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Most Web sites and apps these days serve as access points for other content, goods and services, not as providers themselves" gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2026/202606/20260628-tls-and-identity.gmi [05:13] TR News "Last week I started reporting on the flowering of our Dracaena. At the same time, the Sansieviera had flower stalks, too." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-06-21-bogenhanf [05:13] TR News "It's Sunday just past noon. I have been up since 3am. Tired as hell, but yet, have spent the last 8 hours mostly in front of my computer working out a bunch of projects that have popped into my head the past couple weeks." gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/when-you-have-a-brain-that-just-wont-shut-off.gmi [05:14] TR News more real gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/more_real [05:15] TR News GOING HIFI gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2026-06-29Going_HiFi.txt [05:16] TR News (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_June_28th_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_June_28th_2026.gmi [05:16] TR News (NEW): Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Arch_Linux_Installer_Archinstall_4_4_Released_with_Niri_DankMat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Arch_Linux_Installer_Archinstall_4_4_Released_with_Niri_DankMat.gmi [05:16] TR Bot Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026 [05:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile [05:19] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Sansieviera, HiFi, and Self-Signed Certificates https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Gemini_Links_29_06_2026_Sansieviera_HiFi_and_Self_Signed_Certif.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Gemini_Links_29_06_2026_Sansieviera_HiFi_and_Self_Signed_Certif.gmi [05:20] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Sansieviera, HiFi, and Self-Signed Certificates [05:24] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [05:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [05:24] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 28, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_June_28_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_June_28_2026.gmi [05:25] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 28, 2026 [05:25] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [05:25] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] >>IsambardPrince: schestowitz[TR2]: Apparently Blu Ray sales are climbing again.<<< I ordered two usb based blu ray players, been buying disks at goodwill.. ripping them and putting them on my media server. [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] people who lost ability to play them [05:27] schestowitz[TR2] give up on them [05:31] TR News beluga https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/moving-marineland-beluga-whales-9.7233160 [05:31] TR Bot How to move a beluga across the world | CBC News [05:32] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: Goblin https://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/worldcup/fifa-canada-world-cup-june-20-9.7243150 [05:32] TR Bot 'We just have to push': Canada in position to win FIFA World Cup group | CBC Sports [05:32] TR News Toys 'R' Us Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/toys-r-us-owner-rebranding-9.7242041 [05:32] TR Bot Owner of beleaguered Toys 'R' Us Canada floats rebrand in court files | CBC News [05:32] TR News debts build https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fscd-alberta-waitlist-families-9.7235664 [05:32] TR Bot Families crumble, debts build, kids go without therapy. Stories from Albertas waitlist for disability support | CBC News [05:34] TR News Two Data Breaches Didnt Sink Novo Nordisks Stock. Why Not? https://www.ad-hoc-news.de/boerse/news/ueberblick/novo-nordisk-fends-off-ransomware-and-patent-fears-with-oral-wegovy/69591233 [05:34] TR Bot Novo Nordisk Fends Off Ransomware and Patent Fears With Oral Wegovy Success and Foundation Firepower [05:42] TR News France bans alcohol during Fete de la Musique amid heat wave https://www.dw.com/en/france-bans-alcohol-during-fete-de-la-musique-amid-heat-wave/a-77639233 [05:42] TR Bot France bans alcohol during Fete de la Musique amid heat wave [05:42] TR News retirement age to 70 https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-pension-overhaul-may-push-retirement-age-to-70/live-77635252 [05:42] TR Bot Germany news: Pension overhaul may push retirement age to 70 [05:44] TR News bargaining https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/detroit-three-cusma-ford-general-motors-stellantis-auto-talks-9.7239783 [05:44] TR Bot Detroit automakers, union set to open bargaining against backdrop of tariffs, CUSMA review | CBC News [05:45] TR News Canada Post https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canada-post-cupw-sign-collective-agreement-9.7240959 [05:45] TR Bot Canada Post, CUPW sign collective agreements, ending years of heated negotiations | CBC News [05:46] TR News 10% global tariff on canned vegetables https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-imposes-tariffs-canned-vegetables-9.7242029 [05:46] TR Bot Canada imposes 10% global tariff on canned vegetables excluding U.S., Mexico | CBC News [05:51] TR News solar panel recycling fee https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/sidhu-solar-panel-recycling-fee-alberta-9.7240362 [05:51] TR Bot Albertas new sky-high solar panel recycling fee sparks industry backlash | CBC News [05:54] TR News Star Wars Eclipse 'Simply Cannot Be Completed' if Quantic Dream Proceeds With Layoffs, Say Devs https://gamingbolt.com/star-wars-eclipse-simply-cannot-be-completed-if-quantic-dream-proceeds-with-layoffs-say-devs [05:54] TR Bot Star Wars Eclipse Simply Cannot Be Completed if Quantic Dream Proceeds With Layoffs, Say Devs [05:55] TR News Layoffs https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-freezes-hiring-major-cloud-sales-groups [05:55] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-freezes-hiring-major-cloud-sales-groups ) ● Jun 29 [06:03] TR News "Sounds like a web/game developer problem, not a browser problem. But what do I know? Oh yeah, I know not to take my support issues to a comment board about layoffs - that would be a total waste of effort." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5q091j#replies [06:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5q091j#replies ) [06:03] TR News "Microsoft is full of self-important social rejects. Straight up weirdos. I unfortunately live next door to one. My young kids steer clear of this freak." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5q091j#replies [06:05] TR News (NEW): Old Vintage Computing Research: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Old_Vintage_Computing_Research_Working_around_dragons_with_the_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Old_Vintage_Computing_Research_Working_around_dragons_with_the_.gmi [06:05] TR Bot timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Old_Vintage_Computing_Research_Working_around_dragons_with_the_.shtml ) [06:11] TR News Chrome was near 82% https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/all/congo-democratic-republic-of-the/#monthly-200902-202606 [06:11] TR Bot Browser Market Share The Democratic Republic Of The Congo | Statcounter Global Stats [06:16] *darwin (~darwin@aw32ifgwbjvd4.irc) has joined #techrights [06:27] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:31] TR News Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/klue-oauth-breach-victim-list-grows-as-icarus-hackers-claim-attack/ [06:31] TR Bot Klue OAuth breach victim list grows as Icarus hackers claim attack [06:32] TR News Techrights Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Canada_5_0_GNU_Linux_Rises_to_5_0_Windows_Rapidly_Falls_to_New_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Canada_5_0_GNU_Linux_Rises_to_5_0_Windows_Rapidly_Falls_to_New_.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Techrights Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows [06:32] TR News Techrights Laptop Bricked After Microsoft Certificates Expiry https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Laptop_Bricked_After_Microsoft_Certificates_Expiry.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Laptop_Bricked_After_Microsoft_Certificates_Expiry.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Techrights Laptop Bricked After Microsoft Certificates Expiry [06:32] TR News Techrights Monoculture in Europe as National (or Continental) Security Threat https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Monoculture_in_Europe_as_National_or_Continental_Security_Threa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Monoculture_in_Europe_as_National_or_Continental_Security_Threa.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Techrights Monoculture in Europe as National (or Continental) Security Threat [06:32] TR News (NEW): Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.06 Rolling Brings Linux Kernel 7.1 Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/19/Debian_Based_SparkyLinux_2026_06_Rolling_Brings_Linux_Kernel_7_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/19/Debian_Based_SparkyLinux_2026_06_Rolling_Brings_Linux_Kernel_7_.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.06 Rolling Brings Linux Kernel 7.1 Support [06:32] TR News (NEW): COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/23/COSMIC_1_1_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_COSMIC_Monitor_and.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/23/COSMIC_1_1_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_COSMIC_Monitor_and.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines COSMIC 1.1 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Monitor and Improvements [06:32] TR News (NEW): Shotcut 26.6 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Vulkan on Linux Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/26/Shotcut_26_6_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Released_with_Vulkan_on_L.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/26/Shotcut_26_6_Open_Source_Video_Editor_Released_with_Vulkan_on_L.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Shotcut 26.6 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Vulkan on Linux Support [06:32] TR News (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_June_28th_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_June_28th_2026.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 28th, 2026 [06:32] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Android_Leftovers.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [06:32] TR News (NEW): Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Arch_Linux_Installer_Archinstall_4_4_Released_with_Niri_DankMat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Arch_Linux_Installer_Archinstall_4_4_Released_with_Niri_DankMat.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 4.4 Released with Niri DankMaterialShell Profile [06:32] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software, and many more https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_many_more.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_and_many_more.1.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software, and many more [06:33] TR News Brazils Civil Defense suffers a cyberattack on its official alert network https://www.democrata.es/en/international/brazil-s-civil-defense-suffers-a-cyberattack-on-its-official-alert-network/ [06:33] TR Bot Cyberattack on the Civil Defense alert network of Brazil | Demcrata [06:52] *darwin (~darwin@aw32ifgwbjvd4.irc) has joined #techrights [06:52] TR News Techrights Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Pensions_Tied_to_Ponzi_Schemes_Are_Themselves_Ponzi_Schemes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Pensions_Tied_to_Ponzi_Schemes_Are_Themselves_Ponzi_Schemes.gmi [06:52] TR Bot Techrights Pensions Tied to Ponzi Schemes Are Themselves Ponzi Schemes [06:56] TR News Xsolis breach affected 1,396,519 of its clients patients https://databreaches.net/2026/06/22/xsolis-breach-affected-1396519-of-its-clients-patients/ [06:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2026/06/22/xsolis-breach-affected-1396519-of-its-clients-patients/ ) [06:59] *tessier has quit (connection closed) ● Jun 29 [07:00] TR News Cherry Health provides preliminary notice of recent data breach https://databreaches.net/2026/06/22/cherry-health-provides-preliminary-notice-of-recent-data-breach/ [07:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2026/06/22/cherry-health-provides-preliminary-notice-of-recent-data-breach/ ) [07:01] TR News (NEW): Free software communities often start small https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_software_communities_often_start_small.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_software_communities_often_start_small.gmi [07:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Free software communities often start small [07:06] TR News AU: American Express ordered to fix security gaps after customer was spied on https://www.theage.com.au/business/banking-and-finance/american-express-ordered-to-fix-security-gaps-after-customer-was-spied-on-20260612-p606ei.html [07:06] TR Bot American Express privacy breach: Commissioner orders apology and tighter controls after failure to protect customer data [07:12] TR News Techrights 'Modern' Web: "Stop! You Are Browsing Too Fast!" https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Modern_Web_Stop_You_Are_Browsing_Too_Fast.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Modern_Web_Stop_You_Are_Browsing_Too_Fast.gmi [07:12] TR Bot Techrights 'Modern' Web: "Stop! You Are Browsing Too Fast!" [07:14] TR News "as a host nation to protect the FIFA World Cup from criminals." https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/streaming/us-seizes-nearly-400-domains-streaming-the-2026-world-cup | Source: Tom's Hardware [07:14] TR Bot 400 domains used for illegal 2026 World Cup streams seized by US Justice Department operation is five times the scale of the previous crackdown | Tom's Hardware [07:15] TR News "Time is undefeated. The question would be whether or not we could cobble together some version of me" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tom-hanks-ai-woody-toy-story-forever | Source: Futurism [07:15] TR Bot Tom Hanks Frets AI Could Voice Woody in Even More "Toy Story" Movies [07:15] TR News "Now, California-based EV company Faraday Future says it has developed a new transmission architecture designed to tackle these long-standing problems." https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/faraday-future-hybrid-transmission-system-patent | Source: Interesting Engineering [07:15] TR Bot New patent reveals a simpler way to blend gasoline and electric power [07:16] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:17] TR News "The wipe is the result of Sony's deal with movie distributor StudioCanal ending" https://boingboing.net/2026/06/27/sony-deleting-551-movies-from-own-customers-accounts.html | Source: BoingBoing [07:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/06/27/sony-deleting-551-movies-from-own-customers-accounts.html ) [07:17] TR News [Old] "We set out to examine whether current, DRM-based online offerings of music and movies accord with consumers current expectations regarding the personal use of copyrighted works by studying the behavior of six music" https://www.law.berkeley.edu/archive/files/DRM_personal_use.pdf | [07:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.law.berkeley.edu/archive/files/DRM_personal_use.pdf ) [07:18] TR News "I previously wrote about the upcoming UEFI CA rollover. Well, it's happened now - the old Microsoft UEFI CA from 2011 expired yesterday: [...]" https://blog.einval.com/2026/06/27#its_dead_jim | Source: Steve McIntyre [07:18] TR Bot Steve's blog [07:18] TR News "The good news is that the cryptographic foundations for a privacy preserving approach already exist." https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/06/pact-anonymous-credentials-for-the-web/ | Source: Mozilla [07:18] TR Bot PACT: Anonymous Credentials for the Web - Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog [07:18] TR News "Cloudflare, along with Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, have committed to develop Private Access Control Tokens (PACTs)" https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782 | Source: The Register UK [07:18] TR Bot Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites tell welcome from unwelcome visitors [07:19] TR News "Unless my kids generation come out of school on a 6 figure salary, they don't have a hope in hell of buying a decent house." https://kevquirk.com/the-laziest-generation | Source: Kev Quirk [07:19] TR Bot The Laziest Generation - Kev Quirk [07:19] TR News "GEO Group, a top private prison contractor for ICE, is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging forced labor at its detention centers." https://jacobin.com/2026/06/geo-group-ice-trump-immunity | Source: Jacobin Magazine [07:19] TR Bot ICEs Private Prison Contractor Wants Police-Style Immunity [07:20] TR News "Last week I found a flyer wedged into my front door from a real estate agent in the neighborhood. On it was a list of homes she had sold, each entry showing a picture of the house and its sale price." https://idiallo.com/blog/the-laziest-generation | Source: Ibrahim Diallo [07:20] TR Bot The Laziest Generation [07:20] TR News "we used software to edit out the names of the accused" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cops-caught-using-gen-ai-drug-bust | Source: Futurism [07:20] TR Bot Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust [07:20] TR News "The battle, one of the most famous and symbolically charged events in American history, marked its anniversary Thursday." https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/06/native-americans-commemorate-victory-at-little-bighorn-with-horse-races-dance-and-song.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC [07:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.lonestarlive.com/native-american-news/2026/06/native-americans-commemorate-victory-at-little-bighorn-with-horse-races-dance-and-song.html ) [07:22] TR News (NEW): Review: PCLinuxOS 2026.05 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Review_PCLinuxOS_2026_05.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Review_PCLinuxOS_2026_05.gmi [07:22] TR Bot Tux Machines Review: PCLinuxOS 2026.05 [07:29] TR News (NEW): Every Physics Teacher (And Student) Should Try This Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Every_Physics_Teacher_And_Student_Should_Try_This_Open_Source_S.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Every_Physics_Teacher_And_Student_Should_Try_This_Open_Source_S.gmi [07:29] TR Bot Tux Machines Every Physics Teacher (And Student) Should Try This Open Source Software [07:34] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:41] TR News (NEW): 22+ Years of Women in Tech https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/22_Years_of_Women_in_Tech.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/22_Years_of_Women_in_Tech.gmi [07:41] TR Bot Tux Machines 22+ Years of Women in Tech [07:43] TR News "U.S. District Judge Hernn Vera found the plaintiffs, including the Los Angeles Press Club and the News Guild" https://www.courthousenews.com/class-certification-granted-for-journalists-suing-over-immigration-protest-crackdown-in-socal/ | Source: Court House News [07:43] TR Bot Class certification granted for journalists suing over immigration protest crackdown in SoCal | Courthouse News Service [07:43] TR News "Any other initiatives that compromise public safety or promote anti-American values." https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/29/2026-10817/regulation-for-federal-financial-assistance | Source: US Federal Register [07:43] TR Bot Federal Register :: Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance [07:43] TR News "Otherwise there is little new: reviews were always only advisory." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/06/guest-post-by-peter-brass-on-new-nsf.html | Source: Computational Complexity [07:43] TR Bot Computational Complexity: Guest Post by Peter Brass on the new NSF guidelines [07:43] TR News "Amnesty described the measures as excessive and constituting an attack on the rights to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly." https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/06/international-concern-raised-over-blanket-ban-on-protest-and-pretrial-detentions-in-turkiye-ahead-of-nato-summit/ | Source: JURIST [07:43] TR Bot International concern raised over blanket ban on protest and pretrial detentions in Trkiye ahead of NATO summit - JURIST - News [07:44] TR News "The governments efforts to silence me ultimately backfired and brought more attention to the unjust deployment of the National Guard in Washington, D.C." https://taskandpurpose.com/news/national-guard-dc-star-wars-settlement/ | Source: Task And Purpose [07:44] TR Bot DC settles with man who played 'Star Wars' music at troops [07:45] TR News "Defenders of the private equity industry cast it as a bold force driving economic dynamism." https://jacobin.com/2026/06/review-asset-class-private-equity | Source: Jacobin Magazine [07:45] TR Bot The Damage Caused by Private Equity Is No Accident [07:45] TR News "Binance founder Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao has overtaken Bill Gates in Forbes' real-time billionaire rankings" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/binance-founder-cz-zhao-surpasses-bill-gates-1805545 | Source: International Business Times [07:45] TR Bot Crypto Slump Fails to Stop CZ as Binance Founder Overtakes Bill Gates With $108 Billion Fortune | IBTimes UK [07:46] TR News "Its kind of hard to believe, but the original Borat movie was 20 years ago." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/corruption-for-make-benefit-glorious | Source: Paul Krugman [07:46] TR Bot Corruption for Make Benefit Glorious Family of Trump [07:46] TR News "By allowing the U.S. government to treat Iran as a political target during the World Cup, FIFA did not stay neutral. It simply outsourced the dirty work to the host country." https://rmendes.net/notes/2026/06/28/daa9a/ | Source: Ricardo Mendes [07:46] TR Bot A Node on the Web [07:46] TR News "Americas ideals have never been fully achieved, of course, but the effort to achieve them has been noble; it has inspired much of the world. That effort had been our nations purpose, the core of our moral authority." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-mourning-in-america | Source: Robert Reich [07:46] TR Bot Sunday thought: Mourning in America - Robert Reich [07:46] TR News "that act as hallucinogenic drugs, inducing altered states of consciousness and vivid sensory experiences" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/california-man-fed-children-hallucinogenic-mushrooms-b3004687.html | Source: The Independent UK [07:46] TR Bot California dad admits dosing his children hallucinogenic mushrooms every other day | The Independent [07:47] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:49] TR News (NEW): Software Enshittification or Freedom? It's not a hard choice! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Software_Enshittification_or_Freedom_It_s_not_a_hard_choice.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Software_Enshittification_or_Freedom_It_s_not_a_hard_choice.gmi [07:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Software Enshittification or Freedom? It's not a hard choice! [07:56] TR News (NEW): Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Drauger_OS_7_8_aims_to_turn_Ubuntu_into_a_gaming_Linux_distro_w.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Drauger_OS_7_8_aims_to_turn_Ubuntu_into_a_gaming_Linux_distro_w.gmi [07:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Drauger OS 7.8 aims to turn Ubuntu into a gaming Linux distro with KDE Plasma ● Jun 29 [08:01] TR News (NEW): This Week in Plasma: Post-6.7 Bug-fixing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/27/This_Week_in_Plasma_Post_6_7_Bug_fixing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/27/This_Week_in_Plasma_Post_6_7_Bug_fixing.gmi [08:01] TR Bot Tux Machines This Week in Plasma: Post-6.7 Bug-fixing [08:02] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:06] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Android_Leftovers.gmi [08:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [08:07] *tessier (~tessier@rmtrxethyurei.irc) has joined #techrights [08:07] TR News (NEW): GNU Ships GCC 14.4 as a Bug-Fix Release https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/GNU_Ships_GCC_14_4_as_a_Bug_Fix_Release.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/GNU_Ships_GCC_14_4_as_a_Bug_Fix_Release.gmi [08:07] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU Ships GCC 14.4 as a Bug-Fix Release [08:10] TR News Techrights IBM's Alderon as "Silent Layoffs", Not Just Bailout From Taxpayers https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/IBM_s_Alderon_as_Silent_Layoffs_Not_Just_Bailout_From_Taxpayers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/IBM_s_Alderon_as_Silent_Layoffs_Not_Just_Bailout_From_Taxpayers.gmi [08:10] TR Bot Techrights IBM's Alderon as "Silent Layoffs", Not Just Bailout From Taxpayers [08:14] TR News "All this shows why we need a Securities and Exchange Commission thats on the side of average investors and the public and not bought off by todays robber barons." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/musk-in-deep-shite-again | Source: Robert Reich [08:14] TR Bot Musk in Deep Shite Again - Robert Reich [08:14] TR News "According to reports, the company wishes to extend operations at Ginna Clean Energy Center and Nine Mile Point Unit 1 reactors until at least 2049." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/constellation-requests-a-20-year-extension-for-its-3-3-gw-nuclear-power-capacity | Source: Interesting Engineering [08:14] TR Bot Constellation wants two New York nuclear reactors operating till 2049 [08:14] TR News "Not literally. The five men behind me were still paddling, still strong, still trying to follow. But the canoe had lost the quiet coherence it sometimes acquires when everyone enters the same motion." https://lospino.so/blog/sunday-field-notes/the-water-keeps-the-books/ | Source: Josh Lospinoso [08:14] TR Bot The Water Keeps the Books | Josh Lospinoso [08:15] TR News "The World Health Organization said it had recorded more than 1,300 excess deaths in Europe since June 21." https://phys.org/news/2026-06-europe-swelters-east.html | Source: Omicron Limited [08:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-europe-swelters-east.html ) [08:15] TR News "Our results add to growing evidence that human-driven climate change is likely affecting even the most remote regions of the planet" https://phys.org/news/2026-06-human-driven-retreat-antarctica-fastest.html | Source: Omicron Limited [08:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-06-human-driven-retreat-antarctica-fastest.html ) [08:16] TR News "This report provides a detailed, state-by-state assessment of all major active wildfires as of this date, compiling data from official sources to deliver a comprehensive situational overview for the Colorado River Basin." https://www.western-water.com/2026/06/27/wildfires-scorch-227000-acres-across-colorao-river-basin-states/ | Source: Western Water [08:16] TR Bot Wildfires scorch 227,000 acres across Colorao River Basin states | Western Water [08:16] TR News "Harding says the fish, along with other wildlife like trout, form an instrumental part of our ecosystems. Sadly, they have all but disappeared in the tributaries near Gowran and Gorsebridge, Co. Kilkenny." https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41868363.html | Source: Irish Examiner [08:16] TR Bot Salmon in crisis: 'There is nothing left in the river' [08:16] TR News "We shall continue working, so then we are saying 3 million tons of copper, one million tons of wheat, 1 billion tons of sugar and 1 billion dollars of beef export" https://www.lusakatimes.com/2026/06/28/copper-production-expected-at-one-million-tons-president-hichilema/ | Source: Lusaka ZM [08:16] TR Bot Zambia : Copper Production Expected At One Million Tons- President Hichilema [08:17] TR News "And also to either unredact the names in several sets of documents or explain why he was refusing to do so." https://emptywheel.net/2026/06/27/katie-phang-just-made-jeffrey-epstein-central-to-todd-blanches-bid-for-confirmation/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [08:17] TR Bot Katie Phang Just Made Jeffrey Epstein Central to Todd Blanche's Bid for Confirmation - emptywheel [08:19] TR News "That tension matters because Trump is not just any patient; he is the oldest person ever to take the presidency, and every health disclosure now carries political weight" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-health-scrutiny-white-house-transparency-1805564 | Source: International Business Times [08:19] TR Bot Trump Health Drama Exposed: How the White House Is Allegedly Controlling the Medical Story Tightly | IBTimes UK [08:19] TR News "This isnt about Indian firms though they engage in this practice to gather resumes." https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/experience/blacklist/ | Source: Logikal Solutions [08:19] TR Bot Yet Another Company to Blacklist Logikal Blog [08:20] TR News "Scientists suggest its the result of a combination of intense agriculture draining dwindling groundwater supplies through illegal wells, ongoing droughts, and local geology." https://futurism.com/science-energy/droughts-sinkholes-farmland | Source: Futurism [08:20] TR Bot Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland [08:20] TR News "If births continue at around today's pace, it would take approximately 17,100 years for humanity to reach the estimated limit of 2.34 trillion people." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/humanity-vanish-17000-years-survival-math-138311065.html | Source: Bhaskar English [08:20] TR Bot Humanity Could Vanish in 17,000 Years: Math Predicts Survival End [08:21] TR News "drone strikes" https://text.npr.org/g-s1-129704 | Source: NPR [08:21] TR Bot Inside a secretive Ukrainian team launching deep drone strikes at Russia [08:21] TR News "I mean, really evil and really incompetent on enormous scales. And why arent people talking about it more?" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/on-holding-elon-musk-accountable | Source: Paul Krugman [08:21] TR Bot On Holding Elon Musk Accountable - Paul Krugman [08:22] TR News "Impeachment is still a very big deal with extremely high stakes. You never know if it just might work because party loyalties have been shown to only go so far" https://www.salon.com/2026/06/28/impeachment-is-the-only-answer-to-trumps-behavior/ | Source: Salon [08:22] TR Bot is the only answer to Trumps behavior - Salon.com [08:22] TR News "anti-tank trenches" https://news.err.ee/1610064976/estonia-s-baltic-defense-line-section-taking-shape-in-setomaa-s-forests | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling [08:22] TR Bot Estonia's Baltic Defense Line section taking shape in Setomaa's forests | News | ERR [08:22] TR News "They will be housed in the half-empty Tartu Prison in south Estonia from the second half of 2026." https://news.err.ee/1610065043/tartu-protesters-rally-against-swedish-trash-in-estonian-jails | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling [08:22] TR Bot Tartu protesters rally against Swedish 'trash' in Estonian jails | News | ERR [08:23] TR News "Leni's situation is daily life for a large proportion of teenagers growing up in Germany." https://www.dw.com/en/will-germany-impose-an-age-limit-for-social-media/a-77722470 | Source: Deutsche Welle [08:23] TR Bot Will Germany impose an age limit for social media? [08:23] TR News "Apparently 12 years ago I allowed LinkedIn app to sync my connection with something which leaked 3.8k of my personal contact informations (emails, phone numbers, address, etc)!" https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/linkedout | Source: Alex Ewerlf [08:23] TR Bot LinkedOut - Alex Ewerlf Notes [08:24] TR News "There are, broadly, three ways to answer it. The agent can act as you, it can act as its own service account, or it can act as its own workload identity. Each one shines somewhere and falls apart somewhere else." https://kanenarraway.com/posts/agent-identity-models/ | Source: Kane Narraway [08:24] TR Bot Three Ways to Give an AI Agent an Identity | Kane Narraway [08:24] TR News "According to reporting by Virginias WSLS 10, Kat Vaughn of Roanoke was alarmed to discover a Flock audio detection pole had been erected in her front yard." https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-virginia-flock-surveillance-tower-yard | Source: Futurism [08:24] TR Bot Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning [08:24] *darwin (~darwin@aw32ifgwbjvd4.irc) has joined #techrights [08:24] TR News "Dr. Patrick Breyer, civil liberties activist and former Member of the European Parliament" https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/double-threat-to-private-communications-undemocratic-chat-control-backroom-deals-and-imminent-concessions-spark-relaunch-of-fightchatcontrol-eu/ | Source: Patrick Breyer [08:24] TR Bot Double Threat to Private Communications: Undemocratic Chat Control Backroom Deals and Imminent Concessions Spark Relaunch of fightchatcontrol.eu Patrick Breyer [08:28] TR News "The Justice Department has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia for access to state voter rolls containing personal information such as drivers license and partial Social Security numbers." https://www.votebeat.org/pennsylvania/2026/06/28/department-of-justice-voter-roll-lawsuit-dismissed/ | Source: Votebeat [08:28] TR Bot Trump Justice Department cant have Pennsylvania voters private info, judge rules - Votebeat [08:28] TR News "Schools, coaching centres, edtech companies, hospitals, banks, employers and social media platforms all fall within its ambit" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/how-schools-breach-childrens-data-privacy-a-snapshot/articleshow/132045212.cms | Source: India Times [08:28] TR Bot How schools breach childrens data privacy: A snapshot - The Economic Times [08:29] TR News "From the smallest rural K-12 districts to the world's most prestigious universities" https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/third-party-breaches-teaches-education-lesson-vendor-risk | Source: Dark Reading [08:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/third-party-breaches-teaches-education-lesson-vendor-risk ) [08:35] TR News "The GI-TOC research found over 20,000 adverts for more than 260,000 wildlife products on social media platforms between April 2024 and March 2026." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/for-sale-on-facebook-monkeys-rhino-horn-and-dead-pangolins-767829272 | Source: RTL [08:35] TR Bot Meta declined to respond to AFP questions: For sale on Facebook: monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins - RTL Today [08:37] TR News "Cornell University economist Imke Reimers and University of Minnesota Professor Joel Waldfogel analyzed around 50,000 books." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/amazon-ai-books-publish-tripled-readers-find-less-useful-138309017.html | Source: Bhaskar English [08:37] TR Bot Amazon AI Books Surge 3x, Readers Find Less Useful [08:37] TR News "Here's how it works. All a victim developer has to do is tell Claude to initialize a project from a malicious GitHub repository" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ai-coding-agents-can-be-tricked-into-installing-malware-via-clean-github-repositories-mozillas-0din-team-shows-how-claude-code-can-be-exploited-by-its-own-helpfulness | Source: Tom's Hardware [08:37] TR Bot AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories Mozilla's 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness | Tom's Hardware [08:40] TR News "Its a particularly ironic development, because workers are doing exactly what they were told using the exciting new technology at all costs" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/employees-ai-tokens-pointless-tasks-finance | Source: Futurism [08:40] TR Bot Employees Are Using Their Jobs' Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable [08:40] TR News "A recent trend in AI has become this idea of "loops"." https://www.jackfranklin.co.uk/blog/who-pays-for-the-tokens/ | Source: Jack Franklin [08:40] TR Bot AI loops: who pays for the tokens? - Jack Franklin [08:40] TR News "This project reminds us of similar efforts to teach a raw AI how to play Trackmania, or the Drivatar technology in the Forza series of racing games." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/teaching-an-ai-to-play-a-racing-game-via-screen-input/ | Source: Hackaday [08:41] TR Bot An AI To Play A Racing Game Via Screen Input | Hackaday [08:41] TR News "The narrative that Chinese models are simply inferior copies completely collapsed." https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/a-token-china-shock | Source: Michael Green [08:41] TR Bot A Token China Shock - by Michael W. Green [08:41] TR News "I was immediately perplexed by this passage, because the cited paper by Bender and Gebru et al." https://connorboyle.io/2026/06/28/mit-didnt-read-stochastic-parrots.html | Source: Connor Boyle [08:41] TR Bot MIT Researchers Named Their Project After a Paper They Dont Seem to Have Read | Connor Boyle [08:41] TR News "Win11 IoT comes without Microsoft Store, so I installed it." https://ludditus.com/2026/06/29/winturd11-or-winbug11/ | Source: Homo Ludditus [08:41] TR Bot many ways to install shit in worlds #1 desktop OS Homo Ludditus [08:42] TR News "Its wild how after a little time pulling myself out of that mindset and clearing some things off of my plate, I suddenly want to blog again, make more videos again, and code again." https://cassidoo.co/post/edge-of-burnout/ | Source: Cassidy Williams [08:42] TR Bot On the edge of burnout [08:43] TR News "neglected tropical disease." https://futurism.com/health-medicine/parasite-cognition-infected-billions | Source: Futurism [08:43] TR Bot Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of People [08:44] TR News "The concept is straightforward enoughthe smartphone stand uses a simple tactile button to determine if your smartphone is sitting on the little 3D printed shelf, or not." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/scrap-printer-motor-becomes-generator/ | Source: Hackaday [08:44] TR Bot Stand Aims To Fight Addiction | Hackaday [08:44] TR News "When we talk about the scourge of anti-vaxxer philosophy within the federal government, we naturally spend a great deal of that time talking about RFK Jr." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/26/whoops-military-reverses-course-on-flu-vaccine-requirements-after-soldiers-got-sick/ | Source: Techdirt [08:44] TR Bot Military Reverses Course On Flu Vaccine Requirements After Soldiers Got Sick | Techdirt [08:44] TR News "My ratings were roughly bell-shaped, clustering around 2 to 2.5 stars, with very few proposals earning 4 or 5. According to the scoring guidelines, 3 means a good talk with nothing specifically wrong." https://konradreiche.com/blog/what-go-conference-reviewers-look-for-in-a-talk-proposal/ | Source: Konrad Reiche [08:44] TR Bot What Go conference reviewers look for in a talk proposal [08:45] TR News "Now, however, students are using AI to write essays and answer questions on take-home exams, as well as taking in-person exams on their computers." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/what-will-ai-do-to-our-minds | Source: Paul Krugman [08:45] TR Bot What Will AI Do To Our Minds? - Paul Krugman [08:45] TR News "Total exposure time" https://maurycyz.com/astro/arp38/ | Source: Maury [08:45] TR Bot Arp 38: not that peculiar (Maurycy's blog) [08:46] TR News "Physicists and scientists often tend to stick to their specializations." https://josephhall.org/blog/kerr-cft/ | Source: Joseph Lorenzo Hall [08:46] TR Bot The Hologram in the Heartbeat: Testing Quantum Gravity with a Galactic Microquasar [08:46] TR News "Suppose your best guess estimate is that, on Earth, consciousness is present in all vertebrates, plus cephalopods and some insects" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/conciousness-forms-alien-paper | Source: Futurism [08:46] TR Bot There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims [08:46] TR News "NASA hired startup Katalyst Space Technologies to boost the Swift Observatory to a higher orbit where it can continue hunting for some of the universe's biggest explosions." https://www.ksl.com/article/51569445/nasa-races-to-save-swift-telescope-from-falling-back-to-earth-with-daring-rescue-mission | Source: Deseret Media [08:46] TR Bot races to save Swift telescope from falling back to Earth with daring rescue mission | KSL.com [08:47] TR News "I had a tougher week than usual. Someone I deeply care about had a bad fall, followed by the passing of Om." https://winnielim.org/journal/my-mortality-and-my-writing/ | Source: Winnie Lim [08:47] TR Bot Winnie Lim my mortality and my writing [08:47] TR News "It made me think again about the impermanence of life: the mundaneness of every day can seem like this can go on forever, but suddenly in just a moment everything may change" [08:47] TR News "I believe the magic lies in how completely the author commits to only writing about what delights and interests him." https://eliotpeper.substack.com/p/write-what-only-you-can-write | [08:47] TR Bot Write what only you can write - Eliot Peper [08:49] TR News "Mr. Malik started his blog just as the dot-com bubble burst" https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/om-malik-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.AyPT.p7GhDrDcJSfa | Source: New York Times [08:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/technology/om-malik-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t1A.AyPT.p7GhDrDcJSfa ) [08:49] TR News "Thinking about it now, it would be nice if more timestamp fields supported something like this." https://lmika.org/2026/06/29/thinking-about-progressive-timestamps-input.html | Source: Leon Mika [08:49] TR Bot Thinking About Progressive Timestamp Input Fields - Leon Mika [08:49] TR News "The Middle Ages are often portrayed as an age of superstition and stagnation" https://www.medievalists.net/2026/06/medieval-inventions-shaped-modern-world/ | Source: Medievalists.net [08:49] TR Bot Medieval Inventions That Shaped the Modern World - Medievalists.net ● Jun 29 [09:02] TR News Techrights Links 28/06/2026: More Om Malik Eulogies, Cloudflare Promotes Web Browser Monocultures https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Links_28_06_2026_More_Om_Malik_Eulogies_Cloudflare_Promotes_Web.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Links_28_06_2026_More_Om_Malik_Eulogies_Cloudflare_Promotes_Web.gmi [09:02] TR News Techrights Week of Microsoft Layoffs, Maybe Record-Breaking Scale https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Week_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Maybe_Record_Breaking_Scale.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Week_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Maybe_Record_Breaking_Scale.gmi [09:02] TR Bot Techrights Links 28/06/2026: More Om Malik Eulogies, Cloudflare Promotes Web Browser Monocultures [09:02] TR Bot Techrights Week of Microsoft Layoffs, Maybe Record-Breaking Scale [09:41] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) ● Jun 29 [11:19] Sompi https://yle.fi/a/74-20233922 again a new data center, and again they start building it before they even have the building permit [11:19] TR Bot Microsoft sai luvan aloittaa datakeskuksen valmistelun Mustasaaressa | Pohjanmaa | Yle ● Jun 29 [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] hi Sompi [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] what is that about? [13:03] TR News "I thought the \ before the + was a mistake, and also pointed out that if + was to be used wed probably need to pass -E for extended regular expression (ERE)" https://www.wezm.net/v2/posts/2026/bre/ | Source: Wesley Moore [13:03] TR Bot Platform Support for GNU Extensions to Basic Regular Expressions - Wesley Moore [13:03] TR News "The more distributed a system, the harder it is to secure. Code crosses JVM boundaries." https://blog.frankel.ch/security-baked-into-jvm/1/ | Source: Nicolas Frnkel [13:03] TR Bot Security Baked Into the JVM: why fork Apache River and OpenJDK? [13:04] TR News "Unlike the standard Go toolchain not doing dead code elimination for package level variables with constant values" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoInterfacesReflectAndBinarySize | Source: University of Toronto [13:04] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [13:06] TR News "This prints 30 English words: [...]" https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/06/27/brace-expansion-tree/ | Source: John D Cook [13:06] TR Bot Brace expansion tree [13:07] TR News "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #379." https://raku-musings.com/armstring-or-strong.html | Source: Arne Sommer [13:07] TR Bot Armstring or Strong with Raku - Arne Sommer [13:07] TR News "Basically they are very thin wrappers over constant, creating the words as constants, either as is or in uppercase" https://blogs.perl.org/users/james/2026/06/introducing-constantstring-and-constantstringuc.html | Source: Perl [13:07] TR Bot constant::string and constant::string::uc | James [blogs.perl.org] [13:08] TR News "Looking for data for this drew my attention to the excellent Maddison Project, which publishes long term estimates of real GDP per capita" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/long-term-economic-growth-rates-by-ellis2013nz/ | Source: Rlang [13:08] TR Bot term economic growth rates by @ellis2013nz | R-bloggers [13:09] TR News "The largest coming conflict in the new AI world is not the one between AI giants or the one between those giants and governments." https://doc.searls.com/2026/06/27/first-source-of-intent/ | Source: Doc Searls [13:09] TR Bot The First Source of Personal Intent Doc Searls Weblog [13:09] TR News "Front table of Brass Monkey 55 Little West 12th St We are having a social meeting to catch up after BSDCan." https://lists.nycbug.org:8443/pipermail/announce/2026-June/000635.html | Source: NYC BUG [13:09] TR Bot [announce] Next NYC*BUG: Social July 1st [13:09] TR News "If there are similar proposals, we'll work with people so that the talks can cover different facets." https://emacsconf.org/2026/cfp/ | Source: EmacsConf [13:09] TR Bot EmacsConf - 2026 - Call for Participation [13:11] TR News "I often find myself wanting to copy images in the Bear media library in markdown format, not just the URL" https://robertbirming.com/bear-media-markdown-button/ | Source: Robert Birming [13:11] TR Bot Bear media markdown button Robert Birming [13:11] TR News "Im happy to announce the release of Newspipe 12.1.0. This version brings a reimagined reading experience" https://www.cedricbonhomme.org/2026/06/28/newspipe-12-1-0/ | Source: Cdric Bonhomme [13:11] TR Bot Cdric Bonhomme | Newspipe 12.1.0 released [13:12] TR News "If you want the latest and greatest, this release is for you. Being a beta release, there's some possibility of rough edges, and things that previously worked and now stubbornly don't." https://kodi.tv/article/kodi-22-piers-beta-1/ | Source: Kodi Foundation [13:12] TR Bot Kodi 22 "Piers" Beta 1 | News | Kodi [13:12] TR News "I just added two new themes to my minimalist doric-themes package. doric-tiger is a light theme, while doric-lion is dark. Both use orange and yellow colours. Below are sample screenshots." https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2026-06-28-emacs-doric-tiger-doric-lion/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [13:12] TR Bot new doric-tiger and doric-lion for the doric-themes | Protesilaos [13:13] TR News "I was not expecting this at all, and did not see the news before someone on the French SFOS Users Telegram channel mentioned it" https://www.ncartron.org/commodore-is-releasing-a-flip-phone-running-sailfish-os.html | Source: Nico Cartron [13:13] TR Bot Commodore is releasing a flip phone running Sailfish OS! [13:15] TR News "Loongson Technology has announced the Loongson 3C3000, a new 16-core server processor aimed at low-cost general-purpose server systems." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinas-loongson-launches-homegrown-16-core-server-cpu-built-on-loongarch-architecture-40w-chip-with-ddr4-ecc-and-32-pcie-lanes-targets-cheap-smb-file-database-and-web-servers | Source: Tom's Hardware [13:15] TR Bot Chinas Loongson launches homegrown 16-core server CPU built on LoongArch architecture 40W chip with DDR4 ECC and 32 PCIe lanes targets cheap SMB file, database, and web servers | Tom's Hardware [13:15] TR News "The Videx VideoTerm was the 80-column card that turned the Apple II into a business machine." https://www.wiseowl.com/articles/a2fpga-videx-01-the-card-that-made-the-apple-ii-serious/ | [13:15] TR Bot The Card That Made the Apple II Serious Wise Owl [13:15] TR News "Im starting a new build-in-public project: oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself." https://makerspet.com/blog/building-an-open-source-robot-vacuum-meet-oomwoo/ | [13:15] TR Bot Building an Open-Source Robot Vacuum Meet oomwoo - Makers Pet [13:15] TR News "The remote ran on 433.92 MHz, a not-uncommon bit of spectrum for these sort of appliances." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/rf-hacking-a-ceiling-fan-via-the-remote/ | Source: Hackaday [13:15] TR Bot Hacking A Ceiling Fan Via The Remote | Hackaday [13:16] TR News "The demo vehicle for this build is TrakTrike, a sort of bicycle-half-track hybrid that [Tony] built for EMF Camp 2022." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/hack-improves-cheap-speed-controllers/ | Source: Hackaday [13:16] TR Bot Improves Cheap Speed Controllers | Hackaday [13:16] TR News "To get good results, one of the keys is getting the motor positioning just right." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/accurate-split-flap-display-can-be-3d-printed/ | Source: Hackaday [13:16] TR Bot Split-Flap Display Can Be 3D Printed | Hackaday [13:17] TR News "This design uses a 3D printed frame and cone, with the 3D printing providing excellent rigidity." https://hackaday.com/2026/06/28/make-your-own-loudspeaker-from-scratch/ | Source: Hackaday [13:17] TR Bot Your Own Loudspeaker From Scratch | Hackaday [13:17] TR News "The Space Shuttle's five general-purpose computers played a critical role in each flight: controlling the engines, monitoring thousands of sensors, displaying data to the astronauts, and navigating the Shuttle." https://www.righto.com/2026/06/space-shuttle-io-processor-boards.html | Source: Ken Shirriff [13:17] TR Bot Examining circuit boards from the Space Shuttle's I/O Processor [13:18] TR News "So, I decided to print myself some helmet stands and mount them in my office." https://kevquirk.com/3d-printers-are-actually-very-useful | Source: Kev Quirk [13:18] TR Bot 3D Printers are actually very useful - Kev Quirk [13:21] TR News "I tried it on an old Acer from 2016 (i5-5200U, 8 GB RAM, upgraded 256 GB + 1 TB SSD) as a live session (using Ventoy)." https://ludditus.com/2026/06/27/this-is-not-a-review-of-basalt-linux-1-1/ | Source: Homo Ludditus [13:21] TR Bot is not a review of Basalt Linux 1.1its a critique Homo Ludditus [13:21] TR News "True enlightment only comes from a truly free computing experience, probably!" https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/06/working-around-dragons-with-lemote.html | Source: Old VCR [13:21] TR Bot Old Vintage Computing Research: Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD [13:22] TR News "FreeBSD 15 really feels like a breakthrough release." https://www.sacredheartsc.com/blog/freebsd-15-on-a-laptop/ | Source: Sacred Heart SC [13:22] TR Bot FreeBSD 15 on a Laptop | Cullum Smith [13:22] TR News "It feels a bit strange to start this post by thinking that this is my first blog post in 2026." https://rsadowski.de/posts/2026/g2k26-netherlands-openbsd-hackathon/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski [13:22] TR Bot Rust in CMake, and a Heartbeat for Old Daemons rsadowski.de [13:23] TR News "The following is a loose guide for those interested in doing the same." https://btxx.org/posts/serenity-t60/ | Source: Brad Taunt [13:23] TR Bot Installing SerenityOS on My Old ThinkPad T60 [13:24] TR News "Cepceros Podcast is a podcast in Spanish that started in 2018 and that follows a simple but effective formula" https://www.usebox.net/jjm/blog/cepeceros-podcast/ | Source: Juan J Martnez [13:24] TR Bot Podcast - usebox.net [13:36] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). [13:37] *Now talking on #techrights [13:45] nobody seems it's possible still to download standards from 3gpp.org [13:45] nobody i've had to click "show all versions" first, then this redirects to a web-folder [13:47] nobody filtering for "5G" alone yields 1481 specifications [13:50] nobody in this regard, 2G was scary 20years ago already [13:50] TR News iophk: looks like there are some plastic parts in the device :( https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/faraday-future-hybrid-transmission-system-patent [13:50] TR Bot New patent reveals a simpler way to blend gasoline and electric power [13:51] TR News "What we are really getting at here is a form of Digital Restrictions Management to prove you are authorized to view content." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/06/26/1431252 [13:51] TR Bot Cloudflare Teams Up With Big Browsers to Help Websites Tell Welcome From Unwelcome Visitors - SoylentNews [13:52] nobody all those standards are in contanst flux, with change requests, withdrawals [13:52] nobody at least it's not paywalled like ieee.org [13:54] nobody which is relevant insofar Ethernet type equipment is deployed likewise [13:55] nobody and of cause, there's a whole other stack of papers paywalled behind itu-t/etsi [13:55] TR News Jetways latest x86 industrial SBCs offer a choice of Pico-ITX or 3.5-inch form factors https://linuxgizmos.com/jetways-latest-x86-industrial-sbcs-offer-a-choice-of-pico-itx-or-3-5-inch-form-factors/ [13:55] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/jetways-latest-x86-industrial-sbcs-offer-a-choice-of-pico-itx-or-3-5-inch-form-factors/ ) [13:55] TR News Forgix hybrid board pairs Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with Efinix Trion FPGA https://linuxgizmos.com/forgix-hybrid-board-pairs-raspberry-pi-rp2354-mcu-with-efinix-trion-fpga/ [13:55] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/forgix-hybrid-board-pairs-raspberry-pi-rp2354-mcu-with-efinix-trion-fpga/ ) [13:56] TR News Collabora introduces Kraid Rust compiler for Panfrost Mali GPU driver https://linuxgizmos.com/collabora-introduces-kraid-rust-compiler-for-panfrost-mali-gpu-driver/ [13:56] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/collabora-introduces-kraid-rust-compiler-for-panfrost-mali-gpu-driver/ ) [13:56] nobody and i was reading a little more about the history of Nortel [13:56] TR News CirkitScape Top HAT brings ADC, RS-485, GPIO expansion, and USB hub to Raspberry Pi boards https://linuxgizmos.com/cirkitscape-top-hat-brings-adc-rs-485-gpio-expansion-and-usb-hub-to-raspberry-pi-boards/ [13:56] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/cirkitscape-top-hat-brings-adc-rs-485-gpio-expansion-and-usb-hub-to-raspberry-pi-boards/ ) [13:56] nobody which filed bancruptcy more than 10years ago [13:56] TR News Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, backdoored Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Canada_5_0_GNU_Linux_Rises_to_5_0_Windows_Rapidly_Falls_to_New_.shtml [13:56] TR Bot Techrights Canada 5-0: GNU/Linux Rises to 5.0%, Windows Rapidly Falls to New Lows [13:57] nobody then GAFAM were praying upon patents from Nortel [13:57] TR News Talkyard community discussion software for building forums https://www.linuxlinks.com/talkyard-community-discussion-software-building-forums/ [13:57] TR Bot - community discussion software for building forums - LinuxLinks [13:57] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: CPTN [13:58] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/wiki/CPTN/ [13:58] TR Bot CPTN [13:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2011/05/03/defunct-companies-and-swpats/index.shtml [13:58] TR Bot Novell is Similar to Nortel [13:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2011/07/02/embrace-extort-and-collude/index.shtml [13:58] TR Bot Microsoft and Apple Form Another Cartel to Allegedly Attack Linux (With Nortel Patents) [13:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/o/2011/07/10/usdoj-vs-nortel-swpats-sale/index.shtml [13:58] TR Bot United States May Join Canada in Challenging Nortel's Patent Sale to Linux Foes [13:59] TR News (NEW): Availability of Tux Machines https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Availability_of_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Availability_of_Tux_Machines.gmi [13:59] TR News (NEW): Kodi 22 Beta Improves Linux Support for Remote Keys and HDR Profile Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kodi_22_Beta_Improves_Linux_Support_for_Remote_Keys_and_HDR_Pro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kodi_22_Beta_Improves_Linux_Support_for_Remote_Keys_and_HDR_Pro.gmi [13:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Availability of Tux Machines [13:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Kodi 22 Beta Improves Linux Support for Remote Keys and HDR Profile Support ● Jun 29 [14:00] TR News GNU Ships GCC 14.4 as a Bug-Fix Release https://fossforce.com/2026/06/gnu-ships-gcc-14-4-as-a-bug-fix-release/ [14:00] TR Bot GNU Ships GCC 14.4 as a Bug-Fix Release - FOSS Force [14:01] TR News Teaching digiKam to Understand You: Natural Language Search with Local LLMs http://srirupa19.github.io/gsoc/2026/06/28/gsoc1.html [14:01] TR Bot Teaching digiKam to Understand You: Natural Language Search with Local LLMs | Srirupas Blog [14:02] TR News AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub repositories Mozilla's 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/ai-coding-agents-can-be-tricked-into-installing-malware-via-clean-github-repositories-mozillas-0din-team-shows-how-claude-code-can-be-exploited-by-its-own-helpfulness [14:02] TR Bot AI coding agents can be tricked into installing malware via 'clean' GitHub repositories Mozilla's 0din team shows how Claude Code can be exploited by its own helpfulness | Tom's Hardware [14:09] TR News Lazy Reading for 2026/06/28 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2026/06/28/lazy-reading-for-2026-06-28/ [14:09] TR Bot Lazy Reading for 2026/06/28 DragonFly BSD Digest [14:10] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: i was having a look at this from a trainee's perspective on a 600Euros/month payroll contracted by TelekomHQ [14:10] schestowitz[TR2] even workers in bakeries earn more [14:10] schestowitz[TR2] even trainees there [14:10] nobody that's been 20years ago [14:11] schestowitz[TR2] even then [14:12] TR News Chinas Loongson launches homegrown 16-core server CPU built on LoongArch architecture 40W chip with DDR4 ECC and 32 PCIe lanes targets cheap SMB file, database, and web servers https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/chinas-loongson-launches-homegrown-16-core-server-cpu-built-on-loongarch-architecture-40w-chip-with-ddr4-ecc-and-32-pcie-lanes-targets-cheap-smb-file-database-and-web-servers [14:12] TR Bot Chinas Loongson launches homegrown 16-core server CPU built on LoongArch architecture 40W chip with DDR4 ECC and 32 PCIe lanes targets cheap SMB file, database, and web servers | Tom's Hardware [14:13] TR News

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[14:13] TR News Long term economic growth rates by @ellis2013nz https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/06/long-term-economic-growth-rates-by-ellis2013nz/ [14:13] TR Bot term economic growth rates by @ellis2013nz | R-bloggers [14:13] TR News There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/conciousness-forms-alien-paper [14:13] TR Bot There May Be Bizarre Forms of Consciousness Drifting Through the Universe, Mind-Bending Paper Claims [14:14] TR News Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of People https://futurism.com/health-medicine/parasite-cognition-infected-billions [14:14] TR Bot Parasite That Affects Cognition Has Quietly Infected Billions of People [14:14] nobody it's a highly political thing, in particular since when this whole madness culminated in two total railway system blackouts in germany [14:15] TR News Employees Are Using Their Jobs Super-Expensive Hey Hi (AI) Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/employees-ai-tokens-pointless-tasks-finance [14:15] TR Bot Employees Are Using Their Jobs' Super-Expensive AI Tokens for the Most Hilariously Pointless Tasks Imaginable [14:15] TR News Called Out By A Cookie https://mwl.io/archives/24874 [14:15] TR Bot Called Out By A Cookie Michael W Lucas [14:15] nobody the entire protocol standardization was one lecture among many other at telekom university [14:15] TR News Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning https://futurism.com/future-society/woman-virginia-flock-surveillance-tower-yard [14:15] TR Bot Woman Surprised When Flock Surveillance Tower Appears in Her Yard Without Warning [14:16] nobody which focused on ISDN, SS7 and SDH/SONET mainly [14:16] TR News Notes from NANOG 97 https://blog.apnic.net/2026/06/29/notes-from-nanog-97/ [14:16] TR Bot Notes from NANOG 97 | APNIC Blog [14:17] TR News Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland https://futurism.com/science-energy/droughts-sinkholes-farmland [14:17] TR Bot Devastating Droughts Are Punching Massive Sinkholes Into Critical Farmland [14:17] nobody it seems, management merely had thrown everything they could find at academic staff and students [14:17] nobody so, we've had to study digital circuit design (Verilog/HDL), signals and systems, laser optics, motorola assembler, oracle databases, java programming [14:17] nobody all of it, all at once, in 4 years [14:19] nobody "science council" then didn't at least bother to mention this minor little problem in their final report to close down telekom university [14:19] nobody they didn't mention either the shitty contracting [14:19] schestowitz[TR2] 2g uni [14:19] nobody nope, at that time, they've dumped 3G equipment into the labs already too [14:20] schestowitz[TR2] 20 yrs ago? [14:20] TR News Cops Caught Using Hey Hi (AI) to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/cops-caught-using-gen-ai-drug-bust [14:20] TR Bot Cops Caught Using AI to Edit Picture of Pathetic Drug Bust [14:20] nobody more than 20years ago, before it's been deployed already [14:20] schestowitz[TR2] 2g was still widely used 15 years ago [14:22] nobody if anyone had bothered to ask me, what i was thinking about this [14:22] TR News GNU/Linux obstructed https://old.reddit.com/r/Bazzite/comments/1uiq3dr/secure_boot_issues/ [14:22] TR Bot Secure boot issues : Bazzite [14:26] nobody some pieces from Nortel were transferred to an Austrian company [14:27] nobody what a surprise, that one contracted with German railway [14:27] nobody they've too contracted for the german car toll collect system which EU terminated [14:27] nobody it's been just another scandal, 250million of cash had to be paid as "compensation of damages" [14:28] nobody for a toll collect system which never was rolled out [14:29] nobody no clue either into whose pockets those 250million "trickled down" [14:29] TR News Techrights Two Pieces About "AI" This Morning Were Paid-For SPAM at The Register MS https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Two_Pieces_About_AI_This_Morning_Were_Paid_For_SPAM_at_The_Regi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Two_Pieces_About_AI_This_Morning_Were_Paid_For_SPAM_at_The_Regi.gmi [14:29] TR Bot Techrights Two Pieces About "AI" This Morning Were Paid-For SPAM at The Register MS [14:33] nobody "lawyers and accountants received 2.5billion from Nortel bancruptcy filing" (canadian dollars) [14:34] nobody the english language wikipedia mentions even more details, Julian Assange hacked into Nortel [14:37] nobody Nortel seems been a bigger fish than Novel [14:39] nobody one minor problem i see, in case German Railway and many others worldwide who relied upon GSM-R (from Nortel) [14:39] nobody just in case there's a few problems with spare parts supplies and parts malfunction [14:39] TR News (NEW): DCloud Uni-App Used for Scams, DirtyClone the New Hype for Privilege Escalation Bug (Local) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/DCloud_Uni_App_Used_for_Scams_DirtyClone_the_New_Hype_for_Privi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/28/DCloud_Uni_App_Used_for_Scams_DirtyClone_the_New_Hype_for_Privi.gmi [14:39] TR Bot Tux Machines DCloud Uni-App Used for Scams, DirtyClone the New Hype for Privilege Escalation Bug (Local) [14:39] TR News (NEW): Welcome, Enzo https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Welcome_Enzo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Welcome_Enzo.gmi [14:39] TR Bot Tux Machines Welcome, Enzo [14:39] nobody whom shall railway contact then for support? [14:41] nobody ring ring, hey hi, GAFAM, please hold the line and state your issue to the automatic telling machine, please hold the line [14:43] nobody many politicians we've got, doing sales marketing for 5G, holding whichever stocks in their portfolio [14:43] nobody interview: hey, railway grid blackout occured... no problem, just throw some money at stock exchange for 5G [14:44] nobody just recently german government consented with new retirement savings plans, every employee in germany now MUST "invest" a percentage or two into stock exchange [14:46] nobody reminds me of the mindset involved when Telekom (DT) and Railway (DB) got "privatized" late 90s around year 2000 [14:46] nobody including the fact, formerly Telekom University wasn't a "private" one, it's been a regular public university before [14:47] nobody run by "Bundespost" (german federal post) [14:47] nobody for that matter, Bundestpost/DHL operated an own Bank, that got transferred to Deutsche Bank while ago [14:49] nobody that's the whole context of a 600Euros/month payroll for a TelekomHQ contracted student occupied with "hobbies" [14:49] nobody at that time, i already did pass maths and physics curriculum there, and we've written our first diplome thesis in groups of students each [14:50] nobody admitted, second semester digital circuit design and related skills aren't fully developed, nonetheless, we've passed [14:50] nobody and only if you excelled, then this generous contracting was offered [14:51] nobody i only began wondering, year 2002, why in hell would telekom management combine digital circuit design lectures with database systems and java programming [14:53] nobody of cause, business computer science (java, oracle etc) deserves a curriculum and gradiation, just like technical computer science (digital circuits, assembler etc.) does [14:53] nobody but why would I have to pass exams with both at once, to graduate? [14:54] nobody then i moved to Austria/Vienna for a traineeship, next shock, tens of thousands of pages of protocols and standards [14:54] nobody at least Telekom increased income to 800Euros/month and too paid appartment rent, temporarily while working abroad [14:55] nobody the regular 600Euros/month didn't compensate for appartment rent nor any other spendings such as books and whatever [14:55] TR News For sale on Facebook: Monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/for-sale-on-facebook-monkeys-rhino-horn-and-dead-pangolins [14:55] TR Bot For sale on Facebook: Monkeys, rhino horn and dead pangolins | The Straits Times [14:56] nobody so, those 800EUros weren't too bad, but it was a short term contracting only [14:56] nobody three to six month to bother with protocols and standards, then it's terminated [14:56] nobody the management intellect involved with this, seems to wipe out "low performers" [14:57] TR News Live Nation Responds to $35M Whistleblower Lawsuit, Arguing Fired Employee Did Not Uncover Fraud https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/live-nation-whistleblower-lawsuit-response/ [14:57] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/live-nation-whistleblower-lawsuit-response/ ) ● Jun 29 [15:00] TR News Notes from Bryan Cantrills Intelligence is not Enough https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/intelligence-isnt-enough/ [15:00] TR Bot Notes from Bryan Cantrills Intelligence is not Enough - Jim Nielsens Blog [15:00] TR News Rust Gets a Commercial Network with Microsoft https://linuxiac.com/rust-gets-a-commercial-network-with-microsoft-google-aws-and-openai-onboard/ [15:00] TR Bot Rust Gets a Commercial Network with Microsoft, Google, AWS, and OpenAI Onboard [15:01] TR News This month: Rust Outsources its Financing (or Financial Control) to Microsoft http://techrights.org/n/2026/06/04/Rust_Outsources_its_Financing_of_Financial_Control_to_Microsoft.shtml [15:01] TR Bot Techrights Rust Outsources its Financing (or Financial Control) to Microsoft [15:02] TR News Hard Links vs Symbolic Links in GNU/Linux https://linuxize.com/post/hard-links-vs-symbolic-links/ [15:02] TR Bot Links vs Symbolic Links in Linux | Linuxize [15:03] TR News Sparky 2026.06 Special Editions https://sparkylinux.org/sparky-2026-06-special-editions/ "There are new iso images of Sparky 2026.06 Special Editions out there: GameOver, Multimedia and Rescue" [15:03] TR Bot Sparky 2026.06 Special Editions - SparkyLinux [15:04] TR News pgtt v4.5 has been released https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgtt-v45-has-been-released-3330/ [15:04] TR Bot PostgreSQL: pgtt v4.5 has been released [15:04] TR News Asias vendors grapple with rising costs of ever-present plastics https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/asias-vendors-grapple-with-rising-costs-of-ever-present-plastics [15:04] TR Bot Asias vendors grapple with rising costs of ever-present plastics | The Straits Times [15:04] TR News Microsoft reinstalls Copilot in backdoored Windows 11: a strategy that could reignite controversy [15:06] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [15:09] nobody i do see, some university lectures which Telekom offered at their own private university before, those now appear in regular public university curriculums [15:09] nobody which seems ok, and instead of combining a dozen fields of expertise into one curriculum, the regular public university in Leipzig who inherited the former building from Telekom [15:10] nobody they now keep the study contents organized as these should [15:10] nobody such as moving electronics related topics into, well, electronics studies [15:10] nobody business computer science into business studies etc.. [15:11] *Righty (~Username@6qy66b3cucryu.irc) has joined #techrights [15:11] nobody the telekom-specific studies now seem to be arranged for as "dual"/"remote" studies mainly, for students hired by Telekom already [15:12] nobody which is relevant insofar, because Telekom accounted "student fees" for each student immatriculated [15:13] nobody so, even when you've not received a single dime from Telekom, they've accounted each student with several dozens of thousands of cash granted [15:13] nobody it's a twisted perspective in many cases, such as access to dozens of thousands of pages of protocol standards, that's considered a gift [15:14] nobody a privilege, be happy to study this with an 800Euros/month payroll then [15:14] TR News Techrights In Signal of Weakness or Phasing Out XBox (Not Sustainable, According to the CEO) Microsoft "Pauses New Third-Party Game Pass Deals" https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/In_Signal_of_Weakness_or_Phasing_Out_XBox_Not_Sustainable_Accor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/In_Signal_of_Weakness_or_Phasing_Out_XBox_Not_Sustainable_Accor.gmi [15:14] TR Bot Techrights In Signal of Weakness or Phasing Out XBox (Not Sustainable, According to the CEO) Microsoft "Pauses New Third-Party Game Pass Deals" [15:14] nobody make the best out of it, it's the best chance in live you've had [15:16] nobody some students at Telekom University (and many others alike), even have to take a "loan" to sustain a living [15:16] nobody when they didn't qualify for any other benefit [15:17] nobody so you would end up with a giant load of debt in this case, for all those hobbies and privileges [15:18] nobody gladly, access to public universities in germany is supported even for students from low income households [15:18] nobody but, only if you finish the curriculum in 4years [15:18] nobody that's why it's important, a curriculum was tailored it's possible to graduate in 4years [15:18] nobody which it wasn't with what TelekomHQ came up [15:19] nobody that's why it's good, the curriculums were moved into regular public university system [15:19] *Righty has quit (Quit) [15:19] *Righty (~Username@9j6mscxhes2qw.irc) has joined #techrights [15:19] nobody because there ministry of culture and science, science councils, student councils etc. can coordinate plausible curriculums [15:20] nobody although, ministry of culture and science to should have / must have with now defunct Telekom University [15:20] nobody *too [15:23] nobody i do not know what else might have gone wrong since year 2005, that science council felt urged to discredit the whole thing [15:23] nobody it "did not meet academic criteria" [15:24] nobody because, Telekom still offers lectures at public universities nowadays [15:24] nobody but they are not permitted anylonger to do so with an own private university [15:24] TR News Govt withdraws controversial anti-drugs ad with Hey Hi (AI) pop stars named after cannabis, ice, cocaine and etomidate https://hongkongfp.com/2026/06/29/govt-withdraws-controversial-anti-drugs-ad-with-ai-pop-stars-named-after-cannabis-ice-cocaine-and-etomidate/ [15:25] TR Bot Gov't withdraws 'glamorous' anti-drugs ad with AI K-Pop stars [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] nobody: do you still feed crows like Hans? [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] we became fond of feeding all the birds [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] but crows never come near [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] it "did not meet academic criteria" [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] read: [15:25] schestowitz[TR2] nonconformist [15:27] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: i can hear the crows roaming here almost each day [15:27] TR News Back under control and normal speed, after DDoS or connection floods https://tools.pingdom.com/#67c4f18d24c00000 [15:27] TR Bot Website Speed Test | Pingdom Tools [15:27] nobody i did feed them last winter, but don't during summer [15:27] schestowitz[TR2] no need [15:27] schestowitz[TR2] not as much [15:27] nobody well, i was reading crows (and birds in general) do need healthy nutrition [15:28] nobody even when the find some half rotten kebap meet and other waste everywhere [15:28] nobody i'm still a little worried what they're eating here isn't best for their health [15:29] TR News "A corollary to Freedom 0, or perhaps an interpretation of it, is the freedom to _*not*_ run a given piece of software, whether an LLM slop generator or another disaster." https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00030.html [15:29] TR Bot timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00030.html ) [15:30] nobody schestowitz[TR2]: otherwise "did not meet academic criteria", it's been a most severe defamation against students and academic staff [15:30] nobody in particular since when the science council report didn't mention a few minor little problems with the curriculums, as I tried to explain [15:30] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:31] nobody in the end, it was the right choice, to depart from this, and i was right about it, the type of management habits will cause some problems [15:31] nobody such as, railway grid blackouts [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] tbh, you are politically incorrect [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] but 20 years ago in telekon uni not sure you were [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] i know your real name but very little about your past [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] imho, [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] and ime, [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] companies do not hire for skills [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] they hire for docility [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] like farmers would choose cows [15:33] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] not the biggest ones but the most obedient working animal [15:33] nobody i wouldn't dare to blame engineering staff either, since i am aware of the challenges [15:33] *\join_subline (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] companies found out people on vista from a low-pay countryu work hard [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] for long hopurs [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] more so when losing the jobs means they get deported to low-pay country [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] so there is a human trafficking element to it [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] *visa [15:34] nobody notheless, i take it as a personal offense still, how politics and their labor market behaved in recent 20years [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] vw will close many plants soon [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] maybe close to 100k laid off [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] bnut many of their plants are not germany anymore [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] except by name [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] *german [15:37] nobody yep, there's alot of turmoil currently [15:37] nobody VW too terminated some billion cash contracting with Bosh (autonomous driving systems, and who knows how this relates to GSM-R and toll collect system) [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] i posted a link last night [15:38] nobody it's shackling everywhere now [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] it will devastate some small towns [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] where many residents work there [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] like novell in provo, utah [15:40] nobody i've seen a photo of this on wikipedia, deserted wasteland [15:40] nobody scary [15:40] nobody as long as you've had a job there, without employment you'll end up in the middle of nowhere, in a desert [15:41] nobody which is a whole other aspect of this, the environmental impact [15:41] nobody currently germany transforms into burning hot desert [15:42] nobody with money routed into "climate and innovation transformation fund" to subsidize heat pumps and air conditioning for this [15:42] nobody sponsoring data centers, for useless video streaming and a thousand other things [15:43] nobody mis-guided strategy for "growth" - it's no coincidence [15:44] nobody for example, soccer business dictated into Telekom for Magenta TV pay-tv [15:45] nobody an ecological and economical hazard they did [15:46] TR News Techrights The World Needs GNU/Linux for Security, Turn Off "Secure Boot" (It's the Opposite of Security) https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/The_World_Needs_GNU_Linux_for_Security_Turn_Off_Secure_Boot_It_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/The_World_Needs_GNU_Linux_for_Security_Turn_Off_Secure_Boot_It_.gmi [15:46] TR Bot Techrights The World Needs GNU/Linux for Security, Turn Off "Secure Boot" (It's the Opposite of Security) [15:47] nobody last night there was a short thunderstorm and rainfall, temperature dropped from 30C to 26C, in the middle of the night that was [15:51] TR News (NEW): #HowTo make Linux look like MacOS for free - with a few simple ZorinOS tweaks https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/How_to_make_Linux_look_like_MacOS_for_free_with_a_few_simple_Zo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/How_to_make_Linux_look_like_MacOS_for_free_with_a_few_simple_Zo.gmi [15:51] TR Bot Tux Machines How to make Linux look like MacOS for free - with a few simple ZorinOS tweaks [15:53] TR News (NEW): Kawaiintu OS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kawaiintu_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kawaiintu_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [15:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Kawaiintu OS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution [15:55] TR News (NEW): NoID Privacy Workstation hardened Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/NoID_Privacy_Workstation_hardened_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/NoID_Privacy_Workstation_hardened_Linux_distribution.gmi [15:55] TR Bot Tux Machines NoID Privacy Workstation hardened Linux distribution [15:56] TR News Techrights Contact Members of the EPO Administrative Council, Tell Them the EPO (Office) Became a Disgrace and an Enemy of Europe's Citizens https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Contact_Members_of_the_EPO_Administrative_Council_Tell_Them_the.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Contact_Members_of_the_EPO_Administrative_Council_Tell_Them_the.gmi [15:56] TR Bot Techrights Contact Members of the EPO Administrative Council, Tell Them the EPO (Office) Became a Disgrace and an Enemy of Europe's Citizens ● Jun 29 [16:00] TR News "Met him at my first Golden Circle in 93 just after he joined. He was an arrogant pompous greedy bully who laid off over 150,000 great IBMers over 18 months. The troll in this blog is in love with him by reading his elephant book and never met him, talked with him, saw him. Troll I have a bridge for sale for you. Full stop." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5ex3nc [16:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kw5ex3nc ) [16:01] nobody since you mentioned Novell again, they're residing in Nrnberg still, i think as Suse Linux [16:01] TR News (NEW): This Flatpak runs a 30-year old version of GIMP pre-GTK https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/This_Flatpak_runs_a_30_year_old_version_of_GIMP_pre_GTK.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/This_Flatpak_runs_a_30_year_old_version_of_GIMP_pre_GTK.gmi [16:01] TR Bot Tux Machines This Flatpak runs a 30-year old version of GIMP pre-GTK [16:01] nobody well, that's where i'm living currently, Nrnberg [16:02] nobody the whole HR chaos didn't get me anywhere with Novell/SUSE either [16:02] nobody and, after all, i've forked some Linux-2.4 kernel while ago - i doubt they'll show interest in this [16:03] nobody i've even contacted a Suse employee directly, responsible for the toolchain-maintenance there [16:03] nobody who tried to hack tinycc toolchain support for linux-4.6 while ago [16:04] nobody but there's been no response nor anything [16:04] nobody meanwhile i've salvaged and backported everything i could, seeing to most of the C-written *Nix stuff remained portable [16:05] nobody hunreds of inquiries, email mostly, at several HR offices, government offices, universities [16:06] nobody this work is done already btw., i only wanted to migrate the packaging into something sane and simple [16:07] nobody it's almost ~500builds remaining, to move those into https://codeberg.org/aggi/tiny-bootstrap [16:07] TR Bot - Codeberg.org [16:08] nobody which i wanted to continue with any day, it's a man year of effort or so [16:08] nobody for a long-term archival of a C-toolchain driven system profile [16:08] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi [16:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [16:09] nobody the whole bootstrapping is interesting, because it provides some methodology to enforce acceptance criteria [16:09] nobody c-toolchain portability too does raise the bar a bit, some software remains stable and portable [16:10] nobody just one example, among hundreds others, bind9 got blocked at a version from year 2022 already [16:10] nobody otherwise it's not portable with different pure c-toolchains anymore [16:10] nobody some C-language extensions are problematic, imo [16:11] nobody and rather be avoided with components which should remain long-term stable and portable [16:11] nobody RedHat and friends, their influence didn't necessarily benefit this [16:13] nobody NPTL, and C-lang __thread extension are troublesome [16:13] TR News (NEW): I spent a year on an immutable distro, and the one thing I miss is being able to break stuff https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/I_spent_a_year_on_an_immutable_distro_and_the_one_thing_I_miss_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/I_spent_a_year_on_an_immutable_distro_and_the_one_thing_I_miss_.gmi [16:13] TR Bot Tux Machines I spent a year on an immutable distro, and the one thing I miss is being able to break stuff [16:13] nobody because those lock C-development into C++-toolchains such as gcc/llvm/clang [16:14] nobody and i wouldn't take for granted, such toolchains remained sufficiently long-term stable, they're too heavyweight and complex [16:15] nobody at least i consider it a threat, if there was no alternative to keep software portable with simpler/efficient C-toolchains [16:16] nobody even when IBM and friends dedicated their brainpower with giant development departments [16:16] TR News (NEW): HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/HamsterOS_Crams_Complete_Graphical_Desktop_onto_1_44_MB_Floppy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/HamsterOS_Crams_Complete_Graphical_Desktop_onto_1_44_MB_Floppy.gmi [16:16] TR Bot Tux Machines HamsterOS Crams Complete Graphical Desktop onto 1.44 MB Floppy [16:17] nobody i consider it important base system components remained portable without those [16:18] TR News Techrights PIPs and "Retirements": IBM Layoffs in Anything But Name https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/PIPs_and_Retirements_IBM_Layoffs_in_Anything_But_Name.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/PIPs_and_Retirements_IBM_Layoffs_in_Anything_But_Name.gmi [16:18] TR Bot Techrights PIPs and "Retirements": IBM Layoffs in Anything But Name [16:18] TR News (NEW): Its Linux, on a Sega Megadrive https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/It_s_Linux_on_a_Sega_Megadrive.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/It_s_Linux_on_a_Sega_Megadrive.gmi [16:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Its Linux, on a Sega Megadrive [16:18] nobody the irony with this, i've done most of the work already - without any income nor contracting whatsoever [16:19] nobody but it's considered a "hobby", hence not paid [16:19] nobody i could try to apply for some EU funding in Netherlands, there's a good chance even this passed [16:20] nobody but then here in germany, in my current situation, some financial department does not distinguish invididual income from project funding [16:20] nobody they'll just cut and tax away any little surplus almost 100%, even when that's dedicated to project work _only_ [16:22] nobody this morning yellow-press headlined, if i didn't shave my beard and that was unappealing to them, politics wished to sanction then [16:22] nobody because i'm a useless lazy unproductive scum then [16:22] nobody that's the best idea politics got currently [16:23] nobody hence i'll just leave all stuff on some loopdev protected flash memory for bitrot until the sun goes boom [16:24] nobody it's hundreds of patches and hacks into kernel, toolchain, userspace, build system, to salvage free/open C-software for C-toolchain portability [16:24] nobody so i wanted to bring a little more order to chaos, before any further publication [16:25] nobody but i couldn't do this at least, because i'm denied all legal and financial and instead am insulted and threatened by government and politics [16:28] TR News Madonna Calls Hey Hi (AI) the Complete Opposite of Making Art While Advocating for a Completely Different Creative Process https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/madonna-ai-algorithm-commentary/ [16:28] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/06/28/madonna-ai-algorithm-commentary/ ) [16:49] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-02-22 [16:49] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-02-22 ● Jun 29 [17:14] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/comcast-is-splitting-its-media-and-broadband-properties/ [17:14] TR Bot Comcast is splitting its media and broadband properties - Ars Technica [17:16] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/06/nasas-x-59-frankenjet-tests-supersonic-flight-without-the-sonic-boom/ [17:16] TR Bot NASA's X-59 "frankenjet" tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom - Ars Technica [17:21] TR News Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Networking With the National Delegates https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_Networking_With_the_National_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Series_Networking_With_the_National_.gmi [17:21] TR Bot Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Series: Networking With the National Delegates [17:36] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [17:37] *Goblin (~use@s7msgb3dypfqc.irc) has joined #techrights [17:48] admfubar https://itsfoss.com/news/purism-librem-16/ [17:48] TR Bot You Can Spend Up to $11,944 on Purism's Librem 16 Linux Laptop [17:50] TR News Part 23 to be published tomorrow. Plus three related PDFs. [17:50] TR News Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle https://futurism.com/science-energy/serious-research-tickling-apes-giggle [17:50] TR Bot Scientists Publish Extremely Serious Research About Whether Tickling Apes Makes Them Giggle [17:53] nobody admfubar: and three years warranty only [17:54] nobody recently i've ported and tested another cheapo AMD FM2 mainboard for coreboot [17:55] nobody it's a quadcore only, 16/32GiB RAM max, but the mainboard including coreboot supports starts at $10 used on ebay [17:56] nobody best of it, with some patches from 15h.org this coreboot setup fully supports linux-tcc (2.4) kernel fork [17:56] nobody including SATA/AHCI, USB2, Gigabit Ethernet - not too bad [17:57] nobody warranty is mostly irelevant, given the pricing of used spare parts on ebay [17:58] nobody i only wished total system power consumption was a bit lower, but it's not too bad at a typical 65W TDP [17:58] nobody idle at 35Watts [17:59] nobody not that it matters, but the f15h systems from AMD didn't have the PSP nor IntelME either ● Jun 29 [18:00] nobody to use the integrated graphics, there's a 64KiB sized firmware blob necessary for this still [18:01] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/29/british-american-tobacco-bat-cut-jobs-ai [18:01] TR Bot British American Tobacco to slash 9,000 jobs as it turns to AI | British American Tobacco | The Guardian [18:03] *nobody is chewing nicotine gum meanwhile, to calm down [18:06] nobody no clue why i'm reading this, just waiting for weather to cool back down to normal [18:07] nobody can't stomach any more cigarettes flavored with awful chemical sweeteners [18:08] nobody tobacco sales are in steady decline, gladly i must say, even when i am smoker for 25years [18:08] nobody the crap they're selling nowadays, i wouldn't shed tears if they cut 100% of their jobs for this reason alone [18:09] nobody i suspect they tried to attract young smokers with those chemical sweeteners [18:10] nobody the younger starters begin smoking as teenagers, the more likely they will smoke for the rest of their lives [18:11] nobody just as said, even as a smoker, i think most of the anti-tobacco campaigning was reasonable [18:11] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 122 Out of 200: Garrett's Solicitors Confirm That Garrett is Ban-Evading and Spying on Our IRC Network https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_122_Out_of_200_Garrett_s_Solicitors_Confi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_122_Out_of_200_Garrett_s_Solicitors_Confi.gmi [18:11] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 122 Out of 200: Garrett's Solicitors Confirm That Garrett is Ban-Evading and Spying on Our IRC Network [18:12] nobody when i was young, at that time german government favored their estimated tax incomes, and cigarette advertizements were permitted in front of each school [18:12] nobody at my school, they've even installed ash trays, for the pupils, in 1990s [18:13] nobody smoking was permitted everywhere, in school, in restaurants, in public transportation railway trains [18:15] nobody anything goes, with the right support from lobby groups [18:16] nobody the greatest difficulty i'm having still, is Coffee however [18:16] nobody because i must abstain from coffee, to abstain from tobacco, according to my experiences with this [18:18] TR News (NEW): Kali Linux 2026.2 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and New Tools https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kali_Linux_2026_2_Released_with_GNOME_50_KDE_Plasma_6_6_and_New.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Kali_Linux_2026_2_Released_with_GNOME_50_KDE_Plasma_6_6_and_New.gmi [18:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Kali Linux 2026.2 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and New Tools [18:19] nobody holy lord, did I enjoy a cup of coffee, then who cares a cigarette, and do programming, reading, studies [18:19] nobody it's just not worth it [18:20] nobody i can abstain from alcohol, easily, i can even abstain from cigarattes with a little cheating (chewing gums) [18:20] nobody but i can't abstain from coffee, and this triggers the whole vicious cycle all over again [18:22] nobody stress, blood pressure, sleep deprivation, and a cigarette just kept me going a little while longer than healthy [18:22] nobody i tend to think even, it's the side effects of stress and sleeping issues which makes cigarettes even more lethal [18:23] nobody because the body and immune system needs time and sleep to regenerate [18:24] nobody add to this, in a city such as Nrnberg, it's constant noise and terror on the streets, from speeding vehicles [18:24] nobody so you've got 10minutes at most, up until the next idiot passes by full throttle, in densely crowded living quarters [18:25] nobody too during the night, so there's a trade-off keeping the windows open, during summer [18:26] nobody last sunday in Nrnberg a referendum result was announced, citizens being asked if they consented with just another inner-city high-way reconstruction plan [18:26] nobody to route even more traffic into the city, for another 1billion cash dumped into a tunnel to extend this high-way to an 8lane one by moven half of it underground into a tunnel [18:27] nobody insane, a majority of voters consented with those plans [18:27] nobody although there is legal regulations for traffic noise and pollution - which cannot be voted for, it's existing laws [18:28] nobody insofar the entire referendum was illegitimate [18:30] nobody and furthermore, even when it was 48% of voters who objected, their objections must be considered too [18:30] nobody in a "democracy", a majority doesn't simply over-rule any minority, all interests and parties must be represented with a decision [18:31] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-plastic-bottles-life-batteries-graphite.html [18:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-plastic-bottles-life-batteries-graphite.html ) [18:31] nobody so at best, city council got a permit of 52% to build half of the tunnel, but it's re-interpreted as a majority decision [18:32] nobody totally illegitimate nonsense, for several other reasons [18:33] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-cyborg-cockroaches.html [18:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-cyborg-cockroaches.html ) [18:36] TR News Techrights How Long Can a Company Delay Its Financial Report That Likely Confirms Exodus of Staff, Growing Debt, and Other Problems? https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/How_Long_Can_a_Company_Delay_Its_Financial_Report_That_Likely_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/How_Long_Can_a_Company_Delay_Its_Financial_Report_That_Likely_C.gmi [18:36] TR Bot Techrights How Long Can a Company Delay Its Financial Report That Likely Confirms Exodus of Staff, Growing Debt, and Other Problems? [18:39] nobody barely dare to say anything, this morning a crazy amok run occured [18:40] nobody a hotel for mother and children in emergency situations got attacked, 6 people fatally shot there [18:40] nobody germany year 2026 [18:41] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:41] admfubar https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/pong-game-that-recompiles-itself-every-frame-wins-the-ioccc29-obfuscated-c-contest [18:41] TR Bot Pong game recompiles its own source code every frame winning entry at IOCCC29 was generated by a custom compiler | Tom's Hardware [18:41] nobody if anyone had told me 30years ago after re-unifcation and EU membership, society would arrive at this, i could have never believed it [18:41] nobody i can't believe it nowadays [18:44] nobody police says, it just some "family tragedy" but no other political motives involved [18:46] nobody two perpetrators escaped in their (expensive) luxury vehicle [18:46] nobody so that's one obvious detail, a family who could afford a Mercedes AMG [18:47] nobody police had to shoot down this car, to bust the tyres, and cought both attackers [18:48] nobody it's a few hundred miles far away in northern germany [18:48] nobody in Nrnberg here it's speeding terrorists in luxury vehicles on the roads only, all day long [18:49] nobody at least Mercedes AMG got a headline, during a family tragedy being settled and 6 people shot in a mother-children hotel [18:49] nobody and their branding shown [18:50] nobody oh... now they tell, "born in germany"... but "turkish family roots" [18:51] nobody well, i wouldn't have jumped to conclusions with pre-judgement, how family tragedies are settled nowadays [18:53] TR News Techrights Whistleblowing and Retaliation by Microsoft Workers Against Microsoft Seems Increasingly Likely https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Whistleblowing_and_Retaliation_by_Microsoft_Workers_Against_Mic.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Whistleblowing_and_Retaliation_by_Microsoft_Workers_Against_Mic.gmi [18:53] TR Bot Techrights Whistleblowing and Retaliation by Microsoft Workers Against Microsoft Seems Increasingly Likely [18:54] nobody such incidents are the final culmination of civil society eroding [18:56] nobody just last sunday, i've had my own dealings with some of this diaspora [18:56] nobody in front of my lowest-floor appartment, often cars use the fire-emergency parking lot gap, to stand there within their vehicle [18:56] nobody which, i don't bother with at all [18:57] nobody yet, if they stay there for 15 minutes or so, occasionally i dare to ask those to turn-off their car engines at least [18:57] nobody there's no reason to keep the engine turned on there, it's no traffic jam, and no parking lot [18:57] nobody and i dislike car engine noise 1 meter distant to my desk [18:58] nobody it's a hit and miss always, friendly asking "hey, no problem if you want to keep waiting here, but turn of the engine please" [18:58] nobody however, this immigrant arab/turkish culture got a weird understand of civilized interaction [18:59] nobody so, yesterday my question resulted in a friendly "no i won't, piss off" [18:59] nobody and three(!) of those turks getting out of their car beating me ● Jun 29 [19:00] nobody what i liked most about this, surrounding passengers and others watching at their appartment windows didn't bother to do anything [19:01] nobody so i had to prepare for a beating on the roads against three of them alone, simply for asking they rather turned off their car engine sunday when waiting in a parking lot here [19:01] nobody where, it's even illegal to park, which i couldn't care less, if they turned off their car engine [19:02] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@x7c5i6bzbfcya.irc) has joined #techrights [19:03] nobody irony, i might call police, but for what, they can't nor won't do anything about this [19:03] nobody so these types of incidents wouldn't at least show up on police reports [19:04] nobody after all, those types of immigrants "secured our social system here", it's a skilled workforce and whatnot [19:04] nobody and that's how, angre hatred boil up [19:05] nobody it's just impossible to reason with those type of people [19:05] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [19:06] nobody but dare you, since police didn't do anything, if i bothered to insist in self-defence [19:06] nobody how this would show up... "right wing extremist nazi" whatever [19:06] nobody just for asking a mob of turks at least would turn off their car engine when they're parking illegally here [19:07] nobody and this is what to expect, "you might stay here however long you wish, but please turn of the car engine" "no, piss off" [19:08] nobody that's the type of incidents, which isn't talked about, concerning this "multi cultural enrichment" [19:09] nobody which doesn't understand anything else than fists and bruises [19:09] nobody just as said, it's a hit and miss, if you're lucky they'll just insult you, if not expect three of those beating you [19:10] nobody there's no in between reasoning, calming down, remaining civil [19:10] nobody so it's not suprising me, this morning a "family tragedy" got settled with gun fire in a mother-children hotel [19:11] nobody politics can't hide this [19:11] nobody and in fact, most of the time, they're inciting and boiling up anger further [19:12] nobody most of the time it's social democrats, labor unions and churches inciting [19:12] nobody just in case among >90% immigrants one or another german felt a little offended and threatened [19:14] nobody i mean, it's not much i asked for, at least sit at my desk a few hours a day to work [19:14] nobody without noise and terror [19:15] nobody most of which is avoidable, because it's intentional speeding and terror they do [19:16] nobody another irony of this, even with a ~90% majority of immigrants, many of whom afford expensive luxury vehicles, they're complaining still they would be treated unfair [19:17] nobody i haven't the slightest clue why a hotel for "youth support", housing mothers and children... [19:17] nobody "without any political or economical motive", "an extreme act of violence" [19:18] nobody from what i can tell, it's easily explained, beginning with small acts of violence, everyday noise and terror [19:19] nobody they get away with those small acts, hatred and anger escalate, and no civilized manners known [19:19] nobody often police and emergency medical service reported they're being attacked when trying to help only [19:20] nobody i mean, it's even an act of agression when kindly asking "you might park and stay here however you wish, but turn of the engines please" [19:20] nobody in the last 30minutes, i've counted more than a dozen terrorists speeding here [19:21] nobody even when police showed up, it stops for a few minutes, and little later the insanity continues [19:23] nobody "no, piss off", i'm feeling a tiny little bit offended about this still [19:25] admfubar https://theintercept.com/2026/06/29/objection-ai-judges-journalism-dsouza/ [19:25] TR Bot Businessman Who Helped Thiel Kill Gawker Wants to Save Journalism With AI [19:41] admfubar nobody, i take it your roads are well maintained? relatively smooth? [19:42] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [19:43] nobody admfubar: no clue why you're asking, but yes, in entire Nrnberg city roads are exceptionally well build and maintained almost everywhere [19:43] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [19:44] admfubar so easy to speed on then, nothing like a nice smooth road.. [19:44] nobody well, they're too speeding on smaller roads in between living quarters, in particular there [19:45] nobody even when it's only 25meters distance in between crossroads each for a full stop [19:45] nobody they're going full-throttle [19:45] admfubar now here in the states our cities spend money to put more lumps into the road... (speed bumps/tables) and the roads arent maintained well.. [19:45] nobody instead of gliding slow and calm [19:46] nobody other than a traffic management issues, it's too first and foremost a cultural issue [19:47] nobody if a 30km/h speed sign doesn't stop them from speeding, going full throttle, to maximize noise and terror [19:47] nobody day and night, during christmas and easter celebrations, sunday, no difference [19:48] TR News We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourneys Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound https://futurism.com/health-medicine/midjourney-device-scans-body [19:48] TR Bot We Are Extremely Skeptical of MidJourney's Weird Device That It Claims Submerges Your Entire Body and Scans It With Ultrasound [19:48] TR News Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers https://futurism.com/health-medicine/giant-pickup-trucks-are-killing-pedestrians-in-incredible-numbers [19:48] TR Bot Giant Pickup Trucks Are Killing Pedestrians in Incredible Numbers [19:48] nobody there's another difference, between let's say New York and Nrnberg [19:49] nobody a parking lot is taxed with hundreds of dollers with the former, meanwhile in Nrnberg it's free almost everywhere [19:49] nobody it's "good for the economy", even when almost all small business and shops vanished here [19:51] TR News China adds 20 Japanese entities to export blacklist https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-adds-20-japanese-entities-to-export-blacklist [19:51] TR Bot China imposes new export controls, deepening Japan row | The Straits Times [19:59] TR News 22 Years of the Tux, Still Going Stronger Than Ever https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/06/28/22-years-of-the-tux/ [19:59] TR Bot Blog Archive 22 Years of the Tux, Still Going Stronger Than Ever ● Jun 29 [20:03] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/06/28/183229 [20:03] TR Bot Photoshop Now Censors Your Art as You Edit - SoylentNews [20:05] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/06/27/1833254 [20:05] TR Bot Acoustic Mapping App Uses Thousands of Networked Old Android Phones to Hunt Shahed Drones - SoylentNews [20:06] admfubar equipment provider money grab?? https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/france-to-stop-certifying-products-without-quantum-safe-encryption.460134/ [20:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/france-to-stop-certifying-products-without-quantum-safe-encryption.460134/ ) [20:07] TR News YARA-X 1.18.0 and 1.19.0 Release, (Sun, Jun 28th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/33106 [20:07] TR Bot YARA-X 1.18.0 and 1.19.0 Release - SANS Internet Storm Center [20:08] TR News AMD engineer 3D-prints Steam Machine-a-like with diagonal mobo mounting https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/pc-building/diy-3d-printed-steam-machine-a-like-uses-diagonal-mobo-mounting-parts-include-a-mini-itx-motherboard-rtx-5060-and-a-flex-atx-psu [20:08] TR Bot AMD engineer 3D-prints Steam Machine-a-like with diagonal mobo mounting parts include a Mini ITX motherboard, RTX 5060, and a flex ATX PSU | Tom's Hardware [20:08] TR News Steam Next Fest 2026 June: Recap https://boilingsteam.com/steam-next-fest-2026-jun/index.html [20:08] TR Bot Steam Next Fest 2026 June: Recap [20:09] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-short-people-ai-deepfake-fraud.html [20:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-short-people-ai-deepfake-fraud.html ) [20:09] TR News Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc1 https://lwn.net/Articles/1079891/ [20:09] TR Bot prepatch 7.2-rc1 [LWN.net] [20:09] TR News Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs. Dont do that. https://blog.jonudell.net/2026/06/28/doctor-it-hurts-when-agents-create-unreviewable-prs-dont-do-that/ [20:09] TR Bot Doctor, it hurts when agents create unreviewable PRs. Dont do that. Jon Udell [20:10] admfubar that is prolly just a cosmetic change... https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-whatsapp-users-usernames-privacy.html [20:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-06-whatsapp-users-usernames-privacy.html ) [20:10] TR News LLM slop https://www.debugpoint.com/shotcut-26-6-high-dynamic-range/ [20:10] TR Bot Shotcut 26.6: High Dynamic Range Preview, External Monitor & More [20:10] TR News Debugpoint.com Turns to LLM Slop for 'Help' https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Debugpoint_com_Turns_to_LLM_Slop_for_Help.shtml [20:10] TR Bot Techrights Debugpoint.com Turns to LLM Slop for 'Help' [20:15] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I got the document in Capital One's case against Maricel that's being decided tomorrow. [20:16] IsambardPrince She was making minimum payments until about 3 years ago when she stopped. [20:16] TR News unifont @ Savannah: Unifont 17.0.05 Released https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10909 [20:16] IsambardPrince The debt is now over $60,000 and more than $20,000 of that was interest and late fees. [20:16] TR Bot timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10909 ) [20:16] IsambardPrince Part of the balance was when she spent $2,000 at the lawyer to try to wreck Mandy's immigration case and it didn't work after she failed to blackmail us for money. [20:17] TR News This Flatpak runs a 30-year old version of GIMP pre-GTK https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/gimp-1996-flatpak [20:17] TR Bot GIMP 0.54 Flatpak: run pre-GTK 1996 build on modern Linux [20:17] TR News CachyOS 260628 https://distrowatch.com/cachyos [20:17] TR Bot CachyOS [20:17] TR News LinuxCNC 2.9.9 https://distrowatch.com/linuxcnc [20:17] TR Bot LinuxCNC [20:18] TR News ML4W 2.14.0 https://distrowatch.com/ml4w [20:18] TR Bot ML4W OS [20:18] TR News Russell Coker: Some GPU Stuff https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/06/28/some-gpu-stuff/ [20:18] TR Bot Some GPU Stuff etbe Russell Coker [20:19] TR News 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details | LINUX Unplugged 673 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/673/ [20:19] TR Bot 8 Hidden Steam Machine Details | LINUX Unplugged 673 | Jupiter Broadcasting [20:20] TR News Podcast: How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe inside the GNU/Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way https://www.infoq.com/podcasts/empowers-developers-inside-linux-kernel/ [20:20] TR Bot eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way - InfoQ [20:21] TR News OSes with no CLI and thoughts on the staleness of modern computing https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/98868.html [20:21] TR Bot Captcha Check [20:21] admfubar https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/06/29/0135220/scientists-think-neptune-and-uranus-may-not-be-the-ice-giants-we-imagined [20:21] TR Bot Scientists Think Neptune and Uranus May Not Be the Ice Giants We Imagined - Slashdot [20:21] *ewig has quit (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [20:22] TR News DEBIX T62P-01 Raspberry Pi-like industrial SBC features TI AM62P SoC, dual GbE with TSN, multi-domain UART https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/06/29/debix-t62p-01-raspberry-pi-like-industrial-sbc-features-ti-am62p-soc-dual-gbe-with-tsn-multi-domain-uart/ [20:22] TR Bot DEBIX T62P-01 Raspberry Pi-like industrial SBC features TI AM62P SoC, dual GbE with TSN, multi-domain UART - CNX Software [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: she can borrow that from mandy [20:22] schestowitz[TR2] in airpod currency [20:24] TR News Putin Acknowledges 'Certain Shortages' Of Energy Amid Ukrainian Attacks https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-acknowledge-russia-energy-shortages-ukraine/33790678.html [20:24] TR Bot Putin Acknowledges 'Certain Shortages' Of Energy Amid Ukrainian Attacks [20:24] TR News MagOS 2025_20260627 https://distrowatch.com/magos [20:24] TR Bot MagOS Linux [20:25] TR News Microsoft Lunduke Does Not Correct or Clarify Misinformation That He Posted (or Repeats It Instead) https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Microsoft_Lunduke_Does_Not_Correct_or_Clarify_Misinformation_Th.shtml [20:25] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Lunduke Does Not Correct or Clarify Misinformation That He Posted (or Repeats It Instead) [20:26] TR News Waydir fast desktop file manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/waydir-fast-desktop-file-manager/ [20:26] TR Bot - fast desktop file manager - LinuxLinks [20:27] TR News 8 Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Comics and Manga Servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-self-hosted-comics-manga-servers/ [20:27] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Self-Hosted Comics and Manga Servers - LinuxLinks [20:27] TR News Specter Desktop graphical application for managing Bitcoin wallets https://www.linuxlinks.com/specter-desktop-managing-bitcoin-wallets/ [20:27] TR Bot Desktop - graphical application for managing Bitcoin wallets - LinuxLinks [20:27] TR News 11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Caching Systems https://www.linuxlinks.com/cachingsystems/ [20:27] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Caching Systems - LinuxLinks [20:27] TR News 9 Best Free and Open Source Surveillance Giant Google Drive Clients https://www.linuxlinks.com/googledrive/ [20:27] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Google Drive Clients - LinuxLinks [20:30] TR News Mageia 10 https://distrowatch.com/mageia [20:30] TR Bot Mageia [20:30] TR News Slackel 9.0 https://distrowatch.com/slackel [20:30] TR Bot Slackel [20:31] TR News Neko-Void 20260622 https://distrowatch.com/nekovoid [20:31] TR Bot Neko-Void [20:31] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:31] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [20:32] TR News Techrights Assessing the Upcoming (July) Proprietary/GAFAM Cuts https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Assessing_the_Upcoming_July_Proprietary_GAFAM_Cuts.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Assessing_the_Upcoming_July_Proprietary_GAFAM_Cuts.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Assessing the Upcoming (July) Proprietary/GAFAM Cuts [20:32] TR News Techrights Debugpoint.com Turns to LLM Slop for 'Help' https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Debugpoint_com_Turns_to_LLM_Slop_for_Help.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Debugpoint_com_Turns_to_LLM_Slop_for_Help.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Debugpoint.com Turns to LLM Slop for 'Help' [20:32] TR News Techrights Efforts to Resume Progress on FreeJS, LibreJS, and Reduce Dependence on Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Efforts_to_Resume_Progress_on_FreeJS_LibreJS_and_Reduce_Depende.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Efforts_to_Resume_Progress_on_FreeJS_LibreJS_and_Reduce_Depende.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Efforts to Resume Progress on FreeJS, LibreJS, and Reduce Dependence on Microsoft [20:32] TR News Techrights Expect Many More Whistleblowers From Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Expect_Many_More_Whistleblowers_From_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Expect_Many_More_Whistleblowers_From_Microsoft.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Expect Many More Whistleblowers From Microsoft [20:32] TR News Techrights Five Years After Its Formation Libera.Chat Has the Most Simultaneous Users in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Five_Years_After_Its_Formation_Libera_Chat_Has_the_Most_Simulta.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Five_Years_After_Its_Formation_Libera_Chat_Has_the_Most_Simulta.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Five Years After Its Formation Libera.Chat Has the Most Simultaneous Users in Internet Relay Chat (IRC) [20:32] TR News Techrights Follow the Real Security Experts https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Follow_the_Real_Security_Experts.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Follow_the_Real_Security_Experts.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Follow the Real Security Experts [20:32] TR News Techrights For Whistleblowers' Sake, Choose Hosting Platforms Wisely https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/For_Whistleblowers_Sake_Choose_Hosting_Platforms_Wisely.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/For_Whistleblowers_Sake_Choose_Hosting_Platforms_Wisely.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights For Whistleblowers' Sake, Choose Hosting Platforms Wisely [20:32] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 28/06/2026: Simulation Theory and Pursuit of Novelty https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Gemini_Links_28_06_2026_Simulation_Theory_and_Pursuit_of_Novelt.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/28/Gemini_Links_28_06_2026_Simulation_Theory_and_Pursuit_of_Novelt.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 28/06/2026: Simulation Theory and Pursuit of Novelty [20:32] TR News Apache Answer is a self-hosted Q&A platform https://www.linuxlinks.com/apache-answer-self-hosted-qa-platform/ [20:32] TR Bot Answer is a self-hosted Q&A platform - LinuxLinks [20:32] TR News 6 Best Free and Open Source Python-Based Content Management Systems https://www.linuxlinks.com/webcms/ [20:32] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Python-Based Content Management Systems - LinuxLinks [20:32] TR News (NEW): Mageia 10 Released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Mageia_10_Released.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Mageia_10_Released.gmi [20:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Mageia 10 Released [20:33] TR News Xenomai real-time development framework for GNU/Linux https://www.linuxlinks.com/xenomai-real-time-development-framework-linux/ [20:33] TR Bot - real-time development framework for Linux - LinuxLinks [20:33] TR News Blockstream desktop Bitcoin wallet https://www.linuxlinks.com/blockstream-desktop-bitcoin-wallet/ [20:33] TR Bot - desktop Bitcoin wallet - LinuxLinks [20:34] TR News Velox GNU/Linux GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/velox-linux-linux-distribution/ [20:34] TR Bot Linux - Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [20:41] TR News (NEW): Speaking Out About Misogyny https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Speaking_Out_About_Misogyny.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Speaking_Out_About_Misogyny.gmi [20:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Speaking Out About Misogyny [20:45] TR News Techrights Antisocial People With No Computer Science Background Are Ruining the Technology Space (Like Officials With No Experience in Patents Destroyed the EPO) https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Antisocial_People_With_No_Computer_Science_Background_Are_Ruini.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Antisocial_People_With_No_Computer_Science_Background_Are_Ruini.gmi [20:45] TR Bot Techrights Antisocial People With No Computer Science Background Are Ruining the Technology Space (Like Officials With No Experience in Patents Destroyed the EPO) [20:56] TR News Ubuntu tries to improve GNOME. Fedora convinced me it didn't need fixing https://www.howtogeek.com/stop-bloating-gnome-with-ubuntu-defaults-fedoras-leaner-setup-is-theanswer/ [20:56] TR Bot Ubuntu tries to improve GNOME. Fedora convinced me it didn't need fixing [20:58] TR News "Arch and Arch-based distros get a lot of buzz, and its easy to find myself wondering whether Im missing outbut Ive learned from experience that Arch isnt for everyone. Its a phenomenal project, but there are many reasons it isnt the best option for most of us." https://www.howtogeek.com/i-finally-understand-why-arch-linux-isnt-for-me-and-probably-isnt-for-you-either/ [20:58] TR Bot I finally understand why Arch Linux isn't for meand probably isn't for you either [20:58] TR News "This release ships with the latest and greatest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment by default." https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-releases-june-2026-snapshot-with-hyprland-noctalia-desktop-option [20:58] TR Bot Releases June 2026 Snapshot with Hyprland Noctalia Desktop Option - 9to5Linux [20:58] TR News "This release also improves AppImage and Flatpak support, deepens dependency resolution, and continues the CLI refactoring." https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-4-1-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-improves-networking-security [20:58] TR Bot 2.4.1 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves Networking, Security - 9to5Linux [20:59] TR News "I've got a dual-booting PC with both Windows 11 and EndeavourOS Linux on it, which puts me in the best position to compare benchmarks across operating systems" https://www.makeuseof.com/i-benchmarked-my-gaming-pc-on-windows-vs-linux-and-the-difference-was-bigger-than-i-expected/ [20:59] TR Bot I benchmarked my gaming PC on Windows vs Linux, and the difference was bigger than I expected [20:59] TR News MS slop? https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-critical-linux-vulnerability-enables-root-privilege-gh1ue/ [20:59] TR Bot New Critical Linux Vulnerability Enables Root Privilege Escalation ● Jun 29 [21:00] TR News I don't even use a Mac, but this is still my favorite way to install software https://www.makeuseof.com/i-dont-even-use-a-mac-but-this-is-still-my-favorite-way-to-install-software/ [21:00] TR Bot I don't even use a Mac, but this is still my favorite way to install software [21:01] TR News The 9 Best Linux Keyboard Shortcuts You Didn't Know You Needed https://www.bgr.com/2197559/best-linux-keyboard-shortcuts/ [21:01] TR Bot The 9 Best Linux Keyboard Shortcuts You Didn't Know You Needed [21:03] TR News (NEW): Applications and HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Applications_and_HowTos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Applications_and_HowTos.gmi [21:03] TR News (NEW): Games: Steam Machines and Steam Next Fest https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Games_Steam_Machines_and_Steam_Next_Fest.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Games_Steam_Machines_and_Steam_Next_Fest.gmi [21:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications and HowTos [21:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Steam Machines and Steam Next Fest [21:04] TR News (NEW): Sailfish OS (GNU/Linux) on "Commodore" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/17/Sailfish_OS_GNU_Linux_on_Commodore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/17/Sailfish_OS_GNU_Linux_on_Commodore.gmi [21:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Sailfish OS (GNU/Linux) on "Commodore" [21:06] TR News (NEW): BSD: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDCan, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/BSD_OpenBSD_FreeBSD_BSDCan_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/BSD_OpenBSD_FreeBSD_BSDCan_and_More.gmi [21:06] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, BSDCan, and More [21:06] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: SBCs, Open-Source Robot Vacuum, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_SBCs_Open_Source_Robot_Vacuum_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Open_Hardware_Modding_SBCs_Open_Source_Robot_Vacuum_and_More.gmi [21:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: SBCs, Open-Source Robot Vacuum, and More [21:08] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, eBPF, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_eBPF_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_eBPF_and_More.gmi [21:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, eBPF, and More [21:08] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [21:08] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [21:08] TR News Windows falling https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/brazil/#monthly-200902-202606 [21:08] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Brazil | Statcounter Global Stats [21:09] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [21:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [21:11] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: It's just funny even though it doesn't affect me. [21:11] TR News (NEW): Education and Events: NANOG, NYC*BUG, and EmacsConf https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Education_and_Events_NANOG_NYC_BUG_and_EmacsConf.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Education_and_Events_NANOG_NYC_BUG_and_EmacsConf.gmi [21:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Education and Events: NANOG, NYC*BUG, and EmacsConf [21:13] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/06/29/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [21:13] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [21:15] TR News Techrights Links 29/06/2026: Lemote Yeeloong Laptop With OpenBSD, Slop Ruins Code/Development https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Links_29_06_2026_Lemote_Yeeloong_Laptop_With_OpenBSD_Slop_Ruins.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Links_29_06_2026_Lemote_Yeeloong_Laptop_With_OpenBSD_Slop_Ruins.gmi [21:15] TR Bot Techrights Links 29/06/2026: Lemote Yeeloong Laptop With OpenBSD, Slop Ruins Code/Development [21:16] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:16] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [21:17] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHeDhdqZKSc [21:17] TR Bot https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=yHeDhdqZKSc [21:17] TR Bot certificate subject name 'haproxy-ingress.haproxy-controller' does not match target hostname 'inv.perditum.com' ( status 0 @ https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=yHeDhdqZKSc ) [21:17] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: marisol affects you [21:17] IsambardPrince "They Went Bankrupt Bitcoin Mining" [21:17] schestowitz[TR2] that's why yopu stalk her :) [21:20] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [21:20] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techrights [21:20] TR News "The example of a rock is convenient. Although it seems definitely dead to most of us, it is some kind of object with a more or less sharp boundaries." gemini://oberdada.pollux.casa/gemlog/2026-06-29_animism.gmi [21:21] TR News "You know how dogs like sniffing each others' butts? Well now you can check whether the key fingerprint of the capsule you are visiting matches the fingerprint from when I visited, making it slightly harder to MITM you, and perhaps over time building a chain of trust from one capsule to the next." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/06/29/webring/ [21:22] TR News "sometimes, you come across a song that really pulls on your heartstrings. this may be because of the lyrics, which echo of events that you've been through. a heartbreak, some kind of grief, or a happiness and a voice of hope. other times, however, a song moves you without you understanding a single word of it." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2839 [21:22] TR News "So today I downloaded Ren'Py and Twine to create my own visual novel game. I'm a big fan of Doki Doki Literature Club and Summertime Saga, both of which were made with Ren'Py." gemini://samunder.gemcities.com/posts/2026-6-29.gmi [21:23] TR News Samunder's Gemlog high on visual novels gemini://samunder.gemcities.com/posts/2026-6-26.gmi [21:24] TR News I don't like Facebook. However... gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/i-dont-like-facebook-however.gmi [21:24] TR News LLM slop and my love-hate relationship with it AI and my love-hate relationship with it [21:25] TR News "That is 67 accounts in 3 months time. I always thought "If I get 20 people using and enjoying the service, then I will consider the project a success." It's been met, exceeded, and looks to just keep growing! That is just awesome!" gemini://calvusrex.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-06-14-gemlog.gmi [21:25] TR News Remember two posts back when I said I was a lazy blogger? gemini://offgridholdout.org/~calvusrex/remember-two-posts-back-when-i-said-i-was-a-lazy-blogger.gmi [21:26] TR News "I was recently on Reddit (which I really am trying to get away from, but Jesus, there is so much information there...good and bad, that it's hard to break away) and I read a post that discussed the concept of most people, especially in the business world" gemini://calvusrex.gemcities.com/gemlog/2026-06-18-gemlog.gmi [21:28] TR News fight night gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/boxingMatch [21:28] TR News "11 days before we need to pack and leave for 2 weeks on the road." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/11days [21:29] TR News Regarding: Not publishing software anymore gopher://movq.de/0/phlog/2026/2026-06/2026-06-29--on-not-publishing-software.txt [21:30] TR News "I'm slowly migrating my projects to GPLv3+. Every time I touch something, I also change the license -- assuming that I'm the only copyright holder." gopher://movq.de/0/phlog/2026/2026-06/2026-06-28--more-gplv3.txt [21:34] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Using More of GPLv3+ and Merits of Security by TOFU https://techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Gemini_Links_29_06_2026_Using_More_of_GPLv3_and_Merits_of_Secur.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/06/29/Gemini_Links_29_06_2026_Using_More_of_GPLv3_and_Merits_of_Secur.gmi [21:34] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 29/06/2026: Using More of GPLv3+ and Merits of Security by TOFU [21:38] admfubar https://www.rawstory.com/florida-health-care/ [21:38] TR Bot Red state hospitals quickly eject gunshot victims especially if they're uninsured - Raw Story [21:44] admfubar you should use soy sauce not tofu for security... [21:46] psydroid3 https://www.techspot.com/news/112931-microsoft-windows-secure-boot-certificates-expired-here-what.html [21:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techspot.com/news/112931-microsoft-windows-secure-boot-certificates-expired-here-what.html ) [21:47] psydroid3 planned obsolescence [21:47] psydroid3 at least the hardware will hopefully continue working with free operating systems ● Jun 29 [22:13] nobody paraguay 1 - germany 0 [22:22] nobody well, it may not be no secret i hoped for the hysteria in germany ended rather sooner than later [22:23] psydroid3 I wonder if they can even repair this in the second half [22:34] nobody german team isn't bad, really, but they're highly overrated [22:34] nobody and, after all, we've got Austria remaining in tournament playoffs still [22:35] nobody from what i've seen so far, Netherlands seem among the strongest teams [22:35] nobody which isn't a matter of sympathies, but a neutral observation [22:39] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/humanity [22:39] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Humanity ● Jun 29 [23:29] psydroid3 30 more minutes of this afte the equaliser [23:46] psydroid3 after*