/cash that arrives elsewhere
[04:19]	nobody	last year, they've stamped 3000kWh onto MY bill for "heating", when it was 600kWh, for the entire year
[04:19]	nobody	the metering was clear and precise
[04:19]	nobody	the electricity bill is highly irregular, i already received this one
[04:20]	nobody	but the annual appartment bill for heating and additional costs (waste disposal etc.) didn't arrive yet
[04:20]	nobody	although it should, but typically "labor unions" "negotiate" each year, how much surplus should be stamped onto
[04:20]	nobody	yet there's just no more headroom
[04:20]	nobody	they're not at least paying ME for MY work
[04:21]	nobody	it's not some 0.5% of whatever GDP, they've looted 90% already _before_ i could have paid taxes
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[04:21]	nobody	in parallel they inflated energy prices 1000%
[04:22]	TR News	Tech Layoffs Show No Signs of Stopping https://www.digit.fyi/tech-layoffs-show-no-signs-of-stopping/
[04:22]	TR Bot	 Tech layoffs show no signs of stopping
[04:23]	nobody	thing is, with the recent election, the accounting and legal system that got rigged, remains, it's only taking control of by the ones who did for 16 years before
[04:23]	nobody	Mrs. Merkel
[04:23]	nobody	and her "christian conservatives"
[04:23]	TR News	No one voted for Elon Musk: Protesters block SpaceX HQ as Elon Musk faces backlash over federal layoffs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/no-one-voted-for-elon-musk-protesters-block-spacex-hq-as-elon-musk-faces-backlash-over-federal-layoffs/articleshow/118448020.cms
[04:23]	TR Bot	 No one voted for Elon Musk: Protesters block SpaceX HQ as Elon Musk faces backlash over federal layoffs | - The Times of India
[04:24]	nobody	it was them who introduced various laws for "heat pumps", then came along "alliance90" who seeked to maximize profits further
[04:24]	nobody	not aware of the fact accounting fraud already had been maxed out beyond good and evil
[04:25]	nobody	now they argue to "relax the constitional debt limit", but they NEVER had complied with it before, never
[04:25]	TR News	Microsoft sharing buildings now https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2025/02/25/meta-microsoft-neighborhood-buddies.html
[04:25]	TR Bot	 NO TITLE
[04:29]	TR News	Microsoft explores becoming real estate company or has too much empty space after layoffs
[04:29]	nobody	AfD doesn't bother with placing some straight Nazis into parliament, i've checked the list today
[04:30]	nobody	i'm not too nervous, because such typically didn't escape surveillance of and control by secret service anyway
[04:31]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1566.jpg
[04:31]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1216.jpg
[04:35]	TR News	The Importance Of Current Balancing With Multi-Wire Power Inputs https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/the-importance-of-current-balancing-with-multi-wire-power-inputs/ | Source: Hackaday
[04:35]	TR Bot	Importance Of Current Balancing With Multi-Wire Power Inputs | Hackaday
[04:36]	TR News	Line Power With No Transformer https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/line-power-with-no-transformer/ | Source: Hackaday
[04:36]	TR Bot	Power With No Transformer | Hackaday
[04:36]	nobody	"german major city and communities' council"... "constitional debt limit must be relaxed"
[04:36]	IsambardPrince	Putting a tax on consumption in an economy that is 78% consumption is fucking retarded.
[04:36]	nobody	just a minute ago, on tv
[04:36]	TR News	All The Green Keyboards https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/keebin-with-kristina-the-one-with-all-the-green-keyboards/ | Source: Hackaday
[04:36]	TR Bot	With Kristina: The One With All The Green Keyboards | Hackaday
[04:36]	nobody	german cities and communities did NOT comply with debt limit anyway
[04:36]	nobody	the accounting fraud and corruption was that excessive, it's lethal
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	If you cut out income tax and maybe abolish the IRS, and replace it with a consumption tax, what that does is it raises taxes on the poor and middle class, who cannot avoid spending most of their income.
[04:37]	IsambardPrince	The rich consume little. Warren Buffett lives in the same house he paid $50,000 for in the 60s, and until recently, drove a 15 year old Cadillac. 
[04:38]	IsambardPrince	They realize that the more you consume, the lower your net worth is. Consumers are not supposed to realize that.
[04:38]	nobody	$50000 at that time is half a million nowadays, when normalized for inflation
[04:39]	nobody	Buffet did have those half a million cash for a house and a cadillac
[04:39]	IsambardPrince	Yes, but my point is he never sold his house, or bought another one.
[04:39]	TR News	Incredible Discovery Shows Mice Trying to Revive Fallen Companions https://www.sciencealert.com/incredible-discovery-shows-mice-trying-to-revive-fallen-companions
[04:39]	TR Bot	Discovery Shows Mice Trying to Revive Fallen Companions : ScienceAlert
[04:39]	IsambardPrince	He has a gold Rolex watch, but he bought one, in 1985 I think.
[04:39]	IsambardPrince	So 40 years ago he bought a Rolex.
[04:40]	IsambardPrince	It was an expensive watch back then, but they didn't make $60,000 Rolex watches back then.
[04:40]	IsambardPrince	I think the most you'd pay might have been $4,000-5,000
[04:40]	IsambardPrince	And he bought a Presidential, which would have been less.
[04:41]	IsambardPrince	He doesn't have a lot of consumption considering he has hundreds of billions of dollars.
[04:41]	IsambardPrince	He's old school. He's not building 10,000 year clocks in mountains and running space tourism.
[04:42]	IsambardPrince	He realizes that consumption destroys capital that could be invested.
[04:42]	IsambardPrince	Anyone can do this.
[04:42]	IsambardPrince	If you save and invest $1 when you're 20, it will probably be worth over $19 when you're 65.
[04:43]	nobody	the money i save is looted and plundered by bureaucrats
[04:43]	IsambardPrince	That's if you only get the average rate of growth in a diversified portfolio.
[04:43]	nobody	they got access to all data: energy bills, bank accounts, pension fund savings
[04:44]	nobody	if there's 100Euros surplus remaining at the end of the year, they'll send you a tampered electricity bill demanding another $400
[04:44]	nobody	they arbitrarily tamper and tweak this to their liking
[04:44]	TR News	Internet Society Appoints Dr. Gonzalo Camarillo to IETF LLC Board https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/02/internet-society-appoints-dr-gonzalo-camarillo-to-ietf-llc-board/
[04:44]	TR Bot	 Internet Society Appoints Dr. Gonzalo Camarillo to IETF LLC Board - Internet Society
[04:44]	IsambardPrince	When you have to consume you should try to minimize the harm.
[04:47]	nobody	i saved that much on energy consumption, October 2022 they tampered the accounting for a gallon of heating oil/gas billed with ~$80
[04:48]	nobody	of cause, i could have bought a Rolex, if they refunded MY money, and paid me MY money for MY work
[04:48]	nobody	this isn't how things work, nowadays
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/tesla-sales-europe-elon-musk/
[04:50]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/tesla-sales-europe-elon-musk/ )
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Tesla sales dropped 45% in Europe.
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	Probably will here too if not already.
[04:50]	IsambardPrince	Having one is now seen as being a Nazi.
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	Tesla fell another 8.39% today.
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	People were boasting of buying it up a few weeks ago on Bob Is The Oil Guy Forums.
[04:51]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[04:52]	TR News	What a circus !! Name even ONE company that does NOT try to REBRAND its old stuff as "hey hi" (AI) something...
[04:52]	IsambardPrince	They've already lost over 25% of that money.
[04:52]	nobody	irelevant, Tesla rating depends on those "carbon certificates", and their pricing will _increase_ because "climate" you know
[04:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody: serious question for you,
[04:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	is there a global warming
[04:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	?
[04:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	are temps going up?
[04:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	and if so, why?
[04:53]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: worse, it's much worse
[04:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	answer my question
[04:54]	TR News	https://rss.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:58:54 +0000 Greenpeace Goes to Court in $300 Million Suit That Poses Bankruptcy Risk
[04:54]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: in major metropolitan arease temperatures are increasing much more than officially reported
[04:54]	TR News	"In a closely watched case, the owner of the Dakota Access Pipeline is claiming the environmental group masterminded protests that hurt the companys business." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/greenpeace-energy-transfer-dakota-access-lawsuit.html
[04:54]	TR Bot	 Greenpeace Goes to Court in $300 Million Suit That Poses Bankruptcy Risk - The New York Times
[04:55]	nobody	but i am having difficulties with the "global warming" phrasing, because you can't just aggregate local temperature anomalies to a global trend the way climate pseudo-science did
[04:56]	nobody	and, the "climate policies" did not and do not "slow down climate change"
[04:56]	TR News	1MDB drops $332m lawsuit against Wolf Of Wall Street producer, says report https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/1mdb-drops-332m-against-wolf-of-wall-street-producer-report-says
[04:56]	TR Bot	 1MDB drops $332m lawsuit against Wolf Of Wall Street producer, says report | The Straits Times
[04:56]	nobody	because, these policies weren't designed for "climate change", these were designed to maximize profit and cash flow
[04:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you accept temps are rising
[04:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	should we do something about that?
[04:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	(i'd agree EVs are not the answer)
[04:58]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: do something how?
[04:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	you say we can do nothing?
[04:58]	nobody	sanction _low_ consumption and productive/efficient work?
[04:59]	nobody	because this is what "climate policies" accomplished, while subsidizing excess consumption and corruption of tesla vehicle owners
[04:59]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: do what?
[04:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	EVs are not the answer
[04:59]	nobody	and to whom?
[04:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	but you agree there is an issue
[04:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	global warming
[04:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	and do not agree with the policies put forth
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[05:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	so don't make fun of climate agenda or climate change alarmists
[05:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	they explain what goes on
[05:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	how to solve the issue is another matter
[05:00]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: i've saved that much on energy in recent 30years, i could drive a T80 tank each day in the city and wouldn't catch up with "average" consumption for the rest of my life
[05:00]	nobody	so do what? sponsor me with a T80 and some shells?
[05:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	you can feed birds
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	like your crow hans
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	they do not contribute much to warming
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	you could reduce power consumption
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	there are things people can do
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	buying MOAR cars is not the answer
[05:01]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: now it's getting cynical
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	even supposed 'efficient' ones
[05:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	that take much energy to produce
[05:01]	nobody	my energy consumption is very low for decades already
[05:02]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: each undergraduate idiot affords expensive luxury vehicles nowadays...
[05:02]	nobody	that's completely unrelated to what i think, how such status symbols should be assigned
[05:03]	nobody	as a merit
[05:03]	nobody	but i do think, this is _the_ solution to environmental hazard
[05:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	re "expensive luxury vehicles nowadays..."
[05:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	they do not even buy them
[05:03]	schestowitz[TR2]	or rent
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	 they take them out of the dealership
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	I think fixed income investing could have higher annual returns than the stock market in the US for a while if Trump gets what he wants.
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	like they do many "smart" phones
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	agreeing to pay monthly
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	so anyone with income of 1000 euros can drive out a luxury car
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	with some installment plan
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: he just relies on bigotas and fantasists like your mom
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	yesterday rianne asked,
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	does your mom still support trump?
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	(after all this)
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	i said, i don't know
[05:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	"she prays about it"
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	 nobody re "status symbols should be assigned"
[05:06]	nobody	schestowitz[TR2]: it would greatly benefit climate in the cities already, if the cars weren't speeding, intentionally
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	cars are not symbols
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	people think they are
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	that status exists only as long as people believe in them
[05:06]	nobody	petroleum consumption could significantly reduced, if they weren't speeding
[05:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	inside people's minds
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	like, do you care if someone has a yacht?
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	you don't even go to the sea
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I can tell she's starting to have regrets.
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	they are class heroes only in their own minds
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	But insists there was no other choice.
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	Face saving.
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	with a rotting body in its 80s
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	She realizes now what's happening.
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	<nobody> petroleum consumption could significantly reduced, if they weren't speeding
[05:07]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Even my Dad.
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	many jobs can be done from home
[05:07]	schestowitz[TR2]	but..
[05:08]	IsambardPrince	He's not happy with what's going on regarding Russia, and Ukraine.
[05:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	there's an industry with lobbyists
[05:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	it makes a lot of money letting office spaces
[05:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: you mean, ukraine did NOT invade russia?
[05:08]	schestowitz[TR2]	and putin does NOT want peace??
[05:09]	nobody	my argument was, there wouldn't be a need for drastic changes, and climate could cool down significantly
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	be part of the change then
[05:09]	nobody	but economic policy of EU incentivized the complete opposite
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	and stop worrying about every small thing
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	do your gentoo project or whatever
[05:09]	nobody	those idiots who speed in the cities, are subsidized to do so
[05:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	they only impress themselves
[05:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and likely are stressed
[05:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	debt, job, kids
[05:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	so that's not your problem per se
[05:10]	nobody	it's a former of Terror
[05:10]	nobody	*form
[05:10]	nobody	they're Terrorists
[05:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	motorists
[05:10]	nobody	it's just they can't smash a car into a christmas market or labor union protesters each day
[05:10]	nobody	so they're speeding instead
[05:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's a separate issue
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	 a lack of vetting
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	that didn't start with merkel
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	bringing in cheap labour was good for some companies
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	for the companies
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	not for germans
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	like many turks
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	but  the same thing happened in uk and us
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	like many fruit pickers
[05:11]	nobody	nonetheless, Merkel too did sanction low consumption and honest work, and subsidized wasting energy
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	they should pay better
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	they could attract local "talent"
[05:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	and that would lessen profit
[05:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	so be it
[05:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	profit as in greed
[05:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	like IBM moving the jobs to "cheap" countries
[05:12]	nobody	yet, please enlighting me, what you think you could do about this?
[05:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	and hoping people won't notice
[05:12]	nobody	sending me some more tampered energy bills to subsidize those who waste thousandfold of energy, each day?
[05:12]	schestowitz[TR2]	there are standing charges
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	like daily fee
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	on top of that,
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	billing per usage/unit
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	i don't know your tariff 
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	from what i can gathr, you have en apartment
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	and lack a choice
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	of ability to choose
[05:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	the building has one supplier
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	with one set of tarrifs
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	i know as i was on this "boat"
[05:14]	nobody	the accounting for heating is done by the landlord
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	and some  tennats got together
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	protested
[05:14]	nobody	he chooses the tarriff
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	as the enegy suppler was connected to the building owner
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	clearly a conflict of interest
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	<schestowitz[TR2]> IsambardPrince: you mean, ukraine did NOT invade russia?
[05:14]	schestowitz[TR2]	so t hey could charge us anything they wanted
[05:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	i forgot the name of the supplier
[05:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	but could check very old bills
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	Well, I mean technically they do occupy part of Kursk I understand, but they definitely did not do this preeemptively.
[05:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was a bargaining chip
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	Russia was using it as a staging ground for attacks.
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	So they need it as a buffer.
[05:15]	IsambardPrince	And yes, bargaining.
[05:15]	schestowitz[TR2]	we leave yours, you leave ours
[05:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: we cannot trust us anymore
[05:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	i think this damage cannot be undone
[05:16]	schestowitz[TR2]	there will be no ""biden 2028"
[05:18]	TR News	CLICKFRAUD SPAMNIL now running SPAM for Microsoft proxies https://tfir.io/black-duck-report-highlights-how-organizations-are-securing-ai-and-the-software-supply-chain/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Black_Duck/#2020
[05:18]	TR Bot	 Black Duck Report Highlights How Organizations Are Securing AI And The Software Supply Chain - TFiR
[05:18]	TR Bot	 Black Duck
[05:19]	TR News	DeepSeek is in the drivers seat. Thats a big security problem https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/deepseek-is-in-the-drivers-seat-thats-a-big-security-problem/
[05:19]	TR Bot	 DeepSeek is in the drivers seat. Thats a big security problem | The Strategist
[05:20]	TR News	Australia fines Telegram A$1M for delayed responses to online safety inquiry https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/australia-fines-telegram-a1m-for-delayed-responses-to-online-safety-inquiry/
[05:20]	TR Bot	 Australia fines Telegram A$1M for delayed responses to online safety inquiry - JURIST - News
[05:23]	TR News	1990s: web born. web growing. 2000s: newspapers move to web. later: k00k sites blend in via "social control media" 'engagement'. now we have a rotting of the old/real media and then even the k00k sites perish, as their real purpose was to seed discord by promotion in "alternative" channels
[05:24]	TR News	There won't be much left of WWW except "webapps", which go against what the WWW originally was. It's more like Adobe Trash, not pages.
[05:24]	TR News	Clownflare is basically a 'Webapp condom' (JS) on top of normal/traditional pages. It acts as a malicious gatekeeper.
[05:25]	TR News	Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsofts-ad-supported-version-of-office-only-saves-to-onedrive http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Microsoft_is_Admitting_That_It_Has_No_Viable_Business_Model_Sta.shtml
[05:25]	TR Bot	 Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive | Tom's Hardware
[05:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft is Admitting That It Has No Viable Business Model, Starting to Experiment
[05:25]	TR News	VAPOURWARE!! https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/microsoft-breakthrough-challenges-australias-quantum-strategy/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Hype_Watch_Weeks_After_Microsoft_Disappointed_Investors_With_He.shtml
[05:26]	TR Bot	 Microsoft breakthrough challenges Australias quantum strategy | The Strategist
[05:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Hype Watch: Weeks After Microsoft Disappointed Investors With "Hey Hi" It's Trying Some "Quantum" Hype (Adding Impractical Vapourware to Accompany This Hype and Even LLM Slop in 'News' Clothing)
[05:27]	TR News	Apple working for Convicted Felon https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/apple-says-it-will-spend-usd500-billion-in-us-over-next-four-years-as-it-faces-down-trump-tariffs http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/14/Apple_Social_Justice_or_Social_Nationalism.shtml
[05:27]	TR Bot	 Apple says it will spend $500 billion in US over next four years as it faces down Trump tariffs | Tom's Hardware
[05:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Apple: Social Justice or Social Nationalism?
[05:27]	TR News	Apple does not even have that kind of money, why does the press repeat lies?
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[05:29]	TR News	Celebrating 50 States on the Right to Repair https://www.repair.org/blog/2025/2/24/ptkkw1yziw8xv7u9iwhoohl42ojyvu
[05:29]	TR Bot	 Celebrating 50 States on the Right to Repair The Repair Association
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	https://www.uscourts.gov/data-news/judicial-vacancies/current-judicial-vacancies
[05:29]	TR Bot	 Current Judicial Vacancies
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Trump still hasn't nominated anyone.
[05:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	it should not come from him
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	but many nations are like this
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	political parties appoint their friends
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	from school or whatever
[05:30]	IsambardPrince	Yes.
[05:30]	schestowitz[TR2]	what sort of system is that??
[05:30]	IsambardPrince	There are 43 vacancies.
[05:30]	IsambardPrince	The Senate can't even start having hearings until there are nominees received.
[05:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.therevolvingdoorproject.org/rdp-calls-on-microsoft-activision-judge-to-recuse/
[05:31]	TR Bot	 Revolving Door Project | RDP Calls On Microsoft/Activision Judge Who Disclosed Son's Employment At Microsoft To Recuse | Revolving Door Project
[05:32]	TR News	Verdict for Jimmy Lais nat. security trial expected in October, Apple Dailys liquidation proceeding to follow https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/24/verdict-for-jimmy-lais-nat-security-trial-expected-in-october-apple-dailys-liquidation-proceeding-to-follow/
[05:32]	TR Bot	 Verdict for Jimmy Lais nat. security trial expected in October
[05:32]	IsambardPrince	32 slam dunks out of 43 vacancies.
[05:32]	IsambardPrince	The others could be held up by "blue slips".
[05:33]	TR News	Privilege Gone Too Far? How a 250-Year-Old Privilege Cost Atturo $10 Million https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/privilege-atturo-million.html
[05:33]	TR Bot	 Privilege Gone Too Far? How a 250-Year-Old Privilege Cost Atturo $10 Million | Patently-O
[05:34]	TR News	Republican Administration Maintains Exclusivity Stance in GLP-1 (Tirzepatide) Compounding Dispute https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/administration-exclusivity-tirzepatide.html
[05:34]	TR Bot	 Republican Administration Maintains Exclusivity Stance in GLP-1 (Tirzepatide) Compounding Dispute | Patently-O
[05:35]	TR News	"the EPO approach when it comes to inventive step in the pharmaceutical industry. The bar is so low, that inventive step becomes a more and more irrelevant patentability requirement." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-benefits-and-pitfalls-of-drug.html?showComment=1740397397349#c6310142467854886593
[05:35]	TR Bot	 The benefits and pitfalls of drug manufacturing IP (T 2543/22) - The IPKat
[05:35]	TR News	EPO is basically a white-collar crime hub based in Germany
[05:36]	TR News	They used to say it would advance science and technology. It does the exact opposite.
[05:38]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1011610/
[05:38]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[05:41]	TR News	Apache NetBeans 25 Brings Updates for Java, PHP, Maven, and More https://linuxiac.com/apache-netbeans-open-25-source-ide-released/
[05:41]	TR Bot	 Apache NetBeans 25 Brings Updates for Java, PHP, Maven, and More
[05:41]	TR News	IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced Customization https://linuxiac.com/icewm-3-7-window-manager-brings-enhanced-customization/
[05:41]	TR Bot	 IceWM 3.7 Window Manager Brings Enhanced Customization
[05:42]	TR News	POLL: Civilization VII Purchase Intent https://boilingsteam.com/poll-civilization-vii-purchase-intent/index.html
[05:42]	TR Bot	 POLL: Civilization VII Purchase Intent
[05:42]	TR News	POLL: Buying a Nvidia standalone device https://boilingsteam.com/poll-buying-a-nvidia-standalone-device/index.html
[05:42]	TR Bot	 POLL: Buying a Nvidia standalone device
[05:44]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Steam, Nvidia, and Layoffs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Games_Steam_Nvidia_and_Layoffs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Games_Steam_Nvidia_and_Layoffs.gmi 
[05:44]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Steam, Nvidia, and Layoffs
[05:44]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Stock bloodbath this week.
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	https://www.neuters.de/world/us/trump-end-eb-5-immigrant-investor-visa-program-2025-02-25/
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	[]moiwantkwason
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	 85 points 5 hours ago 
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	So someone who could afford that would want to get worldwide taxation? 
[05:46]	TR Bot	 Trump floats $5 million 'gold card' as a route to US citizenship
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I replied:
[05:47]	IsambardPrince	"Yes, but if you sign up now you get a million Membership Rewards Points. :)"
[05:47]	IsambardPrince	https://wallethub.com/answers/cc/is-the-amex-gold-card-metal-1000529-2140721242/
[05:47]	TR Bot	 Is the Amex Gold Card Metal?
[05:48]	nobody	you get worldwide taxation without signing up anway
[05:49]	nobody	it's called "NATO spendings" "carbon certificates" "UN contributions" and a few other things like this
[05:49]	nobody	round and round it goes, where it ends Trump knows
[05:50]	IsambardPrince	The US double taxes its citizens, and green card holders.
[05:50]	IsambardPrince	If you go to a foreign country, live there, and work, you still owe the IRS.
[05:51]	IsambardPrince	Basically the only thing it does is cause citizenship renunciations.
[05:54]	IsambardPrince	https://wallethub.com/d/american-express-gold-card-220c
[05:54]	TR Bot	 American Express Gold Card Reviews (2025)
[05:54]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[05:54]	IsambardPrince	The Wallethub rating keeps falling.
[05:54]	IsambardPrince	AmEx jacked up the annual fee twice since 2018.
[05:54]	IsambardPrince	It was only $160, then they took it to $250, then $325.
[05:55]	IsambardPrince	It's only worth it if you hit up overpriced restaurants where the credits come back to the card for eating there.
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	-TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- neuters.de | Trump floats $5 million 'gold card' as a route to US citizenship
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	they can go to monaco
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	what's the appeal of usa now
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	if you have this kind of money...
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	?
[05:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	you can be shot by luigi at the pavement
● Feb 26
[06:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	because of some 3-d printing and bullets sold at walmart
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I sent this to Dad.
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	Trump announces US citizenship sales to Russian oligarchs and criminals.
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	"We are going to be selling a gold card," Trump said. "We are going to be putting a price on that card of about $5 million," he added.
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	"It's going to give you green card privileges plus it's going to be a route to (American) citizenship, and wealthy people would be coming into our country by buying this card," Trump said, adding that details about the scheme will come out in two weeks.
[06:02]	IsambardPrince	Trump added it is possible Russian oligarchs could qualify for the gold cards, when asked by a journalist if those people would be eligible. "Yeah, possibly. Hey. I know some Russian oligarchs that are very nice people," he said.
[06:03]	IsambardPrince	https://www.neuters.de/world/us/trump-end-eb-5-immigrant-investor-visa-program-2025-02-25/
[06:03]	TR Bot	 Trump floats $5 million 'gold card' as a route to US citizenship
[06:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	it is already possible in better countries
[06:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	so if yotu have this kind of money, this won't change anything
[06:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	just some PR stunt
[06:08]	TR News	Techrights Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Slopwatch_Another_Offending_Linux_Site_Found_Fake_Articles_Abou.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Slopwatch_Another_Offending_Linux_Site_Found_Fake_Articles_Abou.gmi 
[06:08]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopwatch: Another Offending 'Linux' Site Found (Fake Articles About "Linux"), Postgres/PostgreSQL/PSQL Targeted by FUD from LLMs
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	The UK has been falling apart for decades.
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	Remember when Thatcher actually thought she'd dictate, to China, a new "lease" on Hong Kong?
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[06:11]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[06:11]	IsambardPrince	Your country's death warrant was signed by Hitler.
[06:12]	IsambardPrince	He may not have ever conquered or occupied you, but he broke your economy and indebted you plenty.
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[06:12]	psydruid	the only thing she dictated is her coffin to be readied so she could be put six feet under as soon as her utility expired
[06:13]	IsambardPrince	Everything between the end of the war and Thatcher's surprise to be put in her place by China was the "dead cat bounce".
[06:15]	IsambardPrince	China didn't even have to honor that lease.
[06:15]	IsambardPrince	They could have walked right over and taken it at pretty much any time.
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[06:19]	IsambardPrince	[]Tienbac2005
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	[+1] 175 points 4 hours ago 
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	Shit, if I had $5 million, I'd find a better place to go than the US.
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	[]stoicphilosopher
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	 79 points 3 hours ago 
[06:19]	IsambardPrince	I thought the U.S. was where you went to try to make 5 million before you moved to the place you actually wanted to live.
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	---
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	I wrote: Indians will do whatever they think will get them here. H-1B, "student" and then disappear somewhere or get "married" and start threatening the wife, back of the turnip truck.
[06:21]	IsambardPrince	You should hear these people go "I sold $60,000 of land in India to send my son to the US illegally through Mexico. Can you believe they flew him back and said we don't want him! The nerve of those people!"
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	[]kansai2kansas
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	 16 points 2 hours ago 
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	Yeah exactly, if I had that much money, I wouldve packed up long ago and get a new citizenship in EU/Japan/Singapore instead.
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	The money wont last forever which is why I want to make sure my descendants have strong social safety net, even if I die wealthy
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	---
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	I replied: "Yeah, the safety net will basically be the first thing to get cut to fund those military buildups. Denmark said it will increase military spending by 70%. They want to buy whatever they can get now.
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	They all figure Russia will come pouring over their borders next and it will take a couple years maybe, and now that Trump is openly assisting Russia at the UN (their other supporters being Hungary, Belarus, North Korea, and Israel), I think they should be worried."
[06:26]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[06:37]	TR News	Techrights Timeline of Microsoft's 2025 Crisis and Growing Panic https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Timeline_of_Microsoft_s_2025_Crisis_and_Growing_Panic.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Timeline_of_Microsoft_s_2025_Crisis_and_Growing_Panic.gmi 
[06:37]	TR Bot	 Techrights Timeline of Microsoft's 2025 Crisis and Growing Panic
[06:39]	TR News	"Dispensing with the tech bros Crooked Timber" https://crookedtimber.org/2025/02/25/dispensing-with-the-tech-bros/
[06:39]	TR Bot	 Dispensing with the tech bros Crooked Timber
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[06:42]	TR News	Rymdport file, folder and text sharing https://www.linuxlinks.com/rymdport-file-folder-text-sharing/
[06:42]	TR Bot	- file, folder and text sharing - LinuxLinks
[06:42]	TR News	IPTVnator IPTV player https://www.linuxlinks.com/iptvnator-iptv-player/
[06:42]	TR Bot	- IPTV player - LinuxLinks
[06:42]	TR News	Munin networked resource monitoring https://www.linuxlinks.com/munin-networked-resource-monitoring/
[06:42]	TR Bot	- networked resource monitoring - LinuxLinks
[06:43]	TR News	GenomeTools genome analysis software https://www.linuxlinks.com/genometools-genome-analysis-software/
[06:43]	TR Bot	- genome analysis software - LinuxLinks
[06:43]	TR News	cwordle Wordle clone https://www.linuxlinks.com/cwordle-wordle-clone/
[06:43]	TR Bot	- Wordle clone - LinuxLinks
[06:46]	TR News	"Curious what Stallman has to say about Robert C. Martin --- looked, but couldn't find anything...." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43174794
[06:46]	TR Bot	 Curious what Stallman has to say about Robert C. Martin --- looked, but couldn't... | Hacker News
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[06:49]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], We had another close call yesterday.
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	A private jet was taxiing at O'Hare that was not supposed to be.
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	A Southwest Airlines flight that was cleared to land had to abort to avoid hitting the private jet.
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	Because the air traffic controllers fucked up.
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	Every week.
[06:50]	IsambardPrince	There's another "incident".
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	enjoy vroom vroom
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	cut cut
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	crash crash
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	and suitcase gone to istanbul
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	comes back a month later
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	after you assume it was gone for good and bought many replacements
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	aviation industry is [pants
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	remember as a kid
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	if you can
[06:51]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, you onlu flew domestic
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was very different in airports and planes
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	faster and nicer in general
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2015/09/29/easyjet-addicts-at-it-again/
[06:52]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Getting Soaked in Beer at EasyJet flight When EasyJet Staff Foolishly Gives Plenty of Alcohol to Heroin Addict
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	10 years ago
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	won't fly with them again
[06:52]	schestowitz[TR2]	ever
[06:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	also see https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/06/12/easyjet-should-be-blacklisted/ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/05/25/avoid-easyjet/
[06:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive EasyJet Turns Away People With Tickets
[06:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive Avoid EasyJet
[06:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/05/23/easyjet/  https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2014/05/21/easyjet-sucks/
[06:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive EasyJet Crashes Into Worst Airline Position
[06:53]	TR Bot	Blog Archive EasyJet Powered by Incompetence, Seemingly Requiring Passengers to Install Malware on Their Computers to Just Board a Flight
[06:53]		techrights-ddos-prot5 techrights-links0 techrights-news techrights-news-remote0 techrights-sec techrights-sec1 techrights-sec2 techrights-sec3 techrights-sec4 techrights-server-mon0 techrights-server-mon4 TechrightsBot-tr tessier 
[06:53]		techrights-ddos-prot5 techrights-links0 techrights-news techrights-news-remote0 techrights-sec techrights-sec1 techrights-sec2 techrights-sec3 techrights-sec4 techrights-server-mon0 techrights-server-mon4 TechrightsBot-tr tessier 
[06:53]		techrights-ddos-prot5 techrights-links0 techrights-news techrights-news-remote0 techrights-sec techrights-sec1 techrights-sec2 techrights-sec3 techrights-sec4 techrights-server-mon0 techrights-server-mon4 TechrightsBot-tr tessier 
[06:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	iirc, tessier made a domain/site about United Airlines
[06:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	or maybe another airliner
[06:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	something "sucks"
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I am so done with this landlord.
[06:54]	TR News	Your boss is watching https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1111664/worker-monitoring-employee-surveillance/
[06:54]	TR Bot	 Your boss is watching | MIT Technology Review
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	My sink drain is leaking.
[06:54]	IsambardPrince	I ended up throwing a bucket under it.
[06:55]	TR News	"Your boss is watching Working todaywhether in an office, a warehouse, or your carcan mean constant electronic surveillance with little transparency" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1112346/the-download-workplace-surveillance-and-fighting-ev-fires/
[06:55]	TR Bot	 The Download: Workplace surveillance, and fighting EV fires | MIT Technology Review
[06:55]	TR News	Turkish intelligence declassifies reports on Soviet surveillance of Trotsky during exile in stanbul https://bianet.org/haber/turkish-intelligence-declassifies-reports-on-soviet-surveillance-of-trotsky-during-exile-in-istanbul-304831
[06:55]	TR Bot	 Turkish intelligence declassifies reports on Soviet surveillance of Trotsky during exile in stanbul
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], I am so done with this landlord.
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	the apartment?
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	of the owner?
[06:55]	IsambardPrince	yeah
[06:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	because they go as a pair
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	you cannot divorce one
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	without leaving the other
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	so you need to check
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	who owns this
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	is this place good
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	and t hat can change over time
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	worse landlord
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	or worse home
[06:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	seems you have both
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[07:03]	IsambardPrince	https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/25/starbucks-menu-items-removed/
[07:03]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/25/starbucks-menu-items-removed/ )
[07:03]	IsambardPrince	Looks like Starbucks is getting rid of the only thing I ever got there on the odd chance I happen to.
[07:03]	IsambardPrince	Some people I know of go there every day. They're also broke.
[07:04]	IsambardPrince	https://www.neuters.de/world/us/trump-proposes-fines-prison-migrants-illegally-us-who-dont-register-2025-02-25/
[07:04]	TR Bot	 Trump proposes fines, prison for migrants illegally in US who don't register
[07:05]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, I'm sure this will prompt them all to go register at the nearest ICE office.
[07:05]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: which item/s?
[07:06]	TR News	More privacy and secrecy https://alirezahayati.com/2025/02/24/more-privacy-and-secrecy/
[07:06]	TR Bot	 More privacy and secrecy | Ali Reza Hayati
[07:06]	TR News	Taiwan civil group call for legal reforms to protect digital and privacy rights https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/02/taiwan-civil-group-call-for-legal-reforms-to-protect-digital-and-privacy-rights/
[07:06]	TR Bot	 Taiwan civil group call for legal reforms to protect digital and privacy rights - JURIST - News
[07:06]	IsambardPrince	https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/02/17/dhs-announces-ad-campaign-warning-illegal-aliens-self-deport-and-stay-out
[07:06]	TR Bot	 DHS Announces Ad CampaignWarning Illegal Aliens to Self-Deport and Stay Out | Homeland Security
[07:06]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Starbucks? Java Chip Frappucino.
[07:06]	IsambardPrince	It's mostly chocolate and sugar.
[07:06]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[07:07]	TR News	On privacy: Judge blocks 2 federal agencies from disclosing personal records to Convicted Felon adviser MElons DOGE https://federalnewsnetwork.com/litigation/2025/02/judge-blocks-2-federal-agencies-from-disclosing-personal-records-to-trump-adviser-musks-doge/
[07:07]	TR Bot	 Judge blocks 2 federal agencies from disclosing personal records to Trump adviser Musks DOGE
[07:09]	IsambardPrince	"Ads will be hyper-targeted, including through social media, text message and digital to reach illegal immigrants in the interior of the United States, as well as internationally. "
[07:09]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ^
[07:09]	IsambardPrince	Hyper targeted on "social media" to illegal immigrants.
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	starbucks started as "cafe"
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	thhen tea
[07:09]	IsambardPrince	They know who they are just by the social media data.
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	now just candy in cups
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	and they make it sound like cooffee something
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	Frappucino
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	i got some bags of the powder
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	and used  it as other things
[07:09]	schestowitz[TR2]	1KG
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	same for "bubble tea"
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not tea
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's some sugar like candy
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and people pretend ti's OK to pay a lot for it
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	because "tea"
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and some tapioca pearls
[07:10]	schestowitz[TR2]	and a - gasp - wide straw
[07:11]	TR News	11 Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks https://www.linuxlinks.com/frameworks/
[07:11]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source CSS Front-End Frameworks - LinuxLinks
[07:11]	TR News	Volaris encryption tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/volaris-encryption-tool/
[07:11]	TR Bot	- encryption tool - LinuxLinks
[07:11]	TR News	12 Best Free and Open Source Vulnerability Detection Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-vulnerability-detection-tools/
[07:11]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Vulnerability Detection Tools - LinuxLinks
[07:11]	TR News	Machine Learning in Linux: Jan alternative to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot https://www.linuxlinks.com/machine-learning-linux-jan-chatgpt/
[07:11]	TR Bot	Learning in Linux: Jan - alternative to ChatGPT - LinuxLinks
[07:13]	TR News	Atmospheric Water Harvesting With High Voltage https://hackaday.com/2025/02/24/atmospheric-water-harvesting-with-high-voltage/ | Source: Hackaday
[07:13]	TR Bot	Water With High Voltage | Hackaday
[07:15]	TR News	Aqualung 2.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1011671/
[07:15]	TR Bot	2.0 released [LWN.net]
[07:15]	TR News	Notebooklm as a way to critically hear what you write https://harishpillay.com/2025/02/25/notebooklm-as-a-way-to-critically-hear-what-you-write/
[07:15]	TR Bot	 Notebooklm as a way to critically hear what you write life one-dot-two degree north, one-o-three-dot-eight degrees east
[07:16]	TR News	LLMs are not Hey Hi (AI), just plagiarism tools with permutation https://fossforce.com/2025/02/is-ai-compatible-with-free-software/
[07:16]	TR Bot	 Is AI Compatible With Free Software? - FOSS Force
[07:17]	TR News	Microsoft OSI to Faraone: Too Friggin Bad https://fossforce.com/2025/02/osi-to-faraone-too-friggin-bad/
[07:17]	TR Bot	 OSI to Faraone: Too Friggin' Bad - FOSS Force
[07:18]	TR News	Take-offs and landings at Hong Kong airport reach post-pandemic high, but figures still fall short of 2019 https://hongkongfp.com/2025/02/25/take-offs-and-landings-at-hong-kong-airport-reach-post-pandemic-high-but-figures-still-fall-short-of-2019/
[07:18]	TR Bot	 Hong Kong airport take-offs and landings reach post-pandemic high
[07:18]	TR News	Scientists find clues on why COVID vaccine causes chronic health problems in some https://nypost.com/2025/02/24/health/scientists-find-clues-on-why-covid-vaccine-causes-chronic-health-problems-in-some/
[07:18]	TR Bot	 Scientists find clues on why COVID vaccine causes chronic health problems in some
[07:18]	TR News	Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/surfa/
[07:18]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers (24 Feb 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[07:20]	TR News	How Fentanylware (TikTok) gets NY Times to publish assertions that are all backwards https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/world/europe/germany-election-die-linke.html
[07:20]	TR Bot	 How TikTok Helped Germanys Left to a Surprise Election Showing - The New York Times
[07:23]	TR News	Is Germany's industrial economic model in danger? https://www.dw.com/en/is-germany-s-industrial-economic-model-in-danger/a-71648473
[07:23]	TR Bot	Germany's industrial economic model in danger? DW 02/19/2025
[07:24]	TR News	environmental challenges https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-kumbh-mela-brings-up-environmental-challenges/a-71671784
[07:24]	TR Bot	Kumbh Mela brings up environmental challenges DW 02/19/2025
[07:24]	TR News	High electricity prices: A threat to Germany's industry? https://www.dw.com/en/high-electricity-prices-a-threat-to-germany-s-industry/a-71644198
[07:24]	TR Bot	high electricity prices a threat to Germany's industry? DW 02/19/2025
[07:25]	TR News	In Madagascar, journalist detained on false news charge over Facebook post https://cpj.org/2025/02/in-madagascar-journalist-detained-on-false-news-charge-over-facebook-post/
[07:25]	TR Bot	 In Madagascar, journalist detained on false news charge over Facebook post - Committee to Protect Journalists
[07:27]	TR News	Ubuntu Unity 24.04.2, Ubuntu Studio 24.04.2, Ubuntu Cinnamon 24.04.2, Lubuntu 24.04.2, Edubuntu 24.04.2 release. So those are still alive and properly maintained.
[07:28]	TR News	Ubuntu used to have Satanic Edition, but MS (Shuttlecock) pretended to own the word "Ubuntu" and sent his henchman Jono Bacon to threaten the maintainer of that distro.
[07:32]	TR News	Millions Without Benefits https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/elon-musks-war-social-security-will-his-takeover-leave-millions-without-benefits-1731148
[07:32]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk's War on Social Security: Will His Takeover Leave Millions Without Benefits? | IBTimes UK
[07:33]	TR News	It was never this clear that the rich attack the poor. They don't even hide it anymore. https://truthout.org/articles/acting-social-security-commissioner-resigns-amid-pressure-from-doge/
[07:33]	TR Bot	 Acting Social Security Commissioner Resigns Amid Pressure From DOGE | Truthout
[07:39]	TR News	The Felons attack the poorest people https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/quick-facts-about-michelle-king-top-social-security-official-leaves-1731129
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Quick Facts About Michelle King: Top Social Security Official Leaves After Clash With DOGE | IBTimes UK
[07:40]	TR News	Title repeats lies https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/vampires-benefits-elon-musk-claims-millions-us-social-security-are-over-100-1731133
[07:40]	TR Bot	 'Vampires on Benefits': Elon Musk Claims Millions on US Social Security Are Over 100 | IBTimes UK
[07:40]	TR News	Access to Sensitive Data https://www.truthdig.com/articles/social-security-head-leaves-as-doge-seeks-access-to-sensitive-data/
[07:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/social-security-head-leaves-as-doge-seeks-access-to-sensitive-data/ )
[07:42]	TR News	Health Net Federal Services, LLC and Centene Corporation Agree to Pay Over $11 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Liability for Cybersecurity Violations https://databreaches.net/2025/02/18/health-net-federal-services-llc-and-centene-corporation-agree-to-pay-over-11-million-to-resolve-false-claims-act-liability-for-cybersecurity-violations/
[07:42]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/18/health-net-federal-services-llc-and-centene-corporation-agree-to-pay-over-11-million-to-resolve-false-claims-act-liability-for-cybersecurity-violations/ )
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[07:45]	TR News	Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/ics-advisories/icsa-25-051-05
[07:45]	TR Bot	 Rapid Response Monitoring My Security Account App | CISA
[07:46]	TR News	How federal rules on cybersecurity breach transparency for businesses were challenged in court in 2024 https://omaha.com/news/nation-world/business/personal-finance/how-federal-rules-on-cybersecurity-breach-transparency-for-businesses-were-challenged-in-court-in-2024/collection_317d0256-ddbc-5f01-8594-5a90f0702825.html#anchor_item_4
[07:46]	TR Bot	 How federal rules on cybersecurity breach transparency for businesses were challenged in court in 2024
[07:49]	TR News	Kenya Security Officials Plead Not Guilty to Triple Murder https://hackread.com/infostealers-breach-us-security-military-fbi-hit/
[07:49]	TR Bot	 $10 Infostealers Are Breaching Critical US Security: Military and Even the FBI Hit
[07:51]	TR News	HHS Office for Civil Rights Imposes a $1,500,000 Civil Money Penalty Against Warby Parker in HIPAA Cybersecurity Hacking Investigation https://databreaches.net/2025/02/20/hhs-office-for-civil-rights-imposes-a-1500000-civil-money-penalty-against-warby-parker-in-hipaa-cybersecurity-hacking-investigation/
[07:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2025/02/20/hhs-office-for-civil-rights-imposes-a-1500000-civil-money-penalty-against-warby-parker-in-hipaa-cybersecurity-hacking-investigation/ )
[07:51]	TR News	Enterprise Linux Security Episode 108 - Ten Tips for Effective Automation https://www.yewtu.be/watch?v=4uDWSp2vgMU
[07:51]	TR Bot	( status 500 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4uDWSp2vgMU )
[07:52]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I noticed top sirloin is on sale. Mandy's been after me to make beef and broccoli.
[07:52]	IsambardPrince	Store has a buy $25 save $5 on the sirloin and the broccoli, so why not. This will be a cheap dinner that will get him to stop bugging me.
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: ping
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	as you can see, writing very short posts
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	and lacking contaext
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	and having a permanent url
[07:55]	lxo	schestowitz[TR2], pong
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	can be a liability - susceptible to distortion
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	people won't click
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	but just believe the distrotion
[07:55]	schestowitz[TR2]	meant to cause outrage
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://hintjens.com/blog:114
[07:56]	TR Bot	I've Quit Twitter - Hintjens.com
[07:56]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/o/2020/06/08/twitter-cancel-culture/
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Social Control Media: Where 'Cancel Culture' Thrives
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	even torvalds gggets it now:
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/When_It_Comes_to_Social_Control_Media_Linus_Torvalds_is_Channel.shtml
[07:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights When It Comes to Social Control Media, Linus Torvalds is Channeling Techrights
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	He said "that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach." 
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	at then end the bad actor quit
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	Torvalds carries on
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	no time wasted
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	just some messages in a mailing list
[07:57]	schestowitz[TR2]	and hostile media doing "x says"
[07:58]	IsambardPrince	Maybe if I placate Mandy I can sneak in Godfather Pasta.
[07:58]	IsambardPrince	That's one of my favorites.
[07:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	Godfather Pasta?
[07:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	what is that>
[07:59]	IsambardPrince	https://pressureluckcooking.com/instant-pot-godfather-pasta/
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Instant Pot Godfather Pasta - Pressure Luck Cooking
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[08:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Need a Windows 10 alternative or still miss XP? This Linux distro is for you - and it's free
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Microsoft OSI's Promotion of Microsoft LLMs (GPL Violations) as "Hey Hi" (AI) and Shunning of Candidates for Lame Reasons
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[08:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
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[08:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
[08:06]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], It's good. I made this once.
[08:07]	IsambardPrince	It should be good. How can eanything with pancetta, salami, and pepperoni all at once not be?
[08:08]		*Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe
[08:08]	IsambardPrince	It's so good that this should have been what Mr. Garibaldi was trying to get from the post office in B5.
[08:09]	IsambardPrince	That B-plot where the post office wouldn't give him his package, and he had to sneak it past the doctor because he was on a heart healthy diet.
[08:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi 
[08:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers
[08:09]	cblinux	running own internet computers or using friendly ones protects from cancel culture
[08:10]	lxo	schestowitz[TR2], you pinged me; did you mean the posts about twitter cancel culture right after the ping for me (why?!?), or was there something else?
[08:10]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2] said I could run a gemlog on my own laptop.
[08:11]	IsambardPrince	Yes, even in Crostini.
[08:11]	IsambardPrince	Easily.
[08:11]	IsambardPrince	I was pissed when I got zapped for mentioning the government mandated porn blur on an iPhone.
[08:12]	IsambardPrince	Google slipped something into my phone without asking that said it would do that.
[08:12]	IsambardPrince	I removed it.
[08:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: someone is having a go at you
[08:13]	schestowitz[TR2]	trying to oust you
[08:14]	IsambardPrince	https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308649/trump-green-card-gold-card-immigration
[08:14]	TR Bot	 Trump wants to offer $5 million gold cards to rich immigrants : NPR
[08:14]	IsambardPrince	"I know some very nice Russian oligarchs." -Trump
[08:15]	IsambardPrince	Anyway, the "gold card" is not as bad as what he wants to replace.
[08:15]	IsambardPrince	Democrats hate EB-5 as well.
[08:15]	IsambardPrince	I'm not pissed about killing EB-5.
[08:16]	IsambardPrince	I'm pissed tht he says he doesn't care if Russian oligarchs come here and get US citizenship.
[08:16]	IsambardPrince	EB-5 is actually so much worse than the diversity lottery. The DV lottery is only unpopular among Republicans.
[08:16]	IsambardPrince	I think we should reform the EB-5, not get rid of it.
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	And Diversity.
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	Diversity should remain, but more countries should be on the no-no list regardless of how many we get through other programs.
[08:17]	IsambardPrince	It would instantly increase the odds for people from better countries.
[08:18]	nobody	what's the benefit of "dv lottery"?
[08:18]	IsambardPrince	The worst part about diversity visas is you get some REALLY bad countries and you can't do anything to stop them because the lottery process is enshrined in law.
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[08:18]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/02/2025: Science, Hardware, and Politics
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	nobody, The idea is that there are 50,000 slots for diversity visas, for everyone in the entire world.
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	The goal is to promote immigration to the US from countries we don't get a lot of people from through other programs.
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	The United Kingdom is eligible right now for the 2nd year in a row.
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	It had never been eligible before.
[08:19]	nobody	does such a visa include costs for university, job placement, income or anything? or why would anyone want to move to the US if you haven't got a bitcoin wallet filled with a million?
[08:20]	IsambardPrince	The only requirement is you have to have a high school education and be selected and come here I think.
[08:20]	IsambardPrince	<nobody> does such a visa include costs for university, job placement, income or anything? or why would anyone want to move to the US if you haven't got a bitcoin wallet filled with a million?
[08:20]	nobody	i mean, if you haven't got anything other than your brain and hands to work.
[08:20]	IsambardPrince	Well, public charge still applies.
[08:20]	IsambardPrince	So if you plan to live off us you basically go right back, you won't be selected.
[08:20]	IsambardPrince	But the public charge rule is not strict enough either.
[08:21]	IsambardPrince	nobody, That's the thing. It tends to attract people who would otherwise have no way to qualify for a US green card.
[08:21]	IsambardPrince	And who want to live here.
[08:21]	nobody	IsambardPrince: everyone "lives of us" in a modern society, in return for work with salary received
[08:21]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_Immigrant_Visa
[08:21]	TR Bot	 Diversity Immigrant Visa - Wikipedia
[08:22]	nobody	you can't live autonomous, like the amish
[08:22]	nobody	even the amish can't
[08:23]	IsambardPrince	nobody, You can apply for a diversity visa.
[08:23]	IsambardPrince	Your chances aren't great but they're not zero.
[08:24]	nobody	i am not interested in a permit to stay in USA nor any other country that's modeled after their ideals
[08:24]	IsambardPrince	1.02% for Germany.
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	Odds are not bad for Australia or New Zealand.
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	1 in 23.
[08:26]	IsambardPrince	Not so great for Hong Kong, about one in 190.
[08:26]	IsambardPrince	It would be based on the people who actually apply though.
[08:26]	IsambardPrince	So that was just in the most recent lottery.
[08:27]	nobody	obviously anglo-americans consider themselves most diverse among themselves
[08:28]	IsambardPrince	It's bringing in about 4500 Iranians every year.
[08:28]	IsambardPrince	The top five are Uzbekistan, Egypt, Ukraine, Iran, and Ethiopia, by number of successful applicants.
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	2,290 Russians.
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Heh
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	899 from Belarus.
[08:29]	nobody	it would be more interesting what the financial situation of those "diverse" people was
[08:29]	IsambardPrince	Utterly broke if they're anything like the country.
[08:29]	nobody	low income, average income, a bitcoin wallted loaded with millions of USD
[08:30]	nobody	*wallet
[08:30]	nobody	Iran and Ukraine were infamous for their excess "mining" activity
[08:30]	nobody	Bitcoin
[08:30]	nobody	or however else they arranged for the flight costs alone
[08:31]	nobody	i couldn't afford it
[08:31]	IsambardPrince	https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5308095/doge-staff-resignations-elon-musk
[08:31]	TR Bot	 21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services : NPR
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5294699/former-u-s-ambassador-to-hungary-discusses-democratic-decay-under-pm-orban
[08:32]	TR Bot	 Former U.S ambassador discusses Hungary's democratic decline : NPR
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	nobody, You'd probably do better in the United States than where you are now.
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	Layers of corruption and tax from what you describe.
[08:32]	IsambardPrince	Constant abuse coming through the mail from various organs of state.
[08:34]	nobody	IsambardPrince: i doubt it
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[08:34]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's leftovers
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	How do you suppose?
[08:34]	IsambardPrince	If you can speak the language and are willing to work, you will probably do fine.
[08:35]	nobody	because it's the same system, it's specifically tailored for extortion of those where profit can be maximized
[08:35]	IsambardPrince	They were fine with my spouse.
[08:35]	nobody	if you can't afford a plane ticket, the dv lottery is useless, to begin with
[08:35]	lxo	they can't oust me from where I'm not, can they?  I mean, I was surprised by the handful of blocks I got in response to posting a link to a Brazilian Historian's thesis about Free Software to another Brazilian woman who expressed an interest in that history.  I suppose haters who pretend to care about inclusion and diversity don't care much about science and history that contradict their propaganda either
[08:35]	nobody	if you can't afford a lawyer, the legal system is irelevant, in either USA or germany
[08:35]	IsambardPrince	You don't need one really here.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	There's an E-File system on uscis.gov.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	I managed to figure that out.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	I don't think they're looking to give Germans a hard time.
[08:36]	IsambardPrince	You're not from what Trump considers a "shithole country".
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	Read: Impoverished, black, brown..
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	If you're Hispanic/Latino, we have ICE agents going around doing a human hunt right now.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	Accusing them all of being in Tren de Aragua.
[08:37]	IsambardPrince	They can't ALL be in Tren de Aragua.
[08:38]	IsambardPrince	It's something the government must be lying about because they know nobody will check, just repeat.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Today's DOGE report includes canceled Microsoft licenses.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	Apparently.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	Department of Government Efficiency
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	@DOGE
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	This audit was repeated at the Department of Labor. Initial results:
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	- 380 Microsoft 365 licenses with zero users
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	- 128 Microsoft Teams conference room licenses; only installed in 30 rooms
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	- 250 VSCode licenses; only using 33
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	- 129 Photoshop licenses; only using 22.
[08:40]	IsambardPrince	- 5 cybersecurity licenses, each with > 20k seats; DOL headcount is < 15k
[08:41]	IsambardPrince	It's likely that Biden was telling agencies to subscribe to a bunch of MSFT crap and then not even use it.
[08:41]	IsambardPrince	To slip bailouts to them that way
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	"Department of Government Efficiency
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	@DOGE
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	Today, the Federal Government exceeded $100M in annual rent savings through cancellations of 250+ vacant/underutilized leases totaling 3M+ square feet. With ~7,250 current leases, there is plenty of available office space for the current workforce."
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	---
[08:42]	IsambardPrince	It's plausible I suppose.
[08:43]	IsambardPrince	https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/office-real-estate-market-doge-government-leases-7509029b
[08:43]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/office-real-estate-market-doge-government-leases-7509029b )
[08:44]	IsambardPrince	WSJ is freaking out about the impact DOGE will have on commercial REITs (real estate investment trusts).
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Just for Microsoft 365 alone, with NOBODY using it, the Department of Labor was slipping Microsoft over $77,000 a year.
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	That's a nice chunk of change.
[08:45]	nobody	it's remarkable doge publishes this data, with Trump and Elon in charge... no wonder their activity isn't appreciated in neither USA, nor germany for that matter
[08:45]	IsambardPrince	I wonder which other agencies have hundreds of Microsoft licenses that they don't use.
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[08:47]	nobody	in germany they discuss to "relax the debt limit" - as if this had ever been enforced before
[08:47]	IsambardPrince	$62,500 to $125,000 a year in unused Visual Studio licenses at the Department of Labor
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], In unused Microsoft licenses, the Department of Labor was sending Microsoft $250,000 a year.
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	Just the DoL.
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	One agency.
[08:48]	IsambardPrince	Roughly $250,000.
[08:48]	nobody	the mail i received from employment agency proposed a "training voucher" (Bildungsgutschein), that would have funneled cash into whichever provider exists, thats mainly micros~1
[08:49]	nobody	that our chancellor olaf advertized for with hey hi
[08:49]		*MinceR` (~lb@iyhwsi75rjzuq.irc) has joined #techrights
[08:50]	nobody	with their "labor market activation programs" that's up to $10000 for a single micros~1 azure certified training
[08:50]	IsambardPrince	When does Count Olaf officially go away?
[08:50]	IsambardPrince	And are you optimistic?
[08:50]	nobody	yet, that's only granted if a micros~1 affiliated employer consented to hire
[08:51]	TR News	"Lawyer for Boston Water and Sewer's embattled HR director hits Herald with 'cease and desist' letter" https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/02/23/lawyer-for-boston-water-and-sewers-suspended-hr-director-hits-herald-with-cease-and-desist-letter/
[08:51]	TR Bot	 Lawyer for Boston Water and Sewer's embattled HR director hits Herald with 'cease and desist' letter
[08:51]	IsambardPrince	My guess is DOGE is going to have a giant Microsoft-ectomy in the federal government.
[08:51]	nobody	IsambardPrince: i am not, because F.Merz is _the_ Blackrock Capital investment CEO
[08:51]	IsambardPrince	Potentially costing Microsoft millions in revenue each year.
[08:51]	IsambardPrince	The funny thing is they pushed Trump on us hard.
[08:52]	IsambardPrince	So if they lose a lot of money they deserve it.
[08:52]	IsambardPrince	Microsoft is already tanking this week on the stock.
[08:52]	nobody	and micros~1 promised to "invest" (dump debt) into federal state of NRW/germany - which is the biggest federal state in germany with 10million voters or so
[08:52]	IsambardPrince	Elon can take his chainsaw to them.
[08:53]	IsambardPrince	nobody, Microsoft canceled a bunch of data center leases abruptly this week.
[08:53]	IsambardPrince	That really shattered their world when investors got the news.
[08:53]	IsambardPrince	They're finished.
[08:53]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], ^
[08:53]	nobody	the "german cloud" initiative "gaia-x" announced it made no progress, and "investments" poofed
[08:54]	nobody	but our "social democrats" articulate wishtinks already, to dump another 200billion "special military budget" out of nowhere, for nothing
[08:54]	nobody	they had to this however, with the pre-election majority they had lost, before the new parliament is established
[08:54]	nobody	*do this
[08:55]	nobody	so they argue "we must reform the constitional debt limit before loosing 66% majority of 'democratic' parties", since AfD doubled their share
[08:55]	nobody	but i would NOT trust AfD either, because they're controlled by _foreign_ interests too, from what i can tell
[08:57]	nobody	and, it's not micros~1 only, it's the entire "military spendings", "education" what have you, "critical infrastructure"
[08:57]	nobody	"if we don't have our 200billion bonus a solar eclipse will make world climate collapse and all animals go extinct"
[08:57]	nobody	just yesterday, it was announced, various "NGOs" insist upon another annual $20billion cashpot from industrial nations, for animal conservation
[08:58]	nobody	for this, too "constitional debt limit must be relaxed"
[08:58]	nobody	and labor unions strike, postal service etc.
[08:59]	nobody	they insist upon another bonus for themselves, because social security was "too generous" and they deserved more than this
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[09:01]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 6 features I wish Linux would borrow from MacOS
[09:01]	IsambardPrince	The Constitutional Debt Limit thing in Germany just seems too aggressive.
[09:01]	IsambardPrince	In the US they're always arguing about this fucking shit.
[09:01]	nobody	it's only applied to dissident voice
[09:01]	IsambardPrince	And it makes no sense because they always agree to raise it and spend more money.
[09:01]	IsambardPrince	We'd actually be in less debt without it.
[09:02]	TR News	mammogram wait times https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/breast-cancer-screening-wait-times-1.7463409
[09:02]	TR Bot	 Sask. Cancer Agency says mammogram wait times vary across the province, and patients say options unclear | CBC News
[09:02]	IsambardPrince	Because they wait until the moment before the government defaults and agree to what everyone wants to spend and go home.
[09:02]	nobody	i simply can't take another hit of accounting fraud
[09:03]	TR News	Is a Black Physician Shortage Killing African-Americans? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/21/is-a-black-physician-shortage-killing-african-americans/
[09:03]	TR Bot	a Black Physician Shortage Killing African-Americans? - CounterPunch.org
[09:03]	nobody	the financial basis is the energy accounting
[09:03]	nobody	it's completely screwed
[09:03]	nobody	there's no headroom, none
[09:04]	nobody	in fact, they must apply austerity now where it belongs: to those who excessively wasted the energy
[09:04]	nobody	and that's where you can't trust Trump nor Musk nor AfD nor anyone onf them
[09:04]	nobody	because they had benefit from the fraud and extortion most
[09:05]	nobody	"cheap workforce" "cheap russian gas" "no taxes paid up to 70000/year" for joe the plumber
[09:05]	IsambardPrince	Most people under about $50,000 don't pay federal income tax.
[09:05]	IsambardPrince	The politicians put so much garbage in there where you can subtract your way to near zero, legally.
[09:06]	TR News	credibility crisis? he must be arrested for it, it's a crime https://www.dw.com/en/argentina-s-milei-faces-credibility-crisis-over-crypto-scam/a-71691738
[09:06]	TR Bot	Milei faces credibility crisis over crypto scam DW 02/21/2025
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	Especially if you contribute to a retirement account, are married, and have children.
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	That's the only means of poverty relief that either party could agree to.
[09:06]	nobody	the system is different for "minimum wage" workers trapped inside what they consider "UBI" here
[09:06]	IsambardPrince	Shotgun marriage you into zero taxes.
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	I added it up one time.
[09:07]	nobody	with "UBI" it's considered "income above permitted maximum", and with that they'll cut 100% above what's considered "minimum wage"
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	In our case, my spouse would be paying about $6,000 more each year in taxes without being married to me.
[09:07]	TR News	"They have a big gap to fill with the Hashi acquisition getting delayed by EU." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmzby0p3
[09:07]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmzby0p3 )
[09:07]	IsambardPrince	When I say they come down hard on single people, they come down HARD.
[09:07]	TR News	 (NEW):  ameriDroid Opens Preorders for VPN Server with WireGuard and DietPi https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/ameriDroid_Opens_Preorders_for_VPN_Server_with_WireGuard_and_Di.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/ameriDroid_Opens_Preorders_for_VPN_Server_with_WireGuard_and_Di.gmi 
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines ameriDroid Opens Preorders for VPN Server with WireGuard and DietPi
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	The "tax" of not getting married is so much worse than the tax though.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	Because when you're single and the cheap apartment is $1200, you pay $1200.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	When you have two people in there, you're basically getting BOGO.
[09:08]	IsambardPrince	So the rent per person comes down to $600.
[09:08]	nobody	well, although i cannot precisely quantify, the calculus is trivial here: for each $1 they extort out of my pocket they cause $100 of capital damages of lost productivity of mine
[09:08]	TR News	IBM could do what Microsoft does: pay some other company like "openAI" to pretend to be a client of IBM, i.e. pay them to pay you back, faking "revenue". FTC keeps an eye on this, or did before Musk took over. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/the-ftc-is-concerned-about-big-tech-ai-startup-partnerships-microsoft-open-ai-raises-alarms
[09:08]	TR Bot	 The FTC is concerned about Big Tech-AI startup partnerships Microsoft-Open AI raises alarms | Tom's Hardware
[09:09]	IsambardPrince	A good chunk of the electric bill is "metering" and various garbage and nuisance and green energy fees.
[09:09]	IsambardPrince	But you pay them per meter, so one person gets whacked with a fixed portion of $20. Two people split that.
[09:09]	nobody	2023 it was 60cents/kWh, 2024 it was 50cents/kWh, electricity
[09:09]	nobody	germany
[09:09]	IsambardPrince	If you can work it out so you can share one car, you have half the car expenses.
[09:10]	nobody	i cannot afford a quarter of a car nor refueling it once a year at least
[09:10]	IsambardPrince	The "tax" you pay to be unmarried in the US is only half-paid to the government.
[09:10]	IsambardPrince	The other is landlords and various utilities and it's not efficient to shop for food, and such.
[09:10]	nobody	i HATE this regime, i'll never marry
[09:10]	nobody	i shit onto EU
[09:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Dr.Parted Live bootable Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Dr_Parted_Live_bootable_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Dr_Parted_Live_bootable_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[09:12]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Dr.Parted Live bootable Linux distribution
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	"The U.S. fertility rate in 2024 was 1.786, which is a historic low."
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	People are in agony.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	Only the stupid still have many children.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2] and I discussed this last night.
[09:14]	IsambardPrince	Gonad the Barbarian.
[09:31]	nobody	that's a propaganda myth
[09:32]	nobody	population size in USA increases
[09:32]	nobody	it too does in Germany, EU
[09:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmzby0p3
[09:36]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmzby0p3 )
[09:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	" What a novel idea ! You have to suspect the crooked Alvind and his Pipmunks have already been doing this corporate type of "sleight of hand" trickery with the myriad of "partnerships" that they have with other companies, vendors etc. Is this how the fat shamed Krabanugh lapdog reports revenue ? They even put the expert shell game scammers in NYC to shame. Bluescam or Bluewash ? You decide. "
[09:38]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, because of immigration.
[09:38]	IsambardPrince	Which is now being dismantled unless you're the guy who was running a "porn company" and that was the investment, or a hostile nation state slipping in spies as investors.
[09:39]	IsambardPrince	Trump doesn't want to fix this, he just wants to make them pay more.
[09:39]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
[09:39]	TR Bot	 GirlsDoPorn - Wikipedia
[09:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi 
[09:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software
[09:39]	IsambardPrince	This entire thing happened because they allowed Michael Pratt to get a green card then US citizenship with the investment visa.
[09:40]	IsambardPrince	He was in there raping people, some underage, and calling it his "investment".
[09:40]	IsambardPrince	His "male model" Andre Garcia, got dozens of women infected with various STDs during filming.
[09:41]	IsambardPrince	One complained he gave her syphilis.
[09:41]	IsambardPrince	Another said Gonorrhea.
[09:41]	IsambardPrince	One woman was raped because she couldn't film due to menstruation, so Garcia held her down, forced a sponge into her vagina, and then filmed the rape and put it on Pornhub.
[09:42]	IsambardPrince	Many are Chinese.
[09:43]	IsambardPrince	Their wealthy parents invent a fake business and the goal isn't even to make money. If it does, that's nice.
[09:43]	IsambardPrince	But they're willing to lose the entire wad to get green cards for their kids because it's a gateway to US citizenship.
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	You know, because Communist countries have uber-rich, and a middle class, and a hey wait a minute.
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, ^
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	And everyone gets the same thing in Communism, which is why rural Chinese have lower pay and worse healthcare than urban Chinese.
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	And why they make entire cities nobody can afford to live in.
[09:44]	IsambardPrince	And empty malls.
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	America has lots of abandoned malls, but they were used ffor decades.
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	China builds them empty and they stay empty, then they build more.
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	It's a giant scam.
[09:45]	TR News	Techrights Rumour About IBM Layoffs in the UK https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Rumour_About_IBM_Layoffs_in_the_UK.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Rumour_About_IBM_Layoffs_in_the_UK.gmi 
[09:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights Rumour About IBM Layoffs in the UK
[09:45]	IsambardPrince	Just what Musk has already done, if he stopped here would register as a recession in a matter of months.
[09:46]	IsambardPrince	The next couple jobs reports will be negative based on what he's already done.
[09:46]	IsambardPrince	Biden was papering over a very sick economy with bailouts.
[09:46]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Did you see the DOGE posts?
[09:46]	IsambardPrince	About $250,000 a year in unused Microsoft licenses just at Department of Labor.
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	Bailouts and tons of federal hiring.
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	If Trump fired 800,000 federal workers, the federal government would fall to the headcount it had in 2017.
[09:47]	IsambardPrince	That's how bad this is.
[09:48]	IsambardPrince	Biden filled up the government with people who don't need to be there, just to hide the unemployment.
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: a microsoftt whistleblowerrr said they do lots of this unused licences scam
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	and names countries
[09:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	nobody held Microsoft accountable for it
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	Biden had zombie companies and huge federal jobs.
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	He forestalled an official recession.
[09:49]	IsambardPrince	Dumped it in Trump's lap, who will be blamed for dismantling the fake economic activity.
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[09:51]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Sounds like the unused licenses thing is going tits up.
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	At least in the federal government.
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	STATE OF ILL still says you need Microsoft Edge to fill out a PDF.
[09:51]	IsambardPrince	Massive Microsoft infestation here.
[09:53]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I talk to one of my doctors over the plain old telephone system.
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	I still write paper checks to the landlord and mail them.
[09:54]	IsambardPrince	They're not going to get me on all of those fraud platforms that look like a payment network or the VOIP platforms that have a data breach every month.
[09:55]	IsambardPrince	My credit card companies still ask me to "go green". 
[09:55]	IsambardPrince	I mail back a check for the balance.
[09:56]	IsambardPrince	My god it's a stamp. I mean seriously.
[09:56]	IsambardPrince	But yeah.
[09:56]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], The unused licenses scam is going away in the federal gov.
[09:57]	IsambardPrince	We've been cheated, and robbed, of potentially billions by Microsoft.
[09:57]	IsambardPrince	Over software that isn't even used.
[09:58]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I don't support this triangulation with regards to dictatorships.
[09:59]	IsambardPrince	We should want to be friendly towards democracies, and I'm not thrilled with Europe.
[09:59]	IsambardPrince	They do need to take their medicine as far as military spending.
[09:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> My credit card companies still ask me to "go green". 
[09:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	tell them to stop flying
[09:59]	schestowitz[TR2]	their execs and all
[09:59]	IsambardPrince	It's a bad time to be flying.
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[10:00]	IsambardPrince	This government is too incompetent to manage air traffic.
[10:00]	IsambardPrince	This is a ploy to privatize it.
[10:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	envelopes are not what kills the planet
[10:00]	IsambardPrince	Eventually Musk will say the FAA is to blame.
[10:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	ha
[10:00]	IsambardPrince	Right, it's a letter going through a system that already exists.
[10:00]	schestowitz[TR2]	self-fulfilling prophecy
[10:01]	IsambardPrince	Right, Trump and Musk are killing people who fly on airplanes.
[10:01]	IsambardPrince	To push a privatization.
[10:01]	IsambardPrince	I'm not even joking here.
[10:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes
[10:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	you are not the first to say this
[10:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	it has been argued for weeks already
[10:01]	schestowitz[TR2]	even before the election
[10:02]	IsambardPrince	My cousins are getting ready to fly on vacation again.
[10:02]	IsambardPrince	Hope theirs isn't this week's designated Trump/Musk Plane Explosion.
[10:02]	IsambardPrince	You could not pay me to get on an airplane right now.
[10:03]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Some idiot on Reddit said he loved his electric car because of "rising gas prices".
[10:03]	IsambardPrince	I told him the cost for a gallon of gas is about what I paid in 2002 right now.
[10:03]	IsambardPrince	:)
[10:03]	IsambardPrince	I got brigaded.
[10:03]	nobody	energy prices in USA are very low in comparison to germany
[10:04]	IsambardPrince	There's a reason that even though the dollar is worth half what it was in 2002, if that, gas is at 2002 prices. It's because this happens during horrible gut wrenching, in this case undeclared, recessions.
[10:04]	IsambardPrince	Adjusted for inflation, gas now is cheaper than where it crashed to during 2008.
[10:05]	nobody	in germany it's stagflation: excess energy usage, and industrial outsourcing
[10:05]	nobody	although most industry is outsourced to china and industrial jobs lost, gas/energy consumption increased
[10:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  4 reasons why Hyprland is the best windows manager for Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/4_reasons_why_Hyprland_is_the_best_windows_manager_for_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/4_reasons_why_Hyprland_is_the_best_windows_manager_for_Linux.gmi 
[10:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 4 reasons why Hyprland is the best windows manager for Linux
[10:07]	IsambardPrince	I recall 2008 well.
[10:07]	IsambardPrince	The part where John McCain and Jim Cramer said the economy was strong, and then the next day the world's largest investment banks collapsed. Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers.
[10:07]	IsambardPrince	Gas was at $4.50, and suddenly nobody was driving and it was $1.70.
[10:07]	TR News	Is the country's economic model in danger? https://www.dw.com/en/german-election-is-the-country-s-economic-model-in-danger/a-71648473
[10:07]	TR Bot	Germany's industrial economic model in danger? DW 02/19/2025
[10:07]	IsambardPrince	A few weeks later they passed TARP and the Fed cut interest rates to zero where they stayed for almost 14 years.
[10:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  6 productivity apps you must install on Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/6_productivity_apps_you_must_install_on_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/6_productivity_apps_you_must_install_on_Linux.gmi 
[10:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines 6 productivity apps you must install on Linux
[10:09]	IsambardPrince	You can get a lot of bank interest today, like I did in the 90s, but it's not because of an economic boom where everyone is employed. It's because it's expensive to borrow money which means if I'm the lender, it's expensive to borrow from me.
[10:09]	IsambardPrince	It's expensive to borrow because if they lower it even a bit, we'll have 10%+ annual inflation or more.
[10:09]	TR News	"You'll need Proton to play this one on Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-talos-principle-reawakened-launches-in-april-with-a-demo-live/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:09]	TR Bot	Talos Principle: Reawakened launches in April with a demo live | GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	TR News	"Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter where the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. A really clever idea, and a game I had a lot of fun with previously and now it has improved Steam Deck support too." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/seriously-clever-twin-stick-shooter-windowkill-adds-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	TR Bot	clever twin-stick shooter Windowkill adds Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	nobody	problem is, _real_ economic activity cannout outcompete return of investment at stock exchange
[10:10]	IsambardPrince	There's no amount of "boot on the neck of the economy" that will bring inflation to 2% and not end in everyone losing their jobs and a stock market crash. It's actually already well underway.
[10:10]	TR News	"Team Fortress 2 Classic, a mod that aims to re-imagine the early post-launch era of Team Fortress 2, will be released on Steam." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/team-fortress-2-classic-is-coming-to-steam-thanks-to-valve-adding-tf2-to-the-source-sdk/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	TR Bot	Fortress 2 Classic is coming to Steam thanks to Valve adding TF2 to the Source SDK | GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	nobody	hence money is dumped into bubbles
[10:10]	TR News	"The Witch Beam team (Unpacking, Assault Android Cactus) are back with a whimsical, charming adventure in Tempopo." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/tempopo-from-the-devs-of-unpacking-and-assault-android-cactus-releases-in-april/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:10]	TR Bot	from the devs of Unpacking and Assault Android Cactus releases in April | GamingOnLinux
[10:11]	TR News	"If you don't want Steam games that have AI Generation in them, you might want to check out the new filter on SteamDB." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/steamdb-now-lets-you-filter-out-steam-games-with-ai-generation/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:11]	TR Bot	now lets you filter out Steam games with AI Generation | GamingOnLinux
[10:11]	IsambardPrince	You can have hyperinflation or mass unemployment right now.
[10:11]	IsambardPrince	They've decided to split the baby and give us some of each. If they raised rates to 7% from 4% they'd crush inflation, millions would lose their job.
[10:12]	IsambardPrince	4% is prolonged agony.
[10:12]	nobody	my energy bills already are hyper-inflated, for more than a decade
[10:12]	IsambardPrince	It's not enough to deal with all the inflation, but it is enough to prevent job creation.
[10:12]	nobody	trick is they had hidden this with accounting fraud
[10:12]	nobody	the other trick was stealing MY income for MY work
[10:13]	nobody	yet, if productive work is destroyed, they can't leverage against it anylonger
[10:13]	nobody	and the leverage is huge
[10:14]	IsambardPrince	Energy is going sky high here because of the green energy scams.
[10:14]	IsambardPrince	You get billed for it, what the hell are they even doing?
[10:14]	IsambardPrince	DEI at the electric company.
[10:14]	nobody	in USA? no, it isn't
[10:14]	TR News	"Probably one of the most exciting upcoming point and click adventures is Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer, and now you can get any early look thanks to a demo release for Steam Next Fest." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/point-and-click-urban-thriller-kathy-rain-2-soothsayer-gets-a-new-demo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:14]	TR Bot	and click urban thriller Kathy Rain 2: Soothsayer gets a new demo | GamingOnLinux
[10:15]	IsambardPrince	The law actually says the power company has to hire a bunch of black genderqueer lesbians or something.
[10:15]	IsambardPrince	Maybe even Brandon Lobsta could become a journeyman electrician.
[10:15]	TR News	"It's been three years today since Valve released the Steam Deck. Not only has Valve shown how incredible Linux actually can be as a gaming platform, but they really kicked the industry into gear on PC gaming handhelds." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/happy-three-years-to-the-steam-deck-the-linux-gaming-machine-that-changed-everything/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:15]	TR Bot	three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything | GamingOnLinux
[10:15]	TR News	"If you prefer to buy your games for Linux on GOG, there's a fresh update to Minigalaxy, the open source simple GOG client" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/simple-gog-client-for-linux-minigalaxy-v1-3-2-released-with-improved-game-installs/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[10:15]	TR Bot	GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy v1.3.2 released with improved game installs | GamingOnLinux
[10:15]	IsambardPrince	nobody, It's higher than it should be.
[10:16]	IsambardPrince	Without the green new scam, my electric bill would be 40% lower than it is now.
[10:16]	IsambardPrince	Like incredibly cheap.
[10:16]	IsambardPrince	The state dumped bailouts into Exelon to run highly profitable nuclear plants.
[10:17]	IsambardPrince	Then they took money from me, stole it, to dump into windmills and solar panels, which cost so much it doesn't make sense, and which only generate power sometimes.
[10:17]	IsambardPrince	It's not base load.
[10:17]	nobody	it's accounting fraud and subsidy scams first and foremost
[10:17]	IsambardPrince	Then they realized that with fossil fuel prices going through the roof, they could sell nuclear power into other states at a profit.
[10:18]	IsambardPrince	But they kept the profit, and the line item bailout, at the same time.
[10:18]	TR News	"Joann to close all stores after exhausting every possible effort to stay in business - lonestarlive.com" https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/02/joann-to-close-all-stores-after-exhausting-every-possible-effort-to-stay-in-business.html
[10:18]	TR Bot	to close all stores after exhausting every possible effort to stay in business - lonestarlive.com
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[10:21]	TR News	"The AI Fix #39: AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere Graham Cluley" https://grahamcluley.com/the-ai-fix-39/
[10:21]	TR Bot	 The AI Fix #39: AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere Graham Cluley
[10:24]	TR News	The profitable work | "Det lnsamma arbetet" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://idiomdrottning.org/det-lonsamma-arbetet
[10:24]	TR Bot	 Det lnsamma arbetet
[10:24]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Minigalaxy 1.3.2, SteamDB, Tempopo, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Games_Minigalaxy_1_3_2_SteamDB_Tempopo_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Games_Minigalaxy_1_3_2_SteamDB_Tempopo_and_More.gmi 
[10:24]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Minigalaxy 1.3.2, SteamDB, Tempopo, and More
[10:26]	TR News	Microsoft is _*_very_*_ afraid of open file formats ... https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsofts-ad-supported-version-of-office-only-saves-to-onedrive http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Microsoft_is_Admitting_That_It_Has_No_Viable_Business_Model_Sta.shtml
[10:26]	TR Bot	 Microsoft's ad-supported version of Office only saves to OneDrive | Tom's Hardware
[10:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft is Admitting That It Has No Viable Business Model, Starting to Experiment
[10:27]	TR News	"Chatkontrolle: Europol kassiert Rge wegen Thorn-Drehtr" | Europol receives reprimand for Thorn revolving door https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/chatkontrolle-europol-kassiert-ruege-wegen-thorn-drehtuer/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/04/An_Article_Techrights_Contributed_to_Exposes_Corruption_in_Euro.shtml
[10:27]	TR Bot	 Chatkontrolle: Europol kassiert Rge wegen Thorn-Drehtr
[10:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights An Article Techrights Contributed to Exposes Corruption in Europe's Largest Institutions, Including the EPO and EUIPO
[10:28]	TR News	iophk on cadwalladr: she was also one of the very few who investigated social control media's role in brexit https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/carole-cadwalladr-dropped-by-tortoise-ahead-of-observer-take-over/
[10:28]	TR Bot	 Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise as it takes over Observer
[10:33]	TR News	"Its a Psyop: Inside Elon Musks Empty Ultimatum" https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/elon-musk-federal-workers-fired/681824/
[10:33]	TR Bot	 Its a Psyop: Inside Elon Musks Empty Ultimatum - The Atlantic
[10:37]	TR News	"Kommision: Tag smartphonen fra brnene | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/kommision-tag-smartphonen-fra-boernene
[10:37]	TR Bot	 Kommision: Tag smartphonen fra brnene | Version2
● Feb 26
[11:21]	TR News	"unavailable due to copyright infringement" https://torrentfreak.com/telegram-shuts-down-z-library-download-bot-and-backup-communication-channel-250226/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[11:21]	TR Bot	Shuts Down Z-Library Download Bot and Backup Communication Channel * TorrentFreak
[11:21]	TR News	"Already reeling from the economic fallout of the Ukraine war, sanctions, and rampant inflation" https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-sites-eye-profit-as-bill-imposes-moral-values-on-streaming-services-250225/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[11:21]	TR Bot	Sites Eye Profit as Russian Bill Imposes Moral Values on Streaming Services * TorrentFreak
[11:22]	TR News	"It came as Downing Street refused to guarantee that copyrighted work will not be used to train AI software. Artists are concerned the policy will enable the creation of AI music that drowns out pieces by humans." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/25/kate-bush-accuses-ministers-of-silencing-musicians-in-copyr/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[11:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/02/25/kate-bush-accuses-ministers-of-silencing-musicians-in-copyr/ )
[11:22]	TR News	"More than 1,000 artists including Damon Albarn, Kate Bush, and Annie Lennox have released a silent album in protest of the UK governments proposed changes to copyright law" https://consequence.net/2025/02/silent-ai-protest-album/ | Source: Consequence
[11:22]	TR Bot	 Silent AI Protest Album Released in Response to Proposed UK Copyright Law
[11:22]	TR News	"which would automatically allow AI businesses like OpenAI to ingest UK creators content until those creators explicitly opt out" https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-titles-from-guardian-to-daily-mail-unite-in-opposition-to-ai-copyright-grab/ | Source: Press Gazette
[11:22]	TR Bot	 News titles from Guardian to Daily Mail unite in opposition to AI copyright grab - Press Gazette
[11:23]	TR News	"Creative industries globally are grappling with the legal and ethical implications of AI models that can produce their own output after being trained on popular works without necessarily paying the creators of the original content." https://www.voanews.com/a/musicians-release-silent-album-to-protest-uk-s-ai-copyright-changes/7986931.html | Source: VOA News
[11:23]	TR Bot	 Musicians release silent album to protest UK's AI copyright changes
[11:23]	TR News	"In late 2024, the UK government proposed changing copyright law to allow artificial intelligence companies to build their products using other peoples copyrighted work - music, artworks, text, and more - without a licence." https://www.isthiswhatwewant.com/ |
[11:23]	TR Bot	 Is This What We Want?
[11:33]	TR News	2019 Week 6 Deaths in England and Wales: 11,660. Same Week in 2025: Over 13,000. https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/02/26/2019-week-6-deaths-in-england-and-wales/
[11:33]	TR Bot	Blog Archive 2019 Week 6 Deaths in England and Wales: 11,660. Same Week in 2025: Over 13,000.
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[11:40]	TR News	"Thanks to a mutual fan, we were invited to speak about the work of the Identity Project with Alex Newman on the latest edition of The Liberty Report on Patriot.tv." https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/02/25/tsa-must-go-away/ | Source: Papers Please
[11:40]	TR Bot	 TSA must go away Papers, Please!
[11:42]	TR News	Extinction https://therevelator.org/cash-for-corals/ | Source: The Revelator
[11:42]	TR Bot	 Cash for Corals: Exploiting Ecosystems on Their Way to Extinction The Revelator
[11:42]	TR News	"Dependent on Gas" https://www.desmog.com/2025/02/25/the-fossil-fuel-industry-wants-to-keep-new-buildings-dependent-on-gas/ | Source: DeSmog
[11:42]	TR Bot	Fossil Fuel Industry Wants to Keep New Buildings Dependent on Gas - DeSmog
[11:47]	TR News	Patents https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/18/humane-ai-pin-discontinued/ | Source: MacRumors
[11:47]	TR Bot	$700 Ai Pin Discontinued and Defunct After Less Than 1 Year - MacRumors
[11:49]	TR News	"In addition to missing features, all three will only create, edit, or save documents using OneDrive. Direct access to local files is off-limits without paying for a subscription (which will also unlock the missing functionality)." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/adsupported_microsoft_office/ | Source: The Register UK
[11:49]	TR Bot	 Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface The Register
[11:49]	TR News	"The Competition and Markets Authority, or CMA, announced the decision today. The regulatory milestone comes nearly a year after IBM first revealed plans to buy HashiCorp." https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/25/uk-antitrust-regulator-approves-ibms-6-4b-hashicorp-acquisition/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[11:49]	TR Bot	antitrust regulator approves IBMs $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition - SiliconANGLE
[11:50]	TR News	"Skip for now" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/microsofts-ad-supported-version-of-office-only-saves-to-onedrive | Source: Tom's Hardware
[11:51]	TR News	IBM Consulting in trouble
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● Feb 26
[12:01]	TR News	Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://jcs.org/2025/02/24/kindle | Source: JCS
[12:01]	TR Bot	 Adding Custom Sleep Screen Images to the Kindle Scribe - joshua stein
[12:04]	TR News	"We envision a world where neither states nor corporations use digital technology to restrict or remove our rights. Our aim is to create a fair digital environment where technology supports justice, rights and freedoms to prevail over the narrow interests of the powerful." https://www.openrightsgroup.org/app/uploads/2025/02/ORG-Annual-Report-2023.pdf | Source: OpenRightsGroup
[12:05]	TR News	"Investors had been widely expected to reject the proposal during the companys annual shareholders meeting in alignment with Apples recommendation despite rising tensions around corporate diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The company did not disclose the vote tally." https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/apple-shareholders-dei-vote/ | Source: The Washington Post
[12:05]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/apple-shareholders-dei-vote/ )
[12:06]	TR News	"The proposal drafted by the National Center for Public Policy Research - a self-described conservative think tank - urges Apple to follow a litany of high-profile companies that have retreated from diversity" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/apple-shareholders-not-expected-to-scrap-diversity-programs-despite-broader-backlash/articleshow/118560759.cms | Source: India Times
[12:06]	TR Bot	 Apple shareholders reject proposal to scrap company's diversity programmes - The Economic Times
[12:06]	TR News	"But the judge cited statistics that 15% of Meta's U.S. workforce holds H-1B visas, which typically go to foreign professionals, compared with 0.5% of the overall workforce." https://www.ksl.com/article/51261489/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-cheaper-foreign-workers | Source: Deseret Media
[12:06]	TR Bot	must face lawsuit claiming it prefers cheaper foreign workers | KSL.com
[12:06]	TR News	"A federal judge on Tuesday said Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit claiming that the Facebook and Instagram parent prefers to hire foreign workers because it can pay them less than American workers." https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-25/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-cheaper-foreign-workers | Source: US News And World Report
[12:06]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-02-25/meta-must-face-lawsuit-claiming-it-prefers-cheaper-foreign-workers )
[12:07]	TR News	"Starbucks has 16,000 corporate support employees worldwide, but that includes some employees who aren't impacted, like roasting and warehouse staff. Baristas in the company's stores are not included in the layoffs." https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/starbucks-cutting-employees-menu-changes-1.7467035 | Source: CBC
[12:07]	TR Bot	 Starbucks to cut 1,100 corporate employees as company undergoes dramatic changes | CBC News
[12:10]	TR News	"Last October, Trump sued CBS claiming (falsely) that a 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris had been deceitfully edited to her benefit (they simply shortened some of her answers for brevity, as news outlets often do)." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/cbs-shows-sign-of-a-backbone-in-standoff-with-trump-and-his-extremist-fcc/ | Source: Techdirt
[12:10]	TR Bot	Shows Sign Of A Backbone In Standoff With Trump And His Extremist FCC | Techdirt
[12:10]	TR News	"The information war against the Rights vast media machine wont be won by building a louder Democratic Party megaphone through corporate-funded outlets. The key is stronger independent media." https://jacobin.com/2025/02/information-war-right-independent-media/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[12:10]	TR Bot	 Independent Media Can Defeat the Rights Noise Machine
[12:13]	TR News	"Long-standing Observer journalist Carole Cadwalladr has had her contract ended by Tortoise Media ahead of its take-over of the title." https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/carole-cadwalladr-dropped-by-tortoise-ahead-of-observer-take-over/ | Source: Press Gazette
[12:13]	TR Bot	 Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise as it takes over Observer
[12:13]	TR News	"Herald lawyer responds: Its all public information" https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/02/23/lawyer-for-boston-water-and-sewers-suspended-hr-director-hits-herald-with-cease-and-desist-letter/ | Source: Boston Herald
[12:13]	TR Bot	 Lawyer for Boston Water and Sewer's embattled HR director hits Herald with 'cease and desist' letter
[12:14]	TR News	"And, yet, here we are, dealing with this sort of ridiculousness." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/lawyer-who-doesnt-understand-defamation-law-sends-cd-to-newspaper-for-reporting-on-court-documents/ | Source: Techdirt
[12:14]	TR Bot	Who Doesnt Understand Defamation Law Sends C&D To Newspaper For Reporting On Court Documents | Techdirt
[12:15]	TR News	"The professional organisations questioned whether the audit would not violate the principles of freedom of journalism and stressed the importance of editorial independence." https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2496630/lrt-journalists-seek-transparency-on-political-neutrality-audit | Source: LRT
[12:15]	TR Bot	 LRT journalists seek transparency on political neutrality audit - LRT
[12:18]	TR News	"Protecting victims of these heinous privacy invasions is a legitimate goal" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/senate-passed-take-it-down-act-threatening-free-expression-and-due-process | Source: EFF
[12:18]	TR Bot	 The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due Process | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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[12:18]	TR News	"Increasingly, also political activists receive this verdict." https://www.dw.com/en/iran-death-penalty-as-a-tool-of-oppression/a-71744163 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[12:18]	TR Bot	'Death penalty as a tool of oppression' DW 02/25/2025
[12:19]	TR News	"Seven years after the first post or drop by the supposed political insider known as Q a post claiming that Hillary Clinton would be arrested within forty-eight hours QAnon" https://jacobin.com/2025/02/qanon-legacy-conspiracy-trump-patel/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[12:19]	TR Bot	 QAnon Hasnt Disappeared. Its in Americas Bloodstream.
[12:20]	TR News	"I could not in good conscience work for Elon Musk" https://futurism.com/openai-engineer-elon-musk-recruiting-rejection | Source: Futurism
[12:20]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk's AI Company Tried to Recruit an OpenAI Engineer and His Reply Was Brutal
[12:20]	TR News	"But as flagged by The Verge, it quickly emerged that when you asked his company xAI's buzzy new chatbot Grok 3 about disinformation, it had some extremely special instructions for answers about its creator." https://futurism.com/grok-elon-instructions | Source: Futurism
[12:20]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk's Grok 3 Was Told to Ignore Sources Saying He Spread Misinformation
[12:21]	TR News	"nalysts point to Russian propaganda and disinformation campaigns as key drivers of the shift away from France in the Sahel." https://www.voanews.com/a/kremlin-disinformation-campaigns-aim-to-discredit-french-military-in-the-sahel-analysts-say-/7988010.html | Source: VOA News
[12:21]	TR Bot	 Kremlin disinformation campaigns aim to discredit French military in Sahel, analysts say
[12:23]	TR News	"In the upcoming election, each affiliate can nominate a candidate, and each affiliate can cast a vote for the Affiliate candidates, but there's only 1 Affiliate seat available." https://blog.luke.wf/2025/02/im-running-for-osi-board-maybe.html |
[12:23]	TR Bot	 Luke W. Faraone: I'm running for the OSI board... maybe
[12:24]	TR News	"So its a troubling ballot to look at. Theres an ostensibly non-profit organization thats an official OSI affiliate trying to run its CEO as an individual candidate while also running a second member (a board director) on the appropriate, affiliate ballot in the same election." https://www.freesoftwhere.org/2022/05/01/engaging-with-the-osi-elections-2022-1/
[12:24]	TR Bot	( status 500 @ https://www.freesoftwhere.org/2022/05/01/engaging-with-the-osi-elections-2022-1/ )
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[12:24]	TR News	OSI is a corrupted Microsoft front group
[12:24]	TR News	"This is a response to Luke Faraones post, Im running for the OSI board maybe. (HN, X, bsky). I tried leaving this as a comment on Lukes blog, but only members of the blog may post comments." https://openpath.quest/2025/luke-missed-the-memo/ | Source: Chad Whitacre
[12:24]	TR Bot	 Luke Missed the Memo Open Path by Chad Whitacre
[12:25]	TR News	"He has led Apple to great success but its time for new leadership, someone users and developers can trust to be on our side. It may already be too late to repair the damage." https://www.manton.org/2025/02/24/apple-antagonism.html | Source: Manton Reece
[12:25]	TR Bot	 Manton Reece - Apple antagonism
[12:25]	TR News	"It doesn't have to be this way. Digital sovereignty is a real problem that matters to real people and real businesses in the real world, it can be explained in concrete terms, and we can devise pragmatic strategies to improve it." https://berjon.com/digital-sovereignty/ | Source: Robin Berjon
[12:25]	TR Bot	 Digital Sovereignty
[12:26]	TR News	"The intent post-acquisition is for DataStax to continue to work with the open source Apache Cassandra, Langflow, Apache Pulsar, and OpenSearch communities in which DataStax participates." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/ibm_datastax/ | Source: The Register UK
[12:26]	TR Bot	 IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax The Register
[12:26]	TR News	"The problem with this heroic mythology, however, is that its based on a faulty premise. Musk wants the world to believe that the nimble tech sector has already figured out the keys to knowledge-worker productivity." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/the-hollow-core-of-elon-musks-productivity-dogma | Source: New Yorker
[12:26]	TR Bot	 The Hollow Core of Elon Musks Productivity Dogma | The New Yorker
[12:27]	TR News	"We are bullish on the future of American innovation, and were proud to build on our long-standing U.S. investments with this $500 billion commitment to our countrys future" (Fake numbers; Apple cannot afford this kind of money) https://www.voanews.com/a/apple-to-build-23-200-square-meter-facility-in-texas/7986112.html | Source: VOA News
[12:27]	TR Bot	 Apple to build 23,200-square meter facility in Texas
[12:28]	TR News	Apple would not be almost 100 billion dollars in debt if it could just fling around "$500 billion"
[12:29]	TR News	"Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/india-plans-green-finance-body-for-net-zero-goal-1863414 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[12:29]	TR Bot	 India Plans Green Finance Body for Net-Zero Goal
[12:29]	TR News	"Right after its debut which was, we must remind you, less than six week ago" https://futurism.com/crypto-crash-trump-meme-coin | Source: Futurism
[12:29]	TR Bot	 As Crypto Prices Collapse, Trump's Meme Coin Falls to Lowest Value Since Its Launch
[12:30]	TR News	"Meta executives have informed data center developers that the company is considering building the campus" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/meta-in-talks-for-200-billion-ai-data-center-project-report/articleshow/118569758.cms | Source: India Times
[12:30]	TR Bot	 Meta in talks for $200 billion AI data center project: Report - The Economic Times
[12:31]	TR News	"TD Cowen analysts in a note Friday said the tech giant had scrapped leases for sizeable data centre capacity" https://techcentral.co.za/microsoft-data-centre-leases-slowing/259717/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
[12:31]	TR Bot	 Microsoft data centre leases slowing, analysts say - TechCentral
[12:31]	TR News	Not "slowing", SCRAPPED!
[12:46]	TR News	"Skepticism has been growing among investors over the billions of dollars U.S. tech firms" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/microsoft-shelves-ai-data-center-deals-in-sign-of-potential-oversupply-says-analyst-1863205 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[12:46]	TR Bot	 Microsoft shelves AI data-center deals in sign of potential oversupply, says analyst
[12:46]	TR News	"A report from brokerage TD Cowen suggests a possible AI computing oversupply at the US tech giant" https://www.semafor.com/article/02/25/2025/microsoft-pulls-back-on-ai-spending-as-skepticism-grows-over-major-infrastructure-investments | Source: Semafor Inc
[12:46]	TR Bot	pulls back on AI spending, as skepticism grows over major infrastructure investments | Semafor
[12:47]	TR News	"It was an unusually muted response given the tens of billions of dollars the tech giant has poured, and is planning to pour, into the development of AI and the infrastructure to support it" https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-hesitation-ai-expensive-data-centers | Source: Futurism http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml
[12:47]	TR Bot	 Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value
[12:47]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon)
[12:48]	TR News	A lot of layoffs/cuts at the back end https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/microsoft-shelves-ai-data-center-deals-in-sign-of-potential-oversupply-says-analyst-1863205 https://www.semafor.com/article/02/25/2025/microsoft-pulls-back-on-ai-spending-as-skepticism-grows-over-major-infrastructure-investments https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-hesitation-ai-expensive-data-centers
[12:50]	TR News	"It's to do with the number being laid off. Less than 20 means they don't have to follow the usual process followed in the last few years. Less than 20 means no consultation period, no committee meetings etc etc." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmr1wn7e
[12:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jmr1wn7e )
[12:51]	TR News	20 by forced relocation ("got mortgage and kids, wife has a job here, sorry boss!"), 20 by RTO, 20 by PIPs, 20 by... IBM is playing a game...
[12:53]	TR News	"While some rocket material burns up entirely when it re-enters the atmosphere, pieces of this stage hit the ground." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spacex-rocket-stage-burns-up-over-europe-and-crashes-in-poland-while-blue-origin-debris-washes-ashore-in-the-bahamas-180986108/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[12:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/spacex-rocket-stage-burns-up-over-europe-and-crashes-in-poland-while-blue-origin-debris-washes-ashore-in-the-bahamas-180986108/ )
[12:53]	TR News	"In the study, the researchers examined the effects of imidacloprid, a common insecticide, on bumble bees." https://phys.org/news/2025-02-bumble-bee-queens-complex-effects.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[12:53]	TR Bot	( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-bumble-bee-queens-complex-effects.html )
[12:54]	TR News	"At least three of the lawsuits contend that DOGE [sic] should be shut down until it makes records available"" https://thedissenter.org/the-fight-against-elon-musk-and-doges-secrecy/ | Source: The Dissenter
[12:54]	TR Bot	 The Fight Against Elon Musk and DOGE's Secrecy
[12:58]	TR News	"Decades of efforts by both Republican and Democratic administrations" https://cyberscoop.com/house-dems-say-doge-is-leaving-publicly-exposed-entry-points-into-government-systems/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[12:58]	TR Bot	Dems say DOGE is leaving publicly exposed entry points into government systems | CyberScoop
[12:59]	TR News	"creates opportunities for hostile actors" https://therecord.media/doge-cybersecurity-house-democrats-letter-trump | Source: The Record
[12:59]	TR Bot	 DOGE must halt all negligent cybersecurity practices, House Democrats tell Trump | The Record from Recorded Future News
● Feb 26
[13:00]	TR News	"What is the source of Elon Musks power? His wealth." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/tesla-is-more-vulnerable-than-you | Source: Hamilton Nolan
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Tesla Is More Vulnerable Than You Think - by Hamilton Nolan
[13:00]	TR News	"oops, fluffed up my pentest" https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/soe/ | Source: The Cyber Show
[13:00]	TR Bot	 Freedom Fighters (Part II: Stately 'Omes of England)
[13:01]	TR News	"This will presumably trigger tariff threats from Trump. Again the appropriate response isnt symbolic goods" https://crookedtimber.org/2025/02/25/dispensing-with-the-tech-bros/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[13:01]	TR Bot	 Dispensing with the tech bros Crooked Timber
[13:02]	TR News	"mainly young men that Musk has hired" https://www.dw.com/en/us-doge-employees-resign-over-destruction/a-71750352 | Source: Deutsche Welle
[13:02]	TR Bot	DOGE employees resign over destruction DW 02/26/2025
[13:03]	TR News	"This article is based on interviews with more than a dozen current or former government employees" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/elon-musk-doge-data-privacy-security/ | Source: The Washington Post
[13:03]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/25/elon-musk-doge-data-privacy-security/ )
[13:04]	TR News	"But such actions increase the chances of inappropriate access, intentional or not, said Alan Butler" https://epic.org/the-washington-post-doges-grab-of-personal-data-stokes-privacy-and-security-fears/ | Source: EPIC
[13:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://epic.org/the-washington-post-doges-grab-of-personal-data-stokes-privacy-and-security-fears/ )
[13:04]	TR News	"The bill could be taken up by the Riksdag, Swedens parliament, next year" https://therecord.media/sweden-seeks-backdoor-access-to-messaging-apps | Source: The Record
[13:04]	TR Bot	 Swedish authorities seek backdoor to encrypted messaging apps | The Record from Recorded Future News
[13:05]	TR News	"The following tips have to do with your phone." https://www.theverge.com/21276979/phone-protest-demonstration-activism-digital-how-to-security-privacy | Source: The Verge
[13:05]	TR Bot	 How tosecure your phone before attending a protest | The Verge
[13:05]	TR News	"The outgoing EU Ombudsman, Emily OReilly, has ruled in response to a complaint by former Pirate Party MEP Patrick Breyer" https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-eu-ombudsman-criticises-revolving-door-between-europol-and-chat-control-tech-lobbyist-thorn/ | Source: Patrick Breyer
[13:05]	TR Bot	 Chat control: EU Ombudsman criticises revolving door between Europol and chat control tech lobbyist Thorn Patrick Breyer
[13:06]	TR News	"The last few weeks may have seemed to signal a unique fork in the road" https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/24/fbis-new-iphone-android-security-warning-is-now-critical/ | Source: Forbes
[13:06]	TR Bot	 FBI Warns iPhone, Android UsersWe Want Lawful Access To All Your Encrypted Data
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[13:14]	TR News	"Over the next few months, we will be reimagining how we verify phone numbers" https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/23/google-confirms-gmail-to-ditch-sms-code-authentication/ | Source: Forbes
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Google Confirms Gmail To Ditch SMS Code Authentication
[13:14]	TR News	"Indeed, I instantly felt compelled to write an article." https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gmail-sms-qr-code.html | Source: Dedoimedo
[13:14]	TR Bot	 Gmail, removal of SMS 2FA option, and the QR code nonsense
[13:15]	TR News	"Authentication will still be reliant on the user having access to their mobile device" https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/google-is-ditching-sms-and-will-now-use-qr-codes-for-gmail-account-authentication | Source: TechRadar
[13:15]	TR Bot	is ditching SMS - and will now use QR codes for Gmail account authentication | TechRadar
[13:16]	TR News	"Other authentication options include authentication apps, security keys, and passkeys." https://au.pcmag.com/security/109843/google-is-replacing-sms-codes-with-qr-codes-for-gmail-authentication |
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Google Is Replacing SMS Codes With QR Codes for Gmail Authentication
[13:16]	TR News	"we want to move away from sending SMS" https://www.androidcentral.com/apps-software/google-gmail-sms-qr-code-swap-confirmed-report | Source: Android Central
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Google says it wants you to sign into Gmail with QR codes, not SMS | Android Central
[13:16]	TR News	"A report by Forbes suggest that this is going to change in the coming months." https://www.ghacks.net/2025/02/24/gmail-google-plans-to-end-sms-verification-in-favor-of-qr-codes/ | Source: Ghacks
[13:16]	TR Bot	 Gmail: Google plans to end SMS verification in favor of QR codes - gHacks Tech News
[13:17]	TR News	"Codes sent via SMS messages will be replaced by QR codes sent to user's phones" https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-doing-away-with-sms-codes-for-gmail-authentication/ | Source: CNET
[13:17]	TR Bot	Doing Away With SMS Codes for Gmail Authentication - CNET
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[13:29]	TR News	"In the next few months, Gmail will use QR codes for two-factor authentication [...]" https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/no-more-sms-authentication-for-gmail-google-to-use-qr-code-instead-2685078-2025-02-25 | Source: India Today
[13:29]	TR Bot	 Gmail QR code authentication - No more SMS authentication for Gmail, Google to use QR code instead - India Today
[13:29]	TR News	"This is a terrible result for everyone, making Apple users globally" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-uk-government-just-made-everyone-less-safe-as-apple-shuts-down-icloud-encryption/ | Source: Techdirt
[13:29]	TR Bot	UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption | Techdirt
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[13:30]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/china_hacked_gop_emails/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:30]	TR Bot	 China compromised GOP emails ahead of Republican convention The Register
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[13:30]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-botnet-powered-by-130000-devices-targets-microsoft-365-accounts/ | Source: Security Week
[13:30]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-botnet-powered-by-130000-devices-targets-microsoft-365-accounts/ )
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[13:31]	TR News	Social Control Media: "From the sequence of events and the manner in which the crime took place" https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/police-suspect-role-of-influencer-in-venjaramoodu-murders/articleshow/118565985.cms | Source: India Times
[13:31]	TR Bot	 Cops suspect role of influencer in Kerala youths stabbing spree | Kochi News - The Times of India
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[13:34]	TR News	"Despite Sutskever's amply-derided insistence to the contrary" https://futurism.com/ilya-sutskever-safe-superintelligence-product | Source: Futurism
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Theres Something Very Weird About This $30 Billion AI Startup by a Man Who Said Neural Networks May Already Be Conscious
[13:34]	TR News	"Feeling overwhelmed with lesson planning, activity ideas and resource creation? You're not alone!" https://www.uen.org/teachertips/article.php?id=35 |
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Teacher Tips - UEN
[13:34]	TR News	"Database pros will also benefit from growing demand for cloud computing and data infrastructure" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/bls_ai_job_impacts_predictions/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Software or hardware engineer? AI job loss immunity assured The Register
[13:34]	TR News	"AI performance monitoring system for factory workers" https://www.404media.co/optifyeai-ycombinator-startup-ai-factory/ | Source: 404 Media
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Y Combinator Supports AI Startup Dehumanizing Factory Workers
[13:34]	TR News	"When Hurricane Helene hit late last year, the internet was awash with fake AI images" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/fake-ai-weather-photographs-are-on-the-rise-heres-how-to-tell-fact-from-fiction | Source: Digital Camera World
[13:34]	TR Bot	 Fake AI weather photographs are on the rise heres how to tell fact from fiction | Digital Camera World
[13:35]	TR News	"With repeated tests showing the same issue, this doesnt look like a mere glitch" https://www.tmz.com/2025/02/25/iphone-apple-voice-to-text-trump-racist-voice-recognition/ | Source: TMZ
[13:35]	TR Bot	 iPhone's Voice-to-Text Feature Displays Word 'Trump' When Hearing 'Racist'
[13:35]	TR News	"The company provided a statement to The New York Times and Fox News confirming the bug." https://www.theverge.com/news/619434/apple-fixing-voice-transcription-bug-trump-racist | Source: The Verge
[13:35]	TR Bot	 Apple is fixing a voice dictation bug that substitutes Trump for racist | The Verge
[13:36]	TR News	org
[13:36]	TR News	Apple: Social Justice or Social Nationalism? http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/14/Apple_Social_Justice_or_Social_Nationalism.shtml
[13:36]	TR Bot	 Techrights Apple: Social Justice or Social Nationalism?
[13:36]	TR News	"The New York Times is reporting on a viral problem with Apples voice-to-text dictation feature" https://www.macworld.com/article/2619594/iphone-dictation-feature-reportedly-swaps-racist-for-trump.html | Source: Macworld
[13:36]	TR Bot	dictation feature reportedly swaps 'Racist' for 'Trump' | Macworld
[13:36]	TR News	"Its a very good post I recommend you check out" https://birchtree.me/blog/we-do-this-same-thing-with-ai-bots-and-human-blogs/ | Source: Matt Birchler
[13:36]	TR Bot	 We do this same thing with AI bots and human blogs
[13:37]	TR News	"this video played on loop for ~5 mins" https://www.404media.co/ai-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-blasted-on-government-office-tvs/ | Source: 404 Media
[13:37]	TR Bot	 AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs
[13:37]	TR News	"Most LLM benchmarks are not easily replicated OpenAI is notorious for this do only a single run" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/25/ai-benchmarks-are-self-promoting-trash-but-regulators-keep-using-them/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[13:37]	TR Bot	 AI benchmarks are self-promoting trash but regulators keep using them Pivot to AI
[13:38]	TR News	"AI models are increasingly prevalent in high-stakes environments" https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.12990 | Source: arXiv
[13:38]	TR News	"Benchmarks are widely used to measure attributes like fairness, safety, or general capabilities" https://betterbench.stanford.edu/ |
[13:38]	TR Bot	 BetterBench | Assessing AI Benchmarks, Uncovering Issues, and Establishing Best Practices
[13:39]	TR News	"the NCCCI urged LANITs customers to change passwords and access keys for systems " https://therecord.media/lanit-russia-government-contractor-potential-compromise | Source: The Record
[13:39]	TR Bot	 Russian officials warn of potential compromise of major tech services provider | The Record from Recorded Future News
[13:40]	TR News	"Experts warned that long working hours, prolonged sitting, shift work, high stress, and poor diet" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/southern-states/telangana/84-it-employees-suffer-from-metabolic-disorders-says-study-1863433 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[13:40]	TR Bot	 84% IT Employees Suffer from Metabolic Disorders, Says Study
[13:40]	TR News	"The outbreak is largely spreading in the Mennonite community in an area where small towns" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/measles-cases-continue-to-rise-in-rural-parts-of-west-texas-with-124-confirmed-1863528 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[13:40]	TR Bot	 Measles cases continue to rise in rural parts of West Texas, with 124 confirmed
[13:41]	TR News	"the rise of digital surveillance" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/new-yorkers-deserve-stronger-health-data-protections-now-governor-hochul-can-make | Source: EFF
[13:41]	TR Bot	 New Yorkers Deserve Stronger Health Data Protections NowGovernor Hochul Can Make It Happen | Electronic Frontier Foundation
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[13:41]	TR News	"I cannot remember when I stopped hosting birthday parties." https://marijkeluttekes.dev/blog/articles/2025/02/25/my-first-birthday-party-in-years/ | Source: Marijke Luttekes
[13:41]	TR Bot	 My first birthday party in years / Marijke Luttekes
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[13:43]	TR News	"Today in Tedium: Im about to retire my old Chrome bag, I think" https://tedium.co/2025/02/24/velcro-history/ | Source: Tedium
[13:43]	TR Bot	 Velcro History: An Important, Yet Unfashionable, Invention
[13:43]	TR News	"He developed tests to measure vibrations and crafted a cyberglove that would read them and upload the data" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/25/1111041/the-man-who-reinvented-the-hammer/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[13:43]	TR Bot	 The man who reinvented the hammer | MIT Technology Review
[13:43]	TR News	"It'd be easy to dismiss a collaboration between a PC manufacturer and a professional photographer" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/computers/theres-now-a-pc-designed-by-a-pro-photographer-yes-really | Source: Digital Camera World
[13:43]	TR Bot	 There's now a PC designed by a pro photographer. Yes, really. | Digital Camera World
[13:44]	TR News	"Texas Senate already passed a bill to create a program" https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2025/02/indoctrination-on-steroids-why-some-conservative-christians-oppose-school-vouchers-in-texas.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
[13:44]	TR Bot	on steroids: Why some conservative Christians oppose school vouchers in Texas - lonestarlive.com
[13:45]	TR News	"A typical school day was 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with morning and afternoon recesses of 15 minutes each" https://www.vintag.es/2025/02/one-room-schoolhouses.html | Source: Vintage Everyday
[13:45]	TR Bot	 40 Group Photos of Students and Teachers Posing Outside Their One-Room Schoolhouses From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries ~ Vintage Everyday
[13:46]	TR News	"the military arm shared on X-formerly-Twitter last week" https://futurism.com/space-force-photo-earth-experimental-space-plane | Source: Futurism
[13:46]	TR Bot	 Space Force Releases Photo of Earth Taken by Experimental Space Plane
[13:46]	TR News	"In 1954, Paul Meehl published what he later came to call my disturbing little book." https://entropicthoughts.com/arithmetic-models-better-than-you-think | Source: Chris
[13:46]	TR Bot	 Arithmetic Models: Better Than You Think
[13:48]	TR News	"In this light, art and music are not mere diversions or entertainments." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-hollow-men-of-silicon-valley/ | Source: Techdirt
[13:48]	TR Bot	Hollow Men Of Silicon Valley | Techdirt
[13:48]	TR News	"In this light, art and music are not mere diversions or entertainments." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-hollow-men-of-silicon-valley | Source: Mike Brock
[13:48]	TR Bot	 The Hollow Men of Silicon Valley - by Mike Brock
[13:48]	TR News	"To make matters worse, the RCE flaw can be triggered "in most default configurations" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/10_bug_mitre_caldera/ | Source: The Register UK
[13:48]	TR Bot	 MITRE Caldera security tool gets perfect 10 in insecurity The Register
[13:50]	TR News	DietPi Late February 2025 Update (Version 9.11) https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-late-february-2025-update-version-9-11/
[13:50]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dietpi-late-february-2025-update-version-9-11/ )
[13:51]	TR News	"Update US Government Computer Systems to Linux" https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/update-us-government-computer-systems-to-linux-4175747554/
[13:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/update-us-government-computer-systems-to-linux-4175747554/ )
[13:52]	TR News	"Musk has been pushing the need for the US government to upgrade its computer systems. Specifically, he mentioned the lack of automation concerning federal records at Iron Mountain. Well, we need to push the concept that these computerized systems be based on Linux. Pass the word around to raise that thought." https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-general-1/update-us-government-computer-systems-to-linux-4175747554/
[13:53]	TR News	"How many hospitals have been hacked and randsomed? DNA database stolen by actors. Not sure Linux is more secure if same group runs it. We ordered computers and same price OS or not. IBM HP pay very little to MS."
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[13:55]	TR News	Framework Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12 https://9to5linux.com/framework-announces-framework-desktop-and-2-in-1-framework-laptop-12
[13:55]	TR Bot	Announces Framework Desktop and 2-in-1 Framework Laptop 12 - 9to5Linux
[13:56]	TR News	Supabase real-time databases, authentication services, and file storage https://www.linuxlinks.com/supabase-real-time-databases-authentication/
[13:56]	TR Bot	 Supabase - real-time databases, authentication services, and file storage -
[13:57]	TR News	The Brigading (in Social Control Media) Did Not Silence the Creator of GNU/Linux (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/The_Brigading_in_Social_Control_Media_Did_Not_Silence_the_Creat.shtml
[13:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Brigading (in Social Control Media) Did Not Silence the Creator of GNU/Linux
[13:57]	TR News	arsh statically typed scripting language https://www.linuxlinks.com/arsh-statically-typed-scripting-language/
[13:57]	TR Bot	- statically typed scripting language - LinuxLinks
[13:59]	TR News	12 Best Free and Open Source QR Code Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-qr-code-tools/
[13:59]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source QR Code Tools - LinuxLinks
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[14:03]	TR News	 (NEW):  Windows TCO: Microsoft Cracked by China Again https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Windows_TCO_Microsoft_Cracked_by_China_Again.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Windows_TCO_Microsoft_Cracked_by_China_Again.gmi 
[14:03]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Windows TCO: Microsoft Cracked by China Again
[14:06]	TR News	Techrights Links 26/02/2025: Microsoft's "AI Value" Bubble is Blowing Up, Starbucks in Trouble as Well https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Links_26_02_2025_Microsoft_s_AI_Value_Bubble_is_Blowing_Up_Star.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Links_26_02_2025_Microsoft_s_AI_Value_Bubble_is_Blowing_Up_Star.gmi 
[14:06]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 26/02/2025: Microsoft's "AI Value" Bubble is Blowing Up, Starbucks in Trouble as Well
[14:06]	TR News	SpellBinding CUIOPTH Wordo: BELOW gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-26.gmi
[14:07]	TR News	"mass termination of probationary employees is illegal & exceeds OPM's authority" gemini://wampa.smol.pub/2025-02-25
[14:07]	TR News	"This seemed to have worked! Very exciting. I made an iTerm profile just for this \o/" gemini://binarydigit.smol.pub/hello-cli
[14:08]	TR News	"looks like mother nature is trying to maintain a grasp with those high temps in the upper 40s/lower 50s. maybe this will get me to take a trip into nyc for some photography. it's somewhat odd that i'm saying that, almost acting like i live a few hours away." gemini://x.smol.pub/1740553952
[14:09]	TR News	"Mi ne estis ofta vizitanto en etreto lastatempe, do estas nur anta kelkaj tagoj, ke mi legis la lastan numeron de SmolZINE. Kaj menciita tie, estas la gemini-legila kromao por KOReader fare de thegonz." gemini://senkals.one/~autunido/koplugin.gmi
[14:09]	TR News	"The Domain Name System (DNS) is an enormous, hierarchical, and distributed database." https://blog.apnic.net/2025/02/26/measuring-dns-root-servers-under-change/ | Source: APNIC
[14:09]	TR Bot	 Measuring DNS root servers under change | APNIC Blog
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[14:38]	TR News	468k now raised by FSF in wintertime https://www.fsf.org/appeal
[14:38]	TR Bot	 Free software is an important building block to a free society Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
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[14:52]	TR News	Techrights From Strangling Women to SLAPPing Journalists (Microsoft in a Nutshell) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/From_Strangling_Women_to_SLAPPing_Journalists_Microsoft_in_a_Nu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/From_Strangling_Women_to_SLAPPing_Journalists_Microsoft_in_a_Nu.gmi 
[14:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights From Strangling Women to SLAPPing Journalists (Microsoft in a Nutshell)
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[15:02]	MinceR	26 093206 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5294699/former-u-s-ambassador-to-hungary-discusses-democratic-decay-under-pm-orban
[15:02]	TR Bot	 Former U.S ambassador discusses Hungary's democratic decline : NPR
[15:02]	MinceR	decline? these oxygen-wasting mouth-breathing barbarian simpletons _want_ to be oppressed and exploited
[15:02]	MinceR	and they also want their neighbor to suffer under the same
[15:07]		*MinceR` is now known as lightbringer
[15:12]	TR News	Techrights The Free Software Foundation's Fund-raising Efforts Continue Unabated (and With Positive Results) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Fund_raising_Efforts_Continue_Un.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Free_Software_Foundation_s_Fund_raising_Efforts_Continue_Un.gmi 
[15:12]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Free Software Foundation's Fund-raising Efforts Continue Unabated (and With Positive Results)
[15:15]	TR News	Wonder Woman game axed as Warner Bros cuts three studios https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q1w9q1qvyo
[15:15]	TR Bot	 Wonder Woman game axed as Warner Bros cuts three studios - BBC News
[15:18]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sleddy-problems
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sleddy Problems
[15:18]	lxo	oh, my, I was way off in identifying the source of the blocks.  turns out there are two chunks of blockers attacking me at the same time, and the most dangerous one was not one I had even identified.  it would have been nice if you'd pointed that out, schestowitz[TR2], when you noticed I was on the wrong track.  I could have contained a bit the spread of the brain bug
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's mentioned in the very latest TR article
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's all i can say
[15:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	i am working on a pocock article atm
[15:25]	lxo	thanks, I was probably only going to see it after getting some sleep
[15:30]	lxo	that wouldn't have clued me about it at all, alas
[15:31]	TR News	Techrights IBM employee from Zurich, Switzerland arrested, jailed for tunnel mistake that may have arisen due to sign colours https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/IBM_employee_from_Zurich_Switzerland_arrested_jailed_for_tunnel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/IBM_employee_from_Zurich_Switzerland_arrested_jailed_for_tunnel.gmi 
[15:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM employee from Zurich, Switzerland arrested, jailed for tunnel mistake that may have arisen due to sign colours
[15:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: ignore.
[15:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	no point.
[15:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	see http://techrights.org/o/2020/06/08/twitter-cancel-culture/
[15:33]	TR Bot	 Social Control Media: Where 'Cancel Culture' Thrives
[15:33]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/17/asahi_linux_wayland_only/
[15:33]	TR Bot	 Asahi Linux developer warns the one true way is Wayland The Register
[15:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/07/linus_torvalds_rust_driver/
[15:34]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds to Hector Martin: 'Maybe the problem is you' The Register
[15:34]	MinceR	asahi linux is a cult
[15:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/2/6/1292
[15:34]	TR Bot	 LKML: Linus Torvalds: Re: On community influencing (was Re: [PATCH v8 2/2] rust: add dma coherent allocator abstraction.)
[15:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	"However, I will say that the social media brigading just makes me not want to have anything at all to do with your approach.
[15:34]	schestowitz[TR2]	Because if we have issues in the kernel development model, then social media sure as hell isn't the solution. The same way it sure as hell wasn't the solution to politics."
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	also new:
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/IBM_employee_from_Zurich_Switzerland_arrested_jailed_for_tunnel.shtml
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"It is interesting to look at how he had skipped bail and given an invalid address to the court. It is also interesting to see how social media, which was a very recent phenomena in 2011, was interacting with his propensity to behave out of character. This is a growing risk for every company today. Social media is a social engineering attack on society at large.
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"The police rumors were started as a kind of social engineering attack to distract people from the real issues in the Debian Suicide Cluster.
[15:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[15:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	hi amber 
[15:37]	amber	hi Roy
[15:37]	amber	thank you for the effort you put into your work
[15:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	writing in tuxmachines at the moment
[15:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	but am still in irc
[15:38]	schestowitz[TR2]	thanks for the kind word
[15:52]	TR News	 (NEW):  Anger Does Not Get Positive Results https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Anger_Does_Not_Get_Positive_Results.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Anger_Does_Not_Get_Positive_Results.gmi 
[15:52]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Anger Does Not Get Positive Results
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[16:01]	TR News	Techrights Chronological Index of Techrights https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Chronological_Index_of_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Chronological_Index_of_Techrights.gmi 
[16:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights Chronological Index of Techrights
[16:12]	psydroid3	someone on Tweakers is telling me that not paying for Microsoft Office means you are you doing Microsoft employees an injustice
[16:12]	psydroid3	which arse do they pull these arguments from?
[16:28]	admfubar	and did you tell them you dont care about m$??
[16:31]	TR News	Techrights Microsoft Devoured the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Now It's Just a Chain of Blunders https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Microsoft_Devoured_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Now_It_s_Just.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Microsoft_Devoured_the_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Now_It_s_Just.gmi 
[16:31]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Devoured the Open Source Initiative (OSI), Now It's Just a Chain of Blunders
[16:31]	admfubar	so it was trained  on musk and the GOP???  https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/02/groks-uncensored-ai-voice-mode-lets-users-talk-sex-therapy-and-conspiracies/
[16:31]	TR Bot	 Groks new unhinged voice mode can curse and scream, simulate phone sex - Ars Technica
[16:34]	admfubar	need some errands done??   https://xkcd.com/3056/
[16:34]	TR Bot	RNA
[16:39]	admfubar	gotta keep up with the jones's... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/exclusive-microsoft-bing-tests-ai-search-that-replaces-blue-links-like-google-ai-mode.456280/
[16:39]	TR Bot	 Exclusive: Microsoft Bing tests AI search that replaces blue links, like Google AI mode | Wilders Security Forums
[16:40]	admfubar	whoopsie doodles dept... https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/exploits-for-unpatched-parallels-desktop-flaw-give-root-on-macs.456278/
[16:40]	TR Bot	 Exploits for unpatched Parallels Desktop flaw give root on Macs | Wilders Security Forums
[16:41]	admfubar	https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/new-google-ad-tracking-policy-a-pandoras-box-for-privacy-experts-warn.456268/
[16:41]	TR Bot	 New Google ad tracking policy a Pandoras box for privacy, experts warn | Wilders Security Forums
[16:44]	psydroid3	I told him about LibreOffice and OnlyOffice
[16:45]	psydroid3	and this person is saying that using these applications is considered theft from Microsoft employees
[16:45]	psydroid3	in Dutch you would say "deze persoon is volledig van de pot gerukt"
[16:45]	psydroid3	"this person has been pulled completely from the toilet bowl"
[16:46]	psydroid3	a.k.a. this person is mad as hell
[16:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	dOnlyOffice is free now?
[16:46]	schestowitz[TR2]	all "editions"?
[16:46]	psydroid3	I saw AGPLv3 "desktop" packages
[16:47]	psydroid3	I've never used it, but I threw him a bone by mentioning it
[16:49]	TR News	Techrights The Short Lifecycle of Twitter Outrage https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Short_Lifecycle_of_Twitter_Outrage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/The_Short_Lifecycle_of_Twitter_Outrage.gmi 
[16:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Short Lifecycle of Twitter Outrage
[16:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydroid2: they usually misuse "open"
[16:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	many of the *office companies
[16:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	they also push OOXML
[16:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	some more than others
[16:54]	schestowitz[TR2]	better to menton LibreOffice and KDE/Calligra
[16:57]	TR News	"How Go behaves if you have a zero value channel or map" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoNilChannelsMapsAreAChoice | Source: University of Toronto
[16:57]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[16:57]	TR News	"The problem arises when a task in an installer script takes too long." https://www.olafalders.com/2025/02/25/debounce-all-of-the-things/ | Source: Olaf Alders
[16:57]	TR Bot	All of the Things olafalders.com
[16:58]	TR News	"Back in 2022, I posted a puzzle box to cohost.org that was made entirely using HTML and inline CSS." https://suricrasia.online/blog/inline-css-puzzle-box/ |
[16:58]	TR Bot	 CSS Puzzle Box 2.0: Technical Breakdown
[16:58]	TR News	"This approach was started in a 2015 article (cited in the new publication) but now, thanks to Reto Weber (a PhD student at CIT), it has the benefit of extensive proofs all checked by Isabelle/HOL; the corresponding files are publicly available." https://bertrandmeyer.com/2025/02/25/new-preprint-programming-really-is-simple-mathematics/ | Source: Bertrand Meyer
[16:58]	TR Bot	 Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog Blog Archive New preprint: Programming Really Is Simple Mathematics - Bertrand Meyer's technology+ blog
● Feb 26
[17:00]	TR News	"There are multiple problems with static reports they are error-prone, allow accidental changes, and quickly become messy." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/scaling-decision-support-systems-when-to-use-react-python-and-r/ | Source: Rlang
[17:00]	TR Bot	Decision Support Systems: When to Use React, Python, and R | R-bloggers
[17:00]	TR News	"I spent most of my career working with dynamic languages: Python, JavaScript, Clojure, finally Erlang. I dont claim to be an expert but the Erlang VM is the piece of technology Ive become most intimately familiar with." https://olano.dev/blog/gleam-coming-from-erlang/ | Source: Facundo Olano
[17:00]	TR Bot	coming from Erlang | olano.dev
[17:00]	TR News	"For balance, Ill include a few reasons why I enjoy dedicated design software, too" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/why-i-like-designing-in-the-browser/ | Source: Cloud Four Inc
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Why I Like Designing in the Browser Cloud Four
[17:01]	TR News	"See the changelog for more information on whats new in Apache NetBeans 25 open-source IDE. Downloads are available here." https://linuxiac.com/apache-netbeans-open-25-source-ide-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
[17:01]	TR Bot	 Apache NetBeans 25 Brings Updates for Java, PHP, Maven, and More
[17:07]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/test-2
[17:08]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Test
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[17:16]	TR News	Techrights Always Doing This Site for Principles, Not Money https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Always_Doing_This_Site_for_Principles_Not_Money.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/Always_Doing_This_Site_for_Principles_Not_Money.gmi 
[17:16]	TR Bot	 Techrights Always Doing This Site for Principles, Not Money
[17:18]	TR News	Meta scales back a major employee perk amid layoffs https://www.thestreet.com/employment/meta-scales-back-a-major-employee-perk-amid-layoffs
[17:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thestreet.com/employment/meta-scales-back-a-major-employee-perk-amid-layoffs )
[17:19]	TR News	"Reporters" relaying lies for Kapo-Berg and Farcebook again. "Meta is considering $200 billion AI data center investment, says report". Ahem, Facebook does NOT have this kind of money. Did the "media" bother to check what FB has in the bank? Not even a tenth this amount. Media as PR(opaganda).
[17:20]	psydroid3	schestowitz-pi: I have more problems with the "not using Microsoft = theft" line of thought
[17:20]	psydroid3	as if Microsoft is a charity or a government organisation
[17:20]	TR News	Meanwhile, Scam Altman is looking for 7 Trillion Dollars (yes, 7 million million!!), just like EVERY American! http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml
[17:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights [Meme] Don't Worry, They Say There's 7 Trillion Dollars Waiting at the Top
[17:20]	psydroid3	and not even of the Dutch government, but the US government
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	seems like
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) trolling
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	or
[17:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) brain damage
[17:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	or
[17:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	3) provovation
[17:21]	psydroid3	or
[17:21]	psydroid3	4)
[17:21]	psydroid3	Microsoft employee talking
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[17:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	every person with teeth steals from calgatee
[17:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	if not buying colgate
[17:23]	psydroid3	indeed
[17:23]	psydroid3	your customers are the biggest thieves
[17:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	bill gates is not a thief
[17:23]	psydroid3	if they decide to leave your prison
[17:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	he is entitledd
[17:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	to all thiss money
[17:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	and the girls
[17:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	whom he cheats with
[17:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights Who Is That? The Russian Mistress of Bill Gates, According to the Mainstream Media
[17:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Bill Gates Met With Jeffrey Epstein Many Times, Despite His Past - The New York Times
[17:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/melinda-gates-jeffrey-epstein-led-to-bill-gates-divorce-gayle-king-interview?srsltid=AfmBOoqjex9U5T0maCZ9N2Yxg4B89L4shXrQMi18dRIRdX32Cd7YCT6I
[17:24]	TR Bot	 Melinda Gates Says Bill Gates's Work with Abhorrent Jeffrey Epstein Led to Divorce | Vanity Fair
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"work"
[17:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	what "work" did they do?
[17:26]	psydroid3	running a child exploitation network
[17:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/
[17:26]	TR Bot	 Mansion of Pedophilia - Part II: Dr. Stallman Defamed in the Media One Day After Request Made for King County Sheriffs Office to Divulge Information About Pedophilia in Home of Bill Gates
[17:27]	MinceR	https://archive.ph/K8IHa
[17:27]	TR Bot	 Google Starts Scanning All Your PhotosOne Click Stops It
[17:35]	schestowitz[TR2]	Starts?
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	oh, 
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	archive
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	old article
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	Feb 25, 2025, 03:08pm EST
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	or... not
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	probably poorly informed
[17:36]	schestowitz[TR2]	1) that click does not stop it
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	it might make you feel t hat it does
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	2) t his is NOT new
[17:37]	schestowitz[TR2]	it started over  a decade ago
[17:38]	TR News	"If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds" https://web.archive.org/web/20110806054852/http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/195096/stallman_want_freedom_don_t_follow_linus_torvalds/ | Source: Internet Archive
[17:38]	TR Bot	 Stallman: If you want freedom don't follow Linus Torvalds - Computerworld
[17:39]	TR News	"I Went To SQL Injection Court (via) Thomas Ptacek talks about his ongoing involvement as an expert witness in an Illinois legal battle lead by Matt Chapman over whether a SQL schema" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/25/i-went-to-sql-injection-court/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison
[17:39]	TR Bot	 I Went To SQL Injection Court
[17:39]	TR News	"A federal magistrate judge has recommended $15,000 in sanctions be imposed on an attorney who cited non-existent court cases concocted by an AI chatbot." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/fine_sought_ai_filing_mistakes/ | Source: The Register UK
[17:39]	TR Bot	 Judge recommends $15K sanctions for AI slop court filing The Register
[17:39]	MinceR	i used archive because the site gave me some sort of scare screen while trying to get to the point
[17:40]	TR News	"Mr. Ramirez's professed ignorance of the propensity of the AI tools he was using to "hallucinate" citations is evidence that those lesser sanctions have been insufficient to deter the conduct." https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.insd.215482/gov.uscourts.insd.215482.99.0.pdf | Source: Free Law Project
[17:41]	TR News	"Structural Vector Autoregressions (SVARs) are multivariate time series models commonly used in empirical macroeconomics. By imposing a minimal set of assumptions, such as sign restrictions, these models allow us to recover meaningful economic shocks and their dynamic causal effects from real data." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/introduction-to-empirical-macroeconomics-with-r-workshop/ | Source: Rlang
[17:41]	TR Bot	to Empirical Macroeconomics with R workshop | R-bloggers
[17:41]	TR News	This workshop will provide a gentle introduction to SVARs and their estimation techniques. Then, we will show how to apply these models with a simple workflow using the R package bsvarSIGNs. No prior knowledge of macroeconomics is required, any R user interested in analysing macro data can benefit from this workshop." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/introduction-to-empirical-macroeconomics-with-r-workshop/
[17:41]	MinceR	if you want freedom, don't follow Stallman, either
[17:42]	schestowitz[TR2]	<RMS> if you want freedom, don't follow MinceR, either
[17:42]	MinceR	very funny
[17:43]	schestowitz[TR2]	<systemd> if you want freedom, install systemd-freeddomd
[17:43]	MinceR	<typical christian taliban> if you want freedom, call oppression "freedom"
[17:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	say you "save the country"
[17:44]	schestowitz[TR2]	while you trash it
[17:44]	TR News	"This is an opportunity for you to both learn about the plans but also to provide feedback on said ideas." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/25/the-curl-roadmap-webinar-2025/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
[17:44]	TR Bot	curl roadmap webinar 2025 | daniel.haxx.se
[17:44]	TR News	"AI-powered search engine Perplexity says its building its own web browser." https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/24/perplexity-teases-a-web-browser-called-comet/ | Source: TechCrunch
[17:44]	TR Bot	teases a web browser called Comet | TechCrunch
[17:45]	TR News	"The latest Chromium-based browser to fall in line regarding whacking support for Manifest V2 extensions" https://www.brycewray.com/posts/2025/02/browsers-snapshot/ | Source: Bryce Wray
[17:45]	TR Bot	a snapshot | BryceWray.com
[17:46]	TR News	"Believe it or not, to celebrate its 20th anniversary, VLCthe renowned media player used by millions worldwidehas announced a truly out-of-this-world project: sending user-submitted videos to the Moon." https://linuxiac.com/vlc-celebrates-20-years-by-sending-videos-to-the-moon/ | Source: Linuxiac
[17:46]	TR Bot	 VLC Celebrates 20 Years by Sending Videos to the Moon
[17:49]	TR News	"Since Ive built several mechanical keyboards before" https://cassidoo.co/post/mj-battery-woes/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[17:49]	TR Bot	 Debugging my Micro Journal
[17:49]	TR News	"Anyone know where I can pick up a keyboard for an Ann Arbor Ambassador? My Tab key stopped working and I'm having a hell of a time fixing it." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/termaaa60-mk-3/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski
[17:49]	TR Bot	 jwz: TERM=aaa60 Mk.3
[17:56]	TR News	"Last December I wrote a meandering post describing the challenges with Mini-ITX builds." https://rubenerd.com/sticking-with-mini-itx-with-the-dan-a4-h2o/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[17:56]	TR Bot	Sticking with Mini-ITX with the cute Dan A4-H2O
[17:56]	TR News	"Throughout five years of business, Framework has focused on the Framework Laptop 13, which has seen seven iterations." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2618070/framework-12-reinvents-budget-laptops-with-new-amd-cpus.html | Source: PC World
[17:56]	TR Bot	12 aims at 'janky, locked-down, disposable, underpowered, and frankly boring [laptops]' | PCWorld
[17:57]	TR News	"But today, the Framework Laptop 16 got little mention at its new event, which focused on the new, similarly gamer-oriented Framework Desktop instead." https://www.theverge.com/news/619586/framework-laptop-16-update-one-key-but-not-done | Source: The Verge
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Were nowhere near done with Framework Laptop 16 says Framework CEO | The Verge
[17:57]	TR News	"The keyboard looks like the usual laptop chiclet style keys, but the Windows key (sometimes called the Super key) has the Raspberry Pi logo printed upon it. Under the space bar is a large trackpad with no visible buttons." https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/argon40-teases-the-raspberry-pi-compute-module-5-powered-upton-one-laptop | Source: Tom's Hardware
[17:57]	TR Bot	 Argon40 teases the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 powered Upton One laptop | Tom's Hardware
[17:58]	TR News	"One of the major focus areas in the new version is Discover" https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-2-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
[17:58]	TR Bot	 KDE Plasma 6.3.2 Desktop Environment Released
[17:59]	TR News	"Womens representation in tech roles in India is even lower, at 6-9%, according to the Women in Games report" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/44-gamers-in-india-are-women-but-male-employees-continue-to-dominate-the-industry/articleshow/118563997.cms | Source: India Times
[17:59]	TR Bot	 44% gamers in India are women, but male employees continue to dominate the industry - The Economic Times
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[18:00]	MinceR	https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/vice
[18:00]	TR Bot	 Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Vice
[18:00]	TR News	"First, I want to see the firewall rule numbers in the tcpdump output." https://dan.langille.org/2025/02/24/debugging-aids-for-pf-firewall-rules-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille
[18:00]	TR Bot	 Debugging aids for pf firewall rules [on FreeBSD] Dan Langille's Other Diary
[18:01]	TR News	"And that new conf file was created. When I killed and restarted Font Manager, it did not show those fonts as disabled., but they were gone from menus in LibreOffice." https://darrengoossens.wordpress.com/2025/02/25/too-many-noto-fonts-in-libreoffice-on-linux/ | Source: Darren Goossens
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Too many Noto fonts in LibreOffice on Linux DSPACE
[18:01]	TR News	"Did you know that you can layer CSS gradients on top of each other?" https://cassidoo.co/post/layer-css-gradients/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[18:01]	TR Bot	 Layering CSS gradients
[18:02]	TR News	"In case you missed it, the CSS :has() selector is now supported in all major browsers!" https://cassidoo.co/post/css-has/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[18:02]	TR Bot	 A use-case for CSS :has()
[18:03]	TR News	"OpenID Connect is a single sign-on protocol that allows web pages to offer logins via other services. Whenever you see a web page that offers logins via, e.g., your Google or Facebook account, the technology behind it is usually OpenID Connect." https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/909-Mixing-up-Public-and-Private-Keys-in-OpenID-Connect-deployments.html | Source: Hanno Boeck
[18:03]	TR Bot	 Mixing up Public and Private Keys in OpenID Connect deployments - Hanno's blog
[18:04]	TR News	Divine Attah-Ohiemi: Re-styling Debian's Download Page https://dev.to/0xfaker/re-styling-debians-download-page-3lmm
[18:04]	TR Bot	 Re-styling Debian's Download Page - DEV Community
[18:05]	TR News	Another look at tilting tadpole trike designs https://bkhome.org/news/202502/another-look-at-tilting-tadpole-trike-designs.html
[18:05]	TR Bot	 Another look at tilting tadpole trike designs
[18:05]	TR News	How To Install Apache Maven on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-apache-maven-centos-stream-10/
[18:05]	TR Bot	 How To Install Apache Maven on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot
[18:06]	TR News	How To Install Blender on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-blender-linux-mint-22/
[18:06]	TR Bot	 How To Install Blender on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
[18:06]	TR News	How To Install Uptime Kuma on AlmaLinux 9 https://idroot.us/install-uptime-kuma-almalinux-9/
[18:06]	TR Bot	 How To Install Uptime Kuma on AlmaLinux 9 - idroot
[18:07]	TR News	How To Disable NetworkManager on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/disable-networkmanager-centos-stream-10/
[18:07]	TR Bot	 How To Disable NetworkManager on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot
[18:12]	TR News	Niko Matsakis: View types redux and abstract fields https://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2025/02/25/view-types-redux/?utm_source=atom_feed
[18:12]	TR Bot	 View types redux and abstract fields baby steps
[18:14]	TR News	"Available via Ubuntu Pro, Canonical Kubernetes LTS will prove to be transformational for telco customers who require extremely long-lived deployments with continuous CVE security fixes and support." https://ubuntu.com//blog/cloud-native-telecom-infrastructure-with-canonical-kubernetes-at-mwc-2025 | Source: Ubuntu
[18:15]	TR Bot	( status 500 @ https://ubuntu.com//blog/cloud-native-telecom-infrastructure-with-canonical-kubernetes-at-mwc-2025 )
[18:15]	TR News	"In this article, well dig into why you should consider consuming Valkey as a container, explore what makes a good Valkey container image, and show you how you can get started with your own Valkey container in just a few simple commands." https://ubuntu.com//blog/valkey-container-image | Source: Ubuntu
[18:15]	TR Bot	container image securely designed, compliant, and long term supported (LTS) | Ubuntu
[18:16]	TR News	Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=HVBwcsInM68
[18:16]	TR Bot	 Ennio Morricone - The Ecstasy Of Gold (The Good, The Bad And The Ugly) - Invidious
[18:18]	TR News	"Extensions are like apps for your browser, letting you customize and enhance your online experience. Nearly half of all Firefox users have installed at least one extension, from privacy tools to productivity boosters" https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-manifest-v3-adblockers/ | Source: Mozilla
[18:18]	TR Bot	 Mozillas approach to Manifest V3: Whats different and why it matters for extension users
[18:19]	TR News	UK: Ex-Twitter Falls to Lowest Traffic Levels in 5 Years (Start of Lockdowns), Down From More Than 37% to Only 6.5% https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/UK_Twitter_Falls_to_Lowest_Traffic_Levels_in_5_Years_Start_of_L.shtml
[18:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights UK: Twitter Falls to Lowest Traffic Levels in 5 Years (Start of Lockdowns), Down From More Than 37% to Only 6.5%
[18:20]	TR News	Pluralistic: Apple's encryption capitulation (25 Feb 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/25/sneak-and-peek/
[18:20]	TR Bot	 Pluralistic: Apples encryption capitulation (25 Feb 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
[18:21]	TR News	Judgment translated to English in FINMA & Debian trademark fiasco (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Judgment_translated_to_English_in_FINMA_Debian_trademark_fiasco.shtml
[18:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Judgment translated to English in FINMA & Debian trademark fiasco
[18:23]	TR News	Aryan Kaushik: GNOME in GSoC 2025 https://www.aryank.in/posts/2025-02-25-gnome-gsoc-2025/
[18:23]	TR Bot	 
[18:28]	TR News	More than 20 staffers quit MElons DOGE, refusing to dismantle critical public services https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250225-more-than-20-staffers-quit-musk-doge-refusing-dismantle-critical-public-services
[18:28]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250225-more-than-20-staffers-quit-musk-doge-refusing-dismantle-critical-public-services )
[18:29]	TR News	IBM Consulting: Layoffs Already in Progress https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/26/IBM_Consulting_Layoffs_Already_in_Progress.shtml
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights IBM Consulting: Layoffs Already in Progress
[18:29]	TR News	Technical Specifications at Times of Tyrannies https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/24/Technical_Specifications_at_Times_of_Tyrannies.shtml
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights Technical Specifications at Times of Tyrannies
[18:29]	TR News	Microsoft Admits Business Perils as backdoored Windows Continues to Fall https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/24/Microsoft_Admits_Business_Perils_as_Windows_Continues_to_Fall.shtml
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Admits Business Perils as Windows Continues to Fall
[18:29]	TR News	Bluewashing: I.C.B.M. Replaces Red Bait With I.C.B.M. (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Bluewashing_IBM_Replaces_Red_Hat_With_IBM_Bobby_Leibrock_at_the.shtml
[18:29]	TR Bot	 Techrights Bluewashing: IBM Replaces Red Hat With IBM (Bobby Leibrock) at the Top
[18:30]	TR News	Things That Were Presumed Public Enemy #1 (or Foremost Threat) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Things_That_Were_Presumed_Public_Enemy_1_or_Foremost_Threat.shtml
[18:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights Things That Were Presumed Public Enemy #1 (or Foremost Threat)
[18:31]	TR News	Fuzzy Frontiers gemini://thurk.org/blog/642.gmi
[18:33]	TR News	Dr. Andy Farnell Publishes Second Part of Series About Freedom Fighters (It Started With Richard Stallman) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Publishes_Second_Part_of_Series_About_Freedom_F.shtml
[18:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Publishes Second Part of Series About Freedom Fighters (It Started With Richard Stallman)
[18:33]	TR News	The MElon Slipped, Countries Need Digital Independence https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/The_Musk_Slipped_Countries_Need_Digital_Independence.shtml
[18:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Musk Slipped, Countries Need Digital Independence
[18:33]	TR News	New Richard Stallman Interview Published by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano a Day After His Talk There https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/New_Richard_Stallman_Interview_Published_by_Free_University_of_.shtml
[18:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights New Richard Stallman Interview Published by Free University of Bozen-Bolzano a Day After His Talk There
[18:34]	TR News	librearts Weekly recap 23 February 2025 https://librearts.org/2025/02/week-recap-23-feb-2025/
[18:34]	TR Bot	 Libre Arts - Weekly recap 23 February 2025
[18:35]	TR News	DietPi 9.11 Arrives with Pi-hole 6 Support https://linuxiac.com/dietpi-9-11-arrives-with-pi-hole-6-support/
[18:35]	TR Bot	 DietPi 9.11 Arrives with Pi-hole 6 Support
[18:36]	TR News	More People Are Risking Medical Advice From Chatbots. Here's Why. https://www.sciencealert.com/more-people-are-risking-medical-advice-from-chatbots-heres-why
[18:36]	TR Bot	People Are Risking Medical Advice From Chatbots. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert
[18:37]	TR News	US Measles Outbreak Surges Towards 100 Cases https://www.sciencealert.com/us-measles-outbreak-surges-towards-100-cases
[18:37]	TR Bot	Measles Outbreak Surges Towards 100 Cases : ScienceAlert
[18:37]	MinceR	(cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/EazJ7r8   =   https://rimgo.pussthecat.org/gallery/EazJ7r8
[18:37]	TR Bot	Doomp - Album on Imgur
[18:37]	TR Bot	 Cat Doomp - rimgo
[18:41]	TR News	Leader of North Korean Hackers Sanctioned by EU https://www.securityweek.com/leader-of-north-korean-hackers-sanctioned-by-eu/
[18:41]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/leader-of-north-korean-hackers-sanctioned-by-eu/ )
[18:46]	admfubar	https://www.tweaktown.com/news/103341/fujitsu-celebrates-50-million-laptops-with-this-gorgeous-once-off-kumiko-wooden-lid-laptop/index.html
[18:46]	TR Bot	 Fujitsu celebrates 50 million laptops with this gorgeous once-off kumiko wooden lid laptop
[18:47]	MinceR	pretty. next time fujitsu should try making a good laptop.
[18:48]	TR News	Daniel Stori's Turnoff.US: Ubuntu Core https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2025/2/20/daniel-storis-turnoffus-ubuntu-core
[18:48]	TR Bot	- https://infosecurity.us - Daniel Stori's Turnoff.US: Ubuntu Core
[18:49]	TR News	"A much longer list of changes can be found in the changelog." https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/25/armbian-v25-2-and-dietpi-v9-11-released-with-updated-ubuntu-and-debian-based-linux-images-for-single-board-computers/
[18:49]	TR Bot	 Armbian v25.2 and DietPi v9.11 released with updated Ubuntu and Debian-based Linux images for single board computers - CNX Software
[18:50]	TR News	"The application picker (aka app grid) in GNOME Shell is pretty perfect as it comes, showing launchers for installed apps plus the ability to rearrange them using drag and drop and create custom folders to group apps together." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/app-grid-wizard-auto-groups-software-into-folders-in-gnome-shell
[18:50]	TR Bot	 App Grid Wizard Puts GNOME Shell Shortcuts into Folders - OMG! Ubuntu
[18:50]	TR News	"Some folks prefer a little more order." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/app-grid-wizard-auto-groups-software-into-folders-in-gnome-shell
[18:51]	TR News	"If there's one distro you should pick for the best Linux gaming experience, it would have to be Pop!_OS from System76." https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-distros-you-should-use-instead-of-upgrading-to-windows-11/
[18:51]	TR Bot	 4 Linux distros you should use instead of upgrading to Windows 11
[18:52]	TR News	LightSpy Expands to 100+ Commands, Increasing Control Over Windows, macOS, Linux, and Mobile https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/lightspy-expands-to-100-commands.html
[18:52]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://thehackernews.com/2025/02/lightspy-expands-to-100-commands.html )
[18:53]	TR News	"The base of Linux and Windows users have strong arguments for their preferred operating system and software. However, some Linux tools have features that make Windows alternatives seem left in the dust. While a Windows tool may look modern and have fancy graphical effects, it doesnt mean the feature set compares to Linux tools." https://www.xda-developers.com/powerful-linux-tools-make-windows-alternatives-look-outdated/
[18:53]	TR Bot	 6 powerful Linux tools that make Windows alternatives look outdated
[18:53]	TR News	"Free10 is a repacking of the Q40S Linux distribution and it makes an outstanding option for anyone looking to migrate from Windows to Linux." https://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-know-how-to-quit-windows-10-this-linux-distro-is-for-you-and-its-free/
[18:53]	TR Bot	know how to quit Windows 10? This Linux distro is for you - and it&apos;s free | ZDNET
[18:55]	TR News	They call it "Linux backdoor", but that's misleading; it's some malicious software one is tricked into adding or gets in via some hole not related to Linux https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-auto-color-linux-backdoor-targets-north-american-govts-universities/
[18:55]	TR Bot	 New Auto-Color Linux backdoor targets North American govts, universities
[18:56]	TR News	"What a success it's been! Selling multiple millions, although we don't know the exact number since Valve don't really like to talk in such specifics." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/happy-three-years-to-the-steam-deck-the-linux-gaming-machine-that-changed-everything/
[18:56]	TR Bot	three years to the Steam Deck - the Linux gaming machine that changed everything | GamingOnLinux
[18:58]	TR News	"Seal OS delivers long-term support for a wide range of Linux distributions, encompassing Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Oracle Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine and more." https://www.securityinfowatch.com/cybersecurity/press-release/55270677/seal-security-launches-seal-os-to-target-and-repair-linux-vulnerabilities
[18:58]	TR Bot	 Seal Security launches Seal OS to target and repair Linux vulnerabilities | Security Info Watch
[18:59]	TR News	Linux-hostile and Microsoft-connected sites try to push in the dagger using Rust https://securityboulevard.com/2025/02/rust-linux-war-richixbw/
[18:59]	TR Bot	 Rust vs. C Linuxs Uncivil War - Security Boulevard
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[19:00]	TR News	TuxCare Releases 2025 Enterprise Linux and Open Source Landscape Report https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/788074363/tuxcare-releases-2025-enterprise-linux-and-open-source-landscape-report
[19:00]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/788074363/tuxcare-releases-2025-enterprise-linux-and-open-source-landscape-report )
[19:01]	TR News	SPAM, SLOP, Microsoft FUD https://gbhackers.com/new-auto-color-malware-attacking-linux-devices/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Machine_Generated_FUD_LLM_Slop_From_GBHack.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml
[19:01]	TR Bot	 New Auto-Color Malware Attacking Linux Devices to Gain Full Remote Access
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Machine-Generated FUD (LLM Slop) From GBHackers, CybersecurityNews, and Guardian Digital, Inc (Google News Promotes Slop Plagiarism, Misinformation)
[19:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies
[19:01]	TR News	v1-3-2-released-with-improved-game-installs/
[19:01]	TR News	"Nice to see the project has picked up another developer, GB609, who did a lot of work for this release." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/simple-gog-client-for-linux-minigalaxy-v1-3-2-released-with-improved-game-installs/
[19:01]	TR Bot	GOG client for Linux, Minigalaxy v1.3.2 released with improved game installs | GamingOnLinux
[19:03]	TR News	Anti-Linux LLM slop again https://cybersecuritynews.com/linux-grub-read-command-buffer-overflow-vulnerability/ FAKE site https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/21/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Machine_Generated_FUD_LLM_Slop_From_GBHack.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml
[19:03]	TR Bot	 Linux Grub Read Command Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Enabling Potential Secure Boot Bypass
[19:03]	TR News	How to use the Alias Command https://www.networkworld.com/video/3832575/how-to-use-the-alias-command.html
[19:03]	TR Bot	 How to use the Alias Command | Network World
[19:04]	TR News	"Hopefully Valve directly will soon add a proper filter to Steam for this. But until then, the community site SteamDB keeps showing how useful it can be." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/steamdb-now-lets-you-filter-out-steam-games-with-ai-generation/
[19:04]	TR Bot	now lets you filter out Steam games with AI Generation | GamingOnLinux
[19:04]	TR News	How to use the vmstat command https://www.networkworld.com/video/3832585/how-to-use-the-vmstat-command.html
[19:04]	TR Bot	 How to use the vmstat command | Network World
[19:05]	TR News	"A clash over different Flatpak-packaged versions of OBS Studio highlights problems with distro-maintained software repositories versus external ones." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/25/fedora_obs_flatpak_dispute/
[19:05]	TR Bot	 Fedora vs OBS Flatpak disagreement sparks repo rumble The Register
[19:06]	TR News	"Linux Backdoor" is clickbait and misleading https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/new-linux-backdoor-auto-color/
[19:06]	TR Bot	 Auto-Color: An Emerging and Evasive Linux Backdoor
[19:06]	TR News	"The HaPlay Go Zero is a handheld computer with a 4.7 inch 720p display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 processor, a thumb keyboard, and a Linux-based operating system. Designed and built by an Indonesian hardware hacker who goes by mongkeelutfi on reddit, its also a fun example of upcycling old hardware." https://liliputing.com/this-handheld-linux-pc-is-made-from-an-old-android-phone-a-thumb-keyboard-and-a-3d-printed-case/
[19:06]	TR Bot	handheld Linux PC is made from an old Android phone, a thumb keyboard and a 3D printed case - Liliputing
[19:07]	TR News	"While the war between Android and iPhone for market dominance rages on, there's still development on alternatives to both platforms. Finland-based tech company Jolla has released version 5.0 of Sailfish OS, its Linux-based operating system for mobile devices." https://www.howtogeek.com/sailfish-os-5-0-tampella-release/
[19:07]	TR Bot	 Sailfish OS Linux for Phones Gets 5.0 'Tampella' Update
[19:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Security_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Security_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[19:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[19:09]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[19:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[19:10]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: Framework, Raspberry Pi, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Open_Hardware_Modding_Framework_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Open_Hardware_Modding_Framework_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi 
[19:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Framework, Raspberry Pi, and More
[19:10]	TR News	 (NEW):   Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/26/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[19:10]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Programming Leftovers
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[21:21]	Sompi	https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-introducing-terms-of-use-to-firefox
[21:21]	TR Bot	 Mozilla is Introducing 'Terms of Use' to Firefox - OMG! Ubuntu
[21:21]	Sompi	no longer free software
[21:22]	MinceR	hasn't been for a while now already
[21:22]	MinceR	thanks to bloatzilla's trademark policy
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● Feb 26
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, They came to shut off the water this morning.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	Couldn't get in to take the meter.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	Left a red notice saying $100 late fee.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	Told landlord.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	He blamed his bank for not sending the bill pay, and paid it.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	Asked me how I knew what his balance was.
[22:00]	IsambardPrince	I told him it was public record.
[22:12]	admfubar	https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/02/24/google_v2_eol_v3_rollout/
[22:12]	TR Bot	 Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 The Register
[22:34]	IsambardPrince	https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/hundreds-protest-musk-at-libertyville-tesla-dealership-what-elon-has-done-to-the-brand-is-just-make-it-feel-dirty/
[22:34]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/hundreds-protest-musk-at-libertyville-tesla-dealership-what-elon-has-done-to-the-brand-is-just-make-it-feel-dirty/ )
[22:34]	IsambardPrince	Hundreds protest Musk at Libertyville Tesla dealership: What Elon has done to the brand is just make it feel dirty
[22:34]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, ^
[22:34]	MinceR	it should be obvious by now that protest accomplish nothing
[22:34]	MinceR	s/st/sts/
[22:35]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/texas-child-dies-in-measles-outbreak-first-u-s-fatality-in-years/
[22:35]	TR Bot	 Texas child dies in measles outbreak, first U.S. fatality in years - Raw Story
[22:36]	MinceR	nice
[22:38]	psydruid	make measles deadly again
[22:40]	MinceR	make humans nonexistent again
[22:42]	IsambardPrince	Tesla fell another 4% today.
[22:42]	IsambardPrince	Musk is killing the brand.
[22:42]	IsambardPrince	Investors flee because they realize that half the public is suddenly out of the market.
[22:43]	IsambardPrince	And most of the people who like Musk are too broke to buy a Tesla.
[22:43]	IsambardPrince	Trump is sabotaging Musk now too.
[22:43]	IsambardPrince	Trump turned off 8,000 EV chargers at federal office buildings that were already installed, which made the employees pay to charge their car.
[22:43]	IsambardPrince	So the ones that drive Teslas can't charge them while they're at work now.
[22:44]	IsambardPrince	:)
[22:45]	admfubar	tesla salesperson mubo jumbo to maga maggot, "what will it to put you in tesla self driving accident waiting to happen?"
[22:45]	IsambardPrince	"In a report to the White House, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for a rewrite of the agencys finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. Four people who were briefed on the matter spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the recommendation is not public."
[22:45]	IsambardPrince	The State of Montana lost a lawsuit filed by kids.
[22:46]	IsambardPrince	The State Supreme Court ruled that the State had an obligation to consider greenhouse gas emissions a threat to the State and its residents.
[22:46]	IsambardPrince	That one kind of surprised me.
[22:46]	IsambardPrince	Apparently their constitution requires the State to be a good steward of the environment.
[22:47]	IsambardPrince	And that was determined to include greenhouse gas emissions.
[22:48]	IsambardPrince	I do actually agree with Trump on the gold card idea, although that's a ridiculous name.
[22:48]	IsambardPrince	There is no part of the Immigration and Nationality Act that has anything called a "gold card".
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	In his first administration, DHS tried to raise the investment requirement floor for an EB-5 investor visa, but the SCOTUS struck it down because they ruled that he illegally appointed the Director, so the agency was unable to regulate.
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	They ended up throwing out all of his regulations at DHS, USCIS, and ICE up to that point.
[22:49]	IsambardPrince	By the time he had properly confirmed directors, it was too late to do much.
[22:50]	IsambardPrince	The floor on investments hasn't been raised since 1990.
[22:50]	IsambardPrince	So they should go up to $5 million.
[22:50]	IsambardPrince	That would be an inflation adjustment, but you'd still be getting an EB-5 green card because there's no legal immigration benefit called "gold card".
[22:51]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Trump now claims he's creating terms that are not defined by law.
[22:51]	IsambardPrince	:)
[22:51]	MinceR	not surprising
[22:51]	MinceR	even the pretense of rule of law is gone
[22:52]	IsambardPrince	Through regulation, he can in fact raise the price of an investor visa.
[22:52]	IsambardPrince	Because there is a law that says government can raise fines and fees to account for inflation.
[22:53]	nobody	the typical Tesla car owner political party just got kicked out of german parliament, the "liberals" (FDP) and his leader Donald C. Lindner
[22:53]	IsambardPrince	So that law would allow the government to compute inflation from 1990 onward and raise the fee for EB-5 by no more than that percentage.
[22:53]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, While he's at it, the EPA could raise the fines for CAFE violations.
[22:54]	IsambardPrince	Biden didn't do this though.
[22:54]	IsambardPrince	CAFE is the fuel economy standard for the US vehicle fleet.
[22:54]	IsambardPrince	The fines have not been indexed to inflation since 1992.
[22:54]	IsambardPrince	So the fines would nearly triple if they were indexed, and it would bring in several billion dollars a year for the government.
[22:55]	nobody	what's a CAFE violation?
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	Corporate Average Fuel Economy.
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	Basically, the EPA sets fuel economy standards for different vehicles.
[22:55]	IsambardPrince	Such as cars and light trucks (which are allowed to get worse gas mileage than cars).
[22:56]	IsambardPrince	This is why the US fleet has shifted to trucks and SUVs.
[22:56]	IsambardPrince	Manufacturers can make bigger more powerful vehicles and lower their CAFE fine because it's not legally a car.
[22:56]	IsambardPrince	I think that light trucks should be required to get the car standard.
[22:56]	IsambardPrince	And the CAFE fines should be indexed to inflation since 1992.
[22:56]	nobody	fuel economy too highly depends on driving characters, to avoid speeding
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	If you did this, Ford would be the only company making trucks and SUVs that was compliant with CAFE.
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	The EPA goes by window sticker fuel economy to determine CAFE fines.
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	They claim that my car will get 16 mpg city, 27 mpg on the highway.
[22:57]	IsambardPrince	But it usually gets 17 city, and about 29 on the highway, in fact.
[22:58]	IsambardPrince	This is not an unusual deviation from the window sticker because EPA has a standard test.
[22:58]	IsambardPrince	If you can get the thing out on the highway it gets pretty decent fuel economy.
[22:58]	MinceR	the orbanistani fleet was shifted to SUVs because our roads are dogshit because the government doesn't maintain them
● Feb 26
[23:00]	nobody	17 miles per gallon is horrifying, almost 14liters/100kilometers
[23:01]	nobody	i could do with less than 5liters/100kilometers in the city, with a rather big volkswagen/skoda brand limousine, diesel engine, during winter
[23:02]	nobody	your 17mpg is more than triple the amount of gasoline wasted than a modern luxurious vehicle is capable of
[23:02]	nobody	i am not talking about some tiny VW Lupo, i was driving a Volkswagen Passat (rebranded Skoda), which is a big and heavy car
[23:04]	nobody	btw. the entire day terrorists were speeding again in the city
[23:04]	nobody	it's a type of mindset with those, if give them a gun they shoot, if you give them a knive they stab, if you give them a car they speed
[23:05]	nobody	problem is, police can't do anything relevant
[23:05]	MinceR	the low fuel consumption of that shitbox is compensated by the environmental costs of producing and replacing parts in it when they break
[23:06]	nobody	regular police, that's a civil institution, for a civilized society, while terror on the streets is a mass phenomena of uncivilized braindead idiots here
[23:06]	MinceR	also the massive amounts of soot that it produces
[23:07]	nobody	MinceR: i too was provided a VW golf (their latest model at that time, brand new), which had a regular gasoline engine, which consumed slightly more E10 fuel
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	[My Cousin] got an insurance check this week that covered Jake's truck, which got totaled by another driver.
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	They had several thousand leftover, so they're going to Disney.
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	I told mom, with the Trump Plane Crashes and the Trump Hyperinflationary Recession that's starting up (all the stocks down this month, jobs report expected to be strongly negative, GDP declines incoming, inflation accelerating), they're going to regret this.
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	She already has one of those "HELL" loans, you know, the banks call them HEL (home equity line of credit), but I just call them HELL, everyone in Indiana is lining up to break her legs for not paying them, they've got 5 people in the house and [My Cousin] is the only one that works, and she drives a car with bad brakes.
[23:07]	nobody	the E10 Volkswagen engine required ~10% more gasoline than their Diesel engine
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	So they get a small windfall, and instead of fixing the brakes and paying down some of the HELL so they don't lose the house, they go to Disney.
[23:07]	IsambardPrince	Fucking fantastic. Everyone on that side has a screw loose."
[23:08]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, HELL loan :D
[23:08]	nobody	bottom line, the driving characterists, to avoid speeding, got a huge influence on fuel economy
[23:09]	IsambardPrince	You get one on your house to pay other bills with, then you rack up new debt with the "credit" you freed up, the HELL loan stays too, then you live in HELL.
[23:09]	nobody	with 17mpg it should easily be possible to cut fuel consumption in half, without any loss of comfort
[23:09]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Truth in advertising.
[23:09]	IsambardPrince	They are pronounced HELL for a reason.
[23:09]	MinceR	:>
[23:09]	nobody	fuel economy too got a significant effect on emissions, so those could be cut in half too
[23:10]	nobody	good luck trying to explain this to a mob of nihilists terrorizing the cities
[23:10]	IsambardPrince	I just take a pressure washer to my car when the weather is above freezing. 
[23:10]	IsambardPrince	Fucking car washes are so expensive the pressure washer pays for itself the second time you use it.
[23:11]	IsambardPrince	Then it's pure profit every time you avoid the car wash.
[23:11]	IsambardPrince	Some of us try not to live in HELL like my cousin does.
[23:11]	IsambardPrince	She's in so much debt on that house they'd never dare foreclose on it.
[23:12]	IsambardPrince	The HELL and the first bank would be fighting over pennies worth of equity.
[23:12]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, She was going to try to file for a third bankruptcy.
[23:12]	IsambardPrince	Because when you're related to mom that's how you deal with your bills.
[23:13]	IsambardPrince	You wait until it's eight feet thick and the notices are all red and not saying please anymore.
[23:13]	MinceR	most citizens of nazi america approve
[23:13]	IsambardPrince	And then you file bankruptcy a third time.
[23:13]	MinceR	the orange cockwomble is up to 6
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	I told the landlord that we had three options.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Option 1 is he pays it and the water doesn't get shut off.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Option 2 is I stop sending him rent checks and they start again when I have water.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	Option 3 is I go down and pay it myself, get a receipt, and deduct it from the rent.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	He chose Option 1.
[23:19]	IsambardPrince	If I have to go pay his water bill to get my water back on, it will come straight out of the rent.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	He had thousands of dollars to come out last month and put security cameras everywhere. Then we get a water shutoff notice?
[23:21]	IsambardPrince	There's cameras in at least the mail area, the laundry room, and three on the external building.
[23:21]	IsambardPrince	Something's going on where he wants to see what people are doing in the common areas.
[23:21]	IsambardPrince	But as a side effect, I haven't had any packages stolen and people have stopped prying open the mailboxes.
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[23:26]	IsambardPrince	https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/26/audit-finds-thousands-were-improperly-enrolled-in-state-healthcare-program-for-noncitizens-while-costs-were-vastly-underestimated/
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[23:26]	IsambardPrince	"Audit finds thousands were improperly enrolled in state health care program for noncitizens, while costs were vastly underestimated"
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[23:26]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, So mom complained that she was having toilet issues.
[23:26]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Did you call the landlord?" Because she just said she was trying to find a better plunger.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	She said it was my brother, who weighs 400 pounds and breaks the toilet seat every week, necessitating a new toilet seat every week.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	He comes downstairs, takes a weekly shit, throws a whole roll of toilet paper in after it, and then flushes.
[23:27]	IsambardPrince	And then it overflows and toilet water goes all over the bathroom.
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	I told her "I don't suppose you've asked him to take a shit, flush, wipe a few times, flush, wipe a few times, flush?
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	And she told me to mind my business.
[23:28]	MinceR	lol
[23:28]	IsambardPrince	I said, "Okay, but he's asking a lot of that toilet. Maybe some fiber?"
[23:28]	MinceR	i thought that was the end of the discussion >> "she told me to mind my business."
[23:28]	psydruid	You would think they'd figure out how to buy a toilet seat made of hardened steel by now
[23:29]	MinceR	but that costs more
[23:29]	IsambardPrince	He needs the toilet seat from the planet Krypton.
[23:29]	IsambardPrince	He's the favorite son.
[23:29]	IsambardPrince	Go figure.
[23:29]	MinceR	(sure, replacing a plastic toilet seat weekly costs even more but don't expect the average human to think that far ahead...)
[23:29]	IsambardPrince	She says he never backtalks her. I told her I wouldn't backtalk her if she was paying all my bills.
[23:30]	IsambardPrince	I promised to stop if she pays all my bills.
[23:34]	nobody	weird theory, since the extremist political fringe was known for being subverted and controlled by government agents and spies in germany
[23:34]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I wonder if I go in there and completely wreck the toilet, like even take out the bowl while I'm in there, I can be the favorite.
[23:34]	IsambardPrince	This is like some kind of Chris Farley thing going on in their house.
[23:34]	nobody	the conservatives intentionally lined up some agent provocateurs among AfD, who even welcomed some members into their ranks which their _own_ party statues would forbid
[23:35]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
[23:35]	TR Bot	https://not-ytb.blocus.ch/watch?v=Xv2VIEY9-A8
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[23:35]	IsambardPrince	Matt Foley: Van Down By The River - SNL
[23:35]	nobody	they even welcomed some persons, who articulated on facebook and twitter representing a "friendly face of national socialism", posing with hitler illustrations among other distastes
[23:36]	nobody	some of this, is intentional provocation controlled from the political opposition, for any political bargain
[23:36]	nobody	to discredit and defame an otherwise, relatively, moderate opposition
[23:37]	nobody	however, the gamble didn't have the desired outcome, and AfD doubled their votes regardless of those agent provocateurs
[23:38]	nobody	normally, if government agencies notice any extremist fringe, they got the methods and will to destroy you
[23:38]	nobody	but instead, AfD is lining up with straight nazis in parliament
[23:40]	nobody	meanwhile christian convervative leader promised he wouldn't cooperate with AfD for any coalition, but negotiates upon the terms of AfD with social democrats, who reached record low of votes since 1890
[23:41]	nobody	but it's the only coalition option CDU was officially willing to accept, to join government with those social democrats
[23:43]	IsambardPrince	https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/us/reagan-national-american-airlines-go-around/index.html
[23:43]	TR Bot	 American Airlines flight forced to abort landing at Reagan National Airport to avoid another plane | CNN
[23:43]	IsambardPrince	Another day, another TRUMP Plane "incident".
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	"SPRINGFIELD Gov. JB Pritzkers administration vastly underestimated the cost and popularity of a pair of health insurance programs for immigrants who are not citizens that has ended up costing the state $1.6 billion since the initiative began in 2020, according to an audit report released Wednesday.
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	Aside from inaccurate projections of the programs cost and the number of people who would enroll, the audit uncovered more than 6,000 people enrolled in the programs who were listed as undocumented despite having Social Security numbers, and nearly 700 who were enrolled in the program for people 65 and older despite being younger than that. In addition, almost 400 people were enrolled in the programs but appeared to
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	 have been in the country long enough to qualify for Medicaid, which is jointly funded by the federal government."
[23:46]	IsambardPrince	Oh dear.
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	"The report from Illinois Auditor General Frank Mautinos office was published a week after Pritzker proposed eliminating funding for the program that provides Medicaid-style insurance coverage for people younger than 65 who are in the country without legal permission or are in the U.S. legally but have not yet qualified for a green card. The cut, estimated to save $330 million, was part of Pritzkers plan to close a budget h
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	ole once pegged at more than $3 billion.
[23:47]	IsambardPrince	The cost overruns were particularly pronounced in the program for younger recipients, with the actual expenditure of $485 million through the three years ending June 30, 2023, coming in at nearly four times the estimated cost of $126 million, according to the audit."
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[23:48]	IsambardPrince	nobody, So they pay no tax and have managed to cost uus $6 billion in state and local taxes since 2020.
[23:48]	IsambardPrince	Sounds like some real winners there.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	That's with the illegal immigrant health insurance, the Cook County program, the "new arrivals shelter", etc.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	The food. The hotel bills.
[23:49]	IsambardPrince	We will never get any of that back.
[23:50]	nobody	our yellow press today headlined: "60 [immigrant] children registered for and having received social security in an appartment block in Duisburg do not exist"
[23:50]	IsambardPrince	The landlord that runs two of the "new arrivals centers" in Chicago hasn't even paid his property tax bill on the shelters, despite bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars from the city program.
[23:50]	IsambardPrince	I wonder if my landlord owns those.
[23:50]	IsambardPrince	That sounds like him.
[23:51]	nobody	meanwhile F.Merz interrogates various "NGOs" in germany how those would have served public interest
[23:51]	nobody	and the new coalition "partners" faces turn pale grey, with a record low of votes received, and they only coalition option welcomed by the conservatives
[23:52]	nobody	the only "social democrat" stronghold remaining in germany is Volkswagen city Wolfsburg, which is confronted with proposed layoffs and factory closures
[23:54]	nobody	and since those "democrats" couldn't arrange for an agreement to regulate migration ahead of the election, another plane of afghan refugees was offloaded just today into city of Berlin, into the middle of democrat/left voter districts
[23:55]	nobody	there was rumors, if a re-election would be scheduled if no consent could be reached for a government coalition
[23:56]	nobody	although, that's not necessary, because SPD and CDU got a majority, and too CDU and AfD would have, a re-election wouldn't change anything
[23:56]	nobody	they couldn't regain the 66% majority either which is needed to change the constition (exemption from debt limit, "special military budget" etc)
[23:58]	IsambardPrince	https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/senate-republicans-reject-house-budget-00206244
[23:58]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/senate-republicans-reject-house-budget-00206244 )
[23:58]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	"House Republicans spent weeks in painstaking negotiations before delivering a budget blueprint for one big, beautiful bill. Now Senate Republicans are preparing to tear it apart."
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The House budget was so bad the Senate Republicans are saying absolutely not.
[23:59]	IsambardPrince	Of course, the media reports these things and a few phone calls from Angry Cheeto and Chainsaw Man later, the Senate passes whatever it was.