●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 ●● ● Apr 16 [00:09] *nobody has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [00:09] *nobody (~nobody@nn58qcu3qngy2.irc) has joined #techrights [00:16] MinceR it's possible to cultivate plants without soil, e.g. in hydroponics [00:16] IsambardPrince https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69616357/60/1/united-states-v-state-of-illinois/ [00:16] TR Bot Declaration of Samuel J. Olson #60, Att. #1 in United States v. State of Illinois (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-01285) CourtListener.com [00:17] IsambardPrince MinceR, Interesting development. [00:17] IsambardPrince It turns out that the Illinois State Police have a database called the ORI. [00:17] MinceR :> [00:17] MinceR there's also a series of games called ori [00:20] IsambardPrince MinceR, The judge that got the case is a Biden appointee. [00:20] IsambardPrince With a wink and a nod, the State and the district court could just keep the federal government tied up at the trial court forever. [00:21] IsambardPrince The federal government is already doing a fine job of that itself, through incompetence and contempt of court. [00:21] IsambardPrince Claiming it doesn't have to participate in Discovery because "this is a legal matter". [00:21] IsambardPrince Whatever that means. [00:21] IsambardPrince That's already cost them at least 6 weeks./ [00:23] IsambardPrince MinceR, This is a legal matter, and being the legal matter that it is, we are not required to participate in formalities like due process. - /s Pam "Bondo" [00:23] MinceR :> [00:23] MinceR one wouldn't want to get any due process in their legal matter [00:24] IsambardPrince That would be like the infamous chocolate in the peanut butter, or is it peanut butter in the chocolate debate. [00:24] IsambardPrince And ain't nobody got time for that. [00:28] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJnklyxbcL8 [00:28] TR Bot https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=dJnklyxbcL8 [00:28] TR Bot nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev | Making sure you're not a bot! [00:28] IsambardPrince "Archer - What What Pirate Virus" [00:48] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HErSYtCSNXs [00:48] TR Bot https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HErSYtCSNXs [00:48] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=HErSYtCSNXs ) [00:51] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqErQ1sn74k [00:51] TR Bot https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=rqErQ1sn74k [00:51] TR Bot invidious.baczek.me | John Williams Conducts "Imperial March" at 90 Years Old | National Symphony Orchestra - Invidious [00:51] IsambardPrince MinceR, At the Kennedy Center. [00:51] IsambardPrince How fitting. [00:52] MinceR :> [00:54] IsambardPrince MinceR, Trump appointed himself as the chairman of the board of the Kennedy Center. [00:54] IsambardPrince Now nobody respectable will even perform there. [00:55] IsambardPrince They just have Kid Rock and the "Walking Talking Pile of Shit" Ted Nugent. [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] IsambardPrince I suppose that there's only so many times you can get anyone there to see "Cat Scratch Fever" so they can go ahead and close it now. [00:55] MinceR MICROS~1's subtitler thinks NuGet is spelled "Nugent" [00:55] MinceR every single time [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights ● Apr 16 [01:40] IsambardPrince https://www.amazon.com/Cordless-Pressure-Bushless-Rechargeable-Adjustment-dp-B0DFLMRP76/dp/B0DFLMRP76 [01:40] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-Amazon.com [01:40] IsambardPrince Why does this suggest power washing your dog? [01:41] nobody is this some joke, or what you're talking about? [01:42] IsambardPrince https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/aplus-media-library-service-media/760b3c86-d172-4a9a-9c64-b20d80751360.__CR0,0,1464,600_PT0_SX1464_V1___.jpg [01:45] nobody no clue [01:51] nobody continued the hackjob for alternative toolchain support with tinycc [01:52] nobody i think entire industry heavily regressed against POSIX and ANSI standardization [01:52] IsambardPrince I had to buy another car washer. [01:52] IsambardPrince These things are just cheaply made. They never seem to last more than a year. [01:53] nobody well, i thought this is a tech-channel concerned with free software, patents, vendor malice [01:53] IsambardPrince But they go for about $30-40 and so I'm out there washing the car a few times each month. If they last two washes, they paid for themselves already. ● Apr 16 [02:19] *lxo has quit (connection closed) [02:23] *lxo (~lxo@5fjr6mciunrme.irc) has joined #techrights [02:24] *lxo has quit (connection closed) [02:26] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:26] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [02:33] TR News Google layoffs https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/google-layoffs-may-hit-these-teams-in-india/articleshow/120299749.cms [02:33] TR Bot Google layoffs may hit these teams in India - The Times of India [02:40] TR News Tinylog RFC update - call for contribution gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2025/04/15/tinylog-rfc-update-call-for-contribution/ [02:41] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1266.jpg [02:41] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1616.jpg [02:41] *lxo (~lxo@zj26zv4kdh4g2.irc) has joined #techrights [02:42] TR News News and Links Digest gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250415-0.gmi [02:44] TR News Focus, the Web and Gemini gemini://gemini.manello.space/gemlog/focus-web-gemini.gmi sounds like what Techrights published yesterday [02:45] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-16.gmi [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[02:57] TR News "It has nothing to do with blame, cause its just part of the overall game plan. It all started with Ginni, who so strangely has been kept around, for what reason, who knows." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh [02:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh ) [02:58] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2], "I have absurd wealth and I'm trying my best to give it away." [02:58] schestowitz[TR2] the usual BS ● Apr 16 [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqvr2v [03:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqvr2v ) [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] " [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] IBM is a glorified Caste systrm [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] Seriously, the first day you step into this company, your fate is already decided. It's up to them to decide how badly they want to treat you as a lower caste workers. [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] I know joining Google is hard...but still there are way better companies out there. [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] Accept your fate the day you decided to join IBM, and stop complaining. [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] This company was already mismanaged since the OS/2-Bill Gates days! And that's why they lost. And that's why they pivoted to consulting. [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] Wake up! [03:06] schestowitz[TR2] " [03:09] TR News Techrights IBM Closes Offices and Labs in the United States to Open New Ones in India https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/IBM_Closes_Offices_and_Labs_in_the_United_States_to_Open_New_On.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/IBM_Closes_Offices_and_Labs_in_the_United_States_to_Open_New_On.gmi [03:09] TR Bot Techrights IBM Closes Offices and Labs in the United States to Open New Ones in India [03:28] TR News Techrights It Used to be IBM, Now It's Microsoft (Why You Need to Fire Microsofters or CIOs Working for Microsoft) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/It_Used_to_be_IBM_Now_It_s_Microsoft_Why_You_Need_to_Fire_Micro.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/It_Used_to_be_IBM_Now_It_s_Microsoft_Why_You_Need_to_Fire_Micro.gmi [03:28] TR Bot Techrights It Used to be IBM, Now It's Microsoft (Why You Need to Fire Microsofters or CIOs Working for Microsoft) [03:30] TR News "It features over 100 weapons, a different procedurally generated city each time you play, multiple game modes, multiple difficulty modes, solo and local co-op, online leaderboards and more." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dead-pixels-from-2012-gets-a-surprise-update-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/ [03:30] TR Bot Pixels from 2012 gets a surprise update with Linux and Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [03:30] TR News "There's still quite a lot missing and to be done on it, since it's a public Alpha testing release." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/a-public-alpha-of-the-semi-immutable-manjaro-summit-linux-is-now-available/ [03:30] TR Bot public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available | GamingOnLinux [03:32] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [03:33] *oarion7 has quit (Quit: Running IRC on a charmed medieval abacus.) [03:34] TR News "This release switches from EXT4 to Btrfs as the default file system for new installations." https://9to5linux.com/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released-with-xfce-4-20-gnome-48-and-kde-plasma-6-3 [03:34] TR Bot 25.0 "Zetar" Released with Xfce 4.20, GNOME 48, and KDE Plasma 6.3 - 9to5Linux [03:34] TR News "This release also adds Rust and QEMU support for SPARC64/32, OpenCL by default, and web installer sys-root / container bootstrap support." https://9to5linux.com/t2-linux-sde-25-4-released-with-latest-amd-rocm-for-riscv-64-and-arm64 [03:34] TR Bot Linux SDE 25.4 Released with Latest AMD ROCm for RISCV-64 and ARM64 - 9to5Linux [03:34] TR News (NEW): Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Manjaro_Summit_public_Alpha_now_available.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Manjaro_Summit_public_Alpha_now_available.gmi [03:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Manjaro Summit public Alpha now available [03:35] TR News "Bosorka is an exciting action game that combines the best elements of the roguelike and shoot'em up genres with incredibly stylized top-down 3D visualization. Immerse yourself in this dark fantasy world and show the demons who's the power to be reckoned with." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/save-the-world-from-insidious-and-cruel-demons-in-bosorka-with-a-linux-version-available-now/ [03:35] TR Bot the world from insidious and cruel demons in Bosorka with a Linux version available now | GamingOnLinux [03:35] TR News Buying a board seat? finance.yahoo.com/news/panasonic-automotive-systems-joins-linux-000000333.html see http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml [03:35] TR Bot Techrights New IRS Filing Shows That the Most Dominant Company in the Linux Foundation is Microsoft [03:46] TR News "This release also comes with dedicated editions with the KDE Plasma 6.3, GNOME 47, and Xfce 4.18 desktop environments." https://9to5linux.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-41-linux-distribution-is-now-available-for-download [03:46] TR Bot Ultramarine 41 Linux Distribution Is Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux [03:46] TR News "This release ships with the Anaconda WebUI installer by default for the Fedora Workstation edition." https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-42-is-out-now-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14-and-gnome-48-desktop [03:46] TR Bot Linux 42 Is Out Now, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 Desktop - 9to5Linux [03:47] TR News "This release also introduces initial support for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.7 kernel." https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14 [03:47] TR Bot 7.1.8 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux [03:47] TR News "They promise ultra-fast boot, lightweight footprint, minimal attack surface, Docker support out of the box, and ZRAM memory management." http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/10/Once_You_Slop_You_Can_t_Stop_and_If_You_re_a_Serial_Slopper_Nob.shtml [03:47] TR Bot Techrights Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did) [03:47] TR News "The Fedora Asahi SIG and Asahi Linux projects announced the general availability of Fedora Asahi Remix 42 as the latest version of this distribution developed for Apple Silicon Macs." https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-42-released-for-apple-silicon-macs-with-kde-plasma-6-3 [03:47] TR Bot Asahi Remix 42 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.3 - 9to5Linux [03:56] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: The Typical Slopfarms and the 'Brian Fagioli Dilemma' https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Slopwatch_The_Typical_Slopfarms_and_the_Brian_Fagioli_Dilemma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Slopwatch_The_Typical_Slopfarms_and_the_Brian_Fagioli_Dilemma.gmi [03:56] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: The Typical Slopfarms and the 'Brian Fagioli Dilemma' [03:58] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, Trump sez he's going to defund NPR and PBS. [03:58] IsambardPrince NPR sez they get about 10-11% of their funding from the federal government. [03:58] IsambardPrince It will force layoffs. They'll become maybe somewhat more corrupt than they already are. [03:59] IsambardPrince But it won't end them. ● Apr 16 [04:01] schestowitz[TR2] more corruopt [04:01] schestowitz[TR2] more dependent on sucking the duds of Bill et al [04:01] schestowitz[TR2] like that piece you cited earlier [04:02] schestowitz[TR2] NPR about its sponsor, Gates [04:02] schestowitz[TR2] see https://www.cjr.org/criticism/gates-foundation-journalism-funding.php [04:02] TR Bot Journalisms Gates keepers - Columbia Journalism Review [04:21] TR News Techrights When Fedora Said It Was Looking to Integrate "AI" It Meant Promoting Microsoft's Proprietary Spyware and GPL-Violating Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/When_Fedora_Said_It_Was_Looking_to_Integrate_AI_It_Meant_Promot.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/When_Fedora_Said_It_Was_Looking_to_Integrate_AI_It_Meant_Promot.gmi [04:21] TR Bot Techrights When Fedora Said It Was Looking to Integrate "AI" It Meant Promoting Microsoft's Proprietary Spyware and GPL-Violating Slop [04:22] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], His Billness will probably be able to fund a lot of that gap... [04:23] IsambardPrince If they keep writing puff pieces and nice things. [04:27] schestowitz[TR2] right [04:27] schestowitz[TR2] but [04:27] schestowitz[TR2] it has gone in thid direction for a while [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] because NPR had prior cuts [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] even under Biden [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] i worry not that much because [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 1) selling out is a bad plan [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 2) people catch up [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 3) you lose audience [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 4) you lose trust [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 5) the site perishes [04:28] schestowitz[TR2] 6) then whoever youi sold out to sees little "returns" [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] 7) your sugar daddy leaves [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] 8) you shut down [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] the same for LLMs [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] it's happening right now to Quartz [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] they fired almostall he staff [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] (think linux.com) [04:29] schestowitz[TR2] then pos LLM slop [04:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Maybe run the piece about Bill's Casio watch again. [04:31] IsambardPrince He's just like us, complete with the Mercedes that his wife wouldn't recognize him in as he slipped out of the office after 1 hour work (screaming at people) every day, so he could pay women for sex. [04:31] IsambardPrince Don't we all have the second Mercedes and 5 hour work week? [04:32] IsambardPrince I would love to be paid that much for screaming at people until, while it was an open secret where I was going in the other Mercedes every day, nobody cared because at least it was over with for that day. [04:32] IsambardPrince "I just couldn't trust what we had anymore!" -MALINDA [04:32] IsambardPrince After 26 years of THAT and Epstein. [04:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], The way it works for rich people, the billionaires, is, you need to project how "normal" you are, when you aren't. [04:33] IsambardPrince The spouse becomes an accessory, a necessary evil. [04:34] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Eyes Wide Shut was probably a huge understatement of how these people actually are in private. [04:35] IsambardPrince They have those things like Bohemian Grove. [04:35] IsambardPrince Alex Jones got in and filmed some of that and they fucking destroyed him for it. [04:37] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDM60WEYGRM [04:37] TR Bot https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=uDM60WEYGRM [04:37] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=uDM60WEYGRM ) [04:37] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], They even tried to take his cat in his bankruptcy. [04:37] IsambardPrince They demanded his pet cat. [04:37] IsambardPrince It was supposedly a $2,700 cat or something. [04:41] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I told my mom some of this. [04:42] IsambardPrince She's like "They demanded his cat? What were they going to do with his cat?" [04:42] IsambardPrince I said, "Certainly nothing good." [04:45] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: draft? [04:45] IsambardPrince Yeah [04:46] schestowitz[TR2] maybe we can take gulagboy's dog [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] but he's having gut issues [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] when we win the case against gulgboy [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] and he cannot pay [04:47] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml [04:48] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://techrights.org/drafts/1.shtml ) [04:48] schestowitz[TR2] same password: draft; 7501 [04:49] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Neighbors fighting again. [04:49] IsambardPrince Something about her lying about out looking for a job. [04:49] IsambardPrince LOL [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] i see [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, have a look [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] give some inpout [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] i can and will add [04:50] schestowitz[TR2] yoiur thoughtds [04:50] IsambardPrince Now something about her smoking all his weed. [04:50] IsambardPrince This sounds like Lobsta before the Lobstabotomy. [04:52] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Like the Bobs in Office Space asking "So what is it...you'd say it is....you do here?" [04:52] IsambardPrince :) [04:53] IsambardPrince Computing is entering a world dominated by two platforms: Linux and Windows, [04:53] IsambardPrince More like exiting the world dominated by Windows. [04:53] IsambardPrince It's a remaining value product that is hardly even tended to. [04:53] IsambardPrince Farmed out to India and on life support, working less and less each time they send out updates, that shuffle around what's broken. Assuming you don't get hit with one where the computer won't even start that time. [04:54] IsambardPrince Even in the Windows XP era, Windows at least wasn't anywhere near as temperamental as it is now. [04:56] IsambardPrince When you're in the C-Suite, you apparently see things like in-house testers as expendable, so the product can push updates that don't even barely work. Almost everyone I know that uses Windows has had to become proficient at spending all their time backing up files, planning that it could go out at any minute. [04:56] IsambardPrince Then hours restoring from the backup image every so often. [04:56] IsambardPrince Truly modern computing doesn't work like this, where the OS is so rotten and horrible that you have to plan on it failing outright at least once a year. [04:57] IsambardPrince We left that era a while ago, in Free Software and otherwise (Chrome OS and Mac OS). [04:58] IsambardPrince People want one thing from Windows and that's for the version their particular workload depends on to stay running. I know an optometrist that still has Windows XP on an airgapped computer. [04:58] IsambardPrince He says the vendor refuses to fix the software so it works on a supported release of Windows, because they can hold it over his head as a reason to buy a new $40,000 machine. [04:59] IsambardPrince Meanwhile, supported versions of Windows have definitely changed enough so that they can't run that program. Why? [04:59] IsambardPrince Microsoft paid to throw a lot of trash on top of a system that was basically working in the past 20 years. ● Apr 16 [05:00] IsambardPrince Why would you pay thousands of people to deface something that basically worked and may need a few updates here and there? [05:01] IsambardPrince I figure if they just kept developing something that was basically Windows XP, people would still go along with it. [05:01] IsambardPrince You know, does process scheduling and memory management have to be better than XP? Yes, does sound and graphics APIs? Sure. [05:01] IsambardPrince But like over 90% of what they've done since XP is just trash. [05:02] IsambardPrince And it's causing the platform to age badly and in ways they can't even hide anymore. [05:02] IsambardPrince I would literally rather deal with a mid 90s system with one of the OEM releases of Windows 95 than what they've created now. [05:04] IsambardPrince We've moved out of the Windows world. You go to Walmart even, they have more Chromebooks and even a Macbook. [05:04] IsambardPrince Over 50% of the laptops there are not running Windows. [05:04] IsambardPrince So if they're being almost forced out of the market even at the "cheapo bargain basement shit" level, what does that say? [05:04] IsambardPrince When not even Walmart customers will tolerate it, increasingly. [05:05] IsambardPrince Walmart has never been beholden to Microsoft. They'll sell whatever they can make good margins on and that people want. [05:06] IsambardPrince If the market for consumer products wasn't shifting to Chrome OS and Mac OS, then it would still be a bunch of poorly designed clunky PC laptops with bad firmware, Windows, and two dozen pieces of bloatware to try to recoup some of the licensing fees. [05:07] IsambardPrince I just don't see Microsoft ever recovering in the consumer market. They're treading water and trying not to go under on the low end of the market now. [05:08] IsambardPrince It's sort of like how empires die, you know, like the British, or the US one. [05:08] IsambardPrince First you control or influence 80% of the world. [05:08] IsambardPrince Then there are some setbacks. [05:08] IsambardPrince But people still fear or respect you. For a time. [05:08] IsambardPrince Then next thing you know, you have an island and you're still finding new ways to lose. [05:09] IsambardPrince When you have a brexit and then you have a close call with Scotland, you know. [05:09] IsambardPrince And then they want another go at it. [05:11] IsambardPrince If you look at Microsoft in the last 15 years, it was clear even in the Ballmer era that they knew they had to be something else, they just couldn't figure out what. [05:14] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/politics/video/agents-smash-car-window-undocumented-man-digvid [05:14] TR Bot My lawyer is on the way: Cellphone video shows agents smash window of undocumented mans car | CNN Politics [05:15] IsambardPrince Stop, hammer time! [05:15] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [05:15] schestowitz[TR2] adding [05:18] IsambardPrince https://abcnews.go.com/US/columbia-student-mohsen-mahdawi-arrested-ice-naturalization-interview/story?id=120829883 [05:19] TR Bot Columbia students naturalization interview before ICE arrest was last step to citizenship, his lawyer says - ABC News [05:19] IsambardPrince Don't tear up a university and think you get to stay. [05:19] IsambardPrince If you want to protest something, the time to do that is not before you're a citizen. [05:20] IsambardPrince If you have any opinions before you're a US citizen I suggest you keep them to yourself and don't go blabbing about them on Facebook or something, or showing up at rowdy protests. [05:23] TR News Techrights Linux.com as Spamfarm of the Linux Foundation, Partner of the Gates Foundation https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Linux_com_as_Spamfarm_of_the_Linux_Foundation_Partner_of_the_Ga.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Linux_com_as_Spamfarm_of_the_Linux_Foundation_Partner_of_the_Ga.gmi [05:23] TR Bot Techrights Linux.com as Spamfarm of the Linux Foundation, Partner of the Gates Foundation [05:25] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: typo check? [05:28] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [05:33] IsambardPrince Looks okay. [05:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I'd say tariffs could be the death of Microsoft in the consumer space. [05:34] IsambardPrince People already want something robust enough that it will work for 8-10 years, and you don't get that with Windows hardware. Quite often, the hardware can't even make it more than 3-4 years before you get broken keys or the computer stops working reliably. [05:35] IsambardPrince If people start facing massive tariffs that significantly increase the cost of a computer, they don't want to pay that tariff every 3-4 years. They want a system that lasts 8-10. [05:35] IsambardPrince We've seen what massive consumption taxes have done in the rest of the world, that has them. [05:35] IsambardPrince Nobody has done anything as stupid as what Trump says he's doing, to my knowledge. [05:36] IsambardPrince But consumption taxes drive down consumption. It's easier to hack around problems and use something until it falls apart than it is to keep paying onerous taxes. [05:36] *rianne (~rianne@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [05:36] *asusbox (~rianne@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [05:37] IsambardPrince It's going to be a corporate bloodbath. All of these folks that thought they'd milk Trump for tax cuts and not give a shit while he proposes things like deporting Americans he doesn't want, well, surprise assholes. You get to drown in it too. [05:38] IsambardPrince Russia responded to sanctions by replacing things they couldn't get with domestic versions that just aren't very good. [05:39] IsambardPrince Cars with no air conditioner. A "McDonalds" stand-in that I'm told is not very tasty. [05:39] IsambardPrince 7% inflation on apartment rent, every month. Not year, month. [05:39] IsambardPrince And even that might be mild compared with the recession Trump causes here. [05:42] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] sambardPrince> It's going to be a corporate bloodbath. [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] future tense [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] why? because the bank let's them borrow more? [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] look at https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/04/Visualising_About_0_7_Trillion_Dollars_of_Debt_in_Supposedly_Su.shtml [05:43] TR Bot Techrights Visualising About 0.7 Trillion Dollars of Debt in Supposedly "Successful" Tech Companies [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] it's even more now [05:43] schestowitz[TR2] that was 2024 [05:47] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:47] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:50] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], The entire State budget for Illinois is about $55 billion per year. So you're talking about more than 13 years of Illinois State budgets between a dozen companies, worth of debt, accruing interest. [05:50] IsambardPrince And most in just the 5 most indebted companies. [05:51] IsambardPrince That's a lot of money, and much of it gets thrown away on vanilty projects and failed mergers. [05:51] IsambardPrince *vanity ● Apr 16 [06:03] TR News Techrights Reporting Facts About Violence Against Women Deserves Awards, Not Frivolous Lawsuits and Threats https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Reporting_Facts_About_Violence_Against_Women_Deserves_Awards_No.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Reporting_Facts_About_Violence_Against_Women_Deserves_Awards_No.gmi [06:03] TR Bot Techrights Reporting Facts About Violence Against Women Deserves Awards, Not Frivolous Lawsuits and Threats [06:03] *rianne (~rianne@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [06:03] *asusbox (~rianne@jcfiaarnjjqje.irc) has joined #techrights [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: check iss bing still hides cantrell? [06:05] schestowitz[TR2] *if [06:09] *\join_su1line has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:14] IsambardPrince https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Joseph+Cantrell [06:14] TR Bot Joseph Cantrell - Search News [06:14] IsambardPrince No results in Bing News. [06:14] IsambardPrince Someone probably suppressed it there. [06:14] IsambardPrince https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=Joseph+Cantrell+Microsoft [06:14] TR Bot Joseph Cantrell Microsoft - Search News [06:15] IsambardPrince https://www.bing.com/search?q=Joseph+Cantrell+Microsoft+stabbing [06:15] TR Bot Cantrell Microsoft stabbing - Search [06:15] IsambardPrince In Bing Search, you get the news articles. [06:15] IsambardPrince Someone suppressed it in News but not Search. [06:19] *\join_subline (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights [06:28] TR News Techrights Microsoft Down From 100% to 10% in Myanmar/Burma https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Microsoft_Down_From_100_to_10_in_Myanmar_Burma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Microsoft_Down_From_100_to_10_in_Myanmar_Burma.gmi [06:28] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Down From 100% to 10% in Myanmar/Burma [06:29] *\join_subline has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:31] TR News "G12 ICT Computer Programming STALLMAN" Haha. https://www.facebook.com/alexismaravillas19/videos/g12-ict-stallman-sy-2024-2025/1753494658881656/ [06:31] TR Bot NO TITLE [06:31] *\join_subline (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights [06:32] TR News "Requiring "due process of law" is the method used by US law to make the government demonstrate grounds for decisions that deny a person's rights. But a proclamation by an official is no proof, and citing it is no real process." https://www.stallman.org/notes/current.html#14_April_2025_(A_ruling_in_the_Mahmoud_Khalil_case) [06:32] TR Bot 2025: January - April Political Notes [06:32] TR News "If courts accept that as satisfying the requirement for "due process", due process becomes a sham and a pretense." https://www.stallman.org/notes/current.html#14_April_2025_(A_ruling_in_the_Mahmoud_Khalil_case) ● Apr 16 [07:03] TR News Techrights LLM Slop Says Slop is "coming for white-collar jobs. Microsofts layoffs are just the start" https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/LLM_Slop_Says_Slop_is_coming_for_white_collar_jobs_Microsoft_s_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/LLM_Slop_Says_Slop_is_coming_for_white_collar_jobs_Microsoft_s_.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Techrights LLM Slop Says Slop is "coming for white-collar jobs. Microsofts layoffs are just the start" [07:11] TR News Research Advisory Board has 2 people from IBM, at least one from Microsoft. This is BIG BUSINESS, not research. [07:11] TR News That is _LF_ Research Advisory Board, [07:12] TR News At least they moved Microsoft Edelman (Robin) out of https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership [07:12] TR Bot Leadership | Linux Foundation [07:13] TR News In the BoD, "Linux" Foundation has just inserted ANOTHER Microsoft employee, David Rudin [07:14] TR News Who used to be President of the Joint Development Foundation https://jointdevelopment.org/announcement/2018/12/11/the-joint-development-foundation-joins-the-linux-foundation-family-to-drive-adoption-of-open-source-and-standards/ [07:14] TR Bot The Joint Development Foundation Joins the Linux Foundation Family to Drive Adoption of Open Source and Standards - Joint Development Foundation [07:15] TR News See https://jointdevelopment.org/start-project/ https://jointdevelopment.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/94/2024/02/JDF-v5.0.1-updated.pdf [07:15] TR Bot Start a Project - Joint Development Foundation [07:16] IsambardPrince $38 for groceries for the next 4 days or so. [07:16] IsambardPrince Need to use up a lot of sofritos base. [07:17] TR News Inactive since exactly a year ago? https://jointdevelopment.org/news/ [07:17] TR Bot News & PR - Joint Development Foundation [07:17] schestowitz[TR2] IsambardPrince: maybe you don't try hard enough [07:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Culligan took action against Brita in response to Brita's patent aggression. [07:22] IsambardPrince Culligan is now saying that they might have infringed on the Brita patent, but Brita designed the patent in question, and the test from the standards authority that rates the filters, so that it's impossible to meet the standard without infringing on the patent. [07:22] IsambardPrince So Brita won on the patent infringement, now Culligan is going after them for antitrust reasons. [07:22] IsambardPrince It's become a full scale war between water filter companies. [07:30] IsambardPrince I wonder if this is why the Walmart Great Value Lead Reduction filters disappeared from the shelves. They did an okay job on that I guess, but it was not a carbon block design like Brita's patent described, just densely packed granules. [07:30] IsambardPrince They tended to stop up because of air pockets, but you could tap them with something to get them going again. [07:31] IsambardPrince Now Walmart is back with some new "basic" pitcher filter that fits Brita systems, but different supplier and it's just the standard taste and odor claims. [07:31] IsambardPrince They paid a bunch of fake reviewers and maybe even some chaffbot spew. [07:31] IsambardPrince Many people who reviewed it that didn't get a "free product" gave it one or two stars and say it stops up. [07:32] IsambardPrince For some reason, Brita's filters don't stop up and the other ones seem to. [07:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], I acquired several good movies from a library sale today. [07:33] IsambardPrince Paid $2 each and they list for almost $40 each on Amazon. [07:34] IsambardPrince I can't believe someone threw out Criterion blu rays of anything! [07:34] IsambardPrince And there's no scratches on any of them. [07:38] TR News Techrights The "Gold" Rule: Taking Money for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing Under the "Linux" Banner https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/The_Gold_Rule_Taking_Money_for_Reputation_Laundering_and_Openwa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/The_Gold_Rule_Taking_Money_for_Reputation_Laundering_and_Openwa.gmi [07:38] TR Bot Techrights The "Gold" Rule: Taking Money for Reputation Laundering and Openwashing Under the "Linux" Banner [07:41] IsambardPrince How does a TV that nobody ever touches get handprints? [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] i opted out [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] 23 years ago [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] that was CRT [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] heavy but small TV [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] it cost about 80 pounds in dixons [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] which would now be pcworld [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] and selling only "flat" and "smart" [07:42] schestowitz[TR2] if they sold only flat and stupid, I'd call it "Lozza" [07:43] IsambardPrince Oh my God. I had an HD CRT and got rid of it. [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] when? [07:44] IsambardPrince It was so heavy that it was basically hernia inducing. [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] i gave the council my old CRT before pandemic started [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] around 2019 [07:44] IsambardPrince Oh, maybe 15 years ago. [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] it was a Dell computer monitor [07:44] IsambardPrince If it wasn't for the weight of it, I'd have never gotten rid of it. [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] it no longer worked, it got so bad it would make noises anf flicker [07:44] IsambardPrince It had an amazing picture. [07:44] IsambardPrince Just absolutely blows these LED screens out of the water. [07:44] schestowitz[TR2] now it's hard to find CRTs [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] probably still possible, but i have seen none in ages [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] i used to work in a computer store as a teen [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] back then flat screens were: [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] 1) expensive [07:45] IsambardPrince I'm sure I got one of the last CRTs they sold. [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] 2) of low picture quality [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] 3) not known to many peolple [07:45] IsambardPrince I bought it at KMart in like 2005 I think. [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] it was almost 25 years ago [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] with many patents on such screen [07:45] schestowitz[TR2] LG was among the frontrunners (south korea) [07:45] IsambardPrince Flat screens still have not caught up with CRT on quality in some ways. [07:46] IsambardPrince The contrast for example. [07:46] IsambardPrince And the color accuracy. [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] digital ones make up by high res [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] not sure how to compare them [07:46] IsambardPrince My Blu Ray copy of Spirited Away looked so much more vivid on the HD CRT set. [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] my uni opfficer had 2 CRTs [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] very large ones [07:46] schestowitz[TR2] they could do amazing resolutions [07:46] IsambardPrince You can't even hook up a Blu Ray Player to a set like that now. [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] like 2k+ [07:47] IsambardPrince The first batch of Blu Ray Disc players had component out. [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] they make up by [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] 1) res [07:47] IsambardPrince And now it's just HDMI. [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] 2) size [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] so they make it like 4k [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] and 70 inch screen [07:47] IsambardPrince Worse, if you can even play a newer title on an older player, it will deliberately limit the resolution to 540p. [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] then tell you to sit on a couch on the other wisde of the room [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] phones are another BS [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] they may have high res [07:47] schestowitz[TR2] but they are SO TINY [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] who would want to watch a movie like this? [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] if you allocate 2 hours to watch a flick [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] then do it properly [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] with proper sound and picture [07:48] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Blu Ray was a trap. [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] it's like esting "coke" and "chips" instead of a meal [07:48] IsambardPrince They had some time bombs they never intended to let you have after they got it in your house. [07:48] IsambardPrince Like component out. [07:48] schestowitz[TR2] it's not good fore you and less enjoyable [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] my laptops still have disc [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] optical disc [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] even the one i bought months ago [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] they play - DUMBFOUNDED - music WITHOUT a nET CONNECTION! [07:49] schestowitz[TR2] NO NETFLIX OR APPLE MUSIC OR WHATEVER THEY CALL IT! [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] you can like, you know, play music [07:50] IsambardPrince Right, Blu Ray enshittified itself. [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] without wifgi or "5g" or... [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] and you can pass around the music [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] cd out [07:50] IsambardPrince In the standards documents, which most end users would never see. There was a time frame for everything, right? [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] cd in [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] plays in another machine [07:50] IsambardPrince Image Constraint Token off, until.... [07:50] schestowitz[TR2] amazing! look ma, no apps! [07:50] IsambardPrince Support Component out, until... [07:51] IsambardPrince All this nice stuff they planned to take away a few years after getting it in your home. [07:51] IsambardPrince When something has zero market share, you don't do a full frontal assault on the user and say "Buy It!" usually. [07:51] schestowitz[TR2] pose DRM [07:51] IsambardPrince You let them fall into the trap. [07:51] IsambardPrince You make a format that's very amenable to them. Then you take all the nice things away and spring the trap once it's in their home. [07:52] IsambardPrince HDMI is an objectively horrible standard. [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] now headphones [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] they want to impose DRM [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] you must be "doing something iolllegal" fopr wanting a standard "jack" [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] jack the pirate [07:52] IsambardPrince It's mainly for the DRM. [07:52] IsambardPrince Even the physical connection sucks. [07:52] IsambardPrince Tug on a cord and you break the fucking TV or a laptop. [07:52] IsambardPrince Or whatever the port is on. [07:52] schestowitz[TR2] HDMI demands perfect wire [07:53] IsambardPrince Get a kink in the cable, there's an expensive cable in the trash. [07:53] schestowitz[TR2] if the cord is slightly damaged, you get nasty effect or just blANK SCREEEN [07:53] schestowitz[TR2] which is bad for the planet [07:53] schestowitz[TR2] i have so many "bad" HDMI wires piling up [07:53] schestowitz[TR2] i avoid them with VGA any time I can [07:53] IsambardPrince To use as trip wires for if the crime boss breaks in? [07:53] IsambardPrince :D [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] "crime boss" [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] rianne loves that joke [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] i think you saidd it's a reference [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] to pop culturee somethinbgv [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] "head of crime" [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] what sort of law firm has a "head of crime" [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] makes it sound like they commit or defend crime [07:54] schestowitz[TR2] which they sort of do ^_^ [07:54] IsambardPrince Yeah, a crime boss is like Al Capone or the head of the Chicago Outfit or something. [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] anyway, about HDMI [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] you can get cheap ones [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] the issue is [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] do not move them much [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] they are flaky [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] they are also short [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] usually 1.2 m [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] not 2m [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] def. not 5m [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] we have a long one and you cannot jerk it much [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] or you lose the picture [07:55] schestowitz[TR2] waste of money [07:56] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Watching Seven Samurai. [07:56] IsambardPrince Even the criminals who raid the village in the movie are more decent than my landlord. [07:57] IsambardPrince First scene they say "Raid that village!" and the other one says they took the rice from them last harvest and if they steal again they'll have nothing left. [07:57] schestowitz[TR2] that says a lot [07:57] IsambardPrince Back when criminals wouldn't leave you with nothing because they needed more from you later. [07:57] IsambardPrince Now they don't even care. Steal it all in one go. Move on like locusts. [07:59] IsambardPrince Now they're debating over how to deal with the criminal raiders. ● Apr 16 [08:00] IsambardPrince One of them suggests that the "Magistrate" can do more than collect taxes, and then another one says all they do is show up after each raid and assess the damage, and they're useless. [08:00] IsambardPrince Seems like the government worked about as well for them as the American one works for me. [08:01] IsambardPrince They end up hiring mercenaries to protect them iirc. [08:01] IsambardPrince I doubt that's an option for dealing with the landlord. [08:01] IsambardPrince Though it would be fun. [08:03] IsambardPrince Star Trek Enterprise had an episode that was just straight up plagiarism of this movie. [08:04] IsambardPrince They replaced the raiders with Klingons. [08:04] IsambardPrince And they wanted dilithium ore. [08:04] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Something about cultural appropriation? White Savior? (Archer) [08:05] IsambardPrince "Star Trek was always woke!" Yeah, not so much. [08:09] schestowitz[TR2] TNG? [08:09] IsambardPrince TNG had some troubling episodes too. [08:09] IsambardPrince Like the black people on the ooga booga planet. [08:10] IsambardPrince That was really painful to watch. [08:10] IsambardPrince TNG had some really shitty wtf even is this episodes. [08:10] IsambardPrince Most of them were in the first couple of seasons. [08:11] IsambardPrince If Gene Roddenberry hadn't died the series would have probably been canceled shortyl after Season 2. [08:11] IsambardPrince He was in such bad shape he had his idiot lawyer making script changes which were just awful. [08:13] IsambardPrince The Writers Guild went on strike and that was the only episode that was worse than Roddenbery's stuff in the first two seasons. They needed filler so Riker got poisoned by tripping over something and getting a barb in his leg. [08:13] IsambardPrince The rest ended up being a clip show while he was in the infirmary. [08:14] IsambardPrince That episode should have just been dropped from the Blu Ray release. It's a waste of space. [08:15] IsambardPrince Even before I knew that episode was because of the WGA strike I said "WTF happened that they did this?" and actually stopped and googled the name of the episode. [08:15] IsambardPrince It was that bad. [08:17] IsambardPrince What's kind of hilarious is that I'm armed well enough to take on all of the bandits in this movie, easily, by myself. [08:17] IsambardPrince But they're all terrified of them. [08:19] IsambardPrince That's what happens when you bring a sword to a bullpup rifle fight. [08:19] IsambardPrince :) [08:20] TR News (NEW): Fedora Magazine Reports https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Fedora_Magazine.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Fedora_Magazine.gmi [08:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Fedora Magazine Reports [08:21] TR News Techrights In Some Countries the Largest OEMs Already Dump Microsoft Windows https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/In_Some_Countries_the_Largest_OEMs_Already_Dump_Microsoft_Windo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/In_Some_Countries_the_Largest_OEMs_Already_Dump_Microsoft_Windo.gmi [08:21] TR Bot Techrights In Some Countries the Largest OEMs Already Dump Microsoft Windows [08:24] TR News The PHOTO in this 'ARTICLE' (SPAM) is 8 YEARS old https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/13/jim-zemlin-on-taking-a-portfolio-approach-to-linux-foundation-projects/ 2017 https://www.facesofopensource.com/jim-zemlin/ [08:24] TR Bot Zemlin on taking a 'portfolio approach' to Linux Foundation projects | TechCrunch [08:24] TR Bot Jim Zemlin - Faces of Open Source [08:24] TR News What kind of person says, "use this photo of me from 8 YEARS ago"? A narcissist. http://techrights.org/o/2019/07/31/jim-zemlin-open-source-loves-microsoft/ [08:24] TR Bot Jim Zemlin: Open Source Loves Microsoft [08:25] TR News (NEW): The 6 Linux distros I recommend most for gaming in 2025 - including my favorite https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/The_6_Linux_distros_I_recommend_most_for_gaming_in_2025_includi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/The_6_Linux_distros_I_recommend_most_for_gaming_in_2025_includi.gmi [08:25] TR Bot Tux Machines The 6 Linux distros I recommend most for gaming in 2025 - including my favorite [08:25] TR News How did GNU/Linux users allow such people to govern the "community" and invite Microsoft to "herd" us? [08:25] *cblinux (~user@5wa7ex3gch4eg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:26] TR News In the past 7 years he blogged only ONCE. A VERY busy man! https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/author/jim-zemlin [08:26] TR Bot Blog | Linux Foundation | Jim Zemlin [08:26] TR News What does he do all day? Begging Bill Gates for $? https://techrights.org/n/2024/03/17/Jim_Zemlin_Says_Linux_Foundation_Should_Combat_Fraud_Together_W.shtml [08:26] TR Bot Techrights Jim Zemlin Says Linux Foundation Should Combat Fraud Together With the Gates Foundation. Maybe They Should Start With Jim's Wife. [08:28] TR News Nithya Ruff went to work for GAFAM. Because of COURSE she would. The LF BoD is a gallery of the greedy and sellouts, deplorable people who hate the "F" word (freedom). [08:28] TR News So the IMPLCIT rule in today's "IT" industry is, be UNETHICAL... or PERISH. [08:29] TR News The LF enforces this by slapping a CoC or prick in your face if you no longer cheer for the greedy and corrupt. How is that CoC in WINE (added by Microsoft as condition with Mono) working out so far? Too early to CoC-slap? http://techrights.org/o/2020/01/03/linux-kernel-code-of-conduct-committee/ [08:29] TR Bot The Linux Foundation's Linux Kernel Code of Conduct (CoC) Committee is Now Officially Corporate [08:30] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu Budgie 25.04 release notes https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Ubuntu_Budgie_25_04_release_notes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Ubuntu_Budgie_25_04_release_notes.gmi [08:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu Budgie 25.04 release notes [08:31] TR News The CoC is for people, who have rights, but not for corporations. Because corporations do whatever the hell they want. The people who govern them are immune from CoC; they just hide behind the corporation/s they own. http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/16/Illuminating_Microsoft_s_Code_of_Conduct_CoC_Hypocrisy.shtml [08:31] TR Bot Techrights Illuminating Microsoft's Code of Conduct (CoC) Hypocrisy [08:31] TR News This is the man who became joint owner of "Linux" Foundation instead of being sent to prison http://techrights.org/o/2020/08/14/control-but-no-accountability/ [08:31] TR Bot High-Level Criminals Associate Privacy With Crime Because They Want Privacy Only for Themselves (Control But No Accountability) [08:32] TR News Linux is the kernel. It's a project. LF is a company. Dominated by Microsoft. http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml [08:32] TR Bot Techrights New IRS Filing Shows That the Most Dominant Company in the Linux Foundation is Microsoft [08:36] TR News LF cannot even HOST Linux, it OUTSOURCED it!! https://opensourcewatch.beehiiv.com/p/akamai-becomes-the-official-distributor-of-the-linux-kernelw-post [08:36] TR Bot Akamai becomes the official distributor of the Linux kernel [08:36] TR News and killed off mailing lists https://techrights.org/n/2024/11/10/Linux_Foundation_We_ve_Shut_Down_the_Mailing_Lists_and_Fired_Ev.shtml [08:36] TR Bot Techrights Linux Foundation: We've Shut Down the Mailing Lists and Fired Everyone at Linux.com So We Can Spend Money Buying Puff Pieces and Paying Clickfraud/Spammers [08:37] TR News Which begs the question, what does LF actually DO all day? [08:37] TR News Insiders are Microsoft loyalists, so do not expect whistleblowers http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/16/Former_Microsofter_Jason_Perlow_Left_Linux_Foundation.shtml [08:37] TR Bot Techrights 'Former' Microsofter Jason Perlow Left Linux Foundation [08:40] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End Of Life activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Ubuntu_20_04_LTS_End_Of_Life_activate_ESM_to_keep_your_fleet_of.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Ubuntu_20_04_LTS_End_Of_Life_activate_ESM_to_keep_your_fleet_of.gmi [08:40] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu 20.04 LTS End Of Life activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational [08:43] TR News (NEW): PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/PureOS_Crimson_Development_Report_March_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/PureOS_Crimson_Development_Report_March_2025.gmi [08:43] TR Bot Tux Machines PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 [08:46] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Fish tonight maybe. I once lived on baked fish and baked potatoes, for almost six months. [08:46] TR News (NEW): So Long, ArcoLinux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/So_Long_ArcoLinux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/So_Long_ArcoLinux.gmi [08:46] TR Bot Tux Machines So Long, ArcoLinux [08:50] TR News (NEW): T2 is a source-based meta distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/T2_is_a_source_based_meta_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/T2_is_a_source_based_meta_distribution.gmi [08:50] TR Bot Tux Machines T2 is a source-based meta distribution [08:57] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/15/style/american-psycho-morning-routine-25-years/index.html [08:57] TR Bot American Psycho at 25: Patrick Batemans influence is everywhere online | CNN [08:57] IsambardPrince I have to admit that I did start listening to Huey Lewis and The News pretty much because of this movie. [08:58] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi [08:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations ● Apr 16 [09:03] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Inflation really digs away at Johnny Cage's line with Goro in Mortal Kombat. (1995) [09:03] TR News (NEW): More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/More_than_fifteen_free_software_socials_to_be_held_globally.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/More_than_fifteen_free_software_socials_to_be_held_globally.gmi [09:03] TR Bot Tux Machines More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally [09:03] IsambardPrince "Those were $500 sunglasses, asshole!" [09:04] IsambardPrince Now I wear $500 sunglasses. Insurance covers a couple hundred because they're prescription, transitions. [09:04] IsambardPrince Back then $500 for sunglasses made you a douche. You know, that was serious money, like $1500-1600 probably, and they might not have even been medically necessary. [09:05] IsambardPrince CPI sez $1,063.87 [09:05] IsambardPrince But I call bullshit. [09:06] IsambardPrince I don't know of anything that has ONLY doubled in price since 1995. [09:06] IsambardPrince A decent car will set you back at least triple. [09:06] IsambardPrince Food will set you back 4-5 times as much, depending on at home or eating out. [09:06] IsambardPrince Rent is about 4.5 times higher. [09:07] IsambardPrince I have no idea what's doubled since 1995. [09:07] IsambardPrince On a bad day, a gallon of gas maybe set you back $1. That's probably gone up the lease, aside from that spike a couple years ago. [09:07] IsambardPrince It's sitting at $3.59 right now. [09:08] IsambardPrince Nothing has only doubled. [09:08] IsambardPrince So what the hell are they even basing CPI on anyway? [09:08] IsambardPrince Because it can't be anything real. [09:08] TR News (NEW): Freedom Means Knowing Whats Installed https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Freedom_Means_Knowing_What_s_Installed.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Freedom_Means_Knowing_What_s_Installed.gmi [09:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Freedom Means Knowing Whats Installed [09:08] IsambardPrince Just some government lies, and you know, they didn't invent those for Trump, they just got a lot worse. [09:11] IsambardPrince It seems like people in their 20s are mostly aging terribly these days. [09:11] IsambardPrince Those energy drinks and drugs and crap are really quite toxic. [09:12] IsambardPrince Good thing Retarded Fucking Kennedy Jr. will make them take the fluoride out of the water in Indiana. That is responsible for every health problem imaginable, you know. :P [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] he is a genius [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] with zero relevant qualifications [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] like so much of this admin [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] the imp. thing is loyalty to the cheeto criminal [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] recipe fo disaster\ [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] if you oppose insurrection, then you do not qualify for cabiney [09:18] schestowitz[TR2] *cabinet [09:19] TR News Wow, took him EIGHT years to just SUBMIT it. https://jmtd.net/log/phd/submitted/ 3 years should be ENOUGH. [09:19] TR Bot jmtd log phd submitted [09:20] TR News But he worked for Red Hat (IBM) at the same time. Hard to see what a phd, if he gets it, will get him inside IBM. IBM does NOT value "Expensive" staff. It looks for ways to REPLACE them. [09:21] TR News What Desktop PCs Need https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/15/what-desktop-pcs-need/ [09:21] TR Bot What Desktop PCs Need etbe - Russell Coker [09:23] TR News Storage Trends 2025 https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/15/storage-trends-2025/ "The cheapest 500G devices are $42.50 for a 512G SATA SSD and $45 for a 500G NVMe." [09:23] TR Bot Storage Trends 2025 etbe - Russell Coker [09:23] TR News AsioHeaders 1.30.2-1 on CRAN: New Upstream http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/15#asioheaders_1.30.2-1 [09:23] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [09:32] TR News (NEW): NX AppHub Introduced as Nitruxs Minimalist AppImage Solution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/NX_AppHub_Introduced_as_Nitrux_s_Minimalist_AppImage_Solution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/NX_AppHub_Introduced_as_Nitrux_s_Minimalist_AppImage_Solution.gmi [09:32] TR Bot Tux Machines NX AppHub Introduced as Nitruxs Minimalist AppImage Solution [09:33] TR News So today marks two weeks since last nastygram in the post - is Microsoft budget low now? Getting "cold feet" about bullying critics? [09:35] TR News Ludaro https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ludaro-puts-a-roguelike-deck-building-twist-on-the-classic-board-game-ludo/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:35] TR Bot puts a roguelike deck-building twist on the classic board game Ludo | GamingOnLinux [09:35] TR News Baldur's Gate 3 https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/the-final-baldurs-gate-3-patch-is-out-now-with-cross-play-photo-mode-new-subclasses/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:35] TR Bot final Baldur's Gate 3 patch is out now with cross-play, photo mode, new subclasses | GamingOnLinux [09:36] IsambardPrince I would say I had some decent role models even if they were not my parents. [09:36] IsambardPrince Even at the Wesleyan church I liked the pastor there. [09:36] TR News "Real time chaotic strategy simplified to make it work well on a gamepad?" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/d-o-t-defence-is-a-fast-paced-gamepad-friendly-rts-now-on-steam-with-co-op-and-versus-modes/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:36] TR Bot Defence is a fast-paced gamepad-friendly RTS now on Steam with co-op and versus modes | GamingOnLinux [09:36] IsambardPrince It didn't make you some sort of Nazi to say you went to church back then. [09:36] schestowitz[TR2] does it now? [09:36] IsambardPrince Today that's almost a given as soon as someone says they're Christian. [09:37] IsambardPrince They moderate ones have lost members every year. [09:37] schestowitz[TR2] who were your role models? [09:37] schestowitz[TR2] HK? [09:37] IsambardPrince The extremist ones are growing. [09:38] TR News "Aquapark Tycoon from Boxelware, who previously made the space sim Avorion, is an upcoming water theme park building game and a new trailer is out now." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/i-cant-wait-to-send-people-flying-in-aquapark-tycoon-new-trailer-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:38] TR Bot can't wait to send people flying in Aquapark Tycoon - new trailer out now | GamingOnLinux [09:38] IsambardPrince Part of this disassociation from church is because it's getting too extreme, intolerant, disgusting. [09:38] schestowitz[TR2] "jesus Akbar" [09:38] schestowitz[TR2] (*the greatest") [09:38] IsambardPrince It was not normal for this to happen back then. [09:38] *phebus has quit (Quit: POKE 1,0) [09:38] TR News "The future of Linux distributions in many ways seems like immutable may be a good path, and now the Manjaro team want you to test out their own version of it with Manjaro Summit." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/a-public-alpha-of-the-semi-immutable-manjaro-summit-linux-is-now-available/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:38] TR Bot public alpha of the 'semi-immutable' Manjaro Summit Linux is now available | GamingOnLinux [09:38] IsambardPrince Right, it's getting less popular, but what it still has, has been distilled down to the worst bigots and nutcases. [09:39] schestowitz[TR2] and now they "all get together" to check the "h**en"? [09:39] TR News "Bosorka is an action roguelike where a young witch saves the world from insidious and cruel demons." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/save-the-world-from-insidious-and-cruel-demons-in-bosorka-with-a-linux-version-available-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:39] TR Bot the world from insidious and cruel demons in Bosorka with a Linux version available now | GamingOnLinux [09:40] IsambardPrince Funny you should mention the Culleys. [09:40] IsambardPrince Gonad's son is in jail waiting on going to prison again. [09:40] IsambardPrince Like all good serial pains in the ass, he demanded a jury. [09:40] schestowitz[TR2] Kyle? [09:41] IsambardPrince So they can hear all about his 20 pages of felonies and misdemeanors. [09:41] TR News "Electronic Arts (EA) announced that both MySims and MySims Kingdom have been upgraded with "some things we have been working on for a long time" which includes Steam Deck support for both titles." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/mysims-and-mysims-kingdom-from-ea-get-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:41] TR Bot and MySims Kingdom from EA get Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [09:41] IsambardPrince Michael [09:41] schestowitz[TR2] will cheeto sms him to "self-deport NOW"? [09:41] IsambardPrince I wish. [09:41] TR News "Memory's Reach is a very promising looking first-person puzzle-adventure metroidvania, and the good news is that it will have Steam Deck support at launch." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/first-person-puzzle-adventure-metroidvania-memorys-reach-looks-great-with-steam-deck-support-announced/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:41] TR Bot person puzzle-adventure metroidvania Memory's Reach looks great with Steam Deck support announced | GamingOnLinux [09:42] IsambardPrince If anyone deserves the Terrorist Prison in El Salvador, it's the Culley family. [09:42] schestowitz[TR2] maybe they can ship him to asutralia [09:42] IsambardPrince They can be put to work and earn their keep there. [09:42] IsambardPrince Where they won't bug anybody. [09:42] TR News "Developer CSR-Studios are currently working on Dead Pixels II but they decided to give the original Dead Pixels from 2012 a surprise upgrade." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/dead-pixels-from-2012-gets-a-surprise-update-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:42] TR Bot Pixels from 2012 gets a surprise update with Linux and Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [09:42] TR News "Wonderful to see! Ubisoft announced yesterday that they've open sourced their colourblind simulation tool Chroma (UbiChroma as it's called on GitHub), after several years of internal use and development." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/ubisoft-open-sourced-chroma-their-colourblind-simulation-tool/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [09:42] TR Bot open sourced Chroma, their colourblind simulation tool | GamingOnLinux [09:43] IsambardPrince Mom talks about people deserving the Terrorist Prison in El Salvador. She's married into people worse than they send there! [09:44] *phebus (~phebus@f95gnd3zj7732.irc) has joined #techrights [09:45] TR News (NEW): Games: Ludaro, Baldur's Gate 3, MySims, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Games_Ludaro_Baldur_s_Gate_3_MySims_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Games_Ludaro_Baldur_s_Gate_3_MySims_and_More.gmi [09:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Ludaro, Baldur's Gate 3, MySims, and More [09:45] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], What will happen even if they deport all of the immigrants who really are criminals is that the crime rate won't drop much, if at all. [09:45] IsambardPrince Because the country is getting poorer and shitter and more extreme by the second. [09:46] IsambardPrince And many Americans are far worse than the "trash" my mom talks about because they aren't white. [09:47] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:48] TR News "Don't Feed the DATA TROLL" https://odysee.com/@NaomiPrivacyTips:1/dont-feed-the-data-troll:0 [09:48] TR Bot Don't Feed the DATA TROLL [09:48] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:49] TR News Microsoft Tarnishing the Brand of Arch https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/10/Microsoft_Tarnishing_the_Brand_of_Arch.shtml [09:49] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Tarnishing the Brand of Arch [09:50] TR News Microsoft E.E.E. in progress https://antiz.fr/blog/archlinux-official-wsl-image/ ("Robin Candau | Arch Linux now has an official WSL image") [09:50] TR Bot Robin Candau | Arch Linux now has an official WSL image [09:51] TR News 10+ years ago https://techrights.org/o/2014/03/07/arch-linux-is-becoming-more-mainstream/ https://techrights.org/o/2014/02/12/arch-linux-2014/ [09:51] TR Bot Arch Linux is Becoming More Mainstream [09:51] TR Bot Now Might be a Good Time to Give Arch Linux a Try [09:52] TR News pressgazette is defending slop again https://pressgazette.co.uk/comment-analysis/bbc-study-revealing-scale-of-ai-generated-news-inaccuracies-is-crucial-checkpoint-but-we-shouldnt-write-the-tech-off/ https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml [09:52] TR Bot AI-generated news inaccuracies study is 'lesson, not a death knell' - Press Gazette [09:52] TR Bot Techrights Why is UK Press Gazette Jingoistic About Plagiarists and LLM Slop Disguised as Journalism? [09:52] TR Bot Techrights Paywalls, Bots, Spam, and Spyware is "Future of the Media" According to UK Press Gazette [09:52] TR News It's an ongoing problem, they try to normalise slop http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml [09:52] TR Bot Techrights The UK's Press Gazette Has No Credibility Anymore, It Celebrates Plagiarism and Cheap Misinformation (This Ruins Linux Sites Too) [09:52] TR Bot Techrights Paywalls, Bots, Spam, and Spyware is "Future of the Media" According to UK Press Gazette [09:53] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@uj65wqzsztp38.irc) has joined #techrights [09:53] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], ICE talks about criminal immigrants who are repeat offenders. Maybe ICE can do something about Michael Culley in Indiana. Indiana sure as hell hasn't figured out any way to dispose of him. [09:54] IsambardPrince I suggest the incinerator. The price El Salvador wants is too much. [09:54] TR News "Air Force pilots have a new way to pee at 30,000 feet" https://taskandpurpose.com/news/air-force-pilots-pee-while-flying/ [09:54] TR Bot Air Force pilots have a new way to pee at 30,000 feet [09:54] IsambardPrince Trump is apparently paying them $6 million for each deportee. [09:54] TR News "Huge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling Shows" https://futurism.com/poll-favorability-elon-musk-doge [09:54] TR Bot Huge Number of People Who Used to Like Elon Musk Now Detest Him, Polling Shows [09:54] IsambardPrince Which is not even a good price for imprisoning someone. [09:55] IsambardPrince You could do that here forever and it wouldn't cost $6 million each. [09:55] TR News s/crew/cargo/g; it was not piloted but automated https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/blue-origin-female-crew-1.7509472 ("All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, blast off on Blue Origin rocket") [09:55] TR Bot All-female crew, including singer Katy Perry, blast off on Blue Origin rocket | CBC News [09:55] TR News "Helsinki sees start of summertime pickpocket season" https://yle.fi/a/74-20156364 [09:55] TR Bot Helsinki sees start of summertime pickpocket season | Yle News | Yle [09:55] IsambardPrince Figure Michael Culley has 5-10 years to live. The way those people live, none of them last long. [09:56] IsambardPrince Just give him a life sentence it would only cost you $600,000 tops, which is still too much, but not worth paying Bukele to take him. [09:57] TR News "Elon Musk Has No Idea How USAID Works. This Former Staffer Knows." https://www.thenation.com/article/world/elon-musk-usaid-doge/ [09:57] TR Bot Elon Musk Has No Idea How USAID Works. This Former Staffer Knows. | The Nation [09:57] *darwin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [09:58] TR News "Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/us/why-harvard-resisted-trumps-demands.html [09:58] TR Bot Why Harvard Decided to Fight Trump - The New York Times [09:58] TR News iophk: censorship by replacing the opposing views with LLM slop https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-04-16/dont-like-a-columnists-opinion-los-angeles-times-offers-an-ai-generated-opposing-viewpoint ("Don't Like a Columnist's Opinion? Los Angeles Times Offers an AI-Generated Opposing Viewpoint") [09:58] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-04-16/dont-like-a-columnists-opinion-los-angeles-times-offers-an-ai-generated-opposing-viewpoint ) [09:59] TR News "Phase Two Will Be Worse Than DOGE [sic]" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/trump-revenge-doge-government-layoffs-justice-department/682474/ [09:59] TR Bot Phase Two Will Be Worse Than DOGE - The Atlantic [09:59] TR News "But how exactly a brief trip to the edge of space is of any benefit to the planet remains to be seen." https://futurism.com/the-byte/passengers-katy-perry-wished-sing-something-else ("Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else") [09:59] TR Bot Passengers Trapped in Rocket With Katy Perry Wished She Would Sing Something Else ● Apr 16 [10:00] TR News "Panama Tops Costa Rica as 2025 Retirement Destination" https://ticotimes.net/2025/04/15/panama-tops-costa-rica-as-2025-retirement-destination [10:00] TR Bot Panama Tops Costa Rica as 2025 Retirement Destination [10:00] TR News "Sweden was on the road to economic recovery then Trump happened" https://www.thelocal.se/20250415/sweden-was-on-the-road-to-economic-recovery-then-trump-happened [10:00] TR Bot Sweden was on the road to economic recovery then Trump happened [10:04] TR News "Lie Detector Dragnet" https://thedissenter.org/the-trump-administrations-lie-detector-dragnet/ | Source: The Dissenter [10:04] TR Bot The Trump Administration's Lie Detector Dragnet [10:12] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [10:16] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Planes used to get hijacked all the time, and when there were far fewer people flying. [10:17] IsambardPrince Governments usually paid the ransom and had terrible security at the airports. [10:17] IsambardPrince So they basically were begging for it. [10:18] IsambardPrince The 2010s had the lowest percentage of passenger planes hijacked of any decade in modern history. [10:18] IsambardPrince Bad shit happens when you put up with it. [10:18] IsambardPrince Crime magnet. [10:21] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Leaving) [10:49] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [10:50] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [10:56] TR News Social control media. What a dumb concept of "media". Who came up with this or encouraged this? Spies? [10:56] TR News Social control media is getting worse each day. There has never been a better time to quit ALL social control media. The only better time to do so will be... tomorrow. [10:58] TR News Over time more people realise that "celebs" in social control media fake their importance/popularity using userfarms. Their publicists make up for the vast majority or subs/followers/friends. If they post something and only 1 in 10 or 1 in 20 "see it", that sort of gives away the real picture/ [10:59] TR News Twitter probably peaked around 2016 or 2017. For one quarter it even made a PROFIT... for the first time. Then greedy Twitter, in 2018, shut off access via third parties or APIs/apps. Many people no longer bothered to get the "official" (crappified) "app". In 2020 Twitter became JS only (Webapp mandated). ● Apr 16 [11:00] TR News "Twitter" being rebranded "X" is a hallmark of its era of irrelevance and cadence. [11:03] TR News Saner people, like Arrington or jwz, realise that social control media is a waste of life/time and move on. Over time one can hope for more sane people making personal platforms, then stopping to worry about MElon-mandated grouphink or Kapo-berg using "Facebook" to buy Cheeto Tokens. [11:04] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@uj65wqzsztp38.irc) has joined #techrights [11:05] TR News "As headlines highlight Windows missteps and questionable design decisions, now is the perfect time to explore what Linux distributions like openSUSEs have to offer." https://news.opensuse.org/2025/04/15/freedom-means-knowing-whats-installed/ | Source: OpenSUSE [11:05] TR Bot Freedom Means Knowing Whats Installed - openSUSE News [11:05] TR News PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-march-2025/ | Source: Purism [11:05] TR Bot PureOS Crimson Development Report: March 2025 Purism [11:05] TR News "KDE Plasma has been promoted to edition status from F42 Beta onwards!" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/announcing-fedora-42 | Source: Red Hat Official [11:05] TR Bot Announcing Fedora 42 [11:06] TR News "A bipartisan proposal to withdraw the state of Maine from compliance with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005 had its first hearing today (archived video) before the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation of the Maine State Legislature" https://papersplease.org/wp/2025/04/15/withdrawal-from-real-id-gets-a-hearing-in-maine/ | Source: Papers Please [11:06] TR Bot Withdrawal from REAL-ID gets a hearing in Maine Papers, Please! [11:06] TR News "crime" https://fair.org/home/theyre-doing-their-best-to-turn-people-who-have-not-committed-any-crime-into-criminals/ | Source: FAIR [11:06] TR Bot Theyre Doing Their Best to Turn People Who Have Not Committed Any Crime Into Criminals: FAIR [11:07] TR News New Release: Tails 6.14.2 https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-6_14_2/ | Source: Tor [11:07] TR Bot New Release: Tails 6.14.2 | The Tor Project [11:11] *buzzert has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:11] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/25022414 [11:11] TR Bot WHOOPSIE [11:11] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WycSfs_78kc [11:11] TR Bot https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=WycSfs_78kc [11:11] TR Bot not resolve host: vid.priv.au ( status 0 @ https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=WycSfs_78kc ) [11:11] IsambardPrince "Nazi Anthem - Nokia 3310 edition" [11:11] IsambardPrince MinceR, ^ [11:12] IsambardPrince :D [11:12] MinceR :) [11:12] IsambardPrince Don't go to Germany with that one on. [11:12] MinceR just wait 4 years [11:12] TR News "ocal Fossa will reach the End of Standard Support in May 2025, also known as End Of Life (EOL)." https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-20-04-eol-for-devicesional | Source: Ubuntu [11:12] TR Bot 20.04 LTS End Of Life activate ESM to keep your fleet of devices secure and operational | Ubuntu [11:13] TR News So Long, ArcoLinux http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/So-Long-ArcoLinux [11:13] TR Bot So Long, ArcoLinux Linux Magazine [11:14] TR News T2 is a source-based meta distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/t2-source-based-meta-distribution/ [11:14] TR Bot is a source-based meta distribution - LinuxLinks [11:14] TR News resticprofile is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler https://www.linuxlinks.com/resticprofile-configuration-profiles-manager-scheduler/ [11:14] TR Bot is a configuration profiles manager and scheduler - LinuxLinks [11:15] TR News FSF News: More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally http://www.fsf.org/news/fifteen-librelocal-meetups-announced [11:15] TR Bot More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [11:16] TR News NX AppHub Introduced as Nitruxs Minimalist AppImage Solution https://linuxiac.com/nx-apphub-introduced-as-nitrux-minimalist-appimage-solution/ [11:16] TR Bot NX AppHub Introduced as Nitruxs Minimalist AppImage Solution [11:16] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU8P43nh9Yg [11:16] TR Bot https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=AU8P43nh9Yg [11:16] TR Bot ( status 500 @ https://invidious.baczek.me/watch?v=AU8P43nh9Yg ) [11:17] TR News "These responses touched on not only the income fallout for creatives, but differences between various types of (and protections for) IP [sic], the potential effect on medical research, and a whole lot else." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/jack-dorsey-ip-comments/ | Source: Digital Music News [11:17] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/jack-dorsey-ip-comments/ ) [11:17] TR News "The operators of Nhentai.net, a popular adult site with dozens of millions of monthly visits, have been ordered to identify themselves in a California court." https://torrentfreak.com/nhentai-operators-ordered-to-expose-themselves-in-u-s-copyright-lawsuit-250415/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:17] TR Bot Operators Ordered to Expose Themselves in U.S. Copyright Lawsuit * TorrentFreak [11:17] TR News "Kadrey, however, attempts to side-step fair use." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/eff-urges-court-avoid-fair-use-shortcuts-kadrey-v-meta-platforms | Source: EFF [11:17] TR Bot EFF Urges Court to Avoid Fair Use Shortcuts in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms | Electronic Frontier Foundation [11:19] TR News "A German media company has complained to EU antitrust regulators following Alphabet unit Google's crackdown against companies gaming its search algorithm to push up rankings for other sites." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/googles-spam-policy-hit-by-eu-antitrust-complaint-from-german-media-company/articleshow/120319918.cms | Source: India Times [11:19] TR Bot Google's spam policy hit by EU antitrust complaint from German media company - The Economic Times [11:19] TR News "The Democrats love to build or reinforce the mechanisms of authoritarianism, which they mistakenly think they can apply for good and moral purposes, but then become major building blocks for an authoritarian state." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/aside-on-anti-trust-remedies/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason [11:19] TR Bot An aside on proposed anti-trust remedies against Google [11:26] *\join_su1line (~join_subline@x58kccsbytrv6.irc) has joined #techrights [11:30] TR News "Theres the not so small issue of the tech industry being quite invested in turning the US into an authoritarian dictatorship and seemingly succeeding." https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2025/we-are-in-for-a-rough-ride/ | Source: Baldur Bjarnason [11:30] TR Bot We're in for a rough ride as an industry [11:30] TR News "But even if you assume that the US will come out of this in four years time as a recovering democracy (an extremely unsafe assumption, I think), the web is likely to suffer as an industry either way." [11:31] TR News "We have monopolies or oligopolies who control much of the software market and, of particular concern to the web sector, they control how people discover websites." [11:31] TR News "Japans Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has ordered Google to stop making deals that give preference to Google Search and Chrome on Android devices." https://www.theverge.com/news/648996/google-antitrust-japan-order-google-search-android-chrome | Source: The Verge [11:31] TR Bot Google must stop favoring Search and Chrome on Android in Japan | The Verge [11:31] TR News "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a key concession at a US antitrust trial on Tuesday, saying he bought Instagram because it had a "better" camera than the one his company was trying to build for flagship app Facebook at the time." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/at-us-antitrust-trial-metas-mark-zuckerberg-admits-he-bought-instagram-because-it-was-better/articleshow/120317266.cms | Source: India Times [11:31] TR Bot At US antitrust trial, Meta's Mark Zuckerberg admits he bought Instagram because it was 'better' - The Economic Times [11:32] TR News "Social media titan Mark Zuckerberg took the stand for a second day Tuesday in a landmark US antitrust trial where his conglomerate Meta is accused of taking over Instagram and WhatsApp before they could become competitors." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/facebook-chief-zuckerberg-testifying-again-in-us-antitrust-trial/articleshow/120315535.cms | Source: India Times [11:32] TR Bot Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg testifying again in US antitrust trial - The Economic Times [11:32] TR News "It's unclear if Google, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., based in Mountain View in the Silicon Valley, will take legal action to fight the order." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/japans-anti-monopoly-watchdog-accuses-google-of-violations-in-smartphones/articleshow/120315422.cms | Source: India Times [11:32] TR Bot Japan's anti-monopoly watchdog accuses Google of violations in smartphones - The Economic Times [11:33] TR News "The antitrust watchdog said Google, as far back as July 2020, had asked at least six Android smartphone manufacturers to preinstall its apps when they signed the licence for the American tech giants app store, Nikkei Asia reported." https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/japan-google-cease-and-desist-antimonopoly-law-b2734083.html | Source: The Independent UK [11:33] TR Bot Japan orders Google to stop pushing smartphone makers to install its apps | The Independent [11:33] TR News "Back in 2020, the FTC sued Meta (then known as Facebook), arguing that it had illegally maintained monopoly power by acquiring competitors before they could grow." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/ettech-explainer-why-the-us-government-wants-to-break-up-meta/articleshow/120306384.cms | Source: India Times [11:33] TR Bot ETtech Explainer: Why the US government wants to break up Meta - The Economic Times [11:33] TR News "But the unprecedented success of two of its biggest bets have regulators concerned its tactics are anticompetitive." https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/meta-copycat-strategy-ftc-trial | Source: Axios [11:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/meta-copycat-strategy-ftc-trial ) [11:34] TR News "While Stewarts bit remains funny, I must again note that many people with actual expertise in this area treated the acquisition as a reasonable cost to neutralize a surging competitor." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/instagram-acquisition-history/ | Source: Nick Heer [11:34] TR Bot The Acquisition of Instagram Made Sense to Facebook Even at the Time Pixel Envy [11:34] TR News "Zuckerberg has so far testified for roughly nine hours. Hes expected to continue testifying on Wednesday, followed by Sheryl Sandberg." https://www.theverge.com/policy/649520/zuckerberg-meta-ftc-antitrust-testimony-facebook-history | Source: The Verge [11:34] TR Bot Zuckerberg defends his empire during FTC antitrust trial | The Verge [11:34] TR News "Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a potentially crazy idea in 2022 to get people using Facebook more: deleting everyones friends lists." https://www.theverge.com/news/649246/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-friends-wipe-reset-meta-antitrust-trial | Source: The Verge [11:34] TR Bot Mark Zuckerberg once suggested wiping all Facebook friends lists to boost usage | The Verge [11:34] TR News "Businesses weigh the benefits and costs of developing new products themselves against buying start-ups with products they want to add, he said." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/technology/meta-antitrust-trial-mark-zuckerberg.html | Source: New York Times [11:34] TR Bot At Trial, Mark Zuckerberg Avoids Explaining Takeovers of Instagram and WhatsApp - The New York Times [11:35] TR News "It seems the FTC wasnt moved by Zuckerbergs counteroffer of $1 billion, hoping the number might be closer to $18 billion. Meta has done everything in its power to avoid the trial, but here we are" https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/15/mark-zuckerberg-tried-negotiate-settlement-ftc-landmark-antitrust-trial-but-failed/ | Source: Silicon Angle [11:35] TR Bot Zuckerberg tried to negotiate settlement with FTC in landmark antitrust trial but failed - SiliconANGLE [11:36] TR News "No one knew how these deals would turn out." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/what-if-mark-zuckerberg-had-not-bought-insta-whatsapp/articleshow/120330253.cms | Source: India Times [11:36] TR Bot What if Mark Zuckerberg had not bought Instagram & WhatsApp? - The Economic Times [11:36] TR News "the two fired Commissioners (Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya) sued Trump" https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/15/with-3-0-gop-majority-and-all-democrats-fired-the-ftc-is-now-a-total-trump-puppet-agency-pretending-to-care-about-antitrust-reform/ | Source: Techdirt [11:36] TR Bot 3-0 GOP Majority And All Democrats Fired, The FTC Is Now A Total Trump Puppet Agency Pretending To Care About Antitrust Reform | Techdirt [11:38] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:42] TR News ...the more direct a flight, the better for the plane, the plane, the more efficient for all, bbu the Airline Industry has taken advantage and is now charging more for direct flights than flights that test your anxiety with many connections and delays that put those a risk. They make ravel less pleasant unless you pay a ton. [11:43] TR News "In response to ARRLs request, over 200 members submitted suggestions that were reviewed when considering what rules should be deleted or modified" https://www.arrl.org/news/view/arrl-files-comments-responding-to-fcc-request-for-input | Source: ARRL [11:43] TR Bot ARRL Files Comments on FCC [11:46] TR News "This is even more true in the public sector, which represents about half of union membership in America today." https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/not-just-unions-strike-ready-unions | Source: Hamilton Nolan [11:46] TR Bot Not Just Unions; Strike-Ready Unions. - by Hamilton Nolan [11:46] TR News "What did growing up against this particular cultural backdrop do to me? What did it do to all of us? I didnt start trying to process this particular initiation into adulthood until two decades later." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/porn-american-pop-culture-feminism/682114/ | Source: The Atlantic [11:46] TR Bot What Porn Taught a Generation of Women - The Atlantic [11:47] TR News "Its unusual though not unheard of for immigrants to be arrested during USCIS interviews." https://www.theverge.com/policy/649427/ice-arrest-mohsen-mahdawi-citizenship-interview-uscis | Source: The Verge [11:47] TR Bot The Columbia student arrested at his USCIS interview knew it was coming | The Verge [11:48] TR News "Following a decision made during a hearing at Istanbuls 23rd High Criminal Court, journalist Necla Demir Arvas was released from Bakrky Closed Prison on Monday." https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/released-journalist-we-will-continue-to-amplify-women-s-voices-78886 | Source: ANF News [11:48] TR Bot ANF | Released journalist: We will continue to amplify womens voices [11:49] TR News "Government attacks on public media are as old as Big Bird. Ever since Richard Nixon feuded with public broadcasting during its earliest days" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/public-broadcasting-media-democracy/ | Source: The Nation [11:49] TR Bot We Must Save Public Media to Change It | The Nation [11:49] TR News "Antonina Favorskaya, Kostantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger were found guilty of involvement with a group that had been labeled as extremist" https://www.courthousenews.com/four-journalists-who-were-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-navalny-are-convicted-of-extremism/ | Source: Court House News [11:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/four-journalists-who-were-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-navalny-are-convicted-of-extremism/ ) [11:53] TR News "ussia sentenced four journalists linked to late opposition leader Alexei Navalny to five and a half years in a penal colony on Tuesday, deepening its crackdown on dissent and press freedom amid the ongoing war in Ukraine." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/a/2294824.html | Source: RTL [11:53] TR Bot RTL Today - Sent to penal colony: Russia jails four journalists who covered Navalny [11:53] TR News "The court also handed the journalists a three-year ban on administering websites." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/15/russia-sentences-journalists-to-55-years-in-navalny-extremism-case-a88746 | Source: The Moscow Times [11:53] TR Bot Russia Sentences Journalists to 5.5 Years in Navalny 'Extremism' Case - The Moscow Times [11:55] TR News "Soon-Shiong, a medical innovator who bought the Times in 2018, blocked his newspaper from endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris for president last fall and said he wanted to overhaul its editorial board" https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-04-16/dont-like-a-columnists-opinion-los-angeles-times-offers-an-ai-generated-opposing-viewpoint | Source: US News And World Report [11:55] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: INTERNAL_ERROR (err 2) ( status 0 @ https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2025-04-16/dont-like-a-columnists-opinion-los-angeles-times-offers-an-ai-generated-opposing-viewpoint ) [11:55] TR News "In making this decision, Harvard appears to have learned a lesson from the Trump administrations tangle with another Ivy League schooljust not the lesson the government intended." https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/harvard-chooses-defiance/682457/ | Source: The Atlantic [11:55] TR Bot What Harvard Learned From Columbias Mistake - The Atlantic [11:56] TR News "On Monday, Harvard become the first university to openly defy the Trump administration as it demands sweeping changes to limit activism on campus." https://www.hindustantimes.com/education/news/harvards-challenge-to-trump-administration-could-test-limits-of-government-power-101744736602670.html | Source: Hindustan Times [11:56] TR Bot Harvard's challenge to Trump administration could test limits of government power | Education - Hindustan Times [11:57] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights ● Apr 16 [12:00] TR News "Saint Petersburgs Pushkinsky District Court sentenced her to five years and two months in prison and banned her from using social media for three additional years, the courts press service said on Telegram." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/15/st-petersburg-woman-jailed-over-army-criticism-after-neighbors-denunciation-a88744 | Source: The Moscow Times [12:00] TR Bot St. Petersburg Woman Jailed Over Army Criticism After Neighbors Denunciation - The Moscow Times [12:01] TR News "Today Im focusing on the Trump administrations battle with Harvard University, in which a powerful university targeted by the president is pushing back." https://www.vox.com/the-logoff-newsletter-trump/408890/trump-harvard-university-funding-logoff | Source: Vox [12:01] TR Bot vs Harvard: What the administration demanded | Vox [12:01] TR News "The First Amendment protects speech we might hate, including racist, sexist, and antisemitic language. That is a cost of free expression in a free country." https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/why-harvard-decided-to-challenge-donald-trump | Source: New Yorker [12:01] TR Bot Why Harvard Decided to Challenge Donald Trump | The New Yorker [12:02] TR News "Learning is a sacred and foundational right that is now being limited for students in DoDEA schools" https://www.aclu-ky.org/en/press-releases/students-sue-department-defense-schools-over-curriculum-changes-book-bans | [12:02] TR Bot Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans | ACLU of Kentucky [12:02] TR News "Students in Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) schools on military bases sued today" https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/dodea-book-bans | Source: ACLU [12:02] TR Bot Students Sue Department of Defense Schools Over Curriculum Changes, Book Bans | American Civil Liberties Union [12:03] TR News "A dozen students in U.S. Defense Department schools sued, opens new tab the department and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Tuesday for book removals and curriculum changes following executive orders from President Donald Trump, an advocacy group said." https://www.reuters.com/legal/students-sue-us-defense-department-schools-book-removals-2025-04-16/ | Source: Reuters [12:03] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/legal/students-sue-us-defense-department-schools-book-removals-2025-04-16/ ) [12:03] TR News "has led to groundbreaking innovations across a wide range of medical, engineering, and scientific fields" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/this-is-weakening-the-united-states/ | Source: Harvard University [12:03] TR Bot This is weakening the United States. Harvard Gazette [12:04] TR News "The ruling confirms that the words gay and lesbian refer to same-sex sexual orientation and makes it absolutely clear that lesbians wishing to form associations of any size are lawfully entitled to exclude men" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgq9ejql39t [12:04] TR Bot UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex - live updates - BBC News [12:05] TR News Why is this relevant? Some of these extremists spent years attacking Techrights people, even wives and mothers. http://techrights.org/wiki/Free_Software-Hostile_Militants/ [12:06] TR Bot Free Software-Hostile Militants [12:06] TR News Nobody has "special" rights. The rights of men and women apply to everybody. Nobody is "special". The law applies to everybody. [12:08] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [12:09] TR News "The ABCs international media channels and the bespoke content we create, distribute and share with our media partners showcase an Australian society that is diverse, free and equal, with an independent media that holds power to account." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/to-counter-anti-democratic-propaganda-step-up-funding-for-abc-international/ | Source: The Strategist [12:09] TR Bot To counter anti-democratic propaganda, step up funding for ABC International | The Strategist [12:09] TR News "next step in the evolution of Chinas surveillance state will be to integrate generative-AI models like DeepSeek into urban surveillance infrastructures." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/deepseek-is-already-being-applied-widely-across-chinas-industries-and-used-for-government-surveillance-and-propaganda/ | Source: Techdirt [12:09] TR Bot Is Already Being Applied Widely Across Chinas Industries, And Used For Government Surveillance And Propaganda | Techdirt [12:10] TR News "In a letter to the CVE board, VP and Director at MITREs Center for Securing the Homeland Yosry Barsoum said the contract with the US government to manage the program will expire on April 16 and theres no word on funding moving forward." https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-signals-potential-cve-program-deterioration-as-us-gov-funding-expires/ | Source: Security Week [12:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/mitre-signals-potential-cve-program-deterioration-as-us-gov-funding-expires/ ) [12:14] TR News "The MITRE Corporation said on Tuesday that its stewardship of the CVE program which catalogs all public cybersecurity vulnerabilities" https://therecord.media/mitre-warns-of-cve-program-lapse-contract-expires | Source: The Record [12:14] TR Bot MITRE warns of lapse with CVE program as contract with US set to expire | The Record from Recorded Future News [12:14] TR News "While the whole world's vulnerability management efforts aren't going to descend into chaos overnight, there is a concern that in a month or two they may." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/16/homeland_security_funding_for_cve/ | Source: The Register UK [12:14] TR Bot Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires The Register [12:16] TR News MITRE Warns CVE Program Faces Disruption (Security Week) https://lwn.net/Articles/1017565/ [12:16] TR Bot Warns CVE Program Faces Disruption (Security Week) [LWN.net] [12:16] TR News "A critical resource that cybersecurity professionals worldwide rely on to identify, mitigate and fix security vulnerabilities in software and hardware is in danger of breaking down." https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/04/funding-expires-for-key-cyber-vulnerability-database/ | Source: Krebs On Security [12:16] TR Bot Funding Expires for Key Cyber Vulnerability Database Krebs on Security [12:17] TR News "Make no mistake: this is how World War III is being lostnot with missiles and tanks, but with spreadsheets and trade policies." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-surrender-to-china | Source: Mike Brock [12:17] TR Bot The Surrender to China - by Mike Brock [12:17] TR News "OpenAI has revealed the advisors for its new nonprofit commission: Dolores Huerta, Monica Lozano, Dr. Robert K. Ross, and Jack Oliver." https://www.theverge.com/news/649430/openai-nonprofit-commission-advisors | Source: The Verge [12:17] TR Bot OpenAI names new nonprofit advisors | The Verge [12:23] TR News "China has in recent years begun pointing the finger back at the United States, which has accused Beijing of backing a litany of cyberattack, but Tuesdays allegations were more specific and aggressive than usual." https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-law-enforcement-places-nsa-operatives-on-wanted-list-over-alleged-cyberattacks/ | Source: Scoop News Group [12:23] TR Bot law enforcement places NSA operatives on wanted list over alleged cyberattacks | CyberScoop [12:24] TR News People wishing to practice good security "hygiene" start by BANNING ALL proprietary software. It CANNOT be TRUSTED. https://techrights.org/n/2025/02/08/Unlike_GAFAM_Free_Software_Serves_You_It_Does_Not_Serve_Governm.shtml [12:24] TR Bot Techrights Unlike GAFAM, Free Software Serves You, It Does Not Serve Governments and MElons (Overlapping Forces) [12:25] TR News "Australia needs to reevaluate its security priorities and establish a more dynamic regulatory framework for cybersecurity" https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australia-can-learn-from-britain-on-cyber-governance/ | Source: The Strategist [12:25] TR Bot Australia can learn from Britain on cyber governance | The Strategist [12:26] TR News "A government statement said Hongkong Post would not collect tariffs on behalf of Washington, and will suspend accepting non-airmail parcels containing goods destined for the U.S. on Wednesday, since items shipped by sea take more time." https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-tariffs-hong-kong-post-office-b2734102.html | Source: The Independent UK [12:26] TR Bot Hong Kong post office to stop shipping parcels to the US after Trumps tariffs | The Independent [12:26] TR News "Milky seas are produced by bioluminescent bacteria that can transform the nighttime ocean into a glowing white veneer." https://www.404media.co/the-ocean-spectacle-that-has-entranced-sailors-for-centuries/ | Source: 404 Media [12:26] TR Bot The Ocean Spectacle that Has Entranced Sailors for Centuries [12:27] TR News "Google is working toward climate goals of cutting the companys planet-heating emissions in half and matching its electricity use with carbon-free energy purchases around-the-clock by 2030." https://www.theverge.com/news/648979/google-geothermal-energy-power-purchase-agreement-asia-taiwan | Source: The Verge [12:27] TR Bot Googles geothermal energy ambitions are growing | The Verge [12:34] TR News "This Earth Day 2025, let us commit to harnessing renewable energy to build a healthy, sustainable, equitable and prosperous future for us all, let us commit to Renewable Energy Now." https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-2025-our-power-our-planet/ | [12:34] TR Bot Earth Day 2025 - Our Power, Our Planet - Earth Day [12:36] TR News "While it may seem strange to think of a world without ecological awareness" https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/04/01/earth-day-2025-when/82756382007/ | Source: Gannett [12:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/2025/04/01/earth-day-2025-when/82756382007/ ) [12:38] TR News "EARTHDAY.ORG is thrilled to announce that renowned artist Alexis Rockman has created the official Earth Day 2025 poster, marking our 55th anniversary." https://www.earthday.org/earth-day-poster-2025/ | [12:38] TR Bot EARTH DAY POSTER - 2025 - Earth Day [12:38] TR News "The United Nations General Assembly proclaimed 22 April as International Mother Earth Day through a resolution adopted in 2009." https://www.unep.org/events/un-day/international-mother-earth-day-2025 | Source: UN [12:38] TR Bot International Mother Earth Day 2025 [12:39] TR News "Every Earth Month and Earth Day action is meaningful and momentous. Here are four things you can do." https://www.nature.org/en-us/get-involved/how-to-help/earth-day/ | [12:39] TR Bot Earth Day is April 22, 2025 | Ideas to celebrate and take action [12:39] TR News "And, so goes Vermont. Or not. Dont despair! There are two ways many of us can change this tragic trajectory. First action: join your regional land trust." https://www.reformer.com/opinion/letters/letter-to-the-editor-honoring-earth-day-has-never-been-so-urgent/article_4ea94920-79c8-4217-99e5-c4b2fbfb7094.html | Source: Brattleboro Reformer, Vermont [12:39] TR Bot to the Editor: Honoring Earth Day has never been so urgent | Opinion | reformer.com [12:40] TR News "Environmental groups denounced the administrations offer, calling the email address a polluters portal that could allow hundreds of companies to evade laws meant to protect the environment and public health." https://apnews.com/article/trump-epa-clean-air-exemption-mercury-13f009f79fdc84443e428618d2a01bba | Source: Associated Press [12:40] TR Bot EPA offers industrial polluters a way to avoid rules on toxic chemicals | AP News [12:41] TR News "A list quietly posted as of Tuesday on the Environmental Protection Agencys website lists 47 power providers which operate at least 66 coal-fired plants" https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-exempts-nearly-70-coal-plants-from-biden-era-rule-on-mercury-and-other-toxic-air-pollution/ | Source: Seattle Times [12:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.seattletimes.com/business/trump-exempts-nearly-70-coal-plants-from-biden-era-rule-on-mercury-and-other-toxic-air-pollution/ ) [12:41] TR News "The Trump administration has exempted 47 companies from regulations to curb mercury and air toxics for their coal-fired power plants for two years" https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trump-exempts-dozens-coal-plants-mercury-air-toxics-limits-2025-04-15/ | Source: Reuters [12:41] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/trump-exempts-dozens-coal-plants-mercury-air-toxics-limits-2025-04-15/ ) [12:45] TR News Windows below 10% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/angola/#monthly-200902-202504 [12:45] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Angola | Statcounter Global Stats [12:46] TR News There is going to be a lot of judge-bashing in the UK this week (or against the UK). People like these. http://techrights.org/wiki/Free_Software-Hostile_Militants/ [12:46] TR Bot Free Software-Hostile Militants [12:47] TR News "It must have been a surprise as Metas preemptive response came in the form of a barely formatted PDF sent to Semafor" https://pxlnv.com/blog/careless-people/ | Source: Nick Heer [12:47] TR Bot Metas Poor Prebuttal to Careless People Pixel Envy [12:47] TR News "A PDF of Metas opening statement slides in its FTC antitrust hearing yesterday contains easy-to-remove redactions that make it possible to see everything the company didnt want made public, The Verge has discovered." https://www.theverge.com/news/648893/meta-redacted-documents-leak-ftc-antitrust-opening-statement | Source: The Verge [12:47] TR Bot Metas antitrust trial slide redactions arent actually hiding anything | The Verge [12:48] TR News "Attorneys suing the United States government over its use of vanishing Signal messages to coordinate military strikes last month in Yemen allege" https://www.wired.com/story/heres-what-happened-to-those-signalgate-messages/ | Source: Wired [12:48] TR Bot What Happened to Those SignalGate Messages | WIRED [12:48] TR News "Caldwell, who served in the Marine Corps, was one of several senior advisers who worked closely with Hegseth. Caldwells ties to the secretary go back to Hegseths time as the head of Concerned Veterans for America" https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/04/15/pentagon-senior-adviser-dan-caldwell-ousted-in-probe-into-leaks/ | Source: USMC [12:48] TR Bot Pentagon senior adviser Dan Caldwell ousted in probe into leaks [12:49] TR News "The decline was even steeper in February alone, with births falling 7.6% year-over-year to 90,500 7,400" https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/04/14/russias-birth-rate-plunges-to-200-year-low-a88709 | Source: The Moscow Times [12:49] TR Bot Russias Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low - The Moscow Times [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: rms joke [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] we came up with it in 2014 [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] when i met him in lincoln [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] what do you call an orc kid? [12:50] schestowitz[TR2] orchid [12:51] MinceR target practice? [12:51] schestowitz[TR2] some people didmn [12:51] schestowitz[TR2] *didn't get it [12:51] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: [no laughter] [12:51] schestowitz[TR2] "wrong targe audience" [12:52] TR News "freed by the SDF" https://anfenglishmobile.com/rojava-syria/yazidi-youngster-kidnapped-by-isis-from-shengal-in-2014-freed-by-the-sdf-78896 | Source: ANF News [12:52] TR Bot ANF | Yazidi youngster kidnapped by ISIS from Shengal in 2014 freed by the SDF [12:52] schestowitz[TR2] *target [12:52] TR News "Analyzing long-term trends, we will see many reasons for the US-Russian rapprochement, which should make Europeans worry, because, after all, such a shift will occur at the expense of Europe." https://neweasterneurope.eu/2025/04/15/american-russian-rapprochement-as-a-threat-to-europe/ | Source: New Eastern Europe [12:52] TR Bot American-Russian rapprochement as a threat to Europe - New Eastern Europe [12:53] TR News "outright refusal to comply with court orders" https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/trump-defy-court-orders-contempt-constitutional-crisis | Source: Axios [12:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/trump-defy-court-orders-contempt-constitutional-crisis ) [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: serious question [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] does orban bash courts? [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] or refuses to comply [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] otr, [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] appoint puppet judges? [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] or not yet? [12:53] schestowitz[TR2] did he outtrump the US [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] putin just put 4 journaliusts in penal colony [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] banned from managing sites two [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] after 5.5 years in prison [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] they covered navalny [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] that's "extremism" [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] at least one is female [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] based on the names [12:54] schestowitz[TR2] so in russia journalism literally puts you in prison [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] or siberian vccolony [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] someone should tell stella morris/assange [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] while she shiulls russian twitter accounts [12:55] schestowitz[TR2] while campaigning for hie journalist husband [12:56] schestowitz[TR2] russia is so much more hostile towards journalism [12:56] MinceR 16 135334 < schestowitz[TR2]> appoint puppet judges? [12:56] MinceR mostly this [12:56] TR News "But the complexity of AI systems, which pull from thousands of pieces of data, make that a herculean task for humans, says Heidy Khlaaf" https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/15/1115078/phase-two-of-military-ai-has-arrived/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [12:56] TR Bot Phase two of military AI has arrived | MIT Technology Review [12:56] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: supreme court also [12:56] schestowitz[TR2] aka constitutional (depends on country) [12:56] schestowitz[TR2] ? [12:56] MinceR the "constitutional court" (in a country with no constitution) has been stacked with fidesz - hungarian pedophile alliance soldiers for ages [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] they ruled against UPC [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] nicely enough [12:57] MinceR and there's a law that lets pete polt move cases to whichever court he likes [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] but no idea why [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: like in EP{O [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] they have hungARIAN FIXER THERE [12:57] MinceR (he's the chief prosecutor) [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] http://techrights.org/o/2021/06/12/mihaly-ficsor-past/ [12:57] TR Bot Virtual Injustice -- Part 4: Mihly Ficsor, the EPO's Hungarian Fixer [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] he might even be next EPO pres. [12:57] schestowitz[TR2] his dad was well known [12:58] MinceR they also tend to ignore all laws whenever convenient [12:58] schestowitz[TR2] more in http://techrights.org/o/2021/06/11/presidential-minions/ [12:58] TR Bot Virtual Injustice -- Part 3: All the President's Men [12:58] MinceR matolcsy & family & friends using the national bank to steal state funds was a-ok until matolcsy had a falling out with the gypsy king [12:58] MinceR suddenly it does matter [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] i see ehrre .hu isd heading [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] pedo ok [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] if the president is ok [12:59] MinceR EU regulations also tend to be ignored [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] or connected [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] hand-washing [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] same for theft [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] I'd leave .hu if I could and was there [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] seems your mom is glued to orban.tv [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] or oirban.hu [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] so she cannot see the issue [12:59] MinceR which is understandable, considering that the most punishment they got for that was withholding funds for some sort of convergence program the gypsy king doesn't care about [12:59] schestowitz[TR2] the issue is the critics [12:59] MinceR everything else was merely delaying payment ● Apr 16 [13:00] MinceR and where would you go? [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] maybe he's part of a bigger circle [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] of enablers [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] and they want to axes the prove [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] *probe [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] by making consessions [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] because it otherwise implicates them [13:00] MinceR so, where would you go? [13:00] schestowitz[TR2] uk [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] pre-brexit [13:01] MinceR i don't have a time machine [13:01] TR News "More accurately, the administration is defying the spirit, rather than the letter, of the Supreme Court ruling." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/abrego-garcia-trump-bukele-salvador/682467/ | Source: The Atlantic [13:01] TR Bot What the Courts Can Still Do to Constrain Trump - The Atlantic [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] the wriings were on the wall [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] germany is rying to congain nazism [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] and fails [13:01] MinceR the uk started charging a fee for admission into the country, like some sort of fucked up theme park [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] afd and general sentimenty [13:01] schestowitz[TR2] france has a languishing economy [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] with pension as runaway window [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: it did [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] in 2012 ish it was 18k [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] per year [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] toi get visa [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] or sponsor [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] that was then challenged in the higher court [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] maybe supreme [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, an arab name [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] they wanted to remove that req [13:02] schestowitz[TR2] no idea what happened, didn't follow [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] now the threshold is there and very high [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] something like 40 or 50k a year [13:03] MinceR the uk also has fucked up libel laws [13:03] TR News "Sabotaging the agencys work amounts to an inducement for the ultra-rich to treat taxes as a voluntary contribution." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-doge-tax-irs/682471/ | Source: The Atlantic [13:03] TR Bot How the Trump Administration Is Taxing the IRS - The Atlantic [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: yup! [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] work in progress [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] we'll write a lot about it [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] and we already work on it [13:03] schestowitz[TR2] with NGOs [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] with regulaors [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] and later with MPs [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/05/Techrights_Will_Spend_the_Next_Few_Years_Writing_a_Lot_About_St.shtml [13:04] TR Bot Techrights Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] our shitty libel law has been bad for decades [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] and it's a well known isue [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] Achilles heel [13:04] schestowitz[TR2] now we have more motivation to focus on this issue [13:05] schestowitz[TR2] https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/released-journalist-we-will-continue-to-amplify-women-s-voices-78886 [13:05] TR Bot ANF | Released journalist: We will continue to amplify womens voices [13:05] schestowitz[TR2] turkey is this bad [13:06] TR News "Since 2022, Russia has suffered more than 700,000 casualties in Ukraine" https://taskandpurpose.com/video/russia-ukraine-war-losses-video/ | Source: Task And Purpose [13:06] TR Bot Russia continues to throw troops into a meat grinder in Ukraine [13:06] MinceR also, what if someone violates scotland's hate speech law and then goes to england? [13:06] TR News "One acting commissioner one with 38 years experience has already resigned because of the DHSs desire to use tax records as a migrant-hunting database." https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/15/another-irs-commissioner-steps-down-after-being-forced-to-share-immigrant-tax-records-with-the-dhs/ | Source: Techdirt [13:06] TR Bot IRS Commissioner Steps Down After Being Forced To Share Immigrant Tax Records With The DHS | Techdirt [13:07] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: is this the whole thing about gender? [13:07] schestowitz[TR2] in scotland? [13:07] schestowitz[TR2] i did not follow closely [13:07] MinceR i don't know, i think IsambardPrince knows more about it [13:07] schestowitz[TR2] btw, we are not at all worried about courts, they always decide in our favour eventually [13:07] schestowitz[TR2] that just takes time [13:07] TR News "the exodus of Kashmiri pandits from Jammu and Kashmir in the past" https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/west-bengal/bengal-govt-must-stop-jihadi-attacks-on-hindus-over-waqf-act-protests-vhp/article69455131.ece | Source: The Hindu [13:07] TR Bot Bengal govt must stop attacks on Hindus over Waqf Act protests: VHP - The Hindu [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] if daemonfc mentioned it, then I think it is that [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] they had a row over women's identity [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] and some men punched women in the face [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] then the police didn't want to get too involved [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] our of fear of backlash [13:08] schestowitz[TR2] canada is like that [13:09] MinceR i'd still be worried about the European Court of Human Religions, as they tend to rule against human rights, in favor of religious nuts [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] ECHR is weird [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] but [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] i cannot claim to know how it works [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] i never looked closely into it [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] i focus more on patent tribunals [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] to keep scope narrower [13:09] schestowitz[TR2] ECHR sided with islamists some years ago [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] against free speech [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] and it made enemies for itself [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] even within EU and members outside EU [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] iirc, russia was once a member? [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] was it echr? [13:10] schestowitz[TR2] not icc for sure [13:10] TR News Confidentiality https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/ssl_tls_certificates/ | Source: The Register UK [13:10] TR Bot SSL/TLS certificates will last 47 days max by 2029 The Register [13:11] MinceR https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/european-court-rules-against-free-speech-in-favor-of-islam/ [13:11] TR Bot European Court Rules Against Free Speech; in Favor of Islam - The New American [13:11] TR News "A smaller subset of customers may also have had more sensitive data stolen, including Social Security or other government identification numbers, passport information, Medicare or Medicaid ID, or injury-related information associated with vehicle accident claims." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/hertz_cleo_customer_data/ | Source: The Register UK [13:11] TR Bot Hertz says personal, sensitive data stolen in Cleo attacks The Register [13:13] TR News "raises significant concerns regarding potential transfers of customers and family members sensitive personal data to various interested entities" https://therecord.media/23andme-bankruptcy-house-investigation-data-concerns | Source: The Record [13:13] TR Bot 23andMe bankruptcy draws investigation from House panel over data concerns | The Record from Recorded Future News [13:13] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: yes, one of many criicisms [13:13] schestowitz[TR2] they shot their own foot imho [13:13] schestowitz[TR2] lost clout [13:13] schestowitz[TR2] to appease people too sensitive [13:13] MinceR they also found an excuse not to make a ruling about a slovakian language law, but this isn't well documented [13:13] TR News "But one of the researchers, Zeve Sanderson, the executive director of NYUs Center for Social Media and Politics, isnt resigned to defeat." https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/can-we-stop-kids-from-watching-porn/682455/ | Source: The Atlantic [13:13] TR Bot Would You Give PornHub Your ID? - The Atlantic [13:14] TR News "The good news? Lawmakers in California, Massachusetts, Illinois and elsewhere are stepping up, leading the way to protect privacy and ensure that healthcare access and other exercise of our rights remain safe from invasive surveillance." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/privacy-map-how-states-are-fighting-location-surveillance | Source: EFF [13:14] TR Bot Privacy on the Map: How States Are Fighting Location Surveillance | Electronic Frontier Foundation [13:14] TR News "Today, Bits of Freedom, EDRi, Gesellschaft fr Freiheitsrechte, and Convocation Design + Research are filing a complaint under the Digital Services Act (DSA) against Meta, the company behind Facebook and Instagram." https://edri.org/our-work/civil-society-files-dsa-complaint-against-meta-for-toxic-profiling-fueled-feeds/ | Source: EDRI [13:14] TR Bot Civil society files DSA complaint against Meta for toxic feeds - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [13:15] TR News "The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) appreciates the opportunity to provide feedback to the Privacy Working Group led by the Majority Leadership of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce." https://epic.org/documents/epic-feedback-to-house-energy-commerce-majority-privacy-working-group/ | Source: EPIC [13:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://epic.org/documents/epic-feedback-to-house-energy-commerce-majority-privacy-working-group/ ) [13:15] TR News "Hackers claim to have obtained 4chan's code, emails of moderators, and internal communications." https://www.404media.co/4chan-is-down-following-what-looks-to-be-a-major-hack-spurred-by-meme-war/ | Source: 404 Media [13:15] TR Bot 4chan Is Down Following What Looks to Be a Major Hack Spurred By Meme War [13:16] TR News "4chan is an anonymous message board that enables often offensive and hateful content. The content leaked, if genuine, would remove some of the anonymity from 4chan administrators, moderators, and janitors" https://www.wired.com/story/2025-4chan-hack-admin-leak/ | Source: Wired [13:16] TR Bot 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins | WIRED [13:16] TR News "denied a report that the practice was new and connected to a recent security appraisal of the risks when visiting the United States" https://therecord.media/eu-burner-phones-traveling-officials | Source: The Record [13:16] TR Bot EU confirms issuing burner phones to top officials but denies practice caused by Trump | The Record from Recorded Future News [13:18] TR News "The European Commission is giving staffers visiting the US on official business burner laptops and phones to avoid espionage attempts, according to the Financial Times." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/ec_burner_devices/ | Source: The Register UK [13:18] TR Bot Report: EC issues burner phones for visits to US The Register [13:18] TR News "how the fundamental data protection rights recognized under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) can be reconciled with AI models and how they get trained." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/meta_resume_ai_training_eu_user_posts/ | Source: The Register UK [13:18] TR Bot Meta set to resume training AI models on EU user posts The Register [13:18] TR News "A whistleblower alleges Elon Musk's tech team caused a major cybersecurity breach at the NLRB" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/whistleblower-org-says-doge-may-have-caused-significant-cyber-breach-at-us-labor-watchdog/articleshow/120328777.cms | Source: India Times [13:18] TR Bot Whistleblower org says DOGE may have caused 'significant cyber breach' at US labor watchdog - The Economic Times [13:22] TR News Australia: Android up https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/australia/#monthly-200902-202504 [13:22] TR Bot Operating System Market Share Australia | Statcounter Global Stats [13:23] TR News "The idea that Linux isn't a practical choice for gamers is slowly becoming outdated. Here are the best Linux distributions every gamer should consider using." https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-6-linux-distros-i-recommend-most-for-gaming-in-2025-including-my-favorite/ [13:23] TR Bot 6 Linux distros I recommend most for gaming in 2025 - including my favorite | ZDNET [13:26] TR News PR slush funds https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/17969-linux-foundation-mentorship-program.html [13:26] TR Bot Linux Foundation Mentorship Program [13:26] TR News "After about a month of testing, the full release of Fedora Linux 42 is finally here, bringing with it a bunch of upgrades and improvements for all of its many spins and editions." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-42-full-release/ [13:26] TR Bot Fedora Linux 42 Is Here With GNOME 48 [13:27] TR News "Fedora Linux 42 includes an x86 emulation layer for ARM PCs, much like Apples Rosetta 2 compatibility layer for Apple Silicon Mac computers. It allows ARM Linux PCs to run many applications and games that havent been ported to ARM yet, including Windows software through the Wine compatibility layer." https://www.howtogeek.com/fedora-linux-x86-emulation-arm-pc/ [13:27] TR Bot Fedora Linux Now Runs Windows Games (and Other x86 Apps) on ARM PCs [13:28] TR News 4 ways Apostrophe is my new go-to editor for markdown over Obsidian https://www.xda-developers.com/how-apostrophe-is-better-for-writing-than-obsidian/ [13:28] TR Bot Here's why I prefeer Apostrophe over Obsidian for writing [13:28] TR News "If you like trying new and experimental Linux distributions, you should be happy to know Manjaro Linux is officially jumping on the immutable Linux distribution bandwagon with the announcement of Manjaro Summit, in an alpha phase." https://www.howtogeek.com/manjaro-summit-alpha-released/ [13:28] TR Bot Manjaro Has a New 'Semi-Immutable' Edition You Can Test Right Now [13:29] TR News "When I hear the term, "Arch Linux", my mind 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hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs" https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite | Source: CoryDoctorow [13:32] TR Bot Pluralistic: Tesla accused of hacking odometers to weasel out of warranty repairs (15 Apr 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [13:32] TR News "Thus, while tls certificates can usually be checked very easily in our web browser of choice, it is still useful to know how to do it in the terminal." https://entropicthoughts.com/checking-tls-certificates-with-openssl-from-terminal | Source: Chris [13:32] TR Bot Checking TLS Certificates with OpenSSL from Terminal [13:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [13:52] TR News Techrights Google Promotes Fake Articles (LLM Slop) Instead of Originals, Relaying Microsoft's Linux FUD Emanating From Microsoft LLMs https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Google_Promotes_Fake_Articles_LLM_Slop_Instead_of_Originals_Rel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Google_Promotes_Fake_Articles_LLM_Slop_Instead_of_Originals_Rel.gmi [13:52] TR Bot Techrights Google Promotes Fake Articles (LLM Slop) Instead of Originals, Relaying Microsoft's Linux FUD Emanating From Microsoft LLMs ● Apr 16 [14:03] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [14:09] TR News Techrights StatCounter Shows the Market Share of Vista 11 is Decreasing in Ukraine This Year https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/StatCounter_Shows_the_Market_Share_of_Vista_11_is_Decreasing_in.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/StatCounter_Shows_the_Market_Share_of_Vista_11_is_Decreasing_in.gmi [14:09] TR Bot Techrights StatCounter Shows the Market Share of Vista 11 is Decreasing in Ukraine This Year [14:09] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [14:13] TR News Windows TCO: "Cyble researchers have uncovered ransomware called DOGE BIG BALLS, a ransomware that not just stands out but also presents its technical prowess for audacious psychological manipulation." https://thecyberexpress.com/doge-big-balls-ransomware/ | Source: Cyble Inc [14:13] TR Bot DOGE BIG BALLS Ransomware: Inside A Complex Cyber Threat [14:14] TR News (NEW): New Release: Tails 6.14.2 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/New_Release_Tails_6_14_2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/New_Release_Tails_6_14_2.gmi [14:14] TR Bot Tux Machines New Release: Tails 6.14.2 [14:14] TR News Windows TCO: "This week, our Year in Review spotlight is on ransomwarewhere low-profile tactics led to high-impact consequences." https://blog.talosintelligence.com/year-in-review-ransomware/ | Source: Threat Source [14:14] TR Bot Year in Review: The biggest trends in ransomware [14:15] TR News Windows TCO: "The attacker, dubbed UNC5174, uses a mix of custom and open source malware" https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/chinese_spies_backdoored_us_orgs/ | Source: The Register UK [14:15] TR Bot Chinese spies backdoored US orgs via open source RAT The Register [14:15] TR News Windows TCO: "Kidney dialysis services provider DaVita said it fell victim to a ransomware attack over the weekend that disrupted some of its operations, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)." https://www.securityweek.com/kidney-dialysis-services-provider-davita-hit-by-ransomware/ | Source: Security Week [14:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/kidney-dialysis-services-provider-davita-hit-by-ransomware/ ) [14:23] TR News Windows TCO: "On April 12, 2025, DaVita Inc. 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They do not involve top-down censorship, but bottom-up user choice." https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/meta-fight-antisemitism-harassment/682380/ | Source: The Atlantic [14:25] TR Bot HowSocial-Media Sites Can Fight Hate Without Censorship - The Atlantic [14:25] TR News "The M3GAN screening will also allow fans to communicate with the evil doll herself via a M3GAN chatbot." https://variety.com/2025/film/news/meta-second-screen-theater-tech-m3gan-rerelease-1236364712/ | Source: Variety [14:25] TR Bot Meta Launching Second Screen Theater Tech With 'M3GAN' Rerelease [14:25] TR News "a new spin, perhaps, on Zuckerberg's cringey push to get his subordinates to refer to each other as "Meta Mates" back when he was all-in on virtual reality fans will be able to talk to an AI version of the iconic robot." https://futurism.com/zuckerberg-encourages-theatergoers-phones-movies | Source: Futurism [14:25] TR Bot Zuckerberg Encourages Theatergoers to Use Their Phones While Movie Is Playing [14:26] TR News "It depends who you ask. But the current wave of generative AI has unpleasant side effects that are hard to ignore: large-scale copyright infringements, environmental impact and bias." https://hidde.blog/ethical-ai/ | Source: Hidde de Vries [14:26] TR Bot ethical AI an oxymoron? | hidde.blog [14:27] TR News "Slopsquatting" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/slopsquatting.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [14:27] TR Bot - Schneier on Security [14:27] TR News "Heres how these models typically work. When a user queries an LLM, an algorithm breaks that input text into a sequence of tokens." https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-language-models-work-better-researchers-sidestep-language-20250414/ | Source: Quanta Magazine [14:27] TR Bot To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language | Quanta Magazine [14:28] TR News "its proponents envisioned a world where research findings would be freely available to all readers breaking down paywalls that limited knowledge dissemination and hindered scientific progress." https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/04/15/guest-post-the-open-access-ai-conundrum-does-free-to-read-mean-free-to-train/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing [14:28] TR Bot Guest Post - The Open Access AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train? - The Scholarly Kitchen [14:29] TR News "The excuse also doesn't quite add up. There's nothing wrong with using dictation software, but why would that cause blatant spelling errors or a reference to ChatGPT?" https://futurism.com/andrew-cuomo-ai-aide | Source: Futurism | ONLY FOOLS USE THIS SCAM :) http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml [14:29] TR Bot Called Out for AI Slop, Andrew Cuomo Blames One-Armed Man [14:29] TR Bot Techrights OpenAI: If OpenAI Survives Another 2 Years, It'll be About 30 Billion Dollars in Cumulative Losses/Debt [14:29] TR News "H&M is making some big promises with this pitch. But is any of this real? Its certainly not plausible. Think for one moment about these claims." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/15/hms-ai-models-campaign-makes-impossible-claims/ | Source: Pivot to AI [14:29] TR Bot H&Ms AI models campaign makes impossible claims Pivot to AI [14:31] TR News "In this work, we focus on a specific type of hallucination during code generation called package hallucination." https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10279 | Source: arXiv [14:31] TR News "An adversary can exploit package hallucinations, especially if they are repeated, by publishing a package to an open-source repository with the same name as the hallucinated or fictitious package and containing some malicious code/functionality" https://thecyberexpress.com/genai-llm-code-package-hallucinations/ | Source: Cyble Inc [14:31] TR Bot New GenAI Supply Chain Threat: Code Package Hallucinations [14:34] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:35] TR News "Tesla, the electric vehicle titan, faces a monumental challenge that could reshape its future." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tesla-ordered-replace-faulty-self-driving-computers-4-million-cars-pay-1732743 | Source: International Business Times [14:35] TR Bot Tesla Ordered To Replace Faulty 'Self-Driving' Computers In 4 Million Cars Or Pay Up | IBTimes UK [14:36] TR News "In public and private meetings, Chinese officials are typically firm in their denials about any and all accusations of offensive hacking." https://www.wired.com/story/china-admits-hacking-us-infrastructure/ | Source: Wired [14:36] TR Bot Secretly (and Weirdly) Admits It Hacked US Infrastructure | WIRED [14:36] TR News "The first Intel-based Mac was 19 years ago, but new versions of apps for both Classic Mac OS and PowerPC Mac OS X still occasionally appear, and we are here for it." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/classic_mac_os_apps/ | Source: The Register UK [14:36] TR Bot Fresh Classic Mac OS and PowerPC apps in 2025 The Register [14:37] TR News "OneDrive users on both OSes complained that their shared folders no longer appeared in their local OneDrive directories and had instead been replaced with .url files linking to OneDrive's web interface." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/14/microsoft_onedrive_file_sync_apps_broken/ | Source: The Register UK [14:37] TR Bot OneDrive clients for Windows, Mac still broken 10 months on The Register [14:37] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [14:39] TR News "That is one of the advantages of getting older: I feel secure in declining things. It's a great feeling!" https://robertbirming.com/value-firm-no/ | Source: Robert Birming [14:39] TR Bot The value of a firm "No" | Robert Birming [14:39] TR News "Matthias Endler wrote up a list of traits he sees in great developers, which I read because Jerod linked to it in Changelog's newsletter." https://justin.searls.co/links/2025-04-14-the-best-programmers/ | [14:39] TR Bot The Best Programmers | justinsearlsco [14:39] TR News "I want to preface this by saying that this is NOT a guide on how to get a job. This is a recounting of my own personal experience in the job market in 2025 as a recent (2022) computer science and engineering graduate" https://mirawelner.com/posts/how_i_got_job.html | Source: Mira Welner [14:39] TR Bot How I got a Job in March of 2025 [14:40] TR News "political landscape" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/travel-warning-united-states-1.7510877 | Source: CBC [14:40] TR Bot Canadian university teachers warned against travelling to the United States | CBC News [14:40] TR News "Reports of foreigners being sent to detention or processing centers for more than seven days, including Canadian Jasmine Mooney, a pair of German tourists" https://apnews.com/article/canada-university-academic-warning-border-trump-492da3367ffc75ae163b4248698d849f | Source: Associated Press [14:40] TR Bot Canadian university teachers warned against traveling to the United States | AP News [14:41] TR News "The approximate 20 percent budget cut could force the closure of the Goddard Space Flight Center and would see projects such as the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope scrapped." https://www.wired.com/story/proposed-nasa-budget-cuts-would-decimate-american-leadership-in-space/ | Source: Wired [14:41] TR Bot NASA Budget Cuts Would Decimate American Leadership in Space | WIRED [14:41] TR News "If you cut this budget, you cut into the heart of America's leadership when it comes to space exploration." https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/15/nasa_cuts_protest/ | Source: The Register UK [14:41] TR Bot Politicians protest proposed cuts to NASA science The Register [14:45] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:45] TR News OSI is in a state of panic at the moment. Let's wait a bit, then resume. Techrights will write the next part soon. [14:46] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:49] TR News "Theyre enclosed, so even on windy days its nice to be outside (helps keep it a bit warmer too when the wind has a bite)" https://aj.bourg.family/greenhouse/ | Source: AJ Bourg [14:49] TR Bot Greenhouse! The Anti Social [14:49] TR News [Old] "Lynch is a soft-spoken man whose work, for more than thirty years, has had an impact directly or indirectly on the computer, information and library science communities." https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2013/05/digital-preservation-pioneer-clifford-lynch/ | Source: LOC [14:49] TR Bot Digital Preservation Pioneer: Clifford Lynch | The Signal [14:49] TR News "Last Tuesday Cliff Lynch delivered an abbreviated version of his traditional closing summary and bon voyage to CNI's 2025 Spring Membership Meeting via Zoom from his sick-bed." https://blog.dshr.org/2025/04/cliff-lynch-rip.html | Source: David Rosenthal [14:49] TR Bot DSHR's Blog: Cliff Lynch RIP ● Apr 16 [15:01] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [15:08] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [15:08] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:17] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:20] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@5wbxniisgf6re.irc) has joined #techrights [15:23] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [15:24] TR News "Im getting many what are you going to do with all these prints?!? questions so that might be the subject of next weeks newsletter" https://austinkleon.com/2025/04/15/i-cant-stop-printing/ | Source: Austin Kleon [15:24] TR Bot I cant stop printing - Austin Kleon [15:24] TR News "Generally, yes. Michael was the most popular male baby name in the US from every year (except 1960) from 1954 to 1998. 4,350,425 of us were named Michael in the 100 years ending 2023." https://mihobu.lol/whats-in-a-name | Source: Michael Burkhardt [15:24] TR Bot Whats in a Name? - Michael Burkhardt's Whirled Wide Web [15:25] TR News "The center must be heldnot because it is easy, but because it is ours to hold. And holding it begins with this recognition: there are twenty-four hours in a day, and how we allocate our attention within them may determine whether our republic survives this moment of peril." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/there-are-only-twenty-four-hours | Source: Mike Brock [15:25] TR Bot There Are Only Twenty-Four Hours in a Day - by Mike Brock [15:26] *cblinux has quit (connection closed) [15:26] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:28] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [15:29] MinceR you don't have a republic [15:30] *x-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [15:30] schestowitz[TR2] repugnant public [15:30] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@dxzspnzshkeec.irc) has joined #techrights [15:30] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: get this [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] some countries are SO poor... [15:31] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Security_Leftovers.gmi [15:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [15:31] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] that ALL THEY HAVE IS PROZAC! [15:31] MinceR lol [15:31] schestowitz[TR2] "KEEP WORKING PEASANTS!!" [15:31] TR News "Code is data and data is code. Years ago, I had a brief affair with Lisp and there I picked up this meme. Today, I believe there are also benefits in separating code and data." https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/config_levels.html | Source: Andreas Zwinkau [15:31] TR Bot The 5 Levels of Configuration Languages [15:32] MinceR "America has many wonderful things we never had in Russia...like warning shots." [15:32] TR News "Think of a tech company as a giant, dimly-lit factory. Work goes on throughout the factory as components shuffle back and forth, and finished products get steadily carted away" https://www.seangoedecke.com/the-spotlight/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [15:32] TR Bot Software engineering under the spotlight | sean goedecke [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] "work harder" [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] ""or i send your job to a sweatshop" [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] better than [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] 1800s [15:32] schestowitz[TR2] "work harder, n****er" [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] us is all about freedom [15:33] schestowitz[TR2] but WHOSE? [15:33] TR News "Wicked features are requirements that must be considered every time you build anything else" https://www.seangoedecke.com/wicked-features/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [15:33] TR Bot Wicked features | sean goedecke [15:33] TR News "I recently wrapped up a job where I spent the last two years writing the backend of a B2B SaaS product in Rust, so now is the ideal time to reflect on the experience and write about it." https://borretti.me/article/two-years-of-rust | Source: Fernando Borretti [15:33] TR Bot Two Years of Rust [15:34] TR News "This is a famous CPU, powering the Apple II series of computer. But I'm European, I have never seen Apple II in my life. Commodore on the hand, I have seen." https://michal.sapka.pl/2025/commodore-64-assembler-day-1-hello-world-and-emacs-setup/ | Source: Micha Sapka [15:34] TR Bot Commodore 64 Assembler, Day 1: Hello World and basic Emacs setup [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] MinceR: us has fine programmers [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] like phanes [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] writing a lousy bots to ddos IRC [15:34] MinceR lol [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] and doing it wrong [15:34] TR News "I have a little .zshrc file to customize my terminal, and Ive always wanted a fun prompt besides the default, but havent really done much to learn it." https://cassidoo.co/post/my-zsh-prompt/ | Source: Cassidy Williams [15:34] TR Bot Customizing my Zsh Prompt [15:35] TR News "Ideally, every function that writes to the stdout probably should ask for a io.Writer and write to it instead." https://rednafi.com/go/capture_console_output/ | Source: Redowan Delowar [15:35] TR Bot Capturing console output in Go tests | Redowan's Reflections [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] or gulagboy [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] imported from europe [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] to look at our code [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] and all he could say was, [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] like reading comments only [15:35] schestowitz[TR2] "oh, look, it hide daemonfc" [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] didn't find any bug in the code [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] there are bugs [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] but you need to understand the code [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] he cannot [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] so he focuses on names in the code [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] like a lady who loves to gossip [15:36] schestowitz[TR2] he saw a name, daemonfc, and his eyes lit up [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] gossip gulag [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] also spent YEARS spying on me in many IRC channels [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] trying to [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] 1) incite the webhost against me [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] and tried [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] failed [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] based on #techpol [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] 2) incite my employer against me [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] by reading personal life comments in "social" [15:38] schestowitz[TR2] people like these end up being sued [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] for much worse than stalking [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] https://techrights.org/n/2024/09/06/Why_We_Are_Suing_Matthew_J_Garrett_for_Harassment_and_Why_It_s_.shtml [15:39] TR Bot Techrights Why We Are Suing Matthew J. Garrett for Harassment and Why It's Important to Everybody in the Community [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] he also hijacked usernames of other people [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] here in IRC [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] then he goee "hahaha me so funny" [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] *goes [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] very immature [15:39] schestowitz[TR2] no wonder he gets into trouble [15:40] schestowitz[TR2] and keeps losing his job [15:40] schestowitz[TR2] like this guy: [15:41] schestowitz[TR2] "They argue that as a public figure who regularly engages in contentious debates, Hijabs reputation is already subject to scrutiny. Any adverse consequences to the YouTuber stem from his own behaviour, not the article, they state. [15:41] schestowitz[TR2] Murrays article includes a reference to Hijab's trip to Leicester during the 2022 unrest, in which Hindu buildings were attacked and dozens of arrests made as tensions with the citys Muslim community exploded. Speaking to a large crowd of mostly masked men, Hijab delivered an apparent warning, saying: Im saying this directly to all the so-called Hindutva wannabe gangsters: Dont ever come out like that again. He a [15:41] schestowitz[TR2] lso led calls of Allahu Akbar." [15:41] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/mohammed-hijab-sues-douglas-murray-for-defamation-c3lpnn8l [15:41] TR Bot Mohammed Hijab sues Douglas Murray for defamation - The Jewish Chronicle - The Jewish Chronicle [15:42] schestowitz[TR2] it is still a problem that Kings Bench accepts suits from extremists [15:42] schestowitz[TR2] who try to cost money to people who just call them extremists [15:42] schestowitz[TR2] (which is what they are) [15:42] schestowitz[TR2] hence, https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/05/Techrights_Will_Spend_the_Next_Few_Years_Writing_a_Lot_About_St.shtml [15:42] TR Bot Techrights Techrights Will Spend the Next Few Years Writing a Lot About Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) [15:43] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] in short, [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] we will win this [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] and he won't be able to pay [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] or may file for bankruptcy [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] because he acted really badly [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] for many years [15:44] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [15:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] all he has to talk about now is his dog's diarrhoea [15:44] schestowitz[TR2] while techrights and tuxmachines are busy covering FOSS news [15:44] MinceR turns out suspend doesn't work on this X1 after all, it can remain rather noisy while seemingly suspended, so the fan is probably running :( [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] my main laptop has a fan issue [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] sometimes the fan touches the edges [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] knocking it a few times helps silence it [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] but for how long? [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] it'll deteriorate over time [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] better than not spinning at all [15:45] schestowitz[TR2] it's just not a pleasant noise [15:46] schestowitz[TR2] (HP probook) [15:46] schestowitz[TR2] would not recommend HP< buy taiwan instead (acer, asus) [15:50] TR News Techrights Links 16/04/2025: Cliff Lynch RIP, More Attacks on Science (NASA) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Links_16_04_2025_Cliff_Lynch_RIP_More_Attacks_on_Science_NASA.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Links_16_04_2025_Cliff_Lynch_RIP_More_Attacks_on_Science_NASA.gmi [15:50] TR Bot Techrights Links 16/04/2025: Cliff Lynch RIP, More Attacks on Science (NASA) [15:51] TR News Russell Coker: Storage Trends 2025 https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/15/storage-trends-2025/ [15:51] TR Bot Storage Trends 2025 etbe - Russell Coker [15:51] TR News Russell Coker: What Desktop PCs Need https://etbe.coker.com.au/2025/04/15/what-desktop-pcs-need/ [15:51] TR Bot What Desktop PCs Need etbe - Russell Coker [15:53] TR News "It would be nice if we had a global, distributed, relatively easily queryable, consistent database system." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/DNSNotADatabase | Source: University of Toronto [15:53] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [15:53] TR News "One of the more active areas of activity at the IETF falls under the DNS Operations Working Group (DNSOP) remit." https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/15/dns-at-ietf-122/ | Source: APNIC [15:53] TR Bot DNS at IETF 122 | APNIC Blog [15:54] *x-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [15:54] TR News "In January, the FSF launched a call to organize local community meetups and claimed the month of May as LibreLocal Month." https://www.fsf.org/news/fifteen-librelocal-meetups-announced | Source: FSF [15:54] TR Bot More than fifteen free software socials to be held globally Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [15:54] TR News "I'm co-organizing an open source supply-chain security mini-track with Dustin Ingram during PyCon US 2025" https://sethmlarson.dev/pycon-us-2025-security-mini-summit | Source: Seth Michael Larson [15:54] TR Bot Join the PyCon US 2025 Security Mini-Track! [15:58] TR News Four questions: tech gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/agk/2025-04-16-4q.txt "I learned to type, made zines on copy machines and an offset press, wrote a website for my zine in the '90s on my dad's desktop, but I wasn't interested in the tech, just using it." [15:59] TR News "Man, the current news cycle is making my brain hurt... every other day you either hear about some astoundingly stupid idea Trump comes up with, new ways of our politicians to invade our privacy our the simple fact that the climate is breaking down around us and simply nobody seems to care." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/ralfwause/phlog/160425.txt ● Apr 16 [16:01] TR News SpellBinding: ABCEGKM Wordo: DEPTH gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-16.gmi [16:04] TR News "I am very excited to write this first post on my fresh, new gemlog." gemini://gemini.metro.cx/posts/hello-geminauts-first-post.gmi [16:04] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [16:05] TR News "This capsule is hosted on a FreeBSD server. Incoming connections are handled within a jail, where an stunnel daemon terminates the SSL connection and forwards it to vger, a simplistic Gemini server that supports virtual hosting." [16:07] TR News "Make your writing accessible: concise, bland and simple. Write enough -don't avoid explaining. The aim is to convey a message and there is a difference between avoiding clutter and lack of clarity. The former helps, the latter doesnt." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2583 [16:07] TR News "There must be flexibility when writing the first draft. Even if it looks and sounds childish and makes you hate yourself for having written it. This is essential to enable a flow state and make sure that every idea is laid on paper. Some of the apparently bad ideas might turn out great. Also, everything written can be revised and most of it must be revised." [16:08] TR News First Fermentation of 2025 gemini://vigrey.com/journal/first-fermentation-of-2025.gmi [16:09] TR News "But I deleted my account when they partnered with Google to allow API access for AI training on posts, and have tried not to look back. Lately, I've been getting back into some old musical interests on guitar. But instead of going to particular subreddits, I've been trying instead to use forums." gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2025/4-16.gmi [16:25] TR News Techrights You Should Probably Self-Host Your E-mail and Never Use a Web Browser for Mail https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/You_Should_Probably_Self_Host_Your_E_mail_and_Never_Use_a_Web_B.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/You_Should_Probably_Self_Host_Your_E_mail_and_Never_Use_a_Web_B.gmi [16:25] TR Bot Techrights You Should Probably Self-Host Your E-mail and Never Use a Web Browser for Mail [16:39] *cblinux (~user@5wa7ex3gch4eg.irc) has joined #techrights [16:42] TR News Tools will not liberate us gemini://dobody.srht.site/gemlog/posts/2025-04-16-tools-will-not-liberate-us.gmi "In our work as practitioners of libre and experimental methods for design, a question arises often. It pertains to our loyalty towards the values we ascribe to libre, open, shared or community software." [16:42] TR News "i've been looking into el gran tarot esoterico. not sure how much of what i've found is eudes picard and how much is maritxu guler's synthesizing of the 19th century occultists overall." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/grantarotesoterico1 ● Apr 16 [17:07] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2025: The 2010s Are Calling and Why "Tools Will Not Liberate Us" https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2025_The_2010s_Are_Calling_and_Why_Tools_Wil.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2025_The_2010s_Are_Calling_and_Why_Tools_Wil.gmi [17:07] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2025: The 2010s Are Calling and Why "Tools Will Not Liberate Us" [17:08] TR News "Whats frustrating about these warnings are they are related to shortcodes built into Hugo itself. They are part of the documentation and examples that Hugo has to showcase what the project can do." https://mandarismoore.com/2025/04/15/im-tired-boss-upcoming-deprecations.html | Source: Mandaris Moore [17:08] TR Bot I'm tired boss... upcoming deprecations - Mandaris [17:08] TR News "The new version refines the essential tools that site owners and developers rely on daily." https://linuxiac.com/wordpress-6-8-released-as-a-performance-focused-update/ | Source: Linuxiac [17:08] TR Bot WordPress 6.8 Released as a Performance-Focused Update [17:09] TR News ""We have to build up our own capacities when it comes to technologies," EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen has said" https://today.rtl.lu/news/business-and-tech/a/2294819.html | Source: RTL [17:09] TR Bot RTL Today - Growing sense of urgency: Europe seeks to break its US tech addiction [17:10] TR News "Christian Wenzel-Benner and researcher Dr. Michaela Dmmer from Prof. Dr. Christoph Forreiters research" https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/harnessing-rp2040-for-microgravity-research-in-zero-g-parabolic-flight/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [17:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/harnessing-rp2040-for-microgravity-research-in-zero-g-parabolic-flight/ ) [17:10] TR News "I've mentioned the Framework 13 a few times recently, and I ended up buying one." https://kevquirk.com/blog/why-i-decided-on-the-framework-13-for-my-next-laptop | Source: Kev Quirk [17:10] TR Bot Why I Decided on the Framework 13 for My Next Laptop | Kev Quirk [17:11] TR News "Update perl to 5.36.0-7+deb12u2, which fixes a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability" https://tails.net/news/version_6.14.2/index.en.html | Source: Tails [17:11] TR Bot Tails - Tails 6.14.2 [17:12] TR News "The stable version of Fedora Linux 42 is now available, featuring Gnome 48 in the Workstation edition and a new edition based on KDE Plasma (6.3.4)" https://manualdousuario.net/en/fedora-linux-42/ | Source: Rodrigo Ghedin [17:12] TR Bot Fedora Linux 42 Manual do Usurio [17:13] TR News "Speaking of Fedora, let me clarify: this release isnt based on the latest Fedora 42 (which just came out today) but on its previous Fedora 41 release." https://linuxiac.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-linux-41-cyberia-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [17:13] TR Bot Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 41 "Cyberia" Released [17:14] TR News "Another six-month cycle has passed, and the highly anticipated Fedora 42 release is finally here" https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-42-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [17:14] TR Bot Fedora 42 Officially Released, This Is What's New [17:14] TR News "The Fedora team have announced the release of Fedora 42. The new version elevates the KDE Plasma spin to "edition" status, alongside the existing GNOME edition, and introduces a new COSMIC desktop spin. [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12410 | Source: Distro Watch [17:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12410 ) [17:14] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [17:18] TR News "Manjaro 25 Zetar Lands with GNOME 48" https://linuxiac.com/manjaro-25-0-zetar-lands-with-gnome-48-plasma-6-3-and-more/ | Source: Linuxiac [17:18] TR Bot Manjaro 25 Zetar Lands with GNOME 48, Plasma 6.3, and More [17:18] TR News Manjaro Linux 25.0.0 https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12408 | Source: Distro Watch [17:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12408 ) [17:20] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [17:20] TR News "So, how did Valve become so acquainted with the Linux ecosystem?" https://thelibre.news/on-the-history-of-valve-and-linux/ | Source: LibreNews [17:20] TR Bot On the history of Valve and Linux [17:21] TR News "This post explores these questions through detailed fio(1) benchmarking, looking at random reads, random writes, and latency" https://rsadowski.de/posts/2025/fio_simple_benckmarking/ | Source: Rafael Sadowski [17:21] TR Bot benchmarking on OpenBSD: How Many Jobs Are Worth It? rsadowski.de [17:21] TR News "These days, Unixes are quite generous in what they make available through their packaging systems" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MyPersonalProgramsSetup | Source: University of Toronto [17:21] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [17:22] TR News How To Install Blender on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-blender-opensuse/ [17:22] TR Bot How To Install Blender on openSUSE - idroot [17:22] TR News How To Install OpenRGB on GNU/Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-openrgb-linux-mint-22/ [17:22] TR Bot How To Install OpenRGB on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [17:22] TR News Fedora GNU/Linux 42 Released https://idroot.us/fedora-42/ [17:22] TR Bot Fedora Linux 42 Released - idroot [17:22] TR News How To Install BalenaEtcher on CentOS Stream 10 https://idroot.us/install-balenaetcher-centos-stream-10/ [17:22] TR Bot How To Install BalenaEtcher on CentOS Stream 10 - idroot [17:23] TR News How To Install Flatpak on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-flatpak-fedora-42/ [17:23] TR Bot How To Install Flatpak on Fedora 42 - idroot [17:24] TR News "I had a manager was good for unsubstantiated performance reviews. She always gave the good reviews to the brown noses but not to the people who had beyond get customer relationships. Some of us called her mini Ginni" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn [17:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrw6p1yn ) [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh [17:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh ) [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] " [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] The mass outsourcing began with Sam Palmisano, not with Ginni. There are so much hate on her - some of which is deserved - but Sam is the original piece of sh-t. (You can even take it back to Lou. But I doubt he ever intended us to end up here whereas that was always Sam's plan.) [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] Part of why resist all of the negative dumping on Ginni is Is because she actually did make some really great moves. She invested heavily in design and UX research which are the key differentiates between sh---y products and great products. [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] Arvind is a a complete total piece of sh-t with absolutely no vision of his own. He is probably the only person I wouldn't mind seeing shipped off to El Salvadoran prison but that will never happen. Trump only likes to imprison innocent people and without due process. Arvind is a traitor and is personally responsible for making our products, shittier and shittier. Because he's a piece of sh-t he is determined to make sure that our [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] products become pieces of sh-t too. Fu-k Arvind and fu-k his entire leadership team. [17:26] schestowitz[TR2] " [17:34] *x-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [17:47] MinceR 16 164658 < schestowitz[TR2]> would not recommend HP< buy taiwan instead (acer, asus) [17:47] MinceR i got disappointed by asus too [17:47] MinceR is it safe to risk an insyde firmware with an acer? [17:49] TR News Techrights Confirming IBM Shutdowns and Layoffs Today https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Confirming_IBM_Shutdowns_and_Layoffs_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Confirming_IBM_Shutdowns_and_Layoffs_Today.gmi [17:49] TR Bot Techrights Confirming IBM Shutdowns and Layoffs Today [17:50] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@h5zkbfemmwig6.irc) has joined #techrights [17:51] TR News Fedora-based Ultramarine GNU/Linux 41 Cyberia Released https://linuxiac.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-linux-41-cyberia-released/ [17:51] TR Bot Fedora-based Ultramarine Linux 41 "Cyberia" Released [17:51] TR News Fedora 42 Officially Released, This Is Whats New https://linuxiac.com/fedora-linux-42-released/ [17:51] TR Bot Fedora 42 Officially Released, This Is What's New [17:51] TR News Manjaro 25 Zetar Lands with GNOME 48, Plasma 6.3, and More https://linuxiac.com/manjaro-25-0-zetar-lands-with-gnome-48-plasma-6-3-and-more/ [17:51] TR Bot Manjaro 25 Zetar Lands with GNOME 48, Plasma 6.3, and More [17:51] TR News VirtualBox 7.1.8 Released, Heres Whats New https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released/ [17:51] TR Bot VirtualBox 7.1.8 Released, Heres Whats New [17:53] TR News "In the big year of 2025, more and more of the Linux world has finally moved on to using a Wayland graphical session" https://thelibre.news/wayland-has-a-bright-future-ahead/ | Source: LibreNews [17:53] TR Bot Wayland has a bright future ahead [17:53] TR News "VirtualBox, a popular open-source virtualization software, has rolled out its latest maintenance release, version 7.1.8" https://linuxiac.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [17:53] TR News The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/science/squid-colossal-deep-sea-exploration.html [17:53] TR Bot The First Ever Sighting of a Colossal Squid - The New York Times [17:54] TR News Autism Rate Continues to Rise Among Children, C.D.C. Reports https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/health/autism-children-cdc.html [17:54] TR Bot Autism Rate Continues to Rise Among Children, C.D.C. Reports - The New York Times [17:59] TR News "Russian state media deletes video of drone strike directed from central Moscow after angry bloggers argue it makes city a legitimate military target" https://meduza.io/en/news/2025/04/16/russian-state-media-deletes-video-of-drone-strike-directed-from-central-moscow-after-angry-bloggers-argue-it-makes-city-a-legitimate-military-target | Source: Meduza [17:59] TR Bot Russian state media deletes video of drone strike directed from central Moscow after angry bloggers argue it makes city a legitimate military target Meduza ● Apr 16 [18:01] TR News ASCAP and BMI Double Down on Opposition to New Regulations as US Copyright Offices PRO Inquiry Continues https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/15/ascap-bmi-copyright-office-noi-comments/ [18:01] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/15/ascap-bmi-copyright-office-noi-comments/ ) [18:01] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/2502236 [18:01] TR Bot WHOOPSIE [18:01] TR News 4Chan Hack Reveals University Professor Moderators, 10 Million Bans, 10 Year Old Software https://lunduke.substack.com/p/4chan-hack-reveals-university-professor [18:01] TR Bot 4Chan Hack Reveals University Professor Moderators, 10 Million Bans, 10 Year Old Software [18:02] TR News Calling Whistleblowers at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft https://lunduke.substack.com/p/calling-whistleblowers-at-microsoft https://techrights.org/o/2020/06/09/lunduke-concern-trolling-again/ [18:02] TR Bot Calling Whistleblowers at Microsoft - by Bryan Lunduke [18:02] TR Bot Bryan Lunduke is Still 100% Trolling With His Facts-Free Provocation 'Masterpiece' Called 'Linux Sucks' [18:02] TR News 5 Best Tools to Monitor and Debug Disk I/O Performance in GNU/Linux https://www.tecmint.com/monitor-linux-disk-io-performance/ [18:02] TR Bot Top 5 Linux Tools for Monitoring Disk I/O Performance [18:06] TR News Assessing rating scale dimensionality through bifactor model-based indices in R workshop https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/assessing-rating-scale-dimensionality-through-bifactor-model-based-indices-in-r-workshop/ [18:06] TR Bot rating scale dimensionality through bifactor model-based indices in R workshop | R-bloggers [18:12] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [18:28] TR News DUG Nomad is a mobile, immersion-cooled data center cube for edge Hey Hi (AI) https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/servers/dug-nomad-is-an-mobile-immersion-cooled-data-center-cube-for-edge-ai [18:28] TR Bot DUG Nomad is a mobile, immersion-cooled data center cube for edge AI | Tom's Hardware [18:29] TR News Incident detection for OpenShift tech preview is here https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/15/incident-detection-openshift-tech-preview-here [18:29] TR Bot Incident detection for OpenShift tech preview is here | Red Hat Developer [18:29] TR News (NEW): NVIDIA 575 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with NVIDIA Smooth Motion https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/NVIDIA_575_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Enters_Public_Beta_with_NVIDIA.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/NVIDIA_575_Linux_Graphics_Driver_Enters_Public_Beta_with_NVIDIA.gmi [18:29] TR Bot Tux Machines NVIDIA 575 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with NVIDIA Smooth Motion [18:31] TR News Checking TLS Certificates with OpenSSL from Terminal https://entropicthoughts.com/checking-tls-certificates-with-openssl-from-terminal [18:31] TR Bot Checking TLS Certificates with OpenSSL from Terminal [18:33] TR News PCLinuxOS Recent Updates https://www.pclinuxos.com/?p=5947 [18:33] TR Bot Updates PCLinuxOS [18:39] TR News It's easier than ever to de-censor videos https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/its-easier-ever-de-censor-videos [18:39] TR Bot It's easier than ever to de-censor videos | Jeff Geerling [18:40] TR News YouTube Reportedly Prepares to Unbundle Music from Premium in South Korea Amid Regulatory Scrutiny https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/15/youtube-music-premium-bundle-south-korea/ [18:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/15/youtube-music-premium-bundle-south-korea/ ) [18:41] TR News Announcing the Jumping Rivers Dashboard Gallery https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/announcing-the-jumping-rivers-dashboard-gallery/ [18:41] TR Bot the Jumping Rivers Dashboard Gallery | R-bloggers [18:42] TR News K-Means Clustering Analysis of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/k-means-clustering-analysis-of-apple-microsoft-and-nvidia/ [18:42] TR Bot Clustering Analysis of Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia | R-bloggers [18:42] TR News Choroplethr v4.0.0 is now on CRAN https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/choroplethr-v4-0-0-is-now-on-cran/ [18:42] TR Bot v4.0.0 is now on CRAN | R-bloggers [18:42] TR News Getting My Feet Wet With `Plumber` and JavaScript https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/getting-my-feet-wet-with-plumber-and-javascript/ [18:42] TR Bot My Feet Wet With `Plumber` and JavaScript | R-bloggers [18:43] TR News Extending the Theta forecasting method to GLMs, GAMs, GLMBOOST and attention: benchmarking on Tourism, M1, M3 and M4 competition data sets (28000 series) https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/extending-the-theta-forecasting-method-to-glms-gams-glmboost-and-attention-benchmarking-on-tourism-m1-m3-and-m4-competition-data-sets-28000-series/ [18:43] TR Bot the Theta forecasting method to GLMs, GAMs, GLMBOOST and attention: benchmarking on Tourism, M1, M3 and M4 competition data sets (28000 series) | R-bloggers [18:45] TR News Integration testing in Epiverse-TRACE https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/integration-testing-in-epiverse-trace/ [18:45] TR Bot testing in Epiverse-TRACE | R-bloggers [18:46] TR News AI-generated code comes with security risks https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/04/ai-generated-code-comes-with-security-risks/ [18:46] TR Bot code comes with security risks | R-bloggers [18:48] TR News Stylish backdoored Windows 11 replacement Nitrux is about to solve a big app headache for users https://betanews.com/2025/04/15/stylish-windows-11-replacement-nitrux-is-about-to-solve-a-big-app-headache-for-users/ [18:48] TR Bot Stylish Windows 11 replacement Nitrux is about to solve a big app headache for users [18:50] TR News Presentation: Opening the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines https://www.infoq.com/presentations/linux-performance-tools/ [18:50] TR Bot the Box: Diagnosing Operating-System Task-Scheduler Behavior on Highly Multicore Machines - InfoQ [18:51] TR News Red Hat Boosts Hey Hi (AI) across the Hybrid Cloud with Red Bait Hey Hi (AI) https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/04/red-hat-ai-hybrid-cloud/ [18:51] TR Bot Hat Boosts AI across the Hybrid Cloud with Red Hat AI - InfoQ [18:52] TR News HTTP 307 Temporary Redirect Status Code: What is it and When Should You Use it? https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/http-307-temporary-redirect-status-code/ [18:52] TR Bot 307 Temporary Redirect Status Code | LinuxHostSupport [18:53] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/today_s_howtos.gmi [18:53] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [18:53] TR News Manjaro GNU/Linux 25.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1017538/ [18:53] TR Bot Linux 25.0 released [LWN.net] [18:56] TR News Fedora GNU/Linux 42 released (Fedora Magazine) https://lwn.net/Articles/1017537/ [18:56] TR Bot Linux 42 released (Fedora Magazine) [LWN.net] [18:58] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1017514/ [18:58] TR Bot updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [18:58] TR News Christian Schaller: Fedora Workstation 42 is upon us! https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/04/15/fedora-workstation-42-is-upon-us/ [18:58] TR Bot Fedora Workstation 42 is upon us! | Christian F.K. Schaller [18:59] TR News Michael Catanzaro: Dangerous Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Yelp (CVE-2025-3155) https://blogs.gnome.org/mcatanzaro/2025/04/15/dangerous-arbitrary-file-read-vulnerability-in-yelp-cve-2025-3155/ [18:59] TR Bot Dangerous Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in Yelp (CVE-2025-3155) Michael Catanzaro's Blog ● Apr 16 [19:09] TR News England and Wales Deaths Rose From 9,867 to 11,241 in Six Years (Very Considerable Weekly Increase) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2025/04/16/very-sharp-increase/ [19:09] TR Bot Blog Archive England and Wales Deaths Rose From 9,867 to 11,241 in Six Years (Very Considerable Weekly Increase) [19:17] TR News Techrights Trump Authority (CA) With a Trump NSA is All About Security, But Whose? https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Trump_Authority_CA_With_a_Trump_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/Trump_Authority_CA_With_a_Trump_NSA_is_All_About_Security_But_W.gmi [19:17] TR Bot Techrights Trump Authority (CA) With a Trump NSA is All About Security, But Whose? [19:19] TR News "Arvind is a a complete total piece of sh-t with absolutely no vision of his own. He is probably the only person I wouldn't mind seeing shipped off to El Salvadoran prison but that will never happen. Trump only likes to imprison innocent people and without due process." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh [19:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrrtnbwh ) [19:19] TR News "Yes. It was officially announced today for the Dallas office. Move to Austin by the 31st of December or you will no longer have a job. Great job cutting employees without having to offer severance, and ending people's careers here under the guise of "collaboration."" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqyrkghq [19:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqyrkghq ) [19:20] TR News "I am confused" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqv3x6 more IBM shutdowns [19:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jrxqv3x6 ) [19:22] *nobody has quit (Quit: connection closed.) [19:24] TR News Peter Czanik: Working with Active Roles debug logs in syslog-ng https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/working-with-active-roles-debug-logs-in-syslog-ng [19:24] TR Bot with Active Roles debug logs in syslog-ng - Blog - syslog-ng Community - syslog-ng Community [19:24] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [19:24] TR News Embedded week in Nice https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/embedded-week-in-nice.html [19:24] TR Bot Embedded week in Nice [19:25] TR News memethesis-cli creates memes from the terminal https://www.linuxlinks.com/memethesis-cli-creates-memes-terminal/ [19:25] TR Bot creates memes from the terminal - LinuxLinks [19:26] TR News Whats new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 42 https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2025/04/15/fedora-atomic-desktops-42/ [19:26] TR Bot Whats new for Fedora Atomic Desktops in Fedora 42 - Siosms blog [19:30] TR News Armbian Announces New Cloud-Optimized Images for ARM64 and x86 https://9to5linux.com/armbian-announces-new-cloud-optimized-images-for-arm64-and-x86 [19:30] TR Bot Announces New Cloud-Optimized Images for ARM64 and x86 - 9to5Linux [19:30] TR News Fedora-Based Ultramarine 41 GNU/Linux Distribution Is Now Available for Download https://9to5linux.com/fedora-based-ultramarine-41-linux-distribution-is-now-available-for-download [19:30] TR Bot Ultramarine 41 Linux Distribution Is Now Available for Download - 9to5Linux [19:31] TR News VirtualBox 7.1.8 Released with Initial Support for GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 https://9to5linux.com/virtualbox-7-1-8-released-with-initial-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14 [19:31] TR Bot 7.1.8 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux [19:31] TR News Fedora Asahi Remix 42 Released for Fashion Company Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.3 https://9to5linux.com/fedora-asahi-remix-42-released-for-apple-silicon-macs-with-kde-plasma-6-3 [19:31] TR Bot Asahi Remix 42 Released for Apple Silicon Macs with KDE Plasma 6.3 - 9to5Linux [19:31] TR News Fedora GNU/Linux 42 Is Out Now, Powered by GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 Desktop https://9to5linux.com/fedora-linux-42-is-out-now-powered-by-linux-kernel-6-14-and-gnome-48-desktop [19:31] TR Bot Linux 42 Is Out Now, Powered by Linux Kernel 6.14 and GNOME 48 Desktop - 9to5Linux [19:31] TR News Nitrux Project Introduces NX AppHub, a New System to Provide Apps for Nitrux https://9to5linux.com/nitrux-project-introduces-nx-apphub-a-new-system-to-provide-apps-for-nitrux [19:31] TR Bot Project Introduces NX AppHub, a New System to Provide Apps for Nitrux - 9to5Linux [19:32] TR News Manjaro 25.0 Zetar Released with Xfce 4.20, GNOME 48, and KDE Plasma 6.3 https://9to5linux.com/manjaro-25-0-zetar-released-with-xfce-4-20-gnome-48-and-kde-plasma-6-3 [19:32] TR Bot 25.0 "Zetar" Released with Xfce 4.20, GNOME 48, and KDE Plasma 6.3 - 9to5Linux [19:34] TR News FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 18, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-04-18-irc [19:34] TR Bot Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, April 18, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [19:34] TR News Mathias Bonn: One Year of Mahjong Solitaire https://blogs.gnome.org/mathias/2025/04/15/one-year-of-mahjong-solitaire/ [19:34] TR Bot One Year of Mahjong Solitaire New and Familiar [19:37] TR News Install & Update Apps in Ubuntu from openSUSE OBS Repository https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/install-apps-opensuse-obs/ [19:37] TR Bot Install & Update Apps in Ubuntu from openSUSE OBS Repository | UbuntuHandbook [19:38] TR News The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 887 https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/04/15/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-887/ [19:38] TR Bot Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 887 [19:39] TR News "The court sided with campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to people that are born female." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo [19:39] TR Bot Supreme Court backs 'biological' definition of woman - BBC News [19:40] TR News "Trump Cut Funding" https://www.propublica.org/article/refugees-funding-cuts-nashville | Source: Pro Publica [19:40] TR Bot Nashvilles NICE Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees After Trump Cut Funding ProPublica [19:42] TR News The legal system deals with issues that should be trivial but not with pressing issues that are essential. So we stand to lose. It's like they pick cases based on social control media "controversies". [19:43] TR News Ir's not coding, it's slopping with buzzwords and new hype https://itsfoss.com/vibe-coding-tools-linux/ [19:43] TR Bot 11 Vibe Coding Tools to 10x Your Development on Linux [19:44] TR News VirtualBox 7.1.8 Adds Support for GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/virtualbox-7-1-8-brings-support-for-linux-kernel-6-14 [19:44] TR Bot VirtualBox 7.1.8 Adds Support for Linux Kernel 6.14 - OMG! Ubuntu [19:45] TR News Bin strike in Birmingham enters sixth week as union rejects pay offer https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250415-bin-strike-in-birmingham-enters-sixth-week-as-union-rejects-pay-offer [19:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250415-bin-strike-in-birmingham-enters-sixth-week-as-union-rejects-pay-offer ) [19:46] TR News But why did the landing gear fail? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-airport-was-warned-repeatedly-about-bird-strikes-before-deadly-jeju-air-crash [19:46] TR Bot South Korean airport was warned repeatedly about bird strikes before deadly Jeju Air crash | The Straits Times [19:47] TR News Modern planes can still run OK with one engine down, it's just more of a challenge in some planes, but why did the gear not come down? Bad design? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/asia/south-korea-plane-crash-warnings.html [19:47] TR Bot Airport Warned Repeatedly on Bird Strikes Before Fatal Jeju Air Plane Crash - The New York Times [19:48] TR News Stop blaming birds, check the engineering. [19:49] TR News 15 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Clocks https://www.linuxlinks.com/clocks/ [19:49] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Clocks - LinuxLinks [19:50] TR News Words is a multilingual offline dictionary https://www.linuxlinks.com/words-multilingual-offline-dictionary/ [19:50] TR Bot is a multilingual offline dictionary - LinuxLinks [19:50] TR News Kudu is a distributed data storage engine https://www.linuxlinks.com/kudu-distributed-data-storage-engine/ [19:50] TR Bot is a distributed data storage engine - LinuxLinks [19:50] TR News Duplicati store encrypted backups online https://www.linuxlinks.com/duplicati-store-encrypted-backups-online/ [19:50] TR Bot - store encrypted backups online - LinuxLinks [19:51] TR News IBM Closes Offices and Labs in the United States to Open New Ones in India https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/IBM_Closes_Offices_and_Labs_in_the_United_States_to_Open_New_On.shtml [19:51] TR Bot Techrights IBM Closes Offices and Labs in the United States to Open New Ones in India [19:51] TR News It Used to be IBM, Now It's Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Why You Need to Fire Microsofters or CIOs Working for Microsoft) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/16/It_Used_to_be_IBM_Now_It_s_Microsoft_Why_You_Need_to_Fire_Micro.shtml [19:51] TR Bot Techrights It Used to be IBM, Now It's Microsoft (Why You Need to Fire Microsofters or CIOs Working for Microsoft) [19:51] TR News Carole Cadwalladr Talks About How Big Business Tried to Silence Her (and Why You Might be Next) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Carole_Cadwalladr_Talks_About_How_Big_Business_Tried_to_Silence.shtml [19:51] TR Bot Techrights Carole Cadwalladr Talks About How Big Business Tried to Silence Her (and Why You Might be Next) [19:51] TR News What Really Matters to Companies is Net Income or Profit (Bankruptcy is Possible Even With High Revenue) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/What_Really_Matters_to_Companies_is_Net_Income_or_Profit_Bankru.shtml [19:51] TR Bot Techrights What Really Matters to Companies is Net Income or Profit (Bankruptcy is Possible Even With High Revenue) [19:52] TR News Hundreds of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Layoffs (Net Headcount Decrease) in the United Kingdom https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/14/Hundreds_of_Microsoft_Layoffs_Net_Headcount_Decrease_in_the_Uni.shtml [19:52] TR Bot Techrights Hundreds of Microsoft Layoffs (Net Headcount Decrease) in the United Kingdom [19:52] TR News To Celebrate Git Turning 20 Linus Torvalds is 'Selling Out' to Abusive Monopolist Microsoft and Proprietary Software Which Attacks Git (E.E.E.) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/To_Celebrate_Git_Turning_20_Linus_Torvalds_is_Selling_Out_to_Mi.shtml [19:52] TR Bot Techrights To Celebrate Git Turning 20 Linus Torvalds is 'Selling Out' to Microsoft and Proprietary Software Which Attacks Git (E.E.E.) [19:52] TR News Microsoft's Serial Strangler Chose to Attack Techrights With SLAPP When Over 400 Victims of Mohamed Al Fayed Complained About Media's Role in Enabling Him https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/Microsoft_s_Serial_Strangler_Chose_to_Attack_Techrights_With_SL.shtml [19:52] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft's Serial Strangler Chose to Attack Techrights With SLAPP When Over 400 Victims of Mohamed Al Fayed Complained About Media's Role in Enabling Him [19:52] TR News A Coalition or a Coup of Sexism (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/A_Coalition_or_a_Coup_of_Sexism.shtml [19:52] TR Bot Techrights A Coalition or a Coup of Sexism [19:52] TR News Why We Support Carole Cadwalladr (Even If We Don't Agree With Everything She Said) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/15/Why_We_Support_Carole_Cadwalladr_Even_If_We_Don_t_Agree_With_Ev.shtml [19:52] TR Bot Techrights Why We Support Carole Cadwalladr (Even If We Don't Agree With Everything She Said) [19:53] TR News Assange received more media/press coverage when he was behind bars than after his release. He's MIA. [19:54] TR News No update in 4 years https://wikileaks.org/-News-.html [19:54] TR Bot WikiLeaks - News [19:55] TR News Site almost frozen in time since the kidnapping of Assange in 2019 https://wikileaks.org/ [19:55] TR Bot WikiLeaks [19:57] TR News Then there's the X.com account of Wikileaks (the thing that still worked after the kidnapping and release when the site became inactive). "New evidence shows the UKs Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) deleted crucial emails with the Swedish authorities about Julian Assange while the extradition case was ongoing." https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1911739834177118563 [19:57] TR Bot ( status 400 @ https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1911739834177118563 ) [19:58] TR News "The Crown Prosecution Service has finally searched for information about the destruction of emails from the WikiLeaks founders lawyer but too late to retrieve data about the deleted documents" https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366622234/UK-authorities-search-for-answers-over-deleted-Julian-Assange-emails-comes-too-late-to-retrieve-data [19:58] TR Bot UK authoritys search for answers over deleted Julian Assange emails comes too lateto retrieve data | Computer Weekly ● Apr 16 [20:01] TR News A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/world/europe/uk-china-steel-scunthorpe.html [20:01] TR Bot A Crisis at a British Steel Mill Has Cast a Shadow Over U.K.-China Relations - The New York Times [20:02] TR News Nvidia Says U.S. Will Restrict Sales of More of Its Hey Hi (AI) Chips to China https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/technology/nvidia-h20-chip-china-restrictions.html [20:02] TR Bot Nvidia Says U.S. Will Restrict Sales of More of Its A.I. Chips to China - The New York Times [20:03] TR News China, Vietnam to assess viability of new railways, document shows https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/china-vietnam-to-assess-viability-of-new-railways-document-shows [20:03] TR Bot China, Vietnam to assess viability of new railways, document shows | The Straits Times [20:06] TR News [Japan] [jp] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2025-04-16.gmi MinceR [20:07] MinceR that cable crossing is so weird [20:07] MinceR are those connected there? [20:08] schestowitz[TR2] gawd knows [20:34] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). [20:34] *Now talking on #techrights ● Apr 16 [21:01] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@38r4t2i8geqza.irc) has joined #techrights [21:15] IsambardPrince The grocery store did it to me again. [21:15] IsambardPrince I have to cook this chicken tonight or else it goes bad after tomorrow. [21:15] IsambardPrince They charge you out the wazoo for groceries and then they tell their pickers to grab meat with one day left on it and charge you full price. [21:16] IsambardPrince I got a refund for it. [21:16] IsambardPrince I really should start shopping at Aldi again. It all sells so fast that this never happens. [21:46] IsambardPrince schestowitz-pi, ComEd changed their bill pay again. [21:46] IsambardPrince Now you may only pay your electric bill with Google Chrome. [21:46] IsambardPrince Firefox doesn't send you the Microsoft Azure one time code. [21:46] IsambardPrince You click for it and nothing happens. [21:49] IsambardPrince MinceR, I started using your joke about Del Bigtree. [21:49] IsambardPrince I started intentionally referring to him as Big Deltree. [21:56] MinceR :> ● Apr 16 [22:06] IsambardPrince MinceR, They said wash your hands long enough to sing the happy birthday song, but it's copyrighted. [22:06] IsambardPrince I've found that whistling the tune of the Horst Wessel Song works too, and might even be a hate crime, but nobody can claim copyright infringement. [22:07] MinceR lol [22:07] IsambardPrince Just not terribly loud if you're in Skokie. [22:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2], Did you read the unanimous decision of the UK Supreme Court? [22:08] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/16/uk/uk-supreme-court-ruling-definition-woman-intl/index.html [22:08] TR Bot UK Supreme Court says legal definition of woman excludes trans women, in landmark ruling | CNN [22:09] IsambardPrince MinceR, Damn Trump and his executive order on restoring biological truth....oh, wait, shit. nm [22:10] IsambardPrince Just what normal people think. [22:12] IsambardPrince "Britains Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the definition of a woman in equality legislation refers to a biological woman and biological sex, sparking celebrations outside court among gender-critical campaigners but warnings it was a worrying development for transgender people." [22:13] IsambardPrince There's antipsychotic drugs, they'll get over it eventually if we help them. [22:23] IsambardPrince MinceR, I had someone looking at me the other day while I was outside kicking something to break it into pieces to fit it in the dumpster. [22:23] IsambardPrince It was raining. [22:23] IsambardPrince So I started singing Singin' in the Rain. [22:24] IsambardPrince In the style of Malcolm McDowell from A Clockwork Orange. [22:24] IsambardPrince I'm sure they didn't get it. [22:24] MinceR :D [22:30] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:30] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:31] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/25022235 [22:31] TR Bot WHOOPSIE ● Apr 16 [23:21] IsambardPrince MinceR, I might order a copy of Al Pacino's Scent of a Woman on eBay and send it to the UK Supreme Court. [23:22] *\join_su1line has quit (Quit: leaving) [23:33] TR News (NEW): GNOME 47.6 Fixes Black Screen Issue on Multi-Monitor Setups with NVIDIA Driver https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/GNOME_47_6_Fixes_Black_Screen_Issue_on_Multi_Monitor_Setups_wit.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/16/GNOME_47_6_Fixes_Black_Screen_Issue_on_Multi_Monitor_Setups_wit.gmi [23:33] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME 47.6 Fixes Black Screen Issue on Multi-Monitor Setups with NVIDIA Driver [23:49] Sompi Chat Control II is now known as ProtectEU.