Full IRC logs for the last few days.

This Gemini page updates once every 5-10 minutes.

Friday

21:38:48 admfubar; https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya

21:38:53 schestowitz[TR2]; and went on for 2 weeks already

21:39:21 schestowitz[TR2]; might be due to router update

21:39:26 schestowitz[TR2]; or neighbour's device

21:39:53 admfubar; did you reboot the router after the update?

21:40:35 admfubar; https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya

21:40:59 admfubar; or maybe bad for altman's economy...

21:41:18 admfubar; https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-hiding-truth

21:45:28 schestowitz[TR2]; they are broke

21:45:33 schestowitz[TR2]; and have been for years\

21:45:40 schestowitz[TR2]; and many lawssuits over copyrights

21:45:44 schestowitz[TR2]; anddd suicidesssssssssssssssssssssssssss

21:45:44 schestowitz[TR2]; and so on

21:47:02 MinceR; https://www.rigelatin.net/q3a/quotes/sorlag.php

22:02:48 admfubar; rats? no mice??... https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/rats-get-even-better-at-playing-doom/

22:06:45 admfubar; https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/12/firewalla-orange/+

22:06:52 admfubar; https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/12/12/firewalla-orange/

22:06:54 admfubar; oops

22:09:26 TR News; neuroscience https://theconversation.com/can-entrepreneurship-be-taught-heres-the-neuroscience-250695

22:10:04 TR News; Colombia https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-08/threats-armed-men-and-bodyguards-are-facts-of-life-for-activists-in-colombias-amazon

22:17:40 MinceR; https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/cosmology-3

23:18:50 MinceR; (cat) (no audio) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1761/76/1761762369970.mp4

23:19:26 _what__; http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Afraid_of_Words_Not_Afraid_of_Actions.shtml

23:19:39 _what__; one thing is forgotten

23:19:50 _what__; schestowitz[TR2] NewSpeak

23:20:20 _what__; Gulag also do this years back http://dailysignal.com/2021/06/04/how-google-is-attempting-to-newspeak-the-english-language/

23:20:29 _what__; http://timenewsdesk.com/2021/06/how-google-is-attempting-to-newspeak-the-english-language/

23:20:40 _what__; http://visiontimes.com/2022/04/29/google-docs-pushes-inclusive-language-autocorrect.html

23:21:25 _what__; trying to eliminate the diction just for inclusivity

23:21:32 _what__; that's blatantly newspeak

23:23:44 _what__; and look at how far the Troll went http://nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/07/us/trump-federal-agencies-websites-words-dei.html http://npr.org/2025/12/11/nx-s1-5640757/head-start-hhs-funding-dei

23:24:26 _what__; just for NewSpeak

23:41:32 _what__; and that "game" BummerTale by Radiation Wolf has Genocide ending that nobody (even GAFAM!) censor (went through unnoticed)

Saturday

00:20:07 MinceR; (cat) https://desu-usergeneratedcontent.xyz/int/image/1762/89/1762898324297.jpg

01:14:37 _what__; speaking of NewSpeak,

01:14:40 _what__; so far

01:14:49 _what__; UEFI spun as BIOS

01:14:58 _what__; backdoors for security (sic)

01:16:35 _what__; and safety (sic)

01:16:53 MinceR; spyware is now "telemetry"

01:17:00 MinceR; rootkit is now "kernel level anti-cheat"

01:18:23 MinceR; buying an computer and having the brand owner have root on it and the brand owner using that to serve genocidal savages and the CPC, and not having root yourself and not getting to run what you want on your own computer is now "security"

01:29:27 _what__; MinceR: also the turnkey tyranny where self-sign means DO NOT TRUST and signed by GAFAM is Trusted (sic) http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Trump_Authority_CA_With_a_Trump_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.shtml

01:29:38 _what__; centralized cabals/cartels

01:30:10 _what__; also copyright/DMCA newspeak: real physical ownership = theft

01:31:08 _what__; they burn every single libraries of Alexandria just to enforce (sic) copyright

01:31:43 admfubar; it all adds up... https://xkcd.com/3180/

01:31:50 _what__; as debunked by Rick Falkvinge http://falkvinge.net https://torrentfreak.com/author/rick-falkvinge/

01:33:02 _what__; we also debunked them http://techrights.org/o/2023/09/10/free-software-vs-intellectual-monopoly/

01:34:34 _what__; the ultimate newspeak where copyright/patent/trademark is spun as "Intellectual Property" (sic) http://stallman.org/articles/ft-response.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html

01:36:21 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/2506304

01:45:30 admfubar; remember everyone.. ai hallucinates everything.. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/25/12/12/2036218/amazon-prime-video-pulls-ai-powered-recaps-after-fallout-flub

01:45:53 _what__; nasty slop/fake work

01:46:07 _what__; LLMs are NSFW since they may hallucinate

01:46:26 _what__; tanks a lot, scamazon

01:46:46 admfubar; no may, they hallucinate all time...

01:47:33 admfubar; :)) https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/12/12/1428243/hollywood-director-found-guilty-of-blowing-11-million-netflix-budget-on-crypto-and-ferraris

01:49:47 _what__; http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/

01:50:14 _what__; the ponzi pyramid just before bullshit generators

01:52:23 admfubar; https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/11/2333243/97-of-buildings-on-earth-3d-mapped

01:57:19 MinceR; but only from outside and at a resolution of 3m x 3m

01:57:28 MinceR; plus the machine learning may have hallucinated

02:00:04 admfubar; not may have

02:00:07 admfubar; https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/12/odf-advocacy-as-odf-news/

02:02:41 admfubar; https://www.osnews.com/story/144015/one-too-many-words-on-atts-2000-korn-shell-and-other-usenet-topics/

02:46:22 TR News; 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-121225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-121225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-121225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-121225.txt

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02:48:22 TR News; 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-121225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-121225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-121225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-121225.txt

02:49:22 TR News; 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-121225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-121225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-121225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-121225.txt

02:50:08 TR News; ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-12.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-12.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)

02:51:26 TR News; ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-12.txt

05:46:25 TR News; agricultural http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/european-commission-publishes-study-on.html

05:47:50 TR News; Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 12, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_12_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_12_2025.gmi ∎

05:49:19 TR News; recognizability http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/cjeu-broadly-follows-ag-and.html

05:49:30 TR News; Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎

05:49:42 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Bazzite isn’t the best Linux gaming option anymore — this is ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Bazzite_isn_t_the_best_Linux_gaming_option_anymore_this_is.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Bazzite_isn_t_the_best_Linux_gaming_option_anymore_this_is.gmi ∎

05:49:43 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Kitten Space Agency, Project Zomboid, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Games_Kitten_Space_Agency_Project_Zomboid_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Games_Kitten_Space_Agency_Project_Zomboid_and_More.gmi ∎

05:49:44 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): ShaRPiKeebo pocket Linux computer will start shipping soon (3 years after crowdfunding) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/ShaRPiKeebo_pocket_Linux_computer_will_start_shipping_soon_3_ye.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/ShaRPiKeebo_pocket_Linux_computer_will_start_shipping_soon_3_ye.gmi ∎

05:49:46 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ubuntu’s New Telemetry Tool Will ‘Phone Home’ Monthly ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Ubuntu_s_New_Telemetry_Tool_Will_Phone_Home_Monthly.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Ubuntu_s_New_Telemetry_Tool_Will_Phone_Home_Monthly.gmi ∎

05:49:47 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎

05:50:25 TR News; Mat Booth: My Fedora Server is a Spotify Connect Device https://matbooth.co.uk/2025/12/04/fedora-server-spotify-connect.html

05:57:07 TR News; union issues strike notice https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-transat-pilots-union-strike-notice-9.7006280

06:03:04 TR News; taking advantage of them https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/western-star-foreign-workers-labour-violations-melita-saskatchewan-9.7000043

06:03:54 TR News; Patent monopolies, not "inventions" http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/strict-us-written-description-and.html

06:04:14 TR News; Visual Culture http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/book-review-cinematic-algorithms-rise.html

06:05:26 TR News; plenv-where https://blogs.perl.org/users/mikko_koivunalho/2025/12/plenv-where.html

06:08:42 TR News; Virus has killed almost 9 million birds https://www.dw.com/en/virus-has-killed-almost-9-million-birds-―-and-counting/a-74972319

06:09:54 TR News; Researchers Slightly Lower Study's Estimate of Drop in Global Income Due to Climate Change https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-03/researchers-slightly-lower-studys-estimate-of-drop-in-global-income-due-to-climate-change

06:10:07 TR News; The fascinating link between cherry pie and this bird https://www.vox.com/climate/471172/american-kestrel-raptor-cherry-orchard-pest-control

06:24:44 TR News; Ban of China's Rednote App https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2025-12-05/taiwan-opposition-says-ban-of-chinas-rednote-app-is-censors

06:25:27 TR News; Climate Study: The World Needs to Change Its Diet by 2050 https://www.truthdig.com/articles/climate-study-most-of-the-world-needs-to-change-diet-by-2050/

06:25:44 TR News; climate carnage https://breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys-pact-with-danielle-smith-is-climate-carnage/

06:26:22 TR News; Climate Breakdown: How Bad Must It Get? https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/05/climate-breakdown-how-bad-must-it-get/

06:26:43 TR News; Brazil Robusta Coffee Growers Push for Quality Amid Rising Prices and Climate Concerns https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-12-06/brazil-robusta-coffee-growers-push-for-quality-amid-rising-prices-and-climate-concerns

06:27:35 TR News; The Earth Is Unhappy with the Capitalist Climate Catastrophe: The Forty-Ninth Newsletter (2025) https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/06/the-earth-is-unhappy-with-the-capitalist-climate-catastrophe-the-forty-ninth-newsletter-2025/

06:28:39 TR News; campus surveillance https://www.michigandaily.com/news/academics/political-speech-and-the-public-square-evaluates-the-consequences-of-campus-surveillance/

06:34:51 TR News; privacy advocates seething https://www.dw.com/en/india-government-mandate-for-pre-installed-state-run-app-has-privacy-advocates-seething/a-74976261

06:46:15 TR News; Techrights – Expecting Mass Layoffs, More Microsoft Workers Join Unions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Expecting_Mass_Layoffs_More_Microsoft_Workers_Join_Unions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Expecting_Mass_Layoffs_More_Microsoft_Workers_Join_Unions.gmi ∎

06:46:46 TR News; Highlight announcements from The Game Awards 2025 | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/highlight-announcements-from-the-game-awards-2025/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/highlight-announcements-from-the-game-awards-2025/

06:47:15 TR News; Aspyr have indefinitely delayed Deus Ex Remastered | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/aspyr-have-indefinitely-delayed-deus-ex-remastered/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/aspyr-have-indefinitely-delayed-deus-ex-remastered/

06:47:57 TR News; Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/over-19000-games-have-released-on-steam-in-2025-with-nearly-half-seeing-fewer-than-10-reviews/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux

06:53:46 TR News; Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is now Steam Deck Verified with a big update | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-now-steam-deck-verified-with-a-big-update/ ䷉ Source: GamingOnLinux

07:00:16 TR News; NVIDIA driver 580.119.02 released for Linux as the latest recommended stable version | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-driver-580-119-02-released-for-linux-as-the-latest-recommended-stable-version/

07:04:28 TR News; "Terminator 2D: NO FATE from Bitmap Bureau / Reef Entertainment has released today to give you some retro themed action-platformer goodness." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/after-multiple-delays-terminator-2d-no-fate-has-launched-with-linux-support-and-steam-deck-verified/

07:07:11 TR News; SLAPPMatt has just openly confirmed that after filing the lawsuit he came to Techrights IRC to troll not only people but also relatives

07:07:28 TR News; SLAPPMatt is basically reinforcing the case of him as IRC harasser

07:14:21 TR News; "Russia Says It Might Build its Own Linux Community After Removal of Several Kernel Maintainers" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/10/2252241

07:14:44 TR News; "Government partners slam Finns Party pols over "Asian eyes" social media posts" https://yle.fi/a/74-20199544

07:14:58 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎

07:15:00 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Problems with lax licenses, FSF President Ian Kelling, and more in the winter 2025 Bulletin ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Problems_with_lax_licenses_FSF_President_Ian_Kelling_and_more_i.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Problems_with_lax_licenses_FSF_President_Ian_Kelling_and_more_i.gmi ∎

07:15:01 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: "Terminator 2D: NO FATE", "Clair Obscur: Expedition 33", and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Games_Terminator_2D_NO_FATE_Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Games_Terminator_2D_NO_FATE_Clair_Obscur_Expedition_33_and_More.gmi ∎

07:15:09 TR News; Politics has always disliked free information | "Politiken har alltid ogillat fri information" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/12/12/politiken-har-alltid-ogillat-fri-information/

07:15:30 TR News; iophk: pointedly omits naming Gates https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/jeffrey-epstein-photos-estate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

07:16:32 TR News; "USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/11/092209

07:17:08 TR News; Microsoft spam from Canonical https://ubuntu.com//blog/retire-azure-consumption-commitment-macc-ubuntu-pro see https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Valve_s_SteamOS_Microsoft_Canonical_s_Ubuntu_and_Other_Platform.shtml

07:23:16 TR News; "Fail-Safe" ☛ https://therevelator.org/nuclear-power/ | Source: The Revelator

07:25:22 TR News; Promoting plagiarism, lies and buzzwords instead of education: "Educators can show in secondary school maths that AI systems don’t think, making maths more interesting while teaching core concepts of AI." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/secondary-school-maths-showing-that-ai-systems-dont-think/ | Source: Raspberry Pi

07:30:45 TR News; "Disney is investing $1 billion US in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/disney-openai-1b-deal-star-wars-marvel-9.7011798 | Source: CBC

07:30:57 TR News; "Google has removed dozens of new Sci-Hub domain names from its search results in the United States." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-sci-hub-domains-from-u-s-search-results-due-to-dated-court-order/ | Source: Torrent Freak

07:32:03 TR News; "Implemented responsibly, pay-to-crawl could represent a way for websites to sustain the creation and sharing of their content" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2025/12/12/where-cc-stands-on-pay-to-crawl/ | Source: Creative Commons

07:33:30 TR News; "Google has removed dozens of AI-generated videos that depicted Disney-owned characters after receiving a cease and desist letter from the studio on Wednesday." ☛ https://variety.com/2025/film/news/google-removes-ai-videos-disney-characters-cease-desist-1236608015/ | Source: Variety

07:34:04 TR News; "For years, Big Tech’s growing dominance over Hollywood has meant lower-quality movies and TV shows." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/12/netflix-paramount-warner-merger-streaming/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine

07:34:18 TR News; "The agreement arose out of a 2023 class action antitrust lawsuit alleging Google monopolized app distribution and in-app billing services on some Android devices, according to the settlement website." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/700m-google-antitrust-settlement-could-benefit-a-quarter-of-kansas-population/ | Source: Kansas Reflector

07:34:40 TR News; "The scene captures something profoundly broken about immigration enforcement in 2025." ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/woman-drives-to-police-station-with-homeland-security-agent-in-her-car.html | Source: BoingBoing

07:34:51 TR News; "Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child" ☛ https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/iran-frees-child-bride-sentenced-to-death-over-husbands-killing-activists-3783456 | Source: RTL

07:35:12 TR News; "Individuals in the TSA data who were later found in ICE databases had a high rate of eventually being arrested and deported, a former ICE official told the outlet." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/passenger-data-travel-tsa-ice-trump-b2883730.html | Source: The Independent UK

07:35:23 TR News; "Look at what happens when the safety net is properly built instead of sniped at to suit political agendas." ☛ https://www.newstatesman.com/spotlight/2025/12/we-built-a-cruel-system-to-fight-an-imaginary-enemy | Source: New Statesman

07:35:32 TR News; "Women in Afghanistan are now campaigning to end gender apartheid in their country." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/content-series/inside-the-talibans-gender-apartheid/resistance-and-resilience-lessons-from-south-africa-for-afghanistans-fight-against-gender-apartheid/ | Source: Atlantic Council

07:39:07 TR News; "Pregnancy criminalization in the United States started long before the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe" ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/keeping-police-out-of-pregnancy-care/ | Source: The Nation

07:39:18 TR News; "AFGE noted that a federal judge earlier this year blocked DHS from dissolving the collective bargaining agreement." ☛ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2025/12/dhs-moves-to-eliminate-tsa-collective-bargaining-agreement-again/ | Source: Federal News Network

07:39:30 TR News; "U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino, a George W. Bush appointee, sentenced Valorie Moser to two years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release" ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/woman-who-recruited-victims-for-girlsdoporn-sentenced-to-prison/ | Source: Court House News

07:39:50 TR News; "We know our Indian reservations were the government’s first attempts at detention centers" ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/briefs/prairie-band-potawatomi-intends-to-ditch-30m-ice-contract-chairman-announces/ | Source: Kansas Reflector

07:43:12 TR News; "There’s no x-button to close the AI window, and as far as we can tell, no other means of swatting it away." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/time-magazine-ai-chatbot | Source: Futurism

07:43:29 TR News; "The lawsuit stems from a series of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests we filed in October" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-trump-administration-for-records-on-nearly-1-billion-in-pro-bono-legal-services-from-biglaw/ | Source: American Oversight

07:43:59 TR News; "censoring Americans" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/trump-administration-reportedly-drafting-plans-to-revoke-visas-of-musk-critics.html | Source: BoingBoing

07:45:27 TR News; "The human rights activist was released from prison last December." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/iran-arrests-nobel-peace-laureate-narges-mohammadi/a-75133432 | Source: Deutsche Welle

07:45:44 TR News; "According to the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, the arrest took place on December 11, during an event marking the seventh day after the death of Khosrow Alikordi, a prominent lawyer and human rights advocate." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-noble-prize-laureate-narges-mohammadi-detainment/33621765.html | Source: RFERL

07:46:21 TR News; "Senator Mark Kelly—one of a growing number of Americans made the target of political retaliation—brought this point into sharp relief on the last day of the conference: [...]" ☛ https://www.thenextmove.org/p/how-were-building-dcs-most-unique | Source: The Next Move

07:46:37 TR News; "FBI's Michael Glasheen labeled antifa as the biggest domestic terrorism threat in the U.S." ☛ https://www.ksl.com/article/51417998/fbi-official-calls-antifa-biggest-us-threat-but-provides-few-details | Source: Deseret Media

07:47:09 TR News; "This AI-mediated epistemic conflict is no longer speculative; it’s already here." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/protecting-truth-in-the-era-of-ai-mediation/ | Source: The Strategist

07:47:31 TR News; "For jittery investors it’s the multi-zillion dollar question keeping them awake at night, and with very good reason." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/12/12/beware-debt-bomb-waiting-to-bring-down-ais-house-of-cards/ | Source: The Telegraph UK

07:47:44 TR News; "The U.S. is currently ahead in the AI race, and it owes that fact to one thing: its monopoly on advanced computer chips." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2025/12/trumps-china-ai-chips/685235/ | Source: The Atlantic

07:47:56 TR News; "poses an unprecedented threat to the global exhibition business" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/netflix-warner-bros-movie-theatre-9.7010782 | Source: CBC

07:48:12 TR News; "Long story short, this is when a group of people ends up doing something that nobody actually wants to do because they are not good at talking about it." ☛ https://cassidoo.co/post/abilene-paradox/ | Source: Cassidy Williams

07:48:26 TR News; "Nvidia is evaluating whether to increase production of its H200 data center GPUs after demand from Chinese customers is expected to exceed current supply" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/nvidia-weighs-expanding-h200-production-as-demand-outstrips-supply | Source: Tom's Hardware

07:49:00 TR News; "the largest individual shareholder of Paramount, whose son runs it" ☛ https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-a-president-intrudes | Source: Robert Reich

07:49:19 TR News; "He will work in collaboration with senior leaders in The Guardian’s newsrooms in the UK, US, and Australia." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/guardian-netflix-first-vice-president-of-product-allan-donald/ | Source: Press Gazette

07:49:32 TR News; "Many of the European countries that have experienced drone intrusions over the last few months have subsequently been criticized for their security shortfalls." ☛ https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2025/12/12/belgium-doubles-down-on-drone-defenses-following-mystery-flights/ | Source: C4ISRNET

07:50:04 TR News; "The rushed integration of half-cooked automation into the already broken U.S. journalism industry simply isn’t going very well." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/politicos-union-journalists-win-key-ruling-in-battle-against-lazy-undercooked-ai/ | Source: Techdirt

07:50:55 TR News; "My Patreon and Tipeee accounts are switching to a monthly subscription model starting January 2026. Adjust your donation, be kind with your wallet! (Check out the short comic above.)" ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1106/change-ahead-moving-from-per-content-to-monthly-support | Source: David Revoy

07:52:02 TR News; "Over the past year, residents have frequented Ypsilanti Township Council meetings, distraught over one thing: the University of Michigan’s new data center." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/deception-deflection-and-disregard-how-umich-is-forcing-a-data-center-on-ypsilanti/ | Source: University of Michigan

07:53:22 TR News; "The ban, which is aimed at reducing the risk of fires on public transport caused by the vehicles’ lithium-ion batteries, was announced by the state government on Saturday morning." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/modified-e-bikes-to-be-banned-from-trains-in-victoria-from-next-weekend-20251213-p5nndx.html | Source: The Age AU

07:53:33 TR News; "Boom’s turbine generators aren’t anything radical. We already have jet engines running as inefficient gas turbines, specially for the AI bozos." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/11/lets-power-ai-with-supersonic-jet-engine-turbines/ | Source: Pivot to AI

07:54:00 TR News; "Osprey Aircraft: Additional Oversight and Information Sharing Would Improve Safety Efforts" ☛ https://www.airforcetimes.com/air/2025/12/12/gao-services-arent-sharing-information-on-longtime-osprey-problems/ | Source: Air Force Times

07:54:17 TR News; "As we try to move away from our reliance on fossil fuels to combat climate change" ☛ https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/12/12/fear-of-missing-out-on-data-center-boom-leads-arkansas-officials-to-ignore-hard-questions/ | Source: Arkansas Advocate

07:54:30 TR News; "According to a MIT study, a single data center can use as much energy as an entire city, and frighteningly, big tech could transform the Reno area into the largest data center market in the world if we don’t take action." ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/12/dirty-data-centers-will-drive-up-our-utility-bills/ | Source: Nevada Current

07:57:22 TR News; "The images include pictures of Epstein with a number of high-profile figures, including President Donald Trump, longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/new-epstein-phot%20os-show-trump-clinton-bill-gates-woody-allen-steve-ban-rcna248819 | Source: NBC

07:57:51 TR News; "House Oversight Committee Democrats released 19 photos from Jeffrey Epstein's estate on Friday, showing a parade of powerful figures, including President Trump, Steve Bannon" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/epstein-photo-dump-shows-trump-clinton-gates-in-sex-traffickers-orbit.html | Source: BoingBoing

07:58:11 TR News; "Former President Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Larry Summers, Richard Branson, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, Alan Dershowitz and Woody Allen are also pictured, as well as sex paraphernalia, including a photo of a pile of Trump-branded condoms for sale." ☛ https://www.notus.org/house/oversight-committee-democrats-new-epstein-photos-trump-bannon | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute

07:59:06 TR News; "shock retirement" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-12-12/admiral-hands-over-leadership-of-command-overseeing-trump-administrations-boat-strikes | Source: Los Angeles Times

07:59:23 TR News; "has retired" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2025/12/12/us-admiral-overseeing-military-operations-in-latin-america-retires/ | Source: US Navy Times

07:59:55 TR News; "A second U.S. strike finished them off." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/if-they-are-not-human-we-do-not-have-to-follow-the-law/ | Source: Truthdig

08:00:16 TR News; "The conflict over Western Sahara dates back decades and is inseparable from similar territorial disputes across the Middle East and North Africa." ☛ https://dawnmena.org/peace-in-the-maghreb-cannot-bypass-western-sahara/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now

08:00:32 TR News; "The California-based company’s suit, filed on Friday, mirrors a similar case brought last month by the Sydney-based Digital Freedom Project." ☛ https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/reddit-australia-social-media-ban-b2883178.html | Source: The Independent UK

08:02:36 TR News; "Australia this week implemented a world-first ban on social media for under-16s" ☛ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251212-will-france-be-next-to-introduce-an-australian-style-social-media-ban-for-children | Source: France24

08:02:45 TR News; "The “kill zone” is the military term for the area saturated with drones" ☛ https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-12/ukraine-trains-civilians-and-journalists-to-survive-under-drone-attacks.html | Source: El País

08:06:45 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Celebrating Six Years of openSUSE Bar ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Celebrating_Six_Years_of_openSUSE_Bar.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Celebrating_Six_Years_of_openSUSE_Bar.gmi ∎

08:09:18 TR News; "At the same time, the attention increases the threat from espionage, including cyber espionage, and attempts to further influence all parts of the kingdom of Denmark." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/12/danish-intelligence-accuse-the-us-of-using-economic-power-to-assert-will-over-allies | Source: The Guardian UK

08:09:34 TR News; "But the new measure is already pushing migrants who have built their lives in Russia to choose between conscription and leaving the country" ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-decree-russian-citizensip-residence-permit/33621628.html | Source: RFERL

08:09:47 TR News; "The USA has started requiring social media history and other personal information for travellers entering the USA." ☛ https://smist08.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/maintaining-privacy-and-avoiding-the-usa/ | Source: Stephen Smith

08:10:05 TR News; "America is no longer acting like a friendly partner: [...]" ☛ https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-trump-security-threat | Source: Paul Krugman

08:10:20 TR News; "Australia’s High Court doesn’t have to hear every case brought before it, but the nation’s government has already said it will defend the matter." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/reddit_sues_australia_social_ban/ | Source: The Register UK

08:10:38 TR News; "Continued rapid global population growth is unsustainable, but the media instead focus on low birth rates in developed countries." ☛ https://overpopulation-project.com/why-is-africas-extreme-population-growth-ignored-despite-very-serious-consequences-and-how-will-europe-respond/ | Source: Overpopulation

08:10:53 TR News; "The mainstream media just failed a basic civics test so badly that you’d think their brains have been pickled by the kinds of folks who spend all their time on X (oh, wait…)." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/trump-pretends-to-block-state-ai-laws-media-pretends-thats-legal/ | Source: Techdirt

08:11:10 TR News; "The nation banned social media for teens under the age of 16, including some of the most popular apps for young people, such as Instagram, Snapchat and TikTok." ☛ https://kansasreflector.com/2025/12/12/australia-just-banned-teens-from-social-media-why-not-kansas/ | Source: Kansas Reflector

08:11:27 TR News; Confidentiality ☛ https://www.fortra.com/blog/gartner-tells-businesses-block-ai-browsers-now | Source: Fortra LLC

08:11:46 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.18.1, Linux 6.17.12, and Linux 6.12.62 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_18_1_Linux_6_17_12_and_Linux_6_12_62.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_18_1_Linux_6_17_12_and_Linux_6_12_62.gmi ∎

08:11:50 TR News; "Among the culprits cited in the report: age verification laws, dozens of which have come into effect over the last year." ☛ https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/the-year-age-verification-laws-came-for-the-open-internet-130000979.html | Source: Engadget

08:12:05 TR News; "The letter has also been signed by Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA) and over 600 members of the public." ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/online-safety-act-org-calls-for-regulation-of-age-assurance-industry/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup

08:12:24 TR News; "Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety’s servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock’s national network of surveillance data in connection with protest activity." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/12/how-cops-are-using-flock-safetys-alpr-network-to-surveil-protesters-and-activists/ | Source: Techdirt

08:12:36 TR News; "Online age restrictions are imposed on many, many more users than in-person ID checks." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person | Source: EFF

08:12:49 TR News; "The UK Parliament convened earlier this week to debate a petition signed by almost 2.9 million people calling for an end to the government’s plans to roll out a national digital ID." ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/eff-and-12-organizations-urge-uk-politicians-drop-digital-id-scheme-ahead | Source: EFF

08:13:05 TR News; "Democrats are now concerned about President Donald Trump’s usage of those spying powers, rather than Republicans being worried about then-President Joe Biden." ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/warrant-requirements-democratic-worries-could-factor-into-spy-law-renewal-debate/ | Source: Scoop News Group

08:18:12 TR News; "The agents navigated and weaponised various features that already existed within Anthropic’s system." ☛ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/chinas-ai-use-for-cyber-espionage-shifts-cyber-focus-from-detection-to-trust/ | Source: The Strategist

08:26:09 TR News; "under the threat of sharing the materials on social media, police explained in a press release on Thursday." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20199239 | Source: YLE

08:26:46 TR News; "Finnish children’s risk of becoming victims of grooming, sexual harassment and luring is high compared to the rest of Europe" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20199422 | Source: YLE

08:27:27 TR News; "Those celebrating the death of Jay Taylor belong to the sadistic online group "764,” named for the first digits of the zip code of the 15-year-old Texan who started it in early 2021" ☛ https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/the-white-tiger-case-how-an-online-search-for-friends-ended-in-coerced-suicide-a-6dafcef7-de48-43d1-a5f3-9a9b5812230b | Source: Spiegel

08:28:08 TR News; "Read the full message from the school below." ☛ https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2025/12/09/student-holding-instrument-like-a-gun-prompts-automated-system-to-issue-code-red-at-oviedo-school/ | Source: Click Orlando

08:28:26 TR News; "automated weapons detection system" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/florida-school-locked-down-after-ai-weapon-detector-identifies-clarinet-as-gun.html | Source: BoingBoing

08:28:56 TR News; "It’s not quite the grovelingly glowing pro-AI press release we’ve numbed ourselves to hearing from many an artist and celebrity who’ve caved to that sweet tech startup money." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/wallace-and-gromit-creator-ai | Source: Futurism

08:29:44 TR News; "In any given work day, Asia would assume “three to five different personas” simultaneously, all of varying genders." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-companion-chatbots-kenya | Source: Futurism

08:30:08 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Samsung A54 report 10, after the calm comes the storm ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Samsung_A54_report_10_after_the_calm_comes_the_storm.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Samsung_A54_report_10_after_the_calm_comes_the_storm.gmi ∎

08:30:12 TR News; "Even weirder than trying to memory hole the disastrous ad was the company’s response to the mess." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mcdonalds-ai-commercial | Source: Futurism

08:30:30 TR News; "Above all, the report zeroes in on a fundamental tension: the toys are intended for kids, but the AI models that power them are not." ☛ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/another-ai-toy-inappropriate | Source: Futurism

08:30:51 TR News; "It’s hard to imagine this kind of thing happening if a human driver were involved, as having a man hiding in the trunk would’ve been noticed immediately." ☛ https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/woman-waymo-man-hiding-trunk | Source: Futurism

08:31:07 TR News; "I’ll admit that, when I first heard Paquet was teaching teens how to best prompt ChatGPT, I saw him as a traitor." ☛ https://thewalrus.ca/teaching-students-to-use-ai/ | Source: The Walrus

08:31:48 TR News; "Easy access to AI song generators has compounded the influx of AI slop—or AI “deepfakes”—to streaming platforms this year." ☛ https://pitchfork.com/news/king-gizzard-and-the-lizard-wizard-respond-to-spotify-impersonator-we-are-truly-doomed/ | Source: Condé Nast

08:32:10 TR News; "Since yesterday my server has again been getting absolutely obliterated by AI scrapers." ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/under-attack-please-stand-by-2/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski

08:32:27 TR News; "And those are just the problems you get when you try to use LLMs (which is what people almost always mean when they say “AI”)." ☛ https://svpow.com/2025/12/11/sv-pow-is-an-ai-free-zone/ | Source: Matt Wedel

08:32:52 TR News; "When the details become more clear, we’ll then have to unlearn all the personification we insisted on learning." ☛ https://seths.blog/2025/12/looking-at-pareidolia/ | Source: Seth Godin

08:33:17 TR News; "PCWorld reports that Amazon removed the erroneous recap after Games Radar spotted the mistake, along with similar AI-generated content for other shows." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3009535/fallout-season-1s-error-filled-ai-recap-was-so-bad-amazon-yanked-it.html | Source: PC World

08:33:54 TR News; "Back in 2017 I wrote about a technique for creating closures in C using JIT-compiled wrapper. It’s neat, though rarely necessary in real programs, so I don’t think about it often." ☛ https://nullprogram.com/blog/2025/12/12/ | Source: Chris Wellons

08:34:18 TR News; "At last, Apple has provided more detail of some of the improvements and changes in this summary." ☛ https://eclecticlight.co/2025/12/12/what-has-changed-in-macos-tahoe-26-2/ | Source: Howard Oakley

08:34:49 TR News; "The design language has become genuinely user-hostile. Everything blurs into everything else, you can't tell what's interactive and what isn't" ☛ https://gregmorris.co.uk/the-halo-fell-away/ | Source: Greg Morris

08:35:09 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Cinnamon 6.6 Desktop Environment Lands With Major Menu Redesign ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/Cinnamon_6_6_Desktop_Environment_Lands_With_Major_Menu_Redesign.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/Cinnamon_6_6_Desktop_Environment_Lands_With_Major_Menu_Redesign.gmi ∎

08:35:12 TR News; "I could, first, have done the same thing I did when trying digiKam, of generating versions of all photos that had edits and saving them into the same folders as their originals" ☛ https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/12/12/lightroom-apple-photos/ | Source: Phil Gyford

08:35:39 TR News; "As part of macOS 10.14 Mojave, Apple introduced a number of privacy controls for user data." ☛ https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/pppc-device-management-settings-visible-in-system-settings-on-macos-tahoe-26-2-0/ | Source: Rich Trouton

08:36:08 TR News; "The platform in question is described as Nonappropriated Fund Integrated Financial Management System (NIFMS)" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/us_sues_accenture_exec/ | Source: The Register UK

08:36:39 TR News; "Piotr Bazydło, principal vulnerability researcher at watchTowr, unveiled the findings at Black Hat Europe on Wednesday" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/10/microsoft_wont_fix_net_rce/ | Source: The Register UK

08:37:31 TR News; "The current rate to access basic entertainment- such as listening to music or watching movies – is 5 cents per minute." ☛ https://nevadacurrent.com/2025/12/11/clickbait-and-switch-implementation-of-nevadas-prison-tablet-program-comes-at-a-cost/ | Source: Nevada Current

08:38:29 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Frameworks 6.21.0 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/KDE_Frameworks_6_21_0.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/KDE_Frameworks_6_21_0.gmi ∎

08:39:01 TR News; "Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia is emerging as a potential Blue Zone, a region where people live longer, healthier lives." ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20199430 | Source: YLE

08:39:23 TR News; "when they put out these apps for kids" ☛ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/parents-allege-harmful-character-ai-chatbot-content-60-minutes/ | Source: CBS

08:39:50 TR News; "They don’t stand a chance." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/juliana-peralta-character-ai-bot | Source: Futurism

08:40:17 TR News; "But the proposed revisions had to be approved by the authorities before they could be implemented." ☛ https://phys.org/news/2025-12-reindeer-husbandry-experts.html | Source: Omicron Limited

08:40:38 TR News; "The reason? Cities simply aren’t designed for older people and others with restricted mobility – as our latest research demonstrates." ☛ https://theconversation.com/cities-arent-built-for-older-people-our-study-shows-many-cant-walk-fast-enough-to-beat-a-pedestrian-crossing-271874 | Source: The Conversation

08:41:50 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This Week in Plasma: Wayland screen mirroring and custom modes ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/This_Week_in_Plasma_Wayland_screen_mirroring_and_custom_modes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/This_Week_in_Plasma_Wayland_screen_mirroring_and_custom_modes.gmi ∎

08:41:52 TR News; "With no advance notice or apparent fanfare, Brodart" ☛ https://boffosocko.com/2025/12/12/breaking-news-brodart-no-longer-manufactures-or-sells-library-card-catalogs/ | Source: Chris Aldrich

08:42:13 TR News; "Having a second camera may sound like a bit of a luxury, but it's essential for working pros who not only need a backup camera in case one fails on an important photoshoot" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/camera-accessories/two-cameras-are-better-than-one-if-you-are-a-pro-photographer-these-are-my-hacks-for-shooting-events-on-dual-camera-bodies | Source: Digital Camera World

08:42:47 TR News; "Researchers have built a prototype that paves the way for enabling light-powered processor caches that can run at up to 60 GHz in the future" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/usc-and-us-madison-researchers-debut-foundry-made-photonic-memory-latch | Source: Tom's Hardware

08:44:16 TR News; "It’s hard to remember the exact order of operations. I was sleep deprived, hungry, and already numb to being yelled at." ☛ https://levlaz.org/great-lakes-illinois/ | Source: Lev Lazinskiy

08:44:42 TR News; "I feel like I am a terrible interview subject; maybe I should have added a few more jokes." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/people-and-blogs/ | Source: Nick Heer

08:44:57 TR News; "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Nick Heer, whose blog can be found at pxlnv.com." ☛ https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/nick-heer | Source: Manuel Moreale

08:45:37 TR News; "Weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA) is used to investigate the function of genes at the system-level." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/network-analysis-with-freecount/ | Source: Rlang

08:46:09 TR News; "The Romans’ hot-mixing" ☛ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-ancient-construction-site-in-the-ruins-of-pompeii-is-revealing-new-secrets-about-the-2000-year-old-recipe-for-roman-concrete-180987845/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine

08:46:31 TR News; "The main event will occur overnight on Saturday, 13 December, and into the early hours of Sunday, 14 December" ☛ https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/meteor-shower-geminids-midnight-window-everyone-misseshow-catch-150-meteors-per-hour-1762613 | Source: International Business Times

08:46:50 TR News; "This year, the Geminid peak falls on the evening of Saturday 13 December, and early morning Sunday 14 December." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/2025s-best-meteor-shower-is-about-to-light-up-the-sky-heres-your-guide | Source: Science Alert

08:47:14 TR News; "The boat was finally excavated in 1921, and has been on display at the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen ever since." ☛ https://theconversation.com/how-we-unlocked-the-secrets-of-denmarks-oldest-plank-boat-with-the-help-of-an-ancient-fingerprint-271977 | Source: The Conversation

08:47:57 TR News; "As the web browser de facto default since what feels like forever, Times New Roman has indeed been used, reused, and abused in every imaginable way" ☛ https://thejollyteapot.com/2025/12/12/typefaces-as-clothes/ | Source: Nicolas Magand

08:48:13 TR News; "But as you start to learn more about compositional theory, you may find the rule of thirds to be lacking." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/composition/rule-of-thirds-photography-getting-a-bit-boring-try-the-golden-ratio-instead | Source: Digital Camera World

08:48:29 TR News; "Dozens of government websites have fallen victim to a PDF-based SEO scam, while others have been hijacked to sell sex toys." ☛ https://www.404media.co/porn-is-being-injected-into-government-websites-via-malicious-pdfs/ | Source: 404 Media

08:49:01 TR News; "CVE-2025-55182 is an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in React Server Components with a CVSS v3.x score of 10.0 and a CVSS v4 score of 9.3." ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/threat-actors-exploit-react2shell-cve-2025-55182/ | Source: Google

08:51:51 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎

08:53:31 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎

08:56:52 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Two Ubuntu Flavours Won’t Be LTS Releases Next Year ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/Two_Ubuntu_Flavours_Won_t_Be_LTS_Releases_Next_Year.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/Two_Ubuntu_Flavours_Won_t_Be_LTS_Releases_Next_Year.gmi ∎

08:58:07 TR News; Techrights – Links 13/12/2025: Social Control Media Bans and "Could Finland be Hiding a Blue Zone?" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Links_13_12_2025_Social_Control_Media_Bans_and_Could_Finland_be.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Links_13_12_2025_Social_Control_Media_Bans_and_Could_Finland_be.gmi ∎

08:59:43 TR News; "Unfortunately even the otherwise ever so useful https://caniuse.com/ does not provide that information, although there's a feature request." ☛ https://www.netmeister.org/blog/https-caniuse.html | Source: Jan Schaumann

09:00:07 TR News; "I’m at the point where I’m migrating all my projects to uv, and new Python projects don’t use any other package manager." ☛ https://chrisamico.com/blog/2025-12-07/uv-new-python-setup/ |

09:00:13 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/LibreOffice_26_2_Beta1_is_available_for_testing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/LibreOffice_26_2_Beta1_is_available_for_testing.gmi ∎

09:00:47 TR News; "We've made it! The North Pole has been decorated and Advent of Code 2025 is finished. But not before telling you something about what feels like the most dirty solution for a puzzle ever." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-day-12/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost

09:01:01 TR News; "As a package maintainer, you might want to get some numbers or impressions on the usage of your package for various reasons" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/how-to-assess-usage-of-your-package/ | Source: Rlang

09:01:25 TR News; "It is a very small program that favours simplicity over efficiency." ☛ https://susam.net/fed-24-years-of-posts-to-markov-model.html | Source: SusamPal

09:01:37 TR News; "Let’s take a look at what’s going on in—and behind—this argument." ☛ https://www.sicpers.info/2025/12/is-spec-driven-development-the-end-of-agile-software-development/ | Source: SICP

09:02:36 TR News; "I have long maintained that smart contracts are a dumb idea: that a human process is actually a security feature." ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/ais-exploiting-smart-contracts.html | Source: Bruce Schneier

09:03:34 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (December 12 - 14) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/3_cool_Linux_apps_to_try_this_weekend_December_12_14.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/3_cool_Linux_apps_to_try_this_weekend_December_12_14.gmi ∎

09:03:49 TR News; "My book on concurrent programming in Go is finally finished. It walks you through goroutines, channels, select, pipelines, synchronization, race prevention, time handling, signaling" ☛ https://antonz.org/go-concurrency-released/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov

09:04:25 TR News; What if the Torment Nexus was fundamental to WordPress? ☛ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/12/what-if-the-torment-nexus-was-fundamental-to-wordpress/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski

09:04:55 TR News; "When I wrote the backend for my Firefox time-wasting extension (here), I assumed I was going to be setting up Postgres." ☛ https://matduggan.com/sqlite-for-a-rest-api-database/ | Source: Mat Duggan

09:05:12 TR News; "It does: this is just a zip file. lol." ☛ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/11/Zip-Files-as-Simple-Key-Value-Stores/ | Source: Ben Congdon

09:05:27 TR News; "That went over like a lead balloon with members of its core developer team." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/how-the-team-behind-valkey-knew-it-was-time-to-fork/ | Source: The New Stack

09:06:06 TR News; "This is a short note on setting up Doom emacs for very fast typst previews." ☛ https://curiouscoding.nl/posts/typst-in-emacs/ | Source: Groot Koerkamp

09:06:34 TR News; "Like possibly many others I was surprised just how small this 3W rated chip was and immediately wondered how I was going to solder it in place." ☛ https://radio.g4hsk.co.uk/2025/12/12/10ghz-pa-using-a-mini-circuits-pma5-123-3w-mmic/ | Source: G8GKA

09:06:45 TR News; "Compute modules are everywhere, in kiosks, signage, 3D printers, and even the new Ableton Move." ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy | Source: Jeff Geerling

09:06:54 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kali Linux 2025.4 arrives with GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5, and much more ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Kali_Linux_2025_4_arrives_with_GNOME_49_KDE_Plasma_6_5_and_much.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Kali_Linux_2025_4_arrives_with_GNOME_49_KDE_Plasma_6_5_and_much.gmi ∎

09:07:07 TR News; "A few weeks ago Framework stopped selling RAM separately from laptops and the new desktop (which uses the same SO-DIMM memory)" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3009650/framework-raises-laptop-ram-prices-50-as-brutal-memory-crunch-grinds-on.html | Source: PC World

09:07:18 TR News; "The Framework Laptop DIY Edition provides memory options ranging from 8GB to an impressive 96GB (2x48GB)." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/framework-raises-ddr5-ram-upgrade-prices-by-50-percent-amid-dram-shortage-only-for-laptop-diy-edition-says-prices-will-likely-rise-again | Source: Tom's Hardware

09:08:33 TR News; "The Kali Linux team have announced a new version of their Debian-based distribution." ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12665 | Source: Distro Watch

09:08:35 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I moved more of my Linux workflow to the terminal, and now I can’t stop ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/I_moved_more_of_my_Linux_workflow_to_the_terminal_and_now_I_can.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/I_moved_more_of_my_Linux_workflow_to_the_terminal_and_now_I_can.gmi ∎

09:09:04 TR News; "I slowly started moving over some of my devices piece-by-piece." ☛ https://btxx.org/posts/tech-purity/ | Source: Brad Taunt

09:09:21 TR News; "In a fascinating retrospective titled The story of Propolice, longtime OpenBSD developer Miod Vallat (miod@) tells the story of the early stack protection work on OpenBSD." ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251212094310 | Source: Undeadly

09:09:34 TR News; "As you may remember, during a good 15 years, every OpenBSD release came with one or sometimes a few songs or musical pieces." ☛ http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/propolice.html |

09:10:21 TR News; "Earlier this year I wrote an article explaining how to use the CP/M operating system which has been the dominant OS of the 8-bit era of microcomputers" ☛ https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/playing-with-cp-m-part-1/ | Source: Eerie Linux

09:10:40 TR News; "PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains" ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2953497/a-world-beyond-windows-which-linux-distribution-is-right-for-you.html | Source: PC World

09:10:54 TR News; "This report covers hrev59111 through hrev59187." ☛ https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-12-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_november_2025/ | Source: HaikuOS

09:11:43 TR News; "For package maintainers that publish attestations signed using Sigstore (as supported by PyPI and npm)" ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/12/catching-malicious-package-releases-using-a-transparency-log/ | Source: Trail of Bits

09:11:54 TR News; "In a recent entry, I said in passing that the venerable logger utility had some amount of annoyances associated with it" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/SyslogWellFormedEntryPieces | Source: University of Toronto

09:12:27 TR News; "This change has been coming for a while." ☛ https://thenewstack.io/papermoon-a-space-grade-linux-for-the-newspace-era/ | Source: The New Stack

09:12:56 TR News; "the year of Linux on the desktop" ☛ https://birchtree.me/blog/my-crazy-2026-prediction-it-involves-linux/ | Source: Matt Birchler

09:13:38 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE's End of Year Fundraiser 2025 and This Week in KDE Apps; Plasma Camera & Plasma Settings ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/KDE_s_End_of_Year_Fundraiser_2025_and_This_Week_in_KDE_Apps_Pla.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/08/KDE_s_End_of_Year_Fundraiser_2025_and_This_Week_in_KDE_Apps_Pla.gmi ∎

09:14:25 TR News; "We are inviting contributors across the globe and the Americas to submit talks or workshops for the event, which is scheduled to take place April 29 - 30 at CUC University in Barranquilla, Colombia." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/12/12/america-summit/ | Source: OpenSUSE

09:14:40 TR News; "The openSUSE Bar has become more than just a meeting place over the years; it’s a space to collaborate, connect and enjoy a welcoming atmosphere for sharing ideas and tech knowledge." ☛ https://news.opensuse.org/2025/12/12/six-years-of-os-bar/ | Source: OpenSUSE

09:15:18 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Ventoy 1.1.09 Released With Experimental Btrfs Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Ventoy_1_1_09_Released_With_Experimental_Btrfs_Support.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Ventoy_1_1_09_Released_With_Experimental_Btrfs_Support.gmi ∎

09:16:20 TR News; "The goal is to meet your commitment while delivering long-term benefits to the business." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/retire-azure-consumption-commitment-macc-ubuntu-pro | Source: Ubuntu

09:16:45 TR News; "With Red Hat OpenShift AI, we are committed to providing a production-ready environment for complex AI workloads, and we recognize that robust security is important." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/implementing-best-practices-controlled-network-environment-ray-clusters-red-hat-openshift-ai-30 | Source: Red Hat Official

09:19:58 TR News; "Docker has become the go-to solution for containerizing applications, and this guide takes you through the essential commands you need to know to control your Docker environment" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/docker-commands-cheat-sheet/ | Source: TecMint

09:20:16 TR News; "This is where Fedora Toolbx comes into the picture" ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/fedora-toolbx-containerized-development/ | Source: TecMint

09:24:18 TR News; The Coming Need for Formal Specification ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/12/The-Coming-Need-for-Formal-Specification/

09:27:32 TR News; LRT English Newsletter: Hands off free speech… and trucks ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2772313/lrt-english-newsletter-hands-off-free-speech-and-trucks

09:28:28 TR News; Samsung A54 report 10, after the calm comes the storm ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/samsung-a54-report-10.html

09:29:03 TR News; This Week in Plasma: Wayland screen mirroring and custom modes ☞ https://blogs.kde.org/2025/12/13/this-week-in-plasma-wayland-screen-mirroring-and-custom-modes/

09:30:21 TR News; Ventoy 1.1.09 Released With Experimental Btrfs Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/ventoy-1-1-09-released-with-experimental-btrfs-support/

09:30:45 TR News; KDE Frameworks 6.21 Is Out With Extensive Bug Fixes ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-21-is-out-with-extensive-bug-fixes/

09:31:11 TR News; KDE Ships Frameworks 6.21.0 ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/frameworks/6/6.21.0/

09:32:03 TR News; Kali GNU/Linux 2025.4 Released With GNOME 49, KDE Plasma 6.5 ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kali-linux-2025-4-released-with-gnome-49-kde-plasma-6-5/

09:33:42 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): What is NTFSPlus and Why Does It Matter for Linux Users? ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/What_is_NTFSPlus_and_Why_Does_It_Matter_for_Linux_Users.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/What_is_NTFSPlus_and_Why_Does_It_Matter_for_Linux_Users.gmi ∎

09:34:04 TR News; Security updates for Friday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050251/

09:34:38 TR News; What is NTFSPlus and Why Does It Matter for GNU/Linux Users? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/ntfsplus/

09:35:23 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎

09:41:04 TR News; Now BillBC, bribed by Bill Epsteingate, tries to cover up for Bill after he did a photo op with 'prince' Andrew. Corrupted media.

09:46:26 TR News; Cinnamon 6.6 Release Sets the Tone for the Next GNU/Linux Mint Release ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/cinnamon-6-6/

09:46:43 TR News; Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Review: Is This the GNU/Linux Distro of the Year 2025? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/pop-os-24-04-review/

09:47:11 TR News; KDE Surpasses 2025 Fundraiser Goal With Record Community Support ☞ https://linuxiac.com/kde-surpasses-2025-fundraiser-goal-with-record-community-support/

09:48:12 TR News; Adam Young: Qemu code format in vim ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/12/qemu-code-format-in-vim/

13:09:09 TR News; Lucia Day today https://www.voguescandinavia.com/articles/everything-you-need-to-know-about-st-lucias-day https://www.myhelsinki.fi/events/lucia-parade-2025/

13:09:30 TR News; iophk: They cannot reconcile this with the excessive spending (1.2bn) on Microsoft licences https://yle.fi/a/74-20199587

13:09:54 TR News; Recall Finnish Politician Aura Salla Says Finland Must Dump Microsoft, Citing Security and Control Reasons, Not Costs https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/05/Finnish_Politician_Aura_Salla_Says_Finland_Must_Dump_Microsoft_.shtml

13:11:48 TR News; 6 Useful Code Formatters for Python ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-code-formatters-python/

13:12:12 TR News; cdncheck – detect various technology for a given IP address ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/cdncheck-detect-various-technology/

13:12:28 TR News; prek – reimagined version of pre-commit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/prek-reimagined-version-pre-commit/

13:13:10 TR News; From Beginner to Builder: Free OpenSSF and 'Linux' Foundation Education Courses ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/12/12/from-beginner-to-builder-free-openssf-and-linux-foundation-education-courses/

13:14:57 TR News; PasteLock – encrypted clipboard manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pastelock-encrypted-clipboard-manager/

13:15:12 TR News; albafetch – displays system information ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/albafetch-displays-system-information/

13:15:24 TR News; Dax – shell with CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dax-shell-cli/

13:15:53 TR News; mq – jq-like command-tool for Markdown processing ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/mq-jq-like-command-tool-markdown-processing/

13:16:32 TR News; Gearcoleco – cross-platform ColecoVision emulator ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gearcoleco-cross-platform-colecovision-emulator/

13:16:55 TR News; LinuxLinks.com reaches epic milestone ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linuxlinks-com-reaches-epic-milestone/

13:17:29 TR News; starlit – minimal and customizable weather CLI ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/starlit-minimal-customizable-weather-cli/

13:19:40 TR News; hypruler – measure anything on your screen ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypruler-measure-anything/

13:19:50 TR News; uncover – quickly discover exposed hosts on the internet ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/uncover-quickly-discover-exposed-hosts-internet/

13:20:21 TR News; Manure-flinging Microsoft shills seem to have resorted to truly ridiculous and likely illegal attacks on critics

13:20:39 TR News; Backmey – desktop backup tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/backmey-desktop-backup-tool/

13:24:39 TR News; xremap – key remapper ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/xremap-key-remapper/

13:25:44 TR News; GG – GUI for the version control system Jujutsu ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/gg-gui-version-control-system-jujutsu/

13:25:58 TR News; sneemok – screenshot tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/sneemok-screenshot-tool/

13:26:08 TR News; hostman – simple tool for managing file uploads to hosting services ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hostman-simple-tool-managing-file-uploads-hosting-services/

13:26:17 TR News; 10 Best Free and Open Source Status Page Systems ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-status-page-systems/

13:26:33 TR News; tek – colorful music making program ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tek-colorful-music-making-program/

13:27:16 TR News; This week @Linux.org (2025.E5) ☞ https://www.linux.org/threads/this-week-linux-org-2025-e5.60008/

13:32:29 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): BSD and Linux Kernel Space / File Systems / Virtualization ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Space_File_Systems_Virtualization.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel_Space_File_Systems_Virtualization.gmi ∎

13:32:30 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Haiku R1/beta5 as a "Daily Driver" and Creating User-Friendly Installers Across Operating Systems ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Haiku_R1_beta5_as_a_Daily_Driver_and_Creating_User_Friendly_Ins.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Haiku_R1_beta5_as_a_Daily_Driver_and_Creating_User_Friendly_Ins.gmi ∎

13:32:32 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Graphics: NVIDIA news and benchmarking NVENC video transcoding on the Pi ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Linux_Graphics_NVIDIA_news_and_benchmarking_NVENC_video_transco.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Linux_Graphics_NVIDIA_news_and_benchmarking_NVENC_video_transco.gmi ∎

13:32:33 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Red_Hat_on_Buzzwords_and_Paid_for_Articles_About_Oneself.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Red_Hat_on_Buzzwords_and_Paid_for_Articles_About_Oneself.gmi ∎

13:32:35 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/today_s_howtos.1.gmi ∎

13:32:36 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 365 Days Times Two Since Last Reboot ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/365_Days_Times_Two_Since_Last_Reboot.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/365_Days_Times_Two_Since_Last_Reboot.gmi ∎

13:36:24 _what__; how's the cooling?

13:39:12 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Prepare for Another Massive Wave of Microsoft Layoffs (Probably Next Month, Like Every January) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Prepare_for_Another_Massive_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Probably_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Prepare_for_Another_Massive_Wave_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Probably_.gmi ∎

13:41:06 TR News; Xbox leadership gets a shake-up in 2026 — current CFO Tim Stuart transitions to COO of ZeniMax Media https://www.inkl.com/news/xbox-leadership-gets-a-shake-up-in-2026-current-cfo-tim-stuart-transitions-to-coo-of-zenimax-media

13:41:48 TR News; "Between layoffs, poor sales, Xbox Game Pass price increases, and Microsoft execs’ obsession with AI, fans’ faith in the next-gen follow-up to the Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X is at an all-time low." https://www.gamingbible.com/news/platform/xbox/xbox-has-clear-next-gen-decision-merger-717049-20251213

13:43:30 _what__; http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Richard_Stallman_Was_Right_About_AI.shtml

13:44:16 _what__; http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/06/Richard_M_Stallman_Has_Published_AI_Memos_Since_1980_45_Years_A.shtml

13:44:22 _what__; the CIA joke

13:44:40 _what__; predicting Big Brother that is NSA et al

13:45:16 _what__; four years before Orwell's setting year

13:48:37 _what__; and Troll-Pompeo's "Assassinate Assange" scheme

13:58:30 TR News; Techrights – 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Microsoft Dropped the Ball ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/2026_Could_Very_Well_be_Last_Year_of_XBox_Microsoft_Dropped_the.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/2026_Could_Very_Well_be_Last_Year_of_XBox_Microsoft_Dropped_the.gmi ∎

14:10:11 TR News; Techrights – LLM Slop Becoming Rarer ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/LLM_Slop_Becoming_Rarer.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/LLM_Slop_Becoming_Rarer.gmi ∎

14:21:53 TR News; Techrights – GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.gmi ∎

14:24:45 _what__; I was right pitching the "Boycott GAFAM" idea to TR

14:24:49 _what__; given above

14:25:19 _what__; or better yet "Boycott BINARY FATA MORGANA" http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/01/_It_s_time_to_call_these_destructive_companies_out.shtml

14:25:51 schestowitz[TR2]; BINARY FATA MORGANA is psydroid2 mostly

14:25:55 schestowitz[TR2]; we came up with it years ago

14:30:59 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat on Buzzwords and Paid-for 'Articles' About Oneself ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Red_Hat_on_Buzzwords_and_Paid_for_Articles_About_Oneself.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Red_Hat_on_Buzzwords_and_Paid_for_Articles_About_Oneself.gmi ∎

14:31:00 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Warm Winter ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Warm_Winter.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Warm_Winter.gmi ∎

14:36:56 TR News; To Linus Torvalds, the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft 'Linux' Foundation is Increasingly a Liability and Risk to the Brand ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/To_Linus_Torvalds_the_Microsoft_Linux_Foundation_is_Increasingl.shtml

14:38:24 TR News; Tails 7.3.1 releases with key security updates for Tor and Thunderbird ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/tails-731-releases-with-key-security-updates-for-tor-and-thunderbird/ "The privacy-focused Tails OS has released version 7.3.1 to patch a security vulnerability found in the earlier 7.3 version. It updates key software like Tor and Thunderbird."

14:40:53 TR News; Ubuntu MATE & Unity Will NOT Be Official Ubuntu 26.04 Flavors ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/ubuntu-mate-unity-will-not-be-official-ubuntu-26-04-flavors/

14:41:12 TR News; Pop!_OS 24.04 Released with COSMIC Desktop & ARM Computers Support ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/pop_os-24-04-released-cosmic-desktop-arm/

14:41:35 TR News; NetworkManager 1.54.3 Improves Certificate Access Checks ☞ https://linuxiac.com/networkmanager-1-54-3-improves-certificate-access-checks/

14:41:49 MinceR; lol @ flavors for a systemd distribution

14:42:04 TR News; Using Wordlists for Brute Force Attack in Kali GNU/Linux ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/kali-linux-wordlists-brute-force/

14:42:18 schestowitz[TR2]; eins dehomag

14:45:00 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/25062522

14:48:04 TR News; LHB GNU/Linux Digest #25.38: Pro Vim Tips, KubeTUI, Wordlists, Screen Command and More ☞ https://linuxhandbook.com/newsletter/25-38/

14:48:33 TR News; CM0 - a new Raspberry Pi you can't buy ☞ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/cm0-new-raspberry-pi-you-cant-buy

14:49:32 TR News; Solus GNU/Linux 4.8 Removes Python 2 ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Solus-Linux-4.8-Removes-Python-2

14:51:11 TR News; Kali 2025.4 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/kali

14:51:19 TR News; Grml 2025.12 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/grml

14:53:26 TR News; Grml 2025.12 GNU/Linux Distro Is Out Based on Debian Forky and Linux Kernel 6.17 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/grml-2025-12-linux-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-forky-and-linux-kernel-6-17

14:54:14 TR News; Kali GNU/Linux 2025.4 Ethical Hacking Distro Released with KDE Plasma 6.5, GNOME 49 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-4-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-kde-plasma-6-5-gnome-49

14:55:54 TR News; KDE Frameworks 6.21 Adds Support for Nim Code Files to the Breeze Icon Theme ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-6-21-adds-support-for-nim-code-files-to-the-breeze-icon-theme

14:56:55 TR News; pearOS Is Back, Now Based on Arch GNU/Linux and Featuring the KDE Plasma Desktop ☞ https://9to5linux.com/pearos-is-back-now-based-on-arch-linux-and-featuring-the-kde-plasma-desktop

14:57:28 TR News; "Bluetooth Spoofing" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/liberating-airpods-with-bluetooth-spoofing/ | Source: Hackaday

14:59:13 TR News; Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 2 Available to Download ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/12/ubuntu-26-04-snapshot-2-released

14:59:26 TR News; Valve's SteamOS, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Canonical's Ubuntu, and Other Platforms That Only Leverage Free Software (But Won't Protect It) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Valve_s_SteamOS_Microsoft_Canonical_s_Ubuntu_and_Other_Platform.shtml

14:59:55 TR News; Ubuntu Studio: Coming to 26.04 LTS: Three Layouts ☞ https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/12/coming-to-26-04-lts-three-layouts/

15:01:41 TR News; In Other News: PromptPwnd Attack, macOS Bounty Complaints, Chinese Hackers Trained in Cisco Academy ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/in-other-news-promptpwnd-attack-small-macos-bounties-chinese-hackers-trained-in-cisco-academy/

15:01:59 TR News; A look at an Android ITW DNG exploit ☞ https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-look-at-android-itw-dng-exploit.html

15:03:00 TR News; What's the point of lightweight code with modern computers? ☞ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/97426.html

15:04:02 TR News; $320,000 Paid Out at Zeroday.Cloud for Open Source Software Exploits ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/320000-paid-out-at-zeroday-cloud-for-open-source-software-exploits/

15:04:37 TR News; New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, including Bits and Bops - 2025-12-10 Edition ☞ https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-clients-2025-12-10-edition/index.html

15:05:40 TR News; Outreachy June 2025 Interns with Bioconductor ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/outreachy-june-2025-interns-with-bioconductor/

15:06:04 TR News; NotNative – modern note-taking app ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/notnative-modern-note-taking-app/

15:07:12 TR News; There is no "OSI Community", about 97% of the money of OSI comes from monopolies, notably Microsoft ☞ https://opensource.org/blog/celebrating-generosity-and-growth-in-the-osi-community

15:09:07 TR News; Jack Wallen is still promoting slop ☞ https://thenewstack.io/coding-with-the-gemini-cli-tool/

15:09:24 TR News; Playing with CP/M – part 1 ☞ https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/playing-with-cp-m-part-1/

15:10:30 TR News; Four more Bunker Hill EV patents prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/12/12/two-more-bunker-hill-ev-patents-prior-art-found

15:11:17 TR News; Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2025/50 ☞ https://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/2025/12/tumbleweed-review-of-the-week-2025-50/

15:15:36 TR News; Divers Intrigued by Huge Underwater Structure ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/divers-intrigued-by-huge-underwater-wall

15:16:08 TR News; New model for teacher wage rise in the making ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/12.12.2025-new-model-for-teacher-wage-rise-in-the-making.a626181/

15:18:26 TR News; "Ironically, Stallman is completely comfortable with PostgreSQL which is semantic context adjacent, charitably. It describes a small element of the project (a synthetic SQL syntax), not the project itself." - someone in social control media

15:25:17 TR News; Techrights – Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Latest_Stallman_Talk_Event_in_Argentina_Published.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Latest_Stallman_Talk_Event_in_Argentina_Published.gmi ∎

15:32:34 TR News; Backlash grows in South Korea after Lotte department store asks customer to remove union vest ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/backlash-grows-in-south-korea-after-lotte-department-store-asks-customer-to-remove-union-vest

15:33:14 TR News; Run privileged commands more securely in OpenShift Dev Spaces ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/12/run-privileged-commands-more-securely-openshift-dev-spaces

15:33:42 TR News; Advanced authentication and authorization for MCP Gateway ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/12/12/advanced-authentication-authorization-mcp-gateway

15:35:22 TR News; This Week in GNOME: #228 Midnight Edition ☞ https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/12/twig-228/

15:36:22 TR News; Zip Files as (Simple) Key-Value Stores ☞ https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/12/11/Zip-Files-as-Simple-Key-Value-Stores/

15:36:43 _what__; http://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/openai-launches-gpt-5-2-with-improved-reasoning-memory-and-pro-focused-variants/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/13/GPT_5_is_Another_Microsoft_Dead_Cat_Trying_to_Bounce.shtml

15:37:05 TR News; Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Updates about DebConf Video Team Sprint, rebootstrap, SBOM tooling in Debian and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) ☞ https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-11-2025/

15:37:18 schestowitz[TR2]; wow, 5.2

15:37:22 schestowitz[TR2]; why .2?

15:37:29 schestowitz[TR2]; why not .1?

15:37:33 schestowitz[TR2]; or 0.02?

15:37:45 schestowitz[TR2]; also

15:37:50 schestowitz[TR2]; is scam altman dddddoing coke>?

15:37:57 schestowitz[TR2]; or diddling his little sister?

15:38:09 MinceR; do you want them to call it "GPT 2025"?

15:38:16 MinceR; or "GPT Vista"?

15:38:31 schestowitz[TR2]; GPT-KIN

15:38:33 MinceR; lol

15:38:58 schestowitz[TR2]; sold about 400 units iirc

15:39:03 schestowitz[TR2]; the rest were discarded

15:39:06 schestowitz[TR2]; worst thing ever

15:39:09 schestowitz[TR2]; total writeoff

15:40:05 MinceR; "GPT XP Professional x64 Edition"

15:40:14 schestowitz[TR2]; http://techrights.org/n/2025/08/13/GPT_5_is_Another_Microsoft_Dead_Cat_Trying_to_Bounce.shtml

15:40:37 schestowitz[TR2]; oh, _what__ already cited this

15:40:41 MinceR; an insult to cats

15:40:44 schestowitz[TR2]; days later nobody talked about it

15:40:48 schestowitz[TR2]; as if it never existed

15:41:53 TR News; Kali GNU/Linux 2025.4 Release (Desktop Environments, Wayland & Halloween Mode) ☞ https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-linux-2025-4-release/

15:43:49 TR News; Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Launches with Scratch-Built COSMIC Epoch 1 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/pop_os-24-04-lts-launches-with-scratch-built-cosmic-epoch-1/

15:44:51 TR News; Rethinking sudo with object capabilities ☞ https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html "I hate sudo with a passion. It represents everything I find offensive about the modern Unix security model: [...]"

15:45:09 _what__; MinceR schestowitz[TR2] GPT a Greatly Plagiarized Thing

15:45:36 _what__; Great Plagiarism Thing

15:45:46 _what__; or whatever slopwatch is up into

15:46:36 schestowitz[TR2]; psydroid2: chelsea 2-0 just now https://www.premierleague.com/en/matches?competition=8&season=2025&matchweek=16&month=12

15:46:59 schestowitz[TR2]; _what__: slopwatch is not over, BUT

15:47:03 schestowitz[TR2]; it might be soon

15:47:06 schestowitz[TR2]; i see little stuff for it

15:47:21 schestowitz[TR2]; for 1-2 samples an article can be more focused

15:51:08 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Governments Wasting Billions on Worthless and Even Harmful Microsoft Licences ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/29/Governments_Wasting_Billions_of_Worthless_and_Even_Harmful_Micr.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/11/29/Governments_Wasting_Billions_of_Worthless_and_Even_Harmful_Micr.gmi ∎

15:51:14 _what__; a site that I was an avid reader of but I ended up not: http://techworm.net

15:51:37 _what__; slop?

15:51:42 schestowitz[TR2]; yes

15:51:45 schestowitz[TR2]; something like that

15:51:54 schestowitz[TR2]; Techworm was bad

15:51:55 schestowitz[TR2]; see:

15:53:13 schestowitz[TR2]; cannto find it anymore

15:53:18 schestowitz[TR2]; it did rogue things

15:53:21 schestowitz[TR2]; about a decade ago

15:53:24 schestowitz[TR2]; i wrote about that

15:53:32 schestowitz[TR2]; btw, gulag "AI" says "Roy Schestowitz is a British software engineer"

15:53:33 schestowitz[TR2]; wrong

15:53:35 schestowitz[TR2]; but

15:53:36 schestowitz[TR2]; "AI"

15:53:40 schestowitz[TR2]; facts don't matter

15:53:48 schestowitz[TR2]; mmmake stuff up, it's OK,, it "hallucinates"

15:54:27 schestowitz[TR2]; i was using google to find what I wrote about Techworm

15:54:28 _what__; random search time http://techrights.org/search/query?search=Search&set1=any&query1=techworm

15:54:30 schestowitz[TR2]; i wrote a lot

15:54:38 schestowitz[TR2]; of course google could not find any

15:54:45 schestowitz[TR2]; Techworm is useless, google is also useless

15:54:54 schestowitz[TR2]; google used to have vast reach

15:55:13 schestowitz[TR2]; Techworm had several issues

15:55:23 schestowitz[TR2]; but i cannot recall them as it was a long time ago

15:55:29 schestowitz[TR2]; i thiink i was not about LLMs

15:55:35 schestowitz[TR2]; but more about spam and blogspam

15:55:38 schestowitz[TR2]; and plagiaarising work

15:55:41 schestowitz[TR2]; annnd anti-Linux FUD

15:55:49 schestowitz[TR2]; copied from others' site

15:55:57 schestowitz[TR2]; so we began mentally blacklisting it

15:56:12 schestowitz[TR2]; it was connected to another domain

15:56:18 schestowitz[TR2]; whoooooose addresssss I cannot remember

15:56:23 schestowitz[TR2]; and both were problematic

15:56:26 schestowitz[TR2]; around 2017

15:57:10 TR News; South Korea exam chief resigns after complaints that English test was too hard ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-exam-chief-quits-over-complaints-of-too-hard-tests

15:57:45 TR News; Malaysia seeks ex-Goldman banker Leissner’s extradition to face 1MDB trial ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-seeks-ex-goldman-banker-extradition-to-face-1mdb-trial

16:04:12 _what__; no search so https://www.techworm.net/category/news/page/190 to https://www.techworm.net/category/news/page/193

16:04:33 _what__; that's where 2017 is

16:06:48 schestowitz[TR2]; i think they reposted in another site

16:06:51 schestowitz[TR2]; or with another site

16:06:55 schestowitz[TR2]; and used BS images

16:07:06 schestowitz[TR2]; and really awful headlines

16:07:12 schestowitz[TR2]; based on what other sites said

16:07:16 schestowitz[TR2]; and without linking to these

16:09:21 TR News; Hong Kong's legal clampdown on tycoon and China critic Jimmy Lai ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/hong-kongs-legal-clampdown-on-tycoon-and-china-critic-jimmy-lai

16:10:22 TR News; As jobs dry up, China’s migrant workers are returning to their villages and staying put ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/as-jobs-dry-up-chinas-migrant-workers-are-returning-to-their-villages-and-staying-put

16:10:53 TR News; Catching malicious package releases using a transparency log ☞ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/12/12/catching-malicious-package-releases-using-a-transparency-log/

16:11:24 TR News; Abusing DLLs EntryPoint for the Fun, (Fri, Dec 12th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32562

16:14:12 TR News; Andy Farnell and Helen Plews Now at the Wheel in Cybershow ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Andy_Farnell_and_Helen_Plews_Now_at_the_Wheel_in_Cybershow.shtml

16:17:07 TR News; "yes many remaing IBM "managers" are bullies who are numb from the RA's over 40 years, and too often promoted based on WOKE traits and not skills or experience. Age, s-x, skin color , race etc. DO FILE DAY 1 for unemployment."

16:17:11 TR News; "You will be surprised how easy it is after you file the first time. Then usually you have to log in weekly and document what you did during the week to look for a job. JUST DO IT!!!!!!!!!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbn7ncjw

16:35:22 TR News; Techrights – It Seems Like IBM is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/It_Seems_Like_IBM_is_Firing_Everybody_Anywhere_Any_Age_No_Matte.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/It_Seems_Like_IBM_is_Firing_Everybody_Anywhere_Any_Age_No_Matte.gmi ∎

16:40:32 _what__; diverse firings, equal firings, and inclusive firings

16:41:00 _what__; "no matter what, fired"

16:41:59 nobody; google seems to have locked out all text-console browsers, with or without spoofed user-agent string

16:42:15 nobody; either the "browser is too old" or "javascript is deactivated"

16:42:39 _what__; and searx whoogle defunct, it's the JavaScript traps

16:42:57 _what__; searching using Digital Gulag now requires JS

16:43:13 nobody; it does, no way around

16:43:28 _what__; nobody: http://github.com/searxng/searxng/issues/5286

16:43:59 nobody; google effectively locked-out posix-terminals

16:47:12 _what__; also http://github.com/mat-1/metasearch2/pull/31

16:48:50 nobody; nuke

16:50:24 TR News; Techrights – Dealing With "Tech Cults" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Dealing_With_Tech_Cults.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Dealing_With_Tech_Cults.gmi ∎

16:53:51 _what__; heads up: you forgot the notorious cargo cult http://techrights.org/n/2025/11/06/Rust_s_Memory_Safety_Talking_Point_Ought_to_be_Discarded_in_Lig.shtml

16:53:57 _what__; the Rust people

16:55:41 nobody; apropos, i've managed to push TinyCC/Linux completely self-hosting since recently

16:56:10 nobody; it's a complete distro now, driven by tinycc-toolchain, gcc is optional, not needed

16:56:25 nobody; besides GNU/Linux, well, there's another one, just as said, TinyCC/Linux

16:57:11 nobody; it's passed notable runtime-testing, given it re-compiled itself, with perl.static python.static and portage-tooling involved

17:02:59 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Most of Today's Web is Trash ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Most_of_Today_s_Web_is_Trash.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Most_of_Today_s_Web_is_Trash.gmi ∎

17:05:45 Isambard_Prince; https://www.npr.org/2025/12/13/nx-s1-5641047/washington-posts-ai-podcast

17:05:53 Isambard_Prince; The Bezos Bugle is turning into a slopfarm.

17:06:02 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], ^

17:07:07 schestowitz[TR2]; oh

17:07:15 schestowitz[TR2]; i saw that

17:07:18 schestowitz[TR2]; days ago

17:07:22 schestowitz[TR2]; i think experimental

17:07:23 schestowitz[TR2]; for now

17:07:26 schestowitz[TR2]; iiiit'll fail

17:07:45 schestowitz[TR2]; it does not scale

17:07:49 schestowitz[TR2]; if you produce garbage

17:07:52 schestowitz[TR2]; inc. quantiity

17:07:54 schestowitz[TR2]; of garbage

17:07:58 schestowitz[TR2]; it's still garbage

17:08:03 schestowitz[TR2]; people move away, move along

17:08:05 schestowitz[TR2]; no interest

17:08:27 schestowitz[TR2]; LLMs and other slop are shit-generatring machine, crap-spewing algos

17:08:33 schestowitz[TR2]; today I saw google telling lies about me

17:08:35 schestowitz[TR2]; as "AI"

17:08:40 schestowitz[TR2]; i didn't search for me

17:08:43 schestowitz[TR2]; for my name

17:08:52 schestowitz[TR2]; but it said who I was

17:08:55 schestowitz[TR2]; and got it wrong

17:08:58 schestowitz[TR2]; something so basic

17:09:02 schestowitz[TR2]; cannot be done with LLMs

17:09:10 schestowitz[TR2]; they lack actual knowledge

17:09:13 schestowitz[TR2]; so makeee a podcaast?????

17:09:15 schestowitz[TR2]; with this??

17:10:01 _what__; the dead internet, no humans, just slopfarms

17:10:17 schestowitz[TR2]; pooooooooooooooooooodcast can take a LOT of time to listen to

17:10:21 schestowitz[TR2]; and you risk being told lies

17:10:25 schestowitz[TR2]; so why ooooooooooh why?

17:10:47 schestowitz[TR2]; nobody even accountable for lies

17:10:51 schestowitz[TR2]; they just say, sorry, bot!!"

17:10:58 schestowitz[TR2]; "will correct"

17:11:01 schestowitz[TR2]; but it's too late

17:11:07 schestowitz[TR2]; don't let the bot publish

17:11:10 schestowitz[TR2]; and then it won't happen

17:11:19 schestowitz[TR2]; some say they assign people to fact-check the bots

17:11:20 schestowitz[TR2]; it won't work

17:11:21 schestowitz[TR2]; first,

17:11:32 schestowitz[TR2]; the person is told convincnglly by the bot "facts"

17:11:40 schestowitz[TR2]; and cannot check them all on the spot

17:11:43 schestowitz[TR2]; they lie with confidence

17:11:47 schestowitz[TR2]; second, it does not save time

17:11:51 schestowitz[TR2]; if you need a human to read it

17:12:00 schestowitz[TR2]; a human who can write as fast as she or he can read

17:12:08 schestowitz[TR2]; the whole thing is based on a fallacy

17:12:13 schestowitz[TR2]; that the bots get things right

17:12:16 schestowitz[TR2]; sometimes they mighhht

17:12:19 schestowitz[TR2]; but accident

17:16:36 MinceR; well, it's not like the humans were smarter than the slopfarms

17:17:07 schestowitz[TR2]; depends.

17:17:11 schestowitz[TR2]; there is no diclosure

17:17:28 schestowitz[TR2]; people went by reputations of domains and writers

17:17:31 schestowitz[TR2]; this is till doable

17:17:33 schestowitz[TR2]; to a deegrrree

17:28:26 _what__; "there is no disclosure" http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/

17:28:32 _what__; = no accountability

17:28:46 _what__; just control from whoever paid it (=spamfarm)

17:34:10 MinceR; (cat) (video) (audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/ZWENzPi

17:35:28 TR News; Techrights – Running With Technology ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Running_With_Technology.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Running_With_Technology.gmi ∎

17:37:13 TR News; "A "age discrimination lawsuit" is coming. IBM will be forced to provide the age distribution for the most recent layoff. Arvind and his cabal will get their fat bonuses. IBM can afford to pay penalties for age discrimination." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kca2ddbp

18:05:35 TR News; "biometric school security" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/cards/russia-s-biometric-school-security-plan-promises-safety-but-risks-students-personal-data | Source: Meduza

18:06:21 TR News; Grigory Sverdlin ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/12/13/anti-war-activist-grigory-sverdlin-says-hackers-have-paralyzed-russia-s-military-draft-database-for-several-months | Source: Meduza

18:07:22 TR News; Germany Accuses Russia of Sabotage, Cyberattacks and Disinformation ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/europe/germany-russia-cyberattacks-sabotage-hybrid-war.html

18:08:50 TR News; Techrights – Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Microsoft TCO and/or Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.gmi ∎

18:22:11 TR News; Techrights – EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/EPO_People_Power_Part_XI_The_Media_in_Europe_is_Ill_and_Complic.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/EPO_People_Power_Part_XI_The_Media_in_Europe_is_Ill_and_Complic.gmi ∎

18:36:12 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], Mandy got a secret bank account at Chase in October.

18:36:27 Isambard_Prince; This week he made me drive him to someone's house who he's cheating on me with.

18:36:49 Isambard_Prince; Today I found that receipt from opening the bank account in his backpack and I also found a 2024 car registration for my car.

18:37:13 TR News; Techrights – Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_and_Ubuntu_Working_for_Microsoft_Promoting_Proprietar.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_and_Ubuntu_Working_for_Microsoft_Promoting_Proprietar.gmi ∎

18:37:15 Isambard_Prince; He's been saying that when we get a divorce he's going to try to take my car away from me.

18:52:14 TR News; Techrights – Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Deliberate_Lies_or_Glaring_Distortions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Deliberate_Lies_or_Glaring_Distortions.gmi ∎

18:52:31 TR News; Disney does a dubious deal with OpenAI, even as trust in Hey Hi (AI) wanes ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/12/disney-dubious-deal-openai-even-trust-ai-wanes/

18:52:42 TR News; Disney Invests $1 Billion in OpenAI, Then Issues a Cease-and-Desist to Surveillance Giant Google Over ‘Massive-Scale’ Infringement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/12/disney-openai-investment-google/

18:53:01 TR News; TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/12/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three_12.html

18:53:47 TR News; Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/12/odf-advocacy-as-odf-news/

18:54:25 TR News; How To Install Syncthing on Debian 13 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-syncthing-debian-13/

18:54:33 TR News; How To Install Krita on Fedora 43 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-krita-fedora-43/

18:54:55 TR News; gnu linux bash how to filter backup exported contacts vcf for print ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/12/12/gnu-linux-bash-how-to-filter-backup-exported-contacts-vcf-for-print/

18:55:43 schestowitz[TR2]; Isambard_Prince: on what basis?

18:58:19 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/2506243

19:01:22 schestowitz[TR2]; you got a date from n app

19:01:25 schestowitz[TR2]; and married that date

19:01:33 schestowitz[TR2]; and now he assumes he owns everything

19:01:35 schestowitz[TR2]; ffffor.. reasons

19:01:43 schestowitz[TR2]; i know someone who married a crazy

19:02:05 schestowitz[TR2]; who now accuses him, openly of having them "kidnapped, drugged, and raped"

19:02:13 schestowitz[TR2]; and claims to not have even money for FOOD

19:02:26 schestowitz[TR2]; after he stole money from the account

19:02:35 schestowitz[TR2]; to pay the "hired gunnns" in London who attack my wife

19:02:52 schestowitz[TR2]; meanwhile, he seems to live in something akin to a prison cell

19:02:56 schestowitz[TR2]; and very deep in debt

19:06:33 schestowitz[TR2]; got conned by his own lawyers, who seduced him into a dumb lawsuit that left him half a million pounds out of pocket - my guess is that the spouse tried to warn him, so he threw the spouse in a cell

19:06:37 schestowitz[TR2]; and took over all the money

19:06:39 schestowitz[TR2]; very sad story

19:06:47 schestowitz[TR2]; don't marry narcissists

19:08:44 TR News; Hegseth’s New Pentagon Hey Hi (AI) Is Telling Military Personnel His Boat Strike Was Completely Illegal ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/hegseth-pentagon-military-ai

19:09:11 TR News; Disney Strikes Huge Deal With OpenAI: Get Ready for Sora Videos of Donald Duck Cooking Meth ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/disney-deal-openai-sora

19:13:57 TR News; "you might consider eating it or throwing it to a friendly squirrel. However, as [Penguin DIY] demonstrates, it’s perfectly possible to turn the humble nut into a clandestine surveillance device. It turns out the walnut worriers were right all along." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/hidden-camera-build-proves-you-cant-trust-walnuts/ | Source: Hackaday

19:14:09 TR News; Google to build subsea cables in Papua New Guinea under Australia defence treaty ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/google-to-build-subsea-cables-in-papua-new-guinea-under-australia-defence-treaty

19:14:58 TR News; Tomasz Torcz: Fedora 42→43, more eventful than usual ☞ https://enotty.pipebreaker.pl/posts/2025/12/fedora-42-43-more-eventful-than-usual/

19:15:26 TR News; Adam Young: Tracing how much time the kernel spends in a function ☞ https://adam.younglogic.com/2025/12/tracing-how-much-time-the-kernel-spends-in-a-function/

19:15:44 TR News; Community voices shaping the future of RIR governance ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/12/community-voices-shaping-the-future-of-rir-governance/

19:15:54 TR News; NRO RPKI Program — 2025 in review ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/12/12/nro-rpki-program-2025-in-review/

19:17:50 TR News; Diptyx E-Reader – An open-source, ESP32-powered, dual-screen e-book reader (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/12/diptyx-e-reader-an-open-source-esp32-powered-dual-screen-e-book-reader/

19:18:15 TR News; "Smart" or "Intelligent" Agents and "Vibe Coding" Deletes Everything You Have ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Smart_or_Intelligent_Agents_and_Vice_Coding_Deletes_Everything_.shtml

19:19:59 _what__; random ahh find http://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FF35TpyQXAAAK_qs.jpg

19:20:00 TR News; UPC is illegal. JUVE leaves out that part. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/generics-succeed-against-sanofi-over-cancer-drug-cabazitaxel/

19:20:16 _what__; 2020s: WEBAPPS, BLOATS, and what food fits for that

19:20:35 TR News; Once again EPO was made to grant a fake patent monopoly ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/boards-of-appeal-revoke-biogens-dosage-patent-for-tecfidera/

19:21:29 TR News; Team UPC and sponsors (bribes) of 'media' that covers patent policy ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/british-taylor-wessing-to-leave-the-schweizer-verein-association/

19:21:56 TR News; Software Patents: AI Industry Association patent monopoly prior art found ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/12/12/ai-industry-association-patent-prior-art-found

19:22:45 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], Mandy says he owns my car because I spent some of our money on car repairs.

19:22:57 Isambard_Prince; That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works.

19:23:28 Isambard_Prince; But the fact that he swiped an old car registration tells me that I need to immediately do a better job of hiding the car TITLE from him before he just signs my name on it and says it's his car down at the DMV.

19:23:39 TR News; Lucia 2025 | Finlands lucia | Yle Arenan ⚓ https://arenan.yle.fi/1-76749483 ䷉ Source: | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//arenan.yle.fi/1-76749483

19:23:44 Isambard_Prince; And knowing the piece of shit cops we have here they'd say well its your word against his.

19:25:20 TR News; Datacentre and Server Maintenance Next Week ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Datacentre_and_Server_Maintenance_Next_Week.shtml

19:25:30 TR News; Three new stable kernels ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050270/

19:25:41 schestowitz[TR2]; Isambard_Prince: he never drove

19:26:02 Isambard_Prince; I know. He thinks he'll get a license or hand it to this guy or something.

19:26:03 schestowitz[TR2]; cannot even pass exam that methheads pass

19:26:12 Isambard_Prince; The new guy is allegedly a nurse, who does not own a car.

19:26:16 Isambard_Prince; And lives with his mom.

19:26:36 schestowitz[TR2]; does he call mandy "mom"???

19:26:39 schestowitz[TR2]; or "daddy"?\

19:26:43 Isambard_Prince; Then Mandy said "After I move with him I'll just work at a different Walmart."

19:27:09 Isambard_Prince; I said "There's no Walmarts within two hours of where this guy lives so enjoy trying to find another job during a recession.

19:27:26 Isambard_Prince; He just assumes things with no facts to back that up.

19:27:33 TR News; Free Speech Is Under Attack – Your Support Makes a Difference ☞ https://publicknowledge.org/free-speech-is-under-attack-your-support-makes-a-difference/

19:27:38 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], I'm not going to tell him that I know about the bank account.

19:27:50 TR News; Seimas backs bill easing removal of LRT head despite warnings of free speech risks ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2773060/seimas-backs-bill-easing-removal-of-lrt-head-despite-warnings-of-free-speech-risks

19:27:55 Isambard_Prince; I'm just going to sit on it. When he responds to the divorce petition he has to tell them about all his assets.

19:28:19 Isambard_Prince; When he doesn't list the bank account, I'll inform the judge about it and show him the account opening document from the picture on my phone.

19:28:28 Isambard_Prince; That will basically destroy his credibility.

19:28:36 Isambard_Prince; "forgetting" that he has a bank account.

19:28:59 schestowitz[TR2]; bring the black bag

19:29:03 schestowitz[TR2]; with all the vhs tapes

19:29:05 schestowitz[TR2]; oh, wait

19:29:05 Isambard_Prince; Then they'll order him to produce bank statements and if there are significan assets there, he's really going to be in trouble.

19:29:06 schestowitz[TR2]; wrong person

19:29:51 TR News; Junichi Uekawa: I was wondering if there was some debian thread and noticed maybe something is broken in my mail setup. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Dec-13.html.en#2025-Dec-13-10:41:02

19:30:41 TR News; Ecuador criticized for freezing Indigenous and environmental group bank accounts ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/12/ecuador-criticized-for-freezing-indigenous-and-environmental-groups-bank-accounts/

19:31:47 schestowitz[TR2]; "ryan's mom has got it going on" https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dZLfasMPOU4

19:37:31 TR News; Huawei's latest mobile is armed with China's most advanced process node to date despite using blacklisted chipmaker ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/huaweis-latest-mobile-is-chinas-most-advanced-process-node-to-date-despite-using-blacklisted-chipmaker-huawei-kirin-9030-mobile-soc-made-on-smic-n-3-process-but-cant-compete-with-5nm-nodes

19:38:06 TR News; China mulls $70 billion domestic chip fabrication injection, would be largest of any government semiconductor investment ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-mulls-usd70-billion-domestic-chip-fabrication-injection-would-be-largest-of-any-government-semiconductor-investment-huawei-and-cambricon-among-candidates-in-push-to-compete-with-nvidia-other-u-s-firms

19:39:10 TR News; EU agrees three-euro small parcel tax to tackle China flood ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/13/eu-agrees-three-euro-small-parcel-tax-to-tackle-china-flood/

19:39:38 TR News; EU inches closer to trade deal with Latin America: Fair prices or Mercosur crisis? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/talking-europe/20251212-eu-inches-closer-to-trade-deal-with-latin-america-fair-prices-or-mercosur-crisis

19:40:17 TR News; Is System Administration Still a Good Career Choice in 2026? ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/is-sysadmin-good-career-choice/

19:40:42 TR News; "AI Terminal" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/weird-email-appliance-becomes-ai-terminal/ | Source: Hackaday

19:41:30 TR News; KDE Gear 25.12 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050262/

19:41:40 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): KDE Gear 25.12 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/KDE_Gear_25_12.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/11/KDE_Gear_25_12.gmi ∎

19:41:44 TR News; Wine 11.0-rc2 Released

19:43:00 TR News; Why deeper defense collaboration demands a zero trust approach to cybersecurity ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2025/12/why-deeper-defense-collaboration-demands-a-zero-trust-approach-to-cybersecurity-2/

19:43:16 TR News; Gladinet CentreStack Flaw Exploited to Hack Organizations ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/gladinet-centrestack-flaw-exploited-to-hack-organizations/

19:43:39 TR News; Fieldtex Data Breach Impacts 238,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/fieldtex-data-breach-impacts-238000/

19:43:59 TR News; Notepad++ Patches Updater Flaw After Reports of Traffic Hijacking ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/notepad-patches-updater-flaw-after-reports-of-traffic-hijacking/

19:45:41 TR News; New Photos From Epstein Estate Show Ties to Convicted Felon, Clinton and More Powerful Men ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/jeffrey-epstein-photos-estate.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

19:46:14 TR News; Building Trustworthy Hey Hi (AI) Agents ☞ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/12/building-trustworthy-ai-agents.html

19:46:40 TR News; Recent GeoServer Vulnerability Exploited in Attacks ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/recent-geoserver-vulnerability-exploited-in-attacks/

19:46:59 TR News; Renesas RA6W1/RA6W2 Cortex-M33 wireless MCUs offer dual-band Wi-Fi 6, BLE, Matter, 15-year availability ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/12/renesas-ra6w1-ra6w2-cortex-m33-wireless-mcus-offer-dual-band-wi-fi-6-ble-matter-15-year-availability/

19:47:17 TR News; nRF9151 SMA DK development kit offers cellular IoT, DECT NR+, and 5G NTN satellite connectivity ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/12/nrf9151-sma-dk-development-kit-offers-cellular-iot-dect-nr-and-5g-ntn-satellite-connectivity/

19:47:45 TR News; Hackaday Podcast Episode 349 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/hackaday-podcast-episode-349-clocks-ai-and-a-new-3d-printer-guy/ | Source: Hackaday

19:48:59 TR News; Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/podcasts/hardfork-australia-water.html

19:49:17 TR News; 2026 Guaranteed to Give Us Compromised Media Funded by "AI" Boosters to Promote "AI" and Sometimes be Composed by "AI" (Chatbots) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/2026_Guaranteed_to_Give_Us_Compromised_Media_Funded_by_AI_Boost.shtml

19:49:37 TR News; Tiny houses sprout on Turkey's agricultural fields ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/tiny-houses-sprout-on-turkey-s-agricultural-fields-314296

19:50:07 TR News; Tracking pandemic aid fraud: Five years on, the toll continues to grow ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/1212/minnesota-somali-pandemic-fraud-total

19:50:35 TR News; News diary 15-21 December: Jimmy Lai verdict ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-diary-15-21-december-jimmy-lai-verdict-rishi-sunak-at-covid-inquiry-sports-personality-of-the-year/

19:51:04 TR News; Three 6 Mafia, $uicideboy$ Settle Massive $6.4 Million Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over 35 Songs ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/12/three-6-mafia-suicide-boys-settle-copyright-lawsuit/

19:53:00 TR News; Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Expanded to Third-Party Code ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-bug-bounty-program-expanded-to-third-party-code/ Misleading PR stunt http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/

19:53:27 TR News; Jimmy Lai nat. security case verdict to be handed down Monday ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/12/breaking-jimmy-lai-nat-security-case-verdict-to-be-handed-down-monday/

19:54:17 TR News; Intel tests chipmaking tools from sanctioned China-focused tool maker, report claims ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/intel-tests-chipmaking-tools-from-sanctioned-china-focused-tool-maker-report-claims-move-could-raise-political-and-national-security-concerns-firm-was-backed-by-ceo-lip-bu-tans-investment-firm

19:55:32 TR News; T.S.A. Is Providing Air Passenger Data to Immigration Agents for Deportation Effort ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/us/politics/immigration-tsa-passenger-data.html

19:55:45 TR News; China Is Getting Much of What It Wants From the U.S., Including Chips ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/world/asia/nvidia-china-trump-security-japan.html

19:57:11 TR News; Sad that in 2025 when opening a new Web page you then need to go to another virtual desktop or whatever to get stuff done while the 'webapp' loads a bunch of worthless numbers or text (that really should take less than 1 second to fully show up).

19:58:34 TR News; This is a very serious usability issue. We have multi-core PCs and gigabit Internet, getting something like a football score of weather should never take more than milliseconds.

19:58:48 TR News; iophk: the web apps burn a lot of electricity unnecessarily, too

20:01:01 TR News; Will France be next to introduce an Australian-style social control media ban for children? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20251212-will-france-be-next-to-introduce-an-australian-style-social-media-ban-for-children

20:02:26 TR News; iophk: social control media "apps" are harmful weapons aimed at kids

20:02:51 TR News; A Daily Habit of 8 Energy Drinks May Have Triggered a UK Man's Stroke ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-daily-habit-of-8-energy-drinks-may-have-triggered-a-uk-mans-stroke

20:03:31 TR News; A Hidden Brain State Before Sleep May Be The Key to Human Genius ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-hidden-brain-state-before-sleep-may-be-the-key-to-human-genius

20:04:28 TR News; Exploring Hey Hi (AI) Interfaces with Aalto University: Qt Group’s Collaboration in Future Technologies ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/exploring-ai-interfaces-with-aalto-university-qt-groups-collaboration-in-future-technologies

20:05:43 TR News; Circular funding fraud ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/oracle-reportedly-delays-several-new-openai-data-centers-because-of-shortages-tight-material-and-labor-supply-frustrate-expansion-plans-possibly-by-a-year-or-more https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/10/Circular_Funding.shtml

20:06:25 TR News; Disney to invest $1bn in Proprietary Chaffbot Company to let fans create Hey Hi (AI) videos ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251212-disney-to-invest-1bn-in-openai-to-let-fans-create-ai-videos

20:07:30 TR News; USELESS and stupid, worthless PR GIMMICK https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/orbital-ai-data-center-trains-first-model-space

20:08:01 TR News; OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Is Hiding the Truth ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-researcher-quits-hiding-truth

20:08:23 TR News; Instacart Caught Using Hey Hi (AI) to Charge Wildly Different Prices for the Same Item ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/instacart-grocery-prices

20:09:50 TR News; Reddit Sues Australian Government to Block Social Media Ban ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/world/asia/reddit-lawsuit-australia-social-media-ban.html

20:10:21 TR News; MElon Tests Europe’s Willingness to Enforce Its Online Laws ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/technology/elon-musk-europe.html

20:11:04 TR News; Swifties’ Live Nation/Ticketmaster Eras Tour Suit Proceeds Despite Partial Dismissal — Here’s Where the Case Stands Heading Into 2026 ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/12/12/eras-tour-ticketmaster-lawsuit/

20:12:59 schestowitz[TR2]; 90s in town this weekend https://www.cooplive.com/events/rnb-xmas-ball-2025-tj3c

20:13:57 TR News; DOOM ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/rats-get-even-better-at-playing-doom/ | Source: Hackaday

20:14:13 schestowitz[TR2]; MinceR: who do you root for? i mean, rat for?

20:14:31 MinceR; entropy

20:14:41 TR News; "Super-Sizing Insects And The Benefits Of Bones" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/12/super-sizing-insects-and-the-benefits-of-bones/ | Source: Hackaday

20:14:53 schestowitz[TR2]; MinceR: but can it play DOOM?

20:15:12 MinceR; it is our DOOM

20:15:44 MinceR; though the way things are going, it will only really be able to play with our remains

20:16:49 TR News; Microsoft outsources to surveillance powered by Ubuntu with back doors. YAY!! https://github.blog/changelog/2025-12-12-better-diagnostics-for-vnet-injected-runners-and-required-self-hosted-runner-upgrades/

20:17:16 TR News; and the compiler is proprietary, so it could bake in back doors into anything

20:19:49 TR News; Kali Linux 2025.4 released with 3 new tools, desktop updates https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-20254-released-with-3-new-tools-desktop-updates/

20:21:08 TR News; "Cinnamon is the flagship desktop environment for Linux Mint. Developed in-house by the Linux Mint team, it provides a traditional desktop experience without the bloat." https://itsfoss.com/news/cinnamon-6-6/

20:21:47 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/today_s_howtos.1.gmi ∎

20:22:36 TR News; This is what happens when LF takes bribes from frauds and charlatans who sell slop https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-is-part-of-linux-plumbing-developers/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/To_Linus_Torvalds_the_Microsoft_Linux_Foundation_is_Increasingl.shtml

20:23:09 TR News; Rust = security? https://www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/rust-based-01flip-ransomware-hits-windows-and-linux/

20:23:39 TR News; Kali Linux 2025.4 released with full Wayland support and new ofsec tools https://cyberinsider.com/kali-linux-2025-4-released-with-full-wayland-support-and-new-ofsec-tools/

20:24:33 TR News; "Terminator 2D: NO FATE from Bitmap Bureau / Reef Entertainment has released today to give you some retro themed action-platformer goodness." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/after-multiple-delays-terminator-2d-no-fate-has-launched-with-linux-support-and-steam-deck-verified/

20:24:55 TR News; "If you ever wish that reading the system logs, optimizing music metadata, and checking battery health were easier on Linux, I've got recommendations. With your spare time this weekend, you may find an app that makes your Linux PC just a little bit more powerful." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-apps-to-try-this-weekend-december-12/

20:25:17 TR News; "A new Recommended / Certified Linux driver release from NVIDIA with version 580.119.02 now available. This is separate to the recent Beta driver 590.44.01 that's a whole new series and not ready for everyone just yet." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/nvidia-driver-580-119-02-released-for-linux-as-the-latest-recommended-stable-version/

20:25:36 TR News; direct3d-7-on-linux-d7vk-has-a-1-0-release-out-now/

20:25:49 TR News; "Bringing more classic gaming goodies with the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 7, D7VK 1.0 is out now for Linux." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/12/vulkan-based-translation-layer-for-direct3d-7-on-linux-d7vk-has-a-1-0-release-out-now/

20:26:06 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/25062329

20:26:07 TR News; "The wait for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS with COSMIC has been a long one. After numerous alpha and beta releases spanning quite some time, we finally have a clear look at what System76's hard work has resulted in." https://itsfoss.com/news/pop-os-24-04-review/

20:26:24 TR News; "Kali Linux, a popular Linux distribution for cybersecurity research and penetration testing, just revealed the Kali Linux 2025.4 release. This new build has updates to GNOME, KDE, and Xfce desktop environments, improvements for virtual machines, and much more." https://www.howtogeek.com/kali-linux-20254-arrives-with-gnome-49-kde-plasma-65-and-much-more/

20:26:52 TR News; COSMIC desktop for Linux exits beta with Pop!_OS 24.04 https://www.howtogeek.com/cosmic-desktop-for-linux-exits-beta-with-pop-os-24-04/

20:27:11 TR News; "pearOS NiceC0re 25.12 is now available for download powered by Linux kernel 6.17 and KDE Plasma 6.5.3 desktop environment." https://9to5linux.com/pearos-is-back-now-based-on-arch-linux-and-featuring-the-kde-plasma-desktop

20:27:37 TR News; "This release improves support for LG Ultragear monitors, the X-Plane video game, Vulkan apps, and the Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 monitor." https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-580-119-02-linux-graphics-driver-released-with-various-bug-fixes

20:28:35 TR News; Promoting a scam https://technologymagazine.com/news/one-rule-for-all-agents-linux-foundation-launches-aaif see http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/09/Linux_Foundation_Has_Found_a_New_Business_Pyramid_Schemes.shtml

20:29:05 TR News; "The ShaRPiKeebo is a pocked-sized computer kit that features a custom PCB with a 2.7 inch sunlight-readable display, a 56-key thumb keyboard plus D-Pad buttons, and a LoRa radio for long-range wireless communication." https://liliputing.com/sharpikeebo-pocket-linux-computer-will-start-shipping-soon-3-years-after-crowdfunding/

20:29:35 TR News; kill -9 systemd linux kernel systemd-kerneld https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-kernels-dgenocide-function-removed-to-align-with-inclusive-language-guidelines/

20:29:50 TR News; (or killall rather)

20:30:09 TR News; "Cinnamon 6.6 will be the default desktop in the upcoming Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) release." https://9to5linux.com/cinnamon-6-6-desktop-environment-released-with-redesigned-application-menu

20:33:30 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Applications: PasteLock, starlit, NetworkManager, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Applications_PasteLock_starlit_NetworkManager_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Applications_PasteLock_starlit_NetworkManager_and_More.gmi ∎

20:33:33 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎

20:35:13 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Distributions and Operating Systems: Haiku, GNU/Linux, and CP/M ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Haiku_GNU_Linux_and_CP_M.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_Haiku_GNU_Linux_and_CP_M.gmi ∎

20:41:54 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Canonical/Ubuntu: pearOS Based on Ubuntu, Microsoft Consumes Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04 Snapshot 2 Available to Download, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_Ubuntu_pearOS_Based_on_Ubuntu_Microsoft_Consumes_Ubun.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_Ubuntu_pearOS_Based_on_Ubuntu_Microsoft_Consumes_Ubun.gmi ∎

20:41:55 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Clients, Rats Get Even Better at DOOM ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Clients_Rats_Get_Even_Bet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Clients_Rats_Get_Even_Bet.gmi ∎

20:43:35 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Debian: Freexian, Grml 2025.12, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Debian_Freexian_Grml_2025_12_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Debian_Freexian_Grml_2025_12_and_More.gmi ∎

20:43:36 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OpenBSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/OpenBSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/OpenBSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎

20:45:16 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Framework, Raspberry Pi, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Open_Hardware_Modding_Framework_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Open_Hardware_Modding_Framework_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi ∎

20:46:56 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat Pushing Slop/Hype and Fedora Upgrades Got a Bit harder ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Red_Hat_Pushing_Slop_Hype_and_Fedora_Upgrades_Got_harder.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Red_Hat_Pushing_Slop_Hype_and_Fedora_Upgrades_Got_harder.gmi ∎

20:48:37 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): OpenSUSE: Tumbleweed Review of the week and OpenSUSE America Summit ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/OpenSUSE_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_week_and_OpenSUSE_America_Sum.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/OpenSUSE_Tumbleweed_Review_of_the_week_and_OpenSUSE_America_Sum.gmi ∎

20:48:38 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎

20:50:18 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Standards/Consortia: Relaunching ODF Advocacy as ODF News, HTTPS RRs ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Standards_Consortia_Relaunching_ODF_Advocacy_as_ODF_News_HTTPS_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Standards_Consortia_Relaunching_ODF_Advocacy_as_ODF_News_HTTPS_.gmi ∎

20:51:59 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎

20:52:00 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi ∎

20:53:28 TR News; 🖼️ xkcd — Apples #3180 gemini://8by3.net/~xkcd/3180.gmi

20:53:40 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎

20:54:09 TR News; "A little while ago I built a coil by wrapping thin transformer wire around a soft iron cylinder that my dad gave me." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251212-0.gmi

20:54:42 TR News; "Recently my sister read one of my posts about electronics. That fact alone was a little surprising, since she has never shown any interest in electronics so far as I can remember. Later, she sent me this note, which was her translation of what I wrote, as she understood it." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20251211-0.gmi

20:55:02 TR News; Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-13.gmi

20:55:40 TR News; 🔤SpellBinding — DHINOPY Wordo: TIMED gemini://spell.ddns.net/games/gemlog/2025-12-13.gmi

20:56:41 TR News; "It's a collection of 21 rhythm minigames, each playable with one or two buttons and set to its own music." gemini://envs.net/~silv/gemlog/thoughts_on_bits_&_bops_rhythm_minigames.gmi

20:57:09 TR News; "By chance, I have recovered the gemurl program and have updated and uploaded it to my repository on Codeberg." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/35481

20:57:47 TR News; "After a recent upgrade, poweroff, shutdown and friends stopped doing their job. The system starts shutting down; only the keyboard lights are still on, then nothing happens for a few seconds and then the Pocket Reform reboots again." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-13-reform-notes

20:58:07 TR News; Kuukausi ilman nettiä gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/kuukausi-ilman-nettia

20:59:37 TR News; Bad blocks gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-12-13-bad-blocks "I didn't know whether this was the disk in my laptop or the backup disk."

21:00:16 TR News; "Tonight, FRST Computer exits "stealth mode"..." gopher://jonsharp.net:70/0/gl2/12-11-2025-FRST-Exiting-Stealth-Mode.md

21:01:24 TR News; "in his show this past Wednesday[3], screwtape[4] paraphrased a quote by object-oriented programming and GUI pioneer Alan Kay. something I hadn't heard before." gopher://baud.baby:70/0/phlog/fs20251212.txt

21:02:27 TR News; Christina's December questions gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-12-11-5q.txt

21:03:20 TR News; Repairs gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/repairs.txt

21:03:56 TR News; "Thanks to the figlet styles “rustofat” for titles and “rusto” for headings, I feel much more motivated to post on Gopher. I also decided to move the date to the bottom of the post, which allows me to put the email address there as well." gemini://tilde.club/~octagon/gemlog/2025-12-11-i-think-i-found-an-acceptable-gopherhole-styling.gmi

21:04:33 TR News; This Vine-Like Grasper Gives Robots a Secure Yet Gentle Touch gemini://tilde.club/~ghalfacree/202512/20251211-vine.gmi

21:05:26 TR News; Alcohol and Gentoo gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/gentoo.txt

21:06:14 TR News; "Currently i am driving my mom nearly every other day to some form of doctor, either the dentist (she finally decided to get a partial tooth prothesis), the general practicioner to get her blood pressure in order and the orthopedist to get her carpal tunnel syndrome fixed." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/101225.txt

21:07:20 TR News; "Which immediately piqued my interest, as I have so far been just taking my notes in plain `vim` without a way of linking them." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-12-10-linked-notes-with-vimwiki.gmi

21:08:49 TR News; "When the Silicon Graphics IRIS Indigo workstation starts then it prints - among others - how long it was off. It simply counts days when being on the time-keeping battery." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_12_01.txt

21:09:11 TR News; AI for lazy people gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_12_02.txt

21:10:51 TR News; "My recent week had been extremely difficult in every possible sense. However, I managed to stumble upon an interesting phenomenon I never met before: fake indie Web. What do I mean by that?" gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-12-08-on-indie-web.txt

21:11:46 TR News; "I bought a house recently. As I am currently renting, I have had the luck of being able to move slowly. I spent a fair bit of time disassembling annoying furniture left behind and being able to clean the place before moving in." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20251207.txt

21:12:29 TR News; "Rust has the reputation of being a safe language, that helps to prevent nasty vulnerabilities, memory leaks, and so on. Some organizations even promote to write software that converts C-code into Rust-code." gopher://box.matto.nl/0/all-i-want-for-xmas-is-a-system-without-rust.txt

21:13:58 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1503.jpg

21:14:04 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1853.jpg

21:24:08 TR News; Techrights – Gemini Links 13/12/2025: Extensive Catchup With Gopherholes ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Gemini_Links_13_12_2025_Extensive_Catchup_With_Gopherholes.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Gemini_Links_13_12_2025_Extensive_Catchup_With_Gopherholes.gmi ∎

21:25:48 TR News; Techrights – Links 13/12/2025: Jimmy Lai and Media Freedom on Trial, "OpenAI Researcher Quits, Saying Company Hiding the Truth" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Links_13_12_2025_Jimmy_Lai_and_Media_Freedom_on_Trial_OpenAI_Re.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Links_13_12_2025_Jimmy_Lai_and_Media_Freedom_on_Trial_OpenAI_Re.gmi ∎

21:27:14 MinceR; (cat) https://files.catbox.moe/lhq12c.jpg

21:29:49 TR News; "Didn’t people sign away their rights to sue against age discrimination as part of severance package? Is that even legally enforceable?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kca2ddbp

21:30:29 TR News; "LinkedIn is a giant cesspool. It's becoming facebook Political posts, Doom and gloom posts by people who sound like they are spiraling out of control. Shady recruiters. Pre packaged corporate buzzwords and unmotivating people." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kbn7ncjw

21:48:12 TR News; "Sales compensation - how do the modifiers work at redhat for field sales execs? for example 200k otc with 50/50 comp plan. thanks in advance" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kc9ef59e

22:00:53 TR News; Techrights – IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IBM_We_Pay_You_to_be_Obedient_or_Deny_You_What_You_re_Entitled_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IBM_We_Pay_You_to_be_Obedient_or_Deny_You_What_You_re_Entitled_.gmi ∎

22:05:53 TR News; Techrights – Google News is Google Noise ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Google_News_is_Google_Noise.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Google_News_is_Google_Noise.gmi ∎

22:31:09 MinceR; https://explosm.net/comics/atheist-king#comic

23:47:33 Isambard_Prince; https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/13/politics/epstein-files-trump-poll-analysis

23:47:37 Isambard_Prince; Alleged crimes?

23:47:46 Isambard_Prince; You don't go to prison for allegations of crimes.

23:47:50 Isambard_Prince; You go there for convictions.

23:52:25 MinceR; https://explosm.net/comics/1st-place#comic

Sunday

00:25:03 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], I couldn't have Mandy thrown in a cell.

00:25:20 Isambard_Prince; I could call emergency services and say he's been depressed and has threatened suicide.

00:25:30 Isambard_Prince; But unless they come out here and hear him say it, he's not going anywhere.

00:27:31 admfubar; Dealing With "Tech Cults" ----> one of the early ones.... "The Cult of Jobs"

00:30:46 Isambard_Prince; https://www.npr.org/2025/12/12/g-s1-100794/germany-train-rail-deutsche-bahn

00:30:57 Isambard_Prince; Germany's train system is one of Europe's worst, apparently.

00:31:09 Isambard_Prince; Even Illinois isn't a bad system for the trains.

00:31:25 Isambard_Prince; They usually arrive within 3 minutes of when they should be at the station.

00:31:36 Isambard_Prince; 97% arrive within 3 minutes and 99% within 5 minutes.

00:31:55 Isambard_Prince; And Illinois is expanding the Metra to add new lines.

00:32:14 Isambard_Prince; Germany's "debt brake" has done a lot of damage to their economy and military readiness.

01:09:41 MinceR; https://explosm.net/comics/incoming-danger#comic

01:15:22 admfubar; bark bark bark...

01:18:40 MinceR;
ACTION points at a tree bark

01:18:45 MinceR; i fucked up

01:18:47 MinceR;
ACTION points at a tree trunk

01:18:49 MinceR; bark bark bark

01:22:18 admfubar; trunk trunk trunk....

01:26:11 MinceR; branches branches branches

01:26:15 MinceR; tags tags tags

01:29:38 Isambard_Prince; schestowitz[TR2], nts at a tree bark

01:29:39 Isambard_Prince; <MinceR> i fucked up

01:29:39 Isambard_Prince; * MinceR points at a tree trunk

01:29:39 Isambard_Prince; <MinceR> bark bark bark

01:29:39 Isambard_Prince; <admfubar> trunk trunk trunk....

01:29:39 Isambard_Prince; <MinceR> branches branches branches

01:29:41 Isambard_Prince; <MinceR> tags tags tags

01:29:43 Isambard_Prince; Errr

01:29:51 Isambard_Prince; Errr.

01:29:57 Isambard_Prince; How did that end up in my clipboard?

01:30:04 Isambard_Prince; https://old.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1plldqo/my_lg_tvs_new_software_update_installed_microsoft/

01:30:11 Isambard_Prince; That's what it was supposed to be.

01:30:58 MinceR; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

01:32:30 Isambard_Prince; https://old.reddit.com/r/MechanicAdvice/comments/1ply7mh/found_plastic_pieces_in_oil_pan/

01:32:37 Isambard_Prince; A plastic timing chain guid?

01:32:40 Isambard_Prince; *guide

01:32:49 Isambard_Prince; At that point, why a chain? Why not just use a belt?

01:35:53 MinceR; because chains last longer

01:35:59 MinceR; and don't tend to stretch out

01:36:04 MinceR; and don't tend to be eaten by the oil

01:38:18 admfubar; https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/ukrainians-sue-us-chip-firms-for-powering-russian-drones-missiles/

01:56:56 admfubar; https://www.edutopia.org/article/do-dyslexia-fonts-actually-work

02:11:39 Isambard_Prince; MinceR, Yeah, I had to have mine replaced recently.

02:12:01 Isambard_Prince; But it was because when the oil is leaking out of the timing chain cover you might as well replace the chain and what you take off to get to it at the same time.

02:12:18 Isambard_Prince; So, new water pump, new harmonic balancer, new oil pan gasket.

02:22:34 admfubar; https://databreaches.net/2025/12/12/doxers-posing-as-cops-are-tricking-big-tech-firms-into-sharing-peoples-private-data/

02:32:12 admfubar; welcome to the "Disco" era... https://www.firstpost.com/tech/google-launches-disco-an-ai-first-browser-to-take-on-chatgpt-atlas-13959508.html

02:32:20 MinceR; lol

02:34:15 admfubar; will the google platform have the shoes to match?

02:34:57 admfubar; their new theme song is "Stayin' Alive"

02:40:20 _what__; portal?

02:41:13 Elizafox; I gotta ask a question. Now that photos of Bill Gates have been released with Jeffery Epstein, showing they had a clear connection, is this a smoking gun? Why nothing on it?

02:42:06 Elizafox; the man still effectively runs Microsoft behind the scenes. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/bill-gates-still-backstage-manages-microsoft

02:42:51 MinceR; i think at least 40% of humanity now believes pedophilia to be acceptable, perhaps even desirable

02:44:30 Elizafox; why no post about it? I kinda want to see Roy's take on it

02:44:48 MinceR; ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

02:45:20 _what__; also accepting Flandre Scarlet and Illyasviel von Einzbern as their main as well

02:45:20 _what__; touhou/fate stay night version of lolicon to be exact

02:45:39 _what__; MinceR: those who are not otakus ain't getting it

02:45:59 admfubar; fog? that's not fog, that's my body odor... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/california-fog-formation-satellite-images

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02:48:48 admfubar; racoons the equivalent of monkeys... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/13/drunk-raccoon-liquor-store-dmv

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02:49:55 TR News; ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-12-13.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-12-13.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)

02:50:52 TR News; ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-12-13.txt

03:04:22 admfubar; https://thedebrief.org/this-enigmatic-ancient-script-hidden-within-the-dead-sea-scrolls-was-thought-to-be-indecipherable-until-now/

03:06:01 admfubar; https://thedebrief.org/new-warp-drive-propulsion-concept-moves-fictional-starships-closer-to-engineering-reality/

04:44:33 schestowitz[TR2]; <Elizafox> why no post about it? I kinda want to see Roy's take on it

04:45:08 schestowitz[TR2]; <techrights-news> Now BillBC, bribed by Bill Epsteingate, tries to cover up for Bill after he did a photo op with 'prince' Andrew. Corrupted media.

04:46:17 schestowitz[TR2]; <admfubar> Dealing With "Tech Cults" ----> one of the early ones.... "The Cult of Jobs"

04:46:23 schestowitz[TR2]; what is that?

04:46:29 schestowitz[TR2]; <Isambard_Prince> I could call emergency services and say he's been depressed and has threatened suicide.

04:46:42 schestowitz[TR2]; only SLAPPMatt is evil enough to do this

04:47:00 _what__; the cult of jobs http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml

04:47:14 _what__; the one responsible to take down dennis ritchie from recognition

04:47:15 schestowitz[TR2]; -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- edition.cnn.com | As Epstein releases near, Americans think Trump knew about Epstein’s alleged crimes | CNN Politics

04:47:18 schestowitz[TR2]; alleged

04:47:22 schestowitz[TR2]; CNN learned...

04:47:27 schestowitz[TR2]; you get sued by Cheeto

04:47:30 schestowitz[TR2]; for saying crime

04:47:32 schestowitz[TR2]; about a crime

04:47:52 _what__; SLAPPed by the Insurrectionist

04:48:05 schestowitz[TR2]; <_what__> the cult of jobs http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/04/What_Would_Dennis_Ritchie_Say_About_the_Memory_Safe_Hype_or_Car.shtml

04:48:08 schestowitz[TR2]; of Steve Jobs

04:48:12 schestowitz[TR2]; rather than "job creation"

04:48:17 schestowitz[TR2]; making weapons also creates jobs

04:48:20 schestowitz[TR2]; but it kills people

04:49:42 TR News; Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Saturday, December 13, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_December_13_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_December_13_2025.gmi ∎

04:51:23 TR News; Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎

04:51:23 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎

04:55:38 TR News; "FULU's open letter to Molekule CEO regarding digital locks in air filters" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/fulu's-open-letter-to-molekule-ceo:9

04:55:59 TR News; "USA Wants Your Social Media History If You Visit" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/12/11/092209

04:56:29 _what__; Cheeto becoming more and more like Big Brother that Orwell warned

04:56:39 TR News; "'Re: Hardware choice for small form factor, 24/7 with no access' - MARC" https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=176567904210425&w=2

04:57:34 TR News; windows tco https://yle.fi/a/74-20199587 https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.shtml

04:57:38 _what__; (or the DAJJAL as he gave Masjidil Al-Aqsa (Gaza) to Israelis back in March 25, 2019 just as prophesized back in 7th century)

04:58:21 TR News; The audiobook disappearance revisited | "Lydbok-forsvinninga revisited – Biblioteket tar saka #librarycase" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=no&tl=en&u=https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2025/12/12/lydbok-forsvinninga-revisited/

04:59:06 MinceR; 14 054623 < schestowitz[TR2]> what is that?

04:59:07 MinceR; crApple

05:00:24 TR News; "A new academic study counterintuitively concludes that online piracy can boost revenue for some films." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/online-piracy-can-boost-box-office-revenue-study-suggests/ | Source: Torrent Freak

05:00:43 TR News; "The transaction warrants rigorous antitrust review under all applicable antitrust merger and monopolization laws" ☛ https://www.semafor.com/article/12/12/2025/opposition-to-netflix-paramount-deal-grows-in-washington | Source: Semafor Inc

05:01:12 TR News; "The responsibility lies with policymakers who allowed these monopolies" ☛ https://boingboing.net/2025/12/11/cory-doctorow-explains-how-to-rescue-the-internet-from-enshittification-on-the-daily-show.html | Source: BoingBoing

05:01:34 TR News; "There's a difference between heroes ... and systems that forget people are human" ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/frank-ray-brother-in-law-ice-detainment-1235483090/ | Source: Rolling Stone

05:02:03 TR News; "Before I continue, it might be worth explaining a bit about what I do in my day-to-day role to provide context about why this all came about." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović

05:02:25 TR News; "And the main assistive technologies are in different stages, as we will see." ☛ https://www.htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/12/ | Source: Manuel Matuzović

05:02:45 TR News; "U.S. Rep. Dusty Johnson, R-South Dakota, sponsored the legislation in the House, where it passed in January." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/12/repub/wounded-knee-massacre-site-protection-bill-passes-congress/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner

05:03:22 TR News; "building tools to track enforcement and collaborating on information." ☛ https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pins-on-map-how-chicago-students-are-tracking-immigration-raids-9805235#publisher=newsstand | Source: NDTV

05:04:10 TR News; "company did not immediately respond to a request for comment" ☛ https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/slow-journalism/ | Source: Gregory Hammond

05:04:25 TR News; "I figured most journalists would not disclose their sources." ☛ https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/sean-diddy-combs-50-cent-film-journalist-1235482784/ | Source: Rolling Stone

05:05:47 TR News; "She told me that I was a bigot and that everyone deserved to know my hateful views on trans people." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/13/i-dared-to-question-gender-theory-at-cambridge-students/ | Source: The Telegraph UK

05:06:33 TR News; "Human rights experts called Gui’s detention “arbitrary” in an opinion adopted by the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) dated October and made public on Wednesday." ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/14/china-defends-jailing-chinese-swedish-bookseller-gui-minhai-after-un-group-urges-release/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press

05:06:48 TR News; "According to the Narges Mohammadi Foundation, the arrest took place on December 11, during an event marking the seventh day after the death of Khosrow Alikordi, a prominent lawyer and human rights advocate." ☛ https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nobel-prize-laureate-narges-mohammadi-detainment/33621765.html | Source: RFERL

05:08:21 TR News; "agreed Friday to impose a three-euro duty on all small parcels imported into the bloc starting July 1, 2026" ☛ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/12/13/eu-agrees-three-euro-small-parcel-tax-to-tackle-china-flood/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press

05:10:06 TR News; "What does all this mean?" ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/12/12/why-disney-just-put-1-billion-into-openai/ | Source: Pivot to AI

05:10:56 TR News; "copyright infringement on a “massive scale” using AI" ☛ https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/disney-google-ai-copyright-infringement-cease-and-desist-letter-1236606429/ | Source: Variety

05:11:16 TR News; "About two weeks ago I entered a discussion with the docs.rs team about, basically, why we have to look at this: [...]" ☛ https://fasterthanli.me/articles/my-gift-to-the-rust-docs-team | Source: Amos Wenger

05:11:24 TR News; "Meanwhile, the Debian project has, at last, enabled Rust in its kernel builds; that will show up in the upcoming "forky" release." ☛ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1050174/63aa7da43214c3ce/ | Source: LWN

05:12:02 TR News; "I'm not trying to say that new technologies never raise gnarly new legal questions" ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/13/uncle-sucker/#willing-marks | Source: CoryDoctorow

05:12:39 TR News; "I say this because, according to the latest data, KDE has surpassed its 2025 fundraising goal by a wide margin, reaching €276K—an impressive 276% of the original €100K target." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-surpasses-2025-fundraiser-goal-with-record-community-support/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:12:51 TR News; "Nagaraju said that new government schemes driven through digital currencies can help scale this programme." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/govt-eyes-big-push-to-digital-currency-programme-says-official/articleshow/125937071.cms | Source: India Times

05:13:25 TR News; "After decades of neglect, the government has announced a 100-billion-euro investment in rail infrastructure." ☛ https://text.npr.org/g-s1-100794 | Source: NPR

05:13:41 TR News; "The promotional video for this Superpower generator promises “42 megawatts of clean electricity”." ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/boom-jet-generator/ | Source: Nick Heer

05:13:56 TR News; "A destructive storm in 2020 prematurely shut down Iowa’s only nuclear plant." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/google-data-centers-will-bring-nuclear-power-back-to-tornado-country/ | Source: Wired

05:14:11 TR News; "shady online [cryptocurrency] casinos, lured there by a sleazy web of streamers and celebrities who are paid to essentially be casino recruiters." ☛ https://futurism.com/future-society/teens-betting-crypto-casino | Source: Futurism

05:15:36 TR News; "every voracious tech company" ☛ https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-builds-it-tear-it-down | Source: Hamilton Nolan

05:16:05 _what__; reminder: no such thing as crypto bros http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/18/no-such-thing-as-cryptocurrency/

05:16:55 TR News; "The identity of every single domestic air traveler has been sent to ICE since March of this year: [...]" ☛ https://werd.io/t-s-a-is-providing-air-passenger-data-to-immigration-agents-for-deportation-effort/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller

05:17:09 TR News; "The Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) is coming to California." ☛ https://blog.zgp.org/catalog-retail-after-drop/ | Source: Don Marti

05:17:31 TR News; "if I’m going to go through that, I may as well head back to Vietnam instead. I know right, it’s a hard life, but someone has to travel it!" ☛ https://rubenerd.com/social-media-history-to-enter-the-us/ | Source: Ruben Schade

05:17:42 TR News; "Under the proposed new rules, the collection of social media data would become a "mandatory" part of ESTA applications." ☛ https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/us-to-require-could-ask-foreign-tourists-to-submit-five-years-of-social-media-history/9clb4p6ym | Source: SBS

05:17:52 MinceR; crypto dudes?

05:17:56 TR News; "This is a flagrant violation of rights and incompatible with a free society" ☛ https://revealnews.org/article/how-a-us-citizen-was-scanned-with-ices-facial-recognition-tech/ | Source: The Center for Investigative Reporting

05:18:25 TR News; "Nine News Queensland reported she had jumped the fence to take a photo when she slipped." ☛ https://www.theage.com.au/national/queensland/girl-dies-after-falling-off-cliff-while-trying-to-take-a-photo-20251214-p5nnj0.html | Source: The Age AU

05:18:54 TR News; "If AI agents become the default gatekeepers, the question for BA is no longer just how to appeal to customers, but how to ensure the airline remains legible, relevant, and trusted by software acting in their stead." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/13/british_airways_fears_a_future/ | Source: The Register UK

05:19:18 TR News; "many business leaders were unconvinced that AI is worth the expense, while another report claimed that forecasts of future demand are based on little more than guesswork." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/ai_datacenter_investments_goldman/ | Source: The Register UK

05:19:38 TR News; "Whether intentionally or not, the cover highlights many of the reasons AI has become a polarizing political issue." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/democrats-ai-regulation/ | Source: The Nation

05:19:53 TR News; "If you hunt down an archived version of it, you will instantly recognize the McDonald’s ad as unadulterated AI slop." ☛ https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-mcdonalds-disney-slop/ | Source: The Nation

05:20:12 TR News; "The letter, signed by 280 state lawmakers from across the country, shows that state legislators from both parties want to retain their ability to craft their own AI legislation, said South Dakota Democratic state Sen. Liz Larson, who co-wrote the letter." ☛ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/12/repub/states-will-keep-pushing-ai-laws-despite-trumps-efforts-to-stop-them/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner

05:20:33 TR News; "Here’s how Apple “Permanently” locked my Apple ID." ☛ https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/ | Source: Paris Buttfield-Addison

05:20:47 TR News; "The secrets impact a little over 100 organizations, among them are a Fortune 500 company and a major national bank." ☛ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-docker-hub-images-found-leaking-credentials-auth-keys/ | Source: Bleeping Computer

05:21:02 TR News; "It essentially takes advantage of the fact that when RasMan is not running, any process can impersonate RasMan and execute code on an RPC endpoint - a condition the exploit depends on." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/12/microsoft_windows_rasman_dos_0day/ | Source: The Register UK

05:21:18 TR News; "In the UK, confectionery can only lawfully be described as milk chocolate if it contains a minimum of 20% cocoa solids and 20% milk solids." ☛ https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/toffee-crisp-and-blue-riband-are-no-longer-chocolate/712922.article |

05:21:31 TR News; "From that perspective, why even bother getting angry?" ☛ https://lmnt.me/blog/a-matter-of-perspective.html | Source: Louie Mantia

05:21:46 TR News; "sales of antibiotics for use in livestock surged by an alarming 15.8 percent in 2024 from the previous year." ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/472014/meat-dairy-antibiotic-resistance-fda | Source: Vox

05:22:07 TR News; "Now, I am no connoisseur of mechanical keyboards, but I find the Air60 V2 to be delightful to type on." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/843455/mechanical-keyboard-nyphy-favorite | Source: The Verge

05:22:28 TR News; "I take comfort in feeling myself settle. I can feel the release of strain from holding up uncertainty." ☛ https://json.blog/2025/12/13/settled.html | Source: Jason Becker

05:22:38 TR News; "The harvest seasons, when they returned, drew on seeds I hadn't remembered planting." ☛ https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-harvest-will-come/ | Source: Westenberg

05:22:51 TR News; "Because the dataset included 38 million obituaries, the analysis ran on a supercomputer." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-analyzed-the-obituaries-of-38-million-americans-heres-what-they-found | Source: Science Alert

05:23:14 TR News; "Today, I want to write about one such technique, an alternative to Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs)." ☛ https://burakemir.ch/post/indexed-rpn/ |

05:23:26 TR News; "What biological functions are driving the differences in gene co-expression?" ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/functional-analysis-of-networks-with-freecount/ | Source: Rlang

05:23:44 TR News; "they have pushed quantum correlations (the link between quantum objects or systems) beyond what was long considered an unbreakable bound." ☛ https://interestingengineering.com/science/qubits-break-long-held-quantum-limit | Source: Interesting Engineering

05:24:03 TR News; "I’ve never really thought about it before this morning, thinking I don’t have an online brand per se, but the truth is, when I looked closer, yes, I do." ☛ https://alexwolfe.ca/my-online-brand/ | Source: Alexandra Wolfe

05:24:14 TR News; "I’m old enough now that I’ve decided to put my foot down on a few things, even if I’m “supposed” to otherwise enjoy them." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/things-ive-decided-to-live-without/ | Source: Ruben Schade

05:26:31 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Latest From Rust People ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Latest_From_Rust_People.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Latest_From_Rust_People.gmi ∎

05:27:30 TR News; "According to Barker, VistaVision was part of the widescreen craze of the 1950s. That movement started with Cinerama" ☛ https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5601901 | Source: NPR

05:28:06 TR News; Techrights – Links 14/12/2025: "The Slop of Things to Come", Goldman Sachs Nervous About Slop Bubble ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Links_14_12_2025_The_Slop_of_Things_to_Come_Goldman_Sachs_Nervo.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Links_14_12_2025_The_Slop_of_Things_to_Come_Goldman_Sachs_Nervo.gmi ∎

05:28:14 TR News; "Typically, you don’t have to build all the plumbing by hand" ☛ https://rednafi.com/system/tap-compare-testing/ | Source: Redowan Delowar

05:28:22 TR News; [Old] "Until recently, the data structures over which you could iterate via a for-range loop were limited to arrays" ☛ https://jub0bs.com/posts/2025-05-29-pure-vs-impure-iterators-in-go/ |

05:32:21 TR News; "A common use of ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristic) curves in data science is to evaluate performance of binary classifiers." ☛ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/smoothed-roc-curves-calculus-and-curvature/ | Source: Rlang

05:32:59 TR News; "Santa was playing and losing yet another game of Yahtzee with Mrs. Claus and the elves when a thought occurred to him" ☛ https://raku-advent.blog/2025/12/12/day-12-mathematicians-yahtzee/ | Source: Rakulang

05:33:13 TR News; "Day 1, Vasco and the team listed everything the system needed to do. Then they broke it down: [...]" ☛ https://perladvent.org/2025/2025-12-13.html | Source: Perl

05:33:58 TR News; "I think there are many." ☛ https://liam-on-linux.dreamwidth.org/97426.html | Source: Liam Proven

05:34:06 TR News; "I guess my time has come. I just wrote one, mostly over a weekend: [...]" ☛ https://vitaut.net/posts/2025/faster-dtoa/ |

05:34:42 TR News; "A practical way to assess platform value is to test how well it can support three essential outcomes: [...]" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/three-core-principles-for-sustainable-platform-design/ | Source: The New Stack

05:34:53 TR News; "I’m solving the Advent of Code 2025 in Janet. After doing the last five years in Haskell, I wanted to learn a new language this year." ☛ https://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2025-aoc-2/?mtm_campaign=feed | Source: Abhinav Sarkar

05:35:05 TR News; "At the time, I wrote a script to fix the FIT files and consolidate the records, and I’ve been using it since." ☛ https://hacdias.com/2025/12/13/processing-bosch-ebike-flow-fit-files/ | Source: Henrique Dias

05:35:27 TR News; "The only way we can ignore them as implementation details is to let others" ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/im-a-tool-builder-at-heart/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala

05:35:37 TR News; "It is one of the few tech traditions I never get bored of, even after doing it for a long time" ☛ https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleamaoc2025/ | Source: Tymscar

05:35:47 TR News; "Advent of Code has become a yearly thing for me." ☛ https://yordi.me/advent-of-code-2025-waking-up-with-puzzles/ | Source: Yordi Verkroost

05:35:56 TR News; "Today we’re going to look at what code gets generated for the ARM processor. Let’s see how our examples come out: [...]" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/05-barrel-shifting-with-arm |

05:36:07 TR News; "I occasionally give presentations to undergraduates, and one of my favourites is taking the students on a journey of optimising a “binary to decimal” routine" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/07-division-again |

05:36:16 TR News; "Yesterday we saw how the compiler canonicalises loops so it (usually) doesn’t matter how you write them, they’ll come out the same." ☛ https://xania.org/202512/09-induction-variables |

05:36:26 TR News; "Let’s take a look at what happens if we use a dynamically-sized span - we’d expect it to look very similar to the std::vector version: [...]" ☛ https://xania.org/202512/10-loop-unrolling |

05:36:37 TR News; "Actually, this “population count” operation can be pretty useful in some cases like data compression algorithms, cryptography, chess, error correction, and sparse matrix representations." ☛ https://xania.org/202512/11-pop-goes-the-weasel-er-count |

05:40:24 TR News; "Ventoy, the popular multi-boot utility for creating bootable USB drives from ISO files, has just released a brand-new version, 1.1.09, with the most notable addition being experimental support for the Btrfs file system. However, at this stage, the implementation is deliberately limited." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/ventoy-1-1-09-released-with-experimental-btrfs-support/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:40:37 TR News; "This additional check prevents situations where a connection profile references credentials that the intended user cannot read" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/networkmanager-1-54-3-improves-certificate-access-checks/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:43:51 TR News; "I have an NVMe base for my Raspberry Pi 5 and it's been running for a little over a year without any issues." ☛ https://chuck.is/rpi5nvme/ | Source: Chuck Carroll

05:44:07 TR News; "Now the trade off of course for the ESP32 is the higher power draw." ☛ https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/review-of-hackerbox-0121-mcu-lab-2025/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle

05:44:20 TR News; "By using the monitor as a central USB hub, you can shorten cable runs, organize devices efficiently, and increase accessibility." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2997294/your-monitors-usb-ports-are-hiding-secret-powers.html | Source: PC World

05:46:00 TR News; "All supported desktop environments have been updated. GNOME moves to version 49, bringing refreshed Kali theming and smoother visuals. Plus, the newer Showtime application has replaced the Totem video player, and the application grid now mirrors the menu structure, grouping Kali tools into folders." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kali-linux-2025-4-released-with-gnome-49-kde-plasma-6-5/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:46:27 TR News; "GNOME has updated its Extensions Review Guidelines to address a growing problem tied to AI-generated code submissions." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/gnome-will-reject-shell-extensions-with-ai-generated-code/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:48:00 TR News; "Almost a month after the previous 6.20 release, KDE announced the launch of Frameworks 6.21, expanding its collection of add-on libraries to Qt and enhancing functionality available to developers across various platforms." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-frameworks-6-21-is-out-with-extensive-bug-fixes/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:48:23 TR News; "One of the most visible new changes in Plasma 6.6 will be vastly improved screen mirroring support in the Wayland session. According to KDE developers, mirroring now works reliably and smoothly, addressing long-standing limitations that previously made the feature inconsistent or difficult to use." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-6-will-enhance-display-handling-and-scaling-on-wayland/ | Source: Linuxiac

05:49:16 TR News; "Systems built around identity-based access control tend to rely on ambient authority: policy is centralized and errors in the policy configuration or bugs in the policy engine can allow attackers to make full use of that ambient authority." ☛ https://ariadne.space/2025/12/12/rethinking-sudo-with-object-capabilities.html | Source: Ariadne Conill

05:49:26 TR News; "But if you wanted to load CSS fast, all of the sudden you run into trouble…" ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/how-to-load-css-fast/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar

05:49:36 TR News; "The venerable 'logger' command has been around so long it's part of the Single Unix Specification (really, logger — log messages)." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/LoggerItsAnnoyances | Source: University of Toronto

05:49:49 TR News; "The HTML De-Crapulator can provide many ways to simplify markup, such as: [...]" ☛ https://htmhell.dev/adventcalendar/2025/13/ | Source: Markup from Hell

05:50:45 TR News; "Have you heard of React Server Components? Even if you don’t work with React daily, you probably have." ☛ https://calendar.perfplanet.com/2025/intro-to-performance-of-react-server-components/ | Source: Web Performance Calendar

05:51:05 TR News; "Each of these provide different levels or separation and features, with PBR being the oldest one and VRFs the most recent addition (starting with kernel 4.3)." ☛ https://blog.sdn.clinic/2025/01/linux-routing-fundamentals/ |

06:10:50 TR News; "The platform is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T5000 module, which is specified to deliver up to 2070 TFLOPS of AI performance using FP4 sparse precision." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/jetson-thor-industrial-pc-pairs-25gbe-networking-with-optional-gmsl2-camera-support/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

06:11:03 TR News; "The platform is built around a tri-core processing architecture." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/healthypi-6-provides-open-source-biosignal-acquisition-for-research-and-education/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

06:12:39 TR News; "Measuring about 63 × 109 × 22 mm, the T-Display P4 is built around the ESP32-P4, which combines a dual-core RISC-V CPU running at up to 360–400 MHz with an additional low-power RISC-V core operating at 40 MHz." ☛ https://linuxgizmos.com/risc-v-based-esp32-p4-handheld-integrates-amoled-display-and-lora/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

06:19:49 TR News; Techrights – A Utopian and Very Dumb Vision of Technology, Based on Accounting Fraud ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/A_Utopian_and_Very_Dumb_Vision_of_Technology_Based_on_Accountin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/A_Utopian_and_Very_Dumb_Vision_of_Technology_Based_on_Accountin.gmi ∎

06:36:44 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Being a Family-Friendly Site ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Being_a_Family_Friendly_Site.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Being_a_Family_Friendly_Site.gmi ∎

06:38:25 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: HealthyPi, RISC-V, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Open_Hardware_Modding_HealthyPi_RISC_V_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Open_Hardware_Modding_HealthyPi_RISC_V_and_More.gmi ∎

06:47:04 TR News; Conill: Rethinking sudo with object capabilities ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1050370/

07:10:09 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎

10:15:55 TR News; day 348 of 2025

10:16:32 TR News; Kevin Fenzi: infra weekly recap: mid december 2025 ☞ https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2025/12/13/infra-weekly-recap-mid-december-2025/

10:18:06 TR News; Google News is Surveillance Giant Google Noise ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Google_News_is_Google_Noise.shtml

10:21:08 TR News; "Smart Glasses OS With Cross-Compat" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/mentra-brings-open-smart-glasses-os-with-cross-compat/ | Source: Hackaday

10:21:33 TR News; IBM: We Pay You to be Obedient or Deny You What You're Entitled to If You Don't Act Obediently (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/IBM_We_Pay_You_to_be_Obedient_or_Deny_You_What_You_re_Entitled_.shtml

10:22:10 _what__; tl;dr "Big Brother"

10:22:24 _what__; and bribes

10:22:27 schestowitz[TR2]; blue brother

10:30:21 TR News; It Seems Like I.C.B.M. is Firing 'Everybody' (Anywhere, Any Age, No Matter What Team) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/It_Seems_Like_IBM_is_Firing_Everybody_Anywhere_Any_Age_No_Matte.shtml

10:30:30 TR News; Latest Stallman Talk (Event in Argentina) Published (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Latest_Stallman_Talk_Event_in_Argentina_Published.shtml

10:30:48 TR News; Dealing With "Tech Cults" ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Dealing_With_Tech_Cults.shtml

10:33:48 TR News; Scientists Reveal Robot Small Enough to Travel Through Human Body ☞ https://futurism.com/future-society/robot-small-travel-human-body

10:34:27 TR News; GAFAM is a Financial Problem and Sovereignty Risk, a Policy-Level (National Level) Boycott is Needed ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/GAFAM_is_a_Financial_Problem_and_Sovereignty_Risk_a_Policy_Leve.shtml

10:34:35 TR News; 2026 Could Very Well be Last Year of XBox, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Dropped the Ball ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/2026_Could_Very_Well_be_Last_Year_of_XBox_Microsoft_Dropped_the.shtml

10:34:45 TR News; EPO People Power - Part XI - The Media in Europe is Ill and Complicit in Ills ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/EPO_People_Power_Part_XI_The_Media_in_Europe_is_Ill_and_Complic.shtml

10:39:42 TR News; Scientists Investigate What Killed Off Hobbit-Like Species ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/drought-extinct-hobbit-species

10:40:33 TR News; Bugs Fed Microplastics Grow to Ludicrous Size ☞ https://futurism.com/science-energy/crickets-microplastics-grow-size

10:41:48 TR News; Korea’s English Exam Was So Hard It Prompted an Apology. How Would You Do? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/asia/korea-english-exam-how-would-you-do.html

10:43:07 TR News; New search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 driven by advanced tech: Experts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/new-search-for-missing-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh370-driven-by-advanced-tech-experts

10:44:21 TR News; Verilog ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/pjon-open-single-wire-bus-protocol-goes-verilog/ | Source: Hackaday

10:45:03 TR News; pg_ai_query v0.1.0 — First stable release with multi-model Hey Hi (AI) for PostgreSQL ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pg_ai_query-v010-first-stable-release-with-multi-model-ai-for-postgresql-3191/

10:47:49 TR News; The Young Conservatives Fixated on H-1B Visas ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/style/h1b-visa-young-conservatives-maga.html

10:48:29 TR News; The Roots of Dementia Trace Back All The Way to Childhood, Experts Find ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/the-roots-of-dementia-trace-back-all-the-way-to-childhood-experts-find

10:49:43 TR News; As inflation weighs on voters, Convicted Felon is paying a high price, too ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/1213/affordability-trump-prices-inflation

11:08:53 TR News; Anthropic’s Chief Scientist Says We’re Rapidly Approaching the Moment That Could Doom Us All ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/anthropic-ai-scientist-doom

11:09:13 TR News; People Are Already Creating Ghoulishly Horrifying Sora Disney Videos ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/horrifying-sora-videos-disney-characters

11:09:51 TR News; Sora just loses a LOT of moment. It'll die like Siri and Microsoft Cortana.

11:10:16 TR News; [LOT of money]

11:12:17 TR News; California sues Convicted Felon administration over $100,000 H-1B visa fee ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20251213-california-sues-trump-administration-over-100-000-h-1b-visa-fee

11:15:21 TR News; KDE Gear 25.12 with improved Wayland window activation for Kate & Konsole ☞ https://cullmann.dev/posts/kde-gear-25.12-with-improved-for-wayland-window-activation-for-kate-konsole/

11:18:30 TR News; "Cats can be wonderful companions, but they can also be aloof and boring to hang out with." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/get-statistical-about-your-pet-with-this-cat-tracking-dashboard/ | Source: Hackaday

11:19:04 TR News; "keep you  ̶2̶0̶%̶ ̶c̶o̶o̶l̶e̶r̶  25% warmer on the same fuel burn" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/condensing-diesel-heater-hack-is-dripping-with-efficiency/ | Source: Hackaday

11:19:50 TR News; "Most of us are familiar with vinyl LPs, and even with the way in which they are made by stamping a hot puck of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) into a record." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/watch-a-recording-lathe-from-1958-cut-a-lacquer-master-record/ | Source: Hackaday

11:21:08 TR News; Sebastian Wick: Flatpak Pre-Installation Approaches ☞ https://blog.sebastianwick.net/posts/flatpak-pre-installation/

11:26:06 TR News; ClickFix Attacks Still Using the Finger, (Sat, Dec 13th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32566

11:31:26 TR News; New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using Hey Hi (AI) Generated Code ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Extensions-Block-AI

11:33:27 TR News; The Second Snapshot Release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is Available ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/12/the-second-snapshot-release-of-ubuntu-26-04-lts-is-available/

11:34:23 TR News; UP Xtreme ARL Hey Hi (AI) Dev Kit review – Benchmarks and Hey Hi (AI) workloads on an defective chip maker Intel Core Ultra 5 225H Arrow Lake SBC ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/14/up-xtreme-arl-ai-dev-kit-review-benchmarks-and-ai-workloads-on-an-intel-core-ultra-5-225h-arrow-lake-sbc/ "pre-installed Ubuntu 24.04 Pro operating system to report system information"

11:34:32 TR News; Canonical and Ubuntu: Working for Microsoft, Promoting Proprietary Surveillance (Dis)Services ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Canonical_and_Ubuntu_Working_for_Microsoft_Promoting_Proprietar.shtml

11:35:06 TR News; lukaj – interactive diff tool for SVG images ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/lukaj-interactive-diff-tool-svg-images/

11:36:26 TR News; Muzi Launches Modular BASE Board System for Meshtastic Mesh Networking ☞ https://linuxgizmos.com/muzi-unveils-launches-modular-base-board-system-for-meshtastic-mesh-networking/

11:36:58 TR News; James Morris: Ultraviolet GNU/Linux Talk at GNU/Linux Plumbers Conf 2025 ☞ http://blog.namei.org/2025/12/14/ultraviolet-linux-talk-at-linux-plumbers-conf-2025/

11:38:08 TR News; SystemRescue 12.03 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/systemrescue

11:38:18 TR News; Puppy 11.2 is out as well ☞ https://distrowatch.com/puppy

11:40:01 TR News; TrixiePup64 11.1.1 (Development discontinued) https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=14554

11:42:51 TR News; Synex 13-u3 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/synex

11:43:21 TR News; K8s Deployments vs StatefulSets vs DaemonSets Explained ☞ https://www.linuxtechi.com/k8s-deployments-vs-statefulsets-vs-daemonsets-explained/

11:47:59 TR News; LibrePGP – updated specification of the OpenPGP encryption standard ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/librepgp-specification-openpgp-encryption/

11:48:09 TR News; 6 Best Free and Open Source Type 1 Hypervisors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hypervisors/

11:48:43 TR News; hgrep – grep with human-friendly search output ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/hgrep-grep-human-friendly-search-output/

11:48:56 TR News; 6 Best Free and Open Source Email Encryption Tools ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/emailencryption/

11:49:53 TR News; ChartDB – web-based database diagramming editor ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chartdb-web-based-database-diagramming-editor/

11:50:55 TR News; pygitzen – Python-native terminal-based Git client ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/pygitzen-python-native-terminal-based-git-client/

11:52:08 TR News; g1c – Surveillance Giant Google Cloud Instances Terminal UI Manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/g1c-google-cloud-instances-terminal-ui-manager/

11:52:49 TR News; snipt – text snippet expansion tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/snipt-text-snippet-expansion-tool/

11:55:48 TR News; 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Family History Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/familyhistory/

11:56:00 TR News; dnspyre – command-line DNS benchmark tool ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/dnspyre-command-line-dns-benchmark-tool/

12:00:17 TR News; ZeroFS – filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/zerofs-filesystem-that-makes-s3-your-primary-storage/

12:00:28 TR News; aqua – declarative CLI version manager ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/aqua-declarative-cli-version-manager/

12:00:39 TR News; rework – plugin framework for CSS preprocessing ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/rework-plugin-framework-css-preprocessing/

12:02:13 TR News; CIX releases P1 CPU TRM and developer guides for GPU, Hey Hi (AI) accelerator, OS and firmware/BIOS ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/12/13/cix-releases-p1-cpu-trm-and-developer-guides-for-gpu-ai-accelerator-os-and-firmware-bios/

12:03:07 TR News; Fix Screen Brightness in EasySetup ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202512/fix-screen-brightness-in-easysetup.html

12:04:19 TR News; Un-debunking the GAMLSS myth ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/12/un-debunking-the-gamlss-myth/

12:04:57 TR News; YouTube’s Hey Hi (AI) is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem ☞ https://itsfoss.com/news/youtubes-ai-mod-enshittification/

12:05:28 TR News; OpenMediaVault 8.0-12 is out ☞ https://distrowatch.com/openmediavault

12:06:18 TR News; RapidRAW Basics – How to cull your photographs ☞ https://www.reallinuxuser.com/rapidraw-basics-how-to-cull-your-photographs/

12:08:22 TR News; How To Install Apache Kafka on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-apache-kafka-rocky-linux-10/

12:08:49 TR News; Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/world/europe/belarus-frees-prisoners-trade-sanctions.html

12:12:06 TR News; Deliberate Lies or Glaring Distortions ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Deliberate_Lies_or_Glaring_Distortions.shtml

12:12:15 TR News; Russian "Hybrid Attacks" Are Typically Abusive Monopolist Microsoft TCO and/or backdoored Windows TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/13/Russian_Hybrid_Attacks_Are_Typically_Microsoft_TCO_and_or_Windo.shtml

12:19:00 TR News; User Serviceable Parts ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/12/13/user-serviceable-parts/ | Source: Hackaday

12:19:35 TR News; The Washington Post’s Hey Hi (AI) Generated Podcasts Are Already an Error-Laden Disaster ☞ https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/washington-post-ai-podcast-disaster

12:20:15 TR News; FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending December 12, 2025 ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/12/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-december-12-2025/

12:26:09 TR News; "NTFSPlus (often stylized as NTFSPLUS) is the name of a new NTFS driver for the Linux kernel, with the goal of producing a performant, featureful, and accurate read/write driver implementation for this notoriously tricky filesystem." https://itsfoss.com/ntfsplus/

12:26:30 TR News; "Grml, a live bootable Linux distro based on Debian and designed for system administrators and users of text tools, has been updated today to version 2025.12, a release that introduces new and updated tools." https://9to5linux.com/grml-2025-12-linux-distro-is-out-based-on-debian-forky-and-linux-kernel-6-17

12:27:13 TR News; Proprietary but 'free' https://synthanatomy.com/2025/12/nakst-integrate-virtual-analog-synthesizer-plugin-for-mac-linux-and-windows-is-now-free.html

12:27:39 TR News; COSMIC's big release, the new Kali Linux, and more: Linux news roundup https://www.howtogeek.com/cosmics-big-release-the-new-kali-linux-and-more-linux-news-roundup/

12:28:07 TR News; I love the Linux terminal, but I still recommend the GUI https://www.makeuseof.com/i-love-the-linux-terminal-but-i-still-recommend-the-gui/

12:28:38 TR News; "This release also updates the Xfce desktop environment with support for color themes and introduces support for virtual machine guest tools." https://9to5linux.com/kali-linux-2025-4-ethical-hacking-distro-released-with-kde-plasma-6-5-gnome-49

12:29:11 TR News; "I’m still on 8GB of RAM in 2025, and at first, it was a nightmare for all my coding projects. So, initially, I turned my terminal into a full-blown IDE just to survive since TUI apps are just lighter." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-moved-more-of-my-linux-workflow-to-the-terminal-and-now-i-

12:29:29 TR News; "From there, I slowly started replacing more and more apps with terminal-based alternatives, not just because they are lighter, but because the workflow started feeling better to me, and I really dig the vibe of getting everything done in the terminal." https://www.makeuseof.com/i-moved-more-of-my-linux-workflow-to-the-terminal-and-now-i-cant-stop/

12:29:58 TR News; Kali Linux 2025.4 Released With 3 New Hacking Tools (Desktop Environments, Wayland & Halloween Mode) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/kali-linux-20254-released-3-new-hacking-tools-desktop-7rhue/

12:31:31 TR News; GPU Confidential Computing using Oracle Linux 9 blogs.oracle.com/linux/gpu-confidential-computing-ol9

12:31:53 TR News; "Tails 7.3.1 has been released today as the third minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship." https://9to5linux.com/tails-7-3-1-anonymous-linux-os-released-with-tor-browser-15-0-3-and-tor-0-4-8-21

12:32:26 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (December 12 - 14) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/3_cool_Linux_apps_to_try_this_weekend_December_12_14.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/3_cool_Linux_apps_to_try_this_weekend_December_12_14.gmi ∎

12:32:27 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LibreOffice 26.2 Beta1 is available for testing ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/LibreOffice_26_2_Beta1_is_available_for_testing.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/13/LibreOffice_26_2_Beta1_is_available_for_testing.gmi ∎

12:33:03 TR News; "With only options of Continue or remind me in 3 days. My question… what happens in 3 days? Does the laptop get erased and return to Linux or will there be a way to tell windows I accept responsibility for my actions." https://www.thurrott.com/forums/microsoft/windows/thread/lets-finish-setting-up-your-pc

12:35:47 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎

12:39:07 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎

12:44:08 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): IBM: Fedora, Flatpak, and Oracle Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/IBM_Fedora_Flatpak_and_Oracle_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/IBM_Fedora_Flatpak_and_Oracle_Linux.gmi ∎

12:47:29 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Plans for KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME Will Reject Shell Extensions With AI-Generated So-called 'Code' (Slop) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Plans_for_KDE_Plasma_6_6_and_GNOME_Will_Reject_Shell_Extensions.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Plans_for_KDE_Plasma_6_6_and_GNOME_Will_Reject_Shell_Extensions.gmi ∎

12:50:49 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎

12:52:30 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎

12:54:43 TR News; Attack in Australia. Is SLAPPMatt happy? What about his Australian lawyer? https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/10/02/if-you-glorify-violence/

12:58:39 TR News; Techrights – Links 14/12/2025: Tensions in Asia, US Making Deals With Belarus ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Links_14_12_2025_Tensions_in_Asia_US_Making_Deals_With_Belarus.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/12/14/Links_14_12_2025_Tensions_in_Asia_US_Making_Deals_With_Belarus.gmi ∎

14:38:22 techrights-sec4; \

14:54:19 TR News; pension package https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-fraught-pension-package-passes-cdu-test-vote/live-74976294

14:55:26 TR News; Work-related deaths in Turkey hit record high in November, 13 child workers killed https://bianet.org/haber/work-related-deaths-in-turkey-hit-record-high-in-november-13-child-workers-killed-314208

15:13:22 TR News; My first impression of Pop!_OS as someone who’s never used it https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-pop-os-for-a-week-heres-what-worked-for-me-and-what-didnt/

15:16:09 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1504.jpg

15:16:15 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1854.jpg

15:16:42 TR News; Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-12-14.gmi

15:17:26 TR News; Über Tyrannenmord: Fünf Lektionen für Luigis Kritiker gemini://gemini.lost-frequencies.org/2025-12-14_Ueber_Tyrannenmord_Fuenf_Lektionen_fuer_Luigis_Kritiker.gmi

15:31:07 TR News; debt-to-GDP fiscal anchor https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/canadian-economy-resilient-trade-shock-imf-report-9.7004484

15:32:23 TR News; "Hey everyone, we are jopejoe1 and Leona Maroni, the release managers of the newest release of NixOS." https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2511/

15:32:51 TR News; MAX 12.5-20251115, Talos 1.12.0-beta1, ExTiX 25.12 and Kiro 25.12.01.01 are out

15:43:02 TR News; Portugal updates cybercrime law to exempt security researchers https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/portugal-updates-cybercrime-law-to-exempt-security-researchers/

15:43:47 TR News; How the U.S. Security State Expanded, Even After Snowden Revelations https://scheerpost.com/2025/12/07/how-the-u-s-security-state-expanded-even-after-snowden-revelations/

15:50:23 TR News; surveillance https://www.michigandaily.com/news/public-safety/umich-launches-step-advisory-committee-amid-new-security-policy-and-campus-surveillance-concerns/

15:51:48 TR News; preloaded security app plan https://www.dw.com/en/indian-government-uninstalls-preloaded-security-app-plan/a-75000693

15:52:34 TR News; Cybersecurity App on Smartphones = Surveillance https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-12-03/india-rolls-back-order-to-preinstall-cybersecurity-app-on-smartphones

15:52:52 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎

15:53:36 TR News; d77void 20251201, Dr.Parted 25.12, Arch 2025.12.01, and Oracle Linux 10.1 are out

15:55:30 TR News; Surveillance? 'I hate my child' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/cooney-hamber-trial-milton-9.7003688

15:58:08 TR News; Syrian journalists enjoy freedom but also new risks https://cpj.org/2025/12/a-year-after-assads-fall-syrian-journalists-enjoy-freedom-but-also-new-risks/

15:59:35 _what__; "cybersecurity (sic) app = spyware"

15:59:50 _what__; especially if they DO NOT allow end users to verify its source code

16:00:03 _what__; where is the "Stallman was Right" people

16:00:22 _what__; I only see Rust people, Wayland people, but not "Stallman was Right" people

16:00:41 TR News; End energy monopolies to counter rising energy costs in Michigan https://bridgemi.com/guest-commentary/opinion-end-energy-monopolies-to-counter-rising-energy-costs-in-michigan/

16:01:38 TR News; Slop patents https://patentdocs.org/2025/12/03/uspto-revokes-guidance-on-ai-assisted-inventorship-but-rules-remain-basically-the-same/

16:01:59 TR News; Formulation patents http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/12/formulation-patents-no-longer-eligible.html

16:02:11 _what__; slop/fake patents

16:02:35 _what__; slop example, litigants who generate fake or synthetic 'SLAPP'

16:02:58 _what__; (man the TechRights effect)

16:03:15 TR News; funded by Chinese banks https://nltimes.nl/2025/12/02/two-large-dutch-offshore-windfarms-funded-chinese-banks

16:03:52 TR News; Fire Reports https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2025-12-08/210-000-portable-power-banks-sold-on-amazon-recalled-after-fire-reports Amazon calls its products "Fire" and "Kindle"

16:04:23 TR News; Cloudflare = Fragility https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/banks-shopify-zoom-hit-again-cloudflares-second-december-outage-reveals-your-internets-1761059

16:04:58 TR News; Online banking fraud https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/online-banking-fraud-winnipeg-9.6995560

16:07:56 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I switched from Windows to Linux and these 4 habits held me back ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/I_switched_from_Windows_to_Linux_and_these_4_habits_held_me_bac.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/I_switched_from_Windows_to_Linux_and_these_4_habits_held_me_bac.gmi ∎

16:11:57 _what__; reminder: http://techrights.org/wiki/High-Priority_Opponents/

16:12:17 _what__; proprietary lock-in: these 4 habits

16:12:57 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I stopped using Linux for a year, here's what brought me back ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/I_stopped_using_Linux_for_a_year_here_s_what_brought_me_back.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/I_stopped_using_Linux_for_a_year_here_s_what_brought_me_back.gmi ∎

16:28:02 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Diptyx Open Source Dual-Screen E-Reader Launches on Crowd Supply ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Diptyx_Open_Source_Dual_Screen_E_Reader_Launches_on_Crowd_Suppl.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Diptyx_Open_Source_Dual_Screen_E_Reader_Launches_on_Crowd_Suppl.gmi ∎

16:29:42 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS Released: A Letter From Our Founder ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Pop_OS_24_04_LTS_Released_A_Letter_From_Our_Founder.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/12/Pop_OS_24_04_LTS_Released_A_Letter_From_Our_Founder.gmi ∎

16:37:06 _what__; http://alternativeto.net/news/2025/12/discord-admits-excessive-ram-usage-on-windows-app-and-tests-auto-restarts-as-temporary-fix/

16:37:16 _what__; Proprietary TCO Total Cost of Ownership

16:39:06 _what__; random find http://nitter.poast.org/tuxmachines/status/901403711150448640/

16:39:30 _what__; just realized the flag for "Kill Khashoggi" is there 1 year before

16:39:45 TR News; ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎

16:39:52 _what__; and ~two years before the Kill Assange plot

16:40:55 _what__; and in March 2019 Cheeto fulfilled the "Al-Aqsa in the end times" prophecy by making Gaza capital of Bani Israelis

16:41:05 _what__; speaking of "the prophecy"

16:41:40 _what__; how similar DAJJAL (Antichrist) is to 1984's Big Brother, given that they are totalitarian tyrants

16:52:00 MinceR; (cat) (video) (audio:irrelevant) https://imgur.com/gallery/cute-XqaV3N8

17:04:01 _what__; http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/12/14/Being_a_Family_Friendly_Site.shtml

17:05:01 _what__; I am waiting until GAFAM EpsteinGates cancels Japanese (Akira Urushibata) culture just because of Flandre Scarlet and Illyasviel von Einzbern straight outta Shimoneta

17:06:05 MinceR; i suspect it's not long until the axis of evil rewards putler for his genocidal war, winnie the pooh gets the hint, exterminates taiwan and then japan and south korea

17:06:37 _what__; Shimoneta: A Boring World where Dirty Jokes ain't existing http://animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16731

17:07:02 _what__; and they fulfilled it http://thegamer.com/collective-shout-adult-game-ban-steam-itch-controversy-response-defence/ http://cbr.com/high-school-dxd-removal/

17:08:04 _what__; look at what happened to Doujinshi stores

17:08:12 _what__; Fantia: http://spotlight.fantia.jp/news/240521_payment_method/

17:08:21 _what__; DMM http://itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2406/14/news145.html

17:08:36 _what__; MElonBooks http://animenewsnetwork.com/news/2024-11-10/melonbooks-dojinshi-store-chain-to-halt-visa-mastercard-payments-on-december-19/.217701

17:09:07 _what__; MangaZ is dead because of this groupthink http://closing.mangaz.com/

17:09:07 _what__; Nicovideo http://itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/2406/14/news145.html

17:09:15 _what__; Toranoana http://ecs.toranoana.jp/ec/app/law/oshirase/

17:10:09 _what__; the day that overseas people think that Touhou Project is for lolicons just because of that character, Flandre Scarlet

17:10:28 _what__; same goes to Fate/Nasuverse for Illyasviel von Einzbern

17:10:51 MinceR; bare apes generally don't need much of a reason to hate anything, especially to hate foreign things

17:11:07 MinceR; most have zero critical thinking skills

17:11:13 MinceR; or thinking ability, for that matter

17:24:03 MinceR; https://files.catbox.moe/oxd89h.png

17:36:55 _what__; missing: that sheep

17:38:12 MinceR; :>

17:48:48 _what__; http://techrights.org/wiki/Librethreat_Database/

17:49:02 _what__; SLOP software engineering

17:50:11 _what__; this thing predicted http://techrights.org/n/2025/12/12/Smart_or_Intelligent_Agents_and_Vice_Coding_Deletes_Everything_.shtml

18:03:27 _what__; speaking of hentai

18:03:41 _what__; UNIX had its own, but buried deep

18:03:42 _what__; unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep

18:03:56 MinceR; :>

18:06:27 _what__; "if it exists, there is port of it. no exceptions"

18:07:00 _what__; DOS/Windows: ? (no equivalent, thanks inclusive (sic) language)

18:09:08 MinceR; well, windows is already pr0n

18:09:16 MinceR; you run windows, MICROS~1 fucks you

18:09:19 MinceR; harder with every version

18:09:32 MinceR; macos/iOS is the same, except there crApple fucks you

18:11:52 _what__; horse owners: "oh you think so" http://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FGRBaF9lXoAAk_yf.jpg

18:13:32 MinceR; (and of course some of the time, putler and/or the CPC will join in the fucking)

18:31:32 Isambard_Prince; The only thing that could possibly keep proprietary software "somewhat honest" is the ability to run a Free alternative to that program.

18:31:50 Isambard_Prince; Secure Boot is getting worse all the time with the ultimate goal of preventing Free Software from running at all.

18:32:52 Isambard_Prince; I've had to take action over various PC vendors because of things somewhat related to this but not *exactly* this because last time I bought a PC you just turned Secure Boot off and never had to deal with it or the bugs or malfunctions in it again.

18:33:11 Isambard_Prince; And the PC vendors are always technically the ones that do it because they're a liability condom for Microsoft.

18:33:34 Isambard_Prince; It's like The Godfather relaying the hit orders through the chain of command down to someone who goes to prison if they screw up the hit.

18:34:08 Isambard_Prince; And if they talk about who ordered the hit, they get killed in prison, so they shut up and do their prison time.

18:34:55 Isambard_Prince; It's somewhat like that. So it's always like HP, Dell, Lenovo, those companies are there to implement it and they usually make it look like an accident, like they had a legitimate purpose for why only Windows works.

18:35:15 Isambard_Prince; But the "legitimate purpose" is so insane you'd never do it like that for a good reason.

18:35:38 Isambard_Prince; Like thee "fake RAID" mode so you'd need a Windows driver to see the SSD in my laptop.

18:50:18 MinceR; people don't seem to value free alternatives anymore

19:03:12 _what__; MinceR Isambard_Prince: look at no futher than http://techrights.org/wiki/High-Priority_Opponents/

19:03:42 _what__; "...don't seem to value free alternatives" this is the purpose of exit barrier that is proprietary lock-in

19:06:33 MinceR; no, it doesn't depend on any sort of lock-in

19:06:41 MinceR; humans just don't want to be free anymore

19:46:38 MinceR; https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ivy-league

21:37:48 admfubar; https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/thousands-tell-patent-office-dont-hide-bad-patents-review

21:39:29 MinceR; https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/03/10/funniest-lord-of-the-rings-memes-3-10-25/

21:40:02 _what__; Isn't EFF GAFAM now? http://techrights.org/n/2025/09/17/Fact_EFF_Got_Corrupted_by_Corporate_Money_Microsoft_Lunduke_Pol.shtml

21:40:49 MinceR; i don't know, they seem to love crApple

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