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[02:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
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[02:50]	TR News	Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-04-14.txt
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[08:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  COSMIC 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/COSMIC_1_0_10_Desktop_Environment_Brings_Small_Tweaks_and_Bug_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/COSMIC_1_0_10_Desktop_Environment_Brings_Small_Tweaks_and_Bug_F.gmi 
[08:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines COSMIC 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes
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[11:01]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/GNOME_50_1_Released_with_Basic_Zoom_Support_for_the_Captive_Por.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/GNOME_50_1_Released_with_Basic_Zoom_Support_for_the_Captive_Por.gmi 
[11:01]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal
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[18:00]	TR News	 (NEW):  Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Zorin_OS_18_1_Boosts_Windows_App_Support_by_40_Improves_Window_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Zorin_OS_18_1_Boosts_Windows_App_Support_by_40_Improves_Window_.gmi 
[18:00]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling
● Apr 15
[20:16]	TR News	Economic Civil War: States Push Laws to Shield Oil and Gas Companies From Accountability https://www.propublica.org/article/climate-change-alec-leonard-leo-lawsuits-fossil-fuel-oil-gas-immunity
[20:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.propublica.org | GOP Lawmakers Passing Bills to Shield Oil Companies From Climate Lawsuits ProPublica
[20:17]	TR News	how the planets climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement https://theconversation.com/earthrise-to-earthset-how-the-planets-climate-has-changed-since-the-photo-that-inspired-the-environmental-movement-279818
[20:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-theconversation.com | Earthrise to Earthset: how the planets climate has changed since the photo that inspired the environmental movement
[20:18]	TR News	timber https://www.vox.com/climate/484972/trump-logging-forests-timber
[20:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Trump administrations logging push and its impact, explained | Vox
[20:21]	TR News	climate https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/09/senegal-a-decade-of-unresolved-climate-displacement
[20:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hrw.org | Senegal: A Decade of Unresolved Climate Displacement | Human Rights Watch
[20:21]	TR News	The real reason your monthly gas bill keeps going up https://www.vox.com/climate/485398/gas-utility-bill-price-increase-pipe-infrastructure
[20:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The real reason your monthly gas utility bill keeps going up | Vox
[20:22]	TR News	Study finds hidden lake network beneath Arctic glaciers as climate change accelerates https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/glaciers-climate-change-arctic-9.7159584
[20:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.cbc.ca | Study finds hidden lake network beneath Arctic glaciers as climate change accelerates | CBC News
[20:25]	TR News	Jones Day confirms limited breach after phishing attack by Silent Ransom Group https://databreaches.net/2026/04/06/jones-day-confirms-limited-breach-after-phishing-attack-by-silent-ransom-group/
[20:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2026/04/06/jones-day-confirms-limited-breach-after-phishing-attack-by-silent-ransom-group/ )
[20:26]	TR News	"When CC was founded, the [Internet] was at an inflection point: sharing and remixing were easier than ever, but we were stuck between the black-and-white choice of copyrights default to all rights reserved and no rights reserved." https://creativecommons.org/2026/04/14/celebrating-25-years-of-choosing-to-share/ | Source: Creative Commons
[20:26]	TR News	"A new EU policy report published by the independent think tank CEPS points out that site-blocking efforts in several EU countries are seriously flawed." https://torrentfreak.com/eu-pirate-site-blocking-is-broken-report-calls-for-ip-blocking-ban-and-rightsholder-liability/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[20:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-creativecommons.org | Celebrating 25 Years of Choosing to Share - Creative Commons
[20:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-EU Pirate Site-Blocking Is Broken: Report Calls for IP Blocking Ban and Rightsholder Liability * TorrentFreak
[20:27]	TR News	"Therein, 501 respondents described music as their full-time career, 633 disclosed plans to make music their full-time career in the future, and 74 said itd previously been their full-time career." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/14/music-streaming-royalties-paradox-study/ | Source: Digital Music News
[20:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/14/music-streaming-royalties-paradox-study/ )
[20:28]	TR News	"John Deere executives have repeatedly promised to do better, then just ignored those promises." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/john-deere-pays-99-million-to-settle-right-to-repair-class-action/ | Source: Techdirt
[20:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-John Deere Pays $99 Million To Settle Right To Repair Class Action | Techdirt
[20:28]	TR News	"The bill in question is AB 2047, the scope of which, on paper, appears strict." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/eff_california_3dprinted_firearms/ | Source: The Register UK
[20:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theregister.com | EFF: California 3D printer bill threatens digital freedoms The Register
[20:29]	TR News	[Old] "I have one of the oldest websites on the inter- net,1 dating back to at least AD 1996." https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf | Source: Tom Murphy VII
[20:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-OpenSSL/3.0.19: error:0A000152:SSL routines::unsafe legacy renegotiation disabled ( status 0 @ https://tom7.org/httpv/httpv.pdf )
[20:29]	TR News	"Despite Estonia's signature digital drive, nearly 120,000 households still lack high-speed fiber [Internet], pushing many to rely on wireless or satellite connectivity." https://news.err.ee/1609994296/many-estonian-homes-still-lack-high-speed-internet-turn-to-alternatives | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[20:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.err.ee | Many Estonian homes still lack high-speed internet, turn to alternatives | News | ERR
[20:29]	TR News	"ConnectME, Maines Authority on facilitating universal broadband to all state residents and businesses, has launched a re-designed website focused on informing communities and businesses about broadband services and access in their area." https://insidetowers.com/maine-launches-revised-website-to-promote-broadband-access/ | Source: Inside Towers
[20:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | Maine Launches Revised Website to Promote Broadband Access - Inside Towers
[20:30]	TR News	"It is worth asking who will buy goods and services if unemployment increases substantially." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/14/why-are-we-building-all-these-data-centres-again/ | Source: APNIC
[20:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.apnic.net | Why are 'we' building all these data centres again? | APNIC Blog
[20:30]	TR News	"According to the report, Mullen told officers his plan was to let students assault him so they could be arrested." https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/09/armed-masked-man-hamilton-high-protest-identified-phoenix-police-sergeant/ | Source: Gray Local Media
[20:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.azfamily.com | Armed masked man at Hamilton High protest identified as Phoenix police sergeant
[20:32]	TR News	"If you haven't been on YouTube you may not have seen all the hype. Angine de Poitrine is a anonymous French Canadian duo creating looped microtonal music. It's not something I'd casually listen to in the car but I'm impressed with the musicianship. The look is something else." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/bluesman/41588
[20:32]	TR News	"Finally managed to raise a kid to the age where this becomes an enjoyable watch, so we watched it last night. It was my first time since seeing it on a recorded-off-TV VHS copy, and boy does the Director's Cut look great in 4K! Notes follow: [...]" gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/15/startrekii/
[20:33]	TR News	"Keeping a clean and maintainable shell setup matters more than most people think. Over time, a messy .bashrc can turn into a dumping ground for aliases, functions, environment variables, and random experiments. I prefer a modular approach: split everything into focused files and import them." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/how-i-organize-my-bashrc-with-imports/
[20:34]	TR News	"After a few weeks poking around the gemiverse, learning the layout and the vibes and the lingo, I've finally got my very own capsule up and running. What should your very first glog (objectively funnier than calling it gemlog) be about? Why, your glog stack of course!" gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-04-15-liftoff.gmi
[20:34]	TR News	open water gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/open_water
[20:35]	TR News	"The End of Eleventy by Brennan Kenneth Brown (@brennan@social.lol) is a blog outlining the surge in static site generator popularity. Static sites are web sites consisting of HTML and CSS files that are served by a web server. There is no server-side component to them. This makes them very fast for readers." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-14-ssg
[20:36]	TR News	"i picked both of these for their "Pow!" aries sort of feeling, to welcome in the spring and the new astrological year. but it quickly turned out i see them more as magical tools than just plain old tarot decks. the effect was twofold:" gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/marchdecks
[20:37]	TR News	molly's ever growing list of stuff she is way too excited to do
[20:38]	TR News	"On Monday, I sent an email to the local amateur radio club, asking about their classes. That evening, I get a response: "Your timing is impeccable. The next class starts tomorrow evening."" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-15
[20:39]	TR News	2026-04-15 gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260415
[20:39]	TR News	"They approach the decrepit church to the Godshell, the largest of them dragging a lump bound in hessian. A monk squats on the doorstep, his filthy robes flapping in tatters as the freezing wind howls through the holes in the church walls, sending wafts of stale incense and spoiled wine to the party." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-04-16-return.gmi
[20:40]	TR News	"When high school kids in Phoenix staged an anti-ICE walkout in January, a masked man with a handgun approached the students and refused to leave." https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/masked-gunman-who-menaced-students-at-anti-ice-school-protest-was-a-cop.html | Source: BoingBoing
[20:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/masked-gunman-who-menaced-students-at-anti-ice-school-protest-was-a-cop.html )
[20:41]	TR News	"DoorDash Edition" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/garbage-in-garbage-out-doordash-edition | Source: Mike Brock
[20:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | Garbage In, Garbage Out: DoorDash Edition - by Mike Brock
[20:41]	TR News	"Zohran Mamdani spoke, and Bernie Sanders spoke, and they were both very good, but in reality, the headliners were there in order to fill up the place so that everyone could listen to the workers speak." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/two-visions | Source: Hamilton Nolan
[20:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hamiltonnolan.com | Two Visions - by Hamilton Nolan - How Things Work
[20:41]	TR News	"When he transferred to a factory in South Carolina in the late 1970s, he and his wife planned to buy a house in Bishopville, but they soon ran into trouble." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/born-to-a-family-of-sharecroppers-this-topiary-artist-overcame-discrimination-to-become-the-picasso-of-plants-180988544/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[20:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/born-to-a-family-of-sharecroppers-this-topiary-artist-overcame-discrimination-to-become-the-picasso-of-plants-180988544/ )
[20:42]	TR News	"ChongLy Thao was arrested and dragged out of his home in his underwear in the middle of winter during the large-scale immigration raid launched by the White House in Minneapolis and St. Paul" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-14/minnesota-is-investigating-ice-agents-for-the-possible-kidnapping-of-a-us-citizen-during-a-raid.html | Source: El Pas
[20:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-14/minnesota-is-investigating-ice-agents-for-the-possible-kidnapping-of-a-us-citizen-during-a-raid.html )
[20:42]	TR News	"The government says the amendments, which are open for public consultation until April 29, are necessary to combat misinformation and deep fakes." https://cpj.org/2026/04/proposed-indian-it-rules-grant-government-powers-to-censor-independent-journalists/ | Source: CPJ
[20:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cpj.org | Proposed Indian IT Rules grant government powers to censor independent journalists - Committee to Protect Journalists
[20:43]	TR News	"Roldugin was detained on April 9. That same day, investigators searched the Novaya Gazeta newsroom for more than 13 hours." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/14/russian-journalist-charged-with-unauthorized-access-to-computer-data-as-part-of-a-group | Source: Meduza
[20:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Russian journalist charged with unauthorized access to computer data as part of a group Meduza
[20:43]	TR News	Snap Inc lays off 1,000 workers
[20:46]	TR News	"The [Internet] known within China is a very different [Internet] to the one known by the world at large." https://vale.rocks/posts/chinas-web | Source: Declan Chidlow
[20:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Chinas Parallel Web Behind the Wall | Vale.Rocks
[20:46]	TR News	"Internal emails obtained by WIRED reveal how a conservative legal group with a direct line into FCC chairman Brendan Carrs office built the case against Jimmy Kimmel and his employees." https://www.wired.com/story/the-fcc-has-a-fast-lane-for-complaints-about-trumps-media-critics/ | Source: Wired
[20:46]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The FCC Has a Fast Lane for Complaints About Trumps Media Critics | WIRED
[20:47]	TR News	"For nearly two decades, I helped Thomson Reuters build the legal resources that lawyers and law enforcement trust." https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-fired-worker-for-speaking-out-about-ice-former-employee-says/ | Source: 404 Media
[20:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.404media.co | Thomson Reuters Fired Worker For Speaking Out About ICE, Former Employee Says
[20:47]	TR News	"Balaji didnt live long enough to tell his full story." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/open-ai-suchir-balaji-whistleblowers/ | Source: The Nation
[20:47]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | The Death of an AI Whistleblower | The Nation
[20:51]	TR News	"The government-sanctioned National Information Network, consisting of whitelisted sites such as banking applications and domestic messaging platforms" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/iran-internet-blackout-enters-46th-day-straining-economy | Source: Semafor Inc
[20:51]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[20:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Iran internet blackout enters 46th day, straining economy | Semafor
[20:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[20:51]	TR News	Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ 
[20:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights
[20:51]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 14, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_April_14_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_April_14_2026.gmi 
[20:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, April 14, 2026
[20:51]	TR News	"The government-sanctioned National Information Network, consisting of whitelisted sites such as banking applications and domestic messaging platforms" https://www.semafor.com/article/04/14/2026/iran-internet-blackout-enters-46th-day-straining-economy | Source: Semafor Inc
[20:52]	TR News	"But to the Chinese government, ethnic unity is also a global matter." https://dominotheory.com/beijing-codifies-repression-of-overseas-activists/ | Source: Domino Theory
[20:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 429 @ https://dominotheory.com/beijing-codifies-repression-of-overseas-activists/ )
[20:53]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[20:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[20:53]	TR News	"She added that at the same time the St. Petersburg cinemas were declining to participate, it emerged that Nikita Mikhalkov had invited Sokurov to the 48th Moscow International Film Festival" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/st-petersburg-cinemas-refuse-to-screen-director-alexander-sokurov-s-films-as-film-festival-prepares-to-honor-him | Source: Meduza
[20:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | St. Petersburg cinemas refuse to screen director Alexander Sokurovs films as film festival prepares to honor him Meduza
[20:53]	TR News	"Russians are also accepting of the messaging app restrictions, Peskov said, once again attributing them to the apps failure to comply with Russian law." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/14/kremlin-says-russia-s-internet-restrictions-will-be-lifted-once-the-need-for-them-disappears | Source: Meduza
[20:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Kremlin says Russias internet restrictions will be lifted once the need for them disappears Meduza
[20:53]	TR News	"Andrei Akuzin, 53, was arrested on April 2 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Khabarovsk Krai, said Tatyana Frolova, a theater director living in France." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/russian-artist-dies-by-suicide-in-jail-after-arrest-over-online-comment-acquaintances-say | Source: Meduza
[20:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Russian artist dies by suicide in jail after arrest over online comment, acquaintances say Meduza
[20:54]	TR News	"Boltan is the former co-chair of the Free Journalists Association (GC) and former head of the Dicle Frat Journalists Association (DFG), both active in the Kurdish-populated regions." https://bianet.org/haber/journalist-sentenced-for-insulting-the-president-over-2016-statement-318701 | Source: BIA Net
[20:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-bianet.org | Journalist sentenced for 'insulting the president' over 2016 statement
[20:55]	TR News	"All museum objects from the previous exhibition have already been removed from the building, the source told the outlet, and part of the collection" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/13/report-nearly-all-staff-at-moscow-s-gulag-history-museum-resign-after-authorities-order-conversion-into-memorial-to-the-genocide-of-the-soviet-people | Source: Meduza
[20:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-meduza.io | Report: Nearly all staff at Moscows Gulag History Museum resign after authorities order conversion into memorial to the genocide of the Soviet people Meduza
[20:56]	TR News	"Its his most aggressive and direct attack yet on the Vicar of Christ, who has been uncharacteristically vocal this year in his criticism of militaristic foreign policy" https://www.vox.com/politics/485563/trump-pope-ai-blasphemy-art-christ-evangelical-religious-right | Source: Vox
[20:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Trump used AI to turn himself into Jesus. Will the religious right forgive him? | Vox
[20:57]	TR News	"This deal had been recently rumored. Amazon acquiring Globalstar gives it a leg up in its attempt to take on Starlink, which is the biggest player in this space." https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/amazon-acquires-apples-satellite-partner/ | Source: Six Colors
[20:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 429 @ https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/04/amazon-acquires-apples-satellite-partner/ )
[20:57]	TR News	"For the past twenty years, Google has dominated the online advertising market after displacing Yahoo." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/meta-about-to-overtake-google | Source: Jrme Marin
[20:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cafetechinenglish.substack.com | Meta about to overtake Google - by Jrme Marin - Caftech
[20:57]	TR News	"No one was injured in the early morning fire, but Justice wants to make a point: Chamel Abdulkarims target was the system of capitalism itself." https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/luigi-inspired-arsonist-threatened | Source: Ken Klippenstein
[20:57]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kenklippenstein.com | Luigi-Inspired Arsonist Threatened Our Way of Life, Feds Say
[20:58]	TR News	"I am watching a phase transition in American society. And I am not sure the people responsible for producing the conditions that are driving it understand what they are looking at." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-boiling-point | Source: Mike Brock
[20:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | The Boiling Point - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus
[20:58]	TR News	"A story that asks whether Altman can be trusted seems self-evident to me. Maybe the more generalist New Yorker audience actually believed OpenAIs pitch about how it is different. I never did." https://crazystupidtech.com/2026/04/13/what-ive-been-reading/ | Source: Crazy Stupid Tech
[20:58]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 429 @ https://crazystupidtech.com/2026/04/13/what-ive-been-reading/ )
[20:59]	TR News	"The company said in an announcement that it is committing to an initial deployment of 1 gigawatts worth of its Meta Training and Inference Accelerators, a custom-designed chip for AI workloads that Meta runs in its own data centers." https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/14/meta-doubles-partnership-broadcom-custom-ai-processors/ | Source: Silicon Angle
[20:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Meta doubles down on partnership with Broadcom on custom AI processors - SiliconANGLE
[20:59]	TR News	"the collapse of Europes two-track approach to Russia" https://nris.journal.fi/article/view/178392 | Source: Nordic Review of International Studies
[20:59]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nris.journal.fi | Whither dialogue? Nordic leadership and the collapse of Europes two-track approach to Russia | Nordic Review of International Studies
● Apr 15
[21:03]	TR News	People's trees are kicking off and I am here for it.
[21:03]	TR News	"People's trees are kicking off and I am here for it." https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/spring-stuff | Source: Jasper Tandy
[21:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jasper.tandy.is | Jasper is blogging: Spring stuff
[21:04]	TR News	"Charlie and I have been keeping an eye on the patches of Trout Lilies in our local woods, and today they were in full bloom." https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/13/woodland-spring-flowers/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett
[21:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 429 @ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/13/woodland-spring-flowers/ )
[21:06]	TR News	"The most impressive part of this build, however, is the battery" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/electric-truck-sets-racing-record/ | Source: Hackaday
[21:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Electric Truck Sets Racing Record | Hackaday
[21:07]	TR News	"Despite knowing the risks, nearly one in five drivers in Estonia have found themselves in a dangerous situation due to being distracted by a smartphone or navigation device, Delfi reported." https://news.err.ee/1609995331/survey-65-percent-use-smartphones-while-driving-despite-knowing-risks | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[21:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.err.ee | Survey: 65 percent use smartphones while driving despite knowing risks | News | ERR
[21:07]	TR News	"France and Spain, which mostly generate electricity from non-fossil sources (including nuclear power in France)" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/chinese-electrotech-is-the-big-winner | Source: Paul Krugman
[21:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-paulkrugman.substack.com | Chinese Electrotech is the Big Winner in the Iran War
[21:07]	TR News	"The Cuban government implemented a strategy known as Opcin Cero (Option Zero in English)" https://www.theenergymix.com/china-moving-in-with-solar-as-cuban-fuel-crisis-deepens/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
[21:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/china-moving-in-with-solar-as-cuban-fuel-crisis-deepens/ )
[21:08]	TR News	"In that same reporting context, EBN highlights that it invested well over 400 million euros in 2025 in energy security and the energy transition, reflecting a significant scaling-up of its role in recent years" https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/14/dutch-state-energy-firm-seeks-billions-energy-transition-projects | Source: NL Times
[21:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nltimes.nl | Dutch State energy firm seeks billions for energy transition projects | NL Times
[21:09]	TR News	"Researchers have identified common leafy vegetables as potential tools for extracting toxic metals from contaminated soil, using a process known as phytomining." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/kale-cabbage-phytomining-metal-recovery | Source: Interesting Engineering
[21:09]	TR News	"portfolio review." https://www.theenergymix.com/microsoft-pauses-new-carbon-removal-agreements-amid-shifting-environmental-targets/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
[21:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-interestingengineering.com | Leafy vegetables could extract toxic thallium from polluted soil
[21:09]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/microsoft-pauses-new-carbon-removal-agreements-amid-shifting-environmental-targets/ )
[21:10]	TR News	"This dual nature of data centres requires the intervention of cities to ensure their development is beneficial to the public, not just tech companies." https://www.theenergymix.com/cities-face-resilience-challenges-in-data-centre-investment-boom/ | Source: Energy Mix Productions Inc
[21:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HTTP/2 stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.theenergymix.com/cities-face-resilience-challenges-in-data-centre-investment-boom/ )
[21:11]	TR News	"The measurements showed that concentrations of radioactive cesium in mushrooms have declined as expected. Fewer than ten percent of samples exceeded the recommended food safety limit of 600 becquerels per kilo for wild products." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220549 | Source: YLE
[21:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Mushrooms still carry traces of Chernobyl disaster | Yle News | Yle
[21:11]	TR News	"The rout of half the Festus City Council was fueled by a surge in voter turnout and widespread frustration with the data center approval process." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259 | Source: Politico LLC
[21:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/13/missouri-city-council-data-center-00867259 )
[21:12]	TR News	RMS talk in Texas about to begin
[21:12]	TR News	"Datacenter Dynamics reported last year that Google was seeking to buy 195 acres of land at the Ozans Business Park, south east of Chteauroux. The site was set to cost about $68 million." https://insidetowers.com/google-plans-its-first-data-center-in-france/ | Source: Inside Towers
[21:12]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-insidetowers.com | Google Plans its First Data Center in France - Inside Towers
[21:13]	TR News	"Rice is a staple food for over one billion people in Asia." https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-03108-0 | Source: Nature
[21:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.nature.com | Projected warming will exceed the long-term thermal limits of rice cultivation | Communications Earth & Environment
[21:13]	TR News	"staggering valuation that will shape how much the company contributes in property taxes and how local officials frame its economic impact" https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/04/14/in-memphis-investors-benefit-from-ai-boom-while-the-public-bears-its-cost/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout
[21:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/04/14/in-memphis-investors-benefit-from-ai-boom-while-the-public-bears-its-cost/ )
[21:14]	TR News	"Legally, Trump cant just undo the Biden-era rules on a whim. Instead, his EPA has started work on a convoluted workaround, which includes state-level enforcement delays and revisions to the original regulations." https://futurism.com/science-energy/coal-waste-trump | Source: Futurism
[21:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Trump Moves to Let Coal Companies Pollute Waterways With Their Toxic Slag
[21:15]	TR News	"Thousands of jobs were immediately slashed by Elon Musks para-governmental Department [sic] of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and political appointees took over posts previously held by career civil servants" https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usaid-abortions-barney-nicholas-enrich-into-the-wood-chipper-book-exclusive | Source: Marisa Kabas
[21:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thehandbasket.co | Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book
[21:15]	TR News	"EPSTEIN introduced MELANIA TRUMP to DONALD TRUMP, the FBI summary document reads, written by an FBI special agent whose name was redacted in the document." https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2676710003/ | Source: Raw Story
[21:15]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rawstory.com | Unearthed FBI doc undercuts White House denial about Epstein's connection to Melania Trump - Raw Story
[21:16]	TR News	"Weird how the official story needs defending, but the document just exists. Coincidence is doing a lot of heavy lifting, unless it is a nickname for Ghislaine Maxwell." https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/fbi-doc-says-epstein-introduced-melania-to-trump-but-ok-lets-go-with-chance-meeting.html | Source: BoingBoing
[21:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/fbi-doc-says-epstein-introduced-melania-to-trump-but-ok-lets-go-with-chance-meeting.html )
[21:16]	TR News	"I think talented journalists like Ronan Farrow had a chance to do some new reporting on where AI is now, what impact it will have on the economy and society, and they instead wrote an article about personality quirks and office drama." https://www.manton.org/2026/04/14/sam-altman-profile-misses-the.html | Source: Manton Reece
[21:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.manton.org | Manton Reece - Sam Altman profile misses the mark
[21:17]	TR News	"Going forward, Harmon-Jones says more work is needed to separate the findings on cognitive dissonance from the Trump-themed line of questioning." https://futurism.com/health-medicine/psychology-research-trump-supporters | Source: Futurism
[21:17]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | Psychological Research Finds Trump Supporters Are Not Doing Well
[21:18]	TR News	"There is no lack of good ideas, from economic models that center wellbeing and rethink growth to radical ecological democracy." https://overpopulation-project.com/the-most-appropriate-response-to-falling-birthrates-embrace-them/ | Source: Overpopulation
[21:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-overpopulation-project.com | The Most Appropriate Response to Falling Birthrates? Embrace Them - The Overpopulation Project
[21:18]	TR News	"Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies" https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/14/how-many-babies-do-we-want-how-many-will-we-have/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[21:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-crookedtimber.org | How many babies do we want? How many will we have? Crooked Timber
[21:20]	TR News	"While the measure enjoys 80% public approval, critics point to recent data from Australia, where a similar ban implemented in late 2025 saw nearly 70% of minors bypass restrictions via VPNs" https://www.ekathimerini.com/in-depth/society-in-depth/1300636/social-media-ban-raises-effectiveness-rights-concerns/ | Source: Greece
[21:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Social media ban raises effectiveness, rights concerns | eKathimerini.com
[21:20]	TR News	"a direct strike against our secular democracy and all voters." https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-resist-trumps-move-to-destroy-elections/ | Source: Freedom From Religion Foundation
[21:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrf-resist-trumps-move-to-destroy-elections/ )
[21:20]	TR News	"Protecting vulnerable members of our communities from him and his agents." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/an-apology | Source: Robert Reich
[21:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | An Apology - Robert Reich
[21:21]	TR News	"Estonia and Belgium are the only two EU member states to have declined the Jutland Declaration, an October 2025 pan-European commitment to restrict childrens access to social media." https://thenextweb.com/news/estonia-eu-child-social-media-ban-opposition | Source: The Next Web
[21:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thenextweb.com | Estonia is the rare EU country opposing bans on childrens social media use
[21:22]	TR News	"kids will find very quickly the ways to go around and to still use social media." https://www.engadget.com/social-media/estonia-is-the-rare-eu-country-opposing-child-social-media-bans-194620916.html | Source: Engadget
[21:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.engadget.com | Estonia is the rare EU country opposing child social media bans
[21:22]	TR News	<li>
[21:22]	TR News	"The gerrymandered map that was supposed to make Orbn permanent didnt just fail. It was overrun." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-first-domino | Source: Mike Brock
[21:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.notesfromthecircus.com | The First Domino - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus
[21:22]	TR News	 (NEW):  Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Why_Zorin_OS_18_1_is_simply_the_best_Linux_distro_for_anyone.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Why_Zorin_OS_18_1_is_simply_the_best_Linux_distro_for_anyone.gmi 
[21:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone
[21:23]	TR News	"Hey evangelical Christians?" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jack-white-donald-trump-christian-support-jesus-pope-1235546491/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[21:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.rollingstone.com | Jack White Questions How Christians Can Support Donald Trump
[21:23]	TR News	"Until recently I thought impeaching Trump and convicting him in the Senate was a pipe dream." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-impeach-the-bastard-for-real | Source: Robert Reich
[21:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-robertreich.substack.com | How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real - Robert Reich
[21:24]	TR News	" more than 60% of children aged 1215 who previously used social media still have access to at least one account. Overall, this represents 54% of all children in that age group." https://thecyberexpress.com/australia-social-media-ban-faces-question/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[21:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | Australia Social Media Ban Fails To Stop Under-16 Access
[21:24]	TR News	"Will the kind of influence peddling now ubiquitous in politics become unprosecutable simply because it has become so commonplace?" https://jacobin.com/2026/04/political-corruption-criminalization-supreme-court/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[21:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-jacobin.com | Political Corruption Is Being Normalized
[21:25]	TR News	"Months after confusion about its possible demise, the U.S. DOGE [sic] Service is reemerging and adding to its ranks." https://fedscoop.com/us-doge-service-alive-growing-organization-official-says/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[21:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-US DOGE Service is alive and growing, organization official says | FedScoop
[21:25]	TR News	"An AIPAC-specific resolution didnt make it through the partys meeting. But Ive never seen such an open debate about the role of pro-Israel money before." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-aipac-dark-money-meeting/ | Source: The Nation
[21:25]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | A Major Taboo Was Broken at the DNC Last Weekend | The Nation
[21:26]	TR News	"Earlier this year, Queensland passed legislation banning the phrases "from the river to the sea" and "globalise the intifada", categorising them as hate speech against Jewish people." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/brisbane-river-to-sea-accused-pleads-insanity/8ace9w4j4 | Source: SBS
[21:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.sbs.com.au | Man charged with using newly banned phrases in Queensland tries to argue law 'insane' | SBS News
[21:26]	TR News	 (NEW):  Duane OBrien Takes OSIs Hot Seat https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Duane_O_Brien_Takes_OSI_s_Hot_Seat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Duane_O_Brien_Takes_OSI_s_Hot_Seat.gmi 
[21:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Duane OBrien Takes OSIs Hot Seat
[21:26]	TR News	"The operation was carried out without infantry and without losses on our side" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/14/zelensky-says-kyiv-seized-a-russian-position-with-drones-and-robots-is-this-a-game-changer-a92497 | Source: The Moscow Times
[21:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.themoscowtimes.com | Zelensky Says Kyiv Seized a Russian Position With Drones and Robots. Is This a Game Changer? - The Moscow Times
[21:27]	TR News	"Literally the only way to get a photo with geolocation intact is to plug in a USB cable, copy the photo to your computer, and then upload it via a desktop web browser?" https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/android-now-stops-you-sharing-your-location-in-photos/ | Source: Terence Eden
[21:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-shkspr.mobi | Android now stops you sharing your location in photos Terence Edens Blog
[21:27]	TR News	"Except the browser doesnt care whose URLs match those patterns." https://www.jonoalderson.com/performance/speculation-rules-for-evil/ | Source: Jono Alderson
[21:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jonoalderson.com | Speculation rules for evil - Jono Alderson
[21:27]	TR News	"The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is asking the attorneys general of California and New York to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices" https://www.theverge.com/news/911789/eff-google-giving-data-ice-california-new-york | Source: The Verge
[21:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | Privacy advocates want Google to stop handing consumer data over to ICE | The Verge
[21:28]	TR News	"Compromised information includes names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and bank account details." https://www.securityweek.com/europes-largest-gym-chain-says-data-breach-impacts-1-million-members/ | Source: Security Week
[21:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/europes-largest-gym-chain-says-data-breach-impacts-1-million-members/ )
[21:28]	TR News	"ignore legally defined, globally standard, opt-out signals endorsed by regulators" https://therecord.media/big-tech-fails-to-opt-out-users-requesting-not-to-be-tracked | Source: The Record
[21:28]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Big tech fails to opt-out users requesting not to be tracked much of the time, new research says | The Record from Recorded Future News
[21:29]	TR News	"In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, easy to circumvent" https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/438-experts-said-age-verification-is-dangerous-legislators-are-moving-forward-with-it-anyway/ | Source: Techdirt
[21:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-438 Experts Said Age Verification Is Dangerous. Legislators Are Moving Forward With It Anyway. | Techdirt
[21:30]	TR News	"In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-broke-its-promise-me-now-ice-has-my-data | Source: EFF https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/31/Google_Bribes_EFF_EFF_Promotes_LLM_Slop_as_Fair_Use_To_GAFAM_It.shtml
[21:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.eff.org | Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. | Electronic Frontier Foundation
[21:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Google Bribes EFF. EFF Promotes LLM Slop as 'Fair Use'. To GAFAM It's a Low-Cost Lobby Hedge.
[21:30]	TR News	"back button hijacking" https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking | Source: Google
[21:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-developers.google.com | Introducing a new spam policy for "back button hijacking" | Google Search Central Blog | Google for Developers
[21:30]	TR News	Privatisation/Privateering: "Water charges could increase significantly in the coming years as utility companies invest in improving ageing pipeline networks." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220597 | Source: YLE
[21:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Ministry: Water in Finland is too cheap, bills set to rise | Yle News | Yle
[21:33]	TR News	Windows TCO https://thecyberexpress.com/chipsoft-ransomware-incident/ | Source: Cyble Inc
[21:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thecyberexpress.com | ChipSoft Ransomware Incident Hits Dutch Healthcare Systems
[21:36]	TR News	 (NEW):  You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/You_cannot_use_the_GNU_A_GPL_to_take_software_freedom_away.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/You_cannot_use_the_GNU_A_GPL_to_take_software_freedom_away.gmi 
[21:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away
[21:36]	TR News	"She explained that social media, as a tool or channel, has changed recruitment methods." https://news.err.ee/1609994248/estonia-caught-a-record-number-of-russian-collaborators-in-2025 | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling
[21:36]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.err.ee | Estonia caught a record number of Russian collaborators in 2025 | News | ERR
[21:37]	TR News	"Its a bit difficult to even talk about the [Internet] as a single concept. Maybe I have an outdated idea, but I dont really consider the [Internet] to be any connected service." https://catskull.net/the-internet-is-a-vast-place.html | Source: Dave DeGraw
[21:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-catskull.net | The Internet is a vast place.
[21:37]	TR News	"Enhancing User Experience for Remote Social Interactions in ActivityPub Applications" https://www.timothychambers.net/2026/04/14/proposal-for-fediverse-remote-content.html | Source: Timothy Chambers
[21:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.timothychambers.net | **Proposal for Fediverse Remote Content Engagement** Updated April 14, 2026 - Tim Chambers
[21:37]	TR News	"Earlier this year, the regulator moved against services including Telegram and WhatsApp, arguing that the platforms had failed to comply with local legislation." https://therecord.media/russia-cracks-down-bluesky-internet | Source: The Record
[21:37]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-therecord.media | Russia appears to block social media platform Bluesky amid wider internet restrictions | The Record from Recorded Future News
[21:38]	TR News	"The exec told THR after the session that YouTube already streamed the song contest last year, but that was not widely known yet." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/eurovision-song-contest-2026-youtube-us-free-stream-boycott-1236563550/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter
[21:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.hollywoodreporter.com | Eurovision Song Contest 2026 to Stream in US on YouTube, Plus Peacock
[21:38]	TR News	"The article was not the reason for the attack. The alleged attacker was Daniel Moreno-Gama, age 20 a devoted believer in the AI doomsday, and a huge fan of Eliezer Yudkowsky, founder of the Rationality subculture." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/13/ai-doomsday-cultist-throws-molotov-at-sam-altmans-house/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[21:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | Bernard. "One day the dribble.
[21:39]	TR News	"In the previous post I managed to steer RWKVv7's behavior to some degree and showed that the recurrent state after layer 0 cannot be effectively used as a method to detect dangerous prompts by any linear, non-linear or ML methods" https://clehaxze.tw/gemlog/2026/04-12-rwkv-refusal-steering-to-memory-modification-editing-rwkvv7-stored-memories.gmi | Source: Martin Chang
[21:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-clehaxze.tw | From refusal steering to memory modification - editing RWKVv7 working memories - Martin's website/blog thingy
[21:39]	TR News	"A federal case against OpenAI over claims the company designed its AI to delude a mentally unwell son to violent behavior will run concurrently to a state court case." https://www.courthousenews.com/openai-cant-duck-federal-claims-over-murder-suicide-tied-to-chatgpt/ | Source: Court House News
[21:39]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/openai-cant-duck-federal-claims-over-murder-suicide-tied-to-chatgpt/ )
[21:40]	TR News	"We are a small group of engineers with extensive open source maintenance and information security experience, and we forked KeePass from KeePassXC 2.7.10, the last release before the advent of the LLM policy linked above." https://codeberg.org/keepasschi | Source: Codeberg
[21:40]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-KeePassChi - Codeberg.org
[21:41]	TR News	"Coding agents can write code. That capability is real. Point Claude Code or Copilot at a well-scoped issue and you get a working pull request most of the time. Now try running five of them unattended." https://blog.serghei.pl/posts/what-breaks-when-you-run-coding-agents-unsupervised/ | Source: Serghei Iakovlev
[21:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.serghei.pl | What Breaks When You Run Coding Agents Unsupervised | Serghei's Blog
[21:41]	TR News	"What are those possibilities?" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/14/neural-computing-your-boss-thinks-the-ai-will-become-a-pc/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[21:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-pivot-to-ai.com | Drugs should be.
[21:41]	TR News	"Given all that I don't think we'll suddenly be happy with last year's code replicated a million times." https://www.elliotcsmith.com/im-long-on-software-engineering/ | Source: Elliot C Smith
[21:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.elliotcsmith.com | I'm long on software engineering
[21:42]	TR News	"Software development may become (at least in some aspects) more like witchcraft than engineering." https://aphyr.com/posts/418-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-work | Source: Kyle Kingsbury
[21:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/418-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-work )
[21:42]	TR News	"As a former AI researcher myself (before modern ML exploded), I find this aspect of the Mythos write-up quite interesting" https://neilmadden.blog/2026/04/14/mythos-and-its-impact-on-security/ | Source: Niel Madden
[21:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-neilmadden.blog | Mythos and its impact on security Neil Madden
[21:42]	TR News	"The UKs AI Security Institute has published the first independent evaluation of Claude Mythoss cyber capabilities." https://blog.robbowley.net/2026/04/14/ai-watershed-moment-or-expensive-pen-tester-the-aisi-mythos-data/ | Source: Rob Bowley
[21:42]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.robbowley.net | AI Watershed Moment or expensive pen tester? The AISI Mythos Data | Rob Bowley
[21:43]	TR News	"The upshot of the use of such Large Language Models (LLM) tools is that any commit that uses generated code has to be signed off by a human developer" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/new-linux-kernel-rules-put-the-onus-on-humans-for-ai-tool-usage/ | Source: Hackaday
[21:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-New Linux Kernel Rules Put The Onus On Humans For AI Tool Usage | Hackaday
[21:43]	TR News	"RAM and storage are expensive now. You know that. Theyve been going crazy for months, and though some data points indicate that the prices may have peaked, others show just the opposite." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3113797/investigation-even-usb-flash-drives-and-sd-cards-are-becoming-unaffordable.html | Source: PC World
[21:43]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3113797/investigation-even-usb-flash-drives-and-sd-cards-are-becoming-unaffordable.html )
[21:44]	TR News	"We find that AI assistance improves immediate performance, but it comes at a heavy cognitive cost," https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-boiling-frog-human-cognition-study | Source: Futurism
[21:44]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-futurism.com | AI Use Appears to Have a "Boiling Frog" Effect on Human Cognition, New Study Warns
[21:50]	TR News	"Thanks to a passcode debacle, I had to reset my iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch so I used the moment to start fresh rather than restore from backups." https://matt.routleynet.org/2026/04/13/having-to-reset-all-of.html | Source: Matt Routley
[21:50]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-matt.routleynet.org | Having to reset all of my devices allowed for a helpful reset of my systems | Various Contrivances
[21:51]	TR News	"After that date, Outlook Lite will stop fetching new emails, and its core features will be disabled. Microsoft notes that your Outlook account will not be affected by this shutdown, and all data on it will remain untouched." https://www.androidpolice.com/microsoft-is-done-with-outlook-lite-on-android/ | Source: Android Police
[21:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.androidpolice.com | Microsoft is done with Outlook Lite on Android
[21:51]	TR News	"Its been a long time coming but Ive finally given up on Meetup.com as an organizer. Ive been a member since 2013 and Ive met some great people and learned a lot from the various groups Ive been a part of. Meetup.com has been falling apart for years." https://mattcool.tech/posts/goodbye-meetupcom-migrating-to-discord--website-and-other-alternative-platforms/ | Source: Matt Cool
[21:51]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mattcool.tech | Goodbye Meetup.com: Migrating to Discord + Website and Other Alternative Platforms
[21:52]	TR News	"Guess what, they completely failed at their one job. The orders would actually show up in the POS about one time in four, and they could not fix it." https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/14.html | Source: DNA Lounge
[21:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/04/14.html )
[21:52]	TR News	"This is huge for us Linux people. This means we potentially have a real alternative to Lightroom that also happens to be free. It's not yet in the CachyOS repo, but this will be an insta-install." https://overkill.wtf/notes/davinci-resolve-photo | Source: Kevin Wammer
[21:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-overkill.wtf | Davinci Resolve Photo is Lightroom for Linux people
[21:52]	TR News	"An Ultralight MacBook and Other Apple Silicon Roads Not Taken" https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/04/14/an-ultralight-macbook-and-other-apple-silicon-roads-not-taken/ | Source: Michael Tsai
[21:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mjtsai.com | Michael Tsai - Blog - An Ultralight MacBook and Other Apple Silicon Roads Not Taken
[21:52]	TR News	"Neither the FCCs announcement nor Netgears announcement explain why Netgear was granted the temporary exemption." https://www.theverge.com/tech/911888/netgear-router-ban-conditional-approval | Source: The Verge
[21:52]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.theverge.com | The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason | The Verge
[21:53]	TR News	"Qatar produces about a third of the world's helium, and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz a consequence of Trump's Iran war has disrupted those shipments." https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/thanks-trump-heres-what-happens-when-the-world-runs-low-on-helium.html | Source: BoingBoing
[21:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/thanks-trump-heres-what-happens-when-the-world-runs-low-on-helium.html )
[21:54]	TR News	"A recent survey by two agricultural groups, SLC and MTK, asked farmers about their plans for the season, given the current situation." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220507 | Source: YLE
[21:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | Rising oil prices already prompting some Finnish farms to downsize crop plans | Yle News | Yle
[21:54]	TR News	"His prescription: read a few dozen pages of a book daily and leave your phone in the kitchen at night." https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/our-attention-spans-are-one-third-what-they-were-in-2004.html | Source: BoingBoing
[21:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/13/our-attention-spans-are-one-third-what-they-were-in-2004.html )
[21:54]	TR News	"That moment did not just feel like it changed me. It did change me. Research in neuroplasticity has established that chronic stress and depression cause structural changes in the brain." https://blainsmith.com/essays/wired-for-fairness/ | Source: Blain Smith
[21:54]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blainsmith.com | Wired for Fairness - Blain Smith
[21:55]	TR News	"April is Stress Awareness Month, and I think that is a good excuse for those of us in cybersecurity and IT to be honest about something our industry still handles poorly." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/stress-awareness-month-helping-cybersecurity-and-it-go-from-burnout-to-balance/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch
[21:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.kylereddoch.me | Stress Awareness Month: Helping Cybersecurity and IT Go From Burnout to Balance - CybersecKyle
[21:55]	TR News	"Ive been allergic to low-profile keyboards in the past, for whatever reason. There arent as many of them on the market, and they all seem to have a compromise Im not willing to deal with." https://thenewsprint.co/2026/04/13/a-review-of-the-nuphy-node-100-low-profile-mechanical-keyboard/ | Source: The Newsprint
[21:55]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-thenewsprint.co | A Review of the Nuphy Node 100 Low-Profile Mechanical Keyboard - The Newsprint
[21:56]	TR News	"Ive been using an Elgato Stream Deck to control my lights in my office for the past several years." https://cassidoo.co/post/logitech-elgato-holding-hands/ | Source: Cassidy Williams
[21:56]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-cassidoo.co | Connecting the Logitech MX Creative Console to Elgato Lights
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[22:00]	TR News	"manner designed to violate her sexual integrity i.e. lying next to her and pressing his naked, erect penis to her body." https://info.publicintelligence.net/UK-AssangeJudgment.pdf
[22:03]	TR News	"This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with Frank Meeuwsen, whose blog can be found at blog.frankmeeuwsen.com." https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/frank-meeuwsen | Source: Manuel Moreale
[22:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-manuelmoreale.com | Frank Meeuwsen Manu
[22:03]	TR News	"With this statement Einstein makes a clear case for the benefits of cognitive offloading in the sense that rote memorization does not enhance ones cognition." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/the-use-of-llm-chatbots-and-human-cognitive-surrender/ | Source: Hackaday
[22:03]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Reverse-Engineering Human Cognition And Decision Making In A Modern Age | Hackaday
[22:04]	TR News	"At the end of last year, people with student loan debt owed an average of almost 12,700 euros, some 600 more than the previous year." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220441 | Source: YLE
[22:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-yle.fi | More students taking out loans | Yle News | Yle
[22:04]	TR News	"I think this is important to remember: we arent faced with an absence of imagination. Were faced with the constraints of a system that does not have our best interests at heart." https://everythingchanges.us/blog/ways-of-moving/ | Source: Mandy Brown
[22:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-everythingchanges.us | Ways of moving | everything changes
[22:04]	TR News	"As far as I can tell the company published 15 books 12 non-fiction, 3 fiction with at least 11 more in the pipeline before it closed down, all listed below." https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2026/04/14/hardwired-wired-books/ | Source: Phil Gyford
[22:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-HardWired / Wired Books (Phil Gyfords website)
[22:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Planet GNOME: Announcing the upcoming Graphs 2.0 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Planet_GNOME_Announcing_the_upcoming_Graphs_2_0.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Planet_GNOME_Announcing_the_upcoming_Graphs_2_0.gmi 
[22:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Planet GNOME: Announcing the upcoming Graphs 2.0
[22:04]	TR News	"On 30 September 2025, policymakers, activists, human rights defenders and academics from Europe and beyond gathered in Brussels and online for Privacy Camp 2025." https://edri.org/our-work/privacycamp25-event-summary/ | Source: EDRI
[22:04]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-edri.org | #PrivacyCamp25: Event summary - European Digital Rights (EDRi)
[22:05]	TR News	"For a blissful 10 days, the biggest stories in my feeds were not politics or natural disasters, but iconic photographs of the Earth, craters named Carroll, and broken toilets 252,756 miles from the nearest plumber." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/the-artemis-ii-mission-isnt-just-science-viral-photos-and-videos-from-the-moon-mission-are-proof-of-the-power-of-a-photograph | Source: Digital Camera World
[22:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.digitalcameraworld.com | The Artemis II mission isnt just science. Viral photos and videos from the Moon mission are proof of the power of a photograph | Digital Camera World
[22:05]	TR News	"In practice, critics say, the phrase has become shorthand for science in which preferred outcomes outweigh inconvenient evidence." https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-04-14/trump-administration-gold-standard-science | Source: Los Angeles Times
[22:05]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.latimes.com | Trump touts 'gold standard science.' What does that actually mean? - Los Angeles Times
[22:06]	TR News	"Whether or not we affix science to a name is immaterial." https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3806209 | Source: ACM
[22:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3806209 )
[22:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Archinstall 4.2 Arch Linux Installer Brings Granular KDE Plasma Configuration https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Archinstall_4_2_Arch_Linux_Installer_Brings_Granular_KDE_Plasma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Archinstall_4_2_Arch_Linux_Installer_Brings_Granular_KDE_Plasma.gmi 
[22:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Archinstall 4.2 Arch Linux Installer Brings Granular KDE Plasma Configuration
[22:06]	TR News	was
[22:06]	TR News	"The phrase 'funding is a continuing headache' was written in 1995, under Clinton." https://mirawelner.com/posts/junior.html | Source: Mira Welner
[22:06]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-mirawelner.com | Being a Junior Scientist in the Current Administration
[22:07]	TR News	"Guest post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory director (though not affiliated with the NSF now) on the White House NSF budget for FY 2027." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/guest-post-from-peter-brass-former-nsf.html | Source: Computational Complexity
[22:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.computationalcomplexity.org | Computational Complexity: Guest Post from Peter Brass, Former NSF Theory Director, on the NSF budget.
[22:07]	TR News	"Why would tech billionaires attack a system that made them enormously wealthy at virtually no personal cost? The most obvious explanation is that much of that newly freed-up funding can be redirected to the tech industry." https://www.thenation.com/article/society/ai-silicon-valley-andreesen-thiel-stem/ | Source: The Nation
[22:07]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.thenation.com | How Silicon Valley Is Turning Scientists Into Exploited Gig Workers | The Nation
[22:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  End of 10 Handout https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/End_of_10_Handout.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/End_of_10_Handout.gmi 
[22:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines End of 10 Handout
[22:08]	TR News	"Let's get this out of the way right at the start: inventories are hard." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/InventoriesAreNontrivial | Source: University of Toronto
[22:08]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-utcc.utoronto.ca | You're using a too-old browser
[22:10]	TR News	"Apparently NT membership is growing amongst the younger generations and it's easy to see why." https://www.jamesleighton.com/a-year-of-national-trust-visits/ | Source: James Leighton
[22:10]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.jamesleighton.com | A year of National Trust Visits | James Leighton
[22:11]	TR News	"A couple of weeks ago, I announced my plan to merge my two websites, overkill.wtf and cliophate.wtf." https://overkill.wtf/posts/new-old-overkill | Source: Kevin Wammer
[22:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Welcome to the new (old) overkill - overkill.wtf
[22:11]	TR News	"On the contrary, its only the beginning of my adventure. I certainly hope so." https://blog.danieljanus.pl/singing/ | Source: Daniel Janus
[22:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.danieljanus.pl | How can I keep from singing?
[22:11]	TR News	 (NEW):  A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/A_PHP_Dev_Just_Solved_a_20_Year_Old_KDE_Plasma_Problem_No_One_E.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/A_PHP_Dev_Just_Solved_a_20_Year_Old_KDE_Plasma_Problem_No_One_E.gmi 
[22:11]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would
[22:13]	TR News	"There has been a near-total news vacuum. This may be deliberate or it may be a consequence of cost-cutting that has replaced many journalists with artificial intelligence. The few human journalists who remain in the profession may have already gone to bed when the fire started." https://danielpocock.com/en/terrorism-or-accident-geelong-corio-refinery-fire-drone-attack-rumours-news-vacuum/
[22:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-danielpocock.com | Terrorism or accident? Geelong Corio refinery fire, drone attack rumours in news vacuum
[22:13]	TR News	"Right now, I'm slowly rebuilding my archives, mainly posts from the past year." https://brandons-journal.com/post/blog-update-and-rss-feed-options | Source: Brandon
[22:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-brandons-journal.com | Blog Update and RSS Feed Options | Brandon's Journal
[22:13]	TR News	"I also viewed the National Theatre's 2017 production on the National Theatre at Home streaming service" https://blog.dshr.org/2026/04/angels-in-america.html | Source: David Rosenthal
[22:13]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.dshr.org | DSHR's Blog: Angels in America
[22:14]	TR News	"I've decided to go on a content hiatus. This will be my last dispatch for a while. I don't know how long I'll be gone." https://justin.searls.co/mails/2026-03/ | Source: Justin Searls
[22:14]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-justin.searls.co | Content Hiatus | justinsearlsco
[22:16]	TR News	 (NEW):  CIQ (Rocky Linux) Trying to Ride "Hey Hi" Hype Wave With x86 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/03/27/CIQ_Rocky_Linux_Trying_to_Ride_Hey_Hi_Hype_Wave_With_x86.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/03/27/CIQ_Rocky_Linux_Trying_to_Ride_Hey_Hi_Hype_Wave_With_x86.gmi 
[22:16]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines CIQ (Rocky Linux) Trying to Ride "Hey Hi" Hype Wave With x86
[22:18]	TR News	 (NEW):  KDE: Wayland, Falkon Connect, digiKam Splashscreen, and Updates on Oxygen and Air https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/06/KDE_Wayland_Falkon_Connect_digiKam_Splashscreen_and_Updates_on_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/06/KDE_Wayland_Falkon_Connect_digiKam_Splashscreen_and_Updates_on_.gmi 
[22:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines KDE: Wayland, Falkon Connect, digiKam Splashscreen, and Updates on Oxygen and Air
[22:18]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 15/04/2026: Organiding .bashrc with Imports, Odd as SSG https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Gemini_Links_15_04_2026_Organiding_bashrc_with_Imports_Odd%CE%BC_as_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Gemini_Links_15_04_2026_Organiding_bashrc_with_Imports_Odd%CE%BC_as_.gmi 
[22:18]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Gemini Links 15/04/2026: Organiding .bashrc with Imports, Odd as SSG
[22:19]	TR News	 (NEW):  Glacia OS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Glacia_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Glacia_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.gmi 
[22:19]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Glacia OS Ubuntu-based Linux distribution
[22:20]	TR News	"When you start a new project, it feels nice that everything lives in a single main.go file." https://pawelgrzybek.com/repository-pattern-in-go-service/ | Source: Pawe Grzybek
[22:20]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Repository pattern in Go service | pawelgrzybek.com
[22:21]	TR News	Techrights Links 15/04/2026: Geelong Corio Refinery Fire, Journalist Sentenced for "Insulting the President" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Links_15_04_2026_Geelong_Corio_Refinery_Fire_Journalist_Sentenc.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/15/Links_15_04_2026_Geelong_Corio_Refinery_Fire_Journalist_Sentenc.gmi 
[22:21]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 15/04/2026: Geelong Corio Refinery Fire, Journalist Sentenced for "Insulting the President"
[22:22]	TR News	"GIT TAB COMPLETION in zsh suddenly stopped listing my aliases." https://monzool.net/blog/2026/03/19/homebrew-breaking-git-tab-completion-in-zsh/ | Source: Jan Skriver Srensen
[22:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-monzool.net | Homebrew breaking git tab completion in zsh - Monzool's Personal Publishing
[22:22]	TR News	"The easy fix is to put unset GREP_OPTIONS at the top of the script." https://www.readwriterachel.com/things-i-learned/2026/04/06/grep-colors.html | Source: Rachel Kaufman
[22:22]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-www.readwriterachel.com | Behind a glass.
[22:23]	TR News	"In the last post, we saw that positive splitting (otherwise known as slowing down) is inevitable." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/marathon-man-ii-how-to-pace-a-marathon/ | Source: Rlang
[22:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Marathon Man II: how to pace a marathon | R-bloggers
[22:23]	TR News	"The bottleneck isnt Rust or Ruby, its the absence of a stable declarative package schema. Until that exists, every fast client is fast because Homebrew already did the slow work." https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/14/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-homebrew.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt
[22:23]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-nesbitt.io | Standing on the shoulders of Homebrew | Andrew Nesbitt
[22:24]	TR News	"The essence is, our laziness is the reason we engineer simple systems." https://alperenkeles.com/posts/on-the-simplicity-of-humanness/ | Source: Alperen Keles
[22:24]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-alperenkeles.com | On The Simplicity of Humanness
[22:26]	TR News	"Ada is incredibly well designed. One way this shows is that it takes the big, monolithic features of other languages and breaks them down into their constituent parts, so we can choose which portions of those features we want." https://entropicthoughts.com/object-oriented-programming-in-ada | Source: Chris
[22:26]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-entropicthoughts.com | Object Oriented Programming in Ada
[22:27]	TR News	"This release features 8 months of work: changes from 244 different contributors, spread among 1183 commits." https://ziglang.org/download/0.16.0/release-notes.html | Source: Zig
[22:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-ziglang.org | 0.16.0 Release Notes The Zig Programming Language
[22:27]	TR News	"As shown in the image below, LLVM requires about ~8% more cycles than GCC for that specific benchmark on the SiFive P550 CPU." https://blog.kaving.me/blog/tracking-down-a-25-regression-on-llvm-risc-v/ | Source: Kavin Gnanapandithan
[22:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-blog.kaving.me | Tracking down a 25% Regression on LLVM RISC-V KG's Blog
[22:27]	TR News	"Frankly, dependency cooldowns work by free-riding on the pain and suffering of others." https://calpaterson.com/deps.html | Source: Cal Paterson
[22:27]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-calpaterson.com | Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider
[22:29]	TR News	"Many countries have multiple languages. Wales has English and Welsh." https://lindbakk.com/blog/introducing-brunost | Source: John Mikael Lindbakk
[22:29]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-John M. Lindbakk
[22:30]	TR News	The Secrets update for Necesse includes collabs with Palworld, Rimworld, Core Keeper and Valheim | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/the-secrets-update-for-necesse-includes-collabs-with-palworld-rimworld-core-keeper-and-valheim/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[22:30]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-The Secrets update for Necesse includes collabs with Palworld, Rimworld, Core Keeper and Valheim | GamingOnLinux
[22:31]	TR News	X.Org X server and Xwayland security advisory released for multiple issues | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/x-org-x-server-and-xwayland-security-advisory-released-for-multiple-issues/ Source: GamingOnLinux
[22:31]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-X.Org X server and Xwayland security advisory released for multiple issues | GamingOnLinux
[22:32]	TR News	Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged is up on Kickstarter | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/broken-sword-the-smoking-mirror-reforged-is-up-on-kickstarter/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/broken-sword-the-smoking-mirror-reforged-is-up-on-kickstarter/
[22:32]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-Broken Sword - The Smoking Mirror: Reforged is up on Kickstarter | GamingOnLinux
[22:33]	TR News	 (NEW):  Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi 
[22:33]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations
[22:38]	TR News	 (NEW):  I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/I_was_avoiding_Arch_Linux_for_one_reason_and_this_tool_fixed_it.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/I_was_avoiding_Arch_Linux_for_one_reason_and_this_tool_fixed_it.gmi 
[22:38]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it
[22:41]	TR News	 (NEW):  Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/03/Linux_smashes_past_5_on_the_Steam_Survey_for_the_first_time.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/03/Linux_smashes_past_5_on_the_Steam_Survey_for_the_first_time.gmi 
[22:41]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Linux smashes past 5% on the Steam Survey for the first time
[22:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  I installed Zorin OS on an old laptop, and now I get the hype https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/I_installed_Zorin_OS_on_an_old_laptop_and_now_I_get_the_hype.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/I_installed_Zorin_OS_on_an_old_laptop_and_now_I_get_the_hype.gmi 
[22:48]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines I installed Zorin OS on an old laptop, and now I get the hype
[22:53]	TR News	 (NEW):  How the latest Netrunner distro delivers a Linux productivity powerhouse https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/How_the_latest_Netrunner_distro_delivers_a_Linux_productivity_p.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/How_the_latest_Netrunner_distro_delivers_a_Linux_productivity_p.gmi 
[22:53]		-TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines How the latest Netrunner distro delivers a Linux productivity powerhouse
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[20:42]	TR News	"ChongLy Thao was arrested and dragged out of his home in his underwear in the middle of winter during the large-scale immigration raid launched by the White House in Minneapolis and St. Paul" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-14/minnesota-is-investigating-ice-agents-for-the-possible-kidnapping-of-a-us-citizen-during-a-raid.html | Source: El Pas
[20:42]		-TechPolBot/#techpol- ( status 403 @ https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-14/minnesota-is-investigating-ice-agents-for-the-possible-kidnapping-of-a-us-citizen-during-a-raid.html )
[20:59]	TR News	"the collapse of Europes two-track approach to Russia" https://nris.journal.fi/article/view/178392 | Source: Nordic Review of International Studies
[20:59]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-nris.journal.fi | Whither dialogue? Nordic leadership and the collapse of Europes two-track approach to Russia | Nordic Review of International Studies
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[21:18]	TR News	"Among other things, the unlamented former autocrat Viktor Orban was one of the leading proponents of pro-natalist policies" https://crookedtimber.org/2026/04/14/how-many-babies-do-we-want-how-many-will-we-have/ | Source: Crooked Timber
[21:18]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-crookedtimber.org | How many babies do we want? How many will we have? Crooked Timber
[21:23]	TR News	"Hey evangelical Christians?" https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jack-white-donald-trump-christian-support-jesus-pope-1235546491/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[21:23]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.rollingstone.com | Jack White Questions How Christians Can Support Donald Trump
[21:23]	TR News	"Until recently I thought impeaching Trump and convicting him in the Senate was a pipe dream." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-impeach-the-bastard-for-real | Source: Robert Reich
[21:23]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-robertreich.substack.com | How to Impeach the Bastard, for Real - Robert Reich
[21:25]	TR News	"An AIPAC-specific resolution didnt make it through the partys meeting. But Ive never seen such an open debate about the role of pro-Israel money before." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/dnc-aipac-dark-money-meeting/ | Source: The Nation
[21:25]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-www.thenation.com | A Major Taboo Was Broken at the DNC Last Weekend | The Nation
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[22:00]	TR News	"manner designed to violate her sexual integrity i.e. lying next to her and pressing his naked, erect penis to her body." https://info.publicintelligence.net/UK-AssangeJudgment.pdf
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[23:24]		-TechPolBot/#techpol-'Denied': Trump lawyer and J6 architect disbarred for good - Alternet.org