(ℹ) Join us now at the IRC channel | ䷉ Find the plain text version at this address (HTTP) or in Gemini (how to use Gemini) with a full GemText version.
| *asacengyet has quit (connection closed) | Jun 16 01:36 | |
| *agentcas2y (~dracos@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 02:20 | |
| *agentcas2y has quit (Quit: leaving) | Jun 16 02:22 | |
| *agentcas2y (~dracos@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 02:23 | |
| *agentcas2y is now known as humundr | Jun 16 02:23 | |
| *agentcasey has quit (Quit: leaving) | Jun 16 02:38 | |
| *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) | Jun 16 03:30 | |
| *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 03:34 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <admfubar> you'll have a field day with this one.... https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/16/a-modest-proposal-reformat-everything-to-make-documents-more-palatable-to-ai/5255938 | Jun 16 04:36 |
|---|---|---|
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.theregister.com | A modest proposal: Reformat everything to make documents more palatable to AI | Jun 16 04:36 | |
| *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techbytes | Jun 16 04:55 | |
| *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 05:14 | |
| *humundr has quit (Quit: Lost terminal) | Jun 16 08:02 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e#replies | Jun 16 08:33 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ktt6x93e#replies ) | Jun 16 08:33 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I don't wanna go to work either!! | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Why do I have to work? | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I deserve a salary. But not work. Fu-k this! | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 6 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 3 reactions (+3/-0) | Reply | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @10c+1ktt6x93e | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +4 | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @y4 good to see that Alvind’s favorite pipmunk is still among us. | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 9 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 4 reactions (+4/-0) | Reply | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @zp+1ktt6x93e | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +5 | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @ze - That would make Arvind a chairman for sure ! | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | 10 hours ago by Anonymous | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | | 5 reactions (+5/-0) | Reply | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Post ID: @zh+1ktt6x93e | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | +3 | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | @yg how about Gorilla Glue applied to the seat of Arvind's chair ? | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That should nail his azz down. | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 16 08:33 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <li> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-44-gnome.html">Fedora 44 Gnome review - We're not in Kansas anymore</a></h5> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <blockquote> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p>Recently, I've had a rather unusual streak of decent luck with Linux. My Kubuntu machines are behaving nicely, and my latest review of the 26.04 LTS showed some good results. Optimism, what. Yes. Buoyed by this unexpected bag of fortune, I decided to do some more distro testing. Sure, over the last few years, I've significantly minimized my involvement in this space, but now and then, the | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | mood strikes. </p> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | <p> Today, I'd like to take a look at Fedora 44, Gnome edition. There's the whole only-Wayland thing, which is a terrible thing for the Linux desktop long term, but never mind that for the moment. Perchance Fedora does offer nice, redeeming features. Perhaps I may not be so averse to the Gnome desktop and its anti-ergonomic stance. Perhaps. Overall, I found the current minus two version to be | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | okayish, so maybe, maybe there's hope. Let us commence gingerly forward. </p> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </blockquote> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | </li> | Jun 16 11:11 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.dedoimedo.com | Fedora 44 Gnome review - We're not in Kansas anymore | Jun 16 11:11 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00024.html | Jun 16 12:59 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-lists.gnu.org | Re: LLM code as public domain and copyleft | Jun 16 12:59 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Virus has intention too. Should we grant it a legal status? | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | LLM is just that, bunch of numbers in data recorded somewhere on some disks. It is organized data without any life in itself. Life created it, so only life can have intention, not the product of life. | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You are in illusion that any LLM or software has intention. | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It was created with specific intentions, yet those came from living being named human. That is quite different. | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Is not good living in the illusion that some program (which had to be run by human) and some data, has intentions... | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 16 12:59 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00023.html | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | " | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | In the first half of the 1980s software became more recognized. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Good times, that is when I could get a glance of Spectrum ZX, and in second half I could already browse hex data on Commodore Plus/4. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Personal computers changed nature from a hobbyist's toy to an | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | office worker's tool. The IBM PC and Lotus 1-2-3 played important | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | roles in this transition. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | At that time computer owners pretty much lacked specialized software. Good thing that every IBM PC came with instruction on how to use the operating system and how to program in GW Basic. And people followed the pattern, programmed, and created specialized software for their organizations. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "The Third Wave" is an important book. It predicted that the border | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | between producer and consumer would become less distinct giving rise | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | to what the author calls the "prosumer." | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | That must be by evil intention, for greed and rich to get richer. Not to help the society. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Without Richard Stallman pushing all those years, civilization would not survive, we would be all in proprietary software, not even knowing it. More or less we have that situation now, yet free software pretty much is immortal now. We must give huge credit to the GNU project for the immortality of the idea of free software. It continues saving the civilization of programmed control. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Microsoft's policy strictly distinguishes between producer and | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | consumer while free software allows users to participate in | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | programming. As such Microsoft adheres to the older model. Early | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | on, when few people understood the newer model it was very successful. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bill Gates is anti social person. His organization today is friendlier than before, but he continues doing his evil projects which subject doesn't fall in this LibrePlanet domain. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Note also that Microsoft never put much effort in direct sales of | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | operating systems. The operating system came with the computer. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Not quite. That successful idiot forced and monopolized every computer manufacturer, conditioning them not to get a license to sell DOS/Windows unless they sold it with the computer and exclusively. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | You can find the video of Bill Gates' deposition in the antitrust case United States v. Microsoft Corporation from August 1998 on the Internet Archive. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Bill Gates vs United States - Deposition : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive: | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://archive.org/details/bill-gates-deposition | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | He (the idiot) was punished $1 per day, yet probably did not pay it. That is corruption on high level. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | The EU did what the U.S. wouldn't: €497 million fine (about $613 million) in March 2004. https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2004/March/04_at_184.htm | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | €280.5 million additional fine in July 2006 for non-compliance https://molawyersmedia.com/2006/08/14/how-level-is-the-playing-field/ | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Obviously the law does not apply same to rich idiots and common people. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | Production and sales of computer hardware is a typical industrial age | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | activity: the biggest firms enjoy scale merit and succeed. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | No, it was all about mafia-like deal. Either you will take Microsoft, or we will punish you that you will never get Microsoft license. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It is not about biggest firms, and merit. | Jun 16 13:00 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | It is crime." | Jun 16 13:00 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00023.html ) | Jun 16 13:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-archive.org | Bill Gates vs United States - Deposition : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive | Jun 16 13:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-www.justice.gov | #184: 03-24-04 ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR ANTITRUST, R. HEWITT PATE, ISSUES STATEMENT ON THE EC?S DECISION IN ITS MICROSOFT INVESTIGATION | Jun 16 13:00 | |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes- ( status 403 @ https://molawyersmedia.com/2006/08/14/how-level-is-the-playing-field/ ) | Jun 16 13:00 | |
| schestowitz[TR2] | https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00021.html | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | "hi | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | I really wish I could jump in and support this project financially — honestly, I love the idea behind Mission:Libre and what it’s trying to do for young people and free software activism. But coming from Iraq, that part is… let’s say a bit of a “404: Funds Not Found” situation. 😅 Direct donations or consistent funding support are pretty much very difficult here for most people. Still, I don’t think that should be t | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | he end of the road. If money is hard to get, maybe there are other ways to keep this going strong: - Open up micro-volunteering roles (social media, translation, outreach) so people worldwide can contribute time instead of money - Look into partnerships with universities or tech communities that might sponsor educational initiatives - Create a “mentor network” where experienced free software contributors guide the project infor | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | mally I genuinely think Mission:Libre has a strong idea behind it — it just needs a funding approach that doesn’t rely too heavily on traditional donation streams, especially in times when everything feels economically tight. Wishing you the best of luck — and hoping the project finds the support system it deserves. | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | have fun and be free | Jun 16 13:01 |
| schestowitz[TR2] | alimiracle" | Jun 16 13:01 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-Connection timed out after 10002 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2026-06/msg00021.html ) | Jun 16 13:01 | |
| *agentcas2y (~dracos@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 18:11 | |
| *agentcas2y is now known as agentcasey | Jun 16 18:12 | |
| *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) | Jun 16 18:18 | |
| *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@xk49uzi5amp4u.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 18:57 | |
| *psydroid2 (~psydroid@yu29f4abyrsnc.irc) has joined #techbytes | Jun 16 20:15 | |
| *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) | Jun 16 21:03 | |
Generated by irclog2html.py 2.6 | ䷉ find the plain text version at this address (HTTP) or in Gemini (how to use Gemini) with a full GemText version.