●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, April 13, 2026 ●● ● Apr 13 [00:07] MinceR https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/313-sir-i-really-think-its-a-bad-idea-to-call-our-new-3d-card-the-geforce-5-mia55/ [00:07] TR Bot Daily Victim Archive [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights ● Apr 13 [01:58] *newuser52 has quit (connection closed) ● Apr 13 [02:30] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [02:31] *newuser51 has quit (connection closed) [02:32] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [02:33] admfubar more glassholes coming soon... https://www.firstpost.com/tech/apple-smart-glasses-to-break-cover-soon-with-premium-designs-four-styles-in-testing-13999540.html [02:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/apple-smart-glasses-to-break-cover-soon-with-premium-designs-four-styles-in-testing-13999540.html ) [02:33] IsambardPrince Okay, I got GTA Vice City Enhanced to start running on ChromeOS in Baguette. [02:34] IsambardPrince But apparently the Venus driver for Vulkan does not support the required Vulkan extensions to actually run that game. [02:34] IsambardPrince It's Vulkan 1.1 "compliant", but they say that it even fails some of those tests on the Mesa3d site. [02:35] IsambardPrince Then the game complains that it needs Vulkan 1.3 and specifically the maintenance6 extension. [02:35] IsambardPrince Which it also complains is missing. [02:36] IsambardPrince Then it says it detects llvmpipe and that it has Vulkan 1.3 support, but it is "skipping software driver". [02:38] IsambardPrince So does Baguette support Vulkan. Yes, but....anything that uses DXVK won't work. [02:38] IsambardPrince Although the Vulkan renderer on UXDoom works. [02:42] *newuser51 has quit (connection closed) [02:42] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [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-120426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-120426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-120426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-120426.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, April 12, 2026 [02:49] IsambardPrince Lousy economy. Lets see. Oh, I know. ANOTHER PRICE HIKE [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-04-12.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-04-12.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-2026-04-12.txt [02:51] IsambardPrince " Democrat Rep Josh Gottheimer filed to buy ONE MILLION in MSFT call options. [02:51] IsambardPrince The strike price is $320 [02:51] IsambardPrince The expiration date is June 18th" [02:51] IsambardPrince Is that true? Saw it on Facebook. [02:51] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: That's about $50 a share less than what it's going for the last I looked. [02:52] IsambardPrince Investors are losing their patience with "AI" nonsense. [02:52] IsambardPrince I'm not sure that's insider trading. ● Apr 13 [03:04] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [03:04] TR News (NEW): 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 12th, 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_April_12th_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/9to5Linux_Weekly_Roundup_April_12th_2026.gmi [03:04] TR Bot Tux Machines 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: April 12th, 2026 [03:07] *newuser51 has quit (connection closed) [03:07] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [03:07] *newuser52 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [03:11] *newuser52 has quit (Quit: buh-bye) [03:11] *newuser51 has quit (Quit: buh-bye) [03:20] *cow_20012 has quit (Quit: ) [03:21] *cow_20012 (~username@wusiwah4aa7ye.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 13 [04:03] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [04:32] TR News "With @ew0k announcing [1] the eventual retirement of the main Antenna instance, and the request that one or more operators take it over, the source code was tidied up and released [2] for general use. I have been running a content-limited version of Antenna, called DSN Antenna" gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/gemlog/20260412-satellite-antenna.gmi [04:33] TR News "Six months ago[1], we started on a new project called Leicmin[2] to provide an application for managing members of subscriber groups along with a naieve implementation of age verification checks for those who enjoy the spicer side of creation." gemini://mfgames.com/blog/2026/04/12/semantic-versioning/ [04:33] TR News Receiving Satellite Transmissions from Geminispace gemini://gemini.smallweb.space/satellite-antenna/ [04:35] TR News "I have set up a new instance of Antenna sync'd to @mk270 's instance to enable a kind of "federation" and redundancy." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Gemini/41493 [04:36] TR News "Im running GUIX on a 2010 Macbook Air, but this isnt about that experience, Ill cover that elsewhere, this just has to do with GUIX more generally. I dont know why it took me so long to circle back and try out GUIX. Its kind of an alternative approach to NixOS." gemini://thatit.be/2026-04-12-15-05-42.gmi [04:37] TR News "Oof, this is difficult. I don't check out the RPG Planet as often as I used to, I guess. And my blog doesn't have comments any more." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-12-commenting [04:37] TR News kiss them better gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/kiss_them_better [04:38] TR News "We are spending some time in Freiburg im Breisgau. Mostly drinking coffee, eating cake, and then walking, hiking and jogging, trying to lose those calories again." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-11-freiburg-im-breisgau [04:39] TR News [Anon] BTW a small bit of good news: "Viktor Orbn ousted after 16 years in power as Hungarian opposition wins election landslide" https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c2d8zw2d3rkt Cleanup is a very large and long task. I hope there is both time and resource to complete it in time. [04:39] TR Bot Orbn ousted after 16 years in power as Hungarian opposition wins election landslide - BBC News [04:40] TR News "My t-deck and t-deck ultra (was it called ultra? The non-pro, non e-ink one, anyway) both died mysteriously some time ago, but they made for okay standalone devices. Ive since tried a variety of other standalone devices, but theyre all very rough. Below are the ones Ive tried and the issues I had with them." gemini://thatit.be/2026-04-10-16-16-54.gmi [04:41] TR News "protocol-relative URIs (actually called relative references by RFC 3986) are a neat way of linking to a resource available over multiple protocols." gemini://para.mohrie.net/log/uri.gmi [04:42] TR News "In the beginning, I wanted to use NixOS options with the flake instead of using a `mkConfig` function to generate the files and shell hooks. But, due to complexities and struggling with Nix, I couldn't figure it out. But, after two years of working on it, I finally got a working implementation that uses the cleaner approach of options." gemini://mfgames.com/blog/2026/04/05/breaking-changes/ [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] Sompi: [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] " [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] These data center "investments" have nothing local about them. They are schemed [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] and built by foreign firms who have collected their money before the lights [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] are even turned on. At that point they take their money and stash it, tax free, [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] in islands overseas with the state never to see a cent of tax. At that point [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] all the costs kick in and the locals then get saddled with the financial costs [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] in addition to the environmental and social costs. [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] It's like the mining laws, which are also set up to 1) prevent locals from [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] benefitting in any way, shape or form, 2) socialize the disadvantages onto [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] the local communities, 3) allow *only* major foreign companies to profit [04:42] schestowitz[TR3] " [04:47] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [04:47] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Freiburg, GUIX, and Announcing Satellite Antenna (SA) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Gemini_Links_13_04_2026_Freiburg_GUIX_and_Announcing_Satellite_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Gemini_Links_13_04_2026_Freiburg_GUIX_and_Announcing_Satellite_.gmi [04:47] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [04:47] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 12, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_April_12_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_April_12_2026.gmi [04:47] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Freiburg, GUIX, and Announcing Satellite Antenna (SA) [04:47] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Sunday, April 12, 2026 [04:48] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:49] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:49] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:51] TR News Linux 7.0 https://lwn.net/Articles/1067330/ [04:51] TR Bot 7.0 [LWN.net] [04:54] TR News "Fraudulent music streams have long been a scourge for the industry, but experts say generative AI has supercharged it " https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/11/ai-impersonating-musicians-spotify | Source: The Guardian UK [04:54] TR Bot It has your name on it, but I dont think its you: how AI is impersonating musicians on Spotify | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian [04:55] TR News "The outburst marks a further deterioration in Musks already strained relationship with the South African government" https://techcentral.co.za/musk-hurls-expletives-at-senior-sa-diplomat-in-starlink-row/280071/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [04:55] TR Bot Musk hurls expletives at senior SA diplomat in Starlink row [04:55] TR News "The KKK as tax enforcers who actually eliminate taxation is the real story here, which so far nobody is admitting." https://www.flyingpenguin.com/category/food/ | Source: Flyngpenguin [04:55] TR Bot flyingpenguin [04:56] TR News "The designation is part of the Kremlin's crackdown on civil society, international organizations, and Western universities a campaign that has intensified throughout the full-scale invasion of Ukraine." https://kyivindependent.com/russia-labels-stanford-university-undesirable-in-escalating-crackdown-on-western-schools/ | Source: The Kyiv Independent [04:56] TR Bot Russia labels Stanford University 'undesirable' in escalating crackdown on Western schools [04:56] TR News "At the protests peak on May 17th, there were some one million people at the square." https://vale.rocks/posts/1989-peoples-movement | Source: Declan Chidlow [04:56] TR Bot the Square and Under the Rug | Vale.Rocks [04:57] TR News "Iran's nationwide Internet blackout has crossed the 1,000-hour mark and is now one of the longest nation-scale shutdowns ever measured, according to connectivity monitor NetBlocks." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/iran-passes-1000-hours-offline | Source: Tom's Hardware [04:57] TR Bot Iran's forced nationwide internet blackout becomes second-longest on record as it passes 1,000 hours offline possessing Starlink terminals punishable by death, country using 'military-grade jamming' against service | Tom's Hardware [04:57] TR News "In a five-minute AI-generated animation modelled after classic martial arts movies" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/chinas-state-media-turns-to-social-media-ai-to-tell-its-story-often-mock-us/articleshow/130194595.cms | Source: India Times [04:57] TR Bot China's state media turns to social media, AI to tell its story - often mock US - The Economic Times [04:58] TR News "Stewart raised environmental regulation as a model for platform harm." https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-old-eff-dog-dont-hunt-cohn-of-silence-leaves-x/ | Source: Flyngpenguin [04:58] TR Bot Old EFF Dog Dont Hunt: Cohn of Silence Leaves X | flyingpenguin [04:58] IsambardPrince Oh my god, removing Firefox as a Snap is slow. [04:59] TR News "So whats so bad about the attribution cartel?" https://blog.zgp.org/attribution-cartel-update/ | Source: Don Marti [04:59] TR Bot Attribution cartel update [04:59] TR News "USAID created soft power around the world while also doing actual good in saving lives and preventing suffering" https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/flowers-bloom-on-soldiers-graves-lessons-in-power-and-consequence/ | Source: Rebecca Solnit [04:59] TR Bot Flowers Bloom on Soldiers' Graves: Lessons in Power and Consequence [04:59] TR News "The effrontery of Peterffys remarks cant be overstated." https://futurism.com/future-society/billionaire-legalize-insider-trading | Source: Futurism [04:59] TR Bot Billionaire Says Insider Trading Should Be Fully Legalized ● Apr 13 [05:00] TR News "Meanwhile, Ranne has backed a long-range plan to build a parallel European-gauge track alongside the existing Finnish tracks from Haparanda to Kemi and perhaps eventually Oulu." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220038 | Source: YLE [05:00] TR Bot Finland gains direct rail link to Europe this summer | Yle News | Yle [05:00] TR News "Seven countries now generate nearly all of their electricity from renewable energy sources, according to newly compiled figures." https://www.the-independent.com/tech/renewable-energy-solar-nepal-bhutan-iceland-b2533699.html | Source: The Independent US [05:00] TR Bot Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable energy | The Independent [05:00] TR News "But instead of being burdens to the electrical system, a clever trick is putting EVs on a trajectory to help save it." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/12/how-evs-could-solve-a-problem-with-americas-rickety-grid/ | Source: Michigan Advance [05:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/12/how-evs-could-solve-a-problem-with-americas-rickety-grid/ ) [05:00] TR News "Its great in theory, but theres a huge catch." https://futurism.com/science-energy/research-solar-energy-cells | Source: Futurism [05:00] TR Bot Scientists Set New Record for Solar Cell Efficiency [05:01] TR News "In this context, electric vehicles are no longer seen purely as a long-term environmental solution. They are increasingly becoming a practical way to stabilize earnings and reduce risk." https://globalnation.inquirer.net/317143/inside-the-green-taxi-when-the-shift-to-electric-becomes-a-question-of-survival | Source: Phillippine Daily Inquirer [05:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://globalnation.inquirer.net/317143/inside-the-green-taxi-when-the-shift-to-electric-becomes-a-question-of-survival ) [05:01] schestowitz[TR3] Oh my god, removing Firefox as a Snap is slow. [05:01] schestowitz[TR3] snap? [05:01] schestowitz[TR3] why? [05:01] IsambardPrince Kubuntu [05:01] IsambardPrince Thunderbird is also there as a snap [05:02] MinceR oh snap [05:02] schestowitz[TR3] they have a .deb [05:02] *MinceR keeps snapping fingers while the firecocks snap gets uninstalled [05:02] TR News "The industries brought under the PWRDA ambit are bottling plants" https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/chandigarh-news/surcharge-on-heavy-industrial-water-users-fetches-punjab-govt-110-crore-101776021085884.html | Source: Hindustan Times [05:02] TR Bot Surcharge on heavy industrial water users fetches Punjab govt 110 crore | Hindustan Times [05:02] MinceR it's done in a snap! or a thousand. [05:03] schestowitz[TR3] Is that true? Saw it on Facebook. [05:03] schestowitz[TR3] best not to follow FB [05:03] schestowitz[TR3] then you would not ask, "is it true?" [05:03] schestowitz[TR3] schestowitz[TR3]: Pepsi apparently lost a billion dollars in sales after hiking Doritos to $7 a bag and Pepsi to $14 for a 24 pack. [05:03] MinceR seems like it's still worth asking [05:03] schestowitz[TR3] i didn't know pepsico owned doritos? [05:04] MinceR well, it's a frito-lay product [05:04] MinceR and pepsico owns frito-lay [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] good to know [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] cocacola also owns many brands [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] while hhiding it [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] you still gets questions like, [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] "wait, youtube is google? [05:05] schestowitz[TR3] "insta is facebook?" [05:06] schestowitz[TR3] i even got, wait, twitter is not part of facebook?" [05:06] MinceR yum! brands also used to be owned (or part of) pepsico [05:06] MinceR they own kfc, pizza hut, taco bell and some other franchises [05:08] TR News "Palantir has a serious problem. You can tell by the way their CEO Alex Karp just positioned AI as threatening humanities-trained workers and empowering vocational ones." https://www.flyingpenguin.com/palantir-is-full-of-karp-humanities-protect-against-his-ai/ | Source: Flyngpenguin [05:08] TR Bot is Full of Karp: Humanities Protect Against His AI | flyingpenguin [05:08] TR News "So where did the messages come from?" https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/fbi-deleted-app-signal-messages-recovered-texas-137670050.html | Source: Bhaskar English [05:08] TR Bot FBI Recovered Deleted Signal Messages Without Encryption | Texas Case [05:08] TR News "Despite this, the question remains: Are age limits really the best way to address the negative impacts of social media?" https://www.dw.com/en/does-age-verification-for-social-media-help-protect-kids/a-76713278 | Source: Deutsche Welle [05:08] TR Bot Does age verification for social media help protect kids? [05:09] TR News "Security researchers have identified 213 vulnerabilities in Russias state-backed messaging app Max through a bug bounty program, Positive Technologies CTO Alexei Batyuk said at the international Svyaz-2026 exhibition, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/11/security-researchers-find-213-vulnerabilities-in-russia-s-state-backed-messaging-app-max | Source: Meduza [05:09] TR Bot Security researchers find 213 vulnerabilities in Russias state-backed messaging app Max Meduza [05:09] TR News "The impersonations were disquieting." https://www.propublica.org/article/impersonating-propublica-reporter | Source: Pro Publica [05:09] TR Bot Whos Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter? ProPublica [05:10] MinceR > Are age limits really the best way to address the negative impacts of social media? [05:10] MinceR no. [05:10] TR News "This evolution from purely government-targeted attacks is concerning." https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/we-should-be-more-worried-about-cyber-warfare-targeting-the-civilian-economy/ | Source: University of Michigan [05:10] TR Bot We should be more worried about cyber warfare targeting the civilian economy [05:11] TR News "Mr. Musk, TikTok and Meta, which owns Instagram, did not respond to requests for comment." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/elon-musk-tiktok.html | Source: New York Times [05:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/technology/elon-musk-tiktok.html ) [05:11] IsambardPrince Okay, it seeems snap saves apps you remove by default. [05:11] IsambardPrince So I had to go back and tell it to forget the save. [05:11] IsambardPrince No more snaps except snapd [05:11] TR News "Like television, smartphones, and social media, LLMs etc. are highly engaging; people enjoy using them, can get sucked in to unbalanced use patterns, and become defensive when those systems are critiqued." https://aphyr.com/posts/416-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-psychological-hazards | Source: Kyle Kingsbury [05:11] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/416-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-psychological-hazards ) [05:12] TR News "I've been finding the opposite to be true. Write the initial version by hand." https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive | Source: Kenneth Reitz [05:12] TR Bot Write It First, Then Let AI Drive - Kenneth Reitz [05:12] TR News "A new report by the AI company Writer and research firm Workplace Intelligent found a massive portion of workers across the US, UK, and Europe are intentionally trying to sabotage their bosses AI initiatives." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/zoomers-ai-sabotage | Source: Futurism [05:12] TR Bot Gen Z Sabotaging AI at Work So It Won't Take Their Job [05:12] IsambardPrince I also removed Snap integration with Plasma Discover by unchecking it as a software source. [05:12] IsambardPrince And then put in Flatpak. [05:12] TR News "It was a PR disaster on OpenAIs part. Altman later admitted that the move looked opportunistic and sloppy, but the damage had already been done." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-melting-down-disaster | Source: Futurism [05:12] TR Bot Why Does It Suddenly Feel Like OpenAI Is Melting Down Into Disaster? [05:13] TR News "Alongside the tribute boom, theres a growing interest in hologram concerts. Abba Voyage, a virtual show in east London, has had over three million visitors since it opened in 2022." https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/music/2026/04/will-ai-kill-tribute-bands | Source: New Statesman [05:13] TR Bot Will AI kill tribute bands? - New Statesman [05:13] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [05:14] TR News "The article goes onto say that the Neo is a better experience for most people for most things than the similarly-priced Windows laptops, but I pulled this quote because I think it's telling." https://birchtree.me/blog/the-heads-i-win-tails-you-lose-mentality/ | Source: Matt Birchler [05:14] TR Bot The "heads I win, tails you lose" mentality [05:14] TR News "The vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621 and a CVSS score of 9.6." https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-reader-zero-day-exploited-for-months/ | Source: Security Week [05:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/adobe-patches-reader-zero-day-exploited-for-months/ ) [05:14] TR News "I wrote a post, some time ago now, about some initial plans to move my tech (software and hardware) stack away from U.S. companies and into some European alternatives." https://thedent.net/posts/breaking-up-with-big-tech-progress-update | Source: Andy Nicolaides [05:14] TR Bot Breaking up with Big Tech - Progress update - The Dent [05:15] TR News "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been given their nickname" https://www.sciencealert.com/forever-chemicals-may-be-weakening-the-bones-of-children-study-warns | Source: Science Alert [05:15] TR Bot Chemicals' May Be Weakening The Bones of Children, Study Warns : ScienceAlert [05:15] IsambardPrince Now we go pull Firefox ESR out of Archive.Mozilla.Org [05:15] TR News "The table today had all the usual offerings of alcoholic beverage." https://protesilaos.com/commentary/2026-04-12-lunch-without-alcohol/ | Source: Protesilaos Stavrou [05:16] TR Bot lunch without alcohol | Protesilaos Stavrou [05:16] schestowitz[TR3] or some repo? [05:17] TR News "The memory cards in your camera bag may be slowly losing your photos, but almost nobody in the industry is talking about it" https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/memory-cards/your-archived-photos-may-be-slowly-disappearing-but-lexar-wants-to-do-something-about-it | Source: Digital Camera World [05:17] TR Bot Your archived photos may be slowly disappearing but Lexar wants to do something about it | Digital Camera World [05:17] TR News "BenQ monitors are great. The controls are the easiest to use of any monitor brand Ive used before or since." https://www.rubenerd.au/finding-a-beige-benq-fp531-monitor/ | Source: Ruben Schade [05:17] TR Bot Rubenerd: Finding a beige BenQ FP531 monitor [05:18] TR News "I was gifted a Sencore SC62 oscilloscope from the mid-80s." https://davidhampgonsalves.com/svg-based-vector-scope/ | Source: David Hamp-Gonsalves [05:18] TR Bot SVG based Vector Scope [05:18] TR News "Well, if I had written this two or three years ago, free-space optical might have counted as quite obscure. The idea of using a modulated laser or LED light source for communications over a distance is actually quite old." https://computer.rip/2026-04-11-IrDA.html | Source: J B Crawford [05:18] TR Bot IrDA [05:18] TR News "Preserving classic software products." https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/ | Source: Computer History Museum [05:18] TR Bot Software Preservation Group [05:19] TR News "When Borders shut their doors globally in 2011, I didnt hold out much hope that this important and wonderful part of my childhood would stick around for much longer either." https://www.rubenerd.au/the-new-books-kinokuniya-in-chatswood/ | Source: Ruben Schade [05:19] TR Bot Rubenerd: The new Books Kinokuniya in Chatswood [05:19] TR News "Students often call them weeder courses." https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/what-are-weeder-courses-really-measuring/ | Source: University of Michigan [05:19] TR Bot What are weeder courses really measuring? [05:22] IsambardPrince dpkg: warning: downgrading firefox (1:1snap1-0ubuntu8) to (149.0.2~build1) [05:22] IsambardPrince LMAO [05:22] IsambardPrince Get:1 https://packages.mozilla.org/apt mozilla/main amd64 firefox-esr amd64 140.9.1esr~build1 [77.3 MB] [05:22] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://packages.mozilla.org/apt ) [05:23] IsambardPrince :) [05:25] IsambardPrince Okay, now to blow away all their ads and crap. [05:25] IsambardPrince Shaboomboom! [05:25] TR News "In movies like Matilda or The Breakfast Club, power-hungry educators use writing tasks in attempts to control children." https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/teach-the-kids-why-to-write-not-how-to-write-right/ | Source: University of Michigan [05:25] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/teach-the-kids-why-to-write-not-how-to-write-right/ ) [05:26] TR News "Cellphones were used by 97% of young people ages 11-17 during the school day in 2022, with both good and bad effects." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/11/we-collected-data-on-how-779-michigan-school-districts-regulate-cellphones-%e2%88%92-here-are-the-trends/ | Source: Michigan Advance [05:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/11/we-collected-data-on-how-779-michigan-school-districts-regulate-cellphones-%e2%88%92-here-are-the-trends/ ) [05:26] TR News "Following the previously opened Martyr Vejn Youth Library in Khanesor, the new library has attracted significant interest from local youth and residents." https://english.anf-news.com/culture/yazidi-youth-union-opens-a-new-library-in-duhola-84886 | Source: ANF News [05:26] TR Bot ANF | Yazidi Youth Union opens a new library in Duhola, Shengal [05:27] TR News "The Trump administration's planned cuts would end 53 planned or ongoing NASA Science missions, would slice away $13 billion in funding" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bill-nye-trump-nasa-cuts-b2955938.html | Source: The Independent UK [05:27] TR Bot Bill Nye roasts Trump over presidents NASA plans: Surprising, illogical and very troubling | The Independent [05:28] TR News "Active radar is monostatic: the transmitter and receiver sit in the same place. Passive radar is bistatic: the transmitter (e.g., an FM radio tower) and receiver (your sensor) are in different locations." https://www.passiveradar.com/how-passive-radar-works/ | Source: PassiveRadar [05:28] TR Bot How Passive Radar Works [05:32] TR News "succeeded in automatically deriving a dynamic model governing mosquito flight by applying Bayesian inference statistical methods to a vast amount of data recording mosquito movements" https://www.wired.com/story/flight-path-data-shows-how-mosquitoes-target-humans/ | Source: Wired [05:32] TR Bot Path Data Shows How Mosquitoes Target Humans | WIRED [05:33] TR News "Using the "Venus Life Equation" (VLE) framework developed by Noam Izenberg et al." https://www.sciencealert.com/if-venus-has-life-it-may-have-come-from-earth-scientists-say | Source: Science Alert [05:33] TR Bot Venus Has Life It May Have Come From Earth, Scientists Say : ScienceAlert [05:33] TR News "NASA now turns its attention to future moon missions, with the ultimate goal of building a moon base in the 2030s and launching crewed missions to Mars in the 2040s." https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2026/0412/artemis-II-astronauts-mission-nasa | Source: CS Monitor [05:33] TR Bot Artemis II back on Earth, whats next for NASA? - CSMonitor.com [05:34] TR News "After some tinkering I found ways to overcome those obstacles, but the picture that emerged was extremely confusing and inspired no confidence in the numbers." https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/number-go-up-and-down-and-back-up | Source: Jeremy Cherfas [05:34] TR Bot Number go up. And down. And back up. | Jeremy Cherfas [05:34] TR News "A trend I am seeing, and experiencing, is an increase in disposable software. Software that does a little thing, for a little while and then gets deleted. No long term plan for maintenance or support." https://www.elliotcsmith.com/spreadsheets-and-disposable-software/ | Source: Elliot C Smith [05:34] TR Bot Spreadsheets and Disposable Software [05:35] TR News "The reasons are multiple: post in chronological order (no algorythm), a true decentralization, an efficient filtering system, and much much more." https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse | Source: David Revoy [05:35] TR Bot Unified Vs Split-panels: experimenting with publishing digital comics on the Fediverse - David Revoy [05:35] TR News "But every time I plan for that, it never quite works out. The main reason? Time." https://blog.pcora.eu/2026/04/12/on-selfhosting.html | Source: Pedro [05:35] TR Bot On self-hosting | Pedroblog [05:35] TR News "Even when official accounts adopt the aesthetics of a leak, questioning whether a record is real or synthetic is the only defensive move left" https://www.wired.com/story/how-the-internet-broke-everyones-bullshit-detectors/ | Source: Wired [05:35] TR Bot the Internet Broke Everyones Bullshit Detectors | WIRED [05:36] TR News "EFF is Leaving X" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/10/0259257 [05:36] TR Bot EFF is Leaving X - SoylentNews [05:37] TR News "Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tell Millions of Lies Per Hour" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/08/198248 [05:37] TR Bot Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tell Millions of Lies Per Hour - SoylentNews [05:39] TR News "Digital employees"? No! Stop calling automation "hey hi". This site is being paid to promote a Ponzi scheme... https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/11/digital-employees-now/ [05:39] TR Bot employees are here: What now? - SiliconANGLE [05:41] TR News "His Sunday release announcement for version 7.0 therefore represents a normal kernel release that just happens to feature a round number." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/13/linux_kernel_7_releaseed/ | Source: The Register UK [05:41] TR Bot Linux 7.0 debuts as Linus Torvalds ponders AI's impact The Register [05:47] TR News Techrights Links 13/04/2026: Impersonating ProPublica Reporter, More Attacks on the Press (Occupation With Little and No Compensation, Only High Risk) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Links_13_04_2026_Impersonating_ProPublica_Reporter_More_Attacks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Links_13_04_2026_Impersonating_ProPublica_Reporter_More_Attacks.gmi [05:47] TR Bot Techrights Links 13/04/2026: Impersonating ProPublica Reporter, More Attacks on the Press (Occupation With Little and No Compensation, Only High Risk) ● Apr 13 [06:16] TR News Techrights At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/At_Least_23_Days_of_EPO_Strikes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/At_Least_23_Days_of_EPO_Strikes.gmi [06:16] TR Bot Techrights At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes [06:21] IsambardPrince Hmm, seems ESR is too old to work with the ffmpeg provided by kubuntu 26.04 [06:21] IsambardPrince It's pretty late in the 140 ESR cycle [06:21] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Installed Firefox for the lulz [06:21] IsambardPrince It's turned into a big shitshow. [06:22] IsambardPrince There's at least twice as much stuff to turn off now. [06:22] IsambardPrince Including more about:config settings. [06:22] schestowitz[TR3] 140.7 [06:22] schestowitz[TR3] n Debian [06:22] IsambardPrince There's a master switch to disable "AI" [06:22] IsambardPrince They're basically just dying at this point and this Mozilla AI is a WTF. [06:22] schestowitz[TR3] slopfox [06:23] schestowitz[TR3] II don [06:23] schestowitz[TR3] I don't like MS Lunduke [06:23] schestowitz[TR3] but [06:23] IsambardPrince Librewolf isn't a terrible browser. It's what Firefox would be if you went back 20 years ago to that "foundation that makes a browser" mindset. [06:23] schestowitz[TR3] this is what he thinks if Firefox: [06:24] IsambardPrince SeaMonkey is so far behind it can barely render pages anymore. [06:24] IsambardPrince It didn't help that one person out of the 5 developers left died last year. [06:25] IsambardPrince It has turned into slopfox. [06:25] IsambardPrince To a large extent, most browsers have. [06:25] schestowitz[TR3] "Meet Kit. The Firefox Web browsers new, non-binary mascot. [06:25] schestowitz[TR3] Yes. You read that right. [06:25] schestowitz[TR3] Non-binary. With They/Them pronouns. [06:25] schestowitz[TR3] Because, of course @Mozilla [06:25] schestowitz[TR3] had to inject pronouns, and gender identity politics into a web browser." [06:25] IsambardPrince Well, I'm not big on gender identity and pronouns. [06:26] IsambardPrince Lobster roots for people who are much more radical than me. [06:27] IsambardPrince Like, Hamas. [06:28] IsambardPrince Why do these people root for Hamas? [06:28] IsambardPrince Hamas would straight up murder them. [06:28] IsambardPrince Then they bag on me for like, microaggressions and stuff. [06:28] schestowitz[TR3] sabotage is the aim [06:28] schestowitz[TR3] and cruelty [06:28] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/12/When_Cruelty_is_the_Point_American_SLAPPs_in_London_the_United_.shtml [06:28] TR Bot Techrights When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe) [06:30] TR News "The purpose is to add unbound to enable the DoT (DNS-over-TCP) protocol, slightly modifying dnsmasq, installed by default: [...]" https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/sys/openwrt/unbound-dot/ | Source: Stphane Huc [06:30] TR Bot Stphane HUC :: IT Log :: OpenWRT + Unbound: Using DoT [06:30] TR News "Wi-Fi packet loss was high with 21.6%, with high jitter (up to 130ms) as seen in a ping test: [...]" https://burgeonlab.com/blog/fix-ssh-lag-over-wifi-with-ethernet/ | Source: Naty S [06:30] TR Bot How to SSH into Raspberry Pi over Ethernet on a Mac [06:30] IsambardPrince There's people much more extreme than me on this issue in America, even Canada. [06:30] IsambardPrince Running state governments. [06:30] TR News "To master performance, view the browser as a single-threaded virtual machine, not a document viewer." https://lorbic.com/til/2026-04-11-the-critical-rendering-path/ | Source: Vikash Patel [06:30] TR Bot Critical Rendering Path | Lorbic [06:30] IsambardPrince If you have the "wrong" gender marker on a driver's license, they cancel it without warning while you might be driving a car for several days before the mail gets to you. [06:31] IsambardPrince I don't know why there's a gender marker on a driver's license. [06:31] TR News "The open-source community's long-simmering identity crisis over artificial intelligence" [sic] https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement | Source: Tom's Hardware [06:31] TR Bot Linux lays down the law on AI-generated code, says yes to Copilot, no to AI slop, and humans take the fall for mistakes after months of fierce debate, Torvalds and maintainers come to an agreement | Tom's Hardware [06:31] IsambardPrince Like, why that would be relevant. [06:31] IsambardPrince "Do you have a penis or a vagina while you are operating this car?" [06:31] IsambardPrince Very important stuff. [06:32] IsambardPrince "What happens if I have a penis?" [06:32] IsambardPrince Oh your insurance gets bad, real bad. [06:32] TR News "more questions about age verification law" https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260413 | Source: Distro Watch [06:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20260413 ) [06:32] IsambardPrince "Why?" [06:32] IsambardPrince "Because the penis is bad!" [06:32] TR News "Its able to produce statistics on HTML, JSON even CSV format." https://doc.huc.fr.eu.org/en/monitor/goaccess-openbsd/ | Source: Stphane Huc [06:32] TR Bot Stphane HUC :: IT Log :: Goaccess / OpenBSD [06:32] IsambardPrince "Haven't you ever seen that weird Sean Connery movie Zardoz?" [06:34] TR News [Old] "In this post we're going to focus on the ways that a single load balancer might distribute HTTP requests to a set of servers. We'll start from the bottom and work our way up to modern load balancing algorithms." https://samwho.dev/load-balancing | Source: Sam Rose [06:34] TR Bot Load Balancing [06:34] TR News "Another thing that the web has is the ETag header. An ETag header is supposed to be a unique identifier for a specific version of a 'resource', ie a URL." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/Apache24EtagAndSuffixes | Source: University of Toronto [06:34] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [06:34] TR News "So how do I discover these blogs? There's many ways to do it, but here's some that I've found most successful, ranked from most useful, to least." https://kevquirk.com/how-i-discover-new-blogs | Source: Kev Quirk [06:34] TR Bot How I Discover New Blogs - Kev Quirk [06:35] TR News "When I switched to Astro, I dropped my free membership, membership-only pages, and newsletter, effectively going RSS only. And Atom. And JSON feed. It can be done." https://stuartbreckenridge.net/2026-04-12-you-can-absolutely-have-an-rss-dependent-website-in-2026/ | Source: Stuart Breckenridge [06:35] TR Bot 'You Can Absolutely Have an RSS Dependent Website in 2026' Stuart Breckenridge [06:35] TR News "Google has already partnered with both Kalshi and Polymarket to bring their data to Google Finance. Whether that deal and the results in Google News are related in any way is unclear. Weve reached out to Google for additional information." https://www.theverge.com/tech/910691/google-news-polymarket-bets-error | Source: The Verge [06:35] TR Bot Google says Polymarket bets showing up in News was an error | The Verge [06:36] TR News "The latest example is StreamNative." https://topicpartition.io/blog/ursa-a-new-lakehouse-first-storage-engine-for-kafka | Source: Apache Kafka [06:36] TR Bot Ursa - a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka [06:37] TR News "What is Build Awesome? Simply put, it's a rebrand of 11ty/Eleventy. Or rather, it is the end of Eleventy." https://brennan.day/the-end-of-eleventy/ | Source: Brennan [06:37] TR Bot End of Eleventy brennan.day [06:37] TR News "But most websites do not fail because they lacked architectural purity." https://www.jonoalderson.com/conjecture/headless-websites/ | Source: Jono Alderson [06:37] TR Bot Headless websites and the cost of engineering vanity - Jono Alderson [06:38] TR News "Regular readers will know that I've been on quite the CMS journey over the years." https://kevquirk.com/adding-a-book-editor-to-my-pure-blog-site | Source: Kev Quirk [06:38] TR Bot Adding a Book Editor to My Pure Blog Site - Kev Quirk [06:39] TR News "I was staring at a Lighthouse report that felt like an insult. Lorbic.com is a zero-dependency Hugo site." https://lorbic.com/a-tale-of-web-vitals/ | Source: Vikash Patel [06:39] TR Bot Tale of Web Vitals | Lorbic [06:39] TR News "I spend some of my hobby time doing vulnerability triage on open source projects. As part of that, I see (and filter through) a lot of nonsense." https://blog.yossarian.net/2026/04/11/Brocards-for-vulnerability-triage | Source: Eno Such [06:39] TR Bot Brocards for vulnerability triage [06:40] TR News "Something I've been meaning to write about since November 2024 is how to create an external command for diffing between files with git diff" https://www.jvt.me/posts/2026/04/11/how-git-diff-driver/ | Source: Jamie Tanna [06:40] TR Bot How to build a `git diff` driver Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer [06:40] TR News [Old] "Note that dynamically typed is wholly distinct from un-typed, which is a term used to describe the complete absence of type checking, either statically or dynamically." https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/250817.html | Source: Lewis Campbell [06:40] TR Bot Basic Type System Terminology [06:40] TR News "When talking about Property-Based Testing, we typically talk in very abstract terms." https://alperenkeles.com/posts/what-is-a-property/ | Source: Alperen Keles [06:40] TR Bot What is a property? [06:41] TR News "Test stage: expose n1 users to treatment A and n2 users to treatment B." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/test-roll-why-smaller-a-b-tests-can-make-more-money/ | Source: Rlang [06:41] TR Bot & Roll: Why Smaller A/B Tests Can Make More Money | R-bloggers [06:41] TR News "So this simple one-liner does the job: [...]" https://billauer.se/blog/2026/03/perl-tidy-html/ | Source: Eli Billauer [06:41] TR Bot Perl one-liner for adding newlines to HTML [06:42] TR News "Linklint is a Sphinx extension that suppresses these two kinds of links during the build process." https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202604/linklint | Source: Ned Batchelder [06:42] TR Bot Linklint | Ned Batchelder [06:43] TR News [iophk:] How many 100k in the "IT" sector were laid off last year? "Tech Industry Lays Off Nearly 80,000 Employees in the First Quarter of 2026 (Almost 50% Due to AI)" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/11/0313203 It's already over 80k this year [06:43] TR Bot Tech Industry Lays Off Nearly 80,000 Employees in the First Quarter of 2026 (Almost 50% Due to AI) - SoylentNews [06:43] TR News much higher numbers, but the media is helping companies hide the true scale [06:45] TR News "In a layered Go service" https://rednafi.com/go/error-translation/ | Source: Redowan Delowar [06:45] TR Bot Error translation in Go services | Redowan's Reflections [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] why guess? [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] instead say [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] media fails [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] worse yet, [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] the economy is collapsing [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] companies borrowed too much money [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] bopught companies and hired too much useless people to fill quotas [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] (optics) [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] to justify big bonuses [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] then they said, [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] these layoffs are not a failure [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] they are a success [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] it's "HEY HI REVOLUTION" [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] the media played alongh [06:47] schestowitz[TR3] while also signalling phony numbers, not just disinformation regarding causes [06:48] TR News "While I knew that Unicode has Variation Selectors (VS)" https://cssence.com/2026/font-variant-emoji/ | Source: Matthias Zchling [06:48] TR Bot Variation Selectors - CSSence.com [06:49] TR News Heroes of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.15 is out now | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-15-is-out-now/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/heroes-of-might-and-magic-2-project-fheroes2-version-1-1-15-is-out-now/ [06:49] TR Bot of Might and Magic 2 project fheroes2 version 1.1.15 is out now | GamingOnLinux [06:51] TR News Another phony narrative: this media then blames people who "talk down" the economy (like attacking a practitioner for telling you what the symptoms show, then shattering your morale) and attacking people who slam shady media owned by oligarchs, saying they "attack the press" when they slam plutocrats' propaganda [06:54] TR News Software Patents promoted by Cheeto Regime https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/ptab-inventory-drops-below-2000-for-the-first-time-in-20-years.html [06:54] TR Bot PTAB Inventory Drops Below 2,000 for the First Time in 20 Years | Patently-O [06:55] TR News Bilal Elmoussaoui: goblint: A Linter for GObject C Code https://belmoussaoui.com/blog/23-goblin-linter/ [06:55] TR Bot goblint: A Linter for GObject C Code [06:56] TR News Trials and Trisquelations https://jxself.org/trisquel-12.shtml [06:56] TR Bot Trials and Trisquelations [06:58] TR News Unified Vs Split-panels: experimenting with publishing digital comics on the Fediverse https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1138/unified-vs-split-panels-experimenting-with-publishing-digital-comics-on-the-fediverse [06:58] TR Bot Unified Vs Split-panels: experimenting with publishing digital comics on the Fediverse - David Revoy [06:59] TR News Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits second week of april 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/04/12/misc-fedora-bits-second-week-of-april-2026/ [06:59] TR Bot misc fedora bits second week of april 2026 | Kevin's musings ● Apr 13 [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] random thought [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] a: the economy is goods [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] b: it's money in bank [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] c. it's "pension" SCHEME [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] d. it'sa stock market [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] e. it's in the mind only [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] f. god will rewards you in afterlife [07:21] TR News Anon: Afterall, the economy is about "confidence" rather than hard data. The press and the oligarchs what people to act as if it is e. and d. [07:23] TR News MSM: the oligarchs' wealth is yours to enjoy. Their hoarding is good for the country and, hence, the collective good. You need to cheer for and buy from plutocrats. "Job creators" [07:28] TR News (NEW): Microsoft Windows Measured Below 5% in Lao https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Microsoft_Windows_Measured_Below_5_in_Lao.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Microsoft_Windows_Measured_Below_5_in_Lao.gmi [07:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Microsoft Windows Measured Below 5% in Lao [07:29] TR News iophk: wealth hoarding takes money out of circulation and that destroys the economy since it is the circulation itself which is the economy [07:33] TR News In the coming days Techrights will release some more EPO leaks. The EPO corruption is something which merits exposure alongside human rights violations. [07:33] TR News [iophk] Covers both poverty and environment: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html again, Earth Day is on the 22nd in just over a week [07:33] TR Bot Laudato si' (24 May 2015) [07:44] TR News Techrights SPAM That Mentions "AI" 16 Times (in "Security" Clothing, But Selling Back Doors), a Paid Placement in The Register MS https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/SPAM_That_Mentions_AI_16_Times_in_Security_Clothing_But_Selling.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/SPAM_That_Mentions_AI_16_Times_in_Security_Clothing_But_Selling.gmi [07:44] TR Bot Techrights SPAM That Mentions "AI" 16 Times (in "Security" Clothing, But Selling Back Doors), a Paid Placement in The Register MS [07:47] TR News South Koreas telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/south-koreas-three-major-carriers-introduce-400-kbps-data-for-all [07:47] TR Bot South Koreas telecom giants surprise 7 million users with unlimited, universal internet net access declared a 'basic telecommunications right,' 400 Kbps data after monthly plans run out | Tom's Hardware [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] Re: Three articles by Daniel Pocock on April 1 [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > Daniel Pocock posted three blog articles on April 1. [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > One may be an April 1st prank. [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > The other two look serious (but I can't tell for sure). [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > This article discusses an important issue: [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > Losing Debian: Sruthi Chandran election flop [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] > https://danielpocock.com/en/losing-debian-sruthi-chandran-election-flop/ [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] I think results will be known next Monday. Maybe earlier. [07:48] TR Bot Losing Debian: Sruthi Chandran election flop [07:55] TR News HRW condemns Georgia expulsion of Azerbaijan journalist amid persecution risk https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/hrw-condemns-georgia-expulsion-of-azerbaijan-journalist-amid-persecution-risk/ [07:55] TR Bot HRW condemns Georgia expulsion of Azerbaijan journalist amid persecution risk - JURIST - News [07:57] TR News (NEW): Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Three_Months_After_Georgia_Tech_Stallman_Heads_to_UT_Austin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Three_Months_After_Georgia_Tech_Stallman_Heads_to_UT_Austin.gmi [07:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin ● Apr 13 [08:00] IsambardPrince https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/13/microsoft-shuts-down-outlook-app-for-android-users-in-6-weeks/ [08:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/13/microsoft-shuts-down-outlook-app-for-android-users-in-6-weeks/ ) [08:00] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: ^ [08:01] IsambardPrince No more Outlook Lite. :P [08:04] TR News (NEW): A week in Graz: KDE MegaSprint and Grazer Linuxtage https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/A_week_in_Graz_KDE_MegaSprint_and_Grazer_Linuxtage.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/A_week_in_Graz_KDE_MegaSprint_and_Grazer_Linuxtage.gmi [08:04] TR Bot Tux Machines A week in Graz: KDE MegaSprint and Grazer Linuxtage [08:04] IsambardPrince https://www.seamonkey-project.org/ [08:04] TR Bot The SeaMonkey Project [08:04] IsambardPrince " We are aware of numerous websites breaking because of only supporting the latest Chrome or Firefox versions. We are trying to address this and progress has been made in a different source code branch but the code is not ready for general distribution yet. " [08:04] IsambardPrince Yeah, they should have used Goanna from Pale Moon. 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LinuxLinks [14:04] TR News 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux TUI Typing Tutors https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-linux-tui-typing-tutors/ [14:04] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux TUI Typing Tutors - LinuxLinks [14:05] TR News Linux 7.0 enables three new AI-specific keys for keyboards, an apparent expansion beyond the Copilot key Surveillance Giant Google authors both the HID spec and the kernel patch https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-7-0-adds-three-new-ai-agent-keycodes-for-upcoming-laptops [14:05] TR Bot Linux 7.0 enables three new AI-specific keys for keyboards, an apparent expansion beyond the Copilot key Google authors both the HID spec and the kernel patch | Tom's Hardware [14:06] TR News 8GB GPUs https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/valve-engineer-shocks-linux-community-with-game-changing-vram-hack-for-8gb-gpus-breakthrough-solution-turbocharges-gaming-by-prioritizing-vram-for-games-while-background-tasks-take-a-back-seat [14:06] TR Bot Valve engineer shocks Linux community with game-changing VRAM hack for 8GB GPUs breakthrough solution turbocharges gaming by prioritizing VRAM for games while background tasks take a back seat | Tom's Hardware [14:07] TR News 10 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Typing Tutors https://www.linuxlinks.com/typingtutors/ [14:07] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Typing Tutors - LinuxLinks [14:07] TR News Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cal https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-cal/ [14:07] TR Bot to popular CLI tools: cal - LinuxLinks [14:08] TR News 12 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux GUI Clocks https://www.linuxlinks.com/clocks/ [14:08] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux GUI Clocks - LinuxLinks [14:09] TR News Linux 7.0: faster swap, defective chip maker Intel TSX & Rock Band 4 controller support https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/linux-7-0-kernel-features [14:09] TR Bot Linux 7.0: faster swap, Intel TSX & Rock Band 4 guitar support [14:09] Sompi Another data center to Lappeenranta, this time 80 megawatts https://yle.fi/a/74-20220286 [14:09] TR Bot Ranskalaisyhti haluaa rakentaa datakeskuksen Lappeenrannan Yllikkln | Etel-Karjala | Yle [14:10] TR News France Picks GNU/Linux to Replace backdoored Windows Across Government Ministries https://www.ghacks.net/2026/04/12/france-picks-linux-to-replace-windows-across-government-ministries/ [14:10] TR Bot France Picks Linux to Replace Windows Across Government Ministries - gHacks Tech News [14:11] TR News Linux Kernel 7.0 is Out With Improvements Across the Board for Intel, AMD, and Storage https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-kernel-7-0-release/ [14:11] TR Bot Linux Kernel 7.0 is Out With Improvements Across the Board for Intel, AMD, and Storage [14:12] Sompi apparently that same French firm also already owns power grid battery banks in that area... so basically they are buying electricity when it is cheap, and selling it when it isn't. And the citizens of Finland pay for all that, while the money goes to abroads [14:13] TR News How to Take Screenshots in Linux Mint [Beginner's Tip] https://itsfoss.com/take-screenshots-linux-mint/ [14:13] TR Bot How to Take Screenshots in Linux Mint [Beginner's Tip] [14:13] TR News The Rise of Immutable Linux: Mastering NixOS and Atomic Updates https://www.fosslinux.com/154635/mastering-nixos-immutable-linux.htm [14:13] TR Bot The Rise of Immutable Linux: Mastering NixOS and Atomic Updates (2026 Mega-Guide) [14:14] TR News Openwashed BS generator https://www.fosslinux.com/154629/mastering-local-ai-ollama-ubuntu.htm [14:14] TR Bot Mastering Local AI: Deploying Ollama on Ubuntu (2026 Mega-Guide) [14:21] TR News Theres a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups https://futurism.com/science-energy/nuclear-startups-safety [14:21] TR Bot There's a Glaring Safety Problem With Nuclear Energy Startups [14:23] TR News Rejected by Dozens of Emergency Rooms: South Koreas Medical Crisis 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#HowTo Install Linux Kernel 7.0 on Ubuntu 25.10 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_7_0_on_Ubuntu_25_10.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/How_to_Install_Linux_Kernel_7_0_on_Ubuntu_25_10.gmi [14:39] TR Bot Tux Machines How to Install Linux Kernel 7.0 on Ubuntu 25.10 [14:40] TR News Create a Self-Hosted, Generative Hey Hi (AI) Chatbot with Raspberry PI, Streamlit, LangChain, and Ollama https://peppe8o.com/ai-chatbot-raspberry-pi/ [14:40] TR Bot Create a Self-Hosted, Generative AI Chatbot with Raspberry PI, Streamlit, LangChain, and Ollama [14:41] TR News Middle East war takes a bite out of Filipino street food vendors https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/mideast-war-takes-a-bite-out-of-filipino-street-food-vendors [14:41] TR Bot Middle East war takes a bite out of Filipino street food vendors | The Straits Times [14:42] TR News Veteran Abusive Monopolist Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/veteran-microsoft-engineer-says-original-task-manager-was-only-80kb-so-it-could-run-smoothly-on-90s-computers-original-utility-used-a-smart-technique-to-determine-whether-it-was-the-only-running-instance [14:42] TR Bot Veteran Microsoft engineer says original Task Manager was only 80KB so it could run smoothly on 90s computers original utility used a smart technique to determine whether it was the only running instance | Tom's Hardware [14:45] TR News https://futurism.com/feed Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:01:00 -0400 Surveillance Giant Google Says Showing Polymarket Bets on Surveillance Giant Google News Was a Mistake [14:46] TR News Google Says Showing Polymarket Bets on Surveillance Giant Google News Was a Mistake https://futurism.com/future-society/google-news-polymarket [14:46] TR Bot Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets Instead of Actual Journalism [14:46] TR News Hong Kong coming-of-age documentary pulled from Italy film festival amid privacy row https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/13/hong-kong-coming-of-age-documentary-pulled-from-italy-film-festival-amid-privacy-row/ [14:46] TR Bot HK coming-of-age doc pulled from Italy film festival amid privacy row [14:59] TR News At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/At_Least_23_Days_of_EPO_Strikes.shtml [14:59] TR Bot Techrights At Least 23 Days of EPO Strikes ● Apr 13 [15:12] TR News The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/11/The_Central_Staff_Committee_of_the_EPO_Explains_Late_March_Meet.shtml [15:12] TR Bot Techrights The Central Staff Committee of the EPO Explains Late March Meetings Coinciding With Commencement of the Non-Stop Strikes at Europe's Second-Largest Institution [15:12] TR News EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/12/EPO_on_Strike_This_Past_Friday_All_Major_Sites_Massive_Strike_C.shtml [15:12] TR Bot Techrights EPO on Strike This Past Friday (All Major Sites), Massive Strike Continues Tomorrow [15:20] TR News Colin Watson: Free software activity in March2026 https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~cjwatson/blog/activity-2026-03.html [15:20] TR Bot Free software activity in March2026 | Colin Watson's blog [15:22] TR News UmbrelOS A Debian-based personal home cloud OS with a slick user interface https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/12/umbrelos-a-debian-based-personal-home-cloud-os-with-a-slick-user-interface/ [15:22] TR Bot UmbrelOS - A Debian-based personal home cloud OS with a slick user interface - CNX Software [15:23] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: littler 0.3.23 on CRAN: Mostly Internal Fixes http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/12#littler_0.3.23 [15:23] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [15:24] TR News Thats a Skill Issue https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/skill-issue/ [15:24] TR Bot Thats a Skill Issue - Jim Nielsens Blog [15:25] TR News GDM Extension Another Way to Change GNOME Login Screen Background & Other Settings https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/gdm-extension-change-gnome-login-background/ [15:25] TR Bot GDM Extension Another Way to Change GNOME Login Screen Background & Other Settings | UbuntuHandbook [15:26] TR News Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mainline-video-capture-and-camera-support-for-rockchip-rk3588.html [15:26] TR Bot Mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588 [15:36] admfubar from the "I dont want to interact with my peons" dept.... https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/meta-spins-up-ai-version-of-mark-zuckerberg-to-engage-with-employees/ [15:36] TR Bot Meta spins up AI version of Mark Zuckerberg to engage with employees - Ars Technica [15:39] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facial-recognition-ai-reno [15:41] TR News The 7.0 kernel has been released https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/ [15:41] TR Bot 7.0 kernel has been released [LWN.net] [15:43] TR News Managing and monitoring Podman Quadlet in the Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux web console https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/13/managing-and-monitoring-podman-quadlet-red-hat-enterprise-linux-web-console [15:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/13/managing-and-monitoring-podman-quadlet-red-hat-enterprise-linux-web-console ) [15:46] TR News Kernel 6.12.81 with CONFIG_USB4 https://bkhome.org/news/202604/kernel-61281-with-configusb4.html [15:46] TR Bot Kernel 6.12.81 with CONFIG_USB4 [15:46] TR News Pre-install script in PET packages https://bkhome.org/news/202604/pre-install-script-in-pet-packages.html [15:46] TR Bot Pre-install script in PET packages [15:48] TR News Quick Lofi a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/quick-lofi-beats-gnome-extension [15:48] TR Bot Quick Lofi a GNOME extension for chill beats to study to - OMG! Ubuntu [15:51] TR News Vasudev Kamath: Hardening the Unpacakgeable: A systemd-run Sandbox for Third-Party Binaries https://copyninja.in/blog/safe-run-binary-sandbox.html [15:51] TR Bot Hardening the Unpacakgeable: A systemd-run Sandbox for Third-Party Binaries [15:54] *whytek has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Apr 13 [16:03] TR News How to Set Up Samba File Sharing on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-set-up-samba-file-sharing-on-ubuntu-26-04 [16:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-set-up-samba-file-sharing-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [16:04] TR News How To Install SuiteCRM on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-suitecrm-almalinux-10/ [16:04] TR Bot How To Install SuiteCRM on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [16:04] TR News How To Install Kontact on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-kontact-ubuntu-24-04/ [16:04] TR Bot How To Install Kontact on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [16:04] TR News How To Install Little Snitch on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-little-snitch-ubuntu-24-04/ [16:04] TR Bot How To Install Little Snitch on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [16:05] TR News How To Install RainLoop Webmail on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-rainloop-webmail-fedora-43/ [16:05] TR Bot How To Install RainLoop Webmail on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:05] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:05] TR News How To Install Clownflare Tunnel on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-cloudflare-tunnel-fedora-43/ [16:05] TR Bot How To Install Cloudflare Tunnel on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:09] TR News 'Undeterred: Hungarian investigative journalist faces threats and espionage accusations from Orbn https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260412-undeterred-hungarian-investigative-journalist-faces-threats-and-espionage-accusations-from-orb%C3%A1n [16:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/spotlight/20260412-undeterred-hungarian-investigative-journalist-faces-threats-and-espionage-accusations-from-orb%C3%A1n ) [16:14] TR News The Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Diet | LINUX Unplugged 662 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/662/ [16:14] TR Bot The GitHub Diet | LINUX Unplugged 662 | Jupiter Broadcasting [16:15] TR News Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin https://fossforce.com/2026/04/three-months-after-georgia-tech-stallman-heads-to-ut-austin/ [16:15] TR Bot Three Months After Georgia Tech, Stallman Heads to UT Austin - FOSS Force [16:16] TR News CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine https://futurism.com/health-medicine/covid-vaccine-cdc-report [16:16] TR Bot CDC Caught Burying Report on Real Effects of COVID Vaccine [16:21] TR News Slop [16:22] TR News Slop is not "AI" https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-kernel-now-allows-ai-written-code/ [16:22] TR Bot The Linux kernel now allows AI-written code, but you're on the hook for it [16:22] TR News This immutable Linux solved my biggest technical frustrations https://www.howtogeek.com/i-spent-a-week-using-an-immutable-linux-distro-and-it-solved-most-of-my-technical-headaches/ [16:22] TR Bot This immutable Linux solved my biggest technical frustrations [16:24] TR News Classic Capcom horror games are now playable on Linux's Protonhere's how to try them early https://www.xda-developers.com/classic-capcom-horror-games-are-now-playable-on-linuxs-protonheres-how-to-try-it-early/ [16:24] TR Bot Classic Capcom horror games are now playable on Linux's Protonhere's how to try them early [16:25] TR News France says au revoir to Windows, bonjour to Linux https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/france-says-au-revoir-to-windows-bonjour-to-linux/ [16:25] TR Bot France says au revoir to Windows, bonjour to Linux - Digital Trends [16:26] admfubar what could go wrong there? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/facial-recognition-ai-reno [16:26] TR Bot Man Suing City After AI Camera Flags Him For Wrongful Arrest [16:27] TR News France Picks Linux to Replace Windows Across Government Ministries https://www.ghacks.net/2026/04/12/france-picks-linux-to-replace-windows-across-government-ministries/ [16:27] TR Bot France Picks Linux to Replace Windows Across Government Ministries - gHacks Tech News [16:27] TR News Browser-first on Linux beats Chromebook because you can actually fix what breaks https://www.makeuseof.com/i-used-linux-like-a-chromebook-and-outshone-it/ [16:27] TR Bot Browser-first on Linux beats Chromebook because you can actually fix what breaks [16:28] TR News How Frances shift from Windows to Linux reflects broader push for digital sovereignty https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/france-shift-windows-linux-reflects-digital-sovereignty-push-10632508/ [16:28] TR Bot How Frances shift from Windows to Linux reflects broader push for digital sovereignty | Technology News - The Indian Express [16:29] TR News 7 everyday devices that secretly run Linux https://www.howtogeek.com/everyday-devices-that-secretly-run-linux/ [16:29] TR Bot 7 everyday devices that secretly run Linux [16:30] TR News "Supports installation of packages from AUR and Flathub, FlatpakRef, AppImage, and local source files." https://9to5linux.com/first-look-at-shelly-a-modern-graphical-package-manager-for-arch-linux [16:30] TR Bot Look at Shelly, a Modern Graphical Package Manager for Arch Linux - 9to5Linux [16:30] TR News "France plans to phase out Windows across government systems, shifting to EU-built tech to cut reliance on US vendors and boost digital sovereignty." https://www.neowin.net/news/frances-ditches-windows-in-favor-of-linux/ [16:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/frances-ditches-windows-in-favor-of-linux/ ) [16:31] TR News "The Linux kernel has strict rules for AI-assisted code, enforcing human oversight, attribution, and licensing compliance." https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-kernel-allows-ai-assisted-code-as-long-as-you-follow-these-rules/ [16:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-kernel-allows-ai-assisted-code-as-long-as-you-follow-these-rules/ ) [16:32] TR News "This release is based on the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series." https://9to5linux.com/trisquel-gnu-linux-12-0-lts-released-with-gnu-linux-libre-6-8-kernel-mate-1-26 [16:32] TR Bot GNU/Linux 12.0 LTS Released with GNU Linux-Libre 6.8 Kernel, MATE 1.26 - 9to5Linux [16:32] TR News I found a Linux command that shows exactly which app is eating my disk I/O in real time https://www.makeuseof.com/found-linux-command-shows-exactly-which-app-eating-disk-io-real-time/ [16:32] TR Bot I found a Linux command that shows exactly which app is eating my disk I/O in real time [16:33] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/12/college-graduates-job-market-ai [16:33] TR Bot I feel helpless: college graduates cant find entry-level roles in shrinking market amid rise of AI | US news | The Guardian [16:34] TR News PocketTerm35-Pi5 Handheld Linux Terminal with Raspberry Pi 5 and 3.5 Display https://linuxgizmos.com/pocketterm35-pi5-handheld-linux-terminal-with-raspberry-pi-5-and-3-5-display/ [16:34] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/pocketterm35-pi5-handheld-linux-terminal-with-raspberry-pi-5-and-3-5-display/ ) [16:36] TR News (NEW): Linux Kernel Plays Ball With Slop After Slop Pushers Pay Millions to 'Linux' Foundation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Linux_Kernel_Plays_Ball_With_Slop_After_Slop_Pushers_Pay_Millio.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Linux_Kernel_Plays_Ball_With_Slop_After_Slop_Pushers_Pay_Millio.gmi [16:36] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/today_s_howtos.gmi [16:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Kernel Plays Ball With Slop After Slop Pushers Pay Millions to 'Linux' Foundation [16:36] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [16:38] admfubar fruit users!... :))https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/12/apple-icloud-storage-scam-emails [16:38] TR Bot Your photos will be deleted: Apple users warned over nasty iCloud storage scam | Scams | The Guardian [16:38] TR News (NEW): Games: fheroes2 and Capcom horror games https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Games_fheroes2_and_Capcom_horror_games.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Games_fheroes2_and_Capcom_horror_games.gmi [16:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: fheroes2 and Capcom horror games [16:40] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers/Web Servers: RSS, New Blogs, and Load Balancing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_RSS_New_Blogs_and_Load_Balancing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Web_Browsers_Web_Servers_RSS_New_Blogs_and_Load_Balancing.gmi [16:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers/Web Servers: RSS, New Blogs, and Load Balancing [16:41] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, Eleventy Etc. https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_WordP.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_WordP.gmi [16:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG): WordPress, Grav, Jekyll, Kirby, Eleventy Etc. [16:43] TR News (NEW): Debian Developers' Reports and UmbrelOS (Based on Debian) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Debian_Developers_Reports_and_UmbrelOS_Based_on_Debian.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Debian_Developers_Reports_and_UmbrelOS_Based_on_Debian.gmi [16:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian Developers' Reports and UmbrelOS (Based on Debian) [16:45] TR News (NEW): EasyOS: Kernel 6.12.81 with CONFIG_USB4 and pre-install script in PET packages https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/EasyOS_Kernel_6_12_81_with_CONFIG_USB4_and_pre_install_script_i.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/EasyOS_Kernel_6_12_81_with_CONFIG_USB4_and_pre_install_script_i.gmi [16:45] TR Bot Tux Machines EasyOS: Kernel 6.12.81 with CONFIG_USB4 and pre-install script in PET packages [16:48] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [16:48] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [16:48] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [16:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [16:51] admfubar https://thedebrief.org/new-measurement-deepens-the-mystery-of-hubble-tension-suggesting-physics-we-dont-understand/ [16:51] TR Bot New Measurement Deepens the Mystery of "Hubble Tension," Suggesting Physics We Dont Understand - The Debrief [16:51] TR News (NEW): Ursa - a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Ursa_a_new_Iceberg_first_storage_engine_for_Kafka.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Ursa_a_new_Iceberg_first_storage_engine_for_Kafka.gmi [16:51] TR Bot Tux Machines Ursa - a new Iceberg-first storage engine for Kafka [16:52] admfubar bet they have "ai" doing this... what could go wrong?... https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/12/x-says-its-reducing-payments-to-clickbait-accounts/ [16:52] TR Bot says its reducing payments to clickbait accounts | TechCrunch [16:54] TR News Techrights Links 13/04/2026: Higher Costs Hurt Both Rich and Poor Country, a "Landslide Win to Oust Orban" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Links_13_04_2026_Higher_Costs_Hurt_Both_Rich_and_Poor_Country_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Links_13_04_2026_Higher_Costs_Hurt_Both_Rich_and_Poor_Country_a.gmi [16:54] TR Bot Techrights Links 13/04/2026: Higher Costs Hurt Both Rich and Poor Country, a "Landslide Win to Oust Orban" [16:58] TR News "Wellllp. Woke up kinda late. Slept a really long time. I was sposed to go to my Mormor's with my brother to do some garden work or whatever she needed but ... yeah. Sorry. I like... just did not have the spoons to exist with other people." gemini://ieve.me/squall/17.gmi ● Apr 13 [17:00] TR News "You walk into a convenience store. A camera above the door captures your face. Software matches it against a database in 0.3 seconds. Your name, address, purchase history, and known associates populate a screen in a room you will never see." gemini://gemini.txid.uk/news/post/your-face-is-now-a-search-query.gmi [17:01] TR News comics/022 - NewSecuritySystem gemini://kodaro.it/msf/comics/022.NewSecuritySystem.webp [17:02] TR News "Common advice for a continually running toilet fill valve is to dismantle the valve and check for debris. I didn't find any, but the black 32mm rubber washer inside was leaving black residue, which I now suspect was indicative of failure." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/13/torbeck/ [17:03] TR News "A simple 256256 map already shows this. Access in one direction is much faster than in the other. Sequential reads follow the layout and stay in cache. The other direction effectively jumps with a stride of 256 bytes. The difference is large, close to a factor of two." gemini://geopeedees.org/~enthusi/blog/voxel_2026-04-13.gmi [17:04] TR News "@gritty mentions that this new instance replicates posts from my new instance at ucant.org, which is kind." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2026-04-13_re-announcing-satellite-antenna-sa.gmi [17:05] TR News "I, sometime use C as a glue language for processing lots of data, because it is very fast, however, I can't remember what gcc flags I use from the last time I compiled it. Sure, I can write it in the source, but that require extra step to copy it to the shell (I'm too lazy for that)." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-04-13_c_as_script.gmi [17:06] TR News "Yeah. But above all, were arguing against it because of how it has an incredibly disproportionate energy cost and climate impact for its benefits. We hate it because it wrecks the planet. The more people use it in the real world, the worse off we all are." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/bitcoin-hormuz [17:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [17:06] TR News "i decided on two decks a month and tried to pair up the decks in such a way that each month has at least one comfortable/familiar reading style (RWS or TdM) in addition to any "experimental" decks (decks that don't really follow one particular school or use the picard system i'm not too familiar with), and so that they don't "double up"." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/contenders [17:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:07] TR News Pronouns for an LLM gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/10/it/ [17:08] TR News "The EU's Chat Control law is pushing Signal to exit Europe. But Signal is a company with servers, employees, and a jurisdiction. Nostr is a protocol with none of those things. You can't regulate what you can't find." gemini://gemini.txid.uk/news/post/signal-might-leave-europe-nostr-cant.gmi [17:09] TR News "Iran is demanding Bitcoin payment from oil tankers transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The world's most critical energy chokepoint is now a live proof-of-concept for censorship-resistant money." gemini://gemini.txid.uk/news/post/iran-hormuz-bitcoin-toll.gmi [17:10] TR News "The Western Bitcoin narrative runs on a predictable loop. ETF flows. Fed policy. MicroStrategy purchases. Institutional adoption. The conversation is almost entirely about what rich countries do with Bitcoin as an investment vehicle" gemini://gemini.txid.uk/news/post/bitcoin-africa-western-media-wont-tell-you.gmi [17:15] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Pronouns for an LLM, Fakecoins Promotion Piggybacking Iran, "Your Face is Now a Search Query" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Gemini_Links_13_04_2026_Pronouns_for_an_LLM_Fakecoins_Promotion.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Gemini_Links_13_04_2026_Pronouns_for_an_LLM_Fakecoins_Promotion.gmi [17:15] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 13/04/2026: Pronouns for an LLM, Fakecoins Promotion Piggybacking Iran, "Your Face is Now a Search Query" [17:17] TR News XBox is SLOP now https://happygamer.com/xbox-activision-layoffs-gaming-community-divided-147581/ https://x.com/MiniMinxGuy/status/2042988428841615853 [17:17] TR Bot Gaming Community Divided Over Xbox and Activision Job Cuts | Happy Gamer [17:17] TR Bot NO TITLE [17:19] admfubar https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/04/12/1728224/botched-it-upgrade-ended-liquor-sales-for-the-entire-state-of-mississippi [17:19] TR Bot Botched IT Upgrade Ended Liquor Sales for the Entire State of Mississippi - Slashdot [17:31] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-hiring-humans-silicon-valley-ai.html [17:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-hiring-humans-silicon-valley-ai.html ) [17:55] *Goblin (~use@g5mtr4e86tp7q.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 13 [18:12] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 45 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Cases Inherently the Same, Their Legal Team Can Barely Even Distinguish (Full Timeline) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_45_Out_of_200_Garrett_and_Graveley_Cases_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_45_Out_of_200_Garrett_and_Graveley_Cases_.gmi [18:12] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 45 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Cases Inherently the Same, Their Legal Team Can Barely Even Distinguish (Full Timeline) [18:17] TR News Microsoft does poorly in Belgium https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belgium/#monthly-200902-202604 [18:17] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Belgium | Statcounter Global Stats [18:18] TR News Microsoft search down in USA https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share/all/united-states-of-america/#monthly-200902-202604 [18:18] TR Bot Search Engine Market Share United States Of America | Statcounter Global Stats [18:19] *whytek (~whytek@freenode-usp.jmq.cdhtf4.IP) has joined #techrights [18:24] TR News Techrights Microsoft Windows "Market Share" in USA Down to 40% According to Government Sites or 31% Overall https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Microsoft_Windows_Market_Share_in_USA_Down_to_40_According_to_G.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/Microsoft_Windows_Market_Share_in_USA_Down_to_40_According_to_G.gmi [18:24] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Windows "Market Share" in USA Down to 40% According to Government Sites or 31% Overall [18:25] TR News (NEW): I tested Artix Linux: An enjoyable systemd-free distro for experienced users (and ChromeOS speeds) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/I_tested_Artix_Linux_An_enjoyable_systemd_free_distro_for_exper.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/I_tested_Artix_Linux_An_enjoyable_systemd_free_distro_for_exper.gmi [18:25] TR Bot Tux Machines I tested Artix Linux: An enjoyable systemd-free distro for experienced users (and ChromeOS speeds) [18:30] Goblin Just tried to drop in on Comp.os.linux.advocacy to see what was going on.....Google groups appears to have been closed as of 2024. [18:30] TR News Former Bethesda PR lead was not happy with Microsoft merger https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/former-bethesda-pr-lead-was-not-happy-with-microsoft-merger/ [18:30] TR Bot Former Bethesda PR lead was not happy with Microsoft merger | KitGuru [18:37] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi [18:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations [18:51] admfubar https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/11/obvious-terrible-ideas/ [18:51] TR Bot Pluralistic: Dont Be Evil (11 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [18:52] schestowitz[TR3] Goblin: all of Google Groups? [18:52] schestowitz[TR3] or just USENET? [18:52] schestowitz[TR3] https://groups.google.com/g/linux.debian.project/search?q=dear%20andreas [18:52] TR Bot Search Conversations [18:55] TR News (NEW): These 7 Fedora cleanup commands freed up more space than I expected https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/These_7_Fedora_cleanup_commands_freed_up_more_space_than_I_expe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/These_7_Fedora_cleanup_commands_freed_up_more_space_than_I_expe.gmi [18:55] TR Bot Tux Machines These 7 Fedora cleanup commands freed up more space than I expected [18:57] TR News Keep out of employment issues, solicitors tell SRA https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/keep-out-of-employment-issues-solicitors-tell-sra [18:57] TR Bot Keep out of employment issues, solicitors tell SRA - Legal Futures [18:58] TR News Birmingham solicitors tell SRA to stop policing bullying and sexual misconduct https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/birmingham-solicitors-tell-sra-to-stop-policing-bullying-and-sexual-misconduct/5126461.article [18:58] TR Bot Birmingham Law Society warns SRA against acting as 'supplementary employment tribunal' in bullying and sexual misconduct cases | Law Gazette [18:59] TR News "68,000 fine imposed by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for anti-money laundering (AML) failures" https://www.legalfutures.co.uk/latest-news/law-firm-fails-in-appeal-against-68k-fine-for-aml-failures [18:59] TR Bot Law firm fails in appeal against 68k fine for AML failures - Legal Futures [18:59] TR News On IBM: "Oh boy doesnt Arvind have some goal to hit some stock price? Someone should tell him he is going in wrong direction" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies [18:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knv96t8q#replies ) ● Apr 13 [19:00] TR News "Gerstner stole over $400,000,000+. Palmisano juiced his to over $270,000,000. Rometti over $140,000,000. They know no shame. IBM BOD board of directors are THE WORST in the history of corporate America." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp097qw9#replies [19:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp097qw9#replies ) [19:01] TR News "ibm got cheapened or hollowed out like nike like intel like microsoft" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp097qw9#replies [19:01] TR News "how long to Arvind bails? Robbing us blind as he drives off into sunset" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp097qw9#replies [19:01] TR News "IBM is about as exciting as Macy's and headed to the same dump as KMart etc. It's stock yield is a pathetic 2.8% which is a joke and below what you can get in a boring money market account. Low to fund lavish IBM exec pay plans for nothing burger performance." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp097qw9#replies [19:02] TR News "Well, its uncanny ability is called lying. And so long as the top management continues to cook the books, investors will continue to fall for the scam. While they pocket millions. Is this current stock price dip related the recent racism DEI lawsuit ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knxp7q7g [19:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knxp7q7g ) [19:09] Goblin yes. [19:18] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [19:23] *ewig (~ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [19:27] TR News Techrights IBM Agrees With Microsoft That Slop is Just for "Entertainment" and "at Your Own Risk" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/IBM_Agrees_With_Microsoft_That_Slop_is_Just_for_Entertainment_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/13/IBM_Agrees_With_Microsoft_That_Slop_is_Just_for_Entertainment_a.gmi [19:27] TR Bot Techrights IBM Agrees With Microsoft That Slop is Just for "Entertainment" and "at Your Own Risk" [19:32] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/13/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi [19:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [19:47] TR News Windows was 97%. Now? What a joke. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/malawi/#monthly-200902-202604 [19:47] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Malawi | Statcounter Global Stats [19:50] TR News ING's sale of Russian operations falls through; Kremlin won't approve https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/07/ings-sale-russian-operations-falls-kremlin-wont-approve [19:50] TR Bot ING's sale of Russian operations falls through; Kremlin won't approve | NL Times [19:51] TR News Russians hijacking routers for cyber spying https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-exposes-russian-router-hijacking-for-cyber-spying/ [19:51] TR Bot UK exposes Russian router hijacking for cyber spying [19:51] TR News 'extremist' https://www.dw.com/en/russia-labels-human-rights-group-memorial-extremist/a-76726398 [19:51] TR Bot Russia labels human rights group Memorial 'extremist' [19:52] TR News Undersea Cables in the North Atlantic https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/uk-defence-secretary-russian-submarine-surveillance-1791209 [19:52] TR Bot Britain Reveals Russia Used the Iran War as Cover to Send Spy Submarines After Undersea Cables in the North Atlantic | IBTimes UK [19:52] TR News Extremist https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/10/russia-memorial-rights-group-declared-extremist [19:52] TR Bot Russia: Memorial Rights Group Declared Extremist | Human Rights Watch [19:52] TR News 'Propaganda' https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/10/belarus-imports-russias-propaganda-playbook [19:52] TR Bot Belarus Imports Russias 'Propaganda' Playbook | Human Rights Watch [19:53] TR News NGO labeled 'extremist' https://www.dw.com/en/russian-memorial-human-rights-ngo-labeled-extremist/a-76748467 [19:53] TR Bot Russian Memorial human rights NGO labeled 'extremist' [19:57] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Apr 13 [20:02] liberty_box https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c995j57xepmo [20:02] TR Bot US judge dismisses Trump defamation suit against Wall Street Journal - BBC News [20:15] MinceR https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/319-removal-of-this-ps2-controller-will-require-a-licensed-obgyn/ [20:15] TR Bot Daily Victim Archive [20:30] TR News Lightning ttps://xkcd.com/3231/ [20:30] TR News Overton https://xkcd.com/3230/ [20:30] TR Bot Overton [20:30] TR News Grammar https://xkcd.com/3229/ [20:30] TR Bot Grammar [20:31] TR News Rise of TikTok-driven tourism strains locals in Amsterdams Negen Straatjes https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/07/rise-tiktok-driven-tourism-strains-locals-amsterdams-negen-straatjes [20:31] TR Bot Rise of TikTok-driven tourism strains locals in Amsterdams Negen Straatjes | NL Times [20:33] TR News Sudan: Arbitrary Detention by Army, Security Forces https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/04/07/sudan-arbitrary-detention-by-army-security-forces [20:33] TR Bot Sudan: Arbitrary Detention by Army, Security Forces | Human Rights Watch [20:34] TR News Madras High Court Dismisses Plea By Cyber Security Expert Seeking Probe Into Star Health Security Lapses https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/madras-high-court/madras-high-court-star-health-data-breach-security-lapse-probe-plea-dismissed-529669 [20:34] TR Bot Star Health Data Breach | Madras High Court Dismisses Plea By Cyber Security Expert Seeking Probe Into Security Lapses [20:35] TR News copyright https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-blue-jays-bj-birdy-mascot-copyright-9.7158464 [20:35] TR Bot BJ Birdy is back with the Blue Jays. That's news to its creator | CBC News [20:48] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) ● Apr 13 [21:13] *ewig has quit (Ping timeout: 245 seconds) [21:34] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [21:48] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 13 [22:00] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:02] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techrights [22:02] *irc.techrights.org gives channel operator status to MinceR [22:18] *bleb has quit (Ping timeout: 248 seconds) [22:29] *bleb (~cm@user/bleb) has joined #techrights [22:47] Goblin France's minister of public action and accounts, said in a strongly worded statement: "The State can no longer simply acknowledge its dependence; it must break free. We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny." - https://www.zdnet.com/article/france-leaves-windows-for-linux-desktop/ [22:47] TR Bot is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack | ZDNET ● Apr 13 [23:50] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [23:52] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techrights [23:52] *irc.techrights.org gives channel operator status to MinceR