●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, February 05, 2025 ●● ● Feb 05 [00:00] IsambardPrince https://www.404media.co/forbidden-words-github-reveals-how-software-engineers-are-purging-federal-databases/ [00:00] TR Bot Forbidden Words: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases [00:00] MinceR :> [00:02] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, Microsoft GitHub, where DEI goes to DIE. [00:02] MinceR "I like that word... DIE." [00:07] IsambardPrince "Two months is about long enough to get a receipt from USCIS. [00:07] IsambardPrince It's like waiting for the f***ing Ents from LoTR to debate that you are not an Orc." [00:07] IsambardPrince -Me [00:07] IsambardPrince They can move faster if you pay for premium processing, but only on certain forms. [00:08] IsambardPrince Which might explain why Mr. Crackhead became a US Citizen so fast. [00:08] IsambardPrince They offer premium processing when an employer sponsors you for green cards and shit, but not for marriage cases. [00:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [00:20] IsambardPrince MinceR, I started separating my trash. Clean trash goes into those gigantic reusable grocery bags they give me when I pick up my orders, and stuff that is truly awful (rotting food waste, cat waste, etc.) goes into a standard trash can. I finish it off by flipping it open in the hallway and dumping in all my paper shredding and tie it up and shake them together real good, and carry that out. [00:20] IsambardPrince I figure if anyone goes through my trash to try to steal bank statements and stuff, they get what they get. [00:23] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [00:37] *koo5__ has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [00:42] *oarion7 (~ryan@e6jyc88uwxv5c.irc) has joined #techrights [00:47] *koo5__ (~quassel@vmi579006.contaboserver.net) has joined #techrights [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e974:da00::1d7f) has joined #techrights ● Feb 05 [01:12] *Sompi_ (~sami@k2dz8susz2rec.irc) has joined #techrights [01:13] *Sompi has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:15] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, Google says "AI" can be used for weapons development again. [01:16] IsambardPrince Guess "changing it from the inside" didn't work. [01:16] IsambardPrince He got....Sundar struck. [01:16] IsambardPrince :P [01:19] IsambardPrince MinceR, I remember over 20 years ago when the Euro was almost two US dollars. [01:19] IsambardPrince Now they're basically at par. [01:19] MinceR it's about to get exciting though [01:19] IsambardPrince How so? [01:19] MinceR orange mussolini's going to try his damndest to devalue the USD [01:20] MinceR the french and german fascists are going to do what they can to kill the EUR [01:20] IsambardPrince It's going to be hard to devalue the Dollar when everyone runs to it when bad stuff happens. [01:20] IsambardPrince Even when bad stuff happens here. [01:20] MinceR and wherever there aren't fascists or communists in power yet, the masses are probably salivating over the prospects of becoming destitute and brutally oppressed [01:21] MinceR it's a fucking race to the bottom [01:23] IsambardPrince Normally with the dollar index where it is I'd go "Oh, easy, start buying foreign stocks and wait for the dollar index to drop and then cash out." [01:24] MinceR it's possible that after a few more diplomatic gaffes by baldemort, people won't be so keen on the idea of rushing to the USD anymore [01:24] IsambardPrince The Dollar has to drop against something else. The Dollar Index tracks a basket of currencies. Trump making tariff threats against Canada and Mexico causes those currencies to weaken a lot more than ours. [01:24] MinceR i'm just not sure who's going to fuck up the hardest when they're all trying [01:24] MinceR or they're all just fucking retarded and rotten and try to do dumb shit based on their basest impulses [01:25] IsambardPrince Trump doesn't like USMCA all of a sudden. [01:25] IsambardPrince He realizes he got rolled by the Democrats and he thinks if he destroys the treaty, he can try again with a Republican Congress who will gut it of all the wage bases and labor protections. [01:28] MinceR there's no republican congress [01:34] IsambardPrince https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States%E2%80%93Mexico%E2%80%93Canada_Agreement#Effects_and_analysis [01:34] TR Bot United StatesMexicoCanada Agreement - Wikipedia [01:34] IsambardPrince "During his 2016 election campaign and presidency, Trump was highly critical of NAFTA (oftentimes describing it as "perhaps the worst trade deal ever made")[129] while extolling USMCA as "a terrific deal for all of us".[130]" [01:34] IsambardPrince [...] [01:35] IsambardPrince "In June 2020, the Nikkei Asian Review reported that Japanese auto companies are opting to "triple Mexican pay rather than move to the US" to avoid tariffs on automotive parts.[141]" [01:35] IsambardPrince :) ● Feb 05 [02:06] IsambardPrince MinceR, Trump fought and fought and got the bestest deal ever. [02:06] IsambardPrince Triple wages for the Mexicans. [02:06] IsambardPrince Zero new jobs in the US. [02:06] IsambardPrince Higher prices on cars in the US. [02:06] MinceR lol [02:11] *oarion7 has quit (Quit: Running IRC on a charmed medieval abacus.) [02:38] IsambardPrince MinceR, Trump had that huge crackdown where he sent ICE to arrest 8,000 people. [02:38] IsambardPrince Then they ran out of beds and had to release 8,000 other people who were already detained. [02:41] IsambardPrince https://www.fox29.com/news/ice-impersonators-temple-campus-leads-arrest-student-police [02:41] TR Bot Temple student arrested for impersonating ICE agent on campus, 2 more suspects sought | FOX 29 Philadelphia [02:42] IsambardPrince https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/04/us/ice-impersonators-on-the-rise-arrests-made-as-authorities-issue-national-warning/index.html [02:42] TR Bot ICE impersonators on the rise: Arrests made as authorities issue national warning | CNN [02:42] IsambardPrince https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/people-caught-trump-immigration-crackdown-released-us-rcna186360 [02:42] TR Bot Some people caught in Trump immigration crackdown released in U.S. [02:43] IsambardPrince MinceR, NBC shouldn't report that they're releasing thousands of immigrants already. [02:43] IsambardPrince Another "donation" to the "Trump library" might be called for. [02:44] IsambardPrince "In South Carolina, Sean-Michael Johnson, 33, was charged with kidnapping and impersonating a police officer after allegedly detaining a group of Latino men along a Charleston County road. Johnson is accused of willfully and unlawfully presenting himself as an ICE Agent and detaining a vehicle of individuals from moving, according to court records. [02:44] IsambardPrince The incident, which was recorded by one of the victims, took place on Sullivans Island near Charleston on January 29. [02:44] IsambardPrince You all got caught! Johnson is heard saying on the video. Where are you from, Mexico? You from Mexico? Youre going back to Mexico!" [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-040225.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-040225.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-040225.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-040225.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Tuesday, February 04, 2025 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-02-04.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-02-04.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-02-04.txt [02:50] IsambardPrince https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/03/climate/trump-california-water-dams-reservoirs/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc [02:50] TR Bot 2.2 billion gallons of water flowed out of California reservoirs because of Trumps order to open dams | CNN [02:51] IsambardPrince "The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California. [02:51] IsambardPrince Trump celebrated the move in posts to Truth Social post on Friday and Sunday, declaring, the water is flowing in California, and adding the water was heading to farmers throughout the State, and to Los Angeles. [02:51] IsambardPrince There are two major problems, water experts said: The newly released water will not flow to Los Angeles, and it is being wasted by being released during the wet winter season." [02:51] MinceR what does The Count of Mostly Crisco care? [02:52] MinceR he's not the one who's going to burn to death in california [02:53] IsambardPrince "I turned the water on HERP DERP I EAT PASTE!" -Trump [02:54] IsambardPrince https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5287012/trump-netanyahu-ceasefire-gaza [02:54] TR Bot Trump says he wants the U.S. to take ownership of the Gaza Strip : NPR [02:54] IsambardPrince MinceR, Trump plans to deport the Palestinians from Gaza and have the US take it over. [02:55] MinceR amusing [02:55] IsambardPrince ""We'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site," Trump said as Netanyahu looked on. "Level the site, and get rid of the destroyed buildings. Level it out, create an economic development."" [02:55] IsambardPrince ---- [02:55] MinceR how does he plan to get netan-yahoo! to agree to that? [02:56] IsambardPrince Apparently some Muslims voted for Trump after he assured them he'd be kinder to the Gazans than Joe Biden. [02:56] IsambardPrince <@MinceR> how does he plan to get netan-yahoo! to agree to that? [02:56] IsambardPrince TARIFFS AND TAXES AND POWERFUL THINGS!!!!! [02:57] MinceR lol [02:57] MinceR lots of shouting [02:57] IsambardPrince oDD Capitolization and spolling Mistakes [02:57] IsambardPrince In the middle of the night. [02:57] IsambardPrince And then we'll RELEASE THE MOST VICIOUS DOGS AND THE ROBOTIC RICHARD SIMMONS! [02:58] MinceR "Geez! You're like an evil Gene Simmons! Correction: You're like Gene Simmons!" ● Feb 05 [03:04] *haver has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [03:06] *hawer has quit (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [03:14] *hawer (~newyear@2.219.56.221) has joined #techrights [03:15] *haver (~newyear@freenode-drv.aab.2jssns.IP) has joined #techrights [03:28] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 04, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_04_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_February_04_2025.gmi [03:28] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, February 04, 2025 [03:30] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:31] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [03:31] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [03:38] IsambardPrince https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/05/donald-trump-plan-to-take-over-gaza-strip-netanyahu-visit [03:38] TR Bot Trump says US will take over Gaza Strip in shock announcement during Netanyahu visit | Gaza | The Guardian [03:38] IsambardPrince MinceR, The 51st US State. [03:38] IsambardPrince Gaza [03:38] IsambardPrince Maybe I should move there and piss off Brandon Lobster. [03:39] MinceR there are way too many 51st states [03:39] MinceR probably more than 50 [03:39] IsambardPrince What about FidSS? [03:39] IsambardPrince Which Russian Oblast is Hungary? [03:39] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [03:40] MinceR \_()_/ [03:41] MinceR maybe it's just an SSR [03:46] TR News Techrights A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles' https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/A_Lot_of_Stuff_About_Linux_in_Google_News_is_LLM_Slop_Fake_Arti.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/A_Lot_of_Stuff_About_Linux_in_Google_News_is_LLM_Slop_Fake_Arti.gmi [03:46] TR Bot Techrights A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles' [03:46] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [03:48] TR News "and another IBM junkyard plan bites the dust but ends up in better hands..." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9htpjm [03:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9htpjm ) [03:48] TR News The IBM Building in Cleveland is always empty. A new company has plans to change that https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/02/the-ibm-building-in-cleveland-is-always-empty-a-new-company-has-plans-to-change-that.html [03:48] TR Bot IBM Building in Cleveland is always empty. A new company has plans to change that - cleveland.com [03:49] TR News "The big news about DeepSeek, that no one is mentioning in the western media, it was developed by about 200 bright young scientists in a shot time. There is not 200 IBM employees of that caliber, that good to deliver even half of DeepSeek. IBM employees are fat, stupid and lazy, that is a valid statement across the board. IBM executives are thiefs and IBM technical leaders are mediocre." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jaxnh [03:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jaxnh ) [03:50] TR News "If Alvind was that good at predicting the future he would be running Microsoft, Meta, Google or better. But he's running a piece of junk company into the ground and no amount of posturing and puffery is going to change that. If wishes were horses, beggars would ride." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jaxnh There is no business model or use case for LLMs, it's hype [03:51] TR News IBM layoffs. "All in Consulting should be worried." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jqbp1 [03:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jqbp1 ) [03:52] TR News IBM is a has been. It doesn't create and is living off of cheap labor that like to manipulate this site. Look at the reaction numbers for the comments: 38 reactions (+13/-25) after posting 14 hours ago 12 reactions (+11/-1) after posting 1 hour ago 9 hours ago by Anonymous | 5 reactions (+4/-1) after posting 9 hours ago Too bad they were not able to come up with some new technology, sigh." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph [03:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph ) [03:53] TR News A nerve got struck, message buried [03:57] TR News Things that slip by unnoticed gemini://tirohia.smol.pub/1738697327 [03:57] TR News "After floundering around like a fish for the last year or so I began to crave the slowness and simplicity of the small web so I have decide to return to Gemini, which is about the smallest web that I know about. Please watch this site. It won't be updated too often but it will be updated more often than anything else that I have online." gemini://jimmorgan.smol.pub/back-in-geminispace [03:58] TR News "I went to see the film, The Brutalist. The title character isn't brutal, but his architecture is, although the film doesn't show all that much of it." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-02-04_Night_of_the_Long_Film.gmi [03:59] TR News Dangers - Lantashi's Visit gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2025-02-04.gmi ● Feb 05 [04:00] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1546.jpg [04:00] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1196.jpg [04:02] TR News "As I was writing the previous entry [1] I got the nagging feeling that something wasn't quite right with the code. I got distracted yesterday helping a friend bounce programming issues off me, but after that, I was able to take a good look at the code and figured out what I did wrong." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2025/02/04.1 [04:03] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI [04:03] TR Bot https://inv.in.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI [04:03] TR Bot ( status 502 @ https://inv.in.projectsegfau.lt/watch?v=-KFH--_cdiI ) [04:03] TR News "My components are based on the Grappendorf analog computer schematics, since I cannot afford to purchase an Analog Thing computer at this time. Here is a photo of the computer as it currently stands, with wires hooked up for the simulation" gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250204-0.gmi [04:05] TR News "I can't help but think this is the kind of group thought that has become somewhat normalized as a part of American culture, a group of people that doesn't think, but has surrendered the power of thought in place of convenience and hedonism." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2486 [04:07] IsambardPrince https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/01/national-black-history-month-2025/ [04:07] TR Bot National Black History Month, 2025 The White House [04:07] IsambardPrince We will also never forget the achievements of American greats like Tiger Woods, who have pushed the boundaries of excellence in their respective fields, paving the way for others to follow. [04:07] IsambardPrince LOL [04:07] IsambardPrince MinceR, Known for playing golf and cheating on his wife. [04:07] IsambardPrince Trump's two favorite things. [04:08] MinceR also for ending democracy in the USA [04:10] schestowitz[TR2] can we focus on tech here? [04:12] MinceR tech is hopeless [04:12] psydruid let's discuss trolltech [04:12] MinceR like everything else except human extinction [04:13] schestowitz[TR2] llm slop is kind of trl--tech [04:14] psydruid the mechanics of extinction game [04:14] TR News All-time high this month for GNU/Linux in Colombia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/colombia/#monthly-200902-202502 [04:14] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Colombia | Statcounter Global Stats [04:15] schestowitz[TR2] psydroid3: "too any humans!!" [04:16] IsambardPrince https://www.ft.com/content/bb4090b8-f837-4642-89df-06494d8523d6 [04:16] TR Bot Subscribe to read [04:16] IsambardPrince US Treasury quells fears of Elon Musk taking over the payments system? [04:17] IsambardPrince Why would it be alarming that a 24 year old Hungarian employee of Elon Musk with no security clearance has Administrative access to the Bureau of the Fiscal Service computers? [04:17] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [04:17] IsambardPrince Maybe you can talk to him. [04:18] MinceR no [04:18] MinceR and i can't even read that article [04:19] IsambardPrince The US Attorney of DC is threatening criminal charges against anyone who names the six Elon Musk DOGE employees. [04:19] IsambardPrince The ones burrowing into the Treasury department. [04:19] IsambardPrince Their names have already been published in various news sites. [04:19] IsambardPrince Musk deleted all references to them on X and banned accounts for listing them. [04:20] IsambardPrince https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/ [04:20] TR Bot 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System | WIRED [04:21] MinceR i can't read that article either [04:21] MinceR yet another thing i'm sick and tired of [04:21] TR News "Schoolteacher Ron Jones's personal account of his experiment which created a proto-fascist movement amongst his high school pupils in Palo Alto, California, which in 2008 was subject of the award-winning film The Wave." https://libcom.org/article/third-wave-1967-account-ron-jones [04:21] TR Bot third wave, 1967: an account - Ron Jones | libcom.org [04:21] MinceR if i had a button i can press to wipe out the human species, i would have pressed it so many times and so hard it would already be worn out and broken [04:22] MinceR i didn't ask for any of this [04:22] MinceR and i'm so fucking tired of every bit of it [04:43] TR News Techrights Just Because People on Top of the Microsoft Pyramid Made a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Wealthy https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Just_Because_People_on_Top_of_the_Microsoft_Pyramid_Made_a_Lot_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Just_Because_People_on_Top_of_the_Microsoft_Pyramid_Made_a_Lot_.gmi [04:43] TR Bot Techrights Just Because People on Top of the Microsoft Pyramid Made a Lot of Money Doesn't Mean Microsoft is Wealthy [04:43] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: good thing you are not in charge of the planet then [04:43] MinceR yeah, things are going so great [04:44] MinceR we're simultaneously poisoning and cooking all life on the planet while a minority tortures most of us for all our lives [04:44] MinceR the only silver lining is the extinction we're slowly bringing closer to ourselves [04:44] TR News GNU/Linux up in Russia lately https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/russian-federation/#monthly-200902-202502 [04:44] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Russian Federation | Statcounter Global Stats [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/ [04:45] TR Bot Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] 2025 Doomsday Clock Announcement [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] January 28, 2025 [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] In setting the Clock one second closer to midnight, the Science and Security Board sends a stark signal: Because the world is already perilously close to the precipice, a move of even a single second should be taken as an indication of extreme danger and an unmistakable warning that every second of delay in reversing course increases the probability of global disaster. [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] " [04:46] MinceR and the majority apparently believes that this situation is so fucking wonderful they must bring as many new humans into it as possible [04:46] MinceR and even force others to do so against their will [04:47] MinceR if only it was really only 89 seconds, i could easily wait that out [04:47] MinceR or just sleep through it [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] through? [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] you would get nuked [04:48] MinceR if i'm lucky enough, i'd be in the fireball and just be vaporized instantly [04:48] MinceR but i've never been so lucky in my life [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] turbo-cremation causes failout though [04:48] MinceR but yeah, i wouldn't mind being vaporized in my sleep [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] what would happen to those who want to live? [04:48] MinceR yeah, but so does everything else this wretched species of ape does [04:49] MinceR they're fucked [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] naaa. there will be survivalists [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] like ryan running around in a small apartment with a pistol [04:49] schestowitz[TR2] trying to save t he state of ILL [04:50] MinceR even if humanity exterminated itself right now, nature would have <1 billion years to develop life that's capable of moving some of Earth life off the planet so it can survive when the Sun boils the oceans and strips the Earth of its atmosphere [04:50] MinceR from what i've seen of the timeline of evolution so far, it doesn't look very likely to work [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] evolution is about adapting [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] not getting smarter [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] but wisdom _can_ help [04:51] MinceR yeah, but there are no purely biological ways of traveling even between planets of one solar system, afaik [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] in the US you need to sexually assault like 100 women [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] then almost 100 million people vote for you to lead [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] even women [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] like ryan's mom [04:51] MinceR and even if life makes it to another planet in this solar system, it can still be easily fried by a GRB along with the rest [04:51] schestowitz[TR2] what for? [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] why spread to another planet? [04:52] MinceR to survive [04:52] MinceR isn't that what life is about? [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] because people cannot use contraception? [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] so they will infest another plnet? [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] this planet should be enough for many more years [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] but people "overuse" it [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] isn't that what life is about? [04:52] schestowitz[TR2] nope [04:52] MinceR what difference does it make if everything gets toasted now or a couple thousand years from now or 1 billion years from now or 5 billion years from now? [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] because we all die [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] some reproduce [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] then those too die [04:53] MinceR the sooner we die, the less we suffer [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] tell the chicken in the cage the goal is "to survive" [04:53] MinceR i don't think people (i.e. humans) will infest another planet anyway [04:53] MinceR the age of technology is over [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] cannot [04:53] MinceR we're in the new dark ages [04:53] schestowitz[TR2] no such planet found yet [04:54] MinceR people believe in religions now [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] it's just humans looking through an array of glasses [04:54] MinceR scientific research is being shut down [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] making assumptions about some distant balls [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] based on their colours and shape [04:54] MinceR hungary has maybe 2 universities sort of operating, and those will be killed soon [04:54] MinceR the rest of the planet is on this track too [04:54] MinceR technological development is in a dead end [04:54] schestowitz[TR2] overspending [04:54] MinceR hardly anything people develop works anymore [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] too much borrowing [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] so now they "eat" other people [04:55] MinceR they just make everything shittier and shittier [04:55] MinceR and the masses eat them up because they're fucking stupid [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] look at twitter [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] 80-90 pct laid off [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] and they STILL make losses [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] says MElon himself [04:55] schestowitz[TR2] says they cannot break even [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] so you have like 5-6 thousand without their job ina fake 'tech' company [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] and what's left in there are flunkies of the MElon [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] he will toss them out too [04:56] MinceR felon musk doesn't want xitter to generate profit anyway [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] seeing X.com is a dying site [04:56] MinceR he needed it to get his puppet elected, and it did that [04:56] MinceR now he and his puppet can destroy what's left of the USA [04:56] schestowitz[TR2] now he uses that in other countries [04:57] MinceR and communist china can pick up the remains [04:57] schestowitz[TR2] notably germany and uk [04:57] schestowitz[TR2] to install terrorists [04:57] MinceR not just terrorists, nazis [04:57] MinceR like himself [04:57] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [04:58] MinceR market forces drive technology toward uselessness, centralized control drives it toward being a tool of oppression and nothing else [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 [04:58] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 ) [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] russia is a hellhole [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] so they would not mind gaining by making eu and us the same [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] rather than improve their own country [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] a lot of industry now is... war [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] weapons [04:58] schestowitz[TR2] because of east european tensions [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] even scandinavia [04:59] MinceR the same applies to communist china [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] the .de economy is sinking [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] as they ramp up war production [04:59] MinceR and the rest of the world either worships those hellholes or has just given up [04:59] schestowitz[TR2] instead of social programs [04:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [04:59] MinceR "oh no, please just don't start a war against us, we'll throw some bits of land a few million of people at you, enslave them, just please leave us alone!" ● Feb 05 [05:00] MinceR starving to death under holodomor 2.0 is going to be so much fun [05:03] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [05:14] IsambardPrince https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/5/trump-says-us-will-take-over-and-own-gaza-in-redevelopment-plan [05:14] TR Bot Trump says US will take over and own Gaza in redevelopment plan | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera [05:14] IsambardPrince MinceR, That would mean that anyone born in Gaza would be a US citizen. [05:14] MinceR not anymore [05:15] IsambardPrince That executive order is on hold. [05:15] MinceR for how long? [05:15] IsambardPrince Until it is struck down. [05:15] MinceR by whom? [05:15] IsambardPrince The courts. [05:16] MinceR including the one with sour cream? [05:16] MinceR i mean the "Supreme Court" [05:16] IsambardPrince Yes. [05:16] MinceR that's pretty fucking weird [05:16] MinceR then again, everything is pretty fucking weird about nazi america [05:18] TR News Techrights Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Still Raising Money, Richard Stallman Contributes https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Free_Software_Foundation_Inc_FSF_Still_Raising_Money_Richard_St.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Free_Software_Foundation_Inc_FSF_Still_Raising_Money_Richard_St.gmi [05:18] TR Bot Techrights Free Software Foundation, Inc. (FSF) Still Raising Money, Richard Stallman Contributes [05:18] IsambardPrince "American heroes such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas, and countless others represent what is best in America and her citizens." [05:18] IsambardPrince Clarence Thomas? The raging homophobe? [05:18] MinceR lol [05:18] MinceR i was about to ask what that human garbage pile was doing on that list [05:19] IsambardPrince The one who would have been lynched in half the States for being married to his white wife within his own lifetime? [05:20] TR News Google's debt for end of 2024 will soon (not yet) be published https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:GOOGL/explorer/total_debt [05:20] TR Bot Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com [05:20] MinceR but yeah, if a self-hating black nazi represents "what is best in America" then the continent being sterilized would be no great loss [05:20] IsambardPrince https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-and-ending-funding-to-certain-united-nations-organizations-and-reviewing-united-states-support-to-all-international-organizations/ [05:20] TR Bot Withdrawing the United States from and Ending Funding to Certain United Nations Organizations and Reviewing United States Support to All International Organizations The White House [05:22] TR News Cloudflare Inc debt rose every time so far this year https://finbox.com/NYSE:NET/explorer/total_debt layoffs were not enough [05:22] TR Bot Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com [05:24] TR News After many rounds of layoffs GitLab paid back its debt https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:GTLB/explorer/total_debt [05:24] TR Bot Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com [05:25] TR News (assuming its data is correct) [05:26] TR News Uber's debt is at all-time highs [05:27] TR News The corrupt, bribing, lying media is trying to tell people that Salesforce layoffs are "due to AI". What a Big Lie. No shame. [05:28] TR News Ugly layoffs: Its not just a tech story https://www.rdworldonline.com/ugly-layoffs-its-not-just-a-tech-story/ [05:28] TR Bot 'Ugly' layoffs aren't just hitting the tech sector [05:29] TR News Australia bans DeepSeek from government tech on security concern [05:30] TR News Maybe it should instead lay off workers who feel like they need SLOP to get their work done [05:32] TR News Top 2 stories ("By Brian Fagioli") now DEEMED NOT SLOP! https://betanews.com/ so it looks like he did get reprimanded by the management. http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/It_Looks_Like_BetaNews_Managing_Editor_Wayne_Williams_is_Taking.shtml [05:32] TR Bot News and Analysis - BetaNews [05:32] TR Bot Techrights It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux" [05:33] TR News Zoom layoffs https://www.channelfutures.com/unified-communications/zoom-layoffs-impact-channel-executive-team [05:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.channelfutures.com/unified-communications/zoom-layoffs-impact-channel-executive-team ) [05:39] TR News "Government Debt in the United States increased to 36218605 USD Million" https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-debt [05:39] TR Bot United States Government Debt [05:41] TR News Twitter debt paid back: 0. Profitability? NONE! Staff size: over 1,000 instead of around 7,000. If the illegal thing called "DOGE" is led by someone who did this, then the US government will: 1) NOT PAY BACK ANY DEBT. 2) STILL GROW IN DEBT! 3) Will employ far fewer people (read: public services made WORSE). [05:41] TR News The US is run by children and seniles. People apparently voted for this. No education -> no informed decisions. [05:45] IsambardPrince https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-guantanamo-bay-migrant-detainees/ [05:45] TR Bot Trump administration sends first group of migrant detainees to Guantanamo Bay - CBS News [05:45] IsambardPrince "In the early 1990s, the Clinton administration held thousands of Haitian migrants inside the Guantanamo base, including in a notorious camp for those diagnosed with HIV, who were banned from entering the U.S. at the time." [05:45] IsambardPrince https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/09/us-ordered-to-free-hiv-infected-haitians/48a78a07-d51d-49f7-b806-27ae64c9ae3b/ [05:45] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1993/06/09/us-ordered-to-free-hiv-infected-haitians/48a78a07-d51d-49f7-b806-27ae64c9ae3b/ ) [05:46] CrystalMath i feel so bad for anyone in america right now [05:46] CrystalMath soooooooooooooo bad [05:46] TR News "The site The Nerd Reich has an analysis of the seeming chaos being inflicted upon the US from within at the moment. Specifically, Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government is a methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint, not random chaos." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/02/1442226 [05:46] TR Bot The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now - SoylentNews [05:47] TR News "The idea of network states is that they are primarily digital entities without geographical boundaries though they do acquire territory and governance structures. The author of the book introducing the attack, Balaji Srinivasan, arranged a small conference on the topic in Singapore back in September of 2024, and one the year before in 2023 in Amsterdam." [05:48] TR News "Well, I also read a lot as a child, and I wished for an ebon longsword that nourished me with the damned souls of my enemies. But then, eventually I -- unlike Elon Musk -- was no longer twelve." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/waiting-for-the-worms/ [05:48] TR Bot jwz: Waiting For The Worms [05:48] CrystalMath it's like what happens when you vote for robber barons to avoid omnipotent moral busybodies but it turns you just voted in people who are both [05:49] TR News "Think about it! Coddling parents actually hated him. Got too many groupies too early. Wife left him. Absolutely blitzed on drugs. Finally went full Nazi! I mean, Geldof even makes that dumb "X" gesture!" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/waiting-for-the-worms/ [05:49] schestowitz[TR2] CrystalMath: you don't even like the US [05:49] schestowitz[TR2] you like Putin [05:49] MinceR maybe people should have listened to their candidates and their programs _before_ voting them into power [05:49] MinceR a novel idea, i know [05:50] CrystalMath schestowitz[TR2]: i distanced myself from Putin about a year or so back [05:50] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/27/When_Social_Control_Media_in_the_European_Union_is_Controlled_b.shtml [05:50] TR Bot Techrights When Social Control Media in the European Union is Controlled by BRICS [05:50] CrystalMath i still refuse to support ukraine, however [05:50] schestowitz[TR2] CrystalMath: what took you so long? [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] ussr became as agonising as serbia [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] so the goal is to make eu and us the same [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] also canada [05:51] CrystalMath schestowitz[TR2]: i definitely don't like the US administration right now but i'm worried for the pepole [05:51] CrystalMath *people [05:51] schestowitz[TR2] installing the jackboots gets there there [05:52] schestowitz[TR2] *them there [05:52] TR News "The fact that Musk has time to ruin our government's processes and tweet 50 times a day while supposedly being CEO of six companies demonstrates how little CEOs actually do and just how expendable they are." [05:52] CrystalMath the reason why it took me a long time was because people were uncritically praising ukraine [05:52] CrystalMath i think [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] it is not even about ukraine [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] ukraine is just the "zone" [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] like the frontline, for now [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] the assumption is, putin bcame stalin [05:53] schestowitz[TR2] and would not stop at ukraine [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] so better equip ukraine to push back the enemy [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] and put the putler "in his place" [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] ot make him so unpopular among his people that the regime will - hasp - have real elections [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] *gasp [05:54] schestowitz[TR2] same for belarus [05:55] CrystalMath do you really believe Putin would ever dare to strike at NATO? [05:55] CrystalMath i still don't think so [05:56] CrystalMath but he's not exactly being nice internally [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] the goal is to split nato [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] like play up tensions between us and denmark [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. eu [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] split up the rival [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] then take on them one by one [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] ukraine was not in nato [05:58] schestowitz[TR2] so it was a "good sttart" ● Feb 05 [06:00] TR News Despite mass layoffs Spotify debt continues to RISE. https://finbox.com/NYSE:SPOT/explorer/total_debt [06:00] TR Bot Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com [06:04] MinceR it's not really BRICS, it's muscovy and communist china [06:04] MinceR 05 065549 < CrystalMath> do you really believe Putin would ever dare to strike at NATO? [06:04] MinceR ooh, another gamble [06:04] MinceR because apparently we didn't have enough of those! [06:05] MinceR things were going too well for humanity, got to get a bit of risk into the proceedings. [06:05] MinceR a big fucking success story. [06:06] CrystalMath i would never support a strike first policy [06:06] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], All of the people at DOGE are between 19 and 24. [06:06] IsambardPrince He has interns tearing apart the government. [06:06] MinceR CrystalMath: how would you characterize putler's policy? [06:08] CrystalMath MinceR: opportunistic, i guess, if you mean foreign policy [06:09] MinceR uh huh [06:09] MinceR and how does that reflect on his policy on nuclear weapons? [06:11] CrystalMath well if it's opportunistic, that means a strike could occur IF NATO's nuclear arsenal was ever decomissioned [06:11] MinceR that's hilarious. [06:11] CrystalMath but i don't see what that means besides the fact that NATO should maintain their nuclear arsenal [06:11] MinceR then again, the way things are going, he won't even need to strike at NATO [06:12] MinceR he already owns orbanistan, slovakia, serbia and probably bosnia-herzegovina too [06:12] MinceR he'll soon own france, germany and austria [06:12] MinceR austria and switzerland aren't even NATO members, he could just march in through orbanistan or slovakia [06:12] CrystalMath i heard the Tisza party is doing well [06:13] MinceR yeah, it's one of the many elements of the fidesz rainbow [06:13] CrystalMath aren't they rivals? [06:13] MinceR led by someone who did management on fidesz' behalf, has the same platform as fidesz, has the same attitude toward the press as fidesz, and joined the party that helped fidesz turn hungary into a dictatorship (EPP) [06:13] MinceR they pretend to be rivals [06:14] MinceR they're more of the same shit [06:14] MinceR and that's why this country of oxygen thieves loves tisza so much [06:15] MinceR what's next, am i supposed to believe that miHazank is also an "opposition" party? the one that abstained from voting on a rule change it itself submitted because fidesz already betrayed it by then? [06:15] MinceR (and of course fidesz voted it into power) [06:16] MinceR or munkaspart, the party that pushes the exact same putinist rhetoric and shares some people in its events while pretending to be diametrically opposed to miHazank? [06:16] MinceR or lmp, the party that officially backed fidesz' actual candidate for prime mayor of budapest? [06:17] MinceR i know most hungarians believe these are "opposition parties" but that's only because most hungarians are incredibly fucking stupid [06:17] MinceR i don't know how these sub-animals manage to breathe at this point [06:17] MinceR a bucket of gravel is a fucking genius compared to these glue-eating mouth-breathers [06:19] MinceR it fucking sucks that such a gigantic nexus of anti-intelligence has control over my life [06:20] CrystalMath i don't know how much, but i think it's more likely that fidesz controls the smaller opposition parties than the large one [06:20] CrystalMath because that's a common tactic, dilute the votes [06:20] MinceR it's possible that they also control the alleged "left wing" [06:20] MinceR that just wasn't proven in such a glaringly obvious way as these [06:21] MinceR at best, mszp, dk and parbeszed are just fucking useless retards who don't even do their own jobs when elected to positions of power [06:21] CrystalMath Fico lost the parliamentary majority [06:21] MinceR and parbeszed is just an isolated christian fundamentalist party [06:21] MinceR but who knows [06:21] MinceR if slovaks were retarded enough to vote fico into power, they're retarded enough to do so again [06:22] MinceR orban also had a 4-year term of being in opposition after his first attempt at ruining this country [06:22] IsambardPrince https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/2/4/2301444/-Florida-Venezuelans-Feel-Betrayed-As-Trump-Ends-Legal-Protection-For-Venezuelans?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web [06:22] TR Bot Florida Venezuelans "Feel Betrayed" As Trump Ends Legal Protection For Venezuelans. [06:22] IsambardPrince HAHAHAHAHA [06:22] MinceR did people learn from what that led to? fuck no. [06:22] MinceR humans don't learn from anything [06:22] IsambardPrince "And guess who most of those Venezuelans who can vote went for in 2024? Donald Trump." [06:22] MinceR the only event that changes human behavior in such a way that's comparable to learning is extinction. [06:24] MinceR oh, i forgot, peter magyar was also the husband of one of fidesz' ministers [06:24] MinceR "opposition", my ass. [06:24] TR News Techrights statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/statCounter_Shows_WIntel_Chasing_a_Dying_Market.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/statCounter_Shows_WIntel_Chasing_a_Dying_Market.gmi [06:24] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market [06:35] TR News "A fresh Proton Experimental update from Valve has landed fixing up issues with two games for Linux / Steam Deck so here's what's new." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/valve-fixes-up-the-finals-and-no-mans-sky-vr-with-proton-experimental/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:35] TR Bot fixes up The Finals and No Man's Sky VR with Proton Experimental | GamingOnLinux [06:35] TR News "The second Stop Killing Games petition in the UK crossed over 10,000 signatures, and so the government have responded with a full statement." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/uk-gov-responds-to-the-newer-stop-killing-games-petition-no-plans-to-amend-uk-consumer-law/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:35] TR Bot gov responds to the newer Stop Killing Games petition - no plans to amend UK consumer law | GamingOnLinux [06:35] TR News "You've heard a lot about Proton and all the different versions, but how do you actually change the version of Proton used for games? Here's all you need to know." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-change-the-proton-version-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:35] TR Bot to change the Proton version on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux [06:36] TR News "Trump is a programmable device with a simple instruction set. ..." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/02/02/1442226#1391522 [06:36] TR Bot The Network State Coup is Happening Right Now - SoylentNews [06:36] TR News "Everything Is Open Source If You Know Assembly" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/everything-is-open-source-if-you-know:3 iophk: a deep dive into the definition of Open Source [06:36] TR Bot "Everything Is Open Source If You Know Assembly" [06:36] TR News "Tom the Dancing Bug: Don't Call Them N@zis!" https://boingboing.net/2025/02/04/tom-the-dancing-bug-dont-call-them-nzis.html [06:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/02/04/tom-the-dancing-bug-dont-call-them-nzis.html ) [06:37] TR News "Decky Loader is a simple to use plugin system for Steam Deck / SteamOS, that allows you to add in plenty of extra features and some of the plugins are awesome." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-set-up-decky-loader-on-steam-deck-steamos-for-easy-plugins/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:37] TR Bot to set up Decky Loader on Steam Deck / SteamOS for easy plugins | GamingOnLinux [06:46] TR News "Thanks to posts on social media and YouTuber videos, which now other news sites have picked up, we're seeing fresh rumours about a new Steam Machine / Steam Console." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-latest-valve-steam-console-rumour-with-amd-rdna4-can-be-safely-ignored-heres-why/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:46] TR Bot latest Valve Steam Console rumour with AMD RDNA4 can be safely ignored - here's why | GamingOnLinux [06:46] TR News "The Breakout franchise is making a full return, with Atari announcing Breakout Beyond, developed by Choice Provisions (the studio behind BIT.TRIP). Not quite the classic you remember." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/atari-announced-breakout-beyond-a-fresh-spin-on-the-classic-from-the-devs-of-bit-trip/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:46] TR Bot announced Breakout Beyond, a fresh spin on the classic from the devs of BIT.TRIP | GamingOnLinux [06:54] TR News "Eyes of War is a medieval eta RTS from Good Mood Games that just hit the big 1.0. It's an usual RTS where you can jump right into playing as a single character." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/eyes-of-war-is-a-medieval-era-rts-that-lets-you-get-up-close-and-personal-with-third-person-controls/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:54] TR Bot of War is a medieval era RTS that lets you get up close and personal with third-person controls | GamingOnLinux [06:55] TR News "With a voice cast that reunites multiple people from Metal Gear Solid, SteamDolls - Order Of Chaos is set to arrive in Early Access on February 11. The voice cast will include David Hayter, Christopher Randolph and Jennifer Hale." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/steamdolls-order-of-chaos-stealth-meets-action-platformer-arrives-february-11/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:55] TR Bot - Order Of Chaos stealth-meets-action platformer arrives February 11 | GamingOnLinux [06:56] TR News "Tripwire Interactive recently announced that their co-op action horror FPS, Killing Floor 3, will be releasing on March 25." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/killing-floor-3-is-set-for-release-on-march-25-with-even-more-realistic-carnage/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [06:56] TR Bot Floor 3 is set for release on March 25 with "even more realistic carnage" | GamingOnLinux [06:57] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Feb 05 [07:00] TR News "Bugbear and THQ Nordic have announced that the chaotic racer Wreckfest 2 is set for an Early Access release on March 20th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/get-ready-for-a-smashing-time-as-wreckfest-2-comes-to-early-access-in-march/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:00] TR Bot ready for a smashing time as Wreckfest 2 comes to Early Access in March | GamingOnLinux [07:00] TR News "If you're going to be messing around with SteamOS on Steam Deck or other devices, there are times it will need a root password in Desktop Mode." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-set-change-and-reset-your-steamos-steam-deck-desktop-root-password/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:00] TR Bot to set, change and reset your SteamOS / Steam Deck desktop root password | GamingOnLinux [07:04] TR News "CAN FD Adapter for High-Speed Industrial and Embedded Communication in M.2 and Mini-PCIe Form Factors" https://linuxgizmos.com/can-fd-adapter-for-high-speed-industrial-and-embedded-communication-in-m-2-and-mini-pcie-form-factors/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [07:04] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/can-fd-adapter-for-high-speed-industrial-and-embedded-communication-in-m-2-and-mini-pcie-form-factors/ ) [07:04] TR News (NEW): AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/AlmaLinux_Now_Has_a_DOD_Guide_for_Security_Hardening_the_Distro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/AlmaLinux_Now_Has_a_DOD_Guide_for_Security_Hardening_the_Distro.gmi [07:04] TR Bot Tux Machines AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want [07:04] TR News (NEW): Games: Steam Deck, Killing Floor 3, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Games_Steam_Deck_Killing_Floor_3_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Games_Steam_Deck_Killing_Floor_3_and_More.gmi [07:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Steam Deck, Killing Floor 3, and More [07:04] TR News "The Ivy Carrier Board is designed for compatibility with the Verdin SoM family by Toradex." https://linuxgizmos.com/ivy-carrier-board-for-toradex-verdin-som-family-in-industrial-applications/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [07:04] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/ivy-carrier-board-for-toradex-verdin-som-family-in-industrial-applications/ ) [07:05] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@kx2x77uv8dytw.irc) has joined #techrights [07:05] IsambardPrince MinceR, I approve of some of the things Trump is doing. Not most, some. [07:06] IsambardPrince I've been wanting the US to withdraw from the United Nations for a long time. [07:06] IsambardPrince His executive order on that gets that process started. [07:06] IsambardPrince We are leaving UNHRC and UNRWA immediately and the UNHRC is no longer being paid. We're out of the WHO and they're not being paid. [07:07] IsambardPrince We were paying them $1.5 billion a year. What do they even do? [07:07] IsambardPrince The UN is this giant We Hate America (but we love their money) club. [07:09] IsambardPrince Revoking TPS for the Venezuelans. I would have done that too. [07:09] IsambardPrince We're in a very bad economy and these people should have never been here. [07:09] TR News "Tor Browser 14.0.5 is now available from the Tor Browser download page and also from our distribution directory." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1405/ | Source: Tor [07:09] TR Bot New Release: Tor Browser 14.0.5 | The Tor Project [07:09] TR News (NEW): Lubuntu Plucky Puffin Alpha Notes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Lubuntu_Plucky_Puffin_Alpha_Notes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Lubuntu_Plucky_Puffin_Alpha_Notes.gmi [07:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Lubuntu Plucky Puffin Alpha Notes [07:09] IsambardPrince Giving them EAD cards and telling them to compete with Americans and Green Card holders for work is wrong. [07:10] IsambardPrince The birthright citizenship executive order is wrong, and I hope that SCOTUS strikes it down. I think they will. It would create so many more problems than it solves. [07:11] IsambardPrince The US is not a small country like the UK. Simply ending birthright citizenship here would not work well. [07:11] TR News "In a submission to the U.S. Trade Representative, LaLiga accuses Google, Cloudflare, and X of enabling pirate services to thrive." https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-cloudflare-google-and-x-are-essential-piracy-facilitators-250204/ | Source: Torrent Freak [07:11] TR Bot Cloudflare, Google and X Are Essential Piracy Facilitators * TorrentFreak [07:11] TR News (NEW): LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/LTS_Upgrades_22_04_to_24_04_ARE_BACK.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/LTS_Upgrades_22_04_to_24_04_ARE_BACK.gmi [07:11] TR Bot Tux Machines LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK! [07:12] IsambardPrince Shutting down the Department of Education? Well, he can't really do this entirely. Many of its grant programs are required to be paid to the States, but he can terminate some of the programs is runs which are not based on law. [07:12] IsambardPrince USAID was easiest to shut down so they went after that one first. [07:13] IsambardPrince The people who will suffer for it are not able to go to an American court and block it. [07:13] IsambardPrince Shutting down grants to the States? Nope. That's something only Congress can do. [07:15] IsambardPrince The country will be limping by on court ordered spending over the next four years, most likely. [07:17] IsambardPrince https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/31/media/cbs-trump-settlement-60-minutes/index.html?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc [07:17] TR Bot CBS staff alarmed by reports of settlement talks with Trump over 60 Minutes Harris interview | CNN Business [07:17] IsambardPrince Thats called a bribe, Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer for President George W. Bush, commented on X. [07:17] IsambardPrince :) [07:18] TR News Microsoft lobbying the European Parliament via EIF https://www.internetforum.eu/events/events/1818-cloud-technology.html [07:18] TR Bot European Internet Forum - Cloud Technology [07:26] TR News (NEW): Ivy Carrier Board for Toradex Verdin SoM Family in Industrial Applications https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Ivy_Carrier_Board_for_Toradex_Verdin_SoM_Family_in_Industrial_A.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Ivy_Carrier_Board_for_Toradex_Verdin_SoM_Family_in_Industrial_A.gmi [07:26] TR Bot Tux Machines Ivy Carrier Board for Toradex Verdin SoM Family in Industrial Applications [07:31] TR News (NEW): EasyOS experimental Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/EasyOS_experimental_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/EasyOS_experimental_Linux_distribution.gmi [07:31] TR Bot Tux Machines EasyOS experimental Linux distribution [07:32] TR News "Without tools like Creative Commons, copyright is frequently a roadblock to sharing and preserving culture" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/open-licensing-promotes-culture-and-learning-thats-why-eff-upgrading-its-creative | Source: EFF [07:32] TR Bot Open Licensing Promotes Culture and Learning. That's Why EFF Is Upgrading its Creative Commons Licenses. | Electronic Frontier Foundation [07:38] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software [07:40] *zelu (~zelu@bz4qhce7p43wn.irc) has joined #techrights [07:40] *zelu (~zelu@user/zelu) has joined #techrights [07:46] TR News (NEW): Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings, awards, and historic tech https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Free_Software_Foundation_to_auction_off_original_GNU_drawings_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Free_Software_Foundation_to_auction_off_original_GNU_drawings_a.gmi [07:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings, awards, and historic tech [07:50] TR News "whether Google had violated" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/china_trump_google/ | Source: The Register UK [07:50] TR Bot China to probe Google, tax imports in response to US tariffs The Register [07:50] TR News "Apples emergency request" https://www.theverge.com/news/605342/apple-denied-google-search-antitrust | Source: The Verge [07:50] TR Bot Apples attempt to intervene in the Google Search antitrust trial is denied | The Verge [07:53] TR News "The contract ceiling was recently increased from $900 million to $13 billion" https://insidetowers.com/u-s-space-force-awards-viasat-satellite-internet-contract/ | Source: Inside Towers [07:53] TR Bot U.S. Space Force Awards Viasat Satellite Internet Contract - Inside Towers [07:53] TR News "Colorado Kroger workers are striking this week, and 130,000 union grocery workers are bargaining contracts this year." https://jacobin.com/2025/02/kroger-king-soopers-strike-ufcw/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine [07:53] TR Bot Unionized Grocery Workers Are a Sleeping Giant [07:53] TR News "A journalist who covers environmental issues from Cambodia has been banned from entering the country where he has been based for the past five years." https://www.voanews.com/a/british-environmental-journalist-denied-entry-to-cambodia/7961415.html | Source: VOA News [07:53] TR Bot British environmental journalist denied entry to Cambodia [07:53] TR News "Hungarian authorities should conduct a swift and transparent investigation into the detention of Telex journalists Dniel Simor and Nomi Gombos at an event attended by Prime Minister Viktor Orbn" https://cpj.org/2025/02/hungarian-authorities-detain-charge-2-journalists-seeking-to-question-pm-orban/ | Source: CPJ [07:53] TR Bot Hungarian authorities detain, charge 2 journalists seeking to question PM Orbn - Committee to Protect Journalists [07:54] TR News "Seventeen years ago, I embarked on a journey as a journalist, driven by a desire to uncover the complexities of Yemen, my homeland, for an international audience." https://dawnmena.org/listening-to-yemens-forgotten-voices/ | Source: Democracy for the Arab World Now [07:54] TR Bot Listening to Yemens Forgotten Voices - DAWN [07:54] TR News "to probe Google" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/04/china_trump_google/ | Source: The Register UK [07:54] TR News "Google Search monopoly trial" https://www.theverge.com/news/605342/apple-denied-google-search-antitrust | Source: The Verge ● Feb 05 [08:01] TR News "The sentence against Al-Ahmadi is yet another example of the escalating intimidation of journalists in Yemen, where legal tools are being weaponized to silence critical reporting on local issues" https://cpj.org/2025/02/yemeni-journalist-handed-4-month-prison-sentence-over-social-media-post/ | Source: CPJ [08:01] TR Bot Yemeni journalist handed 4-month prison sentence over social media post - Committee to Protect Journalists [08:28] TR News "Journalists wake up to new detention operations every day. This picture creates a dark image with regard to press freedom and freedom of expression" https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/18-journalists-detained-9-imprisoned-in-turkey-in-january-77765 | Source: ANF News [08:28] TR Bot ANF | 18 journalists detained, 9 imprisoned in Turkey in January [08:28] TR News "CPJs Asia program coordinator." https://cpj.org/2025/02/india-revokes-nonprofit-and-tax-status-of-news-outlets/ | Source: CPJ [08:28] TR Bot India revokes nonprofit and tax status of news outlets - Committee to Protect Journalists [08:30] TR News "Over the weekend, Wired published an explosive report (which we covered this morning) naming six Elon Musk employees who have effectively commandeered significant portions of the federal government." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/musk-shows-us-what-actual-government-censorship-on-social-media-looks-like/ | Source: Techdirt [08:30] TR Bot Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like | Techdirt [08:30] TR News "he definition has been criticised for being so widely drawn that it curbs free speech, amounts to a de facto blasphemy law and stifles legitimate criticism of Islam as a religion." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/03/angela-rayner-set-rules-islam-free-speech-dominic-grieve/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [08:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/03/angela-rayner-set-rules-islam-free-speech-dominic-grieve/ ) [08:33] TR News (NEW): Chipsee introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch industrial panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Chipsee_introduces_7_inch_and_10_1_inch_industrial_panel_PCs_po.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Chipsee_introduces_7_inch_and_10_1_inch_industrial_panel_PCs_po.gmi [08:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Chipsee introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch industrial panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5 [08:34] TR News (NEW): Simplifying Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Simplifying_Admin_Tasks_in_openSUSE_with_the_Wheel_Group.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Simplifying_Admin_Tasks_in_openSUSE_with_the_Wheel_Group.gmi [08:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Simplifying Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group [08:35] TR News "This tracks with my analysis. People share as a form of social signaling." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/deepfakes-and-the-2024-us-election.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [08:35] TR Bot and the 2024 US Election - Schneier on Security [08:35] TR News "The claims that the facilities lack infrastructure and pathogens are accumulated without control are false." https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-consumer-watchdog-falsely-accuses-us-of-gathering-dangerous-pathogens-in-drc/7961559.html | Source: VOA News [08:35] TR Bot Russia consumer watchdog falsely accuses US of mishandling pathogens in DR Congo [08:37] TR News "downloads?" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/us_senator_download_chinese_ai_model/ | Source: The Register UK [08:37] TR Bot US senator calls for jail, fines for aiding Chinese AI The Register [08:37] TR News "This Act may be cited as the Decoupling Americas Artificial Intelligence Capabilities from China Act of 2025." https://www.hawley.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Hawley-Decoupling-Americas-Artificial-Intelligence-Capabilities-from-China-Act.pdf | [08:37] TR News "American cloud providers Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services as well as data service providers such as Databricks and Snowflake have begun hosting Chinese AI models and promising the best inferencing speeds." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/chinas-ai-wave-turns-into-tsunami/articleshow/117894014.cms | Source: India Times [08:37] TR Bot Chinas AI wave turns into tsunami - The Economic Times [08:38] TR News "OpenAI is releasing a new artificial intelligence tool thats designed to carry out time-consuming online research for users about everything from complex science questions to car recommendations" https://techcentral.co.za/deep-research-openai-ai-agents/258662/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [08:38] TR Bot Deep Research is OpenAI's latest push into AI agents - TechCentral [08:38] TR News "Zuckerberg and other tech leaders have gone out of their way to position themselves in the presidents good graces, knowing he could help or hinder them in the race to develop artificial intelligence technologies." https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-02-03/mark-zuckerberg-once-a-trump-critic-cozies-up-to-the-president | Source: Los Angeles Times [08:38] TR Bot Once a Trump critic, Mark Zuckerberg pivots toward the president - Los Angeles Times [08:39] TR News "OpenAI chief Sam Altman said Monday the US company has "no plans" to sue DeepSeek after warning last week that Chinese companies were trying to replicate its advanced AI models." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/openais-altman-says-no-plans-to-sue-chinas-deepseek/articleshow/117886054.cms | Source: India Times [08:39] TR Bot OpenAI's Altman says 'no plans' to sue China's DeepSeek - The Economic Times [08:39] TR News "Salesforce is cutting over 1,000 jobs while simultaneously hiring for new AI product sales. Displaced workers can apply internally." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/salesforce-to-cut-1000-roles-report/articleshow/117898900.cms | Source: India Times [08:39] TR Bot Salesforce to cut 1,000 roles: Report - The Economic Times [08:40] TR News "OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, will visit India on February 5th to meet government officials, tech entrepreneurs, and investors." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/altman-landing-to-find-a-spot-for-open-ai-in-indias-big-ai-agenda/articleshow/117892790.cms | Source: India Times [08:40] TR Bot Sam Altman: Sam Altman landing to find a spot for Open AI in India's big AI agenda - The Economic Times [08:40] TR News "The flood of assaults on government led by billionaires and the vengeful criminal is daunting. I believe that the first step in dealing with it is self-protection" https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/02/02/coping/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [08:40] TR Bot Coping - emptywheel [08:41] TR News "Valuation, or price-to-earnings (PE) multiple as it is commonly called, is a combination of numbers and narratives. While numbers don't change every day, narratives do change often." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ontario-premier-rips-up-contract-with-elon-musks-starlink-in-response-to-trump-tariffs/articleshow/117889930.cms | Source: India Times [08:41] TR Bot Starlink: Ontario premier rips up contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in response to Trump tariffs - The Economic Times [08:41] TR News "Yes, that was two years after the GenAI big bang, but Microsofts on-premises server business, which is largely transactional in nature, is taking a backset to GenAI in general and to Azure in particular." https://www.nextplatform.com/2025/01/29/azure-cant-make-up-for-on-premise-profit-decline-at-microsoft/ | Source: The Next Platform [08:41] TR Bot Azure Cant Make Up For On Premises Profit Decline At Microsoft [08:42] TR News "But that aside, I think that we've all been missing the boat by diagnosing Musk with a terminal case of "Read Too Much Heinlein"." https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/02/waiting-for-the-worms/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [08:42] TR Bot jwz: Waiting For The Worms [08:43] TR News [Old] "The [Internet] emerged from the defense research establishment, but as it was breaking out of those constraints in the 1990s to be unleashed onto the wider world" https://www.disconnect.blog/p/the-digital-revolution-has-failed | [08:43] TR Bot The digital revolution has failed - by Paris Marx [08:43] TR News (NEW): Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/03/Looking_ahead_at_2025_and_Fedora_Workstation_and_jobs_on_offer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/03/Looking_ahead_at_2025_and_Fedora_Workstation_and_jobs_on_offer.gmi [08:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer! [08:43] TR News "The Chinese government may have strategically chosen to go after Google because it has limited operations in the country, ensuring the hit to the US tech giant would be relatively minimal." https://www.wired.com/story/google-china-antitrust-trump-tariffs/ | Source: Wired [08:43] TR Bot Is Investigating Google Over Trumps Tariffs | WIRED [08:44] TR News "Previously, packages like the ones Daniels company often handles could move freely across the border." https://www.wired.com/story/tariffs-trump-ecommerce-amazon-temu/ | Source: Wired [08:44] TR Bot Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos | WIRED [08:44] TR News "Still, the move seems to be focused on making it easier for the government to install outsiders potentially from the tech industry or those associated with Elon Musk into the CIO role" https://fedscoop.com/opm-reclassify-chief-information-officers-career-politics/ | Source: Scoop News Group [08:44] TR Bot pushes to reclassify chief information officers, opening up position to politics | FedScoop [08:44] TR News "The plans come two months after GM said it would no longer fund Cruise after spending more than $10 billion on the robotaxi unit since acquiring it in 2016." https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/04/gm-cuts-50percent-of-cruise-staff-after-ending-robotaxi-business.html | Source: CNBC [08:44] TR Bot GM cuts 50% of Cruise staff after ending robotaxi business [08:44] TR News (NEW): Serpent OS Needs Your Support https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Serpent_OS_Needs_Your_Support.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Serpent_OS_Needs_Your_Support.gmi [08:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Serpent OS Needs Your Support [08:45] TR News "GM said in a statement that the decision to lay off half of the Cruise workforce was a difficult decision. Cruise is believed to have had about 2,300 employees as of the end of 2024." https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/04/gm-lays-off-50-cruise-employees-shifts-focus-advanced-driver-assistance/ | Source: Silicon Angle [08:45] TR Bot lays off half of Cruise employees as it shifts focus to advanced driver assistance - SiliconANGLE [08:45] TR News "Googles parent Alphabet has achieved $100 billion in annual net income for the first time." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/05/alphabet_q4_fy2024/ | Source: The Register UK [08:45] TR Bot Alphabet results strong but sullied by growth slowdown The Register [08:48] *libredev has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:50] *lightbringer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:52] TR News "Earth's magnetosphere is a guiding beacon for a variety of species capable of sensing its presence." https://www.sciencealert.com/magnetic-sense-in-animals-could-be-shockingly-close-to-quantum-limits | Source: Science Alert [08:52] TR Bot Sense in Animals Could Be Shockingly Close to Quantum Limits : ScienceAlert [08:53] *MinceR` (~lb@iyhwsi75rjzuq.irc) has joined #techrights [08:53] TR News "Trump's "official" [cryptocurrency] venture has lost about thirty percent of its value" https://futurism.com/the-byte/value-trump-meme-coin-keeps-plummeting | Source: Futurism [08:53] TR Bot The Value of Trump's Meme Coin Keeps Plummeting [08:53] TR News (NEW): Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Balkan_Computer_Congress_Novi_Sad_Serbia.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Balkan_Computer_Congress_Novi_Sad_Serbia.gmi [08:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia [08:55] TR News (NEW): Hugo Mendoza Hospital launches GNU Health to transform pediatric health https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Hugo_Mendoza_Hospital_launches_GNU_Health_to_transform_pediatri.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Hugo_Mendoza_Hospital_launches_GNU_Health_to_transform_pediatri.gmi [08:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Hugo Mendoza Hospital launches GNU Health to transform pediatric health [08:57] TR News "According to Heatmap News, the US imports thousands of gigawatt hours of electricity from Canada every year." https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/datacenters_canada_trump_tariffs/ | Source: The Register UK [08:57] TR Bot Datacenters could take hit as US tariffs hike energy prices The Register [08:57] TR News "The Russian-born CEO styles himself as a free-speech crusader and a scourge of the surveillance state." https://www.wired.com/story/pavel-durov-arrest-telegram-content-moderation/ | Source: Wired [08:57] TR Bot the Bust That Took Down Pavel Durovand Upended Telegram | WIRED [08:57] TR News "Musks Department [sic] of Government Efficiency (DOGE) seizing control of the United States Agency" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/musk-trump-prosecutor-identities-doge-staff-1235255556/ | Source: Rolling Stone [08:57] TR Bot Musk, Trump Prosecutor Targeting People Who Share Names of DOGE Staff ● Feb 05 [09:06] TR News "Elon Musk and employees from DOGE" https://cyberscoop.com/musk-doge-opm-treasury-breach/ | Source: Scoop News Group [09:06] TR Bot government experts are aghast at security failures in DOGE takeover | CyberScoop [09:09] *libredev (~libredev@w4s7ck52qnvc2.irc) has joined #techrights [09:10] TR News [Old] "Musk's alleged relations" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0l3wl76gzo | Source: BBC [09:10] TR Bot Senators call for probe into Musk's alleged contact with Putin - BBC News [09:10] TR News [Old] "The Russian president even asked the billionaire for a Starlink favor." https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-in-secret-contact-vladimir-putin-since-2022-claims-wall-street-journal-report-us-ukraine-russia-war-starlink/ | Source: Politico [09:10] TR Bot Musk has been in secret contact with Putin since 2022, says bombshell new report POLITICO [09:11] TR News "source code information" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-elon-musk-treasury-payment-system-dangerous-1235254831/ | Source: Rolling Stone [09:11] TR Bot Elon Musks Effort to Control the Treasury Payment System Is Dangerous [09:12] TR News "He did not receive a single vote. He did not get confirmed. He does not receive a government paycheck." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/president-elon-musk-trump/681558/ | Source: The Atlantic [09:12] TR Bot Elon Musk Is President - The Atlantic [09:12] TR News [Old] "has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin" https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 | Source: The Wall Street Journal [09:12] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187 ) [09:13] TR News [Old] "has allegedly been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin" https://abcnews.go.com/US/elon-musk-regular-contact-vladimir-putin-new-report/story?id=115130093 | Source: ABC [09:13] TR Bot Elon Musk is in 'regular contact' with Vladimir Putin, new report alleges - ABC News [09:14] TR News Democrats 2016: Putin is gaming Twitter to undermine HRC and elect Trump. Democrats 2024: BRICS oligarch buying Twitter to openly promote and run ads for Trump is... democracy. [09:14] TR News [Old] "now central to Donald Trumps election campaign" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/25/elon-musk-has-been-in-regular-contact-with-putin-for-two-years-say-reports | Source: The Guardian UK [09:14] TR Bot Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Putin for two years, says report | Elon Musk | The Guardian [09:15] TR News "A person familiar with the situation, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive matter" https://www.voanews.com/a/here-s-a-look-at-musk-s-contact-with-putin-and-why-it-matters/7839641.html | Source: VOA News [09:15] TR Bot Here's a look at Musk's contact with Putin and why it matters [09:15] TR News Does Putin receive a phonecall after this is done? https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/03/concerns-grow-elon-musks-doge-team-gains-access-sensitive-government-databases/ | Source: Silicon Angle [09:15] TR Bot grow as Elon Musk's DOGE team gains access to yet more sensitive government databases - SiliconANGLE [09:20] TR News "Distributed aviation operations focus on coordinating how the Marine Corps uses its aviation squadrons" https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/air/2025/02/03/ai-advanced-tech-central-to-new-marine-corps-aviation-plan/ | Source: USMC [09:20] TR Bot AI, advanced tech central to new Marine Corps aviation plan [09:21] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:21] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:22] TR News "Hundreds of US government websites were offline on Monday, an AFP review showed" https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2273580.html | Source: RTL [09:22] TR Bot RTL Today - More than 350 unavailable: Hundreds of US government sites go offline [09:22] TR News "Elon Musk moved to dismantle top humanitarian agency USAID" https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250204-usaid-trump-and-musk-target-closure-of-top-us-humanitarian-aid-agency | Source: France24 [09:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250204-usaid-trump-and-musk-target-closure-of-top-us-humanitarian-aid-agency ) [09:23] TR News "USAID represents just 1% of total US government spending" https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-plans-to-shut-down-usaid-will-erode-american-influence-in-increasingly-dangerous-world-13302525 | Source: Sky News [09:23] TR Bot Trump's 'plans' to shut down USAID will erode American influence in increasingly dangerous world | US News | Sky News [09:23] TR News "shuttering Washington's main international aid arm" https://www.rferl.org/a/trump-usaid-ngos-ukraine-afghanistan-musk/33301423.html | Source: RFERL [09:23] TR Bot Trump's USAID Reform Causes Alarm As Musk Weighs In On Foreign Aid [09:29] TR News "If you're loading fonts from a popular third party provider like Google Fonts or Typekit" https://scottjehl.com/posts/async-fonts-foit/ | Source: Scott Jehl [09:29] TR Bot Fast & Smooth Third-Party Web Fonts | Scott Jehl, Web Designer/Developer [09:29] TR News "The Monday actions come as top security chiefs at USAID were placed on leave after refusing to hand over access to its classified materials to Musk's DOGE personnel" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/musk_doge_treasury_usaid/ | Source: The Register UK [09:29] TR Bot Musk's DOGE team gets Treasury payment system access The Register [09:30] TR News "In opposing an [Internet] presidency, it helps to understand the basics of online psychology and 4chan politics." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-dork-lord/ | Source: Truthdig [09:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-dork-lord/ ) [09:31] TR News "Palantir also extended its Army Vantage partnership for up to four years" https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/03/palantir-stock-climbs-strong-q4-earnings-guidance-impress-investors/ | Source: Silicon Angle http://techrights.org/n/2023/11/23/Privatisation_Catastrophe_Starting_with_NHS_England_Microsoft_a.shtml [09:31] TR Bot stock climbs as strong earnings and guidance impress investors - SiliconANGLE [09:31] TR Bot Techrights Privatisation Catastrophe, Starting with NHS England: Microsoft and Partners Attack British People's Health and Steal Their Medical Records (While British Taxpayers Unwillingly Pay for This) [09:31] TR News "The Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General has launched an audit of the Transportation Security Administration's use of facial recognition technology at US airports" https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/03/tsa_facial_recognition_audit/ | Source: The Register UK [09:31] TR Bot TSA facial recognition technology faces audit probe The Register [09:31] TR News "Citizen Lab's work is nothing short of breathtaking." https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/04/citizen-lab/#nso-group | Source: CoryDoctorow [09:31] TR Bot Pluralistic: Ron Deiberts Chasing Shadows (04 Feb 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [09:32] TR News "Poland, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content" https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/half-good-new-polish-chat-control-proposal-to-be-discussed-on-wednesday/ | Source: Patrick Breyer [09:32] TR Bot Half-good new Polish Chat Control proposal to be discussed on Wednesday Patrick Breyer [09:32] TR News "Google on Tuesday updated its ethical guidelines around artificial intelligence, removing commitments not to apply the technology to weapons or surveillance." https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/04/google-ai-policies-weapons-harm/ | Source: The Washington Post [09:32] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/04/google-ai-policies-weapons-harm/ ) [09:33] TR News "As AI development progresses, new capabilities may present new risks." https://blog.google/technology/ai/responsible-ai-2024-report-ongoing-work/ | Source: Google [09:33] TR Bot Responsible AI: Our 2024 report and ongoing work [09:33] TR News "Google announced Tuesday that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology." https://www.wired.com/story/google-responsible-ai-principles/ | Source: Wired [09:33] TR Bot Lifts a Ban on Using Its AI for Weapons and Surveillance | WIRED [09:34] TR News "likely to cause harm" https://siliconangle.com/2025/02/04/google-quietly-changes-stance-using-ai-weapons-surveillance/ | Source: Silicon Angle [09:34] TR Bot quietly changes stance on using AI for weapons or surveillance - SiliconANGLE [09:34] TR News "retaining information about every employee of the U.S. Executive Branch" https://fedscoop.com/opm-server-lawsuit-temporary-restraining-order-musk-doge/ | Source: Scoop News Group [09:34] TR Bot call for temporary restraining order in OPM email server lawsuit | FedScoop [09:36] TR News Openwashing https://futurism.com/sam-altman-open-source-wrong-side-history | Source: Futurism http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml [09:36] TR Bot Sam Altman Regrets Ditching Open Source, Says He's Been on the "Wrong Side of History" [09:36] TR Bot Techrights OpenAI: If OpenAI Survives Another 2 Years, It'll be About 30 Billion Dollars in Cumulative Losses/Debt [09:36] TR News Windows TCO https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-hired-guns-who-make-sure-school-cyberattacks-stay-hidden/ | Source: Wired [09:36] TR Bot the Hired Guns Who Make Sure School Cyberattacks Stay Hidden | WIRED [09:36] TR News "my usage of Social Networks was very limited" https://contino.com/blog/looking-for-something-different | Source: Andrea Contino [09:36] TR Bot for something different - Andrea Contino - Go With The Flow [09:37] TR News "Once you start to use the word recommended, or any simile, you get bogged down." https://gregmorris.co.uk/2025/02/04/problematic-recommendations.html | Source: Greg Morris [09:37] TR Bot Greg Morris - Problematic Recommendations [09:37] TR News "Such a technology would completely change how venture capital is invested." https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-future-of-social-media/ | Source: Jason Velazquez [09:37] TR Bot The future of social media [09:38] TR News "Now it seems like people only go out of their way if it's to talk about things they hate. Communities centered around something remotely popular are gonna be filled with people complaining and pointing out every single flaw about it." https://fantinel.dev/special-interests-online-negativity | Source: Matt Fantinel [09:38] TR Bot Special Interests and Negativity - Matt Fantinel [09:38] TR News "Potiuk explained to us that AI submissions dont just create more work for maintainers; they also can lead to legitimate issues being overlooked or incorrectly closed." https://thenewstack.io/ai-is-spamming-open-source-repos-with-fake-issues/ | Source: The New Stack [09:38] TR Bot AI Is Spamming Open Source Repos With Fake Issues - The New Stack [09:38] TR News "research showed that ChatGPT exhibits biases in both text and image outputs" https://phys.org/news/2025-02-generative-ai-bias-poses-democratic.html | Source: Omicron Limited [09:38] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-02-generative-ai-bias-poses-democratic.html ) [09:39] TR News "The landscape of AI tooling continues to shift, even in the past half year. This is not unexpected. This post is an updated snapshot of the state of things I use." https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/2025/02/02/How-I-Use-AI-Early-2025/ | Source: Ben Congdon [09:39] TR Bot How I Use AI: Early 2025 | Ben Congdon [09:39] TR News "A lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defense Forces prevented the end of human civilization on September 26th, 1983. His name was Stanislav Petrov." https://ericwbailey.website/published/stanislav-petrov/ | Source: Eric Bailey [09:39] TR Bot Stanislav Petrov Eric Bailey [09:40] TR News "paid more than a hundred thousand dollars to a company that is providing generative AI services to other parts of the Department of Defense" https://www.404media.co/air-force-documents-on-gen-ai-test-are-just-whole-pages-of-redactions/ | Source: 404 Media [09:40] TR Bot Air Force Documents on Gen AI Test Are Just Whole Pages of Redactions [09:40] TR News "plan and execute a multi-step trajectory to find the data it needs, backtracking and reacting to real-time information where necessary." https://www.theverge.com/news/604902/chagpt-deep-research-ai-agent | Source: The Verge [09:40] TR Bot ChatGPTs agent can now do deep research for you | The Verge [09:41] TR News "Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters" https://futurism.com/character-ai-emailing-minors-school-shooters | Source: Futurism [09:41] TR Bot Character.AI Says Its Made Huge Changes to Protect Underage Users, But Its Emailing Them to Recommend Conversations With AI Versions of School Shooters [09:41] TR News "Employees must also shoulder some of the responsibility in addition to the developer teams duties." https://thenewstack.io/developers-the-last-line-of-defense-against-ai-risks/ | Source: The New Stack [09:41] TR Bot Developers: The Last Line of Defense Against AI Risks - The New Stack [09:42] TR News "In 2025, the web is full of [LLM] slop. Some propose going back to 2000s-style forums. But watch out for 2025 admins." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/02/04/forum-admins-madness-ai-edition-the-old-physics-forums-site-fills-with-generated-slop/ | Source: Pivot to AI [09:42] TR Bot Forum admins madness, AI edition: Physics Forums fills with generated slop Pivot to AI [09:43] TR News "OpenAI were the first to claim the inference-time scaling laws. Basically, an LLM can get higher performance if it can think longer before answering." https://timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02/03/s1 | Source: Tim Kellogg [09:43] TR Bot S1: The $6 R1 Competitor? - Tim Kellogg [09:43] TR News "The Hoopla catalog is increasingly filling up with junk AI slop ebooks like "Fatty Liver Diet Cookbook: 2000 Days of Simple and Flavorful Recipes for a Revitalized Liver", which then cost libraries money if someone checks them out." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/ai-generated-slop-is-already-in-your-public-library/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison [09:43] TR Bot AI-generated slop is already in your public library [09:44] TR News "Apparently librarians already have a term for this kind of low-quality, low effort content that predates it being written by LLMs: vendor slurry." [09:45] TR News "Public libraries primarily use two companies to manage and lend ebooks: Hoopla and OverDrive, the latter of which people may know from its borrowing app, Libby." https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-slop-is-already-in-your-public-library-3/ | Source: 404 Media ([LLM]-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library) [09:45] TR Bot AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library [09:45] TR News "While some critics might point to Windows Vista or the KIN phone as proof that Microsoft has become a garbage-in, garbage-out software company, Gates now seems to be more interested in garbage, literally." https://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/bill-gates-dumping-microsoft-shares-by-the-millions | Source: InformationWeek [09:45] TR Bot Gates Dumping Microsoft Shares By The Millions | InformationWeek [09:46] TR News "This is the tenth year that Ive presented this survey to my hand-selected group." https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/02/apple-in-2024-the-six-colors-report-card/ | Source: Six Colors [09:46] TR Bot Apple in 2024: The Six Colors report card Six Colors [09:46] TR News "This year, Snell posted everyones full comments, but Ive collected mine here as well." https://512pixels.net/2025/02/the-2024-six-colors-report-card/ | Source: Stephen Hackett [09:46] TR Bot The 2024 Six Colors Report Card 512 Pixels [09:48] TR News YouTube STILL only reports REVENUE (read: SPAM), not profit. Google has debt too. https://finbox.com/NASDAQGS:GOOGL/explorer/total_debt [09:48] TR Bot Complete Toolbox For Investors | finbox.com [09:48] TR News "I know a lot of people hated the Flash Player web plugin, but I found it to be quite useful for my experiments. It gave me vector graphics in the browser so that I could share demos without asking people to download an executable from me." https://www.redblobgames.com/blog/2025-02-02-thoughts-on-flash/ | Source: Amit Patel [09:48] TR Bot Thoughts on Flash [09:48] TR News Tabnine cuts 18% of workforce in restructuring effort https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/h1jlmiek1l [09:48] TR Bot Tabnine cuts 18% of workforce in restructuring effort | Ctech [09:49] TR News "Tabnine, which develops an AI-powered assistant for developers"... see https://medium.com/@alvarodmn39/baidus-ceo-believes-99-of-ai-companies-won-t-survive-after-the-bubble-bursts-595d7dc8bc6c [09:49] TR Bot CEO Believes 99% of AI Companies Wont Survive After the Bubble Bursts | by Alvarodmn | Medium [09:51] TR News "This legendary page from an internal IBM training in 1979 could not be more appropriate for our new age of AI." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a-computer-can-never-be-held-accountable/ | Source: Simon Willison [09:51] TR Bot A computer can never be held accountable [09:51] TR News "Apple was throwing everything at the wall." https://www.manton.org/2025/02/04/ais-in-your-pocket.html | Source: Manton Reece [09:51] TR Bot Manton Reece - 1,000 AIs in your pocket [09:52] TR News "Image Playground wasnt going to be as good as frontier image models. Siri world knowledge wasnt going to be as deep as what ChatGPT could do. By trying to do nearly everything, each piece feels like a gimmick." [09:52] TR News "The findings emphasize that neglected cloud infrastructure, particularly with outdated configurations, leaves sensitive networks vulnerable to unauthorized access, and setting the stage for highly damaging supply chain attacks." https://cyberscoop.com/abandoned-cloud-aws-s3-buckets-security-risk-watchtowr/ | Source: Scoop News Group [09:52] TR Bot all the ways an abandoned cloud instance can cause security issues | CyberScoop [09:52] TR News "The blog outlines several examples illustrating how a malicious actor could take over an abandoned S3 bucket and take any number of actions." https://therecord.media/researchers-warn-of-risks-tied-to-abandoned-cloud-storage-buckets | Source: The Record [09:52] TR Bot Researchers warn of risks tied to abandoned cloud storage buckets | The Record from Recorded Future News ● Feb 05 [11:03] *zelu has quit (Quit: WeeChat 4.5.1) [11:03] *zelu has quit (Quit: WeeChat 4.5.1) [11:27] TR News "This appraisal of microplastics and nanoplastics, published February 3 in Nature Medicine" https://www.sciencenews.org/article/plastic-human-brains-microplastics | Source: Science News [11:27] TR Bot Plastic shards permeate human brains [11:28] TR News "So far, visual microscopic spectroscopy methods have identified particulates in organs" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03453-1 | Source: Nature [11:28] TR Bot of microplastics in decedent human brains | Nature Medicine [11:31] TR News accountants??? "I feel like admin staff are in charge of the decisions." https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/accountants-are-making-clinical-decisions-diabetes-patients-slam-nhs-service-4969542 | Source: The Scotsman [11:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/accountants-are-making-clinical-decisions-diabetes-patients-slam-nhs-service-4969542 ) [11:32] TR News "Whenever I go on a trip, I like to use that as an excuse to change my routine." https://adamfortuna.com/new-house-new-rules | Source: Adam Fortuna [11:32] TR Bot New House, New Rules | Adam Fortuna [11:32] TR News "If I were anybody else" https://danq.me/2025/02/04/sabbatical-lesson-2-burnout/ | Source: Dan Q [11:32] TR Bot Sabbatical Lesson #2: Burnout Dan Q [11:33] TR News "Attention doesnt scale, no matter how hard we try." https://seths.blog/2025/02/muscling-your-way-through/ | Source: Seth Godin [11:33] TR Bot Muscling your way through | Seth's Blog [11:36] TR News "The shape of today's software for connection uses centralized servers in the cloud, algorithmic curation" https://sethmlarson.dev/connection-without-connectivity-space | Source: Seth Michael Larson [11:36] TR Bot Connection without Connectivity (#1: Space) [11:39] TR News "Sheerans foray into photography comes at a time when compact cameras are experiencing a major resurgence." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/compact-cameras/i-like-taking-pictures-now-with-my-camera-its-my-new-thing-ed-sheeran-is-embracing-the-compact-camera | Source: Digital Camera World [11:39] TR Bot "I like taking pictures now with my camera, it's my new thing" Ed Sheeran is embracing the compact camera | Digital Camera World [11:39] TR News "These are the kind of laptop devices which let your workers stay productive for longer" https://www.pcworld.com/article/2594739/forget-performance-versus-efficiency-pcs-powered-by-snapdragon-let-you-have-both.html | Source: PC World [11:39] TR Bot performance versus efficiency, PCs powered by Snapdragon let you have both | PCWorld [11:40] TR News "While Im not the biggest fan of consumerism I do love to see how people work." https://techtea.io/articles/2025/stationery/ | Source: TechTea [11:40] TR Bot My Stationery Drawer | TechTea [11:43] TR News "Today hes announcing his intention to step down from the nonprofit and turn over the whole kaboodle" https://www.wired.com/story/chris-anderson-steps-down-ted/ | Source: Wired [11:43] TR Bot Anderson Is Giving TED Away to Whoever Has the Best Idea for Its Future | WIRED [11:44] TR News "Firstly, e-files" https://www.publicbooks.org/in-search-of-logged-time/ | [11:44] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.publicbooks.org/in-search-of-logged-time/ ) [11:46] TR News "Here's a Math SE pathology that bugs me. OP will ask "I'm trying to prove that groups A and B are isomorphic" https://blog.plover.com/2025/02/03/#just-answer-the-question | Source: Mark-Jason Dominus [11:46] TR Bot The Universe of Discourse: 2025/02/03 archive [11:46] TR News "So when we analyze schemes where hash functions must behave in this manner, we have to do some pretty suspicious things." https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/04/how-to-prove-false-statements-part-1/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering [11:46] TR Bot How to prove false statements? (Part 1) A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering [11:47] TR News "The accuracy of a binary prediction (i.e. will an event happen or not) can be evaluated through the Brier score." https://entropicthoughts.com/brier-score | Source: Chris [11:47] TR Bot Brier Score [11:47] TR News "Developed by a research team at Shenzhen MSU-BIT University, co-founded by Lomonosov Moscow State University and Beijing Institute of Technology" https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3296135/chinese-algorithm-boosts-nvidia-gpu-performance-800-fold-science-computing | Source: SCMP [11:47] TR Bot Chinese algorithm boosts Nvidia GPU performance 800-fold in science computing | South China Morning Post [11:48] TR News "Peridynamics is widely used to predict material failure in aerospace, civil engineering, and military applications." https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/chinese-algorithm-claimed-to-boost-nvidia-gpu-performance-by-up-to-800x-for-advanced-science-applications | Source: Tom's Hardware [11:48] TR Bot Chinese algorithm claimed to boost Nvidia GPU performance by up to 800X for advanced science applications | Tom's Hardware [11:49] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [11:52] TR News "Ive got all these half-finished drafts sitting around, collecting pixel dust. Why not just finish one?" https://flamedfury.com/posts/blogging-for-the-hell-of-it/ | Source: Flamed Fury [11:52] TR Bot Blogging For The Hell Of It [11:54] TR News "One problem all bloggers face is what to do with their content after it's been written." https://brandons-journal.com/turning-my-blogs-into-an-e-book/ | Source: Brandon [11:54] TR Bot Turning My Blogs Into an E-Book | Brandon's Journal [11:54] TR News "Also a bunch of my friends were talking about blogging and it was all LiveJournal this and TypePad that" https://anniemueller.com/posts/blog-question-challenge-2025 | Source: Annie Mueller [11:54] TR Bot Blog question challenge 2025 - annie's blog [11:54] TR News "Observability Isn't Enough" https://thenewstack.io/observability-isnt-enough-its-time-to-federate-log-data/ | Source: The New Stack [11:54] TR Bot Observability Isn't Enough. It's Time To Federate Log Data - The New Stack [11:55] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@yrifiesvn57du.irc) has joined #techrights [11:57] TR News "Anyway, its been a fairly manual process, and I finally got tired of it yesterday." https://scottwillsey.com/cool-site-spotlight-script-command/ | Source: Scott Willsey [11:57] TR Bot Cool Site Spotlight Raycast Script Command [11:57] TR News "Ive had websites since the late 90s, basically ever since I had access to the [Internet]." https://lostfocus.de/2025/02/03/blog-question-challenge/ | Source: Dominik Schwind [11:57] TR Bot Blog Question Challenge | LostFocus [11:59] TR News "I started late." https://louplummer.lol/technology-edition-of-the-blog-questions-challenge/ | Source: Lou Plummer [11:59] TR Bot Technology Edition of the Blog Questions Challenge | Living Out Loud ● Feb 05 [12:00] TR News "Fast forward to today and RSS feeds have supplanted magazines as a major guilt-pile in my life." https://bjhess.com/posts/mark-all-read | Source: Barry Hess [12:00] TR Bot Mark All Read - I am BARRY HESS [12:04] TR News SpellBinding AUILOTD Wordo: AARGH gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-02-05.gmi [12:05] TR News Hello Gemini!... gemini://deepwebkonek.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-02-05.gmi [12:05] TR News Divergence gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/02/05/divergence.gmi [12:07] TR News "I have this irrational fear that WWIII will break out and I will be stuck with my kid in the US without being allowed to travel back home to my partner and other kid." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2488 [12:07] TR News Yesterday, sharing a picture from Ikea led to a discussion about home decorating choices, and I was delighted to hear that he also loves citrus-themed things. That was nice. He has an excellent taste for decor." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2487 [12:10] TR News "I often find myself needing to create temporary backups of files or directories. The way I usually do this is by appending its name with the date and a ".bak" extension." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202502/20250204-bash-alias-make-and-restore-backups.gmi [12:16] TR News "I'm gonna gush about bookmarklets and web extensions." https://andregarzia.com/2025/02/retaking-the-web-browser-one-small-step-at-a-time.html | Source: Andre Alves Garzia [12:16] TR Bot The Web Browser, One Small Step At A Time AndreGarzia.com [12:16] TR News Slop is an ANTI-feature https://www.pcworld.com/article/2598021/you-already-know-what-feature-firefox-is-adding-today.html | Source: PC World [12:16] TR Bot surprises no one by adding AI to the browser | PCWorld [12:17] TR News "close only the current tab" https://linuxiac.com/firefox-135-browser-now-available-for-download/ | Source: Linuxiac [12:17] TR Bot Firefox 135 Now Available for Download, Heres Whats New [12:19] *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe [12:20] TR News (NEW): Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.gmi [12:20] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers: Tor Browser 14.0.5, Retaking The Web Browser and Buzzwords https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Web_Browsers_Tor_Browser_14_0_5_Retaking_The_Web_Browser_and_Bu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Web_Browsers_Tor_Browser_14_0_5_Retaking_The_Web_Browser_and_Bu.gmi [12:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else [12:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers: Tor Browser 14.0.5, Retaking The Web Browser and Buzzwords [12:26] TR News "We want to determine the configuration that best optimizes resource usage, considering that we have access to a full IPv4 subnet and 2.5 Gbit of upload bandwidth." https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/02/how-to-configure-multiple-tor-relays-on-the-same-interface-with-different-ips/ | [12:26] TR Bot How to configure multiple Tor relays on the same interface with different IPs - Osservatorio Nessuno [12:26] TR News "The broad reason that you'll most often hear about is that it's not uncommon for your system to read things back after you've written them to disk." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DiskWritesInTheReadCache | Source: University of Toronto [12:26] TR Bot Chris's Wiki :: blog/tech/DiskWritesInTheReadCache [12:26] TR News "The colour pallete is Catppuccin. In light mode, the Latt style is used, and in dark mode, Machiatto." https://chrismcleod.dev/blog/new-paint-same-blog/ | Source: Chris McLeod [12:26] TR Bot New Paint, Same Blog Chris McLeod [12:27] TR News "After 8 months of working on this post I dont know how to start it except to say it culminates in this animation of Rick made in 240 lines of code." https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/code-animated-rick/ | [12:27] TR Bot Animating Rick and Morty One Pixel at a Time Daniel Hooper [12:28] TR News "Theres a list of content. You can edit individual items by tapping or clicking their row, or you can select adjacent checkboxes to perform bulk actions" https://cloudfour.com/thinks/a-content-list-with-bulk-actions-using-ancient-html-and-modern-css/ | Source: Cloud Four Inc [12:28] TR Bot A Content List With Bulk Actions Using Ancient HTML and Modern CSS Cloud Four [12:32] TR News How To Install Swift Programming Language on Fedora 41 https://idroot.us/install-swift-programming-language-fedora-41/ [12:32] TR Bot How To Install Swift Programming Language on Fedora 41 - idroot [12:33] TR News How To Install Squid Proxy on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-squid-proxy-centos-stream-10/ [12:33] TR Bot How To Install Squid Proxy on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [12:33] TR News How To Install ReactJS on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-reactjs-centos-stream-10/ [12:33] TR Bot How To Install ReactJS on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [12:33] TR News Ubuntu 24.04: How to Install a Binary File (Step-by-Step Guide) https://linux.how2shout.com/ubuntu-24-04-how-to-install-a-binary-file-step-by-step-guide/ [12:33] TR Bot Ubuntu 24.04: How to Install a Binary File (Step-by-Step Guide) - LinuxShout [12:38] TR News How To Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-eclipse-ide-ubuntu-24-04/ [12:38] TR Bot How To Install Eclipse IDE on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [12:39] TR News How To Install Gogs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-gogs-ubuntu-24-04/ [12:39] TR Bot How To Install Gogs on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [12:44] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1007886/ [12:44] TR Bot updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [12:45] TR News "There has long been a tension between the requirements for strictly certified FIPS crypto modules and the need to keep software patched and up to date with the latest security vulnerability fixes." https://ubuntu.com//blog/the-role-of-fips-140-3-in-the-latest-fedramp-guidance | Source: Ubuntu [12:45] TR Bot role of FIPS 140-3 in the latest FedRAMP guidance | Ubuntu [12:47] TR News "The FBI joined authorities across Europe last week in seizing domain names for Cracked and Nulled" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/whos-behind-the-seized-forums-cracked-nulled/ | Source: Krebs On Security [12:47] TR Bot Whos Behind the Seized Forums Cracked & Nulled? Krebs on Security [12:48] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Security_Leftovers.gmi [12:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [12:50] TR News How To Install Swift Programming Language on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-swift-programming-language-ubuntu-24-04/ [12:50] TR Bot How To Install Swift Programming Language on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [12:50] TR News How To Install FTP Server on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-ftp-server-centos-stream-10/ [12:50] TR Bot How To Install FTP Server on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [12:50] TR News How To Install NumPy on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-numpy-centos-stream-10/ [12:50] TR Bot How To Install NumPy on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [12:53] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/today_s_howtos.gmi [12:53] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [12:54] TR News Not too shocking some of the critics of RMS end up nearly killing themselves with roid rage and/or road rage. Too much anger, not trying to make something better than GNU (or Linux). ● Feb 05 [13:00] TR News (NEW): Empty IBM Buildings and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Empty_IBM_Buildings_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Empty_IBM_Buildings_and_More.gmi [13:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Empty IBM Buildings and More [13:02] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 05/02/2025: Learning, Madman Ruling a Mad Country, Back in Geminispace https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Gemini_Links_05_02_2025_Learning_Madman_Ruling_a_Mad_Country_Ba.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Gemini_Links_05_02_2025_Learning_Madman_Ruling_a_Mad_Country_Ba.gmi [13:02] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 05/02/2025: Learning, Madman Ruling a Mad Country, Back in Geminispace [13:08] TR News Techrights Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Links_05_02_2025_Connection_without_Connectivity_and_Unionised_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Links_05_02_2025_Connection_without_Connectivity_and_Unionised_.gmi [13:08] TR Bot Techrights Links 05/02/2025: Connection without Connectivity and Unionised Grocery Workers [13:12] TR News health @ Savannah: Hugo Mendoza Hospital launches GNU Health to transform pediatric health https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10722 [13:12] TR Bot GNU Health - News [Savannah] [13:14] TR News Fedora Community Blog: Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/balkan-computer-congress-novi-sad-serbia/ [13:14] TR Bot Balkan Computer Congress, Novi Sad, Serbia Fedora Community Blog [13:15] TR News Serpent OS Needs Your Support https://linuxiac.com/serpent-os-needs-your-support/ [13:15] TR Bot Serpent OS Needs Your Support [13:19] TR News Simplifying Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group https://cubiclenate.com/2025/02/04/simplifying-admin-tasks-in-opensuse-with-the-wheel-group/ [13:19] TR Bot Admin Tasks in openSUSE with the Wheel Group CubicleNate's Techpad [13:19] TR News FSF News: Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings, awards, and historic tech http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-40-auction [13:19] TR Bot Free Software Foundation to auction off original GNU drawings, awards, and historic tech Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [13:19] TR News [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Video_Richard_Stallman_Auctioning_a_GNU_Gnu_at_Surathkal_India.shtml [13:19] TR Bot Techrights [Video] Richard Stallman Auctioning a GNU (Gnu) at Surathkal, India [13:20] TR News Chipsee introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch industrial panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5 https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/02/04/chipsee-7-inch-10-1-inch-industrial-panel-pcs-raspberry-pi-cm5/ [13:20] TR Bot Chipsee introduces 7-inch and 10.1-inch industrial panel PCs powered by Raspberry Pi CM5 - CNX Software [13:20] TR News Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft backdoored Windows Media Player https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-microsoft-windows-media-player/ [13:20] TR Bot Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Media Player - LinuxLinks [13:21] TR News Greenbone Vulnerability Manager central management service https://www.linuxlinks.com/greenbone-vulnerability-manager-central-management-service/ [13:21] TR Bot Vulnerability Manager - central management service - LinuxLinks [13:22] TR News PGPTool encrypt and decrypt files https://www.linuxlinks.com/pgptool-encrypt-and-decrypt-files/ [13:22] TR Bot - encrypt and decrypt files - LinuxLinks [13:22] TR News Eye of MATE simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment https://www.linuxlinks.com/eye-of-mate-simple-graphics-viewer/ [13:22] TR Bot of MATE - simple graphics viewer for the MATE Desktop Environment - LinuxLinks [13:22] TR News Scrumlens agile retrospective tool https://www.linuxlinks.com/scrumlens-agile-retrospective-tool/ [13:22] TR Bot - agile retrospective tool - LinuxLinks [13:23] TR News Gum tool for glamorous shell scripts https://www.linuxlinks.com/gum-tool-glamorous-shell-scripts/ [13:23] TR Bot - tool for glamorous shell scripts - LinuxLinks [13:23] TR News AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want https://fossforce.com/2025/02/almalinux-now-has-a-dod-guide-for-security-hardening-the-distro-as-much-as-you-want/ [13:23] TR Bot AlmaLinux Now Has a DOD Guide for Security Hardening the Distro as Much as You Want - FOSS Force [13:24] TR News Lubuntu Blog: Lubuntu Plucky Puffin Alpha Notes https://lubuntu.me/plucky-alpha/ [13:24] TR Bot Lubuntu Plucky Puffin Alpha Notes Lubuntu [13:24] TR News Ubuntu Studio: LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK! https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/02/lts-upgrades-22-04-to-24-04-are-back/ [13:24] TR Bot LTS Upgrades (22.04 to 24.04) ARE BACK! Ubuntu Studio [13:25] TR News Ivy Carrier Board for Toradex Verdin SoM Family in Industrial Applications https://linuxgizmos.com/ivy-carrier-board-for-toradex-verdin-som-family-in-industrial-applications/ [13:25] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/ivy-carrier-board-for-toradex-verdin-som-family-in-industrial-applications/ ) [13:25] TR News EasyOS experimental GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/easyos-experimental-linux-distribution/ [13:25] TR Bot - experimental Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [13:29] TR News It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux" https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/It_Looks_Like_BetaNews_Managing_Editor_Wayne_Williams_is_Taking.shtml [13:29] TR Bot Techrights It Looks Like BetaNews' Managing Editor Wayne Williams is Taking Over From Fagioli After Repeat Pattern of LLM Slop (State-of-the-Art Plagiarism) About "Linux" [13:30] TR News statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/statCounter_GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Now_Measured_at_2_78_in_Japa.shtml [13:30] TR Bot Techrights statCounter: GNU/Linux and ChromeOS Now Measured at 2.78% in Japan (It Used to be Less Than 0.5%) [13:30] TR News BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/BetaNews_Began_Removing_LLM_Slop_About_Linux_But_More_of_It_Kee.shtml [13:30] TR Bot Techrights BetaNews Began Removing LLM Slop About "Linux", But More of It Keeps Coming From Guardian Digital, Inc (at linuxsecurity.com) [13:31] TR News Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml [13:31] TR Bot Techrights Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies [13:31] TR News A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Surveillance Giant Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles' https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/A_Lot_of_Stuff_About_Linux_in_Google_News_is_LLM_Slop_Fake_Arti.shtml [13:31] TR Bot Techrights A Lot of Stuff About "Linux" in Google News is LLM Slop, Fake 'Articles' [13:31] TR News PCLinuxOS Recent Updates https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5907 [13:31] TR Bot Updates PCLinuxOS [13:32] TR News statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use backdoored Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/statCounter_Reckons_Less_Than_10_in_Mexico_Still_Use_Windows_to.shtml [13:32] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Reckons Less Than 10% in Mexico Still Use Windows to Access to Web and GNU/Linux Surges to All-Time High (Plus, Microsoft's Latest Debt Crisis) [13:32] TR News GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/GNU_Linux_Reaches_All_Time_High_in_the_United_Stated_Based_on_s.shtml [13:32] TR Bot Techrights GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time High in the United States, Based on statCounter [13:32] TR News First Release Candidate for GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 Now Available http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/First-Release-Candidate-for-Linux-Kernel-6.14-Now-Available [13:32] TR Bot First Release Candidate for Linux Kernel 6.14 N... Linux Magazine [13:33] TR News QIV Quick Image Viewer https://www.linuxlinks.com/qiv/ [13:33] TR Bot - Quick Image Viewer - LinuxLinks [13:34] TR News Chroma general purpose syntax highlighter https://www.linuxlinks.com/chroma-general-purpose-syntax-highlighter/ [13:34] TR Bot - general purpose syntax highlighter - LinuxLinks [13:35] TR News Linux Format 325 https://linuxformat.com/linux-format-325.html [13:35] TR Bot Linux Format 325 [13:40] TR News This tiny GNU/Linux kernel tweak could SAVE 30% on Power Use for Datacenters! https://tuxdigital.com/videos/this-tiny-linux-kernel-tweak-could-save-30-on-power-use-for-datacenters/ [13:40] TR Bot tiny Linux kernel tweak could SAVE 30% on Power Use for Datacenters! - Tunnell Vision - TuxDigital [13:43] TR News People say "Linux" is easier to say than "gnu" but that's a lie. What's more, nowadays people say things like "Linux kernel" (long). If people called the components correctly, the word "kernel" would be possible to omit (without any loss of meaning). Just as you say "X" or "Wayland" and not something longer, same for KDE. [13:45] TR News One could go a step further and argue that we should say "GNU/Linux kernel" because if we say only "Linux", then kernel is implied. Like "the Firefox browser". [13:49] TR News Valhalla's Things: Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One https://blog.trueelena.org/blog/2025/02/04-conference_talk_timeout_ring_part_one/index.html [13:49] TR Bot Valhalla's Things Conference Talk Timeout Ring, Part One [13:50] TR News "In the past I may have spoken critically on Truetype fonts and their usage in PDF files. Recently I have come to the conclusion that it may have been too harsh and that Truetype fonts are actually somewhat nice." https://nibblestew.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-trials-and-tribulations-of.html | Source: Jussi Pakkanen [13:50] TR Bot Nibble Stew: The trials and tribulations of supporting CJK text in PDF [13:50] TR News "Of course, you can partially reclaim the memory by using pointers." https://antonz.org/go-map-shrink/ | Source: Anton Zhiyanov [13:50] TR Bot Go's map does not shrink [13:52] TR News [Repeat] "last months new CPAN uploads for your reading" https://www.perl.com/article/what-s-new-on-cpan-december-2024/ | Source: Perl [13:52] TR Bot What's new on CPAN - December 2024 [13:52] TR News [Repeat] "Thanks to the work by Timo Paulssen and many others" https://rakudoweekly.blog/2025/02/03/2025-05-trixie-awaits/ | Source: Rakulang [13:52] TR Bot 2025.05 Trixie Awaits Rakudo Weekly News [13:54] TR News "The aim is not to define strict rules but to spark a conversation about good enough practices and alternative approaches that the R developer community has used or would like to be used more widely." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/02/key-considerations-for-retiring-superseding-an-r-package/ | Source: Rlang [13:54] TR Bot considerations for retiring/superseding an R package | R-bloggers [13:54] TR News "As the name implies, the rand crate is capable of calculating random numbers. The crate itself has seen a fair bit of churn: for instance 0.9 broke backwards compatibility with 0.8." https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/2/4/fat-rand/ | Source: Armin Ronacher [13:54] TR Bot Fat Rand: How Many Lines Do You Need To Generate A Random Number? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings [13:54] TR News "REST is a widely misunderstood term, and if you point that out to people, you will be told, repeatedly and sometimes quite irately: who cares?" https://unplannedobsolescence.com/blog/why-insist-on-a-word/ | Source: Alex Petros [13:54] TR Bot Why Insist on a Word [13:54] TR News "A look at the role of platform engineering, its principles and benefits for teams striving for scalable, efficient and innovative development practices." https://thenewstack.io/3-key-benefits-of-platform-engineering/ | Source: The New Stack [13:54] TR Bot 3 Key Benefits of Platform Engineering - The New Stack [13:55] TR News "Most programming languages, including C and C++, provide language runtime libraries that implement parts of the language itself." https://thinkingeek.com/2025/01/31/caveat-with-statically-linked-language-runtimes/ | [13:55] TR Bot A caveat with statically linked language runtimes [13:56] TR News "I call it less than estimation because if a given piece of work is obviously under an hour" https://chrisdone.com/posts/less-than-estimation/ | Source: Chris Done [13:56] TR Bot Less-Than Estimation [13:56] TR News "I wrote previously about different slices of life in the various implementations of the Scrapscript programming language." https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/scrapscript-ir/ | Source: Max Bernstein [13:56] TR Bot A compiler IR for Scrapscript | Max Bernstein [13:57] TR News "Im tempted to print that last line on the back of a business card." https://rubenerd.com/being-goal-oriented-not-process-oriented/ | Source: Ruben Schade [13:57] TR Bot Being goal oriented, not process oriented [13:57] TR News "In case anyone is interested, here's the source code for the server and the client." https://boston.conman.org/2025/02/02.1 | Source: Sean Conner [13:57] TR Bot Artisanal code to solve an issue only I have - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [13:57] TR News "The core of the routine, the nested function main() does the real work here. When main() starts, the flag for queue readiness is false." https://boston.conman.org/2025/02/04.1 | Source: Sean Conner [13:57] TR Bot Concurrency is tricky - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [13:58] TR News Blown Away By the Unexpected https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/blown-away-by-the-unexpected/ [13:58] TR Bot Blown Away By the Unexpected - Jim Nielsens Blog ● Feb 05 [14:14] *psydroid3 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:20] TR News 2019 Week 3 Deaths in England and Wales: 11,860. 2025 Week 3 Deaths in England and Wales: 14,679. Thats Almost 3,000 More Deaths in Just One Week! https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/02/05/new-normal/ [14:20] TR Bot Blog Archive 2019 Week 3 Deaths in England and Wales: 11,860. 2025 Week 3 Deaths in England and Wales: 14,679. Thats Almost 3,000 More Deaths in Just One Week! [14:28] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@8p6k6zizq5nqc.irc) has joined #techrights [14:53] TR News Attorney Fees in Copyright Cases, Part II https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/02/attorney-copyright-cases.html [14:53] TR Bot Attorney Fees in Copyright Cases, Part II | Patently-O [14:54] TR News Bombshell Ruling on Global Music Copyright Termination Emerges With Rumblings of Music Industry Chaos Ahead https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/04/bombshell-ruling-on-global-music-copyright-termination-emerges/ [14:54] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/02/04/bombshell-ruling-on-global-music-copyright-termination-emerges/ ) [14:55] TR News Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin") https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Covering_EPO_Scandals_in_an_Age_of_Mass_Censorship_and_Europe_B.shtml [14:55] TR Bot Techrights Covering EPO Scandals in an Age of Mass Censorship (and Europe Being Afraid to Introspect, for It Might "Help Putin") [14:56] TR News "At 5m32s I presented what I think is the best version yet of my selfish personal argument for why it makes sense to default to releasing code as Open Source: [...]" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/selfish-open-source/ | Source: Simon Willison [14:56] TR Bot A selfish personal argument for releasing code as Open Source [14:57] TR News "To share this moment with all of you, here are some key reflections from Davids acceptance speech." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/02/03/david-cuartielles-receives-the-open-source-award-on-skills-and-education/ | Source: Arduino [14:57] TR Bot David Cuartielles receives the Open Source Award on Skills and Education | Arduino Blog [14:59] TR News "I'm no longer using Pixelfed so the code I used to pull in my latest photos into Eleventy is redundant but it might be useful to other people." https://rknight.me/blog/loading-pixelfed-photos-with-eleventy/ | Source: Rob Knight [14:59] TR Bot Loading Pixelfed Photos with Eleventy Robb Knight ● Feb 05 [15:00] TR News "How Much of a Linux Nerd are You?" https://nathanupchurch.com/blog/making-quizzes-using-eleventy/ | Source: Nathan Upchurch [15:00] TR Bot Building a Quiz System WithEleventy [15:00] TR News "I decided to follow simon's approach to creating a link blog, where I can share interesting links I find on the internet along with my own comments and thoughts about them." https://xuanwo.io/links/2025/01/link-blog/ | [15:00] TR Bot Build a link blog [15:01] TR News "As we saw in the opening post, SQLite stores metadata about tables in a special "schema table" starting on page 1." https://blog.sylver.dev/build-your-own-sqlite-part-4-reading-tables-metadata | Source: Geoffrey Copin [15:02] TR Bot Build your own SQLite, Part 4: reading tables metadata [15:04] TR News "A video you can find on bit shoot, showing he's not just a socialist, but a conspiracy theorist. -Part of what hinders progress in GNU/Linux." Oh, wow, not using "smartphone" means "conspiracy theorist" https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxsucks101/comments/1ihpkan/richard_stallman_dont_use_mobile_phones/ [15:04] TR Bot - Dive into anything [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] reddit full of idiots [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] but speaking out against gnu is ok [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] because... reddit [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] He is back in the FSF, and he is the GNU in Gnu/Linux. -Note how Android is built on the same kernel, and they aren't called 'Linux' or even 'Android Linux'. -It's like an insult to the Gnu Father. The foundation of GNU/Linux was built on socialism and conspiracy theory and hasn't changed. -Politics alienates, conspiracy theorists (only 20% of population also alienates), and the community alienates. [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] So, the evangelism and expecting Linux to ever compete with proprietary is equivalent to conspiracy theorists banging their heads trying to get the other 80% to join them in their ignorance while simultaneously just pissing people off. [15:05] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] "conspiracy theorists " [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] The typical slur [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] Researchers like Carlos Moreno, the professor behind a popular urban planning concept, are struggling with conspiracy theories and death threats. [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] " [15:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/technology/carlos-moreno-15-minute-cities-conspiracy-theories.html [15:06] TR Bot Carlos Moreno Created the 15-Minute City. Conspiracy Theorists Are Coming for Him. - The New York Times [15:07] TR News Just because many people use 'smartphones" does not mean they are benign https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/statCounter_Shows_WIntel_Chasing_a_Dying_Market.shtml [15:07] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Shows "WIntel" Chasing a Dying Market [15:07] TR News "It was a simple problem with a straightforward solution and it's sad to think that more and more programmers are reaching for Cat for even simple programs." https://boston.conman.org/2025/02/02.2 | Source: Sean Conner [15:07] TR Bot And now some metacommentary on the artisanal code I just wrote - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm [15:08] TR News "Seventeen new GNU releases in the last month (as of January 31, 2025): [....]" https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/january-2025-gnu-spotlight-with-amin-bandali | Source: FSF [15:08] TR Bot January 2025 GNU Spotlight with Amin Bandali: Seventeen new GNU releases! Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [15:09] TR News "But first, lets make this clearthis version is not intended for general use; instead, it offers a glimpse into what the next stable release might hold. Those curious to try it out can do so on [..] Linux with GTK+ 3.14 or higher." https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-135-brings-fixes-for-imap-pop3-and-calendar-users/ | Source: Linuxiac [15:09] TR Bot Thunderbird 135 Brings Fixes for IMAP, POP3, and Calendar Users [15:12] TR News "The FreeBSD Foundations Laptop Support and Usability Project is in full swing, and staying updated" https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/laptop-support-and-usability-project-update-first-monthly-report-community-initiatives/ | Source: FreeBSD [15:12] TR Bot Laptop Support and Usability Project Update: First Monthly Report & Community Initiatives | FreeBSD Foundation [15:13] TR News "For years, Equinix Metal provided Alpine Linux with essential support, enabling the project to offer reliable, secure, and efficient software to users around the globe." https://linuxiac.com/alpine-linux-appeals-for-hosting-support/ | Source: Linuxiac [15:13] TR Bot Alpine Linux Appeals for Hosting Support [15:13] TR News "before we dive into my golden rules, let me clarify: this isnt one of those articles claiming to know the best Linux distribution for beginners." https://linuxiac.com/new-to-linux-stick-to-these-rules-when-picking-distro/ | Source: Linuxiac [15:13] TR Bot New to Linux? Stick To These Rules When Picking Distro [15:15] TR News "A slice of the design research I'm motivated by; from papers by Mark Weiser (Xerox Park 1994) to Paul Dourish" https://blog.viditb.com/the-world-is-not-a-desktop-and-related-reading/ | Source: Vidit Bhargava [15:15] TR Bot Design readings: "The world is not a desktop" and such [15:32] TR News Techrights IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/IBM_Red_Hat_on_era_of_cloud_computing_pushing_hey_hi_AI_hype_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/IBM_Red_Hat_on_era_of_cloud_computing_pushing_hey_hi_AI_hype_in.gmi [15:32] TR Bot Techrights IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure ● Feb 05 [16:09] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:10] *nobody (~nobody@3bjmi2kw9qd42.irc) has joined #techrights [16:17] TR News Techrights European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/European_Internet_Forum_EIF_is_Dominated_by_American_Corporatio.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/European_Internet_Forum_EIF_is_Dominated_by_American_Corporatio.gmi [16:17] TR Bot Techrights European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead [16:20] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [16:21] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@yrifiesvn57du.irc) has joined #techrights [16:26] TR News Desktop Operating System Market Share Bulgaria: GNU/Linux about 6% now https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/bulgaria/#monthly-200902-202502 [16:26] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Bulgaria | Statcounter Global Stats [16:42] TR News Techrights Many Parts of Google Lose Money https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Many_Parts_of_Google_Lose_Money.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Many_Parts_of_Google_Lose_Money.gmi [16:42] TR Bot Techrights Many Parts of Google Lose Money [16:46] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [16:46] TR News Windows fell to quarter in Panama https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/panama/#monthly-200902-202502 [16:46] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Panama | Statcounter Global Stats [16:50] TR News GNU/Linux up to 7% in Finland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200902-202502 [16:50] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Finland | Statcounter Global Stats [16:59] TR News Techrights statCounter: Monaco Now 7% GNU/Linux ("Proper") https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/statCounter_Monaco_Now_7_GNU_Linux_Proper.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/statCounter_Monaco_Now_7_GNU_Linux_Proper.gmi [16:59] TR Bot Techrights statCounter: Monaco Now 7% GNU/Linux ("Proper") ● Feb 05 [17:05] TR News Plans gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/2-05.gmi [17:06] TR News "Some time ago, while I was still in early ~20s I happened to land on a lowly paid, albeit very lax job, about 5 years went by, leaving some joys, some scars, well, the usual." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2491 [17:07] TR News "Have you ever heard of Kessler Syndrome? The orbital chaos scenario is credited to Donald Kessler in 1978. However, this story dates back all the way to the 17th century, with Franz Kessler, an alchemist and inventor during the Roman Empire." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2489 [17:08] TR News "About a month ago, I deleted all my Big Tech accounts and switched to using Firefox and Brave with plenty of blocking offered. But at work, I don't have browser options; it's Chrome, Edge, or nothing. I also can't install extensions on them without IT approval." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2490 [17:09] TR News "...not the e-paper. Well, I have been extended use of old good hardware tools. While I use my phone and computer to manage my calendar I don't like to use digital things to make quick notes and to manage my tasks." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2025_02_01.txt [17:10] TR News Really? now you're freaking out? gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/now [17:13] TR News Promoting Microsoft https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/accelerating-azure-ai-ansible-automation-platform-subscriptions-ai-models | Source: Red Hat Official http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/IBM_Red_Hat_on_era_of_cloud_computing_pushing_hey_hi_AI_hype_in.shtml [17:13] TR Bot Accelerating Azure AI with Ansible Automation Platform: from subscriptions to AI models [17:13] TR Bot Techrights IBM Red Hat on "era of cloud computing", pushing "hey hi" (AI) hype in Microsoft Azure [17:14] TR News Buzzwords, not substance https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/beyond-ai-pilot-project-building-foundation-generative-ai | Source: Red Hat Official [17:14] TR Bot Beyond the AI pilot project: Building a foundation for generative AI [17:14] TR News "To help showcase this new capability and how it works, we released a video that shows you how to set up the Insights proxy and how to configure your hosts to use the proxy." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/connecting-your-systems-using-insights-proxy | Source: Red Hat Official [17:14] TR Bot Connecting your systems using the Insights proxy [17:15] TR News "For development teams tasked to develop and maintain software solutions, waiting days or weeks for resources to provision disrupts workflows and delays value delivery." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/platform-engineering-and-self-service-simplifying-complexity-red-hat-developer-hub | Source: Red Hat Official [17:15] TR Bot Platform engineering and self-service: simplifying complexity with Red Hat Developer Hub [17:15] TR News Best Windows Alternatives for Users Leaving Windows 10 https://www.analyticsinsight.net/photo/best-windows-alternatives-for-users-leaving-windows-10 [17:15] TR Bot Best Windows Alternatives for Users Leaving Windows 10 [17:17] TR News Spammy slop site https://cybersecuritynews.com/google-patched-linux-kernel-vulnerability-in-android/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml [17:17] TR Bot Google Patched Linux Kernel Vulnerability In Android Allows Attackers Gain Write Access [17:17] TR Bot Techrights Anti-Linux FUD Sites cybersecuritynews.com and gbhackers.com Turn Out to be LLM Slop, Even Plagiarism That Spreads Lies [17:18] TR News Facebook admits censoring Linux was a mistake https://fudzilla.com/news/60480-facebook-admits-censoring-linux-was-a-mistake [17:18] TR Bot Facebook admits censoring Linux was a mistake [17:20] TR News "Why might you need to change the Proton version? Certain versions may just work better. Like Proton Experimental, which pulls in fixes much quicker than the stable numbered versions of Proton, which at times may be needed. Valve usually set the specific version of Proton that's best but not always." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/guides/view/how-to-change-the-proton-version-on-linux-steamos-and-steam-deck/ [17:20] TR Bot to change the Proton version on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux [17:20] TR News (NEW): Kdenlive fundraising final report https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Kdenlive_fundraising_final_report.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Kdenlive_fundraising_final_report.gmi [17:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Kdenlive fundraising final report [17:21] TR News Linux containers in 2025 and beyond https://www.networkworld.com/article/3816494/linux-containers-in-2025-and-beyond.html [17:21] TR Bot Linux containers in 2025 and beyond | Network World [17:22] TR News "Popular Linux organizations X.org/Freedesktop.org and Alpine Linux must look for new web hosting. Donors are discontinuing bare-metal servers, forcing both services to seek a new home." https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/128380/freedesktop-and-alpine-linux-in-search-of-new-web-hosting/ [17:22] TR Bot Freedesktop and Alpine Linux in search of new web hosting - Techzine Global [17:22] TR News You Can Now Run Linux Inside A PDF File https://80.lv/articles/you-can-now-run-linux-inside-a-pdf-file/ [17:22] TR Bot This Linux Distribution Runs Directly Within A PDF File [17:23] TR News Freedesktop And Alpine Linux Looking For New Hosting https://hackaday.com/2025/02/04/freedesktop-and-alpine-linux-looking-for-new-hosting/ [17:23] TR Bot And Alpine Linux Looking For New Hosting | Hackaday [17:25] TR News "Now that Firefox 135 is rolling out to users all over the globe, Mozilla has promoted the next major release of its open-source web browser, Firefox 136, to the beta channel for public testing." https://9to5linux.com/firefox-136-promises-hardware-video-decoding-for-amd-gpus-on-linux-vertical-tabs [17:25] TR Bot 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux [17:25] TR News (NEW): Freedesktop looking for new home for its GitLab instance, mesa 25.0.0-rc1 released https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/01/Freedesktop_looking_for_new_home_for_its_GitLab_instance_mesa_2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/01/Freedesktop_looking_for_new_home_for_its_GitLab_instance_mesa_2.gmi [17:25] TR Bot Tux Machines Freedesktop looking for new home for its GitLab instance, mesa 25.0.0-rc1 released [17:27] TR News (NEW): Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/04/Someone_got_Linux_running_inside_a_PDF_file_because_its_users_a.gmi [17:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Someone got Linux running inside a PDF file, because its users are something else [17:27] TR News This LLM slop site altered the title after Techrights complained https://gbhackers.com/linux-kernel-6-14/ see http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/27/GBHackers_On_Security_is_Trash_and_It_Should_Probably_Be_Ignore.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Anti_Linux_FUD_Sites_cybersecuritynews_com_and_gbhackers_com_Tu.shtml [17:27] TR Bot Linux Kernel 6.14 Officially Released for Testers [17:27] TR Bot Techrights GBHackers On Security is Trash and It Should Probably Be Ignored (It Trash-talks Linux and SSH Based on Nothing at All) [17:28] TR News Nasty popups https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/popular-linux-orgs-freedesktop-and-alpine-linux-are-scrambling-for-new-web-hosting/ [17:28] TR Bot Popular Linux orgs Freedesktop and Alpine Linux are scrambling for new web hosting - Ars Technica [17:28] TR News "Are you looking for Photoshop replacement on Linux with an easy-to-learn interface, so you can edit your photos outside of Windows or Mac? Well, I've got you covered with some great recommendations." https://www.howtogeek.com/photoshop-alternatives-for-linux/ [17:28] TR Bot 5 Photoshop Alternatives for Linux [17:29] TR News Linux Foundations L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management https://www.networkworld.com/article/3815604/linux-foundations-l3af-brings-zero-downtime-updates-to-ebpf-network-management.html [17:29] TR Bot Linux Foundations L3AF brings zero-downtime updates to eBPF network management | Network World [17:29] TR News "Thanks to posts on social media and YouTuber videos, which now other news sites have picked up, we're seeing fresh rumours about a new Steam Machine / Steam Console." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/the-latest-valve-steam-console-rumour-with-amd-rdna4-can-be-safely-ignored-heres-why/ [17:29] TR Bot latest Valve Steam Console rumour with AMD RDNA4 can be safely ignored - here's why | GamingOnLinux [17:32] TR News It participates in these https://www.infoworld.com/article/3815771/linux-foundation-warns-of-us-ofac-sanctions.html [17:32] TR Bot Foundation warns of US OFAC sanctions | InfoWorld [17:32] TR News Facebook hates Linux https://www.scworld.com/podcast-segment/13589-semgrep-non-drama-facebook-hates-linux-vulns-in-cars-cell-towers-m365-and-more-esw-392 [17:32] TR Bot Semgrep non-drama, Facebook hates Linux Vulns in Cars, Cell Towers, M365, and more ESW #392 | SC Media [17:35] TR News "Hope is the Counter to Fear." https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/hope-is-the-counter-to-fear [17:35] TR Bot "Hope is the Counter to Fear." | ACLU [17:37] TR News Techrights Links 05/02/2025: Kessler Syndrome and News Online https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Links_05_02_2025_Kessler_Syndrome_and_News_Online.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/Links_05_02_2025_Kessler_Syndrome_and_News_Online.gmi [17:37] TR Bot Techrights Links 05/02/2025: Kessler Syndrome and News Online [17:42] TR News "IBM employees are dinosau.rs who will end up working at McDonalds once their jobs are outsourced to India" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jaxnh [17:42] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jaxnh ) [17:43] TR News "I wonder how Trump is going to affect the part of IBM Consulting that is one sh---y Federal contract after another." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jqbp1 [17:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jqbp1 ) [17:44] TR News "JK said on an internal call that the goal is for the stock to go to $300 before year end... Keeping my fingers crossed. Anything that Wall Street will gobble up to make the stock go up... even lies! Let's go people." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk9jqbp1 [17:44] TR News "Me too... more layoffs please... still too many people doing cr-p at IBM and dragging the results down. Go AK/JK... do you magic!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkb2en5m [17:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkb2en5m ) [17:45] TR News "Just wait until you yourself are laid off, "clown." Ibm is a sinking ship and always will be. They got losers at the top." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jkb2en5m [17:46] TR News "Oh look everyone, the McDonald's drive thru commenter is back. Get a life, dude." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph [17:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jk8g4dph ) [17:47] TR News Workday to Cut Nearly 2,000 Workers on Profitability Focus https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/workday-layoffs-will-hit-nearly-2-000-workers [17:47] TR Bot Layoffs Will Hit Nearly 2,000 Employees - Bloomberg [17:49] TR News (NEW): Red Hat Puff Pieces and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Red_Hat_Puff_Pieces_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Red_Hat_Puff_Pieces_and_More.gmi [17:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Puff Pieces and More [17:51] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/02/05/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [17:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [17:52] TR News Infrastructure as Advent of Code https://bertptrs.nl/2025/02/04/infrastructure-as-advent-of-code.html [17:52] TR Bot as Advent of Code | bertptrs.nl [17:53] TR News Fedora in 2025: Hey Hi (AI) Integration, Wayland Advancements, HDR, and More https://linuxiac.com/fedora-in-2025-ai-integration-wayland-advancements-hdr-and-more/ [17:53] TR Bot Fedora in 2025: AI Integration, Wayland Advancements, HDR, and More [17:53] TR News Thunderbird 135 Brings Fixes for IMAP, POP3, and Calendar Users https://linuxiac.com/thunderbird-135-brings-fixes-for-imap-pop3-and-calendar-users/ [17:53] TR Bot Thunderbird 135 Brings Fixes for IMAP, POP3, and Calendar Users [17:55] TR News Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot Access + More https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/02/mozilla-firefox-135-released [17:55] TR Bot Firefox 135 Brings New Tab Page Tweaks, AI Chatbot Access + More - OMG! Ubuntu [17:57] TR News Flathub Blog: On the Go: Making it Easier to Find GNU/Linux Apps for Phones & Tablets https://docs.flathub.org/blog/on-the-go-linux-mobile-collection [17:57] TR Bot On the Go: Making it Easier to Find Linux Apps for Phones & Tablets | Flathub Documentation [17:58] TR News Mozilla Thunderbird 135 Released with XZ Packaging for GNU/Linux Binaries https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-135-released-with-xz-packaging-for-linux-binaries [17:58] TR Bot Thunderbird 135 Released with XZ Packaging for Linux Binaries - 9to5Linux [17:59] TR News Firefox 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs https://9to5linux.com/firefox-136-promises-hardware-video-decoding-for-amd-gpus-on-linux-vertical-tabs [17:59] TR Bot 136 Promises Hardware Video Decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux, Vertical Tabs - 9to5Linux [17:59] TR News Weekly recap 2 February 2025 https://librearts.org/2025/02/week-recap-2-feb-2025/ [17:59] TR Bot Libre Arts - Weekly recap 2 February 2025 ● Feb 05 [18:01] TR News Vulnerability Patched in Android Possibly Exploited by Forensic Tools https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-patched-in-android-possibly-exploited-by-forensic-tools/ [18:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerability-patched-in-android-possibly-exploited-by-forensic-tools/ ) [18:01] TR News Cancelling should be as easy (or hard) as registration https://rubenerd.com/cancelling-should-be-as-easy-or-hard-as-signup/ [18:01] TR Bot Cancelling should be as easy (or hard) as registration [18:04] TR News "Want to Report on Homelessness? What ProPublica Learned About Engaging Responsibly." https://www.propublica.org/article/reporting-on-homelessness-responsibly-guide-propublica | Source: Pro Publica [18:04] TR Bot Want to Report on Homelessness? What ProPublica Learned About Engaging Responsibly. ProPublica [18:05] TR News Fix unmute when boot different audio hw https://bkhome.org/news/202502/fix-unmute-when-boot-different-audio-hw.html [18:05] TR Bot Fix unmute when boot different audio hw [18:05] TR News Android security update includes patch for actively exploited vulnerability https://cyberscoop.com/android-security-update-february-2025/ [18:05] TR Bot security update includes patch for actively exploited vulnerability | CyberScoop [18:06] TR News Qt for Android Automotive 6.8.2 is released https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.8.2-is-released [18:06] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-for-android-automotive-6.8.2-is-released ) [18:07] TR News George Baxters Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/crystal-palace-dinosaurs [18:07] TR Bot George Baxters Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854) The Public Domain Review [18:11] TR News Source: "CISPE got silenced by Microsoft for its antitrust complaint. Mingorance got probably a good share of the money." Re http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/05/European_Internet_Forum_EIF_is_Dominated_by_American_Corporatio.shtml [18:11] TR Bot Techrights European Internet Forum (EIF) is Dominated by American Corporations and Microsoft Lobbyists, Staff Take the Lead [18:17] TR News Senate Democrats raise concerns about Musk team access to Treasury payment systems https://federalnewsnetwork.com/federal-newscast/2025/02/senate-democrats-raise-concerns-about-musk-team-access-to-treasury-payment-systems/ [18:17] TR Bot Senate Democrats raise concerns about Musk team access to Treasury payment systems [18:18] TR News Exploitation of Over 700 Vulnerabilities Came to Light in 2024 https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-over-700-vulnerabilities-came-to-light-in-2024/ [18:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/exploitation-of-over-700-vulnerabilities-came-to-light-in-2024/ ) [18:18] TR News Buzzwords and other wasteful nonsense from Mozilla https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/02/04/navigating-the-future-of-openness-and-ai-governance-insights-from-the-paris-openness-workshop/ [18:18] TR Bot Navigating the Future of Openness and AI Governance: Insights from the Paris Openness Workshop - Open Policy & Advocacy [18:20] TR News Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 135 https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-135/ [18:20] TR Bot Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 135 Firefox Developer Experience [18:20] TR News Ruby 3.2.7 Released https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/02/04/ruby-3-2-7-released/ [18:20] TR Bot Ruby 3.2.7 Released [18:21] TR News statCounter's Numbers Make Sense Given Microsoft's Falling Windows/Client Revenue https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/statCounter_s_Numbers_Make_Sense_Given_Microsoft_s_Falling_Wind.shtml [18:21] TR Bot Techrights statCounter's Numbers Make Sense Given Microsoft's Falling Windows/Client Revenue [18:21] TR News Microsoft Bing Lies https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/Microsoft_Bing_Lies.shtml [18:21] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Bing Lies [18:21] TR News All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/All_Efforts_to_Censor_Techrights_Have_Always_Failed.shtml [18:21] TR Bot Techrights All Efforts to Censor Techrights Have Always Failed [18:22] TR News Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/Corporate_Media_is_Intentionally_Lying_for_Microsoft_There_s_No.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights Corporate Media is Intentionally Lying for Microsoft, There's Now a Hiring Freeze, No Replacements for Workers Laid Off in Two Mass Layoffs Last Month [18:22] TR News From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/From_India_to_Italy_Richard_Stallman_s_Next_Talk_is_Next_Week_i.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights From India to Italy: Richard Stallman's Next Talk is Next Week in Torino [18:22] TR News LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/LLM_Hype_Chatbots_Hyped_and_Wrongly_Characterised_as_Artificial.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights LLM Hype (Chatbots Hyped and Wrongly Characterised as "Artificial Intelligence") Cause Net Inflation [18:22] TR News statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses backdoored Windows https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/04/statCounter_Only_1_in_40_Web_Users_in_Ireland_Uses_Microsoft_Br.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights statCounter: Only 1 in ~40 Web Users in Ireland Uses Microsoft Browser, One in Six Uses Windows [18:22] TR News Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talk in Recent Days (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/02/Richard_Stallman_Has_Another_Talk_in_India_Tomorrow_at_Least_Fo.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman Has Another Talk in India Tomorrow, at Least Fourth India Talk in Recent Days [18:22] TR News Yesterday_s_Talk_b.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights Software Freedom Month at NITK Surathkal and Yesterday's Talk by Richard Stallman [18:24] TR News Ismael Olea: A RightsStatements ontology https://olea.org/diario/2025/02/04/a-rigthsstatements-ontology.html [18:24] TR Bot A RightsStatements ontology [18:25] TR News Kdenlive fundraising final report https://kdenlive.org/en/2025/02/kdenlive-fundraising-final-report/ [18:25] TR Bot Kdenlive fundraising final report - Kdenlive [18:26] TR News "really bad and getting worse in America" https://macwright.com/2025/02/04/recently.html [18:26] TR Bot - macwright.com [18:27] TR News What is an Executive Order and How Does it Work? 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[21:22] IsambardPrince I wonder if that's because of OpenAI stealing their articles and adding even more lies, propaganda, and glaring mistakes. [21:23] IsambardPrince Then claiming that because they added steps to the theft it's legal. [21:32] IsambardPrince "How Democrats plan to oppose Trump's moves." -CNN [21:32] IsambardPrince Uh, so far that means half to 100% of their party votes for what he wants with no objections. [21:33] MinceR what an elaborate ruse! [21:35] IsambardPrince "There have been a total of 461 illegal aliens this is of this morning when I got this information from DHS that have been released from custody, of the more than 8,000 that have been arrested since President Trump was inaugurated, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during Wednesdays press briefing. [21:35] IsambardPrince She cited an array of reasons for the releases, including lack of detention capability, medical conditions, and a lack of significant likelihood of removal in the foreseeable future. [21:35] IsambardPrince CNN reported Monday that those released and monitored under Alternatives for Detention can be tracked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via ankle monitors, wrist bands or through telephonic check-ins." [21:35] IsambardPrince MinceR, Alternatives for Detention, or AfD for short. [21:35] MinceR :> [21:35] MinceR Alternative for (to?) Democracy [21:36] IsambardPrince "Operation in Colorado: Federal immigration agents conducted an early morning raid at an apartment complex in the metro Denver area, in what US Immigration and Customs Enforcement says targeted 100+ members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. The operation is a large-scale effort involving multiple federal law enforcement agencies focused on multiple locations in the Denver metro area." [21:36] IsambardPrince CNN links to X. [21:36] IsambardPrince X says "Something unexpected happened. Retry?" [21:37] IsambardPrince MinceR, Damn this propaganda machine, breaking down all the time. [21:37] IsambardPrince Goebbels would have people shot for this! [21:37] MinceR well, felon musk fired the people who kept it working as much as it was [21:39] IsambardPrince "Some of the goals of those lawsuits, Kaine said, include: [21:39] IsambardPrince Protecting federal employees, including USAID workers [21:39] IsambardPrince Protecting fundamental constitutional rights like birthright citizenship [21:39] IsambardPrince Protecting Congresses power to allocate money and ensuring that money is being used in the way it was allocated [21:39] IsambardPrince Preventing private parties, such as Elon Musk, from rampaging through federal agencies [21:39] IsambardPrince Stopping mass deportation" [21:39] IsambardPrince ---- [21:39] IsambardPrince MinceR, And everyone involved will fail to appear. [21:40] IsambardPrince And when judges hold them in contempt, Trump will pardon them, every day, until the courts give up. [21:40] IsambardPrince And when the courts make a decision, Trump will say "You and what army?" [21:40] IsambardPrince Eventually, the Democrats in question will have to flee the country and live in Argentina. [21:42] IsambardPrince MinceR, Then there's the 50 state protests today. [21:43] IsambardPrince Where they'll take the picture of everyone who shows up to get an early list of candidates for US citizens being deported to prison in El Salvador. [21:43] IsambardPrince :) [21:48] *HappyNewYear2025 (~newyear@2.219.56.221) has joined #techrights [21:49] *newyear25 (~newyear@freenode-drv.aab.2jssns.IP) has joined #techrights [21:49] *haver has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [21:50] *haver has quit (Ping timeout: 244 seconds) [21:57] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Feb 05 [22:06] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [22:23] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@sambgdmsawkyw.irc) has joined #techrights ● Feb 05 [23:01] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:01] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [23:30] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:33] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [23:33] nobody anyway, job placement services recommended to contact some "coaching", so i had written an email to them [23:34] nobody attached my CV and one or two project proposals to pick up work, and asking them if job placement would be arranged for within one or two month [23:36] nobody because, such coaching is sponsored with tax-payers money (of cause, uhum), so i insisted some coaching may only be relevant if labor market legally compliant contracting was possible [23:38] nobody well, uhm... "70% of our customers reach their goals within one year" ... whichever those goals were [23:39] nobody bam, that's another 2000-3000EUros cash for nothing, which, i might add, could put to better use than video-conferencing a few hours [23:39] nobody that is 10 video/phone-calls taxed with ~250Euros each..., tax-payers money [23:40] MinceR https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/110/936/284/417/849/897/original/f422aa456705bbca.png [23:43] nobody the "eco bank" (Umweltbank) didn't respond yet to my inquiry