●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, January 27, 2026 ●● ● Jan 27 [00:03] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [00:07] psydruid > [notice] news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Georgia (the Country) Turns to GNU/Linux [00:07] psydruid Hail agriculture [00:08] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techrights [00:25] Isambard_Prince The black flag roach motels are actually one of the least effective sticky traps for German roaches. [00:26] Isambard_Prince I noticed while I was dealing with a major infestation that ALL of them avoided the Black Flag motels but they would walk across the cheaper glue traps and get stuck. [00:26] Isambard_Prince I think the bait smell that they were supposed to be attracted to actually clued them in that something was there and should be avoided. [00:29] Isambard_Prince MinceR, I was joking with the exterminator that once German roaches get into a building about all you can do that will get rid of them is burn the building down and walk away. [00:45] MinceR https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2018/06/18/conduct-unbecoming [00:45] TR Bot Conduct Unbecoming - Penny Arcade [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::2000) has joined #techrights ● Jan 27 [01:04] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], I dislike Pepsi and Coke. [01:04] Isambard_Prince Moxie is much better. [01:04] Isambard_Prince But most people have never heard of it. [01:06] Isambard_Prince MinceR, Machine Learning. [01:06] Isambard_Prince "Hey buddy, you got a dead cat in there or what?" [01:06] Isambard_Prince T-800: "Fuck you, asshole." [01:06] Isambard_Prince Such a great movie. [01:06] Isambard_Prince But that's the part that always made me laugh. [01:06] MinceR :> [01:07] MinceR how similar is moxie to root beer? [01:07] Isambard_Prince It started learning immediately. It even reused that from the people it killed the moment it stepped through the time portal. [01:07] Isambard_Prince how similar is moxie to root beer? [01:07] Isambard_Prince Not similar at all, really. [01:07] Isambard_Prince It's hard to describe. [01:08] Isambard_Prince It's got the mouthfeel of a cola but gentian root is pretty bitter, but very much unlike root beer. [01:10] Isambard_Prince MinceR, It's not necessarily the best product that wins. Or the first on the market. [01:10] Isambard_Prince It's hard to believe that DOS and Windows came out of a jungle of other, better, operating systems. [01:11] Isambard_Prince In the 80s and 90s. [01:11] Isambard_Prince Even BeOS was better. [01:11] Isambard_Prince They made the mistake of single user mode though for the OS iirc. [01:11] Isambard_Prince Once you do that it's kind of difficult to recover from. [01:12] Isambard_Prince Windows 9x had "accounts" but that was more of a settings thing. Anyone with access to the computer had access to all the same files. There was no privacy. [01:12] Isambard_Prince I suppose if you're not encrypting the volume then that's a given anyway though. [01:13] Isambard_Prince In practice it wasn't THAT bad. [01:13] Isambard_Prince You just assumed you had no security because you were right. [01:13] Isambard_Prince And that changed your behavior. [01:13] Isambard_Prince If there was something you didn't want other users to see, you didn't save it to the disk. [01:14] Isambard_Prince If you were visiting porn sites, you learned to clean your browser history. [01:15] Isambard_Prince MinceR, When mom divorced Dave and he started asking for all sorts of things including her pension, oddly enough someone managed to log into his online accounts and kill the cable, electricity, and replace his Facebook with some random fat guy giving two middle fingers to all his friends. [01:15] Isambard_Prince It wasn't her, but who knows who could do such a thing? [01:17] Isambard_Prince He called the police who questioned me and I said I could barely work my Chromebook and told them to have a nice day. [01:31] Isambard_Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah97iTKNf8M [01:31] TR Bot https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=ah97iTKNf8M [01:31] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=ah97iTKNf8M ) [01:32] Isambard_Prince MinceR, This is what I want. [01:38] Isambard_Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fVJAbL-neA [01:38] TR Bot https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=-fVJAbL-neA [01:38] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=-fVJAbL-neA ) [01:38] Isambard_Prince LOL [01:40] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The description of American tactics reads much like a battle against German cockroaches. [01:40] Isambard_Prince No matter how good you are at taking them off the board, they're better at producing. [01:40] Isambard_Prince You can't win a war of attrition against something where if even one breeding pair survives, it will produce another batch of 40, which can inbreed. [01:41] Isambard_Prince You'll seem to have destroyed them all, then six months later, they'll reappear. [01:42] Isambard_Prince Don't ever underestimate sheer production capacity. [01:42] Isambard_Prince Yes, the German Panzer and Tiger tanks were better. [01:42] Isambard_Prince But that didn't really matter in the end. [01:43] Isambard_Prince In one case during the invasion of the USSR, a single Tiger tank destroyed something like 19 Soviet tanks, all while sustaining only moderate damage itself. [01:43] Isambard_Prince But when the enemy can produce stuff that just keeps coming at you, it will wear you down. [01:43] Isambard_Prince The German problem was sort of like too many eggs in one basket. [01:43] Isambard_Prince They produced tanks that were very good, but had to be produced in small numbers. [01:44] Isambard_Prince If you ruined one, they couldn't easily replace it. [01:44] Isambard_Prince So even if it did manage to take out over a dozen of yours, you still crippled their army worse than they did yours. [01:44] Isambard_Prince Because you destroyed something that took a lot of time and resources to produce. [01:54] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The guy next door with the skunk weed and the $1300 Verizon shutoff bill has a different female sex partner every few days. [01:54] Isambard_Prince They're usually very unattractive and whatever he managed to drag in from the bar. [01:54] MinceR :> [01:54] Isambard_Prince What you're going through is hardly unique to Hungary. [01:59] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Jan 27 [02:09] *\join_fashionshowandtell (~join_fashionshowand@gm4jpwr22xqdu.irc) has joined #techrights [02:11] admfubar https://futurism.com/future-society/tesla-kills-autopilot-criticism [02:11] TR Bot Tesla Kills Autopilot After Storm of Criticism, Paywalls Basic Features [02:13] Isambard_Prince https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/minneapolis-shooting-ice-protests-01-26-26 [02:14] TR Bot Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN [02:14] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The Trump Administration has suspended Greg Bovino from accessing his social media accounts. [02:14] Isambard_Prince And they've relieved him of his duties and pulled him out of Minnesota. [02:14] Isambard_Prince They seem to realize that the CBP agent that murdered Alex Pretti is going to be arrested by the State. [02:14] Isambard_Prince And that the public is furious. [02:15] Isambard_Prince After several days of denial and claiming things that were not what the numerous videos showed. [02:43] admfubar https://futurism.com/space/earths-lower-orbit-rapidly-collapse [02:43] admfubar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_(TV_series) [02:43] TR Bot Earth's Lower Orbit Could Rapidly Collapse, Scientists Warn, Raining Deadly Missiles Onto Planet Below [02:43] TR Bot Quark (TV series) - Wikipedia [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-260126.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-260126.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-260126.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-260126.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, January 26, 2026 [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-260126.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-260126.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-260126.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-260126.txt [02:47] TR Bot IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, January 26, 2026 [02:48] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. 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[03:17] *FANTOM has quit (Connection closed) [03:18] admfubar https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/oracle-tiktok-ellisons-finances-debt-media-empire-algorithm.html [03:18] TR Bot Oracle Debt and TikTok Transition Troubles Vex the Ellison Media Empire [03:32] *FANTOM (~fantom@87.75.185.177) has joined #techrights [03:45] admfubar https://www.firstpost.com/tech/republic-day-2026-from-kissanai-to-bhashini-ai-surge-quietly-made-india-no-3-globally-ws-e-13972485.html [03:45] TR Bot Day 2026: From KissanAI to Bhashini, the AI surge that quietly made India No. 3 in the world Firstpost [03:47] MinceR "Aaaaaaaaaahhhhh! Oh, God! I think I just found out what going number 3 means!" [03:47] admfubar https://www.firstpost.com/tech/yann-lecun-warns-ai-industry-is-llm-piled-explains-why-he-quit-meta-13972519.html [03:47] TR Bot LeCun warns AI industry is LLM-piled, explains why he quit Meta Firstpost [03:47] admfubar well for gods sake to tell us!!! we dont wanna know... [03:48] MinceR lol [03:48] admfubar to should be dont [03:49] admfubar 8| [03:49] admfubar https://www.firstpost.com/tech/yann-lecun-warns-ai-industry-is-llm-piled-explains-why-he-quit-meta-13972519.html [03:52] admfubar comments are hilarious!!!... https://www.ghacks.net/2026/01/26/microsoft-keeps-adding-windows-features-but-trust-keeps-eroding/ [03:52] TR Bot Microsoft Keeps Adding Windows Features, But Trust Keeps Eroding - gHacks Tech News [03:56] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/25/145215 [03:56] TR Bot Apple's Enshittification Moment: How the App Store is Quietly Abandoning User Trust - SoylentNews [03:57] Isambard_Prince MinceR, I have both Amazon credit cards. [03:57] Isambard_Prince I haven't closed the subprime one because it does report as $4500 available credit. [03:57] Isambard_Prince So I just froze it so nothing accidentally ends up on there and left it open. [03:58] Isambard_Prince It drives down my utilization ratio between cards. [03:59] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/vibe_coding_hazardous_open_source/ [03:59] TR Bot Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source The Register ● Jan 27 [04:02] Isambard_Prince MinceR, That reminds me of a joke. [04:02] Isambard_Prince So a Christian missionary goes and tells an uncontacted tribe all about God and Jesus and the Bible. [04:02] Isambard_Prince When they're finished the tribe's leader said "Well, what would happen if you hadn't told us? Would we go to Hell?" [04:03] Isambard_Prince And the missionary says, "No! Of course not! God isn't cruel. He would never send anyone to Hell if they had never heard of him!" [04:03] Isambard_Prince So the tribe's leader says, "Then why did you tell us?" [04:03] Isambard_Prince :) [04:03] MinceR :> [04:07] admfubar but why?.... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-now-lets-you-rent-a-windows-pc-in-the-cloud-in-more-regions/ [04:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-now-lets-you-rent-a-windows-pc-in-the-cloud-in-more-regions/ ) [04:57] Isambard_Prince I don't want a Windows PC in my home. [04:57] Isambard_Prince Why would I want one in a cloud? ● Jan 27 [05:01] Isambard_Prince https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1qnu932/tiktok_uninstalls_are_up_150_following_us_joint/ [05:01] TR Bot - The heart of the internet [05:01] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Lots of people uninstalling TikTok. [05:01] Isambard_Prince They are doing mass censorship on criticism of ICE. [05:02] Isambard_Prince What Trump meant was he wanted it banned unless he could take it over and run it the same way the Chinese Communist Party does at home. [05:02] schestowitz[TR2] Cheetok [05:04] Isambard_Prince https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/26/tiktok-uninstalls-are-up-150percent-following-us-joint-venture.html [05:04] TR Bot TikTok users are deleting the app after U.S. joint venture [05:05] Isambard_Prince "Several social media posts pointed to language in the new policy that describes the types of data TikTok may collect, including sensitive information such as your racial or ethnic origin as well as sexual life or sexual orientation, status as transgender or nonbinary, citizenship or immigration status, or financial information." [05:17] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 26, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_January_26_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_January_26_2026.gmi [05:17] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, January 26, 2026 [05:18] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [05:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [05:19] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [05:19] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [05:20] TR News "Microsoft addresses 22,000 layoffs in January to recoup $80 billion AI investment" [05:21] TR News "If you get let go you deserved it. All the ones let go last November deserved it [...] IBM will announce its earning on January 28, 2026 and will surely reference some "restructuring expenses". Anyone can join the Earnings call, here's the weblink" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh [05:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh ) [05:24] TR News Techrights The "Alicante Mafia" - Part XIII - Is EPO Vice-President Steve Rowan in Cahoots With the "Alicante Mafia"? https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_XIII_Is_EPO_Vice_President_Steve_Rowan_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_XIII_Is_EPO_Vice_President_Steve_Rowan_.gmi [05:24] TR Bot Techrights The "Alicante Mafia" - Part XIII - Is EPO Vice-President Steve Rowan in Cahoots With the "Alicante Mafia"? [05:36] TR News Here is why Microsoft does not hide Easter eggs in Windows anymore https://www.neowin.net/news/here-is-why-microsoft-does-not-hide-easter-eggs-in-windows-anymore/ [05:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/here-is-why-microsoft-does-not-hide-easter-eggs-in-windows-anymore/ ) [05:38] TR News Stallman was asked what he thought about piracy https://en.iguru.gr/rotisan-ton-stallman-pistevei-gia-tin-peirateia/ [05:38] TR Bot Stallman was asked what he thinks about piracy - iGuRu.gr [05:57] TR News Techrights EPO Strike This Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/EPO_Strike_This_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/EPO_Strike_This_Week.gmi [05:57] TR Bot Techrights EPO Strike This Week ● Jan 27 [06:07] TR News Techrights Animal Advocacy Works https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Animal_Advocacy_Works.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Animal_Advocacy_Works.gmi [06:07] TR Bot Techrights Animal Advocacy Works [06:09] TR News "File not found." https://perens.com/ [06:09] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://perens.com/ ) [06:10] TR News Post Open is online though https://postopen.org/ [06:10] TR Bot Post Open [06:11] TR News Microsofters and Novell apologists trolling him https://fossforce.com/2025/05/is-bruce-perens-post-open-license-necessary/ [06:11] TR Bot Is Bruce Perens' Post Open License Necessary? - FOSS Force [06:12] TR News Contested deletion: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Post_open_source&action=history [06:12] TR Bot Talk:Post open source: Revision history - Wikipedia [06:13] TR News Wikipedia is an advertising space for PR agencies http://techrights.org/o/2022/10/07/nat-friedman-wikipedia-spam/ [06:13] TR Bot Nat Friedman Seems to Be Employing a PR Agency to Turn a Wikipedia Page About Him Into Hagiography and Hide His Strong Links to the Serial Strangler Alex Graveley [06:21] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-j7o.kqt.de6qkt.IP) has joined #techrights [06:21] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Almost Reaches the 4% Bar in Dominican Republic https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_Almost_Reaches_the_4_Bar_in_Dominican_Republic.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_Almost_Reaches_the_4_Bar_in_Dominican_Republic.gmi [06:21] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Almost Reaches the 4% Bar in Dominican Republic [06:22] TR News "...the wikipedia article points out the failed version where the younger generation were turned radically against FOSS to the point that they refused to license their software and thus made it all rights reserved aka proprietary / closed source. 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[06:22] TR News "...Sadly, he references the SFC instead of the (apparently defunct) SFLC" -Anon [06:38] TR News (NEW): Happy Birds, Happy Life https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Happy_Birds_Happy_Life.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Happy_Birds_Happy_Life.gmi [06:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Happy Birds, Happy Life ● Jan 27 [07:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:06] TR News Techrights With Absurd Lies About Slop, Which Lacks Intelligence or Financial Potential, GAFAM and IBM Will Twist Mass Layoffs as 'Efficiency Drive' or 'AI Pivot' https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/With_Absurd_Lies_About_Slop_Which_Lacks_Intelligence_or_Financi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/With_Absurd_Lies_About_Slop_Which_Lacks_Intelligence_or_Financi.gmi [07:06] TR Bot Techrights With Absurd Lies About Slop, Which Lacks Intelligence or Financial Potential, GAFAM and IBM Will Twist Mass Layoffs as 'Efficiency Drive' or 'AI Pivot' [07:13] *phebus has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:15] *phebus (~phebus@y62br8unm5ssk.irc) has joined #techrights [07:21] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:21] TR News Techrights IBM Red Hat's Goal Is Not Real Security (It Probably Never Was) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Red_Hat_s_Goal_Is_Not_Real_Security_It_Probably_Never_Was.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Red_Hat_s_Goal_Is_Not_Real_Security_It_Probably_Never_Was.gmi [07:21] TR Bot Techrights IBM Red Hat's Goal Is Not Real Security (It Probably Never Was) [07:33] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [07:36] TR News Techrights IBM Kills Red Hat in the Darkness https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Kills_Red_Hat_in_the_Darkness.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Kills_Red_Hat_in_the_Darkness.gmi [07:36] TR Bot Techrights IBM Kills Red Hat in the Darkness [07:40] TR News Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/25/1952231/richard-stallman-was-asked-is-software-piracy-wrong [07:40] TR Bot Richard Stallman Was Asked: Is Software Piracy Wrong? - Slashdot [07:43] TR News Distraction from XBox sales COLLAPSING https://www.purexbox.com/news/2026/01/in-the-us-66percent-of-xbox-series-xs-sales-were-digital-only-in-2025 [07:43] TR Bot In The US, 66% Of Xbox Series X|S Sales Were Digital-Only In 2025 | Pure Xbox [07:44] TR News XBox is dead, now it's just a "STORE" ('everywhere') https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-play-anywhere-continues-to-have-a-aaa-problem-why-are-most-publishers-uninterested-in-supporting-xboxs-future [07:44] TR Bot Xbox Play Anywhere has a "AAA" problem | Windows Central [07:46] TR News "If your modem suddenly stopped working after installing Windows 11 update KB5074109, you might assume its another classic Windows Update disaster." https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/windows-11-update-kb5074109-breaks-modems-for-some-users-but-it-is-not-a-bug [07:46] TR Bot Windows 11 update KB5074109breaks modems for some users | Windows Central [07:51] Isambard_Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSnVtAIsld0 [07:51] TR Bot https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=hSnVtAIsld0 [07:51] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=hSnVtAIsld0 ) [07:51] Isambard_Prince "How Capital One Is Robbing You" [07:56] schestowitz[TR2] "what's in YOUR wallet?" [07:56] schestowitz[TR2] (their ads/motto) [07:57] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Dave Ramsey [07:57] Isambard_Prince "What's in your wallet? MONEY!" [07:57] Isambard_Prince :) [07:58] *Isambard_Prince has quit (connection closed) ● Jan 27 [08:06] TR News Techrights Google News and "Linux" Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Google_News_and_Linux_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Google_News_and_Linux_Slop.gmi [08:06] TR Bot Techrights Google News and "Linux" Slop [08:16] TR News Techrights Earlier This Month Microsoft Lunduke Said in Public It Was Good That Renee Good Was Murdered, Now He Mocks or Demonises People for Saying the US is Unsafe https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Earlier_This_Month_Microsoft_Lunduke_Said_in_Public_It_Was_Good.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Earlier_This_Month_Microsoft_Lunduke_Said_in_Public_It_Was_Good.gmi [08:16] TR Bot Techrights Earlier This Month Microsoft Lunduke Said in Public It Was Good That Renee Good Was Murdered, Now He Mocks or Demonises People for Saying the US is Unsafe [08:30] TR News (NEW): Very Significant Gains for GNU/Linux in Tonga https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Very_Significant_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_in_Tonga.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Very_Significant_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_in_Tonga.gmi [08:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Very Significant Gains for GNU/Linux in Tonga [08:35] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:42] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:50] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@7h7y9yu8y5zjw.irc) has joined #techrights [08:58] TR News Techrights IBM Reports 'Results' Tomorrow, Expect More "RAs" (Mass Layoffs) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Reports_Results_Tomorrow_Expect_More_RAs_Mass_Layoffs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/IBM_Reports_Results_Tomorrow_Expect_More_RAs_Mass_Layoffs.gmi [08:58] TR Bot Techrights IBM Reports 'Results' Tomorrow, Expect More "RAs" (Mass Layoffs) ● Jan 27 [09:10] TR News (NEW): Proton VPN reveals major Linux makeover both for GUI and CLI users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Proton_VPN_reveals_major_Linux_makeover_both_for_GUI_and_CLI_us.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Proton_VPN_reveals_major_Linux_makeover_both_for_GUI_and_CLI_us.gmi [09:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Proton VPN reveals major Linux makeover both for GUI and CLI users [09:15] TR News (NEW): I found the key to gaming on desktop Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/I_found_the_key_to_gaming_on_desktop_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/I_found_the_key_to_gaming_on_desktop_Linux.gmi [09:15] TR Bot Tux Machines I found the key to gaming on desktop Linux [09:24] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:26] TR News Techrights Wikilaundering Explained https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Wikilaundering_Explained.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Wikilaundering_Explained.gmi [09:26] TR Bot Techrights Wikilaundering Explained [09:31] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [09:38] TR News Techrights A Week Ago We Contacted the EPO's Stephen (Steve) Rowan About Cocainegate https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/A_Week_Ago_We_Contacted_the_EPO_s_Stephen_Steve_Rowan_About_Coc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/A_Week_Ago_We_Contacted_the_EPO_s_Stephen_Steve_Rowan_About_Coc.gmi [09:38] TR Bot Techrights A Week Ago We Contacted the EPO's Stephen (Steve) Rowan About Cocainegate [09:51] TR News Techrights Steven Field (Red Hat) Speaks of "Recent Layoff" (RA/Wave) in Red Hat https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Steven_Field_Red_Hat_Speaks_of_Recent_Layoff_RA_Wave_in_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Steven_Field_Red_Hat_Speaks_of_Recent_Layoff_RA_Wave_in_Red_Hat.gmi [09:51] TR Bot Techrights Steven Field (Red Hat) Speaks of "Recent Layoff" (RA/Wave) in Red Hat ● Jan 27 [13:16] TR News iophk: pre-Microsoft, Nokia is US-based now, if one goes by investment money and board members http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1089660 https://web.archive.org/web/20061128094226/https://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1089660 [13:16] TR Bot licensed products | Nokia.com [13:17] TR Bot Nokia - ShowPressRelease [13:18] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2026-01-27.gmi [13:19] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1548.jpg [13:19] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1898.jpg [13:19] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techrights [13:22] TR News The free and open source Godot Engine 4.6 is out now with major upgrades | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-free-and-open-source-godot-engine-4-6-is-out-now-with-major-upgrades/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:22] TR Bot free and open source Godot Engine 4.6 is out now with major upgrades | GamingOnLinux [13:23] TR News Stop Killing Games final verified vote count for the EU petition is just under 1.3 million | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/stop-killing-games-final-verified-vote-count-for-the-eu-petition-is-just-under-1-3-million/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:23] TR Bot Killing Games final verified vote count for the EU petition is just under 1.3 million | GamingOnLinux [13:23] TR News Mesa 25.3.4 released with more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mesa-25-3-4-released-with-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:23] TR Bot 25.3.4 released with more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux [13:24] TR News Mesa 25.3.4 Release Notes https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/25.3.4.html [13:24] TR Bot Mesa 25.3.4 Release Notes / 2026-01-23 The Mesa 3D Graphics Library latest documentation [13:25] TR News "Recently I covered the draft code to add a full VR mode into the KDE Plasma desktop, and it has only continued to get more advanced with recent updates." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/the-full-vr-mode-for-kde-plasma-continues-getting-more-advanced/ [13:25] TR Bot full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced | GamingOnLinux [13:26] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [13:26] TR News Vampire Crawlers from the Vampire Survivors dev poncle gets a new trailer and upcoming demo | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/vampire-crawlers-from-the-vampire-survivors-dev-poncle-gets-a-new-trailer-and-upcoming-demo/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:26] TR Bot Crawlers from the Vampire Survivors dev poncle gets a new trailer and upcoming demo | GamingOnLinux [13:27] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@kcb99h722ua4g.irc) has joined #techrights [13:27] TR News "Starlink Now Uses Customers' Personal Data for AI Training" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/25/0439223 [13:27] TR Bot Starlink Now Uses Customers' Personal Data for AI Training - SoylentNews [13:27] TR News (NEW): Mesa 25.3.4 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Mesa_25_3_4_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Mesa_25_3_4_Released.gmi [13:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Mesa 25.3.4 Released [13:28] TR News "Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects Laptops" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/01/24/0116243 https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/23/Forbes_Covers_in_2026_What_Was_Already_Clear_for_Over_a_Decade_.shtml [13:28] TR Bot Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys to Unlock Suspects Laptops - SoylentNews [13:28] TR Bot Techrights Forbes Covers in 2026 What Was Already Clear for Over a Decade: Microsoft's BitLocker 'Encryption' is a Back Door [13:29] TR News HEY HI CHIPS? No such thing. This site is a slopfarm. Slop about slop about Microsoft: "Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips, takes aim at Nvidia's software" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/microsoft-rolls-out-next-generation-of-its-ai-chips-takes-aim-at-nvidias-software/articleshow/127586846.cms [13:29] TR Bot Microsoft rolls out next generation of its AI chips, takes aim at Nvidia's software - The Economic Times [13:29] TR News STAR WARS Battlefront II private server and mod launcher KYBER goes open source | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/star-wars-battlefront-ii-private-server-and-mod-launcher-kyber-goes-open-source/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:29] TR Bot WARS Battlefront II private server and mod launcher KYBER goes open source | GamingOnLinux [13:30] TR News Banjo-Kazooie gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/banjo-kazooie-gets-a-native-pc-port-with-linux-steam-deck-support/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:30] TR Bot gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [13:31] TR News GE-Proton 10-29 released with updates to FEX, Wine, DXVK and a few game fixes | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/ge-proton-10-29-released-with-updates-to-fex-wine-dxvk-and-a-few-game-fixes/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:31] TR Bot 10-29 released with updates to FEX, Wine, DXVK and a few game fixes | GamingOnLinux [13:31] TR News Wine 11.1 arrives as the first development build of 2026 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/wine-11-1-arrives-as-the-first-development-build-of-2026/ Source: GamingOnLinux [13:31] TR Bot 11.1 arrives as the first development build of 2026 | GamingOnLinux [13:32] TR News (NEW): Wine 11.1 is out https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/24/Wine_11_1_is_out.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/24/Wine_11_1_is_out.gmi [13:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Wine 11.1 is out [13:34] TR News (NEW): Games: Godot Engine 4.6, "Stop Killing Games", and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Games_Godot_Engine_4_6_Stop_Killing_Games_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Games_Godot_Engine_4_6_Stop_Killing_Games_and_More.gmi [13:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Godot Engine 4.6, "Stop Killing Games", and More [13:35] TR News Its [13:35] TR News "Its not surprising or improper that Microsoft would cooperate with law enforcement, but it may be surprising to many users that they had shared their recovery keys with Microsoft." https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/26/microsoft-sharing-bitlocker-keys-with-fbi/ | Source: Michael Tsai [13:35] TR Bot Michael Tsai - Blog - Microsoft Sharing BitLocker Keys With FBI [13:38] TR News "The lawsuit accuses Paramount Global of violating the VPPA by disclosing digital subscribers identities and video media information, without proper consent" https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-1988-video-tape-privacy-law-applies-to-internet-uses/ | Source: JURIST [13:38] TR Bot US Supreme Court to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses - JURIST - News [13:39] TR News "I wonder if Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the Chamber of Progress, will continue referring to it as one of Lina Khans most prominent anti-big tech cases," https://pxlnv.com/linklog/ftc-meta-appeal/ | Source: Nick Heer [13:39] TR Bot FTC Says It Will Appeal Ruling in Meta Monopolization Case Pixel Envy [13:39] TR News (NEW): Windows Getting Awful Publicity This Week https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Windows_Getting_Awful_Publicity_This_Week.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Windows_Getting_Awful_Publicity_This_Week.gmi [13:39] TR News "FTC Bureau of Competition Director Daniel Guarnera issued the following statement regarding the FTCs notice of appeal: [...]" https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/01/ftc-appeals-ruling-meta-monopolization-case | Source: Federal Trade Commission [13:39] TR Bot not resolve host: tuxmachines.org ( status 0 @ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Windows_Getting_Awful_Publicity_This_Week.shtml ) [13:39] TR Bot FTC Appeals Ruling in Meta Monopolization Case | Federal Trade Commission [13:40] TR News "If you own a car made in the past decade, it's a fair bet your vehicle is already under some form of surveillance." https://boingboing.net/2026/01/26/congress-wants-a-remote-kill-switch-in-every-car.html | Source: BoingBoing [13:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/01/26/congress-wants-a-remote-kill-switch-in-every-car.html ) [13:42] TR News "experiencing homelessness who were incarcerated at the time of the count and unhoused people in emergency rooms and hospitals." https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/01/26/as-counties-prepare-to-count-unhoused-population-hud-guidelines-assure-an-undercount/ | Source: Nevada Current [13:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://nevadacurrent.com/2026/01/26/as-counties-prepare-to-count-unhoused-population-hud-guidelines-assure-an-undercount/ ) [13:43] TR News "Rene Good and Alex Pretti both embodied courage. Cook chose fealty and, ultimately, cowardice." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/cook-melania/ | Source: Nick Heer [13:43] TR Bot Tim Cook Attends Screening of Propaganda for Authoritarians Wife Pixel Envy [13:43] TR News "My mind is still boggled at the idea that you can get drugs across the border when the rest of us are paranoid about taking too large a container of eye contact solution across." https://chrisenns.com/2026/01/a-brief-review-of-narco-mennonites/ | Source: Chris Enns [13:43] TR Bot A Brief Review of Narco Mennonites [13:44] TR News "Guy posted this on 20 January, the day after Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the United States, and just days before Alex Pretti was murdered and Tim Cook attended a screening of Melania." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/apple-mlk/ | Source: Nick Heer [13:44] TR Bot Apple Honours Martin Luther King While Working Against His Legacy Pixel Envy [13:44] TR News "Its no longer a very crude synthetic strip, says Henry Ajder, a deepfake expert who has tracked the technology for more than half a decade." https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-technology-is-getting-darker-and-more-dangerous/ | Source: Wired [13:44] TR Bot Nudify Technology Is Getting Darkerand More Dangerous | WIRED [13:45] TR News "The investigation will determine if the AI tool violates the Digital Services Act (DSA) and whether X failed its obligation to properly assess and mitigate the risks of deploying Grok into the EU." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/eu-launches-probe-into-sexual-deepfakes-on-x/ | Source: JURIST [13:45] TR Bot EU launches probe into sexual deepfakes on X - JURIST - News [13:46] TR News (NEW): Mid-Point Project Progress: What Ive Learned So Far https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Mid_Point_Project_Progress_What_I_ve_Learned_So_Far.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Mid_Point_Project_Progress_What_I_ve_Learned_So_Far.gmi [13:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Mid-Point Project Progress: What Ive Learned So Far [13:46] TR News "hundreds of workers from Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Salesforce, and many, many other companies demanding ICE leave American cities." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/ice_shootings_tech_employees_demand_action/ | Source: The Register UK [13:46] TR Bot Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE The Register [13:51] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, and Review https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Review.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Review.gmi [13:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, and Review [13:56] TR News "National labor leaders echoed the point." https://jacobin.com/2026/01/minneapolis-ice-immigration-worker-organizing/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [13:56] TR Bot Why Labor Unions Cant Ignore ICE [13:57] TR News "Authorities in the Republic of Georgia are increasingly using newly adopted restrictions on public assembly to arbitrarily detain and harass peaceful demonstrators, effectively undermining the right to protest and freedom of assembly in the country." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/hrw-reports-georgia-authorities-arbitrarily-detaining-and-harassing-peaceful-demonstrators/ | Source: JURIST [13:57] TR Bot HRW reports Georgia authorities arbitrarily detaining and harassing peaceful demonstrators - JURIST - News [13:57] TR News "The protest came amid rising tensions in U.S. cities following the Saturday, Jan. 24 killing of Alex Pretti by immigration agents in Minneapolis." https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/01/hundreds-rally-in-kalamazoo-to-protest-ice-actions-in-minnesota.html | Source: Michigan News [13:57] TR Bot rally in Kalamazoo to protest ICE actions in Minnesota - mlive.com [13:57] TR News "lawful citizens should not be apprehended." https://www.minnpost.com/state-government/2026/01/operation-metro-surge-after-alex-pretti-killing-minnesota-politicians-are-inching-definitely-not-bounding-toward-bipartisan-solutions/ | Source: MinnPost [13:57] TR Bot Operation Metro Surge politics, slow moves toward bipartisanship [13:58] TR News "The California Post is a new localised print edition and online destination for the New York Post." https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/california-is-a-news-desert-says-post-editor-in-chief-keith-poole-as-new-title-launched/ | Source: Press Gazette [13:58] TR Bot California Post launching into 'news desert', boss Keith Poole says - Press Gazette [13:58] TR News "Theres a law thats supposed to prevent this." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/26/the-fbi-raided-a-reporters-home-ignoring-laws-designed-to-prevent-exactly-that/ | Source: Techdirt [13:58] TR Bot FBI Raided A Reporters Home, Ignoring Laws Designed To Prevent Exactly That | Techdirt [13:58] TR News "According to a statement from USA Today Co., the newspaper publisher formerly named Gannett, both newspapers will continue to publish separately." https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-01-26/usa-today-co-owner-of-the-detroit-free-press-says-it-will-purchase-the-detroit-news | Source: US News And World Report [13:58] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2026-01-26/usa-today-co-owner-of-the-detroit-free-press-says-it-will-purchase-the-detroit-news ) [13:59] TR News "The irony is thick: A little over a year ago, Melania sparked a bidding war among Hollywood studios eager to curry favor with the incoming Trump administration." https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/melania-trump-documentary-amazon-behind-the-scenes-1235505208/ | Source: Rolling Stone [13:59] TR Bot Melania Trump Documentary From Amazon: Behind the Scenes [13:59] TR News "Importantly, the lies Melugin told were the maximal lies that adjudged liar Greg Bovino would himself tell." https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/stephen-miller-not-just-kristi-noem-and-greg-bovino-must-be-held-accountable/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [13:59] TR Bot Stephen Miller, Not (Just) Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino, Must Be Held Accountable - emptywheel ● Jan 27 [14:00] TR News "long enough to have watched the practice of speaking up about moral issues go from completely unthinkable to briefly being given lip service to actively being persecuted both professionally and politically." https://www.anildash.com/2026/01/26/why-we-speak/ | Source: Anil Dash [14:00] TR Bot Why We Speak - Anil Dash [14:01] TR News "flipping over the table in a poker game that's rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all." https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/#your-greenback-dollar | Source: CoryDoctorow [14:01] TR Bot Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [14:01] TR News "It is entirely unacceptable to allow tech platforms to experiment on billions of people for private gain with no meaningful restraint." https://citizenlab.ca/peoples-consultation-on-ai-now-accepting-submissions/ | Source: Citizen Lab [14:01] TR Bot Peoples Consultation on AI Now Accepting Submissions - The Citizen Lab [14:02] TR News "Roughly 200,000 Tennesseans remain without power Monday in frigid temperatures after a major winter storm froze trees, power lines and roadways and coated them with ice." https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/26/thousands-remain-without-power-in-tennessee-with-single-digit-temperatures-expected/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout [14:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/01/26/thousands-remain-without-power-in-tennessee-with-single-digit-temperatures-expected/ ) [14:02] TR News "An analysis of 1,044 unique interactions between marine life and this small-scale tidal turbine found zero collisions for seals or seabirds" https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/tidal-wave-energy/underwater-cameras-could-help-unlock-americas-tidal-energy-industry/ | Source: Renewable Energy World [14:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/tidal-wave-energy/underwater-cameras-could-help-unlock-americas-tidal-energy-industry/ ) [14:08] TR News "A review of over half a dozen videos taken from different angles including footage recorded by bystanders, video from inside nearby businesses and clips captured from across the street" https://www.startribune.com/fact-check-federal-officials-claims-about-fatal-minneapolis-shooting/601570444 | Source: Star Tribune [14:08] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.startribune.com/fact-check-federal-officials-claims-about-fatal-minneapolis-shooting/601570444 ) [14:09] TR News "The suits accuse Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and TikTok of engineering features that make their apps nearly impossible for kids to put down, like infinite scroll, auto-play videos" https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5684196 | Source: NPR [14:09] TR Bot Meta, TikTok and YouTube are on trial over whether their apps hurt children [14:14] TR News "isnt the difference that the layoff you get severance and for job applications you dont have to say you were fired for cause but laid off due to lack of work" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh [14:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh ) [14:15] TR News "U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers didnt seem convinced Monday" https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-youtube-and-meta-likely-headed-to-trial-over-schools-social-media-addiction-claims/ | Source: Court House News [14:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-youtube-and-meta-likely-headed-to-trial-over-schools-social-media-addiction-claims/ ) [14:15] TR News "Thousands of individuals, school districts and state attorneys general have filed similar lawsuits. Just one win could open the door to an avalanche of similar claims." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/what-to-know-about-the-social-media-addiction-trials.html | Source: New York Times [14:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/what-to-know-about-the-social-media-addiction-trials.html ) [14:16] TR News "Parent lawsuits alleging that social medias design is addictive and has fueled the teen mental health crisis are heading to trial. Their case might be hard to prove." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/25/social-media-addiction-lawsuits/ | Source: The Washington Post [14:16] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/01/25/social-media-addiction-lawsuits/ ) [14:16] TR News "Dont mourn Organize." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mourning-in-america | Source: Robert Reich [14:16] TR Bot Mourning in America - Robert Reich [14:17] TR News "The poll, commissioned by price-tracking website firm Hintaopas in December, found 66.5 percent of respondents supporting a social media ban for under-15s" https://yle.fi/a/74-20206519 | Source: YLE [14:17] TR Bot Survey finds more support in Finland for social media ban for under-15s | Yle News | Yle [14:19] TR News "The Covid overhiring excuse is ridiculous. That overhiring occurred from mid 2020 through mid 2022. The layoffs started in late 2022 and are continuing to this day over 3 years later. The correction is long over with but the layoffs continue." [14:19] TR News "Mainly because Wall Street demands ever increasing EPS at a time when top line Revenues aren't growing. When this bubble bursts it's going to be ugly." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx [14:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx ) [14:22] TR News "Keystroke timing obfuscation: I couldve told you that! Although I wouldnt necessarily have leapt to the possibility of mitigating it server-side" https://danq.me/2026/01/26/why-does-ssh-send-100-packets-per-keystroke/ | Source: Dan Q [14:22] TR Bot Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke? Dan Q [14:22] TR News "Under the existing Online Safety Act framework, user-to-user services include almost any online platform that enables individuals to post, share, or interact with content from others" https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns | Source: Reclaim The Net [14:22] TR Bot UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs [14:22] TR News "Its not yet law." https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/01/26/uk-age-verification-for-vpns/ | Source: Michael Tsai [14:22] TR Bot Michael Tsai - Blog - UK Age Verification for VPNs [14:23] TR News [Old] "CBP invites the public to comment on both the previously approved emergency changes and the newly proposed changes." https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf | Source: US Government Publishing Office [14:23] TR News "Companies and governments must push back now, lest they enable and copy these practices." https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media | [14:23] TR Bot The Trump Administration wants your DNA and social media | Privacy International [14:23] TR News "In Finland, Signal currently leads the free communication apps category on Google Play: [...]" https://aboutsignal.com/news/signal-popularity-soars-number-one-in-finland/ | [14:23] TR Bot popularity soars, number one in Finland - AboutSignal.com [14:24] TR News "Hinduja instead advocates for device-level verification, where a parent specifies a childs age when setting up the childs phone for the first time." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/26/1131726/why-chatbots-are-starting-to-check-your-age/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [14:24] TR Bot Why chatbots are starting to check your age | MIT Technology Review [14:24] TR News Openwashing https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-pres-on-oa-transition-and-dl-changes | Source: ACM [14:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.acm.org/about-acm/acm-pres-on-oa-transition-and-dl-changes ) [14:25] TR News Windows TCO https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/semon9-ryglx/2024-04-17-Mandiant-APT44-Unearthing-Sandworm.pdf | Source: The National Security Archive [14:25] TR News "Open source is great. All of the Micro.blog apps are open source. But for platforms, open APIs have always been more important to me than open source." https://www.manton.org/2026/01/26/open-source-vs-open-platforms.html | Source: Manton Reece [14:25] TR Bot Manton Reece - Open source vs. open platforms [14:25] TR News "In this article, he opposes the widespread practice of conducting diplomacy via WhatsApp. Which, obviously, does not work." https://manualdousuario.net/en/diplomacy-by-whatsapp/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin [14:25] TR Bot Diplomacy by WhatsApp Manual do Usurio [14:26] TR News "Others said that while they could upload videos, they were receiving far fewer views and engagement than usual" https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-ice-videos-censorship-allegations-algorithm/ | Source: Wired [14:26] TR Bot Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners | WIRED [14:26] TR News "Its For You page algorithm is suddenly unreliable, while features like comments are failing to load or loading slowly, and publishing new videos seems nearly impossible for many people." https://www.theverge.com/news/868379/tiktok-us-trump-oracle-broken-rumors-power-outage | Source: The Verge [14:26] TR Bot TikTok is still down, here are all the latest updates | The Verge [14:27] TR News "ByteDance retaining a minority stake - took to X on Monday to explain the issues as resulting from a power outage at a US datacenter." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/tiktok_outage_datacenter_power/ | Source: The Register UK [14:27] TR Bot TikToks US joint venture off to a rocky start The Register [14:27] TR News "The European authorities have another investigation underway about Xs recommender algorithm and policies for preventing the spread of illicit content." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/european-union-x-grok-ai-images-musk.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share | Source: New York Times [14:27] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/european-union-x-grok-ai-images-musk.html?partner=slack&smid=sl-share ) [14:28] TR News "X later paywalled the ability to edit images in public replies to posts, but everyone can still generate images using Groks chatbot interface inside X" https://www.theverge.com/news/868239/x-grok-sexualized-deepfakes-eu-investigation | Source: The Verge [14:28] TR Bot X faces EU investigation over Groks sexualized deepfakes | The Verge [14:28] TR News (NEW): OpenSSL 3.6.1 Is Now Available with Important Security Patches and Bug Fixes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/OpenSSL_3_6_1_Is_Now_Available_with_Important_Security_Patches_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/OpenSSL_3_6_1_Is_Now_Available_with_Important_Security_Patches_.gmi [14:28] TR Bot Tux Machines OpenSSL 3.6.1 Is Now Available with Important Security Patches and Bug Fixes [14:28] TR News "systemic risks" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/european-union-x-grok-ai-images-musk.html | Source: New York Times [14:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/business/european-union-x-grok-ai-images-musk.html ) [14:29] TR News "We also report accounts seeking Child Sexual Exploitation materials to law enforcement authorities as necessary." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/ec_open_new_investigation_into/ | Source: The Register UK [14:29] TR Bot European Commission opens new investigation into X's Grok The Register [14:29] TR News "This is not an isolated incident." https://edri.org/our-work/edri-calls-for-swift-action-as-eu-probes-xs-grok-over-ai-generated-harm/ | Source: EDRI [14:29] TR Bot EDRi calls for action as EU probes Xs Grok over AI-generated harm - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [14:33] TR News "Looking back, I think we can say that the downfall of the bug-bounty program started slowly in the second half of 2024 but accelerated badly in 2025." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg [14:33] TR Bot end of the curl bug-bounty | daniel.haxx.se [14:34] TR News "We talked with him a good bit about his piece: Large Language Models, the Doctrine of Discovery and Terra Nullius Declared Again?." https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a-new-zealand-perspective-on-the-challenges-of-computing-education-what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical/ | Source: CER [14:34] TR Bot A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take [14:34] TR News "The list includes almost any way in which a business could touch AI. Berkleys definition of AI seems to mean machine learning or generative AI: [...]" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/26/insurers-dont-want-to-cover-ai/ | Source: Pivot to AI [14:34] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/26/insurers-dont-want-to-cover-ai/ ) [14:35] TR News "That makes discussions with others around what AI can or can't do unreliable and mostly uninteresting to me at this point." https://blog.avas.space/ai-class-divide/ | Source: Ava [14:35] TR Bot the on-going AI class divide | ava's blog [14:35] TR News "This post is primarily written towards web and software developers. All em-dashes were written by human." https://dbushell.com/2026/01/26/ai-policy-and-the-inevitable/ | Source: David Bushell [14:35] TR Bot AI Policy and The Inevitable David Bushell Web Dev (UK) [14:39] TR News "Fundraising has not eased either. The maker of ChatGPT has continued to close nine- and even ten-figure funding rounds, as has its rival Anthropic." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/one-year-on-the-deepseek-shockwave | Source: Jrme Marin [14:39] TR Bot One year on, the DeepSeek shockwave has faded [14:40] TR News "this conversation violates our policies and has to stop" https://aphyr.com/posts/403-blocking-claude | Source: Kyle Kingsbury [14:40] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/403-blocking-claude ) [14:40] TR News "From my casual browsing on Mastodon, it seems like it brought peoples attention to it - and that's great." https://www.michaelgale.dev/blog/how-to-find-things-from-the-before-times | Source: Michael Gale [14:40] TR Bot How to find things from the before times | Michael Gale [14:41] TR News "AI is more or less useless. I set out to investigate a little about why there is such a big difference in opinion among developers. This is just some my observations." https://unixdigest.com/articles/the-reasons-for-the-big-discrepancy-between-satisfied-vs-dissatisfied-developers-using-ai-for-coding.html | Source: UNIXdigest [14:41] TR Bot The reasons for the big discrepancy between satisfied vs dissatisfied developers using AI for coding [14:41] TR News "Starting in the coming weeks, teens will no longer be able to access AI characters across our apps until the updated experience is ready" https://futurism.com/future-society/meta-bans-teens-chatbots | Source: Futurism [14:41] TR Bot Meta Just Quietly Admitted a Major Defeat on AI [14:41] TR News "a phenomenon that psychiatrists are labeling AI psychosis." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/onlyfans-rival-ai-psychosis | Source: Futurism [14:41] TR Bot OnlyFans Rival Seemingly Succumbs to AI Psychosis, Which We Dare You to Try Explain to Your Parents [14:42] TR News "that level of complexity being, crucially, pretty low." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-incapable-math | Source: Futurism [14:42] TR Bot AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds [14:43] TR News "Most people have only the vaguest idea of what WHO is or what it does. Teal deer, they do a lot of different stuff, most of it pretty good." https://crookedtimber.org/2026/01/26/who-an-anecdote/ | Source: Crooked Timber [14:43] TR Bot WHO: An anecdote Crooked Timber [14:43] TR News "It was pretty straightforward, given a list of coordinates of all UK parkruns, to figure this out in R. Click here for the answer, or read on for the code." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/close-to-me-finding-close-parkruns/ | Source: Rlang [14:43] TR Bot To Me: finding close parkruns | R-bloggers [14:44] TR News "So I deleted my GitHub (which I wanted to do anyway, to avoid Microsoft) and moved the notes vault to Bearblog." https://blog.avas.space/issue-notes-vault/ | Source: Ava [14:44] TR Bot issues with my public knowledge base | ava's blog [14:46] TR News "A bunch of us both watch and provide links to his library of typewriter repair videos on a daily basis." https://boffosocko.com/2026/01/25/rest-in-peace-typewriter-repair-legend-duane-jensen-august-21-1961-january-252026/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [14:46] TR Bot Rest in Peace: Typewriter Repair Legend Duane Jensen (August 21, 1961-January 25,2026) | Chris Aldrich [14:46] TR News "We should be back up again by mid-morning your time tomorrow." https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/26/closed-for-renovations/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [14:46] TR Bot Closed for Renovations - emptywheel [14:50] TR News "This is called the march of nines, and it has been very common in high tech for many years." https://kk.org/thetechnium/the-march-of-nines/ | Source: Kevin Kelly [14:50] TR Bot The Technium: The March of Nines [14:50] TR News "If youre worried about the internet hijacking your ambition (or the ambition of someone you care about), then keep these ideas in mind." https://calnewport.com/is-the-internet-hijacking-our-ambition/ | Source: Cal Newport [14:50] TR Bot Is the Internet Hijacking Our Ambition? - Cal Newport [14:55] TR News Techrights Links 27/01/2026: "Oracle Debt and TikTok Transition Troubles Vex the Ellison Media Empire", Richard Stallman Quoted on Copyrights https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Links_27_01_2026_Oracle_Debt_and_TikTok_Transition_Troubles_Vex.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Links_27_01_2026_Oracle_Debt_and_TikTok_Transition_Troubles_Vex.gmi [14:55] TR Bot Techrights Links 27/01/2026: "Oracle Debt and TikTok Transition Troubles Vex the Ellison Media Empire", Richard Stallman Quoted on Copyrights [14:56] TR News xkcd Early Arthropods #3199 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3199.gmi [14:57] TR News SpellBinding ADEKQSU Wordo: SPICY gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2026-01-27.gmi [14:58] TR News "You know... some text-based things still work just fine. I am currently posting from Lynx, in a terminal, on my phone." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2778 ● Jan 27 [15:00] TR News "Finally, the first video is up on my PeerTube channel. In this first episode of Scandinavian Retro I explain what the peertube channel is about, do a quick tour around the new retro room, look at a number of items that came in the mail and do a quick test of two of those items: the Amstrad CPC 464 and the 6128." gemini://scandinavianretro.eu/posts/20260127_first_video_is_up_the_making_of.gmi [15:01] TR News "The simulator at my work uses LVDT position sensors in the actuator legs. This got me interested in LVDT position sensors and wondering if I could make one, at least a toy one. My main source of info was this Web page: [...]" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260123-0.gmi [15:02] TR News "I woke up earlier than expect on Sunday morning (2026-01-25) and discovered that the morning weather reports sounded tolerable, if not ideal, for stargazing." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260126-0.gmi [15:03] TR News "My pastor's wife loaned me this book, and it was a short and easy read, with a lot of help on how to wait well." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/emily/20260121.gmi [15:04] TR News "I keep an organized list of Web bookmarks in my personal Zim wiki. The entries go back almost 20 years, and I've now saved almost a thousand links in total." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202601/20260126-bookmarks.gmi [15:05] TR News "It seems like I'm paid to find trouble. Maybe that's not the job description explicitly, but that's what I have been doing for years and continue doing and I haven't been fired, although I am counseled to "pick my battles" and "decide which hills you're going to die on."" gemini://ieve.me/squall/12.gmi [15:06] TR News "Say that, through some freak accident or alternate timeline, the only piece of media in the sprawling, decades-long Star Wars space opera franchise is the original 1977 film, complete with its year-plus-long theatrical run and the widespread audience acclaim that it got" gemini://thehans255.com/gemlog/2026/01/star-wars-if-only-star-wars.gmi [15:08] TR News "I love how soft the Facets yarn is and the interesting colors it comes in. The aqua and yellows reminded me of the sun and beach, which was nice to think about in dark January." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/emily/20260126.gmi [15:10] TR News "You can get a detailed timeline of changes I do on my envs.net account on my web site, Gemini page, Gopher Hole or the shell itself with using 'Finger' on dan@envs.net like this on the command line: [...]" gopher://envs.net/1/~dan/phlog/20260126-finger-a-detailed-timeline-for-changes-on-my-envs-net-account/ [15:13] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 27/01/2026: "Waiting Isn't a Waste", Posting from Lynx, and Bookmarks https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Gemini_Links_27_01_2026_Waiting_Isn_t_a_Waste_Posting_from_Lynx.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Gemini_Links_27_01_2026_Waiting_Isn_t_a_Waste_Posting_from_Lynx.gmi [15:13] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 27/01/2026: "Waiting Isn't a Waste", Posting from Lynx, and Bookmarks [15:15] TR News FAKE IBM numbers https://www.digitaljournal.com/tech-science/ai-related-tech-job-cuts-reach-almost-30-of-all-global-tech-layoffs/article [15:15] TR Bot AI-related tech job cuts reach almost 30% of all global tech layoffs - Digital Journal [15:19] TR News (NEW): Xfce Desktop Environment Is Getting a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Xfce_Desktop_Environment_Is_Getting_a_Rust_Based_Wayland_Compos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Xfce_Desktop_Environment_Is_Getting_a_Rust_Based_Wayland_Compos.gmi [15:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Xfce Desktop Environment Is Getting a Rust-Based Wayland Compositor [15:20] TR News "Excited about the arrival of RCS in Brazil, I decided to do some testing." https://manualdousuario.net/en/using-rcs/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin [15:20] TR Bot RCS, SMS via the internet, is good, but that doesnt matter Manual do Usurio [15:20] TR News "POP is now over 40 years old and has been effectively superseded by IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) for decades." https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/01/pop-goes-the-email-migrate-to-imap/ | Source: Six Colors [15:20] TR Bot POP goes the email: migrate to IMAP Six Colors [15:21] TR News "That this is allowed is not entirely obvious from the specification, but it's not forbidden" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoGenericTypeIsPointer | Source: University of Toronto [15:21] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [15:21] TR News "The company used the KubeCon conference in Atlanta last November to launch its BellSoft Hardened Images, betting it can stand out in a space where Chainguard pioneered the approach" https://thenewstack.io/bellsoft-bets-java-expertise-can-beat-hardened-container-wave/ | Source: The New Stack [15:21] TR Bot BellSoft bets Java expertise can beat hardened container wave - The New Stack [15:21] TR News "Modern applications rely on hundreds of third-party packages, yet most teams have never validated their systems against the failure modes that occur in production." https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/26/introducing-package-chaos-monkey.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [15:21] TR Bot Introducing Package Chaos Monkey | Andrew Nesbitt [15:24] MinceR https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/06/14/manwidth [15:24] TR Bot Manwidth - Penny Arcade [15:30] TR News Open Data https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/say-no-to-data/ | Source: Jim Nielsen [15:30] TR Bot You Can Just Say No to the Data - Jim Nielsens Blog [15:30] TR News Software Freedom needed "In Finland, people may be waking up to the fact that American companies control the channels through which they communicate and the tools they use" https://yle.fi/a/74-20206417 | Source: YLE [15:30] TR Bot Expert sounds alarm over risks of US tech dependence | Yle News | Yle [15:31] TR News "A pre-fosdem workshop where you can hack around your IOT gadgets (esp32, arduinos, ch32v003, etc) ." http://zoobab.wikidot.com/iot-friday-pre-fosdem | Source: Benjamin Henrion [15:31] TR Bot IOT Friday pre-Fosdem - .[ZooBaB]. [15:31] TR News "Reviews will be done on a rolling basis until the evening before each session (so friday evening for the saturday session, saturday evening for the sunday session)." https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2026-01-26-lightning-talks/ | Source: FOSDEM [15:31] TR Bot FOSDEM 2026 - Present a lightning lightning talk [15:32] TR News "All videos from CNIs Fall 2025 Membership Meeting are now openly available on the CNI website and our YouTube and Vimeo channels." https://www.cni.org/news/cni-fall-meeting-videos-now-available | Source: Coalition for Networked Information [15:32] TR Bot CNI Fall Meeting Videos Now Available [15:32] TR News "When building static sites with 11ty, it can be tempting to minify CSS and Javascript files to reduce their size and improve load times." https://bobmonsour.com/blog/minify-that-css-bundle-maybe-not/ | Source: Bob Monsour [15:32] TR Bot Minify those CSS & JS bundles? Maybe not. [15:33] TR News "Without -J, the content would be save in the target output filename called download since curl strips off the query part." https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/27/improving-curl-j/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg [15:33] TR Bot curl -J | daniel.haxx.se [15:33] TR News "This post is NOT about how to implement cool URLs. Too many ways to do that depending on the sites setup and the sites philosophy even." https://leanrada.com/notes/cool-urls-with-snapshot-testing/?ref=rss | Source: Lean Rada [15:33] TR Bot Cool URLs dont change with snapshot testing [15:34] TR News "This is the concluding follow up to the article on Arcan as Operating System Design." https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/ | Source: Arcan [15:34] TR Bot Arcan Explained A browser for different webs. | Arcan [15:36] TR News "If you havent heard yet" https://crescentro.se/posts/linux-music-players-2026/ | Source: Ivan [15:36] TR Bot state of Linux music players in 2026 // crescentro.se [15:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:36] TR News "In vibe coding, an AI agent builds software by selecting and assembling open-source software (OSS), often without users directly reading documentation, reporting bugs, or otherwise engaging with maintainers." https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15494 | Source: arXiv [15:36] TR Bot [2601.15494] Vibe Coding Kills Open Source [15:36] TR News "A recent pre-print paper cites the situation at Tailwind Labs as evidence that the increasing adoption of AI coding tools represents a breaking change for the open source community." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/vibe_coding_hazardous_open_source/ | Source: The Register UK [15:36] TR Bot Vibe coding may be hazardous to open source The Register [15:37] TR News "If I could only print things that I've designed myself" https://ntietz.com/blog/making-niche-solutions-is-the-point/ | Source: Nicholas Tietz-Sokolsky [15:37] TR Bot Making niche solutions is the point | nicole@web [15:37] TR News "there are two 1000f 25V capacitors inside that were both bulging after 5 years of daily use. Here they are post-removal: [...]" https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/recapping-my-5-year-old-studio-monitors/ | Source: Jeff Geerling [15:37] TR Bot Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors - Jeff Geerling [15:37] TR News "Within weeks it spread like a wildfire, eventually taking over more than 2 million unofficial Android TV devices, according to Synthient, after its operators figured out how to abuse residential proxy networks for local control" https://cyberscoop.com/kimwolf-aisuru-botnet-lumen-technologies/ | Source: Scoop News Group [15:37] TR Bot botnets swift rise to 2M infected devices agitates security researchers | CyberScoop [15:38] TR News "The Kimwol Android botnet primarily targets TV boxes, compiled using the NDK and equipped with DDoS, proxy forwarding, reverse shell, and file management functions." https://securityaffairs.com/185921/malware/massive-android-botnet-kimwolf-infects-millions-strikes-with-ddos.html | Source: Security Affairs [15:38] TR Bot Massive Android botnet Kimwolf infects millions, strikes with DDoS [15:38] TR News "Many unsanctioned Android TV boxes and similar devices ship with ADB enabled by default." https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/2m-devices-at-risk-as-kimwolf-botnet-abuses-proxy-networks/ | Source: eSecurity Planet [15:38] TR Bot 2M Devices at Risk as Kimwolf Botnet Abuses Proxy Networks | eSecurity Planet [15:38] TR News "The Emmabunts project has published an update for its DE5 branch." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12714 | Source: Distro Watch [15:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12714 ) [15:39] TR News "DietPi is a Debian-based Linux distribution, primarily developed for single-board computers such as Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi or Odroid." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12713 | Source: Distro Watch [15:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12713 ) [15:39] TR News [Old] "It is proposed that a group be formed at Berkeley to provide VAX UNIX support to the ARPA-funded image understanding and VLSI contractors." https://archive.org/details/proposal-to-provide-vax-unix-system-support-at-berkeley | Source: Internet Archive [15:39] TR Bot Proposal To Provide VAX UNIX System Support At Berkeley : University of California, Berkeley : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive [15:41] TR News "Traditional Linux desktop installations accumulate state over time. Package upgrades modify system files in place, configuration changes drift from defaults, and after a few years" https://blog.hofstede.it/immutable-linux-desktops-universal-blue-ostree-and-the-future-of-desktop-linux/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn [15:41] TR Bot Immutable Linux Desktops: Universal Blue, OSTree, and the Future of DesktopLinux | Larvitz Blog [15:42] TR News "The first beta is now available. The KDE project has published a full changelog covering the differences between the current Plasma 6.5.5 release and what's internally known as Plasma 6.5.90, although, at nearly 2,500 lines, it's not exactly light reading." [15:42] TR News "The KDE Wiki has a more digestible list that summarizes just under 40 significant changes." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/plasma_6_6_systemd_login/ | Source: The Register UK [15:42] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.6 will increase reliance on systemd The Register [15:42] TR News "Warning. This whole series is not a simple HOWTO. This series is about how I run my own S3 storage in my homelab. You have been warned. This is part 3, practical use cases." https://jan.wildeboer.net/2026/01/3-Using-Garage-S3/ | Source: Jan Wildeboer [15:43] TR Bot S3 Storage At Home With Garage Part 3: In Practice - Jan Wildeboers Blog [15:43] TR News "Factorio doesnt have a native FreeBSD build, but that doesnt mean you cant run it on FreeBSD." https://blog.hofstede.it/running-a-factorio-headless-server-on-freebsd-with-the-linuxulator/ | Source: Christian Hofstede-Kuhn [15:43] TR Bot Running a Factorio Headless Server on FreeBSD with theLinuxulator | Larvitz Blog [15:43] TR News "Just like with the jails portion of this series, you dont need to be deeply familiar with the underlying virtualization technology CBSD makes using it extremely easy after all." https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/exploring-the-cbsd-virtual-environment-management-framework-part-9-bhyve-i/ | Source: Eerie Linux [15:43] TR Bot Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework part 9: Bhyve (I) eerielinux [15:44] TR News "For subscription-only casts, such as some on SiriusXM*, I suggest paycasts." https://doc.searls.com/2026/01/26/numb-day/ | Source: Doc Searls [15:44] TR Bot Numb Day Doc Searls Weblog [15:44] TR News "If an audio file is not available over the web, or is behind a paywall, or is otherwise exclusive it may be a very fine worthwhile thing, but it is not a podcast." http://scripting.com/2019/04/09/135711.html | Source: Scripting News [15:44] TR Bot News: What is a podcast? [15:44] TR News "Weaving together online harms, privacy, AI regulation, and platform regulation into a single issue, there have been service bans in some countries but Canada has thus far struggled to respond." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/01/law-bytes-podcast-episode-255/ | Source: Michael Geist [15:44] TR Bot The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 255: Grappling with Grok - Heidi Tworek on the Limits of Canadian Law - Michael Geist [15:45] TR News " Outstanding job at poetry ! Now can you write similar jabs for Krabanaugh, Joanne Wrong and Matt "Liar" Liteson of the corrupt IBM F&O and post them here?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx [15:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx ) [15:46] TR News "63% cost reduction" with fake security or back doors sold using buzzwords https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/end-end-security-ai-integrating-altastata-storage-red-hat-openshift-confidential-containers | Source: Red Hat Official [15:46] TR Bot End-to-end security for AI: Integrating AltaStata Storage with Red Hat OpenShift confidential containers [15:46] TR News "GitOps" [sic] https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/how-dtcc-uses-gitops-accelerate-customer-value-and-security | Source: Red Hat Official [15:46] TR Bot How DTCC uses GitOps to accelerate customer value and security [15:47] TR News AWS is GAFAM and Amazon works for the same person who threatens to annex Europe. IBM sells a lie here. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-enterprise-linux-now-available-aws-european-sovereign-cloud | Source: Red Hat Official [15:47] TR Bot Red Hat Enterprise Linux now available on the AWS European Sovereign Cloud [15:53] TR News How to Install Kubernetes on RHEL 10 https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-kubernetes-on-rhel-10/ [15:53] TR Bot How to Install Kubernetes on RHEL 10 [15:54] TR News "The architecture is built around a split-processing model designed to optimize efficiency." https://linuxgizmos.com/espressif-launches-industrys-first-mcu-based-matter-camera-solution/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [15:54] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/espressif-launches-industrys-first-mcu-based-matter-camera-solution/ ) [15:54] TR News "The Baochip-1x uses a VexRiscv RV32IMAC processor with Sv32 MMU support, instruction and data caches, and optional cryptographic extensions." https://linuxgizmos.com/dabao-evaluation-board-to-showcase-open-rtl-baochip-1x-risc-v-mcu/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [15:54] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/dabao-evaluation-board-to-showcase-open-rtl-baochip-1x-risc-v-mcu/ ) [15:54] TR News "The board is based on the ATtiny3217, an 8-bit AVR microcontroller running at up to 20 MHz from its internal oscillator." https://linuxgizmos.com/challenger-t3217-packages-8-bit-attiny3217-in-a-compact-battery-ready-board/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [15:54] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/challenger-t3217-packages-8-bit-attiny3217-in-a-compact-battery-ready-board/ ) [15:55] TR News "Who will build the next version of the web? Mozilla wants to make it more likely that its you. We are committing time and resources to bring experienced builders into Mozilla for a short, programmed period, to work with our New Products leaders to build tools and products for the next version of the web." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla-new-products/mozilla-pioneers/ | Source: Mozilla [15:55] TR Bot Who will pioneer the next web? [15:55] TR News Asman Malika: Mid-Point Project Progress: What Ive Learned So Far https://blogs.gnome.org/malika/2026/01/26/mid-point-project-progress-what-ive-learned-so-far/ [15:55] TR Bot Mid-Point Project Progress: What Ive Learned So Far Malika's Blog [15:56] TR News Elana Hamasman: A beginner's guide to improving your digital security https://hashman.ca/security-101/ [15:56] TR Bot :: A beginner's guide to improving your digital security [15:57] TR News Firefox Nightly: Take note Split View is ready for testing! These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 194 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/01/26/take-note-split-view-is-ready-for-testing-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-194/ [15:57] TR Bot Take note Split View is ready for testing! These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 194 Firefox Nightly News [15:58] TR News Seven Years After, Stallman Is Still Stallman https://fossforce.com/2026/01/seven-years-after-stallman-is-still-stallman/ [15:58] TR Bot Seven Years After, Stallman Is Still Stallman - FOSS Force [15:58] MinceR (cat) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1768/41/1768412393031.jpg [15:59] TR News Otto Keklinen: Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? https://optimizedbyotto.com/post/ubuntu-pro-subscription-pay-for-linux/ [15:59] TR Bot Ubuntu Pro subscription - should you pay to use Linux? [15:59] TR News Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1055958/ [15:59] TR Bot updates for Monday [LWN.net] ● Jan 27 [16:01] TR News pfetch system information tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/pfetch-system-information-tool/ [16:01] TR News Wiki-Go flat-file wiki platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/wiki-go-flat-file-wiki-platform/ [16:01] TR Bot timed out after 10000 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pfetch-system-information-tool/ ) [16:01] TR Bot - flat-file wiki platform - LinuxLinks [16:01] TR News pomoru minimalist Pomodoro TUI https://www.linuxlinks.com/pomoru-minimalist-pomodoro-tui/ [16:01] TR Bot - minimalist Pomodoro TUI - LinuxLinks [16:02] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:02] TR News Radka Janek: Installing backdoored Windows games on GNU/Linux - Arknights: Endfield https://rhea.dev/articles/2026-01/windows-games-on-linux-endfield [16:02] TR Bot Installing Windows games on Linux - Arknights: Endfield [16:03] TR News Default Firewall Configuration Guide on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/default-firewall-configuration-guide-on-ubuntu-26-04 [16:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/default-firewall-configuration-guide-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [16:03] TR News tcpulse load generator https://www.linuxlinks.com/tcpulse-load-generator/ [16:03] TR Bot - load generator - LinuxLinks [16:03] TR News bkmr CLI knowledge management system https://www.linuxlinks.com/bkmr-cli-knowledge-management-system/ [16:03] TR Bot - CLI knowledge management system - LinuxLinks [16:07] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [16:08] TR News Techrights Distortion of the Facts About Mass Layoffs at IBM https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Distortion_of_the_Facts_About_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Distortion_of_the_Facts_About_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM.gmi [16:08] TR Bot Techrights Distortion of the Facts About Mass Layoffs at IBM [16:16] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:21] TR News (NEW): TigerVNC 1.16 Released with Support for Sharing Wayland Desktops https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/TigerVNC_1_16_Released_with_Support_for_Sharing_Wayland_Desktop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/TigerVNC_1_16_Released_with_Support_for_Sharing_Wayland_Desktop.gmi [16:21] TR Bot Tux Machines TigerVNC 1.16 Released with Support for Sharing Wayland Desktops [16:22] TR News Techrights Must Use Proprietary JavaScript to Submit Feedback to the European Commission About Moving From GAFAM to Free Software https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Must_Use_Proprietary_JavaScript_to_Submit_Feedback_to_the_Europ.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Must_Use_Proprietary_JavaScript_to_Submit_Feedback_to_the_Europ.gmi [16:22] TR Bot Techrights Must Use Proprietary JavaScript to Submit Feedback to the European Commission About Moving From GAFAM to Free Software [16:25] TR News Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework part 9: Bhyve (I) https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/exploring-the-cbsd-virtual-environment-management-framework-part-9-bhyve-i/ [16:25] TR Bot Exploring the CBSD virtual environment management framework part 9: Bhyve (I) eerielinux [16:25] TR News Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/recapping-my-5-year-old-studio-monitors/ [16:25] TR Bot Recapping My 5 Year Old Studio Monitors - Jeff Geerling [16:26] TR News Improving curl -J https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/27/improving-curl-j/ [16:26] TR Bot curl -J | daniel.haxx.se [16:27] TR News Stenberg: The end of the curl bug-bounty program https://lwn.net/Articles/1055996/ [16:27] TR Bot The end of the curl bug-bounty program [LWN.net] [16:28] TR News AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-agents-incapable-math [16:28] TR Bot AI Agents Are Mathematically Incapable of Doing Functional Work, Paper Finds [16:29] TR News A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical https://computinged.wordpress.com/2026/01/26/a-new-zealand-perspective-on-the-challenges-of-computing-education-what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical/ [16:29] TR Bot A New Zealand Perspective on the Challenges of Computing Education: What I did on my sabbatical | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take [16:29] TR News The end of the curl bug-bounty https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/ [16:29] TR Bot end of the curl bug-bounty | daniel.haxx.se [16:30] TR News Press Release: EDRi calls for swift action as EU probes Xs Grok over AI-generated harm https://edri.org/our-work/edri-calls-for-swift-action-as-eu-probes-xs-grok-over-ai-generated-harm/ [16:30] TR Bot EDRi calls for action as EU probes Xs Grok over AI-generated harm - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [16:31] TR News The Social Media Addiction Trials: What to Know https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/what-to-know-about-the-social-media-addiction-trials.html [16:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/technology/what-to-know-about-the-social-media-addiction-trials.html ) [16:31] TR News Peoples Consultation on Hey Hi (AI) Now Accepting Submissions https://citizenlab.ca/peoples-consultation-on-ai-now-accepting-submissions/ [16:31] TR Bot Peoples Consultation on AI Now Accepting Submissions - The Citizen Lab [16:31] TR News Pluralistic: Convicted Felon and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/26/i-dont-want/ [16:31] TR Bot Pluralistic: Trump and the unmighty dollar (26 Jan 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [16:32] TR News California is a news desert says Post editor-in-chief Keith Poole as new title launched https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-america/california-is-a-news-desert-says-post-editor-in-chief-keith-poole-as-new-title-launched/ [16:32] TR Bot California Post launching into 'news desert', boss Keith Poole says - Press Gazette [16:32] TR News EU launches probe into sexual deepfakes on X https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/eu-launches-probe-into-sexual-deepfakes-on-x/ [16:32] TR Bot EU launches probe into sexual deepfakes on X - JURIST - News [16:33] TR News US Supreme Court to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/us-supreme-court-to-decide-if-1988-video-tape-privacy-law-applies-to-internet-uses/ [16:33] TR Bot US Supreme Court to decide if 1988 video tape privacy law applies to internet uses - JURIST - News [16:52] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights ● Jan 27 [17:09] TR News Techrights FOSDEM 2026: democracy panel: FSFE uses women as stooges, gerrymander https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/FOSDEM_2026_democracy_panel_FSFE_uses_women_as_stooges_gerryman.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/FOSDEM_2026_democracy_panel_FSFE_uses_women_as_stooges_gerryman.gmi [17:09] TR Bot Techrights FOSDEM 2026: democracy panel: FSFE uses women as stooges, gerrymander [17:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:27] TR News Techrights It's Not About What You Know, It's About Who You Know (and Stay Quiet About the Cocaine) https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/It_s_Not_About_What_You_Know_It_s_About_Who_You_Know_and_Stay_Q.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/It_s_Not_About_What_You_Know_It_s_About_Who_You_Know_and_Stay_Q.gmi [17:27] TR Bot Techrights It's Not About What You Know, It's About Who You Know (and Stay Quiet About the Cocaine) [17:56] MinceR https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2010/06/18/the-brute-force-method [17:56] TR Bot The Brute Force Method - Penny Arcade [17:57] TR News Techrights Online 'Gathering' Held Today to Organise Industrial Actions in EPO, Strikes Will be Starting Shortly https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Online_Gathering_Held_Today_to_Organise_Industrial_Actions_in_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Online_Gathering_Held_Today_to_Organise_Industrial_Actions_in_E.gmi [17:57] TR Bot Techrights Online 'Gathering' Held Today to Organise Industrial Actions in EPO, Strikes Will be Starting Shortly ● Jan 27 [18:02] TR News Yelling in sleep could be early sign of dementia, Parkinsons disease, South Korean study shows https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/yelling-in-sleep-could-be-early-sign-of-dementia-parkinsons-s-korean-study-shows [18:02] TR Bot Yelling in sleep could be early sign of dementia, Parkinsons disease, South Korean study shows | The Straits Times [18:02] TR News Japan court holds North Korea liable for fake paradise on Earth scheme https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-court-holds-north-korea-liable-for-fake-paradise-on-earth-scheme [18:02] TR Bot Japan court holds North Korea liable for fake paradise on Earth scheme | The Straits Times [18:04] TR News Bangladesh urged to prioritize human rights ahead of national election https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/01/bangladesh-urged-to-prioritize-human-rights-ahead-of-national-election/ [18:04] TR Bot Bangladesh urged to prioritize human rights ahead of national election - JURIST - News [18:06] *cow_20012 has quit (Quit: ) [18:11] TR News "sales booming amid the countrys economic challenges and youth unemployment." https://www.france24.com/en/china-s-accidental-crying-horse-plush-toy-goes-viral [18:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/china-s-accidental-crying-horse-plush-toy-goes-viral ) [18:11] TR News Chinas climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-climate-policy-becomes-grist-for-its-propaganda-mill/ [18:11] TR Bot Chinas climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill | The Strategist [18:27] *cow_20012 (~username@wusiwah4aa7ye.irc) has joined #techrights [18:28] TR News The Arctic Has Entered a New Era of 'Extreme Weather', Scientists Warn https://www.sciencealert.com/the-arctic-has-entered-a-new-era-of-extreme-weather-scientists-warn [18:28] TR Bot Arctic Has Entered a New Era of 'Extreme Weather', Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert [18:31] TR News Qt Creator 18.0.2 released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-creator-18.0.2-released [18:31] TR Bot Qt Creator 18.0.2 released [18:31] TR News Mental health with no internet https://alirezahayati.com/2026/01/mental-health-with-no-internet/ [18:31] TR Bot Mental health with no internet | Ali Reza Hayati [18:32] TR News Iran's Internet Blackout Persists As Reported Death Toll Climbs https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-internet-blackout-protest-death-toll-30000/33658995.html number of fatalities may exceed 30,000 [18:32] TR Bot Iran's Internet Blackout Persists As Reported Death Toll Climbs [18:32] TR News Live Blog: Internet Blackout Costing Iran's Economy $36 Million A Day, Says Official https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-live-blog-trump-khamenei/33640284.html [18:32] TR Bot Live Blog: First Public Trial Of Protesters Begins In Iran [18:33] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@3senzxgmnhh64.irc) has joined #techrights [18:34] TR News The Hey Hi (AI) Licensing ShiftCreative Weight Attribution Emerges as Music Industry Game-Changer for Rights Holders https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/26/ai-licensing-shift-creative-weight-attribution/ [18:34] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/26/ai-licensing-shift-creative-weight-attribution/ ) [18:34] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Gecko probably won't be economically viable for much longer. [18:35] Isambard_Prince Microsoft told Mozilla at one point years ago when Mozilla wasn't as irrelevant as it is now, that they should also just switch to Chromium. [18:35] Isambard_Prince I'm not a big fan of Chromium for a number of reasons. [18:35] MinceR why does anyone listen to microslop? [18:35] Isambard_Prince Not the least of which is it's basically Microsoft Trident all over again. [18:36] Isambard_Prince When Internet Explorer had 95% usage share, everyone just made sure it worked in Trident and moved on. [18:36] Isambard_Prince If you were using any other browser, you had problems. [18:36] Isambard_Prince Microsoft made sure that Trident didn't ever implement Web Standards because it didn't suit their monopoly. [18:36] Isambard_Prince And it's happened again with Chromium. [18:37] Isambard_Prince If you don't use Chromium, Google sabotages their own sites to make sure it degrades. [18:37] Isambard_Prince Microsoft even accused them, with evidence, so I believe Microsoft, of doing this with YouTube. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] microsoft did? [18:38] Isambard_Prince Microsoft said something like, Google was using a CSS element to open an invisible layer of the page and put it over the video, and they were doing it so that other browsers would not use hardware acceleration to decode the video, and would run your battery down on YouTube and make the computer slower. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] not sure microsoft said that [18:38] Isambard_Prince It was one of their "EdgeHTML" developers that said that. [18:38] Isambard_Prince On an official account. [18:38] schestowitz[TR2] maybe after others had said the same [18:39] Isambard_Prince https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18697824 [18:39] TR Bot "For example, they may start integrating technologies for which they have exclus... | Hacker News [18:39] TR News advanced Hey Hi (AI)... generative hey hi... agentic hey hi... what next for this fraudulent fake industry? [18:40] Isambard_Prince Maybe I can find a source better than that. [18:40] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I don't normally agree with Microsoft, but yeah. [18:40] TR News [Slop] Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-cultural-stagnation [18:40] TR Bot AI Is Causing Cultural Stagnation, Researchers Find [18:40] Isambard_Prince That was just nasty. Google does a lot of nasty shit just to corral you into compliance. [18:40] Isambard_Prince They broke my SeaMonkey Mail for no good reason. [18:41] Isambard_Prince It has the ability to fetch GMail, but they blacklisted its user agent. [18:41] Isambard_Prince You override the user agent and tell those two Google domains it's the latest copy of Thunderbird, you're back in. [18:42] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], I am fucking sick of Google. [18:42] TR News Reunion of 2 friends in Japan results in $5.7m lawsuit over alleged fraudulent investment schemes https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/friends-reunion-results-in-5-7m-lawsuit-in-japan [18:42] TR Bot Reunion of 2 friends in Japan results in $5.7m lawsuit over alleged fraudulent investment schemes | The Straits Times [18:42] Isambard_Prince If my Gemail account wasn't 20 years old I might even do something about it. [18:42] Isambard_Prince *GMail [18:42] TR News Neptunes Duo Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo Locked in Ugly Legal Battle Over Disputed Royalties https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/25/pharrell-williams-chad-hugo-royalty-dispute/ [18:42] Isambard_Prince I mean, there are other email providers. Some free, some paid. [18:42] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/25/pharrell-williams-chad-hugo-royalty-dispute/ ) [18:43] Isambard_Prince Proton is "freemium". They give you enough storage for basic use. [18:43] Isambard_Prince But you know, when you pay for something, the experience tends to get a lot better. [18:43] Isambard_Prince You're the customer. [18:43] TR News Trey Songz Sues Kansas City PD Over 2021 Arrowhead Stadium Arrest, Says Hes Experienced a Diminished Enjoyment of Life, Pain and Suffering, Mental Anguish, and More https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/26/trey-songz-arrest-lawsuit/ [18:43] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/01/26/trey-songz-arrest-lawsuit/ ) [18:43] Isambard_Prince They don't need to put shovelware like "Google Gemini" and ads masquerading as fake emails in your interface. [18:43] Isambard_Prince Because they're just billing you a few dollars a month. [18:44] MinceR they still logged ip addresses for authorities [18:44] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Google Gemini is shovelware. It's some of the most annoying shovelware I've seen lately. [18:44] Isambard_Prince It opens up using half the page whether you said yes or not. [18:44] schestowitz[TR2] is it like "overviews"? [18:44] MinceR nobody cares, devil aps are worthless, it's time for extinction [18:44] MinceR https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-address-of-french-activist-after-order-by-swiss-authorities/ [18:44] TR Bot logged IP address of French activist after order by Swiss authorities | TechCrunch [18:44] Isambard_Prince It takes half the page on the right side and says it wants to write emails for you. [18:44] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: "AFTER ME!" [18:44] Isambard_Prince I don't need it to write emails. I'm capable of doing this. [18:45] Isambard_Prince And I say what I meant to say instead of some chatbot hallucinating and taking a shit into my email for me. [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] you need to read what it says [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] "for you" [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] so iut might not save time [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] editing existing text takes a lort of time [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] more so if it is botspam [18:45] Isambard_Prince That's what I meant. It takes a shit into the email and signs off as you. [18:45] schestowitz[TR2] and noit even remoately similar to wqhat you wwanted to say [18:45] Isambard_Prince And then you might end up looking very stupid. [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] they try to sell this scam as "Efficiency" [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] it does not do that [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] it just causes gaffes [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] and thewn people dump it [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] then investors dumb GOOG stocks [18:46] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Crapital One gave me a Venture X card today. [18:46] schestowitz[TR2] but they enjoyy this illusion that "DIS IS DE FYUCHER" [18:46] Isambard_Prince On the "Visa Infinite" program. [18:47] schestowitz[TR2] so what? [18:47] Isambard_Prince So now I have all their "best" cards. [18:47] Isambard_Prince so what? [18:47] schestowitz[TR2] best plastic? [18:47] Isambard_Prince I just thought it was funny. [18:47] Isambard_Prince They're supposedly so hard to get. [18:47] Isambard_Prince People with 800+ credit scores can't get one sometimes. [18:47] Isambard_Prince And they hand one to me. [18:47] schestowitz[TR2] credit cards are for incompetent people [18:47] schestowitz[TR2] imho [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] so no matter what credit card youy have [18:48] Isambard_Prince Well, not always. [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] you likely failed [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] you signed off on some debt [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] btw, you sasid you got turned down as janitor potentially [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] they say to people [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] go do a simpler job [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] then they say theree are no simplere jobs [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] there are no openings [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] so it's this idea that people are spioled [18:48] schestowitz[TR2] or that those without work do not want work [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] that strkes the ego of plutocrats [18:49] schestowitz[TR2] *strokes [18:49] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I told my physical therapist that this guy is probably hiring people who don't show up or who goof off on their iPhone. [18:49] Isambard_Prince And snubbing me. [18:49] Isambard_Prince And I'm there every week or so asking him if he's got anything because I'll put my nose to the grindstone and get it done. [18:49] Isambard_Prince And he snubs me. [18:49] MinceR 27 191128 < techrights-news> Chinas climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-climate-policy-becomes-grist-for-its-propaganda-mill/ [18:49] TR Bot Chinas climate policy becomes grist for its propaganda mill | The Strategist [18:50] schestowitz[TR2] " [18:50] schestowitz[TR2] "green" china [18:50] schestowitz[TR2] with their winmills and solar 'tech' [18:50] MinceR to find out how much of this bluster is true, one need not need to look further than what the chinese empire's colonies are doing [18:50] MinceR like mordor [18:50] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Since I'm not getting anywhere with this guy I might just try a change in strategy. [18:50] MinceR they don't give a fuck about the earth, or the environment. they're hoping to profit off some gullible suckers while continuing to kill us all. [18:51] Isambard_Prince You know, something like "Let me be frank. I've observed that lately the hiring trends are about hiring younger workers, but then they do things like call off or goofing around on their cell phones. I'm not like that. You have work that needs to be done." [18:51] TR News F.A.A. Rolls Out Agency Overhaul for Improving Air Safety https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/faa-overhaul-safety-modernization.html [18:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/us/politics/faa-overhaul-safety-modernization.html ) [18:51] Isambard_Prince How much productivity is being lost when these hiring managers get people who call in or say their car exploded on the first day because they don't want to work that badly. [18:52] Isambard_Prince Or they hide in the bathroom and get on TikTok? [18:52] TR News Windows TCO: Some PCs can't boot after latest backdoored Windows 11 security update, no fix in sight mostly affects 24H2 and 25H2 versions https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/some-pcs-cant-boot-after-latest-windows-11-security-update-no-fix-in-sight-mostly-affects-24h2-and-25h2-versions [18:52] TR Bot Some PCs can't boot after latest Windows 11 security update, no fix in sight mostly affects 24H2 and 25H2 versions | Tom's Hardware [18:52] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], There was a guy that got hired at Panda Express a while back. [18:52] Isambard_Prince 18 years old. [18:52] Isambard_Prince He was on Grindr, btw. [18:53] Isambard_Prince I saw him run into the bathroom and his profile immediately showed that he came online on Grindr the second the bathroom door shut. [18:53] Isambard_Prince The next times we were at Panda Express, he was not there. [18:53] Isambard_Prince I haven't seen him since. [18:53] TR News Tiananmen vigil activists still urged end to one-party rule in China after security law was enacted, nat. sec trial hears https://hongkongfp.com/2026/01/26/tiananmen-vigil-activists-still-urged-end-to-one-party-rule-in-china-after-security-law-was-enacted-nat-sec-trial-hears/ [18:53] TR Bot Court: Tiananmen activists still urged end to one-party rule after security law enacted [18:53] Isambard_Prince They hire these people and then come to find out they're there to hide in the bathroom on their cell phone, and then they get rid of them and hire more. [18:53] Isambard_Prince But never me. [18:53] Isambard_Prince They never hire me. And I'd be with their company for years. [18:56] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], That's fine. [18:57] Isambard_Prince There's a job posting site where they do one click apply. [18:57] Isambard_Prince So it's almost effortless to just fire off a barrage of applications. [18:57] Isambard_Prince I'm not getting any offers for an interview though, except from the chatbot. [18:57] Isambard_Prince They have hiring events at that place every week. [18:57] Isambard_Prince Orchestrated by a chatbot. [18:58] Isambard_Prince Why do they have hiring events every week? [18:58] Isambard_Prince Because they hire young people who don't last a week. [18:58] Isambard_Prince Then they hire more. [18:58] MinceR or so they can fire people every week [18:58] Isambard_Prince And more, and more and more, because that's who the chatbot sent them. [18:58] MinceR because it feels so good [18:58] MinceR who cares if it's a gigantic waste of money [18:59] MinceR and it won't even make them uncompetitive, because all the other corporations are managed by the same sort of devil ape scum ● Jan 27 [19:00] TR News (NEW): Kernel: Life is Strange, CachyOS Kernel 6.18.7, 20 Years of Linux Bugs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/26/Kernel_Life_is_Strange_CachyOS_Kernel_6_18_7_20_Years_of_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/26/Kernel_Life_is_Strange_CachyOS_Kernel_6_18_7_20_Years_of_Linux_.gmi [19:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel: Life is Strange, CachyOS Kernel 6.18.7, 20 Years of Linux Bugs [19:00] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Market Share Soaring in Namibia https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_Market_Share_Soaring_in_Namibia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_Market_Share_Soaring_in_Namibia.gmi [19:00] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Market Share Soaring in Namibia [19:01] TR News OMB rescinds burdensome Biden-era secure software memo https://cyberscoop.com/omb-rescinds-burdensome-biden-era-secure-software-memo/ [19:01] TR Bot Trump administration rescinds Biden OMB secure software memo [19:01] TR News CISA publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security professionals arent sold https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-post-quantum-cryptography-procurement-guide-expert-criticism/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/26/Next_Year_Will_be_the_Year_of_Quantum_Just_Like_2020_2015_2010_.shtml [19:01] TR Bot publishes a post-quantum shopping list for agencies. Security professionals arent sold | CyberScoop [19:01] TR Bot Techrights Next Year Will be the Year of Quantum, Just Like 2020, 2015, 2010, 2005 and So On [19:02] TR News 2024 VMware Flaw Now in Attackers Crosshairs https://www.securityweek.com/2024-vmware-flaw-now-in-attackers-crosshairs/ https://techrights.org/o/2020/04/28/openwashing-vmware-after-gpl-abuses/ [19:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/2024-vmware-flaw-now-in-attackers-crosshairs/ ) [19:02] TR Bot The Linux Foundation Has Helped VMware Lie About Its Deliberate GPL Violations That are Connected to Microsoft, Another Prolific GPL Violator [19:03] TR News Access System Flaws Enabled Hackers to Unlock Doors at Major European Firms https://www.securityweek.com/access-system-flaws-enabled-hackers-to-unlock-doors-at-major-european-firms/ [19:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/access-system-flaws-enabled-hackers-to-unlock-doors-at-major-european-firms/ ) [19:03] TR News The federal government ignored a cybersecurity warning for 13 years. Now hackers are exploiting the gap. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/01/the-federal-government-ignored-a-cybersecurity-warning-for-13-years-now-hackers-are-exploiting-the-gap/ [19:03] TR Bot The federal government ignored a cybersecurity warning for 13 years. Now hackers are exploiting the gap. [19:05] TR News Understanding the recommender system's two-tower model https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/understanding-recommender-systems-two-tower-model [19:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/understanding-recommender-systems-two-tower-model ) [19:05] TR News Iran's state TV airs several forced confessions after protest crackdown, activists say https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260126-iranian-state-tv-airs-several-forced-confessions-after-protest-crackdown-activists-say [19:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260126-iranian-state-tv-airs-several-forced-confessions-after-protest-crackdown-activists-say ) [19:05] TR News APNIC community engagement: July-December 2025 in review https://blog.apnic.net/2026/01/27/apnic-community-engagement-july-december-2025-in-review/ [19:05] TR Bot APNIC community engagement: July-December 2025 in review | APNIC Blog [19:07] TR News Relational educational tool for relational algebra https://www.linuxlinks.com/relational-educational-tool-relational-algebra/ [19:07] TR Bot - educational tool for relational algebra - LinuxLinks [19:07] TR News AWSM proprietary trap AWS manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/awsm-aws-manager/ [19:07] TR Bot - AWS manager - LinuxLinks [19:08] TR News 7 Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-console-based-xmpp-clients/ [19:08] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Console Based XMPP Clients - LinuxLinks [19:10] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], The Venture X is basically Capital One's answer to the American Express Platinum Card. [19:10] Isambard_Prince I've heard that their airport lounges are pretty nice if you're going through there anyway. [19:11] Isambard_Prince You get in, there's free meals, free snacks, coffee, they've even got showers you can use, back massage place. LOL [19:11] Isambard_Prince Yeah, Ramsey Solutions was mocking the AmEx Platinum. [19:11] Isambard_Prince Rightly so. [19:11] Isambard_Prince They said "$750 annual fee so you can use an airport lounge and get a free meal onnce or twice a year." [19:12] Isambard_Prince It's actually much worse than that now. [19:12] Isambard_Prince They raised the annual fee to $895. [19:12] Isambard_Prince And they lowered the Sign Up Bonus for most people. [19:12] Isambard_Prince So you're immediately in the hole on that card as soon as you sign up. [19:12] Isambard_Prince Even if you cancel it and get a refund right after the second annual fee posts. [19:12] TR News MX GNU/Linux 25.1 Features Dual Init System ISO http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/MX-Linux-25.1-Features-Dual-Init-System-ISO [19:12] TR Bot MX Linux 25.1 Features Dual Init System ISO Linux Magazine [19:12] Isambard_Prince That card has been terribly nerfed. [19:13] Isambard_Prince And they did that when they introduced the new "mirror shine" option for the metal card. [19:13] Isambard_Prince MinceR, ^ [19:13] Isambard_Prince It still has a coupon book, but even if you use the coupon book you'll struggle to get any real value out of that card. [19:14] Isambard_Prince It makes a horrible every day card because most of the credits don't ever apply to normal people and the annual fee is horrendous. [19:14] Isambard_Prince They know that. [19:14] TR News BugStalker Rust debugger https://www.linuxlinks.com/bugstalker-rust-debugger/ [19:14] TR Bot - Rust debugger - LinuxLinks [19:14] Isambard_Prince And they also know that people are paying for it so they soak 'em. [19:14] TR News 12 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Graph Databases https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-graph-databases/ [19:14] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Graph Databases - LinuxLinks [19:17] TR News Kafka distributed event streaming platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/kafka-distributed-event-streaming-platform/ [19:17] TR Bot - distributed event streaming platform - LinuxLinks [19:17] TR News 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Screen Recorders https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-screen-recorders/ [19:17] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Screen Recorders - LinuxLinks [19:17] TR News Soundscope analyzing audio data https://www.linuxlinks.com/soundscope-analyzing-audio-data/ [19:17] TR Bot - analyzing audio data - LinuxLinks [19:17] TR News Tomat Pomodoro timer https://www.linuxlinks.com/tomat-pomodoro-timer/ [19:17] TR Bot - Pomodoro timer - LinuxLinks [19:17] TR News daph terminal-based music player https://www.linuxlinks.com/daph-terminal-based-music-player/ [19:17] TR Bot - terminal-based music player - LinuxLinks [19:18] TR News Security Data Hey Hi (AI) How to retrieve CVE data with curl and jq https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/security-data-api-how-retrieve-cve-data-curl-and-jq [19:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/security-data-api-how-retrieve-cve-data-curl-and-jq ) [19:18] schestowitz[TR2] They raised the annual fee to $895. [19:18] schestowitz[TR2] expensive plastic [19:19] TR News Do all compiling in the devx container https://bkhome.org/news/202601/do-all-compiling-in-the-devx-container.html [19:19] TR Bot Do all compiling in the devx container [19:20] TR News Do prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI says? https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/do-prices-feel-like-they-are-rising-more-than-the-cpi-says/ [19:20] TR Bot prices feel like they are rising more than the CPI says? | R-bloggers [19:20] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Metal, but yeah. [19:20] Isambard_Prince Horrible annual fee. [19:20] Isambard_Prince Paltry rewards program. [19:20] TR News Parallel strands between learning crochet and learning programming https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/01/parallel-strands-between-learning-crochet-and-learning-programming/ [19:20] TR Bot strands between learning crochet and learning programming | R-bloggers [19:21] Isambard_Prince Questionable coupon book value. [19:21] Isambard_Prince Crappy sign up bonus. [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] what metal? [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] the one in chips? [19:21] Isambard_Prince There's just no value. [19:21] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], Some credit cards are made of metal. [19:21] Isambard_Prince I have some that are metal, not plastic. [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] but what metal? [19:21] schestowitz[TR2] aluminium? [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] you can buy baked beans in metal [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] metal is cheap [19:22] Isambard_Prince Yes it is. [19:22] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [19:22] Isambard_Prince Banks found out that people use heavier credit cards more. [19:22] Isambard_Prince So they started stamping some of them out of metal so they'd be heavier. [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] carer climbers [19:22] Isambard_Prince When I had my old Chase Amazon Visa, it was plastic. [19:22] schestowitz[TR2] and social climbers [19:22] Isambard_Prince The new one they sent me is metal. [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] to "show" fake wealth [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] because it's hard ti show real wealth [19:23] Isambard_Prince My AmEx Gold Card is metal. [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] really rich people dress normal [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] or even casual [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] so you have 'branded' handbags [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] and things like rolex [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] metal cards [19:23] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], If you spend $100,000 in a year on the Gold Card, they will send you one that is 24k gold plated, apparently. [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] which a sdtrips or magnet [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] or some small chip [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] it's shallow and dumb [19:24] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], They miscalculated badly on the Gold Card with me. [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] likje "air miles" [19:24] Isambard_Prince They gave me over $1500 to take it and charged a $350 fee. [19:24] Isambard_Prince I intend to cancel it and the bank will take a loss of about $1150. [19:25] Isambard_Prince They might never give me a SUB again but that one was so big I don't care if they do. [19:25] Isambard_Prince Banks hate losing moneu. [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] americans like to borrow monehy [19:25] Isambard_Prince *money [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] it's a peeer pressure thing [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] they normalise being in debt [19:25] Isambard_Prince So they included clawback language in this one. [19:25] Isambard_Prince If I cancel before the second annual fee, they claw back the bonus. [19:25] Isambard_Prince But I can cancel as soon as the fee posts and they refund it. [19:26] TR News Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #521 - Raspberry Pi Flash Drive available now from $30 https://newsletters.raspberrypi.com/w/5fOOGCGR892c7cWYkAeVMMZw [19:26] TR Bot Raspberry Pi Weekly Issue #521 [19:26] Isambard_Prince Then I keep the bonus. [19:26] Isambard_Prince You have to be on the lookout for clawback language in the terms. [19:26] Isambard_Prince If you ignore the clawback language, then you could end up owing the bank everything it paid you to open the account. [19:27] TR News Intel openwashing https://opensource.org/blog/open-source-software-public-policy-and-the-stakes-of-getting-it-right [19:27] TR Bot Open Source Software, Public Policy, and the Stakes of Getting It Right - Open Source Initiative [19:28] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], I just like money for nothing, personally. [19:28] Isambard_Prince After a while, the bank catches on and won't give you any. [19:28] Isambard_Prince But then there's other banks. [19:28] Isambard_Prince So you move to another field like a locust and start over. [19:28] Isambard_Prince Om nom nom. [19:28] Isambard_Prince :P [19:28] Isambard_Prince MinceR, ^ [19:29] MinceR :> [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] it can costs you in time [19:29] schestowitz[TR2] like moving from one to another [19:29] Isambard_Prince Not much time. [19:30] Isambard_Prince If it's a big bonus then it can be worth it. [19:30] Isambard_Prince If I was working as a caregiver like someone I know. [19:30] Isambard_Prince He has a patient I call The Whale. [19:30] schestowitz[TR2] you devil ape you! [19:30] Isambard_Prince She's big and fat and needs a hoyer lift. [19:30] Isambard_Prince He gets $200 for taking care of her for over 10 hours. [19:31] Isambard_Prince Would you rather, milk the bank a bit, or take care of The Whale for 10 hours? [19:31] TR News Emmabunts DE5-1.05 is out https://distrowatch.com/emmabuntus [19:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/emmabuntus ) [19:31] TR News DietPi 10.0 is out also https://distrowatch.com/dietpi [19:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/dietpi ) [19:31] MinceR WHALE! [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] and you make fun of her\ [19:31] schestowitz[TR2] then wonder why you cannot get such a job [19:32] Isambard_Prince MinceR, He was in my car the other day and I started singing A Whale of a Tale from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. [19:32] Isambard_Prince With Kirk Douglas. [19:32] TR News How to Use Podman Containers on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-podman-containers-on-ubuntu-26-04 [19:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-use-podman-containers-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [19:32] TR News How to Change Keyboard Layout on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-keyboard-layout-on-ubuntu-26-04 [19:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-keyboard-layout-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [19:32] TR News How to Install KVM on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-26-04 [19:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-kvm-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [19:33] Isambard_Prince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU [19:33] TR Bot https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU [19:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AkjTGCrLvAU ) [19:33] TR News New AppImage Offers an Easier Way to Run Affinity on Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/run-affinity-linux-ubuntu-appimage [19:33] TR Bot Run Canva Affinity on Ubuntu using this Unofficial AppImage [19:33] Isambard_Prince "Kirk Douglas - A Whale of a Tale" [19:33] Isambard_Prince MinceR, ^ [19:34] TR News Mecha Comet Modular GNU/Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld [19:34] TR Bot Mecha Comet Modular Linux Handheld with Snap-On Modules - OMG! Ubuntu [19:34] TR News loss32 is a GNU/Linux Distro Nobody Asked For (But Still Has Its Use) https://itsfoss.com/loss32-distro/ [19:34] TR Bot loss32 is a Linux Distro Nobody Asked For (But Still Has Its Use) [19:34] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], The Whale is very mean. [19:34] schestowitz[TR2] so you have a tech polic, DA? [19:34] Isambard_Prince She also demanded that he take his gloves off and finger her. And she yells random shit like "I'LL BET YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE YOUR FLU SHOT!" [19:35] TR News Proton 10.0-4 Released with Support for Drop Dead: The Cabin, Quantum Threshold https://9to5linux.com/proton-10-0-4-released-with-support-for-drop-dead-the-cabin-quantum-threshold [19:35] TR Bot 10.0-4 Released with Support for Drop Dead: The Cabin, Quantum Threshold - 9to5Linux [19:35] Isambard_Prince He told her that was not going to happen. [19:35] Isambard_Prince What a horrible woman. [19:35] Isambard_Prince She deserves to be mocked. [19:35] Isambard_Prince Remember when Al Bundy mocked the fat women and even the fat women in real life thought it was funny? [19:36] Isambard_Prince I mean, people just need to grow thicker skin. [19:36] TR News Emmabunts Debian Edition 5 Gets New Accessibility Features, Debian 12.13 Base https://9to5linux.com/emmabuntus-debian-edition-5-gets-new-accessibility-features-debian-12-13-base [19:36] TR Bot Debian Edition 5 Gets New Accessibility Features, Debian 12.13 Base - 9to5Linux [19:36] TR News GParted 1.8 Open-Source Partition Editor Released with Many Enhancements https://9to5linux.com/gparted-1-8-open-source-partition-editor-released-with-many-enhancements [19:36] TR Bot 1.8 Open-Source Partition Editor Released with Many Enhancements - 9to5Linux [19:36] MinceR they can't, and they don't even have time to do so anymore [19:36] Isambard_Prince You said it yourself that the Jews eventually managed to joke about the Holocaust, among themselves at least. [19:36] Isambard_Prince If they can do that, then maybe people who are fat can laugh at fat jokes. [19:36] Isambard_Prince I'm overweight and thought Al was funny. [19:36] MinceR "The planet isnt going anywhere we are! Were going away! Pack your shit folks!" [19:37] TR News Arsse Advanced RSS Environment https://www.linuxlinks.com/arsse-advanced-rss-environment/ [19:37] TR Bot - Advanced RSS Environment - LinuxLinks [19:37] MinceR :) [19:37] *Isambard_Prince has quit (connection closed) [19:37] TR News FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, January 30, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-01-30-irc [19:37] TR Bot Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, January 30, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [19:38] TR News FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 6, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-06-irc [19:38] TR Bot Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, February 6, starting at 12:00 EST (17:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] "The planet isnt going anywhere we are! Were going away! Pack your shit folks!" [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] it is not going away [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] the sun is coming [19:38] schestowitz[TR2] "here comes the sun" [19:38] MinceR Hier kommt die Sonne [19:39] schestowitz[TR2] black hole sun [19:39] MinceR won't you come [19:39] schestowitz[TR2] She also demanded that he take his gloves off and finger her. And she yells random shit like "I'LL BET YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE YOUR FLU SHOT!" [19:39] schestowitz[TR2] she will\ [19:39] schestowitz[TR2] maybe [19:40] MinceR lol [19:40] TR News Turn Scripts into Quick Settings Toggles with this GNOME Extension https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/custom-command-toggle-gnome-extension [19:40] TR Bot Turn Your Scripts into Quick Settings Toggles with this GNOME Extension [19:40] TR News Guide to multi-homed inventory management with Red Bait Ansible Automation Platform https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/guide-multi-homed-inventory-management-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform [19:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/guide-multi-homed-inventory-management-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform ) [19:41] TR News How to Install yay on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-yay-on-arch-linux/ [19:41] TR Bot to Install yay on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable [19:41] TR News How to Install Paru on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-paru-on-arch-linux/ [19:41] TR Bot to Install Paru on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable [19:42] TR News How to Install Firewalld on CentOS Stream (10, 9) https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-firewalld-on-centos-stream/ [19:42] TR Bot to Install Firewalld on CentOS Stream (10, 9) - LinuxCapable [19:42] TR News How to Install UFW on Arch GNU/Linux https://linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-ufw-on-arch-linux/ [19:42] TR Bot to Install UFW on Arch Linux - LinuxCapable [19:43] TR News ORG RESPONSE TO THE ICO CALL FOR VIEWS ON ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURAL GUIDANCE https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/org-response-to-the-ico-call-for-views-on-enforcement-procedural-guidance/ [19:43] TR Bot ORG RESPONSE TO THE ICO CALL FOR VIEWS ON ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURAL GUIDANCE | Open Rights Group [19:44] TR News How To Set Up ModSecurity with Apache on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/set-up-modsecurity-apache-debian-13/ [19:44] TR Bot How To Set Up ModSecurity with Apache on Debian 13 - idroot [19:44] TR News How To Install Nginx Mainline Version on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-nginx-mainline-version-debian-13/ [19:44] TR Bot How To Install Nginx Mainline Version on Debian 13 - idroot [19:45] TR News How To Install IPTVnator on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-iptvnator-linux-mint-22/ [19:45] TR Bot How To Install IPTVnator on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [19:45] TR News How To Install FreeIPA on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-freeipa-linux-mint-22/ [19:45] TR Bot How To Install FreeIPA on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [19:45] TR News How To Install Monitorix on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-monitorix-opensuse/ [19:45] TR Bot How To Install Monitorix on openSUSE - idroot [19:46] TR News How To Install GParted on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-gparted-fedora-43/ [19:46] TR Bot How To Install GParted on Fedora 43 - idroot [19:47] TR News Godot4.6 All about your flow https://godotengine.org/article/godot-4-6-all-about-your-flow/ [19:47] TR Bot Redirecting… [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg00ew9e [19:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kg00ew9e ) [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] "he clown writing the piece of garbage in the link is completely off topic. Referring to IBM cloud and AI. [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] IBM does not have cloud computing or any AI worth mentioning. [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] IBM failed miserably in the cloud space, the organization was run by the tribe of Indians in the US. [19:48] schestowitz[TR2] In the AI space, IBM solution (Watson) is a complete joke." [19:49] TR News "don't Alvind and Krabanaugh deserve to to pushed out too ? The upcoming results will tell us everything we need to know about their future at IBM." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh [19:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfv37vnh ) [19:49] TR News "nothing but a pack of lies and deflection from the Liar In Chief at IBM, Alvind, when he was responsible for moving huge numbers of jobs from the US to India on the flimsiest of pretexts - cost savings, which really were not cost savings at all. You can spin the story and way you like but the truth will come out. Alvind needs to be canned for the lies." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx [19:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfzdkhhx ) [19:51] TR News "Oh Dearie Me ! The statements about Matt Loathsome Liteson being light on his cloud project results have disappeared from this thread. Guess the truth hurts when you put out presentations which are full of lies and untruths. In short, Matt is full of bull. So is Joanne Wrong." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfs88kwy [19:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kfs88kwy ) [19:51] TR News "Is Matt Loathsome new? I don't recall that name in T&O Is he a Joanne Wrong lackey? Hows Slob Thomas these days? I wonder if he is trying to be an old version of Zuckerberg" [19:53] TR News Ireland Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/01/ireland-proposes-giving-police-new-digital-surveillance-powers.html [19:53] TR Bot Proposes Giving Police New Digital Surveillance Powers - Schneier on Security [19:53] TR News Stanley Malware Toolkit Enables Phishing via Website Spoofing https://www.securityweek.com/stanley-malware-toolkit-enables-phishing-via-website-spoofing/ [19:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/stanley-malware-toolkit-enables-phishing-via-website-spoofing/ ) [19:53] TR News EPO Strike This Week https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/EPO_Strike_This_Week.shtml [19:53] TR Bot Techrights EPO Strike This Week [19:53] TR News Prisons Are for Dangerous People Who Pose a Threat to the Public, Not People Who Inform the Public https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/26/Prisons_Are_for_Dangerous_People_Who_Pose_a_Threat_to_the_Publi.shtml [19:53] TR Bot Techrights Prisons Are for Dangerous People Who Pose a Threat to the Public, Not People Who Inform the Public [19:54] TR News AI quickstart: Self-service agent for IT process automation https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/ai-quickstart-self-service-agent-it-process-automation [19:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/01/26/ai-quickstart-self-service-agent-it-process-automation ) [19:55] TR News Raspberry Pi CM5-based outdoor PoE security camera features 12.3 MP IMX500 sensor, IP66 enclosure https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/26/raspberry-pi-cm5-based-outdoor-poe-security-camera-features-12-3-mp-imx500-sensor-ip66-enclosure/ [19:55] TR Bot Raspberry Pi CM5-based outdoor PoE security camera features 12.3 MP IMX500 sensor, IP66 enclosure - 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CNX Software [19:59] TR News Mastodon gemini://bitacora.anacronico.rocks/diariodebicicleta/mastodonvidalaboral.gmi ● Jan 27 [20:01] TR News Nexus Mods Pledges to Add Native Steam Deck, Steam Machine Support on Linux https://uk.pcmag.com/games/162787/nexus-mods-pledges-to-add-native-steam-deck-steam-machine-support-on-linux [20:01] TR Bot Nexus Mods Pledges to Add Native Steam Deck, Steam Machine Support on Linux [20:02] TR News I ditched my favorite to-do app for a Linux terminalhere's what surprised me https://www.howtogeek.com/i-ditched-ticktick-polished-ui-for-a-terminal-to-do-list-for-a-week-heres-what-surprised-me/ [20:02] TR Bot I ditched my favorite to-do app for a Linux terminalhere's what surprised me [20:02] TR News Elegance is a relatively new Linux distribution designed to handle work, media, and gaming. https://www.zdnet.com/article/manjaro-elegance-linux-distribution-hands-on/ [20:02] TR Bot found a new Linux distro that's a productivity powerhouse right out of the box | ZDNET [20:02] TR News I love this Linux handheld computer, and you can help fund it right now https://www.xda-developers.com/i-love-this-linux-handheld-computer-and-you-can-help-fund-it-right-now/ [20:02] TR Bot I love this Linux handheld computer, and you can help fund it right now [20:03] TR News Stop wrestling with Windows 11: 5 reasons Linux is finally the simpler choice https://www.howtogeek.com/reason-linux-feels-easier-than-windows-now/ [20:03] TR Bot Stop wrestling with Windows 11: 5 reasons Linux is finally the simpler choice [20:03] TR News Getting Adobe Photoshop on Linux just took a big step forward https://www.xda-developers.com/getting-adobe-photoshop-on-linux-just-took-a-big-step-forward/ [20:03] TR Bot Getting Adobe Photoshop on Linux just took a big step forward [20:05] TR News Not "from scratch." He cannot make the materials. https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3656199586767238 [20:05] TR Bot Hardcore: Programmer Spends 6 Months Building 486 Motherboard from Scratch, Runs Linux, DOOM, and Win3.1 Successfully [20:05] TR News "Some of the enhancements include high framerate support, widescreen and ultrawide support, better camera controls, instant loading times, note saving and more. We've seen some of the work from Mr-Wiseguy and co before with projects like Zelda 64: Recompiled." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/banjo-kazooie-gets-a-native-pc-port-with-linux-steam-deck-support/ [20:05] TR Bot gets a native PC port with Linux / Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [20:05] TR News (NEW): Turning GNU/Linux Into Windows With Adobe Proprietary Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_Windows_With_Adobe_Proprietary_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/18/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_Windows_With_Adobe_Proprietary_Software.gmi [20:05] TR Bot Tux Machines Turning GNU/Linux Into Windows With Adobe Proprietary Software [20:05] TR News Proton VPN reveals major Linux makeover both for GUI and CLI users https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-services/proton-vpn-reveals-major-linux-makeover-both-for-gui-and-cli-users [20:05] TR Bot VPN reveals major Linux makeover both for GUI and CLI users | TechRadar [20:06] TR News "The latest main stable update to Mesa is here for users of open source graphics drivers, with Mesa 25.3.4 bringing essential bug fixes." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/mesa-25-3-4-released-with-more-bug-fixes-for-open-source-linux-graphics-drivers/ [20:06] TR Bot 25.3.4 released with more bug fixes for open source Linux graphics drivers | GamingOnLinux [20:06] TR News New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance https://hardforum.com/threads/new-patches-aim-to-lower-linux-memory-use-for-swap-slightly-improve-performance.2046147/#post-1046267255 [20:06] TR Bot New Patches Aim To Lower Linux Memory Use For Swap, Slightly Improve Performance | [H]ard|Forum [20:07] TR News "KDE Plasma 6.6 is approaching, and one of its more controversial changes is a new login screen that depends on systemd meaning that it won't work on the non-Linux operating systems KDE still nominally supports." https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/26/plasma_6_6_systemd_login/ [20:07] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.6 will increase reliance on systemd The Register [20:07] TR News NPM is a malware delivery system operated by Microsoft https://www.aboutchromebooks.com/install-npm-linux/ [20:07] TR Bot How To Install NPM Linux [20:08] TR News A hobbyist built a 486-style motherboard using an FPGA and pure determination https://www.techspot.com/news/111058-homebrew-486-motherboard-runs-doom-linux-enough-dos.html [20:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techspot.com/news/111058-homebrew-486-motherboard-runs-doom-linux-enough-dos.html ) [20:08] TR News A Real Linux Computer You Can Carry in Your Pocket https://www.hackster.io/news/a-real-linux-computer-you-can-carry-in-your-pocket-bdd485c80db5 [20:08] TR Bot Real Linux Computer You Can Carry in Your Pocket - Hackster.io [20:09] TR News Mecha Comet Brings Real Modularity to Pocket-Sized Linux Computing, Hits Kickstarter https://www.techeblog.com/mecha-comet-open-modular-handeld-linux-computer-specs-price-kickstarter/ [20:09] TR Bot Comet Brings Real Modularity to Pocket-Sized Linux Computing, Hits Kickstarter - TechEBlog [20:12] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Security_Leftovers.gmi [20:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [20:14] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/today_s_howtos.gmi [20:14] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [20:15] TR News (NEW): Games: Godot4.6, Nexus Mods, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Games_Godot_4_6_Nexus_Mods_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Games_Godot_4_6_Nexus_Mods_and_More.gmi [20:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Godot4.6, Nexus Mods, and More [20:15] TR News (NEW): Red Hat's Latest Buzzwords (Slopfest) and False Marketing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Red_Hat_s_Latest_Buzzwords_Slopfest_and_False_Marketing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Red_Hat_s_Latest_Buzzwords_Slopfest_and_False_Marketing.gmi [20:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat's Latest Buzzwords (Slopfest) and False Marketing [20:17] TR News (NEW): (Free)BSD and Linux Kernel Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/_Free_BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/_Free_BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Leftovers.gmi [20:17] TR Bot Tux Machines (Free)BSD and Linux Kernel Leftovers [20:17] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [20:19] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [20:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [20:20] TR News (NEW): Free Software Education and Online Events https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_Software_Education_and_Online_Events.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_Software_Education_and_Online_Events.gmi [20:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Free Software Education and Online Events [20:20] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers and Web Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Web_Browsers_and_Web_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Web_Browsers_and_Web_Leftovers.gmi [20:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers and Web Leftovers [20:22] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [20:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [20:24] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi [20:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers [20:25] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [20:25] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [20:29] TR News Techrights Links 27/01/2026: Japan-China Feud Escalates Again, "Iran's Internet Blackout Persists" https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Links_27_01_2026_Japan_China_Feud_Escalates_Again_Iran_s_Intern.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Links_27_01_2026_Japan_China_Feud_Escalates_Again_Iran_s_Intern.gmi [20:29] TR Bot Techrights Links 27/01/2026: Japan-China Feud Escalates Again, "Iran's Internet Blackout Persists" [20:32] TR News "Maker Rishabh Jain, also known as "Mr_Electronaut," has designed a MIDI controller with a difference: inspired by the classic theremin, it doesn't require you to touch it in order to play music." gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202601/20260127-midi.gmi [20:44] TR News Techrights Expect More XBox Layoffs Shortly https://techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Expect_More_XBox_Layoffs_Shortly.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/01/27/Expect_More_XBox_Layoffs_Shortly.gmi [20:44] TR Bot Techrights Expect More XBox Layoffs Shortly ● Jan 27 [21:43] *Isambard_Prince (~Isambard_Prince@8xntp9i7yykq8.irc) has joined #techrights [21:44] Isambard_Prince schestowitz[TR2], I redid all of my anti-cockroach stuff. [21:44] MinceR new microslop front just dropped >> https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amutable [21:44] TR Bot Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company - Phoronix [21:44] Isambard_Prince Fresh bait traps, new sticky boards, exterminator sprayed yesterday. [21:44] Isambard_Prince It's like trying to contain Ebola or something. [21:44] MinceR not sure whom they want to scam this time, they've successfully scammed most 'linux' users already [21:44] Isambard_Prince I talked to a guy that was a landlord on Reddit. [21:45] MinceR did the exterminator mind being sprayed? [21:45] Isambard_Prince He told me you may as well not even discuss the problem with the landlord. They deny it, tell you you're the one that did it, say that you're the only one that's complaining when it's everyone in the building. [21:45] Isambard_Prince Piyush did all of that. [21:45] Isambard_Prince Deny that there's a problem, then demand in to fumigate your apartment. [21:45] Isambard_Prince "The cats can just stay in there but you have to leave for 48 hours." [21:46] MinceR :> [21:46] Isambard_Prince I wonder why that is. [21:46] Isambard_Prince "Limited Liability Criminal" [21:46] Isambard_Prince Piyush LLC [21:46] MinceR probably because he won't get in trouble if the cats die [21:46] Isambard_Prince The Limited Liability Criminal's business partner just went to federal prison for over 25 years. [21:47] Isambard_Prince https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/chicago-businessman-sentenced-role-bank-fraud-and-pandemic-relief-fraud-schemes [21:47] TR Bot Office of Public Affairs | Chicago Businessman Sentenced for Role in Bank Fraud and Pandemic-Relief Fraud Schemes | United States Department of Justice [21:48] Isambard_Prince https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/submitted-false-applications-to-obtain-covid-19-relief-money-indian-origin-us-businessman-sentenced-to-six-years-for-fraud/articleshow/126611799.cms [21:48] TR Bot 'Submitted false applications to obtain Covid-19 relief money': Indian-origin US businessman sentenced to six years for fraud - The Times of India [21:48] Isambard_Prince Oh six years. [21:48] Isambard_Prince They said he would do over 25. [21:48] Isambard_Prince I guess he gets 6 for just doing white collar fraud instead of carjacking or ATM theft. [21:49] Isambard_Prince "An Indian-origin businessman, Rahul Shah, from Chicago, was sentenced to six years in prison for his role in schemes to defraud banks and obtain pandemic relief funds, federal prosecutors said.Rahul Shah, 56, of Evanston, was also sentenced to two years of supervised release and ordered to pay $23,226,005 in restitution, according to the US Department of Justice.Prosecutors said he fraudulently obtained more than $55 million in [21:49] Isambard_Prince commercial loans and lines of credit and submitted false applications to obtain COVID-19 relief money guaranteed by the US Small Business Administration through the Paycheck Protection Program." [21:49] Isambard_Prince Wait, he stole $55 million from the government and was only ordered to pay back $23.2 million? [21:49] Isambard_Prince How does that work? [21:49] Isambard_Prince If I steal money from the government can I get supervised release and only have to pay back less than half? [21:49] Isambard_Prince MinceR, ^ [21:49] Isambard_Prince Is that how it works? [21:50] MinceR \_()_/ [21:50] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The Limited Liability Criminal took Rahul Shaw off his About Us page. [21:50] Isambard_Prince He took everyone down. [21:50] MinceR the more you steal, the richer you'll be. the richer you are, the more you can get away with. [21:50] Isambard_Prince Now they're just multi-family property investment experts. [21:50] Isambard_Prince No names. [21:50] Isambard_Prince MinceR, Is that like beans beans they're good for the heart? [21:51] Isambard_Prince The more you eat, the more you fart. [21:51] MinceR :> [21:51] Isambard_Prince The more you fart the better you feel. [21:51] Isambard_Prince So let's have beans for every meal. [21:51] MinceR usually the more i fart is because the more inflated my intestines are, so i don't feel better, i feel worse [21:52] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The last time I laid down sticky traps, the stupid cat got stuck in one. [21:52] Isambard_Prince And I had to chase her down and tear it out of her fur. [21:52] Isambard_Prince And she had a bald spot. [21:52] Isambard_Prince She hasn't stepped in one since that. [21:52] Isambard_Prince Maybe they do learn. [21:52] Isambard_Prince It's like Mandy. It has to hurt like hell and be too late. [21:53] Isambard_Prince MinceR, "Fraud Fraud" [21:53] Isambard_Prince In the image. [21:53] Isambard_Prince Might be AI slop. [21:53] Isambard_Prince But I can't think of a better way to describe Indians. [21:53] Isambard_Prince Maybe Fraud Fraud Fraud Fraud Fraud [21:53] Isambard_Prince :P [21:54] MinceR fraud with caste system [21:54] Isambard_Prince If you're going to steal money make sure it's white collar crimee. [21:54] Isambard_Prince That way if you get caught, it's much less of a bother. [21:54] MinceR fraud with caste system + izzat [21:55] Isambard_Prince MinceR, The US has a worse caste system than India does. [21:55] Isambard_Prince We could teach them how to do things. [21:55] MinceR does the american caste system have things like people in different castes not being allowed to talk? ● Jan 27 [22:02] Isambard_Prince Yeah. [22:02] Isambard_Prince It's called being shadowbanned. [22:03] Isambard_Prince They let you talk all you want, but nobody can hear you if they don't like what you're saying. [22:03] Isambard_Prince That's how it works online. [22:04] Isambard_Prince If you go do it in person, ICE holds you down and puts four bullets in the back of your skull while mom and dad cheer the President on. [22:04] Isambard_Prince And say "What did that guy do wrong? Kristi Noem said he was a terrorist." [22:10] MinceR :> [22:11] MinceR at least it doesn't get in the way of communication between an employee and his manager [22:26] Isambard_Prince He was an ICU nurse who walked in front of an ICE agent who was pepper spraying a pregnant woman. [22:26] Isambard_Prince So they murdered him for doing that. [22:27] MinceR i think narendra modi is taking notes [22:37] MinceR https://xcancel.com/i/status/2015961818901172446 [22:37] TR Bot ( status 503 @ https://xcancel.com/i/status/2015961818901172446 ) ● Jan 27 [23:32] *nobody has quit (Quit: reboot) [23:44] TR News (NEW): GStreamer 1.28 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Released, Heres Whats New https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GStreamer_1_28_Open_Source_Multimedia_Framework_Released_Here_s.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/01/27/GStreamer_1_28_Open_Source_Multimedia_Framework_Released_Here_s.gmi [23:44] TR Bot Tux Machines GStreamer 1.28 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Released, Heres Whats New