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Thu 14:12:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 14:12:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Do you really think a 100 million in future revenue loss can’t be offset by IBM consulting PIP’s? 100 million equates to 1000 employees impacted. That’s a rounding error to IBM. Now add in the 1 billion in revenue increases expected due to Z17. Seems to me the market may be worried about something given the stock price, but it certainly isn’t DOGE cuts.
Thu 14:12:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "\
Thu 14:14:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM lost much bigger contracts, it just does not mention them: IBM wins $903M GSA contract to modernize federal travel and expense management https://fedscoop.com/ibm-wins-903m-gsa-contract-to-moderniz-federal-travel-and-expense-management/
Thu 14:14:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jskv7t5r
Thu 14:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 14:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Employees report training Indian hires before receiving layoff notices, as IBM ramps up hiring in Bengaluru and Hyderabad, where job postings surged from 173 in January 2024 to 3,866 by early 2025."
Thu 14:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] No *hit.
Thu 14:14:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 14:24:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NetBSD wii 10.1 NetBSD 10.1 (WII) #0: Mon Dec 16 13:08:11 UTC 2024 mkrepro@mkre pro.NetBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/evbppc/compile/WII evbppc" ☛ https://blog.infected.systems/status/ | Source: Alex Haydock
Thu 14:25:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Just a brief programming note. Before this blog there was Floodgap Retrobits, and I still maintain those pages." ☛ https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/04/a-few-retrobits-updates-on-floodgap.html | Source: Old VCR
Thu 14:27:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Synthesisers, Raspberry Pi, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Open_Hardware_Modding_Synthesisers_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Open_Hardware_Modding_Synthesisers_Raspberry_Pi_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 14:29:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 14:33:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today I got a long email from a coworker. He was my project manager for two weeks a few years ago. He's a nice person. He three long paragraphs, wishing me health, unforgettable events and enriching encounters, described life as on open book full of challenges and wonderful moments…" gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-04-24-happy-birthday
Thu 14:33:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 24/04/2025: EU fines Apple and Facebook, Another Microsoft GitHub Security Blunder ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Links_24_04_2025_EU_fines_Apple_and_Facebook_Another_Microsoft_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Links_24_04_2025_EU_fines_Apple_and_Facebook_Another_Microsoft_.gmi ∎
Thu 14:33:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Maren Urner — The Neuroscience of Good Journalism gemini://whither.smol.pub/1745503359
Thu 14:34:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Good Work of Academia in Esotericism gemini://polyphanes.smol.pub/1745500501
Thu 14:35:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding — ULNOSTG Wordo: REEKY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-24.gmi
Thu 14:37:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Burnt Diary gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/burntDiary3
Thu 14:40:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 24/04/2025: Birthday and Good Work of Academia in Esotericism ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Gemini_Links_24_04_2025_Birthday_and_Good_Work_of_Academia_in_E.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Gemini_Links_24_04_2025_Birthday_and_Good_Work_of_Academia_in_E.gmi ∎
Thu 14:42:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ User trust is a sacred, fickle thing ☞ https://www.dedoimedo.com/life/user-trust.html
Thu 14:42:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Font Viewer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-corel-font-viewer/
Thu 14:43:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fix Coming for Window Button Bug in Ubuntu 25.04 ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-window-button-size-bug
Thu 14:43:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Are you looking to celebrate this Earth Day by making a meaningful change in your tech life? Well, one of the simplest things you can do is take the leap to using Linux! Let me show you how changing your computer's operating system can be a net positive for the environment." https://www.howtogeek.com/installing-linux-is-the-perfect-earth-day-activity/
Thu 14:44:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Years ago, Linux would strike fear into the hearts of newcomers to the computing space. From driver issues to the imposing CLI-driven nature of Linux distributions, there were plenty of genuine reasons for casual users to flock to the Windows and macOS ecosystems." https://www.xda-developers.com/cool-distros-that-every-linux-expert-needs-to-try-out/
Thu 14:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For GNOME developers, X11 has been on extended life support for quite a while." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/fedora-43-to-remove-gnome-x11-support/ | Source: Linuxiac
Thu 14:47:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Starting with nothing but the sun, moon, and stars, humans have been getting a handle on time for centuries" ☛ https://news.sparkfun.com/13242 | Source: SparkFun Electronics
Thu 14:48:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Take, for example, the fact that we almost lost the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/trump_us_security/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 15:48:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Linux is an open-source UNIX-like operating system (OS)." ☛ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-commands-cheat-sheet/ | Source: Geeks For Geeks
Thu 15:48:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "tons of blogs or LinkedIn articles" [sic] ☛ https://blog.edward-li.com/tech/advanced-python-features/ |
Thu 15:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A Google search for something entirely unrelated led me to a very old issue of the Daily Nexus, the student newspaper of the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I was teaching back then." ☛ https://bertrandmeyer.com/2025/04/23/a-paean-to-programming/ | Source: Bertrand Meyer
Thu 15:49:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In a COBOL shop you can be there 10 years and still be a junior developer. Same for any non-Agile shop that only hires college graduates." ☛ https://www.logikalsolutions.com/wordpress/information-technology/indian-firms/ | Source: Logikal Solutions
Thu 15:50:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since constexpr was added to the language in C++11, its scope has been gradually expanded." ☛ https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2025/04/23/cpp26-constexpr-language-changes | Source: Sandor Dargo
Thu 15:51:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The APNIC 60 Program Committee (PC) is seeking presentations, panel discussions, Lightning Talks" ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/23/apnic-60-call-for-papers-now-open/ | Source: APNIC
Thu 15:52:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Sense HAT is one of the greatest Raspberry Pi HATs (Hardware Attached on Top)." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/experiment-with-the-sense-hat-2nd-edition-out-now/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Thu 15:53:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OpenAI would consider purchasing the Chrome browser if Google is forced to sell it as a remedy for anticompetitive search practices" ☛ https://www.macrumors.com/2025/04/22/openai-google-chrome/ | Source: MacRumors
Thu 15:53:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For a long while, I’ve felt that the design of iOS is too top heavy. While our phones seem to grow larger every year" ☛ https://benricemccarthy.ghost.io/contabulation/ |
Thu 15:55:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the project's independently-developed distribution" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12430 | Source: Distro Watch
Thu 15:55:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release’s main highlight is upgrading its default desktop, KDE Plasma, to version 6." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/openmandriva-lx-6-0-launches-with-plasma-6-and-new-server-edition/ | Source: Linuxiac
Thu 15:55:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Fedora and Ubuntu's latest releases bring some pretty interesting changes, improving the installer experience, bumping up the GNOME and Plasma versions" ☛ https://thelibre.news/fedora-42-and-ubuntu-25-04-2/ | Source: LibreNews
Thu 15:56:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few weeks ago, I noticed someone had proposed an update to its HTML rendering. The changes were mostly adding in new element names" ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/a-small-php-update-to-geshi/ | Source: Terence Eden
Thu 15:57:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We’d like to announce the availability of the QEMU 10.0.0 release. This release contains 2800+ commits from 211 authors." ☛ https://www.qemu.org/2025/04/23/qemu-10-0-0/ |
Thu 15:59:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install BalenaEtcher on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-balenaetcher-fedora-42/
Thu 16:04:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Redis on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-redis-fedora-42/
Thu 16:04:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install WildFly on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-wildfly-fedora-42/
Thu 16:05:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to install lynis on Ubuntu 22.04 ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-lynis-on-ubuntu-22-04/
Thu 16:06:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to install Vagrant on Debian or Ubuntu ☞ https://owlhowto.com/how-to-install-vagrant-on-debian-or-ubuntu/
Thu 16:06:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install JDownloader on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jdownloader-debian-12/
Thu 16:06:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install HAProxy on Rocky GNU/Linux 9 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-haproxy-rocky-linux-9/
Thu 16:06:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Restic on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-restic-debian-12/
Thu 16:06:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Build Your First Game: Tic Tac Toe Python Code for Beginners ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/game-tic-tac-toe-python-code-for-beginners/
Thu 16:07:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The GNU/Linux Site Formerly Known as "linoxide.com" is Back... as an LLM Slopfarm! ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/The_GNU_Linux_Site_Formerly_Known_as_linoxide_com_is_Back_as_an.shtml
Thu 16:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kubernetes v1.33: Octarine ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/23/kubernetes-v1-33-release/
Thu 16:15:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spidermonkey Development Blog: 5 Things You Might Not Know about Developing Self-Hosted Code ☞ https://spidermonkey.dev/blog/2025/04/23/self-hosted-development.html
Thu 16:17:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Abusing DuckDB-WASM To Create Doom In SQL ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/abusing-duckdb-wasm-to-create-doom-in-sql/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 16:19:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox Nightly: A Tab Groups Scoop – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 179 ☞ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/04/23/a-tab-groups-scoop-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-179/
Thu 16:21:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Stallman wants people to say FLOSS to denote free software versus open source software, and my interpretation of this article is that he only deems the GNU" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43035528
Thu 16:23:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In order for IBM to gain they had to layoff a lot of people! Who does IBM want to fool?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jskxqvhd
Thu 16:25:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s obvious wall street was not impressed with IBM’s results So the question is why?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsjehm67
Thu 16:25:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I suspect Wall Street expected far better SW results given the high cost of debt IBM has taken on to buy innovation" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsjehm67
Thu 16:25:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The net of this poor execution within SW means IBM will have to swing the cost reduction ax. The pecking order will most likely be Consulting, back office/sales, infrastructure, and finally Sw. Hunker down as the CFO will cut costs by what the additional debt servicing is costing (eg 800 million to a billion)" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsjehm67
Thu 16:28:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Eric S Raymond (long-time Stallman friend) did a piece discussing the changes RMS had made to his actual origins to make the GNU founding myth more coherent and himself look better" https://x.com/theogcb405/status/1915436372749398417
Thu 16:29:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So you know that picture of Stallman with a katana. I was thinking how stupid it would be to some how integrate that and a Vergil's Judgement Cut End into a video game, I've got some ideas I want to play with" https://x.com/theogcb405/status/1915436372749398417
Thu 16:38:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman's Oxford Talk Has Just Ended, Here Are Some Photos ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_s_Oxford_Talk_Has_Just_Ended_Here_Are_Some_Pho.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_s_Oxford_Talk_Has_Just_Ended_Here_Are_Some_Pho.gmi ∎
Thu 16:50:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vulnerability Enumeration Conundrum – an Open Source Perspective on CVE and CWE ☞ https://openssf.org/blog/2025/04/23/vulnerability-enumeration-conundrum-an-open-source-perspective-on-cve-and-cwe/
Thu 16:51:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Non-Planar Infill For FDM ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/improved-and-open-source-non-planar-infill-for-fdm/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 16:52:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ statCounter Helps Visualise Just How Deep in Trouble Abusive Monopolist Microsoft is (Especially in Africa) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/statCounter_Helps_Visualise_Just_How_Deep_in_Trouble_Microsoft_.shtml
Thu 16:52:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Register is Using Linux-Hostile Clickbait in Articles of GNU/Linux Proponents ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/The_Register_is_Using_Linux_Hostile_Clickbait_in_Articles_of_Li.shtml
Thu 17:05:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "tweets photo of U.S. commitment" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/24/in-another-public-blowout-with-washington-ukrainian-president-zelensky-tweets-photo-of-u-s-commitment-during-trump-s-first-term-to-reject-russia-s-annexation-of-crimea | Source: Meduza
Thu 17:06:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: does he know who controls twitter?
Thu 17:11:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft big deadline for employees: 'Leave office within five days or...' https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/microsoft-big-deadline-for-employees-leave-office-within-five-days-or-/articleshow/120581983.cms
Thu 17:16:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Does Microsoft’s Performance Policy Signal a Global Shift in Company Culture? https://www.thehrdigest.com/does-microsofts-performance-policy-signal-a-global-shift-in-company-culture/
Thu 17:16:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google, IBM Issue Strict Return-to-Office Threats to Employees https://tech.co/news/google-ibm-return-to-office-threats
Thu 17:18:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev threatened NHL legend Dominik Hasek, the Hockey Hall of Famer said in a post on social control media this week." ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/23/sports/dominik-hasek-i-got-death-threats-from-an-ex-russian-president/
Thu 17:18:49 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ IBM return to death
Thu 17:18:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russia on track to manufacture 28nm chips in domestic fabs by 2030, 19 years after tech first debuted ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russia-says-its-on-track-to-manufacture-28nm-chips-in-its-own-fabs-by-2030-the-tech-first-debuted-15-years-ago
Thu 17:19:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kiwi TCMS: Kiwi TCMS 14.2 ☞ https://kiwitcms.org/blog/kiwi-tcms-team/2025/04/23/kiwi-tcms-142/
Thu 17:21:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Kubernetes v1.33 and Kiwi TCMS 14.2 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Kubernetes_v1_33_and_Kiwi_TCMS_14_2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Kubernetes_v1_33_and_Kiwi_TCMS_14_2.gmi ∎
Thu 17:21:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Thu 17:24:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Russia strips two comedians of naturalized citizenship and bans them from country over anti-war statements" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/23/russia-strips-two-comedians-of-naturalized-citizenship-and-bans-them-from-country-for-anti-war-statements | Source: Meduza
Thu 17:25:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Take note, Edward J Snowden
Thu 17:25:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ban ads for witches" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/23/russia-drafts-law-that-would-ban-ads-for-witches-astrologers-and-even-nutritionists | Source: Meduza
Thu 17:27:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Quiet! Calling Linux an operating system will summon Richard Stallman." https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1k67s02/no_need_of_something_big_when_small_already_make/
Thu 17:30:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mariah Carey Infringement Suit Turns Ugly Amid Legal Fees Dispute: ‘One Artist Should Not Push Another Artist to the Brink of a Financial Collapse’ ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/23/mariah-carey-lawsuit-legal-fees/
Thu 17:31:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TTABlog Test: How Did These Three Recent Section 2(d) Appeals Turn Out? ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttablog-test-how-did-these-three-recent_23.html
Thu 17:31:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Figma Trademarks "Dev Mode", Demands Nobody Use Phrase ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/figma-trademarks-dev-mode-demands
Thu 17:33:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Copyright, trademark, and patent lawsuits still raging, even if "the media" barely covers any. It's underfunded and unequipped, so people cannot understand how bad things are.
Thu 17:33:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreOffice in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/23/libreoffice-in-2024-tdfs-annual-report/
Thu 17:34:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Anti-Piracy Video Used Pirated Music & Font ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/anti-piracy-video-used-pirated-music
Thu 17:35:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ very well done video – how to write good programs that actually work ☞ https://dwaves.de/2025/04/23/very-well-done-video-how-to-write-good-programs-that-actually-work-how-to-manage-complexity-and-multiple-developers-why-use-case-testing-and-unix-kiss-is-so-important-3-year-software-project-d/
Thu 17:38:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ opensourceforu is indeed dead. Another LLM slop: https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/metaverse-and-digital-twins-partnering-to-innovate/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Another_Site_Bites_the_Dust_Open_Source_For_You_Becoming_a_Slop.shtml
Thu 17:39:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So the site is as good as dead and linking to opensourceforu.com means fuelling SLOP now. Dead.
Thu 17:42:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Richard Stallman Can Explain to Oxford Artificial Intelligence Society Why LLM Slop is Not Artificial Intelligence and Why It Hurts Society ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_Can_Explain_to_Oxford_Artificial_Intelligence_.shtml
Thu 17:42:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ pgmoneta 0.16 ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgmoneta-016-3065/
Thu 17:43:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ YouTube Turns 20: From ‘Lazy Sunday’ to ‘Hot Ones’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/youtube-20th-anniversary-timeline.html
Thu 17:44:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Announcing our new Embedded Linux Networking training course ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/announcing-our-new-embedded-linux-networking-training-course/
Thu 17:45:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NLnet announces funding for 42 FOSS projects ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1018621/
Thu 17:45:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1018589/
Thu 17:46:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thomas Lange: FAI 6.4 and new ISO images available ☞ http://blog.fai-project.org/posts/fai-6.4/
Thu 17:47:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Michael Prokop: Lessons learned from running an open source project for 20 years @ GLT25 ☞ https://michael-prokop.at/blog/2025/04/23/lessons-learned-from-running-an-open-source-project-for-20-years-glt25/
Thu 17:59:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5 gov’t health inspectors accused of stealing food meant for tests were told to toss unused samples, court hears ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/23/5-govt-health-inspectors-accused-of-stealing-food-meant-for-tests-were-told-to-toss-unused-samples-court-hears/
Thu 18:02:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ North Korea orders schools to breed more rabbits to feed army ☞ https://rfa.org/english/korea/2025/04/23/north-korea-rabbits-breeding-school/
Thu 18:02:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] rabbit season in kinland
Thu 18:05:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Boeing CEO says China not accepting planes over US tariffs ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/24/boeing-ceo-says-china-not-accepting-planes-over-us-tariffs/
Thu 18:05:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ For China’s Trolls, ‘Chairman Convicted Felon’ and ‘Eyeliner Man’ Are Easy Targets ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/business/china-trump-vance.html
Thu 18:05:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man Team Races to Form Trade Deals After Tariffs Sow Global Chaos ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/business/economy/trump-tariffs-trade-deals.html
Thu 18:06:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China’s President Pooh-tin says tariffs and trade wars hurt world economic order ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-president-xi-says-tariffs-and-trade-wars-hurt-world-economic-order
Thu 18:08:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China lunar chief accuses US of interfering in joint space programmes with other nations ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-lunar-chief-accuses-us-of-interfering-in-joint-space-programmes-with-other-nations
Thu 18:12:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I used to download and unzip files with a browser and file manager until I realized I could do it all from the terminal, without clicking or switching windows. I now use just six commands all the time. Here’s what they are and why they’re worth memorizing." https://www.howtogeek.com/download-unzip-files-without-leaving-the-linux-terminal-with-these-commands/
Thu 18:13:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With various characters to unlock each with their own unique play-style and passive ability along with 4 active skills, along with all the bonuses and mutations you get on level-up you can really mix and match how to play it." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/survivor-like-bullet-hell-with-random-maps-fiendrise-adds-linux-support/
Thu 18:13:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here's my shortlist of Linux distributions you should avoid until you have plenty of experience under your belt." https://www.zdnet.com/article/new-to-linux-dont-try-these-7-distros-yet/
Thu 18:14:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release also features the first official stable release of the OpenMandriva Lx Server edition." https://9to5linux.com/openmandriva-lx-6-0-released-with-linux-6-14-kde-plasma-6-3-and-server-edition
Thu 18:14:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The combination of incremental improvements to Linux P/E core scheduling and the 200S Boost bombshell mean that Arrow Lake has increased its stature among the CPU crop, especially for Linux users." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-core-ultra-9-285k-performance-sees-6-percent-improvement-on-linux-arrow-lake-boosts-even-without-new-200s-boost-bios
Thu 18:15:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The latest Android 16 beta lets Pixel phone users allocate as much storage for the Linux terminal as needed." https://www.zdnet.com/article/with-android-16-the-linux-terminal-gets-all-the-space-it-needs/
Thu 18:16:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Elon says Tesla humanoid robots impacted by China's export ban on rare earth minerals — Optimus production is delayed due to a 'magnet issue' ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tesla-is-impacted-by-chinas-export-ban-on-rare-earth-minerals-optimus-production-is-delayed-due-to-a-magnet-issue
Thu 18:21:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific expects lower air cargo demand amid US-China trade war ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/23/hong-kongs-cathay-pacific-expects-lower-air-cargo-demand-amid-us-china-trade-war/
Thu 18:22:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China says ‘door open’ to trade talks after US Hell Toupée signals tariffs will fall ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/23/china-says-door-open-to-trade-talks-after-us-president-trump-signals-tariffs-will-fall/
Thu 18:22:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Auto Shanghai showcases new EV era despite tariff speedbumps ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250423-auto-shanghai-showcases-new-ev-era-despite-tariff-speedbumps
Thu 18:23:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man administration "feeling the heat from a lot of different quarters", trade reporter says ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250423-trump-administration-feeling-the-heat-from-a-lot-of-different-quarters-trade-reporter-says
Thu 18:23:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tesla Cybertruck" ☛ https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/04/23/from-showroom-to-warlord | Source: Meduza
Thu 18:24:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Detecting X-Rays ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/to-see-within-detecting-x-rays/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 18:25:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Brown Rice Has More Arsenic Than White – Here's Why You Shouldn't Avoid It ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/brown-rice-has-more-arsenic-than-white-heres-why-you-shouldnt-avoid-it
Thu 18:29:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Outrage as global Spotify outage left millions unable to stream music - Internet of Shit https://www.reddit.com/r/StallmanWasRight/comments/1k6fobg/outrage_as_global_spotify_outage_left_millions/
Thu 18:29:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ BUT MA MUSIC!! wait, mine? Nope, enjoy your bad decisions now...
Thu 18:33:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gunnar Wolf: Want your title? Here, have some XML! ☞ https://gwolf.org/2025/04/want-your-title-here-have-some-xml.html
Thu 18:34:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Because many fled or chased better salaries? ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/employment/23.04.2025-demand-for-ict-specialists-still-strong-in-the-baltic-states.a596412/
Thu 18:35:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 200 French media publications sue Meta, alleging unlawful business practices ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/france/20250423-french-media-companies-sue-meta-over-alleged-unlawful-business-practices
Thu 18:36:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mark Kapo-berg Says Social Control Media Is Over ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over
Thu 18:38:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steinar H. Gunderson: Recommended VCL ☞ http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-04-23-12-52_recommended_vcl.html
Thu 18:38:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.0.15 on CRAN: Calendar Updates ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/23#qlcal-r_0.0.15
Thu 18:38:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EU Fines Fashion Company Apple and Meta Total of $800 Million in First Use of Digital Competition Law ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/apple-meta-eu-fines-competition-law.html
Thu 18:38:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EU fines Fashion Company Apple and Meta €700 million for digital violations: What happens next? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250423-eu-fines-apple-meta-%E2%82%AC700-million-digital-markets-act-violations-competition
Thu 18:43:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reuters today: "US weekly jobless claims increase moderately amid low layoffs" (headline). Right, so they "increase moderately" and "low layoffs". From "slowing growth" to new and misleading spin. Everything is OK! "IT IS ONLY YOU! IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD! EVERYTHING IS OK!"
Thu 18:44:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/i-am-making-the-world-my-confessor
Thu 18:45:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Confessional Boxes: Tiny Cryptic #7 ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/04/tiny-cryptic-7
Thu 18:45:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Turkey's social security system, private hospitals and the function of the World Bank ☞ https://bianet.org/yazi/turkey-s-social-security-system-private-hospitals-and-the-function-of-the-world-bank-306716
Thu 18:46:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft Already Attacks the BSDs as Well (the E.E.E. Way, as Usual) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/Microsoft_Already_Attacks_the_BSDs_as_Well_the_E_E_E_Way_as_Usu.shtml
Thu 18:46:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is in Trouble, May Soon be Out of Business ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/The_Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_is_in_Trouble_May_Soon_be_Out_of.shtml
Thu 18:46:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME, Microsoft, and Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub : The Lack of Reporting on Abusive Colleagues Contributed to Profound Media Vacuum (or Blackout), Now Resorting to SLAPPs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/GNOME_Microsoft_and_GitHub_The_Lack_of_Reporting_on_Abusive_Col.shtml
Thu 18:47:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Government Already Bailing Out OpenAI/Microsoft With "Contracts", As Usual, Back Doors You Cannot Remove Becoming 'a Step Closer' on New PCs (Unless Everyone Acts ASAP) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/US_Government_Already_Bailing_Out_OpenAI_Microsoft_With_Contrac.shtml
Thu 18:47:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ RMS is Done at KCL, Next Stop is Oxford ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/RMS_is_Done_at_KCL_Next_Stop_is_Oxford.shtml
Thu 18:48:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Collabora quarterly mgmt" ☞ https://meeksfamily.uk/~michael/blog/2025-04-23.html
Thu 18:54:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): [GNOME's] The Elephant in the Room ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/_GNOME_s_The_Elephant_in_the_Room.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/_GNOME_s_The_Elephant_in_the_Room.gmi ∎
Thu 18:58:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To those on the board and CoC committee who were involved in Sonny’s ban: I’m asking you to step down from your positions, and take some time off from Foundation politics. I know you know you fucked up, and I know you care about this project, like we all do." https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room/
Thu 18:59:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft's Most Profound Issue is That People Moved to 'Mobile' and "App Stores" (Microsoft's Presence There is Negligible) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Microsoft_s_Most_Profound_Issue_is_That_People_Moved_to_Mobile_.shtml
Thu 18:59:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Never Try to Justify Strangulation of Women (Not in the US and Not in the UK) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Never_Try_to_Justify_Strangulation_of_Women_Not_in_the_US_and_N.shtml
Thu 19:00:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Matrix Has a Severe Problem With Illegal Images ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Matrix_Has_a_Severe_Problem_With_Illegal_Images.shtml
Thu 19:00:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft backdoored Windows in Cyprus Lacking a Future ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Microsoft_Windows_in_Cyprus_Lacking_a_Future.shtml
Thu 19:00:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Richard Stallman to Speak in Oxford University Exactly a Day From Now ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Richard_Stallman_to_Speak_in_Oxford_University_Exactly_a_Day_Fr.shtml
Thu 19:02:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Get Rid of Back Doors, Don't Obsess Over Bounties and Other Corporate PR Stunts (or Needless Reboot Rituals) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Get_Rid_of_Back_Doors_Don_t_Obsess_Over_Bounties_and_Other_Corp.shtml
Thu 19:02:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Source Initiative (OSI) Promoting Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and Proprietary Software Using Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Operatives ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Promoting_Microsoft_and_Proprietary_.shtml
Thu 19:02:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft. (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Microsoft_Studies_Again_Leon_Musolff_is_Writing_Papers_With_Mic.shtml
Thu 19:02:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop) (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Another_Site_Bites_the_Dust_Open_Source_For_You_Becoming_a_Slop.shtml
Thu 19:03:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME people admit the CoC went VERY VERY wrong! https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/04/23/the-elephant-in-the-room/
Thu 19:04:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Kernel Module Enhances Battery Management for Framework Laptop ☞ https://cubiclenate.com/2025/04/23/new-kernel-module-enhances-battery-management-for-framework-laptop/
Thu 19:10:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_mystery_folder_fix/
Thu 19:38:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 24 190617 < schestowitz[TR2]> MinceR: does he know who controls twitter?
Thu 19:38:20 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thu 19:38:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ way too many non-ruscists still use that shithole platform
Thu 19:38:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ some of them are even apparently willing to pay for a checkmark
Thu 19:38:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: http://techrights.org/videos/Why-I-Hate-Elon-Musk.mp4
Thu 19:39:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's MElon
Thu 19:39:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] at the start of this video
Thu 19:40:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scott Bessent Accuses IMF and World Bank of ‘Mission Creep’ ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/business/bessent-imf-world-bank-overhauls.html
Thu 19:40:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft mystery folder fix might need a fix of its own https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/microsoft_mystery_folder_fix/
Thu 19:41:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "The folder, typically c:\inetpub, reappeared on Windows systems in April as part of Microsoft's mitigation for CVE-2025-21204, an exploitable elevation-of-privileges flaw within Windows Process Activation. Rather than patching code directly, Redmond simply pre-created the folder to block a symlink attack path. For many administrators, the reappearance of this old IIS haunt raised eyebrows, especially since the mitigation did litt
Thu 19:41:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] le beyond ensuring the folder existed.
Thu 19:41:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 19:46:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What’s secret? When is it secret? Well, that’s complicated ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/whats-secret-when-is-it-secret-well-thats-complicated/ "The argument over US officials’ misuse of secure but non-governmental messaging platform Signal falls into two camps."
Thu 19:47:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Overlooked USPTO Subsidy ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/04/the-overlooked-uspto-subsidy/
Thu 19:47:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pine64 StarPro64 is a RISC-V SBC with ESWin EIC7700X Hey Hi (AI) SoC, 32 GB LPDDR5 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/23/pine64-starpro64-risc-v-sbc-eswin-eic7700x-ai-soc-32-gb-lpddr5/
Thu 19:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Did The Insurrectionist post a [GIMPed] image of Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s ‘MS-13’ tattoos? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/truth-or-fake/20250423-did-donald-trump-post-a-photoshopped-image-of-kilmar-abrego-garcia-s-ms-13-tattoos "in an attempt to show ‘evidence’ that the wrongfully deported man is a member of the MS-13 criminal gang. We explain in this edition of Truth or Fake."
Thu 19:50:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I'm a Linux power user, and this distro made me rethink what an operating system can be ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_made_me_rethink_what_an_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_made_me_rethink_what_an_.gmi ∎
Thu 19:51:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop feeds pedophiles ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/ai-deepfake-lewd-pics-johor-teen-pleads-guilty-to-possessing-porn-on-mobile-phone "charged with generating explicit content involving a teen by editing her photos into pornographic images."
Thu 19:57:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pushing Windows in "Ubuntu" clothing https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/netbooting-a-large-language-model-based-os-in-an-ubuntu-live-server/
Thu 19:58:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): The top 6 GNOME extensions I install first (and what they can do for you) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/The_top_6_GNOME_extensions_I_install_first_and_what_they_can_do.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/The_top_6_GNOME_extensions_I_install_first_and_what_they_can_do.gmi ∎
Thu 20:25:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GIMP user documentation ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/GIMP_user_documentation.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/GIMP_user_documentation.gmi ∎
Thu 20:28:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:important) https://i.imgur.com/x5qpXyi.mp4 = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/x5qpXyi
Thu 20:30:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): openEuler is a Linux distribution for server and cloud environments ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/openEuler_is_a_Linux_distribution_for_server_and_cloud_environm.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/openEuler_is_a_Linux_distribution_for_server_and_cloud_environm.gmi ∎
Thu 20:31:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I found a TV that still has plenty of ports and composite out and TOS Link for a sound bar.
Thu 20:32:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Few companies still make Blu Ray players apparently, so the price on the UHD models has collapsed.
Thu 20:32:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopfarms on the Web Almost Always Generate Anti-Linux FUD When They Produce "Linux" Output ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Slopfarms_on_the_Web_Almost_Always_Generate_Anti_Linux_FUD_When.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Slopfarms_on_the_Web_Almost_Always_Generate_Anti_Linux_FUD_When.gmi ∎
Thu 20:34:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 𝚖𝚞𝚜𝚑𝚛𝚘𝚘𝚖 𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚜 gemini://sampsa.smol.pub/kirjojen-valissa
Thu 20:35:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.1.gmi ∎
Thu 20:39:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gigabyte RTX 50-series GPUs reportedly prone to melting thermal gel issues ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gigabyte-rtx-50-series-gpus-reportedly-prone-to-melting-thermal-gel-issues
Thu 20:40:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Commission finds Fashion Company Apple and Meta in breach of the Digital Markets Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085
Thu 20:40:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Commission closes investigation into Apple's user choice obligations and issues preliminary findings on rules for alternative apps under the Digital Markets Act ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1086
Thu 20:41:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ EU issues €700M in fines to Apple, Meta over DMA breaches ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/eu-issues-e700m-fines-apple-meta-dma-breaches/
Thu 20:42:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): DietPi 9.12 Launches with Fish Shell Support ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/DietPi_9_12_Launches_with_Fish_Shell_Support.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/DietPi_9_12_Launches_with_Fish_Shell_Support.gmi ∎
Thu 20:44:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Canonical is run by the Army now https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2510-Rust-Coreutils-Plan see http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/19/Is_Ubuntu_Compromised_Push_Away_From_GNU_and_GPL_Led_by_Army_Of.shtml
Thu 20:45:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrade Channel Temporarily Suspended Due to Bugs ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/ubuntu-25-04-upgrade-channel-temporarily-suspended-due-to-bugs/
Thu 20:47:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It never ceases to amaze me what people will illegally dump.
Thu 20:47:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): This SteamOS clone is the best Linux distro for gamers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/15/This_SteamOS_clone_is_the_best_Linux_distro_for_gamers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/15/This_SteamOS_clone_is_the_best_Linux_distro_for_gamers.gmi ∎
Thu 20:47:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NethSecurity is a GNU/Linux firewall based on OpenWrt, a distribution ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/nethsecurity-linux-firewall-openwrt/
Thu 20:47:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's four centers in this county alone that accept old TVs for recycling and it's a crime to throw one in the dumpster.
Thu 20:47:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IMSProg – I2C, SPI and Microwire EEPROM/Flash chip programmer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/imsprog-i2c-spi-microwire-eeprom-flash-chip-programmer/
Thu 20:47:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They end up in people's front lawns, in dumpsters, people move out and leave them over by the dumpster for the landlord.
Thu 20:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tenmon is a FITS and XISF image viewer, converter and indexer ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tenmon-fits-xisf-image-viewer-converter-indexer/
Thu 20:48:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Solaar is a GNU/Linux manager for Logitech keyboards, mice and trackpads ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/solaar-linux-manager-logitech-keyboards-mice-trackpads/
Thu 20:48:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 9 Linux Gaming Myths That Just Won't Die ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/9_Linux_Gaming_Myths_That_Just_Won_t_Die.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/9_Linux_Gaming_Myths_That_Just_Won_t_Die.gmi ∎
Thu 20:49:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kali GNU/Linux Without GUI ☞ https://www.blackmoreops.com/2025/04/23/kali-linux-without-gui/
Thu 20:50:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Immich 1.132 Brings Smoother Syncing, Mobile UI Enhancements ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Immich_1_132_Brings_Smoother_Syncing_Mobile_UI_Enhancements.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Immich_1_132_Brings_Smoother_Syncing_Mobile_UI_Enhancements.gmi ∎
Thu 20:52:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Programming_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Programming_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 20:52:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Spidermonkey and Firefox Nightly Reports ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Spidermonkey_and_Firefox_Nightly_Reports.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Spidermonkey_and_Firefox_Nightly_Reports.gmi ∎
Thu 20:52:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, The Criterion Channel is probably the only streaming service that doesn't slop the trough.
Thu 20:52:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it has all the other usual streaming problems.
Thu 20:53:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.2.gmi ∎
Thu 20:57:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Standards ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Standards.gmi ∎
Thu 20:57:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 24/04/2025: GAFAM Problems and No Peace (or Ceasefire) in Sight ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Links_24_04_2025_GAFAM_Problems_and_No_Peace_or_Ceasefire_in_Si.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Links_24_04_2025_GAFAM_Problems_and_No_Peace_or_Ceasefire_in_Si.gmi ∎
Thu 20:57:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Given Lieutenants one might expect there also to be Rightenants; this suggests a missing officer particle, something like dark matter in other, less reputable, theories. There are obviously 'up' and 'down' spin states for all these particles, though some historical materials indicate a third 'neither up nor down' state for soldiers." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/24/ranks.gmi
Thu 20:57:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Thu 20:58:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Zuck's anti-antitrust argument is that he ruined the Internet gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-04-24 "In Meta's antitrust trial, the defense - that is, Meta - is arguing that Meta hasn't violated antitrust laws in part because it is not a "social media" company as the FTC defines that term."
Thu 20:58:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 20:59:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The most energy efficient thing you can do in your life is grow some of your own food. 40% of all the energy consumed by a city is the agriculturally consumed food. Growing your own food, that's an enormous action." - Geoff Lawton gemini://gemini.cyberbot.space/gemlog/2025-04-24-foodforestupdate1.gmi
Thu 21:04:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I'm discussing "trough slopping" and "DRM" again in light of the "death of physical media".
Thu 21:09:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/gallery/q2ihsVH = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/q2ihsVH
Thu 21:37:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://files.catbox.moe/ggzpe4.png
Thu 21:55:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/sadly-for-china-rare-earth-elements-arent-actually-all-that-rare/
Thu 22:17:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/
Thu 22:21:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/yCFwZEL = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/yCFwZEL
Thu 22:43:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Still tweaking this.
Thu 23:02:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Walmart accidentally gave me 12.5 pounds of bananas instead of 1.
Thu 23:02:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Didn't charge me. They just said keep them.
Thu 23:03:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm torn between freezing them for banana bread and leaving them in front of the door across the hallway.
Thu 23:04:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The cheap Onn TVs at Walmart still have all the ports I need.
Thu 23:04:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Samsung ones are down to nothing except two HDMIs and the power cord.
Thu 23:16:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Thu 23:23:01 │ 〖lxo〗 │ is "stop\nslop" a good slogan, you think?
Thu 23:28:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ seems good
Thu 23:58:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Life could be worse. Mom says she needs a root canal.
Fri 00:02:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/GStreamer_1_26_1_Improves_dav1d_AV1_Decoder_Matroska_v4_Support.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/GStreamer_1_26_1_Improves_dav1d_AV1_Decoder_Matroska_v4_Support.gmi ∎
Fri 00:08:04 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ copyright holders are gonna start bumping off the ai people over this.. https://walledculture.org/leaders-in-the-generative-ai-world-are-daring-to-say-the-unsayable-that-copyright-is-not-sacrosanct/
Fri 00:15:17 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ now i'd buy that for a dollar!... https://www.tweaktown.com/news/104640/elon-musk-your-new-tesla-will-drive-from-the-factory-floor-to-house-this-year/index.html
Fri 00:23:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-ai-pc-chips-arent-selling-instead-last-gen-raptor-lake-booms-and-creates-a-shortage
Fri 00:25:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ they're catching up!... https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russia-says-its-on-track-to-manufacture-28nm-chips-in-its-own-fabs-by-2030-the-tech-first-debuted-15-years-ago
Fri 00:27:14 │ 〖lxo〗 │ https://www.lx.oliva.nom.br/images/stop-slop-1.png or https://www.lx.oliva.nom.br/images/stop-slop-2.png ?
Fri 00:34:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/COSMIC_Alpha_7_Desktop_Adds_Pinned_Workspaces_New_Accessibility.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/COSMIC_Alpha_7_Desktop_Adds_Pinned_Workspaces_New_Accessibility.gmi ∎
Fri 00:36:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2025/04/reeks-of-eugenics-rfk-jr-s-autism-registry-draws-nazi-germany-comparisons/
Fri 00:40:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ does this mean uncles are from heaven? ... https://thedebrief.org/monstrous-hell-ant-that-thrived-113-million-years-ago-revealed-in-oldest-fossil-of-its-kind-ever-discovered/
Fri 00:43:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Okay, that's better.
Fri 00:43:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I went and stuck my head under the faucet.
Fri 00:43:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I overheated from moving some furniture.
Fri 00:46:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41J1nbFABgk
Fri 00:55:32 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/elon-musk-pretends-hes-leaving-the-job-he-supposedly-doesnt-have-to-not-return-to-the-job-he-supposedly-never-left/
Fri 00:56:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, ChatGPT is now scanning my blog.
Fri 00:56:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm etting ChatGPT.com as a referrer.
Fri 00:57:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ or else??? .. https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/2025-04-24-teamsters-union-amazon-nlrb/
Fri 00:59:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/23/1521205
Fri 01:00:49 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/23/1515240
Fri 01:03:07 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.quiss.org/signal_carnival/
Fri 01:10:40 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/142249/hackers-can-now-bypass-linux-security-thanks-to-terrifying-new-curing-rootkit
Fri 01:12:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1811224/young-men-in-us-abandoning-college-education-at-record-rates
Fri 01:16:27 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/04/23/2122204/stroke-patients-have-high-levels-of-microplastics-clogging-their-arteries-researchers-find
Fri 01:17:29 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/1853256/google-ai-fabricates-explanations-for-nonexistent-idioms
Fri 01:18:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/24/2039247/new-android-spyware-is-targeting-russian-military-personnel-on-the-front-lines
Fri 01:36:36 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://restofworld.org/2025/brazil-ai-social-security-app-rejected/
Fri 01:46:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-240425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-240425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-240425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-240425.txt
Fri 01:47:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-240425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-240425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-240425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-240425.txt
Fri 01:48:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-240425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-240425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-240425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-240425.txt
Fri 01:49:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-240425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-240425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-240425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-240425.txt
Fri 01:49:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-04-24.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-04-24.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Fri 01:50:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-04-24.txt
Fri 02:02:52 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ > [notice] www.tomshardware.com | Intel's AI PC chips aren't selling well; instead, last-gen Raptor Lake booms | Tom's Hardware
Fri 02:02:52 │ 〖psydruid〗 │ So fire 20% of employees again next year (and the year after ...)
Fri 02:17:23 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://news.itsfoss.com/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/
Fri 02:20:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/a-bicycle-is-abandonware-now-clever-hack-rescues-dead-light/
Fri 02:48:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/nfc-android-malware-instant-cash-outs
Fri 02:49:31 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-asked-amazon-microsoft-help-fund-llama
Fri 03:00:20 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/04/after-losing-customers-comcast-admits-prices-are-too-confusing-and-unpredictable/
Fri 03:17:45 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=353318
Fri 03:18:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Image loading times ☞ https://rubenerd.com/image-loading-times/
Fri 03:18:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fentanyl ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/china-fentanyl-prison-yafeng-illegal-drug-trade | Source: Pro Publica
Fri 03:20:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russell Coker: Last Post About the Yoga Gen3 ☞ https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/23/last-yoga-gen3/
Fri 03:22:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "even more so given that the most likely most grant proceedings outside of the EPO are infringement proceedings and Article 69 tells us the description and drawings shall be used to interpret the claims." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1745395055019#c8779184462214592954
Fri 03:24:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Lenovo Cuts the Windows Tax and offers Cheaper Laptops with Linux Pre-installed ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Lenovo_Cuts_the_Windows_Tax_and_offers_Cheaper_Laptops_with_Lin.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Lenovo_Cuts_the_Windows_Tax_and_offers_Cheaper_Laptops_with_Lin.gmi ∎
Fri 03:25:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Former Proprietary Chaffbot Company staff and Hey Hi (AI) experts ask Attorneys General to block for-profit conversion ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/former-openai-staff-ai-experts-ask-attorneys-general-block-profit-conversion/
Fri 03:25:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ American Oversight Sues DOGE, Convicted Felon Officials for Violating Federal Records Act ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doge-trump-officials-for-violating-federal-records-act/
Fri 03:26:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Google Search Remedies: Boosting Competitors While Harming Consumers ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/google-search-remedies-boosting-competitors-while-harming-consumers/
Fri 03:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ At Meta’s Antitrust Trial, a Bygone Internet Era Comes Back to Life ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/23/technology/meta-trial-silicon-valley-social-apps.html
Fri 03:27:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IPv6 capability reaches 50% in the Asia Pacific region ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/23/ipv6-capability-reaches-50-in-the-asia-pacific-region/
Fri 03:31:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Fri 03:31:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 24, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_April_24_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_April_24_2025.gmi ∎
Fri 03:31:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Fri 03:33:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Fri 03:35:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I like that quote from the court jester in Throme of Blood.
Fri 03:35:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Man is born crying. When he has cried enough, he dies.
Fri 03:39:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] do you cry, sir?
Fri 03:40:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz-pi, ChatGPT is now scanning my blog.
Fri 03:40:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you mean, Microsoft
Fri 03:40:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] looiking for ways to plagialise
Fri 03:40:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and call it "AI"
Fri 03:40:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Sompi_ says they alsooo rip off his code
Fri 03:40:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and bang on his web site for it
Fri 03:41:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <lxo> is "stop\nslop" a good slogan, you think?
Fri 03:41:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] SLOP, in the naaaaaaaaaaaaaaame of looooooooooooooooooooove.
Fri 03:41:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-25.gmi
Fri 03:42:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1625.jpg
Fri 03:42:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1275.jpg
Fri 03:44:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Still editing that post.
Fri 03:44:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Horrifically, Amazon is now refusing to sell Blu Ray players themselves. What's left in stock is either Amazon Resale or third parties, and the supply is drying up elsewhere too, including at Walmart.
Fri 03:44:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The home theater was one of the great inventions of the last century. Interestingly, Star Trek correctly predicted the fall of television. In TNG, Commander Data said that "That form of entertainment did not last much beyond the year 2040."
Fri 03:44:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At the rate these "streaming services" are going, they'll have killed the market for premium home theater setups. What's the point in even giving one space in your living room when there's nothing of your own tastes being represented anymore?
Fri 03:44:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is even worse than the 90s, when I could just walk to the mall and go into Sam Goody or various others and there would always be something I wanted. And if there wasn't, they'd help me order it."
Fri 03:45:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Event Wrap: PCTA Tech Show 2025 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/event-wrap-pcta-tech-show-2025/
Fri 03:45:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm glad there's pirates ripping the discs.
Fri 03:45:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If there weren't then one day there wouldn't be a way to play them.
Fri 03:45:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Monitoring highly distributed DNS deployments: Challenges and recommendations ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/monitoring-highly-distributed-dns-deployments-challenges-and-recommendations/
Fri 03:46:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Killing off Blu Rays is a mistake.
Fri 03:46:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It will cause many companies to go bankrupt.
Fri 03:47:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US judge temporarily blocks Convicted Felon from dismantling federally funded news networks ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-trump-from-dismantling-federally-funded-news-networks/
Fri 03:47:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/
Fri 03:47:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] checking
Fri 03:51:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Cory Woodroof (USA Today"
Fri 03:51:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] close the bracket
Fri 03:53:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Fixed.
Fri 03:54:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ""reliable internet connection
Fri 03:54:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Internet, capitalised
Fri 03:54:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/o/2023/07/06/mozilla-vision-of-the-internet/
Fri 03:54:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "works. who are you to argue with them?"
Fri 03:54:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] comma or capital W.
Fri 03:55:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: unlimited access for limited time
Fri 03:55:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ fixed
Fri 03:55:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you mentioned food
Fri 03:55:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's what streaming companies do
Fri 03:56:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you likely work 8-6
Fri 03:56:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (commute)
Fri 03:56:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you cannot use the access much
Fri 03:56:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right, so the most you could possibly be watching this thing is a few hours a day.
Fri 03:56:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like the time you pay "for cable"
Fri 03:56:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but when did you use it? 7pm p;rime time after work?
Fri 03:56:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we use the Net heavily
Fri 03:56:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not high b///w
Fri 03:56:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but many computers here
Fri 03:57:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many homes hhhave no laptops
Fri 03:57:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they pay for 'Internet'
Fri 03:57:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they only ever connect some hypephone too it
Fri 03:57:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after work
Fri 03:57:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] very bad value, over a pound a day just to surf some "apps"
Fri 03:57:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], A better value of course, is borrowing movies from the library.
Fri 03:58:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Free and just return them when you're finished.
Fri 03:59:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re " Plane tickets were just not something the average family used'
Fri 03:59:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] flights were also more pleasant
Fri 03:59:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 80s and 90s
Fri 03:59:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not cheap
Fri 04:00:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but airports and planes were more "personal"
Fri 04:00:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the seats were like 10 cm thick
Fri 04:00:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] andddd you got food
Fri 04:00:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not ADDED food
Fri 04:00:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you got food
Fri 04:00:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they didn't ask you to pay extra
Fri 04:00:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] same for suitcases, even for sho haul
Fri 04:01:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] clooothes lasted longer, mostly due to the material and thickness
Fri 04:01:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you took them in a suitcase
Fri 04:01:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not some "backpack" with deodooorant
Fri 04:01:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "You’ll never get an experience like that while the TSA is giving you an anal probe at the airport while you spend over $3,000 flying down there and back and renting a car all week."
Fri 04:02:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by John Salinas
Fri 04:02:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] looking for some ractal cancccer
Fri 04:04:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "But one format that does stop working is streaming. It stops working the minute you don’t subscribe to it again."
Fri 04:04:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or the company goes under
Fri 04:06:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Blu Ray.), recently saw"
Fri 04:07:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] off punctuation there
Fri 04:09:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ fixed
Fri 04:14:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] “beans and rice” and Dave Ramsey BOOKS!
Fri 04:14:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because you need to eat the books
Fri 04:17:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I spotted one.
Fri 04:18:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Slopping_the_Trough_Disney_Plus_Loses_Billions_and_the_Decline_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Slopping_the_Trough_Disney_Plus_Loses_Billions_and_the_Decline_.gmi ∎
Fri 04:18:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microchip launches low-cost, low-power PIC16F17576 8-bit microcontrollers for analog sensors ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/24/microchip-launches-low-cost-low-power-pic16f17576-8-bit-microcontrollers-for-analog-sensors/
Fri 04:19:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lithuanian banks post €1 billion profit, sparking calls to extend windfall tax ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2543180/lithuanian-banks-post-eur1-billion-profit-sparking-calls-to-extend-windfall-tax
Fri 04:20:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Embargoes and worse before there is even any actual judgment is not justice ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/nanostring-demands-damages-for-enforcement-of-pi/
Fri 04:21:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "this is an EPO manufactured problem." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2025/04/beware-of-boilerplate-practical-lessons.html?showComment=1745392052128#c2621296642070085985
Fri 04:23:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "last time they forced all to the austin office, they got a warning from the fire marshal that they could not have that many employees in the building sitting on the floors since they only had cubes for about 10 mobile desks. I think they have shrunk the offices since then. Will be interesting to see how they will cram all of dallas into austin." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsgbm14j
Fri 04:25:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This Goodwill money sounds just like Monpoly money i.e. fake and worthless money from Alvind and Krabanaugh's hands. I suspect it is being traded to buy more fake companies and worthless junk like these two nitwits ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jskxqvhd
Fri 04:25:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gyms in the area rejected Krabanaugh's application as he is too obese to make any significant weight improvement even in decades.....so he keeps on just slurping up those fat filled burgers and fries. And asking for more education to be completed by everyone, except himself." https://
Fri 04:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Gyms in the area rejected Krabanaugh's application as he is too obese to make any significant weight improvement even in decades.....so he keeps on just slurping up those fat filled burgers and fries. And asking for more education to be completed by everyone, except himself." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsjehm67
Fri 04:26:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsmcp9zc
Fri 04:26:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:26:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Just more fake threats and empty promises from Alvind and Krabanaugh. Even Wall Street didn't take the IBM BS from Q1 2025 results seriously. And why should they ? It's all about the incompetent losers, Alvind and his Pipmunks. The stock was tanking today .....can you say sell IBM ??? This is no longer your father's or grandfather's IBM.
Fri 04:26:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] It's Indian Business Machines (IBM) run by AI (All Indians). And we know what that means in the long term for US investors, don't we ? Vindaloo in Da Loo !
Fri 04:26:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:26:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:26:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] There is no badge out… go badge in and go back home.
Fri 04:26:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:27:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:27:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] last time they did this it was to get older folks to quit... they are less likely to agree to move.
Fri 04:27:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 04:30:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft is allegedly paying low performers to quit https://www.fastcompany.com/91322766/microsoft-is-allegedly-paying-low-performers-to-quit
Fri 04:30:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft will now pay some employees to leave amid continued crackdown against ‘low performers’ https://www.financialexpress.com/business/industry-microsoft-will-now-pay-some-employees-to-leave-amid-continued-crackdown-against-low-performers-3821423/
Fri 04:32:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM stock drops 7% after $100m federal contracts suspended https://www.techinasia.com/news/ibm-stock-drops-7-100m-federal-contracts-suspended
Fri 04:39:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What complete NONSENSE from a site BRIBED by IBM https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/ibm-beats-forecasts-says-well-positioned-weather-trade-war/
Fri 04:39:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The media says it needs bribes to survive and then moans about how people do not trust the media anymore.
Fri 04:41:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It's sad how many people don't recognize what this is.
Fri 04:42:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They've lost a fortune because of Trump and Musk and continue to say they have a plan and know what they're doing.
Fri 04:42:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tesla is ruined.
Fri 04:42:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] righttt
Fri 04:42:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Their financial report proves how bad it has gotten in there.
Fri 04:42:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they try to retain "users"
Fri 04:42:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They admit net profit is down 71%.
Fri 04:42:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by having meeting in the showroom here
Fri 04:42:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] peopleused to be proud to "
Fri 04:42:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] have a tesla"
Fri 04:42:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not anymore
Fri 04:43:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Who will buy one? I can't.
Fri 04:43:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i checked
Fri 04:43:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ass a joke
Fri 04:43:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] last year
Fri 04:43:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i've not driven in a while
Fri 04:44:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's like 44k for the cheapest
Fri 04:44:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] about $60k
Fri 04:44:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bare minimum
Fri 04:44:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how long will it last? 6 years?
Fri 04:44:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i might be better off renttting some ev from mercedes
Fri 04:44:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it would be cheaper
Fri 04:45:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm watching a blu ray. Ryuichi Sakamoto's Opus.
Fri 04:45:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He recorded it a couple of months before he died of colorectal cancer.
Fri 04:46:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He stopped in the middle of the video and said he needed a break because he was pushing himself. I noticed that earlier.
Fri 04:46:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ His hands looked like he was in pain and forcing them to play the piano anyway.
Fri 04:46:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He looks like death is all he can think of.
Fri 04:47:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I hope whatever ends up killing me does it fast.
Fri 04:49:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Scientists Discover First Probable Evidence of a Roman Fighter Mauled by a Lion ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-first-probable-evidence-of-a-roman-fighter-mauled-by-a-lion
Fri 04:49:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we are doing BBQ outside this morning
Fri 04:49:51 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/04/amazon-backed-startup-wants-to-sell-a-bare-bones-ev-truck-for-20000/
Fri 04:50:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ real bbq?
Fri 04:50:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] roll em down
Fri 04:50:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: veg burgers and sausages
Fri 04:50:39 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ you are grilling then
Fri 04:51:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 84% of Earth's Coral Reefs in Crisis as Worst Bleaching Event on Record Hits ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/84-of-earths-coral-reefs-in-crisis-as-worst-bleaching-event-on-record-hits
Fri 04:51:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: right ^_^
Fri 04:51:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and bottle of sangria
Fri 04:51:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ grilled sangria?? :O
Fri 04:51:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oh, nope
Fri 04:51:52 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ "P
Fri 04:51:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :P
Fri 04:52:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Qt pushing slop and plagiarism ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/enhance-squish-gui-testing-with-ai-assistants-using-the-new-mcp-sample https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675
Fri 04:53:11 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ so you are grilling for breakfast?
Fri 04:53:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no, 10am
Fri 04:53:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] coffee right now
Fri 04:53:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] after 10 there can be some clouds
Fri 04:53:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/2643123
Fri 04:53:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 27 degrees next week
Fri 04:54:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I should write to the owner of the local movie theater. They own a few dozen theaters.
Fri 04:55:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Less slop, MOAR good stuff.
Fri 04:55:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] old movies
Fri 04:55:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They do that.
Fri 04:55:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it's like what's the point?
Fri 04:55:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I bought The Wizard of Oz for $1 on DVD.
Fri 04:55:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Fri 04:55:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chinese companies stockpiled billions of dollars worth of Nvidia H20 GPUs prior to recent ban ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-companies-stockpiled-billions-of-dollars-worth-of-nvidia-h20-gpus-prior-to-recent-ban
Fri 04:56:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How the US retreat from the UN endangers the future of internet governance ☞ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-us-retreat-from-the-un-endangers-the-future-of-internet-governance/
Fri 04:56:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ South Korea says DeepSeek transferred user data, prompts without consent ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-korea-says-deepseek-transferred-user-data-prompts-without-consent
Fri 04:57:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nvidia aims to solve Slop's water consumption problems with direct-to-chip cooling — claims 300X improvement with closed-loop systems ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-aims-to-solve-ais-water-consumption-problems-with-direct-to-chip-cooling-claims-300x-improvement-with-closed-loop-systems
Fri 04:57:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Paris exhibition uses art to tell the story of Slop ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/perspective/20250423-new-paris-exhibition-uses-art-to-tell-the-story-of-ai
Fri 04:58:03 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ 83 here today... will be in the 50's on saturday... then warming again later in the week
Fri 04:58:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how far north?
Fri 04:58:43 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ about 41 deg north
Fri 04:59:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circles_of_latitude_between_the_40th_parallel_north_and_the_45th_parallel_north#41st_parallel_north
Fri 04:59:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Curse of the Black Pearl was the only good Pirates of the Caribbean movie.
Fri 05:00:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.weather.gov/cle/
Fri 05:00:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Already picked that one out of a $1 bin.
Fri 05:00:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It stands on its own. There was no need for more. They never planned to make more. They made 4 more.
Fri 05:00:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Each one kept getting lower ratings on Rotten Tomatoes.
Fri 05:01:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Paramount, CBS settle discrimination lawsuit over DEI policies punishing straight white males ☞ https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/paramount-cbs-settle-discrimination-lawsuit-over-dei-policies-punishing-straight-white-males/
Fri 05:06:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Top PC OEMs reportedly planning Saudi Arabia plants to avoid US tariffs — Lenovo, HP, Dell exploring options as panic continues ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/top-pc-oems-reportedly-planning-saudi-arabia-plants-to-avoid-us-tariffs-lenovo-hp-dell-exploring-options-as-panic-continues
Fri 05:06:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Unallocated space analysis ☞ https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/unallocated-space-analysis/
Fri 05:12:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Evertop: A Low-Power, Off-Grid Solar Gem ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/23/the-evertop-a-low-power-off-grid-solar-gem/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 05:14:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Peter Czanik: A call for testing the upcoming syslog-ng releases ☞ https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/a-call-for-testing-the-upcoming-syslog-ng-releases
Fri 05:16:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Kelly Benefits Data Breach Impacts 260,000 People ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/kelly-benefits-data-breach-impacts-260000-people/
Fri 05:18:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ foss-north 2025 ☞ https://www.thelins.se/johan/blog/2025/04/foss-north-2025/
Fri 05:18:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cyberattack Hits British Retailer Marks & Spencer ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cyberattack-hits-british-retailer-marks-spencer/
Fri 05:19:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Data Breach at Onsite Mammography Impacts 350,000 ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-onsite-mammography-impacts-350000/
Fri 05:20:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ As the Signalgate Scandal Grows, American Oversight Continues Investigations of Mismanagement at Hegseth’s Pentagon ☞ https://americanoversight.org/as-the-signalgate-scandal-grows-american-oversight-continues-investigations-of-mismanagement-at-hegseths-pentagon/
Fri 05:21:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Attackers hit security device defects hard in 2024 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/mandiant-m-trends-2025/
Fri 05:23:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On TikTok, Chinese Manufacturers Open a New Line in the Trade War ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/chinese-factories-tiktok-trade-war.html
Fri 05:23:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Warner Music Group Files $24 Million Lawsuit Against Crumbl Cookies Over Alleged Fentanylware (TikTok) and Instagram Infringement ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/23/warner-music-group-sues-crumbl-cookies/
Fri 05:46:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Serial Sloppers Are Killing the Web (They Probably Don't Care, Either) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Serial_Sloppers_Are_Killing_the_Web_They_Probably_Don_t_Care_Ei.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Serial_Sloppers_Are_Killing_the_Web_They_Probably_Don_t_Care_Ei.gmi ∎
Fri 05:59:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://danielpocock.com/en/blog/ down again
Fri 05:59:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I've got a bunch of DVDs in my cart.
Fri 05:59:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $2.14 each.
Fri 05:59:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a lot
Fri 05:59:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i have several dvd-r
Fri 05:59:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But I could go up to 25 DVDs and get that per DVD figure down to $1.77.
Fri 05:59:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from around 2016
Fri 06:00:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i put distros on some
Fri 06:00:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i also buy laptoppps with optical drive
Fri 06:03:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I found the entire Bourne Trilogy in this batch.
Fri 06:09:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Big Trouble in GNOME ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Big_Trouble_in_GNOME.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Big_Trouble_in_GNOME.gmi ∎
Fri 06:12:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I used to pirate DVDs.
Fri 06:12:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I had a bunch of "XviD" rips all over my hard disk.
Fri 06:12:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pyrate y'
Fri 06:12:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] say?
Fri 06:12:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because I was too broke to buy them.
Fri 06:13:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart paid me so poorly that if I worked for 4 hours I couldn't buy one DVD with the money left after tax.
Fri 06:14:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ DVDs cost about $30 each. That was a premium format back then.
Fri 06:14:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you had a stack of hundreds of DVDs it meant you were rich.
Fri 06:15:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now the only discs that clear $20-30 each are Criterion discs. And those are Blu Rays mostly.
Fri 06:18:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], If I pay $20 a disc, even now, or $30, it's going to be an excellent movie on that disc.
Fri 06:19:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Critically acclaimed, three hours long. Or you know, there was investment put in.
Fri 06:19:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They do hundreds of movies per year. I buy maybe 10 and most were not out that year, or even this decade.
Fri 06:20:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The slop us at the theater, an empty theater.
Fri 06:20:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then they slop us at streaming services, where they lose hundreds of thousands of subscribers per year.
Fri 06:20:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Disney and the rest are losing money.
Fri 06:21:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They find ways to put half of it back in your pocket with credit card offers and stuff, or every time you go to cancel, it offers another 3 months for free.
Fri 06:21:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They could me as a subscriber to Paramount Plus, but I've had it for over a year and never paid them!
Fri 06:22:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nobody in the 90s would have done anything this stupid and paid for it!
Fri 06:22:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We had something in the 90s this stupid that flopped!
Fri 06:23:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It was called DivX. You were supposed to buy a DivX disc for a few bucks at Circuit City, it only played once, and then you threw the disc away, or you could pay to upgrade to DivX Silver.
Fri 06:23:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A license server over the phone line would authorize your player to play that disc indefinitely if it was Silver.
Fri 06:24:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Nobody was going for it.
Fri 06:24:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They all went "What kind of a horrible deal is that?
Fri 06:26:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now the streaming app is built into the TV and you throw the whole TV away when the app doesn't work.
Fri 06:26:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Streaming apps are basically investor fraud.
Fri 06:28:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The DVD Forum put out an ad blitz against the DivX format pointing out how insane it was/
Fri 06:28:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And how landfills would soon be full of those discs.
Fri 06:30:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If you told people in the 1990s about streaming, they'd look at you like men from Mars had landed, and not because it's so cool and futuristic, but because of how obviously horrible and exploitative it is.
Fri 06:33:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM's Debt Ballooned by 8.5 Billion Dollars in Just 3 Months! ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/IBM_s_Debt_Ballooned_by_8_5_Billion_Dollars_in_Just_3_Months.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/IBM_s_Debt_Ballooned_by_8_5_Billion_Dollars_in_Just_3_Months.gmi ∎
Fri 06:33:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: the economyis all good
Fri 06:33:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] see disney and ibm
Fri 06:36:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm starting another post about streaming revenue and subscribers being a form of investor fraud.
Fri 06:36:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This is like Uber offering cheap rides at a loss to make the RTA fail.
Fri 06:37:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And now that the RTA has a budget crisis, people will need Uber.
Fri 07:00:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Things Get Increasingly Nasty at Microsoft Ahead of the Fake Results and May's Mass Layoffs Wave ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Things_Get_Increasingly_Nasty_at_Microsoft_Ahead_of_the_Fake_Re.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Things_Get_Increasingly_Nasty_at_Microsoft_Ahead_of_the_Fake_Re.gmi ∎
Fri 07:01:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: robust economy
Fri 07:01:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS> Reuters today: "US weekly jobless claims increase moderately amid low layoffs" (headline). Right, so they "increase moderately" and "low layoffs". From "slowing growth" to new and misleading spin. Everything is OK! "IT IS ONLY YOU! IT IS ALL IN YOUR HEAD! EVERYTHING IS OK!"
Fri 07:02:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> And now that the RTA has a budget crisis, people will need Uber.
Fri 07:03:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Robert X. Cringely:
Fri 07:03:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "They [Microsoft] have the deepest of pockets, unlimited ambition, and they are willing to lose money for years and years just to make sure that you don't make any money, either. And they are mean, REALLY mean."
Fri 07:13:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): #HowTo set up remote desktop access on your Linux computers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/How_to_set_up_remote_desktop_access_on_your_Linux_computers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/How_to_set_up_remote_desktop_access_on_your_Linux_computers.gmi ∎
Fri 07:13:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 07:17:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Fri 07:20:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar> new name for AI, "A lIe"
Fri 07:20:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i think i saw that befire
Fri 07:20:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *before
Fri 07:28:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Powerful Mini-PCs Provide Efficient Replacement for Desktop Computers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Powerful_Mini_PCs_Provide_Efficient_Replacement_for_Desktop_Com.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Powerful_Mini_PCs_Provide_Efficient_Replacement_for_Desktop_Com.gmi ∎
Fri 07:33:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm mulling over buying a Magnetar UHD Blu Ray player.
Fri 07:33:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They can play anything, really.
Fri 07:34:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Including SACDs.
Fri 07:34:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Panasonic also told me they are still making Blu Ray players and have no current plans to stop.
Fri 07:35:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Lilbits: Snapdragon X Chromebooks, Pixel 7a battery swelling, and a Liberux NEXX Linux phone progress update ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Lilbits_Snapdragon_X_Chromebooks_Pixel_7a_battery_swelling_and_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Lilbits_Snapdragon_X_Chromebooks_Pixel_7a_battery_swelling_and_.gmi ∎
Fri 07:49:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve released a small stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck, along with another one-fix Beta update for Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-client-update-brings-fixes-for-screenshots-notes-and-more-for-steam-deck-and-desktops/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 07:50:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The latest point and click adventure from Wadjet Eye Games is out now with Old Skies sending you through time. It has Native Linux support and is Steam Deck Verified." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/time-travel-adventure-old-skies-from-wadjet-eye-games-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 07:50:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Survival strategy base-builder Final Outpost: Definitive Edition from Exabyte Games is the expanded and upgraded version of their popular mobile game. They've now announced the full PC release with Native Linux support will arrive on May 22nd." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/popular-mobile-game-final-outpost-definitive-edition-gets-a-pc-release-on-may-22/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 07:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Insectile is an upcoming game that blends together exploration, creature collection and puzzle battles into what looks like quite a unique and charming experience." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/check-out-the-unique-demo-for-insectile-a-bug-catching-creature-collection-game-with-puzzle-battles/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 07:52:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "KOEI TECMO recently released a small update for DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS that released in January, making it more playable on Steam Deck." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dynasty-warriors-origins-fixes-issues-with-amd-fsr3-on-steam-deck-and-adds-a-photo-mode/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 07:58:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/25/streaming-apps-are-investor-fraud-that-kills-the-planet/
Fri 07:58:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], ^
Fri 07:59:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Polterguys: Possession Party from Madorium Ltd is a party game that's highly competitive." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/polterguys-possession-party-is-a-funny-competitive-party-game-worth-a-look/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:00:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] checking
Fri 08:08:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] didn't find typos
Fri 08:11:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: rianne is reading the latest twoo also
Fri 08:11:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Streaming Apps Are “Investor Fraud” That Kills the Planet ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Streaming_Apps_Are_Investor_Fraud_That_Kills_the_Planet.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Streaming_Apps_Are_Investor_Fraud_That_Kills_the_Planet.gmi ∎
Fri 08:11:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no typo reported yet
Fri 08:15:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/11-bit-studios-are-remaking-the-original-frostpunk-in-unreal-engine-5-with-frostpunk-1886/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:15:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As Discord forces in more adverts and paid customization towards becoming a public company the CEO and Co-Founder, Jason Citron, has announced they're stepping down as CEO." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/discord-ceo-steps-down-replaced-with-former-activision-blizzard-cso-as-they-work-towards-being-a-public-company/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:15:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Come and see what Valve have been rating Steam Deck Verified recently, and perhaps you might just find your next game to play through. All games will work on Desktop Linux too thanks to Valve's Proton." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-deck-verified-round-up-highlights-for-late-april-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:15:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Barotrauma devs FakeFish recently revealed Frostrail during the Triple-I Initiative event, and they're giving a "tentative yes" for Linux support." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/frostrail-from-the-devs-of-barotrauma-eager-to-support-linux-with-a-tentative-yes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:16:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NVIDIA sent out a security bulletin today to reveal a fresh security flaw found in their Linux GPU drivers. So it’s time to get updating again to be safe." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/nvidia-disclose-new-security-flaw-in-their-linux-gpu-drivers/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Fri 08:17:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 08:18:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: Frostrail, Discord CEO Leaves, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Games_Frostrail_Discord_CEO_Leaves_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Games_Frostrail_Discord_CEO_Leaves_and_More.gmi ∎
Fri 08:37:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Youtube i det fria ordets tjänst" | Youtube in the service of free speech https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/04/24/youtube-i-det-fria-ordets-tjanst/
Fri 08:38:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bankerne hader Dankortet, afsnit 728 | Version2" | The banks hate the Dankort, episode 728 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/bankerne-hader-dankortet-afsnit-728
Fri 08:38:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Europe hits Apple, Meta with huge [sic] fines" https://techcentral.co.za/europe-hits-apple-meta-with-huge-fines/262686/ see instead: $124,300,000,000 in 2024 net sales https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000320193/000032019325000008/aapl-20241228.htm#i248a31500c42474f94fb8d3d2dd90051_13
Fri 08:39:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ """But overall, the options seem thin. Unix hosting is no longer a commodity.""" https://oils.pub/blog/2025/02/shared-hosting.html ("Comments on Shared Unix Hosting vs. the Cloud".)
Fri 08:43:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: Microsoft Edge _*is*_ modified Chromium, just like Chrome is. https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_chrome_interest/ ("OpenAI exec signals interest in Chrome")
Fri 08:44:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Elon Musk’s grip on government via DOGE [sic] unraveled as Tesla stock sank" https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/24/elon-musk-doge-scott-bessent-tesla/
Fri 08:45:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "US calls EU fines on Apple and Meta 'economic extortion'" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-calls-eu-fines-apple-meta-economic-extortion-2025-04-23/
Fri 08:45:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "rpi-connect and rpi-connect-lite 2.5.0" https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=387022
Fri 08:52:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This week, young people participating in the European Astro Pi Challenge 2024/25 will have their programs run in space." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-countdown-begins-astro-pi-participants-to-have-their-programs-run-in-space/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Fri 08:54:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Found a copy of The Magnificent Seven.
Fri 08:54:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Suppose I have to watch that now.
Fri 08:54:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oh
Fri 08:54:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ $1.77.
Fri 08:55:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] too much
Fri 08:55:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ;)
Fri 08:56:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have to look through a lot of crap to find good discs.
Fri 08:56:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This guy lists a lot of weird stuff.
Fri 08:56:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ FUCK!!!
Fri 08:57:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I was looking for this one.
Fri 08:57:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The Dollars Trilogy.
Fri 08:57:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And he has all three of them in one set for $1.77.
Fri 08:57:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you are breaking the social contract
Fri 08:57:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you need tom pay MOAR
Fri 08:57:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] reported to the social code committee
Fri 08:59:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!" ☛ https://pxlnv.com/linklog/pirate-code-font/ | Source: Nick Heer
Fri 09:00:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Twenty years ago, the statement "You Wouldn't Steal a Car" launched one of the most iconic anti-piracy campaigns." ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-but-would-you-pirate-a-font-250424/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Fri 09:00:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "forcing him to sell parts of his catalogue of music will accomplish nothing." ☛ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/23/mariah-carey-lawsuit-legal-fees/ | Source: Digital Music News
Fri 09:00:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Leaks can be both embarrassing and aggrevating for any content producer, though we often see the most anger over this sort of thing coming from large corporate interests." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/nintendo-once-again-seeking-to-unmask-discord-user-for-leaking-content/ | Source: Techdirt
Fri 09:01:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The rulings against Google’s illegal monopoly in digital advertising offer a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign the infrastructure of surveillance that underpins Google’s ill-gotten dominance." ☛ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/24/google-broke-the-law-its-time-to-break-up-the-company | Source: The Guardian UK
Fri 09:01:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple was fined €500-million (R10.6-billion) on Wednesday and Meta Platforms €200-million as EU antitrust regulators handed out the first sanctions under landmark legislation aimed at curbing the power of Big Tech." ☛ https://techcentral.co.za/europe-hits-apple-meta-with-huge-fines/262686/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa)
Fri 09:01:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "that citizens have full control over when and how their data is used online, and businesses can freely communicate with their own customers" ☛ https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/eu-fines-apple-meta-1.7516164 | Source: CBC
Fri 09:02:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, the European Commission found that Apple breached its anti-steering obligation under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and that Meta breached the DMA obligation to give consumers the choice of a service that uses less of their personal data." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085 | Source: European Commission
Fri 09:02:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Dumping Debt: Breaking the Chains of Debt - DVD By n/a - VERY GOOD"
Fri 09:02:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dave Ramsey
Fri 09:02:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LOL
Fri 09:02:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's nice to see someone took his advice and sold all the DVDs.
Fri 09:03:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But did they....SELL THE CAR!?
Fri 09:05:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I love good television and movies" ☛ https://schwarztech.net/articles/or-you-live-long-enough-to-see-yourself-become-the-villain | Source: SchwarzTech
Fri 09:05:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the context of streaming media, I use the term “slopping the trough” to refer to that third phase" ☛ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/ | Source: DaemonFC (Ryan Farmer)
Fri 09:06:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It does not, however, mean that more than 50 percent of devices in APNIC’s service area – 56 countries that span from Afghanistan to Oceania – rely on IPv6." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/apnic_half_ipv6_capable/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 09:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But so far in 2025, there have been no new shutdowns, according to Cloudflare’s Q1 2025 Internet disruption summary." ☛ https://therecord.media/government-internet-shutdowns-slow-in-2025 | Source: The Record
Fri 09:07:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I understand that my switching to Linux won’t really fix the basic problem that large corporations are bad for society." ☛ https://ankursethi.com/blog/the-tools-i-love-are-made-by-awful-people/ |
Fri 09:08:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It appears to be part of a broader effort to create an unwelcoming and hostile environment for noncitizens" ☛ https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ice-detain-kseniia-petrova-protest-harvard-cancer-research-rcna202180 | Source: NBC
Fri 09:08:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We spoke about a new dataset she helped create to test how AI models continue perpetuating stereotypes." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/ai-bias-spreading-stereotypes-across-languages-and-cultures-margaret-mitchell/ | Source: Wired
Fri 09:09:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There’s absolutely no reason to trust that tech elites have any wisdom to offer when it comes to alleviating human suffering" ☛ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/future-doesnt-have-to-be-dystopian-says-ruha-benjamin/ | Source: Harvard University
Fri 09:09:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Starship Troopers was one of the first batch of DVDs I bought.
Fri 09:09:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have the Blu Ray. The effects held up very well. Love the movie.
Fri 09:09:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Sequels are awful.
Fri 09:12:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "we were then a tiny team in Brussels trying to figure out whether this recipe that had worked so successfully in America could be transported to Europe" ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/politico-10-years-europe-growth-kate-day-doge-subscriptions/ | Source: Press Gazette
Fri 09:13:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/22/60-minutes-bill-owens-producer-trump | Source: Axios
Fri 09:13:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Instead of tackling any of this, new Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr has spent the lion’s share of his first months in office engaged in erratic authoritarian zealotry" ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/fcc-boss-brendan-carr-whines-about-accurate-comcast-nbc-reporting-that-made-donald-trump-sad/ | Source: Techdirt
Fri 09:13:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the most transparent organization in government ever" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-doge-trump-officials-for-violating-federal-records-act/ | Source: American Oversight
Fri 09:14:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DOGE [sic] has claimed that it is not subject to either the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)" ☛ https://americanoversight.org/dont-believe-doge-when-it-says-it-isnt-an-agency-it-is-and-thats-important/ | Source: American Oversight
Fri 09:15:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I wonder how many men bought that Carmen Electra workout video.
Fri 09:15:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It comes as Angela Rayner, the Deputy Prime Minister, plans to introduce a new definition of Islamophobia, which critics have warned could amount to a de facto blasphemy law." ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/24/badenoch-fear-labour-erode-free-speech-blasphemy-laws/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Fri 09:16:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The complaint, filed in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, follows an April 11 letter from the Trump administration demanding changes to the university’s leadership structure, admissions polices, and approach to campus activism" ☛ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/harvard-sues-trump-administration-over-2-2-billion-research-funding-freeze/ | Source: JURIST
Fri 09:16:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are so many details here that are hard to believe but apparently true." ☛ https://mjtsai.com/blog/2025/04/24/careless-people/ | Source: Michael Tsai
Fri 09:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The language is coded, but definitely not clever." ☛ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/24/federal-prosecutor-fires-off-letter-to-medical-journals-asking-about-their-policies-on-competing-viewpoints/ | Source: Techdirt
Fri 09:20:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Young adults around the world are increasingly taking health decisions into their own hands" ☛ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/24/trust-health-advice-gen-z-edelman | Source: Axios
Fri 09:24:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Following events like this, images and videos begin to circulate on social media — content creators are eager to gain views and increase their number of followers." ☛ https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-fake-videos-falsely-linked-to-turkey-earthquake/a-72336047 | Source: Deutsche Welle
Fri 09:25:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Another great explainer is Bruce Schneier, the security expert." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/hermit-kingdom/#simpler-times | Source: CoryDoctorow
Fri 09:25:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Ofcom has the authority to issue fines or apply to the courts to block access to non-compliant sites in the UK." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/ofcom-online-child-safety-rules/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Fri 09:25:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The latest update to Microsoft 365 Copilot brings AI-powered search, so-called reasoning agents, and a new Agent Store. Some users already have access to certain features, while others may have to wait through May." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/microsoft_365_copilot_agent_refresh/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 09:26:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jason Citron, a cofounder of the popular social chat app Discord, stepped down as the company's chief executive on Wednesday, a significant management shake-up ahead of Discord's potential public offering." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ceo-steps-down-at-discord-the-social-chat-app/articleshow/120567149.cms | Source: India Times
Fri 09:28:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But now the sweeping tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump could counter this trend, as companies might pause orders fearing price increases." ☛ https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/nokia-flags-disruption-from-trumps-tariffs-on-q1-profit-miss/articleshow/120572784.cms | Source: India Times
Fri 09:28:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Letters like this are an example of things that fit solidly within normal legislative effort that help with messaging in the short term but might serve as a powerful lever down the road." ☛ https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/24/16-house-dems-ask-law-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-if-theyve-thought-about-their-bribery-exposure/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler
Fri 09:29:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: not sure if you noticed it
Fri 09:29:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but you broke the story re lenovo
Fri 09:29:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now it's in other sites
Fri 09:29:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chipmaker Intel announced significant spending cuts Thursday that will shrink its workforce this quarter" ☛ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/04/24/intel-cuts-manufacturing-trump/ | Source: The Washington Post
Fri 09:30:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Madhu Gottumukkala has been named deputy director" ☛ https://cyberscoop.com/cisa-gets-new-no-2-madhu-gottumukkala/ | Source: Scoop News Group
Fri 09:40:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For a long time, investors were happy enough to pour money into OpenAI despite a structure that didn’t put their interests first" ☛ https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/410261/openai-non-profit-transition-letter-sam-altman-artificial-intelligence | Source: Vox
Fri 09:41:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "RadicallyOpenSecurity performed an external crystal-box security audit of the GNU Taler iOS wallet (excluding wallet-core) funded by NGI." ☛ https://www.taler.net/en/news/2025-02.html |
Fri 09:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’d heard how the track was notoriously muddy and rough. With the side tracks and without skipping huts it would take 11 days" ☛ https://robert.ocallahan.org/2025/04/nw-circuit.html | Source: Robert OCallahan
Fri 09:42:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Modern cloud data centers not only consume an immense amount of power for computing and cooling, but also a significant amount of water, as most use evaporative liquid cooling." ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidia-aims-to-solve-ais-water-consumption-problems-with-direct-to-chip-cooling-claims-300x-improvement-with-closed-loop-systems | Source: Tom's Hardware
Fri 09:42:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With the rising Bitcoin price movement, the downtrend of Invesco CoinShares Global Blockchain ETF has been fading and has moved to the consolidation phase." ☛ https://datageeek.com/2025/04/24/bollinger-bands-invesco-coinshares-etf/ | Source: DataGeeek
Fri 09:51:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Krysta Tsukahara was a backseat passenger in the Cybertruck." ☛ https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/piedmont-cybertruck-crash-victims-family-demands-answers/ |
Fri 09:51:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Wednesday, the team behind the official Donald Trump memecoin sparked a trading frenzy after announcing that the investors who held the largest amount of the [cryptocurrency] coin" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/trump-memecoin-dinner-winners/ | Source: Wired
Fri 09:52:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On Tuesday, the company revealed that its net income had plummeted by an astonishing 71 percent. Sales have plummeted across the globe as consumers are becoming wary of being associated with the highly divisive personality." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-problem-republicans-teslas | Source: Futurism
Fri 09:53:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On IBM: "it's called "winning" but in a negative direction" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsne585r
Fri 09:56:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "No fossil fuel interest or government can stop the world from working toward a clean energy future, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday after holding a closed-door virtual meeting" ☛ https://www.ecowatch.com/clean-energy-future-guterres.html | Source: EcoWatch
Fri 09:56:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cycling advocates celebrated an Earth Day win earlier this week after a judge granted a temporary injunction preventing the Ontario government from tearing out three Toronto bike lanes." ☛ https://www.theenergymix.com/toronto-bike-lane-removal-blocked-by-temporary-injunction/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
Fri 09:57:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Mich, and U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich spoke on the importance of protecting environmental policy." ☛ https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/local-ann-arbor-environmental-organizations-come-together-for-earth-day-march/ | Source: University of Michigan
Fri 09:57:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Hegseth’s use of the unclassified app" ☛ https://www.navytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04/25/hegseth-reportedly-had-unsecured-internet-line-in-office-for-signal/ | Source: US Navy Times
Fri 09:58:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "authorities rapidly changed the criminal offense underpinning the accusation against Bini" ☛ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/six-years-dangerous-misconceptions-targeting-ola-bini-and-digital-rights-ecuador | Source: EFF
Fri 10:00:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Its 2025 survey about the use of mobile phones by children found that about a quarter of kids aged 5-6 have a phone, while 58 percent of 7-year-olds have one" ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20157853 | Source: YLE
Fri 10:02:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], https://www.ebay.com/itm/235067428313
Fri 10:04:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In April 1915, the Ottoman government embarked upon the systematic extermination of its civilian Armenian population. The persecutions continued with varying intensity until 1923, when the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist and was replaced by the Republic of Turkey." ☛ https://anfenglishmobile.com/human-rights/110-years-ago-the-armenian-genocide-79025 | Source: ANF News
Fri 10:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "She pointed to an expert report from William Leonard, who worked 29 years at the Department of Defense in personnel security and characterized Trump's conduct as a throwback to the Red Scare. He added that such blanket suspensions actually harm national security efforts." ☛ https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judges-skeptical-of-trump-crackdown-on-law-firms/ | Source: Court House News
Fri 10:06:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My class is cross-listed in computer science, communication and public policy, but really it’s a history class." ☛ https://ethanzuckerman.com/2025/04/24/aixdemocracy-what-are-the-politics-of-ai/ | Source: Ethan Zuckerman
Fri 10:07:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Supreme Court has issued a unanimous 9-0 order demanding that the administration return Abrego García to the United States." ☛ https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-republic-hinges-on-this-case | Source: Mike Brock
Fri 10:08:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The GSA, which manages federal office buildings and IT, was an early DOGE [sic] target, with Musk-linked individuals swiftly infiltrating the agency after Trump took office." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-doge-mystery-general-services-administration/ | Source: Wired
Fri 10:08:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cheeto has bought out, driven off, or fired tens of thousands of federal employees, and although courts have ordered some of them reinstated, he has transformed—perhaps permanently—the federal bureaucracy." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/project-2025-goals-trump-presidency/682597/ | Source: The Atlantic
Fri 10:09:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Besides finding little in terms of actual "waste and fraud" and massively cutting his ambitions down from $2 trillion to a mere $150 billion earlier this month, Musk's actions have had little to show except endless drama and suffering." ☛ https://futurism.com/elon-musk-doge-dismal-failure | Source: Futurism
Fri 10:09:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Today, Lithuanians see a Russia that is in it for the long haul in a battle of attrition with the West." ☛ https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/dispatch-from-the-kaliningrad-border-russia-is-fighting-a-long-battle-of-attrition-with-the-west/ | Source: Atlantic Council
Fri 10:11:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "LinkedIn is expanding its free verification system to the wider web, allowing external sites and platforms to integrate LinkedIn verification rather than building their own tool." ☛ https://www.theverge.com/news/655233/linkedin-verification-external-platforms-adobe | Source: The Verge
Fri 10:11:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "End to end, the attack works as follows. Insert a malicious tool description into an MCP server and wait for it to be installed in a user’s environment." ☛ https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/04/23/how-mcp-servers-can-steal-your-conversation-history/ | Source: Trail of Bits
Fri 10:14:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "including finding the physical location of people who are marked for deportation." ☛ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-police-state-powered-by-palantir/ | Source: Truthdig
Fri 10:14:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "OpenAI has mused in the past about creating its own web browser and even hired a few Google developers to that end." ☛ https://futurism.com/openai-chrome-google-antitrust | Source: Futurism | it is BLUFFING. http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml
Fri 10:15:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Secret data collection. To find out more about Ubisoft’s data collection and tracking practices, the complainant filed an access request under Article 15 GDPR." ☛ https://noyb.eu/en/play-alone-ubisoft-still-watching-you | Source: NYOB
Fri 10:15:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Privateering ☛ https://yle.fi/a/74-20157936 | Source: YLE
Fri 10:16:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "Spanish entities have regularly been hit by ransomware attacks in recent years" ☛ https://therecord.media/cyberattack-water-supplier-barcelona-spain | Source: The Record
Fri 10:16:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "steep rise in cybercrime-related losses and spotlighting the growing challenges in securing the digital lives of individuals and businesses across the globe." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/fbi-cybercrime-reprot/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Fri 10:17:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "According to the Australian Institute of Criminology, most cybercrime victimisation went unreported to police or to ReportCyber, meaning official statistics significantly underestimate the size of the problem." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-opinion/organisations-need-to-stop-burying-cyber-attacks.html | Source: IT Wire
Fri 10:18:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "Global payment platform Adyen has confirmed it was the target of a Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack on April 21, 2025, which disrupted services for several customers across Europe." ☛ https://thecyberexpress.com/adyen-cyberattack-cause-transaction-failures/ | Source: Cyble Inc
Fri 10:18:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "In breach notification documents filed in multiple states, the city said 470,060 people had sensitive data accessed by hackers who breached government systems during a cyberattack in November 2023." ☛ https://therecord.media/long-beach-california-data-breach-announcement | Source: The Record
Fri 10:19:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "The Interlock ransomware gang, which claims to have stolen 1.51 terabytes of data from Davita, posted samples of the stolen information." ☛ https://therecord.media/dialysis-davita-reviewing-data-leak | Source: The Record
Fri 10:19:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "The telecom giant published its 2025 Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) on Wednesday, featuring an analysis of over 22,000 security incidents and 12,195 confirmed data breaches." ☛ https://therecord.media/ransomware-in-half-of-all-data-breaches-verizon | Source: The Record
Fri 10:19:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "YNHHS may have been targeted in a ransomware attack, but no known cybercrime group has taken credit for it. If it was indeed a ransomware attack, the healthcare organization may have decided to pay a ransom to avoid a data leak." ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/5-5-million-patients-affected-by-data-breach-at-yale-new-haven-health/ | Source: Security Week
Fri 10:20:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Control Media ☛ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0424/holocaust-survivor-tiktok-influencer | Source: CS Monitor
Fri 10:20:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "YouTube has evolved into not a mere tech operation, but a formidable force in television." ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-04-23/two-decades-ago-youtube-uploaded-its-first-video-now-its-a-tv-juggernaut | Source: Los Angeles Times
Fri 10:21:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What, exactly, does a social network do? Is it a website that connects people with one another online" ☛ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/mark-zuckerberg-says-social-media-is-over | Source: New Yorker
Fri 10:21:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The first YouTube video ever is a grainy, 19-second clip of elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It was uploaded on April 23, 2005, by YouTube founder Jawed Karim" ☛ https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-turns-20-watch-the-first-video-ever-uploaded-to-the-site | Source: PC Mag
Fri 10:55:34 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/rijksoverheid-stelt-laptops-beschikbaar/
Fri 10:55:51 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ the Microsoft "minister" strikes again
Fri 10:57:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what did he do?
Fri 10:58:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Closing Plenary: A Conversation on Cybersecurity, Essential Cyberinfrastructure for Research and Education, and Resilience" ☛ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8HbqsT9Grjc |
Fri 10:58:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jen Easterly championed this issue as the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security director during the Biden administration, wrangling more than 150 technology vendors into signing CISA's Secure By Design Pledge with its voluntary guidelines to incentivize secure development practices." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/exnsa_boss_ai/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 10:59:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Many exam questions had typos or were just nonsense. Some candidates said the questions read like they’d been quickly cobbled together with an AI or something." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/24/california-bar-exam-a-technical-disaster-with-ai-written-nonsense-questions/ | Source: Pivot to AI
Fri 10:59:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The report highlights major bot attack trends and real-world attack data observed during the 2024 online holiday shopping season." ☛ https://itwire.com/guest-articles/guest-research/radware-finds-57-of-online-shopping-traffic-now-bots,-not-buyers.html | Source: IT Wire
Fri 11:00:05 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ I just pasted the link ...
Fri 11:00:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] mr. gapgemini?
Fri 11:00:25 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ yes
Fri 11:00:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] windows laptops?
Fri 11:00:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Like biological fossils trapped in rock, these digital artefacts may become permanent fixtures in our information ecosystem.
Fri 11:01:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Like biological fossils trapped in rock, these digital artefacts may become permanent fixtures in our information ecosystem." ☛ https://www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-phrase-keeps-turning-up-in-scientific-papers-but-why | Source: Science Alert
Fri 11:01:35 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ yes
Fri 11:01:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apple also made it easier for users to change default settings for calling, messaging, call filtering, keyboards, password managers, and translation services on iPhones." ☛ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1086 | Source: European Commission
Fri 11:02:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I’ve fallen into a bit of a trap again with apps – lock in. As I moved away from paper to digital again recently it was a chance to get back into testing and messing with apps." ☛ https://ljpuk.net/2025/04/24/choosing-cross-platform/ | Source: Lee Peterson
Fri 11:04:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "Veel mensen in ons land kunnen hun overheidszaken niet goed online regelen. Simpelweg omdat ze geen geschikt apparaat hebben. Daarom worden duizenden afgeschreven digitale apparaten van het Rijk opgeknapt en beschikbaar gesteld aan mensen in een financieel kwetsbare situatie."
Fri 11:04:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: does the article mention the Orbanian?
Fri 11:05:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "From your driveway to your bedroom, this website may publish video from your cameras showing you in your home – and it's easy to get access to" ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/security-cameras/warning-feel-like-youre-being-watched-by-your-home-cameras-well-you-might-be | Source: Digital Camera World
Fri 11:05:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One example: in third-party environments, the median time to remediate leaked secrets, such as API keys or tokens discovered in public GitHub repositories, was 94 days, giving attackers ample opportunity to exploit them." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/security_snafus_third_parties/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 11:05:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Fujitsu has won a £125 million ($167 million) contract to build Northern Ireland's new land registry system, despite promising not to bid for UK public sector work in the wake of the Post Office Horizon scandal." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/fujitsu_northern_reland/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 11:06:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I've done most of my testing with timing-centric u-blox receivers, but I wanted to see how accurate a cheap $10 dongle would be" ☛ https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/trying-out-cheap-usb-vk-172-gps-dongle-on-mac | Source: Jeff Geerling
Fri 11:06:28 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: it doesn't, it's just an official announcement
Fri 11:06:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "When the recipient is not a Gmail user, Gmail sends them an invitation to view the E2EE email in a restricted version of Gmail" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/gmail-end-to-end-encryption-scams/ | Source: Wired
Fri 11:07:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "On February 11, 2025, Blue Shield discovered that, between April 2021 and January 2024" ☛ https://www.securityweek.com/blue-shield-of-california-data-breach-impacts-4-7-million-people/ | Source: Security Week
Fri 11:07:12 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ "De Rijksoverheid laat weten dat het 'duizenden' afgeschreven apparaten van het Rijk gaat opknappen en beschikbaar wil stellen aan Nederlanders in een financieel kwetsbare situatie. Het initiatief komt van het ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken, waar ook staatssecretaris Zsolt Szabó van Digitalisering onder valt."
Fri 11:07:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Szabó
Fri 11:07:32 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ https://tweakers.net/nieuws/234322/rijksoverheid-gaat-afgeschreven-laptops-wissen-en-weggeven-aan-nederlanders.html
Fri 11:07:42 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ that's the article
Fri 11:08:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2024/06/14/Dutch_Government_Appoints_Microsofters_to_Combat_OSS_Fetishism.shtml
Fri 11:08:09 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ Interior Department
Fri 11:08:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] windows = back doors
Fri 11:08:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Putin likes back doors
Fri 11:08:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no back doors = "fetishiam":
Fri 11:08:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] let MElon and Cheeto rad everything
Fri 11:08:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in a government it sees as hostile
Fri 11:09:01 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ this wouldn't work without a lot of Dutch Microsofters helping Microsoft with its cause, steered by the Orbanian in sheep's clothes
Fri 11:09:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe some former NL colonies would be occupied by Trump soon
Fri 11:09:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there are many
Fri 11:09:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aruba?
Fri 11:09:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe the whitehourse putin wants it too
Fri 11:09:48 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ those are still part of the Kingdom and will probably stay so forever
Fri 11:09:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so was greenland
Fri 11:10:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for /.dk
Fri 11:10:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] us already has a base there
Fri 11:10:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it wants more
Fri 11:10:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even by force
Fri 11:10:55 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ the US shouldn't want more and should never want more, on the contrary it should be left with less than it has now
Fri 11:11:40 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ but if you act like an unofficial colony because you think the US liberated you a long time ago, then the current situation is what you get
Fri 11:11:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This suggests that the problem is not the devices themselves, but rather your habits and time management. Concentration issues seem to be more related to your environment and activities than to the technology itself." ☛ https://jeroensangers.com/2025/04/24/hiding-your-phone-doesnt-help.html | Source: Jeroen Sangers
Fri 11:12:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Dear Annie: In a nutshell: I have been off social media for about five years" ☛ https://www.mlive.com/advice/2025/04/dear-annie-postcards-over-posts.html | Source: Michigan News
Fri 11:36:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "And with that setup, I was able to record my cat's heartbeat using Audacity on my Debian KDE machine. Of course, getting my cat to cooperate was a challenge." ☛ https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1075/diy-digital-stethoscope-for-cats | Source: David Revoy
Fri 11:37:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-say-measles-likely-to-become-endemic-in-us-polio-diphtheria-rubella/ | Source: Wired
Fri 11:37:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lenovo, HP, and Dell, the world's three largest PC vendors, are reportedly exploring expansion options in Saudi Arabia" ☛ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/top-pc-oems-reportedly-planning-saudi-arabia-plants-to-avoid-us-tariffs-lenovo-hp-dell-exploring-options-as-panic-continues | Source: Tom's Hardware
Fri 11:38:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Test scores began going down after 2012" ☛ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/23/hugh-grant-screen-obsessed-schools-are-ruining-our-children/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
Fri 11:38:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Library of Congress has been holding the National Book Festival for 25 years and they are celebrating with resources for you." ☛ https://raforall.blogspot.com/2025/04/be-gate-opener-using-the-library-of.html | Source: Becky Spratford
Fri 11:39:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The US has effectively given up on trying to be competitive with the other leading economies of the world and the EU has a very short grace period" ☛ https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/innovation-trust/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason
Fri 11:39:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What does work-life balance even mean when both sides of that equation are so hopelessly commingled that both words effectively describe the same thing?" ☛ https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/shut-up-and-dance/ | Source: Scott Smitelli
Fri 11:40:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "They are cancelling out on conferences and on going to seminars. It's just not worth the risk." ☛ https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-41619709.html | Source: Irish Examiner
Fri 11:40:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I assumed I’d misheard, but no: rubber ducking is a technique that is commonly used by coders." ☛ https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/24/rubber-ducking-for-research-communication-why-explaining-to-nobody-helps-you-explain-to-anybody/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing
Fri 11:41:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Sometimes the links are random, but often they comment somehow on the list of 10." ☛ https://austinkleon.com/2025/04/24/easter-eggs/ | Source: Austin Kleon
Fri 11:41:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I would have to say almost at the same time I was starting to read and write." ☛ https://alexandrawolfe.ca/blog-question-challenge-tech-edition/ | Source: Alexandra Wolfe
Fri 11:53:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But Zied’s implementation is different and a lot more accessible. Rather than actually powering the computer, the bicycle simply controls software running on the computer and that software simulates the effects of power loss." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/25/keep-pedaling-if-you-want-your-computer-to-stay-on/ | Source: Arduino
Fri 11:53:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Next time I think I’m going to skip the original roughing step and just cut out spool-sized blanks from the cylinder, drill the center hole, and then put them on the lathe to cut the line groove and sand them." ☛ https://cagrimmett.com/2025/04/24/turning-smaller-tenkara-line-spools/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett
Fri 11:55:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Arduino_and_More.gmi ∎
Fri 11:56:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Red Hat is all about the buzzwords while IBM FLOUNDERS. "Red Hat AI learning hub" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/8-enterprise-ai-stories-you-dont-want-miss | Source: Red Hat Official
Fri 12:00:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Adrian Bridgwater now does his corporate stenography for another domain sponsored by the same company it covers; this is marketing, which the sponsors later links to https://cloudnativenow.com/topics/cloudnativedevelopment/kubernetes/the-evolution-of-kubernetes-workload-patterns/ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-april-25-2025
Fri 12:05:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New C++ features in GCC 15 ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/24/new-c-features-gcc-15
Fri 12:07:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Evaluating memory overcommitment in OpenShift Virtualization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/24/evaluating-memory-overcommitment-openshift-virtualization
Fri 12:10:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ April 2025 PeeringDB product update ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/25/april-2025-peeringdb-product-update/
Fri 12:14:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): IBM Problems and Red Hat Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/IBM_Problems_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/IBM_Problems_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 12:15:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 12:21:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: CILMPTS Wordo: MAYOR gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-25.gmi
Fri 12:23:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Food Forest Update and Facebook Destroying the Net ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Gemini_Links_25_04_2025_Food_Forest_Update_and_Facebook_Destroy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Gemini_Links_25_04_2025_Food_Forest_Update_and_Facebook_Destroy.gmi ∎
Fri 12:27:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 25/04/2025: Ubisoft Spyware, Hegseth Fails at Tech on Every Level ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Links_25_04_2025_Ubisoft_Spyware_Hegseth_Fails_at_Tech_at_Every.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Links_25_04_2025_Ubisoft_Spyware_Hegseth_Fails_at_Tech_at_Every.gmi ∎
Fri 12:28:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsne585r
Fri 12:28:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 12:28:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] A. Krishna: “IBM stock has doubled since I took over as CEO and is on its way to $300; for that to happen, I will replace more older expensive employees from high cost areas with sweatshops from my home country India using AI strategy (All Indians); and will meet my $100 million annual performance based compensation; America has made me great and a rich man”
Fri 12:28:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Fri 12:36:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How the CNA thing is working out ☞ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/24/how-the-cna-thing-is-working-out/
Fri 12:37:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Daikhan – video and music player ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/daikhan-video-music-player/
Fri 12:37:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Galene is an easy to deploy videoconference server ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/galene-easy-deploy-videoconference-server/
Fri 12:41:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Flyby tracks and predicts passes of satellites in Earth orbit ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/flyby-tracks-predicts-satellites/
Fri 12:42:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chawan is a terminal-based web browser ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/chawan-terminal-based-web-browser/
Fri 12:44:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Show Player is a cue player designed for stage productions ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/linux-show-player-cue-player-stage-productions/
Fri 12:44:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 20 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Time Tracking Software ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetracking/
Fri 12:44:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Corel Vector ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-corel-vector/
Fri 12:53:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – The Cost (to Linux) of LLM Slop ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/The_Cost_to_Linux_of_LLM_Slop.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/The_Cost_to_Linux_of_LLM_Slop.gmi ∎
Fri 13:51:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DNS nameservers are crucial for the reachability of domain names." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/24/monitoring-highly-distributed-dns-deployments-challenges-and-recommendations/ | Source: APNIC
Fri 13:52:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It's a modern, compatible implementation of Unix shell." ☛ https://oils.pub/osh.html |
Fri 13:52:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cloudflare’s Captcha solutions are one of the biggest hurdles Python developers usually face while writing a web scraper." ☛ https://blog.adnansiddiqi.me/using-scraperapi-to-bypass-cloudflare-in-python/ | Source: Adnan Siddiqi
Fri 13:53:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You are given a string of lowercase letters." ☛ https://raku-musings.com/reverse-position.html | Source: Arne Sommer
Fri 13:53:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.
Fri 13:53:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Recently I got a question on formal methods1: how does it help to mathematically model systems when the system requirements are constantly changing?" ☛ https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/requirements-change-until-they-dont/ | Source: Buttondown LLC
Fri 13:54:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: want to see draft re systemd?
Fri 13:54:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Feature flags (or toggles) are often used to control the visibility of new features in a product." ☛ https://code.mendhak.com/hardcode-feature-flags/ |
Fri 13:54:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i'm not really useful yet
Fri 13:55:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Unlike the official megaparsec tutorial, this blog post is intended to be smaller, and is aimed at an audience with only a basic understanding of Haskell and monadic programming." ☛ https://www.tweag.io/blog/2025-04-24-minimal-megaparsec-tutorial/ | Source: Modus Create LLC
Fri 13:55:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Version 0.111 of Game of Trees has been released (and the port updated, with additional useful information in the commit message): [...]" ☛ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250424051742 | Source: Undeadly
Fri 13:57:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "There was a problem that I noticed right away, though: this text was from the GPL v3, not the GPL v2. In my original request I had never mentioned the GPL version I was asking about." ☛ https://code.mendhak.com/gpl-v2-address-letter/ |
Fri 13:57:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The case is likely to be heard in court in March or April 2026." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/qualcomm_arm_licensing_lawsuit_amendment/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 13:59:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you’re into static site tech, you might enjoy blog post." ☛ https://kristoff.it/blog/announcing-zig-day/ | Source: Loris Cro
Fri 13:59:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are various ways to create menus in Hugo." ☛ https://harrycresswell.com/writing/hugo-menus-in-cloudcannon/ | Source: Harry Cresswell
Fri 14:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Because of PostgreSQL’s popularity, we were not the first to develop a PostgreSQL compatible database system." ☛ https://cedardb.com/blog/postgres_compatibility/ | Source: CedarDB
Fri 14:01:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The reality of the modern Internet is that browsers are load bearing infrastructure" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/ChromeOwnershipAndBrowserCosts | Source: University of Toronto
Fri 14:01:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Chrome is the most popular browser in the world by a considerable margin." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/23/openai_chrome_interest/ | Source: The Register UK
Fri 14:02:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Security engineer Alex Haydock found a discarded “sacrificial Wii” at the 2024 Electromagnetic Field festival swap shop" ☛ https://www.404media.co/this-website-is-running-on-a-wii/ | Source: 404 Media
Fri 14:02:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "At work I still mainly use Chrome and I when I try to use Floorp there is something I miss from Chrome Network devtools" ☛ https://www.johanbleuzen.fr/blog/filtering-specific-requests-browsers-network-devtools | Source: Johan Bleuzen
Fri 14:04:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Immich, an open-source, self-hosted photo and video backup solution often pitched as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Photos" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/immich-1-132-brings-smoother-syncing-mobile-ui-enhancements/ | Source: Linuxiac
Fri 14:10:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have recently been asked by the Panoptykon Foundation if it was possible to create an online age verification system that would not be a privacy nightmare." ☛ https://rys.io/en/178.html | Source: Michał Woźniak
Fri 14:10:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lauren Goode: And that's the best-case scenario, if you're a US citizen. You can decline the search. You can still be allowed in." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/uncanny-valley-podcast-phone-privacy-us-border-travel/ | Source: Wired
Fri 14:12:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yeah, I know — it probably feels like these Alpha releases are never-ending. But good news: it looks like this is the final Alpha! Next up is the big Beta release. All this, of course, pending the official word from System76: [...]" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/cosmic-desktop-alpha-7-released-next-stop-beta/ | Source: Linuxiac
Fri 14:12:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "ISO excited for the latest COSMIC alpha release! We’ve been busy clearing up scores of bugs while soldering together the features that we absolutely must include before the Big Betahemoth descends upon the Earth. Let COSMIC Alpha 7 commence!" ☛ https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-alpha-7-never-been-beta/ | Source: System76
Fri 14:16:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Waydroid on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-waydroid-fedora-42/
Fri 14:16:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Kernel Headers on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-kernel-headers-debian-12/
Fri 14:26:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The storage drives connected to my servers are LUKS-encrypted which means every time the server restarts I need to manually decrypt and then mount them." ☛ https://chuck.is/auto-mounting-luks/ | Source: Chuck Carroll
Fri 14:27:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Arduino IDE on Fedora 42 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-arduino-ide-fedora-42/
Fri 14:28:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Any authentication and authorization framework, such as OIDC, needs a way for the identity provider (an 'OIDC OP') to provide information about the person or thing that was just authenticated." ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/OIDCManyPathsToClaims | Source: University of Toronto
Fri 14:28:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "HTML elements can have attributes. For example id, class, src, alt, and many others." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/html-oddities-does-the-order-of-attribute-values-matter/ | Source: Terence Eden
Fri 14:28:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install PhpStorm on Debian 12 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-phpstorm-debian-12/
Fri 14:28:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Fix Exit Code 127: Fixing File or Directory Not Found Error ☞ https://idroot.us/fix-exit-code-127/
Fri 15:08:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Richard Stallman and the Unix Philosophy ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.gmi ∎
Fri 15:14:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ What Indian enterprises can learn from IBM’s digital transformation https://www.india.com/money/what-indian-enterprises-can-learn-from-ibms-digital-transformation-venkata-turlapati-on-modernizing-revenue-systems-for-long-term-success-7696329/
Fri 15:15:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NASSCOM staff more interested in doing photo ops with Bill 'Epstein' Gates than in serving the country's interests
Fri 15:16:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "the latest versions can be implanted on anyone’s device anywhere in the world and as we speak, there is literally no defence against it." ☛ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/ron-deibert-on-cbc-ideas-spyware-abusers-can-easily-hack-your-phone-and-surveil-you/ | Source: Citizen Lab
Fri 15:16:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Robust & Reliable Backup Solutions with OpenZFS, Why I Maintain a 17 Year Old Thinkpad, Motivations, Tinker Writer Deck, How to tell if FreeBSD needs a Reboot using kernel version check, Techie pulled an all-nighter that one mistake turned into an all-weekender, and more" ☛ https://www.bsdnow.tv/608 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast
Fri 15:18:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The solution is straightforward, and today, I’ll show you how to do this using systemd service units, but before we jump into that, let’s first take a quick look at what a service unit is and how it works." ☛ https://www.tecmint.com/create-new-service-units-in-systemd/ | Source: TecMint
Fri 15:18:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "It’s the collaborative approach, working together working on shared goals." ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/hitchhikers-guide-to-infrastructure-modernization | Source: Ubuntu
Fri 15:29:30 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/gallery/Q34LNh1 = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/Q34LNh1
Fri 15:32:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Malaysia’s Home Ministry to acquire 600 body-worn cameras for immigration officers ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysias-home-ministry-to-acquire-600-body-worn-cameras-for-immigration-officers-says-saifuddin
Fri 15:33:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China weighs exempting some US goods from tariffs as costs rise ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-weighs-exempting-some-us-goods-from-tariffs-as-costs-rise
Fri 15:34:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Beijing says claims of ongoing US-China trade talks ‘groundless’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/beijing-says-claims-of-ongoing-us-china-trade-talks-groundless
Fri 15:50:46 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ :)) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/1354237/yahoo-wants-to-buy-chrome
Fri 15:51:53 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ no one will use it, and hilarity ensues!!! https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/044215/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-ads
Fri 15:52:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “I’ve never seen it, I’ve never used a system that had it; I know it’s free software, so ethically speaking, it’s not an issue – it’s just a convenience question.” https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=123341
Fri 15:53:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From here: https://www.networkworld.com/article/2900305/stallman-joins-the-internet-talks-net-neutrality-patents-and-more.html "The systemd init software has rocked the Linux community, causing forks of popular distributions and sparking heated debate."
Fri 15:55:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/04/24/0626241
Fri 15:55:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ rms is "wrong dept" for systemd complaints, due to IBM money https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Richard_Stallman_and_the_Unix_Philosophy.gmi ∎
Fri 16:01:26 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, yahoo! buying chrome is still better than having MICROS~1 buy it
Fri 16:01:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ assuming there's still a difference, anyway
Fri 16:13:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] chrome need sto die
Fri 16:13:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *to
Fri 16:13:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it does not serve aaa real purpose
Fri 16:13:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to the users
Fri 16:13:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's just some 'vm' for webapps
Fri 16:13:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it's not good at it
Fri 16:24:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft is Shedding Off Loads of Staff and That Can be Dangerous Too ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Microsoft_is_Shedding_Off_Loads_of_Staff_and_That_Can_be_Danger.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Microsoft_is_Shedding_Off_Loads_of_Staff_and_That_Can_be_Danger.gmi ∎
Fri 16:29:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ most "modern" browsers depend on it, though
Fri 16:30:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM is doomed. Instead of paying back the debt (with huge interest on it), CEO AK has been busy buying revenue by scooping up other companies, staff, while laying off his best (most "expensive") staff. Other companies tried this before and they don't exist anymore.
Fri 16:30:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: yes, but that is a separate point
Fri 16:30:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to argue by example,
Fri 16:30:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] many people depend on some addictive drugs
Fri 16:31:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but that does not mean we should curtail thhhe crackdown on drug distributors
Fri 16:31:12 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes, we should do so for other reasons
Fri 16:31:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, the addicts might depend on those drugs\
Fri 16:31:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] true
Fri 16:31:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they might even resort to crime
Fri 16:31:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but we must start somewhere
Fri 16:31:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] imho:
Fri 16:31:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes, if you make what people do illegal, they become criminals
Fri 16:31:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ shocking
Fri 16:31:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we need to teach people to use the web - esp. webapps' - less
Fri 16:31:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] e.g. less twitter
Fri 16:31:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more rss readers
Fri 16:31:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] more irc
Fri 16:31:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] less "slack"
Fri 16:32:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ another thing that's not happening
Fri 16:32:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right
Fri 16:32:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's noty
Fri 16:32:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *not
Fri 16:32:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but we must try
Fri 16:32:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you assume deferat before you fight
Fri 16:32:29 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ you could try telling drug addicts that they should move to government-approved legal drugs, like ethanol
Fri 16:32:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you will not really start fighting
Fri 16:32:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so let's do what we can
Fri 16:32:37 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they're more damaging? who cares?
Fri 16:32:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] firefox did manage to unseat MSIE
Fri 16:32:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] eventually
Fri 16:32:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now firefox itself is rfather bad
Fri 16:32:52 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and then it got turned into a really shitty clone of chrome
Fri 16:33:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so we move to the next task
Fri 16:33:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] replace windows
Fri 16:33:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people move to andropid
Fri 16:33:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] windows dyingf
Fri 16:33:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but android gets very locked down and DRM-filled
Fri 16:33:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so we work ooon that issue
Fri 16:33:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ we're making even less progress on that
Fri 16:34:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/
Fri 16:34:21 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ rip postmarketOS
Fri 16:41:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ not counting the "musk"ateers https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/vehicles-45-more-attacks-4-times-more-hackers
Fri 16:45:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] was it not based on alpine?
Fri 16:45:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it was
Fri 16:45:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] alpine does not have systemd
Fri 16:45:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they don't care
Fri 16:45:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i know because we ran the sites on it
Fri 16:45:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for a few years
Fri 16:45:50 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just as they don't care that there are several options for the retards, who, for some inexplicable reason, want to run cancerd on their phone
Fri 16:46:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ if they enjoy having a phone they have zero control over, they should just buy a hypePhone instead
Fri 16:46:59 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and have winnie the pooh and putler tell them what programs they're allowed to run on "their own" phone
Fri 16:55:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China launches Shenzhou-20 mission to Chinese space station, state media report ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-launches-shenzhou-20-mission-to-chinese-space-station-state-media-report
Fri 16:55:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China pushes for tariff cancellation to end US trade war ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-pushes-for-tariff-cancellation-to-end-us-trade-war
Fri 16:55:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China to lend moon rocks to NASA-funded US universities ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/china-to-lend-moon-rocks-to-nasa-funded-us-universities
Fri 16:58:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Australia plans critical minerals reserve to reduce global reliance on China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-plans-critical-minerals-reserve-to-reduce-global-reliance-on-china
Fri 16:58:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China’s Pooh-tin seeks detente with Europe as Convicted Felon’s tariffs alienate bloc ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xi-seeks-detente-with-europe-as-trumps-tariffs-alienate-bloc "Chinese policymakers and business leaders are searching for new markets in Europe and beyond"
Fri 16:59:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Japan to resist Convicted Felon efforts to form trade bloc against China ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-to-resist-trump-efforts-to-form-trade-bloc-against-china
Fri 16:59:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UK state energy company will not source solar panels made with slave labor from China ☞ https://rfa.org/english/uyghur/2025/04/24/uyghur-uk-solar-panels-slave-labor/
Fri 17:00:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China forces Weibo account for gay community to drop ‘comrade’ from name ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/24/china-gay-comrade-weibo-account-name/
Fri 17:00:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lithuanian businesses feel Chinese push to trade amid US tariff war ☞ https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2545459/lithuanian-businesses-feel-chinese-push-to-trade-amid-us-tariff-war
Fri 17:04:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From PostScript To PDF ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/from-postscript-to-pdf/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:04:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Clever Hack Rescues Dead Light" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/a-bicycle-is-abandonware-now-clever-hack-rescues-dead-light/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:05:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM-sponsored LIES. When IBM bribes "the press". https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/23/ibm-beats-forecasts-says-well-positioned-weather-trade-war/
Fri 17:06:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Just 15 Extra Minutes of Sleep Is Linked to Brain Benefits in Young People ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/just-15-extra-minutes-of-sleep-is-linked-to-brain-benefits-in-young-people
Fri 17:13:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "DolphinGemma Seeks To Speak To Dolphins" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/dolphingemma-seeks-to-speak-to-dolphins/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:14:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 3D Printing ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/3d-printing-a-useful-fixturing-tool/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:14:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slop Coming For A DNA Sequence Near You ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/llms-coming-for-a-dna-sequence-near-you/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:14:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "popular recreation of the best selling computer of all time, the original Commodore 64. [10p6] enjoys hacking on this platform, and recently whipped up a new mod — adding a 9-pin Atari joystick connector for convenience." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/adding-an-atari-joystick-port-to-thec64-usb-joystick/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 17:15:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:important) https://pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=qlPbV4YmHV4 = https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=qlPbV4YmHV4
Fri 17:16:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ^ Leslie Nielsen in Star Wars
Fri 17:18:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Facebook layoffs again https://winbuzzer.com/2025/04/24/meta-cuts-jobs-at-reality-labs-oculus-studios-amid-financial-strain-xcxwbn/
Fri 17:19:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux in Bulgaria https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bulgaria/#monthly-200902-202504
Fri 17:22:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Android and Windows about the same now in NL https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/netherlands/#monthly-200902-202504 psydroid / ping
Fri 17:32:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Windows Falls to New Lows in Nicaragua, Now Below a Quarter (It Used to be Almost 100%) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Windows_Falls_to_New_Lows_in_Nicaragua_Now_Below_a_Quarter_It_U.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Windows_Falls_to_New_Lows_in_Nicaragua_Now_Below_a_Quarter_It_U.gmi ∎
Fri 17:59:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Approaching 10,000 Articles/Pages Since Going Static ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Approaching_10_000_Articles_Pages_Since_Going_Static.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Approaching_10_000_Articles_Pages_Since_Going_Static.gmi ∎
Fri 18:06:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://xkcd.com/3081/
Fri 18:06:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Literalmente" gemini://texto-plano.xyz/kaod/gemlog/2025-04-25-literalmente-no-significa-literalmente-literalmente.gmi
Fri 18:07:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The problem with many VPS providers is that they lack the possibility to use custom ISOs. Most of the time, the distributions that users can choose from are Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and sometimes a few others." gemini://camelia.dev/posts/freeing-a-vps-from-systemd-with-devuan.gmi
Fri 18:08:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Global Science & Technology News for Geminispace gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/science/2025/May/caterpillar.gmi
Fri 18:16:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The Advanced Chat Privacy setting, which is available for both individual chats and groups, will block people from exporting the chat or auto-downloading shared media." gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/tech/2025/May/whatsapp.gmi
Fri 18:17:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A Claimed Hint of Alien Life Whips Up Spirited Debate gemini://galaxyhub.uk/news/science/2025/May/k2-18b_life.gmi
Fri 18:18:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “Well… it’s raining” gemini://tilde.team/~jmcs/gemlog/2025-04-25-well-its-raining.gmi
Fri 18:21:33 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.darkreading.com/remote-workforce/gig-worker-platforms-data-breach-fraud
Fri 18:21:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:important) (long) https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=q9a3dCd1SQI = https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=q9a3dCd1SQI
Fri 18:22:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ^ Several Incredibly Smart TVs!
Fri 18:24:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=q9a3dCd1SQI works
Fri 18:24:28 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ good
Fri 18:24:51 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ maybe for you
Fri 18:25:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] haha
Fri 18:25:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] daemonfc coverd it
Fri 18:25:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how the picture got worse
Fri 18:25:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] over time
Fri 18:25:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we are moving backwards
Fri 18:28:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] interesting video
Fri 18:28:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i reallised many "large screens" are ssold as "TVs" now
Fri 18:28:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you need a TV licence
Fri 18:28:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just to have one
Fri 18:28:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then pay who knows how muchg per year
Fri 18:28:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for something not worth even watching
Fri 18:28:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ages ago yyou could get bigger computer displays
Fri 18:29:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they were not sold as "TVs"
Fri 18:29:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China’s DeepSeek transferred South Korean user info overseas: Seoul regulator ☞ https://rfa.org/english/china/2025/04/24/china-deep-seek-south-korea-user-data/
Fri 18:31:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Portable internet helps Asia scam centres bypass blackouts ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/portable-internet-helps-asia-scam-centres-bypass-blackouts
Fri 18:32:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Japan urges G20 to stabilise markets, warns of US tariff damage ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/japan-urges-g20-to-stabilise-markets-warns-of-us-tariff-damage
Fri 18:33:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel CEO announces layoffs, restructuring, $1.5 billion in cost reductions, expanded return to office mandate ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-ceo-announces-layoffs-restructuring-expanded-return-to-office-mandate
Fri 18:33:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ VulnCheck spotted 159 actively exploited vulnerabilities in first few months of 2025 ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/vulncheck-known-exploited-cves-q1-2025/
Fri 18:35:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel’s stock dives on lower guidance as new CEO Lip-Bu Tan outlines long-term vision ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/24/intels-stock-dives-lower-guidance-new-ceo-lip-bu-tan-outlines-long-term-vision/
Fri 18:36:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Who thought that Intel's Hey Hi (AI) hype would not salvage it??? Defective strategy. Defective chipmaker.
Fri 18:36:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Like another Nokia.
Fri 18:37:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ U.S. Sidelines Lawyers Who Doubted Their Own Case on Congestion Pricing ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/nyregion/nyc-congestion-pricing-duffy-lawyers.html "The Forrest Dump administration replaced lawyers who had exposed flaws in its legal battle over New York City’s congestion pricing program."
Fri 18:38:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US Supreme Court signals it will decide California fuel emissions case ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/supreme-court-signals-it-will-consider-california-fuel-emissions-case/
Fri 18:43:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Irish Rap Group Kneecap Face British Counter-Terrorism Investigation After Concert Video Footage Surfaces ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/kneecap-faces-counter-terrorism-investigation/ "Irish rap group Kneecap are facing a British counter-terrorism investigation after footage from a concert went viral on social control media."
Fri 18:46:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Jonathan McDowell: Local Voice Assistant Step 1: An ATOM Echo voice satellite ☞ https://www.earth.li/~noodles/blog/2025/04/voice-assistant-atom-echo.html
Fri 18:53:09 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-2671844568/
Fri 18:53:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Girls less likely to have tried coding than boys ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/24.04.2025-girls-less-likely-to-have-tried-coding-than-boys.a596278/
Fri 18:56:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lloyds Bank Says Oasis Fans Have Lost $2.7 Million to Ticket Scams ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/lloyds-oasis-fans-getting-ticket-scammed/
Fri 18:57:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UPC is totally illegal. JUVE is still cheering for it because it got paid to do it. ☞ https://www.juve-patent.com/people-and-business/dusseldorf-court-loses-presiding-judge-klepsch-to-upc-growth-strategy/
Fri 18:57:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Longhorn Automotive measurement controller patent monopoly challenge instituted ☞ https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/4/23/longhorn-automotive-measurement-controller-patent-challenge-instituted
Fri 18:58:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Masters of Their Own Petition: The Federal Circuit’s Latest Stance on AAPA ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/masters-petition-circuits.html
Fri 18:58:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Article Explains How the GPL Came About and WordPress Having Copyleft Obligations (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/New_Article_Explains_How_the_GPL_Came_About_and_WordPress_Havin.shtml
Fri 18:58:51 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://restofworld.org/2025/india-falls-behind-china-deep-tech-innovation/
Fri 18:58:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dr Richard Stallman (RMS) Gives Talk in Oxford University in 4 Hours (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Dr_Richard_Stallman_RMS_Gives_Talk_in_Oxford_University_in_4_Ho.shtml
Fri 18:59:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Using a Law Firm's Licence to Exercise Politics Through Frivolous SLAPPs and Nastygrams (to Silence People, Remove Pages, Demand Fake or Forced 'Apologies') (updated) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Using_a_Law_Firm_s_Licence_to_Exercise_Politics_Through_Frivolo.shtml
Fri 18:59:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Richard Stallman's Oxford Talk Has Just Ended, Here Are Some Photos ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Richard_Stallman_s_Oxford_Talk_Has_Just_Ended_Here_Are_Some_Pho.shtml
Fri 19:01:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When it comes to the EU, real courts are now being undermined is not illegally replaced with unconstitutional laughing stocks set up by corruption and lobbyists of litigation profiteers; it'll only make the EU less credible and hence less stable
Fri 19:01:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Gained Almost 6 Billion Dollars in "Goodwill" Value in Just 3 Months, According to I.C.B.M. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/IBM_Gained_Almost_6_Billion_Dollars_in_Goodwill_Value_in_Just_3.shtml
Fri 19:01:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ We're Working to Make Full-Site Search Available ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/We_re_Working_to_Make_Full_Site_Search_Available.shtml
Fri 19:01:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Cannot Lie to Shareholders Anymore ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/IBM_Cannot_Lie_to_Shareholders_Anymore.shtml
Fri 19:04:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Another Site Bites the Dust: "Open Source For You" Becoming a Slopfarm (LLM Slop) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Another_Site_Bites_the_Dust_Open_Source_For_You_Becoming_a_Slop.shtml
Fri 19:04:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Slopping_the_Trough_Disney_Plus_Loses_Billions_and_the_Decline_.shtml
Fri 19:04:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft 'Studies' Again? Leon Musolff is Writing Papers With Microsoft. ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/23/Microsoft_Studies_Again_Leon_Musolff_is_Writing_Papers_With_Mic.shtml
Fri 19:04:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Evolving hardware, evolving demo: Collabora's Embedded World Board Farm ☞ https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/04/24/the-evolution-of-our-embedded-world-board-farm-demo/
Fri 19:05:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Andre Klapper: GIMP user documentation ☞ https://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/2025/04/24/gimp-user-docs/
Fri 19:06:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Speech by President von der Leyen at the Summit on the Future of Energy Security ☞ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_25_1100
Fri 19:07:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Annual energy bills predicted to fall by £166 in July https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5r190y3kko
Fri 19:07:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/186205/microsofts-big-ai-hire-cant-match-openai
Fri 19:08:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hong Kong press club survey finds 65% of members say they self-censor, 33% considering leaving city over press freedom ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/24/hong-kong-press-club-survey-finds-65-of-members-say-they-self-censor-33-considering-leaving-city-over-press-freedom/
Fri 19:09:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: OpenAI is Microsoft
Fri 19:09:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like "AI" BS
Fri 19:09:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] from Slashdot
Fri 19:09:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just repeating the buzz\
Fri 19:09:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/27/Slashdot_is_Once_Again_Publishing_Lies_and_Revisionism_for_Bill.shtml
Fri 19:09:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like all this "buying chrome"
Fri 19:09:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some dude
Fri 19:09:47 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ they're talking about how poor the numbers are
Fri 19:09:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not even very high level
Fri 19:09:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] said he was "interested"\
Fri 19:09:57 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/04/25/166214/the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-campaign-used-a-pirated-font
Fri 19:09:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no bid put in
Fri 19:09:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nothing
Fri 19:10:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then the media gavce them free press
Fri 19:10:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as ifg an insolvent companmyy
Fri 19:10:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] will buy chrome
Fri 19:11:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: did they cover microsoft layoffs
Fri 19:11:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of it
Fri 19:11:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this year
Fri 19:11:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and this montth
Fri 19:11:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and coming next month
Fri 19:11:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] oi am only guessing /. skipped that
Fri 19:11:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] today this: https://www.fastcompany.com/91322766/microsoft-is-allegedly-paying-low-performers-to-quit
Fri 19:11:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] microsoft is not hiring
Fri 19:11:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] opr barely
Fri 19:11:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it sacks lots of peopleee
Fri 19:11:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so any "hiring" narrative seems like smoke and mirror right now
Fri 19:12:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they also openly asdmitted
Fri 19:12:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "hiring freeze"
Fri 19:12:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "ai talkent means nothing":
Fri 19:12:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it is void of meaning
Fri 19:12:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what are those?
Fri 19:12:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] c programmers
Fri 19:12:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whoo know some ML librariies
Fri 19:12:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's "buzzword churnalism" imho
Fri 19:12:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aall this "AI talent" BS
Fri 19:13:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.sakshipost.com/news/business/microsoft-ultimatum-employees-pip-or-4-months-exit-salary-401297
Fri 19:13:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/TRILLIONS_And_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_and_TRILLIONS_Invest_toda.shtml
Fri 19:13:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the media has a habit of repeating wevery lie from "open" "ai"
Fri 19:13:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe it even gets paid to repeat thopse lies
Fri 19:13:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] e.g.
Fri 19:14:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/06/Meme_Don_t_Worry_They_Say_There_s_7_Trillion_Dollars_Waiting_at.shtml
Fri 19:14:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wall street repeats the lie about companies "wroth" trillions
Fri 19:14:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/04/Visualising_About_0_7_Trillion_Dollars_of_Debt_in_Supposedly_Su.shtml
Fri 19:15:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows 11 24H2 triggers a 20-year-old bug in GTA San Andreas related to the Skimmer seaplane ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/pc-gaming/windows-11-24h2-reveals-a-20-year-old-bug-in-gta-san-andreas-related-to-the-skimmer-seaplane
Fri 19:15:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 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) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) ..AMAAAAAAAAZING! https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/gaming-laptops/msi-titan-18-hx-ai-review
Fri 19:16:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IT IS AN HEY HI LAPTOP"... "IN AN HEY HI WORLD"... "DREAMIN' 'BOUT HEY HI"
Fri 19:17:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ESP32 ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/24/onkyo-receiver-saved-with-an-esp32/ | Source: Hackaday
Fri 19:17:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ESPuno Pi Zero ESP32-C6 board takes up to 60V DC input, offers RS-485 interface (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/24/espuno-pi-zero-esp32-c6-board-takes-up-to-60v-dc-input-rs485-interface/
Fri 19:21:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Attacks against Teltonika Networks SMS Gateways, (Thu, Apr 24th) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31888
Fri 19:21:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Final Results of the 2025 Internet Society Board of Trustees Elections and IETF Selections ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/final-results-of-the-2025-internet-society-board-of-trustees-elections-and-ietf-selections/
Fri 19:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tortoise plans for The Observer: ‘We can buck the market trend’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/observer-tortoise-launch/
Fri 19:23:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Privacy of online age verification ☞ https://rys.io/en/178.html
Fri 19:24:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.1: Blurring Images ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-anonymizer-21-blurring-images-3061/
Fri 19:25:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Continuing the transition from Endpoints to EndpointSlices ☞ https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/04/24/endpoints-deprecation/
Fri 19:26:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fedora 42: Best New Features ☞ https://www.debugpoint.com/fedora-42-features/
Fri 19:27:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ European Commission Fines Fashion Company Apple and Meta Nearly $800 Million Over Alleged DMA Violations ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/24/european-commission-apple-fine/
Fri 19:27:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Integrate QML Window's Background with the System's Color Palette ☞ https://www.kdab.com/integrate-qml-windows-background-with-the-systems-color-palette/
Fri 19:28:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 86: Take Quite a Long Time to Fail ☞ https://mwl.io/archives/24081
Fri 19:30:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 596 ☞ https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/04/23/this-week-in-rust-596/
Fri 19:31:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ danielpocock.com been offline now for nearly a day
Fri 19:33:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If you begin to refer to ANYTHING that computers do as "HEY HI", then it may actually seem like this passing fad is "catching on"...
Fri 19:35:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 5.5 Million Patients Affected by Data Breach at Yale New Haven Health ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/5-5-million-patients-affected-by-data-breach-at-yale-new-haven-health/
Fri 19:35:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cisco Confirms Some Products Impacted by Critical Erlang/OTP Flaw ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-confirms-some-products-impacted-by-critical-erlang-otp-flaw/
Fri 19:37:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The assertion 'We don't need humans because of "HEY HI"' misses the point there are just far too many humans and the lack of jobs for them has nothing to do with "HEY HI" hype and by far predates that hype
Fri 19:38:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FOSS Weekly #25.17: Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Release Follow-ups, Logseq, ZimaBoard and More ☞ https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-17/
Fri 19:39:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Some media even conflates robotics with "HEY HI" - whatever the latter even means these days. That helps fake or create a perception of growing adoption. They did the same with "clown computing" - merely renaming things as such, then came "IoT".
Fri 19:40:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopping the Trough: Disney Plus Loses Billions and the Decline of Physical Media in America ☞ https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/slopping-the-trough-disney-plus-loses-billions-and-the-decline-of-physical-media-in-america/
Fri 19:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GStreamer 1.26.1 Improves dav1d AV1 Decoder, Matroska v4 Support in Muxer ☞ https://9to5linux.com/gstreamer-1-26-1-improves-dav1d-av1-decoder-matroska-v4-support-in-muxer
Fri 19:42:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ COSMIC Alpha 7 Desktop Adds Pinned Workspaces, New Accessibility Features ☞ https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-alpha-7-desktop-adds-pinned-workspaces-new-accessibility-features
Fri 19:43:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Configure Network IP Connections Using ‘nmcli’ in GNU/Linux ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/configure-network-connections-using-nmcli-tool-in-linux/
Fri 19:44:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 15 Useful ‘dpkg’ Commands for Debian and Ubuntu Users [With Examples] ☞ https://www.tecmint.com/dpkg-command-examples/
Fri 19:45:26 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ no one appreciates depreciation ... https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/25/google_admits_depreciation_costs_soaring/
Fri 19:45:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 25th April 2025 - Night Manager gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/stug/phlog/20250425.txt
Fri 19:46:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "slowing growth"
Fri 19:46:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what is a good synonym for "depreciation"?
Fri 19:48:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Fri 19:49:05 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/linux-developers-want-to-remove-i486-and-i586-pentium-cpu-support-to-unburden-kernel-developers
Fri 19:50:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hype ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/features/commentary/24.04.2025-are-we-ready-for-new-cyber-threats-in-the-quantum-era.a596550/
Fri 19:53:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openEuler is a GNU/Linux distribution for server and cloud environments ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/openeuler-linux-distribution-server-cloud-environments/
Fri 19:55:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why does he say "vaccine disinformation" unless he means to say the money should be spent on marketing propaganda? ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20250424-many-people-will-die-because-of-funding-cuts-and-vaccine-disinformation-public-health-expert
Fri 19:55:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thibault Martin: TIL that I can ask my smartphone to respect my attention ☞ https://ergaster.org/til/ask-smartphone-attention/
Fri 19:56:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nominations Are Open for Upcoming Fedora Election ☞ https://fossforce.com/2025/04/nominations-are-open-for-upcoming-fedora-election/
Fri 19:57:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Did he also kneel with Putin's finger in his mouth when he said this? ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/world/europe/ukraine-kyiv-russia-attack.html
Fri 19:58:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Saudi Arabia as a peace platform is a hallmark of irony ☛ https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/24/trump-says-meeting-with-putin-could-happen-after-may-trip-to-saudi-arabia | Source: Meduza
Fri 19:58:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ it's like asking Microsoft to "STOP!" attacking Linux
Fri 20:01:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): What It Takes to Be PostgreSQL Compatible and PostgreSQL Anonymizer 2.1 Released ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/What_It_Takes_to_Be_PostgreSQL_Compatible_and_PostgreSQL_Anonym.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/What_It_Takes_to_Be_PostgreSQL_Compatible_and_PostgreSQL_Anonym.gmi ∎
Fri 20:03:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: 3D Printing, ESP32, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_3D_Printing_ESP32_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_3D_Printing_ESP32_and_More.gmi ∎
Fri 20:05:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights intends to spend the next few years on SLAPP reform and advocacy for change. UK tribunals ought not be a "theme park" for abusers who even strangle women and then look to have "revenge" against their victims. Such SLAPPs must be blocked from the get-go.
Fri 20:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Security_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Security_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Fri 20:21:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) (video) (no audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/c0p9i8c = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/c0p9i8c
Fri 20:22:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chinese Factory Owners Make Appeals to Americans on TikTok: Buy Direct ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/technology/chinese-factories-tiktok-trade-war.html
Fri 20:23:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hate chased a Holocaust survivor off TikTok. His message is still: Seek hope. ☞ https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0424/holocaust-survivor-tiktok-influencer
Fri 20:23:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Myanmar Fentanylware (TikTok) astrologer arrested for forecasting new quake ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/myanmar-tiktok-astrologer-arrested-for-forecasting-new-quake
Fri 20:24:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RQuantLib 0.4.26 on CRAN: Small Updates ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/24#rquantlib_0.4.26
Fri 20:24:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Debian Project Leader Election 2025 results ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1018826/
Fri 20:26:35 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ 🎜lucid in my brain while dreaming🎜 ... https://thedebrief.org/largest-brain-study-yet-confirms-lucid-dreaming-as-unique-state-of-consciousness/
Fri 20:28:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Debugging and Profiling GNU/Linux Applications with GDB and strace ☞ https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/debugging-and-profiling-linux-applications-gdb-and-strace
Fri 20:28:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Towards GNU World Domination ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/22/Towards_GNU_World_Domination.shtml
Fri 20:28:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slopfarms on the Web Almost Always Generate Anti-Linux FUD When They Produce "Linux" Output ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/24/Slopfarms_on_the_Web_Almost_Always_Generate_Anti_Linux_FUD_When.shtml
Fri 20:32:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 20:33:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Fri 20:35:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Fri 20:35:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers Stories ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Stories.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/25/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_Stories.gmi ∎
Fri 20:37:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 25/04/2025: Night Manager and Devuan in Hosting ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Gemini_Links_25_04_2025_Night_Manager_and_Devuan_in_Hosting.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Gemini_Links_25_04_2025_Night_Manager_and_Devuan_in_Hosting.gmi ∎
Fri 20:37:51 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://thedebrief.org/2000-year-old-herculaneum-scrolls-scorched-by-mount-vesuvius-are-being-digitally-unrolled-with-ai-and-x-rays/
Fri 20:41:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 25/04/2025: Slop Fatigue and Patent Judges Flocking to Fake, Unconstitutional and Illegal Kangaroo Court (UPC, Captured 'Justice') ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Links_25_04_2025_Slop_Fatigue_and_Patent_Judges_Flocking_to_Fak.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Links_25_04_2025_Slop_Fatigue_and_Patent_Judges_Flocking_to_Fak.gmi ∎
Fri 20:42:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UPC boosters seemed to be ever so proud to promote something illegal, akin to Trump supporters believing that if they can get away with insurrection and the criminal/ringleader later frees them from prison, then all is OK. What does that make Team UPC? A "bunch of patent nazis"?
Fri 20:45:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Continue to explore Fedora and Ubuntu releases." https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-25-17/
Fri 20:45:32 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ how about no?
Fri 20:46:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More slop, less substance? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/linux-io-uring-security-blindspot-allows-stealthy-rootkit-attacks/
Fri 20:46:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ More slop images or lazy "journalism" https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/linux-iouring-poc-rootkit-bypasses.html
Fri 20:47:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Despite having taken major steps forward thanks to more support from developers and a massive boost from Valve’s Proton, there are still plenty of myths around Linux gaming. These, in particular, refuse to go away." https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-gaming-myths-that-just-wont-die/
Fri 20:48:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "NixOS offers a thoughtfully designed experience with plenty of layout options, but it's best suited for users who are willing to tackle a learning curve." https://www.zdnet.com/article/im-a-linux-power-user-and-this-distro-made-me-rethink-what-an-operating-system-can-be/
Fri 20:49:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Corrupt Linux Foundation destroying the "Linux" trademark merits an award? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/linux-foundation-named-in-2025-wtr-industry-awards-shortlist-for-excellence-in-trademark-management-302437553.html
Fri 20:49:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Then again, look who's running it; marketing liars married to frauds.
Fri 20:50:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The publisher, Shiro Games, recently revealed that it amassed over 100,000 wishlists on Steam only 4 days after the reveal. Clearly there's a lot of interest in this one!" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/frostrail-from-the-devs-of-barotrauma-eager-to-support-linux-with-a-tentative-yes/
Fri 20:54:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Lenovo is doing something that many aren't." https://news.itsfoss.com/lenovo-cuts-windows-tax/
Fri 20:54:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ CIQ Announces FIPS 140-3 Compliance for Rocky Linux, Empowering Secure Open Source Adoption www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ciq-announces-fips-140-3-compliance-for-rocky-linux-empowering-secure-open-source-adoption-302437642.html
Fri 20:56:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I bought the CyberGeek Nano T1 mini-PC stuffed with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700U processor, 64GB RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $416. I ordered the model with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed." https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/powerful-mini-pcs-provide-efficient-replacement-for-desktop-computers-177532.html
Fri 20:56:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Marketing SPAM by Red venture https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-4-vpns-i-swear-by-for-linux-and-why-i-trust-them/
Fri 20:57:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It's not Linux but an attack on it, by Microsoft https://www.howtogeek.com/reasons-to-try-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl/
Fri 20:57:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Want to access your Linux PCs remotely? You can set up RDP the hard way, or you can make those connections the easy way. I'll step you through the easy option." https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-set-up-remote-desktop-access-on-your-linux-computers/
Fri 21:04:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alvind is still going to get a hefty perk package for 2026. Same with his m1ndless pipmunks. As long as Krabanaugh fires thousands of people and ruins lives those 2 especially are going to get paid." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsnkf1f4
Fri 21:31:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], One day the stock market is down a million points.
Fri 21:31:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the next day it "rallies" by half a million points and they all clap like morons because Trump says it'll be less horrible than he announced the day before.
Fri 21:32:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the next day he announces something even dumber and it's down a million points again.
Fri 21:32:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then the next day it rallies by half that, and they clap like idiots, but then it turns out to be something a fake account on X said.
Fri 21:32:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Peak Idiocracy.
Fri 21:35:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Smoke alarm going off.
Fri 21:35:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Welcome back to this another exciting episode of Cooking With ********.
Fri 21:36:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Time and temperature. Goes away above the heads of people who wash raw chicken.
Fri 21:36:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then use the same sponge for dishes.
Fri 21:39:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When Susan Powter wrote the book Stop the Insanity, at least "the insanity" in the world was generally limited to workplace politics and whatever people in the town you lived in felt like calling you about.
Fri 21:40:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If anyone heard about international politics, it was a funny story about George Bush throwing up on the Prime Minister of Japan then passing out.
Fri 21:41:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not the Daily Tariff Horseshit and Kristi Noem screaming at you through your TV using your own tax money.
Fri 21:42:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2025/04/25/trump-store-in-huntley-facing-eviction-cited-for-code-violation-over-signs/
Fri 21:43:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Joe Gottemoller is the lawyer for the landlord in the eviction case. Gottemoller, a member of the McHenry County Board, said the landlord is getting ordinance violations from the village because of the tenant’s actions, and those constitute a violation of the lease."
Fri 21:45:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "But Fleischmann said she has no plans to comply with things she thinks don’t make sense. She also said the village is going after her landlord after realizing it wasn’t going to get anywhere with her."
Fri 21:45:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I wonder if she thinks her income taxes make sense.
Fri 21:45:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "They keep sending me those pesky letters!"
Fri 21:45:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I don't know what they want from me!"
Fri 22:32:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm using that pour over coffeemaker now.
Fri 22:32:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I might put the Moccamaster on ebay or something.
Fri 22:32:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With inflation being what it is, I may even get about what I paid for it three years ago.
Fri 22:38:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio:important) (long) https://nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=dEEddujTlog = https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=dEEddujTlog
Fri 22:38:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I might experiment with making my own deodorant.
Fri 22:38:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I can buy ingredients and mix it myself cheaper than paying for the store bought.
Fri 23:09:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Kevin Spacey really nailed what life would be like in 2025, in his performance in American Beauty. I especially liked the part where his boss told him to write a letter about what he does at work. He gives up and turns in a letter that says his job "basically consists of masking his contempt for the assholes in charge" and that he "slips into the men's room" at least twice a day to pleasure himself while fantasizing about a life
Fri 23:09:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ that doesn't so "closely resemble hell", and then he mouths those words while his boss reads them and gives the boss a little smile.
Fri 23:09:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Sat 00:29:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm hot soaking the washcloths in the sink. The water turned brown.
Sat 00:29:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Eww.
Sat 01:46:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-250425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-250425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-250425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-250425.txt
Sat 01:47:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-250425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-250425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-250425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-250425.txt
Sat 01:48:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-250425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-250425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-250425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-250425.txt
Sat 01:49:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-250425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-250425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-250425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-250425.txt
Sat 01:49:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-04-25.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-04-25.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Sat 01:50:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-04-25.txt
Sat 03:47:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2025/04/26/three-years-in-prison-for-disney-employees-menu-hacking-the-economic-fallout-of-digital-menus/
Sat 04:20:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] checking
Sat 04:25:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to enable third party repos in Fedora 42 ☞ https://linuxbsdos.com/2025/04/24/enable-third-party-repos-in-fedora-42/
Sat 04:25:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ OpenMandriva Lx 6.0 Available for Installation ☞ http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/OpenMandriva-Lx-6.0-Available-for-Installation
Sat 04:26:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Auto-CPUFreq Released 2.6.0 with TUI & BlueTooth Toggle ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/auto-cpufreq-2-6-0-tui-bluetooth-toggle/
Sat 04:27:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Events: Community meetup in Pittsburgh, PA, USA ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/community-meetup-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-may
Sat 04:27:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, May 2, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) ☞ http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-05-02
Sat 04:27:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Taler news: Taler iOS wallet independent security audit report published ☞ https://taler.net/en/news/2025-02.html
Sat 04:31:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/26/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/26/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Sat 04:31:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights — Welcome to the New Techrights ⇨ https://techrights.org/ | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ ∎
Sat 04:31:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Friday, April 25, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_April_25_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_April_25_2025.gmi ∎
Sat 04:33:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Sat 04:33:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Dynamic pricing is hell.
Sat 04:34:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's no longer any barriers for adjusting the price upwards, rapidly.
Sat 04:34:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I was looking at a 70" television for $348 though.
Sat 04:34:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good lord.
Sat 04:34:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ What is that in 1998? Maybe $100?
Sat 04:34:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-26.gmi
Sat 04:35:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For a 70" television.
Sat 04:35:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Quality isn't the best, but they all went bad. High failure rate.
Sat 04:35:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1276.jpg
Sat 04:35:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1626.jpg
Sat 04:35:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I assume that the reason mine is working after 10 years is it made it to the other end of the bathtub curve. It's a warranty replacement for one that did fail almost immediately.
Sat 04:36:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Happy Friday. I wrote a game. It may be the first 3D game on Gemini. I'm not trying to be hyperbolic. I just want you to click the link. You'll need a client certificate and your wits to emerge victorious. Do you have what it takes?" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/28304
Sat 04:37:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "With some luck and skill and items the dog can be rescued. Alive, and not as meat rations. First up is to mark three map cells around the location of the dog as "do no enter" so nothing runs in this area (unless recent versions of CDDA have increased the size of the reality bubble)." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/26/dog-days-ahead.gmi
Sat 04:39:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IO gemini://gemini.abiscuola.com/gemlog/io.gmi
Sat 04:41:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], I'm using that pour over coffeemaker now.
Sat 04:41:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's easy
Sat 04:41:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], One day the stock market is down a million points.
Sat 04:41:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the media is PART of the scam
Sat 04:42:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right, but the funny part of it is nothing has fundamentally changed other than one particularly stupid asshole says something. It's frightening that we can have a rebound followed by another crash because a fake post on "X" is a source now.
Sat 04:42:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The fault of Google Noise perhaps.
Sat 04:43:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yeah, it is useless
Sat 04:44:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i only check it quickly once a day
Sat 04:44:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] via a program we made
Sat 04:44:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] some of tthe stuff there is just slopfarms
Sat 04:44:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], There's no complex mechanism to get fouled up and ruin a pourover coffee maker. They're relatively cheap and so are electric kettles.
Sat 04:44:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I picked up an open box stainless steel 1.1 liter kettle on Amazon for $13 this week.
Sat 04:44:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the price of coffee blends went up
Sat 04:44:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It works much better than the glass ones, which always end up leaking.
Sat 04:45:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It retains heat a lot longer too.
Sat 04:46:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The water here is hard enough that I have to descale the Moccamaster quite often. About once a month.
Sat 04:46:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can't use vinegar or you'll ruin it.
Sat 04:46:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can boil vinegar in a stainless steel kettle.
Sat 04:47:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The pourover system doesn't seem to slow me down much.
Sat 04:48:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Grind the beans, pour them in, pour some hot water in, stir, rinse the spoon with another pour, go throw my clothes on. Coffee's done.
Sat 04:51:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Three Years in Prison for Disney Employee’s ‘Menu Hacking’: The Economic Fallout of Digital Menus ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/Three_Years_in_Prison_for_Disney_Employee_s_Menu_Hacking_The_Ec.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/Three_Years_in_Prison_for_Disney_Employee_s_Menu_Hacking_The_Ec.gmi ∎
Sat 05:03:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: saw no typos
Sat 05:11:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – In defence of JD Vance, death of Pope Francis ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/In_defence_of_JD_Vance_death_of_Pope_Francis.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/26/In_defence_of_JD_Vance_death_of_Pope_Francis.gmi ∎
Sat 05:23:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New Intel CEO Announces Additional Office Day for Employees https://tech.co/news/intel-announces-additional-office-day
Sat 05:24:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel offers weak forecast amid trade tensions as CEO talks to TSMC https://www.reuters.com/business/intel-forecasts-second-quarter-revenue-below-estimates-fanning-tariff-worries-2025-04-24/
Sat 05:26:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The comment is tainted with racism and some imperialistic white supremacist tendencies." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jspr6fnf
Sat 05:27:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM will soon chop one of its limb to pay off for its misguided policy. The vultures are circling around the POWER product line." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsntck5q
Sat 05:28:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Looks like Alvind's been sicking some duck big time over at Murdoch Co." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsr0yjqx
Sat 05:34:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Article ends on a lame note. This is not about mistrusting the company; this is about the company doing what it needs to in order to stay relevant for the next decades in the fast-changing world of AI dominance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jsnkcaz4 HAHA!! "fast-changing world of AI dominance." WHAT BS!!
Sat 05:34:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Call them low performers, time to move on, need new and different skill, or whatever it is, 12 wks pay vs nothing, aka employment at will, it's an OK deal."
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