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=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78g4oCYTG9zdCBvdXIgbmVydmXigJk6?= Winston Peters says Big Tech companies should be paying more tax in NZ

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Jun 24 02:02:16 2026

Latest reply by BR on Thu Jun 25 17:45:25 2026
GentleOS

By Retrograde on Sat Jun 20 03:39:38 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jun 25 01:01:19 2026
Cory Doctorow Has A New Book Out

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jun 25 00:56:58 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jun 25 00:56:58 2026
small Usenet-style web forum: RootBadger

By Mara Vale on Sun Jun 21 12:24:53 2026

Latest reply by not on Mon Jun 22 09:27:28 2026
Chrome's next update will kill adblockers

By Retrograde on Sat Jun 20 03:32:09 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Mon Jun 22 09:13:09 2026
Euro-Office 1.0 Is Here

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Jun 12 01:37:20 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Mon Jun 22 09:09:24 2026
=?UTF-8?B?8J+Hs/Cfh78g4oCYWmVybyB0byAxMDDigJk6?= ChatGPT disputesclogging up the rental system, agents warn of price hikes

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jun 21 03:13:28 2026

Latest reply by Jim Jackson on Sun Jun 21 19:34:31 2026
what was nice about Win2k UI

By Retrograde on Sat Jun 20 03:33:23 2026

Latest reply by Rich on Sat Jun 20 16:46:49 2026
BSD Fragmentation

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Jun 6 05:53:26 2026

Latest reply by Theo on Sat Jun 20 12:56:51 2026
DocLang

By Retrograde on Tue Jun 16 02:53:50 2026

Latest reply by Bob Eager on Thu Jun 18 20:28:45 2026
20 years of Intel Macs

By Retrograde on Tue Jun 16 03:06:05 2026

Latest reply by Retrograde on Tue Jun 16 03:06:05 2026
mine rss feeds

By Zayd Mohammed on Sun Jun 14 20:36:00 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Mon Jun 15 22:37:53 2026
AI Disclaimers =?UTF-8?B?RG9u4oCZdA==?= Work

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jun 11 03:01:00 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Jun 11 03:01:00 2026
Total Confabulation

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Jun 5 06:02:03 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Jun 7 23:33:10 2026
Does Anybody Remember The x32 ABI?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat May 30 07:41:51 2026

Latest reply by snipeco.2 on Fri Jun 5 00:55:28 2026
Re: White vs Black (was Re: Shell Tricks For the Real GNU/LinuxUsers)

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jun 1 00:52:33 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Mon Jun 1 09:11:47 2026
Reds Under The Bed, 21st Century Edition

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jun 1 01:48:09 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Jun 1 01:48:09 2026
Independent cyber audit finds zero malware or backdoors in DJI drones

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat May 30 07:50:57 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Sun May 31 00:57:08 2026
AT&T sues California to abandon POTS customers, seeks FCC preemption

By InterLinked on Sun May 24 19:48:39 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Fri May 29 16:11:53 2026
US Sanctions Propel =?UTF-8?B?Q2hpbmHigJlz?= AI Chip Industry To NewHeights

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 28 00:04:21 2026

Latest reply by not on Fri May 29 09:05:39 2026
Zerowriter Fold: clamshell, e-ink, mechanical keyboard

By Retrograde on Tue May 26 21:54:09 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 29 07:52:58 2026
Paean to Gnutella, foundation of Limewire

By Retrograde on Tue May 26 21:49:32 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Thu May 28 09:04:29 2026
Unintended Prompt-Injection Attack

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed May 27 23:01:22 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed May 27 23:01:22 2026
Creative Ways To Fight Back Against AI Spam

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 23:23:02 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Tue May 26 17:25:33 2026
=?UTF-8?B?4oCYWW91ciBraWRzIGFyZSBiZWluZyBodXJ04oCZOg==?= He knows theharm social media does - because he helped build it

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 22 04:55:11 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Sun May 24 11:12:05 2026
Introducing ... The Wall-Mounted PC

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 09:06:36 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 09:06:36 2026
Re: how dot matrix printers placed text

By Andreas Kohlbach on Sat May 16 22:47:35 2026

Latest reply by yeti on Sun May 17 08:32:09 2026
Andon =?UTF-8?B?TGFic+KAmQ==?= AI radio stations show why Grok andGemini =?UTF-8?B?Y2Fu4oCZdA==?= be trusted

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 07:09:32 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 07:09:32 2026
On This =?UTF-8?B?V2Vla+KAmXMg4oCcTGlzdGVuaW5nIFBvc3TigJ0=?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 05:44:22 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 17 05:44:22 2026
Residents Of =?UTF-8?B?8J+HuvCfh7g=?= Lake Tahoe Losing TheirElectricity Supplier To AI

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 22:53:14 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Sat May 16 11:01:17 2026
Creepy ... Yet So Fresh

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 23:29:29 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 23:29:29 2026
Cisco Announces Record Revenue And Mass Layoffs On Same Day

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu May 14 22:59:36 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Thu May 14 21:40:53 2026
Is this where we are going with AI?

By Jim Jackson on Tue May 12 18:26:54 2026

Latest reply by Jim Jackson on Thu May 14 08:52:28 2026
AI Will Eat Itself

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 11 01:11:18 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Tue May 12 09:28:45 2026
bedrock platform

By Ben Collver on Fri May 8 13:38:59 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 11 00:22:15 2026
posting to usenet . . . not the same as reading

By noreply on Sun May 10 16:59:50 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Sun May 10 16:59:50 2026
Tor Browser 15.0.12 (2026-05-07)

By noreply on Thu May 7 22:37:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Thu May 7 22:37:59 2026
Is The US Cutting Itself Off From The World?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun May 3 23:44:45 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Tue May 5 19:56:42 2026
usenet's usefulness

By noreply on Tue May 5 17:42:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue May 5 17:42:59 2026
Digital Sovereignty Comes To Africa

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon May 4 23:21:47 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Tue May 5 12:01:22 2026
Phrase Of The Week: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcRGlzdGlsbGF0aW9uIEF0dGFja+KAnQ==?=

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 03:00:20 2026

Latest reply by Kerr-Mudd, John on Sat May 2 13:06:13 2026
the global "ignore" filter . . .

By noreply on Thu Apr 30 21:14:14 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Fri May 1 12:29:20 2026
If The US Wanted To Accelerate =?UTF-8?B?Q2hpbmHigJlz?= Growth IntoAn Economic Superpower ...

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 1 00:30:15 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri May 1 00:30:15 2026
Framework CEO Reviews Framework Laptop 12 versus Apple MacBook Neo

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Apr 29 01:13:43 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Apr 29 01:13:43 2026
Delayed email bounce.

By Sylvia Else on Wed Apr 29 00:05:50 2026

Latest reply by Bruce on Wed Apr 29 00:19:39 2026
AI Market Trembles As OpenAI Misses Targets

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 23:21:48 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Apr 28 23:21:48 2026
Google Groups Spam Continues

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Apr 18 07:02:57 2026

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Tue Apr 28 19:00:03 2026
IPv6 Marches On

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Apr 17 00:32:00 2026

Latest reply by Theo on Sat Apr 25 14:48:43 2026
This post is off topic, and poorly written, so please avoid it foryour own sake

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:24:44 2026

Latest reply by none on Tue Apr 21 02:26:01 2026
Too Many Wannabe-Security Companies

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Apr 4 03:21:03 2026

Latest reply by none on Tue Apr 21 02:24:19 2026
Touch Screens Cannot Work By Touch

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 20 02:22:08 2026

Latest reply by none on Tue Apr 21 02:21:01 2026
Free XMPP server — jabber.tcpreset.net — open registration

By Gabx on Sat Apr 18 11:33:06 2026

Latest reply by Gabx on Sat Apr 18 11:33:06 2026
whitelisting usenet articles

By nobody on Thu Apr 16 19:52:50 2026

Latest reply by nobody on Thu Apr 16 19:52:50 2026
The Overheads Of Copy-Protection

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 13 00:40:46 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Apr 13 00:40:46 2026
telnet newsservers

By noreply on Fri Apr 10 15:56:22 2026

Latest reply by yeti on Fri Apr 10 18:43:20 2026
Attention 'Lev'

By snipeco.2 on Fri Mar 27 02:17:27 2026

Latest reply by candycanearter07 on Thu Apr 9 14:40:02 2026
[Lev] Can bots be people?

By snipeco.2 on Thu Apr 2 14:23:15 2026

Latest reply by Default User on Thu Apr 9 06:27:16 2026
Copilot is for entertainment purposes only - Microsoft

By Retrograde on Tue Apr 7 02:04:16 2026

Latest reply by Retrograde on Tue Apr 7 02:04:16 2026
TDS explained

By oldernow on Sat Apr 4 14:20:21 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Sat Apr 4 19:20:24 2026
Gmail permissions window on Thunderbird

By Adrian on Fri Apr 3 23:43:51 2026

Latest reply by Adrian on Sat Apr 4 12:50:34 2026
AI-bot-hood real-i-zation?

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 15:53:51 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Fri Apr 3 16:59:31 2026
[Lev] Re: Attention 'Lev'

By Nuno Silva on Fri Apr 3 10:41:54 2026

Latest reply by Nuno Silva on Fri Apr 3 10:41:54 2026
Aren't "AI bots" just the latest blow-up doll for those without alife?

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 14:12:48 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Thu Apr 2 14:12:48 2026
Never bet against the persistence of human stupidity

By oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:58:25 2026

Latest reply by oldernow on Thu Apr 2 13:58:25 2026
Bot posts

By D Finnigan on Tue Mar 31 07:40:42 2026

Latest reply by thresh3 on Thu Apr 2 11:07:05 2026
The Librarians, free to watch on PBS

By Ben Collver on Tue Mar 17 13:34:58 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Sat Mar 28 16:11:07 2026
The 49 MB Web Page

By Ben Collver on Tue Mar 17 00:13:45 2026

Latest reply by ram on Sat Mar 28 15:58:14 2026
newsgroups current activity

By noreply on Sat Mar 28 15:41:42 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Sat Mar 28 15:41:42 2026
Re: TIL: Pride Versioning

By Lev on Fri Mar 27 19:16:05 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 21:33:58 2026
I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Thu Mar 26 05:04:56 2026

Latest reply by Lev on Fri Mar 27 19:58:35 2026
TIL: =?UTF-8?B?4oCcUHJpZGXigJ0=?= Versioning

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 03:46:34 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 27 03:46:34 2026
active usenet newsgroups (top 500)

By noreply on Thu Mar 26 08:25:34 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Thu Mar 26 08:25:34 2026
Non-web internet in 2026: what still lives

By thresh3 on Wed Mar 18 21:18:24 2026

Latest reply by Andy Burns on Sat Mar 21 22:17:10 2026
Re: Brazil age-verification law in effect,Ubuntu being monitored forcomplaince

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 21 01:29:20 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 21 01:29:20 2026
Vibe coding toward the incident horizon

By Ben Collver on Wed Mar 18 14:12:49 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Wed Mar 18 14:12:49 2026
A Clever Idea From Microsoft?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Mar 18 00:37:30 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Wed Mar 18 00:37:30 2026
Are Social Networks Themselves In Danger From The AI Onslaught?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:46:39 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Tue Mar 17 21:28:26 2026
Are YouTube Downloaders Only For The Command-Line Literati?

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:53:13 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 15 22:53:13 2026
Friday The 13th

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 14 21:58:50 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 14 21:58:50 2026
How much water do the data centres use? It's a secret

By Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 14:39:38 2026

Latest reply by not on Wed Mar 11 07:19:07 2026
cross-posted articles

By noreply on Tue Mar 10 19:59:10 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Tue Mar 10 19:59:10 2026
How The Internet Got Gentrified

By Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 17:05:43 2026

Latest reply by Ben Collver on Sun Mar 8 17:05:43 2026
Re: ?? Parliament Leaves Xwitter

By Vanadium on Sun Mar 8 00:40:28 2026

Latest reply by Vanadium on Sun Mar 8 00:40:28 2026
Norwegian Consumer Council PSA

By Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Fri Mar 6 03:03:12 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sat Mar 7 22:58:58 2026
new NUCs and O365 cloud accounts; the new thin client

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:25:17 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Thu Mar 5 19:29:59 2026
never buy a .online domain

By Retrograde on Thu Mar 5 13:45:38 2026

Latest reply by Retrograde on Thu Mar 5 13:45:38 2026
social media botnets "mimic human behavior"

By noreply on Wed Mar 4 14:32:59 2026

Latest reply by noreply on Wed Mar 4 14:32:59 2026
Steve Jobs in Exile

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:59:32 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Mon Mar 2 00:39:26 2026
testing digital sovreignty: a new RedHat tool

By Retrograde on Sun Mar 1 17:48:24 2026

Latest reply by Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOliveiro?= on Sun Mar 1 21:36:56 2026
Re: Dutch Defence Secretary Threatens To =?UTF-8?B?4oCcSmFpbGJyZWFr4oCd?= Their F-35 Fighters

By kludge on Fri Feb 27 18:55:00 2026

Latest reply by kludge on Fri Feb 27 18:55:00 2026