IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, December 29, 2023

beginning of new day, December 29

00:18 admfubar; https://www.salon.com/2023/12/28/ex-lawmaker-describes-as-smelling-like-a-mix-of-armpits-ketchup-and-a-butt/

00:18 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Ex-GOP lawmaker describes Trump as smelling like a mix of armpits, ketchup and a butt | Salon.com

00:31 TR News; "The billionaires are looking at Mars, saying that Earth might fail to keep us alive eventually. They're not wrong, as rampaging climate change indicates." gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2023-12-28-the-good-news-is-we-ll-never-need-another-planet.gmi

00:31 TR News; "Someone was commenting on Monday the 25th and recollecting that it did not happen much. I had never much noticed the particular day, as in IT one will often end up working the 25th or 1st because invariably something breaks and someone must be on-call." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2023/12/28/monday-the.gmi

00:32 TR News; "The holiday was good, indeed one of the best I've had in years. I cherish the memories. And for everybody who struggles with the season, or went without, I hope you find peace and balance somehow else. I'd give you a slice of my peace if I could, but obviously metaphysics isn't pizza." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~wholesomedonut/gemlog/2023-12-27.gmi

00:33 TR News; "So, i got a C64 C case with keyboard for a few very cheap bucks on ebay and inserted the Raspberry Pi running BMC64 into it, wired the keyboard to the Raspberry GPIO and got a bit of a retro kick of it playing old games and testing software of yesteryear." gemini://sdf.org/ralfwause/gemini/c64.gmi

00:34 TR News; "It's often hard to understand the comments under the news, but when I see one that's particularly angry about policies that are disadvantageous to the rich, and I see so many people agreeing with it, it makes me feel sad, not to mention pathetic." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1623

00:41 TR News; "Rhino Linux is an Ubuntu-based rolling distribution that aims to offer a stable experience with the advantages of a rolling-release approach. It rose from the ashes of the now defunct Rolling Rhino Remix project and has been receiving regular updates." https://news.itsfoss.com/rhino-linux-2023-4-release/

00:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.itsfoss.com | Rhino Linux 2023.4 Update Adds An Auto-Tiling Feature

00:43 TR News; How to boot Ubuntu into recovery mode https://www.xda-developers.com/how-boot-ubuntu-recovery-mode/

00:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | How to boot Ubuntu into recovery mode

00:43 TR News; How to back up Ubuntu https://www.xda-developers.com/how-back-up-ubuntu/

00:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | How to back up Ubuntu

1 AM, December 29

01:00 TR News; Typical FUD, blaming the wrong things https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/crime/wave-of-cyberattacks-targeting-linux-ssh-servers-an-in-depth-analysis/ see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml

01:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bnnbreaking.com | Unearthing Cyberattacks on Linux SSH Servers

01:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GBHackers On Security is Trash and It Should Probably Be Ignored (It Trash-talks Linux and SSH Based on Nothing at All)

01:03 TR News; New AMD Zen 5 CPUs Support Added with Latest PMC Linux Driver https://beebom.com/amd-zen-5-cpu-support-pmc-linux-driver/

01:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-New AMD Zen 5 CPUs Support Added with Latest PMC Linux Driver | Beebom

01:04 TR News; DevOps Linux The anatomy of SSH encryption https://medium.com/@milos.vasiljevic.pro/devops-linux-the-anatomy-of-ssh-encryption-ec71d8f695e5

01:04 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-DevOps Linux The anatomy of SSH encryption | by Milos Vasiljevic | Dec, 2023 | Medium

01:05 TR News; "Nobara 39, the latest iteration of the Linux distribution, has officially been released, bringing significant advancements and a host of new features. Based on Fedora 39, this release focuses heavily on enhancing the gaming experience and refining the desktop environment." https://betanews.com/2023/12/27/fedora-linux-nobara-39-kde/

01:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-betanews.com | Fedora Linux-based Nobara 39 now available for download -- including a specialized Steam Deck version

01:06 TR News; It is a password issue, not Linux or SSH https://securityaffairs.com/156466/hacking/threat-actors-linux-ssh-servers-attacks.html see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml

01:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-securityaffairs.com | Experts analyzed attacks against poorly managed Linux SSH servers

01:07 TR News; Microsoft parrots, trying to associate SSH and Linux with doom because people can choose bad passwords (or lose these) https://thehackernews.com/2023/12/warning-poorly-secured-linux-ssh.html

01:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thehackernews.com | Warning: Poorly Secured Linux SSH Servers Under Attack for Cryptocurrency Mining

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01:11 TR News; "The best underrated apps that we discovered in 2023." https://news.itsfoss.com/exciting-apps-2023/

01:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.itsfoss.com | 8 Exciting Open Source Apps Linux Users Loved Exploring in 2023

01:14 TR News; (NEW): Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation Against Linux http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Fear_mongering_Dramatisation_Against_Lin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Fear_mongering_Dramatisation_Against_Lin.gmi

01:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation Against Linux

01:14 TR News; (NEW): Octane Now Supports FrankenPHP Linux ARM Builds http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Octane_Now_Supports_FrankenPHP_Linux_ARM_Builds.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Octane_Now_Supports_FrankenPHP_Linux_ARM_Builds.gmi

01:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Octane Now Supports FrankenPHP Linux ARM Builds

01:14 TR News; (NEW): Security, Windows TCO, and DRM http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Windows_TCO_and_DRM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Windows_TCO_and_DRM.gmi

01:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security, Windows TCO, and DRM

01:18 TR News; (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Fedora, Linux Out Loud http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_Fedora_Linux_Out_Loud.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Audiocasts_Shows_Fedora_Linux_Out_Loud.gmi

01:18 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: Fedora, Linux Out Loud

01:20 TR News; "Rust in production" in https://www.rust-lang.org/ quotes Microsoft staff. Rust is proudly slave of Microsoft, and that goes beyond GitHub imprisonment.

01:20 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rust-lang.org | Rust Programming Language

01:21 TR News; "Likewise any spamming, trolling, flaming, baiting or other attention-stealing behavior is not welcome." https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct OK, fair enough. But what's this: "Please keep unstructured critique to a minimum." Criticism not allowed?

01:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rust-lang.org | Code of conduct - Rust Programming Language

01:22 TR News; Rust: outsourced communication to Elon Musk and Microsoft, says do not criticise

01:23 TR News; (NEW): Announcing Rust 1.75.0 and This Week In Rust http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Announcing_Rust_1_75_0_and_This_Week_In_Rust.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Announcing_Rust_1_75_0_and_This_Week_In_Rust.gmi

01:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Announcing Rust 1.75.0 and This Week In Rust

01:23 TR News; Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/956257/

01:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Security updates for Thursday [LWN.net]

01:25 TR News; Windows TCO? https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/anna-jaques-systems-compromised-after-cyber-issue/article_a5a6d88e-a58e-11ee-bc90-cf662aa3badb.html

01:25 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 451 @ https://www.newburyportnews.com/news/local_news/anna-jaques-systems-compromised-after-cyber-issue/article_a5a6d88e-a58e-11ee-bc90-cf662aa3badb.html )

01:26 TR News; Microsoft Windows again? https://www.wwnytv.com/2023/12/28/after-cyber-attack-local-hospitals-find-stolen-patient-info-look-its-return/ see http://techrights.org/o/2020/06/09/windows-disaster-zones/

01:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.wwnytv.com | After cyber attack, local hospitals find stolen patient info, look for its return

01:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Index of the Series About Windows Inside Hospitals (Causing Hospitals to Become Disaster Zones)

01:26 TR News; 4 arrested in Indian Council of Medical Research data leak case now booked in separate incident of data brokering https://theprint.in/india/4-arrested-in-icmr-data-leak-case-now-booked-in-separate-incident-of-data-brokering/1903038/

01:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-theprint.in | 4 arrested in ICMR data leak case now booked in separate incident of 'data brokering'

01:27 TR News; Maybe Windows, maybe people of the Microsoft religion https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mortgage-firm-loancare-warns-13-million-people-of-data-breach/

01:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bleepingcomputer.com | Mortgage firm LoanCare warns 1.3 million people of data breach

01:27 TR News; Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-secures-300000-newyork-presbyterian-hospital-failing

01:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ag.ny.gov | Attorney General James Secures $300,000 from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for Failing to Protect Patient Data

01:28 TR News; Recent attacks on Fred Hutch and Integris: Is attempting to extort patients directly becoming the new normal? https://www.databreaches.net/recent-attacks-on-fred-hutch-and-integris-is-attempting-to-extort-patients-directly-becoming-the-new-normal/

01:28 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.databreaches.net | Recent attacks on Fred Hutch and Integris: Is attempting to extort patients directly becoming the new normal?

01:29 TR News; "As noted above. LockBit3.0 is suspected of being responsible for the attack, but as of publication, there is no claim on the threat actors leak site." So Windows TCO https://www.databreaches.net/german-hospital-hits-by-cyberattack/

01:29 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.databreaches.net | German hospital system hit by cyberattack

01:31 TR News; (NEW): Security Patches and Incidents http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Patches_and_Incidents.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Patches_and_Incidents.gmi

01:31 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Patches and Incidents

01:34 TR News; (NEW): Today's HowTos http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.gmi

01:34 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos

01:38 TR News; (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Mesa Release, FOSS Weekly, and News Aggregators for GNU/Linux http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Mesa_Release_FOSS_Weekly_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Mesa_Release_FOSS_Weekly_an.gmi

01:38 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software: Mesa Release, FOSS Weekly, and News Aggregators for GNU/Linux

01:41 TR News; (NEW): Steam Deck's custom AMD processor exposed - Van Gogh die shots reveal CPU, GPU core designs, and unused hardware http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Steam_Deck_s_custom_AMD_processor_exposed_Van_Gogh_die_shots_re.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Steam_Deck_s_custom_AMD_processor_exposed_Van_Gogh_die_shots_re.gmi

01:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Steam Deck's custom AMD processor exposed - Van Gogh die shots reveal CPU, GPU core designs, and unused hardware

01:44 TR News; (NEW): LILYGO T4-S3 board combines 2.41-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with ESP32-S3R8 microcontroller http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/LILYGO_T4_S3_board_combines_2_41_inch_AMOLED_touchscreen_displa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/LILYGO_T4_S3_board_combines_2_41_inch_AMOLED_touchscreen_displa.gmi

01:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines LILYGO T4-S3 board combines 2.41-inch AMOLED touchscreen display with ESP32-S3R8 microcontroller

01:46 TR News; (NEW): Today in Techrights http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Today_in_Techrights.gmi

01:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights

01:48 TR News; Techrights Over at Tux Machines... http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi

01:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines...

01:53 TR News; (NEW): Programming Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.gmi

01:53 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers

01:59 TR News; Techrights Links 29/12/2023: "The Wikipedia Hustle" (Rogue Finances, Lies), Transplanting a Raspberry Pi into a C64 http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Links_29_12_2023_The_Wikipedia_Hustle_Rogue_Finances_Lies_Trans.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Links_29_12_2023_The_Wikipedia_Hustle_Rogue_Finances_Lies_Trans.gmi

01:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 29/12/2023: "The Wikipedia Hustle" (Rogue Finances, Lies), Transplanting a Raspberry Pi into a C64

2 AM, December 29

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02:02 TR News; Tech jobs bloodbath: Over 260,000 staff axed this year as industry battles to save cash https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/markets/article-12907555/Tech-jobs-bloodbath-260-000-staff-axed-year-industry-battles-save-cash.html the real number is a lot higher; they don't count HR tricks and mislabelling, under-reporting

02:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thisismoney.co.uk | Tech jobs bloodbath: Over 260,000 staff axed this year as industry battles to save cash | This is Money

02:02 TR News; Google, Meta, other tech giants slash DEI-related jobs, resource groups in 2023: report https://nypost.com/2023/12/28/tech/google-meta-other-tech-giants-slash-dei-related-jobs-resource-groups-in-2023-report/

02:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nypost.com | Google, Meta, other tech giants slash DEI-related jobs, resource groups in 2023: report

02:02 TR News; It wasn't just you; things in the tech world got really weird this year https://www.kten.com/story/50285708/it-wasnt-just-you-things-in-the-tech-world-got-really-weird-this-year

02:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-It wasn't just you; things in the tech world got really weird this year - KTEN - Your source for Texoma news, sports and weather

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02:21 TR News; (NEW): 4 Ways to Follow Tux Machines http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/4_Ways_to_Follow_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/4_Ways_to_Follow_Tux_Machines.gmi

02:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 4 Ways to Follow Tux Machines

02:40 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-281223.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-281223.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-281223.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-281223.txt

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02:41 TR News; Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-281223.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-281223.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-281223.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-281223.txt

02:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, December 28, 2023

02:42 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281223.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-281223.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-281223.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-281223.txt

02:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, December 28, 2023

02:43 TR News; Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-281223.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-281223.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-281223.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-281223.txt

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02:49 TR News; Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 28, 2023 http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_December_28_2023.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_December_28_2023.gmi

02:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, December 28, 2023

02:50 TR News; Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2023-12-28.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2023-12-28.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now

02:50 TR News; Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2023-12-28.txt

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03:24 TR News; Techrights Another Good Year for GNU/Linux http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Another_Good_Year_for_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Another_Good_Year_for_GNU_Linux.gmi

03:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Another Good Year for GNU/Linux

03:44 TR News; Techrights Bypassing the Governments, Hijacking the Courts, Bribing the Largest Media Outlets/Publishers http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Bypassing_the_Governments_Hijacking_the_Courts_Bribing_the_Larg.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Bypassing_the_Governments_Hijacking_the_Courts_Bribing_the_Larg.gmi

03:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Bypassing the Governments, Hijacking the Courts, Bribing the Largest Media Outlets/Publishers

03:56 TR News; Techrights Sounds Like Microsoft Will Announce More Mass Layoffs in a Number of Weeks http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Sounds_Like_Microsoft_Will_Announce_More_Mass_Layoffs_in_a_Numb.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Sounds_Like_Microsoft_Will_Announce_More_Mass_Layoffs_in_a_Numb.gmi

03:56 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Sounds Like Microsoft Will Announce More Mass Layoffs in a Number of Weeks

4 AM, December 29

04:01 TR News; Lots of GNU/Linux in Jamaica https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/jamaica/#monthly-200901-202312

04:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Jamaica | Statcounter Global Stats

04:14 TR News; (NEW): This Month GNU/Linux Has Hit All-Time High Across All Form Factors (Including Mobile) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/This_Month_GNU_Linux_Has_Hit_All_Time_High_Across_All_Form_Fact.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/This_Month_GNU_Linux_Has_Hit_All_Time_High_Across_All_Form_Fact.gmi

04:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines This Month GNU/Linux Has Hit All-Time High Across All Form Factors (Including Mobile)

04:28 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1144.jpg

04:28 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D794.jpg

04:33 TR News; "Living in such a society as that of modern times, many people have often come to believe that the gap between the adult and the child is vast and expansive. But nothing could be farther from the truth." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1624

04:35 TR News; If you think Murphy's got it in for you, ponder this 'should take 10 seconds and out' snafu gemini://tilde.club/~oldernow/2023-12-28-18-35-56.gmi

04:36 TR News; Kinda dying helped me live gemini://gemini.hearsay.tech/2023-12-28-kinda-dying-helped-me-live.gmi

04:37 TR News; "Oh wow, a guy online has motivation issues" gemini://qwel.smol.pub/motivation-1

04:37 TR News; "Please note that I'm about to rant about a decidely first world problem. You have been warned." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/canfood/phlog/2023-12-28

04:45 TR News; almost over :/

04:49 TR News; Bullshit pump and dump today: "OpenAI became the nexus of the technology world in 2023". OH really??? By losing how much money to push some useless gimmick?

04:49 TR News; Good time to retire then? https://www.financialexpress.com/jobs-career/the-year-ahead-2024-fog-over-jobs-growth-deepens-3350211/

04:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.financialexpress.com | The year ahead 2024: Fog over jobs growth deepens - Jobs and Career News | The Financial Express

04:51 TR News; Clue: Microsoft layoffs in a few weeks https://www.latestly.com/quickly/technology/ex-microsoft-hr-vp-williams-highlights-layoff-timing-urges-professional-networking-5656868.html

04:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Technology News | Ex-Microsoft HR VP Williams Highlights Layoff Timing, Urges Professional Networking | LatestLY

04:52 TR News; Apple: 130 billion in DEBT is OK. We're doing great!! Keep investing based on false data. https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:AAPL/explorer/total_debt

04:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com

5 AM, December 29

05:08 TR News; Techrights Chart of the Day: Apple's Debt Grew Nearly Tenfold in the Past Ten Years http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Chart_of_the_Day_Apple_s_Debt_Grew_Nearly_Tenfold_in_the_Past_T.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Chart_of_the_Day_Apple_s_Debt_Grew_Nearly_Tenfold_in_the_Past_T.gmi

05:08 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Chart of the Day: Apple's Debt Grew Nearly Tenfold in the Past Ten Years

05:11 TR News; "Manual pages are not restricted to a specific output format." https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=170372806726487&w=2 | Source: Mailing list ARChives

05:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-marc.info | 'Re: self-hosted man.openbsd.org script?' - MARC

05:11 TR News; "I want a dynamic site, not a static one." https://bvisness.me/luax/ |

05:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bvisness.me | I made JSX for Lua (because I hate static sites) | Ben Visness

05:11 TR News; "If you have matching hardware and run current, please fetch the message" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231227141831 | Source: Undeadly

05:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-undeadly.org | Call For Testing: Add TSO support for em(4)

05:26 TR News; "Here's my workflow for setting up the Raspberry Pi 5 to boot from NVMe" https://blog.alexellis.io/booting-the-raspberry-pi-5-from-nvme/ | Source: Alex Ellis

05:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.alexellis.io | Booting the Raspberry Pi 5 from NVMe

05:27 TR News; "Prometheus's Blackbox exporter (Blackbox) is the Prometheus component..." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/PrometheusBlackboxHTTPDurations | Source: University of Toronto

05:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | Chris's Wiki :: blog/sysadmin/PrometheusBlackboxHTTPDurations

05:35 TR News; Techrights Web3, Blockchain, Metaverse, 'Hey Hi' (AI), and Vision Pro... What Ever Happened to the Vision Pro Hype? http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Web3_Blockchain_Metaverse_Hey_Hi_AI_and_Vision_Pro_What_Ever_Ha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Web3_Blockchain_Metaverse_Hey_Hi_AI_and_Vision_Pro_What_Ever_Ha.gmi

05:35 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Web3, Blockchain, Metaverse, 'Hey Hi' (AI), and Vision Pro... What Ever Happened to the Vision Pro Hype?

05:35 TR News; "Proton translates Windows commands into code compatible with Linux systems" https://blog.system76.com/post/guide-to-gaming/ | Source: System76

05:35 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.system76.com | The System76 Guide to Gaming on Pop!_OS - System76 Blog

05:36 TR News; "Congratulations to Rafael Sadowski (rsadowski@) on the completion of this mammoth effort." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20231227120851 | Source: Undeadly

05:36 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-undeadly.org | KDE Plasma now linked to packages build on -current

05:39 TR News; "The case kicked off in 2020 when concerned netizens argued Chromes Incognito Mode" https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/29/chrome_incognito_mode_case_settlement/ | Source: The Register UK

05:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Case settled alleging Chromes Incognito Mode isnt The Register

05:44 TR News; "Noticing one-character typos like this may not bring satisfaction" https://blog.josefsson.org/2023/12/29/validating-debian-copyright-licenserecon/ | Source: Simon Josefsson

05:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.josefsson.org | Validating debian/copyright: licenserecon Simon Josefsson's blog

05:46 TR News; "Normally, a terminal draws lines of text at fixed intervals." https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/terminal-smooth-scrolling | Source: Ted Unangst

05:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-flak.tedunangst.com | terminal smooth scrolling

05:46 TR News; "This week I spent time learning about the current state of proposals for solving the "index trust" problem for the Python Package Index." https://sethmlarson.dev/security-developer-in-residence-weekly-report-23?date=2023-12-28 | Source: Seth Michael Larson

05:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-sethmlarson.dev | Security Developer-in-Residence Weekly Report #23

05:46 TR News; "The last time I wrote a year in review post was 2017, and before that in 2012." https://macwright.com/2023/12/28/year-in-review.html | Source: Tom MacWright

05:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Year in Review - macwright.com

05:47 TR News; "When I want to write a blog post but have no topic ideas in mind" https://jamesg.blog/2023/12/28/writing-but-cant/ | Source: James G

05:47 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jamesg.blog | When you want to write a blog post but can't... | James' Coffee Blog

05:48 TR News; "I love Moodle and what you can do with it. I love that there isnt a big money-making, data-sucking, privacy-invasive company running it." https://troypatterson.me/2023/12/28/moodlenet-thoughts/ | Source: Troy Patterson

05:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-troypatterson.me | MoodleNet Thoughts Troy Patterson

05:48 TR News; "In the smartphone era, libraries might seem less central." https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/12/library-gen-z-readers/676963/ | Source: The Atlantic

05:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theatlantic.com | What Gen Z is finding at the library - The Atlantic

05:49 TR News; "Generally, the level of power you need for a fluid gaming experience is dependent on what types of game you play." https://blog.system76.com/post/buyers-guide-pc-gaming/ | Source: System76

05:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.system76.com | The Buyer's Guide to PC Gaming - System76 Blog

05:49 TR News; A bailout for the rich AGAIN; taxpayers pay the bill https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/28/1084686/computing-microelectronics-chips-act/ | Source: MIT Technology Review

05:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.technologyreview.com | We need a moonshot for computing | MIT Technology Review

05:50 TR News; "Could 1960s ELIZA be adapted to work as a web service" https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/eliza-gpt-the-classic-eliza-chatbot-running-on-openai-s-chat-completions-api | Source: Miguel Grinberg

05:50 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.miguelgrinberg.com | Eliza-GPT: The Classic ELIZA Chatbot Running On OpenAI's Chat Completions API - miguelgrinberg.com

05:51 TR News; casino_ransomware_attacks

05:52 TR News; Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/28/casino_ransomware_attacks/ | Source: The Register UK

05:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | Do the casino ransomware attacks make the case to pay? The Register

05:54 TR News; "The surge in migration in the final months of 2023" https://english.elpais.com/verne/2023-12-28/the-united-states-and-mexico-agree-to-strengthen-their-efforts-to-disrupt-criminal-migrant-networks.html | Source: El Pas

05:54 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-english.elpais.com | The United States and Mexico agree to strengthen their efforts to disrupt criminal migrant networks | Verne | EL PAS English

05:54 TR News; "Ms. Bellows found that Mr. Trump could no longer run for his prior job" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/1228/Maine-s-Secretary-of-State-bars-Donald-Trump-from-primary-ballot | Source: CS Monitor

05:54 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Maine Secretary of State Bars Donald Trump from Primary Ballot - CSMonitor.com

05:55 TR News; "Almost all the increase was driven by a surge in international migration." https://www.theage.com.au/world/north-america/world-population-grows-to-8-billion-20231229-p5eu75.html | Source: The Age AU

05:55 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theage.com.au | What is the world population now?

05:56 TR News; "These articles cover a wide range of topics, including true crime, Harvard, Oppenheimer" https://quillette.com/2023/12/28/quillettes-most-read-2023/ | Source: Quillette

05:56 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Quillettes Most Read2023

05:57 TR News; "Sony & Discovery change mind on stealing from customers" https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/sony-discovery-change-mind-on-stealing:1

05:57 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-odysee.com | Sony & Discovery change mind on stealing from customers

05:59 TR News; "GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident" https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4175732192/ https://medium.com/@fulalas/gnome-mess-is-not-an-accident-4e301032670c look who runs it... https://web.archive.org/web/20140404082432/http://hollyshomestead.apermanentmark.com/2013/11/garden-snails-as-food/

05:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.linuxquestions.org | GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident

05:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-GNOME Mess Is Not An Accident. GNOME accomplishes what seems to be | by fulalas | Dec, 2023 | Medium

05:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-web.archive.org | Garden Snails As Food Can't Beat 'Em? Eat 'Em! | Holly's Homestead

6 AM, December 29

06:00 TR News; "Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains" https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

06:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains - media.ccc.de

06:00 TR News; "Energy Consumption of Datacenters" https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-11796-energy_consumption_of_datacenters iophk: cows and coal are different, separate carbon cycles

06:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Energy Consumption of Datacenters - media.ccc.de

06:00 TR News; hostages https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/devastated-will-not-stop-biden-on-us-israeli-hostage-killed-in-gaza-4761403

06:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.ndtv.com | "Won't Stop...": Biden As Oldest Woman Held Captive By Hamas Confirmed Dead

06:01 TR News; "Maine Joins Colorado in Finding Trump Ineligible for Primary Ballot" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/maine-trump-ballot.html

06:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Maine Bars Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot, Joining Colorado - The New York Times

06:01 TR News; Raping and bombing buses https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html

06:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 - The New York Times

06:03 TR News; "American PR Firm Edelman Enabled Oil Baron Al Jabers Ascension to Lead COP28" https://www.desmog.com/2023/12/28/best-of-2023-carbon-capture-cop28-al-jaber-fossil-fuel-companies-atlas-network/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Edelman/

06:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Our Best of 2023 Has Your Holiday Reading Covered - DeSmog

06:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Edelman

06:03 TR News; Quitting https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/quitting/ | Source: The Nation

06:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Quitting | The Nation

06:03 TR News; "sophisticated computing board designed" https://linuxgizmos.com/vaaman-is-reconfigurable-board-with-an-efinix-trion-t120-fpga-and-rockchip-rk3399/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

06:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/vaaman-is-reconfigurable-board-with-an-efinix-trion-t120-fpga-and-rockchip-rk3399/ )

06:07 TR News; "They made $50+ million in profit." https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4458111/the-wiki-piggy-bank

06:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lunduke.locals.com | Shared post - The Wiki Piggy Bank

06:08 TR News; "Is it strange that Wikipedia donations are being sent, by the Millions, to be handled by a political orgainzation? Yes. That is, most definitely, strange. Considering Wikipedia has repeatedly stated the importantce of neutrality... incredibly so." https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4458111/the-wiki-piggy-bank

06:09 TR News; "Neither Wikimedia nor The Tides Foundation publish details about how those funds are being used. It appears to be a secret. But, considering what The Tides Foundation does, it is something political. And only on one side of the political spectrum. Not neutral, like Wikipedia says they must be."

06:10 TR News; "Whatever your thoughts around any of those statements, it should be noted that Wikimedia is spending $4.5 Million dollars worth of Wikipedia donations to further those goals. Money that is not being spent on running Wikipedia."

06:10 TR News; "In fact... it is worth noting that the dollar figure being allocated towards this "Knowledge Equity Fund" is twice the size of the yearly Server Hosting costs for all of Wikipedia." https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4458111/the-wiki-piggy-bank

06:10 TR News; "A significant portion of donations -- solicited for the stated purpose of the running of Wikipedia -- are being spent furthing political goals. Not on running Wikipedia. All while Wikipedia is claiming to be barely surviving."

06:11 TR News; "A significant portion of donations -- solicited for the stated purpose of the running of Wikipedia -- are being spent furthing political goals. Not on running Wikipedia. All while Wikipedia is claiming to be barely surviving." https://lunduke.locals.com/post/4934452/wikimedia-profit-assets-and-executive-wages-explode-in-2023

06:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lunduke.locals.com | Shared post - Wikimedia profit, assets, and executive wages explode in 2023

06:12 TR News; "The Wikimedia Foundation (the organization which runs and controls Wikipedia) has just published their annual financial report for the current year -- and they made a mountain of money."

06:13 TR News; If you donate to Wikipedia, why not also donate to Bill Gates? http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/08/Wikipedia_is_Vandalism_Brought_to_You_by_Microsoft_and_Bill_Gat.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Microsoft_and_Bill_Gates_Both_Bribe_Wikipedia_and_It_ll_Protect.shtml

06:13 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Wikipedia is Vandalism, Brought to You by Microsoft and Bill Gates

06:13 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Microsoft and Bill Gates Both Bribe Wikipedia (and It'll Protect Their Online 'Reputation' in Return)

06:14 TR News; Software Patents https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/technology/apple-watch-banned-appeals-court.html | Source: New York Times

06:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Apple Watch Sales to Resume, for Now - The New York Times

06:14 TR News; Software Patents https://qz.com/a-us-court-says-its-actually-fine-for-apple-to-sell-its-1851127112 | Source: Quartz

06:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-qz.com | US appeals court temporarily reverses Apple Watch import ban

7 AM, December 29

07:06 TR News; Techrights "Modern" Wikipedia is GAFAM and Billionaires (Follow the Money) http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/_Modern_Wikipedia_is_GAFAM_and_Billionaires_Follow_the_Money.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/_Modern_Wikipedia_is_GAFAM_and_Billionaires_Follow_the_Money.gmi

07:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights "Modern" Wikipedia is GAFAM and Billionaires (Follow the Money)

07:20 TR News; Techrights [Meme] With Benefactors Like These... http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/_Meme_With_Benefactors_Like_These.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/_Meme_With_Benefactors_Like_These.gmi

07:20 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights [Meme] With Benefactors Like These...

07:25 TR News; (NEW): Debian CI: 10 years later http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Debian_CI_10_years_later.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Debian_CI_10_years_later.gmi

07:25 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Debian CI: 10 years later

07:31 TR News; "overall compliance to Section 508" https://fedscoop.com/government-accessibility-standards-websites-gsa-report/ | Source: Scoop News Group

07:31 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Government not meeting minimum accessibility standards on federal websites, GSA report finds | FedScoop

07:32 TR News; Tibet https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/mao-birthday-lhasa-12282023103946.html | Source: RFA

07:32 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Tibetans forced to celebrate Maos 130th birthday Radio Free Asia

07:32 TR News; "Roosevelt House presented an extraordinary program" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/will-human-rights-survive/ | Source: The Nation

07:32 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | Will Human Rights Survive? | The Nation

07:33 TR News; (NEW): Vaaman is reconfigurable board with an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA and Rockchip RK3399 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Vaaman_is_reconfigurable_board_with_an_Efinix_Trion_T120_FPGA_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Vaaman_is_reconfigurable_board_with_an_Efinix_Trion_T120_FPGA_a.gmi

07:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Vaaman is reconfigurable board with an Efinix Trion T120 FPGA and Rockchip RK3399

07:33 TR News; "Eminov is among other journalists who worked for Kanal 13 to have been arrested" https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-crackdown-independent-media-journalists-arrested/32750918.html | Source: RFERL

07:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Eighth Journalist Arrested In Azerbaijan Amid Media Crackdown

07:33 TR News; "High-profile journalists in India have been targeted with the invasive spyware Pegasus" https://www.dw.com/en/india-pegasus-spyware-used-to-target-journalists-reports/a-67840337 | Source: Deutsche Welle

07:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-India: Pegasus spyware used to target journalists reports DW 12/28/2023

07:34 TR News; "The Washington Post and human rights non-profit Amnesty International" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/is-pegasus-spyware-targeting-journalists-in-india/article67683399.ece | Source: The Hindu

07:34 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thehindu.com | Is Pegasus spywaretargeting journalists in India? - The Hindu

07:39 TR News; "fake news" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/12/29/no-longer-a-human-being | Source: Meduza

07:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | No longer a human being How a woman was sentenced to compulsory psychiatric treatment for spreading fake news about the Russian army Meduza

07:39 TR News; "These days, much of the world's computers have free software in it." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-president-geoffrey-knauth-reflecting-on-the-origins-of-software-freedom | Source: FSF

07:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | A message from president Geoffrey Knauth: Reflecting on the origins of software freedom Free Software Foundation Working together for free software

07:39 TR News; "Running on an electric powered motor" https://qz.com/tolulope-olukokun-thinkbikes-coolmax-fresh-farm-produce-1851058970 | Source: Quartz

07:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-qz.com | A Nigerian e-cargo bike is getting more fresh produce to market

07:42 TR News; "Fortunately, so many people oppose KOSA that it never made it to the Senate floor for a full vote." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/kids-online-safety-shouldnt-require-massive-online-censorship-and-surveillance | Source: EFF

07:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | Kids Online Safety Shouldnt Require Massive Online Censorship and Surveillance: 2023 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation

07:42 TR News; "Weve come a long way since the Atlas of Surveillance launched as a pilot project with RSJ" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/atlas-surveillance-hits-major-milestones-2023-review | Source: EFF

07:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | The Atlas of Surveillance Hits Major Milestones: 2023 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation

07:43 TR News; "At a time when hundreds of millions of people in North America, Latin America, Europe" https://torrentfreak.com/ace-has-prepared-a-huge-list-of-pirate-sites-it-wants-to-shut-down-in-2024-231228/ | Source: Torrent Freak

07:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ACE Has Prepared a Huge List of Pirate Sites it Wants to Shut Down in 2024 * TorrentFreak

07:43 TR News; (NEW): Enlightenment Desktop Sees New Stable Release http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/24/Enlightenment_Desktop_Sees_New_Stable_Release.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/24/Enlightenment_Desktop_Sees_New_Stable_Release.gmi

07:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Enlightenment Desktop Sees New Stable Release

07:43 TR News; "Good journalism is said to be illuminating" https://www.projectcensored.org/light-through-the-slats-news-frames/ | Source: Project Censored

07:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/light-through-the-slats-news-frames/ )

07:46 TR News; "LGBTQ+ topics, all because some software or elected official considers these topics harmful." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/protecting-students-faulty-software-and-legislation-2023-year-review | Source: EFF

07:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | Protecting Students from Faulty Software and Legislation: 2023 Year in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation

07:47 TR News; So EFF decided that LGBTQ+ is a TECH topic now. OK, whatever. Maybe ACLU should also cover football and baseball because of human rights.

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07:50 TR News; "Atheism Plus" was a disaster because some people subverted or interjected something else to atheism, like "if you are atheist", then you must also feel THIS way on all these unrelated things. Maybe FSF Board should be limited to vegans and FSF cover animal rights? Don't joke, someone tried that!!

07:52 *fury999i- (~fury999io@tk56a3t32ceus.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social

07:52 TR News; "Heck, more than a decade ago, I taught a 79-year-old how to run Ubuntu Linux, and we didn't even share a common language! " https://www.zdnet.com/article/can-your-windows-10-pc-be-saved-in-2025-yes-for-free-heres-how/

07:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Can your Windows 10 PC be saved in 2025? Yes - for free. Here's how | ZDNET

07:53 TR News; TikTok makes users sympathetic to terrorism because the handler/controller of Byedance (CPC) stands to benefit from it

8 AM, December 29

08:10 TR News; Artificial Intelligence and Copyright in China: Lessons from a Recent Court Case https://patentlyo.com/patent/2023/12/artificial-intelligence-copyright.html

08:10 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Artificial Intelligence and Copyright in China: Lessons from a Recent Court Case | Patently-O

08:10 TR News; Techdirt calls plagiarism a win for public domain https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/generative-ai-will-be-a-huge-boon-for-the-public-domain-unless-copyright-blocks-it/ | Source: Techdirt

08:10 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Generative AI Will Be A Huge Boon For The Public Domain, Unless Copyright Blocks It | Techdirt

08:11 TR News; Techdirt used to be spot on when it comes to copyrights, not a Microsoft shill https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/the-ny-times-lawsuit-against-openai-would-open-up-the-ny-times-to-all-sorts-of-lawsuits-should-it-win/ | Source: Techdirt

08:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The NY Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI Would Open Up The NY Times To All Sorts Of Lawsuits Should It Win | Techdirt

08:13 TR News; Then again it has been running Microsoft ads in recent years

08:57 TR News; OpenAI and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft being sued by The New York Times over Copilot and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot copyright monopoly infringement https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openai-and-microsoft-being-sued-by-the-new-york-times-over-copilot-and-chatgpt-copyright-infringement

08:57 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | OpenAI and Microsoft being sued by The New York Times over Copilot and ChatGPT copyright infringement | Tom's Hardware

08:59 TR News; Trademark Influencers and Aspen Mountain https://patentlyo.com/patent/2023/12/aspen.html

08:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Trademark Influencers and Aspen Mountain | Patently-O

9 AM, December 29

09:00 TR News; How To Change Hostname on Fedora 39 https://idroot.us/change-hostname-fedora-39/

09:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Change Hostname on Fedora 39 - idroot

09:01 TR News; How To Install ImageMagick on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-imagemagick-opensuse/

09:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install ImageMagick on openSUSE - idroot

09:01 TR News; How To Install Elasticsearch on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/install-elasticsearch-debian-12/

09:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-idroot.us | How To Install Elasticsearch on Debian 12 - idroot

09:02 TR News; How to Install Redis on AlmaLinux 9, 8 https://www.linuxcapable.com/how-to-install-redis-on-almalinux/

09:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How to Install Redis on AlmaLinux 9, 8 - LinuxCapable

09:04 TR News; How to restart Ubuntu via terminal https://owlhowto.com/how-to-restart-ubuntu-via-terminal/

09:04 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-owlhowto.com | How to restart Ubuntu via terminal

09:05 TR News; How to install Kotlin Programming language in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-kotlin-programming-language-in-ubuntu-22-04/

09:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-owlhowto.com | How to install Kotlin Programming language in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

09:05 TR News; How to Install RainLoop on Debian 12 https://www.linuxtuto.com/how-to-install-rainloop-on-debian-12/

09:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-How to Install RainLoop on Debian 12 - LinuxTuto

09:08 TR News; Jack Wallen helping this FUD: https://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Linux-Machines-with-Poorly-Secured-SSH-Servers-are-Under-Attack see http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Fear_Uncertainty_Doubt_Fear_mongering_Dramatisation_Against_Lin.shtml

09:08 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.linux-magazine.com | Linux Machines with Poorly Secured SSH Servers... Linux Magazine

09:08 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation Against Linux

09:10 TR News; (NEW): 11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/11_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Internet_Forum_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/11_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Linux_Internet_Forum_Software.gmi

09:10 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software

09:11 TR News; (NEW): Today's HowTos http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.1.gmi

09:11 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos

09:13 TR News; (NEW): Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Ubuntu_23_04_support_ends_January_25_2024.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Ubuntu_23_04_support_ends_January_25_2024.gmi

09:13 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024

09:14 TR News; US, Allies Consider Seizing Russian Government Assets and Giving them to Ukraine https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/28/us-allies-consider-seizing-russian-government-assets-and-giving-them-to-ukraine/

09:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-reason.com | US, Allies Consider Seizing Russian Government Assets and Giving them to Ukraine

09:14 TR News; Cargo ship hits naval mine in Black Sea en route to Ukraine https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231228-cargo-ship-hits-naval-mine-in-black-sea-en-route-to-ukraine

09:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.france24.com | Cargo ship hits naval mine in Black Sea en route to Ukraine

09:14 TR News; War in Ukraine: In 2023, Russian disinformation continued to dominate https://observers.france24.com/en/war-in-ukraine-in-2023-russian-disinformation-continued-to-dominate

09:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-observers.france24.com | War in Ukraine: In 2023, Russian disinformation continued to dominate

09:16 TR News; Lithuania allocates 4.6m to fund studies of over 1,000 Ukrainians https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2159382/lithuania-allocates-eur4-6m-to-fund-studies-of-over-1-000-ukrainians

09:16 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Lithuania allocates 4.6m to fund studies of over 1,000 Ukrainians - LRT

09:17 TR News; Orthodox Archbishop, 86, Charged With Discrediting Russian Army https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-orthodox-bishop-discrediting-army/32751087.html

09:17 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Orthodox Archbishop, 86, Charged With Discrediting Russian Army

09:17 TR News; Despite Russian Invasion, Ukraine's Economy Registers Growth In 2023 https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-economy-growth-war-2023/32751000.html

09:17 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Despite Russian Invasion, Ukraine's Economy Registers Growth In 2023

09:17 TR News; Imprisoned Russian Anti-War Activist's Health Deteriorating, Lawyers Say https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-anti-war-baryshnikov-health/32750977.html

09:17 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Imprisoned Russian Anti-War Activist's Health Deteriorating, Lawyers Say

09:18 TR News; Two Russians Get Prison Terms For Reciting Poems Against War On Ukraine https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-poets-prison-antiwar-verses-ukraine/32750887.html

09:18 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Two Russians Get Prison Terms For Reciting Poems Against War On Ukraine

09:18 TR News; Panama-Flagged Ship Hits Russian Mine In Black Sea, Injuring Two https://www.rferl.org/a/black-sea-mine-ship-russia-ukraine-grain/32750671.html

09:18 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Panama-Flagged Ship Hits Russian Mine In Black Sea, Injuring Two

09:18 TR News; Almost Naked Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/russia-naked-celebrities-party.html

09:18 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Almost Naked Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives - The New York Times

09:19 TR News; Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war.html

09:19 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive - The New York Times

09:19 TR News; Foreigners Who Made Ukraine Home Stay Put, Despite War https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/ukraine-war-foreigners.html

09:19 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Foreigners Who Made Ukraine Home Stay Put, Despite War - The New York Times

09:20 TR News; "Panama-flagged" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/ukraine-says-panama-flagged-cargo-ship-hit-russian-naval-mine-in-black-sea | Source: Meduza

09:20 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Ukraine says Panama-flagged cargo ship hit Russian naval mine in Black Sea Meduza

09:21 TR News; "murder of Ukrainian POWs filmed by drone" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/ukraine-identifies-russian-soldiers-as-suspects-in-murder-of-ukrainian-pows-filmed-by-drone | Source: Meduza

09:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Ukraine identifies Russian soldiers as suspects in murder of Ukrainian POWs filmed by drone Meduza

09:21 TR News; (NEW): 8 Defining Moments in the Open Source and Linux World: 2023 Edition http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/8_Defining_Moments_in_the_Open_Source_and_Linux_World_2023_Edit.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/8_Defining_Moments_in_the_Open_Source_and_Linux_World_2023_Edit.gmi

09:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines 8 Defining Moments in the Open Source and Linux World: 2023 Edition

09:22 TR News; Russians still have a chance to stay in Latvia if they can show why https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/28.12.2023-russians-still-have-a-chance-to-stay-in-latvia-if-they-can-show-why.a536981/

09:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-eng.lsm.lv | Russians still have a chance to stay in Latvia if they can show why / Article

09:22 TR News; Navalny's penal colony in the Arctic is direct heir to Russia's Gulag https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231228-navalny-s-penal-colony-in-the-arctic-is-direct-heir-to-russia-s-gulag

09:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.france24.com | Navalny's penal colony in the Arctic is direct heir to Russia's Gulag

09:24 TR News; Russian FM on Korean peninsula: knots of conflict in 2024 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/russian-pm-koreas-12282023215634.html

09:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Russian FM on Korean peninsula: knots of conflict in 2024 Radio Free Asia

09:24 TR News; Siberian Lawmaker, Former Navalny Associate To Be Sentenced On Extremism Charge https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fadeyeva-navalny-sentencing/32751310.html

09:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Siberian Lawmaker, Former Navalny Associate To Be Sentenced On Extremism Charge

09:24 TR News; Kalmyks In Russia Mark 80th Anniversary Of Mass Deportation To Siberia https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kalmyks-deportation-anniversary/32751072.html

09:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Kalmyks In Russia Mark 80th Anniversary Of Mass Deportation To Siberia

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09:25 TR News; Navalny https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/alexey-navalny-transferred-to-prison-in-russia-s-far-north-fails-to-appear-by-video-at-court-hearing | Source: Meduza

09:25 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Alexey Navalny, transferred to prison in Russias Far North, fails to appear by video at court hearing Meduza

09:26 TR News; Russian Defense Ministry says over 640,000 contract soldiers currently serving in Russian army https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/russian-defense-ministry-says-over-640-000-contract-soldiers-currently-serving-in-russian-army | Source: Meduza

09:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Russian Defense Ministry says over 640,000 contract soldiers currently serving in Russian army Meduza

09:26 TR News; (NEW): A message from president Geoffrey Knauth: Reflecting on the origins of software freedom http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/A_message_from_president_Geoffrey_Knauth_Reflecting_on_the_orig.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/A_message_from_president_Geoffrey_Knauth_Reflecting_on_the_orig.gmi

09:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines A message from president Geoffrey Knauth: Reflecting on the origins of software freedom

09:27 TR News; Self-Exiled Belarusian Activist's Home Searched As Crackdown On Dissent Continues https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-activist-home-search-crackdown-dissent/32750947.html

09:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Self-Exiled Belarusian Activist's Home Searched As Crackdown On Dissent Continues

09:28 TR News; AMLO https://www.democracynow.org/2023/12/28/us_mexico_border_talks | Source: Democracy Now

09:28 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.democracynow.org | As Biden Pushes Trump-Like Border Policies, Blinken Meets with AMLO, Who Has Criticized U.S. Sanctions | Democracy Now!

09:30 TR News; The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.75.0 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/28/Rust-1.75.0.html

09:30 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.rust-lang.org | Announcing Rust 1.75.0 | Rust Blog

09:35 *regret (~regret@freenode-2ue.6ih.pu7h8v.IP) has joined #boycottnovell-social

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09:37 TR News; Climate Change: The Unsettled Science Part 2 https://off-guardian.org/2023/12/28/climate-change-the-unsettled-science-part-2/

09:37 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-off-guardian.org | Climate Change: The Unsettled Science Part 2 OffGuardian

09:37 TR News; Scientists Have Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-found-the-driving-force-behind-your-darkest-impulses

09:37 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Scientists Have Found The Driving Force Behind Your Darkest Impulses : ScienceAlert

09:38 TR News; Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Actually Make Coffee Taste Better https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-have-discovered-a-way-to-actually-make-coffee-taste-better

09:38 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Scientists Have Discovered a Way to Actually Make Coffee Taste Better : ScienceAlert

09:39 TR News; MRI Machines Are Perfectly Safe. But Never Do The Following Things. https://www.sciencealert.com/mri-machines-are-perfectly-safe-but-never-do-the-following-things

09:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-MRI Machines Are Perfectly Safe. But Never Do The Following Things. : ScienceAlert

09:39 TR News; Thriving Otters in North America Linked to Nuclear Weapons Tests. Here's Why. https://www.sciencealert.com/thriving-otters-in-north-america-linked-to-nuclear-weapons-tests-heres-why

09:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Thriving Otters in North America Linked to Nuclear Weapons Tests. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert

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10 AM, December 29

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10:05 TR News; (NEW): Raspberry Pi Does its Best Retro PC Impression http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Raspberry_Pi_Does_its_Best_Retro_PC_Impression.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Raspberry_Pi_Does_its_Best_Retro_PC_Impression.gmi

10:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Raspberry Pi Does its Best Retro PC Impression

11 AM, December 29

11:26 TR News; Mysterious Neglected Part of Our Body Is Vital to Our Health, Scientists Discover https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-neglected-part-of-our-bodies-is-vital-to-our-health-scientists-discover

11:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Mysterious Neglected Part of Our Body Is Vital to Our Health, Scientists Discover : ScienceAlert

11:27 TR News; Death of Lee Sun-kyun of Parasite Highlights South Koreas Drug Crackdown https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/asia/lee-sun-kyun-korea-drug-policy.html

11:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Death of Lee Sun-kyun of Parasite Highlights South Koreas Drug Crackdown - The New York Times

11:27 TR News; North Korea aims to shake up US and South Korea votes, spy agency says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-aims-to-shake-up-us-south-korea-votes-spy-agency-says

11:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | North Korea aims to shake up US and South Korea votes, spy agency says | The Straits Times

11:28 TR News; North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders military to accelerate 'war preparations' https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20231227-north-korean-leader-kim-orders-military-to-accelerate-war-preparations

11:28 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.france24.com | North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders military to accelerate 'war preparations'

11:58 TR News; (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Android_Leftovers.gmi

11:58 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Android Leftovers

noon, December 29

12:04 TR News; Nvidia launches China-specific RTX 4090D Dragon GPU, sanctions-compliant model has fewer cores and lower power draw https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-launches-china-specific-rtx-4090d-dragon-gpu-sanctions-compliant-model-has-fewer-cores-and-lower-power-draw

12:04 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Nvidia launches China-specific RTX 4090D Dragon GPU, sanctions-compliant model has fewer cores and lower power draw | Tom's Hardware

12:04 TR News; INTERVIEWS: 'I don't know how I'm going to survive this winter.' https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/migrant-workers-12282023100847.html

12:04 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | INTERVIEWS: 'I don't know how I'm going to survive this winter.' Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; Poll: Most Filipinos support stance of Marcos against China in sea dispute https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/marcos-poll-china-12282023144032.html

12:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Poll: Most Filipinos support stance of Marcos against China in sea dispute Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; China ramps up warnings against Philippines on South China Sea https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/beijing-manila-warning-12282023224013.html

12:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | China ramps up warnings against Philippines on South China Sea Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; Where did Taiwans fake presidential election poll come from? https://www.rfa.org/english/news/afcl/taiwan-fake-poll-12292023000620.html

12:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Where did Taiwans fake presidential election poll come from? Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; Chinas defence ministry accuses Taiwan of hyping up claims of election interference https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/28/chinas-defence-ministry-accuses-taiwan-of-hyping-up-claims-of-election-interference/

12:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | China's defence ministry accuses Taiwan of 'hyping up' claims of election interference - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

12:06 TR News; "Jeffrey Dastin, writing for Reuters, has dug up some very interesting information about TASER" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/turns-out-tasers-tragic-backstory-is-mostly-just-alternate-facts-cooked-up-by-its-founder/ | Source: Techdirt

12:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Turns Out Tasers Tragic Backstory Is Mostly Just Alternate Facts Cooked Up By Its Founder | Techdirt

12:07 TR News; warrantless! https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/every-major-pharmacy-chain-is-giving-the-government-warrantless-access-to-medical-records/ | Source: Techdirt

12:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Every Major Pharmacy Chain Is Giving The Government Warrantless Access To Medical Records | Techdirt

12:07 TR News; navalny https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/prosecution-requests-10-5-year-prison-sentence-for-former-navalny-associate-ksenia-fadeyeva | Source: Meduza

12:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Prosecution requests 10.5-year prison sentence for former Navalny associate Ksenia Fadeyeva Meduza

12:07 TR News; Latvian government blocks all Yandex sites https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/latvian-government-blocks-all-yandex-sites | Source: Meduza

12:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Latvian government blocks all Yandex sites Meduza

12:09 TR News; "When viewed from just the right position in space, youd be hard-pressed to think that our home planet is anything but a water world." https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/keeping-watch-over-the-oceans-with-data-buoys/ | Source: Hackaday

12:09 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Keeping Watch Over The Oceans With Data Buoys | Hackaday

12:09 TR News; reverse engineering https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/unbricking-trains-uncovering-shady-behavior/ | Source: Hackaday

12:09 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unbricking Trains, Uncovering Shady Behavior | Hackaday

12:15 TR News; Housing prices rise month-on-month, still down year-on-year https://yle.fi/a/74-20066891

12:15 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Housing prices rise month-on-month, still down year-on-year | Yle News | Yle

12:15 TR News; Filler BS https://yle.fi/a/74-20066943

12:15 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Yle survey shows regional differences in Finnish greetings | Yle News | Yle

12:22 TR News; Copper Coating 3D Print https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/copper-coating-3d-prints/ | Source: Hackaday

12:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Copper Coating 3D Prints | Hackaday

12:22 TR News; "The BBC recently took a look at the first of these partially wooden wind turbine towers. At 105 meters tall, it features a standard V90-2.0MW turbine and blades." https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/making-the-case-for-wooden-wind-turbines-with-swedish-modvion/ | Source: Hackaday

12:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Making The Case For Wooden Wind Turbines With Swedish Modvion | Hackaday

12:22 TR News; Moving Iron-Coated Polymer Particles Uphill Using External Magnetic Field https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/moving-iron-coated-polymer-particles-uphill-using-external-magnetic-field/ | Source: Hackaday

12:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Moving Iron-Coated Polymer Particles Uphill Using External Magnetic Field | Hackaday

12:29 TR News; Good news for consumers: Lithuania slips into deflation following months of price rises https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2159299/good-news-for-consumers-lithuania-slips-into-deflation-following-months-of-price-rises

12:29 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.lrt.lt | Good news for consumers: Lithuania slips into deflation following months of price rises - LRT

12:35 TR News; Court Upholds $2.1M Libel Verdict Against Ex-Wife Who Accused Husband (a Minister) of Being a Pedophile https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/28/court-upholds-2-1m-libel-verdict-against-ex-wife-who-accused-husband-a-minister-of-being-a-pedophile/

12:35 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-reason.com | Court Upholds $2.1M Libel Verdict Against Ex-Wife Who Accused Husband (a Minister) of Being a Pedophile

12:39 TR News; The Year in Review: Top Ten Michael Geist Substacks https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2023/12/the-year-in-review-top-ten-michael-geist-substacks/

12:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.michaelgeist.ca | The Year in Review: Top Ten Michael Geist Substacks - Michael Geist

12:49 TR News; Sheikh Said's grandson ordered to share Turkish flag on social control media as penalty https://bianet.org/haber/sheikh-said-s-grandson-ordered-to-share-turkish-flag-on-social-media-as-penalty-289911

12:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Sheikh Said's grandson ordered to share Turkish flag on social media as penalty

12:49 TR News; Trump Ballot Challenges: What to Know https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-ballot-remove-2024.html

12:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Trump Ballot Challenges: What to Know - The New York Times

12:50 TR News; AIs Dreadful December: Lawsuits, plagiarism and child abuse images show the perils of training on data taken without consent. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-dreadful-december-shows-flaws-of-taking-data-without-consent

12:50 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | AIs Dreadful December: Lawsuits, plagiarism and child abuse images show the perils of training on data taken without consent. | Tom's Hardware

12:51 TR News; Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) SPAM SPAM SPAM https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/friendly-face-ai-2024-meet-lgs-new-ai-agent/

12:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Is this the friendly face of AI in 2024? Meet LG's new 'AI agent' - SiliconANGLE

12:55 TR News; Japan eyes lethal weapon exports to South-east Asia to boost regional security https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-eyes-lethal-weapon-exports-to-south-east-asia-to-boost-regional-security

12:55 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Japan eyes lethal weapon exports to South-east Asia to boost regional security | The Straits Times

12:55 TR News; 3 Hong Kong students jailed up to 6 years for terrorism over foiled 2021 bomb plot https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/29/3-hong-kong-students-jailed-up-to-6-years-for-terrorism-over-foiled-2021-bomb-plot/

12:55 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | 3 Hong Kong students jailed up to 6 years for 'terrorism' over foiled 2021 bomb plot - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

12:56 TR News; "The 22-year-old announced in a social control media post" https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/29/tony-chung-ex-independence-group-leader-flees-hong-kong-seeks-asylum-in-uk-after-nat-security-jail-term/

12:56 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-hongkongfp.com | Tony Chung: Ex-independence group leader flees Hong Kong, seeks asylum in UK after nat. security jail term - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

12:57 TR News; National effort to curb illegal mining continues apace https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/national-effort-to-curb-illegal-mining-continues-apace/

12:57 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.defenceweb.co.za | National effort to curb illegal mining continues apace - defenceWeb

12:58 TR News; Spanish university research shows Africa leads in armed conflict https://www.defenceweb.co.za/joint/diplomacy-a-peace/spanish-university-research-shows-africa-leads-in-armed-conflict/

12:58 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.defenceweb.co.za | Spanish university research shows Africa leads in armed conflict - defenceWeb

12:59 TR News; Little-known ransomware gang claims responsibility for cyberattack on Ohio Lottery https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/little-known-ransomware-gang-claims-responsibility-cyberattack-ohio-lottery/

12:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Little-known ransomware gang claims responsibility for cyberattack on Ohio Lottery - SiliconANGLE

1 PM, December 29

13:00 TR News; Windows TCO: "Tracked as CVE-2023-7102, the vulnerability is an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in a third-party library, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel." https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/barracuda-patches-email-security-gateway-vulnerability-targeted-hackers/

13:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Barracuda patches Email Security Gateway vulnerability targeted by hackers - SiliconANGLE

13:06 TR News; Microsoft Windows TCO (Excel) https://www.securityweek.com/barracuda-zero-day-used-to-target-government-tech-organizations-in-us-apj/

13:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Barracuda Zero-Day Used to Target Government, Tech Organizations in US, APJ - SecurityWeek

13:07 TR News; LoanCare Notifying 1.3 Million of Data Breach Following Cyberattack on Parent Company https://www.securityweek.com/loancare-notifying-1-3-million-of-data-breach-following-cyberattack-on-parent-company/

13:07 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-LoanCare Notifying 1.3 Million of Data Breach Following Cyberattack on Parent Company - SecurityWeek

13:08 TR News; What contractors should do now about DoDs new cyber security rule https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2023/12/what-contractors-should-do-now-about-dods-new-cyber-security-rule/

13:08 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-federalnewsnetwork.com | What contractors should do now about DoDs new cyber security rule | Federal News Network

13:09 TR News; Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliaments Data System, Halting Its Work https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-targets-albanian-parliaments-data-system-halting-its-work/

13:09 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Cyberattack Targets Albanian Parliaments Data System, Halting Its Work - SecurityWeek

13:15 TR News; Desktop elevator provides a positive sensory experience for an autistic child https://blog.arduino.cc/2023/12/28/desktop-elevator-provides-a-positive-sensory-experience-for-an-autistic-child/

13:15 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.arduino.cc | Desktop elevator provides a positive sensory experience for an autistic child | Arduino Blog

13:20 TR News; "Thanks to industry consolidation and saturated market growth, the streaming industry has started behaving much like the traditional cable giants they once disrupted." https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/amazon-gives-giant-middle-finger-to-prime-video-customers-will-charge-3-extra-a-month-to-avoid-ads-starting-in-january/ | Source: Techdirt

13:20 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Amazon Gives Giant Middle Finger To Prime Video Customers, Will Charge $3 Extra A Month To Avoid Ads Starting In January | Techdirt

13:21 TR News; Indigenous leader Raoni 'wants to make sure' Brazil's Lula will keep promises on Amazon https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20231228-indigenous-leader-raoni-wants-to-make-sure-brazil-s-lula-will-keep-promises-on-amazon

13:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.france24.com | Indigenous leader Raoni 'wants to make sure' Brazil's Lula will keep promises on Amazon - Tte tte

13:25 TR News; Blockchain-based Levana Protocol exploited for $1 million+ in crypto hack https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/blockchain-based-levana-protocol-exploited-1-million-crypto-hack/

13:25 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Blockchain-based Levana Protocol exploited for $1 million+ in crypto hack - SiliconANGLE

13:27 TR News; nytimes continues to publish Microsoft spam.. for chatbots that don't work... citing so-called 'study' (who commissioned it?) and not bothering to mention this hype was in vain and there's no business model to sustain/cover operational costs

13:31 TR News; WP: India government retaliated against Fashion Company Apple after government phone hacking claims https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/12/wp-india-government-retaliated-against-apple-after-government-phone-hacking-claims/

13:31 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | WP: India government retaliated against Apple after government phone hacking claims - JURIST - News

13:32 TR News; Kaspersky uses hypePhone? Or smartphone? Clearly Kaspersky isn't a security firm but more like a facade thereof. https://www.securityweek.com/mysterious-apple-soc-feature-leveraged-to-hack-kaspersky-employee-iphones/

13:32 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Mysterious Apple SoC Feature Exploited to Hack Kaspersky Employee iPhones - SecurityWeek

13:33 TR News; $44 5G M.2 to Ethernet and USB converter takes M.2 5G PCIe modules https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/12/28/5g-m2-to-ethernet-and-usb-converter-takes-m2-5g-pcie-modules/

13:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | $44 5G M.2 to Ethernet and USB "converter" takes M.2 5G PCIe modules - CNX Software

13:34 TR News; Radxa CM3S is Rockchip RK3566 SODIMM system-on-module supports up to 8GB RAM, 128GB flash, wireless module https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/12/29/radxa-cm3s-rockchip-rk3566-sodimm-system-on-module-8gb-ram-128gb-flash-wireless-module/

13:34 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Radxa CM3S Rockchip RK3566 SODIMM system-on-module supports up to 8GB RAM, 128GB flash, wireless module - CNX Software

13:59 TR News; Unpaid wages lead Sichuan doctors to protest on window ledges https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/unpaid-wages-doctors-12282023140907.html

13:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Unpaid wages lead Sichuan doctors to protest on window ledges Radio Free Asia

2 PM, December 29

14:00 TR News; Spotify: DEBT growing, LOSSES deepen, MASS layoffs... stock (shares) doubles. Fraud Street isn't even pretending anymore.

14:00 TR News; AI and Lossy Bottlenecks https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-lossy-bottlenecks.html

14:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-AI and Lossy Bottlenecks - Schneier on Security

14:02 TR News; More bloat. The editor ought not be part of the browser/page. https://wordpress.org/news/2023/12/leap-into-2024-with-these-site-editor-tools/

14:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-wordpress.org | Leap into 2024 with theseSite EditorTools WordPress News

14:02 TR News; Taiwan election: Candidates receive rock star treatment, steamed buns while campaigning https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-election-candidates-receive-rock-star-treatment-steamed-buns-while-campaigning

14:02 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.straitstimes.com | Taiwan election: Candidates receive rock star treatment, steamed buns while campaigning | The Straits Times

14:03 TR News; Nvidia launches scaled-down version of its latest gaming GPU in China https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/nvidia-launches-scaled-version-latest-gaming-gpu-china/

14:03 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Nvidia launches scaled-down version of its latest gaming GPU in China - SiliconANGLE

14:05 TR News; Wisconsin University Chancellor Fired Over Pornographic Videos With His Wife https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/wisconsin-la-crosse-joe-gow-porn.html

14:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Wisconsin University Chancellor Fired Over Pornographic Videos With His Wife - The New York Times

14:05 TR News; Hong Kong Police Targeting Overseas Activists and Speech https://reason.com/2023/12/28/hong-kong-police-targeting-overseas-activists-and-speech/

14:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-reason.com | Hong Kong Police Targeting Overseas Activists and Speech

14:05 TR News; [Video] Trevor Paglen on Perception Management Online and Prior to the Net https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/28/_Video_Trevor_Paglen_on_Perception_Management_Online_and_Prior_.shtml

14:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights [Video] Trevor Paglen on Perception Management Online and Prior to the Net

14:06 TR News; "Kill off Debian with SystemD, and the whole Debian derivative tree comes crashing down." https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/28/_Kill_off_Debian_with_SystemD_and_the_whole_Debian_derivative_t.shtml

14:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights "Kill off Debian with SystemD, and the whole Debian derivative tree comes crashing down."

14:06 TR News; Sounds Like Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Will Announce More Mass Layoffs in a Number of Weeks https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Sounds_Like_Microsoft_Will_Announce_More_Mass_Layoffs_in_a_Numb.shtml

14:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Sounds Like Microsoft Will Announce More Mass Layoffs in a Number of Weeks

14:06 TR News; Chart of the Day: Apple's Debt Grew Nearly Tenfold in the Past Ten Years https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Chart_of_the_Day_Apple_s_Debt_Grew_Nearly_Tenfold_in_the_Past_T.shtml

14:06 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Chart of the Day: Apple's Debt Grew Nearly Tenfold in the Past Ten Years

14:37 *psydroid2 (~psydroid@u8ftxtfux23wk.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social

6 PM, December 29

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7 PM, December 29

19:14 TR News; patents on software https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/lost-in-the-latest-apple-watch-patent-battle-the-itc-loophole-creates-a-mess/ | Source: Techdirt

19:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Lost In The Latest Apple Watch Patent Battle: The ITC Loophole Creates A Mess | Techdirt

19:14 TR News; Apple Watch Sales to Resume, for Now https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/technology/apple-watch-banned-appeals-court.html

19:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | Apple Watch Sales to Resume, for Now - The New York Times

19:16 TR News; "Now though, after 40 years, comes the UPC, weighing in on matters of validity just as much as on what amounts to an infringement of the rights granted by the EPO." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/12/unambiguous-disclosure-without-patent.html?showComment=1703786328428#c2983595737904541435

19:16 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ipkitten.blogspot.com | Unambiguous disclosure without patent profanity (T 2171/21) - The IPKat

19:16 TR News; "I have no idea whether the EPO and the UPC will see themselves as partners, rivals or adversaries but I hope that their interaction is going to be another good thing for the development and health of the patent monopoly system in Europe." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2023/12/unambiguous-disclosure-without-patent.html?showComment=1703786328428#c2983595737904541435

19:17 TR News; UPC is illegal. The EU committed a crime, with the EPO, against many constitutions. This won't end well.

19:20 TR News; Bypassing the Governments, Hijacking the Courts, Bribing the Largest Media Outlets/Publishers https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Bypassing_the_Governments_Hijacking_the_Courts_Bribing_the_Larg.shtml

19:20 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Bypassing the Governments, Hijacking the Courts, Bribing the Largest Media Outlets/Publishers

19:21 TR News; "With 2023 the year in which the UPC finally roared into life" despite is being illegal, partly because of JUVE et al advocating for a crime with fake news, lies, and reputation laundering https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/top-patent-partner-and-judge-moves-2023-juve-patent/

19:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.juve-patent.com | Top patent partner and judge moves 2023 - JUVE Patent

19:22 TR News; terminal smooth scrolling https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/terminal-smooth-scrolling

19:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-flak.tedunangst.com | terminal smooth scrolling

19:23 TR News; New Years Resolutions gemini://degrowther.smol.pub/20231229_resolutions "I know that a lot of folks dont like New Years Resolutions, but Im a fan. Theres always stuff about myself that I need to change, but Im capable of putting projects off forever without a deadline"

19:24 TR News; "There's this whitepaper I had to read, attentively, more than once. In this paper, the authors consistently write "transversal". There are 5 (FIVE) of them! (authors)" gemini://siiky.srht.site/kB45oC/why_did_the_chicken.gmi

19:26 TR News; One common lobbying tactic is, bribe publishers to pen or copy-paste some bullshit piece, then pay PR agencies to stick that as a reference into Wikipedia, managing perception based on lies.

19:27 TR News; "If my father were my wife, I would file for divorce." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ayaron/winninganargument.txt

19:28 TR News; New Year's Math Problem gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ayaron/newyearsmath.txt

19:29 TR News; Thoughts of a narcoleptic movie theatre employee gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1625

19:29 TR News; SpellBinding: CHIZPRO Wordo: REAVE gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2023-12-29.gmi

19:30 TR News; "I emailed the misfin creator not so long ago, and I don't think they ever responded, unfortunately. I want to continue working on misfin, but there is at least one or two issues that need worked on: content length, and replies." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/misfin/13186

19:30 TR News; Attraction to the past gemini://sdf.org/icemanfr/2023/27.gmi

19:31 TR News; "Hey Gemini! Merry Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season (though it's not really over until Theophany.) I feel fortunate to have been invited by my classmate to celebrate with his family. They are lovely people, and I hope someday they can visit my house." gemini://eph.smol.pub/1703846702

19:32 TR News; Disconnected gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1626

19:36 TR News; LIP booster Meeker, a Microsoft spinner https://www.fosslife.org/dual-licensing-explained see http://techrights.org/n/2023/11/18/_Video_No_Phoronix_Microsoft_is_Not_an_Acceptable_Participant_B.shtml

19:36 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fosslife.org | Dual Licensing Explained

19:36 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights [Video] No, Phoronix, Microsoft is Not an Acceptable Participant But a Snake (But Microsoft Gives Phoronix 'Gifts') and Heather Meeker Acts Like a Microsoft 'Asset', Professional Revisionist

19:36 TR News; Aper-Oculus is an open-source camera development board for AMD Xilinxs Kria SoM (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2023/12/29/aper-oculus-open-source-camera-development-board-amd-xilinx-kria-som/

19:36 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cnx-software.com | Aper-Oculus is an open-source camera development board for AMD Xilinxs Kria SoM (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software

19:37 TR News; Samsung partners with Red Bait to verify key data center scalability tech https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/samsung-partners-red-hat-verify-key-data-center-scalability-tech/ Red Bait "sponsors" this site for puff pieces

19:37 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Samsung partners with Red Hat to verify key data center scalability tech - SiliconANGLE

19:38 TR News; Best Raspberry PI Projects with Tutorials https://peppe8o.com/best-raspberry-pi-projects-with-open-source-software/

19:38 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-peppe8o.com | Best Raspberry PI Projects with Tutorials

19:38 TR News; In Burkina Faso, Criticizing the Army Could Get You Drafted https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/africa/burkina-faso-military-conscription.html

19:38 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nytimes.com | In Burkina Faso, Criticizing the Army Could Get You Drafted - The New York Times

19:39 TR News; "They intend to sign everything with DKIM, and publish SPF records that contain every host that might possibly send mail." https://mwl.io/archives/23291

19:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mwl.io | 27: Obviously Forged Michael W Lucas

19:40 TR News; Three of the best: Geoff Huston https://blog.apnic.net/2023/12/29/three-of-the-best-geoff-huston-6/

19:40 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Three of the best: Geoff Huston | APNIC Blog

19:40 TR News; Reliability engineering at APNIC https://blog.apnic.net/2023/12/29/reliability-engineering-at-apnic/

19:40 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Reliability engineering at APNIC | APNIC Blog

19:41 TR News; "Facebook posts, an all-night search and surveillance footage helped police track the girls down, family says." https://www.rfa.org/english/news/laos/teenagers-vientiane-police-12282023155458.html

19:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rfa.org | Vientiane police arrest taxi driver and woman, rescue 4 teenagers Radio Free Asia

19:41 TR News; Antonio Terceiro: Debian CI: 10 years later https://terceiro.xyz/2023/12/28/debian-ci-10-years-later/

19:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-terceiro.xyz | Debian CI: 10 years later - Antonio Terceiro

19:42 TR News; DoD special trial counsel offices become fully operational, giving more protections to sexual assault victims https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2023/12/dod-special-trial-counsel-offices-become-fully-operational-giving-more-protections-to-sexual-assault-victims/

19:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-federalnewsnetwork.com | DoD special trial counsel offices become fully operational, giving more protections to sexual assault victims | Federal News Network

19:43 TR News; Google to settle privacy lawsuit over Chromes incognito mode https://siliconangle.com/2023/12/28/google-settle-privacy-lawsuit-chromes-incognito-mode/

19:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Google to settle privacy lawsuit over Chromes incognito mode - SiliconANGLE

19:44 TR News; Industrial Union calls more strikes in protest at government programme https://yle.fi/a/74-20066870

19:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Industrial Union calls more strikes in protest at government programme | Yle News | Yle

19:44 admfubar; soup is good food??? https://www.salon.com/2023/12/29/pediatric-soup-reportedly-on-the-rise/

19:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Pediatric soup burns "alarmingly" high; report | Salon.com

19:44 TR News; Imprisoned Iranian Activist On Hunger Strike Again https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-ragheb-prison-hunger-strike/32750961.html

19:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Imprisoned Iranian Activist On Hunger Strike Again

19:44 TR News; Two Members Of Serbian Opposition End Hunger Strike Over Election https://www.rferl.org/a/serbia-opposition-elections-hunger-strike/32751215.html

19:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rferl.org | Two Members Of Serbian Opposition End Hunger Strike Over Election

19:45 TR News; Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/12/amnesty-international-report-alleges-pegasus-spyware-targeted-india-journalists/

19:45 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jurist.org | Amnesty International report alleges Pegasus spyware targeted India journalists - JURIST - News

19:46 TR News; Xamalicious: Surveillance Giant Google Play Malware That Infected 330K Devices https://www.cloudbooklet.com/xamalicious-google-play-malware-330k/

19:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Xamalicious: Google Play Malware That Infected 330K Devices - Cloudbooklet AI

19:46 TR News; REALITY COMPOSER and REALITY CONVERTER Merely Descriptive of Augmented Reality Software, Says TTAB http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2023/12/reality-composer-and-reality-converter.html

19:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thettablog.blogspot.com | The TTABlog: REALITY COMPOSER and REALITY CONVERTER Merely Descriptive of Augmented Reality Software, Says TTAB

19:47 TR News; "Our final year-end Tedium award honors an open letter that hopefully encourages more creator-economy activism in 2024." https://tedium.co/2023/12/28/best-blog-post-2023-substack-open-letter/

19:47 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tedium.co | Best Blog Post Of 2023: The Letter That Took On Substack

19:47 TR News; alabama https://www.propublica.org/article/police-body-camera-footage-alabama-restrictions | Source: Pro Publica

19:47 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.propublica.org | Alabama Families Must Fight to See Body-Camera Footage When Police Kill ProPublica

19:48 TR News; Alarm After Tests Find Chemicals of Concern in Replacement Philips CPAP Machines https://www.propublica.org/article/philips-recall-machines-chemicals-of-concern | Source: Pro Publica

19:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.propublica.org | Alarm After Tests Find Chemicals of Concern in Replacement Philips CPAP Machines ProPublica

19:48 TR News; Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/ubuntu-2304-support-ends-january-2024

19:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024 - OMG! Ubuntu

19:49 TR News; FSF Blogs: A message from president Geoffrey Knauth: Reflecting on the origins of software freedom http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/a-message-from-president-geoffrey-knauth-reflecting-on-the-origins-of-software-freedom

19:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.fsf.org | A message from president Geoffrey Knauth: Reflecting on the origins of software freedom Free Software Foundation Working together for free software

19:50 TR News; Linux Fu: Preprocessing Beyond Code https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/linux-fu-preprocessing-beyond-code/ | Source: Hackaday

19:50 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Fu: Preprocessing Beyond Code | Hackaday

19:50 TR News; Raspberry Pi https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/raspberry-pi-does-its-best-retro-pc-impression/ | Source: Hackaday

19:50 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Raspberry Pi Does Its Best Retro PC Impression | Hackaday

19:51 TR News; Enlightenment 0.26.0 Has Improved Stability and New Features http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Enlightenment-0.26.0-Has-Improved-Stability-and-New-Features

19:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.linux-magazine.com | Enlightenment 0.26.0 Has Improved Stability and... Linux Magazine

19:52 TR News; 10 Best Modern Screenshot Apps for GNU/Linux https://www.debugpoint.com/screenshot-apps-linux/

19:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.debugpoint.com/screenshot-apps-linux/ )

19:52 TR News; Over at Tux Machines... https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml

19:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines...

19:52 TR News; Another Good Year for GNU/Linux https://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Another_Good_Year_for_GNU_Linux.shtml

19:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Another Good Year for GNU/Linux

19:53 TR News; Checking out Tetris for BASH https://www.linux.org/threads/checking-out-tetris-for-bash.46501/

19:53 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Checking out Tetris for BASH | Linux.org

19:54 TR News; Unveiling the Time Traveler: Plotting Time Series in R https://www.r-bloggers.com/2023/12/unveiling-the-time-traveler-plotting-time-series-in-r/

19:54 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Unveiling the Time Traveler: Plotting Time Series in R | R-bloggers

19:55 TR News; (NEW): SMPlayer 23.12 Fixed MPV 0.37, Ubuntu 23.10 & New OpenSubtitles API http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/SMPlayer_23_12_Fixed_MPV_0_37_Ubuntu_23_10_New_OpenSubtitles_AP.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/SMPlayer_23_12_Fixed_MPV_0_37_Ubuntu_23_10_New_OpenSubtitles_AP.gmi

19:55 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines SMPlayer 23.12 Fixed MPV 0.37, Ubuntu 23.10 & New OpenSubtitles API

19:56 TR News; Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing https://www.tomshardware.com/monitors/linux-is-the-only-os-to-support-diagonal-pc-monitor-mode-dev-champions-the-case-for-22-degree-rotation-computing

19:56 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.tomshardware.com | Linux is the only OS to support diagonal PC monitor mode dev champions the case for 22-degree-rotation computing | Tom's Hardware

19:57 TR News; BSD Now 539: Query all hosts https://www.bsdnow.tv/539

19:57 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.bsdnow.tv | BSD Now 539: Query all hosts

19:58 TR News; Medical Association sends letter to Ministry, urging use of masks in public transportation https://bianet.org/haber/medical-association-sends-letter-to-ministry-urging-use-of-masks-in-public-transportation-289905

19:58 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Medical Association sends letter to Ministry, urging use of masks in public transportation

19:58 TR News; Number of Invasive Streptococcus Infections Surges in Sweden https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/Number-of-Invasive-Streptococcus-Infections-Surges-in-Sweden-20231228-0008.html

19:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.telesurenglish.net | Number of Invasive Streptococcus Infections Surges in Sweden | News | teleSUR English

8 PM, December 29

20:00 TR News; "after receiving a Fentanylware (TikTok) comment from a stranger who called my forehead a fivehead." https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/ooo-messages-for-everyday-life

20:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.newyorker.com | O.O.O. Messages for Everyday Life | The New Yorker

20:04 TR News; (NEW): Security Leftovers and Windows TCO http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Leftovers_and_Windows_TCO.gmi

20:04 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers and Windows TCO

20:05 TR News; (NEW): Open Hardware and Linux Devices http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Open_Hardware_and_Linux_Devices.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Open_Hardware_and_Linux_Devices.gmi

20:05 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Open Hardware and Linux Devices

20:10 TR News; (NEW): Programming Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi

20:10 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Programming Leftovers

20:12 TR News; (NEW): BSD Now and KDE Plasma in OpenBSD http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/BSD_Now_and_KDE_Plasma_in_OpenBSD.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/BSD_Now_and_KDE_Plasma_in_OpenBSD.gmi

20:12 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines BSD Now and KDE Plasma in OpenBSD

20:15 TR News; (NEW): GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/GNU_Linux_and_Free_Software_Leftovers.gmi

20:15 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNU/Linux and Free Software Leftovers

20:21 TR News; Techrights Links 29/12/2023: Arrests of Dissents and Software Patent Problems http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Links_29_12_2023_Arrests_of_Dissents_and_Software_Patent_Proble.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/Links_29_12_2023_Arrests_of_Dissents_and_Software_Patent_Proble.gmi

20:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 29/12/2023: Arrests of Dissents and Software Patent Problems

20:21 TR News; Markdown to PDF is a Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF with Node.js https://medevel.com/markdown-to-pdf-is-a/

20:21 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-medevel.com | Markdown to PDF is a Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF with Node.js

20:22 TR News; Hypernomicon is an open-source Philosophy Personal Database Software for Researchers https://medevel.com/hypernomicon/

20:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-medevel.com | Hypernomicon is an open-source Philosophy Personal Database Software for Researchers

20:22 TR News; Dompdf is a PHP Library to convert HTML pages to PDF https://medevel.com/dompdf/

20:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-medevel.com | Dompdf is a PHP Library to convert HTML pages to PDF

20:22 TR News; 11 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Internet Forum Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-internet-forum-software/

20:22 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-11 Best Free and Open Source Linux Internet Forum Software - LinuxLinks

20:23 TR News; 5 Ways to Kill a Process on a Port in Ubuntu GNU/Linux https://linux.how2shout.com/5-ways-to-kill-a-process-on-a-port-in-ubuntu-linux/

20:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-linux.how2shout.com | 5 Ways to Kill a Process on a Port in Ubuntu Linux - Linux Shout

20:23 TR News; How to Install VirtualBox 7.0.x in Ubuntu 22.04/23.10 & Keep it Updated https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2023/12/install-virtualbox-ubuntu-2204/

20:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ubuntuhandbook.org | How to Install VirtualBox 7.0.x in Ubuntu 22.04/23.10 & Keep it Updated | UbuntuHandbook

20:23 TR News; The most useful apt commands you should know for managing packages in Ubuntu, Debian and GNU/Linux Mint https://owlhowto.com/the-most-useful-apt-commands-you-should-know/

20:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-owlhowto.com | The most useful apt commands you should know for managing packages in Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint

20:24 TR News; MyBox Easy is a Swissknife for PDF, Image Editing and More https://medevel.com/mybox/

20:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-medevel.com | MyBox Easy is a Swissknife for PDF, Image Editing and More

20:24 TR News; Easily Extract Your Images Scans and Convert Photo Albums into Digital Images with Scanned Image Extractor [...] GNU General Public License version 3.0 (GPLv3) https://medevel.com/scanned-image-extractor/

20:24 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-medevel.com | Easily Extract Your Images Scans and Convert Photo Albums into Digital Images with Scanned Image Extractor

20:26 TR News; Bits from Debian: Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act https://bits.debian.org/2023/12/debian-statement-cyber-resillience-act.md.html

20:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bits.debian.org | Statement about the EU Cyber Resilience Act - Bits from Debian

20:27 TR News; (NEW): General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive" http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/28/General_Resolution_Statement_about_the_EU_Legislation_Cyber_Res.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/28/General_Resolution_Statement_about_the_EU_Legislation_Cyber_Res.gmi

20:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines General Resolution: Statement about the EU Legislation "Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Directive"

20:27 TR News; "Official support for Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster ends on January 25, 2024 just under a month away at the time Im writing this post." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/12/ubuntu-2304-support-ends-january-2024

20:27 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.omgubuntu.co.uk | Ubuntu 23.04 support ends January 25, 2024 - OMG! Ubuntu

20:29 TR News; This is about bad passwords, not Linux or SSH https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/linux-ssh-servers-are-under-attack-once-again see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml

20:29 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux SSH servers are under attack once again | TechRadar

20:29 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights GBHackers On Security is Trash and It Should Probably Be Ignored (It Trash-talks Linux and SSH Based on Nothing at All)

20:30 TR News; "Ill define a preprocessor as a program that transforms its input file into an output file, reacting to commands that are probably embedded in the file itself. Most often, that output is then sent to some other program to do the real work." https://hackaday.com/2023/12/28/linux-fu-preprocessing-beyond-code/

20:30 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Linux Fu: Preprocessing Beyond Code | Hackaday

20:31 TR News; CIA-funded site relays anti-Linux FUD https://therecord.media/linux-ssh-servers-cryptomining-ddos-bots see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml

20:31 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Careless oversight of Linux SSH servers draws cryptominers, DDoS bots

20:32 TR News; How to add a user on Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/how-add-user-linux/

20:32 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.xda-developers.com | How to add a user on Linux

20:33 TR News; Parroting one another, blaming "Linux" for compromised passwords https://www.scmagazine.com/brief/vulnerable-linux-ssh-servers-targeted-for-cryptomining-ddos-attacks see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml

20:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.scmagazine.com | Vulnerable Linux SSH servers targeted for cryptomining, DDoS attacks | SC Media

20:34 TR News; VPN linkspam disguised as "advice" or "news" about "Linux" https://azbigmedia.com/business/how-free-vpns-improve-linux-security/

20:34 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-azbigmedia.com | How free VPNs improve Linux security - AZ Big Media

20:37 TR News; (NEW): Today's HowTos http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/today_s_howtos.2.gmi

20:37 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines today's howtos

20:38 TR News; PyPI sends malware due to a lack of audits https://mystartupworld.com/eset-reveals-malicious-python-targeting-windows-and-linux-systems/

20:38 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mystartupworld.com | ESET reveals malicious Python targeting Windows and Linux systems - My Startup World - Everything About the World of Startups!

20:39 TR News; (NEW): Some New Free Software Project Mini-Overviews at Medevel http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/14/Some_New_Free_Software_Project_Mini_Overviews_at_Medevel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/14/Some_New_Free_Software_Project_Mini_Overviews_at_Medevel.gmi

20:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Some New Free Software Project Mini-Overviews at Medevel

20:39 TR News; Debian 12.4 Arrived with 65 Security Updates and 94 Bug Fixes https://tuxcare.com/blog/debian-12-4-arrived-with-65-security-updates-and-94-bug-fixes/

20:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-tuxcare.com | Debian 12.4 Arrived with 65 Security Updates and 94 Bug Fixes

20:40 TR News; (NEW): Debian 12.4 Bookworm Released with 94 Bug Fixes and 65 Security Updates http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/11/Debian_12_4_Bookworm_Released_with_94_Bug_Fixes_and_65_Security.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/11/Debian_12_4_Bookworm_Released_with_94_Bug_Fixes_and_65_Security.gmi

20:40 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Debian 12.4 Bookworm Released with 94 Bug Fixes and 65 Security Updates

20:42 TR News; (NEW): Tom Verbeure Gets a Classic HP/Agilent Logic Analyzer Talking X to a Modern Linux Desktop http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Tom_Verbeure_Gets_a_Classic_HP_Agilent_Logic_Analyzer_Talking_X.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Tom_Verbeure_Gets_a_Classic_HP_Agilent_Logic_Analyzer_Talking_X.gmi

20:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Tom Verbeure Gets a Classic HP/Agilent Logic Analyzer Talking X to a Modern Linux Desktop

20:51 TR News; (NEW): Gentoo goes Binary! http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Gentoo_goes_Binary.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Gentoo_goes_Binary.gmi

20:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Gentoo goes Binary!

20:51 TR News; "Pro-Hamas hackers say they breached dozens of Israeli entities amid the ongoing war in Gaza, which has also extended into cyberspace." https://therecord.media/cyber-toufan-data-breaches-israel-iran-palestinians

20:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Pro-Palestinian operation claims dozens of data breaches against Israeli firms

20:57 TR News; 2023 Tech Job Loss Soars: 40% Surge, 260K Workers Hit https://www.analyticsinsight.net/2023-tech-job-loss-soars-40-surge-260k-workers-hit/

20:57 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.analyticsinsight.net | 2023 Tech Job Loss Soars: 40% Surge, 260K Workers Hit

20:59 TR News; Operating at a loss and telling shareholder, "WAIT!! We'll figure something out!!" https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/12/29/tech/software-companies-profit/

20:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.japantimes.co.jp | Software companies finally had to care about profit in 2023 - The Japan Times

9 PM, December 29

21:00 TR News; JEFF BEZOS Post: the US economy is SURGING!!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/12/29/stock-market-2023/

21:00 TR News; Even Harvard MBA Graduates Are Finding It Tough to Land Jobs https://themessenger.com/business/harvard-mba-graduates-finding-it-tough-to-land-jobs

21:00 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-themessenger.com | Even Harvard MBA Graduates Are Finding It Tough to Land Jobs - The Messenger

21:01 TR News; Did Microsoft sack all the artists? Plagiarism now? https://fandomwire.com/xbox-has-come-under-fire-ai-generated-indie/

21:01 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-fandomwire.com | Xbox Has Come Under Fire After Posting AI-Generated Art to Promote Indie Game Development

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21:26 TR News; Techrights To a Year of Equity and Equality http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/To_a_Year_of_Equity_and_Equality.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/To_a_Year_of_Equity_and_Equality.gmi

21:26 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights To a Year of Equity and Equality

21:48 TR News; Techrights In 2023 Linux Has Spread 'Like a Cancer' http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/In_2023_Linux_Has_Spread_Like_a_Cancer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/In_2023_Linux_Has_Spread_Like_a_Cancer.gmi

21:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights In 2023 Linux Has Spread 'Like a Cancer'

10 PM, December 29

22:01 TR News; Companies need to fill quotas based on the SKILLS which they require, not based on skin tones they claim to require. Racism is when you focus too much on people's race, not substance or character.

22:01 TR News; In 2023 ICBM is still trying to OVER-compensate for its proven, undeniable role helping the Nazis

22:03 TR News; IBM's first female CEO did not do a good job. Sucking up to Donald Trump and Apple did not help, either.

22:04 TR News; Gentoo is no longer non-binary http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Gentoo_goes_Binary.shtml

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22:28 TR News; Techrights After Linux World Domination We Ought to Promote Software Freedom http://news.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/After_Linux_World_Domination_We_Ought_to_Promote_Software_Freed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2023/12/29/After_Linux_World_Domination_We_Ought_to_Promote_Software_Freed.gmi

22:28 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights After Linux World Domination We Ought to Promote Software Freedom

22:39 TR News; (NEW): Wishing For Software Freedom in 2024 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Wishing_For_Software_Freedom_in_2024.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Wishing_For_Software_Freedom_in_2024.gmi

22:39 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Wishing For Software Freedom in 2024

22:58 TR News; "We had clear skies on the evening of the 27th. I was rather tired due to some illness working through my family. Also, the full moon was very bright, dimming the stars considerably. But clear skies are rare around here, so I decided to head out to the boat launch anyway." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20231229-0.gmi

22:59 TR News; A drink for the pain gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1627

11 PM, December 29

23:13 TR News; 2023: A year of financial turbulence https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/29/xato-d29.html

23:13 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.wsws.org | 2023: A year of financial turbulence - World Socialist Web Site

23:14 TR News; "The pandemic may be over".... No, COVID-19 still around and spreading, excess deaths very high https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/top-news-stories-2023-18527812.php

23:14 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/top-news-stories-2023-18527812.php )

23:15 TR News; "That it is for Apple to explain if their devices are vulnerable and what triggered these notifications. Apple was asked to join the enquiry with the CERT-In and meetings have been held and enquiry is ongoing," said Chandrasekhar. https://www.latestly.com/technology/apple-state-sponsored-attacks-government-refutes-media-reports-claiming-india-targeted-apple-over-iphone-hacking-notification-5657725.html

23:15 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Apple State-Sponsored Attacks: Government Refutes Media Reports Claiming India Targeted Apple Over iPhone Hacking Notification | LatestLY

23:23 TR News; MHRA Threatens the Media for Speaking About Health Risks of AZ's COVID-19 Patented Vaccine https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/12/29/covid-19-censorship/

23:23 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive MHRA Threatens the Media for Speaking About Health Risks of AZs COVID-19 Patented Vaccine

23:33 TR News; As 2024 Starts Millions of People (More Than in Prior Years) Die While They Tell Us Pandemic is 'Over' https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/12/29/pandemic-is-not-over/

23:33 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-schestowitz.com Blog Archive As 2024 Starts Millions of People (More Than in Prior Years) Die While They Tell Us Pandemic is Over

23:34 TR News; The COVID-19 "parentalism" erodes trust in 1) media 2) government 3) medical profession 4) vaccines in general. In other words, it does not make us safer at all.

23:37 TR News; (NEW): Security Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/Security_Leftovers.gmi

23:37 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Security Leftovers

23:39 TR News; "We look back at what has changed, what's failed us, and what's sticking around in our homelabs. Special Guest: Brent Gervais." https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows#entry-11754

23:40 TR News; Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon | Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7 Source: Nature | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-48200-7

23:40 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nature.com | Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon | Scientific Reports

23:41 TR News; "ANYONE WHO DOES NOT CENSOR EVERYTHING I ASK TO CENSOR IS A NAZI!!" https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/21/24011232/substack-nazi-moderation-demonetization-hamish-mckenzie

23:41 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge

23:42 TR News; Big LOSSES https://ethanzuckerman.com/2023/12/22/how-big-is-youtube/

23:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ethanzuckerman.com | How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman

23:42 TR News; Mozilla https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5053290/mozilla-2023-annual-report-ceo-pay-skyrockets-while-firefox-marketshare-nosedives

23:42 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-lunduke.locals.com | Shared post - Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

23:43 TR News; Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Abusive Monopolist Microsoft https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/27/24016212/new-york-times-openai-microsoft-lawsuit-copyright-infringement

23:43 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement - The Verge

23:44 TR News; Microsoft polluting the planet https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435123003653#fig1 meanwhile, Sheela Microsoft and the wife Jim Zemlin: http://techrights.org/o/2023/06/22/lf-openwashing-and-greenwashing/ http://techrights.org/o/2021/09/24/spamnil-zdnet-lf-greenwashing-microsoft/

23:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The growing energy footprint of artificial intelligence - ScienceDirect

23:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Linux Foundation Has New Report About 'Open'... But It Uses Proprietary Software on Proprietary Platform

23:44 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | [Meme] 'Linux' Foundation is Greenwashing Microsoft Again, Misusing the Linux Brand Like Nobody's Business

23:45 TR News; PLAGIARISM is the issue here, no need for acronyms https://medium.com/bits-and-behavior/more-than-calculators-why-large-language-models-threaten-public-education-480dd5300939

23:45 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-More than calculators: Why large language models threaten learning, teaching, and education | by Amy J. Ko | Bits and Behavior | Dec, 2023 | Medium

23:46 TR News; You don't need analytics on your blog https://blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//blog.yossarian.net/2023/12/24/You-dont-need-analytics-on-your-blog

23:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.yossarian.net | You don't need analytics on your blog

23:46 TR News; Using Qt for Mobile in 2023 | Cameron Gaertner | Software Developer https://camg.me/qt-mobile-2023/ Source: Cameron Gaertner | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//camg.me/qt-mobile-2023/ "A look at using Qt for mobile development in 2023"

23:46 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-camg.me | Using Qt for Mobile in 2023 | Cameron Gaertner | Software Developer

23:47 TR News; To Type or Not to Type: Quantifying Detectable Bugs in JavaScript https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10064729/1/typestudy.pdf

23:48 TR News; Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits https://graphite.dev/blog/why-ban-merge-commits "As a developer creating pull requests in a git repo, you almost certainly use one of two distinct workflows for integrating changes from one branch into another: merging or rebasing."

23:48 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-graphite.dev | Why large companies and fast-moving startups are banning merge commits

23:49 TR News; "rscss is an attempt to make sense of all these. It is not a framework. It's simply a set of ideas to guide your process of building maintainable CSS for any modern website or application." https://ricostacruz.com/rscss/

23:49 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ricostacruz.com | rscss

23:51 TR News; So You Want to Optimize Your Code? (also, a disordered, confusing and absolutely incomplete oral history of Firefox performance) https://yoric.github.io/post/so-you-want-to-optimize-your-code/ Source: Yorick Peterse | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//yoric.github.io/post/so-you-want-to-optimize-your-code/

23:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yoric.github.io | So You Want to Optimize Your Code? (also, a disordered, confusing and absolutely incomplete oral history of Firefox performance)

23:51 TR News; On chains and complex systems - Surfing Complexity https://surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/12/23/on-chains-and-complex-systems/ Source: Lorin Hochstein | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//surfingcomplexity.blog/2023/12/23/on-chains-and-complex-systems/

23:51 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-surfingcomplexity.blog | On chains and complex systems Surfing Complexity

23:52 TR News; "Its 2004 and Im sitting in one of the largest lecture halls at my university. Im a computer science major but Im taking a course on natural history plants and animals as one of my electives." https://dubroy.com/blog/cold-blooded-software/

23:52 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-dubroy.com | Cold-blooded software

23:53 TR News; Beyond Technical Aspects How Do Community Smells Influence the Intensity of Code Smells? https://repository.tudelft.nl/islandora/object/uuid%3A426a340b-83a6-480b-bbac-0d711092c704/datastream/OBJ/download

23:55 TR News; Hatred is a hate crime. Love is a crime of passion.

23:56 TR News; Patent quality gone into the ashtray to protect monopolies and aggressive lawyers who protect the wealth controllers https://patentlyo.com/patent/2023/12/patent-grant-total.html

23:56 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-patentlyo.com | Patent Grant Total 2023 | Patently-O

23:59 TR News; (NEW): This Week in GNOME: #128 Bye Bye 2023 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/This_Week_in_GNOME_128_Bye_Bye_2023.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/12/29/This_Week_in_GNOME_128_Bye_Bye_2023.gmi

23:59 -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines This Week in GNOME: #128 Bye Bye 2023

1 AM, December 29

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3 AM, December 29

03:04 *admfubar (~admfubar@ngqaam7baxnug.irc) has joined #techpol

03:05 admfubar; https://www.salon.com/2023/12/28/ex-lawmaker-describes-as-smelling-like-a-mix-of-armpits-ketchup-and-a-butt/

03:05 -TechPolBot/#techpol-Ex-GOP lawmaker describes Trump as smelling like a mix of armpits, ketchup and a butt | Salon.com

03:12 admfubar; https://www.alternet.org/maine-blocks-trump-ballot/

03:12 -TechPolBot/#techpol-Maine secretary of state blocks Trump from ballot: 'Not qualified to hold the office of president' - Alternet.org

5 AM, December 29

05:54 TR News; "The surge in migration in the final months of 2023" https://english.elpais.com/verne/2023-12-28/the-united-states-and-mexico-agree-to-strengthen-their-efforts-to-disrupt-criminal-migrant-networks.html | Source: El Pas

05:54 -TechPolBot/#techpol-english.elpais.com | The United States and Mexico agree to strengthen their efforts to disrupt criminal migrant networks | Verne | EL PAS English

05:54 TR News; "Ms. Bellows found that Mr. Trump could no longer run for his prior job" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2023/1228/Maine-s-Secretary-of-State-bars-Donald-Trump-from-primary-ballot | Source: CS Monitor

05:54 -TechPolBot/#techpol-Maine Secretary of State Bars Donald Trump from Primary Ballot - CSMonitor.com

6 AM, December 29

06:00 TR News; hostages https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/devastated-will-not-stop-biden-on-us-israeli-hostage-killed-in-gaza-4761403

06:00 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.ndtv.com | "Won't Stop...": Biden As Oldest Woman Held Captive By Hamas Confirmed Dead

06:01 TR News; "Maine Joins Colorado in Finding Trump Ineligible for Primary Ballot" https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/us/maine-trump-ballot.html

06:01 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | Maine Bars Trump From 2024 Primary Ballot, Joining Colorado - The New York Times

06:01 TR News; Raping and bombing buses https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/middleeast/oct-7-attacks-hamas-israel-sexual-violence.html

06:01 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 - The New York Times

7 AM, December 29

07:32 TR News; Tibet https://www.rfa.org/english/news/tibet/mao-birthday-lhasa-12282023103946.html | Source: RFA

07:32 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | Tibetans forced to celebrate Maos 130th birthday Radio Free Asia

07:32 TR News; "Roosevelt House presented an extraordinary program" https://www.thenation.com/article/world/will-human-rights-survive/ | Source: The Nation

07:32 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.thenation.com | Will Human Rights Survive? | The Nation

9 AM, December 29

09:14 TR News; US, Allies Consider Seizing Russian Government Assets and Giving them to Ukraine https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/28/us-allies-consider-seizing-russian-government-assets-and-giving-them-to-ukraine/

09:14 -TechPolBot/#techpol-reason.com | US, Allies Consider Seizing Russian Government Assets and Giving them to Ukraine

09:14 TR News; Cargo ship hits naval mine in Black Sea en route to Ukraine https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231228-cargo-ship-hits-naval-mine-in-black-sea-en-route-to-ukraine

09:14 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.france24.com | Cargo ship hits naval mine in Black Sea en route to Ukraine

09:16 TR News; Lithuania allocates 4.6m to fund studies of over 1,000 Ukrainians https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2159382/lithuania-allocates-eur4-6m-to-fund-studies-of-over-1-000-ukrainians

09:16 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.lrt.lt | Lithuania allocates 4.6m to fund studies of over 1,000 Ukrainians - LRT

09:17 TR News; Despite Russian Invasion, Ukraine's Economy Registers Growth In 2023 https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-economy-growth-war-2023/32751000.html

09:17 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Despite Russian Invasion, Ukraine's Economy Registers Growth In 2023

09:18 TR News; Panama-Flagged Ship Hits Russian Mine In Black Sea, Injuring Two https://www.rferl.org/a/black-sea-mine-ship-russia-ukraine-grain/32750671.html

09:18 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Panama-Flagged Ship Hits Russian Mine In Black Sea, Injuring Two

09:18 TR News; Almost Naked Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/russia-naked-celebrities-party.html

09:18 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | Almost Naked Party in Moscow Angers Russian Conservatives - The New York Times

09:19 TR News; Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/russia-ukraine-war.html

09:19 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | Russia Retakes Some Land Hard Won by Ukraine During Counteroffensive - The New York Times

09:19 TR News; Foreigners Who Made Ukraine Home Stay Put, Despite War https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/europe/ukraine-war-foreigners.html

09:19 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | Foreigners Who Made Ukraine Home Stay Put, Despite War - The New York Times

09:20 TR News; "Panama-flagged" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/ukraine-says-panama-flagged-cargo-ship-hit-russian-naval-mine-in-black-sea | Source: Meduza

09:20 -TechPolBot/#techpol-meduza.io | Ukraine says Panama-flagged cargo ship hit Russian naval mine in Black Sea Meduza

09:21 TR News; "murder of Ukrainian POWs filmed by drone" https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/ukraine-identifies-russian-soldiers-as-suspects-in-murder-of-ukrainian-pows-filmed-by-drone | Source: Meduza

09:21 -TechPolBot/#techpol-meduza.io | Ukraine identifies Russian soldiers as suspects in murder of Ukrainian POWs filmed by drone Meduza

09:22 TR News; Russians still have a chance to stay in Latvia if they can show why https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/28.12.2023-russians-still-have-a-chance-to-stay-in-latvia-if-they-can-show-why.a536981/

09:22 -TechPolBot/#techpol-eng.lsm.lv | Russians still have a chance to stay in Latvia if they can show why / Article

09:22 TR News; Navalny's penal colony in the Arctic is direct heir to Russia's Gulag https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20231228-navalny-s-penal-colony-in-the-arctic-is-direct-heir-to-russia-s-gulag

09:22 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.france24.com | Navalny's penal colony in the Arctic is direct heir to Russia's Gulag

09:24 TR News; Russian FM on Korean peninsula: knots of conflict in 2024 https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/russian-pm-koreas-12282023215634.html

09:24 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | Russian FM on Korean peninsula: knots of conflict in 2024 Radio Free Asia

09:24 TR News; Siberian Lawmaker, Former Navalny Associate To Be Sentenced On Extremism Charge https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fadeyeva-navalny-sentencing/32751310.html

09:24 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Siberian Lawmaker, Former Navalny Associate To Be Sentenced On Extremism Charge

09:24 TR News; Kalmyks In Russia Mark 80th Anniversary Of Mass Deportation To Siberia https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kalmyks-deportation-anniversary/32751072.html

09:24 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rferl.org | Kalmyks In Russia Mark 80th Anniversary Of Mass Deportation To Siberia

09:26 TR News; Russian Defense Ministry says over 640,000 contract soldiers currently serving in Russian army https://meduza.io/en/news/2023/12/28/russian-defense-ministry-says-over-640-000-contract-soldiers-currently-serving-in-russian-army | Source: Meduza

09:26 -TechPolBot/#techpol-meduza.io | Russian Defense Ministry says over 640,000 contract soldiers currently serving in Russian army Meduza

11 AM, December 29

11:27 TR News; North Korea aims to shake up US and South Korea votes, spy agency says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korea-aims-to-shake-up-us-south-korea-votes-spy-agency-says

11:27 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | North Korea aims to shake up US and South Korea votes, spy agency says | The Straits Times

11:28 TR News; North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders military to accelerate 'war preparations' https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20231227-north-korean-leader-kim-orders-military-to-accelerate-war-preparations

11:28 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.france24.com | North Korea's Kim Jong Un orders military to accelerate 'war preparations'

noon, December 29

12:05 TR News; Poll: Most Filipinos support stance of Marcos against China in sea dispute https://www.rfa.org/english/news/southchinasea/marcos-poll-china-12282023144032.html

12:05 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | Poll: Most Filipinos support stance of Marcos against China in sea dispute Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; China ramps up warnings against Philippines on South China Sea https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/beijing-manila-warning-12282023224013.html

12:05 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | China ramps up warnings against Philippines on South China Sea Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; Where did Taiwans fake presidential election poll come from? https://www.rfa.org/english/news/afcl/taiwan-fake-poll-12292023000620.html

12:05 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rfa.org | Where did Taiwans fake presidential election poll come from? Radio Free Asia

12:05 TR News; Chinas defence ministry accuses Taiwan of hyping up claims of election interference https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/28/chinas-defence-ministry-accuses-taiwan-of-hyping-up-claims-of-election-interference/

12:05 -TechPolBot/#techpol-hongkongfp.com | China's defence ministry accuses Taiwan of 'hyping up' claims of election interference - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

12:06 TR News; "Jeffrey Dastin, writing for Reuters, has dug up some very interesting information about TASER" https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/28/turns-out-tasers-tragic-backstory-is-mostly-just-alternate-facts-cooked-up-by-its-founder/ | Source: Techdirt

12:06 -TechPolBot/#techpol-Turns Out Tasers Tragic Backstory Is Mostly Just Alternate Facts Cooked Up By Its Founder | Techdirt

12:49 TR News; Trump Ballot Challenges: What to Know https://www.nytimes.com/article/trump-ballot-remove-2024.html

12:49 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | Trump Ballot Challenges: What to Know - The New York Times

12:55 TR News; Japan eyes lethal weapon exports to South-east Asia to boost regional security https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-eyes-lethal-weapon-exports-to-south-east-asia-to-boost-regional-security

12:55 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Japan eyes lethal weapon exports to South-east Asia to boost regional security | The Straits Times

12:55 TR News; 3 Hong Kong students jailed up to 6 years for terrorism over foiled 2021 bomb plot https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/29/3-hong-kong-students-jailed-up-to-6-years-for-terrorism-over-foiled-2021-bomb-plot/

12:55 -TechPolBot/#techpol-hongkongfp.com | 3 Hong Kong students jailed up to 6 years for 'terrorism' over foiled 2021 bomb plot - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

12:57 TR News; National effort to curb illegal mining continues apace https://www.defenceweb.co.za/security/civil-security/national-effort-to-curb-illegal-mining-continues-apace/

12:57 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.defenceweb.co.za | National effort to curb illegal mining continues apace - defenceWeb

12:58 TR News; Spanish university research shows Africa leads in armed conflict https://www.defenceweb.co.za/joint/diplomacy-a-peace/spanish-university-research-shows-africa-leads-in-armed-conflict/

12:58 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.defenceweb.co.za | Spanish university research shows Africa leads in armed conflict - defenceWeb

1 PM, December 29

13:21 TR News; Indigenous leader Raoni 'wants to make sure' Brazil's Lula will keep promises on Amazon https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/t%C3%AAte-%C3%A0-t%C3%AAte/20231228-indigenous-leader-raoni-wants-to-make-sure-brazil-s-lula-will-keep-promises-on-amazon

13:21 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.france24.com | Indigenous leader Raoni 'wants to make sure' Brazil's Lula will keep promises on Amazon - Tte tte

2 PM, December 29

14:02 TR News; Taiwan election: Candidates receive rock star treatment, steamed buns while campaigning https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/taiwan-election-candidates-receive-rock-star-treatment-steamed-buns-while-campaigning

14:02 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.straitstimes.com | Taiwan election: Candidates receive rock star treatment, steamed buns while campaigning | The Straits Times

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7 PM, December 29

19:38 TR News; In Burkina Faso, Criticizing the Army Could Get You Drafted https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/28/world/africa/burkina-faso-military-conscription.html

19:38 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.nytimes.com | In Burkina Faso, Criticizing the Army Could Get You Drafted - The New York Times

19:42 TR News; DoD special trial counsel offices become fully operational, giving more protections to sexual assault victims https://federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-main/2023/12/dod-special-trial-counsel-offices-become-fully-operational-giving-more-protections-to-sexual-assault-victims/

19:42 -TechPolBot/#techpol-federalnewsnetwork.com | DoD special trial counsel offices become fully operational, giving more protections to sexual assault victims | Federal News Network

19:47 TR News; alabama https://www.propublica.org/article/police-body-camera-footage-alabama-restrictions | Source: Pro Publica

19:47 -TechPolBot/#techpol-www.propublica.org | Alabama Families Must Fight to See Body-Camera Footage When Police Kill ProPublica

10 PM, December 29

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