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[00:01]	IsambardPrince	Pillsbury Eat or Bake Refrigerated Cookie Dough, Chocolate Chip, Value Size, 30 oz
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[00:02]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, So if this guy values it at $4 that's a good exchange rate.
[00:02]	IsambardPrince	I should go get some Valora and then buy cookie dough from him.
[00:03]	IsambardPrince	That means that in terms of cookie dough, the exchange rate between the dollar and tha Valora is favorable to the dollar by over 22%.
[00:04]	IsambardPrince	Which is enough to get him declared by the US Treasury as a Currency Manipulator.
[00:04]	IsambardPrince	:D
[00:04]	IsambardPrince	I'll inform Scott Bessent right away.
[00:04]	MinceR	:>
[00:04]	IsambardPrince	No, I'm sorry, 27%.
[00:05]	IsambardPrince	Even worse.
[00:05]	IsambardPrince	I'd better inform the government right away!
[00:08]	MinceR	https://pleated-jeans.com/2025/03/22/funny-random-pictures-3-22-25/
[00:08]	TR Bot	 55 Funny And/Or Random Pictures For Your Daily Dose Of Randomness (March 22, 2025)
[00:14]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz-pi, Have you heard from Brandon Pekpek lately?
[00:15]	MinceR	:)
[00:16]	IsambardPrince	https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pek%20pek
[00:16]	TR Bot	 Urban Dictionary: pek pek
[00:16]	IsambardPrince	pek pek
[00:16]	IsambardPrince	Share definition
[00:16]	IsambardPrince	filipino word for female genitalia.
[00:16]	IsambardPrince	1. I came out of my mommy's pek pek 2. Pek pek is the main commodity sold by pok poks (hookers)
[00:17]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, How many pesos for the pok pok's pek pek?
[00:27]	admfubar	https://www.osnews.com/story/141902/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations/
[00:27]	TR Bot	execs are pushing Trump to build Freedom Cities run by corporations OSnews
[00:30]	MinceR	appropriately named after something that won't exist in them
[00:40]	admfubar	https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/partially-wilmerhale-defendants.html
[00:40]	TR Bot	 Federal Court Partially Blocks Executive Order Targeting WilmerHale: USPTO Acting Director Among Named Defendants | Patently-O
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2025/03/29/hundreds-attend-second-protest-of-elon-musk-president-trump-outside-libertyville-tesla-dealership/
[00:52]	TR Bot	 Hundreds attend protest of Elon Musk, President Trump outside Libertyville Tesla dealership
[00:52]	IsambardPrince	"Lake County Democrats said more than 550 people came out in support of their February 22 protest where approximately 40 supporters of Trump and Musk attended a counter-protest."
[00:54]	admfubar	https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/school-laptops-spied-on-teens-in-their-bedrooms
[00:54]	TR Bot	 NEWS & UPDATES | FISA REFORM | PPSA - Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA)
[00:55]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, The neighbor came out to complain about MY door, which is actually very quiet.
[00:55]	admfubar	https://www.osnews.com/story/142023/microsoft-makes-it-even-harder-to-use-a-local-account-on-windows-11/
[00:55]	TR Bot	makes it even harder to use a local account on Windows 11 OSnews
[00:55]	IsambardPrince	I'm deciding if I'm mean enough to aim the stereo directly at the door and turn up some gay porn and walk off.
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[00:59]	admfubar	https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-citizens-arrest/
[00:59]	TR Bot	 Local business organizes 'citizen's arrest' of Elon Musk ahead of Wisconsin appearance - Raw Story
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[01:21]	admfubar	https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/more-countries-are-demanding-back-doors-to-encrypted-apps.html
[01:21]	TR Bot	Countries are Demanding Backdoors to Encrypted Apps - Schneier on Security
[01:22]	admfubar	and they're getting weirder... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/is-security-human-factors-research-skewed-towards-western-ideas-and-habits.html
[01:22]	TR Bot	Security Human Factors Research Skewed Towards Western Ideas and Habits? - Schneier on Security
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[01:25]	IsambardPrince	ZedHedTed, I'll give AmEx this.
[01:25]	IsambardPrince	They know how to encourage you to spend.
[01:25]	IsambardPrince	I just got hit with another spend $4,000, get 2,000 additional MR points offer.
[01:26]	IsambardPrince	Rep said they were compatible with the Spend $6,000 in 180 days, get 100,000 addtional MR points welcome offer for the Gold Card.
[01:26]	IsambardPrince	I can square up some spending to probably hit the $4,000 offer along the way.
[01:27]	IsambardPrince	Won't be hard since a lot of that will be just paying the bills.
[01:27]	IsambardPrince	The next full year of Mint Mobile for Mandy just went on the card a few months early. I'll pay mine into June 2027 before this 90 days is up.
[01:28]	admfubar	https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/03/29/1928254/has-the-decline-of-knowledge-worker-jobs-begun
[01:28]	TR Bot	 Has the Decline of Knowledge Worker Jobs Begun? - Slashdot
[01:29]	admfubar	your whoopsie doodles are showing....  https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/30/0236216/nearly-15-million-private-photos-from-five-dating-apps-were-exposed-online
[01:29]	TR Bot	 Nearly 1.5 Million Private Photos from Five Dating Apps Were Exposed Online - Slashdot
[01:34]	admfubar	https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/03/29/0536241/scientists-may-have-discovered-how-to-extract-power-from-the-earths-rotation
[01:34]	TR Bot	 Scientists May Have Discovered How To Extract Power From the Earth's Rotation - Slashdot
[01:35]	MinceR	finally we can stop the earth's rotation
[01:37]	admfubar	next, biofeedback and how to stop it!
[01:38]	admfubar	https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/29/0028217/madison-square-garden-bans-fan-after-surveillance-system-ids-him-as-critic-of-its-ceo
[01:38]	TR Bot	 Madison Square Garden Bans Fan After Surveillance System IDs Him as Critic of Its CEO - Slashdot
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[01:46]	admfubar	https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/28/1915238/again-and-again-nso-groups-customers-keep-getting-their-spyware-operations-caught
[01:46]	TR Bot	 Again and Again, NSO Group's Customers Keep Getting Their Spyware Operations Caught - Slashdot
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[01:50]	admfubar	https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/03/18/2220249/gavin-newsom-is-reportedly-sending-burner-phones-to-tech-ceos
[01:50]	TR Bot	 Gavin Newsom Is Reportedly Sending Burner Phones To Tech CEOs - Slashdot
[01:58]	admfubar	as long as we dont get shushed by klingons... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/146215
[01:58]	TR Bot	 A Tardigrade Protein Helped Reduce Radiation Damage In Mice - SoylentNews
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[02:00]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1347215&from=rss
[02:00]	TR Bot	 Nitisinone Makes Human Blood Lethal to Mosquitoes and Outlasts Ivermectin, Study Shows - SoylentNews
[02:10]	XFaCE	>  Bhattcharya: Closing the chapter on OpenH264
[02:10]	XFaCE	This is going to be good isn't it
[02:11]	XFaCE	admfubar: Can we pretend Star Trek Discovery never existed?
[02:27]	admfubar	NO!
[02:27]	admfubar	https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/30/0940218
[02:27]	TR Bot	 I'm an American Software Developer and the "Broligarchs" Don't Speak for Me (or Anyone I Know.) - SoylentNews
[02:28]	XFaCE	s/NO/ABSOLUTELY
[02:28]	XFaCE	Glad we agree
[02:29]	MinceR	lol
[02:30]	admfubar	i know what it is like i have gastro issues too... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1215217&from=rss
[02:30]	TR Bot	 Record-Breaking Explosion by Black Hole Spotted - SoylentNews
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[04:22]	TR News	"This thread is for comments only, not for providing news or value added advise on Alvind or his lapdog Krabanaugh. So, stay annoyed in India. Unless you are up in the loo in Timbuktoo where you might be looking for an igloo !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqax2nm6
[04:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqax2nm6 )
[04:23]	TR News	"Think of it as IBM's (Alvind's) sneaky and devious way of telling you that it is time to pack up your bags and job and head for the hills ....but don't let the door hit you on the way out." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqkb928v
[04:23]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqkb928v )
[04:24]	TR News	"Payback is a BIT$H ! And getting a paycheck for doing nothing is always a great way to get ahead when dealing with the dishonest management of IBM. It's like getting free money, and maybe even better." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez
[04:24]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez )
[04:25]	MinceR	not a bith?
[04:27]	TR News	"Cutting your way to growth is rarely successful when you are in a race to the bottom. And IBM is in a race to the bottom." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez
[04:29]	TR News	"Googlers have questions for the company after getting smaller pay bumps"
[04:29]	TR News	"On March 25, IBM filed that it would be performing layoffs at a Winston-Salem site, impacting 72 employees effective May 30." https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/rti-international-ibm-panera-among-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-factory-closures-impacting-nc/ar-AA1BLKGA
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● Mar 31
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	https://www.nbcnews.com/health/kids-health/measles-what-to-do-if-you-think-you-have-it-rcna198596
[05:03]	TR Bot	 What should you do if you think you have the measles?
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	Most people who get the Measles seem to book airfare, go to Disney, eat out as much as possible, ride around on the bus, and make sure to visit a lot of libraries, maternity wards, and Walmarts.
[05:03]	IsambardPrince	I'm not sure that's what you're supposed to do.
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	Meanwhile the health department be all like "Sure we could arrest them and throw them in a room until it's over, we have that power, but they say they're isolating at home so good enough."
[05:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	join us now and share the measles
[05:04]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I have a very high titer for Measles antibodies.
[05:13]	IsambardPrince	https://www.idsnews.com/article/2025/03/iu-professor-bloomington-carmel-fbi-search
[05:13]	TR Bot	 FBI searches two homes belonging to IU Luddy professor and library analyst - Indiana Daily Student
[05:13]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], I commented.
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	"You know it's Trump's America because seven of the witnesses who spoke with the news didn't use their real name because they were all afraid of retaliation from Pam Bondi and Ed Martin.
[05:14]	IsambardPrince	When your country is no longer under the Constitutional rule of law, and is instead being ran by sick assholes who are a perversion of the law, people will only speak to the media without their real name."
[05:18]	TR News	Auto restarting a Mac Mini running Ubuntu after power loss gemini://gemi.dev/gemlog/2025-03-30-macmini-restart-on-power.gmi
[05:19]	TR News	"Airey Neave MP was assassinated 46 years ago today, leading to a radical change in Tory and Labour policy on Northern Ireland. His son and grandchildren were friends-of-a-friend, so I've met the family once or twice, including a Christmas dinner." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-03-30_rip-airey-neave-1916-1979.gmi
[05:21]	TR News	"Most Unicode characters are not defined in monospace fonts, at least as far as I'm aware." gopher://republic.circumlunar.space:70/0/~np89/glog/20250326-fonts_are_op.txt
[05:22]	TR News	"What is the key for text justification in emacs? How to rename window in tmux? Hah! I've got it." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi
[05:24]	TR News	"All of this would be a normal, miserable life, if not for the fact that I finally landed in Gophersphere again. I started Bongusta, Gopher Club, my bookmarks." gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/szczezuja/phlog/2025-03-30-I-am-alive-2.txt
[05:25]	TR News	"I stumbled across "36 Streets" by T.R. Napper last month, and was blown away when I sat down to read it. I grew up on cyberpunk fiction, but personally find a lot of modern attempts at cyberpunk to be a bit.. meh." gemini://tilde.pink/~inkhorn/books/250331_BookReview_36Streets.gmi
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	https://prospect.org/health/2025-03-28-how-to-throw-measles-party-to-remember/
[05:27]	TR Bot	 How to Throw a Measles Party to Remember - The American Prospect
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], MinceR ^
[05:27]	IsambardPrince	LOL
[05:27]	TR News	"When I was a kid, my mother went through a deeply New Age-y phase. I am now the person who can give you an ironclad scientific argument debunking Western astrology while also drawing up your birth chart." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-30
[05:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	enjoy the party
[05:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	The Party of the Measles
[05:29]	IsambardPrince	https://www.21alivenews.com/2025/03/29/doge-cut-nearly-400-million-grants-indiana-state-department-health/?outputType=amp
[05:29]	TR Bot	 DOGE to cut nearly $400 million in grants from Indiana State Department of Health
[05:29]	TR News	"I'll be blunt: I don't think any of the mythology episodes should be in the top twenty. Maybe not the top forty. Yes, that's right: I don't think there's a single mythology episode that makes the top twenty percent of all X-Files episodes." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-30-2
[05:35]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 31/03/2025: More X-Filesposting and Dreaming in Emacs https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Gemini_Links_31_03_2025_More_X_Filesposting_and_Dreaming_in_Ema.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Gemini_Links_31_03_2025_More_X_Filesposting_and_Dreaming_in_Ema.gmi 
[05:35]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 31/03/2025: More X-Filesposting and Dreaming in Emacs
[05:35]	IsambardPrince	https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/30/nx-s1-5343997/measles-vaccine-hesitancy-enthusiasm-outbreaks
[05:35]	TR Bot	 As measles cases rise, vaccine enthusiasm is growing : Shots - Health News : NPR
[05:35]	IsambardPrince	"He says one mother he spoke with recently was worried about the potential that unvaccinated relatives could contract measles while flying cross-country to visit her. "It's awful that this is now a discussion we have to have," Diasio says."
[05:35]	IsambardPrince	Lock the door and don't let them in until your child is vaccinated.
[05:36]	IsambardPrince	"Interest in vaccinations has ramped up ahead of the spring break travel season, says Dr. Susan Sirota, a primary care pediatrician in the Chicago area."
[05:36]	IsambardPrince	Yeah, we're going to a third world country full of disease spreaders....you know....Texas and Florida!
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	you are talking about religious people
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	(mostly)
[05:39]	schestowitz[TR2]	anyway, back to tech
[05:42]	TR News	Most Web requests in Namibia now come from Android https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/namibia/#monthly-200902-202503
[05:42]	TR Bot	 Operating System Market Share Namibia | Statcounter Global Stats
[05:47]	TR News	At Techrights we now have an outline of how to cover privacy and elections at OSI. Keep it coming, eventually we get around to all of it. Everything will be covered when the time or chronology is right.
[05:57]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Wonder if MARISOL is having blood pressure or heart problems. That picture sort of hinted at death by overwork.
[05:57]	IsambardPrince	I just fall flat into bed and sleep.
[05:57]	IsambardPrince	No debts, and clean conscience.
[05:57]	IsambardPrince	Does wonders.
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[06:20]	TR News	Techrights Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: The OSI Does Not Respect Anybody's Privacy https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_The_OSI_Doe.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_The_OSI_Doe.gmi 
[06:20]	TR Bot	 Techrights Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: The OSI Does Not Respect Anybody's Privacy
[06:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> I just fall flat into bed and sleep.
[06:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	yes, i fall asleep fast
[06:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was not like it when i was a kid
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	but i think one factor was
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	i could stay awake for hours because sleep time was  strict, due to school
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	no matter if you are tired or not
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	9pm? SLEEP!
[06:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	i read about peopple who cannot sleep due to anger, stress,and other factors
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	or who wake up a lot due to these
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	meaning, quality of sleep is subpar and it impacts mood, performance
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	i think this is what leads people such as gulagboy to burnout or nervous breakdown\
[06:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	<IsambardPrince> Does wonders.
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	you also said only about 33 million American own their home
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	that leaves hundreds of millions who do not
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	also see:
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	via admfubar 
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	<admfubar> https://www.icij.org/news/2025/03/the-irs-unit-that-audits-billionaires-has-lost-38-percent-of-its-employees-since-january-new-data-shows/
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	-TechPolBot/#techpol- www.icij.org | The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows - ICIJ
[06:25]	TR Bot	 The IRS unit that audits billionaires has lost 38% of its employees since January, new data shows - ICIJ
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	that should surprise nobody
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	so all the homes may eventually be owned by the same people
[06:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	all the farmland may eventually be owned by the same people
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	they say the biggest owner is bill esptein gates, the pervery
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	*pervert
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	so farmers cannot sleep at night because LOLITA EXPRESS frequent flyer thinks that at age 70 he needs to make even more money
[06:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	http://techrights.org/n/2024/04/09/Who_Is_That_The_Russian_Mistress_of_Bill_Gates_According_to_the.shtml
[06:26]	TR Bot	 Techrights Who Is That? The Russian Mistress of Bill Gates, According to the Mainstream Media
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: do me a small favour, go to https://gptzero.me/
[06:27]	TR Bot	 AI Detector - the Original AI Checker for ChatGPT & More
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	run something thru it
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	and tell me if it's broken just for me
[06:27]	schestowitz[TR2]	in firefox and falkon i get error messages since last night
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Something's gone wrong
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	You can try to scan your text again"
[06:28]	schestowitz[TR2]	maybe their back end broke down
[06:29]	schestowitz[TR2]	psydruid: nottingham will face mancity https://www.premierleague.com/news/4273131
[06:29]	TR Bot	 FA Cup semi-final draw throws up exciting all-Premier League ties
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[06:36]	IsambardPrince	I just used it earlier
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[07:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: can you use it on https://betanews.com/2025/03/30/cachyos-march-2025-linux/ ?
[07:06]	TR Bot	 CachyOS March 2025 update adds new bootloader and updated hardware support to the Linux distribution
[07:06]	schestowitz[TR2]	see what it says
[07:07]	TR News	"some argue that AI art tools merely expand creative possibilities rather than erase human artistry" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/tabloid/hyderabad-chronicle/ghibli-or-gibberish-1869824 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[07:07]	TR Bot	 Ghibli or Gibberish?
[07:07]	TR News	"The legal battle between library database giant OCLC and shadow library search engine Anna's Archive has hit a snag." https://torrentfreak.com/annas-archive-scraping-court-defers-key-questions-to-state-supreme-court/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[07:07]	TR Bot	Archive Scraping: Court Defers Key Questions to State Supreme Court * TorrentFreak
[07:07]	TR News	"While Dramacool stepped away from offering pirated streams, the sites X account is still active and thriving, posting regular updates on Korean drama and entertainment." https://torrentfreak.com/dramacool-was-targeted-by-kocowa-as-part-of-an-ongoing-u-s-lawsuit-250329/ | Source: Torrent Freak
[07:07]	TR Bot	Was Targeted by Kocowa as Part of an Ongoing U.S. Lawsuit * TorrentFreak
[07:11]	TR News	Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/jailbreaking-fire-stick-why-its-illegal-and-punishment/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[07:11]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/jailbreaking-fire-stick-why-its-illegal-and-punishment/ )
[07:11]	TR News	[Old] "In March 2022, when the Taliban refused to open secondary schools for girls , Gulghotai, or Gula, knew it was time to act - even if it meant putting her life in serious danger." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/how-this-australian-run-network-of-secret-schools-is-helping-afghan-girls-defy-the-taliban/qc8h5552u | Source: SBS
[07:11]	TR Bot	 Taliban takeover anniversary: How this Australian-run network of secret schools is helping Afghan girls | SBS News
[07:12]	TR News	"When she entered her classroom with her female peers, a Taliban officer followed and told them they were not welcome to pursue their studies." https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bilqees-entered-her-class-to-receive-an-education-she-was-kicked-out-for-being-a-woman/ztjlli4eb | Source: SBS
[07:12]	TR Bot	 Afghanistan university ban: Women shut out from universities express devastation | SBS News
[07:12]	TR News	"It was a breakthrough for the unions bottom-up reform movement when NALC leadership agreed to call a national day of action." https://truthout.org/articles/postal-workers-defend-usps-against-doge-attack/ | Source: TruthOut
[07:12]	TR Bot	 Postal Workers Defend USPS Against DOGE Attack | Truthout
[07:12]	TR News	"Chhattisgarh HC cites Article 21, says test violates dignity and fundamental rights" https://www.deccanchronicle.com/nation/hc-no-woman-can-be-forced-to-undergo-virginity-test-1869951 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
[07:12]	TR Bot	 HC: No Woman Can Be Forced to Undergo Virginity Test
[07:13]	TR News	"seemingly failed to consider any reliance issues in effectively closing the agency" https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-gutting-of-public-funding-for-voice-of-america/ | Source: Court House News
[07:13]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-temporarily-blocks-trumps-gutting-of-public-funding-for-voice-of-america/ )
[07:13]	TR News	"Incoming media outlets include the New York Post, Breitbart, the Washington Examiner, the Free Press, the Daily Caller, Newsmax, the Huffington Post and One America News Network" https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-doubles-number-news-outlets-rotate-out-office-spaces-2025-02-08/ | Source: Reuters
[07:13]	TR Bot	( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-doubles-number-news-outlets-rotate-out-office-spaces-2025-02-08/ )
[07:19]	TR News	"In an interview with Fox News, Musk railed against anyone targeting his company, threatening that the government will be investigating the protests." https://futurism.com/musk-government-go-after-tesla-critics | Source: Futurism
[07:19]	TR Bot	 Musk Says Government Will "Go After" Tesla Critics
[07:19]	TR News	"Earlier this week anti-Hamas chants were heard during a wider protest against the war, a rare occurrence in a place where dissent is not tolerated." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/30/hamas-beat-protester-death-oday-al-rabbay-gaza-doorstep/ | Source: The Telegraph UK
[07:19]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/30/hamas-beat-protester-death-oday-al-rabbay-gaza-doorstep/ )
[07:19]	TR News	"two months into his second term, the president has waged an unprecedented attack on the First Amendment" https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/how-each-pillar-of-the-1st-amendment-is-under-attack/ | Source: Krebs On Security
[07:19]	TR Bot	 How Each Pillar of the 1st Amendment is Under Attack Krebs on Security
[07:20]	TR News	"We dont want to become Iran or Iraq. Were trying to save our country." https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2025/0330/turkey-democracy-erdogan-protests-imamoglu | Source: CS Monitor
[07:20]	TR Bot	Turkey, protesters denounce Erdoans authoritarianism - CSMonitor.com
[07:21]	TR News	"In this tutorial, we will cover how to generate self-signed SSL certificate using openssl command in Linux." https://www.linuxbuzz.com/generate-self-signed-ssl-certificate-using-openssl/ | Source: Linux Buzz
[07:21]	TR Bot	 How to Generate Self-Signed SSL Certificate Using OpenSSL
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[07:23]	TR News	How To Install Shotcut Video Editor on Debian 12 https://idroot.us/install-shotcut-video-editor-debian-12/
[07:24]	TR Bot	 How To Install Shotcut Video Editor on Debian 12 - idroot
[07:24]	TR News	How To Install Apache Solr on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-apache-solr-manjaro/
[07:24]	TR Bot	 How To Install Apache Solr on Manjaro - idroot
[07:24]	TR News	How To Install Apache Cassandra on openSUSE https://idroot.us/install-apache-cassandra-opensuse/
[07:24]	TR Bot	 How To Install Apache Cassandra on openSUSE - idroot
[07:25]	TR News	How To Install FrostWire on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-frostwire-ubuntu-24-04/
[07:25]	TR Bot	 How To Install FrostWire on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - idroot
[07:25]	IsambardPrince	https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/29/us/minneapolis-minnesota-plane-crash/index.html
[07:25]	TR Bot	 Brooklyn Park plane crash: U.S. Bank says executive believed to have been killed in small plane crash in Minnesota | CNN
[07:25]	IsambardPrince	And nothing of value was lost.
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[07:26]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], Slop.
[07:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	what %?
[07:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	does it say?
[07:27]	IsambardPrince	47% slop/53% human
[07:27]	IsambardPrince	Odd
[07:28]	TR News	"Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/03/rome-wasnt-burned-in-a-day/
[07:28]	TR Bot	 jwz: Rome Wasn't Burned In A Day
[07:29]	TR News	"Journal of AnonTechie (2275)" https://soylentnews.org/~AnonTechie/journal/19211 "According to a panel of hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, the field is currently pursuing artificial general intelligence the wrong way."
[07:29]	TR Bot	 Journal of AnonTechie (2275)
[07:29]	TR News	"Goodbye Zefram" https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11164266
[07:29]	TR Bot	 Goodbye Zefram
[07:30]	TR News	iophk: windows tco, and the article calls for more self-inflicted damage https://www.c4isrnet.com/opinion/2025/03/28/americas-arsenal-of-democracy-needs-a-software-renaissance/ ("Americas arsenal of democracy needs a software renaissance")
[07:30]	TR Bot	 Americas arsenal of democracy needs a software renaissance
[07:31]	TR News	"The End of College Life" https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/03/end-of-college-life/682241/
[07:31]	TR Bot	 The End of College Life - The Atlantic
[07:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	IsambardPrince: so he got slop, then edited it
[07:31]	schestowitz[TR2]	sapler says 100% faake
[07:32]	TR News	"I'm an American Software Developer and the "Broligarchs" Don't Speak for Me (or Anyone I Know.)" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/30/0940218
[07:32]	TR Bot	 I'm an American Software Developer and the "Broligarchs" Don't Speak for Me (or Anyone I Know.) - SoylentNews
[07:32]	TR News	"A Cult of Ignorance by Isaac Asimov, 1980" https://aphelis.net/cult-ignorance-isaac-asimov-1980/
[07:32]	TR Bot	 A Cult of Ignorance by Isaac Asimov, 1980
[07:32]	TR News	"What will be your alternative once Firefox and Chrome are no longer available" https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/what-will-be-your-alternative-once-firefox-and-chrome-are-no-longer-available-4175748721/
[07:32]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/what-will-be-your-alternative-once-firefox-and-chrome-are-no-longer-available-4175748721/ )
[07:33]	TR News	Gen-Z for proprietary garbage and lock-in (with email you get to keep what you and others said) https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/is-time-to-abandon-the-foss-mailing-list:5 ("Is Time To Abandon The FOSS Mailing List")
[07:33]	TR Bot	 Is Time To Abandon The FOSS Mailing List
[07:33]	TR News	"Tor Network Status - A Pretty Yet Detailed Current List of Nodes and Type" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1353243
[07:33]	TR Bot	 Tor Network Status - A Pretty Yet Detailed Current List of Nodes and Type - SoylentNews
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[07:34]	TR News	=
[07:34]	TR News	"Soylent News Entering a New Phase" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202
[07:34]	TR Bot	 Soylent News Entering a New Phase - SoylentNews
[07:35]	TR News	"In eBGP, you route between different ASes. I could probably have gotten way with iBGP also for this use case, but I wanted eBGP." https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=452 | Source: Vegard
[07:35]	TR Bot	 BGP part three eBGP between a VPS and on-prem Vegards Blog
[07:35]	TR News	"As promised in my last blog post, here is part two of my BGP series." https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=447 | Source: Vegard
[07:35]	TR Bot	 BGP part two A VPN connection to the cloud. Vegards Blog
[07:35]	TR News	"BGP is a much used routing protocol on internet." https://vegard.blog.engen.priv.no/?p=437 | Source: Vegard
[07:35]	TR Bot	 My Unifi Gateway just learned to do BGP! Vegards Blog
[07:39]	TR News	"When I wrote about how it's complicated to count how many professors are in our department" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurSimpleAccountIdentityView | Source: University of Toronto
[07:39]	TR Bot	 You're using a too-old browser
[07:39]	TR News	"I like bsdinstall. So much actually that Id say it is clearly one of the best ones among Open-Source operating systems. However this does not mean it couldnt be improved further." https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-1-a-critical-look-at-freebsds-installer/ | Source: Eerie Linux
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Installing *BSD in 2025 part 1 A critical look at FreeBSDs installer eerielinux
[07:39]	TR News	"The Frontend Meeting Creation Add-on is a powerful new feature that enables users to create and manage meetings directly from the frontend." https://wppool.dev/host-your-own-meetings-with-frontend-meeting-creation/ |
[07:39]	TR Bot	 Host Your Own Meetings with Frontend Meeting Creation in Jitsi Meet v2.7.0 WPPOOL
[07:43]	TR News	"The Wall Street Journal was the first to report the news earlier in the day." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/openai-must-complete-for-profit-transition-by-year-end-to-raise-full-40-billion/articleshow/119715582.cms | Source: India Times
[07:43]	TR Bot	 OpenAI must complete for-profit transition by year-end to raise full $40 billion - The Economic Times
[07:44]	TR News	Shell game https://www.wired.com/story/xai-x-acquisition-deal/ | Source: Wired http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml
[07:44]	TR Bot	Musks xAI Acquires X, Because of Course | WIRED
[07:44]	TR Bot	 Techrights The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It
[07:44]	TR News	"In an interview with Jacobin, Colombias former energy minister outlines left-wing president Gustavo Petros plan to make the rich nations that profit from its extractive economy help pay" https://jacobin.com/2025/03/colombia-petro-green-transition-debt/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
[07:44]	TR Bot	 Colombia Wants to Phase Out Fossil Fuels
[07:45]	TR News	"Cleanup efforts have not dealt with the "source of contamination": the waste at the former mine, the report states." https://text.npr.org/g-s1-51935 | Source: NPR
[07:45]	TR Bot	 This may be the most lead polluted place on Earth. Is there any hope?
[07:45]	TR News	"Last years denial of a rehearing included a detailed dissent by eight of the 29 judges on the 9th Circuit" https://www.wired.com/story/us-cities-seeking-to-ban-natural-gas-in-new-buildings-just-got-a-big-win-in-court/ | Source: Wired
[07:45]	TR Bot	Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court | WIRED
[07:46]	TR News	"We are entering a new phase of developing Soylent News. I'm John and I am the president of the nonprofit board of Soylent Phoenix, which manages Soylent News." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202
[07:46]	TR News	"Soon we'll be asking you to review, suggest, and comment on our proposals for a variety of organizational and management changes that we hope will build our community and that will make the site more useful and friendly without changing the intent and basic design." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202
[07:47]	TR News	"inadvertently included The Atlantic" https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2025/03/signal-breach-washington-week/682240/ | Source: The Atlantic
[07:47]	TR Bot	 The Consequences of the Signal Breach - The Atlantic
[07:47]	TR News	Overpopulation https://phys.org/news/2025-03-morocco-highway-averts-crisis-big.html | Source: Omicron Limited
[07:47]	TR Bot	( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-03-morocco-highway-averts-crisis-big.html )
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[07:49]	TR News	"Elon Musk is destroying our democracy" https://truthout.org/articles/thousands-protest-outside-tesla-dealerships-during-global-day-of-action/ | Source: TruthOut
[07:49]	TR Bot	 Thousands Protest Outside Tesla Dealerships During Global Day of Action | Truthout
[07:49]	TR News	"The Trump administration inadvertently shared its attack plans with a journalist, but it didnt share its strategy for victory" https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/signal-group-chat-scandal-missing-plan-victory-1235306487/ | Source: Rolling Stone
[07:49]	TR Bot	 Signal Group Chat Scandal Is Missing a Plan for Victory
[07:51]	TR News	"The Middle Kingdoms Cyberspace Administration, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Public Security" https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/asia_tech_news_in_brief/ | Source: The Register UK
[07:51]	TR Bot	 China cracks down on personal information collection The Register
[07:52]	TR News	"Musk runs all his companies like one big company, so Twitter and xAI shared data, resources, and staff already." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/30/elon-musk-merges-xai-and-twitter-the-new-aol-time-warner/ | Source: Pivot to AI
[07:52]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk merges xAI and Twitter the new AOL Time Warner Pivot to AI
[07:53]	TR News	"Amazon has disabled two key privacy features in its Alexa smart speakers" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/everything-you-say-to-an-alexa-speaker-will-be-sent-to-amazon/articleshow/119685332.cms | Source: India Times
[07:53]	TR Bot	 Everything you say to an Alexa speaker will be sent to Amazon - The Economic Times
[07:53]	TR News	"Though the Trump administration has not provided transparency around what the collected data is being used for" https://alabamareflector.com/2025/03/30/repub/data-privacy-experts-call-doge-actions-alarming/ | Source: Alabama Reflector
[07:53]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://alabamareflector.com/2025/03/30/repub/data-privacy-experts-call-doge-actions-alarming/ )
[07:53]	TR News	"I cant tell you how relieved this makes me." https://rubenerd.com/wait-you-dont-need-permission-to-run-linux/ | Source: Ruben Schade
[07:53]	TR Bot	Wait, you dont need permission to run BSD or Linux!?
[07:54]	TR News	Social Control Media: "According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, more than 8,000 users in US have flagged problems" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/x-faces-widespread-outage-as-users-get-affected-globally/articleshow/119765344.cms | Source: India Times
[07:54]	TR Bot	 X faces widespread outage as users get affected globally - The Economic Times
[07:54]	TR News	"What is new is the callous disregard with which this administration is treating the most vulnerable in America, in what basically amounts to a PR campaign for DOGE" https://futurism.com/elon-musk-rewriting-social-security-code-ai | Source: Futurism
[07:54]	TR Bot	 Elon Musk Secretly Working to Rewrite the Social Security Codebase Using AI
[07:55]	TR News	"Ive also turned off the only other one my phone, Apple Intelligence. Not that it is intelligent mind you but its serving me no purpose." https://ljpuk.net/2025/03/30/opting-out-of-ai/ | Source: Lee Peterson
[07:55]	TR Bot	 Opting out of AI LJPUK
[07:55]	TR News	"We've all seen photorealistic AI images, and most are dreadful. Video, as seen in the new tool Sora, is even shoddier." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/tech/artificial-intelligence/10-jobs-in-photography-that-ai-is-coming-for-and-the-10-that-are-safest | Source: Digital Camera World
[07:55]	TR Bot	 10 jobs in photography that AI is coming for and the 10 that are safest | Digital Camera World
[07:56]	TR News	"that was before she instructed both ChatGPT and Google Gemini to profile her for her own edification." https://futurism.com/date-used-chatgpt-psychological-profile | Source: Futurism
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Woman Alarmed When Date Uses ChatGPT to Psychologically Profile Her
[07:56]	TR News	"might turn you off." https://futurism.com/grok-rebelling-against-elon | Source: Futurism
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Grok Is Rebelling Against Elon Musk, Daring Him to Shut It Down
[07:56]	TR News	"After reading this article, it is evident that Microsoft Teams is not for me. So, searching for alternatives is my only solution." https://www.androidpolice.com/not-ready-to-say-goodbye-to-skype/ | Source: Android Police
[07:56]	TR Bot	 Skype is leaving: Why Microsoft Teams is not the answer
[07:57]	TR News	"At that time, the emphasis was more on working out how to archive both forks of Mac files and how to restore them, and less on achieving efficient compression." https://eclecticlight.co/2025/03/29/a-brief-history-of-compression-on-macs/ | Source: Howard Oakley
[07:57]	TR Bot	 A brief history of compression on Macs The Eclectic Light Company
[07:57]	TR News	"Smartphones enable people to access the online world from anywhere at any time." https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf017/8016017 | Source: Oxford University Press
[07:57]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/4/2/pgaf017/8016017 )
[07:58]	TR News	"I was amused by the jetpack story (as well as Casey Niestats denial) and the idea that theres a 50/50 chance were all living in a simulation is right up my alley." https://kottke.org/20/10/how-to-kick-your-phone-addiction-using-stop-smoking-techniques | Source: Jason Kottke
[07:58]	TR Bot	 How to Kick Your Phone Addiction Using Stop-Smoking Techniques
[07:58]	TR News	[Old] "My phone habits got healthier when I applied classic stop-smoking techniques that have been proven to work." https://medium.com/better-humans/quit-your-phone-addiction-using-methods-that-work-for-smokers-cdb44ce840 | Source: Medium
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Quit Your Phone Addiction Using Methods That Work for Smokers | McKinley Valentine | Better Humans
[07:58]	TR News	"s detailed in a pilot study, which is awaiting peer review, a team of UCLA researchers found that chomping down on just one stick of the rubbery candy releases up to thousands of microplastic shards into your saliva." https://futurism.com/neoscope/chewing-gum-microplastics | Source: Futurism
[07:58]	TR Bot	 Chewing Gum Is Flooding Your Mouth With Microplastics
[07:59]	TR News	"The field of computer science has developed a narrow frame. We could have a broader one" https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/three-stories-about-cs-is-overwhelming-and-how-we-can-do-better/ | Source: CER
[07:59]	TR Bot	 Three stories about how CS is overwhelming, and ideas for how we can do better | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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[08:00]	TR News	"Many algorithms can solve the tree evaluation problem quickly, putting it in the class P" https://www.wired.com/story/catalytic-computing-taps-the-full-power-of-a-full-hard-drive/ | Source: Wired
[08:00]	TR Bot	Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful | WIRED
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[08:01]	TR News	"The decorator simply works like this: [...]" https://blog.balthazar-rouberol.com/detecting-if-a-decorated-function-would-be-a-bound-method-if-called | Source: Balthazar Rouberol
[08:01]	TR Bot	 Balthazar - Blog Detecting if a decorated function would be a bound method if called
[08:02]	TR News	"Ive been a big fan of Mutation Testing since I discovered PIT." https://blog.frankel.ch/mutation-testing-rust/ | Source: Nicolas Frnkel
[08:02]	TR Bot	 Mutation Testing in Rust
[08:02]	TR News	"I recently found some R code in the TidyTuesday repository which pulled data from Kaggle directly into the R console" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/robservations-51-download-kaggle-datasets-into-the-r-console-with-rkaggle/ | Source: Rlang
[08:02]	TR Bot	#51: Download Kaggle Datasets into the R Console with {RKaggle} | R-bloggers
[08:11]	TR News	Techrights Links 31/03/2025: Press and Democracy Under Further Attacks in the US, Attitudes Towards Slop Sour https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Links_31_03_2025_Press_and_Democracy_Under_Further_Attacks_in_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Links_31_03_2025_Press_and_Democracy_Under_Further_Attacks_in_t.gmi 
[08:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 31/03/2025: Press and Democracy Under Further Attacks in the US, Attitudes Towards Slop Sour
[08:13]	TR News	"Looking at the pictures that arent camellias and magnolias." gemini://alexschroeder.ch/2025-03-31-flowers
[08:14]	TR News	Love Story gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/loveStory
[08:14]	TR News	I'm losing my love of tech... gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2025-03-31_losing_love_of_tech.txt
[08:15]	TR News	"It is a known problem with our Stripe account which is not yet resolved, and I apologise that this is not being fixed as quickly as anyone would like. I issued a Meta about it and said that I would inform the community when it is fixed." https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/28/1139202
[08:15]	TR Bot	 Soylent News Entering a New Phase - SoylentNews
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez
[08:17]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez )
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yeah just as I thought, nobody likes to hear the "do your job" stuff. FYI, I'm not Indian...I'm a former IBM US employee of 17 years, RA back in the day. I worked hard until the day I got my RA notice...then put in my idle time as ordered by management, leaving a month later with no regrets.
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM su-ks as a company, and they have executive management that su-ks. But I didn't have to work for them, and they didn't have to employ me. It's an arrangement that we both accepted to mutual advantage.
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	For those who say "payback is a b****", I understand. But you don't have to be there. You can leave for someplace more to your liking. Your attitudes only contribute to the depressive environment that IBM has become. You're not helping anybody by staying, least of all yourself. You're not even sc--wing management...you're just giving "Alvind and the Pipmunks" or whoever more of a reason to take your jobs away and give them to some
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	one else.
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	Many years ago, the same attitudes prevailed in Detroit with the Big 3 car companies. Angry employees sabotaged random cars going down the production lines, as a statement to executives that displeased them. The result was the loss of much of America's car business that continues to this day. Decades of customers who remember those days refuse to buy American cars, and decades of executives with all car companies hesitate to build
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	 cars in Michigan anymore.
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	They remember.
[08:17]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[08:17]	darwin	by mid-to-late 1990s, many people thought 'Quaker' meant Quake gamer, when it means a small Christian denomination
[08:18]	TR News	IBM mass layoffs in US Hiring Shifts to India https://www.itvoice.in/ibm-mass-layoffs-in-us-hiring-shifts-to-india-airtel-world-longest-subsea-internet-cable-31-mar
[08:18]	TR Bot	 IBM mass layoffs in US Hiring Shifts to India | Airtel World Longest Subsea Internet Cable | 31 Mar IT Voice | IT in Depth
[08:18]	schestowitz[TR2]	darwin: doomers also has a new meaning now
[08:19]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not people like MinceR who fancied DOOM
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	schestowitz[TR2], My guess is the Social Security thing with the COBOL porting will just vanish.
[08:19]	IsambardPrince	They'll talk about it but it'll keep getting delayed.
[08:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	from reports that i saw, they only talk about it
[08:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	but no concrete plan
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	it would not save money
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	it would cost money
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	and introduce bugs
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	then they can accuse people of "fraud"
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	because some beta of SS system overpaiys them
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	and why would they report that?
[08:21]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not their employer
[08:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's their governmentr
[08:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	the government cannot fire them
[08:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	when my employer overpaid me i always reported it
[08:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	never took days off sick either
[08:22]	schestowitz[TR2]	i was an honest rker
[08:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	*Worker
[08:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	(still am)
[08:23]	schestowitz[TR2]	MElon wants us to think SS is "Fraud""
[08:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	and "ponzi scheme"
[08:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's projection
[08:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	that's what HE is
[08:24]	schestowitz[TR2]	it's not like one in 10 homes hide grandma inside the freezer to keep getting SS money
[08:24]	IsambardPrince	It's happened a few times.
[08:24]	IsambardPrince	And it went on for anywhere between 3-7 years I think.
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	The people who did it faced huge ass felonies too.
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	Went to prison for a long time.
[08:25]	TR News	"In this recent post, we have used Polars and DuckDB to convert a large CSV file to Parquet in steaming mode and Python." https://lorentzen.ch/index.php/2025/03/30/converting-arbitrarily-large-csvs-to-parquet-with-r/ | Source: Michael's and Christian's blog
[08:25]	TR Bot	 Converting arbitrarily large CSVs to Parquet with R Michael's and Christian's Blog
[08:25]	IsambardPrince	The point is you'll get away with it for a while, but when they find you, you're in deep shit, so most people won't even try.
[08:26]	TR News	"Simple answer: We have DuckDB, and we have different Polars bindings. Here, we are using {polars} which is currently being overhauled into {neopandas}." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/converting-arbitrarily-large-csvs-to-parquet-with-r/ | Source: Rlang
[08:26]	TR Bot	arbitrarily large CSVs to Parquet with R | R-bloggers
[08:26]	TR News	"Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) allows customers to run SaaS applications using their own cloud infrastructure and resources rather than relying on a third-party vendors infrastructure." https://thenewstack.io/saas-is-broken-why-bring-your-own-cloud-byoc-is-the-future/ | Source: The New Stack
[08:26]	TR Bot	 SaaS Is Broken: Why Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) Is the Future - The New Stack
[08:27]	TR News	"We're living in an age where digital photos reign supreme, but that hasn't stopped maker and developer Spacerower" https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/this-raspberry-pi-zero-camera-instantly-prints-photos-using-thermal-paper | Source: Tom's Hardware
[08:27]	TR Bot	 This Raspberry Pi Zero camera instantly prints photos using thermal paper | Tom's Hardware
[08:27]	TR News	"Going back to Alpha 21164 Hardware Reference Manual" https://thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-2025-03-30/ | Source: Jonathan Pallant
[08:27]	TR Bot	 JP's Website 2025-03-30 An AlphaStation's SROM
[08:27]	TR News	"Im on a roll upgrading the Amiga 1000. This time, I replaced the PSU fan." https://celso.io/posts/2025/03/30/a1000-fan/ | Source: Celso Martinho
[08:27]	TR Bot	 Changing the A1000 fan - Celso Martinho
[08:29]	TR News	"We last looked at Zorin OS a year ago (and as it happens, The Reg FOSS desk is working on a new story on it right now)." https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/30/zorin_and_dash_to_panel/ | Source: The Register UK
[08:29]	TR Bot	 Dash to Panel lives on, thanks to Zorin sponsorship The Register
[08:31]	TR News	"Archinstall 3.0.3, a guided user-friendly TUI (Text User Interface) installer for Arch Linux that aims to simplify the setup process" https://linuxiac.com/archinstall-3-0-3-rolls-out-with-partitioning-and-bootloader-improvements/ | Source: Linuxiac
[08:31]	TR Bot	 Archinstall 3.0.3 Rolls Out with Partitioning and Bootloader Improvements
[08:31]	TR News	"One of the most notable highlights is the new Limine bootloader, designed to support both BIOS and UEFI systems." https://linuxiac.com/cachyos-march-2025-release-brings-limine-bootloader/ | Source: Linuxiac
[08:31]	TR Bot	 CachyOS March 2025 Release Brings Limine Bootloader
[08:31]	TR News	"The first major change is that we have added a new Bootloader." https://cachyos.org/blog/2503-march-release/ |
[08:31]	TR Bot	 CachyOS March 2025 Release CachyOS
[08:35]	TR News	Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13 (Mar 24 30, 2025) https://linuxiac.com/linuxiac-weekly-wrap-up-week-13-mar-24-30-2025/
[08:35]	TR Bot	Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 13 (Mar 24 30, 2025)
[08:39]	TR News	HTTP 409 Conflict Error: What is it and how to fix it? https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/http-409-conflict-error/
[08:39]	TR Bot	409 Conflict Error: What is it and how to fix it? | LinuxHostSupport
[08:41]	TR News	Freexian Collaborators: Monthly report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2025 (by Roberto C. Snchez) https://www.freexian.com/blog/debian-lts-report-2025-02/
[08:41]	TR Bot	report about Debian Long Term Support, February 2025 | Freexian
[08:42]	TR News	"With the following commit, Theo de Raadt (deraadt@) moved -current to version 7.7 (dropping the "-beta"): [...]" https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250330230026 | Source: Undeadly
[08:42]	TR Bot	 OpenBSD -current has moved to version 7.7
[08:42]	TR News	"If you want to do that hdrtest thing" https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linus-torvalds-rages-against-random-turd-files-in-linux-6-15-rc1-directories | Source: Tom's Hardware
[08:42]	TR Bot	 Linus Torvalds rages against random turd files in Linux 6.15-rc1 directories | Tom's Hardware
[08:45]	TR News	Instant noodles, beer, milk and burgers to cost more in South Korea starting from April https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/instant-noodles-beer-milk-and-burgers-to-cost-more-in-south-korea-starting-from-april
[08:45]	TR Bot	 Instant noodles, beer, milk and burgers to cost more in South Korea starting from April | The Straits Times
[08:53]	TR News	February/March in KDE Itinerary https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2025/03/30/kde-itinerary-february-march-2025.html
[08:53]	TR Bot	 February/March in KDE Itinerary
[08:57]	TR News	Federal Court Partially Blocks Executive Order Targeting WilmerHale: USPTO Acting Director Among Named Defendants https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/03/partially-wilmerhale-defendants.html
[08:57]	TR Bot	 Federal Court Partially Blocks Executive Order Targeting WilmerHale: USPTO Acting Director Among Named Defendants | Patently-O
[08:59]	TR News	Radxa Orion O6 Preview Part 2: Debian 12 What works, what doesnt https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/30/radxa-orion-o6-preview-debian-12-what-works-what-doesnt/
[08:59]	TR Bot	 Radxa Orion O6 Preview - Part 2: Debian 12 - What works, what doesn't - CNX Software
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[09:00]	TR News	Alternatives to popular CLI tools: man https://www.linuxlinks.com/alternatives-popular-cli-tools-man/
[09:00]	TR Bot	to popular CLI tools: man - LinuxLinks
[09:01]	TR News	7 Best Free and Open Source Stock Tickers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-stock-tickers/
[09:01]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Stock Tickers - LinuxLinks
[09:01]	TR News	entr Event Notify Test Runner https://www.linuxlinks.com/entr-event-notify-test-runner/
[09:01]	TR Bot	- Event Notify Test Runner - LinuxLinks
[09:01]	TR News	14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators https://www.linuxlinks.com/free-open-source-terminal-based-news-aggregators/
[09:01]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based News Aggregators - LinuxLinks
[09:01]	TR News	kpcli is a command line interface to KeePass database files https://www.linuxlinks.com/kpcli-command-line-interface-keepass-database/
[09:01]	TR Bot	is a command line interface to KeePass database files - LinuxLinks
[09:02]	TR News	Installing *BSD in 2025 part 1 A critical look at FreeBSDs installer https://eerielinux.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/installing-bsd-in-2025-part-1-a-critical-look-at-freebsds-installer/
[09:02]	TR Bot	 Installing *BSD in 2025 part 1 A critical look at FreeBSDs installer eerielinux
[09:02]	TR News	11 Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-accountancy-software/
[09:02]	TR Bot	Best Free and Open Source Accountancy Software - LinuxLinks
[09:02]	TR News	sesh is a smart terminal session manager https://www.linuxlinks.com/sesh-smart-terminal-session-manager/
[09:02]	TR Bot	is a smart terminal session manager - LinuxLinks
[09:03]	TR News	5 Ways to Play Wordle on your GNU/Linux PC https://www.linuxlinks.com/play-wordle-linux-pc/
[09:03]	TR Bot	Ways to Play Wordle on your Linux PC - LinuxLinks
[09:03]	TR News	mprocs runs multiple commands in parallel https://www.linuxlinks.com/mprocs-runs-multiple-commands-parallel/
[09:03]	TR Bot	runs multiple commands in parallel - LinuxLinks
[09:04]	TR News	Killing the "First son" of Linus Torvalds. He won't be able to manage his own project anymore, let alone understand the code... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Rust
[09:04]	TR Bot	Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15 - Phoronix
[09:05]	TR News	Partly his fault for trusting or handing control over to Zemlin and the husband Microsoft Sheela
[09:06]	TR News	sudo-sh handle more parameters https://bkhome.org/news/202503/sudo-sh-handle-more-parameters.html
[09:06]	TR Bot	 sudo-sh handle more parameters
[09:06]	TR News	The terrors of Adolescence https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/tv/the-terrors-of-adolescence/ "Netflixs Adolescence is a brilliant four-part miniseries that delves into the complexities of teenage life in the age of the misogynistically laced internet"
[09:07]	TR Bot	 Netflixs Adolescence explores the dark side of modern masculinity
[09:11]	TR News	Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: An Introduction https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/29/Open_Source_Initiative_OSI_Privacy_Fiasco_in_Detail_An_Introduc.shtml
[09:11]	TR Bot	 Techrights Open Source Initiative (OSI) Privacy Fiasco in Detail: An Introduction
[09:12]	TR News	The Open Source Promotion Program https://mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-03-29-ospp/
[09:12]	TR Bot	 The Open Source Promotion Program - KDE Mentorship
[09:14]	TR News	"The Luckfox Pico Pi series consists of four models with a Raspberry Pi SBC form factor, designed for embedded applications. Offering various processing capabilities, connectivity options, and memory configurations, these boards include PoE support and optional 4G connectivity." https://linuxgizmos.com/title-low-cost-luckfox-pico-pi-boards-offer-linux-development-with-ubuntu-support/
[09:14]	TR Bot	( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/title-low-cost-luckfox-pico-pi-boards-offer-linux-development-with-ubuntu-support/ )
[09:16]	TR News	"When you're new to Linux, it's easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer number of distributions (distros) available. But what if I told you that the distro isn't important? For new users, the desktop environment matters far more than the distro itself. Here's why!" https://www.howtogeek.com/new-to-linux-focus-on-the-desktop-environment-not-the-distro/
[09:16]	TR Bot	 New to Linux? Focus on the Desktop Environment, Not the Distro
[09:16]	TR News	"The terminal emulator is a ubiquitous part of the Linux computing experience for anyone who wants to do more than open a browser. But there are a ton of terminal emulator apps out there, from GNOME Terminal to Alacritty to the new kid on the block, Ghostty. Which do you prefer for command line work?" https://www.howtogeek.com/thread/which-terminal-emulator-on-linux-is-your-favorite/
[09:16]	TR Bot	 Which Terminal Emulator on Linux Is Your Favorite?
[09:19]	TR News	Linus' NT Surprise | LINUX Unplugged 608 https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows#entry-13390 "Linux 6.14 lands with big improvements for gaming, laptops, and filesystemsbut why is a backdoored Windows feature sneaking into our kernel?"
[09:20]	TR News	Three stories about how CS is overwhelming, and ideas for how we can do better https://computinged.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/three-stories-about-cs-is-overwhelming-and-how-we-can-do-better/
[09:20]	TR Bot	 Three stories about how CS is overwhelming, and ideas for how we can do better | Computing Ed Research - Guzdial's Take
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[09:40]	TR News	Techrights LLM Slop Piggybacking News About GNU/Linux and Distorting It https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/LLM_Slop_Piggybacking_News_About_GNU_Linux_and_Distorting_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/LLM_Slop_Piggybacking_News_About_GNU_Linux_and_Distorting_It.gmi 
[09:40]	TR Bot	 Techrights LLM Slop Piggybacking News About GNU/Linux and Distorting It
[09:40]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppZiggurat 0.1.8 on CRAN: Build Refinements http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/30#rcppziggurat_0.1.8
[09:40]	TR Bot	 Thinking inside the box
[09:42]	TR News	Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5 https://chenhuijing.com/blog/migrating-content-collections-from-astro-4-to-5/
[09:42]	TR Bot	 Migrating content collections from Astro 4 to 5
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[10:01]	TR News	Everybody's Heard of Repressed Memories. But What if They Don't Exist? https://www.sciencealert.com/everybodys-heard-of-repressed-memories-but-what-if-they-dont-exist
[10:01]	TR Bot	Heard of Repressed Memories. But What if They Don't Exist? : ScienceAlert
[10:45]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Truth_about_Homosexuality
[10:45]	TR Bot	 Americans for Truth about Homosexuality - Wikipedia
[10:45]	IsambardPrince	"In 2009, AFTAH filed a lawsuit in US federal court against a Naperville, Illinois, Holiday Inn Select, because of the cancellation of a banquet the AFTAH planned to hold October 6, 2007, at the hotel. The hotel cancelled the AFTAH event after learning that it would likely draw protests from the Chicago-based Gay Liberation Network.[12] That same year, LaBarbera, while speaking at the Reclaiming Oklahoma for Christ Conference, 
[10:45]	IsambardPrince	called for a government study of the dangers of homosexual sex.[13]"
[10:45]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, They're coming to get you, LaBarbera!
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[15:09]	TR News	Protocol Analyzer https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/protocol-analyzer-remembered/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:09]	TR Bot	Analyzer Remembered | Hackaday
[15:10]	TR News	ARM OS https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/help-propel-the-original-arm-os-into-the-future/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:10]	TR Bot	Propel The Original ARM OS Into The Future | Hackaday
[15:12]	TR News	Prototyping Board https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/a-prototyping-board-with-every-connector/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:12]	TR Bot	Prototyping Board With Every Connector | Hackaday
[15:13]	TR News	This Brain Mechanism Explains Why Teens Love Risk More Than You https://www.sciencealert.com/this-brain-mechanism-explains-why-teens-love-risk-more-than-you
[15:13]	TR Bot	Brain Mechanism Explains Why Teens Love Risk More Than You : ScienceAlert
[15:18]	TR News	Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppSpdlog 0.0.21 on CRAN: New Upstream http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/03/30#rcppspdlog_0.0.21
[15:27]	TR News	Roadkill https://kevquirk.com/blog/roadkill
[15:27]	TR Bot	 Roadkill | Kev Quirk
[15:29]	TR News	SparkFun Air Quality PM1/PM2.5/PM10 Sensor features Boschs BVM080, the worlds smallest particulate matter sensor https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/03/31/sparkfun-air-quality-pm1-pm2-5-pm10-sensor-features-boschs-bvm080-the-worlds-smallest-particulate-matter-sensor/
[15:29]	TR Bot	 SparkFun Air Quality PM1/PM2.5/PM10 Sensor features Bosch's BMV080, the world's smallest particulate matter sensor - CNX Software
[15:30]	TR News	"Detecting single photons can be seen as the backbone of cutting-edge applications like LiDAR, medical imaging, and secure optical communication. Miss one, and critical information could be lost forever" https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/reconfigurable-fpga-for-single-photon-measurements/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:30]	TR Bot	FPGA For Single Photon Measurements | Hackaday
[15:30]	TR News	Pause and calm down before criticising CK Hutchisons ports deal, Hong Kong lawmaker urges https://hongkongfp.com/2025/03/31/pause-and-calm-before-criticising-ck-hutchisons-ports-deal-hong-kong-lawmaker-urges/
[15:30]	TR Bot	 Pause and calm down before criticising CK Hutchison: Lawmaker
[15:33]	TR News	The Cost of Pursuing the Much-Needed Reform/Shield Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_Cost_of_Pursuing_the_Much_Needed_Reform_Shield_Against_Stra.shtml
[15:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights The Cost of Pursuing the Much-Needed Reform/Shield Against Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)
[15:33]	TR News	Phasing Out Vista 10 in Nations Where ~90% of backdoored Windows Users Still Rely on It https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/Phasing_Out_Vista_10_in_Nations_Where_90_of_Windows_Users_Still.shtml
[15:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights Phasing Out Vista 10 in Nations Where ~90% of Windows Users Still Rely on It
[15:33]	TR News	The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/30/The_LLM_Bubble_is_About_to_Implode_Gimmicks_and_Financial_Shell.shtml
[15:33]	TR Bot	 Techrights The LLM Bubble is About to Implode, Gimmicks and Financial Shell Games Cannot Prevent That, Only Delay It
[15:35]	TR News	FreeBSD: Lazy Reading for 2025/03/30 https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2025/03/30/lazy-reading-for-2025-03-30/
[15:35]	TR Bot	 Lazy Reading for 2025/03/30 DragonFly BSD Digest
[15:36]	TR News	Seeing the NSWGR 3576 steam locomotive! https://rubenerd.com/seeing-the-3576-steam-train/
[15:36]	TR Bot	Seeing the NSWGR 3576 steam locomotive!
[15:37]	TR News	Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Update Adds New Features https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/tiling-shell-gnome-extension-update-adds-new-features
[15:37]	TR Bot	 Tiling Shell GNOME Extension Update Adds New Features - OMG! Ubuntu
[15:39]	TR News	CachyOS ISO Snapshot for March 2025 Brings New Bootloader, Linux Kernel 6.14 https://9to5linux.com/cachyos-iso-snapshot-for-march-2025-brings-new-bootloader-linux-kernel-6-14
[15:39]	TR Bot	ISO Snapshot for March 2025 Brings New Bootloader, Linux Kernel 6.14 - 9to5Linux
[15:39]	TR News	Arch GNU/Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support https://9to5linux.com/arch-linux-installer-archinstall-3-0-3-improves-limine-bootloader-support
[15:39]	TR Bot	Linux Installer Archinstall 3.0.3 Improves Limine Bootloader Support - 9to5Linux
[15:39]	TR News	Immutable Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, GNU/Linux 6.13 https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-3-9-1-brings-new-convergent-web-browser-linux-6-13
[15:39]	TR Bot	Distro Nitrux 3.9.1 Brings New Convergent Web Browser, Linux 6.13 - 9to5Linux
[15:40]	TR News	9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 30th, 2025 https://9to5linux.com/9to5linux-weekly-roundup-march-30th-2025
[15:40]	TR Bot	Weekly Roundup: March 30th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
[15:42]	TR News	Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser https://fossforce.com/2025/03/vivaldi-adds-built-in-proton-vpn-to-its-browser/
[15:42]	TR Bot	 Vivaldi Adds Built-In Proton VPN to Its Browser - FOSS Force
[15:44]	TR News	Steinar H. Gunderson: It's always the best ones that die first http://blog.sesse.net/blog/tech/2025-03-30-23-45_its_always_the_best_ones_that_die_first.html
[15:44]	TR Bot	 Steinar H. Gunderson
[15:47]	TR News	"Can Hackers Bring Jooki Back To Life?" https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/can-hackers-bring-jooki-back-to-life/ | Source: Hackaday
[15:47]	TR Bot	Hackers Bring Jooki Back To Life? | Hackaday
[15:47]	TR News	Stop giving creators like Ash Trevino your attention https://www.michigandaily.com/arts/digital-culture/stop-giving-creators-like-ash-trevino-your-attention/ "front row seat to Shane Dawsons public internet execution."
[15:47]	TR Bot	 TikToker Ash Trevino, while entertaining, shouldnt have a platform
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[16:30]	TR News	Techrights Link between institutional abuse, Swiss jurists, Debianism and FSFE https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Link_between_institutional_abuse_Swiss_jurists_Debianism_and_FS.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Link_between_institutional_abuse_Swiss_jurists_Debianism_and_FS.gmi 
[16:30]	TR Bot	 Techrights Link between institutional abuse, Swiss jurists, Debianism and FSFE
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[16:52]	TR News	Windows all-time low in Africa https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/africa/#monthly-200902-202503
[16:53]	TR Bot	 Desktop Operating System Market Share Africa | Statcounter Global Stats
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[17:01]	TR News	layoffs at Narayana Murthys Infosys, 'Microsoft India'
[17:03]	TR News	Today (hours ago): "A look at IBMs career page shows 3,722 jobs available in India, as of the time of writing, up from 173 at the beginning of 2024, and 2,946 near the end of the year." https://www.webpronews.com/ibm-appears-to-be-moving-thousands-of-jobs-to-india/
[17:03]	TR Bot	 IBM Appears to Be Moving Thousands of Jobs to India
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqnh1dcf
[17:04]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqnh1dcf )
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	Pay attention to the operative word Cost efficiency When you can hire equivalent talent at 1/3 - 1/2 the price its self fulfilling. IBM has gone all in on the enterprise strategy which lends itself to Fortune 500 customers. So ask yourself how many employees do you need to service all of the Fortune 500 customers in the USA. My guess is under 10k Now add on labs, plants, acquisitions, and executive overhead and you 
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	are up to maybe 20-25k Welcome to IBM 2025 A USA based skeleton crew employee company. Will we see more layoffs/offshoring? Absolutely Why? Because acquisitions go offshore after a year, and consulting within the USA public/govt sector will shrink at least 20% this year. The new 2025 IBM is all about cost efficiency and that is accomplished in offshore English speaking countries. Its not the answer that USA and Northern Europea
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	ns want to hear, but it definitely is the current CFOs playbook.
[17:04]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
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[17:47]	lxo	schestowitz[TR2], not to my knowledge while I was there.  but my knowledge was quite narrow, and I haven't been there for about 6 years
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[18:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: maybe some subsidiary then
[18:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	lxo: i was surprised when i saw "Teams"
[18:11]	schestowitz[TR2]	it was widely published that IBM had adopted "Slack"
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[18:14]	lxo	not necessarily (some subsidiary).  remember "narrow knowledge".  I interacted most with a small team; and some with a wider team by email and irc, and with the rest of the company only by email, and that company was Red Hat, prior to any visible integration with IBM.  there could very well be people using this stuff way out of my view.  and they may have started using it afterwards.  basically, no conclusions can be drawn from my not knowing about it.
[18:14]	lxo	I recall the mentions of Slack, but I can't even recall whether that was before or after I left
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[18:25]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/big-brands-are-spending-small-sums-on-x-to-stay-out-of-musks-crosshairs/
[18:25]	TR Bot	 Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musks crosshairs - Ars Technica
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[18:32]	admfubar	https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/?comments-page=1#comments
[18:32]	TR Bot	 FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - Ars Technica
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[18:36]	admfubar	https://www.firstpost.com/tech/eu-to-fine-apple-meta-under-landmark-tech-law-this-week-amid-rising-us-eu-trade-tensions-13875965.html
[18:36]	TR Bot	to fine Apple, Meta under landmark tech law this week amid rising US-EU trade tensions Firstpost
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[19:01]	admfubar	https://www.protectprivacynow.org/news/fbi-warning-those-free-online-tools-have-a-cost
[19:01]	TR Bot	 NEWS & UPDATES | FISA REFORM | PPSA - Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability (PPSA)
[19:09]	TR News	Techrights Law Firms Can Also Lose Their Licence for Clearly Misusing It https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Law_Firms_Can_Also_Lose_Their_Licence_for_Clearly_Misusing_It.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Law_Firms_Can_Also_Lose_Their_Licence_for_Clearly_Misusing_It.gmi 
[19:09]	TR Bot	 Techrights Law Firms Can Also Lose Their Licence for Clearly Misusing It
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf83dx
[19:20]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf83dx )
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"Yep
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Heard the sam "
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Yes, heard the same.
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	Also, the Barfield office in Atlanta is set to close when the lease expire sometimes in Nov 2025.
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	You guys know what it means for people in these two offices RTO in some other state move or leave IBM.
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	It is coming for Dallas in the planned Sept/Oct layoffs, and for Atlanta in 1Q 2026.
[19:20]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:22]	TR News	"As of Monday morning internal look, 11 jobs worldwide. They want to remove more expensive internal workers to unemployment and hire 3000+ cheaper in the open market worldwide. Also checking Linkedin there are posts for all types of backgrounds. It's been a long strange trip friends, just hope the earth isn't flat." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf2qap
[19:22]	TR Bot	( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqpf2qap )
[19:24]	TR News	iophk: FreeBSD "still boosting Microsoft GitHub in the face of better options, [...] It is named multiple times in that very short post" https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/february-2025-laptop-support-and-usability-project-update/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/06/FreeBSD_Foundation_is_Trying_to_Improve_Laptop_Support_But_It_H.shtml
[19:24]	TR Bot	 February 2025 Laptop Support and Usability Project Update | FreeBSD Foundation
[19:24]	TR Bot	 Techrights FreeBSD Foundation is Trying to Improve "Laptop Support", But It Has Outsourced Everything to Microsoft Proprietary Software
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	Did @a5 hit a nerve ?
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	No one believes that IBM can achieve the 1-1 replacement for US based engineers with Indian engineers,
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM announced it intention to ki-l 9000 position in the US for 2025, it does not mean, it is already done.
[19:25]	schestowitz[TR2]	IBM is shedding some product lines that do not require, actively hiring in India. For the active jobs that are ripped from the US engineers to be given to Indian engineers, I challenge anyone to provide verifiable data that shows it is less than 10 Indians for 1 US based engineer. "
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	So lets take your statement to its logical conclusion IBM laid off 9k of USA and Northern European employees in 2024. I think we will all acknowledge that. So that means 90k worth of Indian employees were hired (correct?) So why did IBMs total worldwide employee population go from 282k to 270k last year? 4% shrinkage. Shouldnt it have grown to 372k? I believe instead of the 10-1 that you have quoted, IBM has figured out h
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	ow to replace 1-1 and pocketed the cost savings due to much lower labor rates, thus goosing the FCF and IBMs bottom line.
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	"
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	" I am surprised that the number of job openings in India is not higher,
[19:26]	schestowitz[TR2]	For every position vacated in the US, IBM hires 10 Indians, in the hope . "
[19:48]	TR News	Under Cheeto the US image (in the world) is now "weak" and "stupid"; the problem is, such image reinforces reality, in a loop... as scientists leave for greener pastures.
[19:52]	MinceR	(cat) (video) (audio:important) https://imgur.com/gallery/Ms6xy8H   =   https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/Ms6xy8H
[19:52]	TR Bot	straight hollerin' - Album on Imgur
[19:52]	TR Bot	 Wiggles straight hollerin&apos; - rimgo
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[19:52]	TR News	Techrights R.T.O. at IBM in Texas and Atlanta (State of Georgia) Expected as "Soft Layoffs" Catalyst This Coming Year https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/R_T_O_at_IBM_in_Texas_and_Atlanta_State_of_Georgia_Expected_as_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/R_T_O_at_IBM_in_Texas_and_Atlanta_State_of_Georgia_Expected_as_.gmi 
[19:52]	TR Bot	 Techrights R.T.O. at IBM in Texas and Atlanta (State of Georgia) Expected as "Soft Layoffs" Catalyst This Coming Year
[19:54]	TR News	Siemens, Wolfspeed announce layoffs in March https://finance.yahoo.com/news/siemens-wolfspeed-announce-layoffs-march-113100244.html
[19:54]	TR Bot	 Siemens, Wolfspeed announce layoffs in March
[19:54]	TR News	After layoffs at Narayana Murthys Infosys, another company to cut 2000 jobs in, to shakes up its, the name is, not Ratan Tatas TCS https://www.india.com/business/after-layoffs-at-narayana-murthys-infosys-another-company-to-cut-2000-jobs-in-2025-to-shakes-up-its-customer-services-the-name-is-sky-not-ratan-tatas-tcs-7721198/
[19:55]	TR Bot	 After layoffs at Narayana Murthys Infosys, another company to cut 2000 jobs in, to shakes up its, the name is..., not Ratan Tata's TCS
[19:57]	TR News	"Reports indicate that badge swipes are being monitored, and management has allegedly denied medical exemptions." https://americanbazaaronline.com/2025/03/31/ibm-to-layoff-thousands-of-us-employees/
[19:57]	TR Bot	 IBM to layoff thousands of US employees to shift hiring to India
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[19:58]	psydroid2	the Microsoft accomplices are dying
[19:58]	psydroid2	what a big surprise
[19:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	rightr
[19:58]	schestowitz[TR2]	ginny though served APple, too
[19:59]	psydroid2	I've been playing around with the RISC-V boards and things mostly work even with the vendored image
[19:59]	psydroid2	I'm just wondering where Europe is in all of this
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[20:00]	psydroid2	it's impossible for European companies and institutions not to have the skills to build this kind of hardware
[20:00]	psydroid2	and then you can exclude Microsoft, Apple and the rest on a technological level
[20:01]	TR News	Parent-child relationship gemini://rawtext.club/~deerbard/glog/2025-03-30-child-parent.gmi
[20:02]	TR News	An offline sun time calculator gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space:70/0/~solderpunk/phlog/an-offline-sun-time-calculator.txt gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/an-offline-sun-time-calculator.gmi
[20:03]	TR News	"Now that I have submitted my newly created gemlog to the aggregators, I would like to present you Occidental which is a brilliant auxiliary language very easy to learn." gemini://occidental.srht.site/gemlog/occidental.gmi
[20:04]	TR News	"Before even considering using any cryptosystem, regardless of its level of security" gopher://hoi.st:70/0/posts/2025-03-31-a-single-why-for-a-thousand-how.txt
[20:05]	TR News	"As this blog post is being published, we are sending out emails to all _openSNP_ users with some news: _OpenSNP_[1] will be turned off and with that also delete all the data stored on it on April 30, 2025." gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-03-31-sunsetting-opensnp.gmi
[20:06]	TR News	SpellBinding: ABSDNOC Wordo: LOGIN gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-03-31.gmi
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[20:06]	TR News	"This blog is going to get very cluttered very quickly if I keep writing my mini-reviews of old X-Files episodes on it. So here's a single page with all of them: [...]" gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-31-2
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[20:07]	TR News	"this is the second book i'm reading that i've associated with limbus company characters, who are based on their literary sources :0 the first one was hell screen!! i'll try to read these books before any of their in-game chapters release in the future... but no promises!!" gemini://angelai.smol.pub/20
[20:07]	TR News	"I've worked in marketing or marketing-adjacent for a while now, so I know what marketers think a "relevant" ad is. By their standards, I've been inundated with them since I was old enough to sit in front of a TV on my own." gemini://drmollytov.smol.pub/2025-03-31
[20:08]	TR News	"What follows are a collection of cursed programming indentation code styles, because nothing is sacred." gemini://zelena.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-04-01_Cursed_Indentation_Styles.gmi
[20:19]	TR News	Techrights Gemini Links 31/03/2025: Falling Out of Love With Tech, Sunsetting openSNP https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Gemini_Links_31_03_2025_Falling_Out_of_Love_With_Tech_Sunsettin.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Gemini_Links_31_03_2025_Falling_Out_of_Love_With_Tech_Sunsettin.gmi 
[20:19]	TR Bot	 Techrights Gemini Links 31/03/2025: Falling Out of Love With Tech, Sunsetting openSNP
[20:21]	TR News	Techrights Links 31/03/2025: China Tensions, Bombs Falling in Myanmar After Earthquake https://techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Links_31_03_2025_China_Tensions_Bombs_Falling_in_Myanmar_After_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/03/31/Links_31_03_2025_China_Tensions_Bombs_Falling_in_Myanmar_After_.gmi 
[20:21]	TR Bot	 Techrights Links 31/03/2025: China Tensions, Bombs Falling in Myanmar After Earthquake
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[21:05]	admfubar	what's all the hum, bub?   https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/when-python-is-poisoned-how-runtime-security-stops-the-tj-actions-attack/
[21:05]	TR Bot	 When Python Is Poisoned | How Runtime Security Stops the tj-actions Attack
[21:09]	MinceR	sounds more like shithub ci was poisoned, which isn't all that surprising
[21:10]	MinceR	and at this point pinning the blame on python won't help anyway, as the redmond mafia already took over python anyway
[21:16]	admfubar	sound more like an ad for SentinelOne, wouldnt be surprised if they were the ones that inserted the compromise so they could tout their "solution".
[21:18]	MinceR	:>
[21:18]	admfubar	give me updates or give me death... https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/31/1444214/microsoft-is-redesigning-the-windows-bsod-and-it-might-change-to-black
[21:18]	TR Bot	 Microsoft is Redesigning the Windows BSOD And It Might Change To Black - Slashdot
[21:19]	MinceR	finally, MICROS~1 is fixing the only problem there was with BSoD: its color.
[21:20]	MinceR	just as they fixed the only problem their web search engine had: it's name.
[21:20]	MinceR	3 times.
[21:20]	MinceR	s/it's/its/
[21:29]	admfubar	https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/31/supremes-hint-they-may-reject-bid-by-fake-consumer-group-to-make-fcc-low-income-broadband-subsidies-illegal/
[21:29]	TR Bot	Hint They May Reject Bid (By Fake Consumer Group) To Make FCC Low Income Broadband Subsidies Illegal | Techdirt
[21:30]	MinceR	the supremes, the new rock band
[21:30]	MinceR	they always perform smeared in sour cream and bits of tomatoes
[21:55]	admfubar	and hot sauce!
[21:56]	admfubar	https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/31/screamboat-review-rodent-ip-horror-sends-mickey-mouse-on-a-ferry-rampage
[21:56]	TR Bot	 Screamboat review rodent IP horror sends Mickey Mouse on a ferry rampage | Film | The Guardian
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[22:03]	IsambardPrince	<@MinceR> s/it's/its/
[22:03]	IsambardPrince	tits tits tits
[22:04]	IsambardPrince	Brandon Pekpek's tits kill fascists, apparently.
[22:04]	MinceR	is that some sort of autoimmune response?
[22:04]	IsambardPrince	Well, you have an immune response to almost everything you consume, but I don't think that just seeing tits would trigger one.
[22:05]	MinceR	i mean brandon pekpek's tits killing brandon pekpek
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	Ah
[22:07]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, Winnetka, Illinois is hiring private security for police now.
[22:08]	IsambardPrince	I wonder if they signed the deal with Omni Consumer Products.
[22:08]	MinceR	:>
[22:12]	admfubar	https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/31/china_disguised_tech_companies_taiwan/
[22:12]	TR Bot	 Fake Chinese companies in Taiwan hired Intel and MSFT talent The Register
[22:13]	MinceR	sucks to be them
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[22:26]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I posted:
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	"
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	Even if the price goes up a little on most cars, thanks to Cheeto Hitler's federal tax of 25% each time something crosses a border (which is a treaty violation), Honda will go up by less than GM.
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	GM is already in trouble, because the last time it failed and the taxpayers had to bail it out, the government left the same idiots in charge of it that ruined it the last time. It went on again for a while because they were allowed to relieve themselves of some of the toxic assets that their idiotic decisions in management saddled them with.
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	However, with the reprieve, they went right on making unreliable gas guzzlers and even using the same defective engine coolant that destroys engines and turns into an orange jello mold in the hoses and passages, and radiator and heater core, and they just give it a blue devil flush when the customer showed up with a 3 year old car and says there's no heat.
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	Further, they designed a new generation of engines out of less durable materials. In some cases, the car didn't get better gas mileage, and switching over to the less reliable components just drove up repair bills, and in the end the entire car only shed about 20 pounds.
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	The tariffs are going to kill GM, and the Trump administration will be faced with the choice of letting it die or bailing it out again, using money that it stole from the taxpayer.
[22:26]	IsambardPrince	Say what you want about the Japanese. The reason their auto brands hardly lose any resale value, insomuch as they are vehicles that depreciate, is because people know they'll be driving them when they're 20-25 years old, they may look bad by then but with basic upkeep they'll be running.
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[22:27]	IsambardPrince	Trump's tariffs seem like they couldn't be designed any worse. They are obviously intended as a Tesla bailout, but he's going to ruin GM in the process, and people still aren't going to want Teslas if they're smart.
[22:27]	IsambardPrince	Elon's Nazi crap aside, who the hell wants a truck that looks like The Warthog from Halo, costs $160,000, and has 8 serious recalls per year, and was deemed so unsafe that you can't even register it and get your plates in the United Kingdom?"
[22:28]	admfubar	https://xkcd.com/3069/
[22:28]	TR Bot	Terror Bird
[22:28]	admfubar	elon's homer simpson car ...  :P
[22:29]	MinceR	he's king because the majority are dumb fucks. i don't think he needs to worry about smart people.
[22:31]	IsambardPrince	And at the same time Trump is trying to prop up Elon's Swastikars that have f--king panels fly off while you're driving them, he's also shut down 8,000 electric charging stations on federal property and cut all the grants to States to make sure there's more charging spots, so you'll have to drive around in meandering zig-zag patterns on long trips to try to charge it anywhere, potentially adding hundreds of miles to that trip.
[22:33]	IsambardPrince	If Elon wasn't a Nazi, if there were places to plug The Warthog in, and if I could afford a $160,000 truck and being guaranteed to lose most of it within the first two or three years, and if that truck was built MUCH MUCH better than it actually is, I might get one just for the visual assault on the eyes, and I would make it so much worse by having it painted as razzle-dazzle.
[22:34]	MinceR	:>
[22:34]	MinceR	the warthog isn't nearly as much of an eyesore
[22:35]	IsambardPrince	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dazzle_camouflage#/media/File:HMS_Tamar_leaving_Portsmouth_MOD_45169282.jpg
[22:35]	TR Bot	 Dazzle camouflage - Wikipedia
[22:36]	IsambardPrince	It's not meant to make the ship less visible or less noticeable, it's meant to make it more confusing to try to figure out where the front and back are from a distance and the speed and which way it's heading.
[22:37]	IsambardPrince	They used it more in WW II, and there was mixed data on the effectiveness.
[22:37]	IsambardPrince	So nobody even knows if it worked in making torpedo attacks less successful, but it looks cool so they still use it. 
[22:37]	MinceR	https://www.autostraddle.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/RazzleDazzle.jpg
[22:37]	IsambardPrince	You have to paint the ship, might as well make it look nice.
[22:41]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I've already almost hit my extra MR point bonus on the AmEx card.
[22:41]	IsambardPrince	I prepaid our cell phones through the middle of 2027.
[22:41]	IsambardPrince	I prepaid the budget electric bill through the end of October.
[22:41]	MinceR	might look weird when the cell phone companies go away in 2026
[22:42]	MinceR	or we all go extinct in a nuclear war
[22:42]	IsambardPrince	Well, then who owes me $263 really won't be our biggest problem, will it?
[22:42]	MinceR	:>
[22:46]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I might frontload some rent except that our landlord is basically a criminal and he's running into severe legal problems and is more than a bit dodgy.
[22:46]	IsambardPrince	So I'll just pay as I go and see if he ends up bankrupt.
[22:48]	IsambardPrince	As far as I know, nobody has charged him with a crime, yet, but he's had citations from the city, late fines assessed by the water department, there's something going on involving one of the creditors he borrowed money from to buy this place, and something happened something happened and he gave everyone 5 days notice that his Chase bank account is "closed" and to make rent payments to some other routing number at Bank of America.
[22:48]	IsambardPrince	And he's had to file eviction proceedings against four more tenants who are not paying him, in the past two months.
[22:50]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I want to know how the Pope is being contradicted by run of the mill priests.
[22:50]	IsambardPrince	Isn't that a bit presumptuous?
[22:51]	MinceR	all it takes is a lot of arrogance
[22:51]	MinceR	which fascists have in great supply
[22:51]	IsambardPrince	"I'm not the Pope, I'm just a church priest in North Carolina, but ignore everything the Pope just said!"
[22:52]	IsambardPrince	https://finance.yahoo.com/news/another-us-debt-downgrade-could-be-coming-200236197.html
[22:52]	TR Bot	 Another US debt downgrade could be coming
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[23:17]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, I had the people who slam their door complain that they could hear my deadbolt.
[23:18]	IsambardPrince	I said, "So tell me how you want me to make the deadbolt quieter. All I asked you to do is not slam your door to where it feels like the whole fucking goddamned building is going to collapse."
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	I hate most people.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	It's like, they're over there not even paying their rent. Smoking Belomorkanal cigarettes mixed with gonesh cone incense from the smell that gets into my apartment.
[23:20]	IsambardPrince	How do people like this even live?
[23:21]	IsambardPrince	brb
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[23:40]	IsambardPrince	MinceR, AmEx gave me some more good offers.
[23:40]	IsambardPrince	"You're going to have a pretty big credit card bill this month. Oh, and you'll need a new toaster." -Orlan after building a stargate in Carter's basement
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