●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, April 17, 2026 ●● ● Apr 17 [00:29] IsambardPrince MinceR: What you lose by getting rid of Firefox. 100+ pieces of adware, spyware, and AI slop. A nonbinary mascot with they/them. Thousands of broken websites. [00:30] IsambardPrince They laid off the people working on the engine and hired people to develop malware. [00:30] IsambardPrince And then they do this mascot for weirdos. [00:30] IsambardPrince I don't know what nonbinary means. [00:30] IsambardPrince Perhaps they have no genitals at all. [00:36] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/16/politics/arrest-warrant-ice-officer-gun-minnesota-driver [00:36] TR Bot Arrest warrant issued for ICE officer accused of pulling gun on Minnesota driver | CNN Politics [00:40] MinceR https://apina.biz/212483.jpeg?mode=sfw [00:40] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/212483.jpeg [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● Apr 17 [01:53] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/apr/16/amazon-price-fixing-california-lawsuit [01:53] TR Bot Newly unsealed records reveal Amazons price-fixing tactics, California attorney general claims | Amazon | The Guardian ● Apr 17 [02:10] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/apr/16/conde-nast-closes-self-magazine [02:10] TR Bot Cond Nast will close its womens health magazine, Self, after 47 years | Cond Nast | The Guardian [02:11] MinceR what a weird idea, naming a woman's health magazine after a programming language [02:33] IsambardPrince MinceR: First Trump released an AI slop photo of himself as the pope. [02:33] IsambardPrince Then when the Catholics got angry, he released an AI slop photo of himself as Jesus. [02:33] MinceR what a downgrade from being Jess [02:33] MinceR oh, he was pope first? [02:33] IsambardPrince Then when most of the Christians got angry, he deleted it. [02:34] IsambardPrince And said he thought it was him as a doctor. [02:34] MinceR lol [02:34] MinceR can they impeach him after the nazi party loses the midterms? [02:34] MinceR (assuming they'll hold midterms) [02:42] IsambardPrince https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-honest-reaction-song-farts [02:42] 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 [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-160426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-160426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-160426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-160426.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, April 16, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-04-16.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-04-16.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-2026-04-16.txt [02:54] admfubar https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/16/red-hair-gene-favoured-natural-selection-study [02:54] TR Bot Red hair gene favoured by natural selection over last 10,000 years, study finds | Evolution | The Guardian ● Apr 17 [03:08] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I remember your favoritist person in the whole world mentioned I was quoting things from Kiwi Farms. [03:09] IsambardPrince It's amazing how much shit they've had to go through to stay online in the country with the strongest protections for (pick one) speech, expression, religion, the press, and to assemble. [03:09] IsambardPrince That's because the Forces of Evil don't necessarily all depend on the government. [03:10] IsambardPrince They go after hosting, they go after search engines. They make it "not worth it" to host or list you. [03:10] IsambardPrince It's turned into a situation like copyright enforcement in the US. [03:10] IsambardPrince The government really doesn't do much at all. [03:13] IsambardPrince What's most horrifying about the "We need more than deplatforming." people, like Mozilla, is not just that they control some of the infrastructure, it's that they're an affront to the entire American way of life. [03:13] IsambardPrince The First Amendment doesn't exist to protect people who say things that almost everyone agrees with. [03:13] IsambardPrince If it did, you would not need it. [03:15] MinceR currently americans are an affront to "the american way of life" [03:15] MinceR welcome to the New Dark Ages [03:23] admfubar https://thedebrief.org/ukraine-says-it-captured-a-russian-position-using-only-unmanned-systems-a-glimpse-of-future-warfare/ [03:24] TR Bot Ukraine Says It Captured a Russian Position Using Only Unmanned SystemsA Glimpse of Future Warfare - The Debrief [03:48] schestowitz[TR3] It's amazing how much shit they've had to go through to stay online in the country with the strongest protections for (pick one) speech, expression, religion, the press, and to assemble [03:48] schestowitz[TR3] free speech is one thing [03:48] schestowitz[TR3] different opinioon also [03:48] schestowitz[TR3] but it depends how you go about using ittt [03:49] TR News Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies https://futurism.com/future-society/giant-robot-hand-china [03:49] TR Bot Man Engineers Giant Robot Hand to Smash His Enemies [03:50] TR News Calls grow to curb obscene content generated by Hey Hi (AI) in China https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/calls-grow-to-curb-obscene-content-generated-by-ai-in-china [03:50] TR Bot Calls grow to curb obscene content generated by AI in China | The Straits Times [03:54] TR News Middle East War Will Slow Global Economic Growth, I.M.F. Warns https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/iran-war-imf-economic-growth.html [03:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/business/iran-war-imf-economic-growth.html ) [03:54] TR News Amid Iran War, Companies Look to Extend a Record Profit Run by Raising Prices https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html [03:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/economy/companies-profits-prices-iran-war.html ) [03:55] TR News Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich https://www.newyorker.com/books/book-currents/cory-doctorow-on-the-high-cost-of-living-with-the-ultra-rich [03:55] TR Bot Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich | The New Yorker [03:56] TR News I Feel So Sorry for My Hey Hi (AI) Sunglasses https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/magazine/ai-sunglasses-meta-zuckerberg.html [03:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/magazine/ai-sunglasses-meta-zuckerberg.html ) [03:59] TR News Theres Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/something-fundamentally-wrong-llms-communicate [03:59] TR Bot There's Something Fundamentally Wrong With LLMs [03:59] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I haven't seen anything truly horrible there. ● Apr 17 [04:00] IsambardPrince Some of it made me laugh. [04:00] IsambardPrince Like, it's mundane but not necessarily politically correct. [04:00] IsambardPrince There's one where a guy asks if it's worth a $5 surcharge to eat crab legs at a Chinese buffet. [04:00] TR News Berklee College of Music Students Furious That Its Offering an Hey Hi (AI) Songwriting Class https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/berklee-college-ai-music [04:00] TR Bot Berklee College of Music Students Furious That It's Offering an AI "Songwriting" Class [04:01] IsambardPrince Someone else says not if there's black or asian people eating there, because every time he's paid extra, there's always been a black or asian family that wiped out the crab legs in one go and he just paid extra and didn't get to eat crab legs. [04:01] TR News Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training Hey Hi (AI) to Do Human Jobs https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mercor-training-ai-human-jobs-hack [04:01] TR Bot Companies Just Learned a Brutal Lesson About Training AI to Do Human Jobs [04:01] MinceR legal protections aren't worth shit if they're unenforced [04:01] TR News GSA looks to automate a million work hours, after losing nearly 40% of its workforce https://federalnewsnetwork.com/artificial-intelligence/2026/04/gsa-looks-to-automate-a-million-work-hours-after-losing-nearly-40-of-its-workforce/ [04:01] TR Bot GSA looks to automate a million work hours, after losing nearly 40% of its workforce | Federal News Network [04:02] TR News Live Nation and Ticketmaster Illegally Monopolized Ticketing Market, Jury Finds https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-antitrust-trial-verdict-monopoly.html [04:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/arts/music/live-nation-antitrust-trial-verdict-monopoly.html ) [04:03] TR News WSJ legal victory over Convicted Felon means his $10bn BillBC lawsuit likely to fail https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/wall-street-journal-legal-victory-over-trump-means-his-10bn-bbc-lawsuit-likely-to-fail/ [04:03] TR Bot WSJ victory over Trump means his BBC lawsuit likely to fail - Press Gazette [04:03] TR News Rights group urges new Hungary government to restore rule of law https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-urges-new-hungary-government-to-restore-rule-of-law/ [04:03] TR Bot Rights group urges new Hungary government to restore rule of law - JURIST - News [04:04] TR News From Noise to Signal: Using Runtime Context to Win the Vulnerability Management Battle https://openssf.org/blog/2026/04/15/from-noise-to-signal-using-runtime-context-to-win-the-vulnerability-management-battle/ [04:04] TR Bot Vulnerability Management: Using Runtime Context | OpenSSF [04:08] TR News kong [04:08] TR News Hong Kong Journalists Association warns stalking of journalists has chilling effect on press freedom https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/15/hong-kong-journalists-association-warns-stalking-of-journalists-has-chilling-effect-on-press-freedom/ [04:08] TR Bot HKJA warns stalking of journalists has 'chilling effect' on press freedom [04:10] TR News Were only seeing the tip of the chip-smuggling iceberg https://cyberscoop.com/ai-chip-smuggling-china-export-controls-enforcement-op-ed/ [04:10] TR Bot only seeing the tip of the chip-smuggling iceberg | CyberScoop [04:12] TR News $10 Domain Could Have Handed Hackers 25k Endpoints, Including in OT and Gov Networks https://www.securityweek.com/10-domain-could-have-handed-hackers-25k-endpoints-including-in-ot-and-gov-networks/ [04:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/10-domain-could-have-handed-hackers-25k-endpoints-including-in-ot-and-gov-networks/ ) [04:12] TR News Two Vulnerabilities Patched in Ivanti Neurons for ITSM https://www.securityweek.com/two-vulnerabilities-patched-in-ivanti-neurons-for-itsm/ [04:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/two-vulnerabilities-patched-in-ivanti-neurons-for-itsm/ ) [04:15] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:16] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_April_16_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/IRC_Proceedings_Thursday_April_16_2026.gmi [04:16] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 16, 2026 [04:16] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:16] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:21] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: So I mean, I guess saying you witnessed black people wiping out the crab legs is spicy by Canadian standards. [04:27] schestowitz[TR3] does this make sense to you? https://danielpocock.com/en/actblue-disappearance-decklin-foster-debian-former-it-chief-chris-gleason-wife/ [04:27] TR Bot ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both? [04:37] IsambardPrince I have to be honest that very little of what Daniel Pocock says makes coherent sense to me. [04:37] IsambardPrince However, he did make me laugh when IBM took him to their rubber stamp arbitration panel and they ruled against IBM. [04:40] TR News Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Says "AI" is "Only a Marketing Term" for Things That Exist for "Entertainment Purposes Only" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Says_AI_is_Only_a_Marketing_Term_for_Things_Tha.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Dr_Andy_Farnell_Says_AI_is_Only_a_Marketing_Term_for_Things_Tha.gmi [04:40] TR Bot Techrights Dr. Andy Farnell Says "AI" is "Only a Marketing Term" for Things That Exist for "Entertainment Purposes Only" [04:41] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I told my dad: [04:41] IsambardPrince It's gotten so bad for Intel that Trump even had to bail them out. [04:41] IsambardPrince By taking tax money and "investing" it into buying 10% of Intel. [04:41] IsambardPrince And we are going to lose a lot of money on this, but what can I say. They probably sent him a bribe and the check cleared. [04:41] IsambardPrince Intel was basically just dying, they're a trash processor with trash firmware meant for trash Windows. [04:41] IsambardPrince ----- [04:42] IsambardPrince Anything can go on as long as the government keeps throwing tax money at it. [04:42] IsambardPrince Japan at least had good intentions with the Zombie Corporation debacle of the early 90s. [04:42] IsambardPrince They were worried about whether people had jobs. [04:42] IsambardPrince Trump obviously isn't worried about that. [04:50] TR News Techrights Massive, Cross-Site Strike at the EPO Today https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Massive_Cross_Site_Strike_at_the_EPO_Today.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Massive_Cross_Site_Strike_at_the_EPO_Today.gmi [04:50] TR Bot Techrights Massive, Cross-Site Strike at the EPO Today [04:53] TR News "I would love to know what percentage of the music on MP3 players back in the early 2000s was pirated, but the number has to be astronomical" https://birchtree.me/blog/where-did-the-mp3s-come-from/ | Source: Matt Birchler [04:53] TR Bot Where did the MP3s come from? [04:53] TR News "The case arises from years of litigation between Blacklocks Reporter, a paywalled news service based in Ottawa, and the Canadian government" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/win-lose-or-draw-the-federal-court-of-appeal-overrules-a-key-copyright-case-on-procedural-grounds/ | Source: Michael Geist [04:53] TR Bot Win, Lose or Draw?: The Federal Court of Appeal Overrules a Key Copyright Case on Procedural Grounds - Michael Geist [04:53] TR News "Now, former friends and ex-associates excised from his world, along with musical collaborators, his record company and, of course, his fans, are coming to terms with a new chapter in the book of Bieber." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-news/justin-bieber-crisis-of-faith-1236191836/ | Source: Hollywood Reporter [04:53] TR Bot Justin Biebers Crisis of Faith? Why Fans, Insiders Are Concerned [04:54] TR News "According to The Hollywood Reporter, that collapse created a long tail of financial pain." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/justin-bieber-200m-catalog-sale-financial-collapse-strategy-1792177 | Source: International Business Times [04:54] TR Bot Justin Bieber's $200M Catalog Sale Explained: Truth Behind the 'Financial Collapse' Allegations | IBTimes UK [04:54] TR News Right of Publicity https://www.404media.co/app-stores-apple-google-nudify-undress-deepfakes/ | Source: 404 Media [04:54] TR Bot App Stores Push Users Toward Nudify Apps, New Research Shows [04:54] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: intel is toast [04:55] TR News "These incidents highlight growing concerns about scam apps, fleeceware VPNs" https://www.macworld.com/article/3115356/whats-the-point-of-the-app-store-if-it-cant-protect-users.html | Source: Macworld [04:55] TR Bot the point of the App Store, if it can't protect users? | Macworld [04:55] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: We can only hope. [04:56] TR News "print-blocking censorware" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/stop-new-yorks-attack-3d-printing | Source: EFF [04:56] TR Bot Stop New York's Attack on 3D Printing | Electronic Frontier Foundation [04:56] IsambardPrince Their shitty firmware is so bad that Google never used it. UEFI is possible to install on a Chromebook via total firmware replacement. [04:56] IsambardPrince That just turns it into an x86 PC basically. [04:56] IsambardPrince It can run Windows, or Linux, lots of things really, at that point. [04:56] IsambardPrince But you can also put in SeaBIOS. [04:57] IsambardPrince Systems with legacy BIOS tended to be much more stable. [04:57] IsambardPrince Despite the UEFI propaganda. [04:57] IsambardPrince I've seen way more serious problems on UEFI systems than I ever saw before. [04:57] TR News "But the costliest [Internet] is found in remote areas, where there may be few subscribers for telcos to sign up." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/iran_cheapest_broadband/ | Source: The Register UK [04:57] TR Bot Iran has something the US can only dream of: cheap broadband The Register [04:58] TR News "We are continuously measuring the availability of IPv6 connectivity among Google users. The graph shows the percentage of users that access Google over IPv6." https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html?yzh=28197 | [04:58] TR Bot Google [04:58] TR News "Google had already disclosed my data without telling me. There was no opportunity to contest it." https://werd.io/google-broke-its-promise-to-me-now-ice-has-my-data/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [04:58] TR Bot Google Broke Its Promise to Me. Now ICE Has My Data. [04:59] TR News "So, it comes as no surprise that cops who shouldnt have any skin in the anti-ICE game are stepping up to punish people for daring to criticize the actions of those federal officers." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/15/acab-cops-are-bringing-delinquency-of-a-minor-charges-against-adults-who-assist-students-during-anti-ice-protests/ | Source: Techdirt [04:59] TR Bot Cops Are Bringing Delinquency Of A Minor Charges Against Adults Who Assist Students During Anti-ICE Protests | Techdirt [04:59] TR News "And as a result, many of these eligible voters are likely to be disenfranchised in the upcoming election" https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/16/civil-rights-advocates-fear-citizenship-verification-law-could-block-many-naturalized-voters/ | Source: The Indiana Capital Chronicle [04:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://indianacapitalchronicle.com/2026/04/16/civil-rights-advocates-fear-citizenship-verification-law-could-block-many-naturalized-voters/ ) ● Apr 17 [05:05] *rianne_ (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [05:06] TR News "Last month, Meenu Batra, 53, who has lived in the South Texas border colonia of Laguna Heights since 2002, was on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to work another case." https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/ | [05:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.texasobserver.org/immigration-court-interpreter-arrested-ice-south-texas-airport/ ) [05:06] IsambardPrince Firefox be all like: "Do you want everything on your new tab page to be an ad?" "Do you want everything in your search suggestions to be crap other people are typing on Google?" "Do you want all your keystrokes to be analyzed by Mozilla.ai?" "Do you want us to send everything that's going on in the browser to Mozilla?" "Do you want some sort of Privacy Preserving Ad API turned on even though we don't explain how it works?" "Do you [05:06] IsambardPrince want plugs for all of our gimmicks that cost money every time you click on something?" "Do you want AI to analyze all the PDFs you open and all the links you hover over?" Fantastic, we'll assume all of that was yes. Enjoy clicking on 100 things to make it go away! Thank you for supporting our nonbinary mascot they/them. [05:07] TR News "Meenu Batra, a single mother of four adult U.S. citizens, was arrested March 17 by federal immigration officers at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, while on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a work trip" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/courtroom-interpreter-detained-by-ice-meenu-batra/ | Source: CBS [05:07] TR Bot Longtime courtroom interpreter detained by ICE says she worked in U.S. legally for decades: "You can't sleep because you're afraid" - CBS News [05:07] TR News "Meenu Batra, an interpreter with more than 20 years of experience in immigration courts and a life built over three decades in the United States, was detained by immigration agents at an airport in South Texas while on her way to work." https://english.elpais.com/usa/2026-04-16/ice-detains-an-immigration-interpreter-in-texas-despite-her-decades-of-working-legally-in-the-us.html | Source: El Pas [05:07] TR Bot ICE detains an immigration interpreter in Texas despite her decades of working legally in the US | U.S. | EL PAS English [05:08] TR News "Provincial security forces arrested Bouras on Sunday in front of his home in El-Bayadh. Later that evening, officers raided his residence, conducted a comprehensive search, and confiscated a laptop" https://cpj.org/2026/04/algeria-re-arrests-freelance-journalist-hassan-bouras-ahead-of-popes-visit/ | Source: CPJ [05:08] TR Bot Algeria re-arrests freelance journalist Hassan Bouras ahead of Popes visit - Committee to Protect Journalists [05:09] TR News "It is still produced under licence from the BBC, meaning it adheres to stricter ad guidelines than most commercial titles, such as not being able to endorse products or imply political bias." https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/apple-news-revenue-helped-bbc-science-focus-double-size-of-team/ | Source: Press Gazette [05:09] TR Bot Apple News revenue helped BBC Science Focus double size of team - Press Gazette [05:09] TR News "The new Standard Digital operation covers the brands digital journalism, commercial solutions, adtech and data management." https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/standard-website-transfers-to-independent-with-around-30-staff-leaving/ | Source: Press Gazette [05:09] TR Bot Standard website transfers to Independent with around 30 staff leaving - Press Gazette [05:10] TR News "On Wednesday, the New Lenox Police Department in Illinois said officers responded to a "reported bomb threat" directed at a residence on Sojourn Road ... reportedly the home of the Chicago Pope's brother, Louis Prevost." https://www.tmz.com/2026/04/16/pope-leo-brother-receives-bomb-threat/ | Source: TMZ [05:10] TR Bot Pope Leo's Brother Receives Bomb Threat Amid Donald Trump Feud, Cops Say [05:10] TR News "Putins decision had not previously been reported, and the document itself was never made publicly available." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/15/report-putin-secretly-authorized-jailing-of-russians-without-trial-for-opposing-war-in-ukraine | Source: Meduza [05:10] TR Bot Report: Putin secretly authorized jailing of Russians without trial for opposing war in Ukraine Meduza [05:11] TR News "More than 100 teenagers are currently facing prosecution in such cases, Memorial told The Moscow Times." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/at-15-he-became-one-of-russias-youngest-political-prisoners-hes-now-facing-new-charges-a92495 | Source: The Moscow Times [05:11] TR Bot At 15, He Became One of Russias Youngest Political Prisoners. He Now Faces New Charges. - The Moscow Times [05:11] TR News "Major Russian websites and online services have begun blocking users who try to access them with virtual private networks, or VPNs, as the government ramps up its efforts to restrict the censorship-circumvention tools." https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/04/15/russian-websites-begin-blocking-vpn-users-as-internet-controls-tighten-a92511 | Source: The Moscow Times [05:11] TR Bot Russian Websites Begin Blocking VPN Users as Internet Controls Tighten - The Moscow Times [05:12] *asusbox (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [05:16] TR News "because her portfolio as Executive Vice President for Tech Sovereignty" https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/henna-virkkunen/ | Source: Time [05:16] TR Bot ( status 406 @ https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people/2026/henna-virkkunen/ ) [05:18] TR News "Virkkunen, who works as the EU's digital commissioner, was included in the publication's leaders category. Other categories include artists, innovators, and pioneers." https://yle.fi/a/74-20220953 | Source: YLE [05:18] TR Bot Henna Virkkunen makes Time's 100 most influential people | Yle News | Yle [05:18] TR News "Helping the bad guys does feel bad but pushing them into the arms of organized crime feels worse. If youre declaring them dead this way you might as well pull the trigger for real." https://idiomdrottning.org/outlaws | Source: Idiomdrottning [05:18] TR Bot Unpersoned Outlaws [05:19] TR News "There is a concept in public life that has almost entirely disappeared, and its disappearance explains more about the current crisis than most of the things we spend our time arguing about." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/when-leaders-should-resign | Source: Mike Brock [05:19] TR Bot When Leaders Should Resign - by Mike Brock [05:19] TR News "woe to those who manipulate religion and the very name of God for their own military, economic and political gain, dragging that which is sacred into darkness and filth." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/leo | Source: Robert Reich [05:19] TR Bot Why a President Should Never Pick a Fight with a Pope [05:20] TR News "Pulp Fiction Bible" https://www.9news.com.au/world/pete-hegseth-pulp-fiction-bible-verse-pentagon-sermon-usa-politics-news/1ffd64d4-628f-49ec-be6f-51e32c83bfea | Source: 9NEWS [05:20] TR Bot Pete Hegseth quotes fake Pulp Fiction Bible verse during Pentagon sermon [05:20] TR News "Fourteen states and scores of localities across the U.S. fail to disclose how much revenue they lose to data center tax abatement programs." https://goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-tax-abatements-why-states-and-localities-must-disclose-these-soaring-revenue-losses/ | Source: Good Jobs First [05:20] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://goodjobsfirst.org/data-center-tax-abatements-why-states-and-localities-must-disclose-these-soaring-revenue-losses/ ) [05:21] TR News "For years, states have used incentives and tax breaks to compete for data centers, sought for their massive investment in construction and equipment." https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ | Source: Maine Morning Star [05:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://mainemorningstar.com/2026/04/16/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ ) [05:21] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:21] TR News "Adult-oriented businesses could soon have to post a warning label akin to those on tobacco and alcohol products" https://www.memphisflyer.com/from-porn-to-sex-trafficking-lawmakers-want-warning-labels-for-adult-businesses/ | Source: Memphis Flyer [05:21] TR Bot From Porn to Sex Trafficking: Lawmakers Want Warning Labels for Adult Businesses - Memphis Flyer [05:21] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:22] TR News "About one-third of job cuts have occurred in the metal industry, while demand has also declined for information technology and other high-skilled workers, according to data from the countrys employment service." https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2898364/ai-or-deindustrialisation-layoffs-surge-in-lithuania | Source: LRT [05:22] TR Bot AI or deindustrialisation? Layoffs surge in Lithuania - LRT [05:22] TR News "When Iran began demanding payment in exchange for safe transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it offered the option to pay in cryptocurrency." https://theconversation.com/how-iran-cryptocurrency-demands-explain-a-key-role-of-money-throughout-history-280768 | Source: The Conversation [05:22] TR Bot How Iran cryptocurrency demands explain a key role of money throughout history [05:23] TR News "A platform that pays contractors with USDC across multiple chains has a few options." https://www.circle.com/blog/pay-first-settle-later-with-cctp | [05:23] TR Bot Pay First, Settle Later | Circle [05:23] TR News "While some decoys are static, others are motorized to replicate mating rituals." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/robot-bird-decoys-work-for-good/ | Source: Hackaday [05:23] TR Bot Bird Decoys Work For Good | Hackaday [05:26] TR News "Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), warned there could be flight cancellations soon if oil supplies remain restricted by the Iran war." https://www.thejournal.ie/europe-only-has-six-weeks-supply-of-jet-fuel-left-worlds-energy-watchdog-warns-7014806-Apr2026/ | Source: The Journal [05:26] TR Bot Europe only has six weeks supply of jet fuel left, world's energy watchdog warns [05:26] TR News "Supporting both is very complex for vendors, so most dont bother, especially considering most major operating systems support S0ix just fine now." https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/laptop-desktop/let-sleeping-cpus-lie-s0ix/ | Source: FreeBSD [05:26] TR Bot Let Sleeping CPUs Lie S0ix | FreeBSD Foundation [05:26] TR News "Other energy experts have similarly warned that a systemic jet fuel crisis is coming to Europe in the next few weeks, with one economist telling CNBC that there may be severe cuts to flights once that happens." https://truthout.org/articles/europe-has-maybe-6-weeks-of-jet-fuel-left-top-energy-official-says/ | Source: TruthOut [05:26] TR Bot Europe Has Maybe 6 Weeks of Jet Fuel Left, Top Energy Official Says | Truthout [05:30] TR News "Germany has launched a new research initiative to assess whether lithium trapped in ancient saline brines found nearly 14,000 feet underground can be extracted to help power Europes electric vehicles (EVs)." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/germany-lithium-reserves-ev-energy | Source: Interesting Engineering [05:30] TR Bot Germany explores vast lithium reserves in 300-million-year-old rocks [05:31] TR News "The UN just released its 2025 Global Climate Report, and, predictably, the outlook for our earth is incredibly dire." https://fair.org/home/climate-coverage-plunges-though-crisis-more-dire-than-ever/ | Source: FAIR [05:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://fair.org/home/climate-coverage-plunges-though-crisis-more-dire-than-ever/ ) [05:31] TR News "An extreme marine heat wave in the Pacific Ocean off California is breaking daily temperature records, with scientists warning the deep, persistent system could affect coastal weather and ecosystems for months." https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2026-04-16/ocean-california-sst-enso-blob-marine-warming | Source: Los Angeles Times [05:31] TR Bot The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records - Los Angeles Times [05:32] TR News "Yu began working for ByteDance in 2017, but was fired in 2018 as part of a 16-person layoff, according to ByteDance." https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-whistleblower-asks-ninth-circuit-to-vacate-sanction-order/ | Source: Court House News [05:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/tiktok-whistleblower-asks-ninth-circuit-to-vacate-sanction-order/ ) [05:32] TR News "lost to history." https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-historians-seek-emergency-court-order-to-block-trump-effort-to-evade-presidential-records-act/ | Source: American Oversight [05:32] TR Bot American Oversight, Historians Seek Emergency Court Order to Block Trump Effort to Evade Presidential Records Act - American Oversight [05:32] TR News "every reporter who is covering this election at any level" https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-2026-midterm-elections/ | Source: The Nation [05:32] TR Bot To My Fellow Journalists: We Need to Do Better | The Nation [05:33] TR News "The Colorado River, which supports seven Western states, is producing far less water than it did in the past." https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/16/colorado-lawmakers-push-water-funding-release/ | Source: Western Water [05:33] TR Bot Colorado lawmakers push water funding release | Western Water [05:34] TR News "Because there's a sense in which Bengio and I are worried about exactly the same thing. I'm terrified that our planet has been colonized by artificial lifeforms that we constructed, but which have slipped our control." https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/#doomer-challenge | Source: CoryDoctorow [05:34] TR Bot Pluralistic: A Pascals Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [05:35] TR News "The system comprised four defensive lines arranged in formidable layers: [...]" https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/defense-in-depth-medieval-style.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [05:35] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/defense-in-depth-medieval-style.html ) [05:35] TR News "Silicon Valleys outlook tended toward what I called technolibertarianism, the socially liberal but anti-regulation philosophy of Stewart Brand and Wired magazine" https://coyotetracks.org/blog/ready-for-revolution/ | Source: Watts Martin [05:35] TR Bot Ready for the revolution [05:35] TR News "Its $0 tax bill comes despite the company raking in $1.6 billion and landing a $10 billion military contract last year." https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-in-2025-as-it-partnered-with-ice-pentagon/ | Source: TruthOut [05:35] TR Bot Palantir Paid No Federal Income Tax in 2025 as It Partnered With ICE, Pentagon | Truthout [05:36] TR News "advising households to keep at least five days worth of essential supplies on hand: food, water, medicine, warm clothes, radios, hunting weapons, and ammunition" https://thewalrus.ca/i-went-to-greenland-and-saw-a-warning-for-canada/ | Source: The Walrus [05:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://thewalrus.ca/i-went-to-greenland-and-saw-a-warning-for-canada/ ) [05:37] TR News "As part of this effort, in June 2025, Cure53 conducted a penetration test and source code audit of TorVPN for Android" https://blog.torproject.org/code-audit-tor-vpn/ | Source: Tor [05:37] TR Bot Code audit for Tor VPN completed by Cure53 | The Tor Project [05:38] *koo5_ has quit (Quit: http://quassel-irc.org - Chat comfortably. 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[05:38] TR News "Its insane to me that the Swedish police will be literally requiring every citizen to be a customer of one of these two American tech giants that among the richest megacorps in the world." https://idiomdrottning.org/e-leg | Source: Idiomdrottning [05:38] TR Bot E-leg from bad to worse [05:39] *koo5 (~quassel@vmi579006.contaboserver.net) has joined #techrights [05:40] TR News "After that, when a person using the app wants to access a social network (minimum age: 13), pornographic site (minimum age: 18), or any other age-protected content, if they are logged in from a computer" https://www.wired.com/story/europes-online-age-verification-app-is-here/ | Source: Wired [05:40] TR Bot Online Age Verification App Is Here | WIRED [05:40] TR News "cyber police intelligence monitoring on social networks" https://www.en-hrana.org/a-citizen-arrested-in-marvdasht-for-selling-vpns/ | Source: Human rights Activists News Agency [05:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.en-hrana.org/a-citizen-arrested-in-marvdasht-for-selling-vpns/ ) [05:41] TR News "That means every single one of the five major advertising agency holding companies in the United States has now been successfully pressured by the federal government to stop using NewsGuards ratings." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/oh-look-the-maga-ftc-built-the-censorship-industrial-complex-it-was-screaming-about/ | Source: Techdirt [05:41] TR Bot Look, The MAGA FTC Built The Censorship Industrial Complex It Was Screaming About | Techdirt [05:41] TR News "I think its important to understand that, despite claims to the contrary, age verification is, inherently, a right-wing effort." https://www.techdirt.com/2026/04/16/the-right-wing-origins-age-verification-laws-dont-disappear-just-because-theyre-going-bipartisan/ | Source: Techdirt [05:41] TR Bot Right Wing Origins Age Verification Laws Dont Disappear Just Because Theyre Going Bipartisan. | Techdirt [05:42] TR News "There are two points where notifications may betray your privacy: when theyre transmitted over cloud servers and once they land on the device. Lets start with the cloud." https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/how-push-notifications-can-betray-your-privacy-and-what-do-about-it | Source: EFF [05:42] TR Bot How Push Notifications Can Betray Your Privacy (and What to Do About It) | Electronic Frontier Foundation [05:42] TR News "This is not a Git vulnerability commit metadata has always been relatively easy to fake unless additional controls like signing are enforced." https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/git_identity_spoof_claude/ | Source: The Register UK [05:42] TR Bot Git identity spoof fools Claude into giving bad code the nod The Register [05:43] TR News Windows TCO https://news.err.ee/1609998418/13-estonian-schoolchildren-suspected-of-ordering-a-cyberattack | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling [05:43] TR Bot 13 Estonian schoolchildren suspected of ordering a cyberattack | News | ERR [05:47] TR News "Bluesky went down for half its users for about 8 hours on Monday." https://blainsmith.com/articles/unbounded-concurrency-is-a-foot-gun/ | Source: Blain Smith [05:47] TR Bot Unbounded Concurrency is a Foot Gun - Blain Smith [05:48] TR News "What I didnt realize, and what I should have known, is that there is a direct correlation between my reading and the amount of time I spend on TikTok." https://mtwb.blog/posts/2026/books/less-reading-more-tiktok/ | Source: Matthew Weber [05:48] TR Bot Less Reading More Tiktok - Matt's Blog [05:48] TR News "YouTube has read the room, and now allows you to put a zero-minute time limit on Shorts from the apps time management settings. This essentially means you can remove them from your app on both Android and iOS." https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/ | Source: Digital Music News [05:48] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/ ) [05:49] TR News "Seriously! Are our LEGO-style animations actually violent?" https://zambianobserver.com/youtube-suspends-pro-iran-channel-posting-lego-style-clips-mocking-donald-trump/ | Source: The Zambian Observer [05:49] TR Bot YouTube suspends pro-Iran channel posting lego-style clips mocking Donald Trump - The Zambian Observer [05:50] TR News "Ive been getting more and more curious about the risk from Anthropics Claude Mythos Preview." https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-verification-is-collapsing-trust-in-anthropic/ | Source: Flyngpenguin [05:50] TR Bot Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin [05:51] TR News "Bixonimania doesnt exist except in a clutch of obviously bogus academic papers. So why did AI chatbots warn people about this fictional illness?" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y | Source: Nature [05:51] TR Bot Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real [05:51] TR News "I want you to think about AI in this sense." https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here | Source: Kyle Kingsbury [05:51] TR Bot ( status 451 @ https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here ) [05:51] TR News "At Oxford I focused my research and discussions on how we can use the tools of computational complexity to help us understand the power and limitations of machine learning." https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/04/machine-learning-and-complexity.html | Source: Computational Complexity [05:51] TR Bot Computational Complexity: Machine Learning and Complexity [05:52] TR News "This is the sort of deal you see in a bubble when a company thats near-dead exploits its one asset, its stock market listing." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/04/16/shoe-company-allbirds-pivots-to-ai-and-the-stock-goes-up-580/ | Source: Pivot to AI [05:52] TR Bot That way. She doesn't mind being meat." Lenina. [05:52] TR News "If you dont believe we are in a bubble you are in denial" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/failing-shoe-brand-pivot-to-ai | Source: Futurism [05:52] TR Bot What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand "Pivoted to AI" and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent [05:53] TR News "It's the golden age for hyperscaled, badly-automated bullshit, overseen by the least ethical assholes America has to offer." https://karlbode.com/ai-artifice-and-authenticity/ | Source: Karl Bode [05:53] TR Bot AI, Artifice, And Authenticity [05:53] TR News "I've seen a continuous degradation to the UX of Claude Code over the last two months. Now with the release of Opus 4.7 it's really evident." https://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/the-claude-coding-vibes-are-getting-worse/ | Source: Matthew Brunelle [05:53] TR Bot The Claude Coding Vibes Are Getting Worse [05:53] TR News "Humans expect rationality and cooperation from LLM opponents in strategic games." https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/human-trust-of-ai-agents.html | Source: Bruce Schneier [05:53] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/human-trust-of-ai-agents.html ) [05:54] TR News "any answer is higher scoring than zero in the probabilistic sense" https://thomasrigby.com/posts/it-is-not-your-fault/ | Source: Thomas Rigby [05:54] TR Bot is not your fault | thomasrigby.com [05:54] TR News "I thought it might help to list by taxonomy a set of algorithmic ideas according to task, then relate those to negative effects by way of example. Here goes. We'll consider a small set of these broad ideas; [...]" https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/ainow/ | Source: The Cyber Show [05:54] TR Bot What "AI" means (part 2) [05:54] TR News "the debate over humans in the loop is a comforting distraction." https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/ | Source: MIT Technology Review [05:54] TR Bot Why having humans in the loop in an AI war is an illusion | MIT Technology Review [05:55] TR News "The report is down to three pages from the six they put out last year, and this time its mostly a Google Gemini fan post." https://blog.zgp.org/another-ad-safety-report/ | Source: Don Marti [05:55] TR Bot Another ad safety* report [05:56] TR News "But even with the potential for a two-year cushion compliance for meeting new standards may be pushed from 2029 to 2031 utilities are faltering, industry experts said." https://www.thenewlede.org/2026/04/drinking-water-systems-cite-struggles-with-costs-and-timelines-for-cleaning-up-pfas/ | Source: The New Lede [05:56] TR Bot Drinking water systems cite struggles with costs and timelines for cleaning up PFAS - The New Lede [05:56] TR News "About 3,000 water systems will receive direct outreach and support." https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/16/epa-targets-forever-chemicals-water-workforce-gaps/ | Source: Western Water [05:56] TR Bot EPA targets forever chemicals, water workforce gaps | Western Water [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: apparently the SSL cert for IRC is expired again, i saw an error message at a client end [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] is it just me? [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] can you replicate? [05:57] TR News "The proposed USDA budget for fiscal 2027 would cut $4.9 billion, or nearly one-fifth of the departments budget." https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/04/16/repub/us-house-dems-at-ag-hearing-excoriate-trump-cuts-proposed-for-farm-and-food-aid/ | Source: The Georgia Recorder [05:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://georgiarecorder.com/2026/04/16/repub/us-house-dems-at-ag-hearing-excoriate-trump-cuts-proposed-for-farm-and-food-aid/ ) [05:57] TR News "A new study out of Drexel University shows just how self-aware the kids have become." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai | Source: Futurism [05:57] TR Bot Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds [05:58] TR News "After two and a half years of steady growth, the smartphone market is heading sharply back into the red." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/ai-drags-down-smartphone-sales | Source: Jrme Marin [05:58] TR Bot AI drags down smartphone sales - by Jrme Marin - Caftech [05:58] TR News "Ive slowed way down on acquisitions in my typewriter collection, but when I saw this magnificent exemplar with Art Nouveau decoration pop up at thrift" https://boffosocko.com/2026/04/15/odell-no-4-index-typewriter-and-wooden-case/ | Source: Chris Aldrich [05:58] TR Bot | Chris Aldrich [05:58] TR News "Jeremy Keith posted his salary history last week." https://danq.me/2026/04/15/my-salary-history/ | Source: Dan Q [05:58] TR Bot My Salary History Dan Q ● Apr 17 [06:04] TR News "Theres a productive tension here, obviously. You cant go fully one way or the other." https://werd.io/you-own-your-role-we-own-the-outcome/ | Source: Ben Werdmuller [06:04] TR Bot You Own Your Role, We Own The Outcome [06:04] TR News "A new Perforce report finds PHP's developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished and AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better." https://thenewstack.io/php-web-skills-hiring-age/ | Source: The New Stack [06:04] TR Bot Who will maintain the web when PHP's veterans retire? - The New Stack [06:04] TR News "Its rare that you get to see work that directly helps those who most deserve it, but I want to tell you about the opportunity we so seldom get to actually contribute in a way that we know will have real impact." https://www.anildash.com/2026/04/16/girls-club-gala/ | Source: Anil Dash [06:04] TR Bot The Power of Possibility - Anil Dash [06:05] TR News "The programmer box is tight. Its well-bounded and there are clear membership criterea. You write code, youre good at it, and there are legible, well-defined steps to get better at it." https://anirudh.fi/founderbox | Source: Anirudh Oppiliappan [06:05] TR Bot The founder box [06:05] TR News "Common Denominator: People who get SUPER EXCITED about whatever it is they are DOING and NEED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT so you can be EXCITED TOO." https://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-16 | Source: Dr Molly Tov [06:05] TR Bot my most and least favorite people: examples [06:05] TR News "we talk about why conflict transformation can be so difficult, what happens when efforts at repair break down, and why conflict resolution skills are survival skills in fascist times." https://organizingmythoughts.org/rupture-and-repair-under-fascist-conditions-2/ | Source: Kelly Hayes [06:05] TR Bot Repair Is a Survival Skill Under Fascism [06:06] TR News "After a little bit of searching, I couldnt find any answers. So I decided to use R to retrieve the necessary info from Uniprot and calculate it myself. I thought Id post it here in case its useful for others." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/my-domain-proteome-wide-scanning-of-tmds/ | Source: Rlang [06:06] TR Bot Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs | R-bloggers [06:06] TR News "In February of 1204, Japanese poet Fujiwara no Teika recorded a strange sight. He penned diary entries about red lights illuminating the night sky for three consecutive nights." https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-writings-and-tree-rings-helped-researchers-track-a-solar-storm-from-800-years-ago-and-reconstruct-past-solar-cycles-180988546/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [06:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-writings-and-tree-rings-helped-researchers-track-a-solar-storm-from-800-years-ago-and-reconstruct-past-solar-cycles-180988546/ ) [06:06] TR News "Chaplin was known for shooting scenes dozens or even hundreds of times to get them exactly right." https://www.vintag.es/2026/04/charles-chaplin-city-lights.html | Source: Vintage Everyday [06:06] TR Bot 32 Amazing Photos of Charles Chaplin on the Set of City Lights (1931) ~ Vintage Everyday [06:11] TR News (NEW): Security and Windows TCO Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.gmi [06:11] TR Bot Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers [06:11] TR News "Meanwhile, Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code via a basic packaging mistake." https://grahamcluley.com/smashing-security-podcast-463/ | Source: Graham Cluley [06:11] TR Bot Smashing Security podcast #463: This AI company leaked its own code. Its also built something terrifying Graham Cluley [06:12] TR News "I was invited to an episode of Django Chat, to chat about Django Tasks, the Security Team and much more." https://theorangeone.net/talks/django-chat-200/ | Source: Jake Howard [06:12] TR Bot Django Tasks - Django Chat #200 :: TheOrangeOne [06:12] TR News "Wayland setting back Linux, Dr Callahan's semi retirement, holding onto your hardware, PF queues breaking the 4gbps barrier, and more..." https://www.bsdnow.tv/659 | Source: The BSD Now Podcast [06:12] TR Bot BSD Now 659: Full traffic send [06:12] TR News "In this livestream, I showed Prot what I've been doing since our last conversation about Emacs configuration and livestreaming." https://sachachua.com/blog/2026/04/ye16-sacha-and-prot-talk-emacs/ | Source: Sacha Chua [06:12] TR Bot YE16: Sacha and Prot talk Emacs :: Sacha Chua [06:12] TR News "Hi, Paul Krugman here. Today, Im going to do a video rather than a proper post because I just have too much stuff going on." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-wants-regime-change-at-the | Source: Paul Krugman [06:12] TR Bot Trump Wants Regime Change at the Fed - Paul Krugman [06:13] TR News "All further functionality is implemented in software, including any firewall, routing and DHCP features." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/trying-to-build-your-own-consumer-grade-router-in-2026/ | Source: Hackaday [06:13] TR Bot To Build Your Own Consumer-Grade Router In 2026 | Hackaday [06:17] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/today_s_howtos.gmi [06:17] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [06:20] TR News "KDE has been around for 30 years! Many of KDE's projects are also mature and consolidated: Okular is 21 years old, KOrganiser is 23, and Kdenlive is 24" https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/ | Source: KDE [06:20] TR Bot KDE Gear 26.04 - KDE Community [06:20] TR News "Other projects are young and upcoming, like NeoChat, Merkuro and AudioTube, as our community is constantly churning out new ideas and turning them into products for you to enjoy." [06:20] TR News "Today, we bring you new versions of many of these apps, old and new. Read on and discover all the features and improvements that will soon land on your desktop." [06:21] TR News "Much of my work has not yet been committed upstream so installation currently requires a custom kernel and U-Boot images which are provided here." https://jcs.org/2026/04/09/openbsd-dm250#2026-04-15 | Source: JCS [06:21] TR Bot Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250 - joshua stein [06:25] TR News "I reached over to grab something on the other side of my desk and managed to knock an entire fucking cup of coffee all over my beloved laptop." https://kevquirk.com/i-may-have-killed-my-framework-13 | Source: Kev Quirk [06:25] TR Bot I May Have Killed My Framework 13 - Kev Quirk [06:28] TR News "Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted how they work. Luckily, [FromConceptToCircuit] is here to show us how theyre made." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/fpga-powers-diy-usb-scope-and-signal-generator/ | Source: Hackaday [06:28] TR Bot Powers DIY USB Scope And Signal Generator | Hackaday [06:28] TR News "Optocam Zero uses an auto-focus camera module and features eight photo filters." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/16/optocam-zeros-pictures-look-one-hundred/ | Source: Hackaday [06:28] TR Bot Zeros Pictures Look One Hundred | Hackaday [06:28] TR News "Now, here's the kicker: the bigger the focusing lens is, the larger the cone of light rays is" https://thelibre.news/i-made-the-next-level-camera-and-i-love-it/ | Source: LibreNews [06:28] TR Bot I Made the "Next-Level" Camera and I love it [06:29] TR News "Hollywood giant Warner Bros. Entertainment is concerned about the "alarming" growth of IPTV piracy in Chile." https://torrentfreak.com/warner-bros-files-criminal-complaint-against-chilean-iptv-operator-over-alarming-piracy-growth/ | Source: Torrent Freak [06:29] TR Bot Bros. Files Criminal Complaint Against Chilean IPTV Operator Over "Alarming" Piracy Growth * TorrentFreak [06:32] TR News (NEW): The Linux Mint Blog: Monthly News March 2026 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/The_Linux_Mint_Blog_Monthly_News_March_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/The_Linux_Mint_Blog_Monthly_News_March_2026.gmi [06:32] TR Bot Tux Machines The Linux Mint Blog: Monthly News March 2026 [06:36] TR News (NEW): Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Zorin_OS_18_1_Boosts_Windows_App_Support_by_40_Improves_Window_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Zorin_OS_18_1_Boosts_Windows_App_Support_by_40_Improves_Window_.gmi [06:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Zorin OS 18.1 Boosts Windows App Support by 40%, Improves Window Tiling [06:36] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: PocketTerm35, Raspberry Pi OS 6.2, FPGAs, Framework 13 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_PocketTerm35_Raspberry_Pi_OS_6_2_FPGAs_Fr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_PocketTerm35_Raspberry_Pi_OS_6_2_FPGAs_Fr.gmi [06:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: PocketTerm35, Raspberry Pi OS 6.2, FPGAs, Framework 13 [06:37] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, Django Chat, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Audiocasts_Shows_BSD_Now_Django_Chat_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Audiocasts_Shows_BSD_Now_Django_Chat_and_More.gmi [06:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: BSD Now, Django Chat, and More [06:41] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [06:41] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [06:47] TR News "I had it up and running in minutes. I generated a link that was valid for the duration of the Book Fair and sent it to my wife." https://billglover.me/2026/04/16/file-transfer-made-easy/ | Source: Bill Glover [06:47] TR Bot File transfer made easy [06:49] TR News "First, I used to assume that if the RSS feed is valid, the links are good." https://blog.zgp.org/updating-assumptions-for-blogging-in-2026/ | Source: Don Marti [06:49] TR Bot Updating assumptions for blogging in 2026 [06:49] TR News "You can add a good browser extension (uBlock Origin) if you want finegrained browser control." https://greycoder.com/ad-blocker-comparison-adguard-vs-adguard-dns-vs-nord-threat-protection-vs-proton-netshield/ | Source: GreyCoder [06:49] TR Bot Blocker Comparison: AdGuard vs AdGuard DNS vs Nord Threat Protection vs Proton NetShield - GreyCoder [06:50] TR News "Modern work happens in the browser." https://www.kylereddoch.me/blog/secure-browsers-push-zero-trust-past-the-login-screen/ | Source: Kyle Reddoch [06:50] TR Bot Secure Browsers Push Zero Trust Past the Login Screen - CybersecKyle [06:52] TR News (NEW): Coverage regarding curl dns 2026 and Web browsers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Coverage_regarding_curl_dns_2026_and_Web_browsers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Coverage_regarding_curl_dns_2026_and_Web_browsers.gmi [06:52] TR Bot Tux Machines Coverage regarding curl dns 2026 and Web browsers [06:53] TR News "The most common place you might want to swap two variables is right there in a function, with local variables. So lets write three functions and see what the compiler makes of them." https://heather.cafe/posts/too_much_xor_swap_trick/ | [06:53] TR Bot Too much Discussion of the XOR swap trick Heather Cafe [06:53] TR News "I used an intentionally nave numerical solution to a gravitating many-body system as a benchmark, so I could easily compare Lisp & C versions." https://www.tfeb.org/fragments/2026/04/16/structures-of-arrays/ | Source: Tim Bradshaw [06:53] TR Bot Structures of arrays [06:53] TR News "Prior art from other ecosystems is noted where it exists." https://nesbitt.io/2026/04/16/features-everyone-should-steal-from-npmx.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [06:53] TR Bot Features everyone should steal from npmx | Andrew Nesbitt [06:54] TR News "This is my response to The Weekly Challenge #369." https://raku-musings.com/tag-division.html | Source: Arne Sommer [06:54] TR Bot Tag Division with Raku - Arne Sommer [06:54] TR News "The task can be divided in three cases: [...]" https://raku-musings.com/bigger-big.html | Source: Arne Sommer [06:54] TR Bot A Bigger Big with Raku - Arne Sommer [06:56] TR News "Many time series models fail before they even begin. Not because the software crashes." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/why-most-time-series-models-fail-before-they-start/ | Source: Rlang [06:56] TR Bot Most Time Series Models Fail Before They Start | R-bloggers [06:56] TR News "With Fira Code ligatures, %>=% renders as a single wide arrow visually similar to %>% with an underline added" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/logrittr-a-verbose-pipe-operator-for-logging-dplyr-pipelines/ | Source: Rlang [06:56] TR Bot A Verbose Pipe Operator for Logging dplyr Pipelines | R-bloggers [06:59] TR News (NEW): Tux Manager is the perfect Linux Task Manager replacement for Windows refugees https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Tux_Manager_is_the_perfect_Linux_Task_Manager_replacement_for_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Tux_Manager_is_the_perfect_Linux_Task_Manager_replacement_for_W.gmi [06:59] TR Bot Tux Machines Tux Manager is the perfect Linux Task Manager replacement for Windows refugees ● Apr 17 [07:03] TR News Techrights GizChina Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, I.e. Fake News Site With Fake Text https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/GizChina_Appears_to_Have_Become_a_Slopfarm_I_e_Fake_News_Site_W.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/GizChina_Appears_to_Have_Become_a_Slopfarm_I_e_Fake_News_Site_W.gmi [07:03] TR Bot Techrights GizChina Appears to Have Become a Slopfarm, I.e. Fake News Site With Fake Text [07:05] TR News "Build scripts are generally lots of linear steps, executed in sequence, which fail if any individual step fails." https://lesiw.dev/go/step/ | [07:05] TR Bot Sequences in Go | lesiw.dev [07:06] TR News "Starting on Wednesday, NIST will only enrich CVEs that appear in a federal catalog of exploited vulnerabilities organized by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)." https://therecord.media/nist-to-limit-work-on-cve-entries-surge | Source: The Record [07:06] TR Bot NIST to limit work on CVE entries as submissions surge | The Record from Recorded Future News [07:07] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [07:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [07:07] TR News "NIST said it will only prioritize analysis for CVEs that appear in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencys known exploited vulnerabilities catalog" https://cyberscoop.com/nist-narrows-cve-analysis-nvd/ | Source: Scoop News Group [07:07] TR Bot narrows scope of CVE analysis to keep up with rising tide of vulnerabilities | CyberScoop [07:09] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:09] TR News (NEW): Standards/Consortia: Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) and NIST Changes to CVE Scope https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Standards_Consortia_Internet_Protocol_Version_8_IPv8_and_NIST_C.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Standards_Consortia_Internet_Protocol_Version_8_IPv8_and_NIST_C.gmi [07:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Standards/Consortia: Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) and NIST Changes to CVE Scope [07:12] TR News (NEW): Education: AsiaBSDCon, Modern Common Lisp with FSet, Plans for APNIC 62 (APNIC 62 Program Committee's (PC) Call for Papers) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Education_AsiaBSDCon_Modern_Common_Lisp_with_FSet_Plans_for_APN.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Education_AsiaBSDCon_Modern_Common_Lisp_with_FSet_Plans_for_APN.gmi [07:12] TR News (NEW): LibreOffice Events and Reports https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/LibreOffice_Events_and_Reports.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/LibreOffice_Events_and_Reports.gmi [07:12] TR Bot Tux Machines Education: AsiaBSDCon, Modern Common Lisp with FSet, Plans for APNIC 62 (APNIC 62 Program Committee's (PC) Call for Papers) [07:12] TR Bot Tux Machines LibreOffice Events and Reports [07:14] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [07:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [07:16] TR News (NEW): Red Hat's Latest Slop Blitz and Fines for "Diversity Blitz" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Red_Hat_s_Latest_Slop_Blitz_and_Fines_for_Diversity_Blitz.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Red_Hat_s_Latest_Slop_Blitz_and_Fines_for_Diversity_Blitz.gmi [07:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat's Latest Slop Blitz and Fines for "Diversity Blitz" [07:17] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/GNU_Linux_and_BSD_Leftovers.gmi [07:17] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux and BSD Leftovers [07:20] TR News Techrights Links 17/04/2026: "We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine" and "When Leaders Should Resign" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_We_Cannot_Lose_Sight_of_Ukraine_and_When_Leade.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_We_Cannot_Lose_Sight_of_Ukraine_and_When_Leade.gmi [07:20] TR Bot Techrights Links 17/04/2026: "We Cannot Lose Sight of Ukraine" and "When Leaders Should Resign" [07:21] TR News "In hindsight, the solution is obvious. Give the player a way to view want went wrong last time, when they try the level again." https://www.positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2026/04/16/ridiculous-stats-battles/ | Source: Positech Games [07:21] TR Bot Ridiculous Stats Battles Cliffski's Blog [07:21] TR News "Each group shares a common theme: it might be CSS properties, layout techniques, browser quirks, or even naming patterns." https://alvaromontoro.com/blog/68094/css-games-4connect | Source: Alvaro Montoro [07:21] TR Bot CSS Games: 4Connect [07:23] TR News "I wanted to explore a JSON dataset with the ZYDECODE command introduced in YottaDB r2.04." https://yottadb.com/koalas-json-r2-04-and-aim/ | Source: YottaDB [07:23] TR Bot JSON, r2.04, and AIM - YottaDB [07:23] TR News "For your reference, here is a summary of the book contents: [...]" https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/sqlalchemy-2-in-practice---chapter-5---advanced-many-to-many-relationships | Source: Miguel Grinberg [07:23] TR Bot SQLAlchemy 2 In Practice - Chapter 5 - Advanced Many-To-Many Relationships - miguelgrinberg.com [07:24] TR News "Andy Bell is completely redesigning his personal site from scratch and breaking down each part to educate and hopefully" https://piccalil.li/projects/personal-site/5/?ref=main-rss-feed | Source: Andy Bell [07:24] TR Bot Completing the WordPress headless CMS integration - Piccalilli [07:24] TR News "In my short recap note about PressConf 2026, I listed three things that stood out for me from the presentations and conversations at PressConf." https://remkusdevries.com/its-time-to-level-up-in-wordpress/ | Source: Remkus de Vries [07:24] TR Bot Its Time to Level Up in WordPress - Remkus de Vries [07:25] TR News "The DINUM's press release lists several commitments : [...]" https://www.april.org/en/free-software-will-dinum-trigger-meaningful-change-french-state | Source: April [07:25] TR Bot Free Software : Will the DINUM Trigger Meaningful Change in the French State ? | April [07:26] TR News "Well, controversial decisions happen on an individual level as well so, whatever, Ill just share some more of those." https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/more-confessions-from-a-foss-enthusiast/ | Source: Joel Chrono [07:26] TR Bot More confessions from a FOSS enthusiast [07:26] TR News "However, China takes localisation to a whole different level entirely" https://vale.rocks/posts/china-gaming | Source: Declan Chidlow [07:26] TR Bot Regulated Reality of China's Gaming Industry | Vale.Rocks [07:28] TR News IBM Red Hat pushing slop, as usual https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/ai-optimization-7-powerful-techniques-you-can-use-today | Source: Red Hat Official [07:28] TR Bot AI optimization: 7 powerful techniques you can use today! [07:28] TR News "Superheroes" for buying from us? https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/meet-latest-red-hat-openshift-superheroes-0 | Source: Red Hat Official [07:28] TR Bot Meet the latest Red Hat OpenShift Superheroes [07:29] TR News Post by "principal product marketing manager". [07:32] TR News Red Hat is foolishly conflating "digital sovereignty" with mindless slop https://www.redhat.com/en/topics/ai/digital-sovereignty It speak of "vendor flexibility needed to own your digital future and sovereign AI." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/friday-five-april-17-2026-red-hat [07:32] TR Bot What is digital sovereignty? [07:32] TR Bot Friday Five April 17, 2026 | Red Hat [07:33] TR News Red Hat has fast become a "meme company", selling the slop dream under the guise of "sovereignty" https://www.informationweek.com/machine-learning-ai/red-hat-s-marco-bill-resource-control-is-key-for-ai-sovereignty [07:33] TR Bot Red Hat's Marco Bill: Resource control is key for AI sovereignty [07:36] TR News (NEW): Under IBM, Red Hat Fast Becoming Laughing Stock of a Company Selling Slop by False Marketing and Misleading Buzzwords https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Under_IBM_Red_Hat_Fast_Becoming_Laughing_Stock_of_a_Company_Sel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Under_IBM_Red_Hat_Fast_Becoming_Laughing_Stock_of_a_Company_Sel.gmi [07:36] TR Bot Tux Machines Under IBM, Red Hat Fast Becoming Laughing Stock of a Company Selling Slop by False Marketing and Misleading Buzzwords [07:37] TR News US operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/us-operating-system-age-verification-bill-parents-decide-act-gets-published/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:37] TR Bot operating system age verification bill "Parents Decide Act" gets published | GamingOnLinux [07:37] TR News SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sdl-simple-directmedia-layer-ban-ai-llm-code-contributions/ Source: GamingOnLinux | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/sdl-simple-directmedia-layer-ban-ai-llm-code-contributions/ [07:37] TR Bot (Simple DirectMedia Layer) ban AI / LLM code contributions | GamingOnLinux [07:38] TR News Immersive sim boomer shooter Fortune's Run back in development as the developer is out of jail | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/immersive-sim-boomer-shooter-fortunes-run-back-in-development-as-the-developer-is-out-of-jail/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:38] TR Bot sim boomer shooter Fortune's Run back in development as the developer is out of jail | GamingOnLinux [07:38] TR News Vehicle-building bullet heaven survivor-like TerraTech Legion launches April 30 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/vehicle-building-bullet-heaven-survivor-like-terratech-legion-launches-april-30/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:38] TR Bot bullet heaven survivor-like TerraTech Legion launches April 30 | GamingOnLinux [07:39] TR News Gaming on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/gaming-on-linux-with-an-older-gpu-levels-up-with-dxvk-sarek-v1-12-bringing-major-new-features/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:39] TR Bot on Linux with an older GPU levels up with DXVK-Sarek v1.12 bringing major new features | GamingOnLinux [07:40] TR News Mozilla announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/mozilla-announced-thunderbolt-their-open-source-and-self-hostable-ai-client/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:40] TR Bot announced "Thunderbolt", their open-source and self-hostable AI client | GamingOnLinux [07:41] TR News "Mozilla are leaning even more into AI, with the announcement today of Thunderbolt - their open-source and self-hostable AI client. The AI madness will continue until morale improves the world burns." [07:41] TR News Linux Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026 | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/linux-mint-confirm-longer-release-cycles-the-next-release-is-planned-for-christmas-2026/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:41] TR Bot Mint confirm longer release cycles, the next release is planned for Christmas 2026 | GamingOnLinux [07:42] TR News Get another 15 games for $15 in this new Humble Bundle for April | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/get-another-15-games-for-15-in-this-new-humble-bundle-for-april/ Source: GamingOnLinux [07:42] TR Bot another 15 games for $15 in this new Humble Bundle for April | GamingOnLinux [07:44] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Android_Leftovers.gmi [07:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [07:44] TR News (NEW): Games: Ridiculous Stats Battles, 4Connect, TerraTech Legion, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Games_Ridiculous_Stats_Battles_4Connect_TerraTech_Legion_and_Mo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Games_Ridiculous_Stats_Battles_4Connect_TerraTech_Legion_and_Mo.gmi [07:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Ridiculous Stats Battles, 4Connect, TerraTech Legion, and More [07:56] TR News Nope, slop is NOT "AI".... stop calling it that https://jimmitchell.org/2026/04/16/some-thoughts-on-ai/ [07:56] TR Bot Some Thoughts On AI Jim Mitchell [07:56] TR News IDG's pcworld advertises Microsoft bribes https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116507/microsoft-is-giving-away-1-million-and-a-benz-to-attract-users-to-edge.html [07:56] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3116507/microsoft-is-giving-away-1-million-and-a-benz-to-attract-users-to-edge.html ) [07:57] TR News "Gesichtsscan und Handy-Zwang: Von der Leyen erklrt Alterskontroll-App fr fertig" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2026/gesichtsscan-und-handy-zwang-von-der-leyen-erklaert-alterskontroll-app-fuer-fertig/ [07:57] TR Bot Gesichtsscan und Handy-Zwang: Von der Leyen erklrt Alterskontroll-App fr fertig [07:58] TR News "From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus - Domino Theory" https://dominotheory.com/from-stuxnet-to-operation-epic-fury-the-china-iran-intelligence-nexus/ [07:58] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://dominotheory.com/from-stuxnet-to-operation-epic-fury-the-china-iran-intelligence-nexus/ ) [07:59] TR News Digital sovereignty: the State is accelerating the reduction of its extra-European dependencies | " Souverainet numrique : l'tat acclre la rduction de ses dpendances extra-europennes " https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/espace-presse/souverainete-numerique-reduction-dependances-extra-europeennes/ [07:59] TR Bot numerique.gouv.fr [07:59] TR News old: "Un rapport parlementaire sur la cyberscurit alerte sur le pige Microsoft | April" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=https://www.april.org/un-rapport-parlementaire-sur-la-cybersecurite-alerte-sur-le-piege-microsoft [07:59] TR Bot Un rapport parlementaire sur la cyberscurit alerte sur le pige Microsoft | April ● Apr 17 [08:00] TR News iophk: :( soon a 'smart' phone will be required to use the WWW https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://femtejuli.se/2026/04/16/eu-lanserar-app-for-aldersverifikation/ [08:00] TR Bot EU lanserar app fr ldersverifikation [08:02] TR News "Common Denominator: People who get SUPER EXCITED about whatever it is they are DOING and NEED YOU TO KNOW ABOUT IT so you can be EXCITED TOO." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2026-04-16 [08:02] TR News mannde ji mala gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/manndejimala [08:03] TR News "A couple of years ago I mastered a homebrew adventure as part of our campaign. At the time I was interested on House of Leaves and how the concept of space is managed into a session." gemini://kodaro.it/gemlog/darkness_in_roleplay.gmi [08:03] TR News "I'm using NixOS for a while now (I think a year... I'm not sure). I found my way with Nix in projects and into my main system. I am surviving with this system, but the amount of knowledge to get expert is huge and I don't want to dedicate that time right now. So here what I got." gemini://kodaro.it/gemlog/getting_competent_nixos.gmi [08:04] TR News the birds outside gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/the_birds_outside [08:05] TR News "There's a new article on Leasehold Knowledge Partnerhip's website, by Alexander Hamilton, a civil servant at the Foreign Office." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2026-04-16_that-flat-management-control-issue-in-england.gmi [08:06] TR News "To implement a static site that gets updated whenever the page files are updated, use a Makefile to produce a HTML file for every Markdown file and then use a directory watcher such as `entr` to run `make` whenever Markdown files change or get added." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2026-04-16-watch-static-site [08:06] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:07] TR News "We have heard a good questions, I don't know how to describe what is a `good question`, I only know that it is a good question when it been asked. Maybe good question is the question that asking for the answer that nobody ever think of, or for a answer that not easily be answered." gemini://tilde.club/~silica/gemlog-en/2026-04-16_good_answer.gmi [08:11] TR News "So, I'm thinking of quitting music." gemini://tilde.town/~hush/gemlog/2026-04-16-hobbies.gmi [08:12] TR News "Alhena 5.5.6 is available. The big feature is Gemlog and atom subscriptions. I also added Markdown support. Beyond that, a number of corner case bugs have been squashed. Well worth updating." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Alhena/41668 [08:15] TR News There Is No Poetry in the Land of Sparta gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-17_no_poetry_in_sparta.gmi [08:17] TR News Extreme Liminal Spaces, Boynton Beach, Florida edition gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2026/04/16.1 [08:37] TR News "Now that I have video game mania, books are piling up at an even faster rate than normal. Therefore its time for some Compulsive Vowing" gemini://idiomdrottning.org/book-vow [08:42] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 17/04/2026: Getting competent in NixOS and Alhena 5.5.6 Released https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Getting_competent_in_NixOS_and_Alhena_5.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Getting_competent_in_NixOS_and_Alhena_5.gmi [08:42] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 17/04/2026: Getting competent in NixOS and Alhena 5.5.6 Released ● Apr 17 [09:10] TR News Techrights ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both? https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/ActBlue_former_IT_boss_disappearance_Decklin_Foster_Debian_Harv.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/ActBlue_former_IT_boss_disappearance_Decklin_Foster_Debian_Harv.gmi [09:10] TR Bot Techrights ActBlue former IT boss disappearance: Decklin Foster & Debian, Harvard suicide lab, Chris Gleason is wife, whistleblower or both? [09:57] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 17 [10:25] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [10:39] *lxo has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:41] *lxo (~lxo@ejtt6wjxgf2mc.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 17 [11:12] *darwin has quit (Quit: peace be with you) [11:18] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 17 [13:09] TR News Without naming RMS or even Software Freedom, Mike hits the nail on the head: https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/i-hate-the-internet [13:09] TR Bot I Hate the Internet - by Mike Brock [13:10] TR News Wednesday is Earth Day https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Climate_March_0332_(34253906252).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EcologyTheta.svg [13:10] TR Bot File:Climate March 0332 (34253906252).jpg - Wikipedia [13:10] TR Bot File:EcologyTheta.svg - Wikipedia [13:23] TR News Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/two-us-citizens-get-combined-18-years-in-prison-for-running-north-korean-laptop-farms-fake-remote-it-work-scheme-netted-dprk-usd5-million-in-around-three-years [13:23] TR Bot Two US citizens get combined 16 years in prison for running North Korean laptop farms fake remote IT work scheme netted DPRK $5 million in around three years | Tom's Hardware [13:23] TR News US nationals sentenced for aiding North Koreas tech worker scheme https://cyberscoop.com/us-nationals-sentenced-facilitate-north-korea-tech-worker-scheme/ [13:23] TR Bot nationals sentenced for aiding North Koreas tech worker scheme | CyberScoop [13:25] TR News KDE Gear 26.04 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1067994/ [13:25] TR Bot Gear 26.04 released [LWN.net] [13:32] TR News I May Have Killed My Framework 13 https://kevquirk.com/i-may-have-killed-my-framework-13 [13:32] TR Bot I May Have Killed My Framework 13 - Kev Quirk [13:33] TR News Free Software : Will the DINUM Trigger Meaningful Change in the French State ? https://www.april.org/en/free-software-will-dinum-trigger-meaningful-change-french-state [13:33] TR Bot Free Software : Will the DINUM Trigger Meaningful Change in the French State ? | April [13:34] TR News Why Most Time Series Models Fail Before They Start https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/why-most-time-series-models-fail-before-they-start/ [13:34] TR Bot Most Time Series Models Fail Before They Start | R-bloggers [13:34] TR News My Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/my-domain-proteome-wide-scanning-of-tmds/ [13:34] TR Bot Domain: proteome-wide scanning of TMDs | R-bloggers [13:35] TR News Teens Alarmed at What Hey Hi (AI) Is Doing to Their Minds https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teens-ai-chatbot-characterai [13:35] TR Bot Teens Alarmed at What AI Is Doing to Their Minds [13:36] TR News Why having humans in the loop in an Hey Hi (AI) war is an illusion https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1136029/humans-in-the-loop-ai-war-illusion/ [13:36] TR Bot Why having humans in the loop in an AI war is an illusion | MIT Technology Review [13:38] TR News What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand Pivoted to AI and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/failing-shoe-brand-pivot-to-ai [13:39] TR Bot What It Really Means That a Failing Shoe Brand "Pivoted to AI" and Its Stock Soared 700 Percent [13:39] TR News YouTube Now Lets You Turn Off Shorts Completely https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/ [13:39] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/16/youtube-now-lets-you-turn-off-shorts-completely/ ) [13:41] TR News KDE Gear 26.04 https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.04.0/ [13:41] TR Bot KDE Gear 26.04 - KDE Community [13:43] TR News Pluralistic: A Pascal's Wager for Hey Hi (AI) Doomers (16 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/16/pascals-wager/ [13:43] TR Bot Pluralistic: A Pascals Wager for AI Doomers (16 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [13:43] 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 [13:43] 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 [13:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Back End/Databases Leftovers [13:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Debian: Freexian Report and Updates in Raspberry Pi OS and Tails [13:43] 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 [13:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Digital Sovereignty / Software Freedom Gaining Traction [13:43] 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 [13:43] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla: Firefox Nightly, Policy, MozPhab, and YouTuve [13:44] 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 [13:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [13:51] TR News Red Hat build of Kueue 1.3: Enhanced batch workload management on Kubernetes https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/red-hat-build-kueue-1-3-batch-workload-kubernetes [13:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/red-hat-build-kueue-1-3-batch-workload-kubernetes ) [13:51] TR News FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps https://fossforce.com/2026/04/funos-ubuntu-lts-with-jwm-and-no-snaps/ [13:51] TR Bot FunOS: Ubuntu LTS with JWM and No Snaps - FOSS Force [13:53] TR News Microsoft surveillance and back doors sold as "confidential" by IBM Red Hat. Disgraceful decline. https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/confidential-containers-workshop-microsoft-azure-red-hat-openshift-learn-interactively [13:53] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/confidential-containers-workshop-microsoft-azure-red-hat-openshift-learn-interactively ) [13:55] TR News Build deterministic OpenShift dataplane performance with TRex https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/build-deterministic-openshift-dataplane-performance-trex [13:55] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/build-deterministic-openshift-dataplane-performance-trex ) ● Apr 17 [14:01] TR News IBM advocating plagiarism chatbots https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/pip-install-vllm-single-command [14:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/16/pip-install-vllm-single-command ) [14:02] TR News Protect identity infrastructure in cloud-native environments https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/protect-identity-infrastructure-cloud-native-environments [14:02] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/protect-identity-infrastructure-cloud-native-environments ) [14:03] TR News Linux Matters: Pouring out the Sidra https://linuxmatters.sh/79/ [14:03] TR Bot Pouring out the Sidra [14:07] TR News Only 23% of Hongkongers want children, survey shows https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/13/only-23-of-hongkongers-want-children-survey-shows/ [14:07] TR Bot Only 23% of Hongkongers want children, survey shows [14:07] TR News Founder of Chinas Evergrande pleads guilty to fraud, court says https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/14/founder-of-chinas-evergrande-pleads-guilty-to-fraud-court-says/ [14:07] TR Bot Founder of China's Evergrande pleads guilty to fraud, court says [14:09] TR News Scribus 1.6.6 Released with Image Rotate Script Function https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/scribus-1-6-6-released-with-image-rotate-script-function/ [14:09] TR Bot Scribus 1.6.6 Released with Image Rotate Script Function | UbuntuHandbook [14:10] TR News Sniffnet Released 1.5.0 with Per App/Program Network Monitoring https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/sniffnet-released-1-5-0-with-per-app-program-network-monitoring/ [14:10] TR Bot Sniffnet Released 1.5.0 with Per App/Program Network Monitoring | UbuntuHandbook [14:10] TR News Your old Kindle wont stop working on 20 May but it could https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/older-kindles-amazon-support [14:10] TR Bot Amazon Ends Support for Pre-2013 Kindles in May [14:11] TR News 9 Useful Free and Open Source S3 Terminal Tools https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-s3-terminal-tools/ [14:11] TR Bot Useful Free and Open Source S3 Terminal Tools - LinuxLinks [14:12] TR News lazyenv work with environment variable files across projects https://www.linuxlinks.com/lazyenv-environment-variable-files-across-projects/ [14:12] TR Bot - work with environment variable files across projects - LinuxLinks [14:12] TR News Telepipe command-line shell for GNOME https://www.linuxlinks.com/telepipe-command-line-shell-for-gnome/ [14:12] TR Bot - command-line shell for GNOME - LinuxLinks [14:13] TR News Cedilla Markdown text editor for the COSMIC desktop https://www.linuxlinks.com/cedilla-markdown-text-editor/ [14:13] TR Bot - Markdown text editor for the COSMIC desktop - LinuxLinks [14:14] TR News Minisforum MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Introduction https://www.linuxlinks.com/minisforum-ms-r1-arm-workstation-running-linux-introduction/ [14:14] TR Bot MS-R1 ARM Mini Workstation running Linux: Introduction - LinuxLinks [14:14] TR News Timetable unofficial client for WebUntis https://www.linuxlinks.com/timetable-unofficial-client-webuntis/ [14:14] TR Bot - unofficial client for WebUntis - LinuxLinks [14:15] TR News Symja computer algebra system and symbolic mathematics library https://www.linuxlinks.com/symja-computer-algebra-system-symbolic-mathematics-library/ [14:15] TR Bot - computer algebra system and symbolic mathematics library - LinuxLinks [14:16] TR News Shift OS Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distribution https://www.linuxlinks.com/shift-os-ubuntu-based-linux-distribution/ [14:16] TR Bot OS - Ubuntu based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks [14:16] TR News 21 Best Free and Open Source GNU/Linux Computer Algebra Systems https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-linux-computer-algebra-systems/ [14:16] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Linux Computer Algebra Systems - LinuxLinks [14:17] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 is released Makes you forget backdoored Windows quickly https://www.reallinuxuser.com/zorin-os-18-1-is-released-makes-you-forget-windows-quickly/ [14:17] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 is released Makes you forget Windows quickly - [14:17] TR News Microsoft Uses Slop to Bribe (at No Cost) Nations That Otherwise Would Move to GNU/Linux and I.C.B.M. is Forcing Red Bait Staff to Use Slop https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/Microsoft_Uses_Slop_to_Bribe_at_No_Cost_Nations_That_Otherwise_.shtml [14:17] 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 [14:18] TR News Microsoft Linus/Linux Torvalds https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-NTFS-Driver-Submitted-Linux [14:18] TR Bot NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1 - Phoronix [14:18] TR News Omarchy 3.5.1 is out https://distrowatch.com/omarchy [14:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/omarchy ) [14:19] TR News Vendefoul 20260415 released as well https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul [14:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/vendefoul ) [14:21] TR News KDE Mega Sprint 2026 https://merritt.codes/blog/2026/04/15/2026/_kde_mega_sprint [14:21] TR Bot KDE Mega Sprint 2026 | Merritt Codes [14:23] TR News UN experts warn French antisemitism bill threatens free speech https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/un-experts-warn-french-antisemitism-bill-threatens-free-speech/ [14:23] TR Bot UN experts warn French antisemitism bill threatens free speech - JURIST - News [14:28] TR News Discussing RTO in my Genesi t-shirt... https://peter.czanik.hu/posts/genesi-rto/ [14:28] TR Bot Discussing RTO in my Genesi t-shirt... | Random thoughts of Peter 'CzP' Czanik [14:30] TR News The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1135179/anthropogenic-noise-hurting-animals/ [14:30] TR Bot The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? | MIT Technology Review [14:32] TR News Conclusive Engineering KSTR-SAMA5D27 is an ultra-compact, low-power SBC based on Microchip SAMA5D57 SiP https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/16/conclusive-engineering-kstr-sama5d27-ultra-compact-sbc-microchip-sama5d57-sip/ [14:32] TR Bot Conclusive Engineering KSTR-SAMA5D27 is an ultra-compact, low-power SBC based on Microchip SAMA5D57 SiP - CNX Software [14:32] TR News In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/16/In_Europe_More_People_Turn_to_Russia_for_Answers_Not_Microsoft.shtml [14:32] TR Bot Techrights In Europe, More People Turn to Russia for Answers, Not Microsoft [14:34] TR News European airlines could run out of jet fuel 'in six weeks' https://www.france24.com/en/european-airlines-could-run-out-of-jet-fuel-in-six-weeks [14:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/european-airlines-could-run-out-of-jet-fuel-in-six-weeks ) [14:34] TR News Russia escalates internet crackdown, says curbs are temporary https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260416-russia-escalates-internet-crackdown-says-curbs-are-temporary [14:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20260416-russia-escalates-internet-crackdown-says-curbs-are-temporary ) [14:38] TR News AOL: Microsoft Is Already Pulling Back On Its Windows Copilot AI Push [14:38] TR News Bubbles burst, eventually [14:43] TR News EXCLUSIVE SRA 'broke own guidance' banning solicitor for suicide attempts https://www.rollonfriday.com/news-content/exclusive-sra-broke-own-guidance-banning-solicitor-suicide-attempts [14:43] TR Bot SRA 'broke own guidance' banning solicitor for suicide attempts - RollOnFriday [14:50] TR News Lithuania condemns Belarus decision to label exiled university extremist organisation https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900072/lithuania-condemns-belarus-decision-to-label-exiled-university-extremist-organisation [14:50] TR Bot Lithuania condemns Belarus decision to label exiled university extremist organisation - LRT [14:52] TR News AGPLv374 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2026/apr/16/badgeware-onlyoffice-nextcloud-affero-gpl/ [14:52] TR Bot AGPLv374 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware - Conservancy Blog - Software Freedom Conservancy [14:52] TR News CISA spikes CyberCorps internships amid shutdown https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2026/04/cisa-spikes-cybercorps-internships-amid-shutdown/ [14:52] TR Bot CISA spikes CyberCorps internships amid shutdown | Federal News Network [14:54] TR News Space Forces STARCOM to hire more than 400 civilians amid push to expand the force https://federalnewsnetwork.com/hiring-retention/2026/04/space-forces-starcom-to-hire-more-than-400-civilians-amid-push-to-expand-the-force/ [14:54] TR Bot Space Forces STARCOM to hire more than 400 civilians amid push to expand the force | Federal News Network [14:54] TR News Latvia's emergency app security improved https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/defence/15.04.2026-latvias-emergency-app-security-improved.a642971/ [14:54] TR Bot Latvia's emergency app security improved / Article [14:54] *ewig has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [14:55] TR News Introducing PDR Press Minis https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/04/introducing-pdr-press-minis [14:55] TR Bot Introducing PDR Press Minis The Public Domain Review [14:56] TR News Organize your IoT fleet in Arduino Cloud with Smart Folders https://blog.arduino.cc/2026/04/15/organize-your-iot-fleet-in-arduino-cloud-with-smart-folders/ [14:56] TR Bot Organize your IoT fleet in Arduino Cloud with Smart Folders | Arduino Blog [14:57] TR News Tails 7.6.2 is out https://distrowatch.com/tails [14:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/tails ) ● Apr 17 [15:13] TR News Video: LibreOffice at the Grazer Linuxtage 2026 https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/04/16/video-libreoffice-at-the-grazer-linuxtage-2026/ [15:13] TR Bot Video: LibreOffice at the Grazer Linuxtage 2026 - TDF Community Blog [15:14] TR News Thunderbolt is an open-source AI client from Mozillas for-profit arm https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/mozilla-thunderbolt-ai-client [15:14] TR Bot Thunderbolt is an open-source 'AI client' from Mozilla's for-profit arm - OMG! Ubuntu [15:15] TR News We Have the Full Text for the Federal OS Age Verification Bill https://lunduke.substack.com/p/we-have-the-full-text-for-the-federal [15:15] TR Bot We Have the Full Text for the Federal OS Age Verification Bill [15:17] TR News How To Install Zsh on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-zsh-rocky-linux-10/ [15:17] TR Bot How To Install Zsh on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [15:17] TR News How To Install Rspamd on Debian 13 https://idroot.us/install-rspamd-debian-13/ [15:17] TR Bot How To Install Rspamd on Debian 13 - idroot [15:19] TR News How To Install GlusterFS on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-glusterfs-almalinux-10/ [15:19] TR Bot How To Install GlusterFS on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [15:20] TR News EasyClone support portable apps https://bkhome.org/news/202604/easyclone-support-portable-apps.html [15:20] TR Bot EasyClone support portable apps [15:21] TR News Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Microsoft's proprietary prison GitHub Copilot Agents Vulnerable to Prompt Injection via Comments https://www.securityweek.com/claude-code-gemini-cli-github-copilot-agents-vulnerable-to-prompt-injection-via-comments/ [15:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/claude-code-gemini-cli-github-copilot-agents-vulnerable-to-prompt-injection-via-comments/ ) [15:21] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [15:21] TR News Astronomo modern terminal browser for the Gemini protocol https://www.linuxlinks.com/astronomo-modern-terminal-browser-gemini/ [15:21] TR Bot - modern terminal browser for the Gemini protocol - LinuxLinks [15:22] TR News Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record https://cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026/ [15:22] TR Bot drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record | CyberScoop [15:25] TR News Security updates for Thursday https://lwn.net/Articles/1067993/ [15:25] TR Bot updates for Thursday [LWN.net] [15:26] TR News Sahil Dhiman: What is Life (to you)? https://blog.sahilister.in/2026/04/what-is-life-to-you/ [15:26] TR Bot What is Life (to you)? [15:27] TR News Whats new in R 4.6.0? https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/whats-new-in-r-4-6-0/ [15:27] TR Bot new in R 4.6.0? | R-bloggers [15:28] TR News Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-sues-openai-chatgpt-stalker [15:28] TR Bot Woman Sues OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Unleashed a Vicious Stalker Against Her and Did Nothing When She Begged for Help [15:31] TR News Getting USB4 hotplug to work https://bkhome.org/news/202604/getting-usb4-hotplug-to-work.html [15:31] TR Bot Getting USB4 hotplug to work [15:32] TR News Border line-characters in text-mode dialog utility https://bkhome.org/news/202604/border-line-characters-in-text-mode-dialog-utility.html [15:32] TR Bot Border line-characters in text-mode dialog utility [15:33] TR News New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Gods of Sands and Idols of Ash - 2026-04-15 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-04-15-edition/index.html [15:33] TR Bot New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Gods of Sands and Idols of Ash - 2026-04-15 Edition [15:34] TR News Announcing Embedded Linux Security, Bootlins brand new training course https://bootlin.com/blog/embedded-linux-security-training-course/ [15:34] TR Bot Embedded Linux Security, Bootlins brand new training course Bootlin [15:35] TR News PostgreSQL Cheatsheet https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/postgresql/ [15:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/cheatsheet/postgresql/ ) [15:35] TR News PostgreSQL User Management: Create Users and Grant Privileges https://linuxize.com/post/postgresql-user-management/ [15:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/post/postgresql-user-management/ ) [15:36] TR News Rust is not magic for security https://security.opensuse.org/2026/04/16/cosmic-greeter.html [15:36] TR Bot cosmic-greeter: Unsafe File System Operations in User Home Directories (CVE-2026-25704) | SUSE Security Team Blog [15:37] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [15:38] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [15:38] MinceR (audio:unimportant) https://apina.biz/194826.mp4?mode=sfw [15:38] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-http://apina.biz/194826.mp4 [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] "" [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] DistroTube -A Richard Stallman Fan that Prioritizes Appearance [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] Distrotubes channel is about Linux distro reviews, opinion pieces, FOSS philosophy, Tiling WMs, Emacs, and CLI. He frames his preferences as superior and presents his workflow as the ideal. For beginners or mainstream users, it's totally impractical (following the pattern of Loonixards expecting normies to use their computers like they do). I use TWM and CLI myself, but I wouldn't suggest it for people who don't live on their h [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] ome PCs or don't have issues with RSIs. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] He pushed emacs hard for a long time, but never explained why. He even stated that it took him 2 years to learn it himself. At one point, he finally said why he preferred emacs to vim: "because of the fonts", and "my aging eyes". -FFS that's a crazy reason to push it on others! [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] His website shows heavy emphasis on Emacs/Org Mode, tiling window managers, Minimalist distros, and manual configuration. -Nothing a normie benefits from, and they often feel misled when they try to copy his setup and break their system. Even as a power user, I found starting from scratch was easier than copying or dealing with his twisted way of doing things. -Not good for noobs, not good for power users. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] He encourages beginners to jump into advanced workflows theyre not ready for. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] DTOS (his own distro) was marketed as a simple way to get his Arch workflow, but it was poorly documented and broke easily. It mixed personal preferences with systemlevel configs and wasnt maintained at a distroquality standard. His own community criticism of the project is widespread. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] Many videos cover the same topics. First glance videos (some call reviews) merely cover the desktop environment which is fine if you distro-hop every time an update makes things complicated. Do viewers really need to hear an opinion on how 'beautiful' the default desktop is when they could simply bring up snapshots in far less time? He barely covers anything that really matters especially for an OS that markets itself as 'customiz [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] able'. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] Viewers expect a journalistic Linux channel, but Distrotube is just a personal vlog. [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] His content aims to appeal to Arch users, minimalists (which are dying out and less and less useful), tiling WM enthusiasts, and FOSS purists. The community is elitist or dismissive of mainstream Linux users which he has written about. (The Loonixtards of Loonixtards) [15:41] schestowitz[TR3] Hes just a content creator, not a distro maintainer or upstream contributor, and he even sucks at that. " [15:42] *acer-box has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [15:42] *acer-box (~acer-box@freenode-quitr6.ldvb.0amm.hij1op.IP) has joined #techrights [15:48] TR News Man in Malaysia arrested after video of puppy aggressively submerged in water tank goes viral https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/man-in-malaysia-arrested-after-video-submerging-puppy-in-water-tank-goes-viral spouse of Garrett said he broke their puppy's leg https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/12/When_Cruelty_is_the_Point_American_SLAPPs_in_London_the_United_.shtml [15:48] TR Bot Man in Malaysia arrested after video of puppy aggressively submerged in water tank goes viral | The Straits Times [15:48] TR Bot Techrights When Cruelty is the Point (American SLAPPs in London, the United Kingdom, Europe) [15:49] TR News Chinese fabs import record volumes of US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia homegrown tool makers booked record 2025 revenues as price competition squeezes margins https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinese-chip-tool-makers-booked-record-2025-revenues [15:49] TR Bot Chinese fabs import record volumes of US chipmaking equipment via Singapore and Malaysia homegrown tool makers booked record 2025 revenues as price competition squeezes margins | Tom's Hardware [15:51] TR News Chinas economy beats forecasts to grow 5 per cent in first quarter of 2026 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/chinas-economy-beats-forecasts-to-grow-5-per-cent-in-1q-2026 [15:51] TR Bot China's economy beats 2026 Q1 forecasts | The Straits Times [15:52] TR News Rights group condemns Kazakhstan conviction of human rights protestors https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/rights-group-condemns-kazakhstan-conviction-of-human-rights-protestors/ [15:52] TR Bot Amnesty International condemns Kazakhstan conviction of human rights protestors - JURIST - News [15:54] TR News Irish News wrong to allege serious editorial misconduct on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/newspaper-corrections-media-mistakes-errors-legal/irish-news-wrong-to-allege-serious-editorial-misconduct-on-stephen-nolan-show-ipso/ "Title breached Editors' Code with investigation into BillBC show." [15:54] TR Bot Irish News wrong to allege 'serious editorial misconduct' on Stephen Nolan show, says IPSO - Press Gazette [15:55] TR News Playgrounds for climbers: The state of Americas elite universities https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/16/playgrounds-for-climbers/ [15:55] TR Bot Playgrounds for climbers: America's elite universities ● Apr 17 [16:01] TR News Dog Owners Often Miss The Subtle Signs Their Pet Is in Pain, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/dog-owners-often-miss-the-subtle-signs-their-pet-is-in-pain-study-finds [16:01] TR Bot Owners Often Miss The Subtle Signs Their Pet Is in Pain, Study Finds : ScienceAlert [16:03] TR News Lithuania records one of highest inflation rates in EU in March https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2900221/lithuania-records-one-of-highest-inflation-rates-in-eu-in-march [16:03] TR Bot Lithuania records one of highest inflation rates in EU in March - LRT [16:04] TR News Forgejo 15.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1068001/ [16:04] TR Bot 15.0 released [LWN.net] [16:04] TR News Rust 1.95.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1068011/ [16:04] TR Bot 1.95.0 released [LWN.net] [16:21] TR News Snap Is Laying Off 16% of Full-Time Staff as It Embraces Hey Hi (AI) [as Lousy Excuse] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/snap-layoffs-snapchat.html [16:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/snap-layoffs-snapchat.html ) [16:22] TR News NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious Hey Hi (AI) Data Center https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/naacp-sues-xai-elon-musk-jpg [16:22] TR Bot NAACP Sues Elon Over His Noxious AI Data Center [16:23] TR News Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional Hey Hi (AI) Pivot https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/allbirds-stock-now-crashing [16:23] TR Bot Allbirds Stock Now Crashing as Reality Sets in About Its Delusional AI Pivot [16:43] TR News Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA https://itsfoss.com/news/os-level-age-verification-across-us/ [16:43] TR Bot Oh No! Now A Federal Bill Wants OS-Level Age Verification for Everyone in the USA [16:45] TR News Malaysia preparing to amend laws to curb waste dumping, report says https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/malaysia-plans-amending-laws-to-curb-waste-dumping-report-says [16:45] TR Bot Malaysia preparing to amend laws to curb waste dumping, report says | The Straits Times [16:45] TR News US federal jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated illegal monopoly https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/us-federal-jury-finds-live-nation-and-ticketmaster-operated-illegal-monopoly/ [16:45] TR Bot US federal jury finds Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated illegal monopoly - JURIST - News [16:45] TR News (NEW): Digital Restrictions (DRM) and Attacks on Computing Freedom in the US/GAFAM https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Digital_Restrictions_DRM_and_Attacks_on_Computing_Freedom_in_th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Digital_Restrictions_DRM_and_Attacks_on_Computing_Freedom_in_th.gmi [16:45] TR Bot Tux Machines Digital Restrictions (DRM) and Attacks on Computing Freedom in the US/GAFAM [16:57] MinceR (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/april-16-I12fRvo [16:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/april-16-I12fRvo ) ● Apr 17 [17:02] TR News Dozens Detained During Easter Gatherings in Turkmenistan https://www.rferl.org/a/33733767.html [17:02] TR Bot Dozens Detained During Easter Gatherings in Turkmenistan [17:04] TR News Ransomware Hits Automotive Data Expert Autovista https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-hits-automotive-data-expert-autovista/ [17:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/ransomware-hits-automotive-data-expert-autovista/ ) [17:05] TR News Cisco Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Webex, ISE https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-webex-ise/ [17:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/cisco-patches-critical-vulnerabilities-in-webex-ise/ ) [17:05] TR News NIST Prioritizes NVD Enrichment for CVEs in CISA KEV, Critical Software https://www.securityweek.com/nist-prioritizes-nvd-enrichment-for-cves-in-cisa-kev-critical-software/ [17:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/nist-prioritizes-nvd-enrichment-for-cves-in-cisa-kev-critical-software/ ) [17:06] TR News Splunk Enterprise Update Patches Code Execution Vulnerability https://www.securityweek.com/splunk-enterprise-update-patches-code-execution-vulnerability/ [17:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/splunk-enterprise-update-patches-code-execution-vulnerability/ ) [17:06] TR News Data Breach at Tennessee Hospital Affects 337,000 https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-tennessee-hospital-affects-337000/ [17:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/data-breach-at-tennessee-hospital-affects-337000/ ) [17:07] TR News A Beautiful Purplish Hue: Frank Dudley Beanes Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis [17:07] TR Bot A Beautiful Purplish Hue: Frank Dudley Beanes Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884) The Public Domain Review [17:08] TR News Children of talent visa holders face reduced eligibility for local tuition at Hong Kong universities under new rules https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/16/children-of-top-talent-visa-holders-face-reduced-eligibility-for-local-tuition-at-hong-kong-universities-under-new-rules/ [17:08] TR Bot Children of toptalent visa holders face reduced eligibility for local university tuition fees [17:09] TR News Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/amazon-delivery-drone-smash [17:09] TR Bot Video Shows Amazon Delivery Drone Dropping Package Directly Onto Concrete, Smashing Its Delicate Contents [17:10] TR News A proposed federal personnel shift could chill whistleblowers long before anyone gets fired https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/2026/04/a-proposed-federal-personnel-shift-could-chill-whistleblowers-long-before-anyone-gets-fired/ [17:10] TR Bot A proposed federal personnel shift could chill whistleblowers long before anyone gets fired | Federal News Network [17:10] TR News Carbon Removal Industry Reels as Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Retreats https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/microsoft-carbon-removal.html [17:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/microsoft-carbon-removal.html ) [17:11] TR News The Long-Term Plan to Scrub Carbon From the Sky https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/the-long-term-plan-to-scrub-carbon-from-the-sky.html "Microsoft is pulling back from efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere" [17:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/climate/the-long-term-plan-to-scrub-carbon-from-the-sky.html ) [17:11] TR News Is carbon removal in trouble? https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/04/16/1135928/carbon-removal-microsoft/ "Last week, news outlets reported that Abusive Monopolist Microsoft was pausing carbon removal purchases." [17:11] TR Bot Is carbon removal in trouble? | MIT Technology Review [17:12] TR News Starbucks Baffling Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups https://futurism.com/future-society/starbucks-chatgpt-coffee [17:12] TR Bot Starbucks' Baffling ChatGPT Collab Treats Customers Like Empty, Soulless Venti Cups [17:13] TR News PGConf.BE : Preliminary schedule, registrations open and speakers online https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgconfbe-preliminary-schedule-registrations-open-and-speakers-online-3272/ [17:13] TR Bot PostgreSQL: PGConf.BE : Preliminary schedule, registrations open and speakers online [17:34] TR News Lumma Stealer infection with Sectop RAT (ArechClient2), (Fri, Apr 17th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32904 [17:34] TR Bot Lumma Stealer infection with Sectop RAT (ArechClient2) [17:36] TR News Extra Credit Not Required: Teva v. Lilly and the Limits of Amgens Reach https://patentlyo.com/patent/2026/04/extra-credit-not-required-teva-v-lilly-and-the-limits-of-amgens-reach.html [17:36] TR Bot Extra Credit, Not Required: Teva v. Lilly and the Limits of Amgen's Reach [17:36] TR News Software Patents https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/start-up-toilet-function-chinese-automaker-patents-voice-activated-in-car-toilet [17:36] TR Bot Start up toilet function: Chinese carmaker patents voice-activated in-car toilet | The Straits Times [17:37] TR News Acacia entity, Atlas Global, Wi-Fi patent monopoly challenge instituted https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/acacia-entity-atlas-global-wi-fi-patent-challenge-instituted [17:37] TR Bot Acacia entity, Atlas Global, Wi-Fi patent challenge instituted Unified Patents [17:37] TR News Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent monopoly found invalid https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/15/dominion-harbor-entity-arlington-technologies-wi-fi-patent-found-invalid https://techrights.org/wiki/Dominion_Harbor/ [17:37] TR Bot Dominion Harbor entity, Arlington Technologies, Wi-Fi patent found invalid Unified Patents [17:37] TR Bot Dominion Harbor [17:38] TR News AutoConnect Holdings vehicle network patent monopoly challenged https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2026/4/16/autoconnect-holdings-vehicle-network-patent-challenged [17:38] TR Bot AutoConnect Holdings vehicle network patent challenged Unified Patents [17:38] TR News US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent monopoly infringement lawsuit against defective chip maker Intel VLSI case from 2017 returns after court sets aside 2024 decision https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/us-appeals-court-restarts-usd3-billion-patent-infringement-lawsuit-against-intel-vlsi-case-from-2017-returns-after-court-sets-aside-2024-decision [17:38] TR Bot US appeals court restarts $3 billion patent infringement lawsuit against Intel VLSI case from 2017 returns after court sets aside 2024 decision | Tom's Hardware [17:38] TR News Corning and Quinn Emanuel defend special glass production method against TCL https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/corning-quinn-defend-special-glass-production-method-against-tcl/ [17:38] TR Bot Corning and Quinn Emanuel defend special glass production method against TCL [17:41] TR News Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise Hey Hi (AI) Client https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Thunderbolt [17:41] TR Bot Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client - Phoronix [17:42] TR News (NEW): Mozilla Undermines Its Image (and Firefox) by Pushing Slop Via "Thunderbolt" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Mozilla_Undermines_Its_Image_and_Firefox_by_Pushing_Slop_Via_Th.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Mozilla_Undermines_Its_Image_and_Firefox_by_Pushing_Slop_Via_Th.gmi [17:42] TR Bot Tux Machines Mozilla Undermines Its Image (and Firefox) by Pushing Slop Via "Thunderbolt" [17:43] TR News Thibault Martin: TIL that Pagefind does great client-side search https://ergaster.org/til/pagefind-static-search/ [17:43] TR Bot Pagefind does great client-side search [17:43] TR News The Rust Programming Language Blog: Announcing Rust 1.95.0 https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/04/16/Rust-1.95.0/ [17:44] TR Bot Announcing Rust 1.95.0 | Rust Blog [17:44] TR News IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Surveillance Giant Google services, matching IPv4 https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/ipv6-usage-reaches-historic-50-percent-across-google-services-matching-ipv4-increased-usage-eases-pressure-on-the-ipv4-address-market-as-new-protocol-designed-in-1998-finally-hits-its-stride [17:44] TR Bot IPv6 usage reaches historic 50% across Google services, matching IPv4 increased usage eases pressure on the IPv4 address market as 'new' protocol designed in 1998 finally hits its stride | Tom's Hardware [17:45] TR News Proprietary, so problematic https://itsfoss.com/news/tuta-drive-closed-beta/ [17:45] TR Bot Privacy Email Service Tuta Now Also Has Cloud Storage with Quantum-Resistant Encryption [17:46] TR News Why I Use Fediverse As My Main Social Media Platform https://gregoryhammond.ca/blog/why-i-use-fediverse/ [17:46] TR Bot Why I Use Fediverse As My Main Social Media Platform - Gregory Hammond [17:47] TR News Samsung asks court to block illegal strike activities by unions https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/samsung-asks-court-to-block-illegal-strike-activities-by-unions [17:47] TR Bot Samsung asks court to block illegal strike activities by unions | The Straits Times [17:47] TR News Israeli military admit to posting Hey Hi (AI) photo of Lebanese journalist it killed https://www.france24.com/en/israeli-military-admit-to-posting-ai-photo-of-killed-lebanese-journalist [17:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/israeli-military-admit-to-posting-ai-photo-of-killed-lebanese-journalist ) [17:48] TR News Reed Hastings Will Leave DRM spreader Netflix as Board Chairman https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/media/reed-hastings-netflix-chair.html [17:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/business/media/reed-hastings-netflix-chair.html ) [17:50] TR News Firefox Nightly: QR Codes, Speed Calculators, Better RAM Usage These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 199 https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/04/15/qr-codes-speed-calculators-better-ram-usage-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-199/ [17:50] TR Bot QR Codes, Speed Calculators, Better RAM Usage These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 199 Firefox Nightly News [17:51] TR News Mozilla Localization (L10N): Localizer Spotlight: Baurzhan https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2026/04/15/localizer-spotlight-baurzhan/ [17:51] TR Bot Localizer Spotlight: Baurzhan Mozilla L10N [17:53] TR News How to Change Default Desktop Environment on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-default-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-26-04-2 [17:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-change-default-desktop-environment-on-ubuntu-26-04-2 ) [17:53] *admfubar has quit (Quit: Leaving) [17:55] *Goblin (~use@g5mtr4e86tp7q.irc) has joined #techrights [17:56] TR News Petter Reinholdtsen: Talking to the Computer, and Getting Some Nonsense Back... http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Talking_to_the_Computer__and_Getting_Some_Nonsense_Back___.html [17:56] TR Bot Petter Reinholdtsen: Talking to the Computer, and Getting Some Nonsense Back... [17:56] TR News 192 MHz WCH CH32V205 RISC-V MCU offers a 480 Mbps USB 2.0 interface https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/14/192-mhz-wch-ch32v205-risc-v-mcu-offers-a-480-mbps-usb-2-0-interface/ [17:56] TR Bot 192 MHz WCH CH32V205 RISC-V MCU offers a 480 Mbps USB 2.0 interface - CNX Software [17:57] *admfubar (~admfubar@ae6yc8gqwe7jq.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 17 [18:00] TR News Call for Proposals: Regional Events Celebrating CCs 25th Anniversary https://creativecommons.org/2026/04/16/call-for-proposals-regional-events-celebrating-ccs-25th-anniversary/ [18:00] TR Bot Call for Proposals: Regional Events Celebrating CCs 25th Anniversary - Creative Commons [18:00] TR News FSF Events: LibreLocal meetup in Beijing, China http://www.fsf.org/events/meetup-2026-05-01-beijing-pekin-china [18:00] TR Bot LibreLocal meetup in Beijing, China Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [18:01] TR News GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/gnome-50-1-released-with-numerous-fixes/ [18:01] TR Bot GNOME 50.1 Released with Numerous Fixes | UbuntuHandbook [18:01] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 Released with Lite Edition Features XFCE 4.20 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released-with-lite-edition-features-xfce-4-20/ [18:01] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 Released with Lite Edition Features XFCE 4.20 | UbuntuHandbook [18:03] TR News Can You Identify The Fake GNU/Linux Distros From The Real Ones? https://itsfoss.com/quiz/guess-fake-distros/ [18:03] TR Bot Can You Identify The Fake Linux Distros From The Real Ones? [18:03] TR News FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France GNU/Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More https://itsfoss.com/newsletter/foss-weekly-26-16/ [18:03] TR Bot FOSS Weekly #26.16: Kernel 7.0, Essential Terminal Tips, France Linux Move, New Age Verification Bill and More [18:04] TR News Ghostty finally lands in the Ubuntu repos https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ghostty-terminal-ubuntu-26-04-apt-install [18:04] TR Bot Ghostty terminal is now available in the Ubuntu repos [18:04] TR News Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/tributary-music-player-gtk4 [18:04] TR Bot Tributary is the GTK4 Rhythmbox port of your dreams - OMG! Ubuntu [18:04] TR News Linux Mints next release wont be until Christmas 2026 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/linux-mint-next-release-christmas-2026 [18:04] TR Bot Linux Mint's next release won't be until Christmas 2026 - OMG! Ubuntu [18:05] TR News Talos 1.13.0-rc0 released https://distrowatch.com/talos [18:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/talos ) [18:06] TR News SmartOS 20260416 released as well https://distrowatch.com/smartos [18:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/smartos ) [18:06] TR News Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists https://citizenlab.ca/beijing-codifies-repression-of-overseas-activists/ [18:06] TR Bot Beijing Codifies Repression of Overseas Activists - The Citizen Lab [18:06] TR News From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus https://citizenlab.ca/from-stuxnet-to-operation-epic-fury-the-china-iran-intelligence-nexus/ [18:07] TR Bot From Stuxnet to Operation Epic Fury: The China-Iran Intelligence Nexus - The Citizen Lab [18:09] TR News Microsoft sponsored propaganda arm bases its "studies" on Microsoft data https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2026/04/14/language-rankings-1-26/ http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/13/RedMonk_September_the_Month_of_the_Mouth_of_Redmond_Still.shtml [18:09] TR Bot RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2026 tecosystems [18:09] TR Bot Techrights RedMonk: September the Month of the Mouth of Redmond (Still) [18:10] TR News Object Oriented Programming in Ada https://entropicthoughts.com/object-oriented-programming-in-ada [18:10] TR Bot Object Oriented Programming in Ada [18:10] TR News Zig 0.16.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1067634/ [18:10] TR Bot 0.16.0 released [LWN.net] [18:11] TR News Emmanuel Kasper: Minix 3 on Beagle Board Black (ARM) https://00formicapunk00.wordpress.com/2026/04/15/minix-3-on-beagle-board-black-arm/ [18:11] TR Bot Minix 3 on Beagle Board Black (ARM) formicapunk [18:12] TR News Exploring the blind spot of IXPs Route Servers https://blog.apnic.net/2026/04/15/exploring-the-blind-spot-of-ixps-route-servers/ [18:12] TR Bot Exploring the blind spot of IXPs Route Servers | APNIC Blog [18:13] TR News IBM Red Hat boosting slop, not Linux https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/deploying-agents-red-hat-ai-openclaw [18:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/14/deploying-agents-red-hat-ai-openclaw ) [18:13] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@kwghe8kvqnt78.irc) has joined #techrights [18:14] TR News Spewing out slopaganda (slop propaganda) from Red Hat's official site https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/governance-lessons-red-hat-hybrid-cloud-console [18:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/15/governance-lessons-red-hat-hybrid-cloud-console ) [18:16] TR News Adam Young: Fixing my virt Network https://adam.younglogic.com/2026/04/fixing-my-virt-network/ [18:16] TR Bot Fixing my virt Network | Adam Young's Web Log [18:18] TR News Google changes hit revenue at The Sun as losses grow to 53m https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_business/platform-algorithm-changes-hit-revenue-losses-at-the-sun/ [18:18] TR Bot Google changes hit revenue at The Sun as losses grow to 53m - Press Gazette [18:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: I don't know why "vibe coding" is allowed in Linux now. [18:20] IsambardPrince It seems like two things will happen. [18:21] IsambardPrince They'll start getting tons of patches that are just something plausible that a chatbot made up. The submitter might have understood what it was trying to do, they might not. [18:21] IsambardPrince So they'll get bombarded with some patches from people who just directly submit what the robot made up. [18:21] IsambardPrince These either won't work at all or they'll introduce morer problems than what they were trying to solve. [18:22] IsambardPrince Even if the code is mostly okay, has problems, but the person trying to submit it understands what the problem is and fixes it up to work, and it does work, you still have licensing issues. [18:22] psydroid3 vibing into irrelevance [18:22] IsambardPrince Where it sees code under one license that was in github somewhere, and then suggests what is essentially the same code. Then they try to license it for Linux under the GPLv2. [18:23] IsambardPrince Which creates a legal problem which can spark lawsuits for copyright infringement against the Linux project, all of the maintainers who submitted such code, distributions, and even people using the distributions. [18:24] IsambardPrince It will be like SCO v. Linux all over again except that instead of just baseless accusations and a few lines from a header file that could not possibly work any other way and THAT is why it was similar.... [18:24] IsambardPrince It will be all over the kernel tree by then, actually true, and impossible to defend. [18:25] IsambardPrince Even worse, there could be hundreds of thousands or even millions of lines of this sort of code all over the tree by then. [18:25] IsambardPrince And it might take years to replace it all, so you could lose all of the functionality it added when those patches have to be reverted or the entire module deleted from the tree. [18:26] IsambardPrince IBM/Red Hat is promoting "vibe coding" for the Linux kernel, but it doesn't promise that they will defend you when you have problems. [18:26] IsambardPrince Nowhere on their stinking blog do they promise they'll help you out. [18:27] IsambardPrince Also, I ran into some new accusations against ReactOS. [18:28] IsambardPrince According to a Microsoft employee who works on the kernel, he has looked at the ReactOS kernel source code and has found a lot of code that could not have possibly been clean room reverse engineered. [18:28] IsambardPrince He asserted that the code in question is not in symbols that are publicly exported by any part of the Windows kernel and would be impossible to reimplement "verbatim" without access to the source code of a Windows kernel. [18:29] IsambardPrince He claims that the files in question contain lots of code that is identical to the "Windows Research Kernel" which was distributed to universities under Microsoft's "shared source" program, which was not open source. [18:30] IsambardPrince I can't recall which version of Windows the WRK was based on, but I want to say I recall reading it was based on a version of the tree for Windows 2003 Server, perhaps with some service pack level. [18:30] IsambardPrince The WRK wasn't useful on its own, because Microsoft stripped the tree of very nearly all of the drivers first. [18:32] IsambardPrince The legal status of ReactOS is doubtful, but I would guess Microsoft hasn't done anything about it because it's also not a threat to them. [18:32] IsambardPrince Wine on Linux can run more Windows programs, and ReactOS has very limited support for running outside of a Virtual Machine. [18:32] IsambardPrince Sometimes it can't even handle running on a Virtual Machine. [18:33] IsambardPrince And if this is 30 years of work, then the next 30 years are unlikely to result in anything useful eitehr. [18:33] IsambardPrince *either [18:35] IsambardPrince https://reactos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18812&start=15 [18:35] TR Bot Making sure you're not a bot! [18:35] IsambardPrince "The exact names of functions can be suspicious, but if Microsoft descriptions or documentations mention it, it's normal they used the same. And if a software asks for a function, normally the name is write in the error window." [18:36] IsambardPrince They have not saved actual evidence of how they gained that knowledge. [18:40] IsambardPrince https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341022 [18:40] TR Bot A Kernel Engineer at Microsoft's Answer to What Do You Think about ReactOS? | Hacker News [18:41] TR News ultra [18:41] TR News You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld https://www.androidauthority.com/ayn-odin-3-linux-handheld-3658057/ [18:41] MinceR lol, you had me at "Kernel Engineer at Microsoft" [18:41] TR Bot You can soon turn this Android handheld into an ultra-powerful Linux handheld [18:41] IsambardPrince "In particular, this person distinctly remembers a hack he implemented (Im not going to reveal any details, but suffice to say it was in response to some assertion by some 3rd parties that something Microsoft declared in a court of law as very difficult). He explained the hack to me in full details and, boy, hacky that was, and they found the same hack in ReactOSs code, except that the prsumer authors of that clean room [18:41] MinceR hilarious [18:41] IsambardPrince implementation probably have no idea regarding why the hack was there." [18:41] TR News "This release also updates the evdev-rs Rust wrapper around the C library libevdev with support for touch events, input event reporting, and other changes." https://9to5linux.com/canonical-releases-mir-2-26-with-initial-rust-implementation-of-wayland-frontend [18:41] TR Bot Releases Mir 2.26 with Initial Rust Implementation of Wayland Frontend - 9to5Linux [18:42] TR News "Brings improvements to KDE Itinerary, Kate, NeoChat, Konsole, Okular, Alligator, KDE Connect, Kasts, Minuet, Konqueror, Elisa, and other KDE apps." https://9to5linux.com/kde-gear-26-04-software-suite-is-out-with-many-improvements-for-kde-apps [18:42] TR Bot Gear 26.04 Software Suite Is Out with Many Improvements for KDE Apps - 9to5Linux [18:42] MinceR well, that would explain why reactos is so unstable [18:42] IsambardPrince Yes, Microsoft has a nasty habit of just hacking around bugs instead of fixing them. [18:42] TR News You can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect https://www.zdnet.com/article/try-new-linux-7-0-kernel-on-these-distributions/ [18:42] IsambardPrince That does have the side effect of laying a legal trap for anyone who just copies their source code into something else. [18:42] TR Bot can use Linux 7.0 on these 7 distros today - here's what to expect | ZDNET [18:43] MinceR https://engrish.com/2024/08/we-also-do-nail-craps/ [18:43] TR Bot also do nail craps - Engrish.com [18:43] IsambardPrince The major problem that Microsoft's approach causes, for them, is technical debt. [18:43] IsambardPrince The sum total of hacking around tens of thousands of bugs over the years is that the software behaves unpredictably, and eventually it becomes truly impossible to fix it. [18:44] TR News Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone https://www.zdnet.com/article/zorin-os-18-1-release-is-best-linux-distro-for-anyone/ [18:44] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone | ZDNET [18:44] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 Is Released https://blog.zorin.com/2026/04/15/zorin-os-18.1-is-released/ [18:44] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 Is Released - Zorin [18:45] TR News hardly unusual https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/15/enlightenment_e16_bug_patched/ [18:45] TR Bot 20-year-old Enlightenment E16 bug finally gets patched The Register [18:45] IsambardPrince MinceR: That's one reason why Windows explodes from like an 8 GB USB installer image, to over 140 GB on disk. [18:46] TR News 5 Bash one-liners that keep me coming back to the Linux terminal https://www.howtogeek.com/bash-one-liners-that-keep-me-coming-back-to-the-linux-terminal/ [18:46] TR Bot 5 Bash one-liners that keep me coming back to the Linux terminal [18:46] IsambardPrince It compresses very well because a lot of that is hundreds of slightly different versions of the same libraries. [18:46] TR News "This release improves COSMIC Files, COSMIC Edit, COSMIC Greeter, COSMIC Store, COSMIC Term, and other core components." https://9to5linux.com/cosmic-1-0-10-desktop-environment-brings-small-tweaks-and-bug-fixes [18:46] TR Bot 1.0.10 Desktop Environment Brings Small Tweaks and Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux [18:46] IsambardPrince But once it's on the computer, it ends up eating about a quarter to a half of all storage. [18:46] MinceR :> [18:46] TR News "I bought a USB fingerprint reader for my Linux laptop from Temu because it was the only one I could find that I knew would work." https://tedium.co/2026/04/14/linux-external-fingerprint-reader-challenges/ [18:46] TR Bot Linux & Fingerprint Readers: A Tough Combination [18:47] MinceR you're in a maze of twisty little libraries, all the same. [18:47] TR News Following the mindless hype and bubble https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/rocky-linux-expands-into-enterprise-ai-infrastructure-177705.html [18:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.linuxinsider.com/story/rocky-linux-expands-into-enterprise-ai-infrastructure-177705.html ) [18:47] TR News I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it https://www.makeuseof.com/i-was-avoiding-arch-linux-for-one-reason-and-this-tool-fixed-it/ [18:47] TR Bot I was avoiding Arch Linux for one reason, and this tool fixed it [18:48] TR News "Quickemu is a command-line program that uses scripts to automate the process of downloading, setting up, and optimizing a virtual machine on your Linux or Mac device." https://www.howtogeek.com/get-windows-on-linux-in-minutes-with-these-two-commands/ [18:48] TR Bot Get Windows on Linux in 10 minutes with these 2 commands [18:49] TR News Can this $70 Linux app make up for the lack of Photoshop? I tried it to find out https://www.zdnet.com/article/fogpanther-image-editor-linux-gimp-competitor/ [18:49] TR Bot this $70 Linux app make up for the lack of Photoshop? I tried it to find out | ZDNET [18:50] TR News Windows 11 vs CachyOS in gaming: Has Linux finally caught up to Windows? https://tech.sportskeeda.com/gaming-news/windows-11-vs-cachyos-gaming-has-linux-finally-caught-windows [18:50] TR Bot Windows 11 vs CachyOS in gaming: Has Linux finally caught up to Windows? [18:50] IsambardPrince Even when you install it, Microsoft uses a disguise to hide the true size, many of those folders use NTFS file system compression, which iirc is basically just DEFLATE. So in exchange for hiding the true size of it which is probably well over 200 GB, your computer runs slower. [18:52] IsambardPrince I don't think that Microsoft ever updated the compression algorithm, so it's still basically a slow algorithm designed in the early 90s by a man who drank himself to death in a motel room in Wisconsin while the police were looking for him, which is being used by Windows 10 and 11 to hide their true size. [18:52] TR News This Linux launcher replaced four habits I didn't question before https://www.makeuseof.com/i-replaced-my-linux-app-launcher-and-stopped-digging-through-menus/ [18:52] TR Bot This Linux launcher replaced four habits I didn't question before [18:52] IsambardPrince MinceR: schestowitz[TR3] ^ [18:52] TR News (NEW): New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds and Outperforming Windows https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_Outperforming_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Builds_and_Outperforming_.gmi [18:53] TR Bot Tux Machines New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds and Outperforming Windows [18:53] schestowitz[TR3] why not change? [18:53] schestowitz[TR3] bnack ward compat? [18:54] schestowitz[TR3] lack of money? [18:54] IsambardPrince The only reason Phil Katz designed DEFLATE and ZIP (the container) is because he had a spat with another small business that wrote a compressor algorithm. He came in and implemented their compressor and they sued him, and he lost, and as revenge he designed a new compressor and made it an open format. [18:54] IsambardPrince [12:53] why not change? [18:54] IsambardPrince [12:53] bnack ward compat? [18:54] IsambardPrince [12:54] lack of money? [18:54] TR News (NEW): Applications: Ulauncher, Sniffnet, and Fogpanther https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Applications_Ulauncher_Sniffnet_and_Fogpanther.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Applications_Ulauncher_Sniffnet_and_Fogpanther.gmi [18:54] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: Ulauncher, Sniffnet, and Fogpanther [18:54] IsambardPrince I suppose it would mean revisioning the file system's on-disk format. [18:55] MinceR they could add options to the on-disk format [18:55] IsambardPrince Yes, but that would mean revisioning earlier versions of Windows that are either EOL of in EOL support. [18:55] IsambardPrince Besides, it's not like it's worth the hassle to them. The slower your computer runs, the sooner you need another one. [18:56] TR News How to make marketing share doubling seem like a loss https://games.gg/news/steam-survey-linux-windows-switch-data/ [18:56] TR Bot Survey Data: Has the Big Switch to Linux Happened? | GAMES.GG [18:56] MinceR if the format is designed well enough (which it probably isn't), then it should be trivial to add another compression method without screwing up stuff written by earlier versions [18:56] MinceR they just won't be able to read new files written with the new algorithm [18:56] TR News I installed Zorin OS on an old laptop, and now I get the hype https://www.makeuseof.com/i-installed-zorin-os-on-an-old-laptop-and-now-i-get-the-hype/ [18:56] TR Bot I installed Zorin OS on an old laptop, and now I get the hype [18:57] TR News Fedora Linux 44 Update Gets Delayed to April 21 https://www.techpowerup.com/348220/fedora-linux-44-update-gets-delayed-to-april-21 [18:57] TR Bot Linux 44 Update Gets Delayed to April 21 | TechPowerUp [18:57] admfubar and the organization name didnt set off alarms??? https://www.rawstory.com/santacon-stefan-pildes-mocked/ [18:57] TR Bot 'You getting a lump of coal?' SantaCon founder mocked to his face after fraud arrest - Raw Story [18:57] MinceR :> [18:58] TR News Slop OK, old code not? https://hackaday.com/2026/04/14/new-linux-kernel-rules-put-the-onus-on-humans-for-ai-tool-usage/ [18:58] IsambardPrince "The LZNT1 compression algorithm is the only compression algorithm implemented. As a result, the LZNT1 compression algorithm is used as the DEFAULT compression method." [18:58] TR Bot Linux Kernel Rules Put The Onus On Humans For AI Tool Usage | Hackaday [18:58] IsambardPrince "By default, it transparently compresses them using a variant of Lempel-Ziv compression:" [18:58] IsambardPrince Well, it's very slow. I do recall that. [18:58] TR News Linux 7.0 lands with less drama than the number suggests https://fudzilla.com/linux-7-0-lands-with-less-drama-than-the-number-suggests/ [18:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://fudzilla.com/linux-7-0-lands-with-less-drama-than-the-number-suggests/ ) [18:58] IsambardPrince And it lacks any sort of internal logic like BtrFS compress does about testing part of a file and giving up, or just not compressing certain types that don't compress well. [18:59] IsambardPrince So NTFS compress will go through a folder trying to compress EVERYTHING. [18:59] IsambardPrince Including game textures that are already compressed and more than 1 GB in size. [18:59] IsambardPrince And often makes them BIGGER in the end, after wasting perhaps over an hour. [18:59] IsambardPrince It will also go after MP3s and JPEGs and all sorts of other things that obviously don't compress again. ● Apr 17 [19:01] TR News (NEW): Distros With Linux 7.0, Allowing Slop in Linux, and Version Inflation https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Distros_With_Linux_7_0_Allowing_Slop_in_Linux_and_Version_Infla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Distros_With_Linux_7_0_Allowing_Slop_in_Linux_and_Version_Infla.gmi [19:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Distros With Linux 7.0, Allowing Slop in Linux, and Version Inflation [19:01] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/today_s_howtos.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/today_s_howtos.1.gmi [19:01] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [19:01] IsambardPrince It wouldn't be a Microsoft product if they didn't litter it with half-baked features to create a "list of features" that they walked away from when it started requiring much work. [19:02] IsambardPrince Windows is full of things that only barely work, in fact, I think WSL1 is even there. [19:03] TR News (NEW): Security and Windows TCO Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.1.gmi [19:03] TR Bot Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers [19:03] IsambardPrince It's also full of code that's very old and you aren't supposed to see that, like Internet Explorer 11. [19:03] IsambardPrince They said it was "gone" but all that they did was if you type iexplore, it opens Edge instead. [19:03] IsambardPrince There's a way to get to the "classic" Internet control panel applet and open IE 11 as a web browser, to this day. [19:04] IsambardPrince Delete an icon. "It's gone forever!" But but...."Gone....FOREVER!" [19:04] TR News (NEW): Programming: Rust 1.95.0 and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Programming_Rust_1_95_0_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Programming_Rust_1_95_0_and_More.gmi [19:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming: Rust 1.95.0 and More [19:04] IsambardPrince The first version of Edge is still there too. [19:05] IsambardPrince The one that was created by lopping off IE 11 Standards Mode from IE and going from there. [19:05] IsambardPrince Then there's Chromium Edge. [19:06] TR News (NEW): Databases: PGConf.BE, YottaDB, and QLAlchemy 2 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Databases_PGConf_BE_YottaDB_and_QLAlchemy_2.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Databases_PGConf_BE_YottaDB_and_QLAlchemy_2.gmi [19:06] TR Bot Tux Machines Databases: PGConf.BE, YottaDB, and QLAlchemy 2 [19:08] TR News (NEW): Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty: Copyleft, France, and "More confessions from a FOSS enthusiast" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Copyleft_France_and_More_c.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Software_Freedom_Digital_Sovereignty_Copyleft_France_and_More_c.gmi [19:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Software Freedom / Digital Sovereignty: Copyleft, France, and "More confessions from a FOSS enthusiast" [19:09] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_L_eLeftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_L_eLeftovers.gmi [19:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [19:09] TR News (NEW): WordPress/WordCamp and Firefox Development https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/WordPress_WordCamp_and_Firefox_Development.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/WordPress_WordCamp_and_Firefox_Development.gmi [19:09] TR Bot Tux Machines WordPress/WordCamp and Firefox Development [19:11] TR News (NEW): IBM Red Hat Peddling Slop and Microsoft, Fedora Delayed, and RHEL Clone Rocky Linux Also Rides the Hype Train of Slop https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/IBM_Red_Hat_Peddling_Slop_and_Microsoft_Fedora_Delayed_and_RHEL.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/IBM_Red_Hat_Peddling_Slop_and_Microsoft_Fedora_Delayed_and_RHEL.gmi [19:11] TR Bot Tux Machines IBM Red Hat Peddling Slop and Microsoft, Fedora Delayed, and RHEL Clone Rocky Linux Also Rides the Hype Train of Slop [19:13] TR News (NEW): EasyOS Development and Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/EasyOS_Development_and_Improvements.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/EasyOS_Development_and_Improvements.gmi [19:13] TR Bot Tux Machines EasyOS Development and Improvements [19:14] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [19:14] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [19:14] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, RISC-V, and Beagle Board Black (ARM) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_RISC_V_and_Beagle_Board_Black_ARM.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Open_Hardware_Modding_Arduino_RISC_V_and_Beagle_Board_Black_ARM.gmi [19:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Arduino, RISC-V, and Beagle Board Black (ARM) [19:16] TR News Techrights Links 17/04/2026: SRA Breaks Its Own Rules as Solicitor Attempts Suicide, IPv6 Barely Hits 50% After 20+ Years https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_SRA_Breaks_Its_Own_Rules_as_Solicitor_Attempts.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Links_17_04_2026_SRA_Breaks_Its_Own_Rules_as_Solicitor_Attempts.gmi [19:16] TR Bot Techrights Links 17/04/2026: SRA Breaks Its Own Rules as Solicitor Attempts Suicide, IPv6 Barely Hits 50% After 20+ Years [19:17] TR News "I've been obsessed with them for weeks and when i'm not listening myself, i'm looking up people's reactions on youtube. in fact, i enjoy them so much i've purposefully left some songs unheard and videos unseen for later." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/mugshot [19:17] TR News "Keeping track of tasks shouldn't require a complex system. Sometimes, a simple text file is all you need. That's where todo.txt and the todo CLI shine." gemini://sava.rocks/blog/staying-organized-with-todotxt-and-the-todo-cli/ [19:18] TR News "I was meaning to use this place to post about non-gemini things, since all niche communities seem to have a tendency to only talk about themselves (see also: Esperantists incessantly bickering about Esperanto instead of discussing world affairs or their favourite coffee blends)." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-04-17.gmi [19:20] TR News "I'm at Target. It's the most packed Target I've ever seen, there are people everywhere and the line of registers seems to go on forever. There's also a large sprawling lawn outside, with people sitting and lounging, and even more lines and service counter carts outside." gemini://ieve.me/squall/18.gmi [19:21] TR News "No idea about the provenance of the PDF, so hopefully it doesn't have any security issues. Maybe there's a text only version somewhere?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/04/17/hind_swaraj.gmi [19:21] TR News "Yeah, I think some of the dislike of lawyers is because there are so many problems and inequities in the legal system. Lawyers are associated with maintaining that system which often produces unjust results that impact people in really personal, powerful ways." legacy web search for "lawyers disliked" [19:23] TR News OpenAI Says Elon Musk is Injecting Chaos With Recent Legal Maneuver - SoylentNews https://soylentnews.org/communityreviews/article.pl?sid=26/04/15/0214204#1440053 Source: Soylent News | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//soylentnews.org/communityreviews/article.pl?sid=26/04/15/0214204#1440053 [19:23] TR Bot OpenAI Says Elon Musk is Injecting Chaos With Recent Legal Maneuver - SoylentNews [19:34] TR News (NEW): Almost May Already https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_May_Already.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_May_Already.gmi [19:34] TR Bot Tux Machines Almost May Already [19:38] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 17/04/2026: "Many Problems and Inequities in the Legal System", "No Place to Hide" https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Many_Problems_and_Inequities_in_the_Leg.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Gemini_Links_17_04_2026_Many_Problems_and_Inequities_in_the_Leg.gmi [19:38] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 17/04/2026: "Many Problems and Inequities in the Legal System", "No Place to Hide" [19:38] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 17 [20:13] TR News Techrights Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_1_000_IBM_Layoffs_Not_Newsworthy_Nobody_Covers_It_Unlike.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Almost_1_000_IBM_Layoffs_Not_Newsworthy_Nobody_Covers_It_Unlike.gmi [20:13] TR Bot Techrights Almost 1,000 IBM Layoffs Not Newsworthy (Nobody Covers It), Unlike When Snap Does It and Mentions a Celebrated - or Reviled - Buzzword [20:13] TR News Techrights Behind the Scenes With Richard Stallman https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Behind_the_Scenes_With_Richard_Stallman.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Behind_the_Scenes_With_Richard_Stallman.gmi [20:13] TR Bot Techrights Behind the Scenes With Richard Stallman [20:28] TR News Techrights Pension Contribution Increases as Another Attack on Compensation for EPO Staff (Mostly Patent Examiners) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Pension_Contribution_Increases_as_Another_Attack_on_Compensatio.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/Pension_Contribution_Increases_as_Another_Attack_on_Compensatio.gmi [20:28] TR Bot Techrights Pension Contribution Increases as Another Attack on Compensation for EPO Staff (Mostly Patent Examiners) [20:53] admfubar https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/local-political-revolts-threaten-to-derail-us-data-center-projects-mounting-delays-are-already-costing-ai-hyperscalers-billions [20:53] TR Bot Local political revolts threaten to derail US data center projects mounting delays are already costing AI hyperscalers billions | Tom's Hardware [20:54] admfubar local politicos are revolting... i think they are all pretty disgusting... [20:57] MinceR :> ● Apr 17 [21:02] admfubar loose lips sinks ships... bluethooths appear to do the same thing... https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/dutch_navy_frigate_tracked/ [21:02] TR Bot Dutch navy frigate tracked by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker The Register [21:04] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/users_complain_of_uk_azure/ [21:04] TR Bot Users complain of UK Azure capacity problems The Register [21:31] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/alexa_loses_its_plex_appeal/ [21:31] TR Bot Alexa loses its Plex appeal as voice feature gets canned The Register [21:32] admfubar https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/commodore-fans-split-over-c64-ultimate-fpga-firmware-lockdown-firm-says-it-wants-to-protect-its-hardware-and-reduce-support-fallout [21:32] TR Bot Commodore fans split over C64 Ultimate FPGA firmware lockdown firm says it wants to protect its hardware and reduce support fallout | Tom's Hardware [21:33] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_49_Out_of_200_Two_Americans_One_Case_Recy.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_49_Out_of_200_Two_Americans_One_Case_Recy.gmi [21:33] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers [21:33] admfubar https://therecord.media/fisa--trump-congress-extension-surveillance [21:33] TR Bot In defeat for Trump, House extends electronic spying program for just 10 days | The Record from Recorded Future News [21:34] *psydroid3 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.6 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) ● Apr 17 [22:03] TR News Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Strikes_and_Other_Industrial_Actions.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/17/European_Patent_Office_EPO_Strikes_and_Other_Industrial_Actions.gmi [22:03] TR Bot Techrights European Patent Office (EPO) Strikes and Other Industrial Actions Are Working: Patent Application Grants Have Collapsed [22:31] TR News (NEW): Record Requests and Geminispace https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Record_Requests_and_Geminispace.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Record_Requests_and_Geminispace.gmi [22:31] TR News (NEW): Security and Windows TCO Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/17/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.gmi [22:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Record Requests and Geminispace [22:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers ● Apr 17 [23:17] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@w8k37m3y8dc66.irc) has joined #techrights [23:18] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Someone on social media complained about $7.99 to rent a movie that was 30 years old on Amazon Prime. [23:19] IsambardPrince I said that new releases were $3.99 for a 5 day rental at Hollywood Video, and at its peak, the video rental stores were employin 160,000 Americans. [23:20] IsambardPrince Bezos doubled the cost to rent a movie (sometimes more, older releases cost less to rent from stores), and destroyed 160,000 jobs. [23:21] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Speaking about job cuts. [23:21] IsambardPrince Walgreens Pharmacy is closing about half its stores. [23:21] IsambardPrince They also laid off another 600 corporate employees. [23:21] IsambardPrince On top of 500 last year [23:21] admfubar https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-slime-artificial-muscle-reshapes-robot.html [23:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://techxplore.com/news/2026-04-slime-artificial-muscle-reshapes-robot.html ) [23:21] IsambardPrince They just called right now to remind me they're closing the pharmacy and that it'll be handled by a different store. [23:22] IsambardPrince Lots of people losing jobs under Trump. [23:22] IsambardPrince Most things cost 25% more at Walmart since his "Liberation" from your money Day back in April last year. [23:24] IsambardPrince Capitalism will destroy millions of jobs and raise prices as high as they can get, so one dude can have $300 billion and fire off rockets to amuse himself. [23:35] IsambardPrince MinceR: schestowitz[TR3] Anyway, that's the reason why Windows doesn't just enable file system compression across the entire system. [23:35] IsambardPrince It only uses it in folders where pretty much everything inside that folder will compress well. [23:35] IsambardPrince They never bothered fine tuning it so it won't bother trying to compress files that don't compress. [23:35] MinceR well, given that the demands for different files are different, it would be stupid to just enable file system compression on the entire system [23:36] IsambardPrince btrfs can handle it. [23:36] admfubar obese32???... https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/04/17/1623236/microsoft-increases-the-fat32-limit-from-32gb-to-2tb [23:36] TR Bot Microsoft Increases the FAT32 Limit From 32GB To 2TB - Slashdot [23:36] MinceR btrfs can't even handle a week of existence [23:36] IsambardPrince I've used btrfs file systems for years at a time. [23:36] MinceR and that's how they decided it was 'stable' [23:36] MinceR i've used btrfs when they claimed it was stable [23:36] MinceR it died in a week [23:37] MinceR people just don't care anymore [23:39] IsambardPrince "As to why ReactOS is stuck in the early 2000s, it could be because of all the source code which was stolen and put wholesale into the project. Although if that was the case I'd have expect MS would have sued the living shit of the project by now. It could also be because Windows was and is a very complex OS with many layers which if you're trying to re-implement with a team of 10s to 100s versus 1000s it's going to take a lot of time. [23:39] IsambardPrince It's seems unlikely that the project would spend the millions of man hours to create the abomination that is UWP." [23:39] IsambardPrince UWP just isn't all that important. [23:39] *Goblin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [23:39] IsambardPrince It's much more importantt to implement win32 if you have limited resources and they have to be put one place or another. [23:40] IsambardPrince Since UWP relies on Win32 anyway, you couldn't implement UWP before Win32 if you wanted to. [23:40] IsambardPrince It's a superset. [23:41] IsambardPrince If you started implementing parts of UWP it wouldn't gain you much of anything until Win32 is roughly complete. [23:41] IsambardPrince And I would say that ReactOS is worse off than being stuck in the early 2000s. [23:41] IsambardPrince In some cases it cannot run Windows software that NT4 or 2000 could. [23:41] IsambardPrince Even though it claims to be Windows 2003 to applications. [23:42] IsambardPrince it has to claim to be something. [23:42] IsambardPrince But as long as anything is missing, it's guaranteed that something won't work. [23:42] IsambardPrince Someone was talking about EarthSiege II not installing in a bug recently. [23:43] IsambardPrince That game workeed on Windows 95, even without DirectX installed! [23:43] IsambardPrince But you can't even get the installer to work on ReactOS. [23:43] IsambardPrince Every option is grayed out. All you can do is exit the first screen of the installer.