●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 03, 2025 ●● ● Apr 03 [00:19] IsambardPrince There we go. What a hassle. Straining cooking oil. [00:19] IsambardPrince But at $12.99 a gallon, stuff's not cheap anymore. [00:36] IsambardPrince Coffee filters cost about a penny each, so even if you go through a couple while you reclaim nearly half a gallon of oil, that's a good deal. [00:36] IsambardPrince But it's a slow process. [00:37] IsambardPrince First you have to mesh strain it then scoop out all the sludge from making the fried chicken into the garbage then strain it again into a clean bowl through the coffee filter-lined mesh, about a cup and a half at a time. [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1d7f) has joined #techrights ● Apr 03 [01:14] MinceR http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2616 [01:14] TR Bot Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams - 12/14/2023 [01:34] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Wish there were more cafeteria restaurants around, but those went away when the Greatest and Silent generation did. [01:34] IsambardPrince These companies target Millennials now, GenZ, everything has to be an "experience". [01:35] IsambardPrince The generation MCL targeted just isn't there anymore. [01:36] IsambardPrince They're either in the nursing home or gone. [01:36] IsambardPrince Would you like some liver and onions, an iced tea, mashed potatoes, and a dinner roll? I would love that. How about a small slice of strawberry rhubarb pie? That's my favorite! [01:36] IsambardPrince Then you get down there and the whole think is like $6 or something crazy. [01:37] IsambardPrince *thing [01:40] IsambardPrince We went to one in Indianapolis and one in Springfield. It's all older folks. I think we were the youngest people in there. [01:40] IsambardPrince One guy (in 2023!) had a rolled up paper copy of a New York Times. [01:43] IsambardPrince https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5228328-trump-canada-tariffs-resolution-gop-senators/ [01:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5228328-trump-canada-tariffs-resolution-gop-senators/ ) [01:52] MinceR http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2620 [01:52] TR Bot Full Frontal Nerdity by Aaron Williams - 12/26/2023 ● Apr 03 [02:08] IsambardPrince "Free oil filter with any oil change" from the Chevy dealer. [02:09] IsambardPrince Let's see $100 for the oil change, deduct $4 for the filter. [02:09] IsambardPrince Leaves you with too fucking much for an oil change. [02:16] IsambardPrince MinceR, I made my doctor and her assistant laugh pretty hard one day. [02:16] IsambardPrince Several times, but... [02:17] IsambardPrince They asked me if I used drugs. I said, "No, in fact I have to use four air purifiers because of my neighbor's drugs." [02:17] MinceR :> [02:17] IsambardPrince MinceR, I had a useful idea from the movie Down Periscope. [02:17] IsambardPrince I filtered some cooking oil with a coffee maker I don't use much. [02:18] IsambardPrince It's got a mesh filter anyway. [02:18] IsambardPrince "Which one do you think we're gonna use more often, sailor!? The coffee, or the lard!? Do you think we'll all get up one morning and enjoy a nice hot steaming cup of PIG FAT!?" [02:18] IsambardPrince Well, it depends sir. On a cold morning, it could go either way. [02:21] MinceR "That's what she said! Or he, I could go either way, really. And that is also what she said!" [02:31] IsambardPrince MinceR, It's time for thump thump n**** n**** n**** again from across the hall. [02:31] IsambardPrince He was screaming at her earlier, again. [02:32] IsambardPrince Then sometime around midnight the smell of cheap tobacco and drugs will creep across the hallway. [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-020425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-020425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-020425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-020425.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 [02:46] admfubar you need to build an EMP rifle and toast his electronics [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. 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LOL ● Apr 03 [03:15] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/ [03:15] TR Bot Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden The Register [03:27] admfubar https://xkcd.com/3071/ [03:27] TR Bot Decay Chain [03:28] MinceR xkcd used to be funnier [03:30] admfubar have you ever watched SAMTIME? [03:30] MinceR no [03:31] admfubar he is hilarious... skewers the tech world... [03:32] admfubar https://yewtu.be/channel/UCd6vEDS3SOhWbXZrxbrf_bw [03:32] TR Bot SAMTIME - Invidious [03:37] admfubar now sea lions have gone crazy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/california-sea-lion-poisoning [03:37] TR Bot California: sea lion attack on teenager raises fears of toxic algae poisoning | California | The Guardian [03:42] IsambardPrince https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/05/tony-evers-extends-increases-for-public-schools-in-perpetuity/70381898007/ [03:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/05/tony-evers-extends-increases-for-public-schools-in-perpetuity/70381898007/ ) ● Apr 03 [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/ [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] they can ask Bill Gates and Microsoff for more money [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] to pay for that bandwidth [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] while they edit wikipedia [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] and wikipedia lets them [04:18] schestowitz[TR2] to feed LLMs with lies [04:19] MinceR confirmed, SAMTIME is indeed funny [04:20] MinceR pity it keems reminding me of Sametime [04:20] TR News Why You Should Go for Grafana https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/why-you-should-go-for-grafana/ [04:20] TR Bot Why You Should Go for Grafana - Open Source For You [04:21] MinceR 03 051837 < schestowitz[TR2]> they can ask Bill Gates and Microsoff for more money [04:21] MinceR or they could tell those dumbasses to download a database dump instead of scraping the website [04:22] TR News Elegant Writer https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/an-elegant-writer-for-a-more-civilized-age/ | Source: Hackaday [04:22] TR Bot Elegant Writer For A More Civilized Age | Hackaday [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: but that requires writing more code [04:22] schestowitz[TR2] they are better at just crawling and scraping [04:23] MinceR they keep telling us their bullshit generator can write code [04:23] MinceR maybe they could ask it [04:23] schestowitz[TR2] "write" [04:23] MinceR i suspect it wouldn't even be worse than what their code monkeys produce [04:23] schestowitz[TR2] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675 [04:23] TR Bot The Drunken Plagiarists - ACM Queue [04:25] TR News Destination Linux 413: What is Open Sources True Value? 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The better-quality coconut milk will cost a bit more, but to me has a much better consistency and flavour." gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/recipes/daal.gmi [04:50] TR News 2025-04-03 Picture Page gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-03.gmi [04:50] TR News "I noticed that I was looking at my crawler stats page for random images from Geminispace. Hmm, maybe other people would enjoy that. So starting today, I have a daily post of some of them." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-04-03_Picture_pages.gmi [04:52] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1253.jpg [04:52] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1603.jpg [04:55] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_02_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_02_2025.gmi [04:55] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 [04:56] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:56] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:57] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:57] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... ● Apr 03 [05:10] TR News Microsoft joins corporate China exodus with Shanghai AI lab closure https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250401PD224/microsoft-shanghai-iot-technology-2024.html [05:10] TR Bot Microsoft joins corporate China exodus with Shanghai AI lab closure [05:19] TR News anon: nokia has become problematic with its support for the illegal Unified Patent Court https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000011135152.html ("Nokia sopi patenttiriitansa Amazonin kanssa | HS.fi") see https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_More_Layoffs_Nokia_Again_Takes_Advantage_of_Il.shtml [05:19] TR Bot Nokia sopi patenttiriitansa Amazonin kanssa | HS.fi [05:19] TR Bot Techrights Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges' [05:32] IsambardPrince Tranny on Reddit: I had to flee the country! [05:32] IsambardPrince Me: Okay, bye. [05:32] IsambardPrince I laughed though. [05:32] IsambardPrince They were talking about having the incorrect gender marker on the passport and the passport expires in less than a year. [05:33] IsambardPrince You can renew a passport whenever you want, so this could have been avoided by renewing it last year and getting another 10 years. [05:33] IsambardPrince Now they say "What if I have to come back due to an emergency!" [05:33] IsambardPrince So you fled the country but you want to come back sometimes? [05:33] IsambardPrince Because you're scared of the country. [05:33] IsambardPrince Where nothing is endangering you. [05:34] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.gmi [05:34] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans [05:34] IsambardPrince And then to make it even better, the country they went to is one of those European ones where the Islamists just run people over with cars when the police should have arrested them like 5 years ago and knew it would happen. [05:34] IsambardPrince Like Germany, you know. [05:34] IsambardPrince They know a terrorist will attack but it's not politically correct to arrest a terrorist. [05:35] IsambardPrince I'm not even sure if anything I buy would be subject to the tariffs on Europe. What do they even sell us? Some wine? [05:35] IsambardPrince Bad cars? [05:36] IsambardPrince MinceR, Orbanistan is now being tariffed as part of the EU. [05:38] IsambardPrince Some of this will certainly be avoidable. [05:39] IsambardPrince The four worst car brands you can buy. [05:40] IsambardPrince Which are also some of the most expensive. [05:40] IsambardPrince Japan doesn't get a 20% tariff, they get a 10%, and they do a lot of their manufacturing in the US. [05:41] IsambardPrince https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/trump-told-cabinet-that-elon-musk-will-leave-administration-in-coming-months/6209864/ [05:41] TR Bot Trump told Cabinet that Elon Musk will leave administration in coming months NBC New York [05:41] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, The defeat in Wisconsin is landing hard. [05:41] IsambardPrince Today Republicans in the Senate were unable to stop two bills from the Democrats from passing. [05:42] IsambardPrince One would cancel the tariffs on Canada. [05:42] IsambardPrince The other expresses the sense of the Senate that USPS should not be privatized. [05:42] IsambardPrince Musk made a horrible mistake in getting that involved in Wisconsin. [05:43] IsambardPrince He wanted to dump a ton of money into that race to make a point that he could just buy people into office and therefore make others afraid that the knife cuts both ways. [05:43] IsambardPrince Instead, he dumped a LOT of money in and John "Schlemiel" still lost by 10 points, which is a lot. It's a landslide as these things go. [05:44] IsambardPrince Wisconsin supreme court elections usually are like 3-4%. Musk coming in and dumping $50 million actually more than doubled the margin of loss, and now people don't think he's an asset. [05:45] IsambardPrince Dumping $50 million into everything including voter bribery in Wisconsin while not paying his child support. [05:50] TR News Techrights More Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/More_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Based_on_Web_Surveys.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/More_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Based_on_Web_Surveys.gmi [05:50] TR Bot Techrights More Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys [05:58] TR News thelayoffs site took it up a notch with clownflare "challenges", so is it under DDOS attacks or out-of-control LLM scrapers? ● Apr 03 [06:00] TR News "You are 110% accurate in everything you have written in your post." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [06:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb ) [06:00] TR News "Bloodbath it T&O and my manager dumps work on everyone while he cant write 1 line of code... No more late nights. Im not doing it. Im not slacking off but Im not going to figuratively work myself to de@th" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [06:01] TR News "Yep, this. My work ethic won't allow me not to give my best but I'm not doing anymore 12-14 hour days and picking up the phone at 9pm or pushing my vacay because of some fabricated deadline." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [06:01] TR News "All for what? An insulting GDP and being told there is no money for raises? All while our fearless leader helps himself to a 25% one. This is the most toxic company I have every worked for. And that's saying a lot!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [06:03] TR News "PwC all but fired Neil Dhar, who was relieved of command and booted from leadership for shady electioneering when he campaigned to lead their US business in March 2024. This ethical sl--e bucket is a perfect fit for IBM. There must have been another reason Alvind gave this PwC reject a second chance... but I cant quite put my head bob on it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a [06:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a ) [06:03] TR News Corrupt people being put in charge of IBM is a bad sign, further reinforcing the belief the company cheats on its finances [06:05] TR News LLM is not a writer, it is worthless slop. This is about layoffs being spun as buzzwords. https://www.channelnews.com.au/canva-lays-off-technical-writers-amid-ai-push/ [06:05] TR Bot Canva Lays Off Technical Writers Amid AI Push channelnews [06:07] TR News IBM is the biggest loser so far in DOGE's consulting crackdown: "The list includes Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and General Dynamics. [...] IBM: 10 contracts, $34.3 million." https://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-doge-consulting-crackdown-contracts-cuts-big-four-2025-4 [06:07] TR Bot Deloitte Is the Biggest Loser so Far in DOGE's Consulting Crackdown - Business Insider [06:08] TR News Consulting Giants Offer Billions in Cuts to Federal Contracts. It Might Not Be Enough. https://www.wsj.com/business/consulting-giants-offer-billions-in-cuts-to-federal-contracts-it-might-not-be-enough-f7c872d2 [06:08] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/business/consulting-giants-offer-billions-in-cuts-to-federal-contracts-it-might-not-be-enough-f7c872d2 ) [06:09] schestowitz[TR2] " Jettisoning Ms. Chambliss is just the beginning. There's going to be many more shake-ups in Consulting." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka [06:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka ) [06:21] IsambardPrince Hmm, got a couple years worth of water filters. Good deal on them. Amazon said made in Europe. Price hasn't gone up yet. [06:29] TR News Techrights IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Techrights IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft [06:32] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [06:32] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@b6dc92btrdtrn.irc) has joined #techrights [06:32] TR News IBM Loses Big Contracts https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.shtml [06:38] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Brita has been hiking their prices like mad. [06:39] IsambardPrince The difference in price between the Brita and Amazon filter is now $2 per filter. We drink so much water that I replace 12 of these things each year. [06:40] IsambardPrince Walmart has changed suppliers for their version so many times I've lost count. [06:40] IsambardPrince QA is really hit or miss. [06:40] IsambardPrince Sometimes you get good ones, then they change supplier again and they clog. [06:42] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: draft? [06:42] schestowitz[TR2] re msft [06:42] schestowitz[TR2] Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble [06:42] schestowitz[TR2] Earlier this week we showed that mostly Asian media had the 'nerve' to mention Microsoft silently shutting down its 'AI' lab [06:43] IsambardPrince Yeah [06:43] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I suspect that we'll eventually see companies mitigate the tariff fallout somehow. [06:43] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.shtml [06:43] TR Bot Techrights Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble [06:43] IsambardPrince Re-shoring was starting to become a thing by the end of Trump 1.0 sometimes. [06:43] schestowitz[TR2] still working on it [06:43] schestowitz[TR2] you can give me your views to add [06:44] TR News Techrights Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.gmi [06:44] TR Bot Techrights Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble [06:44] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I saw an article about Microsoft in Wisconsin the other day. [06:44] IsambardPrince Huge data center. They plan to open it early, but the article mentioned that they've been canceling many others. [06:45] IsambardPrince The demand just isn't there to justify more. [06:45] IsambardPrince Plus the Wisconsin project is pretty far along and they can run it more cheaply. I have a feeling, this is just a guess, that they want it close to Lake Michigan so they can use the water. [06:45] IsambardPrince There's also a lot of cheap solar and wind energy there. [06:46] IsambardPrince And the overall business climate is friendly, and it's within spitting distance of Chicago. [06:47] IsambardPrince I don't think Illinois needs to get super deregulatory and have people showing up with chainsaws. [06:47] IsambardPrince But some of the taxes produce minimal revenue and a lot of compliance costs. [06:47] IsambardPrince I think they could look at that. [06:49] IsambardPrince "It's not unthinkable that amid the rise of GNU/Linux [1, 2]. [06:49] IsambardPrince Microsoft can hardly charge anything for Windows anymore and as a server (or VM or container) provider Microsoft has failed to (hence mass layoffs in Azure every year since 2020), so all it has now is hype like "AI" and "Quantum". How patient will shareholders be? There will be no financial returns, only financial fraud." [06:49] IsambardPrince Should that be joined? [06:49] schestowitz[TR2] yes [06:49] schestowitz[TR2] fixed [06:50] IsambardPrince Windows is hardly loved. [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] refresh now [06:51] IsambardPrince Consistently the most popular tools are things that turn off all the spyware and find ways to pock around the Digital Markets Act bit to make the undesirable shovelware, like Microsoft Edge, go away, even in regions other than the EU those enablement bits are in Windows. [06:51] IsambardPrince https://bogdan-patraucean.github.io/about/wintoys/ [06:51] TR Bot Wintoys | about [06:51] IsambardPrince I ran across this yesterday and was laughing because most consumer operating systems (like Chrome OS and Mac OS) and Linux distributions tend to be very intuitive these days. [06:52] TR News iophk: notably that programme got torpedoed in prep for the tariffs, now the US has no manufacturing to fall back on https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/ [06:52] TR Bot and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades | WIRED [06:52] IsambardPrince Either they use their own products and want them to work, or they see the customer as important and not just a dumping ground for shovelware, ads and trash, or there's Free Software where the angle is nobody would ever want the shovelware and trash so nobody bundles it. [06:53] IsambardPrince With Free Software, if anyone ever got the idea to do that, someone else would just fork it. [06:53] IsambardPrince There's suddenly a version that does not. Like the difference between Firefox and Librewolf. [06:53] schestowitz[TR2] i see [06:53] schestowitz[TR2] we use Librewolf [06:54] schestowitz[TR2] https://news.tuxmachines.org/node/158708 [06:54] TR Bot content type. Ignoring. [06:54] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, rianne adopted it that year [06:54] schestowitz[TR2] 2021 [06:54] IsambardPrince Chrome OS and Mac OS are proprietary, but they want users to choose them. [06:54] IsambardPrince Microsoft is helping the exodus along by making Windows slow and full of more garbage. [06:54] IsambardPrince So we should really be thanking them. [06:54] IsambardPrince It's not very often that the competitor signs their own death warrant. [06:55] IsambardPrince But that's what this whole thing is right? With the ads, with the bloatware and the garbage web browser nobody asked for and would immediately uninstall if there was a clear way to. [06:56] IsambardPrince The people using Edge, thus MSN (which is a captive portal for Edge users, mostly), tend to skew older. [06:56] IsambardPrince They have no idea how a computer works. [06:56] IsambardPrince They're on a budget so most of them can't afford a Mac. [06:56] IsambardPrince The budget came from a life of hardship, imposed by lack of savings and lack of education. [06:57] IsambardPrince So you get on these MSN News re-posts of the major news sites... [06:57] IsambardPrince And all the comments are from these really uneducated people, most of them are MAGA. [06:58] IsambardPrince These are the only people that seem to use Edge and MSN and it's because it's right the hell there and it hasn't occured to them to customize anything, or that they're being fed a drip drip drip of bot spew. [06:59] IsambardPrince MSN doesn't add any value. It's basically like a cake mixer where the ingredients are two parts actual posts from various news sites that were at least written by people, 1 part ad carousel, and 1 part bot spew. [06:59] IsambardPrince You just blend it together and slop the trough. ● Apr 03 [07:00] IsambardPrince And so a lot of what Microsoft does these days is slopping the trough, really. [07:00] IsambardPrince It's not very good, but you're feeding it to animals to fatten them up. [07:00] IsambardPrince And there's a lot of it and it's cheap. [07:00] TR News Autodesk Strikes Back with Unexpected Layoffs Whats Behind the Cut? https://lkouniexam.in/autodesk-strikes-back-with-unexpected-layoffs/ [07:00] TR Bot Autodesk Strikes Back with Unexpected Layoffs Whats Behind the Cut? [07:01] IsambardPrince https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/ [07:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/ ) [07:01] IsambardPrince https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions [07:01] TR Bot Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions | FOX6 Milwaukee [07:01] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], ^ [07:01] IsambardPrince Raising questions. [07:01] IsambardPrince :) [07:02] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], This is like what happens when my broke bullshitting landlord's operation falls apart. [07:02] schestowitz[TR2] thanks [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] yes, common [07:03] IsambardPrince The city is trying to find him to shut off the water and take the meter out. [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] very common [07:03] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] it's a bad landlord [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] seems like a faker [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] a charlatan like marisol [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] ytou don't want your "crib" controlled by such people [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] they are very unredictable [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] like you lose the water [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] and it does not come back for DAYS [07:03] schestowitz[TR2] reminds me of siorius CEO [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] i won't name him here [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] you know why they don't ffix things? [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] they are putting out fires [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] they cannot p[ay all the bills [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] so they triage them [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] and figure out,. if i don't fdix water, i will be fined [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] or, ryan will complain [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] or ryan will leave [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] so it'll cost me more than fixing it [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] in risius [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] as i covered in 2022 and 2023 [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] tghe company would not pay some bytemark bills [07:04] schestowitz[TR2] for hosting [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] till bytemark just shut down the whole DB server [07:05] IsambardPrince Yeah, the water gets shut off and suddenly everyone is looking for a way out of here and stops paying him. [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] then the CEO was in apanic [07:05] IsambardPrince So it has to be turned back on. [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] he could not pay [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] tried this credit card [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] then this [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] \rejected [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] not enough [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] a bit from this card [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] and then from this card [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] till he paid like 5k overdue [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] he kept not paying [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] the bills kepty rising [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] adding up [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] bytemark got fed up [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] issued a warning of shutdown [07:05] schestowitz[TR2] he ignored it [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] and then they really turned it off [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] they told my colleague to lie to the client [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] to say we just rebvooted it [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] i kepty eivdnce this was a lie [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] now this colleague is SUING the company [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] but I cannot publish the tribunal papers, YET [07:06] schestowitz[TR2] because it's ongoing [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] ^ thjat's your landlord [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] then he gets sued [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] so it goes downhill from there [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] pissing off too many people [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] lying to themn [07:07] schestowitz[TR2] breaching contracts [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] the "trump way" of doing business [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] see how much you can chjeat and steal [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] like he stoile pension money from my colleagues and I [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] knowing that taking action would cost more than we can get [07:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I mentioned that to my doctor. [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] and he can just do "Administration" (like Ch11) [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] in case we sue and win in default judgement [07:08] schestowitz[TR2] because he cannot put in a Defence [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] the evidence is just too clear of pensionf raud [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] so in short [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] consider moving [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] don't rely on this a-hole [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] this is not mark [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] this is like " [07:09] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Microsoft is losing control of the narrative here. [07:09] schestowitz[TR2] alvind and the pipmunks" [07:10] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [07:10] IsambardPrince I have a feeling that he'll file bankruptcy and the building will be in receivership. [07:10] IsambardPrince After he loses. [07:10] IsambardPrince Someone else will get all the leases but then we'll be on our third landlord. [07:10] schestowitz[TR2] maybe. [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2], Microsoft is losing control of the narrative here. [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] where? [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] context? [07:11] IsambardPrince On the data centers. [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] yeah [07:11] IsambardPrince The news now reports that they're canceling so many. [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] people can count [07:11] IsambardPrince People have "questions". [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] and make lists [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] something does not "add up" [07:11] schestowitz[TR2] Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions [07:11] TR Bot Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions | FOX6 Milwaukee [07:12] IsambardPrince https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/ [07:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/ ) [07:12] IsambardPrince "The decision was partly driven by a decrease in anticipated workloads from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT." [07:12] IsambardPrince "The company cites reduced need for AI training workloads from OpenAI as a contributing factor." [07:12] schestowitz[TR2] in 2023 kaniini admitted being a partner of a Microsoft staff [07:12] IsambardPrince "Microsoft has halted several data center projects in the U.S. and Europe due to lower-than-expected demand." [07:12] schestowitz[TR2] that kaniini's partner worked in Azure [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] that's quite.... worrying [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] how did that come about? [07:13] IsambardPrince You mean where Cantrell worked? [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] and Microsoft gavce kaniini a job offer [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] in 2021 [07:13] IsambardPrince Where Cantrell did drugs and asked people on StackExchange how to do his job. [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] when we got a megascoop about microsoft corruption in europe [07:13] IsambardPrince Then stabbed a guy. [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] days before publishing the series [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions [07:13] schestowitz[TR2] https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/ [07:14] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Well, you know how those left-coast people are. [07:14] IsambardPrince When they say "a partner" it means one of several people they're in some sort of casual "fucking relationship" with. [07:15] IsambardPrince They might as well say "I drift between people I occasionally fuck, and fuck buddies are the new partner." [07:15] IsambardPrince Like Orange is the New Black. [07:15] IsambardPrince "I went to the doctor today to pick up mah hormones!" [07:15] IsambardPrince "Now it's back in the sex swing in my dog costume!" [07:16] IsambardPrince They're just weird. [07:16] IsambardPrince Like, totally fucked in the head. [07:17] IsambardPrince The male partner is actually a woman, the woman partner is actually a man. [07:17] IsambardPrince They "flee the country" because X isn't allowed on a passport. [07:17] IsambardPrince Which means of course, people are trying to kill them. [07:17] IsambardPrince (Not really, but you know....) [07:17] IsambardPrince (They think so.) [07:21] schestowitz[TR2] draft coming [07:22] schestowitz[TR2] hand on [07:22] schestowitz[TR2] will quite you and the articles [07:22] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], The Indiana porn ban law is already rankling some feathers. [07:22] schestowitz[TR2] eta 2 mins [07:22] schestowitz[TR2] so want you to check or add [07:22] schestowitz[TR2] espp. the chatgpt stuff [07:24] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Confirmed_in_the_Mainstream_Media_A_Lot_of_Microsoft_Workloads_.shtml [07:24] schestowitz[TR2] draft [07:24] TR Bot Techrights Confirmed in the Mainstream Media: A Lot of Microsoft "Workloads" Were Just LLM Slop (Helping to Fake Growth for Years, as Microsoft Had Paid "Open" "AI" to Become a "Client") and Demand is Rapidly Waning, Datacentres Canceled and/or Shut Down [07:25] *techrights-news has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [07:26] *techrights-news (~techrights-news@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [07:28] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Trump pardoned a company last week. [07:28] IsambardPrince The first time that's ever been done. [07:28] IsambardPrince He pardoned BitMex. [07:29] IsambardPrince For securities fraud. [07:29] IsambardPrince Why not invest in crypto and put it on an exchange? When they defraud you and the president pardons not only the people running the company, but the company itself... [07:31] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], It's time to cut ties from companies that have had a track record of defrauding people and breaking the law. [07:31] IsambardPrince I closed our credit cards at Wells Fargo this week. [07:36] schestowitz[TR2] right [07:40] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:45] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [07:48] IsambardPrince Great, another cockroach. [07:48] IsambardPrince I've killed like two of them in the last 6 months. [07:49] IsambardPrince Guessing someone who lives in the building has a major infestation and a stray gets in here sometimes. [07:49] IsambardPrince No use telling the landlord. [07:49] IsambardPrince "They say they're not doing it." [07:49] IsambardPrince Meanwhile they have garbage and old pizza everywhere. [07:50] IsambardPrince Maybe even cheetos and cum. ● Apr 03 [08:06] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRGnHuYol8 [08:06] TR Bot https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=HeRGnHuYol8 [08:06] TR Bot invidious.tiekoetter.com | Best Water Pitcher Filters Tier List - 3rd Party Laboratory Tested - Invidious [08:06] IsambardPrince I'm not certain why Amazon Basics filters would remove about a quarter of the fluoride from the water while Brita had no effect at all. [08:07] IsambardPrince Oh, 32%. [08:07] IsambardPrince Usually granular activated carbon filters have no effect at all on fluoride levels. [08:26] IsambardPrince https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2025/04/01/trump-paper-checks-executive-order-treasury-irs-social-security-impacts/82756873007/ [08:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.jacksonville.com/story/news/2025/04/01/trump-paper-checks-executive-order-treasury-irs-social-security-impacts/82756873007/ ) [08:26] IsambardPrince "Historically, Department of the Treasury checks are 16 times more likely to be reported lost or stolen, returned undeliverable, or altered than an electronic funds transfer. [08:26] IsambardPrince "Maintaining the physical infrastructure and specialized technology for digitizing paper records cost the American taxpayer over $657 million in fiscal year 2024 alone," the order said. [08:28] IsambardPrince https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/federal-government-phasing-paper-checks-will-affected-rcna199166 [08:28] TR Bot The federal government is phasing out paper checks. Here's who will be affected. [08:28] IsambardPrince "Banking groups applauded the move." [08:29] schestowitz[TR2] i have not used one in ages [08:29] schestowitz[TR2] but am not against that [08:29] schestowitz[TR2] i used to demand those for accounts [08:29] schestowitz[TR2] in case i need them [08:29] schestowitz[TR2] the pitfalls are many [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] -cannot check if funds are available (risk) [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] -can be forged [08:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I write checks to the landlord. [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] -requires some additional equipment [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] cash does not have most of the problems [08:30] IsambardPrince I didn't get blindsided this month due to HIS bank account being shut down. [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] for very large transactions you can also pay with cash [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] like electronics [08:30] IsambardPrince Everyone else did. [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] and get a receipt as inssurance/warranty [08:30] schestowitz[TR2] even if they don't know your name [08:31] schestowitz[TR2] they can ccheck the receipt matches what's on their system [08:31] schestowitz[TR2] item id, time, date [08:32] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I'm simplifying our finances. [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] yesterday i saved about 100 pounds a year on our internet [08:32] IsambardPrince Moving to one charge card instead of over 11 credit cards. [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] just by speaking to a higher up [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] for those you cannot pay anonymously [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] they know your home, socket etc. [08:32] schestowitz[TR2] but landlords can be paid in cash i think, depending on tax rules [08:32] IsambardPrince It makes it hard to get behind on bills. [08:33] schestowitz[TR2] are they paying a tax on each rent payment? [08:33] IsambardPrince Just have everything hit the charge card and then have the charge card pay itself. [08:33] schestowitz[TR2] you say you had "over 11 credit cards." [08:33] schestowitz[TR2] sounds like you play with fire again [08:34] IsambardPrince This latest one has No Preset Spending Limit. [08:34] IsambardPrince That doesn't mean no limit, it means that it's flexible. [08:34] schestowitz[TR2] there is no 'free money' [08:34] schestowitz[TR2] those cards are fire [08:35] IsambardPrince I have pay over time turned off. [08:35] IsambardPrince It has to be paid in full. [08:37] IsambardPrince It's impossible to carry a balance or pay interest like this. [08:39] schestowitz[TR2] i don't trust them [08:39] schestowitz[TR2] nor should you [08:39] schestowitz[TR2] that is all i can say [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] remember sirius defrauded many of us [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] none of us knew how [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] they made it look credible [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] by producing fradulent payslips [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] don't trust bad companies and people [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] also, start looking for anorher home, imho [08:40] schestowitz[TR2] before it's too late [08:41] schestowitz[TR2] if you are in a bad relationship. it is not likely to improve [08:41] schestowitz[TR2] your excuses might improve [08:41] schestowitz[TR2] but not the relationship [08:53] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Did you see the message? [08:58] IsambardPrince A lot of the fault for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the EU's. [08:59] IsambardPrince They took in Orbanistan and stopped expanding after that. [08:59] IsambardPrince They swallowed Putin's mole, of course not that the more respectable European countries aren'tt to blame more directly for Ukraine being attacked. [08:59] IsambardPrince They helped make Russia rich off gas that Putin turns on and off whenever he makes demands. ● Apr 03 [09:00] IsambardPrince To those ends they even shut down functioning nuclear power plants. [09:00] TR News Techrights Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Only_on_April_1st_Can_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Associate_Wi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Only_on_April_1st_Can_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Associate_Wi.gmi [09:00] TR Bot Techrights Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI) [09:02] IsambardPrince The RCA SelectaVision CED "videodisc" was nothing but problems. They were expensive, they were huge. [09:03] IsambardPrince They weren't supposed to ever be ejected from the cartridge except by the player, but they could get dirt or fluff on the disc which would get etched in really badly. [09:03] IsambardPrince And you had to flip the movie over about halfway through to keep watching it. [09:04] IsambardPrince BetaMax at least might have succeeded. BetaMax was the better format between that and VHS. If Sony was smarter, they would have licensed BetaMax either freely or on reasonable terms. [09:06] TR News (NEW): I'm a Linux power user and this distro has the most refreshing take on OS design https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_has_the_most_refreshing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_has_the_most_refreshing_.gmi [09:06] TR Bot Tux Machines I'm a Linux power user and this distro has the most refreshing take on OS design [09:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I'd like to see cassettes come back. In HD. They could do that, but they never would. [09:08] IsambardPrince Too paranoid about piracy. [09:08] IsambardPrince Every movie they put out that has DRM is on all the pirate sites an hour later, if that. [09:09] IsambardPrince And they just pester people who bought the stupid thing. [09:12] Sompi_ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwash-an-executive-today/ [09:12] TR Bot Brainwash An Executive Today! Ludicity [09:16] TR News (NEW): Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Introducing_Fedora_Project_Leader_Jef_Spaleta.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Introducing_Fedora_Project_Leader_Jef_Spaleta.gmi [09:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta [09:19] TR News (NEW): GIMP 3.0 review - A solid, dependable update https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GIMP_3_0_review_A_solid_dependable_update.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GIMP_3_0_review_A_solid_dependable_update.gmi [09:19] TR Bot Tux Machines GIMP 3.0 review - A solid, dependable update [09:26] TR News Techrights statCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/statCounter_Says_GNU_Linux_Usage_is_Up_Again_Internationally.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/statCounter_Says_GNU_Linux_Usage_is_Up_Again_Internationally.gmi [09:26] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally) [09:26] TR News (NEW): New to Linux? 4 things to focus on before you switch https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/New_to_Linux_4_things_to_focus_on_before_you_switch.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/New_to_Linux_4_things_to_focus_on_before_you_switch.gmi [09:26] TR Bot Tux Machines New to Linux? 4 things to focus on before you switch [09:29] TR News Android surging in China? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:29] TR Bot Operating System Market Share China | Statcounter Global Stats [09:31] TR News (NEW): If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, its my fault https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/If_your_notifications_look_kind_of_stupid_in_Plasma_6_3_4_it_s_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/If_your_notifications_look_kind_of_stupid_in_Plasma_6_3_4_it_s_.gmi [09:31] TR Bot Tux Machines If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, its my fault [09:32] TR News Android in Asia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/asia/#monthly-202503-202504-map [09:32] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Asia | Statcounter Global Stats [09:35] TR News (NEW): Practical Payment Solutions for Murena and /e/OS Users https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Practical_Payment_Solutions_for_Murena_and_e_OS_Users.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Practical_Payment_Solutions_for_Murena_and_e_OS_Users.gmi [09:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Practical Payment Solutions for Murena and /e/OS Users [09:35] TR News GNU/Linux roses a lot in China this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/china/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:35] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share China | Statcounter Global Stats [09:36] TR News Also in Japan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/japan/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:36] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Japan | Statcounter Global Stats [09:36] TR News Windows falling in South Korea https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/south-korea/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:36] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Republic Of Korea | Statcounter Global Stats [09:38] TR News GNU/Linux 25% in Singapore https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:38] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Singapore | Statcounter Global Stats [09:38] TR News Windows falls in Malaysia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/malaysia/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:38] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Malaysia | Statcounter Global Stats [09:40] TR News GNU/Linux rose to highest levels in years in Russia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/russian-federation/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:40] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Russian Federation | Statcounter Global Stats [09:41] TR News Same in Belarus https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belarus/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:41] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Belarus | Statcounter Global Stats [09:41] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi [09:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations [09:42] TR News GNU/Linux+ChromeOS 7% in Germany https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/germany/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:42] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Germany | Statcounter Global Stats [09:43] TR News About 20% in Sweden https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sweden/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:43] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Sweden | Statcounter Global Stats [09:43] TR News (NEW): GNOME Has A New App for Daily Wallpapers from Bing, Wikimedia https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNOME_Has_A_New_App_for_Daily_Wallpapers_from_Bing_Wikimedia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNOME_Has_A_New_App_for_Daily_Wallpapers_from_Bing_Wikimedia.gmi [09:43] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME Has A New App for Daily Wallpapers from Bing, Wikimedia [09:43] TR News And in Norway https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:43] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Norway | Statcounter Global Stats [09:44] TR News In France and Spain GNU/Linux at around 5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/france/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/spain/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:44] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share France | Statcounter Global Stats [09:44] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Spain | Statcounter Global Stats [09:46] TR News Windows steadily down in Brazil https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/brazil/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:46] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Brazil | Statcounter Global Stats [09:47] TR News GNU/Linux about 8% in venezuela and cuba https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/venezuela/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/cuba/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:47] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Bolivarian Republic Of Venezuela | Statcounter Global Stats [09:47] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Cuba | Statcounter Global Stats [09:48] TR News Mexico: GNU/Linux up steadily https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/mexico/#monthly-200902-202504 [09:48] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Mexico | Statcounter Global Stats [09:56] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Apparently DOS is sending out "prove you aren't a tranny" letters to people who submit passport applications now. [09:56] IsambardPrince So even people who aren't nutcases are getting their passports delayed. ● Apr 03 [10:02] TR News Techrights Indonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Indonesia_All_Time_Highs_for_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Indonesia_All_Time_Highs_for_GNU_Linux.gmi [10:02] TR Bot Techrights Indonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux [10:22] TR News Windows falls in Argentina https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/argentina/#monthly-200902-202504 [10:22] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Argentina | Statcounter Global Stats [10:23] TR News GNU/Linux around 10%. Doing well in home of Torvalds. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200902-202504 [10:23] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Finland | Statcounter Global Stats [10:28] TR News (NEW): Dull Desktop? Install Picture of the Day App on Ubuntu https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Dull_Desktop_Install_Picture_of_the_Day_App_on_Ubuntu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Dull_Desktop_Install_Picture_of_the_Day_App_on_Ubuntu.gmi [10:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Dull Desktop? Install Picture of the Day App on Ubuntu [10:29] TR News Since threats by the US against Greenland, Apple and Microsoft share in Denmark seems to have collapsed https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/denmark/#monthly-200902-202504 [10:29] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Denmark | Statcounter Global Stats [10:31] TR News GNU/Linux ~5% in Egypt https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/egypt//#monthly-200902-202504 [10:31] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Egypt | Statcounter Global Stats [10:35] TR News (NEW): DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/DeaDBeeF_1_10_Release_Brings_New_Features.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/DeaDBeeF_1_10_Release_Brings_New_Features.gmi [10:35] TR Bot Tux Machines DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features [10:37] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/shorts/amdsSTO072I [10:37] TR Bot the American Heart Association corrupt? - YouTube [10:37] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:39] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [10:45] TR News On IBM: "this company is bankrupt. only thing holding up above water is india. But the water is rising quickly. Everything is going to be underwater. if there are no sales or poor sales, then we know it will go underwater. when that happens nobody will even remember this place. it is going underwater. like a forgoten city." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh [10:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh ) [10:45] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pVV0MlknkjU [10:45] TR Bot Bill Gates wrong about cows? - YouTube [10:45] TR News "TESLA is the biggest loser so far, and that is just delicious." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx0qrge [10:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx0qrge ) [10:46] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Bill Gates isn't going to be too influential for this administration. [10:47] TR News "IBM should just eject the consulting business. The whole business is rife with corruption." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a [10:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a ) [10:47] TR News "What ? Leave the consulting business and force all Alvind's layabout friends and cronies on the IBM India Friends and Family Plan into lives without IBM jobs ? That's just plain selfish and unthinkable. Alvind has to give a daily progress report to Modi so he can collect a new set of medals to show Trump his fake values." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a [10:47] IsambardPrince The last vestiges of COVID shot thuggery have been swept away. [10:47] IsambardPrince Including forcing immigrants to take them [10:47] IsambardPrince So there go the "customers"/ [10:47] schestowitz[TR2] you took them [10:47] schestowitz[TR2] you did not have to [10:47] schestowitz[TR2] no employer forced you to [10:47] schestowitz[TR2] but you were "Weak" [10:48] schestowitz[TR2] i said all along it was still an experiment [10:48] schestowitz[TR2] and i am not impressed with the results [10:48] TR News "Given the BOZOs that Trump has hired, if anyone is expecting any of this to make 'sense' they are dreaming. It most likely goes down to who is giving Trump the most bribes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka [10:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka ) [10:49] TR News "Yes, IBM under Alvind excels and thrives on lies, deceit, bribery and corruption which is what Indian culture is built on. That's why Modi is such a great friend of Trump." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka [10:49] TR News "IBM BCGs (Business Conduct Guidelines) don't count for anything except blah-blah-blah on w3. They are just "guard rails" to show in event of a Federal government audit of IBM and its business practices (or lack thereof) . But we all know that will never happen in a billion years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka [10:49] TR News "What happened ? A deafening silence from you to the response (@yc). Alvind got your tongue. Again ? Maybe the new sl--eball dirtbag, Neil Dhar will fix it all in Consulting like he did at PwC. And maybe he will get canned this time. Can you do the needful to make sure it happens ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez [10:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez ) [10:50] TR News The Web these days feels "small"; not many people or material, LLM slop does NOT count [10:51] TR News "Apps" are not "the Web", but a lot of the Web got reduced into 'webapps' [10:53] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.gmi [10:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [10:54] TR News Week 11 deaths in England and Wales. 2019: 10,567. Same week in 2025: 11,745. Nothing to see here, plebs, move along fast! [10:55] *liberty_box has quit (connection closed) [10:55] *liberty_box (~liberty@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [10:56] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I've been cleaning up what we eat, a lot. It's just terrifying really what kind of shit and garbage they'll throw in the supermarket. [10:57] admfubar https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever [10:57] TR Bot Site-Blocking Legislation Is Back. Its Still a Terrible Idea. | Electronic Frontier Foundation [10:57] IsambardPrince You know, half or more of what they have in there isn't even food at all. [10:58] IsambardPrince I'm not terribly concerned about canola oil. I just don't think it's the monster they're making it out to be. [10:59] TR News "In part 2 we've more interviews with infosec providers, both established and startups from the Florida ZTW2025 event sposored by Threatlocker. Ed, Helen and Alicja visit Games Bars and meet more heroic comic-book characters" https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=44 https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/ztw-p2.mp3 | Source: The Cyber Show [10:59] TR Bot The Cyber Show - Episodes ● Apr 03 [11:00] TR News "Franz Jetzinger from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, investigates the impact of teacher training on HEY HI education." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/supporting-teachers-to-integrate-ai-in-k-12-cs-education/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [11:00] TR Bot Supporting teachers to integrate AI in K12 CS education - Raspberry Pi Foundation [11:00] IsambardPrince Tallow fat, which is being promoted by these MAHA idiots, is loaded with saturated fats, and they keep screaming conspiracy theories about how Canada is selling repurposed machine oil. They did use it for that before they figured out how to purify it to remove the erucic acid. [11:00] TR News Ohio https://therevelator.org/ohio-toxic-algae/ | Source: The Revelator [11:00] TR Bot In Ohio, Facing a Future Without Clean Water The Revelator [11:00] IsambardPrince That's what makes it canola. Rapeseed oil is generally highly toxic. [11:01] TR News "Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linux-shoots-back-up-the-steam-survey-for-march-2025-with-simplified-chinese-dropping/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:01] TR Bot shoots back up the Steam Survey for March 2025 with Simplified Chinese dropping | GamingOnLinux [11:02] TR News "Valve released and then rereleased a fresh stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-desktop-and-steam-deck-stable-update-released-with-various-fixes-plus-tweaks-to-the-download-ui/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:02] TR Bot Desktop and Steam Deck stable update released with various fixes, plus tweaks to the download UI | GamingOnLinux [11:02] TR News "This is not a drill. Hollow Knight: Silksong is alive, thankfully, and it's even going to be releasing this year. On Nintendo Switch 2 that is at least." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/hollow-knight-silksong-lives-and-its-releasing-in-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:02] TR Bot Knight: Silksong lives and it's releasing in 2025 | GamingOnLinux [11:03] TR News "Dodge Roll and Devolver Digital announced Enter the Gungeon 2 today, teased during the Nintendo Switch 2 event and it's coming to Steam as well in 2026" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/bullet-hell-dungeon-crawler-enter-the-gungeon-2-announced-with-a-new-3d-style/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:03] TR Bot hell dungeon crawler Enter the Gungeon 2 announced with a new 3D style | GamingOnLinux [11:04] TR News "One classic point and click adventure game fans have been excited about has arrive." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/western-point-and-click-adventure-rosewater-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:04] TR Bot point and click adventure Rosewater is out now | GamingOnLinux [11:04] TR News "UNDERTALE fans are pretty excited about this one! DELTARUNE from tobyfox is finally coming to Steam with chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 on June 5th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/deltarune-chapters-1-4-release-on-steam-in-june/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:04] TR Bot chapters 1-4 release on Steam in June | GamingOnLinux [11:05] TR News "After a couple of duds, Humble Bundle actually have a properly good deal here with Humble Choice for April 2025 having a really nice selection of games." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/humble-choice-for-april-2025-has-a-quality-list-of-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [11:05] TR Bot Choice for April 2025 has a quality list of games | GamingOnLinux [11:08] TR News (NEW): Games: DELTARUNE, Rosewater, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Games_DELTARUNE_Rosewater_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Games_DELTARUNE_Rosewater_and_More.gmi [11:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: DELTARUNE, Rosewater, and More [11:12] TR News "Canadians Ditch US Holidays in Rage: Potential 1.6bn Fallout and 14,000 Face Job Loss" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/canadians-ditch-us-holidays-rage-potential-16bn-fallout-14000-face-job-loss-1732345 [11:12] TR Bot Canadians Ditch US Holidays in Rage: Potential 1.6bn Fallout and 14,000 Face Job Loss | IBTimes UK [11:12] TR News "Teslas sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/news/641311/tesla-q1-2025-delivery-production-sales-slump-musk [11:12] TR Bot Teslas sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows | The Verge [11:13] TR News "What Its Like to Get Long COVID Now" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/long-covid-clinics-closing/682251/ [11:13] TR Bot What Its Like to Get Long COVID Now - The Atlantic [11:14] TR News iophk: not even a hint at the massive downsides only unwarranted glowing praise propaganda not reporting https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/energy/1265880/smart-meters-to-help-cypriots-save-money/ (I"Smart meters to help Cypriots save money") https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2024/02/16/e-on-next-admits-more-than-a-third-of-customers-reject-smart-meter/ [11:14] TR Bot meters to help Cypriots save money | eKathimerini.com [11:14] TR Bot Blog Archive E.ON Next Admits More Than a Third of Customers Reject Smart Meter [11:15] TR News "Back to Cash: Life Without Money in Your Pocket is Not the Utopia Sweden Hoped" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/31/1218257 [11:15] TR Bot Back to Cash: Life Without Money in Your Pocket is Not the Utopia Sweden Hoped - SoylentNews [11:16] TR News "Trumps Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry" https://www.wired.com/story/trump-global-tariffs-tech-industry-impacts/ [11:16] TR Bot Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry | WIRED [11:16] TR News good riddance: "US Airline Stocks Are Plummeting Amid Waning DemandIs Now The Right Time To Invest?" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-airline-stocks-are-plummeting-amid-waning-demand-now-right-time-invest-1732352 [11:16] TR Bot US Airline Stocks Are Plummeting Amid Waning DemandIs Now The Right Time To Invest? | IBTimes UK [11:17] TR News "Going Dark: EU stellt Strategie zur Inneren Sicherheit vor" | EU presents internal security strategy https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/going-dark-eu-stellt-strategie-zur-inneren-sicherheit-vor/ [11:17] TR Bot Going Dark: EU stellt Strategie zur Inneren Sicherheit vor [11:17] TR News "Why Trumps tariffs are self-defeating and pointless" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/406453/trump-tariffs-china-shock [11:17] TR Bot Trumps tariffs are self-defeating and pointless | Vox [11:18] TR News "Trumps Tariff Plan Is Going to Hurt" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/trump-tariff-plan-imports/682278/ [11:18] TR Bot Trumps Tariff Plan Is Going to Hurt - The Atlantic [11:18] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:18] TR News "Elon Musk Lost His Big Bet" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/elon-musk-has-overstayed-his-welcome/682275/ [11:18] TR Bot Elon Musk Lost His Big Bet - The Atlantic [11:19] TR News "Musk's Cuts at US Social Security Agency Are Illegal, Lawsuit Claims" https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-02/musks-cuts-at-us-social-security-agency-are-illegal-lawsuit-claims [11:19] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-02/musks-cuts-at-us-social-security-agency-are-illegal-lawsuit-claims ) [11:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], We could defeat Canada in a war in 3-5 days, if that. [11:20] IsambardPrince If Trump wanted it, he doesn't have to destroy the economy. [11:21] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/researchers-build-a-risc-v-processor-using-a-2d-semiconductor/ [11:21] TR Bot A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor - Ars Technica [11:31] TR News "Texas State Board of Education" https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters | Source: Pro Publica [11:31] TR Bot Conservatives on Texas School Board Escalate Fight Over Textbooks and What Students Learn ProPublica [11:31] schestowitz[TR2] If Trump wanted it, he doesn't have to destroy the economy. [11:31] schestowitz[TR2] it would [11:31] schestowitz[TR2] if us invaded canada, that would destroy us relations with europe [11:31] schestowitz[TR2] and not just with europe [11:32] schestowitz[TR2] so it's a dumb move [11:32] schestowitz[TR2] did russiam get strongher after invading ukraine? [11:32] TR News "Cryptocurrency" https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters | Source: Pro Publica http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml [11:32] TR Bot Reps Demand HUD Halt Cryptocurrency Experiments ProPublica [11:32] TR Bot Techrights Just Because Common Currencies (Including the US Dollar) Are Considered Uncertain Doesn't Mean People Should Adopt Volatile Multi-Level (Pyramid) Schemes [11:32] IsambardPrince No. Even the US is still sanctioning them. [11:33] TR News Abducted https://thedissenter.org/abducted-for-writing-an-op-ed-dissenter-weekly/ | Source: The Dissenter [11:33] TR Bot Abducted For Writing An Op-Ed [11:34] TR News "One tenant was a Morgan State University student facing struggles typical of residents in the Kushner complexes." https://www.propublica.org/article/kushner-kushnerville-apartments-tenants-lawsuits-andrew-rabinowitz-lawyer | Source: Pro Publica [11:34] TR Bot He Helped Kushners Crack Down on Tenants. Now He Helps Renters. ProPublica [11:38] TR News "But, with the mainstream emergence of generative AI, that social agreement has come into question and come under threat" https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Creative Commons [11:38] TR Bot Reciprocity in the Age of AI - Creative Commons [11:38] TR News "The trio set out to determine whether GPT-4o had, without the publisher's permission, ingested 34 copyrighted O'Reilly Media books." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/openai_copyright_bypass/ | Source: The Register UK [11:38] TR Bot Study suggests OpenAI isn't waiting for copyright exemption The Register [11:44] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:44] TR News "A bill that aims to further undermine operators of restricted platforms including Meta, Instagram, and X" https://torrentfreak.com/advertising-banned-on-all-sites-blocked-in-russia-starting-september-250402/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:44] TR Bot Banned on All Sites Blocked in Russia Starting September * TorrentFreak [11:46] TR News "CPJs research shows that RFE/RL and VOA journalists often put themselves at risk by reporting in highly censored countries." https://cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-supports-legal-efforts-to-protect-rfe-rl-voa-after-trump-executive-order/ | Source: CPJ [11:46] TR Bot CPJ supports legal efforts to protect RFE/RL, VOA after Trump executive order - Committee to Protect Journalists [11:47] TR News "Whether from religious conservatives or progressive educators, todays book bans share a common moral claim: some texts are too harmful to circulate." https://jacobin.com/2025/04/censorship-book-banning-free-speech/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [11:47] TR Bot The Shared Logic of Censorship [11:47] TR News "By the end of Friday The Telegraph offered to remove the article and cover Stop Funding Hates legal costs, although it did not accept any liability." https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/telegraph-stop-funding-hate/ | Source: Press Gazette [11:48] TR Bot Telegraph takes down Stop Funding Hate article after legal threat - Press Gazette [11:48] TR News "Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/free-speech-deportation-crackdown/682258/ | Source: The Atlantic [11:48] TR Bot Can I Teach the First Amendment If I Only Have a Green Card? - The Atlantic [11:50] TR News "driven by President Trumps enthusiastic supporters" https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-04-01/trump-network-newsmax-is-the-hottest-stock-on-wall-street | Source: Los Angeles Times [11:50] TR Bot Trump-loving network Newsmax is a hot stock on Wall Street - Los Angeles Times [11:50] TR News "SoftBank is currently looking for someone to loan them $16 billion to help fund all of this." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/ | Source: Pivot to AI http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml [11:50] TR Bot OpenAI signs its $40 billion deal with SoftBank! Or maybe $30 billion, probably Pivot to AI [11:50] TR Bot Techrights OpenAI: If OpenAI Survives Another 2 Years, It'll be About 30 Billion Dollars in Cumulative Losses/Debt [11:50] TR News "Jefferies also notes that the low-cost mini-computer maker has not seen any impact so far from the tariffs imposed by Washington." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/raspberry_pi_not_affected_by_tariff/ | Source: The Register UK [11:50] TR Bot Raspberry Pi not affected by orange tariffs say analysts The Register [11:51] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [11:52] *darwin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [11:53] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [11:54] TR News ChromeOS has shot up in Iceland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iceland/#monthly-200902-202504 [11:54] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Iceland | Statcounter Global Stats [11:56] TR News Windows all-time low in Pakistan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/pakistan/#monthly-200902-202504 [11:56] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Pakistan | Statcounter Global Stats [11:57] TR News "This is a very basic slot machine with three wheels. Each has 12 symbols and there arent any complicated second screens, payline variations, or any of the other nonsense youll find in a modern casino." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/02/this-student-made-his-own-odds-with-a-diy-slot-machine/ | Source: Arduino [11:57] TR Bot This student made his own odds with a DIY slot machine | Arduino Blog [11:58] TR News "The laptop 12 is intended to be a budget machine, or at least a budget alternative, so its notably chunkier than the existing Laptop 13 design." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2656156/framework-laptop-12-pre-orders-start-april-9th.html | Source: PC World [11:58] TR Bot Laptop 12 pre-orders start April 9 | PCWorld ● Apr 03 [12:01] TR News Windows TCO: "The tribe "continued to take measures to contain the incident, including taking some systems offline" https://therecord.media/native-minnesota-tribe-says-cyber-incident-disrupted-healthcare-casino | Source: The Record [12:01] TR Bot Native tribe in Minnesota says cyber incident knocked out healthcare, casino systems | The Record from Recorded Future News [12:02] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Framework, and Arduino https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Framework_and_Arduino.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Framework_and_Arduino.gmi [12:02] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.1.gmi [12:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Framework, and Arduino [12:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [12:02] TR News Entrapment (Microsoft GitHJub) https://hamatti.org/posts/shared-rss-subscriptions-for-software-team/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala [12:02] TR Bot Shared RSS subscriptions for a software team : Juha-Matti Santala [12:02] TR News "Peak Design says the wallet is constructed with TerraShell Ultra, which is an abrasion-resistant material." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/bags-and-backpacks/peak-design-is-now-making-a-wallet-that-fits-3-passports-and-yet-still-fits-in-your-pocket | Source: Digital Camera World [12:02] TR Bot The Peak Design Passport is a wallet that fits 3 passports and yet still fits in a pocket | Digital Camera World [12:03] TR News "You dont need to take their word for it. Signal is open source, meaning the code is available for anyone to review" https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/locking-down-signal/ | Source: FPF [12:03] TR Bot Locking down Signal [12:03] TR News activist" https://jacobin.com/2025/04/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-musk/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [12:03] TR Bot Wisconsin Rejected Billionaire Rule [12:03] TR News [Old] "Yes, Vote-Buying Is Illegal. But Why?" https://law.stanford.edu/press/yes-vote-buying-is-illegal-but-why/ | [12:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://law.stanford.edu/press/yes-vote-buying-is-illegal-but-why/ ) [12:04] TR News "Expenditures to influence voting" https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597 | Source: uni Cornell [12:04] TR Bot 18 U.S. Code 597 - Expenditures to influence voting | U.S. Code | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute [12:05] TR News "Wang regularly collaborated with researchers at the Institute of Information Engineering (IIE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences" https://www.wired.com/story/xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-research-probe-china/ | Source: Wired [12:05] TR Bot Professor Faced China-Funding Inquiry Before Disappearing, Sources Say | WIRED [12:06] TR News "Few of the 431 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate who voted for the law have complained." https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-04-02/why-no-one-is-challenging-trumps-executive-order-that-keeps-tiktok-running | Source: US News And World Report [12:06] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-04-02/why-no-one-is-challenging-trumps-executive-order-that-keeps-tiktok-running ) [12:06] TR News "Since our September 2024 report outlining the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT worker threat" https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-it-workers-expanding-scope-scale/ | Source: Google [12:06] TR Bot DPRK IT Workers Expanding in Scope and Scale | Google Cloud Blog [12:06] TR News "The hermit kingdom (DPRK) runs a corps of operatives who apply for remote tech jobs and, if they get them" https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/north_korean_fake_techies_target_europe/ | Source: The Register UK [12:06] TR Bot North Koreas fake tech workers now targeting Europe The Register [12:07] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [12:07] TR News "This would allow governments to change primary legislation according to the politics of the day" https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-data-use-and-access-bill-henry-viii-powers-threaten-democracy-and-uk-adequacy/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup [12:07] TR Bot Briefing: Data Use and Access Bill Henry VIII powers threaten democracy and UK adequacy | Open Rights Group [12:08] TR News "housing supply and birth rates have become twin focal points in Americas policy conversation" https://www.vox.com/policy/406604/abundance-ezra-klein-housing-yimby-pronatalism-birth-rates-donald-trump-ivf | Source: Vox [12:08] TR Bot affordable housing boost Americas birth rates? | Vox [12:08] TR News "California isnt recycling nearly enough water, according to a new report by UCLA researchers" https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-04-02/colorado-river-ucla-water-recycling | Source: Los Angeles Times [12:08] TR Bot Recycling more water would help fix Colorado River's woes, report says - Los Angeles Times [12:08] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [12:09] TR News "To this end, through our investigation we have developed a set of recommendations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)" https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Water-Reuse-Report.pdf | [12:10] TR News "it is happening at a breakneck speed in a way that residents are not protected" https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-business/policy-and-regulation/us-electricity-prices-are-surging-these-louisiana-companies-want-out/ | Source: Renewable Energy World [12:10] TR News "Schools in several counties were closed again at the top of the Lower Peninsula." https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/power-grid/outage-management/northern-michigan-no-stranger-to-wild-weather-tries-to-cope-with-days-of-no-power/ | Source: Renewable Energy World [12:10] TR News "Arm Holdings hopes to increase its share of the global data center CPU market from 15% to 50% by the end of 2025." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/arm-aims-to-capture-50-percent-of-data-center-cpu-market-in-2025 | Source: Tom's Hardware [12:11] *TechrightsBot-tr has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:13] *TechrightsBot-tr (~TR@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #techrights [12:13] TR Bot to load module HelloWorld. 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[12:15] TR News "But Trump couldn't have pulled this trick off without the Dem establishment's total unwillingness to confront the hollowness of their economic policies." https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/me-or-your-lying-eyes/#spherical-cows-on-frictionless-surfaces | Source: CoryDoctorow [12:15] TR Bot Pluralistic: Whats wrong with tariffs (02 Apr 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [12:17] TR News Islamic Republic Of Iran: GNU/Linux at all-time high this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iran/#monthly-200902-202504 [12:17] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Islamic Republic Of Iran | Statcounter Global Stats [12:19] TR News "The show highlights how social media algorithms ensure certain content on our feed despite our choice" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/digital-teens-unraveled-adolescence-series-shocks-with-social-medias-dark-influence-1870478 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [12:20] TR Bot Digital Teens Unraveled: Adolescence Series Shocks with Social Medias Dark Influence [12:20] TR News "For that last category, authorities say the cartel uses social platforms theyve identified at least 60 pages" https://www.lonestarlive.com/nation-world/2025/04/jalisco-cartel-lures-recruits-on-social-media-with-fake-jobs-kills-those-who-resist.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC [12:20] TR Bot cartel lures recruits on social media with fake jobs, kills those who resist - lonestarlive.com [12:20] TR News "That's due to the Wikimedia Foundation's caching scheme which distributes popular content to regional data centers around the globe for better performance." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/ | Source: The Register UK [12:20] TR Bot Wikimedia Foundation bemoans AI bot bandwidth burden The Register [12:20] TR News "That said, while everybody else was either reacting with horror or delight at the tidal wave of gen-AI hype, I maintained my skepticism." https://nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-ambivalence/ | Source: Nolan Lawson [12:20] TR Bot AI ambivalence | Read the Tea Leaves [12:22] TR News "Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed peoples brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/01/1114009/brain-computer-interfaces-10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [12:22] TR Bot Brain-computer interfaces face a critical test | MIT Technology Review [12:22] TR News "About half of U.S. adults say it is difficult to afford health care costs" https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs/ | Source: KFF [12:22] TR Bot Americans Challenges with Health Care Costs | KFF [12:31] TR News Techrights Islamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12% https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_GNU_Linux_at_All_time_High_This_Month_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_GNU_Linux_at_All_time_High_This_Month_.gmi [12:31] TR Bot Techrights Islamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12% [12:33] TR News "Wired headphones are a more practical and reliable option than the wireless variety." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2637913/6-reasons-why-wired-headphones-are-better-than-wireless.html | Source: PC World [12:33] TR Bot reasons why wired headphones are better than wireless | PCWorld [12:34] TR News "My first article about things I overheard on the street tackled like as a verbal tic" https://thenewleafjournal.com/like-literally-like-unclear-thinking-and-speaking/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal [12:34] TR Bot Like Literally Like - Unclear Speaking The New Leaf Journal [12:34] TR News "I was a software web developer, a lot of time ago." https://mzll.it/2025/04/this-is-a-long-story/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo [12:34] TR Bot This is a long story mzll [12:45] TR News "As a team lead, this isnt going to work, because much more of your work is interrupt-driven or gets blocked for long periods of time." https://www.benkuhn.net/tmgr/ | Source: Ben Kuhn [12:45] TR Bot for time management as a manager | benkuhn.net [12:46] TR News "John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: Rational Astrologies and Security: [...]" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/rational-astrologies-and-security.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [12:46] TR Bot Astrologies and Security - Schneier on Security [12:46] TR News "Visiting a web page and finding purple links in the article is a comforting experience. It means I'm familiar with most of the references the article makes to other content." https://susam.net/more-purple-links-please.html | Source: SusamPal [12:46] TR Bot More Purple Links, Please - Susam's Quick Notes [12:46] TR News "Whereas new opportunities (or tragedies) may have caused your grandparents to move." https://www.8ball.report/p/the-millennial-friend-group-crisis | Source: Sean Monahan [12:46] TR Bot the millennial friend group crisis - by Sean Monahan [12:53] TR News SpellBinding: AILSTWU Wordo: DOZED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-03.gmi [12:54] TR News "I am exhausted - about to fall asleep, in fact, but I have made a commitment to write something, no matter how small, every day." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2563 [12:57] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Gemini_Links_03_04_2025_Patch_Panel_and_Pictures.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Gemini_Links_03_04_2025_Patch_Panel_and_Pictures.gmi [12:57] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures ● Apr 03 [13:01] TR News Techrights Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_SoftBank_Money_for_Microsoft_Open_AI_Probably_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_SoftBank_Money_for_Microsoft_Open_AI_Probably_.gmi [13:01] TR Bot Techrights Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk [13:08] TR News "There are no "LLMs based in India". They don't innovate, they don't build anything, all they have is endless supplies of cheap labor." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh [13:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh ) [13:11] TR News "My Team At A 300K-Employee Firm Being Replaced" https://in.benzinga.com/news/25/04/44606752/dumpster-fire-cybersecurity-analyst-my-team-at-a-300k-employee-firm-being-replaced-by-an-ai-weve-been-secretly-training-for-2-years "guesses ranging from IBM" [13:11] TR Bot 'Dumpster Fire'Cybersecurity Analyst: 'My Team At A 300K-Employee Firm Being Replaced By An AI We've Been Secretly Training For 2 Years' - Citigroup (NYSE:C), IBM (NYSE:IBM) - Benzinga [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [13:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb ) [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] " [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] Ive been called so many times on vacation it got me into unnecessary arguments with my wife over that. With this company everythings an emergency to he-l with your personal life is their creed [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] Yesterday was my limit when I was at a funeral and they knew I was going to be offline and still they couldnt at least wait until the afternoon [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] The days of working at least 12 hours are gone. No more!! Im not going to be lazy but Im not going to work myself to death so management can say good job but we need more [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] Alvind and his Pipmunks are getting fat d-mb and happy from thousands of Americans who are producing while they get fatter [13:22] schestowitz[TR2] " [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid2: MinceR: i know at least two people like that [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] they would even work 60 or 70 hours a week [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] with or without token extra pay [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] (usuall;y without) [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] this is what the "IT industry" seems to have becomme [13:26] schestowitz[TR2] my former colleague is now suing [13:27] TR News Rachel Sylvester named Observer political editor as around half staff leave title https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/rachel-sylvester-observer-political-editor/ "Around half current Observer staff have taken redundancy rather than join Tortoise Media." [13:27] TR Bot Rachel Sylvester is new Observer political editor [13:27] TR News Bangkoks condo oversupply problem may worsen over quake fears about high-rise buildings https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkoks-condo-oversupply-problem-may-worsen-over-quake-fears [13:27] TR Bot Bangkoks condo oversupply problem may worsen over quake fears about high-rise buildings | The Straits Times [13:28] TR News PEOPLE [13:28] TR News The "problem".... of RICH PEOPLE [13:31] TR News NV8600-Nano Hey Hi (AI) Developer Kit features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB, quad GbE, Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2 https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/nv8600-nano-ai-developer-kit-features-nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-8gb-quad-gbe-raspberry-pi-camera-module-2/ [13:31] TR Bot NV8600-Nano AI Developer Kit features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB, quad GbE, Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2 - CNX Software [13:33] TR News DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/deadbeef-1-10-release-brings-new-features [13:33] TR Bot DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features - OMG! Ubuntu [13:34] TR News Destinaion Linux 413: What is Open Source's True Value? Plus NVIDIA's Open Robots https://destinationlinux.net/413 [13:34] TR Bot What is Open Source's True Value? Plus NVIDIA's Open Robots - Destination Linux - TuxDigital [13:34] TR News Dull Desktop? Install Picture of the Day App on Ubuntu https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-picture-of-the-day-app [13:34] TR Bot Dull Desktop? Install 'Picture of the Day' App on Ubuntu - OMG! 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One of the more notable platform-specific updates comes on the Linux side." https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-thunderbird-137-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [13:40] TR Bot Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Released, Heres Whats New [13:42] TR News "Qt 6.9 cross-platform software development framework is out now with improved emoji rendering, 3D graph transparency, and performance boosts across all platforms." https://linuxiac.com/qt-6-9-now-available-with-boosts-to-performance-emoji-rendering/ | Source: Linuxiac [13:42] TR Bot Qt 6.9 Now Available with Performance Boosts, Emoji Rendering [13:42] TR News "Deploying an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and mobile core network using open source solutions can be complex, with challenges ranging from configuring dependencies to resolving registration issues." https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/03/deploying-open-source-ims-and-mobile-core-networks-with-open5gs/ | Source: APNIC [13:42] TR Bot Deploying open-source IMS and mobile core networks with Open5GS | APNIC Blog [13:42] *mechap (~mechap@dr5mucvuqtnua.irc) has joined #techrights [13:43] *mechap has quit (Quit: WeeChat 4.6.0) [13:44] TR News "See how trackers view your browser" https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ | [13:44] TR Bot Cover Your Tracks [13:44] TR News "I will do a live-streamed curl 8.13.0 release presentation on Twitch at 08:00 UTC (10:00 CEST)" https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/02/curl-8-13-0/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg [13:44] TR Bot 8.13.0 | daniel.haxx.se [13:44] TR News Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta https://lwn.net/Articles/1016217/ [13:44] TR Bot Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta [LWN.net] [13:46] TR News PorteuX 2.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1016216/ [13:46] TR Bot 2.0 released [LWN.net] [13:47] TR News Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1016205/ [13:47] TR Bot updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] [13:48] TR News "Project 2025, a proposed road map for the current Trump administration authored by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, had called for eliminating federal subsidies for the manufacturing program and letting the private sector more properly carry out its business advisory services." https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/ | Source: Wired [13:48] TR Bot and DOGE Defund Program That Boosted American Manufacturing for Decades | WIRED ● Apr 03 [14:05] *oarion7 (~ryan@e6jyc88uwxv5c.irc) has joined #techrights [14:06] TR News Techrights StatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/StatCounter_Microsoft_is_Masking_a_Disaster_It_s_Way_Behind_Dee.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/StatCounter_Microsoft_is_Masking_a_Disaster_It_s_Way_Behind_Dee.gmi [14:06] TR Bot Techrights StatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned [14:08] TR News "In the same way that there are 10 fifth Beatles, I could have added many other kinds of optimisation, but I wanted to focus on what my experience has shown me to be the main contenders." https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/the_fifth_kind_of_optimisation.html | Source: Lawrence Tratt [14:08] TR Bot Laurence Tratt: The Fifth Kind of Optimisation [14:08] TR News "Whats the difference between Option[A] and A | Null? How about between Either[A, B] and A | B?" https://alexn.org/blog/2025/04/02/tagged-vs-untagged-unions-in-scala/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu [14:08] TR Bot Tagged vs Untagged Unions (in Scala) - Alexandru Nedelcu [14:12] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:13] *l0de_ (sid31830@id-31830.ilkley.irccloud.com) has joined #techrights [14:13] *lightbringer has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [14:13] *lightbringer (mincer@freenode/user/lightbringer) has joined #techrights [14:14] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techrights [14:14] *irc.techrights.org gives channel operator status to MinceR [14:14] TR News "genAI is the next chapter in this calamitous cavalcade of computerised crapulance. This technology, whatever perceived or incidental benefit it has, slops out such enormous and uncaptured externalities that it affects all of us." https://rubenerd.com/im-so-tired-of-thinking-about-genai/ | Source: Ruben Schade [14:14] TR Bot Im so tired of thinking about genAI [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] " The slave labour in Africa used to classify data. Our servers creaking under the load of their indiscriminate scrapers, to say nothing of our costs. Open source projectsthe ones that deliver so much of the code necessary to make them workbeing washed of their licences and clogged with spam. Creative outlets being forced to close under mountains of spam and genAI slop. I waste so much of my job now dealing with automated ab [14:15] schestowitz[TR2] use alerts it beggars belief. I could link to examples of each of these, but Im tired, and Im sure youve read the same stories." [14:16] schestowitz[TR2] how true! [14:17] TR News How To Install Deluge on Fedora 41 https://idroot.us/install-deluge-fedora-41/ [14:17] TR Bot How To Install Deluge on Fedora 41 - idroot [14:17] *l0de has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [14:17] TR News How To Install JDownloader on Fedora 41 https://idroot.us/install-jdownloader-fedora-41/ [14:17] *l0de_ is now known as l0de [14:17] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [14:17] TR Bot How To Install JDownloader on Fedora 41 - idroot [14:18] TR News How To Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore https://thenewstack.io/how-to-put-a-gui-on-ansible-using-semaphore/ [14:18] TR Bot How To Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore - The New Stack [14:19] TR News How to Install Claude Code on Ubuntu Linux: A Developers Guide https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-claude-code-ubuntu-linux/ [14:19] TR Bot How to Install Claude Code on Ubuntu Linux: A Developer's Guide - LinuxShout [14:19] TR News Nothing like slop "code" infecting your codebase and putting you at unknown legal risk? 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The first game I finished was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D." https://tylersticka.com/journal/video-game-backlog-zero/ | Source: Tyler Sticka [14:23] TR Bot Video Game Backlog Zero Tyler Sticka [14:24] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_howtos.gmi [14:24] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [14:24] TR News "This is for everyone upgrading to Plasma 6.3.4, which was released yesterday. I suspect that some of you will notice something slightly wrong with notifications; the top padding is off, causing text to look not vertically centered most of the time." https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/02/if-your-notifications-look-kind-of-stupid-in-plasma-6-3-4-its-my-fault/ | Source: Nate Graham [14:24] TR Bot If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, its my fault Adventures in Linux and KDE [14:26] TR News "Less than a month after Plasma 6.3.3 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.3.4, the fourth bugfix update to its 6.3 series" https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-4-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [14:26] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Desktop Environment Released [14:27] TR News "Also, I'm well aware of the calendar, thanks." https://www.talospace.com/2025/04/plan-9-finally-comes-to-power9.html | Source: Talospace [14:27] TR Bot Plan 9 finally comes to the POWER9 [14:28] TR News "PorteuX, a Slackware-based Linux distribution whose main goal is to be super fast, small, portable, modular and immutable" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12395 | Source: Distro Watch [14:28] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12395 ) [14:29] TR News "was read by sshd before my '60-no-passwords.conf" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHConfigOrderMatters | Source: University of Toronto [14:29] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [14:30] TR News "We had it in our roadmap to launch Globstar already, and 80% of the work was done. 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Sure there were RAs under GR and she was incompetent but theres something about Alvinds personality that irks me. Look I know CEOs arent supposed to be your best friend but read the damn room Alvind ! Specifically on your office hours meetings ! You dont have to be so confrontational all the time !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [14:37] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb ) [14:37] TR News (IBM) "And Krabanaugh! How about people focusing on their jobs instead of people needing to learn 10,000 new skill for them to get a stupid badge and use products that nobody outside IBM Wants, Theyre not reaping the benefits ! You are !!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb [14:38] TR News (IBM) "Im still going to do my tasks , actually excelling at them but no more 12-14 days and getting calls on vacation or at 11PM. My GDP amount this year was the final straw. I have a life outside this company" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq [14:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq ) [14:39] TR News "The istio-csr agent enables a seamless integration with theIstio service mesh, allowing cert-manager to secure Istio workload and control plane components." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-and-zero-trust-securing-workloads-cert-manager-and-openshift-service-mesh | Source: Red Hat Official [14:39] TR Bot Red Hat OpenShift and zero trust: Securing workloads with cert-manager and OpenShift Service Mesh [14:43] TR News "If youve ever wished Firefox had vertical tabs or an easier way to share links on your phone and you left a comment somewhere asking for it theres a good chance someone saw it. And not just someone. The actual people building Firefox." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/about-mozilla-connect/ | Source: Mozilla [14:43] TR Bot Built together: How Firefox fans help shape the browser [14:43] TR News "a long-requested Firefox feature designed to make tab management and multitasking easier." https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/vertical-tabs-and-the-firefox-community/ | Source: Mozilla [14:43] TR Bot How Firefoxs vertical tabs came to life with a little help from our community [14:43] *ubuntourist (~kjcole@freenode-epssar.qsk6.6tj8.0juu4j.IP) has joined #techrights [14:49] TR News Ubuntu Blog: How does MongoDB work? https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-does-mongodb-work [14:49] TR Bot does MongoDB work? | Ubuntu [14:50] TR News "Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support) last month" https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-kubernetes-cilium-and-other-cnis | Source: Ubuntu [14:50] TR Bot future of Kubernetes networking: Cilium and other CNIs with Canonical Kubernetes | Ubuntu [14:56] TR News When a person conflates chainsaws with liberation... maybe you have a demented nutcase in charge. [14:58] TR News Baltic postage stamps celebrate energy disconnection from Russia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/02.04.2025-baltic-postage-stamps-celebrate-energy-disconnection-from-russia.a593883/ [14:58] TR Bot Baltic postage stamps celebrate energy disconnection from Russia / Article [14:59] TR News Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russian-spy-infiltrates-asml-and-nxp-to-steal-technical-data-necessary-to-build-28nm-capable-fabs [14:59] TR Bot Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs | Tom's Hardware ● Apr 03 [15:02] MinceR 03 063951 < IsambardPrince> The four worst car brands you can buy. [15:02] MinceR and i can't even buy the non-shit models anyway [15:02] MinceR less-shit, anyway [15:03] MinceR no F-150, no huge SUVs, no huge engines, no weird cars [15:03] TR News Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/challenging-server-embedding.html [15:03] TR Bot Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding | Patently-O [15:03] MinceR just tiny, ugly, shitty fords designed in germany and tiny, shitty, mostly ugly stellantis cars (is GM even present in europe anymore since they got rid of opel?) [15:04] schestowitz[TR2] opel is vauxhall here [15:04] schestowitz[TR2] and they still sell [15:04] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/ [15:04] TR Bot Vauxhall Vehicles | Electric, Hybrid, Cars, SUV & Vans | Vauxhall [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] let's check their junkyard catalogue [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] to see what [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] "smart" crap they add [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] (like they all do) [15:05] MinceR opel is a stellantis brand though [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] probably need "app" for them all [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. some american spyphone [15:06] MinceR so instead of dressing up the tiniest, most laughable GM designs to be eye-wateringly ugly, they dress up shitty stellantis designs to be eye-wateringly ugly instead [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: i don't know stellantis fits in [15:06] MinceR even though you can even buy the same stellantis designs with much less ugly designs from their french brands, right here [15:07] MinceR i don't know why these merkin brands think that europeans want their cars specifically to be ugly [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] stellantis [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/cars/grandland/model-overview.html [15:07] TR Bot Vauxhall Grandland | Vauxhall SUV | Vauxhall [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] sounds like Greenland [15:07] MinceR hm, maybe GM is still selling the shit they got by buying daewoo motors [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] they don't tell the price [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] they sell loans [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] in car form [15:07] schestowitz[TR2] installment plans [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] wow, that's a brand i have not heard of in a LONG time... daewoo [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] like "aiwa [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] remember "aiwa"? [15:08] MinceR yes [15:08] MinceR aiwa is still around, i think, but probably has nothing to do with what it used to be [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] they dion't say how much the cars cost [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] they hide it [15:08] schestowitz[TR2] to sell loans [15:09] schestowitz[TR2] how ridiculous! [15:09] schestowitz[TR2] is it normal for car sellers to hide all the prices? [15:09] schestowitz[TR2] i cannot unfold any [15:09] schestowitz[TR2] or see specs [15:10] schestowitz[TR2] what a useless site [15:10] schestowitz[TR2] just JS animationds [15:10] schestowitz[TR2] *animation [15:10] schestowitz[TR2] and no actual relevant info [15:10] MinceR might depend on the seller [15:11] MinceR also, you might want to check the prices at the dealer's site [15:11] MinceR and even then, at least here the custom is to have some sort of haggling happen at most of them [15:11] MinceR suzuki instead just has a "discounted price" that always applies [15:11] MinceR and they list that next to the "list price" [15:12] schestowitz[TR2] i found a version with prices now [15:12] schestowitz[TR2] it's absurd for a piece of tin with chassis [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] 20 years ago they cost less than half and lasted 20 years [15:13] MinceR well, in europe it also has lots of alleged safety gear [15:13] MinceR and lots of computers [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] now the panels are like some "ap" [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] "app" [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] no way they will issue patches till 2045 [15:13] MinceR oh, and lots of extra complexity aimed at reducing emissions [15:13] schestowitz[TR2] (if humans are not extinct by then) [15:13] MinceR with questionable efficacy [15:13] MinceR (especially if you factor in all the part replacements it makes necessary) [15:14] schestowitz[TR2] lots of plasticware in the car [15:14] schestowitz[TR2] not metal [15:14] MinceR it is well known that models aimed at places like india from the same brands are much cheaper [15:14] schestowitz[TR2] the sun will ruin the colour and form within years [15:14] MinceR though they're probably also less safe in a crash [15:14] schestowitz[TR2] they dissolve [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] they put volume control on the wheel [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] who needs critical functions anyway [15:15] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:15] schestowitz[TR2] aim for honk, lower volume instead [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] and you listen to music, so you cannot hear the surrounds, like other cars honking [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] must be veryu safe [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] maybe add QWERTY keyboard to the wheel [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] so you can sms while you drive [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] or snapchat on the go [15:16] schestowitz[TR2] till you go on a sidewalk [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] the handbrake looks like plastic [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] maybe it's "Smart" and "power" [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] not nechanical [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] so you need to power on the car to put on the handbrake [15:17] schestowitz[TR2] (not dangerous at all!) [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] "smart springs"? [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] "sorry, battery low" [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] no power = no clock [15:18] schestowitz[TR2] it's rendering of analogue clock [15:19] schestowitz[TR2] instead of a normal clock that works also when it's turned on [15:19] schestowitz[TR2] (or off) [15:20] schestowitz[TR2] no power = cannot roll up/down windows... no "rolling" per se [15:20] schestowitz[TR2] i hope the handles are mechanical [15:20] schestowitz[TR2] so it's not a case of, no power = cannot enter/exit the car [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] glove compartment mechanical [15:22] schestowitz[TR2] so no need for "app" to open it [15:23] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [15:24] TR News TTAB Quarterly Index: January - March 2025 http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttab-quarterly-index-january-march-2025.html [15:24] TR Bot The TTABlog: TTAB Quarterly Index: January - March 2025 [15:24] TR News Video: Document Freedom Day with the Nepalese LibreOffice community https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/02/video-document-freedom-day-with-the-nepalese-libreoffice-community/ [15:24] TR Bot Video: Document Freedom Day with the Nepalese LibreOffice community - The Document Foundation Blog [15:25] TR News IBM "White Men" Discrimination Lawsuit Moves Forward, Judge Denies IBM's Motion to Dismiss https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ibm-white-men-discrimination-lawsuit [15:25] TR Bot IBM "White Men" Discrimination Lawsuit Moves Forward, Judge Denies IBM's Motion to Dismiss [15:26] TR News Open Source DNA Project Dies of Convicted Felon Derangement Syndrome https://lunduke.substack.com/p/open-source-dna-project-dies-of-trump [15:26] TR Bot Open Source DNA Project Dies of Trump Derangement Syndrome [15:26] TR News Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Gemini_Protocol_Has_Growing_Appeal_the_Web_Got_Too_Bloated_and_.shtml [15:26] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop) [15:27] TR News People who claim to do "Open Source" and believe in it: 1) would not GIVE their DNA. 2) would not COLLECT the DNA of people. 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[15:27] MinceR 03 161538 < schestowitz[TR2]> aim for honk, lower volume instead [15:27] MinceR i never had that issue [15:28] MinceR 03 161612 < schestowitz[TR2]> maybe add QWERTY keyboard to the wheel [15:28] MinceR would be nice [15:28] MinceR it would make satnav more comfy [15:28] MinceR instead of leaning to the center and typing on the screen, i could just type on the steering wheel [15:28] schestowitz[TR2] maybe add doom [15:28] schestowitz[TR2] so you can shoot while yoou drive [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] https://electrek.co/2020/08/26/tesla-driver-autopilot-watching-movie-when-crash-police-car/ [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-driver-killed-autopilot-self-driving-car-harry-potter [15:29] TR Bot Tesla driver on Autopilot admits to watching a movie when crashing into police car | Electrek [15:29] TR Bot Tesla driver killed while using autopilot was watching Harry Potter, witness says | Tesla | The Guardian [15:29] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/tesla-crash-while-watching-movie-on-autopilot [15:30] TR Bot Tesla driver crashes into cop car while watching movie on Autopilot [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.bostonherald.com/2016/07/01/man-watching-movie-dies-in-tesla-on-autopilot/ [15:30] TR Bot Man watching movie dies in Tesla on autopilot Boston Herald [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] the swasticars suck at everything [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/ [15:30] TR Bot Tesla engineer says company faked "full autopilot" video: Report - CBS News [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] this is who runs the US now [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] liars and frauds [15:33] MinceR 03 162839 < schestowitz[TR2]> so you can shoot while yoou drive [15:33] MinceR adding doom is not the way to do that [15:33] MinceR getting a tank or APC is [15:33] MinceR or maybe mounting a RCWS somewhere... 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[17:33] TR News Surge in Scans for Juniper "t128" Default User, (Wed, Apr 2nd) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31824 [17:33] TR Bot Surge in Scans for Juniper "t128" Default User - SANS Internet Storm Center [17:34] TR News Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31822 [17:34] TR Bot Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive [Guest Diary] - SANS Internet Storm Center [17:34] TR News Merging Hong Kongs public broadcaster and govt PR wing counterproductive, commerce chief tells lawmaker https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/02/merging-hong-kongs-public-broadcaster-and-govt-pr-wing-counterproductive-commerce-chief-tells-lawmaker/ [17:34] TR Bot Merging RTHK and govt PR wing counterproductive [17:35] TR News Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip', claims world's fastest Hey Hi (AI) interconnect https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lightmatter-unveils-high-performance-photonic-superchip-claims-worlds-fastest-ai-interconnect [17:35] TR Bot Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip', claims world's fastest AI interconnect | Tom's Hardware [17:35] TR News Right-Wing Group Used Photos of Emily Ratajkowski and Male Model to Lure Voters to the Polls https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/style/right-wing-group-wisconsin-voting-thirst-traps.html [17:35] TR Bot Right-Wing Group Used Photos of Emily Ratajkowski and Male Model to Lure Voters to the Polls - The New York Times [17:36] TR News From The Daily: In the face of DEI cuts, campus must mobilize https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/editorials/from-the-daily-in-the-face-of-dei-cuts-campus-must-mobilize/ [17:36] TR Bot From The Daily: In the face of DEI cuts, campus must mobilize [17:38] TR News The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-limits-of-ai-generated-miyazaki [17:38] TR Bot The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki | The New Yorker [17:39] TR News So it is NOT news, it is SLOP https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/newsquest-36-ai-assisted-reporters-non-canon-news-disintermediation/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml [17:39] TR Bot Newsquest now employing 36 'AI-assisted reporters' - Press Gazette [17:39] TR Bot Techrights The UK's Press Gazette Has No Credibility Anymore, It Celebrates Plagiarism and Cheap Misinformation (This Ruins Linux Sites Too) [17:39] TR Bot Techrights Why is UK Press Gazette Jingoistic About Plagiarists and LLM Slop Disguised as Journalism? 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Initial Linearity Curve Import & Splash Screen | UbuntuHandbook [17:50] TR News GNU Artanis: A secure design of crypto custody with TEE https://artanis.dev/blog/better-custody.html [17:50] TR Bot A secure design of crypto custody with TEE [17:51] TR News (NEW): Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Zorin_OS_17_3_takes_the_Brave_step_of_changing_its_default_brow.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Zorin_OS_17_3_takes_the_Brave_step_of_changing_its_default_brow.gmi [17:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox [17:53] TR News KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Is Out Today to Fix the Most Common Crashes and Other Bugs https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-4-is-out-today-to-fix-the-most-common-crashes-and-other-bugs [17:53] TR Bot Plasma 6.3.4 Is Out Today to Fix the Most Common Crashes and Other Bugs - 9to5Linux [17:53] TR News Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-0-distro-released-with-gnome-48-and-linux-kernel-6-14 [17:53] TR Bot PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux [17:53] TR News Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Heres Whats Changed https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-137-open-source-email-client-released-heres-whats-changed [17:53] TR Bot Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Here's What's Changed - 9to5Linux [17:54] TR News (NEW): Valves Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/01/Valve_s_Latest_Steam_Client_Release_Brings_Faster_Download_of_U.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/01/Valve_s_Latest_Steam_Client_Release_Brings_Faster_Download_of_U.gmi [17:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Valves Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux [17:54] TR News Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Stefano_Maffulli_and_His_Microsoft_Funded_OSI_Staff_Are_Killing.shtml [17:54] TR Bot Techrights Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!) [17:55] TR News Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Why_We_re_Reporting_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Apparently_Misusing_Th.shtml [17:55] TR Bot Techrights Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women [17:55] TR News My Motion Disbarring or Striking Off Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/My_Motion_Disbarring_or_Striking_Off_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Enabl.shtml [17:55] TR Bot Techrights My Motion Disbarring or Striking Off Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs [17:55] TR News The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/The_Web_Can_Survive_LLM_Slop_But_Only_If_We_Collectively_Shun_a.shtml [17:55] TR Bot Techrights The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers [17:55] TR News LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/LLM_Slop_Helps_Obscure_and_Distort_News_About_Layoffs_IBM_GAFAM.shtml [17:55] TR Bot Techrights LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM) [17:56] TR News One Book To Boot Them All https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/one-book-to-boot-them-all/ | Source: Hackaday [17:56] TR Bot Book To Boot Them All | Hackaday [17:56] *ubuntourist has quit (Connection closed) [17:57] TR News (NEW): Tails 6.14.1 Released with Improved Tor Browser Integration https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Tails_6_14_1_Released_with_Improved_Tor_Browser_Integration.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Tails_6_14_1_Released_with_Improved_Tor_Browser_Integration.gmi [17:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Tails 6.14.1 Released with Improved Tor Browser Integration [17:58] TR News Hey Hi (AI) buzzword-slinging by Mozilla, as usual https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/04/01/new-mozilla-research-civil-liability-along-the-ai-value-chain/ [17:58] TR Bot New Mozilla Research: Civil Liability Along the AI Value Chain - Open Policy & Advocacy [17:59] TR News When data never dies: How better GDPR enforcement could minimise hate and harm https://edri.org/our-work/when-data-never-dies-how-better-gdpr-enforcement-could-minimise-hate-and-harm/ [17:59] TR Bot How better GDPR enforcement could minimise hate and harm - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [17:59] TR News Building bridges for digital rights: The Civic Journalism Coalition https://edri.org/our-work/building-bridges-for-digital-rights-the-civic-journalism-coalition/ ● Apr 03 [18:00] TR Bot Building bridges for digital rights: The Civic Journalism Coalition - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [18:00] TR News The Security Playbook https://edri.org/our-work/the-security-playbook/ "EDRi affiliate SUPERRR is challenging Security Theater as a societal maneuver." [18:00] TR Bot The Security Playbook - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [18:01] TR News Programmers Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/programmers-macro-pad-bangs-out-whole-functions/ | Source: Hackaday [18:01] TR Bot Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions | Hackaday [18:03] TR News "its a command-line interface (CLI) for power monitoring smart plugs." https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/monitor-your-smart-plugs-on-the-command-line/ | Source: Hackaday [18:03] TR Bot Your Smart Plugs On The Command Line | Hackaday [18:03] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man announces sweeping global tariffs, risking a trade war and inflation https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250402-trump-announces-sweeping-global-tariffs-risking-trade-war-and-inflation-economy-trade-european-union-china-us [18:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250402-trump-announces-sweeping-global-tariffs-risking-trade-war-and-inflation-economy-trade-european-union-china-us ) [18:04] TR News (NEW): Thunderbird Launches Open Source Services to Rival Gmail and Office365 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Thunderbird_Launches_Open_Source_Services_to_Rival_Gmail_and_Of.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Thunderbird_Launches_Open_Source_Services_to_Rival_Gmail_and_Of.gmi [18:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Thunderbird Launches Open Source Services to Rival Gmail and Office365 [18:04] TR News stanbul inflation rises 3.79 percent in March https://bianet.org/haber/istanbul-inflation-rises-3-79-percent-in-march-306073 [18:04] TR Bot stanbul inflation rises 3.79 percent in March [18:05] TR News Thunderbird plans "Thundermail" email and other services https://lwn.net/Articles/1016219/ [18:05] TR Bot plans "Thundermail" email and other services [LWN.net] [18:07] TR News PGDay UK 2025, September 9th, London, England https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgday-uk-2025-september-9th-london-england-3049/ [18:07] TR Bot PostgreSQL: PGDay UK 2025, September 9th, London, England [18:07] TR News openHalo Project is now Released! https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/openhalo-project-is-now-released-3048/ [18:07] TR Bot PostgreSQL: openHalo Project is now Released! [18:08] TR News Tech stocks slump after Convicted Felon announces Liberation Day tariffs https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/02/tech-stocks-slump-trump-announces-liberation-day-tariffs/ [18:08] TR Bot stocks slump after Trump announces Liberation Day tariffs - SiliconANGLE [18:08] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Mans New Tariffs Test Apples Global Supply Chain https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/technology/trump-tariffs-apple-iphones.html [18:08] TR Bot Trumps New Tariffs Test Apples Global Supply Chain - The New York Times [18:11] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.2.gmi [18:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [18:12] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [18:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [18:14] TR News (NEW): Back End/Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, and more https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Back_End_Databases_MongoDB_Postgres_and_more.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Back_End_Databases_MongoDB_Postgres_and_more.gmi [18:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Back End/Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, and more [18:14] TR News (NEW): Mozilla: Firefox Features and Mozilla on Buzzwords https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Mozilla_Firefox_Features_and_Mozilla_on_Buzzwords.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Mozilla_Firefox_Features_and_Mozilla_on_Buzzwords.gmi [18:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla: Firefox Features and Mozilla on Buzzwords [18:16] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi [18:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [18:16] TR News (NEW): Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi [18:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers [18:16] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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Cuts [18:23] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [18:57] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:57] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@7axqvai3rktc2.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 03 [19:05] TR News Techrights Brett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.gmi [19:05] TR Bot Techrights Brett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) [19:05] MinceR (video) (audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/SuapeVA/comment/2446382831 [19:05] TR Bot The magic of the Internet [19:16] TR News ZINE ABOUT SMALL WEB - 7 issue is out: "I present to your attention the 7th issue of the magazine" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2564 [19:17] TR News LQs account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2565 [19:18] TR News "Not all updates are so bad. The best and most important updates are ones companies hardly ever talk about: security updates. Vulnerabilities are found in software every day, some extremely serious, and it's important to fix those vulnerabilities." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202504/20250403-decoupling-updates.gmi [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqybecq1 [19:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqybecq1 ) [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] "" [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] IBM must face discrimination claim from White male worker, judge says [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] Hopefully this helps the AFL win their lawsuit against IBM. [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-reverse-discrimination-claim-from-white-male-worker/744121/ [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] " [19:25] TR Bot IBM must face discrimination claim from White male worker, judge says | HR Dive [19:25] TR News "Alvind will probably settle... He doesnt want the bad press ... 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On the Job and as CEO he walks around like an arrogant A Hole but to investors hes their lapdog" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqybecq1 [19:28] TR News The Magic Touch https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/the-magic-touch-a-555-touch-switch/ | Source: Hackaday [19:28] TR Bot Magic Touch: A 555 Touch Switch | Hackaday [19:28] TR News Handheld 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/handheld-18650-analyzer-scopes-out-salvaged-cells/ | Source: Hackaday [19:28] TR Bot 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells | Hackaday [19:29] TR News Guardian journalist checked Noel Clarke allegations again and again https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-journalist-checked-noel-clarke-allegations-again-and-again/ [19:29] TR Bot Guardian journalist checked Noel Clarke allegations 'again and again' - Press Gazette [19:29] TR News Guardian journalist defends putting Noel Clarke investigation sources in touch https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-journalist-defends-putting-noel-clarke-investigation-sources-in-touch/ [19:29] TR Bot Guardian journalist defends putting Noel Clarke investigation sources in touch - Press Gazette [19:30] TR News Qt 6.9 Released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-released [19:30] TR Bot Qt 6.9 Released [19:31] TR News Community SnapshotMarch https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/community-snapshot-march/ [19:31] TR Bot Community SnapshotMarch - Internet Society [19:31] TR News Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-tech-giants-boosted-nvidia-gpu-purchases-by-4x-to-6x-during-q1 [19:31] TR Bot Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1 | Tom's Hardware [19:34] TR News Thousands of websites created by AI: Unmasking the fake news generators https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20250402-thousands-of-websites-created-by-ai-unmasking-the-fake-news-generators [19:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20250402-thousands-of-websites-created-by-ai-unmasking-the-fake-news-generators ) [19:36] TR News intellectual property? you mean PATENTS? COPYRIGHTS? what exactly. too value. propaganda terms. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2025/04/the-government-confirms-its-rights-to-certain-contractor-intellectual-property/ [19:36] TR Bot The government confirms its rights to certain contractor intellectual property [19:37] TR News We need not Hey Hi (AI) but technology that works for people https://bianet.org/haber/we-need-not-ai-but-technology-that-works-for-people-306076 [19:37] TR Bot We need not AI but technology that works for people [19:38] TR News "AI-native" is one of the latest BS buzzwords. Adding adjectives to adjectives for hype. [19:40] TR News Union sues Convicted Felon administration over executive order revoking federal departments collective bargaining rights https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/union-sues-trump-administration-over-executive-order-revoking-federal-departments-collective-bargaining-rights/ [19:40] TR Bot Union sues Trump administration over executive order revoking federal departments collective bargaining rights - JURIST - News [19:42] TR News AI ambivalence https://nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-ambivalence/ [19:42] TR Bot AI ambivalence | Read the Tea Leaves [19:43] TR News AMD pins Ryzen 9000 'failures' on compatibility issues BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pins-ryzen-9000-failures-on-compatibility-issues-bios-update-recommended-to-avoid-boot-problems [19:43] TR Bot AMD pins Ryzen 9000 'failures' on compatibility issues BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems | Tom's Hardware [19:45] TR News Madagascar: GNU/Linux up again ... 4.1% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/madagascar/#monthly-200902-202504 [19:45] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Madagascar | Statcounter Global Stats ● Apr 03 [20:05] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [20:05] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:06] TR News Techrights Microsoft's Trouble in Africa and Asia https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Microsoft_s_Trouble_in_Africa_and_Asia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Microsoft_s_Trouble_in_Africa_and_Asia.gmi [20:06] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Trouble in Africa and Asia [20:07] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [20:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:14] TR News Australia to stand up for national interests on US tariffs, says PM Albanese https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-to-stand-up-for-national-interests-on-us-tariffs-says-pm-albanese [20:14] TR Bot Australia to stand up for national interests on US tariffs, says PM Albanese | The Straits Times [20:14] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [20:16] TR News US report says human rights further curtailed in Hong Kong, as city slams slanders and smears https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/02/us-report-says-human-rights-further-curtailed-in-hong-kong-as-city-slams-slanders-and-smears/ [20:16] TR Bot HK slams annual US report claiming more rights violations in city [20:18] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:19] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [20:19] TR News American Oversights Lawsuit Forces Creation of New Records Retention Policy for DOGE https://americanoversight.org/american-oversights-lawsuit-forces-creation-of-new-records-retention-policy-for-doge/ [20:19] TR Bot American Oversights Lawsuit Forces Creation of New Records Retention Policy for DOGE - American Oversight [20:20] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:20] TR News NSA Mike Waltz Used Gmail for Government Work Heres Why That Matters https://americanoversight.org/nsa-mike-waltz-used-gmail-for-government-work-heres-why-that-matters/ [20:20] TR Bot NSA Mike Waltz Used Gmail for Government Work Heres Why That Matters - American Oversight [20:21] TR News Questions Remain Over Attacks Causing DrayTek Router Reboots https://www.securityweek.com/questions-remain-over-attacks-causing-draytek-router-reboots/ [20:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/questions-remain-over-attacks-causing-draytek-router-reboots/ ) [20:22] TR News North Koreas IT Operatives Are Exploiting Remote Work Globally https://www.securityweek.com/north-koreas-it-operatives-are-exploiting-remote-work-globally/ [20:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/north-koreas-it-operatives-are-exploiting-remote-work-globally/ ) [20:23] TR News Uncommon Sense: Edward B. 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Footes *Plain Home Talk* (1896 edition) The Public Domain Review [20:23] TR News KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Bugfix Release for April https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/ [20:23] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Bugfix Release for April - KDE Community [20:29] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [20:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [20:39] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: nanotime 0.3.12 on CRAN: Maintenance http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/02#nanotime_0.3.12 [20:39] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [20:40] TR News Junichi Uekawa: I was hoping to go to debconf but the frequent travel is painful for me right now that I probably won't make it. http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Apr-3.html.en#2025-Apr-3-10:29:07 [20:40] TR Bot I was hoping to go to debconf but the frequent travel is painful for me right now that I probably won't make it. [20:40] TR News Vulnerabilities Expose Jan Hey Hi (AI) Systems to Remote Manipulation https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-expose-jan-ai-systems-to-remote-manipulation/ [20:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-expose-jan-ai-systems-to-remote-manipulation/ ) [20:41] TR News Converting from commerce to commerce with some trees around it https://themeteor.org/2019/09/19/proposal-to-develop-central-retail-park-into-a-car-park-represents-the-very-worst-of-urban-development-in-manchester/ https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/how-central-retail-park-site-30649952 [20:41] TR Bot Proposal to develop Central Retail Park into a car park represents the very worst of urban development in Manchester - The Meteor [20:41] TR Bot This is how Central Retail Park site could look with major plans for offices, cafes and park - Manchester Evening News [20:42] TR News With "trees" as just a "side dish" https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/plans-in-for-new-manchester-park/ https://constructionwave.co.uk/2024/08/28/consultation-opens-for-manchester-central-retail-park-transformation/ [20:42] TR Bot Plans in for new Manchester park - Place North West [20:42] TR Bot Consultation opens for Manchester Retail Park transformation - Construction Wave [20:43] TR News Reforesting or rewilding would be vastly cheaper [20:45] TR News WordPress owner Automattic announces major layoffs https://www.techradar.com/pro/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-announces-major-layoffs [20:45] TR Bot owner Automattic announces major layoffs | TechRadar [20:47] TR News "Trump tariffs live updates: Global stocks plunge as U.S. allies plan reaction" [20:56] TR News How are big tech layoffs influencing job markets in Asia? https://www.techinasia.com/question/how-are-big-tech-layoffs-influencing-job-markets-in-asia [20:56] TR Bot Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's startup ecosystem ● Apr 03 [21:00] TR News The issue here is bad passwords, not "Linux" or "SSH" https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html [21:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html ) [21:01] TR News HEY HI nonsense. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3952538/linux-foundation-networking-shares-new-ai-projects-milestone-releases.html [21:01] TR Bot Linux Foundation Networking shares new AI projects, milestone releases | Network World [21:01] TR News "This release also adds experimental Wayland sessions for the Cinnamon, LXQt, and Xfce editions." https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-0-distro-released-with-gnome-48-and-linux-kernel-6-14 [21:01] TR Bot PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux [21:02] TR News Proprietary snake-oil? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adaptiva-expands-onesite-patch-to-mac-and-linux-delivering-cross-platform-patching-at-scale-302417745.html [21:02] TR Bot Adaptiva Expands OneSite Patch to Mac and Linux, Delivering Cross-Platform Patching at Scale [21:03] TR News Proprietary all the way https://news.itsfoss.com/proton-drive-docs-update/ [21:03] TR Bot Proton Brings Updates to Its Drive App and Docs, but Keeps Linux Users Waiting [21:04] TR News Working for Microsoft and its Ponzi scheme again, by proxy https://cio.eletsonline.com/news/infosys-joins-forces-with-linux-foundation-to-promote-ethical-ai-in-networking/74400/ [21:04] TR Bot Infosys joins forces with Linux Foundation to promote ethical AI in networking [21:04] TR News How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?) https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-pixel-hidden-linux-terminal/ [21:04] TR Bot How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?) [21:07] TR News Linux Foundation launches NeoNephos for digital sovereignty in Europe https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/130075/linux-foundation-launches-neonephos-for-digital-sovereignty-in-europe/ [21:07] TR Bot Linux Foundation launches NeoNephos for digital sovereignty in Europe - Techzine Global [21:08] TR News They say this https://tech.eu/2025/03/31/linux-foundation-europe-launches-neonephos-for-eu-digital-sovereignty/ but do this: http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml [21:08] TR Bot Foundation Europe launches NeoNephos for EU digital sovereignty - Tech.eu [21:08] TR Bot Techrights New IRS Filing Shows That the Most Dominant Company in the Linux Foundation is Microsoft [21:09] TR News "Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.9.1 as the latest ISO snapshot of this Debian-based immutable and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution using a highly customized KDE Plasma desktop environment by default." https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-3-9-1-brings-new-convergent-web-browser-linux-6-13 [21:09] TR Bot Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, Linux 6.13 - 9to5Linux [21:09] TR News "Linux" Foundation = the primacy of greed [21:10] TR News "An iconic desktop weather app from Linuxs past has just blown in yes, Typhoon is back!" https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/developer-revives-iconic-desktop-weather-app-for-linux [21:10] TR Bot Developer Revives Iconic Desktop Weather App for Linux - OMG! Ubuntu [21:10] TR News "This release also fixes a rare issue on Linux where non-steam Protons could get assigned an incorrect compatibility tool." https://9to5linux.com/valves-latest-steam-client-release-brings-faster-download-of-updates-on-linux [21:10] TR Bot Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux - 9to5Linux [21:10] TR News "March was another stellar month for Linux software updates, with big improvements to essential privacy tools like KeePassXC, creative apps such as Shotcut and DigiKam, and many more updates that didnt warrant dedicated articles on this blog." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025 [21:10] TR Bot Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025) - OMG! Ubuntu [21:10] psydroid2 Microsoft Foundation of Lies and Deceit [21:12] TR News "Secure Boot causes issues" https://www.xda-developers.com/why-i-stopped-dual-booting-windows-and-linux-on-my-pc/ Microsoft is sabotaging Linux http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml [21:12] TR Bot 5 reasons I stopped dual-booting Windows and Linux on my PC [21:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Good Reason to Delete Windows, Not Dual-Boot, and Call Out the Microsofters Who Worked to Impose 'Secure' Boot, Undermining Antitrust Complaints [21:14] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.3.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.3.gmi [21:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [21:15] psydroid2 https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/04/02/maximize-productivity-and-roi-with-windows-365-new-innovations-now-generally-available/ [21:16] TR Bot Maximize productivity and ROI with Windows 365: New innovations now generally available | Windows Experience Blog [21:16] MinceR ooh, MICROS~1 INNOVA~1! [21:16] schestowitz[TR2] 360 spyware [21:16] psydroid2 sell a thin client for the price of a decent PC Microsoft Edition(TM) [21:16] MinceR those always work out great [21:16] schestowitz[TR2] with screenshots taken every aecond [21:16] schestowitz[TR2] fffor "hey hgi" [21:16] psydroid2 yes [21:16] TR News (NEW): Linux Foundation / Openwashing Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Linux_Foundation_Openwashing_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Linux_Foundation_Openwashing_Leftovers.gmi [21:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Foundation / Openwashing Leftovers [21:16] schestowitz[TR2] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html [21:16] TR Bot Is Microsoft trying to commit suicide? - Charlie's Diary [21:17] psydroid2 if the spying isn't bringing the data to us, we'll come and take it from you! [21:17] TR News Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html [21:18] schestowitz[TR2] for hey hi [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- blogs.windows.com | Maximize productivity and ROI with Windows 365: New innovations now generally available | Windows Experience Blog [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] no business model [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] they tried for ages to do this [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] renting windows [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] in this way [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] even patented it [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Microsoft_is_Admitting_That_It_Has_No_Viable_Business_Model_Sta.shtml [21:19] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft is Admitting That It Has No Viable Business Model, Starting to Experiment [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] now they sell office for "lifetime" [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] whatever that even means [21:19] psydroid2 because if they don't keep the client, the server is going to die too [21:19] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/15/Microsoft_and_the_Sunk_Cost_Fallacy.shtml [21:19] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft and the Sunk Cost Fallacy [21:20] psydroid2 even if it's a Microsoft-sanctioned "thin client" [21:20] schestowitz[TR2] the server is already dead [21:20] psydroid2 Azure, I mean [21:20] schestowitz[TR2] dying [21:20] psydroid2 that's going to die too [21:20] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml [21:20] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft in Trouble as Azure Breaks and Only Days After Promising Investment in "Datacentres" Construction of Actual Datacentres Paused (Expect More Azure Layoffs Very Soon) [21:22] TR News "Foxconn 2.0. Wisconsin likes to be taken advantage of." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx4hp6e [21:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx4hp6e ) [21:22] TR News UI/UX Improvements For the Redesigned Request Page https://openbuildservice.org/2025/04/02/ui-ux-improvements-for-redesigned-request-page// [21:22] TR Bot UI/UX Improvements For the Redesigned Request Page - Open Build Service [21:23] TR News ST Picks: Taiwans dilemma - Freedom of speech or national security? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/st-picks-taiwans-dilemma-freedom-of-speech-or-national-security [21:23] TR Bot Chinese influencers forced to leave Taiwan after advocating military unification | The Straits Times [21:25] TR News New, Illegal, Guidance Means More Arbitrary Denials, Less Accountability at USPTO https://patentprogress.org/2025/04/new-illegal-guidance-means-more-arbitrary-denials-less-accountability-at-uspto/ [21:25] TR Bot New, Illegal, Guidance Means More Arbitrary Denials, Less Accountability at USPTO - Patent Progress [21:26] TR News Event Wrap: ICANN 82 https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/03/event-wrap-icann-82/ [21:26] TR Bot Event Wrap: ICANN 82 | APNIC Blog ● Apr 03 [22:09] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@8xntp9i7yykq8.irc) has joined #techrights [22:11] IsambardPrince https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-rates-tariffs-52dbb020a4c41122e31669c2da236d67 [22:11] TR Bot Dow drops 1,600 as US stocks lead worldwide sell-off after Trumps tariffs | AP News [22:11] MinceR "golden age"! [22:11] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-1700-points-nasdaq-sp-500-pummeled-in-biggest-rout-since-2020-200415736.html [22:11] TR Bot Stock market today: Dow plunges 1,700 points, Nasdaq, S&P 500 pummeled in biggest rout since 2020 [22:11] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sheds-over-300-billion-in-tariff-fueled-sell-off-notches-worst-drop-since-march-2020-202710020.html [22:11] TR Bot Apple sheds over $300 billion in tariff-fueled sell-off, notches worst drop since March 2020 [22:12] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/ [22:12] TR Bot Apple Inc. (AAPL) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance [22:12] IsambardPrince (-9.25%) [22:13] IsambardPrince Tim Apple got his present from Trump. [22:13] IsambardPrince A one day stock value drop of over $300 billion dollars. [22:13] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], You can quote me if you want. [22:13] IsambardPrince :) [22:15] MinceR :> [22:15] MinceR what did jeff bezos get? [22:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I made this statement: [22:16] IsambardPrince "I see that Tim Apple finally got his present from Trump. [22:16] IsambardPrince A one day stock value drop of over 9%, which is over $300 billion lost. [22:16] IsambardPrince I guess throwing a million dollars into the old "inaugural fund", AKA open bribery, plus whatever else they gave him, didn't work out so well for each of the tech barons. [22:16] IsambardPrince The tech industry was perhaps uniquely situated to prevent Trump because they sat back and let people use their algorithms to brainwash, including Russian troll farms, leading up to the election." [22:16] MinceR and fuckerberg? [22:17] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/ [22:17] TR Bot Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance [22:17] IsambardPrince -52.31 [22:17] IsambardPrince (-8.96%) [22:23] IsambardPrince All the damage is self-inflicted, it's the largest tax hike ever in the history of the world, so that the government can steal even more of my money than it ever did under Biden. [22:25] IsambardPrince The Trump tariffs as the follow up to Biden reminds me of Godzilla (1998) where the mayor shouts at the general "You've destroyed more of this city than that goddamned thing has!" [22:26] MinceR and the dumbass people are going to love it, just like in orbanistan [22:26] MinceR apparently the american dream is the same as the hungarian dream: to be poor. [22:27] IsambardPrince MinceR, Poor like you, with the neighbors drilling into stuff and smoking crack and Grade F- Tobacco next door and pounding her face into the wall whenever he gets home, and cooking things that smell like ass. [22:27] MinceR it isn't tobacco, it's marijuana [22:28] MinceR well, at least in this alleged apartment building [22:28] IsambardPrince It's not marijuana. I've smoked marijuana before, and not whatever Brandon Lobster got that made him hear police sirens and sing they're coming to take me away haha! [22:28] IsambardPrince The good stuff. [22:28] IsambardPrince And it did NOT smell like what the neighbors are smoking. [22:29] IsambardPrince MinceR, I made the ringtone on my phone "They're coming to take me away haha!" for a while back about 20 years ago. [22:29] MinceR :) [22:30] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQNI1KfGXBA [22:30] TR Bot https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=eQNI1KfGXBA [22:30] TR Bot ( status 500 @ https://iv.melmac.space/watch?v=eQNI1KfGXBA ) [22:33] IsambardPrince Walmart is obviously being ran by Very Stable Geniuses. [22:33] IsambardPrince They went to their suppliers in China and asked the suppliers who have a profit margin of less than 20% from all the other times Walmart went and strangled them to absorb a 20% loss so that they could sell to Walmart for less than what it costs the supplier, and eat Trumps new tariffs. [22:33] IsambardPrince I don't think anyone except some of the people who only work and suffer to pay for this even understand how tariffs work. [22:39] MinceR AMZN is apparently -17.60 [22:39] MinceR (-8.98%) [22:41] IsambardPrince Donate another million, Jeff. [22:41] IsambardPrince See what happens. [22:41] IsambardPrince MinceR, I just stocked up on water filters for a while. I'm moving on to other stuff like cooking oils, which all come from Canada or Europe. [22:43] IsambardPrince You know, the people who are really fucked are people like all the women in my mother's side of the family who never have any savings to begin with and are always in trouble with debt collectors while they're hopping on a plane to Disney for the third time that year. [22:43] IsambardPrince My retarded insane uncle who hoarded money and didn't invest it and didn't even make bank interest for the last 5 years. [22:44] IsambardPrince Do you need two guesses at who this bunch of geniuses voted for? [22:44] IsambardPrince They're just like your neighbors in Orbanistan. [22:45] IsambardPrince Trump's goal is that even if he does have to leave in 4 years, he'll have done so much damage that the IRS will be gone and the next president can't move us away from tariffs and back to a progressive income tax. [22:47] IsambardPrince If the IRS still is around in 2027, the tax code will eventually have to adjust everything for all the inflation he's caused, so income taxes for some people will eventually fall. But we still have to deal with this mess on our own for at least two years or so. [22:50] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:53] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@3senzxgmnhh64.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 03 [23:09] IsambardPrince "The most malignant form of narcissism comes from people like my mother, who don't know anything and are constantly onto the next load of horseshit they heard on social media, and think that their ignorance is better than your facts. [23:09] IsambardPrince "You keep using that word, sir. I do not think you know what it means." [23:09] IsambardPrince Some quacks on YouTube have convinced my mother, who horrifically holds a nursing license, that LDL cholesterol doesn't matter, that vaccines are dangerous, and it only gets worse from there." [23:09] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [23:10] MinceR :> [23:12] IsambardPrince "There's a bottomless pit of stupidity out there, so even my mom runs into people who are more of a problem, to the point where you wonder how those people even have a job or feed themselves. [23:12] IsambardPrince The other day she went into the bank, and the teller she encountered misspelled her landlord's name several times despite being told how to spell it, and made out a cashier's check for the wrong amount a couple times. [23:12] IsambardPrince Mom needs to pay $5 a month for a cashier's check because she can't balance a checkbook." [23:15] IsambardPrince "So my antivaxxer mother who is a nurse and doesn't believe that LDL cholesterol clogs the heart (which is exactly what caused my dad to collapse in his front lawn a year ago pushing the mower!), needs to go to the bank teller who can't spell or count or remember things for 10 seconds, so she doesn't bounce her checking account. [23:15] IsambardPrince She then proceeds to Boomersplain everything to me, who has somehow lived for 20+ years as an adult on a fraction of her income and has never bounced a check." [23:18] IsambardPrince "There's a lot of people out there like mom, who have a really big problem with being Susceptible. [23:18] IsambardPrince My ex called this "Level 5 Susceptible", it's when they get Marketed to and suddenly learn there's a problem that they didn't even know they had. [23:18] IsambardPrince Then without researching to see if it's really a problem, they need some new product in their lives, and then when they get that product....it either goes in the closet without being opened while there's no money in the bank now, or it breaks." [23:19] MinceR :> [23:23] *\join_subline has quit (Quit: leaving) [23:48] IsambardPrince MinceR, Brita filters are made in Canada. [23:48] IsambardPrince I guess we'll just have to Make Brita Great Again. [23:48] MinceR :> [23:48] IsambardPrince In North America, they're owned by the Clorox company. [23:48] IsambardPrince So the company that makes bleach also makes something to get bleach out of your water. [23:49] MinceR i'd rather Make America Go Away. [23:50] IsambardPrince Apple is doing badly. [23:50] IsambardPrince Investors realize that the price of a Macbook would have to go up between $300-500 just for the tariffs. [23:50] IsambardPrince Or Apple could swallow a lot of it and make less money to keep sales where they are now. [23:54] MinceR seems to me the cultists would pay any amount for trash with a crApple logo on it anyway