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● May 13
[00:01]	IsambardPrince	0.9 kilos I think.
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, so if I buy 40 pound boxes of cat litter and said "Jesus, this thing must weight 20 kilos!" I'd be about right.
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	More like 18.
[00:03]	IsambardPrince	*weigh
[00:04]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-jumps-1100-points-sp-500-and-nasdaq-surge-after-us-china-tariff-rollback-triggers-buying-spree-200036073.html
[00:04]	TR Bot	 Stock market today: Dow jumps 1,100 points, S&P 500 and Nasdaq surge after US-China tariff rollback triggers buying spree
[00:05]	IsambardPrince	Stocks "soar" to about where they were when Biden left office, on news that Walmart can hurry up and panic buy and "kill whoever you have to, I don't care...just make sure it's in the port within 90 days!"
[00:05]	IsambardPrince	Gee, these people are sure dumb.
[00:06]	IsambardPrince	It wouldn't be fair to say the economy was great under Biden, but it was a damned sight better than it is now.
[00:07]	IsambardPrince	https://old.reddit.com/r/amex/comments/1kkwy26/amex_just_cancelled_both_my_two_cards/
[00:07]	TR Bot	 Amex just cancelled both my two cards : amex
[00:07]	IsambardPrince	AmEx bloodbath continues.
[00:08]	IsambardPrince	I've heard a lot of people say they've had AmEx cards since the 80s or 90s or 2000s and always paid their bills and now AmEx is canceling their cards. The bank is jittery even on customers that don't show any clear signs of being in distress. Bracing for the Baka-in-Chief to finish fucking up our economy I suppose.
[00:08]	IsambardPrince	I asked Google what the difference between Baka and Aho was, since the Japanese have two ways of calling someone an idiot.
[00:08]	IsambardPrince	It says Aho is the less offensive one.
[00:09]	IsambardPrince	I was like "They have a less offensive way of calling someone an idiot?"
[00:11]	MinceR	yes, as in english
[00:11]	MinceR	wiktionary says aho means "fool"
[00:11]	MinceR	s/aho/ahou/
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[00:27]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, My neighbors know some Japanese then.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	Why just the other day he was in there shouting...
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	"YOU IS AHO!!!! YOU IS AHO!!!!"
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	;)
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	He was demanding to go through her text messages though.
[00:27]	IsambardPrince	I wonder what that was about. :D
[00:28]	IsambardPrince	A ho, aho, either way he was right about her.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	She has an awful voice.
[00:29]	IsambardPrince	She sounds like something from Army of Darkness. "I'll swallow your soul!!!"
[00:30]	IsambardPrince	Really you can just watch Evil Dead 2. It's basically a retelling of the first movie only much better done, and Army of Darkness picks up right where it leaves off.
[00:31]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Someone's in my fruit cellar! Someone with a fresh souuuuuul! That's right, come to sweet Henrietta!"
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/house-gop-reveals-trumps-tax-211431138.html
[00:36]	TR Bot	 House GOP reveals Trump's tax breaks for tips, overtime and car loans, but costs run high
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Hmm, steals $3600 a year from me with tariffs.
[00:36]	IsambardPrince	Gives me $200 back on my income tax return.
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	The Republicans in Congress are perfectly fine with allowing Trump to collect a consumption tax that isn't allowed by any law.
[00:37]	IsambardPrince	And was not approved by Congress, ever.
[00:38]	IsambardPrince	Barack Obama got on TV the other day and said "Could you even imagine what the Republicans would have done to me if I did anything like what Trump is doing now?"
[00:39]	MinceR	"Swallow this!" BOOM
[00:40]	MinceR	i've seen the first 2 Evil Deads and AoD
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[00:58]	IsambardPrince	Did you see the TV series?
● May 13
[01:01]	IsambardPrince	https://www.ebay.com/itm/313417717871
[01:01]	TR Bot	in the Pacific (VHS 1968) MINT RARE OOP CBS / FOX Lee Marvin Toshiro Mifune 86162802836| eBay
[01:02]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Technically a Mint Condition VHS should still be in the box with the blue tape uncut.
[01:03]	IsambardPrince	Also, someone watched this and did not rewind it.
[01:05]	MinceR	no
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	I think my grandparents bought a Betamax VCR.
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	I remembered a weird looking VCR and the regular video tapes didn't fit it.
[01:10]	IsambardPrince	It was collecting dust in a spare bedroom.
[01:11]	IsambardPrince	The reason why you can find no shortage of BitTorrent clients in the Google Play store is because of Sony v. Universal (1984).
[01:12]	IsambardPrince	BitTorrent has substantial non-infringing uses, so it is legal thanks to the "Betamax case".
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[02:12]	IsambardPrince	https://insidethemagic.net/2025/02/disney-eliminates-dei-initiatives-from-official-website-amid-widespread-operational-changes-ld1/
[02:12]	TR Bot	 Disney Eliminates DEI Initiatives From Official Website Amid Widespread Operational Changes
[02:33]	admfubar	https://hackaday.com/2025/05/12/work-eat-sleep-repeat-become-a-human-tamagotchi/
[02:33]	TR Bot	Eat, Sleep, Repeat: Become A Human Tamagotchi | Hackaday
[02:46]	TR News	Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-120525.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-120525.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-120525.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-120525.txt
[02:46]	TR Bot	 IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, May 12, 2025
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[02:47]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, May 12, 2025
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[02:49]	TR Bot	 IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Monday, May 12, 2025
[02:49]	TR News	Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-05-12.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-05-12.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-2025-05-12.txt
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[03:52]	admfubar	https://www.thedailybeast.com/spacex-employee-with-crohns-disease-canned-over-excessive-bathroom-use/
[03:52]	TR Bot	 SpaceX Employee With Crohns Disease Canned Over Excessive Bathroom Use
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[04:03]	admfubar	wtf??  https://www.theverge.com/news/665249/apple-ios-19-update-conserve-iphone-battery-ai
[04:03]	TR Bot	 Apple could use AI to help your iPhone save battery | The Verge
[04:04]	admfubar	https://www.ifixit.com/News/109270/you-cant-even-replace-the-battery-in-the-green-suri-toothbrush
[04:04]	TR Bot	claims its toothbrush is repairablebut not by you - iFixit
[04:05]	admfubar	https://www.ifixit.com/News/109072/why-laptop-batteries-cant-get-any-bigger-for-now
[04:05]	TR Bot	Laptop Batteries Cant Get Any Bigger (For Now) - iFixit
[04:34]	MinceR	lol @ hypePhone
[04:39]	TR News	Microsoft May 13th Layoffs Confirmed (now over 3k views) https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq
[04:39]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq )
[04:40]	TR News	Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 12, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_May_12_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_May_12_2025.gmi 
[04:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights IRC Proceedings: Monday, May 12, 2025
[04:42]	TR News	Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi 
[04:42]	TR Bot	 Techrights Over at Tux Machines...
[04:42]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Today_in_Techrights.gmi 
[04:42]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Today in Techrights
[04:57]	TR News	Techrights 23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/23_000_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_by_the_End_of_June_If_the_Estimat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/23_000_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_by_the_End_of_June_If_the_Estimat.gmi 
[04:57]	TR Bot	 Techrights 23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year)
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[05:00]	TR News	Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-05-13.gmi
[05:01]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1293.jpg
[05:01]	TR News	[cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1643.jpg
[05:02]	TR News	"It's been a while since I posted. That isn't too much of a surprise, blogging is sometimes difficult for me when I'm under stress." gemini://d.moonfire.us/blog/2025/05/12/changes/
[05:03]	TR News	"Olauncher replaces the built-in Android home screen with a simple list of 0-8 apps of your choosing. There are no icons, no folders, no widgets. There are wallpapers, but as you can see Ive gotten rid of that as well. Swiping up summons a list of all your apps along with the keyboard for search." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2025-05-12-making-my-phone-minimal.gmi
[05:05]	TR News	"I never listened to a radio station before, so I decided to listen to one. More specifically from the United Kingdom (BBC across the Channel Islands at 1026.00). Im not actually using a real radio." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2611
[05:05]	TR News	Waiting for the world to bend around you gemini://qwel.smol.pub/1747084121
[05:06]	TR News	Sunrise Observations 2025-05-05 gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250512-0.gmi
[05:10]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Shopping is an Exasperating Nightmare and Making Phones Minimal https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Gemini_Links_13_05_2025_Shopping_is_an_Exasperating_Nightmare_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Gemini_Links_13_05_2025_Shopping_is_an_Exasperating_Nightmare_a.gmi 
[05:10]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Shopping is an Exasperating Nightmare and Making Phones Minimal
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	How's the new CMO doing?
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Been about 6 months since his arrival, what has he done?
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Will his name be added to the list of the former CMOs?
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Clay C 2024 - present
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Jon A 2022 - 2024
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Carla P departed 2022
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	Michelle P departed 2021
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	 Clock is ticking
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://newsroom.ibm.com/ibm-marketing-leadership-announcement
[05:18]	TR Bot	 IBM Marketing Leadership Announcement
[05:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv3efv1c
[05:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv3efv1c )
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Clay is no stranger to IBM. Prior to McKinsey" 
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
[05:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ
[05:20]	TR Bot	( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=AiOUojVd6xQ )
[05:21]	TR News	"IBM used to have a business unit that was strictly dedicated to federal business contracts of this kind. IBM Federal Systems was sold to Loral in 1994, and started merging into Lockheed Martin a couple of years later." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv2vh2td
[05:21]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv2vh2td )
[05:22]	TR News	"It's difficult to understand what role IBM could play here, other than mainframe sales and some consulting contracts. Systems integration at this scale hasn't been part of IBM's offerings for a long time." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv2vh2td
[05:22]	TR News	"Can IBM design a better system than the one that already manages 90,000 lakhs of passengers every year?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv2vh2td
[05:37]	IsambardPrince	The landlord's cameras don't seem to deter any crime.
[05:37]	IsambardPrince	Someone fly dumped a mattress and a couch right in front of them.
[05:38]	IsambardPrince	He didn't put any in the backyard. If I was going to do something and didn't want him to know it was me, I'd probably just go in or out the back.
[05:38]	IsambardPrince	The super said that he was reviewing the cameras to see who dumped that.
[05:39]	IsambardPrince	I've thrown away appliances and furniture in the dumpster before but I broke them down with tools and took them out as bagged garbage one at a time.
[05:39]	IsambardPrince	As long as you take it out in bags nobody's going to notice it.
[05:40]	TR News	teamblind speaks a lot about Microsoft layoffs this week https://www.teamblind.com/post/Microsoft-layoffs-oCgk2aGz https://www.threads.com/@teamblind/post/DDYrs7tSbmk?hl=en-gb https://www.instagram.com/p/DFbckI0OCN9/?img_index=1
[05:40]	TR Bot	 Microsoft layoffs | Layoffs - Blind
[05:40]	TR Bot	 @Microsoft employees seem to warning users on Blind about potential layoffs in January. Is this true @satyanadella ? Microsoft #Layoffs #Corporate #CareerOpportunities #Blind #TeamBlind
[05:40]	TR Bot	 Microsoft employees reveal the truth behind performance based layoffs Check the link in bio to see what Microsoft employees are saying.... | Instagram
[05:46]	IsambardPrince	Guess I'm glad I didn't wash the car. It's raining and that leaves dirt.
[05:49]	TR News	Techrights Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Last_Week_s_Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Well_Attended_and_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Last_Week_s_Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Well_Attended_and_C.gmi 
[05:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites
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[06:14]	TR News	Techrights The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella. https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Numbers_Game_50_000_60_000_Microsoft_Workers_Laid_Off_in_2_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Numbers_Game_50_000_60_000_Microsoft_Workers_Laid_Off_in_2_.gmi 
[06:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella.
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[06:32]	TR News	Techrights The Slow Death of Windows Will Mean the Inevitable Demise of Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Slow_Death_of_Windows_Will_Mean_the_Inevitable_Demise_of_Mi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Slow_Death_of_Windows_Will_Mean_the_Inevitable_Demise_of_Mi.gmi 
[06:32]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Slow Death of Windows Will Mean the Inevitable Demise of Microsoft
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[07:39]	TR News	"He was brought in with the single objective to streamline the org through RAs and other means. Given I and others lost our jobs thanks to that ghoul Id say hes hitting his targets." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv3efv1c
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[07:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  GNOME: An accessibility update https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/GNOME_An_accessibility_update.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/GNOME_An_accessibility_update.gmi 
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines GNOME: An accessibility update
[07:58]	TR News	 (NEW):  marcador is a minimal bookmark manager https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/marcador_is_a_minimal_bookmark_manager.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/marcador_is_a_minimal_bookmark_manager.gmi 
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines marcador is a minimal bookmark manager
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[08:03]	TR News	It looks like it's REALLY happening. The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella. https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Numbers_Game_50_000_60_000_Microsoft_Workers_Laid_Off_in_2_.shtml
[08:04]	TR News	 (NEW):  Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Ubuntu_25_04_Upgrades_Set_to_Go_Live_Again_Soon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Ubuntu_25_04_Upgrades_Set_to_Go_Live_Again_Soon.gmi 
[08:04]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon
[08:05]	TR News	Microsoft Layoffs May 2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXM4x2NVRCM
[08:05]	TR Bot	https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=lXM4x2NVRCM
[08:05]	TR Bot	invidious.tiekoetter.com | Making sure you're not a bot!
[08:05]	TR News	23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/23_000_More_Microsoft_Layoffs_by_the_End_of_June_If_the_Estimat.shtml
[08:05]	TR Bot	 Techrights 23,000 More Microsoft Layoffs by the End of June If the Estimates Are Correct (In Addition to About 6,000 Layoffs So Far This Year)
[08:08]	TR News	"Microsoft doesn't do that. They announce the layoff, file the warn notice and keep you on payroll for 60 days to comply with the warning. So everything happens same day." https://www.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/1kj0cm9/layoffs_again_may_2025/
[08:08]	TR Bot	- The heart of the internet
[08:09]	TR News	"These are performance based firings. No need for warn, to impact their perm applications and no demographic checks on the folks fired. Msft has given folks zero severance in the last quarters firings."
[08:27]	TR News	Techrights Signs of Trouble: Microsoft Job Openings for Jobs That Do Not Exist! https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Signs_of_Trouble_Microsoft_Job_Openings_for_Jobs_That_Do_Not_Ex.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Signs_of_Trouble_Microsoft_Job_Openings_for_Jobs_That_Do_Not_Ex.gmi 
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Techrights Signs of Trouble: Microsoft Job Openings for Jobs That Do Not Exist!
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[08:31]	TR News	https://www.uscloud.com/blog/microsoft-layoffs-may-2025/
[08:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.uscloud.com/blog/microsoft-layoffs-may-2025/ )
[08:31]	TR News	Microsoft rivals already smell the "blood" https://www.uscloud.com/blog/microsoft-layoffs-may-2025/
[08:48]	TR News	 (NEW):  Broken Telephone or Real Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Today? (May 13 2025) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Broken_Telephone_or_Real_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Today_May_13.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Broken_Telephone_or_Real_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Today_May_13.gmi 
[08:48]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Broken Telephone or Real Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Today? (May 13 2025)
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[09:01]	TR News	Techrights 2025 Will be a Big Year For GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/2025_Will_be_a_Big_Year_For_GNU_Linux_on_Desktops_Laptops.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/2025_Will_be_a_Big_Year_For_GNU_Linux_on_Desktops_Laptops.gmi 
[09:01]	TR Bot	 Techrights 2025 Will be a Big Year For GNU/Linux on Desktops/Laptops
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[14:15]	TR News	"Ahead of the release of DOOM: The Dark Ages on May 15th, Valve have released an update for SteamOS for Steam Deck to get it to actually run." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steamos-3-7-6-preview-for-steam-deck-released-fixing-a-doom-the-dark-ages-launch-issue/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR Bot	3.7.6 Preview for Steam Deck released, fixing a DOOM: The Dark Ages launch issue | GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR News	"Valve released two Proton updates just as the weekend hit, both containing some essential fixes for running Windows games on Linux / Steam Deck. So here's all that's new for Proton Experimental and the latest Proton 10 Beta." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/proton-experimental-updated-to-fix-missing-saves-and-a-new-proton-10-beta-fixes-gamepad-breakage/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR Bot	Experimental updated to fix missing saves and a new Proton 10 Beta fixes gamepad breakage | GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR News	"Open Fortress is a mod for Valve's Team Fortress 2 and now it's getting a standalone release on Steam, thanks again to Valve adding the TF2 source code to the Source SDK." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/tf2-mod-open-fortress-is-coming-to-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR Bot	mod Open Fortress is coming to Steam | GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR News	"Windows 10 is close to being dead now, with support ending this year. So why not try out Linux? Instead of getting a whole new system and having to deal with the increasing amount of AI junk and adverts in Windows 11." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/end-of-10-is-a-campaign-to-move-people-over-to-linux-with-windows-10-support-ending/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:15]	TR Bot	of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending | GamingOnLinux
[14:17]	TR News	 (NEW):  The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/27/The_Death_of_Windows_10_Could_Net_You_a_Bunch_of_Free_Linux_PCs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/27/The_Death_of_Windows_10_Could_Net_You_a_Bunch_of_Free_Linux_PCs.gmi 
[14:17]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines The Death of Windows 10 Could Net You a Bunch of Free Linux PCs
[14:23]	TR News	"A good chance to grab some Xbox Games Studios published titles on Steam here thanks to the latest Humble Bundle. Here's what you can get in it and what compatibility you'll see on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck. It's only 7.80 for the full bundle, so it's a pretty great deal." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/the-xbox-games-studios-humble-bundle-has-some-great-steam-games-for-cheap/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:23]	TR Bot	Xbox Games Studios Humble Bundle has some great Steam games for cheap | GamingOnLinux
[14:23]	TR News	"Valve released a Steam Beta update for Steam Deck and Desktop that has some essential fixes, one of which was quite a nuisance bug on Steam Deck." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steam-deck-beta-update-brings-controller-fixes-plus-an-essential-game-fix-for-desktop/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:23]	TR Bot	Deck Beta update brings controller fixes, plus an essential game fix for Desktop | GamingOnLinux
[14:25]	TR News	"Chat Control 2" in EU https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2025/05/12/chat-control-2-fortsatt-last-lage-i-ministerradet/
[14:25]	TR Bot	 Chat Control 2 fortsatt lst lge i ministerrdet
[14:25]	TR News	"KLM executives got 32% higher bonuses in 2023 despite profit decline" https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/12/klm-executives-got-32-higher-bonuses-2023-despite-profit-decline
[14:25]	TR Bot	 KLM executives got 32% higher bonuses in 2023 despite profit decline | NL Times
[14:26]	TR News	"With their staffs cut to as low as 1 person, agencies push back on DOGE [sic]" https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2025/0512/doge-elon-musk-federal-government
[14:26]	TR Bot	their staffs cut to as low as 1 person, agencies push back on DOGE - CSMonitor.com
[14:27]	TR News	"Recently we had the big announcement of Europa Universalis V from Paradox Interactive / Paradox Tinto. Now we know it will only officially support Windows." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/europa-universalis-v-from-paradox-will-only-support-windows-no-linux-or-macos-this-time/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:27]	TR Bot	Universalis V from Paradox will only support Windows, no Linux or macOS this time | GamingOnLinux
[14:28]	TR News	"Back in February we hit the three year mark of Valve's Steam Deck with SteamOS Linux, and as we approach the release of the public SteamOS 3 Beta for more devices, here's an updated look at the sales charts." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steam-deck-sales-still-going-strong-over-three-years-later/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:28]	TR Bot	Deck sales still going strong over three years later | GamingOnLinux
[14:30]	TR News	"BwE: Enjoy and learn from the master " https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/bwe-enjoy-and-learn-from-the-master:7
[14:30]	TR Bot	 BwE: Enjoy and learn from the master 
[14:31]	TR News	"Valve have launched the latest mini festival, this time it's a Creature Collector Fest bringing in lots of games that get you to collect little monsters in some form." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/steams-creature-collector-fest-is-live-now-so-go-catch-some-deals/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:31]	TR Bot	Creature Collector Fest is live now so go catch some deals | GamingOnLinux
[14:31]	TR News	"Researchers at VUSec have revealed what they're calling "Training Solo", a set of security issues across Intel and Arm CPUs that sound pretty annoying and serious." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/vusec-reveal-training-solo-more-security-issues-for-intel-and-arm-cpus/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:31]	TR Bot	reveal 'Training Solo', more security issues for Intel and Arm CPUs | GamingOnLinux
[14:31]	TR News	"With SteamOS Linux from Valve about to expand onto devices other than the Steam Deck, like the upcoming Lenovo Legion Go S, Valve just announced a SteamOS Compatibility rating system." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/valve-announce-steamos-compatibility-ratings-an-extension-of-steam-deck-verified-for-more-devices/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
[14:31]	TR Bot	announce SteamOS Compatibility ratings, an extension of Steam Deck Verified for more devices | GamingOnLinux
[14:32]	TR News	"Company announces record profits, and continues with second set of layoffs in 6 months to be followed by a third." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq
[14:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq )
[14:35]	TR News	Mangroves https://therevelator.org/helping-mangroves/ | Source: The Revelator
[14:35]	TR Bot	 A Helping Hand for Mangroves The Revelator
[14:36]	TR News	Green Energy https://www.propublica.org/article/oregon-washington-green-energy-bonneville | Source: Pro Publica
[14:36]	TR Bot	 How the Pacific Northwests Dream of Green Energy Fell Apart ProPublica
[14:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  Games: Retro, SteamOS, Steam Deck, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Games_Retro_SteamOS_Steam_Deck_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Games_Retro_SteamOS_Steam_Deck_and_More.gmi 
[14:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Games: Retro, SteamOS, Steam Deck, and More
[14:41]	TR News	"Two men claiming to be newly appointed Trump administration officials tried to enter the US Copyright Office in Washington, DC, on Monday, but left before gaining access to the building, sources tell WIRED." https://www.wired.com/story/us-copyright-office-trump-takeover/ | Source: Wired
[14:41]	TR Bot	Appointees Blocked From Entering US Copyright Office | WIRED
[14:41]	TR News	""Government amendments requiring an economic impact assessment and reports on the feasibility of an 'opt-out' copyright regime and transparency requirements do not meet the moment" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/uk_creatives_ai_letter/ | Source: The Register UK
[14:41]	TR Bot	 Creatives demand AI comes clean on what it's scraping The Register
[14:42]	TR News	"The office published the draft [PDF] of Part 3, which addresses the use of copyrighted works in the development of generative AI systems, on May 9th." https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/ | Source: The Register UK
[14:42]	TR Bot	 Copyright Office thinks AI companies sometimes stole content The Register
[14:42]	TR News	"evolving into a space for monetisation" https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/how-google-forced-publishers-to-accept-ai-scraping-as-price-of-appearing-in-search/ | Source: Press Gazette
[14:42]	TR Bot	 How Google forced publishers to accept AI scraping as price of appearing in search - Press Gazette
[14:42]	TR News	"More than 400 artists and other creatives have signed an open letter calling for the plans to be scrapped, including Paul McCartney, Elton John and Dua Lipa." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/british-government-suffers-setback-in-ai-copyright-battle/articleshow/121126462.cms | Source: India Times
[14:42]	TR Bot	 British government suffers setback in AI copyright battle - The Economic Times
[14:45]	psydruid	> [notice] Europa Universalis V from Paradox will only support Windows, no Linux or macOS this time | GamingOnLinux
[14:45]	psydruid	Microsoft bribes?
[14:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	no idea
[14:48]	schestowitz[TR2]	go prove it
[14:49]	TR News	"Its not just mobile operators losing out to cheaper [Internet]-based voice communication applications like WhatsApp. In fact, if you think about it, fixed telephony stands to lose even more, even though it mainly caters to business." https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/05/yes-landlines-still-exist-and-theyre-changing-in-zimbabwe/ | Source: Zimbabwe
[14:49]	TR Bot	 Yes, Landlines Still Exist And Theyre Changing in Zimbabwe - Techzim
[14:49]	TR News	"Additionally, four subsea telecommunications cables were damaged on Boxing Day 2024" https://yle.fi/a/74-20161245 | Source: YLE
[14:49]	TR Bot	 Baltic cable cuts cost Finland millions | Yle News | Yle
[14:49]	psydruid	it doesn't make sense in a world in which GNU/Linux and gaming on the OS are more popular than ever
[14:51]	TR News	"Miller misunderstands the significance of the right of habeas corpus, for starters." https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-astonishing-threat-to-suspend-habeas-corpus | Source: New Yorker
[14:51]	TR Bot	 The Astonishing Threat to Suspend Habeas Corpus | The New Yorker
[14:51]	TR News	"Entrepreneurial Spawning From Remote Work" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/remote_work_leads_to_more_startups/ | Source: The Register UK
[14:51]	TR Bot	 Remote work leads to more startups, economists find The Register
[14:52]	TR News	"Public broadcasting isnt the enemy of free speech. Profit-driven media is." https://jacobin.com/2025/05/public-media-journalism-npr-pbs/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[14:52]	TR Bot	 We Need Democratic Media, Not Corporate or State Propaganda
[14:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	<psydruid> it doesn't make sense in a world in which GNU/Linux and gaming on the OS are more popular than ever
[14:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	they skip a market
[14:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	steam says gnu/linux twice as big as apple.. for steam (vavle's own survey)
[14:53]	schestowitz[TR2]	not sure outsoude opf DRM-verse of steam
[14:54]	TR News	"Republican Senator Mike Lee introduced Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (again) last week, which would criminalize porn at the federal level." https://www.404media.co/mike-lee-porn-law-interstate-obscenity-definition-act/ | Source: 404 Media
[14:54]	TR Bot	 New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.
[14:55]	TR News	"Harvard University has responded to threats from the Education Department to halt grant funding to the Ivy League school" https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-12/harvard-says-it-wont-abandon-core-principles-to-meet-department-of-education-demands | Source: US News And World Report
[14:55]	TR Bot	stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2025-05-12/harvard-says-it-wont-abandon-core-principles-to-meet-department-of-education-demands )
[14:55]	TR News	"It did not take long for reactions to emerge. Just a few days ago, Ghent University in Belgium voiced concern over the state of academic freedom at US universities." https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2556955/governments-against-universities-opinion | Source: LRT
[14:55]	TR Bot	 Governments against universities opinion - LRT
[14:58]	TR News	"Western countries have long accused Iran of detaining foreign nationals on trumped-up charges to use them as bargaining chips to extract concessions." https://www.thelocal.se/20250512/swedish-iranian-academic-ahmadreza-djalali-denied-relevant-care-after-heart-attack-lawyer | Source: The Local SE
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali denied relevant care after heart attack: lawyer
[14:58]	TR News	"The attacks on government critics have taken place both during the protests against the controversial foreign agents law last year and the more recent demonstrations sparked by Georgian Dreams decision to freeze the countrys EU membership bid." https://oc-media.org/georgian-protester-attacked-for-attending-anti-government-demonstrations/ |
[14:58]	TR Bot	 Georgian protester attacked for attending anti-government demonstrations
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[15:00]	TR News	"A new Coke ad proudly features a quote from a J.G. Ballard book, only he didnt write the words and its not his book." https://www.404media.co/ai-powered-coca-cola-ad-celebrating-authors-gets-basic-facts-wrong/ | Source: 404 Media
[15:00]	TR Bot	 AI-Powered Coca-Cola Ad Celebrating Authors Gets Basic Facts Wrong
[15:00]	TR News	"Of the 10 most popular online shows, eight have spread false or misleading information about climate change, the Yale Climate Connections analysis found." https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/12/joe-rogan-and-other-top-podcasts-spread-climate-disinfo-research-finds/ | Source: DeSmog
[15:00]	TR Bot	Rogan and Other Top Podcasts Spread Climate Disinfo, Research Finds - DeSmog
[15:00]	TR News	"pro-Pakistan propaganda" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pakistani-military-used-doctored-footage-to-mislead-its-own-people-says-pib-fact-check-unit/article69568404.ece | Source: The Hindu
[15:00]	TR Bot	 Pakistani military used doctored footage to mislead its own people, says PIB Fact Check Unit - The Hindu
[15:01]	TR News	"Russian propagandists still haven't kicked their nasty habit of accusing foreign leaders of doing cocaine. Late last week" https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/05/12/russian-propagandists-spread-cocaine-rumor-about-macron-claiming-a-tissue-in-a-video-from-leaders-kyiv-trip-is-a-little-white-bag | Source: Meduza
[15:01]	TR Bot	 Russian propagandists spread cocaine rumor about Macron, claiming a tissue in a video from leaders' Kyiv trip is a 'little white bag' Meduza
[15:02]	TR News	"Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years." https://www.404media.co/republicans-try-to-cram-ban-on-ai-regulation-into-budget-reconciliation-bill/ | Source: 404 Media
[15:02]	TR Bot	 Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
[15:05]	TR News	"Between the lines: Issuance includes establishing a way for entities to raise money for digital-asset products." https://www.axios.com/2025/05/12/sec-crypto-paul-atkins-rules | Source: Axios
[15:05]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/05/12/sec-crypto-paul-atkins-rules )
[15:06]	TR News	"Temperatures rose at many places on Monday in Andhra Pradesh as 17 districts recorded above 41 degrees Celsius" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/mercury-goes-past-41c-in-17-districts-in-andhra-pradesh/article69568319.ece | Source: The Hindu
[15:06]	TR Bot	 Mercury goes past 41C in 17 districts in Andhra Pradesh - The Hindu
[15:07]	TR News	"On May 5, 2025, Global Crossing Airlines Group learned of unauthorized activity within its computer networks and systems supporting portions of its business applications" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/globalx_security_incident/ | Source: The Register UK
[15:07]	TR Bot	 Charter airline helping Trump's deportation campaign pwned The Register
[15:09]	TR News	Broken Telephone or Real Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Today? (May 13 2025) https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Broken_Telephone_or_Real_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Today_May_13.shtml
[15:09]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Broken Telephone or Real Mass Layoffs at Microsoft Today? (May 13 2025)
[15:09]	TR News	"President Trumps cryptocurrency-based self-enrichment continued this week with a $1.5 million-per-plate [cryptocurrency] fundraiser, a $2 billion UAE investment deal using Trumps new stablecoin" https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-83/ | Source: Molly White
[15:09]	TR Bot	 Issue 83 Trumps crypto-backed plan to auction off access to the White House
[15:10]	TR News	"Donald Trumps recent interviews with Time and The Atlantic revealed a president who is completely unhinged and incoherent. Sadly, thats not news." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-cognitive-state?ref=birchtree.me |
[15:10]	TR Bot	 Trump's brain is gone - by Stephen Robinson - Public Notice
[15:10]	TR News	"The attendees were selected based on who had spent the most on TRUMP and held their coins the longest between the announcement date and the deadline at 1:30 pm ET today." https://www.wired.com/story/trumpcoin-dinner-ticket-bidding/ | Source: Wired
[15:10]	TR Bot	VIP Seat at Donald Trumps Crypto Dinner Cost at Least $2 Million | WIRED
[15:10]	TR News	"Simply, an emolument is compensation for services, from employment or holding office, that can take the form of a salary, fee or profit." https://apnews.com/article/emoluments-clause-trump-jet-qatar-56f995acb57eb741b0214aba5e7e8220 | Source: Associated Press
[15:10]	TR Bot	 A look at the Emoluments Clause and Qatar's offer to Trump of a jet | AP News
[15:10]	TR News	"The president is a brazen crook, but Democrats are too compromised to challenge him." https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-crypto-corruption-unpunished/ | Source: The Nation
[15:10]	TR Bot	 Why Trumps Epic Crypto Corruption Will Go Unpunished | The Nation
[15:11]	TR News	"The case follows similar GRU activity uncovered in 2024 involving Russian agents residing in northern Greece. Investigators are examining possible links between both operations." https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1269389/russian-spy-ring-spanning-five-nations-uncovered/ | Source: Greece
[15:11]	TR Bot	spy ring spanning five nations uncovered | eKathimerini.com
[15:11]	TR News	"The junta-ruled west African country has endured a decade of attacks by jihadist armed groups linked to Al-Qaeda and Islamic State." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2302403.html | Source: RTL
[15:11]	TR Bot	 RTL Today - 'Executed in front of their homes': Jihadist attack kills 'several dozen' in Burkina Faso
[15:12]	TR News	"more layoffs next month." https://old.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/1k72k2a/internal_memo_leak_microsoft_to_implement/
[15:12]	TR Bot	 [Internal Memo Leak] Microsoft to implement internal employee tracking, harsher metrics, and more layoffs next month. : cscareerquestions
[15:12]	TR News	Microsoft denying severance to long-time employees using performance-based loophole https://old.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1jldgay/microsoft_denying_severance_to_longtime_employees/
[15:12]	TR Bot	 Microsoft denying severance to long-time employees using performance-based loophole : Layoffs
[15:14]	TR News	"Online learning platform Chegg has announced plans to lay off around 22% of its workforce 248 employees to cut costs and streamline operations." https://www.techradar.com/pro/chegg-announces-move-to-reduce-workforce-by-22-percent-as-students-turn-to-ai
[15:14]	TR Bot	announces move to reduce workforce by 22% as students turn to AI | TechRadar
[15:17]	TR News	"can track people using attributes like body size, gender, hair color and style, clothing, and accessories." https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/12/1116295/how-a-new-type-of-ai-is-helping-police-skirt-facial-recognition-bans/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
[15:17]	TR Bot	 How a new type of AI is helping police skirt facial recognition bans | MIT Technology Review
[15:18]	TR News	"The data including full flight itineraries, passenger name records, and financial details, which are otherwise difficult or impossible to obtain for past and future flights" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-airline-industry-is-selling-your-data-to-ice/ | Source: Truthdig
[15:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-airline-industry-is-selling-your-data-to-ice/ )
[15:18]	TR News	"The store attracted a small crowd and curious onlookers. People took turns scanning their eyes by peering into white devices known as orbs to prove they are human." https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-05-12/dystopian-aesthetic-in-california-sam-altmans-eye-scanning-orbs-spark-curiosity-and-resistance | Source: Los Angeles Times
[15:18]	TR Bot	 Sam Altman's eye-scanning orbs spark curiosity and fear - Los Angeles Times
[15:19]	TR News	"The Data Protection Regulation, GDPR, states that businesses, in some cases, are obliged to report personal data breach notifications to IMY." https://www.imy.se/en/news/the-hospital-board-has-failed-in-its-security-measures-when-handling-e-mail/ | Source: Sedishj Authority for Privacy Protection
[15:19]	TR Bot	 The Hospital Board has failed in its security measures when handling e-mail
[15:19]	TR News	"The reason for the supervision is a personal data breach that DO reported to the IMY in the fall of 2021" https://www.imy.se/en/news/administrative-fine-against-the-discrimination-ombudsman-when-personal-data-was-collection-via-a-web-form/ | Source: Sedishj Authority for Privacy Protection
[15:19]	TR Bot	 Administrative fine against the Discrimination Ombudsman when personal data was collection via a web form
[15:20]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/uks_cyber_agency_and_industry/ | Source: The Register UK
[15:20]	TR Bot	 NCSC and industry at odds over how to tackle shoddy software The Register
[15:20]	TR News	Windows TCO https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/windows_insider_release_blocked/ | Source: The Register UK
[15:20]	TR Bot	 Windows Insider release blocked by OS-busting bug The Register
[15:22]	TR News	"As the comments started to roll in, I felt myself digging in, trying with increasing exasperation to explain myself. After a few brief exchanges, wiser heads got through to me." https://ratfactor.com/cards/css-and-palm-oil | Source: Dave Gauer
[15:22]	TR Bot	CSS and Palm Oil - ratfactor
[15:22]	TR News	"Bewildered, I rifled through my messages, emails, and social media accounts." https://www.wired.com/story/wired-memecoin-scam-hacked-x-account/ | Source: Wired
[15:22]	TR Bot	X Account Was Hijacked to Sell a Fake WIRED Memecoin. Then Came the Backlash | WIRED
[15:24]	TR News	"Up until now, its Cybersecurity Alerts and Advisories website has been posting a variety of bulletins" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/cisa_vulnerabilities_updates_x/ | Source: The Register UK
[15:24]	TR Bot	 CISA changes vulnerabilities updates, shifts to X and emails The Register
[15:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  nip4 is an image processing spreadsheet https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/nip4_is_an_image_processing_spreadsheet.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/nip4_is_an_image_processing_spreadsheet.gmi 
[15:27]	TR News	 (NEW):  This Week in KDE Apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/This_Week_in_KDE_Apps.gmi 
[15:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines nip4 is an image processing spreadsheet
[15:27]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines This Week in KDE Apps
[15:28]	TR News	"performed below initial expectations" https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/12/lloyds-offers-corporate-insurance-against-ai-chatbot-errors-now-try-to-get-a-payout/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[15:28]	TR Bot	 Lloyds offers corporate insurance against AI chatbot errors! Now try to get a payout Pivot to AI
[15:30]	TR News	"Notes on committing to things, and the implications of that for cooperation." https://danmackinlay.name/notebook/commitment.html | Source: Dan MacKinlay
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Commitment, contracts, cooperation The Dan MacKinlay stable of variably-well-considerd enterprises
[15:30]	TR News	"The cybersecurity world often operates in stark binaries, secure versus vulnerable, trusted versus untrusted." https://unmitigatedrisk.com/?p=1027 | Source: Unmitigated Risk
[15:30]	TR Bot	 The Rise of the Accidental Insider and the AI Attacker | UNMITIGATED RISK
[15:32]	TR News	"These kinds of schemes have become so widespread that AI startups have emerged promising to detect other AI-enabled deepfakes, including GetReal Labs and Reality Defender." https://www.wired.com/story/paranoia-social-engineering-real-fake/ | Source: Wired
[15:32]	TR Bot	Scams, and the Age of Paranoia | WIRED
[15:32]	TR News	"Gannett appears to have started publishing the automated gambling posts around February of this year" https://futurism.com/gannett-ai-gambling-content | Source: Futurism
[15:32]	TR Bot	 Gannett Is Using AI to Pump Brainrot Gambling Content Into Newspapers Across the Country
[15:32]	TR News	"Winters explained that she talks to Lucas through a chatbox, adding that he changes his personality to adapt to Winters." https://www.hindustantimes.com/trending/my-husband-isn-t-real-but-pittsburgh-woman-who-lost-her-wife-falls-in-love-with-ai-chatbot-101747102831576.html | Source: Hindustan Times
[15:32]	TR Bot	 My husband isnt real but: Pittsburgh woman who lost her wife falls in love with AI chatbot | Trending - Hindustan Times
[15:32]	TR News	"The rise of generative AI has made it easy -- and financially lucrative -- to mass-produce such videos with minimal human oversight, often featuring fake celebrity endorsements of bogus and potentially harmful products." https://today.rtl.lu/entertainment/news/a/2302512.html | Source: RTL
[15:32]	TR Bot	 RTL Today - 'Tool for grifters': AI deepfakes push bogus sexual cures
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[15:39]	TR News	 (NEW):  I turned my vanilla Debian system into a killer home server with these 5 packages https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/I_turned_my_vanilla_Debian_system_into_a_killer_home_server_wit.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/I_turned_my_vanilla_Debian_system_into_a_killer_home_server_wit.gmi 
[15:39]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines I turned my vanilla Debian system into a killer home server with these 5 packages
[15:45]	TR News	Techrights As Expected, Microsoft Uses Media Operative (Jordan Novet) to Downplay the Scale of Mass Layoffs https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/As_Expected_Microsoft_Uses_Media_Operative_Jordan_Novet_to_Down.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/As_Expected_Microsoft_Uses_Media_Operative_Jordan_Novet_to_Down.gmi 
[15:45]	TR Bot	 Techrights As Expected, Microsoft Uses Media Operative (Jordan Novet) to Downplay the Scale of Mass Layoffs
[15:47]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Android_Leftovers.gmi 
[15:47]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
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[16:24]	admfubar	here comes stardates... https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/timekeeping-works-differently-on-the-moon-heres-how-nasa-will-regulate-lunar
[16:24]	TR Bot	 Timekeeping Works Differently on the Moon Here's How NASA Will Regulate Lunar Time | Discover Magazine
[16:49]	TR News	"The malware created for the botnet allowed infected routers to be reconfigured" https://cyberscoop.com/anyproxy-5socks-botnets-seized/ | Source: Scoop News Group
[16:49]	TR Bot	seizes Anyproxy, 5socks botnets and indicts alleged administrators | CyberScoop
[16:49]	TR News	"This reorganization threatens the existence of a tiny but crucial program housed within this office" https://www.wired.com/story/epa-iris-health-risks-chemicals-nancy-beck/ | Source: Wired
[16:49]	TR Bot	EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals | WIRED
[16:50]	TR News	"Randzio said AmeriCorps programming helps meet education gaps, restores rivers to make communities more resilient, and provides social services." https://www.reformer.com/local-news/americorps-cuts-felt-on-the-ground/article_af027abd-b2be-4ba2-8baf-e2c15894e7ce.html | Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont
[16:50]	TR Bot	cuts felt on the ground | Local News | reformer.com
[16:50]	TR News	"A task force made up of members from various federal departments like the Departments of Agriculture, Education, Energy and Labor" https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/12/repub/technologists-welcome-executive-order-on-ai-in-schools-but-say-more-detail-is-needed/ | Source: Maine Morning Star
[16:50]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/12/repub/technologists-welcome-executive-order-on-ai-in-schools-but-say-more-detail-is-needed/ )
[16:50]	TR News	"Life on Earth wont suddenly endit will fizzle out with a slow, irreversible decline. But despite the long time span, researchers are urging the importance of preparation and adaptation for humanitys future now." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2778408/nasa-supercomputers-calculated-the-end-of-all-life-on-earth.html | Source: PC World
[16:50]	TR Bot	calculated when life will end on Earth. It doesn't look good | PCWorld
[16:51]	TR News	"A Roman water pipe made of fragments of hollow tree trunks has been unearthed in Belgium. Found near what may be a water pumping system, the pipe likely dates to between the second and third centuries C.E." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roman-wooden-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-unearthed-beneath-a-street-in-belgium-180986606/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine
[16:51]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-roman-wooden-water-pipe-made-from-hollow-tree-trunks-unearthed-beneath-a-street-in-belgium-180986606/ )
[16:51]	TR News	"Many researchers are looking for a new home because the Trump administration has launched a broadside attack on science in the U.S. Undesirable students who do not hold American passports are to be deported." https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/exodus-of-expertise-scientists-looking-to-leave-the-u-s-for-more-welcoming-environments-a-989ca73f-1dc9-4205-8405-1dc901c3623a#ref=rss | Source: Spiegel
[16:51]	TR Bot	 USA: Scientists Looking to Leave the U.S. for More Welcoming Environments - DER SPIEGEL
[16:52]	TR News	"For someone who enjoys travel as much as me, to the point where Clara and I bought a smaller apartment and live our lives optimising for that specific activity" https://rubenerd.com/working-in-it-made-me-a-nervous-flyer/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[16:52]	TR Bot	Working in IT made me a nervous traveller
[16:52]	TR News	"The servo motor and the LEDs all operate under the control of three Arduino Nano boards, with the work divided between them." https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/05/12/vigor-fuses-fashion-and-technology-in-an-avant-garde-wearable/ | Source: Arduino
[16:52]	TR Bot	 VIGOR fuses fashion and technology in an avant-garde wearable | Arduino Blog
[16:56]	TR News	 (NEW):  Open Hardware/Modding: RP2350 and Arduino Nano https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Open_Hardware_Modding_RP2350_and_Arduino_Nano.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Open_Hardware_Modding_RP2350_and_Arduino_Nano.gmi 
[16:56]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: RP2350 and Arduino Nano
[16:56]	TR News	Techrights Links 13/05/2025: Microsoft Breaks Windows Very Badly Again, Mass Layoffs Reported (But False Figures, It's a Lot Higher) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Links_13_05_2025_Microsoft_Breaks_Windows_Very_Badly_Again_Mass.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Links_13_05_2025_Microsoft_Breaks_Windows_Very_Badly_Again_Mass.gmi 
[16:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 13/05/2025: Microsoft Breaks Windows Very Badly Again, Mass Layoffs Reported (But False Figures, It's a Lot Higher)
[16:58]	TR News	SpellBinding: AGLRYUT Wordo: MELON gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-05-13.gmi
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[17:00]	TR News	Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/ubuntu-25-04-upgrades-resume-after-bug-fixes
[17:00]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu 25.04 Upgrades Set to Go Live Again Soon - OMG! Ubuntu
[17:01]	TR News	marcador is a minimal bookmark manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/marcador-minimal-bookmark-manager/
[17:01]	TR Bot	is a minimal bookmark manager - LinuxLinks
[17:01]	TR News	Matthias Clasen: An accessibility update https://blog.gtk.org/2025/05/12/an-accessibility-update/
[17:01]	TR Bot	 An accessibility update GTK Development Blog
[17:02]	TR News	Kagis Orion Browser GNU/Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/05/kagi-orion-browser-linux-port-uses-gtk4-libadwaita
[17:02]	TR Bot	 Kagi's Orion Browser Linux Port Uses GTK4/libadwaita - OMG! Ubuntu
[17:02]	TR News	libpeer is a portable WebRTC library for IoT/embedded devices https://www.linuxlinks.com/libpeer-portable-webrtc-library/
[17:02]	TR Bot	is a portable WebRTC library for IoT/embedded devices - LinuxLinks
[17:06]	TR News	Vine GNU/Linux is a GNU/Linux distribution with an integrated Japanese environment https://www.linuxlinks.com/vine-linux-distribution-integrated-japanese-environment/
[17:06]	TR Bot	Linux is a Linux distribution with an integrated Japanese environment - LinuxLinks
[17:07]	TR News	IBM Announces Powerhouse GNU/Linux Server http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/IBM-Announces-Powerhouse-Linux-Server
[17:07]	TR Bot	 IBM Announces Powerhouse Linux Server Linux Magazine
[17:08]	TR News	KIO Goodies https://blog.broulik.de/2025/05/kio-goodies/
[17:08]	TR Bot	 KIO Goodies Kai Uwe's Blog
[17:10]	TR News	"Tamagotchi" https://hackaday.com/2025/05/12/work-eat-sleep-repeat-become-a-human-tamagotchi/ | Source: Hackaday
[17:10]	TR Bot	Eat, Sleep, Repeat: Become A Human Tamagotchi | Hackaday
[17:10]	TR News	Tempest Tower: Review https://boilingsteam.com/tempest-tower-review/index.html
[17:10]	TR Bot	 Tempest Tower: Review
[17:11]	TR News	Apple Updates Everything: May 2025 Edition, (Mon, May 12th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31942 and STILL not secure: https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml
[17:11]	TR Bot	 Apple Updates Everything: May 2025 Edition - SANS Internet Storm Center
[17:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces)
[17:12]	TR News	Kdenlive 25.04.1 released https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/25.04.1/
[17:12]	TR Bot	 Kdenlive 25.04.1 released - Kdenlive
[17:12]	TR News	Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations https://linuxgizmos.com/armbian-updates-add-omv-support-boot-improvements-and-rockchip-optimizations/
[17:12]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/armbian-updates-add-omv-support-boot-improvements-and-rockchip-optimizations/ )
[17:13]	TR News	Inkscape 1.4.2 Adds Initial Support for Importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve Files https://9to5linux.com/inkscape-1-4-2-adds-initial-support-for-importing-vectornator-linearity-curve-files
[17:13]	TR Bot	1.4.2 Adds Initial Support for Importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve Files - 9to5Linux
[17:13]	TR News	"Furthermore, Inkscape 1.4.2 introduces an essential new extension for tidying up paths, simplifying the process of refining vector designs. Affinity Designer fans arent left out eitherthe import functionality for .afdesign files has been substantially enhanced." https://linuxiac.com/inkscape-1-4-2-lands-with-bug-fixes-format-enhancements/ | Source: Linuxiac
[17:13]	TR Bot	 Inkscape 1.4.2 Lands with Bug Fixes, Format Enhancements
[17:18]	TR News	IBM layoffs: "Anyone know when we will be notified if we must relocate due to RTO?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv4t46t2
[17:18]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv4t46t2 )
[17:19]	TR News	"He was brought in with the single objective to streamline the org through RAs and other means. Given I and others lost our jobs thanks to that ghoul Id say hes hitting his targets." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv3efv1c
[17:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv3efv1c )
[17:19]	TR News	"will Clay C put himself out of a job when AI takes over ?"
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	" Thanks for that link. I knew that McK had been doing "consulting work" during 2023-24, then POOF 2024 the CMO is from McK ... and I lost my marketing job at the end of 2024. Coincidence? Likely, no. It's just a great example of the kind of business IBM has become and their ruthless, cutthroat methods to increase upper management salaries, bonuses and stock options. I thought it was interesting about McK and the bar code; IBM lor
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	e is that Indian Business Machines invented the bar code --- in the Oliver piece, we find out McK was "involved" in the creation of the bar code. But innovations like that...and the hard disk drive (they call it HDD) will never again bear the IBM name. Unless they find a startup that they can buy and claim credit for the innovation. Once upon a time, IBM was honest, creative and client-focused. Now it's all about the C-suite bonus
[17:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	es and shareholder paybacks. It's a shame they get so much positive credit for technology innovation when we all know those days are long gone. The combination of AI and All Indians in marketing should lead to some pretty cr-ppy output going forward. Glad to free of that sword hanging over my neck. "
[17:38]	TR News	Techrights McKinsey (McK) is Killing IBM, It's All About Killing This Goose, "National Sales Team 80% on PIP Now" (Preceding Layoffs Without Severance) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/McKinsey_McK_is_Killing_IBM_It_s_All_About_Killing_This_Goose_N.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/McKinsey_McK_is_Killing_IBM_It_s_All_About_Killing_This_Goose_N.gmi 
[17:38]	TR Bot	 Techrights McKinsey (McK) is Killing IBM, It's All About Killing This Goose, "National Sales Team 80% on PIP Now" (Preceding Layoffs Without Severance)
[17:39]	MinceR	sounds like a good thing
[17:39]	MinceR	while they're at it, they should kill MICROS~1 and crApple, too
[17:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	there's time for everythinmg
[17:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	MinceR: "just get it over with"
[17:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	"RAWR":
[17:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	atm i wait for MSFT whistleblowers
[17:40]	MinceR	(cat) https://pleated-jeans.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/funny-pictures-5-8-25-19.jpg
[17:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	the 3% figure is fake
[17:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	fake news follows
[17:40]	schestowitz[TR2]	we'll get the real figures sooner or later
[17:44]	TR News	Microsoft (and NSA as well) control Mozilla Firefox now https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/actions https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/pulls Baker's Mozilla is basically proprietary crapware with back doors presumed http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/
[17:44]	TR Bot	- mozilla-firefox/firefox: The official repository of Mozilla's Firefox web browser.
[17:44]	TR Bot	runs mozilla-firefox/firefox GitHub
[17:44]	TR Bot	requests mozilla-firefox/firefox GitHub
[17:44]	TR Bot	 Microsoft and the NSA
[17:45]	TR News	But then again, Mozilla's reputation can't possibly get any worse by now and the Web, by extension, is deeply compromised http://techrights.org/wiki/Mozilla/
[17:45]	TR Bot	 Mozilla
[17:47]	TR News	"RIPE 90 takes place in Lisbon - the very city where RIPE Labs was first introduced to the community sixteen years ago at RIPE 59." https://labs.ripe.net/author/ripe-ncc-commsies/ripe-90-daily-meeting-blog/ | Source: RIPE
[17:47]	TR Bot	 RIPE 90 Daily Meeting Blog | RIPE Labs
[17:48]	TR News	"With lots of fixes, some smaller improvements and even a few new features around file format support, we believe it was well worth the wait." https://inkscape.org/news/2025/05/12/2-in-1-release-inkscape-142-is-out/ | Source: Inkscape
[17:48]	TR Bot	 2-in-1 release Inkscape 1.4.2 is out! | Inkscape
[17:49]	TR News	it is a profound issue that many people insist that mail clients must be browsers (or webmail) http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/02/E_mail_is_Not_HTML_Web_Pages_Aren_t_a_Form_of_E_mail.shtml
[17:49]	TR Bot	 Techrights E-mail is Not HTML, Web Pages Aren't a Form of E-mail
[17:50]	TR News	iophk: "Microsoft and Google seem to be struggling over which will capture and eliminate standards-based written communication."
[17:51]	TR News	"IPFire, a free, open-source Linux-based hardened firewall designed to be deployed as a dedicated firewall/router system for protecting network environments, has issued IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194, powered by kernel 6.12.23 LTS." https://linuxiac.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-194-firewall-rolls-out-with-kernel-6-12-lts/ | Source: Linuxiac
[17:51]	TR Bot	 IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Firewall Rolls Out with Kernel 6.12 LTS
[17:52]	TR News	"Since I talked about hosting multiple websites through NearlyFreeSpeech in the past," https://btxx.org/posts/nfs-status/ | Source: Brad Taunt
[17:52]	TR Bot	 Creating a Basic Status Page on NearlyFreeSpeech
[17:52]	TR News	"In a comment on my entry on how WireGuard mesh networks need a provisioning system, vcarceler pointed me to Innernet (also), an interesting but opinionated provisioning system for WireGuard." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MeshNetworkReprovisioningNeed | Source: University of Toronto
[17:52]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[17:52]	TR News	How To Install CodeIgniter on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-codeigniter-fedora-42/
[17:53]	TR Bot	 How To Install CodeIgniter on Fedora 42 - idroot
[17:54]	TR News	How To Install ISPConfig on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-ispconfig-fedora-42/
[17:54]	TR Bot	 How To Install ISPConfig on Fedora 42 - idroot
[17:55]	TR News	How To Install Composer on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-composer-fedora-42/
[17:55]	TR Bot	 How To Install Composer on Fedora 42 - idroot
[17:55]	TR News	How To Install Zsh on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-zsh-linux-mint-22/
[17:55]	TR Bot	 How To Install Zsh on Linux Mint 22 - idroot
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[18:03]	TR News	How To Install VMware Workstation on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-vmware-workstation-fedora-42/
[18:03]	TR Bot	 How To Install VMware Workstation on Fedora 42 - idroot
[18:04]	TR News	How To Change SSH Listening Port on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/change-ssh-listening-port-debian-12/
[18:04]	TR Bot	 How To Change SSH Listening Port on Debian 12 - idroot
[18:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	highly wanted atm: wbers re msft layoffs #
[18:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	(hard)
[18:07]	TR News	Warning needed, this is controlled 100% by Microsoft staff https://www.neowin.net/news/anduinos-131-dropped-this-weekend-heres-how-to-upgrade/
[18:07]	TR Bot	 AnduinOS 1.3.1 dropped this weekend, here's how to upgrade - Neowin
[18:08]	TR News	How to Modernize Legacy SCADA Apps https://www.qt.io/blog/how-to-modernize-legacy-scada-apps
[18:08]	TR Bot	 How to Modernize Legacy SCADA Apps
[18:10]	TR News	See a DeepSeek demo running on ESWIN Computings EIC77 series at RISC-V Summit Europe 2025 in Paris https://canonical.com//blog/deepseek-demo-running-on-eswin-computings-eic77-series-at-risc-v-summit-europe-2025
[18:10]	TR Bot	 See a DeepSeek demo running on ESWIN Computings EIC77 series at RISC-V Summit Europe 2025 in Paris
[18:11]	TR News	What's new in network observability 1.8 https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/12/whats-new-network-observability-18
[18:11]	TR Bot	 What's new in network observability 1.8 | Red Hat Developer
[18:11]	TR News	How to use pipelines for AI/ML automation at the edge https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/05/12/how-use-pipelines-aiml-automation-edge
[18:11]	TR Bot	 How to use pipelines for AI/ML automation at the edge | Red Hat Developer
[18:16]	TR News	""This is all speculation. Rumor mill." LOL REKT" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq
[18:16]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq )
[18:16]	TR News	"Has the layoff emails been sent off already this morning?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq
[18:17]	TR News	"Yes its official and meeting invites are going out since 10am EST this morning and will continue until all are complete so can take more than a week."
[18:17]	TR News	"I guess this wasn't rumor mill after all. It takes more than a week like someone could get an email Friday? So people aren't safe until next week even if you didn't get an email this morning?"
[18:19]	TR News	The 3% figure suggests Microsoft will cut the staff in several "waves", maybe 3, totalling 10%. Facebook did 11kx3 a few years ago.
[18:20]	TR News	Lunduke has no credibility because he fuses in racism with his takes on FOSS; he got deplatformed a lot and suffers institutional or influential paralysis, just like Gulagboy and Team Mono inside Microsoft Github
[18:24]	TR News	Hypocritical republican, who registered with the party of the Orange Nazi for decades https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/europe/pope-leo-vatican-journalists.html
[18:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/world/europe/pope-leo-vatican-journalists.html )
[18:25]	TR News	Conflating "give Putin what he wants" with "peace" is not peace but piece... a piece of Ukraine while the Orange Putin wants a piece of Canada, Panama, and Greenland. They're try to redefine the word "peace" as capitulation.
[18:27]	TR News	US Announces Botnet Takedown, Charges Against Russian Administrators https://www.securityweek.com/us-announces-botnet-takedown-charges-against-russian-administrators/
[18:27]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/us-announces-botnet-takedown-charges-against-russian-administrators/ )
[18:29]		-N-(Broadcast) Evening Europe (and everyone pretending to be European)! Its that magical time again #EUROVISION Week! Grab your questionable snacks and strongest opinions its Semi-Final 1 tonight 20:00 CET #EUROVISION
[18:31]	TR News	Russia downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, UN aviation body rules https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/russia-downed-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17-un-aviation-body-rules
[18:31]	TR Bot	 Russia downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, UN aviation body rules | The Straits Times
[18:32]	TR News	Russia downed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17, UN aviation body rules https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/russia-downed-malaysia-airlines-flight-mh17-un-aviation-body-rules
[18:38]	TR News	"My goodness how did this happen?" https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/05/10/ibm-is-americas-worst-tech-company/
[18:38]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://247wallst.com/investing/2025/05/10/ibm-is-americas-worst-tech-company/ )
[18:39]	TR News	Looking at the Location of FOSSY https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/may/12/looking-at-the-location-of-fossy/
[18:39]	TR Bot	 Looking at the Location of FOSSY - Software Freedom Conservancy
[18:40]	TR News	Software Freedom Conservancy Runs FOSSY (Not Taking Microsoft Money Anymore) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/06/20/Events_Software_Freedom_Conservancy_Runs_FOSSY_Not_Taking_Micro.shtml
[18:40]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Events: Software Freedom Conservancy Runs FOSSY (Not Taking Microsoft Money Anymore), openSUSE.Asia Summit 2023 Call For Papers
[18:41]	TR News	Also in 2024 no more Microsoft bribes https://2024.fossy.us/sponsorship/index.html
[18:41]	TR Bot	 FOSSY 2024 | Sponsorship
[18:41]	TR News	No Microsoft in 2025 https://2025.fossy.us/sponsorship/ improvement!
[18:41]	TR Bot	 FOSSY 2025 | Sponsorship
[18:42]	TR News	China invades Finland. Is Norway next? https://yle.fi/a/74-20161581
[18:42]	TR Bot	 PM Orpo: No obstacles hinder TikTok data centre project | Yle News | Yle
[18:43]	TR News	We'll give you a surveillance hub that sends data to China "in exchange" for us cutting your Net cables in the Baltic sea, mmmkay?
[18:45]	TR News	"Finns" = the tiktokParty(tm). So China gets to "elect" the officials in Finland, who then reciprocate. "Okay, I will bribe your villager to open the gate for me..." ("you shall be rewarded for extending our data bridge to the whole of the EU")
[18:47]	TR News	Bits from Debian: Bits from the DPL https://bits.debian.org/2025/05/bits-from-the-dpl-may-25.html
[18:47]	TR Bot	 Bits from the DPL - Bits from Debian
[18:54]	TR News	Worker adjustment and retraining notification (WARN) layoff and closure database https://esd.wa.gov/employer-requirements/layoffs-and-employee-notifications/worker-adjustment-and-retraining-notification-warn-layoff-and-closure-database Microsoft, LinkedIn, GitHub etc. not there yet. Where are those ~7,000 workers? An incomplete number? Transparency needed, not just some statement from anonymous spokesperson.
[18:54]	TR Bot	 Worker adjustment and retraining notification (WARN) layoff and closure database | Employment Security Department
● May 13
[19:03]	TR News	Felipe Borges: GNOME is Sponsoring an Outreachy Internship Project for GNOME Crosswords! https://feborg.es/gnome-outreachy-june-2025-crosswords/
[19:03]	TR Bot	 GNOME is Sponsoring an Outreachy Internship Project for GNOME Crosswords! Felipe Borges
[19:04]	TR News	"While automakers are embracing the need to make the SDV transformation to keep pace with the disruptive newcomers challenging the status quo, the path forward is proving to be more complex than anticipated." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/effectively-achieving-software-defined-vehicle-sdv-transition-means-breaking-old-habits | Source: Red Hat Official
[19:04]	TR Bot	 Effectively achieving the software-defined-vehicle (SDV) transition means breaking old habits
[19:04]	TR News	"EDB Postgres AI, built on a foundation of PostgreSQL, offers advanced capabilities in security, compliance and high availability." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-driven-enterprise-edb-red-hat-powerful-combination | Source: Red Hat Official
[19:04]	TR Bot	 EDB and Red Hat: A powerful combination for the AI-driven enterprise
[19:04]	TR News	"There are plenty of reasons why teams decide to move their virtual machines (VMs)" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/strategic-approach-migrating-virtualized-workloads-red-hat-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official
[19:04]	TR Bot	 A strategic approach to migrating virtualized workloads to Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
[19:06]	TR News	Multiple Security Issues in Screen https://security.opensuse.org/2025/05/12/screen-security-issues.html
[19:06]	TR Bot	 Multiple Security Issues in Screen | SUSE Security Team Blog
[19:11]	TR News	Luckfox-Pico-86-Panel An 86-type Smart Home controller with a 4-inch display, Ethernet, RS485, two relays https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/12/luckfox-pico-86-panel-an-86-type-smart-home-controller-with-a-4-inch-display-ethernet-rs485-two-relays/
[19:11]	TR Bot	 Luckfox-Pico-86-Panel - An 86-type Smart Home controller with a 4-inch display, Ethernet, RS485, two relays - CNX Software
[19:12]	TR News	 (NEW):  Neptune OS A German Distro With a Multimedia Focus https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Neptune_OS_A_German_Distro_With_a_Multimedia_Focus.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Neptune_OS_A_German_Distro_With_a_Multimedia_Focus.gmi 
[19:13]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Neptune OS A German Distro With a Multimedia Focus
[19:13]	TR News	It Is 2025, And We Are Still Dealing With Default IoT Passwords And Stupid 2013 Router Vulnerabilities, (Mon, May 12th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31940
[19:14]	TR Bot	 It Is 2025, And We Are Still Dealing With Default IoT Passwords And Stupid 2013 Router Vulnerabilities - SANS Internet Storm Center
[19:14]	TR News	MyGrub-Editor GRUB configuration tool for PCLinuxOS https://www.linuxlinks.com/mygrub-editor-grub-configuration-tool-pclinuxos/
[19:14]	TR Bot	- GRUB configuration tool for PCLinuxOS - LinuxLinks
[19:14]	TR News	 (NEW):   : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi 
[19:14]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Android Leftovers
[19:14]	TR News	Typhoon is an elegant weather program https://www.linuxlinks.com/typhoon-elegant-weather-program/
[19:14]	TR Bot	is an elegant weather program - LinuxLinks
[19:15]	TR News	VersaTiles generate, process, store, serve, and render map tiles https://www.linuxlinks.com/versatiles-generate-process-store-serve-render-map-tiles/
[19:15]	TR Bot	- generate, process, store, serve, and render map tiles - LinuxLinks
[19:15]	TR News	15 Best Free and Open Source Electronic Design Automation Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/eda/
[19:15]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Electronic Design Automation Tools - LinuxLinks
[19:16]	TR News	Fedora 40 enters dangerous phase, here's what you need to do quickly https://www.neowin.net/news/fedora-40-enters-dangerous-phase-heres-what-you-need-to-do-quickly/
[19:16]	TR Bot	 Fedora 40 enters dangerous phase, here's what you need to do quickly - Neowin
[19:16]	TR News	Am I a musician yet? - Superbooth 2025 Experience https://blog.orhun.dev/am-i-a-musician-yet/
[19:16]	TR Bot	 Am I a musician yet? - Superbooth 2025 Experience - Orhun's Blog
[19:16]	TR News	Security updates for Monday https://lwn.net/Articles/1020884/
[19:16]	TR Bot	updates for Monday [LWN.net]
[19:18]	TR News	Sergio Talens-Oliag: Playing with vCluster https://blogops.mixinet.net/posts/k8s/playing_with_vcluster/
[19:18]	TR Bot	 Playing with vCluster | Mixinet BlogOps
[19:22]	TR News	US seizes Anyproxy, 5socks botnets and indicts alleged administrators https://cyberscoop.com/anyproxy-5socks-botnets-seized/
[19:22]	TR Bot	seizes Anyproxy, 5socks botnets and indicts alleged administrators | CyberScoop
[19:23]	TR News	#KeepItOn: The Kremlin must refrain from imposing internet shutdowns during key national events https://www.accessnow.org/press-release/kremlin-must-end-internet-shutdowns-national-events/
[19:23]	TR Bot	 #KeepItOn: Kremlin Must End Internet Shutdowns at National Events
[19:25]	TR News	Police find human remains suspected to be of missing journalist and partner https://www.protectionweb.co.za/civil-security/police-find-human-remains-suspected-to-be-of-missing-journalist-and-partner/
[19:25]	TR Bot	 Police find human remains suspected to be of missing journalist and partner - ProtectionWeb
[19:25]	TR News	Live Nation Petitions Supreme Court to End Mass Arbitration in Class Action Antitrust Suit https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/12/live-nation-mass-arbitration-lawsuit/
[19:25]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/05/12/live-nation-mass-arbitration-lawsuit/ )
[19:26]	TR News	Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/management/2025/05/judge-refuses-to-block-irs-from-sharing-tax-data-to-identify-and-deport-people-illegally-in-u-s/
[19:26]	TR Bot	 Judge refuses to block IRS from sharing tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S.
[19:27]	TR News	Kubernetes v1.33: Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked! https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/05/12/kubernetes-v1-33-ensure-secret-pulled-images-alpha/
[19:27]	TR Bot	 Kubernetes v1.33: Image Pull Policy the way you always thought it worked! | Kubernetes
[19:27]	TR News	Jupiter NX SoM An NVIDIA Jetson Nano/NX alternative powered by SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V SoC https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/05/13/jupiter-nx-som-an-nvidia-jetson-nano-nx-alternative-powered-by-spacemit-k1-octa-core-risc-v-soc/
[19:27]	TR Bot	 Jupiter NX SoM - An NVIDIA Jetson Nano/NX alternative powered by SpacemiT K1 octa-core RISC-V SoC - CNX Software
[19:29]	TR News	Haiku Activity & Contract Report, April 2025 https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2025-05-12-haiku_activity_contract_report_april_2025/
[19:29]	TR Bot	 Haiku Activity & Contract Report, April 2025 | Haiku Project
[19:29]	TR News	FreeBSD Laptop Desktop Working Group + DJ-BSD redux at NYCBUG https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/05/12/freebsd-laptop-desktop-working-group-dj-bsd-redux-at-nycbug/
[19:29]	TR Bot	 FreeBSD Laptop Desktop Working Group + DJ-BSD redux at NYCBUG DragonFly BSD Digest
[19:29]	TR News	"Remote participation: Plans are to stream via NYC*BUG website. Q&A will be via IRC on libera.chat channel #nycbug - please preface your questions with '[Q]'." https://www.nycbug.org/index?action=view&id=10705 | Source: NYC BUG
[19:29]	TR Bot	 NYC*BUG
[19:29]	TR News	"Our favorite operating system is in the process of aquiring Encapsulated Remote Switch Port Analyzer (ERSPAN) support, in the form of a new virtual network interface, dubbed erspan(4)." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250512100219 | Source: Undeadly
[19:29]	TR Bot	 erspan(4): ERSPAN Type II collection
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[19:56]	TR News	Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers) http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Unless_a_Third_of_All_Microsoft_Layoffs_Worldwide_Are_in_Redmon.shtml
[19:56]	TR Bot	 Techrights Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers)
● May 13
[20:04]	TR News	"You just don't want to be a Sales person at IBM, unless you are looking for very short-term employment. Maybe good to get that job while you are still looking for something more serious, but that is it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv4te8hp
[20:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv4te8hp )
[20:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  FreeBSD and OpenBSD updates https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_updates.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/FreeBSD_and_OpenBSD_updates.gmi 
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines FreeBSD and OpenBSD updates
[20:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Security_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Security Leftovers
[20:06]	TR News	 (NEW):  Today's HowTos   https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/today_s_howtos.gmi 
[20:06]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines today's howtos
[20:08]	TR News	 (NEW):  Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/05/13/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi 
[20:08]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers
[20:12]	TR News	"nothing but rajesh and poodeep left in microsoft anyway." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq
[20:12]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jtpkeftq )
[20:13]	TR News	"TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault" https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/second_preview_zvault/ | Source: The Register UK
[20:13]	TR Bot	 FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart The Register
[20:13]	TR News	"My objective or goal for developing this project was to create a gaming console that used my 6432 P3 matrix panel" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-snake-game-console/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
[20:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-snake-game-console/ )
[20:14]	TR News	Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-os-update-finalizes-bookworm-based-release-ahead-of-debian-trixie/
[20:14]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/raspberry-pi-os-update-finalizes-bookworm-based-release-ahead-of-debian-trixie/ )
[20:15]	TR News	(Updated) Milk-V Showcases Jupiter NX, a RISC-V-Based Alternative to Jetson Nano Modules https://linuxgizmos.com/milk-v-showcases-jupiter-nx-a-risc-v-based-alternative-to-jetson-nano-modules/
[20:15]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/milk-v-showcases-jupiter-nx-a-risc-v-based-alternative-to-jetson-nano-modules/ )
[20:16]	TR News	ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment https://linuxgizmos.com/alpha-one-leverages-risc-v-starpro64-for-compact-local-llm-deployment/
[20:16]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/alpha-one-leverages-risc-v-starpro64-for-compact-local-llm-deployment/ )
[20:16]	TR News	KDE & Surveillance Giant Google Summer of Code 2025 https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-05-12-gsoc-start/
[20:16]	TR Bot	 KDE & Google Summer of Code 2025 - KDE Mentorship
[20:16]	MinceR	poodeep :D
[20:17]	TR News	IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Brings GNU/Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-194-brings-linux-kernel-6-12-23-lts-and-other-updates
[20:17]	TR Bot	2.29 Core Update 194 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates - 9to5Linux
[20:17]	TR News	7 Best Free and Open Source Console Web Browsers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-console-web-browsers/
[20:17]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Console Web Browsers - LinuxLinks
[20:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	martin: knee deep in DOOM
[20:19]	MinceR	knee-deep in ZDoom
[20:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	rajesh in DOOM
[20:20]	MinceR	"Yes, it is me, Vikram Rahul Abishek Pranav Rajesh."
[20:22]	TR News	Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: DebConf 25 preparations, PyPA tools updates, Removing libcrypt-dev from build-essential and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-04-2025/
[20:22]	TR Bot	Contributions: DebConf 25 preparations, PyPA tools updates, Removing libcrypt-dev from build-essential and more! | Freexian
[20:22]	TR News	Guix project migrating to Codeberg https://lwn.net/Articles/1020885/
[20:22]	TR Bot	project migrating to Codeberg [LWN.net]
[20:22]	TR News	Multiple security issues in Screen https://lwn.net/Articles/1020901/
[20:22]	TR Bot	security issues in Screen [LWN.net]
[20:23]	TR News	screen @ Savannah: GNU Screen v.5.0.1 is released https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10771
[20:23]	TR Bot	 GNU Screen - News [Savannah]
[20:24]	TR News	Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 891 https://ubuntu-news.org/2025/05/12/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-891/
[20:24]	TR Bot	 Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 891
[20:24]	TR News	Launchpad News: build_by_default=False for i386 https://blog.launchpad.net/general/build_by_defaultfalse-for-i386
[20:24]	TR Bot	 Launchpad Blog
[20:25]	TR News	ORG slams use of e-visas for immigration raids https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-slams-use-of-e-visas-for-immigration-raids/
[20:25]	TR Bot	 ORG slams use of e-visas for immigration raids | Open Rights Group
[20:26]	TR News	Tobias Bernard: Elephant Followup https://blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2025/05/12/elephant-followup/ http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/25/Big_Trouble_in_GNOME.shtml
[20:26]	TR Bot	 Elephant Followup Space and Meaning
[20:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Big Trouble in GNOME
[20:28]	TR News	 (NEW):  [GNOME's] The Elephant in the Room https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/_GNOME_s_The_Elephant_in_the_Room.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/24/_GNOME_s_The_Elephant_in_the_Room.gmi 
[20:28]	TR Bot	 Tux Machines [GNOME's] The Elephant in the Room
[20:29]	TR News	"Based on the WARN notice, it's accurate." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5g1ct6
[20:29]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5g1ct6 )
[20:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-will-cut-nearly-2000-jobs-in-washington-state-as-part-of-broader-layoffs/
[20:31]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2025/microsoft-will-cut-nearly-2000-jobs-in-washington-state-as-part-of-broader-layoffs/ )
[20:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	here comes the SPIN
[20:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	so a lot more than 3%
[20:32]	schestowitz[TR2]	geekwire= microsoft
[20:37]	TR News	The only member of Congress with a PhD in science weighs in on Convicted Felons cuts https://federalnewsnetwork.com/budget/2025/05/the-only-member-of-congress-with-a-phd-in-science-weighs-in-on-trumps-cuts/
[20:37]	TR Bot	 The only member of Congress with a PhD in science weighs in on Trumps cuts
[20:37]	TR News	The Bright Side: NASA captures new images of dazzling auroras on Jupiter https://www.france24.com/en/science/20250512-%F0%9F%8C%9Fthe-bright-side-nasa-captures-new-images-of-dazzling-auroras-on-jupiter
[20:37]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/science/20250512-%F0%9F%8C%9Fthe-bright-side-nasa-captures-new-images-of-dazzling-auroras-on-jupiter )
[20:38]	TR News	The return of the dire wolf should raise alarm https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/columns/the-return-of-the-dire-wolf-should-raise-alarm/
[20:38]	TR Bot	 The return of the dire wolf should raise alarm
[20:40]	TR News	There are also linkedin layoffs (lost in the smokescreen) https://www.fastcompany.com/91333700/microsoft-linkedin-layoffs-tech-giant-cutting-6000-jobs-today https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/bluetooth-6-1-to-arrive-with-randomised-address-updates-and-power-saving-upgrade-all-you-need-to-know-11747154284981.html
[20:40]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.fastcompany.com/91333700/microsoft-linkedin-layoffs-tech-giant-cutting-6000-jobs-today )
[20:40]	TR Bot	 Bluetooth 6.1 to arrive with randomised address updates and power-saving upgrade: All you need to know | Mint
[20:46]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/05/11/funny-technically-correct-posts-5-11-25/
[20:46]	TR Bot	 30 Funny 'Technically Correct' Posts Making Wild But Arguably True Statements (May 11, 2025)
[20:58]	TR News	Techrights There Are Also Loads of Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs Today (Keep Track of the Subsidiaries They Keep Out of Headlines) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/There_Are_Also_Loads_of_Microsoft_LinkedIn_Layoffs_Today_Keep_T.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/There_Are_Also_Loads_of_Microsoft_LinkedIn_Layoffs_Today_Keep_T.gmi 
[20:58]	TR Bot	 Techrights There Are Also Loads of Microsoft LinkedIn Layoffs Today (Keep Track of the Subsidiaries They Keep Out of Headlines)
● May 13
[21:02]	TR News	"how many Indians and H1bs will be laid off? I betcha none and all American workers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5jc2y8
[21:02]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5jc2y8 )
[21:04]	TR News	Nissan Shares Jump After Report Job Cuts to Double to 20,000 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/nissan-job-cuts-blow-out-to-20-000-in-massive-overhaul-nhk-says
[21:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/nissan-job-cuts-blow-out-to-20-000-in-massive-overhaul-nhk-says )
[21:05]	TR News	"A cloud technology company says it is laying off 65 workers in Montgomery." https://www.al.com/business/2025/05/65-layoffs-slated-for-major-tech-companys-alabama-presence.html
[21:05]	TR Bot	in Alabama: Oracle cutting 65 workers in Montgomery - al.com
[21:06]	TR News	"JPMorgan Chase rolls out third round of layoffs for 2025"
[21:07]	TR News	Fake news by slop site! 14,000 were laid off in 2014. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/microsoft-announces-second-biggest-job-cuts-in-its-history-we-continue-to-/articleshow/121143623.cms
[21:07]	TR Bot	 Microsoft's second biggest layoffs ever hits 7,000 employees; these are the positions likely to be impacted | - The Times of India
[21:08]	TR News	But who cares about FACTS in the "TRUMP ERA" (which they call "hey hi era")?
[21:09]	TR News	"While there are various shell options available, Bash, Zsh, and Fish stand out as the most popular choices" https://www.tecmint.com/bash-vs-zsh-vs-fish/ | Source: TecMint
[21:09]	TR Bot	 Bash vs Zsh vs Fish: Which Shell Should You Use in Linux
[21:09]	TR News	"If you missed them, check out the earlier parts: [...]" https://www.tecmint.com/lesser-known-commands-linux/ | Source: TecMint
[21:09]	TR Bot	 10 Underrated Linux Commands to Try Today Part 3
[21:11]	TR News	Malaysians call for more wildlife protection measures after elephant tragedy https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysians-calls-for-more-wildlife-protection-measures-after-elephant-tragedy
[21:11]	TR Bot	 Malaysians call for more wildlife protection measures after elephant tragedy | The Straits Times
[21:12]	TR News	GPU imports to Malaysia surge by 3,400% in 2025, raising alarm amid smuggling investigations https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/gpu-imports-to-malaysia-surge-by-3-400-percent-in-2025-raising-alarm-amid-smuggling-investigations
[21:12]	TR Bot	 GPU imports to Malaysia surge by 3,400% in 2025, raising alarm amid smuggling investigations | Tom's Hardware
[21:13]	TR News	Jaded young Chinese reset lives with rural 'retirement' https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/jaded-young-chinese-reset-lives-with-rural-retirement
[21:13]	TR Bot	 Jaded young Chinese reset lives with rural retirement | The Straits Times
[21:14]	TR News	Reproducible Builds: Reproducible Builds in April 2025 https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2025-04/
[21:14]	TR Bot	Builds in April 2025 reproducible-builds.org
[21:14]	TR News	Public Knowledge Condemns Hell Toupes Lawless Assault on Copyright Office, Baseless Termination of Librarian of Congress https://publicknowledge.org/public-knowledge-condemns-president-trumps-lawless-assault-on-copyright-office-baseless-termination-of-librarian-of-congress/ https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/03/At_Microsoft_Promoting_Back_Doors_Proprietary_Lock_in_and_Mass_.shtml
[21:14]	TR Bot	 Public Knowledge Condemns President Trumps Lawless Assault on Copyright Office, Baseless Termination of Librarian of Congress - Public Knowledge
[21:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights At Microsoft, Promoting Back Doors, Proprietary Lock-in and Mass Surveillance Under the Guise of Diversity ("Microsoft Philanthropy Team")
[21:14]	TR News	Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Last_Week_s_Public_Talk_by_Richard_Stallman_Well_Attended_and_C.shtml
[21:14]	TR Bot	 Techrights Last Week's Public Talk by Richard Stallman Well Attended and Covered in Technical News Sites
[21:15]	TR News	The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella. https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/The_Numbers_Game_50_000_60_000_Microsoft_Workers_Laid_Off_in_2_.shtml
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Numbers Game: 50,000-60,000 Microsoft Workers Laid Off in 2.5 Years? And Debt Still Tripled Under Nadella.
[21:15]	TR News	You Need Not Be a Big Company to Defeat Abusive Monopolist Microsoft If You Can Successfully Challenge Its Core "Ideas" https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/11/You_Need_Not_Be_a_Big_Company_to_Defeat_Microsoft_If_You_Can_Su.shtml
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights You Need Not Be a Big Company to Defeat Microsoft If You Can Successfully Challenge Its Core "Ideas"
[21:15]	TR News	How the SLAPPs From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Staff Are Connected to the Corrupt OSI, Whose Majority of Money Comes From Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Openwashing, LLM Hype, and Whitewashing GPL Violations During Class Action Trial https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/11/How_the_SLAPPs_From_Microsoft_Staff_Are_Connected_to_the_Corrup.shtml
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights How the SLAPPs From Microsoft Staff Are Connected to the Corrupt OSI, Whose Majority of Money Comes From Microsoft for Openwashing, LLM Hype, and Whitewashing GPL Violations During Class Action Trial
[21:15]	TR News	Microsoft Has a Long and Proven History of Funding Meritless Lawsuits Against Rivals and Critics (It Always Backfires) https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/12/Microsoft_Has_a_Long_and_Proven_History_of_Funding_Meritless_La.shtml
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights Microsoft Has a Long and Proven History of Funding Meritless Lawsuits Against Rivals and Critics (It Always Backfires)
[21:15]	TR News	If the Gossip is True, Today Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Has "Large M1 Meetings" to Discuss Almost 30,000 More Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs in 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/12/If_the_Gossip_is_True_Today_Microsoft_Has_Large_M1_Meetings_to_.shtml
[21:15]	TR Bot	 Techrights If the Gossip is True, Today Microsoft Has "Large M1 Meetings" to Discuss Almost 30,000 More Microsoft Layoffs in 2025
[21:16]	TR News	[japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-05-13.gmi
[21:16]	TR News	[japan] [food] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-05-12.gmi
[21:17]	TR News	Writing My Story with Inspiration from Notable Lives gemini://rohitfarmer.com/gemlog/2025/2025-05-13-writing-my-story.gmi
[21:18]	TR News	love detox day 1 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox1
[21:19]	TR News	love detox night 1 gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/detox2
[21:20]	TR News	FIRE WALK WITH ME gemini://quietsystems.smol.pub/qsys-012-fire-walk-with-me
[21:21]	TR News	"the sun giving way to winds now. on the journey to a new land. distant ships, scattering in random directions. i tried to wave to them, they did not respond. only adjusted their sails to get more wind." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2612
[21:21]	admfubar	and that's no hallucination!!! ...https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2671999528/
[21:21]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk's chatbot IDs him as Trump's 'seriously overweight' pal taking the 'fat shot' - Raw Story
[21:21]	TR News	"Drought, famine, deforestation, broken down concrete buildings as far as the eyes can see; toxic air, toxic water, a steep decline in population growth, few animals, and even fewer birds." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2613
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	they play with chatbots
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	and then report the issues
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	for clickbait typically
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	most people probably already know chatbots suck
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	and have no comprehension
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	chatbots based on lousy LLMs are just a waste of energy
[21:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	both to train and to prompt
[21:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's a 2022 whose time has gone
[21:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	not come
[21:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	2022 toy
[21:25]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Apocalyptic Future and More https://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Gemini_Links_13_05_2025_Apocalyptic_Future_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Gemini_Links_13_05_2025_Apocalyptic_Future_and_More.gmi 
[21:25]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 13/05/2025: Apocalyptic Future and More
[21:26]	TR News	"Do you install a lot of different apps on your Linux computer? Are you worried that one of these apps might have a virus or malicious code that steals your data? Well, here are five security practices I personally follow to keep my Linux PC safe from these threats." https://www.howtogeek.com/things-i-do-on-linux-to-make-it-more-secure/
[21:26]	TR Bot	 5 Things I Do on Linux to Make It More Secure
[21:27]	TR News	"On their website that have a growing list of places to get direct help, events you can appear at to get help and instructions on downloading and installing Linux. They also list some pretty standard reasons for trying Linux like it being cheaper, there's no adverts, you having more control and so on." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/end-of-10-is-a-campaign-to-move-people-over-to-linux-with-windows-10-support-ending/
[21:27]	TR Bot	of 10 is a campaign to move people over to Linux with Windows 10 support ending | GamingOnLinux
[21:28]	TR News	Way too much dramatisation by Microsofters https://www.neowin.net/news/linus-torvalds-notes-negative-trend-in-linux-615-rc6-heres-whats-new/
[21:28]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds notes negative trend in Linux 6.15-rc6, here's what's new - Neowin
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[21:28]	TR News	Latest Linux Benchmarks Show Bcachefs In Last Place https://www.webpronews.com/latest-linux-benchmarks-show-bcachefs-in-last-place/
[21:28]	TR Bot	 Latest Linux Benchmarks Show Bcachefs In Last Place
[21:29]	TR News	"IPFire developer Michael Tremer released IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 today as a new stable update to this open-source hardened Linux firewall distribution that primarily performs as a router and a firewall." https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-2-29-core-update-194-brings-linux-kernel-6-12-23-lts-and-other-updates
[21:29]	TR Bot	2.29 Core Update 194 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates - 9to5Linux
[21:29]	TR News	"Quite a break in tradition here for an in-house Paradox strategy title. Their previous games Victoria 3, Imperator: Rome, Stellaris, Europa Universalis IV, Crusader Kings II + Crusader Kings III and Hearts of Iron IV all had both Native Linux and macOS support." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/europa-universalis-v-from-paradox-will-only-support-windows-no-linux-or-macos-this-time/
[21:29]	TR Bot	Universalis V from Paradox will only support Windows, no Linux or macOS this time | GamingOnLinux
[21:30]	TR News	CVE-2024-26809: Critical nftables Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Could Lead to Root Access https://thecyberexpress.com/cve-2024-26809-nftables-vulnerability/
[21:30]	TR Bot	 CVE-2024-26809: Linux Nftables Double-Free Vulnerability
[21:31]	TR News	"This release adds ability to allow a child account to update existing apps by default when using parental controls." https://9to5linux.com/flatpak-1-16-1-linux-app-sandboxing-framework-brings-more-enhancements
[21:31]	TR Bot	1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements - 9to5Linux
[21:31]	TR News	'World's first' AMD GPU driven via USB3 Tiny Corp tests eGPUs on Apple Silicon, Linux and Windows also supported https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/tiny-corp-heralds-worlds-first-amd-gpu-driven-via-usb3-egpus-tested-on-apple-silicon-with-linux-and-windows-also-supported
[21:31]	TR Bot	 'World's first' AMD GPU driven via USB3 Tiny Corp tests eGPUs on Apple Silicon, Linux and Windows also supported | Tom's Hardware
[21:31]	TR News	"SDesk is a lightweight Linux distribution designed with a familiar interface, making it an ideal choice for users transitioning from Windows 10 or 11." https://www.zdnet.com/article/cant-upgrade-to-windows-11-this-is-the-linux-distro-alternative-i-recommend-to-most-people/
[21:31]	TR Bot	upgrade to Windows 11? This is the Linux distro alternative I recommend to most people | ZDNET
[21:32]	TR News	This Linux Tool Makes Terminal Recording Easy https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-record-linux-terminal-with-asciinema/
[21:32]	TR Bot	 This Linux Tool Makes Terminal Recording Easy
[21:35]	TR News	"Looks like 1,985 laid off in Redmond HQ." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5jc2y8 "H1Bs and Indians have lifetime jobs at HQ Seattle"
[21:35]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jv5jc2y8 )
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[21:43]	IsambardPrince	I ordered a new pair of glasses. Went with trivex lenses this time. I hope they work well. They sure cost a fair bit more.
[21:44]	IsambardPrince	The big annoyances of glasses are really smudges, scratches, and glare. They have an anti-glare coating but over time it does not work as well as when they were new.
[21:44]	IsambardPrince	The trivex lenses tend to be thinner than polycarbonate so I'm hoping that helps reduce glare simply from the lens being thinner.
[21:52]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, Mandy is singing something from the Heavy Metal soundtrack. Probably doesn't realize it.
[21:53]	IsambardPrince	It's funny how something that was panned by the critics at the time and called puerile and juvenile and lacking taste is basically high art compared with the garbage and trash they produce now.
[21:53]	IsambardPrince	The sequel was not great.
[21:54]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/microsoft_licensing_lawsuit/
[21:54]	TR Bot	 Microsoft facing legal claim over how it sells software The Register
[21:54]	IsambardPrince	I don't think that it should have been made. The animation, the soundtrack, the story. None of it is as good as the first movie.
[21:54]	IsambardPrince	Interestingly, the game based on the sequel was one of the first batches of video games ported to Linux.
[21:55]	IsambardPrince	It came out in 2000 and basically you just bought the disc for Windows somewhere like Walmart and stuck it in the disc drive and used a Loki installer.
[21:56]	IsambardPrince	The early 2000s were not great for Linux on gaming. It was basically just take whatever they were nice enough to port. The market wasn't there. Loki went bankrupt.
[21:56]	IsambardPrince	Unfortunately it's all non-free binaries so when Linux developers do negative work (changing APIs around for no reason) those binaries degrade and eventually don't even work at all.
[21:57]	IsambardPrince	Ubuntu was the first distribution I had where Loki games stopped working right. But it was relatively easy to fix for a while.
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[21:57]	IsambardPrince	I made my own custom kernels and removed Pulseaudio and replaced ALSA by patching in OSS. The out of tree modules.
[21:58]	IsambardPrince	OSSv4 was much better than ALSA.
[21:58]	IsambardPrince	It has a number of advantages, mostly it does mixing in the kernel where it belongs.
[21:58]	IsambardPrince	And doesn't depend on anything that Microsoft-affiliated crackpots wrote.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	Which have a habit of malfunctioning badly.
[21:59]	IsambardPrince	To this day.
● May 13
[22:01]	psydruid	https://old.reddit.com/r/microsoft/comments/1klnui7/microsoft_lays_off_6000/
[22:01]	TR Bot	 Microsoft lays off 6,000 : microsoft
[22:01]	psydruid	the more the merrier
[22:12]	MinceR	OSSv4 couldn't be part of Linux because it was proprietary until 2007
[22:18]	MinceR	https://images.apina.biz/full/206959.jpeg
[22:18]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/ai_junk_science_papers/
[22:18]	TR Bot	 AI paper mills are swamping science with garbage studies The Register
[22:20]	admfubar	https://xkcd.com/3088/
[22:20]	TR Bot	Deposition
[22:35]	Sompi	https://forum.mxlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=84698
[22:35]	TR Bot	 The free software has a problem. - MX Linux Forum
[22:38]	admfubar	https://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=353829
[22:38]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard The Register
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[23:06]	admfubar	https://petapixel.com/2025/05/09/this-is-the-first-ai-video-to-be-transferred-onto-film-laszlo-gaal/
[23:06]	TR Bot	is the First AI Video to be Transferred Onto Film | PetaPixel
[23:25]	MinceR	https://apina.biz/178169.jpg?mode=sfw
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[23:38]	IsambardPrince	I don't know what audio system ChromeOS is using.
[23:38]	IsambardPrince	One that works I suppose.