●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, April 19, 2026 ●● ● Apr 19 [00:00] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/04/17/0348237 [00:00] TR Bot Netgear Routers Seemingly Won't be Banned in the US After All - SoylentNews [00:09] MinceR then consider what DHMO does to iron, and imagine what it's going to do to you [00:17] admfubar https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/18/014244/shuttered-startups-are-selling-old-slack-chats-emails-to-ai-companies [00:17] TR Bot Shuttered Startups Are Selling Old Slack Chats, Emails To AI Companies - Slashdot [00:20] admfubar https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/no-more-excuses-as-eu-launches-free-age-verification-app [00:20] TR Bot No more excuses as EU launches free age verification app [00:20] *Goblin (~use@g5mtr4e86tp7q.irc) has joined #techrights [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights ● Apr 19 [01:21] *admfubar (~admfubar@ae6yc8gqwe7jq.irc) has left #techrights (Leaving) [01:24] IsambardPrince MinceR: Some politician complaned about littering. [01:25] IsambardPrince I said "Make it a $10,000 fine and 200 hours community service picking up litter. [01:26] *admfubar (~admfubar@ae6yc8gqwe7jq.irc) has joined #techrights [01:51] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [01:51] IsambardPrince Ron Swanson in Parks & Recreation. Commerce....should be as simple as I have an apple, you want an apple. Give me money and I will give you an apple. [01:51] IsambardPrince I liked his other one where he had to explain taxes to a kid, so he took her lunch and said this is your sandwich. You should be able to do whatever you want with it. Eat it, throw it away, give it to someone else. But here comes the government. And he takes a giant bite out of it. And he says "And I get to eat 40% of your sandwich." She goes "That's not fair!" and he says "She's learning. Uh oh, Capital Gains!" and he takes some [01:51] IsambardPrince chips too. [01:51] IsambardPrince Then the mom comes in to complain that the girl wrote a school essay on why government is important, and she wrote "It's not." He laughs and says "Well said." [01:51] IsambardPrince MinceR: ^ [01:52] MinceR :> [01:52] IsambardPrince MinceR: Chicago says the taxpayers get to "invest" in 1800 affordable apartment units with CHA. [01:53] IsambardPrince First of all, why do I have to "invest" in something they'll never allow me to live in, even though I am low income and they take my money? [01:53] IsambardPrince Second of all, why does each "affordable" apartment cost over $600,000 to build? [01:54] IsambardPrince Third of all, they're going to dole them out to people who play loud music, infest them with roaches and bedbugs, damage them, sling drugs, and have gang activity. [01:54] IsambardPrince That's what happened with Cabrini Green and the Robert Taylor Homes. [01:54] IsambardPrince That's what happens every time the government says they will make housing "affordable". [01:54] IsambardPrince They don't mean that poor people who have a job and keep their nose clean will live there. [01:55] IsambardPrince They mean that it will be welfare cases who are habitual breeders, no father in the house, plenty of men though. [01:56] cow_20012 someone linked this about the murikan corporate takeover of linux https://cy-x.net/topic/linux-as-a-whole-is-compromised/601 [01:56] TR Bot Linux as a whole is compromised - The Cyberix Network [01:57] IsambardPrince MinceR: Indiana doesn't build many affordable housing units. [01:57] IsambardPrince But it has a friendlier business climate and low taxes across the board. [01:57] IsambardPrince So market rent for a 1 br is only about $800 a month, vs. $1600-2000 in Chicago. [01:57] MinceR it's compromised and probably too bloated to be saved ● Apr 19 [02:02] IsambardPrince MinceR: I just got $300 for selling an ashtray on ebay. [02:02] IsambardPrince I found the ashtray for $2 at a thrift store. [02:03] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [02:22] IsambardPrince [19:57] it's compromised and probably too bloated to be saved [02:22] IsambardPrince Firefox [02:35] admfubar https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-payments-to-bezos-blue-origin-reach-1-8b-as-shareholders-cite-conflicts-of-interest/ [02:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.geekwire.com/2026/amazon-payments-to-bezos-blue-origin-reach-1-8b-as-shareholders-cite-conflicts-of-interest/ ) [02:40] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: The Raspberry Pi has gone up in price so much it's really almost the same price as a Macbook Neo now. [02:40] IsambardPrince And the Neo has a much faster processor. [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-180426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-180426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-180426.txt [02:46] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, April 18, 2026 [02:47] TR News Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-180426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-180426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-180426.txt [02:47] TR Bot IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, April 18, 2026 [02:48] IsambardPrince Everyone is blaming dram prices. [02:48] IsambardPrince Apple seems to have plenty. [02:48] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180426.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-180426.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-180426.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-180426.txt [02:48] TR Bot IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, April 18, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. 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[04:50] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:50] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:52] TR News Safeguarding democratic lawmaking: EDRis contribution to Commission consultation on Better Regulations https://edri.org/our-work/safeguarding-democratic-lawmaking-edris-contribution-to-commission-consultation-on-better-regulations/ [04:52] TR Bot EDRis contribution to Commission consultation on Better Regulations - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [04:52] TR News The Court of Justice of the European Union condemns Frances police profiling practices https://edri.org/our-work/the-court-of-justice-of-the-european-union-condemns-frances-police-profiling-practices/ [04:52] TR Bot The Court of Justice of the European Union condemns Frances police profiling practices - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [04:53] TR News EDRi-gram, 15 April 2026 https://edri.org/our-work/edri-gram-15-april-2026/ "In this edition: Cracking the egg shells: what's inside the latest in EU digital rights?" [04:53] TR Bot EDRi-gram, 15 April 2026 - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [04:53] TR News Moving Goalposts: Football, Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Surveillance http://privacyinternational.org/long-read/5759/moving-goalposts-football-facial-recognition-and-expansion-surveillance [04:53] TR Bot Moving Goalposts: Football, Facial Recognition and the Expansion of Surveillance | Privacy International [04:54] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Urges Extending Foreign Surveillance Program as Some Lawmakers Push for US Privacy Protections https://www.securityweek.com/trump-urges-extending-foreign-surveillance-program-as-some-lawmakers-push-for-us-privacy-protections/ [04:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/trump-urges-extending-foreign-surveillance-program-as-some-lawmakers-push-for-us-privacy-protections/ ) [04:57] TR News Re gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/18/GAFAM_Decided_to_Stop_Old_Formats_From_Working_Format_Shifting_.gmi iophk: conversion loses data which lowers quality; with enough conversions the content becomes unusable; that is the end goal; It is part of google's Great Leap Forward, the part with file formats https://teachingsocialstudies.org/2026/01/23/the-devastating-effects-of-the-great-leap-forward/ [04:57] TR Bot The Devastating Effects of the Great Leap Forward njcssjournal [04:58] TR News "As Orwell wrote in 1984, his final, dystopian novel, "Who controls the past controls the future. 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The increasing number of [Internet] users, the development of telecommunication facilities, and the ubiquity of mobile phones serve as indicators of this fact." https://thenorthlines.com/signals-without-access-the-reality-of-jks-internet-boom/ | Source: The North Lines IN [04:59] TR Bot Signals Without Access: The Reality of J&Ks Internet Boom - Northlines ● Apr 19 [05:01] TR News "Joe the Plumber" https://www.salon.com/2026/04/17/trumps-doordash-grandma-isnt-a-plant-the-truth-is-much-darker/ | Source: Salon [05:01] TR Bot DoorDash Grandma isnt a plant the truth is much darker - Salon.com [05:01] TR News "A coalition of federal unions is suing the Federal Labor Relations Authority over plans to involve politically appointed board members in all labor representation decisions" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/unions/2026/04/unions-sue-flra-over-plans-to-politicize-labor-representation-decisions/ | Source: Federal News Network [05:01] TR Bot Unions sue FLRA over plans to politicize labor representation decisions | Federal News Network [05:01] TR News "Instead of laying off people in more incrementaland less disruptivewaves, employers are seizing on the potential financial upsides of severing swaths of their workforces at once" https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/18/kmxb-a18.html | Source: WSWS [05:01] TR Bot Wall Street Journal announces the era of the mega layoff - World Socialist Web Site [05:01] TR News "They came in waves. The Interurbanselectric trains that crisscrossed the Midwest back thencame from Michigan and Ohio and from across Indiana." https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-04-17-notre-dame/ | Source: Dan Sinker [05:01] TR Bot Well-Aimed Potato: The Klan, Notre Dame, and Today | dansinker.com [05:02] TR News "This is what I mean by rust." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-positive-case-for-liberalsm | Source: Mike Brock [05:02] TR Bot The Positive Case For Liberalsm - by Mike Brock [05:03] TR News "Datacenterboomen hotar gra din el dyrare: De borde inte anslutas till elntet | Inrikes | Svenska Yle" https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=sv&tl=en&u=https://yle.fi/a/7-10096883 [05:03] TR Bot Datacenterboomen hotar gra din el dyrare: De borde inte anslutas till elntet | Inrikes | Svenska Yle [05:03] TR News "France Is Ditching Windows for Linux" https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/france-is-ditching-windows-for-linux:3 [05:03] TR Bot France Is Ditching Windows for Linux [05:05] TR News "University of Arizona spins up generative AI tool for students & faculty" https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041626_ua_ai/university-arizona-spins-up-generative-ai-tool-students-faculty/ [05:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/041626_ua_ai/university-arizona-spins-up-generative-ai-tool-students-faculty/ ) [05:06] TR News "Why Was XLibre Removed From the Arch Wiki? The Full Story - OSTechNix" https://ostechnix.com/xlibre-arch-wiki-removal-explained/ iophk: there are now enough GAFAM moles (or their tools) inside Arch block to block the presence of XLibre [05:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://ostechnix.com/xlibre-arch-wiki-removal-explained/ ) [05:07] TR News How to feed your garden birds without spreading disease https://phys.org/news/2026-04-garden-birds-disease.html [05:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://phys.org/news/2026-04-garden-birds-disease.html ) [05:09] TR News "Russias economic reserves largely exhausted, development minister says Meduza" https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/17/russia-s-economic-reserves-largely-exhausted-development-minister-says [05:09] TR Bot Russias economic reserves largely exhausted, development minister says Meduza [05:11] TR News "Former NPR Foundation board member Connie Ballmer donated $80 million, while an anonymous donor contributed $33 million" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/17/npr-receives-donations-after-funding-cuts/ | Source: Digital Music News [05:11] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/17/npr-receives-donations-after-funding-cuts/ ) [05:11] TR News "The news of Shin Daewes release from detention comes as a welcome relief." https://www.rfa.org/english/about/releases/2026/04/17/release-of-myanmar-rfa-contributor-shin-daewe/ | Source: RFA [05:11] TR Bot RFA welcomes release of Myanmar RFA contributor Shin Daewe Radio Free Asia [05:12] TR News "Known for her work highlighting the challenges facing Myanmars environment and the impact of conflict on civilians following the militarys 2021 coup" https://www.rfa.org/english/myanmar/2026/04/17/shin-daewe-myanmar-prison-release-burma/ | Source: RFA [05:12] TR Bot Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison Radio Free Asia [05:12] TR News "Because prediction markets allow users to monetize news, journalists are caught in the crosshairs: what they report (and the information that goes into reporting) suddenly has a dollar amount attached to it" https://www.theverge.com/report/914157/prediction-markets-news-outlet-ethics-policy-propublica-kalshi-polymarket | Source: The Verge [05:12] TR Bot Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists | The Verge [05:13] TR News "It is a familiar tool deployed by the clerical regime in Iran" https://www.dw.com/en/iran-internet-blackout-highlights-real-toll-of-censorship/a-76832488 | Source: Deutsche Welle [05:13] TR Bot Iran: Internet blackout highlights real toll of censorship [05:14] TR News "Aiza had not commented on the deletion at the time of publication." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/17/russian-tv-host-and-blogger-deletes-instagram-post-criticizing-corruption-in-russia | Source: Meduza [05:14] TR Bot Russian TV host and blogger deletes Instagram post criticizing corruption in Russia Meduza [05:14] TR News "Harsh criticism of senior government officials has its price remember that." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/04/17/pro-kremlin-blogger-leaves-psychiatric-hospital-after-criticizing-putin-says-conditions-were-pretty-rough | Source: Meduza [05:14] TR Bot Pro-Kremlin blogger leaves psychiatric hospital after criticizing Putin, says conditions were pretty rough Meduza [05:14] TR News "After her arrest in Mashhad, because of blows she received to the head, she was already in bad condition" https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-nobel-peace-prize-jailed-narges-mohammadi/33735225.html | Source: RFERL [05:14] TR Bot Life Of Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner Narges Mohammadi 'In Serious Danger' [05:15] TR News "The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex." https://www.wired.com/story/openai-executive-kevin-weil-is-leaving-the-company/ | Source: Wired [05:15] TR Bot Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company | WIRED [05:15] TR News "Kevin Weil, who was the companys VP of AI for Science and was formerly its chief product officer, is also departing, saying that Friday is his last day." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914463/openai-sora-bill-peebles-kevin-weil-leaving-departing | Source: The Verge [05:15] TR Bot OpenAIs former Sora boss is leaving | The Verge [05:17] TR News "Clarence Thomas is 77 years old. He has now served on the Supreme Court for over 34 years, making him the longest-serving member of the Court." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-worst-justice-in-modern-supreme | Source: Robert Reich [05:17] TR Bot The Worst Justice Ever - Robert Reich [05:21] TR News "cybersecurity strategy takes shape this year" https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/04/observability-as-the-backbone-of-compliance-in-a-new-federal-cyber-era/ | Source: Federal News Network [05:21] TR Bot Observability as the backbone of compliance in a new federal cyber era | Federal News Network [05:21] TR News "Hyperscale data centers are by far the most controversial issue in U.S. economic development today for their noise, voracious electricity and water consumption, air pollution, and massive footprints." https://goodjobsfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Data-Center-Tax-Abatements-Why-States-and-Localities-Must-Disclose-These-Soaring-Revenue-Losses.pdf | Source: Good Jobs First [05:21] TR News "No form of state spending is more out of control today than data center tax abatements" https://kansasreflector.com/2026/04/18/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ | Source: Kansas Reflector [05:21] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://kansasreflector.com/2026/04/18/repub/many-states-dont-report-losses-from-data-center-tax-breaks-study-says/ ) [05:21] TR News (NEW): Why Was XLibre Removed From the Arch Wiki? The Full Story https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Why_Was_XLibre_Removed_From_the_Arch_Wiki_The_Full_Story.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Why_Was_XLibre_Removed_From_the_Arch_Wiki_The_Full_Story.gmi [05:21] TR Bot Tux Machines Why Was XLibre Removed From the Arch Wiki? The Full Story [05:22] TR News "US-based artificial intelligence company Anthropic is currently in discussion with the European Commission on its different models" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/anthropic-talks-to-eu-including-on-its-cyber-security-models-commission-says/articleshow/130330222.cms | Source: India Times [05:22] TR Bot Anthropic talks to EU, including on its cyber security models, Commission says - The Economic Times [05:22] TR News "Under the agreement, joint teams will co-develop more than 100 AI initiatives covering areas including product development and validation" https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/stellantis-microsoft-partnership-ai-push-9.7167736 | Source: CBC [05:22] TR Bot Stellantis, Microsoft sign 5-year partnership for AI push | CBC News [05:23] TR News "Got Google Analytics or Google ads on your web site? Dont forget to check some important compliance instructions, in a LinkedIn post from Jennifer L. Vercellone, Esq." https://blog.zgp.org/have-you-filed-your-compliance-taxes/ | Source: Don Marti [05:23] TR Bot Have you filed your compliance taxes? [05:23] TR News "The lecture is titled The Taler Protocol Suite for Digital Payments, and has the following abstract: [...]" https://www.taler.net/en/news/2026-06.html | Source: GNU Taler [05:23] TR Bot GNU Taler [05:26] TR News "Low tide was conveniently at 1pm for some midday tidepooling." https://tracydurnell.com/2026/04/18/tidepooling-in-la-jolla-photos/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [05:26] TR Bot Tidepooling in La Jolla (photos) Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [05:27] TR News "By mixing battery materials at 2,000 revolutions per minute for five hours, the team triggered a process called halide segregation." https://interestingengineering.com/energy/us-all-solid-state-sulfur-ev-battery | Source: Interesting Engineering [05:27] TR Bot US' all-solid-state EV battery retains over 80% capacity at 450 cycles [05:28] TR News "Tram connections will become a central part of everyday life, especially for the residents of Laajasalo and Kruunuvuori" https://yle.fi/a/74-20221334 | Source: Yle [05:28] TR Bot Helsinki offiically opens Finland's longest bridge | Yle News | Yle [05:28] TR News "Theres something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/electric-wind-up-plane-uses-supercapacitors-for-free-flight-fun/ | Source: Hackaday [05:28] TR Bot Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun | Hackaday [05:29] TR News "and then-Tallinn deputy mayor Madle Lippus (SDE) noted the mayors of all three Baltic capitals last year sent a joint appeal to Google, calling for the change." https://news.err.ee/1609999981/google-maps-rolls-out-cycle-route-feature-in-estonia | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling [05:29] TR Bot Google Maps rolls out cycle route feature in Estonia | News | ERR [05:30] TR News "Suffice to say, while major data center projects are the darling of tech CEOs and many politicians, the general populace is making its voice heard" https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/local-political-revolts-threaten-to-derail-us-data-center-projects-mounting-delays-are-already-costing-ai-hyperscalers-billions | Source: Tom's Hardware [05:30] TR Bot Local political revolts threaten to derail US data center projects mounting delays are already costing AI hyperscalers billions | Tom's Hardware [05:30] TR News "The oil and gas industry and its allies have been lobbying Congress and the Trump administration for more than a year to escape accountability." https://www.commondreams.org/newswire/federal-bill-would-put-big-oil-above-the-law | Source: Common Dreams [05:30] TR Bot Federal Bill Would Put Big Oil Above the Law | Common Dreams [05:31] TR News "Escobar illegally introduced four hippos (Hippopotamus amphibius) to one of his estates in the Antioquia region of Colombia in 1981." https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/colombia-will-euthanize-pablo-escobars-invasive-cocaine-hippos/ | Source: Scientific American [05:31] TR Bot Colombia will euthanize Pablo Escobars invasive cocaine hippos | Scientific American [05:32] TR News "According to NATO, manganese is one of 12 minerals critical for the weapons industry; it is used in submarines, fighter aircraft, tanks, and torpedoes." https://truthout.org/articles/us-mining-plan-will-sacrifice-mexicos-environment-for-weapons-and-tech/ | Source: TruthOut [05:32] TR Bot US Mining Plan Will Sacrifice Mexicos Environment for Weapons and Tech | Truthout [05:32] TR News "The early melt means runoff has already peaked, leaving little additional water expected from snow this season." https://www.western-water.com/2026/04/17/rio-grande-faces-early-drying-risk-in-2026/ | Source: Western Water [05:33] TR Bot Rio Grande faces early drying risk in 2026 | Western Water [05:37] TR News "21 years later, in 2024, the city approved a second preservation boundary the Bluebelt." https://www.michigandaily.com/news/ann-arbor/ann-arbor-to-purchase-land-to-support-greenbelt-and-bluebelt-programs-preserving-natural-resources-and-drinking-water/ | Source: University of Michigan [05:37] TR Bot Ann Arbor to purchase land support Greenbelt and Bluebelt [05:37] TR News "Hong Kongs data centres consumed 7,131 terajoules of electricity in 2023 up by more than 75 per cent in just five years." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/18/hong-kongs-data-centre-boom-powering-innovation-or-jeopardising-climate-goals/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [05:37] TR Bot HK's data centre boom: Powering innovation or jeopardising climate goals? [05:41] TR News "Taras Dzyuba, head of the information communications department at Ukraines State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP)" https://therecord.media/ukraine-confirms-suspected-apt28-campaign-targeting-prosecutors | Source: The Record [05:41] TR Bot Ukraine confirms suspected APT28 campaign targeting prosecutors, anti-corruption agencies | The Record from Recorded Future News [05:50] TR News "The 2024 law reauthorized so-called Section 702 powers of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)" https://cyberscoop.com/section-702-fisa-surveillance-law-renewal-congress-debate/ | Source: Scoop News Group [05:50] TR Bot surveillance law Congress can't quit and can't explain | CyberScoop [05:51] TR News "A recent deep dive into the American adtech surveillance system Webloc highlights the national security and privacy risks of pervasive and easily obtainable geolocation data." https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/it-is-time-to-ban-the-sale-of-precise-geolocation | Source: The Lawfare Institute [05:51] TR Bot It Is Time to Ban the Sale of Precise Geolocation | Lawfare [05:51] TR News "This is not doomerism." https://bobbyhiltz.com/posts/2026/04/keep-it-to-yourself/ | Source: Bobby Hiltz [05:51] TR Bot It To Yourself | BobbyHiltz.com [05:53] TR News "A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congress, protesters, and political donors" https://www.wired.com/story/republican-mutiny-sinks-trumps-push-to-extend-warrantless-surveillance/ | Source: Wired [05:53] TR Bot Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance | WIRED [05:53] TR News "The saga is turning into a PR disaster for Brussels." https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/ | Source: Politico [05:53] TR Bot Brussels launched an age checking app. Hackers say it takes 2 minutes to break it. POLITICO [05:57] TR News "Militaries around the world spend countless hours training, developing policies, and implementing best operational security practices" https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/dutch_navy_frigate_tracked/ | Source: The Register UK [05:57] TR Bot Dutch navy frigate tracked by mailing it a Bluetooth tracker The Register [05:57] TR News "so imagine the size of the egg on the face of the Dutch navy when journalists managed to track one of its warships for less than the cost of some hagelslag and a coffee" [05:58] TR News "In the previous post, we introduced the notion of anonymous credentials as a technique that allows users to authenticate to a website without sacrificing their privacy." https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/04/17/anonymous-credentials-an-illustrated-primer-part-2/ | Source: Cryptography Engineering [05:58] TR Bot Anonymous credentials: an illustratedprimer (Part 2) A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering [05:58] TR News "More Surveillance Demands to Come?" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/more-surveillance-demands-to-come-government-admits-bill-c-22s-lawful-access-provisions-could-be-expanded/ | Source: Michael Geist [05:58] TR Bot More Surveillance Demands to Come?: Government Admits Bill C-22s Lawful Access Provisions Could Be Expanded - Michael Geist ● Apr 19 [06:00] TR News "higher than mere suspicion" https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/04/a-standard-that-doesnt-exist-parliamentary-secretary-for-justice-offers-misleading-defence-of-bill-c-22s-lower-threshold-for-subscriber-information/ | Source: Michael Geist [06:00] TR Bot A Standard That Doesn't Exist: Parliamentary Secretary for Justice Offers Misleading Defence of Bill C-22's Lower Threshold for Subscriber Information - Michael Geist [06:00] TR News "Gazing Into Scam Altmans Orb Now Proves Youre Human on Tinder" https://www.wired.com/story/gazing-into-sam-altmans-orb-now-proves-youre-human-on-tinder/ | Source: Wired [06:00] TR Bot Into Sam Altmans Orb Now Proves Youre Human on Tinder | WIRED [06:00] TR News "The Dutch Ministry of Defence said its taking measures in response, according to the broadcaster." https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2026/04/17/dutch-broadcaster-tracks-carrier-group-frigate-with-bluetooth-gadget/ | Source: C4ISRNET [06:01] TR Bot Dutch broadcaster tracks carrier-group frigate with Bluetooth gadget [06:01] TR News "In a dramatic middle-of-the-night stand off, a bipartisan set of lawmakers pushing for true reform and privacy protections for Americans bought us some more time to fight!" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep-pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 | Source: EFF [06:01] TR Bot Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform Section 702 | Electronic Frontier Foundation [06:01] TR News "Earlier this year, UIDAI had asked the IT Ministry to talk with smartphone companies" https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/india-govt-scraps-aadhaar-app-mandate-apple-samsung-pushback-137727104.html | Source: Bhaskar English [06:01] TR Bot India Scraps Aadhaar App Mandate | Apple & Samsung Pushback [06:02] TR News Windows TCO: "In this case, the initial malware for Lumma Stealer was delivered as a password-protected 7-zip archive." https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32904 | Source: SANS [06:03] TR Bot Lumma Stealer infection with Sectop RAT (ArechClient2) [06:03] TR News Windows TCO: "Law enforcement agencies across Europe, the United States, and other partner nations cracked down on the commercial DDoS-for-hire ecosystem" https://thecyberexpress.com/75000-ddos-for-hire-users-reprimanded/ | Source: Cyble Inc [06:03] TR Bot 75K DDoS-for-Hire Users Reprimanded As Authorities Seize Domains [06:03] TR News "All content on this website was written by a human (me). I am not interested in generating articles with LLMs. Writing helps ordering and sharpening my thoughts." https://danieldk.eu/Meta/AI-policy | Source: Danil de Kok [06:03] TR Bot AI policy [06:03] TR News "Whether or not it is controversial, I do use Claude Code quite heavily for testing in my day job." https://linuxjedi.co.uk/when-the-docs-fall-short-investigating-claude-codes-budget-cap/ | Source: Andrew Hutchings [06:03] TR Bot When the Docs Fall Short: Investigating Claude Codes Budget Cap - LinuxJedis /dev/null [06:04] TR News "Most anti-AI rhetoric is left-wing coded. Popular criticisms of AI describe it as a tool of techno-fascism, or appeal to predominantly left-wing concerns like carbon emissions" https://www.seangoedecke.com/many-anti-ai-arguments-are-conservative/ | Source: Sean Goedecke [06:04] TR Bot Many anti-AI arguments are conservative arguments [06:05] TR News "Translated into the real world, an AI that leaps to conclusions when not represented with the full picture could have devastating consequences." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/millions-americans-ai-instead-doctor-bad-advice | Source: Futurism [06:05] TR Bot Millions of Americans Are Talking to AI Instead of Going to the Doctor, and It's Giving Them Horrendously Flawed Medical Advice [06:06] TR News "Multiple businesses offered AI agents for marketing and operating offline adult stores, while others touted tech solutions for brands trying to make their own smart toys." https://hongkongfp.com/2026/04/18/china-sex-toy-makers-cautiously-embrace-ai-wave/ | Source: Hong Kong Free Press [06:06] TR Bot China sex toy makers cautiously embrace AI wave [06:06] TR News "The problem is everything around it." https://www.artificialintelligencemadesimple.com/p/anthropics-claude-mythos-launch-is | [06:06] TR Bot Anthropic's Claude Mythos Launch Is Built on Misinformation [06:07] TR News "By services I mean things like: getting a new passport; finding and booking a hotel or a flight; managing your bank account" https://interconnected.org/home/2026/04/18/headless | Source: Matt Webb [06:07] TR Bot Headless everything for personal AI (Interconnected) [06:07] TR News "Ever since reading these reportsthankfully produced by the human handI have been having trouble sleeping." https://www.wired.com/story/backchannel-the-problem-with-letting-ai-do-the-writing/ | Source: Wired [06:07] TR Bot Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body | WIRED [06:10] TR News "The worlds largest memory makers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are all working to add new fabrication capacity, but almost none of it will be online until at least 2027, if not 2028." https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/914672/the-ram-shortage-could-last-years | Source: The Verge [06:10] TR Bot The RAM shortage could last years | The Verge [06:10] TR News "every traditional vulnerability gains a new capability: autonomous action." https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/every-old-vulnerability-ai-vulnerability | Source: Dark Reading [06:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/every-old-vulnerability-ai-vulnerability ) [06:11] TR News "The new peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Technology, Mind and Behavior and flagged by TIME" https://futurism.com/health-medicine/ai-cognition-study | Source: Futurism [06:11] TR Bot Study Finds AI Use Eats Away at Users' Confidence in Their Own Brains [06:11] TR News "Regardless, netizens were appalled by the story, arguing that the womans family had gone too far." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/mother-son-died-ai-clone | Source: Futurism [06:11] TR Bot Mother Reportedly Doesn't Know Her Son Died Because She's Been Talking to an AI Version of Him [06:12] TR News "The Open Sorcerer is not alone. A look at social media has shown plenty of users running into similar problems, with one commenting" https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/users_complain_of_uk_azure/ | Source: The Register UK [06:12] TR Bot Users complain of UK Azure capacity problems The Register [06:13] TR News "This stuff gets in the way of professionals trying to do their job." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/adobe-no-allies/ | Source: Nick Heer [06:13] TR Bot Adobe Has Rid Itself of Its Allies Pixel Envy [06:16] TR News "Roughly 620,000 people in the Netherlands aged 15 and older have faced online threats or intimidation at least once" https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/18/dutch-insurer-unive-adds-cyberbullying-coverage-home-insurance-policies | Source: NL Times [06:16] TR Bot Dutch insurer Univ adds cyberbullying coverage to home insurance policies | NL Times [06:16] TR News "Theres something aesthetically appealing about notebooks and fountain pens. I love the feeling of resting my hands on real paper, of my pen effortlessly gliding over it." https://kedara.eu/much-disappointment-not-notebook-guy/ | Source: Ruben Verweij [06:16] TR Bot to my own disappointment, I'm not a journal-in-a-notebook-with-a-fountain-pen kind of guy - Kedara.eu [06:17] TR News "But the most amazing shots Ive seen from the trip of the Moons crater-scarred surface and those showing its proximity to, and distance from, Earth were taken on a DSLR, as widely reported." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/dslr-cameras/i-believe-nasa-sending-nikons-d5-into-space-conclusively-proves-that-dslrs-are-not-dead | Source: Digital Camera World [06:17] TR Bot I believe NASA sending Nikons D5 into space conclusively proves that DSLRs are not dead! | Digital Camera World [06:17] TR News "But it is also a very different class of display." https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/studiodisplayxdr/ | Source: Tymscar [06:17] TR Bot The Things I Wanted to Know Before Buying Apple's Studio Display XDR :: The Tymscar Blog [06:18] TR News "All I know is that today my trackball broke, and using a normal gaming mouse to edit the podcast was torture." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/tool-embodiment-and-the-dead-trackball/ | Source: Hackaday [06:18] TR Bot Embodiment And The Dead Trackball | Hackaday [06:19] TR News "They evacuate the wounded and dead, distribute food and medicine, plant mines, transport munitions, launch drones, fire projectiles, erect barricades, recover damaged vehicles" https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-04-17/ground-robots-push-ukraine-toward-a-robotized-infantry.html | Source: El Pas [06:19] TR Bot Ground robots push Ukraine toward a robotized infantry | International | EL PAS English [06:19] TR News "This week on the People and Blogs series we have an interview with JTR, whose blog can be found at taonaw.com." https://manuelmoreale.com/interview/jtr | Source: Manuel Moreale [06:19] TR Bot JTR Manu [06:19] TR News "Okay but for real though, sometimes there are turning points in life that force you to change, adapt, and grow." https://blog.orhun.dev/moving-to-berlin/ | Source: Orhun Parmaksz [06:19] TR Bot Break the loop, move to Berlin - Orhun's Blog [06:22] TR News "Thats difficult advice. In a world that moves faster with each cycle, where urgencies are prioritized and last-minute saves are celebrated, its not always welcome advice." https://seths.blog/2026/04/the-book-of-concern/ | Source: Seth Godin [06:22] TR Bot The book of concern | Seth's Blog [06:23] TR News "He spent his 20s writing tax software, staying on track to hit all the life targets hed set for himself: house, kids, financial security. And then, one day, he did the math and projected forward what the next 20 years of his life would look like." https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/486107/effective-altruism-job-career-advice-charity | Source: Vox [06:23] TR Bot to actually make a difference with your life | Vox [06:23] TR News "Its very hard to fully grasp what we just went through" https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-rounding-the-moon-artemis-2-astronauts-reflect-on-the-enormity-of-the-experience-we-as-countries-and-as-humans-did-this-180988568/ | Source: Smithsonian Magazine [06:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/after-rounding-the-moon-artemis-2-astronauts-reflect-on-the-enormity-of-the-experience-we-as-countries-and-as-humans-did-this-180988568/ ) [06:24] TR News "As disturbing as some of these photos are, their existence shows that all creativity is not lost." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/photography/the-saddest-thing-is-that-all-photography-is-beginning-to-look-the-same-and-this-is-why-its-happening | Source: Digital Camera World [06:24] TR Bot The saddest thing is that all photography is beginning to look the same, and this is why it's happening | Digital Camera World [06:24] TR News "This is Product Hunts main page today. 4 out of 5 places are taken by extremely large companies that need little promotion: Anthropic, Google, Cloudflare and Vercel." https://molodtsov.me/2026/04/we-need-a-new-product-hunt/ | Source: Yury Molodtsov [06:24] TR Bot We Need a New Product Hunt [06:29] TR News Techrights Links 19/04/2026: Mass Layoffs at GAFAM Again (10% Laid Off), Azure Capacity Problems (Enshittification) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Links_19_04_2026_Mass_Layoffs_at_GAFAM_Again_10_Laid_Off_Azure_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Links_19_04_2026_Mass_Layoffs_at_GAFAM_Again_10_Laid_Off_Azure_.gmi [06:29] TR Bot Techrights Links 19/04/2026: Mass Layoffs at GAFAM Again (10% Laid Off), Azure Capacity Problems (Enshittification) [06:31] TR News "GhostBSD is a desktop operating system based on FreeBSD." https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12795 | Source: Distro Watch [06:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12795 ) [06:31] TR News "NetBSD took its roots from the original UCB 4.3BSD via the Net/2 release and 386BSD." https://www.netbsd.org/about/history.html | Source: NetBSD [06:31] TR Bot The History of the NetBSD Project [06:32] TR News "It starts with a band-aid solution that hides the problem: just turn off jiggle physics! While that works, it also affects many other models in the game" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/how-one-line-of-tf2-code-ruined-this-simple-feature/ | Source: Hackaday [06:32] TR Bot One Line Of TF2 Code Ruined This Simple Feature | Hackaday [06:32] TR News [Old] "That source code allows for more ambitious projects than have been possible thus far, Valve wrote in a blog post." https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/02/valve-releases-full-team-fortress-2-game-code-to-encourage-new-free-versions/ | Source: Ars Technica [06:32] TR Bot Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions - Ars Technica [06:36] Goblin https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/16/pete-hegseth-quotes-violent-prayer-from-pulp-fiction-references-bible/ [06:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/04/16/pete-hegseth-quotes-violent-prayer-from-pulp-fiction-references-bible/ ) [06:37] TR News "Now crime needs neither land nor many fighters; it just needs 'data' and 'technology'." https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/experts-warning-technology-is-changing-the-methods-of-terror-and-crime-137727336.html | Source: Bhaskar English [06:37] TR Bot Criminals Hack Home Devices, Disable Car Brakes | Expert Warning [06:38] TR News "The UNIVAC is a seriously weird architecture by modern standards: its got eighteen-bit words yeah, not even a power of two" https://hackaday.com/2026/04/18/what-can-you-run-on-a-1960s-univac-anything-youre-willing-to-wait-for/ | Source: Hackaday [06:38] TR Bot Can You Run On A 1960s Univac? Anything Youre Willing To Wait For! | Hackaday [06:38] TR News "Before GPS, how did aircraft navigate? One important technique was celestial navigation: navigating from the positions of the stars, planets, or the sun." https://www.righto.com/2026/04/B-52-star-tracker-angle-computer.html | Source: Ken Shirriff [06:38] TR Bot The electromechanical angle computer inside the B-52 bomber's star tracker [06:39] TR News "Or, if youre more of an M-x person: M-x rename-buffer" https://arkoinad.com/posts/emacs_tishk3.html | Source: Abhinav Gopalakrishnan [06:39] TR Bot Emacs - Things I should have known #3 [06:39] TR News "Heres a look at what we've been up to and what is ahead." https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/ | Source: Kdenlive [06:39] TR Bot State of Kdenlive - 2026 - Kdenlive [06:40] TR News "Even though this makes building the finished project much easier, if youre dealing with custom hardware" https://werwolv.net/posts/linux_bringup/ | Source: WerWolv [06:40] TR Bot How to bring up the Linux Kernel on a new platform | WerWolv [06:40] TR News "The new weekly program will discuss the history of fascist takeovers" https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/fighting-fascism-release/ | Source: The Nation [06:40] TR Bot Introducing Fighting Fascism, a New Podcast Devoted to Resisting Authoritarianism | The Nation [06:41] TR News "The US cybersecurity agency added the bug, tracked as CVE-2026-34197, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Thursday" https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/17/cisa_tells_feds_to_patch/ | Source: The Register UK [06:41] TR Bot CISA tells feds to patch 13-year-old Apache ActiveMQ bug The Register [06:43] TR News Copyleft is anti-hoarding, not anti-copying. Copyrights are not IP, they're about limiting the sharing, the copying, which is not theft but unauthorised replication. In that regard, copyleft is not limiting copying, it's a social contract to prevent the prevention of copying. [06:43] TR News People who say "IP" are inherently hostile towards the idea of Free software. Many are paid by anti-sharing companies such as GAFAM. [06:44] TR News "Many large technical projects aggregate blogs from multiple people and sources into a single site planet and RSS feed" https://www.rubenerd.au/planets-blog-aggregators-for-tech-projects/ | Source: Ruben Schade [06:44] TR Bot Rubenerd: Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects [06:44] TR News "What are the roots of this Complexity? How have we arrived here?" https://binaryigor.com/modern-frontend-complexity.html | Source: Igor Roztropiski [06:44] TR Bot Modern Frontend Complexity: essential or accidental? [06:44] TR News "This shouldn't have been a problem." https://ankursethi.com/blog/a-broken-404-template-in-django-can-swallow-your-backtraces/ | Source: Ankur Sethi [06:44] TR Bot A broken 404 template in Django can swallow your backtraces Ankur Sethi's Internet Website [06:45] TR News "I've long had precautions against comment spam and they've mostly worked" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/web/MyHidingCommentLink | Source: University of Toronto [06:45] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [06:45] TR News "And of course redirecting each section to the new site as I moved it." https://hyperborea.org/journal/2026/04/moving-kvibber/ | [06:45] TR Bot Blog Moving to KVibber.com K-Squared Ramblings [06:46] TR News "Way back in the year 2000, I bought a domain name to move my personal website from the school web server to someplace I could keep it visible after graduating. I picked Hyperborea.org" https://journal.kvibber.com/2026/04/moving-kvibber/ | [06:46] TR Bot Blog Moving to KVibber.com | K-Squared Ramblings [06:57] TR News (NEW): Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.13, Linux 6.18.23, Linux 6.12.82, Linux 6.6.135, Linux 6.1.169, Linux 5.15.203, and Linux 5.10.253 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_19_13_Linux_6_18_23_Linux_6_12_82_Linux_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Stable_kernels_Linux_6_19_13_Linux_6_18_23_Linux_6_12_82_Linux_.gmi [06:57] TR Bot Tux Machines Stable kernels: Linux 6.19.13, Linux 6.18.23, Linux 6.12.82, Linux 6.6.135, Linux 6.1.169, Linux 5.15.203, and Linux 5.10.253 ● Apr 19 [07:03] *ewig`` (~ewig`@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [07:27] TR News (NEW): openRuyi Linux Distribution for RISC-V https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/openRuyi_Linux_Distribution_for_RISC_V.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/openRuyi_Linux_Distribution_for_RISC_V.gmi [07:27] TR Bot Tux Machines openRuyi Linux Distribution for RISC-V [07:37] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:37] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [07:53] TR News (NEW): Hello old new Projects directory! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Hello_old_new_Projects_directory.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Hello_old_new_Projects_directory.gmi [07:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Hello old new Projects directory! ● Apr 19 [08:51] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) ● Apr 19 [10:02] TR News "The principle that must remain absolutely unchanged amid all this change is the rule of law. " https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/judicial-independence-must-include-freedom-from-ai-influence-justice-nagarathna-1951255 | Source: Deccan Chronicle [10:02] TR Bot Judicial Independence Must Include Freedom From AI Influence: Justice Nagarathna [10:03] TR News "I've seen lots of chatter about Fil-C recently, which pitches itself as a memory safe implementation of C/C++." https://www.corsix.org/content/simplified-model-of-fil-c | Source: Corsix [10:03] TR Bot A simplified model of Fil-C [10:03] TR News "I've already spoiled the answer, which is that on the machine I care about in this case, any difference in startup time between a 'hello world' program in Rust and Go is down in the noise." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/programming/GoVsRustStartupDelays | Source: University of Toronto [10:03] TR News "Compared to languages like Python or Java, C++ does not provide built-in support for stack traces in exceptions." https://werwolv.net/posts/cpp_exception_stacktraces/ | Source: WerWolv [10:03] TR Bot Adding Stack Traces to C++ Exceptions | WerWolv [10:05] TR News "These are all good, proven tools. But they have something in common: they're about storage." https://blogs.perl.org/users/egor/2026/04/happy-sharing.html | Source: Perl [10:05] TR Bot sharing | vividsnow [blogs.perl.org] [10:05] TR News "It turned out that this shift-based DFA approach was quite popular a few years ago." https://blogs.perl.org/users/chansen/2026/04/faster-utf-8-validation.html | Source: Perl [10:05] TR Bot UTF-8 Validation | Christian Hansen [blogs.perl.org] [10:05] TR News "When you get higher dot per inch images, it can be really cool." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/fun-pictures-with-ggplot2-and-scico-packages/ | Source: Rlang [10:05] TR Bot pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages | R-bloggers [10:06] TR News "I went to design school so we should probably be expecting me to come up with more sophisticated and polished workbut in this case I dont really care." https://mattstein.com/thoughts/hand-drawn-favicons/ | Source: Matt Stein [10:06] TR Bot Hand-Drawn Favicons Matt Stein [10:06] TR News "To help break out of this cycle, I've decided to remove IPv4 support on my site." https://maurycyz.com/misc/v6day/ | Source: Maury [10:06] TR Bot Taking down my site on purpose: (Maurycy's blog) [10:07] TR News "Going forward, NIST says its staff will only add datain a process called enrichmentonly for important vulnerabilities." https://risky.biz/risky-bulletin-nist-gives-up-enriching-most-cves/ | Source: RiskyBiz [10:07] TR Bot Risky Bulletin: NIST gives up enriching most CVEs - Risky Business Media [10:07] TR News "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is changing its criteria for determining which software flaws fall under its Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) framework" https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/nist-revamps-cve-framework-to-focus-on-high-impact-vulnerabilities | Source: Dark Reading [10:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/nist-revamps-cve-framework-to-focus-on-high-impact-vulnerabilities ) [10:07] TR News "The chilly air-conditioned Scottsdale ballroom hardly stirred while Harold Booth, program manager for NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD)" https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/nist-cutbacks-nvd-handling-impacts-cyber-teams | Source: Dark Reading [10:07] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/nist-cutbacks-nvd-handling-impacts-cyber-teams ) [10:08] TR News "Once the voting machine reps were around a table at IEEE" https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/#just-peachy | Source: CoryDoctorow [10:08] TR Bot Pluralistic: Georgias voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [10:08] TR News "And when the obligatory university internships started, I knew: I want to work on Nyxt (finally renamed with an Y.)" https://aartaka.me/atlas.html | Source: Artyom Bologov [10:08] TR Bot Working at Nyxt / Atlas Engineer: Thanks and Sorry [10:09] TR News "10 out of 10 for a conference, it was small but had a great atmosphere. The quality of the talks was extremely high and I ran into a lot of familiar faces." https://www.arjenwiersma.nl/bsides-groningen | Source: Arjen Wiersma [10:09] TR Bot BSides Groningen Arjen Wiersma [10:09] TR News "The Secret Life of Circuits is the reference I wish I had earlier in my life" https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/electronics/ | [10:09] TR Bot The Secret Life of Circuits [10:15] TR News Wine 11.7 released with DirectSound 7.1 support, VBScript improvements, MSXML updates | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/04/wine-11-7-released-with-directsound-7-1-support-vbscript-improvements-msxml-updates/ Source: GamingOnLinux [10:15] TR Bot 11.7 released with DirectSound 7.1 support, VBScript improvements, MSXML updates | GamingOnLinux [10:17] TR News "Youre staring at a log file with 80,000 lines. The same error repeats 600 times in a row." https://www.tecmint.com/sort-uniq-clean-count-log-entries-linux/ | Source: TecMint [10:17] TR Bot sort and uniq: Clean and Count Log File Entries in Linux [10:20] TR News Firefox Application Security Team: Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q1 https://attackanddefense.dev/2026/04/14/Firefox-Security_and_Privacy_Newsletter_2026_Q1.html [10:20] TR Bot Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q1 | Attack & Defense [10:21] TR News Encrypt Files on GNU/Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal https://fossforce.com/2026/04/encrypt-files-on-linux-with-hideout-and-skip-the-terminal/ [10:21] TR Bot Encrypt Files on Linux with Hideout and Skip the Terminal - FOSS Force [10:21] TR News "No Hey Hi (AI) boosterism or cryptocurrency grifters" http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2026-04-14-17-44_looking_for_work.html [10:21] TR Bot Steinar H. Gunderson [10:22] TR News A powerful student coalition dissolved before COVID. Were rebuilding it. https://stanforddaily.com/2026/04/14/stanford-student-coalition-socc/ [10:22] TR Bot Our mission to rebuild the Students of Color Coalition [10:24] TR News DeskUp Pro smart standing desk controller integrates with Home Assistant and Homey Pro Smart Home hubs https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/14/deskup-pro-smart-standing-desk-controller-integrates-with-home-assistant-and-homey-pro-smart-home-hubs/ [10:24] TR Bot DeskUp Pro smart standing desk controller integrates with Home Assistant and Homey Pro Smart Home hubs - CNX Software [10:27] TR News Telenor https://www.dw.com/en/norway-s-telenor-faces-lawsuit-for-giving-junta-data-from-its-customers-in-myanmar/a-76710104 [10:27] TR Bot Telenor faces lawsuit for giving Myanmar junta customer data [10:28] TR News fertilizer crunch heats https://www.dw.com/en/iran-war-how-farmers-adapt-as-fertilizer-crunch-heats-up/a-76705488 [10:28] TR Bot How farmers are facing a fertilizer shortfall [10:31] TR News India's digital census prompts fear of hidden agenda https://www.dw.com/en/india-s-digital-census-prompts-fear-of-hidden-agendas/a-76693150 [10:31] TR Bot India's digital census prompts fear of hidden agendas [10:49] *ewig`` has quit (Remote host closed the connection) ● Apr 19 [11:00] TR News Probably perjury: seems like MJG has lied to the High Court under oath. Even loans are legally considered to be third-party funding, as per the practitioners' manuals [11:01] TR News Local Hey Hi (AI) Performance: Optimizing LLM Inference on GNU/Linux (2026 Admin Guide) https://www.fosslinux.com/155039/local-ai-performance-optimizing-llm-inference-on-linux-2026-admin-guide.htm [11:01] TR Bot Local AI Performance & Optimization (2026 Admin Guide) [11:01] TR News Scaling Reliable Infrastructure with Immutable GNU/Linux Distributions (2026 Admin Guide) https://www.fosslinux.com/155038/scaling-reliable-infrastructure-with-immutable-linux-distributions-2026-admin-guide.htm [11:01] TR Bot Immutable Linux Infrastructure Guide (2026 Guide) [11:02] TR News Mastering Local AI: How to Run Ollama on Ubuntu (2026 Guide) https://www.fosslinux.com/154629/mastering-local-ai-ollama-ubuntu.htm [11:02] TR Bot Mastering Local AI: How to Install Ollama on Ubuntu (2026) [11:03] TR News The Rise of Immutable Linux: Mastering NixOS (2026 Architectural Guide) https://www.fosslinux.com/154635/mastering-nixos-immutable-linux.htm [11:03] TR Bot Mastering NixOS: A Guide to Immutable Linux (2026) [11:03] TR News Linux Kernel 7.0 Released: The Complete Feature Breakdown https://www.fosslinux.com/154929/linux-kernel-7-0-new-features.htm [11:03] TR Bot Linux Kernel 7.0 Released: The Complete Feature Breakdown (2026) [11:04] TR News Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon: Every Major Change Explained https://www.fosslinux.com/154924/ubuntu-26-04-lts-resolute-raccoon-features.htm [11:04] TR Bot Ubuntu 26.04 LTS "Resolute Raccoon": Every Major Change Explained (2026) [11:04] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 arrives to lure backdoored Windows users with a massive app database and Lite revival https://www.neowin.net/news/zorin-os-181-arrives-to-lure-windows-users-with-a-massive-app-database-and-lite-revival/ [11:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.neowin.net/news/zorin-os-181-arrives-to-lure-windows-users-with-a-massive-app-database-and-lite-revival/ ) [11:06] TR News 6 Best Free and Open Source Lightweight GUI Email Clients https://www.linuxlinks.com/lightweight-email-clients/ [11:06] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Lightweight GUI Email Clients - LinuxLinks [11:06] TR News U.K.s Starmer Summons U.S. Social Media Companies Over Child Safety Online https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/europe/starmer-social-media-child-safety-meta-google.html [11:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/world/europe/starmer-social-media-child-safety-meta-google.html ) [11:15] TR News Firefox Tooling Announcements: Happy BMO Push Day! (20260415.1) https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/happy-bmo-push-day-20260415-1/147960 [11:15] TR Bot Happy BMO Push Day! (20260415.1) - Firefox Tooling Announcements - Mozilla Discourse [11:17] *rianne_ (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [11:17] *asusbox (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [11:23] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:23] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [11:25] TR News Ford Says Doug Field, Who Led Company's E.V. Push, is Leaving https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/ford-electric-vehicles-doug-field.html [11:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/ford-electric-vehicles-doug-field.html ) [11:29] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:30] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:33] TR News NIST shifts National Vulnerability Database to risk-based triage as CVE submissions hit record levels https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/15/nist-shifts-national-vulnerability-database-risk-based-triage-cve-submissions-hit-record-levels/ [11:33] TR Bot shifts National Vulnerability Database to risk-based triage as CVE submissions hit record levels - SiliconANGLE [11:35] TR News Live Nation Suffers Major Defeat to 34 States In High-Stakes Antitrust Trial Concert Giant Promises Verdict Isnt the Last Word on This Matter https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/15/live-nation-trial-jury-verdict/ [11:35] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2026/04/15/live-nation-trial-jury-verdict/ ) [11:38] TR News Hourly check-ins a hassle for Malaysian civil servants working from home https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/hourly-check-ins-a-hassle-for-malaysian-civil-servants-working-from-home [11:38] TR Bot Hourly check-ins a hassle for Malaysian civil servants working from home | The Straits Times [11:38] TR News Chinas G.D.P. Stronger Than Expected, Led by Infrastructure Spending https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/china-economy-growth.html [11:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/business/china-economy-growth.html ) [11:42] TR News Why You Keep Waking at 3am, According to Sleep Science https://www.sciencealert.com/why-you-keep-waking-at-3am-according-to-sleep-science [11:42] TR Bot You Keep Waking at 3am, According to Sleep Science : ScienceAlert [11:45] TR News Planet gone mad. NOT THE ONION: "said it would pivot its business to AI compute infrastructure, completely abandoning footwear" https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/15/seriously-footwear-brand-allbirds-says-just-transformed-ai-business/ [11:45] TR Bot Footwear brand Allbirds says it has just transformed into an AI business - SiliconANGLE [11:46] TR News Big data centre opens in Rga, Latvia https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/education/16.04.2026-big-data-centre-opens-in-riga-latvia.a643155/ [11:46] TR Bot Big data centre opens in Rga / Article [11:57] *lxo has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:59] *lxo (~lxo@ejtt6wjxgf2mc.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 19 [12:01] TR News YouTube launches the Zero Shorts option: Take back control of your time https://hackwarenews.com/youtube-launches-the-zero-shorts-option-take-back-control-of-your-time/ [12:01] TR Bot YouTube launches the "Zero Shorts" option: Take back control of your time [12:02] TR News Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits mid april 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/04/18/misc-fedora-bits-mid-april-2026/ [12:02] TR Bot misc fedora bits mid april 2026 | Kevin's musings [12:03] TR News KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz https://nmariusp.blogspot.com/2026/04/kde-mega-sprint-2026-graz.html [12:03] TR Bot KDE Mega Sprint 2026 Graz [12:03] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:05] TR News Fun pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/04/fun-pictures-with-ggplot2-and-scico-packages/ [12:05] TR Bot pictures with ggplot2 and scico packages | R-bloggers [12:06] TR News State of Kdenlive - 2026 https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/state-2026/ [12:06] TR Bot State of Kdenlive - 2026 - Kdenlive [12:07] TR News Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects https://www.rubenerd.au/planets-blog-aggregators-for-tech-projects/ [12:07] TR Bot Rubenerd: Planets: blog aggregators for tech projects [12:12] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [12:17] TR News NHS Vaccines at Risk from Chinese Fridge-Hackers https://lunduke.substack.com/p/nhs-vaccines-at-risk-from-chinese [12:17] TR Bot NHS Vaccines at Risk from Chinese Fridge-Hackers [12:18] TR News Pluralistic: Georgia's voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/18/dominion-sucks-actually/ [12:18] TR Bot Pluralistic: Georgias voting technology blunder (18 Apr 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [12:35] TR News Dihydroxyacetone Man Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body https://futurism.com/health-medicine/trump-diet-coke-cancer-cells [12:35] TR Bot Trump Secretly Believes That Diet Coke Kills Cancer Cells Inside the Body [12:37] TR News social control media https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-seeks-to-rein-in-risks-from-ai-digital-humans [12:37] TR Bot China seeks to rein in risks from AI digital humans | The Straits Times [12:38] TR News Ready for the bubble to pop; financial fraud or circular financing https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-nearly-lost-his-composure-when-pressed-on-selling-chips-to-china-youre-not-talking-to-someone-who-woke-up-a-loser [12:38] TR Bot Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang nearly lost his composure when pressed on selling chips to China Youre not talking to someone who woke up a loser | Tom's Hardware [12:39] TR News Activists Urge Boycott of Bezos Met Gala With Posters Around NYC https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/style/bezos-met-gala-boycott-posters.html [12:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/style/bezos-met-gala-boycott-posters.html ) [12:40] TR News Meanwhile, NPR is controlled by Microsoft, Bill Epsteingate and former CEO+Microsoft PR department (Connie Ballmer) [12:40] TR News so culture and media are already controlled by oligarchy [12:43] TR News City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ctiy-council-data-center [12:43] TR Bot City Council Wrecked in Voter Bloodbath After Allowing New Data Center [12:43] TR News Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar Hey Hi (AI) Lobbyists, Even Though Itd Be a Slam Dunk With Voters https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/democrats-ai-voters [12:43] TR Bot Democrats Warned Not to Upset Multi-Million Dollar AI Lobbyists, Even Though It'd Be a Slam Dunk With Voters [12:45] TR News Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/bluetooth-tracker-hidden-in-a-postcard-and-mailed-to-a-warship-exposed-its-location-a-eur5-gadget-put-a-eur500-million-dutch-ship-at-risk-for-24-hours [12:45] TR Bot Bluetooth tracker hidden in a postcard and mailed to a warship exposed its location $5 gadget put a $585 million Dutch ship at risk for 24 hours | Tom's Hardware [12:45] TR News US federal court dismisses suit seeking personal information about Rhode Island voters https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/us-federal-court-dismisses-suit-seeking-personal-information-about-rhode-island-voters/ [12:45] TR Bot US federal court dismisses suit seeking personal information about Rhode Island voters - JURIST - News [12:46] TR News Tycoon 2FA Loses Phishing Kit Crown Amid Surge in Attacks https://www.securityweek.com/tycoon-2fa-loses-phishing-kit-crown-amid-surge-in-attacks/ [12:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/tycoon-2fa-loses-phishing-kit-crown-amid-surge-in-attacks/ ) [12:47] TR News 36,000 people quit Facebook (Farcebook) for six weeks and the stunning findings were just revealed https://nypost.com/2026/04/18/us-news/log-off-feel-better-study-finds-ditching-facebook-boosts-mood/ [12:47] TR Bot Log off, feel better? Study finds ditching Facebook boosts mood [12:48] TR News Microsoft offers $2 million sweepstake for Edge users https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-edge/microsoft-offers-usd2-million-sweepstake-for-edge-users-but-no-one-noticed-for-a-month-usd1-million-cash-mercedes-benz-cars-among-prizes-in-desperate-push-for-users [12:48] TR Bot Microsoft offers $2 million sweepstake for Edge users, but no one noticed for a month $1 million cash, Mercedes-Benz cars among prizes in desperate push for users | Tom's Hardware [12:48] TR News Things You Told Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Chaffbot or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/lawyer-claude-ai-chatbot [12:48] TR Bot Things You Told ChatGPT or Claude My Have Already Doomed You in Court [12:50] TR News Pironman 5 Pro Max Review A Raspberry Pi 5 Tower PC case with integrated video and audio capabilities, optional UPS kit https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/04/18/pironman-5-pro-max-review-a-raspberry-pi-5-tower-pc-case-with-integrated-video-and-audio-capabilities-ups-kit/ [12:50] TR Bot Pironman 5 Pro Max Review - A Raspberry Pi 5 Tower PC case with integrated video and audio capabilities, optional UPS kit - CNX Software [12:50] TR News My solution for copying backups around the homelab https://dan.langille.org/2026/04/18/my-solution-for-copying-backups-around-the-homelab/ [12:50] TR Bot My solution for copying backups around the homelab Dan Langille's Other Diary [12:51] TR News SNK revives the mighty Neo Geo in modern form new AES+ system plays classic games without emulation https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/snk-revives-the-mighty-neo-geo-in-modern-form-new-aes-system-plays-classic-games-without-emulation [12:51] TR Bot SNK revives the mighty Neo Geo in modern form new AES+ system plays classic games without emulation | Tom's Hardware [12:54] *asusbox (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [12:54] *rianne_ (~rianne@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights ● Apr 19 [13:04] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [13:07] TR News disinfo: https://blog.calif.io/p/mad-bugs-even-cat-readmetxt-is-not iophk: `cat` is fine, iTerm is not ... [13:07] TR Bot MAD Bugs: Even "cat readme.txt" is not safe - Calif [13:08] TR News Amnesty flags growing censorship risks in Indias proposed digital media framework https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/amnesty-flags-growing-censorship-risks-in-indias-proposed-digital-media-framework/ [13:08] TR Bot Amnesty flags growing censorship risks in Indias proposed digital media framework - JURIST - News [13:08] TR News Charles Plessy: Thanks Branchable! http://charles.plessy.org/Debian/debi%C3%A2neries/merciBranchable/ [13:09] TR Bot Thanks Branchable! [13:09] TR News This Week in Science: Osteoarthritis Injections, Whale 'Speech', And Much More! https://www.sciencealert.com/this-week-in-science-osteoarthritis-injections-whale-speech-and-much-more [13:09] TR Bot Week in Science: Osteoarthritis Injections, Whale 'Speech', And Much More! : ScienceAlert [13:10] TR News Seven stable kernels for Saturday https://lwn.net/Articles/1068473/ [13:10] TR Bot stable kernels for Saturday [LWN.net] [13:10] TR News GhostBSD 26.1 is out https://distrowatch.com/ghostbsd [13:10] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/ghostbsd ) [13:10] TR News GhostBSD 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.1-R15.0p2 [13:10] TR Bot 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server - Phoronix [13:11] TR News Federal advisory panel votes to protect donor privacy, narrowing scope of amicus disclosure rules https://www.jurist.org/news/2026/04/federal-advisory-panel-votes-to-protect-donor-privacy-narrowing-scope-of-amicus-disclosure-rules/ [13:11] TR Bot Federal advisory panel votes to protect donor privacy, narrowing scope of amicus disclosure rules - JURIST - News [13:15] TR News Matthias Klumpp: Hello old new Projects directory! https://blog.tenstral.net/2026/04/hello-projects-directory.html [13:15] TR Bot Hello old new Projects directory! Ximions Blog [13:16] TR News Type with your voice on GNU/Linux using this Whisper-based app https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/speed-of-sound-linux-voice-typing-app [13:16] TR Bot Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app - OMG! Ubuntu [13:16] TR News BigLinux 2026-04-18 is out https://distrowatch.com/biglinux [13:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/biglinux ) [13:16] TR News ENux 5.3.1 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/enux [13:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/enux ) [13:18] TR News Now they even REBRAND SEARCH as HEY HI. Incredibly stupid. https://siliconangle.com/2026/04/18/ai-powers-google-whats-next-google-cloud/ [13:18] TR Bot AI powers Google, whats next for Google Cloud - SiliconANGLE [13:18] TR News Synex 260418 is out https://distrowatch.com/synex [13:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/synex ) [13:19] TR News Solus 4.9 is out as well https://distrowatch.com/solus [13:19] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/solus ) [13:19] TR News Bonobo minimalist static site generator https://www.linuxlinks.com/bonobo-minimalist-static-site-generator/ [13:19] TR Bot - minimalist static site generator - LinuxLinks [13:20] TR News openRuyi GNU/Linux Distribution for RISC-V https://www.linuxlinks.com/openruyi-linux-distribution-risc-v/ [13:20] TR Bot - Linux Distribution for RISC-V - LinuxLinks [13:22] TR News openrouteservice build route planning and spatial analysis services https://www.linuxlinks.com/openrouteservice-build-route-planning-spatial-analysis-services/ [13:22] TR Bot - build route planning and spatial analysis services - LinuxLinks [13:26] *psydroid3 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [13:28] TR News unifly management toolkit for Ubiquiti UniFi network controllers https://www.linuxlinks.com/unifly-management-toolkit-ubiquiti-unifi-network-controllers/ [13:28] TR Bot - management toolkit for Ubiquiti UniFi network controllers - LinuxLinks [13:29] TR News 8 Best Free and Open Source C Static Site Generators https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-c-static-site-generators/ [13:29] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source C Static Site Generators - LinuxLinks [13:29] TR News GraphHopper fast, memory-efficient routing engine https://www.linuxlinks.com/graphhopper-fast-memory-efficient-routing-engine/ [13:29] TR Bot - fast, memory-efficient routing engine - LinuxLinks [13:29] TR News Castle Model Viewer supports 3D and 2D model formats https://www.linuxlinks.com/castle-model-viewer-supports-3d-2d-model-formats/ [13:29] TR Bot Model Viewer - supports 3D and 2D model formats - LinuxLinks [13:30] TR News KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026 https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/04/18/kde-sprint-linuxtage-graz-2026.html [13:30] TR Bot KDE Sprint and Grazer Linuxtage 2026 [13:34] TR News Slackware Cloud Server Series, Episode 12: Local Hey Hi (AI) https://blog.slackware.nl/slackware-cloud-server-series-episode-12-local-ai/ [13:34] TR Bot Slackware Cloud Server Series, Episode 12: Local AI Alien Pastures [13:35] TR News How To Install Plotly on Fedora 43 https://idroot.us/install-plotly-fedora-43/ [13:35] TR Bot How To Install Plotly on Fedora 43 - idroot [13:35] TR News How To Install Magento on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-magento-rocky-linux-10/ [13:35] TR Bot How To Install Magento on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [13:35] TR News How to Install HTTPS Protocol on Ubuntu 26.04 https://www.linuxcloudvps.com/blog/how-to-install-https-protocol-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [13:35] TR Bot to Install HTTPS Protocol on Ubuntu 26.04 | LinuxCloudVPS Blog [13:36] TR News How to Install Magento on Ubuntu 26.04 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-magento-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [13:36] TR Bot to Install Magento on Ubuntu 26.04 | RoseHosting [13:36] TR News How to Install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 26.04 https://www.rosehosting.com/blog/how-to-install-php-8-3-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [13:36] TR Bot to Install PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 26.04 | RoseHosting [13:38] TR News This Week in Linux 342: GNU/Linux 7.0, France switches to Linux, 5% on Steam, Bazzite, Anthropic AI, & more GNU/Linux news https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/this-week-in-linux/twil-342/ [13:38] TR Bot Linux 7.0, France switches to Linux, 5% on Steam, Bazzite, Anthropic AI, & more Linux news - This Week in Linux - TuxDigital [13:38] TR News FOSS Forces Top Five Articles For the Week Ending April 17, 2026 https://fossforce.com/2026/04/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-april-17-2026/ [13:38] TR Bot FOSS Force's Top Five Articles For the Week Ending April 17, 2026 - FOSS Force [13:43] TR News Linux Saloon 196 | GNU/Linux Native vs Universal Applications https://cubiclenate.com/2026/04/18/linux-saloon-196-linux-native-vs-universal-applications/ [13:43] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://cubiclenate.com/2026/04/18/linux-saloon-196-linux-native-vs-universal-applications/ ) [13:43] TR News git fetch vs git pull: What Is the Difference? https://linuxize.com/post/git-fetch-vs-git-pull/ [13:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://linuxize.com/post/git-fetch-vs-git-pull/ ) [13:44] TR News Rust Hash Sum calculate and verify file checksums https://www.linuxlinks.com/rust-hash-sum-calculate-verify-file-checksums/ [13:44] TR Bot Hash Sum - calculate and verify file checksums - LinuxLinks [13:45] TR News iperf3 active measurement of network performance on IP networks https://www.linuxlinks.com/iperf3-active-measurement-network-performance/ [13:45] TR Bot - active measurement of network performance on IP networks - LinuxLinks [13:45] TR News rdapper performs domain registration lookups https://www.linuxlinks.com/rdapper-performs-domain-registration-lookups/ [13:45] TR Bot - performs domain registration lookups - LinuxLinks [13:46] TR News 13 Useful Free and Open Source 3D Model Viewers https://www.linuxlinks.com/useful-free-open-source-3d-model-viewers/ [13:46] TR Bot Useful Free and Open Source 3D Model Viewers - LinuxLinks [13:46] TR News UnixBench original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite https://www.linuxlinks.com/unixbench-original-byte-unix-benchmark-suite/ [13:46] TR Bot - original BYTE UNIX benchmark suite - LinuxLinks [13:47] TR News Dongle move around deep directory trees https://www.linuxlinks.com/dongle-move-around-deep-directory-trees/ [13:47] TR Bot - move around deep directory trees - LinuxLinks [13:48] TR News 7 Best Free and Open Source Travel Planners https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-travel-planners/ [13:48] TR Bot Best Free and Open Source Travel Planners - LinuxLinks [13:48] TR News Online 3D Viewer browser-based application for inspecting 3D models https://www.linuxlinks.com/online-3d-viewer-browser-based-application-inspecting-3d-models/ [13:48] TR Bot 3D Viewer - browser-based application for inspecting 3D models - LinuxLinks [13:48] TR News glmark2 graphics benchmark https://www.linuxlinks.com/glmark2-graphics-benchmark/ [13:48] TR Bot - graphics benchmark - LinuxLinks [13:50] TR News "The first point release to Zorin OS 18 is now available for download, arriving six months and some 3.3 million downloads after the original launch." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/zorin-os-18-1-released [13:50] TR Bot Zorin OS 18.1 released, new Lite edition available - OMG! Ubuntu [13:50] TR News Zorin OS 18.1 improves Windows app detection https://www.notebookcheck.net/Zorin-OS-18-1-improves-Windows-app-detection.1275722.0.html [13:50] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Zorin-OS-18-1-improves-Windows-app-detection.1275722.0.html ) [13:53] TR News (NEW): Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Why_Zorin_OS_18_1_is_simply_the_best_Linux_distro_for_anyone.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/15/Why_Zorin_OS_18_1_is_simply_the_best_Linux_distro_for_anyone.gmi [13:53] TR Bot Tux Machines Why Zorin OS 18.1 is simply the best Linux distro - for anyone [13:55] TR News "Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows us why and how to use Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), a new standard by the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group." https://hackaday.com/2026/04/17/fred-comes-to-hobby-operating-systems-and-linux/ [13:55] TR Bot Comes To Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux) | Hackaday [13:55] TR News Linux 7.1 just killed one of dual-booting's biggest headaches https://www.xda-developers.com/linux-71-just-killed-one-of-dual-bootings-biggest-headaches/ [13:55] TR Bot Linux 7.1 just killed one of dual-booting's biggest headaches [13:56] TR News Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11, and Linux Gaming Just Got Windows-Level Frame Pacing https://wccftech.com/valve-quietly-rebased-proton-on-wine-11-and-linux-gaming-just-got-windows-level-frame-pacing/ [13:56] TR Bot Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11, and Linux Gaming Just Got Windows-Level Frame Pacing [13:56] TR News I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS, and maybe neither is the PC | PC Gamer https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/i-found-out-the-hard-way-that-linux-is-not-a-dad-friendly-gaming-os-and-maybe-neither-is-the-pc/ Source: PC Gamer [13:56] TR Bot I found out the hard way that Linux is not a dad-friendly gaming OS, and maybe neither is the PC | PC Gamer [13:57] TR News France has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs https://www.techradar.com/computing/windows/france-has-ditched-windows-11-for-linux-on-2-5-million-government-pcs-heres-why-microsoft-should-worry-that-millions-more-could-follow-by-the-end-of-2026 [13:57] TR Bot has ditched Windows 11 for Linux on 2.5 million government PCs here's why Microsoft should worry that millions more could follow by the end of 2026 | TechRadar [13:58] TR News Valve's Proton 11 beta unlocks more playable games and boosts performance for Steam Deck and Linux fans https://www.tweaktown.com/news/111106/valves-proton-11-beta-unlocks-more-playable-games-and-boosts-performance-for-steam-deck-and-linux-fans/index.html [13:58] TR Bot Valve's Proton 11 beta unlocks more playable games and boosts performance for Steam Deck and Linux fans ● Apr 19 [14:00] TR News Skip the tutorials and build something real: Learn Linux the easy way https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-actually-learn-linux-skip-the-tutorials-and-build-something-real/ [14:00] TR Bot How to boost your Linux skills beyond a beginner level [14:01] TR News (NEW): Release of Wine 11.7, Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Release_of_Wine_11_7_Valve_Quietly_Rebased_Proton_on_Wine_11.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Release_of_Wine_11_7_Valve_Quietly_Rebased_Proton_on_Wine_11.gmi [14:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Release of Wine 11.7, Valve Quietly Rebased Proton on Wine 11 [14:02] TR News "This release also improves support for Flatpak and AUR packages." https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-1-package-manager-for-arch-linux-revamps-appimage-support [14:02] TR Bot 2.1 Package Manager for Arch Linux Revamps AppImage Support - 9to5Linux [14:03] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/today_s_howtos.gmi [14:03] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [14:04] TR News NVIDIA keeps neglecting frame gen on Linux, so I turned to this $7 alternative instead https://www.howtogeek.com/nvidia-neglecting-framegen-linux/ [14:04] TR Bot NVIDIA keeps neglecting frame gen on Linux, so I turned to this $7 alternative instead [14:08] TR News (NEW): Games: Valve, NVIDIA, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Games_Valve_NVIDIA_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Games_Valve_NVIDIA_and_More.gmi [14:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Valve, NVIDIA, and More [14:09] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux and Linux Saloon https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Audiocasts_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_and_Linux_Saloon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Audiocasts_Shows_This_Week_in_Linux_and_Linux_Saloon.gmi [14:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: This Week in Linux and Linux Saloon [14:14] TR News (NEW): Standards/Consortia: NIST and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Standards_Consortia_NIST_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Standards_Consortia_NIST_and_More.gmi [14:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Standards/Consortia: NIST and More [14:16] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [14:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [14:18] *Anonymous (~Anonymous@e5x4nzzrn7544.irc) has joined #techrights [14:18] TR News (NEW): Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Lefto.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Content_Management_Systems_CMS_Static_Site_Generators_SSG_Lefto.gmi [14:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG) Leftovers [14:19] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [14:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [14:24] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.1.gmi [14:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [14:24] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Web_Browsers_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Web_Browsers_Leftovers.gmi [14:24] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers Leftovers [14:26] *Anonymous (~Anonymous@e5x4nzzrn7544.irc) has left #techrights [14:28] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Open_Hardware_Modding_Leftovers.gmi [14:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding Leftovers [14:31] TR News (NEW): Kernel: Linux 7.0, Linux 7.1, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Kernel_Linux_7_0_Linux_7_1_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Kernel_Linux_7_0_Linux_7_1_and_More.gmi [14:31] TR Bot Tux Machines Kernel: Linux 7.0, Linux 7.1, and More [14:33] TR News (NEW): BSD and GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/BSD_and_GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/BSD_and_GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [14:33] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD and GNU/Linux Leftovers [14:33] TR News Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine https://www.notebookcheck.net/Playnix-Boutique-Linux-PC-released-with-better-gaming-performance-than-Valve-Steam-Machine.1276734.0.html [14:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.notebookcheck.net/Playnix-Boutique-Linux-PC-released-with-better-gaming-performance-than-Valve-Steam-Machine.1276734.0.html ) [14:34] TR News "Brave Origin Nightly now supports installation on Linux for both AMD/Intel and ARM architectures [1]." https://futurumgroup.com/insights/can-brave-origin-nightly-on-linux-shift-enterprise-browser-strategy/ [14:34] TR Bot Brave Origin Nightly Linux [14:34] TR News Steam Runs On Nintendo Switch Using Valve's Proton Linux Beta https://hothardware.com/news/steam-runs-on-nintendo-switch-using-valves-proton-linux-beta [14:34] TR Bot Runs On Nintendo Switch Using Valve's Proton Linux Beta | HotHardware [14:36] TR News Valve's Proton 11 beta boosts Linux gaming with better performance and classic game support https://www.techspot.com/news/112109-valve-proton-11-beta-boosts-linux-gaming-better.html [14:36] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.techspot.com/news/112109-valve-proton-11-beta-boosts-linux-gaming-better.html ) [14:38] TR News (NEW): Games: Boutique Linux PC, >Steam Runs On Nintendo Switch Using Valve's Proton Linux Beta, More on Valve's Proton 11 Beta https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Games_Boutique_Linux_PC_Steam_Runs_On_Nintendo_Switch_Using_Val.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/Games_Boutique_Linux_PC_Steam_Runs_On_Nintendo_Switch_Using_Val.gmi [14:38] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Boutique Linux PC, >Steam Runs On Nintendo Switch Using Valve's Proton Linux Beta, More on Valve's Proton 11 Beta [14:42] TR News Techrights Links 19/04/2026: Introducing Fighting Fascism Podcast and Kyiv Mass Shooting https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Links_19_04_2026_Introducing_Fighting_Fascism_Podcast_and_Kyiv_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Links_19_04_2026_Introducing_Fighting_Fascism_Podcast_and_Kyiv_.gmi [14:42] TR Bot Techrights Links 19/04/2026: Introducing Fighting Fascism Podcast and Kyiv Mass Shooting [14:47] TR News "I use one-way syncing of my local content to my server with `rsync`." gemini://michaelnordmeyer.com/transmissions/2026-04-18-syncing-this-capsule-with-a-makefile.gmi [14:48] TR News "I don't remember exactly what I was looking for. Probably a TUI client for a specific web service. But I found a web browser named Chawan which works in the terminal." gemini://studios-lalla.fr/gemlog/a-tui-web-browser.gmi [14:49] TR News "Initially, I was attempting a strategy of simply putting as many three star cards as possible in the telescope, while putting the low star cards in the notebook. This usually translated into having a roughly equal number of each card type (suit) in the telescope." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260417-0.gmi [14:50] TR News page after page gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/page_after_page [14:52] TR News hover gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/hover [14:52] TR News "what a lovely day! needed to run some errands in the morning and it was, unfortunately, raining. but it was a light spring rain and everything smelled really good." gemini://dogboy.smol.pub/20260418 [14:54] TR News The Matrix, Big Brother, and the Telescreen gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-04-18_the_metrix_big_brother_and_the_telescreen.gmi [14:56] TR News "The Shield-Captain badge slid across the scarred wooden desk and stopped just inches from Arthurs hands. It felt heavy; its pragmatic design was etched in a darkened metal that refused to shine." gemini://wallawood.space/stories/0004.gmi [14:57] TR News "Some people keep journals. I remember things like a terminal history. Not everything. Just the commands that mattered." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/SavaRocks/41701 [14:58] TR News "Through an accident, I own a copy of the instruction manual for the Hemmi 266 slide rule, but not the slide rule itself. This is an electronics slide rule produced by a Japanese company." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20260418-0.gmi [14:59] TR News "The cardputer arrived today. I flashed it with ratcom (a reticulum client) from the ratspeak.org website (theres a flasher located at Downloads)." gemini://thatit.be/2026-04-13-17-59-04.gmi ● Apr 19 [15:04] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 19/04/2026: Big Brother and the Telescreen, Syncing Gemini Capsule With a Makefile https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Gemini_Links_19_04_2026_Big_Brother_and_the_Telescreen_Syncing_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Gemini_Links_19_04_2026_Big_Brother_and_the_Telescreen_Syncing_.gmi [15:04] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 19/04/2026: Big Brother and the Telescreen, Syncing Gemini Capsule With a Makefile ● Apr 19 [16:09] TR News Techrights EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part I - Cocaine Abuse in Family of Campinos (Presidents Office) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/EPO_Cocainegate_Escalates_Part_I_Cocaine_Abuse_in_Family_of_Cam.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/EPO_Cocainegate_Escalates_Part_I_Cocaine_Abuse_in_Family_of_Cam.gmi [16:09] TR Bot Techrights EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part I - Cocaine Abuse in Family of Campinos (Presidents Office) [16:15] *psydruid has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:17] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [16:22] *rianne_ has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:22] *asusbox has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [16:42] TR News Techrights The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part I - EPO Management Talks About "Ethics" While Cocaine Users Run the Office https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_I_EPO_Management_Talks.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_I_EPO_Management_Talks.gmi [16:42] TR Bot Techrights The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part I - EPO Management Talks About "Ethics" While Cocaine Users Run the Office ● Apr 19 [17:00] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [17:01] *wallacer has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:01] *wallacer (~quassel@2x2w4qfz3wksg.irc) has joined #techrights [17:06] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:14] *admfubar has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [17:25] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [17:27] MinceR https://www.oglaf.com/flittermouse/ [17:27] TR Bot Flittermouse [17:32] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [17:48] TR News Xbox Exclusives Problem Is About To Get Worse https://screenrant.com/xbox-exclusives-problem-bad-sales/ Source: Screen Rant | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//screenrant.com/xbox-exclusives-problem-bad-sales/ [17:48] TR Bot Xbox Exclusives Problem Is About To Get Worse [17:49] schestowitz[TR3] Sompi: "btw the message I sent Yle the other day regarding the EPO complained of scandals affecting / involving Finland; maybe Sompi can write to them in Finnish" -Anon [17:49] schestowitz[TR3] can you write to your delegate? [17:50] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/06/European_Patent_Office_Issues_Points_to_Raise_or_Factoids_to_Sh.shtml [17:50] TR Bot Techrights European Patent Office Issues: Points to Raise or Factoids to Share With Delegates of the EPO's Administrative Council [17:57] TR News activist's killing https://www.dw.com/en/guinea-bissau-on-edge-after-activist-s-killing/a-76704388 [17:57] TR Bot Guinea-Bissau on edge after activist's killing [17:58] TR News Germany: Fare evasion is a crime that can send you to prison https://www.dw.com/en/germany-fare-evasion-is-a-crime-that-can-send-you-to-prison/a-76711403 [17:58] TR Bot Germany: Fare evasion is a crime that can send you to prison [17:59] TR News Germany news: Gas price hike higher than other EU countries https://www.dw.com/en/germany-news-gas-price-hike-higher-than-other-eu-countries/live-76716252 [17:59] TR Bot Germany news: Gas price hike higher than other EU countries ● Apr 19 [18:01] TR News DW correspondent Alican Uludag still in custody https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-still-in-custody/a-7669856 [18:01] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.dw.com/en/turkey-dw-correspondent-alican-uludag-still-in-custody/a-7669856 ) [18:02] TR News College Newsrooms https://www.projectcensored.org/network-resistance-lebanon-college-news/ [18:02] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/network-resistance-lebanon-college-news/ ) [18:03] TR News $270M payday https://bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/consumers-energys-sale-plan-would-turn-unprofitable-dams-into-270m-payday/ [18:03] TR Bot Consumers Energys sale plan would turn unprofitable dams into $270M payday - Bridge Michigan [18:03] TR News Keir Starmer Energy Bill Pledge Slammed as 'Complete Scam' Amid New Tax Hikes https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/keir-starmer-energy-bill-pledge-tax-implications-1790527 [18:03] TR Bot Keir Starmer Energy Bill Pledge Slammed as 'Complete Scam' Amid New Tax Hikes | IBTimes UK [18:03] TR News US citizens beat rising energy bills with homegrown power https://www.dw.com/en/us-citizens-beat-rising-energy-bills-with-homegrown-power/a-76566780 [18:03] TR Bot Homegrown energy is slashing US energy bills [18:04] TR News Nuclear waste https://www.dw.com/en/can-small-nuclear-reactors-solve-europe-s-energy-woes/a-76623404 [18:04] TR Bot Can small nuclear reactors solve EU's energy woes? [18:04] TR News weak EV demand https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/nextstars-south-korean-parent-company-flags-1st-quarter-operating-loss-on-weak-ev-demand-9.7154464 [18:04] TR Bot LG Energy Solution flags 1st quarter operating loss on weak EV demand | CBC News [18:10] TR News Dutch healthcare software vendor goes dark after ransomware attack https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/chipsoft_ransomware/ [18:10] TR Bot Ransomware knocks Dutch healthcare software vendor offline The Register [18:11] TR News Iowa AG files lawsuit against Change Healthcare over 2024 data breach https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/cybersecurity/iowa-ag-files-lawsuit-against-change-healthcare-over-2024-data-breach/ [18:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/cybersecurity/iowa-ag-files-lawsuit-against-change-healthcare-over-2024-data-breach/ ) [18:12] TR News Man arrested over stolen patient personal data https://gbcode.rthk.hk/TuniS/news.rthk.hk/rthk/en/component/k2/1850354-20260408.htm [18:12] TR Bot Man arrested over stolen patient personal data - RTHK [18:13] TR News Hackers steal and leak sensitive LAPD police documents https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/hackers-steal-and-leak-sensitive-lapd-police-documents/ [18:13] TR Bot steal and leak sensitive LAPD police documents | TechCrunch [18:15] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [18:16] TR News A string of radio hijacks exposes a deeper broadcast weakness https://dysruptionhub.com/radio-hijacks-barix-broadcast-flaw/ [18:16] TR Bot A string of radio hijacks exposes a deeper weakness [18:24] psydroid3 and Arsenal lose the title race once again [18:24] schestowitz[TR3] yes, am writing about it [18:26] schestowitz[TR3] psydroid2: http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/France_Got_the_Ball_Rolling.shtml [18:26] TR Bot Tux Machines France Got the Ball Rolling [18:27] TR News (NEW): France Got the Ball Rolling https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/France_Got_the_Ball_Rolling.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/France_Got_the_Ball_Rolling.gmi [18:27] TR Bot Tux Machines France Got the Ball Rolling [18:37] Sompi schestowitz[TR3]: What scandals? People who only follow mainstream media are not aware of anything being wrong. [18:39] schestowitz[TR3] see this: [18:40] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/EPO_Cocainegate_Escalates_Part_I_Cocaine_Abuse_in_Family_of_Cam.shtml [18:40] TR Bot Techrights EPO Cocainegate Escalates - Part I - Cocaine Abuse in Family of Campinos (Presidents Office) [18:40] schestowitz[TR3] finnish delegates vote for cokeheads to run the EPO [18:40] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2025/12/06/European_Readers_Get_Ready_to_Contact_Your_National_Representat.shtml [18:40] TR Bot Techrights European Readers, Get Ready to Contact Your National Representatives (Delegates) in the EPO's Administrative Council [18:42] *x-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [18:42] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@yp8eg7wnsxmje.irc) has joined #techrights [18:43] *x-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@atu2uhbvxaeyw.irc) has joined #techrights [18:43] Sompi Our mainstream media would never write anything negative about our representatives in the EU [18:44] Sompi And it's not anything new that the people in those circles are cocaineheads [18:44] Sompi Drug addicts are easy to control [18:57] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 51 Out of 200: On Perjury and What It Means to Take Third-Party Funding to Attack Reporter and His Family (in Another Continent) https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_51_Out_of_200_On_Perjury_and_What_It_Mean.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_51_Out_of_200_On_Perjury_and_What_It_Mean.gmi [18:57] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 51 Out of 200: On Perjury and What It Means to Take Third-Party Funding to Attack Reporter and His Family (in Another Continent) ● Apr 19 [19:01] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: Welp, I really did get had on that Technivorm Moccamaster. I wonder if they pay Bill Nye to name drop it. [19:02] IsambardPrince Anyway, back to cheap coffee makers for me. At least if they die after a couple years you won't scream. [19:02] IsambardPrince Walmart tried to sell me an extended warranty for another year on a $16.88 coffee maker. I laughed and said no. That's a bad deal, especially when I can just pay with a credit card that had "extended warranty" as a card network benefit. [19:03] IsambardPrince A refund of just over $17 from the card network if it breaks down in the next two years isn't life and death, but it doesn't cost anything. [19:03] IsambardPrince The more something costs, the more that benefit is worth. [19:03] IsambardPrince Like, you know, the Applecare? [19:03] IsambardPrince Like if you buy a new Macbook or iPhone, how they want to charge hundreds for that second year of Applecare? [19:04] IsambardPrince You just decline it and pay with a card that has extended warranty. [19:04] IsambardPrince If something breaks, just pay the Apple store to fix it, with that card, and then claim it with American Express Assurance, which is their subsidiary that handles the claims. [19:05] IsambardPrince Tell them like "Hey, my Macbook keyboard broke in the second year, had to pay this amount, it's on that transaction, here's the invoice for the repair. [19:05] IsambardPrince They issue a credit that takes that transaction and reverses it. [19:05] IsambardPrince But people don't know this, so Apple sells "Applecare" plans that increase the price of a product by like $200-300. [19:08] IsambardPrince And the credit card might also have coverage that Applecare won't help you with, so say your phone drops out of your pocket and you run over it with the car by accident, or someone steals your Macbook while you're getting a coffee refill at Starbucks. If that happens within 90 days of buying it, American Express will give you the money back. You'll need to file a police report if it was stolen, but that's not really a big deal when [19:08] IsambardPrince you're talking about something expensive. [19:09] IsambardPrince Extended warranties are one of those things where they profit by volume of sales. They know how many products tend to break down, they also know how many people just won't bother to use the extended warranty or forget their paperwork, especially on less expensive items. [19:09] IsambardPrince So it benefits the company or the store selling them more than it benefits you, statistically. [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] i was reminded of you today [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] in the marjet [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] *ket [19:10] IsambardPrince How so? [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] i nearly bought a keyboard [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] crosair [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] good price [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] but I don't need one [19:10] schestowitz[TR3] at this time [19:11] IsambardPrince I'm usinng one of my laptops with a USB keyboard. [19:11] schestowitz[TR3] all the keys work ok, i changed some keycaps [19:11] IsambardPrince The rest of the laptop works, but the keyboard is fucked. [19:11] IsambardPrince I'm getting quotes of like $200-300 to replace a keyboard. [19:11] schestowitz[TR3] *corsair [19:12] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/p/keyboards/ch-914901e-uk/k70-core-tkl-wireless-rgb-mechanical-gaming-keyboard-uk-ch-914901e-uk?position=5&queryID=982349c10a240250a2e132753c8ee2ac [19:12] TR Bot Challenge Validation [19:13] IsambardPrince Mandy called in to work again. Ugh. [19:14] IsambardPrince He said "Uber was expensive." [19:14] IsambardPrince I doubt it. [19:14] IsambardPrince He usually does this about every couple of months now. [19:14] IsambardPrince I'm just trying to make it to the end of the lease and get out of here. He's on his own after that. [19:14] IsambardPrince If he was smart, he wouldn't screw around and risk his job. [19:15] IsambardPrince He's going to end up homeless at some point after I'm gone and I am not holding things up for him anymore. [19:29] MinceR (cat) (video) (audio:music) https://imgur.com/gallery/may-you-have-amazing-titles-posts-7QCKlae [19:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/may-you-have-amazing-titles-posts-7QCKlae ) [19:41] TR News Techrights Uplifting Mood in Manchester https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Uplifting_Mood_in_Manchester.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/Uplifting_Mood_in_Manchester.gmi [19:41] TR Bot Techrights Uplifting Mood in Manchester ● Apr 19 [20:00] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: you are projecting, partly [20:00] TR News (NEW): New Software for Running Tux Machines https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/New_Software_for_Running_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/04/19/New_Software_for_Running_Tux_Machines.gmi [20:00] TR Bot Tux Machines New Software for Running Tux Machines [20:05] IsambardPrince [14:00] IsambardPrince: you are projecting, partly [20:05] IsambardPrince I'll find somewhere to live. I'm not in a country I know nothing about, he is. [20:09] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3]: He thought he'd throw me away like garbage and it wasn't him that could find someone else easily and quickly. [20:09] IsambardPrince Took me about a month while I was recovering from a broken arm. [20:09] IsambardPrince He went on one date and told the guy everything he's got going on with him, and the guy vanished and hasn't been seen again. [20:10] IsambardPrince Then Mandy fell into a depression where he realizes what he's done, the mistake he's made in getting rid of the only person that would have put up with him, but he's also too narcissistic to admit that he screwed up and ask me to forgive him. [20:11] IsambardPrince So now he doesn't want to get out of bed, or shower regularly, or eat properly, because he realizes that within a few months, I'll move out and dump his ass, and he won't know what to do. [20:11] IsambardPrince Is it really that hard to swallow your pride? [20:11] IsambardPrince He's got a lot of his sister in him, and that's not a good thing. [20:12] IsambardPrince He can go crawling back to her maybe. Much worse than being with me. [20:13] TR News Techrights If You're Against War, Why Would You Pay IBM Red Hat? https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/If_You_re_Against_War_Why_Would_You_Pay_IBM_Red_Hat.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/04/19/If_You_re_Against_War_Why_Would_You_Pay_IBM_Red_Hat.gmi [20:13] TR Bot Techrights If You're Against War, Why Would You Pay IBM Red Hat? [20:13] IsambardPrince She'll make him grovel and beg and then he'll just be turning his paychecks over to her so that she can make her debt payments. [20:13] IsambardPrince While he scrubs their house and they yell at him over a security camera from a vacation they went on, without him. [20:13] IsambardPrince For food they can leave him their Six Flags card so he can take a bus to get a hamburger sometimes. [20:17] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/city-2-1-arsenal-brief-highlights-63912219 [20:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.mancity.com/citytv/mens/city-2-1-arsenal-brief-highlights-63912219 ) [20:22] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: can you make up with him? [20:22] schestowitz[TR3] sounds like this is doable [20:22] schestowitz[TR3] swallow pride [20:22] schestowitz[TR3] try to mend things [20:22] schestowitz[TR3] you are techncically still married [20:23] MinceR "l'enfer, c'est les autres." [20:23] schestowitz[TR3] MinceR: today rianne saw an "injured mincer R" [20:23] schestowitz[TR3] it was a crow [20:23] schestowitz[TR3] with foot issue [20:24] MinceR :( [20:24] schestowitz[TR3] uncle viktor still loves you [20:24] schestowitz[TR3] after all that [20:24] schestowitz[TR3] :) [20:25] schestowitz[TR3] "no hard feelings, man" [20:25] MinceR he can't love anyone except maybe himself, he's a sociopath [20:25] TR News Good luck, have fun and don't die gemini://txt-vostfr.devloprog.org/log/good_luck.gmi [20:26] TR News Why I de-Googled gemini://larsthebear.me/why_i_degoogled.gmi [20:29] schestowitz[TR3] MinceR: misunderstood very stable genius [20:29] MinceR lol [20:30] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@uwb8s9bfzeyh4.irc) has joined #techrights [20:30] *liberty_box_ has quit (connection closed) [20:30] TR News Act-of-War Clauses Cloud Cyber Insurance Coverage https://www.wsj.com/pro/cybersecurity/act-of-war-clauses-cloud-cyber-insurance-coverage-fe5576c7 [20:30] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.wsj.com/pro/cybersecurity/act-of-war-clauses-cloud-cyber-insurance-coverage-fe5576c7 ) [20:31] TR News Lotte Card given notice of $3M penalty, business suspension over massive data breach https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-04-09/business/finance/Lotte-Card-given-notice-of-3M-penalty-business-suspension-over-massive-data-breach/2565162 [20:31] TR Bot Lotte Card given notice of $3M penalty, business suspension over massive data breach [20:32] TR News Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading 30,000 private Facebook photos https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg049xz1ygo [20:32] TR Bot Ex-Meta worker investigated for downloading private Facebook photos [20:32] TR News Capita under investigation after workers hit by pensions data breach https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions/news/capita-hit-by-data-breach-again/ [20:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/pensions/news/capita-hit-by-data-breach-again/ ) [20:33] TR News A hacker has allegedly breached one of Chinas supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomputer-hackers-hnk-intl [20:33] TR Bot A hacker has allegedly breached one of Chinas supercomputers and is attempting to sell a trove of stolen data | CNN [20:34] TR News 86% of businesses refused to pay cyber ransoms in 2025 Coalition Insurance https://www.theactuary.com/2026/04/09/86-businesses-refused-pay-cyber-ransoms-2025 [20:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.theactuary.com/2026/04/09/86-businesses-refused-pay-cyber-ransoms-2025 ) [20:35] TR News Trumps Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers Medical Records https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/trump-opm-federal-workers-medical-records-privacy/ [20:35] TR Bot Trumps Personnel Agency Is Asking for Federal Workers Medical Records - KFF Health News [20:38] TR News Silent Ransom Group leaked another big law firm: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe https://databreaches.net/2026/04/10/silent-ransom-group-leaked-another-big-law-firm-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe/ [20:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2026/04/10/silent-ransom-group-leaked-another-big-law-firm-orrick-herrington-sutcliffe/ ) [20:39] TR News Brockton Hospital still dealing with aftermath of ransomware attack https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/brockton-hospital-still-dealing-with-aftermath-cybersecurity-incident/MW3LYVYCZJEYXHFTDUK2YK2L54/ [20:39] TR Bot This website is unavailable in your location. 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