●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, December 28, 2024 ●● ● Dec 28 [00:00] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [00:09] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [00:10] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [00:19] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [00:20] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [00:32] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [00:43] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e974:da00::1d7f) has joined #techrights [00:57] MinceR https://media.mas.to/media_attachments/files/112/050/697/445/316/459/original/c1116592fdf27e7d.png ● Dec 28 [01:08] *oarion7 has quit (Quit: Running IRC on a charmed medieval abacus.) [01:25] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@uw6p7gi4zeesa.irc) has joined #techrights [01:25] IsambardPrince I've shredded so many documents I had to go out to the dumpster three times. [01:30] IsambardPrince Well, it seems like the neighbors upstairs decided to switch it up. [01:30] IsambardPrince Today it's not boom nigga nigga nigga. [01:31] IsambardPrince It's boom boom boom nigga nigga boom boom boom nigga nigga. [01:31] IsambardPrince It's nice to see they expanded their tastes. [01:33] MinceR lol [01:36] IsambardPrince I think they base their entire form of communication on variations in the word "nigga" and the timing of the booms in their music. [01:37] IsambardPrince It appears to be due to the loudest one getting what it wants. [01:38] MinceR so, just like other humans [01:38] psydruid https://finance.yahoo.com/news/micron-drops-sluggish-pc-phone-213505494.html [01:38] TR Bot Micron Falls Most in Four Years on Sluggish Sales Outlook [01:39] psydruid fewer sales, so also less Microsoft [01:58] IsambardPrince I overheated my paper shredder. [01:59] MinceR did it turn into a paper burner? ● Dec 28 [02:05] IsambardPrince MinceR, I've thrown out 8 13 gallon trash bags of shredded documents so far. [02:05] IsambardPrince I'm sure the neighbors won't mind. [02:28] admfubar i used to give my gerbils all the junk mail to shred for their nests [02:30] admfubar no microwave ovens were harmed in these experiments... https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/could-microwaved-grapes-be-used-for-quantum-sensing/ [02:30] TR Bot Could microwaved grapes be used for quantum sensing? - Ars Technica [02:44] admfubar they'll fix your wagon!!! https://databreaches.net/2024/12/27/massive-vw-group-data-leak-exposed-800000-ev-owners-movements-from-homes-to-brothels/ [02:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://databreaches.net/2024/12/27/massive-vw-group-data-leak-exposed-800000-ev-owners-movements-from-homes-to-brothels/ ) [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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If you are not south asian...bye." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w78xzcM [03:43] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w78xzcM ) [03:44] TR News "I am 67, Band 10 Sales person. Should I worry ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vVKVukf [03:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vVKVukf ) [03:45] TR News "Time to cash out if you are not of asian dna. It's been going on for a few years since he took over but now the partner level feel embolden to take out whites and blacks in the USA at the band 7-9 levels and replace them with offshoring or more visa workers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1waJEpFd [03:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1waJEpFd ) [03:45] TR News "Neither Elmo or Trump's wife are legal immigrants." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wbvO1Ek [03:45] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wbvO1Ek ) [03:48] schestowitz[TR2] Trump And Epstein: Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump's cuckolded his best friends, slept with Melania first on Lolita Express https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/epstein-claimed-trump-cuckolded-his-best-friends-slept-with-melania-first-on-lolita-express/articleshow/114914470.cms [03:48] TR Bot Trump And Epstein: Jeffrey Epstein claimed Donald Trump's cuckolded his best friends, slept with Melania first on 'Lolita Express' | World News - Times of India [03:49] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [03:50] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [03:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1157.jpg [03:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1507.jpg [03:51] TR News "I really wanted to do some creative work today. Pulled out brutaldon and started working on converting my most recent personal patch to a patch request on gitlab, only to get discouraged by gitlab being so user-hostile." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/2024-12-27-bored.gmi [03:52] TR News "Something that has been missing from my life, since I started having children, is music. What I mean is that I used to play musical instruments, but I haven't for several years now." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20241227-0.gmi [03:52] TR News "Here are some links related to my contention that LLM or generative AI is not as amazing and wonderful as many think it is. More specifically, LLM is not some intelligent being that has some somehow surpassed the capabilities of mere human reason. Some of the links below were pulled out of the gemini post." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20241227-1.gmi [03:53] TR News End of Year Sleeplessness gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2024-12-27_sleepless.txt [03:54] TR News "I should note that all my experience with Ada, save for one course in college in the 1980s, has been with the open source GNAT Ada compiler and the open source Ada ecosystem. I suspect that the situation for commercial Ada users has generally been better than the situation of the open source ecosystem." gemini://consp.org/blog/2024/2024-12-27-re-failing-at-ada-again-things-are-looking-better.gmi [03:55] TR News On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-12-27 [03:56] TR News "This serves as a loosely-related addendum to my post on dependent types in Ada, since it's notable as being the only normal-ish imperative language with dependent types." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-12-27-2 [03:57] TR News Little Notes: Small Web and Post-Christmas Edition gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/12-27.gmi "* I just became aware of Nekoweb as another small web hosting site. Maybe the only actual neocities alternative? It does however, if you go to the Most Followed section, seem to have an overwhelmingly anime vibe (great if that's you're thing, a pass if it's from me)" [03:58] TR News I hate my boss gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2429 "In Robert Greene's book "The 48 Laws of Power," the First Law states to "never outshine the master." The natural sociological order is them in control, you submitting. Both of you benefit from the dynamic being that way." [03:59] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [03:59] TR News sweetallergies gemini://wampa.smol.pub/sweetallergies ● Dec 28 [04:00] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:01] TR News i'm not about to de-solder and yank up traces gemini://wampa.smol.pub/im-not-about-to-de-solder-and-yank-up-traces "Was hypertext a mistake?" [04:02] TR News "I stick to my old computers, mainly this average mid-90s desktop and an average early 2000s laptop." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2024-12-28Timewarp_Toolset.txt [04:07] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 27, 2024 https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_27_2024.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_27_2024.gmi [04:07] TR News Techrights Links 28/12/2024: Having Bosses, Ada's Dependent Types https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Links_28_12_2024_Having_Bosses_Ada_s_Dependent_Types.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Links_28_12_2024_Having_Bosses_Ada_s_Dependent_Types.gmi [04:07] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 27, 2024 [04:07] TR Bot Techrights Links 28/12/2024: Having Bosses, Ada's Dependent Types [04:08] TR News Tux Machines https://tuxmachines.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/ [04:08] TR Bot Tux Machines [04:08] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2024/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:08] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:08] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:08] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:09] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [04:10] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:11] TR News FSF fund-raising at 243k now [04:13] TR News "This is my first attempt of writing a plugin. We can select a window (in the GIF below I am using a bash terminal as target) and send any text to that window. This will be helpful in my teaching sessions. Specially modifying larger Python functions etc." https://kushaldas.in/posts/pastewindow-nvim-my-first-neovim-plugin.html [04:13] TR Bot Kushal Das [04:13] TR News "At work, I've been maintaining a perl script that needs to run a number of steps as part of a release workflow." https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/Writing_an_extensible_JSON-based_DSL_with_Moose/ [04:13] TR Bot Writing an extensible JSON-based DSL with Moose [04:18] TR News "Companies that reduced their presence in Austin include Microsoft" https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-tech-layoffs-2024-19983796.php [04:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-tech-layoffs-2024-19983796.php ) [04:19] *agentcasey_ has quit (connection closed) [04:20] *agentcasey_ (~agentcasey@8pzu2fcsusfzc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:22] TR News GNU/Linux is about 5% in Azerbaijan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/azerbaijan/#monthly-200902-202412 [04:22] TR Bot Desktop Operating System Market Share Azerbaijan | Statcounter Global Stats [04:22] TR News