●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 16, 2026 ●● ● Apr 16 [00:00] IsambardPrince MinceR: I started buying windshield washer tablets for the car. [00:01] IsambardPrince Instead of spending $5 a gallon for fluid, the tablets cost about 25 cents each and then you just pour in a gallon of water behind it and it mixes together. [00:05] IsambardPrince MinceR: I wrote to Rep. Thomas Massie: [00:05] IsambardPrince Trump says we need a $300 million arch to commemorate 250 years of a country where 40 million people have no healthcare and we're at war all the time including with ourselves once. [00:05] IsambardPrince That's a good use for money. right? Where will he get the appropriation? I don't think the House or Senate have authorized this. [00:06] IsambardPrince MinceR: I know I know. [00:06] IsambardPrince "I AM THE SENATE!" [00:08] IsambardPrince MinceR: I also wrote: [00:08] IsambardPrince I cut the biggest check of my life to the IRS this year and I go to flip on the radio today and it was NPR talking about how tax refund checks are larger than ever. [00:08] IsambardPrince We earned $2,000 more this year than we did last year, and out of that $2,000, it managed to cause us to owe 3 times to the IRS what we paid in total for FY 2024. [00:20] ZedHedTed IsambardPrince: did you do the "right" thing and invest any of your money? [00:30] IsambardPrince Invest it in the cost of living which is going up faster than the tax table inflation adjustment? [00:30] IsambardPrince Yeah, I think I did that. [00:34] IsambardPrince https://www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/american-youtuber-jailed-6-months-south-korea-public-nuisance-charge-rcna331891 [00:34] TR Bot American YouTuber is jailed for 6 months in South Korea on public nuisance charge [00:36] IsambardPrince Apollo 11: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." [00:36] IsambardPrince Artemis II: "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working." [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights ● Apr 16 [01:06] IsambardPrince https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-kernel-now-allows-ai-written-code/ [01:06] TR Bot The Linux kernel now allows AI-written code, but you're on the hook for it [01:07] IsambardPrince Even if it writes functional code that's not buggy, it's plagiarism. [01:07] IsambardPrince Who says you have the right to license that, much less that it would be Free Software. [01:15] MinceR 16 010101 < IsambardPrince> Instead of spending $5 a gallon for fluid, the tablets cost about 25 cents each and then you just pour in a gallon of water behind it and it mixes together. [01:15] MinceR what does it do with hard water? [01:16] MinceR 16 013635 < IsambardPrince> Artemis II: "I have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one of those are working." [01:16] MinceR that's normal for microslop outhouse [01:16] MinceR 16 020735 < IsambardPrince> Who says you have the right to license that, much less that it would be Free Software. [01:16] MinceR microslop and "open"ai, among others :> [01:17] *Guest42043 (~fantom@freenode-3g4.209.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techrights [01:17] MinceR but hey, as long as we can feed their models through an AI that takes a string of bits and reproduces the same string of bits and Imaginary Property law works the same on that, it's fine [01:17] MinceR but i'm sure the law works differently for them than it works for the rest of us because that's the way the state has always "worked" [01:18] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [01:18] MinceR they've sold this hoax to us with the empty promise of "rule of law" [01:18] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [01:18] *FANTOM (~fantom@90.244.62.113) has joined #techrights [01:20] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-3g4.209.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techrights [01:21] *Guest42043 has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [01:27] *Received a CTCP VERSION from Harambe [01:37] IsambardPrince MinceR: Trump has told everyone around him that it's fine to commit crimes because he'll issue thousands of pardons on his last day in office. [01:37] IsambardPrince He might do that or he might just hang most of them out to dry since he's finished with them. [01:37] MinceR ah yes, the party of law and order [01:38] MinceR gotta make penalties more severe... except for the king and his friends, those are allowed to do anything without consequences. [01:38] IsambardPrince MinceR: The Inspector General in charge of COVID-era program fraud just referred 17 more Chicago police officers for fraud against the Paycheck Protection Program. [01:38] IsambardPrince The police don't even follow the law. [01:38] IsambardPrince They just enforce it against you. [01:39] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/jury-finds-live-nation-ticketmaster-is-illegal-monopoly-that-overcharged-fans/ [01:39] TR Bot Jury finds Live Nation/Ticketmaster is illegal monopoly that overcharged fans - Ars Technica [01:39] MinceR i suspect that's how it goes everywhere [01:39] MinceR the diddler-in-chief isn't even trying to maintain an appearance of rule of law, though [01:40] MinceR and neither is his Court With Sour Cream And Tomatoes [01:40] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/04/nba-fans-cry-foul-as-prime-video-cuts-out-during-overtime-fails-to-sync-audio/ [01:40] TR Bot Prime Video shows technical difficulties sign instead of NBA game in overtime - Ars Technica [01:40] admfubar sour cream and tomatoes? [01:40] MinceR at taco bell, that's what 'supreme' means [01:40] MinceR and i don't see any other way in that court is supreme. [01:41] MinceR s/ in / in which / [01:41] MinceR Oppress Ms [01:48] admfubar yuck! tacky blah! [01:49] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/04/blue-origin-has-a-new-employee-stock-plan-but-not-everyone-is-happy/ [01:49] TR Bot Blue Origin has a new employee stock plan, but not everyone is happy - Ars Technica [01:49] MinceR :> [01:50] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/04/ukraines-military-robot-surge-aims-to-offset-drone-risks-to-humans/ [01:50] TR Bot Ukraines military robot surge aims to offset drone risks to humans - Ars Technica [01:50] MinceR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_(cooking) [01:50] TR Bot Supreme (cooking) - Wikipedia [01:50] MinceR maybe the spine was removed from that court [01:50] MinceR maybe that's why it's supreme [01:50] MinceR or all of the bones [01:51] MinceR or maybe they're served in a tall sorbet glass [01:53] admfubar the only bones are in their heads [01:53] admfubar https://www.alternet.org/republican-party-debt-taxpayers/ [01:53] TR Bot puts taxpayers on hook for '$550 an hour' lawyers to defend its use of lawyers - Alternet.org [01:53] MinceR :> [01:54] MinceR "They very nosy people / with bone in their brain." [01:54] admfubar boneheads! ● Apr 16 [02:05] admfubar https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-plugin-suite-hacked-to-push-malware-to-thousands-of-sites/ [02:05] TR Bot WordPress plugin suite hacked to push malware to thousands of sites [02:07] admfubar https://www.commodore.net/post/why-we-re-protecting-your-commodore-64-ultimate-fpga [02:07] TR Bot Why We're ProtectingYour FPGA [02:14] *newuser51 has quit (Quit: buh-bye) [02:14] *newuser51 (~newuser51@medxxsru8gb3s.irc) has joined #techrights [02:16] newuser51 the 'tapo' app for a camera i bought wont let me change some settings on it without internet access during. im guessing because the info is being sent? [02:19] IsambardPrince Yeah, MinceR used to say the court with tomatoes, but I corrected him. [02:19] IsambardPrince Tomatoes and no sour cream would just be wrong. [02:19] MinceR :> [02:22] IsambardPrince MinceR: Long post for the blog maybe. [02:22] IsambardPrince "Among the other problems with Firefox that Librewolf compiles out or disables, is all the AI crap. [02:22] IsambardPrince Like all the other junk in Firefox that's showed up primarily over the past six years or so, the AI crap can also be turned off with a "master" switch. [02:22] IsambardPrince Web browsers are generally abysmal lately. My Chromebook with was otherwise okay has been taken over with "AI" features I do not want. [02:22] IsambardPrince Windows 11's notepad.exe apparently moved "copy" and "paste" out of the way to make way for "AI" crap. [02:22] IsambardPrince It's sad to see that useful features like Linux support (crostini) are being gradually sidelined or downgraded (baguette) to make way for garbage that absolutely nobody wanted. [02:22] IsambardPrince Google appears to be lagging on porting Crostini Guest Tools to Debian Trixie, so the VM is not as well-integrated with Baguette as it was. It has also made it even harder to enable real hardware graphics acceleration support by requiring the user to not only flip a toggle in Chrome Flags, but add their user account to the render and video groups and saying they won't fix it if it breaks, and also managing to break support for [02:22] IsambardPrince launching graphical Linux applications from clicking on file types in Files, or without manually starting the VM. [02:22] IsambardPrince They also killed Steam for Chromebooks. [02:22] IsambardPrince The Chromebook is quickly returning to something that's essentially a brick without internet access and just runs a web browser, only now it's worse because of "AI" clutter that they want to trick you into using. [02:22] IsambardPrince In one case, they deliberately broke GMail sorting things into "Promotions" folders because for some reason a feature that never required "AI" before needs it to be turned on. [02:22] IsambardPrince Corporate solution to the generation they've raised that's barely able to think is to just have some halfassed software do everything, including fake music on streaming apps. [02:22] IsambardPrince But it's even more depressing because even Linus Torvalds has been given his marching orders, and now not only is Rust in the Linux kernel, requiring a mess of compilers to build the stupid thing, but apparently it's okay to paste AI slop into the kernel and sign off saying you wrote it. [02:22] IsambardPrince Allegedly there will be consequences if it screws something up, but that remains to be seen." [02:23] IsambardPrince Ooops, typo. with should be which. [02:24] MinceR i loved it when i pressed ctrl+b in brave without realizing that it doesn't work the way i want it to in a browser, so it brought up the LLM in a sidebar, and by the time i managed to get it to close the sidebar again, the whole browser crashed [02:24] IsambardPrince MinceR: If Pale Moon didn't have much else going for it, the compile process is still very simple. [02:24] MinceR later it crashed when i tried to save a web page to disk [02:24] IsambardPrince They're adding web standards support to the engine, but it still has major problems rendering many websites. [02:25] IsambardPrince It's not completely dead like SeaMonkey seems to be. [02:25] MinceR while firecocks eats RAM with the big spoon [02:25] IsambardPrince SeaMonkey says they're aware that most websites no longer work right, and they say that the code to deal with some of that is on a "development branch". [02:25] MinceR now every embeddable map decided they just gotta have fucking WebGL, which is a security mess [02:25] IsambardPrince I wonder if this is the branch 2.57 that never gets released or backported into 2.53.x [02:26] MinceR so i guess i'll need a separate PC with a live system to use those maps on [02:26] IsambardPrince Most of the patches seem to be cherry picks to fix very minor issues when the browser itself is still essentially useless. [02:26] IsambardPrince Or related to ChatZilla. [02:26] admfubar whooda thunk? ... https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/audit-big-tech-ignores-data-collection-requests [02:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/audit-big-tech-ignores-data-collection-requests ) [02:29] IsambardPrince MinceR: SeaMonkey passed on collaborating with Pale Moon and sharing a rendering engine years ago. [02:30] MinceR :> [02:30] IsambardPrince So the two codebases have separated, and out of the two, Pale Moon's is less horrific and more capable. [02:30] MinceR too bad fail moon blocks extensions manchild doesn't like [02:30] IsambardPrince Yeah, the old version of NoScript. [02:30] IsambardPrince He complained that it broke his startup page which he has monetized. [02:30] MinceR and something that automatically clicks on some ads or something [02:31] IsambardPrince Then they said that NoScript manages to fuck the browser profile, even after you uninstall it. [02:31] IsambardPrince But not explaining exactly how this occurs, of course. [02:31] MinceR i see they still haven't removed the relevant lie ("Your Browser, Your Way") from their website [02:32] MinceR https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=16504 [02:32] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [02:33] MinceR they also have a cancerous attitude, which is why failmoon is not in openbsd ports or alienbob's repository [02:34] IsambardPrince You can recompile it but you have to call it something else and remove their logo. [02:34] IsambardPrince Which is the same deal you get with Firefox, btw. [02:35] IsambardPrince I'm not sure why the Firefox logo and branding is "valuable". [02:35] MinceR it isn't [02:35] MinceR mozilla made sure of that [02:35] MinceR they've done many things to make sure their browser is as bad as possible [02:36] IsambardPrince It tells people that there will be at leat 100 antifeatures and pieces of malware they have to turn off, one by one, when it's easier to install Librewolf and just enable Firefox Sync and persistent History/Cookies if they want this behavior. [02:36] MinceR failmoon wanted the openbsd port to use separate copies of dependencies, which is insane [02:36] IsambardPrince Then Mozilla created an apt repo even though there's already an Ubuntu PPA that's better integrated with Ubuntu. [02:42] Sompi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12YONf1Wl0I another law proposal from people who probably think that writing your own operating system is "illegal hacking"... [02:42] TR Bot https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=12YONf1Wl0I [02:42] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=12YONf1Wl0I ) [02:42] MinceR ironically, one of the things mozilla did to make the firecocks brand less valuable was to make it nonfree with their idiotic trademark policy [02:43] IsambardPrince MinceR: I still have h264ify installed in my Firefox browsers. [02:43] IsambardPrince This laptop has no hardware acceleration for VPx or WebM. [02:43] MinceR i see there's bipartisan support for this age verification idiocy in nazi america now [02:43] IsambardPrince Or AV1. [02:44] Sompi Most Finnish public sector and banking websites don't work anymore on SeaMonkey, PaleMoon or even Webkit. The situation is completely ridiculous and somehow people don't even take anyone seriously who says something about it [02:44] Sompi I tried to use Konqueror as my daily browser but it is just about as useless as SeaMonkey or PaleMoon [02:44] Sompi Even the ESR version of Firefox is having problems [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-150426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-150426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-150426.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 [02:46] IsambardPrince MinceR: Interestingly, the memory usage of Librewolf seems to be even higher than the same version of Fireox from the APT repo. [02:46] IsambardPrince I've turned all the garbage off in Firefox. [02:46] MinceR lol [02:46] Sompi At this point I'm already sure that they are doing it on purpose, because it's not like they haven't been informed [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-150426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-150426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-150426.txt [02:47] TR Bot IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 [02:47] Sompi EU's accessibility directive clearly states that public sector websites should be usable on a wide scale of client programs [02:47] Sompi And I have pointed that out to them many times [02:48] IsambardPrince https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-google-trending-search-firefox-address-bar [02:48] TR Bot Client Challenge [02:48] IsambardPrince They implemented that for some reason, but I unchecked that too. [02:48] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-150426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-150426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-150426.txt [02:48] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 [02:48] Sompi But no-one in a position of power takes it seriously [02:48] Sompi I just don't understand _why_ [02:48] Sompi It would literally be cheaper to _not_ use all those most recent chromeisms [02:49] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-150426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-150426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-150426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-150426.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 [02:49] Sompi It not only requires time to learn them (compared to much simpler basic HTML) but it also demands much more computing power from the server side [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-04-15.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-04-15.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-04-15.txt [02:50] Sompi And implementing all those chromeisms requires an absurdly huge amount of code from the browser's side, and that's why those alternate browsers don't (can't) support everything [02:51] Sompi Even Mozilla, which is a multi-billion company, is struggling to implement everything with their huge developer resources [02:52] Sompi There's just so much stuff in the web "standards" because Google keeps proposing new stuff to there [02:52] Sompi The situation was already ridiculously bad many years ago and it has only gotten worse since then [02:52] Sompi JavaScript has already two or three different APIs to capture webcams and microphones [02:53] Sompi And now they are adding serial port I/O and other ridiculous things that no-one ever asked [02:54] MinceR lol [02:54] MinceR serial ports, in 2026? [02:55] MinceR i guess making the browser heavier keeps the hardware industry happy [02:55] Sompi serial ports are one of the basic ways of moving bits in and out from a computer, but I don't see why a web browser should have a serial port API... [02:58] MinceR serial ports are rare on computers nowadays and i suspect most users aren't even aware of usb serial adapters, let alone possess one [02:59] Sompi Serial ports are rare on shitty consumer-grade computers because stupid people think that they are "obsolete" [02:59] MinceR :> ● Apr 16 [03:01] Sompi Obviously serial communication will never be obsolete, for reasons which are clear to anyone who actually understands what they are doing [03:04] IsambardPrince MinceR: I sent this to Rep. Massie. [03:04] IsambardPrince "Form 4473 from the ATF also contains a lot of questions that are difficult to answer for many people because they take a specific part of the law, and make it unclear what that question means, but you are answering it with the possibility of up to 10 years in federal prison. [03:04] IsambardPrince These questions ask things like are you addicted to marijuana, but ignores state laws that legalize marijuana, which violates states' rights (federalism), and even worse, there's no definition in federal law as to what "addicted to marijuana" means. If you use it once a year or once in ten years, you're in as much danger as a person who uses it every day, because the case can be made that any use of marijuana makes you an addict to [03:04] IsambardPrince marijuana. [03:05] IsambardPrince Then it asks if you've ever been declared mentally incompetent or if you've been committed, but it doesn't mention that voluntary committal doesn't count and neither does "an observation period" that's a lot like forcible committal (observation might be the cops take you to a mental institution and you're there for a month, but you might not have been committed), so people who have had inpatient mental health care may not know how to [03:05] IsambardPrince answer even if it was an episodic thing that happened 40 years ago. [03:05] IsambardPrince The Obama Administration tried to make "declared incompetent" mean "Anyone who has applied for Social Security Disability on the basis of mental illness.", even though Social Security isn't a court of law. For his credit, Trump did sign a Congressional Resolution of Disapproval, so we don't have to worry about that coming back. [03:05] IsambardPrince It also asks if you've ever renounced your citizenship. If you have, you don't get to purchase a firearm even if you later came back, applied for citizenship, and got approved. [03:05] IsambardPrince So this question revokes a constitutional right from a person who did nothing wrong and is a citizen in good standing! [03:05] IsambardPrince Form 4473 is one of the most dangerous forms you can fill out, and yet you have to fill one out every time you transact with a Federally Licensed Firearms Dealer." [03:11] IsambardPrince The Other 98% [03:11] IsambardPrince Follow [03:11] IsambardPrince dnoterpSos0452655gi1l195huhh37icf010icac47gf8h2ifumu4fh0tug2 [03:11] IsambardPrince JD vance decided this week that the best use of his time as Vice President was to stand in a practically empty arena, tickets free and nobody bothering to show up, and publicly tell the Pope to brush up on his theology. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Athens, Georgia, vance lectured Pope Leo XIV, a man who holds a doctorate in theology, that he needs to "be careful when he talks about matters of theology." This is the same [03:11] IsambardPrince vance who only converted to Catholicism in 2019, calls himself a "baby Catholic," and just announced a memoir about his faith journey featuring a stock photo of a Methodist church on the cover he has no connection to. [03:11] IsambardPrince So picture this: vance standing in the Akins Ford Arena, an 8,000 seat venue, tickets completely free, event heavily promoted by Turning Point USA, delivering his papal theology lecture to roughly a quarter of a filled house, with cameras carefully avoiding the vast stretches of empty seats behind him. Nobody showed up. Not even for free. And yet there he was, in front of a room that was more empty than full, confidently explaining to [03:11] IsambardPrince one of the most credentialed theologians on earth that he needs to be more careful about theology. It bears repeating that this is not even his first papal rebuke. He has now been personally corrected by two sitting popes, both Francis and Leo XIV, over his use of the faith to justify the administration's immigration crackdowns and its posture toward war. The National Catholic Reporter called his Catholicism "little more than a [03:11] IsambardPrince political prop." [03:12] IsambardPrince Then, right there in that half empty arena, a voice cut through the room and shouted that Jesus does not support genocide. vance tried to pivot: "I agree, Jesus Christ certainly does not support genocide." Then came the follow up: "You're killing children! You're bombing children!" No spin fixes that moment. A man who has been corrected on Catholic theology by two popes, cannot identify a Methodist church on the cover of his own book, [03:12] IsambardPrince and couldn't fill a free arena on a Tuesday, still felt qualified to lecture the head of the entire Catholic Church. Rough day. [03:12] IsambardPrince ---- [03:12] IsambardPrince MinceR: Fresh on the heels of his success at getting Viktor Orban re-elected in a landslide. Oh wait. [03:13] MinceR > In August 2019, Vance was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic Church. [03:13] MinceR sounds like he fucked up [03:14] MinceR seems to me the catholic cult is having real trouble getting its views understood even by its own adherents [03:15] MinceR maybe they should look for a calling more suited to their abilities? [03:17] IsambardPrince MinceR: It's amazing that Vance could be so stupid that he even had a book ghostwritten about himself and couldn't bother to check to see what sort of church was on the cover. [03:18] MinceR is he even able to tell them apart? [03:21] IsambardPrince MinceR: They had a good excuse to miss Vance's speech today. [03:21] IsambardPrince THey couldn't afford the $5 a gallon gas to get to it. [03:21] MinceR lol [03:22] MinceR and here i thought usians were rich [03:23] MinceR i'd happily pay $5 USD/gal for gasoline now [03:27] admfubar classical gas.... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-honest-reaction-song-farts [03:27] TR Bot ChatGPT's "Honest Reaction" to a "Song" Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It's Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas [03:28] MinceR 404 :( [03:28] MinceR ah, they added an s at the end [03:28] MinceR https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-honest-reaction-song-farts [03:29] admfubar ??? [03:30] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gen-z-attitude-ai [03:30] TR Bot Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry [03:31] MinceR > crApple's hypePhone as new technology [03:31] MinceR > crApple's just about anything as new technology [03:33] admfubar jonny sakko has arrived... https://futurism.com/future-society/giant-robot-hand-china [03:33] TR Bot Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies [03:33] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mercor-training-ai-human-jobs-hack [03:33] TR Bot Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs [03:34] MinceR short tons, apparently [03:34] MinceR (the 5.51 "tons", that is) [03:34] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [03:35] *FANTOM has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [03:35] *FANTOM (~fantom@90.244.177.43) has joined #techrights [03:36] admfubar dont say short tons, they are height challenged tons [03:36] MinceR lol [03:37] *FANTOM (~fantom@freenode-o96.spj.ifb87q.IP) has joined #techrights [03:48] IsambardPrince MinceR: Cheap gas is what keeps the US economy going. [03:48] IsambardPrince How do you think 80% of the country that lives paycheck to paycheck just barely eeks by? [03:54] TR News games [03:55] TR News Sentinel is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/ [03:55] TR Bot is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux | GamingOnLinux [03:55] TR News No Man's Sky channels a little Pokemon with the Xeno Arena update | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/no-mans-sky-channels-a-little-pokemon-with-the-xeno-arena-update/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/no-mans-sky-channels-a-little-pokemon-with-the-xeno-arena-update/ [03:55] TR Bot Man's Sky channels a little Pokemon with the Xeno Arena update | GamingOnLinux [03:56] TR News SteamVR Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/ [03:56] TR Bot Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink | GamingOnLinux [03:56] TR News SteamOS 3.8.2 Beta brings fixes for security issues, trackpad on Legion Go and Borderlands 2 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamos-3-8-2-beta-brings-fixes-for-security-issues-trackpad-on-legion-go-and-borderlands-2/ Source: GamingOnLinux [03:56] TR Bot 3.8.2 Beta brings fixes for security issues, trackpad on Legion Go and Borderlands 2 | GamingOnLinux [03:58] TR News (NEW): Games: Necesse, Warhammer, Sentinel, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_Necesse_Warhammer_Sentinel_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_Necesse_Warhammer_Sentinel_and_More.gmi [03:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Necesse, Warhammer, Sentinel, and More [03:59] TR News "For more than two decades" https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/14/guest-post-from-open-access-to-preprints-are-we-repeating-the-same-mistakes-in-scholarly-publishing/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing [03:59] TR Bot Guest Post - From Open Access to Preprints: Are We Repeating the Same Mistakes in Scholarly Publishing? - The Scholarly Kitchen [03:59] TR News "I've shared a couple of little views on my weeknotes (here and here) of the Swedish lidar data from Lantmteriet" https://digitalflapjack.com/weeknotes/point-cloud-allemansr%C3%A4tten/ | Source: Michael Winston Dales [03:59] TR Bot Point cloud allemansrtten [03:59] TR News "reviser is an R package by Marc Burri and Philipp Wegmller for working with these vintage datasets directly." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/reviser-analyzing-real-time-data-revisions-in-r/ | Source: Rlang [03:59] TR Bot Analyzing Real-Time Data Revisions in R | R-bloggers ● Apr 16 [04:00] TR News "Three attorneys have been accused of submitting AI-generated court filings in California that cite nonexistent and irrelevant legal decisions." https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-04-13/attorneys-used-ai-cited-fake-legal-decisions-state-bar-alleges | Source: Los Angeles Times [04:00] TR Bot Attorneys used AI, cited fake legal decisions, State Bar alleges - Los Angeles Times [04:01] TR News "At a recent conference, Microsoft executive Rajesh Jha floated a provocative idea." https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-executive-suggests-ai-agents-buy-software-licenses-seats-2026-4 | Source: Business Insider [04:01] TR Bot Microsoft Exec Suggests AI Agents Will Need to Buy Software Licenses - Business Insider [04:01] TR News "Of all the things Trump has done since returning to office (threatening Danish sovereignty in Greenland" https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/france-to-replace-windows-with-linux-as-wariness-of-u-s-grows.html | Source: BoingBoing [04:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/france-to-replace-windows-with-linux-as-wariness-of-u-s-grows.html ) [04:02] TR News "The speed at which data sovereignty has moved onto the U.S. trade radar is truly remarkable." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-global-battle-for-data-control-how-the-2026-u-s-report-on-trade-barriers-targets-data-sovereignty-worldwide/ | Source: Michael Geist [04:02] TR Bot The Global Battle for Data Control: How the 2026 U.S. Report on Trade Barriers Targets Data Sovereignty Worldwide - Michael Geist [04:02] TR News "Our new report asks a profound question: just how dependent is the UK on US technology, and what could that mean for the UKs sovereignty?" https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/the-case-for-digital-sovereignty-and-the-digital-commons/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup [04:02] TR Bot The case for Digital Sovereignty and the Digital Commons | Open Rights Group [04:03] TR News "the ability of a country to have control over its digital infrastructure, data, and technology" https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/new-report-uk-needs-digital-sovereignty-strategy-to-address-threats-from-reliance-on-big-tech/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup [04:03] TR Bot New report: UK needs digital sovereignty strategy to address threats from reliance on big tech | Open Rights Group [04:03] TR News "Every step we take and every product we ship serves that goal." https://frame.work/fi/en/blog/framework-next-gen-event-is-live-on-april-21 | Source: Framework Computer BV [04:03] TR Bot Framework | Framework [Next Gen] Event is live on April 21 [04:04] TR News "Dont Miss the Perl and Raku Conference 2026 in Greenville, SC SAVE THE DATES! Friday through Sunday, June 26-28" https://rakudoweekly.blog/2026/04/13/2026-15-hugs-busses/ | Source: Rakulang [04:04] TR Bot 2026.15 Hugs & Busses Rakudo Weekly News [04:05] TR News "Ricky from Improve & Grow emailed us about an alert he saw in the WordPress dashboard for a client site." https://anchor.host/someone-bought-30-wordpress-plugins-and-planted-a-backdoor-in-all-of-them/ | Source: Anchor Hosting [04:05] TR Bot Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoor in All of Them. [04:06] TR News "Here is the roadmap of this post: [...]" https://kb.databasedesignbook.com/posts/5nf/ | Source: Alexey Makhotkin [04:06] TR Bot 5NF and Database Design | Database Design Book [04:06] TR News "We talk here sometimes about how to test SQL dialects with tools like TLP and PQS." https://buttondown.com/jaffray/archive/more-tools-for-testing-sql-dialects/ | Source: Buttondown LLC [04:06] TR Bot tools for testing SQL dialects Buttondown [04:07] TR News "Web Serial allows browsers to interact with devices that communicate via serial ports, such as 3D printers, microcontrollers like Arduino and ESP32" https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/14/firefox_nightly_web_serial/ | Source: The Register UK [04:07] TR Bot Firefox Nightly adds Web Serial after years of saying no The Register [04:07] TR News "In the previous post, I mentioned that buildcache has some unique properties compared to ccache and sccache." https://blog.farre.se/posts/2026/04/10/caching-webidl-codegen/ | Source: Andreas Farre [04:07] TR Bot How to make Firefox builds1 17% faster2 | farres blog [04:08] TR News "Yeah, I found that in controlled tests where I did the exact same things in both browsers for hours at a time (across multiple test runs)" https://birchtree.me/blog/chrome-safari-and-battery-myths/ | Source: Matt Birchler [04:08] TR Bot Chrome, Safari, and battery myths [04:09] TR News "The OpenBGPD project have announced the availability of their newest release, version 9.1, with the following announcement: [...]" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260414025522 | Source: Undeadly [04:09] TR Bot OpenBGPD 9.1 released [04:09] TR News "Some users on the Bambu official forum have also reported this issue, such as this reply and this reply." https://lantian.pub/en/article/modify-computer/modify-filezilla-workaround-bambu-3d-printer-ftp-issue.lantian/ | Source: Lan Tian [04:09] TR Bot Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue - Lan Tian @ Blog [04:09] TR News "I want to organize the functions in my Emacs configuration so that they are easier for me to test and so that other people can load them from my repository." https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/org-mode-tangle-emacs-config-snippets-to-different-files-and-add-boilerplate/ | Source: Sacha Chua [04:09] TR Bot Org Mode: Tangle Emacs config snippets to different files and add boilerplate :: Sacha Chua [04:09] TR News "Without doubt, Markdown is the standard for many plain-text input fields on the web. And even though I'd prefer it would be Org Mode (or Orgdown), I cannot escape this reality." https://mmk2410.org/2026/04/14/copy-an-org-mode-region-as-markdown | Source: Marcel Kapfer [04:09] TR Bot Marcel Kapfer - Copy an Org Mode region as Markdown [04:10] TR News "All the cool new 3D printers have tool-changing heads. Instead of multiplexing filament through one hot end, you simply park one hot end and pick up another." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/your-own-tool-changer/ | Source: Hackaday [04:10] TR Bot Own Tool Changer | Hackaday [04:10] TR News "Sound-to-light systems have been a staple of electronics for many decades, and have progressed from simple volume-based flashers and sequencers to complex DSP-driven affairs like his project." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/audio-reactive-led-strips-are-hard/ | Source: Hackaday [04:10] TR Bot Reactive LED Strips Are Hard | Hackaday [04:11] TR News "We love it when folks get creative with a Raspberry Pi, and Maker Monday is a great time to showcase this." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/maker-monday-10-non-traditional-clock-projects/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [04:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/maker-monday-10-non-traditional-clock-projects/ ) [04:11] TR News "Its not that bad of an ad at first glance. The concept and execution pass the cavemen test: you immediately know whats for sale and why its worth the money." https://buttondown.com/suchbadtechads/archive/franklin-ace-1000/ | Source: Buttondown LLC [04:11] TR Bot bad ads for Apple ][ clones and the beloved impersonator they relied on Buttondown [04:11] TR News "Framework always has something neat in the works. Ill be looking forward to seeing what they have to share on April 21." https://initialcharge.net/2026/04/framework-event-april-21/ | Source: Mike Rockwell [04:11] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://initialcharge.net/2026/04/framework-event-april-21/ ) [04:12] TR News "Initially, [ogdento] had plans to retrofit this classic multimeter with a modern OLED, but could not find enough space for the display or a way to drive it easily." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/new-display-for-old-multimeter/ | Source: Hackaday [04:12] TR Bot Display For Old Multimeter | Hackaday [04:12] TR News "Installing the contraption worked out fine, and subsequent testing showed that although it seems to slightly reduce the effective airflow compared to the flex tubing" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/flattening-the-exhaust-of-a-laser-cutter-to-save-space/ | Source: Hackaday [04:12] TR Bot The Exhaust Of A Laser Cutter To Save Space | Hackaday [04:12] TR News "I love it and the fact I can read in color comics, manga, web comics and graphic novel everywhere is a plus." https://fundor333.com/post/2026/hacking-my-kobo/ | Source: Fundor 333 [04:12] TR Bot My Kobo with KOReader | Fundor333 [04:13] TR News "Today we are releasing version 6.2 of Raspberry Pi OS, the second update to the Trixie version we released last year." https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-security-update-for-raspberry-pi-os/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [04:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/a-security-update-for-raspberry-pi-os/ ) [04:13] TR News "Simon Long has announced the release of a new security update of Raspberry Pi OS" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12790 | Source: Distro Watch [04:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12790 ) [04:14] TR News "Unlike the Linux kernel, which follows closely the monolithic UNIX framework and the BSD-Unix kernel" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/13/they-werent-joking-gentoo-was-ported-to-gnu-hurd/ | Source: Hackaday [04:14] TR Bot Werent Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd | Hackaday [04:14] TR News "My OpenBSD server is already configured to provide DNS resolving to my LAN (and WireGuarded) clients. My FreeBSD server can benefit from this configuration and be configured the same way." https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/redundant-dhcp-server-and-dns-resolver-using-openbsd-and-freebsd/ | Source: TuMFatig [04:14] TR Bot TuM'Fatig - Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD and FreeBSD [04:15] TR News ">For those unfamiliar with the process: this is not the 7.9 release, but is part of the standard build-up to the release." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260414052048 | Source: Undeadly [04:15] TR Bot OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.9 [04:15] TR News "2.11BSD was released March 14, 1991 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the PDP-11." https://bsdimp.blogspot.com/2020/08/recovering-211bsd-fighting-patches.html | Source: Warner Losh [04:15] TR Bot Warner's Random Hacking Blog: Recovering 2.11BSD, fighting the patches [04:15] admfubar making space for maker spaces... https://xkcd.com/3233/ [04:15] TR Bot Make It Myself [04:15] TR News "Recently, the FreeBSD Foundation has been making progress on improving the operating system's support for modern laptop hardware." https://lwn.net/Articles/1066593/ | Source: LWN [04:15] TR Bot the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project [LWN.net] [04:16] TR News "The biggest news this month is probably all the work thats been done on support for ARM64, largely thanks to contributors smrobtzz and SED4906!" https://www.haiku-os.org/blog/waddlesplash/2026-04-13-haiku_activity_contract_report_march_2026/ | Source: HaikuOS [04:16] TR Bot Haiku Activity & Contract Report, March 2026 (ft. ARM64) | Haiku Project [04:16] TR News "Back in 2019, we undertook a radical overhaul of how GNOME app icons work." https://blog.jimmac.eu/posts/app-icon-requests/ | Source: Jakub Steiner [04:16] TR Bot 120+ Icons and Counting - Even a Stopped Clock [04:16] TR News "Framework is teasing new hardware, and this time around they seem to be particularly leaning into Linux support!" https://thelibre.news/new-linux-hardware-france-switches-to-linux-and-more/ | Source: LibreNews [04:16] TR Bot New Linux Hardware, France switches to Linux, and more! [04:17] TR News "First, every SKILL.md carries a version: field in its frontmatter: [...]" https://joost.blog/self-updating-agent-skills/ | Source: Joost de Valk [04:17] TR Bot I made my skills update themselves Joost.blog [04:17] TR News "This article traces the origins of GPU computing" https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-origins-of-gpu-computing/ | Source: ACM [04:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://cacm.acm.org/federal-funding-of-academic-research/the-origins-of-gpu-computing/ ) [04:18] TR News "In the Linux 7.0 announcement mail, Torvalds noted that the final week of development followed a trend of "lots of small fixes"." https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-0-released/ | Source: OSTechNix [04:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://ostechnix.com/linux-kernel-7-0-released/ ) [04:19] TR News iophk: outright slave labor -- which some how Gen Z and Gen A are fine with https://yle.fi/a/74-20220410 [04:19] TR Bot Tuesday's papers: A Wolt courier's reality, an anxious generation, and the May Day forecast | Yle News | Yle [04:19] TR News iTWire BS piece blaming the victims https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/your-employees-aren%E2%80%99t-ready-for-ai-%E2%80%94-and-it%E2%80%99s-a-problem.html [04:19] TR Bot - Your Employees Arent Ready For AI And Its A Problem [04:21] TR News "Sociala mediers anvndare r fortfarande rttslsa" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/13/sociala-mediers-anvandare-ar-fortfarande-rattslosa/ [04:21] TR Bot Sociala mediers anvndare r fortfarande rttslsa [04:21] TR News "SLC | MTK:s och SLC:s medlemsenkt: kade produktionskostnader" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://www.slc.fi/nyheter/okade-produktionskostnader-tvingar-jordbruksforetag-att-minska-produktionen [04:21] TR Bot SLC | MTK:s och SLC:s medlemsenkt: kade produktionskostnader [04:23] TR News "Average amount owed by Finns facing debt enforcement rises to 28k" https://yle.fi/a/74-20220467 [04:23] TR Bot Average amount owed by Finns facing debt enforcement rises to 28k | Yle News | Yle [04:23] TR News "Chat Control 2: Nya frhandlingar" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/14/chat-control-2-nya-forhandlingar/ [04:23] TR Bot Chat Control 2: Nya frhandlingar [04:23] TR News paywall https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/artikel/kommune-bygger-alternativ-til-microsoft-halvdelen-af-de-ansatte-bruger-nu-open-source-kontorpakke [04:23] TR Bot Kommune bygger alternativ til Microsoft: Halvdelen af de ansatte bruger nu open source-kontorpakke | Version2 [04:24] TR News "Danmarks digitale suvernitet er vk. Men hvad betyder det? | Version2" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=da&tl=en&u=https://www.version2.dk/holdning/danmarks-digitale-suveraenitet-er-vaek-men-hvad-betyder-det [04:24] TR Bot Danmarks digitale suvernitet er vk. Men hvad betyder det? | Version2 [04:45] IsambardPrince Is there a friendly way to install FreeBSD since PC-BSD isn't a thing anymore? ● Apr 16 [05:00] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_15_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_15_2026.gmi [05:00] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 15, 2026 [05:02] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [05:02] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [05:02] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [05:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [05:04] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://lwn.net/Articles/1064685/ [05:04] TR Bot against TPM interposer attacks [LWN.net] [05:05] TR News An API for handling arithmetic overflow https://lwn.net/Articles/1065889/ [05:05] TR Bot API for handling arithmetic overflow [LWN.net] [05:07] TR News (NEW): Ubuntu's GRUBby plans https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Ubuntu_s_GRUBby_plans.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Ubuntu_s_GRUBby_plans.gmi [05:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Ubuntu's GRUBby plans [05:09] TR News Ripping CDs and converting audio with fre:ac [LWN] https://lwn.net/Articles/1062141/ Source: LWN | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1062141/ [05:09] TR Bot CDs and converting audio with fre:ac [LWN.net] [05:09] IsambardPrince MinceR: [05:09] IsambardPrince Bloatzilla has put more crap into FailFox, and it's AI Slop this time, with a master switch to turn it all off. You have to turn off more than 100 things now to make Firefox usable, and that counts as four because it's four toggles with a master switch. [05:09] IsambardPrince Five if you count the "AI" "decision engine" to delete from the search engines. [05:09] IsambardPrince I can't believe that they're managing to squander what little their name is still worth considering the hundreds or thousands of websites that nobody tests in Firefox anymore, which are somewhat to utterly broken, including Facebook video calls. [05:09] IsambardPrince They don't bother to fix their stinking browser, just weight it down with more garbage and ads as it becomes irrelevant. [05:09] IsambardPrince If Pale Moon has nothing else going for it, at least it skipped the "Quantum" phase. [05:09] IsambardPrince Did you know there's still one actively developed web browser that works on Windows 7? It's Pale Moon. And there's several that still work on XP, including Pale Moon derivatives. [05:09] IsambardPrince Can you move those old computers over to Linux? Yeah, and you should if you can, but not all of them can even run most Linux distros now that the "cool kids" have taken over and started demanding things like x86-64v3, which adds some useless Intel marketing instruction sets that have little real world value, and then make 10 years worth of computers obsolete. [05:09] IsambardPrince Talking some more about Firefox. [05:09] schestowitz[TR3] Is there a friendly way to install FreeBSD since PC-BSD isn't a thing anymore? [05:09] schestowitz[TR3] the default way is not hard [05:10] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I'm happy that someone bothers to support Windows XP and 7 with modern browsers. [05:10] IsambardPrince There are many countries where while that hardware is horribly outdated, sure, it costs so much to replace it that they absolutely need to put it off. [05:10] IsambardPrince And switching to Linux isn't the option it used to be. [05:10] TR News Sharing stories on Scuttlebutt [LWN] https://lwn.net/Articles/1065471/ Source: LWN | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//lwn.net/Articles/1065471/ [05:10] TR Bot stories on Scuttlebutt [LWN.net] [05:11] IsambardPrince Some of that hardware never had drivers to begin with, others are being dropped by Linux the kernel. [05:11] IsambardPrince Still more are being put to pasture by Linux the distributions making insane baseline requirements that are more harmful than good. [05:12] IsambardPrince [23:09] Is there a friendly way to install FreeBSD since PC-BSD isn't a thing anymore? [05:12] IsambardPrince [23:09] the default way is not hard [05:12] IsambardPrince I mean like bam bam, bam, and there's a working desktop with KDE, and a package manager that doesn't fuck itself the first time you ask it to do something, and drivers. [05:12] IsambardPrince Some Linux distributions manage to fall short here. [05:13] IsambardPrince They changed the apt repository format again. [05:13] IsambardPrince Boo. Not cool! [05:13] IsambardPrince You learn how to set something up and they just change it on you for no reason. [05:14] IsambardPrince Because someone liked a configuration file to use different words or something. [05:14] TR News (NEW): LWN: Scuttlebutt, fre:ac, and Kernel https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/LWN_Scuttlebutt_fre_ac_and_Kernel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/LWN_Scuttlebutt_fre_ac_and_Kernel.gmi [05:14] TR Bot Tux Machines LWN: Scuttlebutt, fre:ac, and Kernel [05:14] TR News [cat] [japan] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-04-15.gmi [05:14] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Noticed something weird. [05:14] IsambardPrince Firefox 149 with all the shit and garbage turned off uses about a third less RAM than Librewolf 149. [05:15] IsambardPrince The only difference I noticed was the build configuration. [05:15] TR News "Not a typo. Monospace fonts named Monaspace, with an a. I added those fonts to my Lagrange fontpacks page." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-04-16-monaspace-lagrange-fontpacks.gmi [05:15] IsambardPrince Firefox is using an older version of Clang and -O3. [05:15] IsambardPrince Librewolf is using a newer Clang and Rustc and -O2. [05:15] schestowitz[TR3] you can bbuy preinstalled [05:15] schestowitz[TR3] with hardware support guarnateed [05:16] IsambardPrince Yeah, they have those Kubuntu Focus laptops. [05:16] IsambardPrince Very expensive. [05:16] IsambardPrince I don't know how we're going to get past this "Buy it with Windows and wipe it is cheaper." problem. [05:16] TR News "There's another newcomer (I say on this capsule's venerable month-and-a-half anniversary), calling himself Big Bungo over at frooplet.com, and he has brought with him a curse." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-04-15.gmi [05:16] IsambardPrince It may solve itself when Security Theater Boot makes installing anything else impossible. [05:17] IsambardPrince There's already at least dozens of systems that make it impossible by default, but you can fix that if you know what to do. [05:17] IsambardPrince They're moving towards "flat out impossible". [05:18] TR News "The basic circuit with the LED worked great. I was able to light up the LED with as little as 0.5 volts from the desktop power supply, although you need to bring it up to around 0.9 volts to get full brightness. Interestingly, once the LED is lit, you can bring the voltage down almost to 0.3 volts before the light will go out." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260415-0.gmi [05:19] TR News "Theres an emerging norm of dont paste unedited LLM output paste your prompt gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ideal/ai-prompted/ [05:20] TR News in time gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/in_time [05:20] IsambardPrince I call it Security Theater Boot because they're always plugging holes after the fact, endlessly. [05:20] IsambardPrince And even that doesn't really make much progress towards a locked down system. [05:21] TR News "Im pondering about self hosting a small gopher hole on my raspberry pi. Its mostly for #meshtastic (Im using it as a BBS), but Id like to show it off to people without a mesh of their own. Would it be a bad idea to open port 70 on my firewall? Im intentionally avoiding any cgi so the surface area of attack in smallish." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/gopher/41602 [05:21] IsambardPrince Because there's no rules in Microsoft's sticker program that say the OEM can't add their own certificates, and many of them do. [05:21] IsambardPrince And the programs that it allows to run are often exploitable because they're so poorly written and the OEM has no incentive to fix them. [05:22] IsambardPrince But it does more or less lock the user out, because distributions are not going to resort to looking for exploits to help the user install them, so the user is harmed with no real security being added to the system. [05:24] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: You know, Indiana is lucky. [05:25] IsambardPrince Back in the 1960s, the Army would have come in and built a flood control reservoir if there was flooding like what's going on in Michigan and Wisconsin now. [05:26] IsambardPrince In fact, several recent years had so much rainfall that the flood control reservoirs the Army built in Indiana couldn't take on much more water and they're lucky that it stopped when it did. [05:27] IsambardPrince Now we have so many environmental stufies and the attitude in Washington is against spending a small amount on a flood control dam vs. repeatedly spending large amounts on FEMA after a disaster wipes away everything in an area. [05:27] IsambardPrince *studies [05:27] IsambardPrince I've seen things get pretty weird in Indiana with those reservoirs since 2012. [05:28] IsambardPrince In 2012, we had an extreme heat wave and drought. It got up over 100 degrees for 18 days in a row, it was horrible. [05:28] IsambardPrince And the reservoirs shrank to a small stream. [05:28] IsambardPrince Then in 2013 and I think 2015 there was so much rain that it almost went over the dam and the surrounding recreational areas got flooded out. [05:29] TR News "Forlinx Embedded has officially launched the FAI-ARA240-M, an M.2-based AI accelerator built around the NXP Ara240 processor." https://linuxgizmos.com/forlinx-fai-ara240-m-packs-ara240-npu-into-m-2-2280-module/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [05:29] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/forlinx-fai-ara240-m-packs-ara240-npu-into-m-2-2280-module/ ) [05:29] IsambardPrince The state was talking about releasing water even if it would cause some downstream flooding. [05:29] TR News "Shuttle has revealed the XPC slim DB860, a compact 1.35-liter barebone system built around Intel Core Ultra 200 series processors." https://linuxgizmos.com/shuttle-xpc-slim-db860-leverages-core-ultra-200-in-compact-1-3l-barebone/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [05:29] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/shuttle-xpc-slim-db860-leverages-core-ultra-200-in-compact-1-3l-barebone/ ) [05:29] IsambardPrince I can't believe people see this and don't understand what's happening. [05:29] IsambardPrince How you never saw this in over 50 years, and suddenly this happens. [05:30] TR News Seems like slop https://www.unixmen.com/top-3-cloud-gaming-services-in-2026-which-platform-fits-linux-and-cross-device-gaming-best/ | Source: Unix Men [05:30] TR Bot 3 Cloud Gaming Services in 2026: Which Platform Fits Linux and Cross-Device Gaming Best? | Unixmen [05:31] TR News "To quantify the value of such a platform, Red Hat commissioned an independent Total Economic Impact (TEI) study from Forrester Consulting." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/233-3-year-return-investment-and-13-months-payback-red-hat-ai | Source: Red Hat Official [05:31] TR Bot 233% 3-year return on investment and 13 months to payback with Red Hat AI [05:33] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: https://lwn.net/Articles/1066593/ [05:33] TR Bot the FreeBSD laptop integration testing project [LWN.net] [05:33] IsambardPrince I noticed that. [05:36] schestowitz[TR3] ah. [05:36] schestowitz[TR3] maybe what triggered ther question [05:47] TR News Techrights It's Not About the Head, It's About the Masters (and Funding) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/It_s_Not_About_the_Head_It_s_About_the_Masters_and_Funding.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/It_s_Not_About_the_Head_It_s_About_the_Masters_and_Funding.gmi [05:47] TR Bot Techrights It's Not About the Head, It's About the Masters (and Funding) [05:49] TR News FSF Blogs: You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away [05:49] TR Bot You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [05:50] TR News FSF clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms https://lwn.net/Articles/1067771/ [05:50] TR Bot clarifies its stance on AGPLv3 additional terms [LWN.net] [05:50] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released [05:50] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available - OMG! Ubuntu [05:51] TR News Workouts simple GTK4 workout app https://www.linuxlinks.com/workouts-simple-gtk4-workout-app/ [05:51] TR Bot - simple GTK4 workout app - LinuxLinks [05:51] TR News Keycord browse and edit password stores https://www.linuxlinks.com/keycord-browse-edit-password-stores/ [05:51] TR Bot - browse and edit password stores - LinuxLinks [05:55] *rianne_ (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [05:55] *asusbox (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [05:58] TR News tidy organizes files in a chosen directory into category folders https://www.linuxlinks.com/tidy-organizes-files/ [05:58] TR Bot - organizes files in a chosen directory into category folders - LinuxLinks [05:58] TR News forkrun NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization https://www.linuxlinks.com/forkrun-numa-aware-contention-free-streaming-parallelization/ [05:59] TR Bot - NUMA-aware contention-free streaming parallelization - LinuxLinks [05:59] TR News rucat cat-like utility https://www.linuxlinks.com/rucat-cat-like-utility/ [05:59] TR Bot - cat-like utility - LinuxLinks [05:59] TR News Blood Pressure record and analyse your blood pressure https://www.linuxlinks.com/blood-pressure-record-analyse-blood-pressure/ [05:59] TR Bot Pressure - record and analyse your blood pressure - LinuxLinks [05:59] TR News OpenCut video editor for web, desktop, and mobile https://www.linuxlinks.com/opencut-video-editor-web-desktop-mobile/ [05:59] TR Bot - video editor for web, desktop, and mobile - LinuxLinks ● Apr 16 [06:12] TR News peek multi-buffer terminal pager https://www.linuxlinks.com/peek-multi-buffer-terminal-pager/ [06:12] TR Bot - multi-buffer terminal pager - LinuxLinks [06:13] TR News rig.fm internet radio in your terminal https://www.linuxlinks.com/rig-fm-internet-radio-terminal/ [06:13] TR Bot - internet radio in your terminal - LinuxLinks [06:13] TR News Flow opinionated modern web browser https://www.linuxlinks.com/flow-opinionated-modern-web-browser/ [06:13] TR Bot - opinionated modern web browser - LinuxLinks [06:13] TR News Ermis steganographic application https://www.linuxlinks.com/ermis-steganographic-application/ [06:13] TR Bot - steganographic application - LinuxLinks [06:14] TR News Xcas cross-platform mathematical environment https://www.linuxlinks.com/xcas-cross-platform-mathematical-environment/ [06:14] TR Bot - cross-platform mathematical environment - LinuxLinks [06:14] TR News Rustlens terminal-based utility for inspecting Rust projects https://www.linuxlinks.com/rustlens-terminal-based-utility-inspect-rust-projects/ [06:14] TR Bot - terminal-based utility for inspecting Rust projects - LinuxLinks [06:15] TR News Glacia OS Ubuntu-based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/glacia-os-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution/ [06:15] TR Bot OS - Ubuntu-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [06:15] TR News 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Video Editors https://www.linuxlinks.com/videoeditors/ [06:15] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Video Editors - LinuxLinks [06:16] TR News Russell Coker: Furilabs FLX1s Finally Working https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/04/14/furilabs-flx1s-finally-working/ [06:16] TR Bot Furilabs FLX1s Finally Working etbe Russell Coker [06:18] TR News Making an Asynchronous Clocking Drum Machine App in Perl https://www.perl.com/article/making-an-asynchronous-clocking-drum-machine-in-perl/ [06:18] TR Bot an Asynchronous Clocking Drum Machine App in Perl [06:19] TR News Paul Tagliamonte: designing arf, an sdr iq encoding format https://k3xec.com/arf/ [06:19] TR Bot designing arf, an sdr iq encoding format [06:25] TR News (NEW): I found a way to roll back buggy Google Services updates on Android - in just a few clicks https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/I_found_a_way_to_roll_back_buggy_Google_Services_updates_on_And.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/I_found_a_way_to_roll_back_buggy_Google_Services_updates_on_And.gmi [06:26] TR Bot Tux Machines I found a way to roll back buggy Google Services updates on Android - in just a few clicks [06:27] TR News (NEW): KDE Mega Sprint 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026.gmi [06:27] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Mega Sprint 2026 [06:31] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [06:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [06:32] TR News (NEW): Back Home https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Back Home [06:40] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:40] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:41] TR News (NEW): Orange Pi Zero 3W An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Orange_Pi_Zero_3W_An_Allwinner_A733_SBC_in_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_fo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Orange_Pi_Zero_3W_An_Allwinner_A733_SBC_in_Raspberry_Pi_Zero_fo.gmi [06:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Orange Pi Zero 3W An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor [06:42] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman Lecture in GDC Auditorium in Austin, Texas https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Richard_Stallman_Lecture_in_GDC_Auditorium_in_Austin_Texas.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Richard_Stallman_Lecture_in_GDC_Auditorium_in_Austin_Texas.gmi [06:42] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman Lecture in GDC Auditorium in Austin, Texas [06:46] TR News (NEW): Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Decades_old_Linux_UI_bug_fixed_by_dev_younger_than_the_window_m.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Decades_old_Linux_UI_bug_fixed_by_dev_younger_than_the_window_m.gmi [06:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Decades-old Linux UI bug fixed by dev younger than the window manager [06:47] TR News "he is a cheer leader like the rest of IBM. He has never held the same job more than 3 years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knswdccw#replies [06:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knswdccw#replies ) [06:47] TR News (NEW): Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Every_Linux_user_told_me_to_try_Niri_so_I_finally_did_and_it_wa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Every_Linux_user_told_me_to_try_Niri_so_I_finally_did_and_it_wa.gmi [06:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me [06:57] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.gmi [06:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers ● Apr 16 [07:16] TR News "Exactly. He championed the Rapidus deal, celebrated it as a win, and took the credit with his inner circle despite clear warnings it wouldnt work. But once it started unraveling, they quickly distanced themselves and left others to handle the fallout." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knc3tpsb#replies [07:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1knc3tpsb#replies ) [07:16] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:24] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:27] TR News Orange Pi Zero 3W An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/15/orange-pi-zero-3w-an-allwinner-a733-sbc-in-raspberry-pi-zero-form-factor/ [07:27] TR Bot Orange Pi Zero 3W - An Allwinner A733 SBC in Raspberry Pi Zero form factor - CNX Software [07:33] TR News A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would https://itsfoss.com/news/kde-plasma-per-screen-virtual-desktops/ [07:33] TR Bot A PHP Dev Just Solved a 20+ Year-Old KDE Plasma Problem No One Else Would [07:34] TR News Steven Deobald: End of 10 Handout https://blogs.gnome.org/steven/2026/04/14/end-of-10-handout/ [07:34] TR Bot End of 10 Handout The Everyone Environment [07:37] TR News Sjoerd Stendahl: Announcing the upcoming Graphs 2.0 https://blogs.gnome.org/sstendahl/2026/04/14/announcing-the-upcoming-graphs-2-0/ [07:37] TR Bot Announcing the upcoming Graphs 2.0 Sjoerd Stendahl [07:39] TR News Scientists Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-found-human-speech-like-patterns-in-sperm-whale-clicks [07:39] TR Bot Found Human Speech-Like Patterns in Sperm Whale Clicks : ScienceAlert [07:40] TR News Thibault Martin: I realized that Niri can have gorgeous animation https://ergaster.org/thoughts/niri-gorgeous-animation/ [07:40] TR Bot Niri can have gorgeous animation [07:46] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: qlcal 0.1.1 on CRAN: Calendar Updates http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/15#qlcal-r_0.1.1 [07:46] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [07:46] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: anytime 0.3.13 on CRAN: Mostly Minor Bugfix http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2026/04/14#anytime_0.3.13 [07:46] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [07:47] TR News Streaming syslog-ng data to your lakehouse using OpenTelemetry https://peter.czanik.hu/other/syslog-ng-streaming-data-to-your-lakehouse-using-opentelemetry/ [07:47] TR Bot Streaming syslog-ng data to your lakehouse using OpenTelemetry | Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik [07:49] TR News Mozilla Open Policy & Advocacy Blog: Mozilla Urges the FTC to Tackle Harmful Design Practices https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2026/04/15/mozilla-urges-the-ftc-to-tackle-harmful-design-practices/ [07:49] TR Bot Mozilla Urges the FTC to Tackle Harmful Design Practices - Open Policy & Advocacy [07:57] TR News Firefox Tooling Announcements: MozPhab 2.13.0 Released https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/mozphab-2-13-0-released/147946 [07:57] TR Bot MozPhab 2.13.0 Released - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse [07:57] TR News Roblox Launching Roblox Kids Accounts After Widespread Grooming Allegations https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/14/roblox-kids-accounts-launch-facial-recognition/ [07:57] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/14/roblox-kids-accounts-launch-facial-recognition/ ) [07:59] TR News Mind the Gap: The Middle Layer of Obviousness Doctrine https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/mind-the-gap-the-middle-layer-of-obviousness-doctrine.html [07:59] TR Bot Mind the Gap: The Middle Layer of Obviousness Doctrine | Patently-O [07:59] TR News Extraordinary by Design: How the USPTO Is Bypassing Its Own Reexamination Rules https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/extraordinary-by-design-how-the-uspto-is-bypassing-its-own-reexamination-rules.html [07:59] TR Bot Extraordinary by Design: How the USPTO Is Bypassing Its Own Reexamination Rules | Patently-O ● Apr 16 [08:00] TR News Nancy Drew 8 & 9 join the investigation! https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260414/ [08:00] TR Bot ScummVM :: Latest Developments :: Nancy Drew 8 & 9 join the investigation! [08:00] TR News OrangePi 4 Pro Review https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-4-pro-review/index.html [08:00] TR Bot OrangePi 4 Pro Review [08:01] TR News Windows TCO https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32898 [08:01] TR Bot Microsoft Patch Tuesday April 2026. - SANS ISC [08:02] TR News $2,000 for Hey Hi (AI) 3D imaging patent monopoly prior art https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/14/2000-for-aiia-3d-imaging-patent-prior-art [08:02] TR Bot $2,000 for AIIA 3D imaging patent prior art Unified Patents [08:02] TR News "Private practice here. Hey Hi (AI) currently gives me efficiency with one hand, and takes away efficiency with the other.

Specifically, every bit of time I save myself through using AI, more of my time is wasted by clients misuse of Hey Hi (AI) to communicate with me.

How good state of the art Hey Hi (AI) becomes is a challenge for another day. The big challenge right now is dealing with slop" [08:03] TR News "I think one of the biggest blockers in our profession is the assumption that Hey Hi (AI) must be able to do all of a patent monopoly attorneys job to be useful and in my opinion, thats the wrong benchmark. At this stage, Hey Hi (AI) is best understood as an augment. It accelerates reading, synthesis, firstpass analysis and drafting, whilst judgment, context and responsibility remain firmly human." [08:04] TR News "Interesting data for sure, but there is also data about a topic which I think isn't currently being discussed enough: economics.

If you listen to Ed Zitron or other critics of the "AI bubble" like him, you find out that Proprietary Chaffbot Company and Anthropic currently spend anywhere between 3 US dollars to 15 US dollars for every 1 US dollar they earn from subscription revenues." [08:04] TR News "As to the burgeoning capabilities of LLM's, if one goes to the EPO Register in the G1/25 case, one finds a new (10 April 2026) 22 page third party observation coming from "Oliver Farnsworth". As far as I can determine, this is a pseudonym. But is this interested "third party" also an AI?" [08:04] TR News "Oliver Farnsworth is the name of the patent monopoly attorney in The Man Who Fell to Earth, so, yes, it's a pseudonym." http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2026/04/ai-in-patent-industry-dont-believe-hype.html?showComment=1776264983857#c7997053363961634387 [08:04] TR Bot The Man Who Fell to Earth - Wikipedia [08:04] TR Bot AI in the patent industry: Don't believe the hype. Believe the data. - The IPKat [08:05] TR News Patent Dispute Report: Q1 2026 https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/14/patent-dispute-report-q1-2026 [08:05] TR Bot Patent Dispute Report: Q1 2026 Unified Patents [08:06] TR News Software Patent: Congruent Media app security patent monopoly challenged https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/14/congruent-media-app-security-patent-challenged [08:06] TR Bot Congruent Media app security patent challenged Unified Patents [08:06] TR News Fisher & Paykel and WBH successful in revoking Flexicares patent monopoly in Milan https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/fisher-paykel-wbh-successfully-revoke-flexicares-patent-in-milan/ [08:06] TR Bot Fisher & Paykel and WBH successful in revoking Flexicare's patent in Milan [08:07] TR News Regional Court Munich puts decision in ZTE vs Samsung on hold https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/regional-court-munich-puts-decision-in-zte-vs-samsung-on-hold/ [08:07] TR Bot Regional Court Munich puts decision in ZTE vs Samsung on hold - JUVE Patent [08:07] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [08:10] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:10] TR News "His loss has brought about feelings of loss following the death of my own Dad. Who we lost back in 2008 to cancer, when he was 47. Watching him just wither away was heartbreaking. Especially at the age of 23." https://kevquirk.com/i-wish-i-could-talk-to-my-dad [08:10] TR Bot I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad - Kev Quirk [08:10] schestowitz[TR3] links to https://kevquirk.com/life-is-really-shit-sometimes [08:10] TR Bot Life is Really Shit Sometimes - Kev Quirk [08:14] TR News brutal reactions to IBM CEO trolling/spin in https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp5xa4qr [08:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kp5xa4qr ) [08:14] TR News Mark Kapo-berg https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mark-zuckerberg-reportedly-working-on-ai-clone-of-himself-meta-insiders-claim-3d-photoreal-animated-zuck-will-be-able-to-engage-with-employees-on-his-behalf [08:14] TR Bot Mark Zuckerberg reportedly working on AI clone of himself Meta insiders claim 3D photoreal animated Zuck will be able to engage with employees on his behalf | Tom's Hardware [08:16] TR News Cyberscammers are bypassing banks security with illicit tools sold on Telegram https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135898/cyberscammers-bypassing-bank-telegram/ [08:16] TR Bot Cyberscammers are bypassing banks security with illicit tools sold on Telegram | MIT Technology Review [08:16] TR News Mesa 26.1-rc1 released [08:26] TR News Quest item management https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1139/quest-item-management [08:26] TR Bot Quest item management - David Revoy [08:28] TR News "Were not supposed to have the death penalty in Sweden and I dont like the once a thief, always a thief mentality. If theyre not in prison or in psychiatric care, we still wanna prevent more crimes. Not create more homelessness or relegate them to the shadow society theyve been given so much lip service to opposing. This proposal will create outlaws and lawlessness." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/outlaws [08:30] TR News The Collapse Is on the Way gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-16_the_collapse_editoral.gmi "The global Generation Z already entirely hates us, and within a few years it will become the voting public and the elected leadership around the world." [08:30] TR News "He paused. Yes, there it was again. He had just gotten down to work at the best possible time, slightly past midnight, when his ambition ran the highest, and his nerves were frayed enough as it was from the aromatic blend of caffeine that rushed through his veins. Two little capsules in his machine and he was off to the races, filling out the Excel spreadsheet with relative ease." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2807 [08:34] TR News Exploited Vulnerability Exposes Nginx Servers to Hacking https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-vulnerability-exposes-nginx-servers-to-hacking/ [08:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/exploited-vulnerability-exposes-nginx-servers-to-hacking/ ) [08:34] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2026: Nocturnal Pulse, Unpersoned Outlaws, and Monaspace Lagrange Fontpacks https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_Nocturnal_Pulse_Unpersoned_Outlaws_and_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_Nocturnal_Pulse_Unpersoned_Outlaws_and_.gmi [08:34] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2026: Nocturnal Pulse, Unpersoned Outlaws, and Monaspace Lagrange Fontpacks [08:34] TR News LimeSDR Micro M.2 2280 SDR card pairs NXP LA9310 baseband processor with LMS7002M RF transceiver (Crowdfunding) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/15/limesdr-micro-m-2-2280-sdr-card-pairs-nxp-la9310-baseband-processor-with-lms7002m-rf-transceiver/ [08:34] TR Bot LimeSDR Micro M.2 2280 SDR card pairs NXP LA9310 baseband processor with LMS7002M RF transceiver (Crowdfunding) - CNX Software [08:35] TR News Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Debusine projects in GSoC, Debian CI updates, Salsa CI maintenance and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-contributions-03-2026/ [08:35] TR Bot Contributions: Debusine projects in GSoC, Debian CI updates, Salsa CI maintenance and more! | Freexian [08:36] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1067595/ [08:36] TR Bot updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [08:55] TR News OpenSSL 4.0.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1067622/ [08:55] TR Bot 4.0.0 released [LWN.net] [08:57] TR News Mozilla Data YouTube Channel: Responsible Data Collection is Good, Actually (Ubisoft Data Summit 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myHH89j0JQU [08:57] TR Bot https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=myHH89j0JQU [08:57] TR Bot ( status 418 @ https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=myHH89j0JQU ) [08:58] TR News YouTube Device Partner Summit 2026 https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/youtube-device-partner-summit-2026.html [08:58] TR News (NEW): OpenSSL 4.0 Released with Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/14/OpenSSL_4_0_Released_with_Support_for_Encrypted_Client_Hello_SN.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/14/OpenSSL_4_0_Released_with_Support_for_Encrypted_Client_Hello_SN.gmi [08:58] TR Bot YouTube Device Partner Summit 2026 [08:58] TR Bot Tux Machines OpenSSL 4.0 Released with Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and More [08:59] TR News yewtube terminal based YouTube player and downloader https://www.linuxlinks.com/yewtube-terminal-based-youtube-player-downloader/ [08:59] TR Bot - terminal based YouTube player and downloader - LinuxLinks [08:59] TR News 18 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/excellent-console-based-youtube-tools/ [08:59] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based YouTube Tools - LinuxLinks ● Apr 16 [09:00] TR News American Streamer Johnny Somali Is Sentenced to Prison in South Korea https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/asia/johnny-somali-youtube-prison-korea.html [09:00] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/asia/johnny-somali-youtube-prison-korea.html ) [09:03] TR News logrittr: A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr Pipelines https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/logrittr-a-verbose-pipe-operator-for-logging-dplyr-pipelines/ [09:03] TR Bot A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr Pipelines | R-bloggers [09:04] TR News TheseusPlot 0.2.0: Visualizing Decomposition of Differences in Rate Metrics https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/theseusplot-0-2-0-visualizing-decomposition-of-differences-in-rate-metrics/ [09:04] TR Bot 0.2.0: Visualizing Decomposition of Differences in Rate Metrics | R-bloggers [09:15] TR News Cases of drug-resistant diarrhea superbug are on the rise in the US https://nypost.com/2026/04/15/health/cases-of-drug-resistant-diarrhea-superbug-on-the-rise-in-us/ [09:15] TR Bot Cases of drug-resistant diarrhea superbug on the rise in US [09:23] TR News South Korea jails US streamer Johnny Somali over comfort women statue outrage https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-jails-us-streamer-johnny-somali-for-statue-outrage [09:23] TR Bot South Korea jails US streamer for 'comfort women' statue outrage | The Straits Times [09:24] TR News South Korean teachers struggle with malicious complaints from overprotective parents https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korean-teachers-struggle-with-malicious-complaints-from-overprotective-parents [09:24] TR Bot South Korean teachers struggle with malicious complaints from overprotective parents | The Straits Times [09:25] TR News Government services in Malaysia operating as usual as civil servants start WFH policy https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/government-services-in-malaysia-operating-as-usual-as-civil-servants-start-wfh-policy [09:25] TR Bot Government services in Malaysia operating as usual as civil servants start WFH policy | The Straits Times [09:28] TR News How to install Lets Encrypt on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-lets-encrypt-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [09:28] TR Bot to install Let's Encrypt on Ubuntu 26.04 | LinuxHostSupport [09:29] TR News How to Install and Configure PHP on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-and-configure-php-on-ubuntu-26-04 [09:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-and-configure-php-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [09:29] TR News How to Set Up NFS Server and Client on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-set-up-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu-26-04 [09:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-set-up-nfs-server-and-client-on-ubuntu-26-04 ) [09:30] TR News QSB-111: xfce4-screensaver login bypass https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2026/04/15/qsb-111/ [09:30] TR Bot QSB-111: xfce4-screensaver login bypass | Qubes OS [09:30] TR News Government use of personal data is changing. How to ensure responsibility? https://federalnewsnetwork.com/big-data/2026/04/government-use-of-personal-data-is-changing-how-to-ensure-responsibility/ [09:30] TR Bot Government use of personal data is changing. How to ensure responsibility? | Federal News Network [09:33] TR News EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.2.5 https://bkhome.org/news/202604/easyos-excalibur-series-version-725.html [09:33] TR Bot EasyOS Excalibur-series version 7.2.5 [09:35] TR News No Evidence Fluoride In Drinking Water Harms IQ, Finds Decades-Long Study https://www.sciencealert.com/no-evidence-fluoride-in-drinking-water-harms-iq-finds-decades-long-study [09:35] TR Bot Evidence Fluoride In Drinking Water Harms IQ, Finds Decades-Long Study : ScienceAlert [09:40] TR News Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: BillBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/ Less competition for other sites/networks [09:40] TR Bot Journalism job cuts in 2026 tracked: Rolling updates - Press Gazette [09:41] TR News Mark Allen Group posts pre-tax loss and writes off 5m from Bonhill purchase https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/b2b/mark-allen-group-posts-pre-tax-loss-and-writes-off-5m-from-bonhill-purchase/ [09:41] TR Bot Mark Allen Group posts pre-tax loss and writes off 5m from Bonhill purchase - Press Gazette [09:42] TR News UK media controlled by German oligarchy is a recipe for disaster https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/axel-springer-given-uk-government-approval-for-telegraph-takeover/ [09:42] TR Bot Axel Springer given UK govt approval for Telegraph takeover - Press Gazette [09:43] TR News Ex-Times environment editor launches legal claim against Government https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/environment-journalist-launches-legal-campaign-against-government-information/ [09:43] TR Bot Ex-Times environment editor launches legal campaign against Govt - Press Gazette [09:46] TR News China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-spending-3-6-times-more-than-the-us-on-chipmaking-subsidies [09:46] TR Bot China has spent 3.6 times more than the US on chipmaking subsidies over the past decade $142 billion and counting, easily outweighs CHIPS Act | Tom's Hardware [09:47] TR News China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-tests-deep-sea-electro-hydrostatic-actuator-that-can-cut-undersea-cables-at-a-depth-of-3-500-meters-state-hails-successful-trial-and-hints-at-deployment-readiness [09:47] TR Bot China tests deep-sea electro-hydrostatic actuator that can cut undersea cables at a depth of 3,500 meters state hails successful trial and hints at deployment readiness | Tom's Hardware [09:48] *s has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [09:53] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [09:58] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 16 [10:01] TR News Techrights Red Hat Staff: IBM Red Hat Laid Off About 400 Engineers, the Media Did Not Cover This https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Red_Hat_Staff_IBM_Red_Hat_Laid_Off_About_400_Engineers_the_Medi.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Red_Hat_Staff_IBM_Red_Hat_Laid_Off_About_400_Engineers_the_Medi.gmi [10:01] TR Bot Techrights Red Hat Staff: IBM Red Hat Laid Off About 400 Engineers, the Media Did Not Cover This [10:03] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [10:03] TR News "for cutting subsea cables and operating deep-sea grabs" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/china-tests-deep-sea-electro-hydrostatic-actuator-that-can-cut-undersea-cables-at-a-depth-of-3-500-meters-state-hails-successful-trial-and-hints-at-deployment-readiness | Source: Tom's Hardware [10:03] TR News "In addition to the monetary penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site's domain names" https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-loses-322-million-spotify-piracy-case-without-a-fight/ | Source: Torrent Freak [10:03] TR Bot Archive Loses $322 Million Spotify Piracy Case Without a Fight * TorrentFreak [10:04] TR News "nudify" https://www.wired.com/story/deepfake-nudify-schools-global-crisis/ | Source: Wired [10:04] TR Bot Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Much Worse Than You Thought | WIRED [10:10] TR News "The U.S. Department of Justice debased itself with last months settlement, personally requested by the expert dealmaker himself, and this verdict seals how embarrassing it was." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/live-nation-monopoly/ | Source: Nick Heer [10:10] TR Bot Live Nation Is an Illegal Monopoly, Jury Finds Pixel Envy [10:10] TR News "The trial spanned about six weeks, including a week-long break where the states went back to the negotiation table after the DOJ settled its claims with the company." https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict | Source: The Verge [10:10] TR Bot Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds | The Verge [10:10] TR News "The EU told Meta Wednesday that charging rival AI chatbots for access to its WhatsApp platform runs against the bloc's antitrust rules, rebuffing the measure taken by the US giant in response to a probe" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/eu-rejects-metas-pay-for-access-remedy-in-whatsapp-ai-chatbots-probe/articleshow/130285655.cms | Source: India Times [10:10] TR Bot EU rejects Meta's pay-for-access remedy in WhatsApp AI chatbots probe - The Economic Times [10:11] TR News "The jury found Live Nation and Ticketmaster liable for anticompetitive conduct that harmed the music industry and included overcharging consumers, according to California attorney general Rob Bonta." https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/jury-finds-ticketmaster-owner-ran-illegal-monopoly-520424474 | Source: RTL [10:11] TR Bot Potentially profound repercussions: Jury finds Ticketmaster owner ran illegal monopoly - RTL Today [10:11] TR News "The more than 30 states suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster were ultimately able to persuade the jury that the company constituted a monopoly with their dominant positions in ticketing, concert promotions, and venues." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/live-nation-lawsuit-monopoly-1235544194/ | Source: Rolling Stone [10:11] TR Bot Live Nation Operated as Monopoly, Jury Finds [10:13] TR News "The project is not exclusively destructive in nature, as it has obvious applications in the field of repair and construction of underwater oil and gas pipelines." https://dev.ua/en/news/kytaiske-obladnannia-dlia-pererizky-pidvodnoho-kabeliu-1776266015 | [10:13] TR Bot has tested deep-sea electrohydrostatic equipment capable of cutting submarine cables at a depth of 3,500 m. | dev.ua [10:14] TR News "The device can slice through subsea structures, including cables and pipelines, under high pressure." https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-deep-sea-actuator-3500m-test | Source: Interesting Engineering [10:14] TR Bot China trials hydrostatic actuator at 3,500m for cutting subsea cables [10:14] TR News "In a complaint, the FTC argues that ad agencies violated antitrust rules by agreeing to a common set of brand safety rules, which would disfavor sites and services deemed to contain content like misinformation." https://www.theverge.com/policy/912680/ftc-ad-agency-settlement-trust-safety | Source: The Verge [10:14] TR Bot FTC pushes ad agencies into dropping brand safety rules | The Verge [10:15] TR News "when a lower court has invalidated a federal statute." https://www.vox.com/politics/485664/supreme-court-moonshine-commerce-clause-mcnutt-doj | Source: Vox [10:15] TR Bot Supreme Court could legalize moonshine, and ruin everything else, in McNutt v. DOJ | Vox [10:15] TR News "But I would tell her that I still try to dream as big as her, and this is a long journey, but were not giving up." https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/13/malala-activist-continued-fight/ | Source: Stanford University [10:15] TR Bot Malala opens up about challenges as an activist [10:16] TR News "The Digital Omnibus proposals, presented as simplification, risk weakening essential safeguards in the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, and the AI Act." https://edri.org/our-work/europe-shouldnt-move-fast-and-break-things-with-fundamental-rights/ | Source: EDRI [10:16] TR Bot Europe shouldnt move fast and break things with fundamental rights - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [10:16] TR News "That only came to light following a public records request by American Oversight, a watchdog group, that sought documents related to ICE's use of force." https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5782114 | Source: NPR [10:16] TR Bot 'No peace': Nearly a year after her son's death, she learned that ICE was responsible [10:16] TR News "For a stretch of years, there was a group of US congressmen who could be depended on to speak up for human rightshuman rights anywhere in the world." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/a-mensch-for-human-rights | Source: The Next Move [10:16] TR Bot A Mensch for Human Rights - by Jay Nordlinger [10:18] TR News "This post is part of a series called #WebAccessibilityFails, where I collect common issues I find in accessibility audits so that you can avoid them in the future." https://www.matuzo.at/blog/2026/box-shadow-no-alternative-to-outline | Source: Manuel Matuzovi [10:18] TR Bot box-shadow is no alternative to outline - Manuel Matuzovic [10:18] TR News "The Kurdish woman Zbeyde Akmese is being held in German custody on suspicion of supporting terrorism due to risk of absconding" https://digit.site36.net/2026/04/14/germany-imprisons-kurdish-grandmother-with-multiple-health-conditions-as-alleged-pkk-member/ | Source: Site36 [10:18] TR Bot Germany imprisons Kurdish grandmother with multiple health conditions as alleged PKK member | Matthias Monroy [10:18] TR News "Today Tax Day its important to remind ourselves that a record share of the nations wealth is in the hands of the nations billionaires, who are also paying a lower tax rate than the average American." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-celebrate-tax-day | Source: Robert Reich [10:18] TR Bot How To Celebrate Tax Day - Robert Reich [10:19] TR News "Now, tax experts fear many immigrants wont file returns, and those who formerly had their taxes withheld in every paycheck will shift into under-the-table jobs." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/steven-millers-strait-of-hormuz | Source: Robert Reich [10:19] TR Bot Stephen Miller's Strait of Hormuz - Robert Reich [10:19] TR News "After the incident a coalition of community groups sent a letter to city officials demanding the release of body-worn camera footage, public identification of every officer present, and more." https://www.memphisflyer.com/tackled-beat-maced-council-calls-mpd-chief-for-answers-on-no-kings-day-chaos/ | Source: Memphis Flyer [10:19] TR Bot "Tackled, Beat, Maced:" Council Calls MPD Chief for Answers on No Kings Day "Chaos" - Memphis Flyer [10:19] TR News "bans adding QR codes to statues" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/confederate-columbia-charleston-history-united-states-b2958596.html | Source: The Independent UK [10:19] TR Bot South Carolina Senate protects nearly all monuments and bans adding QR codes to statues | The Independent [10:20] TR News "Of those, just 2% or 17 were also arrested for violent crimes, our analysis found. Being unlawfully present on its own is a civil, not a criminal, offense." https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/04/15/just-2-of-immigration-arrests-by-memphis-safe-task-force-were-for-violent-crime-records-show/ | Source: Tennessee Lookout [10:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://tennesseelookout.com/2026/04/15/just-2-of-immigration-arrests-by-memphis-safe-task-force-were-for-violent-crime-records-show/ ) [10:20] TR News "Tucker Collins, whose damaged eye had to be surgically removed, has filed a federal civil rights complaint against Donald Trumps administration" https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-collins-shot-eye-dhs-lawsuit-b2958442.html | Source: The Independent UK [10:20] TR Bot Teen whose eye was surgically removed after DHS shot him files civil rights complaint: Im in no way an agitator. I just had my camera | The Independent [10:20] TR News "Ross is among the thousands of people targeted by the Trump administration's mass deportation agenda that has detained the spouses of U.S. soldiers and military veterans who previously received greater leniency under scrapped policies." https://text.npr.org/g-s1-117615 | Source: NPR [10:20] TR Bot French government seeking release of 86-year-old French widow detained by ICE [10:22] TR News "Hundreds or more Tanzanians, including two journalists, were killed as authorities suppressed protests, which escalated with President Samia Suluhu Hassans declared win with 98% of the vote." https://cpj.org/2026/04/tanzania-suspends-jambo-tv-for-querying-inquiry-into-post-election-killings/ | Source: CPJ [10:22] TR Bot Tanzania suspends Jambo TV for querying inquiry into post-election killings - Committee to Protect Journalists [10:22] TR News "The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette dates to 1786, was the first newspaper to open west of the Allegheny mountains, and was set to close in two weeks, leaving the city as America's largest without a city-based paper." https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/pittsburgh-post-gazette-bought-by-nonprofit.html | Source: BoingBoing [10:22] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/pittsburgh-post-gazette-bought-by-nonprofit.html ) [10:23] TR News "At 11pm local time in eastern Australia, a huge fire broke out at the Viva Energy refinery in Corio, Geelong." https://danielpocock.com/en/terrorism-or-accident-geelong-corio-refinery-fire-drone-attack-rumours-news-vacuum/ | Source: Daniel Pocock [10:23] TR Bot Terrorism or accident? Geelong Corio refinery fire, drone attack rumours in news vacuum [10:23] TR News "Moving Dong Yuyu to a more distant prison makes it significantly harder for his loved ones to visit him and effectively punishes his family" https://cpj.org/2026/04/china-moves-journalist-dong-yuyu-further-from-family-with-prison-transfer/ | Source: CPJ [10:23] TR Bot China moves journalist Dong Yuyu further from family with prison transfer - Committee to Protect Journalists [10:24] TR News "As the host and co-founder of Pacifica Radios Democracy Now! program, Amy Goodman is among the U.S. lefts leading journalists." https://www.truthdig.com/articles/chasing-amy-goodman-the-pied-piper-of-progressive-media/ | Source: Truthdig [10:24] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/chasing-amy-goodman-the-pied-piper-of-progressive-media/ ) [10:33] TR News "The Russian Justice Ministry and the Prosecutor Generals Office did not elaborate on what specifically triggered the designation." https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/15/russia-undesirable-label/ | Source: Stanford University [10:33] TR Bot Russia designates Stanford an 'undesirable' organization [10:34] TR News "Raymond Chong, a retiree, ran a public Facebook page called Holy Raymond, which features the Chinese phrase Heaven will destroy the Chinese Communist Party, God bless Hong Kong as its profile picture." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/15/hong-kong-man-jailed-for-1-year-over-seditious-remarks-on-facebook/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [10:34] TR Bot HK man jailed for 1 year over seditious remarks on Facebook [10:34] TR News "Zaborona Media stated that they have repeatedly explained to the provider that they are Ukrainian media and do not fall under the jurisdiction of the Russian Federation, and that they regard such demands as pressure." https://dev.ua/en/news/zaborona-1774085131 | [10:34] TR Bot hosting company deleted Ukrainian media site due to 173 debt. 7-year archive lost | dev.ua [10:34] TR News "Not the fossil fuel companies that suppressed their own climate research for decades. Not the governments that received that research and chose inaction." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-ridiculous-object | Source: Mike Brock [10:34] TR Bot The Ridiculous Object - by Mike Brock [10:34] TR News "Fairhope Municipal Judge Haymes Snedeker acquitted Renea Gamble Wednesday of all remaining misdemeanor charges stemming from her decision to wear a inflatable 7-foot penis costume at an anti-Trump No Kings protest in October 2025." https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/ | Source: Court House News [10:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/penis-costume-protester-prevails-in-court/ ) [10:35] TR News "SB 26, sponsored by Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Josephine, would have allowed either county commissions or city councils to remove members of their respective library boards at any time and for any reason by a two-thirds vote." https://alabamareflector.com/2026/04/14/bill-that-would-have-allowed-firings-of-library-board-members-fails-in-alabama-legislature/ | Source: Alabama Reflector [10:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://alabamareflector.com/2026/04/14/bill-that-would-have-allowed-firings-of-library-board-members-fails-in-alabama-legislature/ ) [10:35] TR News "During this period, when only FSB officers had access to his devices, roughly 150,000 rubles worth of assets were stolen from his cryptocurrency wallet." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/russian-programmer-gets-13-year-prison-sentence-for-treason-after-fsb-held-him-in-isolation-and-assets-disappeared-from-his-crypto-wallet | Source: Meduza [10:35] TR Bot Russian programmer gets 13-year prison sentence for treason after FSB held him in isolation and assets disappeared from his crypto wallet Meduza [10:42] TR News "Everyone opposes the [Internet] shutdowns and restrictions except one agency meaning the FSB, a senior Faridaily source said" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/report-only-a-rise-in-rival-party-support-could-push-putin-to-ease-russia-s-internet-restrictions | Source: Meduza [10:42] TR Bot Report: only a rise in rival party support could push Putin to ease Russias internet restrictions Meduza [10:42] TR News "Iran has sentenced four more protesters, including a woman, to death over mass demonstrations in January that posed one of the biggest threats to the countrys clerical rulers in years, according to two human rights groups." https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-protests-january-executions/33732949.html | Source: RFERL [10:42] TR Bot Iran Sentences Four More To Death Over Mass Protests, Rights Groups Say [10:43] TR News "These nonhuman "persons" have been a feature of our legal system since the late 19th century, when the Supreme Court found that the 14th Amendment's "Equal Protection" clause could be applied to a railroad." https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/artificial-lifeforms/# | Source: CoryDoctorow [10:43] TR Bot Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [10:44] TR News "I don't disagree with these people, but at the same time I'm a realist about what's being asking for and what is involved" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/UniversitiesAndInhouseTech | Source: University of Toronto [10:44] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [10:44] TR News "Now the verification requirement has changed from using a DUNS number to using a variety of business identification methods on a per-country basis. For the United States, the following business identifier is listed: [...]" https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/duns-number-no-longer-required-to-sign-up-for-apple-business-in-the-united-states/ | Source: Rich Trouton [10:44] TR Bot DUNS number no longer required to sign up for Apple Business in the United States | Der Flounder [10:45] TR News "speaks to the gold rush happening in AI infrastructure right now. Its a cash geyser." https://robertbryce.substack.com/p/as-fermi-falters-insiders-are-dumping | Source: Robert Bryce [10:45] TR Bot As Fermi Falters, Insiders Are Dumping Millions Of Shares [10:45] TR News "Ford is shaking things up as it relates to its EV and software teams. Doug Field, who left Apple five years ago to helm Fords multibillion-dollar bet on electric vehicles and software, is stepping down next month." https://www.theverge.com/transportation/912647/ford-doug-field-leaving-ev-software | Source: The Verge [10:45] TR Bot Fords EV and software chief Doug Field is leaving the company | The Verge [10:45] TR News "AI is shaping the world young people are growing up in, and understanding how it works, as well as its benefits and risks, is now essential." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/experience-ai-reaching-millions-of-young-people-with-ai-literacy/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [10:45] TR Bot Experience AI: Reaching millions of young people with AI literacy - Raspberry Pi Foundation [10:46] TR News "Why couldnt they do that with the original card? Was my record in their database borked?" https://www.rubenerd.au/default-payment-methods-part-b/ | Source: Ruben Schade [10:46] TR Bot Rubenerd: Default payment methods, part B [10:47] TR News [Old] "While Nepenthes pudica is currently the only pitcher plant that feeds on subterranean prey, more may be living undescribed on the island of Borneo." https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2022/june/first-carnivorous-plant-underground-pitfall-traps-discovered.html | [10:47] TR Bot First carnivorous plant to grow underground pitfall traps discovered | Natural History Museum [10:47] TR News "They are slow on land, but pretty quick to swim away and hide in water. I had to be patient and wait about 30 minutes for this one to come back out after I initially spooked it." https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/15/spotted-salamander/ | Source: Chuck Grimmett [10:47] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://cagrimmett.com/2026/04/15/spotted-salamander/ ) [10:47] TR News "The young femalethe first Asian elephant calf born at the Smithsonians National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute in nearly 25 yearsis playful, vocal and smart, keepers say." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/see-the-most-adorable-photos-of-baby-elephant-linh-mai-the-national-zoos-newest-star-180988532/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [10:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/see-the-most-adorable-photos-of-baby-elephant-linh-mai-the-national-zoos-newest-star-180988532/ ) [10:48] TR News "Instead, what I like about the train is how comfortable it is, and having time to watch a TV series in the evening on the way home, sprawled out." https://mzll.it/2026/04/when-i-travel/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo [10:48] TR Bot When I travel for work mzll ● Apr 16 [11:00] TR News (NEW): KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Gear_26_04_Software_Suite_Is_Out_with_Many_Improvements_for.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Gear_26_04_Software_Suite_Is_Out_with_Many_Improvements_for.gmi [11:00] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps [11:00] TR News "WIRED reported on Hawley and Warrens letter last month" https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-to-ask-data-centers-how-much-power-they-use/ | Source: Wired [11:00] TR Bot US Government Will Ask Data Centers How Much Power They Use | WIRED [11:00] TR News "Only six coupes were constructed on the 1938 402-series platform, representing a tiny fraction of the 105 total Darlmat Specials produced across all body styles" https://www.vintag.es/2026/04/1938-peugeot-402-darlmat-special-coupe.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [11:00] TR Bot Beautiful Photos of the 1938 Peugeot 402 Darlmat Special Coupe ~ Vintage Everyday [11:01] TR News "The results suggest the region needs to be thinking about bigger solutions." https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041426_water_conservation_op/water-conservation-works-but-climate-change-outpacing-it-desert-cities-offer-glimpse-future/ | Source: Tuscon Sentinel [11:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/041426_water_conservation_op/water-conservation-works-but-climate-change-outpacing-it-desert-cities-offer-glimpse-future/ ) [11:01] TR News "Moratorium bills are in progress in 12 other states." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/15/maine-bans-new-data-centres-until-november-2027/ | Source: Pivot to AI [11:01] TR Bot On holiday. It. [11:02] TR News "What were talking about here is an ability for us to absorb and understand the impact of data centers potentially on the State of Maine" https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/09/landmark-data-center-moratorium-passes-maine-legislature/ | Source: Maine Morning Star [11:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/09/landmark-data-center-moratorium-passes-maine-legislature/ ) [11:02] TR News "Most of these failures to disclose violate Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), as set forth by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB)." https://goodjobsfirst.org/states-failing-to-disclose-data-center-subsidy-losses/ | Source: Good Jobs First [11:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://goodjobsfirst.org/states-failing-to-disclose-data-center-subsidy-losses/ ) [11:02] TR News "Here is a headache for this month or next: 2026-06-10 is the EOL for bookworm" [11:03] TR News "Hyperscale data centers are not only extractive of electricity, water, and land; they are also undermining public budgets." https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/15/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ | Source: Michigan Advance [11:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://michiganadvance.com/2026/04/15/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ ) [11:05] TR News "But these are ideological people, with some of the stupidest possible ideologies governing their actions." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/14/the-cdc-doesnt-want-you-to-see-a-cdc-report-on-how-effective-covid-vaccines-are/ | Source: Techdirt [11:05] TR Bot CDC Doesnt Want You To See A CDC Report On How Effective COVID Vaccines Are | Techdirt [11:05] TR News "The BCGEU proposal laid out the legal risks Thomson Reuters may face by providing ICE with such data." https://www.404media.co/thomson-reuters-shareholders-demand-investigation-into-ice-contracts/ | Source: 404 Media [11:05] TR Bot Thomson Reuters Shareholders Demand Investigation into ICE Contracts [11:05] TR News "But a dusty floor plan from 1668 has just torn up that script." https://interestingengineering.com/culture/exact-location-of-shakespeares-london-property | Source: Interesting Engineering [11:05] TR Bot Found: The exact spot where Shakespeare lived his secret London life [11:06] TR News "In Webb and Zapata counties alone, the federal governments plans include over 107 miles of wall and 152 miles of buoys" https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-15/trumps-border-wall-on-the-rio-grande-threatens-the-water-supply-of-millions-its-not-a-question-of-if-but-when.html | Source: El Pas [11:06] TR Bot Trumps border wall on the Rio Grande threatens the water supply of millions: Its not a question of if, but when | U.S. | EL PAS English [11:10] *MinceR has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:11] *MinceR (~mincer@bringer.of.light) has joined #techrights [11:11] *irc.techrights.org gives channel operator status to MinceR [11:12] TR News "California should be leading on this issue" https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-ban-cellphones-in-schools/ | Source: Court House News [11:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/california-bill-would-ban-cellphones-in-schools/ ) [11:14] TR News "By five years later, in 2024, many researchers involved in that NSF meeting had reversed course." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135197/synthetic-mirror-life-microbes-kill-us-all/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [11:14] TR Bot No one's sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all | MIT Technology Review [11:17] TR News New US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/new-us-congress-bill-proposal-requires-all-operating-system-providers-to-verify-ages/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:17] TR Bot US Congress bill proposal requires all operating system providers to verify ages | GamingOnLinux [11:18] TR News Only 2 years after release Star Trek: Resurgence is being delisted | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/only-2-years-after-release-star-trek-resurgence-is-being-delisted/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/only-2-years-after-release-star-trek-resurgence-is-being-delisted/ [11:18] TR Bot 2 years after release Star Trek: Resurgence is being delisted | GamingOnLinux [11:19] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [11:27] TR News SteamOS 3.7.21 released to stable with security and stability updates | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamos-3-7-21-released-to-stable-with-security-and-stability-updates/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:27] TR Bot 3.7.21 released to stable with security and stability updates | GamingOnLinux [11:28] TR News Designer of Terra Nil reveals Combolands, a deckbuilder where cards are buildings and the map is your deck | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/designer-of-terra-nil-reveals-combolands-a-deckbuilder-where-cards-are-buildings-and-the-map-is-your-deck/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:28] TR Bot of Terra Nil reveals Combolands, a deckbuilder where cards are buildings and the map is your deck | GamingOnLinux [11:29] TR News "If youre a Red Hat partner, you don't just get a seat at the tableyou get an entire event dedicated to you on Monday, May 11." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/connect-collaborate-and-grow-your-guide-ecosystem-success-day-red-hat-summit-2026 | Source: Red Hat Official [11:29] TR Bot Connect, collaborate, and grow: Your guide to Ecosystem Success Day at Red Hat Summit 2026 [11:30] TR News "Clown computing" (outsourcing and data breaches) promoted by IBM Red Hat https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/taming-costs-cloud-environments-rating-openstack-cloudkitty | Source: Red Hat Official [11:30] TR Bot Taming costs in cloud environments: Rating in OpenStack with CloudKitty [11:31] TR News After years in development v8 of the factory management RTS Mindustry is out | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/after-years-in-development-v8-of-the-factory-management-rts-mindustry-is-out/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:31] TR Bot years in development v8 of the factory management RTS Mindustry is out | GamingOnLinux [11:31] TR News Luanti (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/luanti-formerly-minetest-v5-15-2-brings-critical-security-updates/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/luanti-formerly-minetest-v5-15-2-brings-critical-security-updates/ [11:31] TR Bot (formerly Minetest) v5.15.2 brings critical security updates | GamingOnLinux [11:32] TR News TRX the open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider is making progress on Tomb Raider 3 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/trx-the-open-source-re-implementation-of-tomb-raider-is-making-progress-on-tomb-raider-3/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:32] TR Bot the open source re-implementation of Tomb Raider is making progress on Tomb Raider 3 | GamingOnLinux [11:32] TR News Road to Vostok is an incredibly impressive solo-developed hardcore survival shooter | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/road-to-vostok-is-an-incredibly-impressive-solo-developed-hardcore-survival-shooter/ Source: GamingOnLinux [11:32] TR Bot to Vostok is an incredibly impressive solo-developed hardcore survival shooter | GamingOnLinux [11:34] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [11:35] TR News (NEW): Games: ScummVM, Road to Vostok, Luanti, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_ScummVM_Road_to_Vostok_Luanti_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Games_ScummVM_Road_to_Vostok_Luanti_and_More.gmi [11:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: ScummVM, Road to Vostok, Luanti, and More [11:35] TR News "HIPPO is implemented as a browser extension paired with a central server." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/dont-trust-password-managers-hippo-may-be-the-answer/ | Source: Hackaday [11:35] TR Bot Trust Password Managers? HIPPO May Be The Answer! | Hackaday [11:36] TR News "What made this risk worse was an operational reality that took years to fully appreciate: SSH keys don't expire." https://goteleport.com/blog/evolution-of-secure-remote-access/ | Source: Teleport [11:36] TR Bot From Plaintext, to BLESS, to Identity: The Evolution of Secure Remote [11:36] TR News "For nearly a decade, Google has promised billions of users that it will notify them before disclosing their personal data to law enforcement." https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-state-ags-investigate-googles-broken-promise-users-targeted-government | Source: EFF [11:36] TR Bot EFF to State AGs: Investigate Google's Broken Promise to Users Targeted by the Government | Electronic Frontier Foundation [11:37] TR News "Much of the debate around the Digital Omnibus has focused on proposed changes to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ePrivacy and artificial intelligence rules." https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-reopens-the-eu-data-acquis-before-it-has-even-been-tested/ | Source: EDRI [11:37] TR Bot The Digital Omnibus reopens the EU data acquis - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [11:37] TR News "What happens is that if the text of a Signal message shows up on a lock screen, its stored in iOS itself, in a place where forensic investigators can gain access to it. Thats a really good reason to turn off lock-screen notifications for Signal" https://werd.io/fbi-extracts-suspects-deleted-signal-messages-saved-in-iphone-notification-database/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [11:37] TR Bot FBI Extracts Suspects Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database [11:37] TR News "Not only does the platform read license plates and track individual cars, but it tracks associations between vehicles cars that are often seen together, for example. Which, of course, reveals associations between people." https://werd.io/stop-flock/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [11:37] TR Bot Stop Flock [11:38] TR News "At this moment, we, the people, are using 8.3 billion phones" https://pogueman.substack.com/p/is-your-phone-eavesdropping | Source: David Pogue [11:38] TR Bot Is Your Phone Eavesdropping? - by David Pogue [11:38] TR News "How is the attribution cartel defined? Whos in and whos out?" https://blog.zgp.org/attribution-cartel-q-and-a/ | Source: Don Marti [11:38] TR Bot Attribution cartel Q and A [11:39] TR News "Documents I obtained show that the IRS already has a powerful set of tools to force compliance, from undercover agents to wiretaps and other forms of electronic surveillance" https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/you-do-not-hate-the-irs-enough | Source: Ken Klippenstein [11:39] TR Bot You Do Not Hate The IRS Enough - Ken Klippenstein [11:39] TR News "The core concerns have been well documented (my posts on access to subscriber information, mandatory metadata retention, international production orders, and systemic vulnerabilities)." https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/the-lawful-access-debate-begins-canadians-should-pay-attention-to-what-the-government-isnt-saying/ | Source: Michael Geist [11:39] TR Bot The Lawful Access Debate Begins: Canadians Should Pay Attention to What the Government Isnt Saying - Michael Geist [11:40] TR News "A recent audit by the company of popular websites indicates most still track users even when they opt out: [...]" https://pxlnv.com/linklog/webxray-opt-out-audit/ | Source: Nick Heer [11:40] TR Bot WebXRay Audit Finds Opt-Out Tracking Requests Are Not Honoured Pixel Envy [11:40] TR News "The Digital Omnibus leaves this call unheard. Proposed changes to the definition of personal data could allow certain pseudonymised datasets to fall outside the scope of the GDPR." https://edri.org/our-work/how-can-the-eu-protect-children-online-while-dismantling-the-very-rules-designed-to-keep-them-safe/ | Source: EDRI [11:40] TR Bot How can the EU protect children while dismantling the rules to keep them safe? - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [11:41] TR News "Socket identified 108 extensions performing various types of malicious activities. Half of them were designed to steal Google accounts via OAuth2" https://www.securityweek.com/100-chrome-extensions-steal-user-data-open-backdoor/ | Source: Security Week [11:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/100-chrome-extensions-steal-user-data-open-backdoor/ ) [11:41] TR News "So, whats the solution here? I think the best thing would be if manufacturers intentionally took steps to support fingerprint readers on Linux" https://tedium.co/2026/04/14/linux-external-fingerprint-reader-challenges/ | Source: Tedium [11:41] TR Bot Linux & Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination [11:42] TR News Windows TCO: "65% of affected Indian organisations paid ransoms" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/majority-of-indian-firms-hit-by-ransomware-in-2025-pay-over-rs-12-crore-on-average-report/articleshow/130289899.cms | Source: India Times [11:42] TR Bot Majority of Indian firms hit by ransomware in 2025 pay over Rs 12 crore on average: Report - The Economic Times [11:43] TR News Windows TCO: "Autovista confirms that it called in outside support to help clean up a ransomware infection currently affecting systems in Europe and Australia." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/automotive_data_biz_autovista_ransomware/ | Source: The Register UK [11:43] TR Bot Autovista blames ransomware for service disruption The Register [11:43] TR News Windows TCO: "Ukrainian cyber defenders reported a newly intensified cyber campaign that is targeting Ukraines healthcare system and local government agencies" https://thecyberexpress.com/cyberattacks-on-hospitals-by-uac-0247-hackers/ | Source: Cyble Inc [11:43] TR Bot Ukraine Warns Of Cyberattacks On Healthcare By UAC-0247 [11:43] TR News Windows TCO: "Sweden said Wednesday that a pro-Russian group with links to Russias security and intelligence services was behind a cyberattack" https://www.securityweek.com/sweden-blames-pro-russian-group-for-cyberattack-last-year-on-its-energy-infrastructure/ | Source: Security Week [11:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/sweden-blames-pro-russian-group-for-cyberattack-last-year-on-its-energy-infrastructure/ ) [11:44] TR News Windows TCO: "The ransom demands are very low, hovering around $200 to $400, and Acronis said the [intruders] are likely opting for a low-value" https://therecord.media/new-janaware-ransomware-targeting-turkey | Source: The Record [11:44] TR Bot New JanaWare ransomware targeting Turkish citizens as cybercriminal ecosystem fragments | The Record from Recorded Future News [11:45] TR News "remains incredibly close to my heart. But this feels like the perfect moment to open up my world to the fans who have been with me throughout this journey. Im so excited for this." https://variety.com/2026/film/news/shannon-elizabeth-onlyfans-american-pie-1236722985/ | Source: Variety [11:45] TR Bot Shannon Elizabeth Joins OnlyFans After 'American Pie' Fame [11:45] TR News "YouTubes time management settings now have an option to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts, effectively removing them from your app in Android and iOS." https://www.theverge.com/streaming/912898/youtube-shorts-feed-limit-zero-minutes | Source: The Verge [11:45] TR Bot YouTube now lets you turn off Shorts | The Verge [11:45] TR News "Today, I have been working on webmentions for this site. As a person, I oscillate between extremely sociable, and wildly introverted on an almost weekly basis. I haven't operated comments or reactions of any kind on this site for a very long time" https://jasper.tandy.is/blogging/and-just-like-that | Source: Jasper Tandy [11:45] TR Bot Jasper is blogging: And just like that... [11:48] TR News "climb the wrong ladder" https://kyrylo.org/2026/04/15/ai-will-help-you-climb-the-wrong-ladder-faster.html | Source: Kyrylo Silin [11:48] TR Bot AI will help you climb the wrong ladder faster | Kyrylo Silin [11:48] TR News " The AI Omnibus is procedurally deeply flawed." https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-eu-lawmakers-must-safeguard-the-ai-act/ | Source: EDRI [11:48] TR Bot Open Letter: EU lawmakers must safeguard the AI Act - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [11:49] TR News "Nineteen features later, the tests all passed, coverage looked healthy, and the code was a disaster." https://fffej.substack.com/p/nineteen-features-zero-architecture | [11:49] TR Bot Nineteen Features, Zero Architecture - by Jeff - JoT [11:49] TR News "So, when a screenshot or copy-pasted block of Heres what Claude said comes across my screen I dont care about the screenshot." https://daverupert.com/2026/04/claude-no/ | Source: Dave Rupert [11:49] TR Bot don't want a screenshot of your Claude conversation - daverupert.com [11:50] TR News "[...] The fact it costs $2,000 to file an objection means only people who have 2 grand laying around will ever have the opportunity to do so." https://tiv.today/can-ai-judge-journalism-a-thiel-backed-startup-says-yes-even-if-it-risks-chilling-whistleblowers/ | Source: The Independent Variable [11:50] TR Bot Can AI judge journalism? A Thiel-backed startup says yes, even if it risks chilling whistleblowers [11:50] TR News "encouraging early results" https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/openais-ambitious-and-unrealistic | Source: Jrme Marin [11:50] TR Bot OpenAIs ambitious (and unrealistic?) advertising targets [11:50] TR News "As we deploy ML more broadly, there will be new kinds of work." https://aphyr.com/posts/419-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-new-jobs | Source: Kyle Kingsbury [11:50] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/419-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-new-jobs ) [11:51] TR News "It still baffles me that so many people are willing to completely give up their privacy out of fascination with the possibilities of AI. [...]" https://mb.esamecar.net/2026/04/14/thoughts-on-ai-and-privacy.html | Source: Marco F [11:51] TR Bot Thoughts on AI and Privacy | marco's blog [11:51] TR News "There are some subjects as a writer in which you know they need to be written, but at the same time you feel it necessary to steel yourself for the inevitable barrage of criticism once your work reaches its audience." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/ai-for-the-skeptics-attempting-to-do-something-useful-with-it/ | Source: Hackaday [11:51] TR Bot For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It | Hackaday [11:52] TR News "PCWorld reports that Claude AI users are adopting caveman prompting techniques to reduce token consumption by stripping filler words and articles from responses." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3115406/claude-users-are-teaching-it-to-talk-like-a-caveman-heres-why.html | Source: PC World [11:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3115406/claude-users-are-teaching-it-to-talk-like-a-caveman-heres-why.html ) [11:52] TR News "But X user S2_Underground discovered a curious thing: The image Trump posted wasnt exactly new. A version of the AI-generated image had been initially posted by a MAGA influencer named Nick Adams back in February" https://www.theverge.com/column/912627/trump-jesus-ai-whcd-penguin-meme | Source: The Verge [11:52] TR Bot Trumps posting even more AI-generated Trump-Jesus fan art | The Verge [11:52] TR News "The same study also found that online writing is increasingly sanitized and artificially cheerful. In other words, AI is making the internet fake-happy." https://www.wired.com/story/ai-slop-is-changing-the-internet-just-not-how-you-might-think/ | Source: Wired [11:52] TR Bot Slop Is Making the Internet Fake-Happy | WIRED [11:53] TR News "Airbnb then said these tools are only available through approved software partners. So I had a look around for some companies offering that service." https://www.404media.co/airbnb-hosts-dont-want-to-talk-to-guests-anymore-are-outsourcing-messages-to-ai/ | Source: 404 Media [11:53] TR Bot Airbnb Hosts Don't Want to Talk to Guests Anymore, Are Outsourcing Messages to AI [11:53] TR News "An American truck driver is taking legal action after an AI system's '100% match' led to his arrest for a crime he insists he never committed" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ai-misidentification-legal-battle-reno-1791966 | Source: International Business Times [11:53] TR Bot Innocent Man Sues City After AI Misidentification Leads to Arrest for Crime He Did Not Commit | IBTimes UK [11:54] TR News "The peer-reviewed study from researchers at Anthropic demonstrated that LLMs can transfer negative traits to "student" models, even when evidence of these traits has been removed from the transmitted training data." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/llms_inherit_bad_traits/ | Source: The Register UK [11:54] TR Bot Bad teacher bots can leave hidden marks on model students The Register [11:54] TR News "Most damning is Zoomers trajectory." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gen-z-attitude-ai | Source: Futurism [11:54] TR Bot Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry [11:54] TR News "Theres a problem, though: the workers who remain often say they now have to fix a flood of error-ridden AI-generated workslop thats burdening them, paradoxically, with more work than ever." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workslop-gridlock | Source: Futurism [11:54] TR Bot AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock [11:55] TR News "Tools like OpenAIs ChatGPT have long garnered a reputation for being ludicrously sycophantic." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-honest-reaction-song-farts | Source: Futurism [11:55] TR Bot ChatGPT's "Honest Reaction" to a "Song" Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It's Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas [11:55] TR News "Ive been using an iPhone since the 3G and a Mac since 2007, wow its coming on 20 years! By now you can tell Im pretty locked in." https://ljpuk.net/2026/04/15/leaving-a-technology-ecosystem-takes-time-and-energy/ | Source: Lee Peterson [11:55] TR Bot Leaving a technology ecosystem takes time and energy LJPUK [11:56] TR News "Now the bad news: Since the MacBook Neo is powered by the A18 Pro chip from 2024s iPhone 16 Pro, a product thats been discontinued, there is likely a finite number of chips available for MacBook Neo production." https://sixcolors.com/post/2026/04/solving-the-problem-of-macbook-neos-popularity/ | Source: Six Colors [11:56] TR Bot Solving the problem of MacBook Neos popularity Six Colors [11:57] TR News "The first complication to understand is that I have lifelong, degenerating chronic pain that makes me hurt from the base of my skull to the soles of my feet my whole posterior chain." https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartment/#flow | Source: CoryDoctorow [11:57] TR Bot Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [11:57] TR News "The bioreactor gets loaded up with veggies on one end, plus lots of salt and spices to taste, plus some cultured brine from an old batch to kickstart everything." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/hacking-fermentation-for-infinite-pickles-from-pass-thru-bioreactor/ | Source: Hackaday [11:57] TR Bot Fermentation For Infinite Pickles From Pass-thru Bioreactor | Hackaday [11:58] TR News "The incident reignited a heated debate over the troubling relationship between the use of AI chatbots and deteriorating mental health, as well as the potential risk of violence." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-users-mass-shootings | Source: Futurism [11:58] TR Bot Why Do ChatGPT Users Keep Committing Mass Shootings? [11:58] TR News "This post is inspired by Franck Sauers My Workspaces. I love Francks setup and background story behind each photo." https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/my-workspaces/ | Source: Wouter Groeneveld [11:58] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brainbaking.com/post/2026/04/my-workspaces/ ) [11:59] TR News "During a livestream. Astronaut Christina Koch, floating inside NASA's Orion capsule during the Artemis II lunar flyby, ejects a memory card from her Nikon in the background." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/memory-cards/this-clip-of-an-astronaut-chasing-a-memory-card-in-space-is-hilarious-but-it-also-makes-me-think-seriously-about-storage | Source: Digital Camera World [11:59] TR Bot This clip of an astronaut chasing a memory card in space is hilarious but it also makes me think seriously about storage | Digital Camera World [11:59] TR News "This is not a controlled demo. It is a stress test in one of the Armys toughest training environments, where new ideas either prove useful or fail fast" https://interestingengineering.com/military/hunter-wolf-combat-robot-us-army | Source: Interesting Engineering [11:59] TR Bot US Army tests armed Hunter Wolf robot for security, logistics drills ● Apr 16 [12:00] TR News "Wisdoms feedback loop is slow." https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2026/speed-not-conducive-to-wisdom/ | Source: Jim Nielsen [12:00] TR Bot Speed is Not Conducive to Wisdom - Jim Nielsens Blog [12:02] TR News "The FAA has released its 2025 Airman Knowledge Test data, and if youre looking for a feel-good story about the state of drone pilot preparedness in America, you wont find it here." https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/04/15/part-107-test-scores/ | Source: The Drone Girl [12:02] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.thedronegirl.com/2026/04/15/part-107-test-scores/ ) [12:02] TR News "The journal article has never been the job. It has always been one mechanism through which a larger purpose is accomplished." https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2026/04/15/the-journal-article-is-not-the-job/ | Source: Society for Scholarly Publishing [12:02] TR Bot The Journal Article Is Not the Job - The Scholarly Kitchen [12:02] TR News "All Elementary Functions from a Single Operator is a paper by Andrzej Odrzywoek that has been making rounds on the internet lately, being called everything from a breakthrough to groundbreaking." https://www.stylewarning.com/posts/not-all-elementary/ | Source: Robert Smith [12:02] TR Bot Not all elementary functions can be expressed with exp-minus-log [12:03] TR News "With the conflict over research funding ongoing, Tucker asked whether Harvard should just go it alone and refuse to take federal money." https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2026/04/this-is-not-about-harvard-it-is-about-higher-education/ | Source: Harvard University [12:03] TR Bot This is not about Harvard. It is about higher education. Harvard Gazette [12:03] TR News "Earlier this month, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released its proposed 2027 top-line request" https://futurism.com/space/trump-nasa-budget-transparency-errors | Source: Futurism [12:03] TR Bot There's Something Extremely Shady About Trump's Disastrous New NASA Budget [12:04] TR News "I don't even touch the mouse most of the time, because, well, the mouse is how you pick which terminal to type at if you can't get there sufficiently quickly with whatever keyboard alt-tab type stuff you have rigged up!" https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2026/04/14/w/ | Source: Rachel [12:04] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://rachelbythebay.com:4433/w/2026/04/14/w/ ) [12:04] TR News "From a gmail address. Emphasis in original. I am pretty sure this would be violating the law and violating contractual agreements which might get made should an actual job get booked." https://artlung.com/blog/2026/04/15/another-sketchy-opportunity/ | Source: Joe Crawford [12:04] TR Bot Another sketchy opportunity ~ 15 Apr 2026 [12:04] TR News "To be sure this was what my mom was getting at, I casually mentioned they don't make you learn Morse Code anymore to pass that test." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-15 | Source: Dr Molly Tov [12:04] TR Bot molly's ever growing list of stuff she is way too excited to do [12:04] TR News "To get my mind free, I did some bike tours the last few days." https://janlukas.blog/thoughts/2026/04/2026-04-15-azlte | Source: Jan-Lukas Else [12:04] TR Bot Mental dump - Jan-Lukas Else [12:05] TR News "They seem to be really focused on the IndieWeb, and even provide a widget that can be added to your website so the upvotes you get there can be seen on your posts. Thats kind of fun!" https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/what-interested-me-today-8/ | Source: Joel Chrono [12:05] TR Bot What Interested Me Today 8 [12:05] TR News "Conversely, I'd love to know what kind of an old man he turned into. Would he still be as funny? Or would have turned into a grumpy old curmudgeon?" https://kevquirk.com/i-wish-i-could-talk-to-my-dad | Source: Kev Quirk [12:05] TR Bot I Wish I Could Talk to My Dad - Kev Quirk [12:06] TR News "Since Ill be in Europe, Im going to do as the Europeans do: close up shop and not work for the entire time." https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/ciao-out-of-office | Source: Marisa Kabas [12:06] TR Bot Ciao! [12:07] TR News "The first one Cox mentions is HostBuddy AI, and I do not think his brief overview does justice to this thing." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/hospitality-without-hospitality/ | Source: Nick Heer [12:07] TR Bot A Hospitality Industry Without Hospitality Pixel Envy [12:07] TR News "The slapstick short film, created around 1897, was famous for containing the very first on-screen appearance of a robotpreceding the term itself by more than two decades. But no watchable copies of the film were known to survive." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-1897-film-discovered-in-an-old-trunk-in-michigan-features-the-first-on-screen-appearance-of-robot-180988547/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [12:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-1897-film-discovered-in-an-old-trunk-in-michigan-features-the-first-on-screen-appearance-of-robot-180988547/ ) [12:10] TR News France to replace Windows with Linux as wariness of U.S. grows https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/france-to-replace-windows-with-linux-as-wariness-of-u-s-grows.html [12:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2026/04/14/france-to-replace-windows-with-linux-as-wariness-of-u-s-grows.html ) [12:11] TR News These 9 Linux terminal shortcuts will save you hours of typing https://www.howtogeek.com/these-linux-terminal-shortcuts-will-save-you-hours-of-typing/ [12:11] TR Bot These 9 Linux terminal shortcuts will save you hours of typing [12:11] TR News "Seems SteamVR for Linux really is getting some more attention recently, after a number of fixes in the previous Beta we have a few more here." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/steamvr-beta-2-16-3-brings-linux-fixes-for-vrlink/ [12:11] TR Bot Beta 2.16.3 brings Linux fixes for VRLink | GamingOnLinux [12:12] TR News Why is France moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux https://qazinform.com/news/why-is-france-moving-from-microsoft-windows-to-linux-8887c4 [12:12] TR Bot Why is France moving from Microsoft Windows to Linux [12:12] TR News After months of debate, Linus has finally made a decision. Linux has officially "legislated" for AI code: using AI is allowed, but humans must take the blame. https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3766613187150601 [12:12] TR Bot After Months of Debate, Linus Finally Decides: Linux Officially "Legislates" for AI Code - AI Use Allowed, Humans to Take the Blame [12:13] TR News Linux is better than ever https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-is-better-than-everbut-these-4-problems-still-push-me-back-to-windows/ [12:13] TR Bot Linux is better than everbut these 4 problems still push me back to Windows [12:14] TR News Linux 7.0 debuts with some big changes for networking https://www.networkworld.com/article/4158187/linux-7-0-debuts-with-some-big-changes-for-networking.html [12:14] TR Bot Linux 7.0 debuts with some big changes for networking | Network World [12:14] TR News "Users are urged to update their systems to the new xorg-server and xwayland releases as soon as possible." https://9to5linux.com/xorg-server-21-1-22-and-xwayland-24-1-10-released-with-multiple-security-fixes [12:14] TR Bot Server 21.1.22 and Xwayland 24.1.10 Released with Multiple Security Fixes - 9to5Linux [12:15] TR News "This release introduces a new Main Menu tab in the Control Centre app to allow editing of the main menu." https://9to5linux.com/latest-raspberry-pi-os-release-disables-passwordless-sudo-by-default [12:15] TR Bot Raspberry Pi OS Release Disables Passwordless sudo by Default - 9to5Linux [12:16] TR News (NEW): They Weren't Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/They_Weren_t_Joking_Gentoo_WAS_Ported_To_GNU_Hurd.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/They_Weren_t_Joking_Gentoo_WAS_Ported_To_GNU_Hurd.gmi [12:16] TR Bot Tux Machines They Weren't Joking: Gentoo WAS Ported To GNU Hurd [12:17] TR News Opera GX for GNU/Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/opera-gx-linux-snap-flathub [12:17] TR Bot Opera GX for Linux arrives on Flathub & Snap store - OMG! Ubuntu [12:18] TR News Has the world changed and Linus compromised? AI-generated code can be included in the Linux kernel, but humans will be held accountable if something goes wrong. https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3766159271117570 [12:18] TR Bot Has the World Changed and Linus Compromised? AI-Generated Code Allowed in Linux Kernel, Humans Accountable for Issues [12:18] TR News "Waveshare PocketTerm35 is a portable handheld terminal for the Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 single board computers featuring a 3.5-inch touchscreen display and a built-in QWERTY keyboard." https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/14/pocketterm35-a-raspberry-pi-4-5-based-handheld-linux-terminal-with-3-5-inch-touch-display-and-built-in-keyboard/ [12:19] TR Bot PocketTerm35 - A Raspberry Pi 4/5-based handheld Linux terminal with 3.5-inch touch display and built-in keyboard - CNX Software [12:19] TR News "Love achievement hunting but play games outside of Steam on Linux? Sounds like Sentinel is an open source tool you'll want to see." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sentinel-is-an-achievement-watcher-for-non-steam-games-on-linux/ [12:19] TR Bot is an achievement watcher for non-Steam games on Linux | GamingOnLinux [12:21] TR News Low standards https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/04/linux-open-source-greenlights-ai-code-with-human-liability-rules/ [12:21] TR Bot Linux Open Source Greenlights AI Code With Human Liability Rules - Open Source For You [12:22] TR News Forget flat ASCII art, this fastfetch-based tool renders your distro's logo as a rotating 3D object https://www.xda-developers.com/forget-flat-ascii-art-this-fastfetch-based-tool-renders-your-distros-logo-as-a-rotating-3d-object/ [12:22] TR Bot Forget flat ASCII art, this fastfetch-based tool renders your distro's logo as a rotating 3D object [12:23] TR News France goes FOSS, opts for Linux instead of Windows for government computers https://www.notebookcheck.net/France-goes-FOSS-opts-for-Linux-instead-of-Windows-for-government-computers.1273276.0.html [12:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.notebookcheck.net/France-goes-FOSS-opts-for-Linux-instead-of-Windows-for-government-computers.1273276.0.html ) [12:25] TR News "France's government is shifting from using Windows to Linux. The change comes as part of an effort to abandon non-European digital services and reduce technological reliance on outside countries, specifically the United States." https://www.notebookcheck.net/France-goes-FOSS-opts-for-Linux-instead-of-Windows-for-government-computers.1273276.0.html [12:25] TR News Abandoning Windows, blocking Teams, 80,000 people urgently migrating. The French government announces "de-Microsoftization" and a full switch to Linux. https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3766088046215937 [12:25] TR Bot French Government Announces "De-Microsoftization", 80,000 People Urgently Migrate from Windows to Linux, Block Teams [12:27] TR News Valve Engineer Fixes Linux VRAM Theft That Causes Stuttering on 8GB Gaming GPUs https://www.ghacks.net/2026/04/14/valve-engineer-fixes-linux-vram-theft-that-causes-stuttering-on-8gb-gaming-gpus/ [12:27] TR Bot Valve Engineer Fixes Linux VRAM Theft That Causes Stuttering on 8GB Gaming GPUs - gHacks Tech News [12:29] TR News Au revoir, Microsoft: French government switches to Linux https://root-nation.com/en/news-en/it-news-ua/en-french-government-switches-to-linux/ [12:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://root-nation.com/en/news-en/it-news-ua/en-french-government-switches-to-linux/ ) [12:30] TR News (NEW): Valve dev fixes up VRAM management on AMD GPUs to improve performance https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/11/Valve_dev_fixes_up_VRAM_management_on_AMD_GPUs_to_improve_perfo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/11/Valve_dev_fixes_up_VRAM_management_on_AMD_GPUs_to_improve_perfo.gmi [12:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Valve dev fixes up VRAM management on AMD GPUs to improve performance [12:30] TR News France is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack https://www.zdnet.com/article/france-leaves-windows-for-linux-desktop/ [12:30] TR Bot is replacing 2.5 million Windows desktops with Linux - and I mapped out its new stack | ZDNET [12:31] TR News "These days, I run both, a Linux and macOS combo, and it works really well for me." https://www.makeuseof.com/sorry-windows-and-linux-this-is-still-the-better-os-for-developers/ [12:32] TR Bot Sorry, Windows and Linux: this is still the better OS for developers [12:32] TR News Waveshare Built a $149 Handheld That Runs Full Linux Without the Laptop https://www.yankodesign.com/2026/04/13/waveshare-built-a-149-handheld-that-runs-full-linux-without-the-laptop/ [12:32] TR Bot Waveshare Built a $149 Handheld That Runs Full Linux Without the Laptop - Yanko Design [12:33] TR News After bribes from slop pushers (LF) https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-and-maintainers-finalize-ai-policy-for-linux-kernel-developers/ [12:33] TR Bot new rules for AI-assisted code in the Linux kernel: What every dev needs to know | ZDNET [12:33] TR News (NEW): Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Canonical_Releases_Mir_2_26_with_Initial_Rust_Implementation_of.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Canonical_Releases_Mir_2_26_with_Initial_Rust_Implementation_of.gmi [12:33] TR Bot Tux Machines Canonical Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend [12:34] TR News Another language in it is not a feature https://www.thelec.net/news/articleView.html?idxno=6522 [12:34] TR Bot Linux Kernel 7.0 Released With Official Rust Language Support - THE ELEC, Korea Electronics Industry Media [12:35] TR News "The Linux kernel 7.0 has arrived and with it plenty of support for new hardware, lots of fixes and some new documents on AI code helpers." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-kernel-7-0-is-out-now/ [12:35] TR Bot kernel 7.0 is out now | GamingOnLinux [12:36] TR News Your Linux PC can handle HDMI 2.1 the law is what's holding it back https://www.makeuseof.com/hdmi-forum-is-holding-back-linux-and-its-getting-worse/ [12:36] TR Bot Your Linux PC can handle HDMI 2.1 the law is what's holding it back [12:38] TR News "The HDMI situation isnt just about cables and specs. Its about control. When essential technology is locked behind licensing that excludes open-source models, you dont get a level playing field." [12:41] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/today_s_howtos.gmi [12:41] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [12:44] TR News "The Solicitors Regulation Authority has today contacted firms named in a BBC investigation into alleged abuses of the immigration service, amid mounting condemnation from politicians. The BBC claimed that law firms and advisers charge thousands of pounds to help migrants pretend to be gay" https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/politicians-condemn-sham-lawyers-as-sra-probes-asylum-firms/5126493.article [12:44] TR Bot Politicians condemn 'sham' lawyers as SRA probes asylum firms after BBC investigation | Law Gazette [12:46] TR News (NEW): Graphics: The Origins of GPU Computing and DRM Chaos in HDMI 2.1 Hurting Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Graphics_The_Origins_of_GPU_Computing_and_DRM_Chaos_in_HDMI_2_1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Graphics_The_Origins_of_GPU_Computing_and_DRM_Chaos_in_HDMI_2_1.gmi [12:46] TR Bot Tux Machines Graphics: The Origins of GPU Computing and DRM Chaos in HDMI 2.1 Hurting Linux [12:50] TR News "The familiar safeguard sysctl hw.smt is now deprecated, having been replaced by a more flexible mechanism which allows discriminating between different varieties of core type." https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260415050032 | Source: Undeadly [12:50] TR Bot Selectively block cores from the scheduler with sysctl hw.blockcpu [12:50] TR News (NEW): Slop and Rust in Kernel Space (Linux) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/14/Slop_and_Rust_in_Kernel_Space_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/14/Slop_and_Rust_in_Kernel_Space_Linux.gmi [12:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Slop and Rust in Kernel Space (Linux) [12:50] TR News "In 2013, after the intense work to switch from gcc 2.95 to gcc 3.3, from a.out to ELF, and from static binaries only to shared libraries" http://miod.online.fr/software/openbsd/stories/m88k5.html | Source: Miod Vallat [12:50] TR Bot OpenBSD on Motorola 88000 processors [12:51] TR News "Today I will focus on creating customized FreeBSD VM image(s) and also unattended installation part of simple PKGBASE based FreeBSD system." https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/freebsd-image-builder-installer-verimg-tool/ | Source: Vermaden [12:51] TR Bot FreeBSD Image Builder/Installer verimg(8) Tool | [12:53] TR News (NEW): BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, 2.11BSD, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/BSD_FreeBSD_OpenBSD_2_11BSD_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/BSD_FreeBSD_OpenBSD_2_11BSD_and_More.gmi [12:53] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD: FreeBSD, OpenBSD, 2.11BSD, and More [12:53] TR News (NEW): Red Hat Selling Slop, Clown Computing, and OpenShift Pipelines 1.21 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Red_Hat_Selling_Slop_Clown_Computing_and_OpenShift_Pipelines_1_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Red_Hat_Selling_Slop_Clown_Computing_and_OpenShift_Pipelines_1_.gmi [12:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Selling Slop, Clown Computing, and OpenShift Pipelines 1.21 [12:53] TR News "Machine tools, including vertical mills, are usually either CNC, manual, or power-assisted." https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/15/a-3d-printed-drive-by-wire-micro-mill-for-your-desktop/ | Source: Arduino [12:53] TR Bot A 3D-printed drive-by-wire micro mill for your desktop | Arduino Blog [12:54] TR News "Its time for us to review yet another ARM64 board, after the previous OrangePi 5 Ultra and the very powerful OrangePi 6 Plus. This time we go for their mid-range option, the OrangePi 4 Pro." https://boilingsteam.com/orange-pi-4-pro-review/index.html | Source: Boiling Steam [12:54] TR Bot OrangePi 4 Pro Review [12:54] TR News "Using the repair-friendly Framework 13 laptop chassis, I've tested the low-end x86 option (a Ryzen AI 5 340 Mainboard)" https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/arm-mainboard-for-framework-laptop/ | Source: Jeff Geerling [12:54] TR Bot An Arm Mainboard for the Framework Laptop - Jeff Geerling [12:54] TR News "In the past, microcontrollers were primarily programmed in C, but since MicroPythons popularity increased over the years, it has become more and more common for introductory microcontroller programming to be in Python." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/python-comes-to-the-arduino-uno-q/ | Source: Hackaday [12:55] TR Bot Comes To The Arduino Uno Q | Hackaday [12:55] TR News "Security cameras are great at monitoring physical doors, but terrible at locking their own digital ones." https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32886 | Source: SANS [12:55] TR Bot [Guest Diary] Compromised DVRs and Finding Them in the Wild [12:55] TR News "Getting used to the Pixel 10 hardware after about 18 years of iPhone usage was surprisingly easy" https://overkill.wtf/posts/pixel-10-hardware | Source: Kevin Wammer [12:55] TR Bot Pixel 10 hardware: good, practical, unexciting - overkill.wtf [12:56] TR News "It's been a while since I felt excited about technology. For a good reason, right. Many good reasons." https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/samsung-a54-report-11.html | Source: Dedoimedo [12:56] TR Bot Samsung A54 report 11, okayish, angsty, average plus [12:58] TR News Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me https://www.makeuseof.com/every-linux-user-told-me-to-try-niri-so-i-finally-did-and-it-wasnt-for-me/ [12:58] TR Bot Every Linux user told me to try Niri, so I finally did and it wasn't for me [12:58] TR News (NEW): Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Linux_Mint_Will_Adopt_a_Longer_Development_Cycle_Starting_with_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Linux_Mint_Will_Adopt_a_Longer_Development_Cycle_Starting_with_.gmi [12:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Linux Mint Will Adopt a Longer Development Cycle Starting with Linux Mint 23 [12:58] TR News (NEW): Security and Windows TCO https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Security_and_Windows_TCO.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Security_and_Windows_TCO.gmi [12:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO [12:59] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling https://9to5linux.com/zorin-os-18-1-boosts-windows-app-support-by-40-improves-window-tiling [12:59] TR Bot OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling - 9to5Linux ● Apr 16 [13:02] TR News (NEW): Mobile and Mobile Leftovers (Linux-centric) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mobile_and_Mobile_Leftovers_Linux_centric.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mobile_and_Mobile_Leftovers_Linux_centric.gmi [13:02] TR Bot Tux Machines Mobile and Mobile Leftovers (Linux-centric) [13:02] TR News "This vulnerability can only be exploited by a powerful attacker who has already exploited another vulnerability to take control of Tor Browser." https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tails-7_6_2/ | Source: Tor [13:02] TR Bot New Release: Tails 7.6.2 | The Tor Project [13:03] TR News (NEW): Debian: Freexian Report and Updates in Raspberry Pi OS and Tails https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Debian_Freexian_Report_and_Updates_in_Raspberry_Pi_OS_and_Tails.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Debian_Freexian_Report_and_Updates_in_Raspberry_Pi_OS_and_Tails.gmi [13:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian: Freexian Report and Updates in Raspberry Pi OS and Tails [13:04] TR News "A MIDI clock tells a MIDI device about the tempo. This can be handed to a drum machine or a sequencer." https://www.perl.com/article/making-an-asynchronous-clocking-drum-machine-in-perl/ | Source: Perl [13:04] TR Bot an Asynchronous Clocking Drum Machine App in Perl [13:04] TR News "Genuinely, there were gasps. I dont think Ive had a similar reaction at any talk Ive given since" https://werd.io/one-size-fits-none-let-communities-build-for-themselves/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [13:04] TR Bot One size fits none: let communities build for themselves [13:04] TR News "And I mean that literally - because no one was ever clear on what it was." https://lewiscampbell.tech/blog/260414.html | Source: Lewis Campbell [13:04] TR Bot Saying Goodbye to Agile [13:05] TR News "This also isn't to say that it's illegal to write the absolutely most optimal code. I just think that if this is your goal you need to come with receipts and be able to make your case." https://tinkering.xyz/faster/ | [13:05] TR Bot I don't care that it's X times faster Tinkering [13:08] TR News "C interpreters are a common language implementation technique and the basis for the reference implementations of languages such as Lua, Ruby, and Python." https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2026/retrofitting_jit_compilers_into_c_interpreters.html | Source: Lawrence Tratt [13:08] TR Bot Laurence Tratt: Retrofitting JIT Compilers into C Interpreters [13:09] TR News "CPython has over 2,200 open PRs." https://armanckeser.com/writing/jellyfin-flow | [13:09] TR Bot My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs - Armanc Keser [13:10] TR News "What I'm getting at here is that a specification is an abstraction of code." https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a-sufficiently-comprehensive-spec-is-not/ | Source: Buttondown LLC [13:10] TR Bot sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code Buttondown [13:11] TR News "Erlang/OTP 29.0-rc3 is the third and final release candidate before the OTP 29.0 release." https://www.erlang.org/news/186 | Source: Erlang [13:11] TR Bot Erlang/OTP 29.0 Release Candidate 3 - Erlang/OTP [13:11] TR News "Simdutf was the final remaining libc++ dependency in libghostty-vt2. After updating Ghostty to use this new simdutf build, we were able to remove libc++ and libc++abi completely from our dependencies." https://mitchellh.com/writing/simdutf-no-libcxx | Source: Mitchell Hashimoto [13:11] TR Bot Simdutf Can Now Be Used Without libc++ or libc++abi Mitchell Hashimoto [13:11] TR News "Structured bindings were introduced in C++17 as an alternative way of declaring variables." https://www.sandordargo.com/blog/2026/04/15/cpp26-structured-bindings-condition | Source: Sandor Dargo [13:11] TR Bot C++26: Structured bindings in conditions | Sandor Dargo's Blog [13:15] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [13:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [13:20] TR News "The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the steward of the GNU family of General Public Licenses (GPL), which were carefully drafted to ensure that copyright holders have a tool to release programs as free software, protecting and preserving the freedoms of computer users." [13:20] TR News "The FSF has always allowed everyone to use our licenses as intended, in line with the core principles of free software to ensure that users have the freedom to run, copy, study, change, improve, and distribute software." [13:20] TR News "We are always happy to see more programs properly released under one of our licenses, and favor compliance and constructive dialogue in our approach to resolving licensing issues." https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/agpl-is-not-a-tool-for-taking-freedom-away | Source: FSF [13:20] TR Bot You cannot use the GNU (A)GPL to take software freedom away Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [13:21] TR News "Hi, Im Nikita Volkov - architect, consultant, and the author of hasql, one of the two main PostgreSQL drivers in Haskell used in major production projects like PostgREST and IHP." https://nikita-volkov.github.io/pgenie-in-production-part-1/ | [13:21] TR Bot My 14-Year Journey Away from ORMs - How I Built pGenie, the SQL-First Postgres Code Generator Functional programming debugs you [13:21] TR News "A database index is similar to the index you found at the back of your science textbooks in school." https://jon.chrt.dev/2026/04/15/things-you-didnt-know-about-indexes.html | Source: Jon Charter [13:21] TR Bot Things you didn't know about indexes [13:21] TR News "Emulating a 6502 shouldnt be that hard on a modern computer." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/15/a-6502-all-in-the-data/ | Source: Hackaday [13:21] TR Bot 6502 All In The Data | Hackaday [13:23] TR News (NEW): Back End/Databases Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_End_Databases_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_End_Databases_Leftovers.gmi [13:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Back End/Databases Leftovers [13:30] TR News REDUCE general-purpose computer algebra system for symbolic computation https://www.linuxlinks.com/reduce-general-purpose-computer-algebra-system/ [13:30] TR Bot - general-purpose computer algebra system for symbolic computation - LinuxLinks [13:31] TR News Eigen matrix calculator https://www.linuxlinks.com/eigen-matrix-calculator/ [13:31] TR Bot - matrix calculator - LinuxLinks [13:31] TR News rdapper command-line RDAP client https://www.linuxlinks.com/rdapper-command-line-rdap-client/ [13:31] TR Bot - command-line RDAP client - LinuxLinks [13:35] TR News "KDE Plasma 6.7 Is Shaping Up To Be Amazing" https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/kde-plasma-6.7-is-shaping-up-to-be:0 [13:35] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.7 Is Shaping Up To Be Amazing [13:36] TR News "Digitally locking hardware makes it cheaper " https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/digitally-locking-hardware-makes-it:1 [13:36] TR Bot Digitally locking hardware makes it cheaper [13:37] TR News "Chat Control 2: lderskontroll i app-stores" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/15/chat-control-2-alderskontroll-i-app-stores/ [13:37] TR Bot Chat Control 2: lderskontroll i app-stores [13:38] TR News "Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/trump-damage-public-image-offensive-ai-slop [13:38] TR Bot Trump Is Inflicting Massive Damage to His Public Image by Posting Offensive AI Slop [13:39] TR News iophk: the people working towards that are vile, stupid, and evil beyond description https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/15/1135197/synthetic-mirror-life-microbes-kill-us-all/ [13:39] TR Bot No one's sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all | MIT Technology Review [13:40] TR News "Companies Troll DoorDash and Trump After White House Delivery Stunt Goes Badly Wrong" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/corporate-backlash-fast-food-delivery-oval-office-1791983 [13:40] TR Bot Companies Troll DoorDash and Trump After White House Delivery Stunt Goes Badly Wrong | IBTimes UK [13:40] TR News iophk: these have all been kept out of the news https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026/ [13:40] TR Bot drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record | CyberScoop [13:42] TR News iophk: tldr; _*managers*_ love AI slop, no interest in actual results https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/14/1134397/redefining-the-future-of-software-engineering/ [13:42] TR Bot Redefining the future of software engineering | MIT Technology Review [13:43] TR News iophk: fake indicators of economy https://yle.fi/a/74-20220673 [13:43] TR Bot Helsinki stock index hits 25-year high | Yle News | Yle [13:47] TR News (NEW): Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Policy, MozPhab, and YouTuve https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Policy_MozPhab_and_YouTuve.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Mozilla_Firefox_Nightly_Policy_MozPhab_and_YouTuve.gmi [13:47] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Policy, MozPhab, and YouTuve [13:49] TR News (NEW): Digital Sovereignty / Software Freedom Gaining Traction https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Digital_Sovereignty_Software_Freedom_Gaining_Traction.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Digital_Sovereignty_Software_Freedom_Gaining_Traction.gmi [13:49] TR Bot Tux Machines Digital Sovereignty / Software Freedom Gaining Traction [13:52] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Sharing_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_and_Sharing_Leftovers.gmi [13:52] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software and Sharing Leftovers [13:52] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers and Back Doors in Web Plugins https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Web_Browsers_and_Back_Doors_in_Web_Plugins.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Web_Browsers_and_Back_Doors_in_Web_Plugins.gmi [13:52] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers and Back Doors in Web Plugins [13:55] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: News, Releases, Activity https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_News_Releases_Act.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/GNU_Linux_Distributions_and_Operating_Systems_News_Releases_Act.gmi [13:55] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Distributions and Operating Systems: News, Releases, Activity [13:55] TR News (NEW): Threats to GNU/Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Threats_to_GNU_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Threats_to_GNU_Linux.gmi [13:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Threats to GNU/Linux [13:59] TR News "This document is one of the companion specifications: [...]" https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-thain-ipv8/ | Source: IETF [13:59] TR Bot draft-thain-ipv8-01 - Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) [13:59] TR News Techrights Links 16/04/2026: Roblox Launching Roblox Kids Accounts and "Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Links_16_04_2026_Roblox_Launching_Roblox_Kids_Accounts_and_Deep.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Links_16_04_2026_Roblox_Launching_Roblox_Kids_Accounts_and_Deep.gmi [13:59] TR Bot Techrights Links 16/04/2026: Roblox Launching Roblox Kids Accounts and "Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools" ● Apr 16 [14:00] TR News "Im very grateful that the FreeBSD Foundation sponsored my trip to AsiaBSDCon 2026 in Taipei, Taiwan." https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/asiabsdcon-2026-trip-report-minsoo-choo/ | Source: FreeBSD [14:00] TR Bot AsiaBSDCon 2026 Trip Report Minsoo Choo | FreeBSD Foundation [14:00] TR News "This book has two intended audiences. The larger one is Common Lisp programmers, or people who at least have been learning the language, who want to explore the benefits of modern functional collections." https://fset.common-lisp.dev/Modern-CL/Top_html/index.html | [14:00] TR Bot Top (Modern Common Lisp with FSet) [14:00] TR News "The APNIC 62 Program Committee (PC) is seeking presentations, panel discussions" https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/15/apnic-62-call-for-papers-now-open/ | Source: APNIC [14:00] TR Bot APNIC 62 Call for Papers now open | APNIC Blog [14:01] TR News "With curl 8.20.0 we add a thread pool for the resolver" https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-dns-threads/ | [14:01] TR Bot curl dns 2026, part IV, threads | icing's blog [14:01] TR News "Out of all the DNS options I described in part II, the most compatible and most deployed one is getaddrinfo()." https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-dns-async/ | [14:01] TR Bot curl dns 2026, part III, async | icing's blog [14:02] TR News "Lets visit the options to get an overview of their capabilities: [...]" https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-dns-options/ | [14:02] TR Bot curl dns 2026, part II, options | icing's blog [14:02] TR News "We are making changes this year in how curl (or better libcurl) operates in regard to DNS resolution. The first of those will appear in curl 8.20.0 in April." https://eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-dns-2026/ | [14:02] TR Bot curl dns 2026, part I | icing's blog [14:08] TR News https://techrights.org/o/2022/07/29/richard-hughes-secure-boot-sham/ [14:08] TR Bot GNOME (IBM/Red Hat Staff) Promoting Microsoft's 'Security' Scam With the 'Secure' Boot Sham [14:33] TR News Techrights Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and IBM is Forcing Red Hat Staff to Use Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.gmi [14:33] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and IBM is Forcing Red Hat Staff to Use Slop [14:45] TR News Techrights The EFF Is Hardly Doing Anything Anymore https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_EFF_Is_Hardly_Doing_Anything_Anymore.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_EFF_Is_Hardly_Doing_Anything_Anymore.gmi [14:45] TR Bot Techrights The EFF Is Hardly Doing Anything Anymore [14:52] TR News "Who remembers breadpunk.club? Sadly defunct but I've dug a series of posts out of Kennedy's Delorean Time Machine[0], republishing here under the original dates, thus creating an alternate timeline for this mlog." gemini://lab6.com/mlog/2026/04/16/pizzalog/ [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] questions to people in the channel with knowledge of us law [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] suppose a man tells a woman he knows to kill herself [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] what law/s does this violate [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] one opinion we got: " [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] I'd refer to a women's shelter for that. [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] The nearest university campus would have contact points and phone numbers. [14:57] schestowitz[TR3] Look up the university there and "crisis line" etc" [14:58] schestowitz[TR3] does anyone know? [14:58] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:59] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 16 [15:18] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [15:48] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_48_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_5RB_Co.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_48_Out_of_200_Brett_Wilson_LLP_and_5RB_Co.gmi [15:48] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves [15:52] TR News Last month an all-time low for Windows in Japan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/japan/#monthly-200902-202604 [15:52] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Japan | Statcounter Global Stats ● Apr 16 [16:01] TR News Techrights In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.gmi [16:01] TR Bot Techrights In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Microsoft [16:12] TR News "and the rpki-client project announced the release of a new version of their Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) client, with a number of improvements" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260415115612 | Source: Undeadly [16:12] TR Bot rpki-client 9.8 released [16:13] TR News "To fix this vulnerability, Emacs 30 introduced an explicit notion of trust, where some potentially risky features are only enabled for trusted files. It also set all files to untrusted by default." https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2026-04-15-towards-trust-in-emacs.html | Source: Eshel Yaron [16:13] TR Bot Towards Trust in Emacs [16:13] TR News "I wanted to render an OpenGraph preview against localhost. So I built og-check, which ships as part of my CLI tool suite neutils." https://simonhartcher.com/posts/2026-04-15-testing-opengraph-on-localhost-from-the-cli/ | Source: Simon Hartcher [16:13] TR Bot Testing OpenGraph on localhost from the CLI before you go public | Simon Hartcher [16:13] TR News "The Zorin project has published an update to Zorin OS. The latest version of the distribution, Zorin OS 18.1" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12791 | Source: Distro Watch [16:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12791 ) [16:14] TR News "Were thrilled to launch Zorin OS 18.1, just six months after the release of Zorin OS 18 and over 3.3 million downloads later." https://blog.zorin.com/2026/04/15/zorin-os-18.1-is-released/ | Source: Zorin Group [16:14] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 Is Released - Zorin [16:14] TR News "For those unfamiliar, E16 is the long-lived DR16 branch of Enlightenment, a still-developing Linux window manager that first hit the FOSS space in 1997." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/ | Source: The Register UK [16:14] TR Bot 20-year-old Enlightenment E16 bug finally gets patched The Register [16:15] TR News "CSS cascade layers are the ultimate tool to win the specificity wars. Used alongside the :where selector, specificity problems are a thing of the past." https://dbushell.com/2026/04/15/containment-breach-in-cascade-layer/ | Source: David Bushell [16:15] TR Bot Warning: containment breach in cascade layer! David Bushell Web Dev (UK) [16:15] TR News "For reasons outside of the scope of this entry, we have an increasing number of servers in an inconvenient location (I called it 'offsite' but that's not quite accurate)." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/RemoteServerManagementOptions | Source: University of Toronto [16:15] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [16:15] TR News "The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is a crucial inter-domain routing protocol that uses update messages to enable Autonomous Systems (ASes) to share network reachability information." https://dl.ifip.org/db/conf/cnsm/cnsm2025/1571167978.pdf | [16:16] TR News "We refer interested readers to our paper for details and additional results." https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/16/noisy-routers-investigating-the-make-up-of-route-collector-data/ | Source: APNIC [16:16] TR Bot Noisy routers: Investigating the make-up of route collector data | APNIC Blog [16:16] TR News "When a system comes in for troubleshooting, I don't reach for fixes." https://ostechnix.com/linux-troubleshooting-commands-checklist/ | Source: OSTechNix [16:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://ostechnix.com/linux-troubleshooting-commands-checklist/ ) [16:16] TR News [Old] "This post will focus on the technical implementation of how Wake-on-LAN works while a later post will feature how to activate it in BIOS and the operating system." https://blog.xaner.dev/post/wake-on-lan/ | [16:16] TR Bot How do Wake-On-Lan works? - Xaner's Blog [16:17] TR News "ZFS caching relies heavily on RAM, but when memory is limited, performance can suffer." https://klarasystems.com/articles/compensating-for-ram-constraints-with-l2arc-on-arc/ | Source: Klara [16:17] TR Bot Compensating for RAM Constraints with L2ARC on ZFS - Klara Systems [16:17] TR News "This week Noah and Steve talk about the difference between MCP and skills and why it matters!" https://podcast.asknoahshow.com/487 | Source: The Ask Noah Show [16:17] TR Bot Ask Noah Show Episode 487: Ask Noah Show 487 [16:18] TR News How To Install Shadowsocks on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-shadowsocks-fedora-43/ [16:19] TR Bot How To Install Shadowsocks on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:19] TR News How To Install Apache Airflow on Linux Mint 22 https://idroot.us/install-apache-airflow-linux-mint-22/ [16:19] TR Bot How To Install Apache Airflow on Linux Mint 22 - idroot [16:26] TR News How To Install Zabbix on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-zabbix-fedora-43/ [16:26] TR Bot How To Install Zabbix on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:26] TR News How To Install DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-davinci-resolve-ubuntu-24-04/ [16:26] TR Bot How To Install DaVinci Resolve on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [16:27] TR News How To Install Angular on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-angular-debian-13/ [16:27] TR Bot How To Install Angular on Debian 13 - idroot [16:29] TR News Proximity automation with Red Bait Ansible Automation Platform and Red Bait OpenShift Virtualization https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/proximity-automation-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-and-red-hat-openshift [16:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/proximity-automation-red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-and-red-hat-openshift ) [16:30] TR News How To Install Kernel Headers on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-kernel-headers-fedora-43/ [16:30] TR Bot How To Install Kernel Headers on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:30] TR News How To Install Roundcube Webmail on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-roundcube-webmail-fedora-43/ [16:30] TR Bot How To Install Roundcube Webmail on Fedora 43 - idroot [16:30] TR News How To Install Rclone on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-rclone-ubuntu-24-04/ [16:30] TR Bot How To Install Rclone on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot [16:31] TR News ROX-Filer fix folder drag-and-drop copy https://bkhome.org/news/202604/rox-filer-fix-folder-drag-and-drop-copy.html [16:31] TR Bot ROX-Filer fix folder drag-and-drop copy [16:32] TR News LibreOffice at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/14/libreoffice-at-the-chemnitzer-linux-tage-2026/ [16:32] TR Bot LibreOffice at the Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026 - TDF Community Blog [16:33] TR News LibreOffice at Document Freedom Day in Noida, India https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/15/libreoffice-at-document-freedom-day-in-noida-india/ [16:33] TR Bot LibreOffice at Document Freedom Day in Noida, India - TDF Community Blog [16:33] TR News Ravi Dwivedi: Hungary Visa https://ravidwivedi.in/posts/hungary-visa/ [16:33] TR Bot Hungary Visa [16:52] TR News Building Red Bait MCP-ready images with image mode for Red Bait Enterprise GNU/Linux https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/building-red-hat-mcp-ready-images-image-mode-red-hat-enterprise-linux [16:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/building-red-hat-mcp-ready-images-image-mode-red-hat-enterprise-linux ) [16:54] TR News Marketing of slop https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/04/claude-code-linux-vulnerability/ [16:54] TR Bot Code Used to Find Remotely Exploitable Linux Kernel Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years - InfoQ [16:58] TR News ufw Command in Linux: Uncomplicated Firewall Reference https://linuxize.com/post/ufw-command-in-linux/ [16:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/post/ufw-command-in-linux/ ) [16:59] TR News git cherry-pick Command: Apply Commits from Another Branch https://linuxize.com/post/git-cherry-pick/ [16:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/post/git-cherry-pick/ ) [16:59] TR News Security updates for Wednesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1067718/ [16:59] TR Bot updates for Wednesday [LWN.net] ● Apr 16 [17:01] TR News Reminder: enable ZRAM on your GNU/Linux system to optimize RAM usage (and potentially save money) https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/15/reminder-enable-zram-on-your-linux-system-to-optimize-ram-usage/ [17:01] TR Bot Reminder: enable ZRAM on your Linux system to optimize RAM usage (and potentially save money) - CNX Software [17:02] TR News PocketTerm35 A Raspberry Pi 4/5-based handheld GNU/Linux terminal with 3.5-inch touch display and built-in keyboard https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/14/pocketterm35-a-raspberry-pi-4-5-based-handheld-linux-terminal-with-3-5-inch-touch-display-and-built-in-keyboard/ [17:02] TR Bot PocketTerm35 - A Raspberry Pi 4/5-based handheld Linux terminal with 3.5-inch touch display and built-in keyboard - CNX Software [17:03] TR News GrimRipper graphical application for ripping audio CDs https://www.linuxlinks.com/grimripper-graphical-application-ripping-audio-cds/ [17:03] TR Bot - graphical application for ripping audio CDs - LinuxLinks [17:04] TR News Ratic offline music player https://www.linuxlinks.com/ratic-offline-music-player/ [17:04] TR Bot - offline music player - LinuxLinks [17:04] TR News 16 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Web Servers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-web-servers/ [17:04] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Web Servers - LinuxLinks [17:17] TR News Techrights The Register MS Has Published Article With "AI" 18 Times in it, "Cloud" 9 Times. It Got Paid to Do This. https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_Register_MS_Has_Published_Article_With_AI_18_Times_in_it_Cl.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/The_Register_MS_Has_Published_Article_With_AI_18_Times_in_it_Cl.gmi [17:17] TR Bot Techrights The Register MS Has Published Article With "AI" 18 Times in it, "Cloud" 9 Times. It Got Paid to Do This. [17:18] TR News MS Lunduke: Firefox sucks because of pronounce. Reality: it sucks for actually meaningful reasons. But MS Lunduke is targeting proto-nazi platforms and nazi-stacked audiences. [17:19] TR News (pronouns) [17:20] TR News Also claims EFF and LF are bad not because of corporate takeover but something about abortions and "wokeness" [17:31] TR News (NEW): Feeding the Fish https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Feeding_the_Fish.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Feeding_the_Fish.gmi [17:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Feeding the Fish [17:42] *Goblin (~use@g5mtr4e86tp7q.irc) has joined #techrights [17:52] TR News Techrights 'Going Offline' is Not Primitivism https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Going_Offline_is_Not_Primitivism.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Going_Offline_is_Not_Primitivism.gmi [17:52] TR Bot Techrights 'Going Offline' is Not Primitivism [17:58] TR News More LLM lusers on my b0xes gemini://s3.enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-04-16.gmi [17:59] TR News "So, another low point with LLM users is that the uninformed (read: too lazy to learn something) have the audacity to tell you that your configuration is WRONG. The irony here is that the user is _WRONG_. Instead of spending a few moments trying to understand how Slurm's hostlist notation functions, the user probably spent more time getting INCORRECT information." gemini://s3.enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-04-14.gmi ● Apr 16 [18:00] TR News "I was thinking about the difference in technology, specifically computers & software, between the 1970's to 1990's and what we have now." gemini://s3.enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-04-08.gmi [18:01] TR News "I _love_ how Micro$oft is trying to walk back all of the shit they've done to the Windows O.S. And, the best part is that I think it is too late for them..." gemini://s3.enemy.org/mrfusion/rants/2026-03-25.gmi [18:01] TR News "Who knew completely destroying a desktop operating system by doing stupid things like the list below, would have negative feedback?? - Adding "AI" (LLM garbage) to their O.S. and force feeding it down their users' throats - Adding FUCKING ADS to their O.S. that users PAID for" [18:03] TR News [japan] [photos] gemini://higeki.jp/nikki/2026-04-16.gmi [18:03] TR News "Ive longed for so many years for the new Swedish e-id system to finally bring liberation from BankID but its going from bad to worse. It shares the incredible drawback of requiring a Google or Apple smartphone, but adds a hard requirement of NFC at all times." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/e-leg [18:05] TR News "`mkcd` was probably my first ever foray into bash aliases, shell customisation, and the DIY computing spirit that I admire so much." gemini://frooplet.com/glog/2026-04-17-mkcd.gmi [18:25] *kolie2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:25] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@i99nsg5b2ntyc.irc) has joined #techrights [18:31] IsambardPrince Windows 11 is just Windows 10 with more crap. [18:31] IsambardPrince Under the hood, very little has actually changed. [18:31] IsambardPrince They redid the shell to look a little different and add advertising and slop. [18:31] IsambardPrince Other than that, it's the usual smattering of minor updates to things like DirectX. [18:33] schestowitz[TR3] yes [18:33] schestowitz[TR3] that was known in 2011 [18:33] schestowitz[TR3] iirc, it 'leaked' in august [18:33] schestowitz[TR3] and you wrote about that aspect of it [18:34] TR News "The difference is, the artificial lifeforms that worry me aren't hypothetical they're here today, amongst us, endangering the very survival of our species. These artificial lifeforms are called "limited liability corporations" and they are a concrete, imminent risk to the human race: [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge [18:34] TR Bot Pluralistic: A Pascals Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [18:38] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2026: LLM Nuisance, Identity Systems (Surveillance), and Why Windows is Failing https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_LLM_Nuisance_Identity_Systems_Surveilla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Gemini_Links_16_04_2026_LLM_Nuisance_Identity_Systems_Surveilla.gmi [18:38] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 16/04/2026: LLM Nuisance, Identity Systems (Surveillance), and Why Windows is Failing [18:39] *Disconnected (No route to host). [18:42] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I have been telling people who ask what to do about the end of support of Windows 10 to decline the update (look for some sneaky thing that says "opt out" or "not right now" that Microsoft hides somewhere and may not even look like a button. [18:43] IsambardPrince Then turn on the extra year of security updates. [18:43] IsambardPrince And use the time to back up important data, disable "Secure Boot" in the UEFI setup program, and pick a Linux distribution. [18:43] IsambardPrince In many cases it won't automatically install Windows 11 because Microsoft has put in fake compatibility checks. [18:44] IsambardPrince Millions of PCs are technically capable of running Windows 11, but unless the user intervenes and turns off the checks for TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot, then it just won't work. [18:44] IsambardPrince But being able to run it does not mean that it will work very well. [18:45] IsambardPrince As an experiment, I bypassed the compatibility checks for my 2016 Lenovo with a Core i7-6560U, Iris 540 graphics, 16 GB of RAM, and 512 GB NVME SSD. [18:45] IsambardPrince It was a very expensive laptop at the time and it runs Kubuntu 26.04 LTS perfectly fine. [18:46] IsambardPrince The only major limitation I hit is that I have to force YouTube to use h264 for hardware acceleration reasons because AV1 did not exist in 2016. [18:46] IsambardPrince When I ran Windows 11, the laptop was noticeably slower than Windows 10, even doing simple things like "launch a web browser and pull down a context menu". [18:46] IsambardPrince Instead of fixing performance problems and making the OS more efficient, Microsoft hid it and refused to say it needed a faster computer. [18:47] IsambardPrince Instead, they put in checks that had nothing to do with CPU speed. [18:47] IsambardPrince That way it ensures it does not end up running on something that handled Windows 10 okay and embarrassing them. [18:47] *kolie2 (~not_kolie@z5m5x484fjn5y.irc) has joined #techrights [18:48] *Now talking on #techrights [18:48] *irc.soylentnews.org sets mode +n #techrights [18:48] *irc.soylentnews.org sets mode +t #techrights [18:48] IsambardPrince Worse than the performance problems, if you actually get it running, there's more telemetry, more ads, more crap. "AI" slop being added in places it does not belong, like Notepad. [18:48] IsambardPrince I mean, some of these problems can be worked around, right? Like, there's third party notepad software. [18:48] IsambardPrince But why bother. [18:52] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: MC Straver blocked Tor Exit Nodes from his site. [18:53] IsambardPrince He said that aside from what the Tor Project states, probably 95% of the activity that uses the Tor network is criminal. [18:57] schestowitz[TR3] StraverStraver? [18:57] schestowitz[TR3] The Main of ceremony? ● Apr 16 [19:00] IsambardPrince Pale Moon. [19:00] IsambardPrince I have to figure out how to change email again. [19:00] schestowitz[TR3] "After almost 15 years at Microsoft, today marks my last day" [19:00] schestowitz[TR3] 15 mins ago [19:00] IsambardPrince This is driving me up the wall. [19:00] schestowitz[TR3] in "AI" [19:00] IsambardPrince "AI" offering to rewrite my emails into something I never said. [19:01] IsambardPrince If you turn that off, Google punishes you by dumping "promotional" emails directly into your inbox, by pretending that sorting has something to do with "AI" being turned off. [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] faking "demand" [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] making up prompts [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] then it shows shareholders number [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] that is passively creates [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] self-fulfilling BS [19:02] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2026/02/07/In_Case_You_ve_Missed_It_ICYMI_Google_s_Debt_More_Than_Doubled_.shtml [19:02] TR Bot Techrights In Case You've Missed It (ICYMI), Google's Debt More Than Doubled in a Year [19:03] schestowitz[TR3] if you find someone who sent you slop email once [19:03] schestowitz[TR3] you then assume any future mails are the same [19:03] schestowitz[TR3] so you stop reading [19:03] schestowitz[TR3] not just replying [19:03] schestowitz[TR3] way to lose friends [19:04] TR News Snap to Lay Off Nearly 1,000 Employees https://raillynews.com/2026/04/snap-to-lay-off-nearly-1000-employees/ [19:04] TR Bot - Snap to Lay Off Nearly 1,000 Employees [19:05] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I saw a graph the other day on Facebook (I know), that showed the value of $100,000 annual salary from the year 2000 onward, using government inflation figures. [19:05] IsambardPrince By 2020, it was worth $80,000 vs. 2000 purchasing power. That's a 20% loss, but it took 20 years, according to the government, so that's not horrific, right? [19:06] IsambardPrince But then between 2020 and 2025, it lost so much purchasing power, that it was only what $58,000 would have bought in 2000. [19:07] IsambardPrince It only took <5 years to lose about much purchasing power as the previous 20 years. [19:07] IsambardPrince It's in total free fall, and you see it everywhere you look. [19:07] IsambardPrince I mentioned that I just bought a very basic coffee maker from Walmart. [19:08] IsambardPrince It's the most basic 12 cup model they make, you can't even program it, there's no auto shutoff, you have to turn it off or it'll boil dry and just stay on. [19:08] IsambardPrince It's a very basic coffee maker. [19:09] IsambardPrince In 2014, my mother was buying these because her third husband, Dave, was just putting city tap water in and ruining coffee makers. The water is so hard where they live that it will ruin a coffee maker in about 4-5 months if ou aren't descaling it about every couple weeks. [19:09] IsambardPrince They had a water softener and it was still doing this. [19:09] IsambardPrince There was an in-line filter in the refrigerator, but he was too lazy to go over there and get water out of that for the coffee maker, so they just kept getting ruined. [19:09] IsambardPrince But this coffee maker was only $9.88. [19:10] IsambardPrince So my mom figured if Dave is going to ruin all the coffee makers, get one that's under $10. [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] good [19:10] IsambardPrince Then if he ruins it, there's no big deal. [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] i make a lot of coffee [19:10] IsambardPrince By 2021, this coffee maker was $12.98. [19:10] IsambardPrince When I bought one this week, it was $16.88. [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] ours worked for years [19:10] IsambardPrince Between 2021 and 2025, Walmart did not raise the price. [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] i think 2017 to present [19:11] schestowitz[TR3] heavy use since 2021 [19:11] IsambardPrince But after Trump's April tariffs, they raised the price $4 all at once. [19:11] IsambardPrince Which was a 25% price increase. [19:11] IsambardPrince And there are still people out there like my dad, who has three college degrees, and has to be seeing this shit, that says "China pays the tariffs." [19:11] TR News Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 locks down security with a major change to sudo access https://www.neowin.net/news/raspberry-pi-os-62-locks-down-security-with-a-major-change-to-sudo-access/ [19:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/raspberry-pi-os-62-locks-down-security-with-a-major-change-to-sudo-access/ ) [19:12] TR News CIQ Releases Compatibility Catalog for Rocky GNU/Linux http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/CIQ-Releases-Compatibility-Catalog-for-Rocky-Linux [19:12] TR Bot CIQ Releases Compatibility Catalog for Rocky Linux Linux Magazine [19:12] IsambardPrince It's cognitive dissonance. Only, there's two ways to respond to that, to either change your beliefs to align with the truth, or to change them to align with a comfortable fiction, such as government propaganda. [19:12] IsambardPrince And he chose the propaganda. [19:12] TR News KDE Gets Some Resuscitation http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/KDE-Gets-Some-Resuscitation [19:12] TR Bot KDE Gets Some Resuscitation Linux Magazine [19:13] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: The Moccamaster turned out to not be so great. [19:13] IsambardPrince I wonder if Bill Nye gets paid to name drop that. [19:13] TR News Tengine distribution of nginx https://www.linuxlinks.com/tengine-distribution-nginx/ [19:13] TR Bot - distribution of nginx - LinuxLinks [19:13] IsambardPrince It turned out like every other coffee maker I had. Heating element gets weak after a few years, even if you descale it properly. [19:13] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:13] TR News Archium GNU/Linux Arch-based distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/archium-linux-arch-based-distribution/ [19:13] TR Bot Linux - Arch-based distribution - LinuxLinks [19:13] IsambardPrince Unit gets damaged, they figure out why you never had a warranty they bragged about. [19:14] IsambardPrince You bought from "the wrong channel", you know, Amazon Resale. [19:14] IsambardPrince They don't stand by their product. [19:14] IsambardPrince Then they want $80+shipping to fix some poorly built coffee maker that annoyingly uses Euro cups and makes double strength coffee if you follow the directions. [19:15] IsambardPrince Euro coffee is thick as goddamn mud. [19:15] IsambardPrince It's like American coffee is 5w30 and Euro coffee is some 50w80 gear grease. [19:15] IsambardPrince The Euro stuff is very unpalatable. Not pleasant to drink at all. [19:16] TR News Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/patch-tuesday-april-2026-edition/ [19:16] TR Bot Patch Tuesday, April 2026 Edition Krebs on Security [19:17] IsambardPrince They make it so strong that when you go to add cream or sugar, it makes it worse. [19:17] IsambardPrince You try to compensate by using more cream, and then it gets even worse. [19:17] IsambardPrince So they say, don't use less coffee, just make coffee to the correct ratio, then you boil some water separately and pour it in there. [19:18] IsambardPrince And I'm like how much goddamn work do I have to do when I just woke up and I'm like "I don't want to get out of bed, being alive hurts." to have a damn cup of coffee thanks to these European fuckheads? [19:19] TR News Disappointed but not surprised: Russia designates Stanford an undesirable organization https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/15/russia-undesirable-label/ [19:19] TR Bot Russia designates Stanford an 'undesirable' organization [19:19] IsambardPrince Then after you drink it, got help you. You just downed so much caffeine your body aches, and now you have to go running to the toilet because it got to your stomach and it's time to shit out everything you ate for the last week. [19:19] IsambardPrince *god [19:20] IsambardPrince And they make fun of us for using 1 Tbsp per 6 ounces of water. [19:20] IsambardPrince Because we're not insane. [19:20] TR News Mirax RAT Targeting Android Users in Europe https://www.securityweek.com/mirax-rat-targeting-android-users-in-europe/ [19:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/mirax-rat-targeting-android-users-in-europe/ ) [19:20] TR News Sweden Blames Pro-Russian Group for Cyberattack Last Year on Its Energy Infrastructure https://www.securityweek.com/sweden-blames-pro-russian-group-for-cyberattack-last-year-on-its-energy-infrastructure/ [19:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/sweden-blames-pro-russian-group-for-cyberattack-last-year-on-its-energy-infrastructure/ ) [19:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: On the taste part alone, you tend to prefer things that taste about like they "always have". [19:21] IsambardPrince That's why when you go to a restaurant and they changed the ingredients, even if it's "better" to some, it will be worse to you. [19:21] IsambardPrince By middle age, people don't want things to change very much. [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] and young are ok with it? [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] i am sceptical [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] racists like to stay bigots \ [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] "in my days" [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] but about food i am not sure [19:22] schestowitz[TR3] they can try new foods [19:29] TR News RasPiOS 2026-04-13 is out https://distrowatch.com/raspios [19:29] IsambardPrince Yeah. I suppose so. [19:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/raspios ) [19:29] TR News Glacia 2026-04-13 released https://distrowatch.com/glacia [19:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/glacia ) [19:29] IsambardPrince Personally, I liked it better when we had cafeteria style restaurants everywhere. [19:29] IsambardPrince Like MCL, Jonathan Byrd's, and Laughner's. [19:29] TR News http://feeds.feedburner.com/d0od Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:41:38 +0000 Tributary is a GTK4 reimagining of Rhythmbox music player [19:30] IsambardPrince There's a few MCLs left. But they've closed half of them and the other ones went bankrupt. [19:30] TR News "Ever wondered what a GTK4/libadwaita version of GNU/Linux music player Rhythmbox might look like? A new app in development imagines just that" https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4 [19:30] TR Bot Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams - OMG! Ubuntu [19:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: There's apparently no demand among younger people for predictable, affordable, food. [19:30] IsambardPrince They want restaurants that charge double and shame you if you don't leave a 40% tip. [19:30] IsambardPrince So I guess have fun with that. [19:30] TR News time @ Savannah: time-1.10 released [stable] https://savannah.gnu.org/news/?id=10881 [19:31] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Remember when a 10% tip was "expected"? [19:31] IsambardPrince Then it was 15%. [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] tip is now 15% [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] yesterday they pre-added [19:31] IsambardPrince Now they say you're "cheap" if you leave 15%. [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] 15% [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] on the bill [19:31] IsambardPrince Then they wanted 18%. [19:31] IsambardPrince Then 21%. [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] we were in london having foodd and drinks [19:31] IsambardPrince They say you need to leave more because things cost more. [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] we left 18% [19:31] schestowitz[TR3] not 15% [19:31] IsambardPrince The food costs more which means a 15% tip is still more than it was 5 years ago. [19:32] IsambardPrince That's how percentages work. [19:32] schestowitz[TR3] they also let you tip drivers [19:32] schestowitz[TR3] which is odd [19:32] schestowitz[TR3] not taxis [19:32] *TechrightsBot-tr has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:32] IsambardPrince If it cost you $40 to eat out in 2020 and you left 15%, that's $6. If it costs $70 now that's $10.50. [19:32] schestowitz[TR3] this wayy they pay lower saalaries [19:32] IsambardPrince So food inflation increases the tip. [19:32] schestowitz[TR3] and say "pls tip, lol" [19:32] IsambardPrince You don't have to leave a higher percent. [19:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Then there's those tricky iPad things. [19:33] IsambardPrince They apply the tip AFTER taxes. [19:33] schestowitz[TR3] "ma pizza is cold" [19:33] schestowitz[TR3] "no tip" [19:33] schestowitz[TR3] pizza = young male [19:33] IsambardPrince So they try to trick people to add 15% of the 10% tax on restaurants. [19:33] schestowitz[TR3] tip= ask peter [19:34] IsambardPrince So the tax adds another $7 and 15% of that is $1.05. [19:34] schestowitz[TR3] we saw one place where they charged 19.90 for chicken kiev [19:34] IsambardPrince You get another $1.05 out of 100 tables that shift, the tip pool went up $105 that evening because you're tipping on a tax. [19:35] schestowitz[TR3] and all the other things were also priced like 3-4 higher than most places [19:35] schestowitz[TR3] one charged 29.90 for chicken kiev [19:35] schestowitz[TR3] for the "ambiance" [19:35] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I always cross those out and correct it and say "15% of the subtotal. I can do math." [19:35] IsambardPrince Don't let iPads add the tip for you. [19:36] schestowitz[TR3] don't take ipad to the table [19:36] IsambardPrince They'll calculate the percentage wrong so you give them more money wiithout realizing it. [19:36] IsambardPrince Well, they use iPads now. [19:36] IsambardPrince For payment. [19:36] TR News TrueNAS 25.10.3 released https://distrowatch.com/truenas [19:36] IsambardPrince I've only not left a tip once in my life. [19:36] IsambardPrince John and I went to Azar's Big Boy for breakfast, a buffet. [19:37] IsambardPrince The waitress left, nobody brought us coffee or silverware, or anything. [19:37] TR News Zorin 18.1 released as well; it is out https://distrowatch.com/zorin [19:37] IsambardPrince So I went to the waitress station, got us coffee and silverware, took our dirty plates there myself, and left no tip. [19:37] *TechrightsBot-tr (~TR@iijacan2vrgta.irc) has joined #techrights [19:37] TR Bot to load module HelloWorld. Reason: Not found! [19:37] TR Bot HelloWorld has been removed until restarted! [19:37] IsambardPrince The manager asked why I didn't leave a tip. I said "Well, if the waitress walks off and forgets about you and you are the waitress, you don't leave a tip, right?" [19:38] schestowitz[TR3] ouch [19:38] IsambardPrince What am I tipping for if they didn't do anything? [19:38] schestowitz[TR3] someone got reprimended that day [19:38] schestowitz[TR3] someone got reprimanded that day [19:38] IsambardPrince I hope so. [19:39] schestowitz[TR3] not you or him [19:39] IsambardPrince Nope. The manager was nice. They gave me a voucher for a free breakfast buffet next time for both of us. [19:40] TR News Alpine 3.23.4 released https://distrowatch.com/alpine [19:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/alpine ) [19:40] IsambardPrince Being a waitress at a place like that isn't difficult. [19:40] IsambardPrince You're on your feet all day. [19:40] TR News RakuOS 2026.04.15 released as well https://distrowatch.com/rakuos [19:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/rakuos ) [19:40] IsambardPrince That's the part that kind of sucks. [19:40] IsambardPrince But you don't really have a lot to do. Bus the table, bring drink refills. [19:40] schestowitz[TR3] depends on age [19:40] IsambardPrince You don't have to take orders. It's a buffet. [19:41] TR News Q4OS 7.0-r5-testing released https://distrowatch.com/q4os [19:41] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/q4os ) [19:41] TR News (NEW): Shift OS Ubuntu based Linux distribution https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Shift_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Shift_OS_Ubuntu_based_Linux_distribution.gmi [19:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Shift OS Ubuntu based Linux distribution [19:42] schestowitz[TR3] warren's buffet [19:42] schestowitz[TR3] brought to you by bill STD [19:43] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Those data centers they are spending so freely on....with debt.... [19:43] IsambardPrince The hardware is obsolete three years later. [19:44] IsambardPrince It all has to come out and be replaced again.. [19:44] IsambardPrince How many waves of upgrades can they take on enough debt to purchase? [19:44] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi [19:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations [19:44] TR News Eternal November - the new influx of users, and why it's way better than the last one https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/15/eternal-november-generative-ai-llm/ [19:44] TR Bot Eternal November this new influx of users may be better than the last one - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy [19:45] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Microsoft has cut deep into the muscle and bone already, with the layoffs. [19:45] IsambardPrince To try to free up cash flow. [19:45] TR News Adrien Plazas: Monster World IV: Disassembly and Code Analysis https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2026/04/14/monster-world-iv-disassembly-and-code-analysis.html [19:45] TR Bot Monster World IV: Disassembly and Code Analysis | Adrien Plazas [19:45] IsambardPrince They try to pitch it like 'Those people were worthless and they didn't do anything.' [19:45] IsambardPrince Well, that would be admitting to a failure in hiring over 100,000 'worthless' people right? [19:45] IsambardPrince But that's not what's going on. [19:46] TR News An Arm Mainboard for the Framework Laptop https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/arm-mainboard-for-framework-laptop/ [19:46] TR Bot An Arm Mainboard for the Framework Laptop - Jeff Geerling [19:47] TR News Noisy routers: Investigating the make-up of route collector data https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/16/noisy-routers-investigating-the-make-up-of-route-collector-data/ [19:47] TR Bot Noisy routers: Investigating the make-up of route collector data | APNIC Blog [19:49] schestowitz[TR3] To try to free up cash flow. [19:49] schestowitz[TR3] "cash flow" is a meaningless and misleading term [19:49] schestowitz[TR3] MSFT is borrowing money [19:49] schestowitz[TR3] and moving money is around [19:51] TR News The State of Linux-Powered Robots: From Lego Kits to World Domination https://www.junauza.com/2026/04/the-state-of-linux-powered-robots-from.html [19:51] TR Bot The State of Linux-Powered Robots: From Lego Kits to World Domination | Tech Source [19:52] TR News A sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/a-sufficiently-comprehensive-spec-is-not/ [19:52] TR Bot sufficiently comprehensive spec is not (necessarily) code Buttondown [19:54] TR News Why Do Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Users Keep Committing Mass Shootings? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-users-mass-shootings [19:54] TR Bot Why Do ChatGPT Users Keep Committing Mass Shootings? [19:54] TR News Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/14/compartment/ [19:54] TR Bot Pluralistic: In praise of (some) compartmentalization (14 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [19:55] TR News ChatGPTs Honest Reaction to a Song Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether Its Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-honest-reaction-song-farts [19:55] TR Bot ChatGPT's "Honest Reaction" to a "Song" Composed Entirely of Gas-Passing Noises Will Make You Question Whether It's Honestly Evaluating Your Other Brilliant Ideas [19:55] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [19:56] TR News (NEW): GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/GNOME_50_1_Released_with_Basic_Zoom_Support_for_the_Captive_Por.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/GNOME_50_1_Released_with_Basic_Zoom_Support_for_the_Captive_Por.gmi [19:56] TR Bot Tux Machines GNOME 50.1 Released with Basic Zoom Support for the Captive Portal [19:58] TR News Hopeless Gridlock https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-workslop-gridlock [19:58] TR Bot AI Is Turning Workplaces Into Hopeless Gridlock [19:58] TR News Gen Zs Attitude Toward Hey Hi (AI) Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/gen-z-attitude-ai [19:58] TR Bot Usually, Young People Embrace New Technology. Gen Z's Attitude Toward AI Should Worry the Entire Tech Industry [19:59] TR News Open Letter: EU lawmakers must safeguard the Hey Hi (AI) Act https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-eu-lawmakers-must-safeguard-the-ai-act/ [19:59] TR Bot Open Letter: EU lawmakers must safeguard the AI Act - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [19:59] TR News 100 Chrome Extensions Steal User Data, Create Backdoor https://www.securityweek.com/100-chrome-extensions-steal-user-data-open-backdoor/ [19:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/100-chrome-extensions-steal-user-data-open-backdoor/ ) ● Apr 16 [20:00] TR News How can the EU protect children online while dismantling the very rules designed to keep them safe? https://edri.org/our-work/how-can-the-eu-protect-children-online-while-dismantling-the-very-rules-designed-to-keep-them-safe/ [20:00] TR Bot How can the EU protect children while dismantling the rules to keep them safe? - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [20:01] TR News The Digital Omnibus reopens the EU data acquis before it has even been tested https://edri.org/our-work/the-digital-omnibus-reopens-the-eu-data-acquis-before-it-has-even-been-tested/ [20:01] TR Bot The Digital Omnibus reopens the EU data acquis - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [20:03] TR News Default payment methods, part B https://www.rubenerd.au/default-payment-methods-part-b/ [20:03] TR Bot Rubenerd: Default payment methods, part B [20:04] TR News Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/15/artificial-lifeforms/ [20:04] TR Bot Pluralistic: Rights for robots (15 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [20:04] TR News Hong Kong man jailed for 1 year over seditious remarks on Facebook (Farcebook) https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/15/hong-kong-man-jailed-for-1-year-over-seditious-remarks-on-facebook/ [20:04] TR Bot HK man jailed for 1 year over seditious remarks on Facebook [20:05] admfubar he's here, he's there, he's everywhere, and nowhere... https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/04/meet-the-quantum-kid/ [20:05] TR Bot Meet the Quantum Kid - Ars Technica [20:06] TR News Europe shouldnt move fast and break things with fundamental rights https://edri.org/our-work/europe-shouldnt-move-fast-and-break-things-with-fundamental-rights/ [20:06] TR Bot Europe shouldnt move fast and break things with fundamental rights - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [20:07] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Yeah, robbing peter to pay paul. [20:07] IsambardPrince There's not enough to go around, so you sort of prioritize who gets paid. [20:07] TR News This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 647 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2026/04/15/this-week-in-rust-647/ [20:07] TR Bot This Week in Rust 647 This Week in Rust [20:08] IsambardPrince It's just like life really, you know. [20:08] IsambardPrince First people stop doing the things they want to do, because there's no money for it and they can't take on more debt. [20:08] IsambardPrince And it's down to rent, electric bill, don't starve today. [20:08] IsambardPrince Then they can't even afford to do that. [20:08] TR News [Podcast] IP networking in deep space https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/16/podcast-ip-networking-in-deep-space/ "Marc Blanchet discusses modelling the delay of a deep space IP stack using Linux virtual network methods, and the suitability of QUIC as a transport for applications in space." [20:08] TR Bot [Podcast] IP networking in deep space | APNIC Blog [20:09] TR News Indian officials see Iran war oil shock as disruptive as Covid-19 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-officials-see-iran-war-oil-shock-as-disruptive-as-covid-19 [20:09] TR Bot Indian officials see Iran war oil shock as disruptive as Covid-19 | The Straits Times [20:10] IsambardPrince "The Trump administrations $100,000 fee has likely cut H-1B visas by at least 25%, Catos David Bier reports." [20:10] IsambardPrince You owe the $100,000 fee to USCIS whether it gets approved or not. [20:10] IsambardPrince Anything you pay to USCIS is not getting returned if they deny the petition. [20:11] IsambardPrince The $100,000 fee and the requirement that they actually have to be highly paid professionals is cutting demand. [20:11] IsambardPrince And it should. [20:11] TR News IBM Red Hat pushing slop https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/performance-improvements-speculative-decoding-vllm-gpt-oss [20:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/performance-improvements-speculative-decoding-vllm-gpt-oss ) [20:11] IsambardPrince Basically up until now employers were bringing these people in, abusing the system, putting them to work at a low level, and saying eh they're cheap. [20:12] IsambardPrince Then the nasty thing about H1 visas is you can work, but only at one employer. [20:12] IsambardPrince If you lose the job, you have 90 days to get out. [20:12] IsambardPrince If you renew it, you can only renew once, then you have to get out. [20:12] IsambardPrince It's not a pathway to anything else. [20:12] IsambardPrince It's an indenture contract. [20:13] IsambardPrince Then when you go back, nobody wants to hire you because they think you'll demand more money than the prevailing local rate. [20:13] TR News TikTok removes underage accounts after Indonesian government push https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/tiktok-removes-underage-accounts-after-indonesian-government-push [20:13] TR Bot TikTok removes underage accounts after Indonesian government push | The Straits Times [20:23] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi [20:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [20:37] admfubar hhhhmm https://freespeech.com/2024/10/05/push-system-for-domain-name-transfers-already-in-place-for-co-uk/ [20:37] TR Bot system for domain name transfers already in place for .co.uk! 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[22:24] IsambardPrince In my experience, barring a huge manufacturing error, what kills them the fastest are skipping oil changes and/or extremely long oil change intervals. [22:25] IsambardPrince It leads to sludge, which leads to excessive friction and insufficient lubrication. [22:25] IsambardPrince It turns a part that should normally last well longer than the car into something that goes ahead and fails in 50,000 miles or less. [22:53] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/25090246 [22:53] TR Bot ( status 308 @ http://ircz.de/d?from=%2Fp%2F25090246 ) [22:54] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Google will be refusing to let users run programs on Android later this year, unless the developer creates a Google account, gives them government ID, and has Google sign the package. [22:54] IsambardPrince So there goes F-Droid. [22:55] IsambardPrince Most applications from F-Droid now have a library that warns about this and says the developer won't do that. [22:56] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I suppose one thing will come from age verification. [22:56] IsambardPrince It will get rid of the underage boys that get on Grindr and just tell it they're 18. [22:56] IsambardPrince So after "age verification" if anyone on Grindr tells you they're under 18, 100% chance it's the police. :P [22:57] MinceR F-Droid will continue working on several AOSP forks [22:57] MinceR if goolag doesn't want to participate in the smartphone market, it's on them [22:58] IsambardPrince Do those forks work on my Pixel 8 and how do I kill Android off and replace it? [22:59] MinceR they probably all do, they love pixel [22:59] IsambardPrince MinceR: I guess I could just not update the phone at all right before that goes into effect. [22:59] MinceR even grapheneos runs on pixel [22:59] IsambardPrince That might buy me some time. ● Apr 16 [23:00] MinceR i prefer fairphones though, it has things goolag and crApple can't figure out to save their lives, like a memory card slot [23:00] MinceR and a user-replaceable battery [23:01] IsambardPrince I need to assess my options. [23:01] IsambardPrince In the short term I'd rather save money and keep using something I already have. [23:02] IsambardPrince Long term I guess I just need to buy a phone that does't have Android from the beginning. [23:03] MinceR i think fairphone offers phones that have /e/OS preinstalled [23:03] MinceR so does murena [23:04] MinceR i got a fairphone 5 with android and installed /e/OS myself, but if i wanted /e/OS on my insecure phone (to run banking bullshit apps), i'd buy one that has it preinstalled [23:04] MinceR so i don't need to open the bootloader [23:04] MinceR which the corporate idiots believe to be insecure [23:10] TR News (NEW): Back Home https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Back_Home.gmi [23:10] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [23:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Back Home [23:10] TR News (NEW): KDE Mega Sprint 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/KDE_Mega_Sprint_2026.gmi [23:10] TR News (NEW): Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Proton_11_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Support_for_Breath_of_Fire_I.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/16/Proton_11_Enters_Beta_Testing_with_Support_for_Breath_of_Fire_I.gmi [23:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [23:10] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Mega Sprint 2026 [23:10] TR Bot Tux Machines Proton 11 Enters Beta Testing with Support for Breath of Fire IV, Unknown Faces [23:12] IsambardPrince Google is getting extremely toxic. To the point they're almost as bad as having an iPhone. [23:12] IsambardPrince I think this will really put them past the finish line. [23:13] IsambardPrince Do these things even ship to or work in the US? [23:14] IsambardPrince They're priced in Euro. [23:15] MinceR what if you pick your country? [23:17] IsambardPrince Yeah, they have a US version. [23:17] IsambardPrince Says works on T-Mobile and T-Mobile MVNOs. [23:17] IsambardPrince Does not work on Verizon. [23:17] IsambardPrince Meh. [23:18] IsambardPrince I have a T-Mobile MVNO. [23:18] IsambardPrince They were going to raise my bill to $90 a month on T-Mobile so I switched to their MVNO Mint Mobile and it was $40 for two phones. [23:21] MinceR https://apina.biz/212485.jpeg?mode=sfw [23:21] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/212485.jpeg