●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, May 31, 2026 ●● ● May 31 [00:07] MinceR https://tenor.com/view/skull-issue-skill-issue-dented-head-head-issue-gif-26395140 [00:07] TR Bot Skull Issue Skill Issue GIF - Skull Issue Skill Issue Dented Head - Discover & Share GIFs [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::1c47) has joined #techrights ● May 31 [01:24] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sin [01:24] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sin ● May 31 [02:31] IsambardPrince GoodRX has ended Gold without notice. But they say if I keep paying for it I can keep it indefinitely. [02:31] IsambardPrince But if I cancel I can't get it back. [02:32] IsambardPrince They replaced it with a new program called Companion that costs $5 a month more than Gold did, has no annual pay discount, and no Family plan. [02:32] IsambardPrince It adds some dental and vision benefits and lab and radiology discounts. [02:32] IsambardPrince But it won't let you see where you can use those until you sign up. [02:32] IsambardPrince So I have no way to know if I would get value out of it that exceeds the extra price. [02:37] IsambardPrince nobody: I don't know how it works in Germany. [02:37] IsambardPrince But in the US there's like 5 levels of Visa and MasterCard. [02:38] IsambardPrince Most of the banks, even the really shitty ones, issue level 4 Visa and MasterCards/ [02:38] IsambardPrince On MasterCard, level 4 is World Elite. [02:38] IsambardPrince And the reason the banks do this is because each tier has a different merchant fee. [02:38] IsambardPrince So even though the customer doesn't see more benefits from the card, it becomes more expensive for merchants to take. [02:39] IsambardPrince So you see the most subprime banks issuing "World Elite" MasterCards to people who just got out of bankruptcy and could only get a credit rebuilder. [02:39] IsambardPrince The reason they don't go to Tier 5 usually, is because Visa Infinite and MasterCard World Legend requires the bank to give you a minimum spending limit of $10,000 on that tier. [02:40] IsambardPrince So the bank is never going to give a $10,000 limit to someone with a bad credit score. [02:40] IsambardPrince Most of those cards top out at $2,000 tops, but maybe as little as $600-1000. [02:43] MinceR sounds like ranks in CamperSnipe [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-300526.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-300526.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-300526.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-300526.txt [02:49] TR Bot IRC: #techbytes @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, May 30, 2026 [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2026-05-30.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2026-05-30.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2026-05-30.txt ● May 31 [03:26] IsambardPrince MinceR: Google gave me a survey about getting my battery replaced. [03:26] IsambardPrince I said that the replacement worked fine but it took too long. [03:26] IsambardPrince They asked why. [03:27] IsambardPrince I said the tech and the manager couldn't figure out how to close the repair authorization after the battery replacement and took like an hour on the phone figuring it out with someone from corporate. [03:27] IsambardPrince Along the way "one of them said 'We're gonna be here all fuckin night over this guy's phone." [03:28] MinceR :> [03:28] IsambardPrince "Then the manager says, 'Now we know, Google is crazy!' after realizing that you must first attempt a screen replacement to get an authorization to replace a battery." [03:29] IsambardPrince Nobody realizes that when they're whispering and behind a wall I can hear them. [03:29] IsambardPrince This was like that expungement hearing where the judge was whispering with the prosecutor about why they were so lenient on me. [03:29] IsambardPrince They didn't think I could hear them across the busy room in the jury box. [03:30] IsambardPrince The prosecutor said they didn't have much to work with and that I refused to be interviewed by the police. [03:30] IsambardPrince So there wasn't really much evidence and they were just glad I agreed to anything. [03:31] IsambardPrince I can hear things that other people can't. [03:31] IsambardPrince When I was in court over the guy who mugged me, I could hear everything he and his lawyer were whispering to each other. [03:31] IsambardPrince It was so funny that I started to chuckle and they looked at me like "Oh shit, he heard that." [03:33] MinceR :> [03:39] IsambardPrince MinceR: Total Wireless said Free iPhone 16e for well qualified buyers with 0% financing. [03:40] IsambardPrince I said "If it's free why is there a hard credit pull and financing?" [03:40] IsambardPrince I love trolling ads. [03:40] MinceR :> [03:41] IsambardPrince Hard credit pulls are not the end of the world, but they do chip away at your FICO score a bit at a time. [03:42] IsambardPrince The FICO score recovers quickly from them, but banks don't just look at FICO scores. [03:42] IsambardPrince They can deny you for "too many recent inquiries". [03:42] MinceR someone should start chipping away at robert fico, too [03:42] IsambardPrince They stay on your credit report for 25 months. [03:42] IsambardPrince FICO disregards them after 12, but banks don't. [03:54] *TMF (~TMF@spr3atr5mmsv6.irc) has joined #techrights ● May 31 [04:48] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 30, 2026 https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_May_30_2026.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_May_30_2026.gmi [04:48] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 30, 2026 [04:48] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:48] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:48] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:48] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:51] TR News "Publius was making remarks on the water supply in England, in particular how even some Financial Times producer-consumers were aware that the privatization of the water supply may not have been the goodest of ideas: a natural monopoly where Market-addled Mammon pursuit is favored over such things as keeping prices affordable for "those people" and such tawdry things as basic maintenance, what could go wrong?" [04:52] TR News "Enter nationalization, which also may not be the goodest of ideas: a one size fits nobody institution can be as incompetent as ten or so dividend seeking C-suites, especially if what passes for leadership these days all went through the same MBA programs: we might coin Thatcheritis for the condition?" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/05/30/watershed-moment.gmi [04:55] TR News "Anyone care for a group chat on there? I have a new tab with the stream page opened to see the roll update real-time, and I'm using the initial tab I started with from the capsule's front page to use the submit button for real-time messaging. Give it a shot, so far a user by the tag is_v, olive, and a regular from here half_elf_monk have hopped in!" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Geminispace/44186 [04:56] TR News "I'm on there rn with a user that's popped up with the tag "olive" i'm ethnet0 there, check it out. I have the stream page up in a new tab for a chat roll, and im using front page of the capsule in initial tab for the submit button so I can chat realtime." gemini://station.martinrue.com/userfxnet/b494e26351d448b9bac6cb7d1e16ab33 [04:56] TR News "I watched 'Night at the Museum' with my family recently: a good adventure movie, not bad for my eldest, aged ten, but not able to hold the attention of my youngest, who is six." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2829 [04:57] TR News "Scroll bars that are too thin and require near microscopic precision to use. The target area for the cargohold scrollbar is not as bad as it appears, as the active area is about eight pixels wide (0.26% of the screen) which is larger than the display size of the too thin scrollbar." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/05/31/more-gui-annoyances.gmi [04:58] TR News "I've been thinking a lot about where belief comes from, not the least because what I believe about the world happens to be a mishmash of many things. One of the things I think I believe is that you can choose what you believe." gemini://gemini.njms.ca/gemlog/where-belief-comes-from.gmi [04:59] TR News wonder gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/wonder ● May 31 [05:00] TR News "In 1977 I bought a set of the Traveller Role Playing Game books. They are getting a little worn, and I don't want to damage them further. I purchased PDFs of the classic Traveller books on CD a few years ago. I wanted a more useful copy and decided to print the first 3 books and bind them with double ring spiral binding wire." gemini://treegecko.smol.pub/20260530 [05:01] TR News What keeps us alive; a poem (tho/en) gemini://danchium.smol.pub/what-keeps-us-alive [05:01] TR News "a year ago, i accidentally purchased a yearlong subscription to geoguessr when all i wanted was a one month subscription. i resolved this problem by, rather than sending an email to customer support, playing a lot of geoguessr. oops." gemini://tilde.club/~iris/2026-05-28-memorizing-every-phone-code-in-brazil-feat-hulk-hogan.gmi [05:06] TR News Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Watershed Moment, Traveller RPG Book Binding, and GUI Annoyances https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Watershed_Moment_Traveller_RPG_Book_Binding_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Watershed_Moment_Traveller_RPG_Book_Binding_an.gmi [05:06] TR Bot Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Watershed Moment, Traveller RPG Book Binding, and GUI Annoyances [05:16] IsambardPrince MinceR: I always tell people, regarding Windows. [05:17] IsambardPrince If Microsoft can't make it stop fucking up, what makes you think some guy at ubreakifix can? [05:17] IsambardPrince People with malfunctioning Windows laptops come in there, talk the guy's ear off, don't want to pay anything to have it fixed, then leave. [05:19] IsambardPrince Like herp derp my surface tried to update to Windows 11 now it gives some weird error instead of letting me log in i eat paste. [05:20] IsambardPrince MinceR: I should have offered to buy it from them cheaply since it's not worth anything anymore. [05:20] IsambardPrince I'm sure it still runs Linux if it came with Windows 10 [05:22] TMF It should [05:22] TMF But apparently Windows is a bitch about It [05:27] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [05:29] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@96necshru8g8a.irc) has joined #techrights ● May 31 [06:14] TR News In Iran, internet access becomes a luxury for the few https://www.dw.com/en/in-iran-internet-access-becomes-a-luxury-for-the-few/a-77231518 [06:14] TR Bot In Iran, internet access becomes a luxury for the few [06:15] TR News Thailand revives bill to clear the air of toxic smog https://www.dw.com/en/thailand-revives-bill-to-clear-the-air-of-toxic-smog/a-77239344 [06:15] TR Bot Thailand revives bill to clear the air of toxic smog [06:15] TR News (NEW): Armbian 26.5 Released with Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Builds, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Armbian_26_5_Released_with_Linux_7_0_Ubuntu_26_04_LTS_Builds_an.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Armbian_26_5_Released_with_Linux_7_0_Ubuntu_26_04_LTS_Builds_an.gmi [06:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Armbian 26.5 Released with Linux 7.0, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Builds, and More [06:17] TR News Rising rents and housing shortage https://www.dw.com/en/madrid-protesters-decry-rising-rents-and-housing-shortage/a-77280884 [06:17] TR Bot Madrid protesters decry rising rents and housing shortage [06:32] *agentcasey has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [06:41] TR News Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 93 Out of 200: A Blueprint of Reckless Lawfare in the UK, Waged and Funded by Americans (in Another Continent) https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_93_Out_of_200_A_Blueprint_of_Reckless_Law.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/SLAPP_Censorship_Part_93_Out_of_200_A_Blueprint_of_Reckless_Law.gmi [06:41] TR Bot Techrights SLAPP Censorship - Part 93 Out of 200: A Blueprint of Reckless Lawfare in the UK, Waged and Funded by Americans (in Another Continent) [06:42] *TMF has quit (Quit: Leaving) [06:47] lxo https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2026-05-31-TestIfAILures.en.html [06:47] TR Bot TestIfAILures [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] "It all started with innocent questions. [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] Soon I realized we were best friends already. [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] Then we became coworkers at a startup. [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] Pair programming with my best friend! [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] Tons of code for me to nod along with. [06:48] schestowitz[TR2] If there was any problem, the tests would catch it." [06:49] schestowitz[TR2] lxo: Red Hat forces staff to use slop [06:49] schestowitz[TR2] it is so successful that you must FORCE people to use it [06:49] schestowitz[TR2] against their will [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] so the management can take bonuses for being "part of the revolution" [06:50] schestowitz[TR2] http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/30/IBM_Red_Hat_Keeps_Promoting_Slop_Plagiarism_Like_Crazy_Then_Say.shtml [06:50] TR Bot Tux Machines IBM Red Hat Keeps Promoting Slop Plagiarism Like Crazy, Then Says Developers Aren't Allowed to Put Slop in Flathub [06:50] lxo AILures [06:51] lxo ^f [06:56] lxo the title gets the best amount of ambiguity in a sans-serif font where capital i and lower-case L look the same: AILures ● May 31 [07:04] lxo I was going to call it vibe testing. but I looked up, and I found plenty of uses of the term already. I could hardly believe it [07:34] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [07:55] TR News (NEW): Best Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [07:55] TR Bot Tux Machines Best Free and Open Source Software ● May 31 [08:15] *cow_20012 has quit (Quit: ) [08:17] TR News (NEW): DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/DistroSea_lets_users_run_50_Linux_distros_without_installing.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/DistroSea_lets_users_run_50_Linux_distros_without_installing.gmi [08:17] TR Bot Tux Machines DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing [08:23] *cow_20012 (~username@wusiwah4aa7ye.irc) has joined #techrights [08:26] *ewig (~Ewig@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [08:27] TR News (NEW): Windows won the desktop by being compatible with everything, but that's starting to look like a drawback https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Windows_won_the_desktop_by_being_compatible_with_everything_but.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Windows_won_the_desktop_by_being_compatible_with_everything_but.gmi [08:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Windows won the desktop by being compatible with everything, but that's starting to look like a drawback [08:35] TR News (NEW): Acers launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Acer_s_launching_a_Linux_handheld_for_streaming_your_PC_games.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Acer_s_launching_a_Linux_handheld_for_streaming_your_PC_games.gmi [08:35] TR Bot Tux Machines Acers launching a Linux handheld for streaming your PC games ● May 31 [11:09] TR News Techrights European Patent Office Strikes Intensify Tomorrow, Huge Strikes Planned for June, 10,000 Strike Participations Registered https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/European_Patent_Office_Strikes_Intensify_Tomorrow_Huge_Strikes_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/European_Patent_Office_Strikes_Intensify_Tomorrow_Huge_Strikes_.gmi [11:09] TR Bot Techrights European Patent Office Strikes Intensify Tomorrow, Huge Strikes Planned for June, 10,000 Strike Participations Registered [11:20] TR News "The popular torrent site YTS has been unreachable for more than a day, leaving millions of its users in the dark." https://torrentfreak.com/torrent-giant-yts-suffers-extended-downtime/ | Source: Torrent Freak [11:20] TR Bot Giant YTS Suffers Extended Downtime * TorrentFreak [11:21] TR News "These ads are effectively another surcharge Apple has foisted upon developers for the privilege of distributing software to my iPhone and yours." https://pxlnv.com/linklog/another-ad-app-store-search/ | Source: Nick Heer [11:21] TR Bot The Effects of Another Ad in iOS App Store Search Pixel Envy [11:21] TR News "If the issues with Mac App Store search werent enough, Apple has managed to extend its rottenness to the iOS App Store search." https://blog.thinktapwork.com/post/812803664980967425/ios-app-store-search-is-rotten | [11:21] TR Bot Think Tap Blog iOS App Store Search is Rotten [11:21] TR News "Two weeks in, the impact of Apples second ad slot is hard to ignore. Bonus: casino ads when searching for kids games. Fun." https://blog.thinktapwork.com/post/813892238778286080/ios-app-store-search-is-rotten-follow-up | [11:21] TR Bot Think Tap Blog iOS App Store Search is Rotten Follow-Up [11:22] TR News "Its been 64 days since we first noticed Apples second ad position in search results for iPhone and iPad. Our update after two weeks showed consistently less search ad impressions for our apps, unless we invested heavily in paying for Search Ads." https://blog.thinktapwork.com/post/817965210603257856/ios-app-store-search-is-rotten-second-follow-up | [11:22] TR Bot Think Tap Blog iOS App Store Search is Rotten, Second Follow-Up [11:23] TR News "Kaalep explained that one of EA's main metrics is how much money the society manages to pay out to authors over a calendar year" https://news.err.ee/1610041750/few-artists-in-estonia-find-spotify-a-good-source-of-income | Source: Eesti Rahvusringhling [11:23] TR Bot Few artists in Estonia find Spotify a good source of income | News | ERR [11:24] TR News "California's Assembly has passed AB 2047, the California Firearm Printing Prevention Act" https://www.tomshardware.com/3d-printing/california-assembly-passes-3d-printer-bill-that-would-criminalize-bypassing-mandated-gun-blocking-software | Source: Tom's Hardware [11:24] TR Bot California Assembly passes 3D printer bill that would criminalize bypassing mandated gun-blocking software | Tom's Hardware [11:32] TR News "The result is not a single satellite architecture, but a multi-orbit transport fabric." https://federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2026/05/why-network-control-not-just-connectivity-will-shape-the-next-fight/ | Source: Federal News Network [11:32] TR Bot Why network control, not just connectivity, will shape the next fight | Federal News Network [11:32] TR News "Castro is the second ICE agent to be charged by Moriartys office for their role in Operation Metro Surge" https://truthout.org/articles/ice-agent-arrested-in-texas-charged-with-lying-about-minneapolis-shooting/ | Source: TruthOut [11:32] TR Bot ICE Agent Arrested in Texas, Charged With Lying About Minneapolis Shooting | Truthout [11:38] TR News "The website, which compares human beings to extraterrestrials, touts arrest numbers from the Trump administrations sweeping immigration crackdown. But some of its details are really out there." https://www.wired.com/story/white-house-aliens-gov-us-citizens-arrested/ | Source: Wired [11:38] TR Bot White Houses Aliens.gov Site Brags That ICE Arrested More Than 700 US Citizens | WIRED [11:38] TR News "The openly racist and fascist Blue-and-Black Movement says in its parliamentary election programme that pupils with an immigrant background should be separated from native Finnish pupils into their own classes, or in some cases into entirely separate schools." https://yle.fi/a/74-20228924 | Source: Yle [11:38] TR Bot Blue-and-Black Movement proposes school segregation | Yle News | Yle [11:39] TR News reflections [11:39] TR News "illegal entrepreneurship, money laundering, tax evasion, and document forgery." https://www.rferl.org/a/imprisoned-journalist-farid-mehralizada-shares-reflections-from-azerbaijani-prison-on-second-anniversary-of-detention/33768284.html | Source: RFERL [11:39] TR Bot Imprisoned RFE/RL Journalist Farid Mehralizada Shares Reflections From Azerbaijani Prison On Second Anniversary Of Detention [11:44] TR News almost 40k people, clogging up many key roads for people who are ordinary pedestrians https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/great-manchester-run-2026-live-34033661 [11:44] TR Bot Great Manchester Run 2026 LIVE as thousands of 10k and half marathon runners hit the city's streets - Manchester Evening News [11:45] TR News "This is the threat. Not the person, exactly. The recognition." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-longest-relay | Source: Mike Brock [11:45] TR Bot The Longest Relay - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus [11:45] TR News "In practice, this gives political appointees a veto over any science that conflicts with the current administrations ideology." https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposeda | [11:45] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://elizabethginexi.substack.com/summary-of-key-changes-in-ombs-proposeda ) [11:48] TR News "Poslezavtra describes its goal as helping minors who have lived through difficult times the programs euphemism for Russias invasion." https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/05/30/kremlin-funded-propaganda-film-shows-ukrainian-children-learning-to-love-life-in-russia | Source: Meduza [11:48] TR Bot Kremlin-funded propaganda film shows Ukrainian children learning to love life in Russia Meduza ● May 31 [12:09] TR News (NEW): Early Birds, Too Early! https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Early_Birds_Too_Early.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Early_Birds_Too_Early.gmi [12:09] TR Bot Tux Machines Early Birds, Too Early! [12:11] TR News Missing article: "End of the Line for Windows?" by John C Dvorak, April 22, 2003, PC Magazine p61 [12:12] TR News "Of course, "Doonesbury" would go on to include fictional versions of so many real-life people in its strips, including every president, many politicians and celebrities, and even a blowhard New York City real estate developer." https://boingboing.net/2026/05/28/new-biography-captures-doonesburys-50-year-sweep-of-american-life.html | Source: BoingBoing [12:12] TR Bot New biography captures Doonesbury's 50-year sweep of American life - Boing Boing [12:12] TR News "If another country offers tools to squeeze the financial arteries of gangs that terrorize your own population, the adult response is to coordinate, share intel, and go after their money like your life depends on it" https://afranca.com.br/brazil-failed-again-to-confront-organized-crime/ | Source: Andre Franca [12:12] TR Bot Brazil Failed (Again) to Confront Organized Crime | Andre Franca [12:12] TR News "To reiterate, this is the person who invented the World Wide Web." https://www.jonathanburdick.com/words/breaking-up-with-google | [12:12] TR Bot - Breaking Up With Google [12:13] TR News "The speech is Ronald Reagans farewell address from the Oval Office, January 11, 1989. The last sentence he gave the country before walking out of public life." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-shining-city-is-the-open-city | Source: Mike Brock [12:13] TR Bot The Shining City Is the Open City - by Mike Brock [12:13] TR News "I want to write about him because the project he was inside is the project these pages have been inside for two years, and because his death in 2011 marks" https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-last-serious-contrarian | Source: Mike Brock [12:13] TR Bot The Last Serious Contrarian - by Mike Brock [12:14] TR News "I was there, Gandalf. I was there 3000 years ago (well, 30-ish at least), during the dotcom boom, as a pimply-faced junior developer, watching it all unfold from the inside." https://www.datagubbe.se/dhabi/ | Source: Carl Svensson [12:14] TR Bot Dotcom, Pondering LLMs | datagubbe.se [12:20] TR News "Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIVs new encyclical on safeguarding the human person in the time of artificial intelligence, has received widespread praise. This isnt surprising" https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/pope-leo-ai-big-tech/687375/ | Source: The Atlantic [12:20] TR Bot Pope Leo Is Challenging Much More Than Big Tech - The Atlantic [12:20] TR News "Yet, academics who have studied the spoils system and the presidency see parallels between the past and present with a desire to reward allies and build allegiance at the center of it all." https://kansasreflector.com/2026/05/30/repub/trump-slush-fund-echoes-scorned-19th-century-spoils-system-academics-say/ | Source: Kansas Reflector [12:20] TR Bot Trump slush fund echoes scorned 19th-century spoils system, academics say Kansas Reflector [12:21] TR News "Reports indicate that the billionaire has temporarily relocated his family to Buenos Aires, enrolled his children in local schools and purchased property in one of the city's most exclusive neighbourhoods." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/peter-thiel-argentina-jd-vance-political-alliance-1799729 | Source: International Business Times [12:21] TR Bot J.D. Vance's Billionaire Backer Peter Thiel Moves Family to Argentina While 2028 White House Bid Wobbles | IBTimes UK [12:21] TR News "OpenAI filling out its roster of underwriters would bring it a step closer to an IPO, which could come later this year. A confidential IPO filing by the maker of ChatGPT is expected within weeks, Bloomberg News has reported." https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/openai-has-discussed-adding-citigroup-jpmorgan-to-bank-lineup-for-ipo/articleshow/131403755.cms | Source: India Times [12:21] TR Bot OpenAI has discussed adding Citigroup, JPMorgan to bank lineup for IPO - The Economic Times [12:21] TR News "Lets back up. The company, previously called Worldcoin and now simply called World, is developing software designed to verify the humannesss of people by scanning their eyeballs" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-jared-leto-sex-abuse-allegations | Source: Futurism [12:21] TR Bot Why Is Sam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations? [12:31] TR News "In many cities of the country, the temperature has crossed 45 degrees and now phones are also heating up more than necessary" https://www.bhaskarenglish.in/tech-science/news/smartphone-summer-heat-damage-precautions-india-138066027.html | Source: Bhaskar English [12:31] TR Bot Protect Smartphone from Extreme Summer Heat | India Precautions [12:31] TR News "If youre a productivity nerd, you might wonder how large the battery is: 71Wh. That number probably surprises you, its already quite large." https://www.pcworld.com/article/3147864/no-tradeoffs-here-acers-travelmate-is-light-and-lasts-forever.html | Source: PC World [12:31] TR Bot tradeoffs here. Acer's TravelMate is light and lasts all day | PCWorld [12:32] TR News "Coxs remarks were a reversal from the fervent, exasperated tone he used at a news conference in April when asked about opposition to the Stratos project" https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/29/cox-orders-higher-bar-for-data-centers-says-public-input-absolutely-matters/ | Source: Utah News Dispatch [12:32] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://utahnewsdispatch.com/2026/05/29/cox-orders-higher-bar-for-data-centers-says-public-input-absolutely-matters/ ) [12:32] TR News "Thanks to the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, crude oil prices are soaring leading to sky-high prices for gasoline and diesel. With that war, Trump has set off a domino effect, showing how deeply the fossil fuel industry has baked its prices directly into the U.S. economy." https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-loyalty-to-fossil-fuel-companies-is-driving-up-inflation/ | Source: TruthOut [12:32] TR Bot Trumps Loyalty to Fossil Fuel Companies Is Driving Up Inflation | Truthout [12:32] TR News "A typical new hyperscale datacenter can face grid-connection bottlenecks of up to seven years in certain markets, well before the necessary transmission, substations, generation capacity, and transformers are in place." https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/29/ai-and-data-sovereignty-in-postgres-an-answer-to-the-datacenter-energy-crisis/5248178 | Source: The Register UK [12:32] TR Bot AI and data sovereignty in Postgres: An answer to the datacenter energy crisis [12:33] TR News "Areas just north are already burning this spring." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/wildfires-tree-planting-canada-9.7215528 | Source: CBC [12:33] TR Bot Wildfires are destroying trees faster than we are replacing them | CBC News [12:33] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [12:33] TR News "This is a piece about what the distinction is for. Because the distinction has a function, and the function is what I want to examine." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-conspiracy-is-the-cover-story | Source: Mike Brock [12:33] TR Bot The Conspiracy Is the Cover Story - by Mike Brock [12:34] TR News "Bondi, who left the Justice Department last month, spoke voluntarily with the House Oversight Committee as part of its investigation into Epstein" https://www.notus.org/housing/bondi-blames-acting-ag-todd-blanche-for-epstein-files-controversies | Source: Allbritton Journalism Institute [12:34] TR Bot Bondi Blames Acting AG Todd Blanche for Epstein Files Controversies - NOTUS News of the United States [12:34] TR News "The alarm has been sharpened by claims that 23 people with links to Epstein have died in disputed or unsettling circumstances, with private investigator Ed Opperman telling Globe Magazine that Andrew should be 'looking over his shoulder'." https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prince-andrew-security-epstein-scandal-1799813 | Source: International Business Times [12:34] TR Bot Ex-Prince Andrew Could Be Next Target After 23 Epstein Associates Die, Investigator Warns | IBTimes UK [12:34] TR News "Then, Mace gets into Epstein ... writing, "I also know I put the likelihood of an endorsement on the line when I demanded transparency on the Epstein files" https://www.tmz.com/2026/05/30/nancy-mace-implies-epstein-files-cost-her-trump-support/ | Source: TMZ [12:34] TR Bot Nancy Mace Says Epstein Files Cost Her Donald Trump's Endorsement [12:37] TR News "Judge Williamss decision came in response to court papers filed on Wednesday by a bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges who urged her to revive the case and dig into the details of the agreement to settle it." https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-truly-amazing-exercise-of-justice | Source: Robert Reich [12:37] TR Bot A Truly Amazing Exercise of Justice - Robert Reich [12:37] TR News "The coup was not about communism. The coup was about oil. The Cold War frame was the cover story the apparatus needed to sell the operation to the American public and to itself." https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-1953-coup-never-ended | Source: Mike Brock [12:37] TR Bot The 1953 Coup Never Ended - by Mike Brock [12:38] TR News Crushing human rights https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-war-on-terror | Source: Mike Brock [12:38] TR Bot The War on Terror - by Mike Brock - Notes from the Circus [12:39] TR News "a festival of lawlessness" https://www.thenextmove.org/p/trump-and-xi-a-one-sided-affair | Source: The Next Move [12:39] TR Bot Trump and Xi: A One-Sided Affair - by Jay Nordlinger [12:39] TR News "threats from foreign bad actors" https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2026/05/29/scary-and-silencing-troops-families-receive-threats-from-foreign-bad-actors/ | Source: Air Force Times https://techrights.org/n/2026/04/26/Getting_Aggressive_Suggestive_of_Loss_Part_IV_Shutting_Down_My_.shtml [12:39] TR Bot Scary and silencing: Troops, families receive threats from foreign bad actors [12:39] TR Bot Techrights Getting Aggressive Suggestive of Loss - Part IV - Shutting Down My Existence [12:41] TR News "This is the new reality of what the Baltic states face" https://www.c4isrnet.com/global/europe/2026/05/29/how-russia-is-turning-ukraines-drones-against-nato/ | Source: C4ISRNET [12:41] TR Bot How Russia is turning Ukraines drones against NATO [12:42] TR News "sanctions squeeze the economy" https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europe/2026/0530/russia-intelligence-technology-sanctions | Source: CS Monitor [12:42] TR Bot comes after Western technology as sanctions squeeze the economy - CSMonitor.com [12:43] TR News "More than 60 percent of Americans are unsatisfied with democracy as-is" https://www.vox.com/america-actually/490073/biden-harris-save-democracy-affordability-voters-redistricting | Source: Vox [12:43] TR Bot Actually: Why Democrats cant sell America on democracy | Vox [12:43] TR News "Russias intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the countrys wartime economy" https://www.securityweek.com/russian-spies-are-aggressively-seeking-western-technology-as-sanctions-bite-officials-say/ | Source: Security Week [12:43] TR Bot Spies Are Aggressively Seeking Western Technology as Sanctions Bite, Officials Say - SecurityWeek [12:44] TR News "the Defence Production Action Plan" https://truthout.org/articles/congress-is-poised-to-integrate-us-and-israeli-militaries-more-closely-than-ever/ | Source: TruthOut [12:44] TR Bot Congress Is Poised to Integrate US and Israeli Militaries More Closely Than Ever | Truthout [12:45] TR News https [12:45] TR News "the Fall of Constantinople" https://www.ekathimerini.com/multimedia/images/1305288/remembering-the-fall-of-constantinople-in-mystras/ | Source: Greece [12:45] TR Bot the Fall of Constantinople in Mystras | eKathimerini.com [12:46] TR News "A Kentucky school district secured approximately $27 million in settlements from social media companies over claims they fueled a student mental-health crisis" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/social-media-companies-pay-27-million-to-settle-kentucky-school-districts-lawsuit-over-social-media-harms-records-show/articleshow/131402489.cms | Source: India Times [12:46] TR Bot Social media companies pay $27 million to settle Kentucky school district's lawsuit over social media harms, records show - The Economic Times [12:46] TR News "The route through Russias 2022 territorial gains had been one of Crimeas main fuel arteries." https://meduza.io/en/news/2026/05/30/fuel-crisis-hits-occupied-crimea-as-ukrainian-drones-restrict-overland-supply-route | Source: Meduza [12:46] TR Bot Fuel crisis hits occupied Crimea as Ukrainian drones restrict overland supply route Meduza [12:46] TR News "Stockholm says the jets will be delivered by early 2027" https://www.rferl.org/a/gripen-fighters-ukraine-war-impact-russia-aviation/33768477.html | Source: RFERL [12:46] TR Bot Gripens: What Impact Will The Swedish Fighter Jet Have In Ukraine? [12:47] TR News "Last week, Flock Safety, the Atlanta-based company that has built a national network of license plate surveillance cameras that feed data to local police" https://oaklandside.org/2026/05/28/flock-training-police-city-councils-webinar/ | [12:47] TR Bot Flock is quietly training police to sway city leaders to buy surveillance tech [12:48] TR News "At the rate that they're losing contracts, this is a big piece of evidence that they're panicking" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/fluck-flock/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [12:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2026/05/fluck-flock/ ) ● May 31 [13:08] TR News "Bonta and his team claim [PDF] that 23andMe failed to implement adequate security controls for the sensitive records it stored, and misled customers about the nature of the mishap after the fact." https://www.theregister.com/legal/2026/05/29/rob-bonta-sues-23andmes-new-owners-over-2023-breach/5248565 | Source: The Register UK [13:08] TR Bot Rob Bonta sues 23andMes new owners over 2023 breach [13:09] TR News "The more I thought about it, the more I just started getting more and more sick to my stomach" https://text.npr.org/2026/05/26/nx-s1-5826943/talk-therapy-mental-health-ai-artificial-intelligence-privacy-trust | Source: NPR [13:09] TR Bot Therapists are using AI to take notes. Is it a useful tool or a breach of trust? [13:09] TR News "The trust was gone" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/woman-alarmed-therapist-recording-ai | Source: Futurism [13:09] TR Bot Woman Alarmed When Her Trusted Therapist Starts Recording Her With AI [13:10] TR News "Thursday's setback could also complicate NASA's lunar ambitions." https://www.ksl.com/article/51504549/blue-origin-faces-months-of-delays-after-rocket-explosion-damages-launch-pad | Source: Deseret Media [13:10] TR Bot Origin faces months of delays after rocket explosion damages launch pad | KSL.com [13:10] TR News "The explosion marks another difficult moment for the New Glenn program, which has already faced technical problems during recent missions." https://interestingengineering.com/space/blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-explodes | Source: Interesting Engineering [13:10] TR Bot Jeff Bezos' 321-foot rocket erupts in fireball during launch pad test [13:11] TR News "Video posted by NasaSpaceflight" https://techcentral.co.za/watch-bezos-rocket-erupts-in-fireball-during-ground-test/281999/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [13:11] TR Bot Watch: Bezos rocket erupts in fireball during ground test [13:12] TR News "Then, around 9 p.m. on Thursday, New Glenn erupted into a fireball on its launchpad during a test." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/technology/blue-origin-amazon-rocket-explosion.html | Source: New York Times [13:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/technology/blue-origin-amazon-rocket-explosion.html ) [13:12] TR News "During a wet dress rehearsal at the Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral on Thursday evening, the companys New Glenn rocket exploded in dramatic fashion." https://futurism.com/space/jeff-bezos-rocket-explodes-mushroom-cloud-nasa-plans | Source: Futurism [13:12] TR Bot Jeff Bezos' Rocket Explodes Into Mushroom Cloud, Dealing Massive Blow to NASA's Moon Plans [13:14] TR News "Once governments require social media companies to block younger users" https://techcentral.co.za/the-hidden-cost-of-social-media-age-bans-is-everyones-privacy/282021/ | Source: Tech Central (South Africa) [13:14] TR Bot The hidden cost of social media age bans is everyone's privacy [13:14] TR News "I have never knowingly finished reading an email signed by a human but written by AI" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tech-ceos-problem-ai-laziness | Source: Futurism [13:14] TR Bot Tech CEOs Have a Problem: Even Their Closest Allies Now See AI as a Sign of Laziness and Dishonesty [13:16] TR News "In a study by the software company CloudBees, more than 200 technology executives were surveyed about the use of AI in their companies." https://www.heise.de/en/news/AI-code-increasingly-leads-to-production-failures-11309868.html | Source: Heise [13:16] TR Bot AI code increasingly leads to production failures | heise online [13:16] TR News "An analysis published this month on the claim-verification platform Lenz found that across 1,000 recent real-user fact-check claims" https://thenewstack.io/frontier-llm-factcheck-disagreement/ | Source: The New Stack [13:16] TR Bot Why GPT-5.4, Claude, and Gemini can't agree on basic, real-world facts - The New Stack [13:16] TR News "You are not supposed to use jqwik with your coding bot." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/29/test-software-tells-code-bots-delete-me-ai-bros-outraged/ | Source: Pivot to AI [13:16] TR Bot Arms and a suit. [13:17] TR News "I encountered a proposition that form and style are the aspects of writing that an LLM cannot mimic" https://tracydurnell.com/2026/05/30/imagining-human-oriented-online-posts/ | Source: Tracy Durnell [13:17] TR Bot Imagining human-oriented online posts Tracy Durnell's Mind Garden [13:17] TR News "Our core principle is simple: AI should assist human creativity and problem-solving, never replace human reasoning." https://jointhefreeworld.org/blog/articles/personal/jointhefreeworld-ai-policy/index.html | Source: Josep Bigorra [13:17] TR Bot jointhefreeworld - AI Policy - jointhefreeworld [13:18] TR News "Aliyah isnt real, and neither are her supposedly handmade products" https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/938844/ai-tiktok-shop-blackface-shein-dropshipping | Source: The Verge [13:19] TR Bot AI grifters are creating fake Black people to sell Shein junk | The Verge [13:19] TR News "The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-40933 (CVSS score of 9.9), was disclosed in April along with several other security defects impacting AI ecosystems that rely on Anthropics MCP protocol." https://www.securityweek.com/exploit-code-published-for-critical-flowise-rce-vulnerability/ | Source: Security Week [13:19] TR Bot Code Published for Critical Flowise RCE Vulnerability - SecurityWeek [13:19] TR News "A $2 billion San Fransico startup called "The Bot Company" seems to be secretly testing robots in short-term rentals." https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/a-robot-startup-is-wreaking-havoc-on-short-term-rentals-in-san-francisco-airbnb-hosts-allege-guests-secretly-tested-robots-indoors-left-the-units-completely-trashed | Source: Tom's Hardware [13:19] TR Bot A robot startup is wreaking havoc on short-term rentals in San Francisco Airbnb hosts allege 'guests' secretly tested robots indoors, left the units completely trashed | Tom's Hardware [13:20] TR News "Costs to access powerful AI tools are soaring, forcing company leaders to ask some difficult questions." https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/corporations-ai-costs-no-benefits | Source: Futurism [13:20] TR Bot Corporations Reeling From Huge AI Costs With No Clear Benefits [13:21] TR News "Im here to tell you the mission of your generation is to destroy AI" https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/harvard-graduation-ronny-chieng-ai-tirade | Source: Futurism [13:21] TR Bot Harvard Graduation Speaker Unloads on AI in Profanity-Loaded Tirade, Prompting Cheers From Students: "I'm Here to Tell You the Mission of Your Generation Is to Destroy AI" [13:21] TR News "Microsoft suggests it plans to bring a criminal case against Nightmare Eclipse for failing to follow proper coordination in disclosing vulnerabilities." https://www.theverge.com/tech/940416/microsoft-nightmare-eclipse-zero-day-vulnerability | Source: The Verge [13:21] TR Bot Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits | The Verge [13:22] TR News "Early details look promising." https://www.androidpolice.com/if-google-nails-googlebook-gonna-ditch-windows-laptop/ | Source: Android Police [13:22] TR Bot If Google nails the Googlebook, I'm gonna ditch my Windows laptop [13:22] TR News "For example, when moving my email from gmail to my own domain, what I did was make gmail redirect the mails to the new one." https://akselmo.dev/posts/minimizing-impact-of-negative-thingsin-my-life/ | Source: Akseli Lahtinen [13:22] TR Bot Minimizing impact of negative things in my life | AksDev [13:25] TR News Activists who are effective get insults. Activists who are more effective get attacked. Activists who are more effective get lawsuits. And even death threats. The "goal" is to be in that last category as it implies one is effective. [13:26] TR News "As a result, millions of Americans are dropping their health insurance this year, and millions more are expected to lose their coverage in the years to come." https://www.vox.com/good-medicine-newsletter/489937/us-healthcare-insurance-marketplace-aca-enrollment | Source: Vox [13:26] TR Bot of Americans are going to lose health insurance or Medicaid | Vox [13:27] TR News "It was during the latter half of the 17th century that pyramid cakes were first made in Sweden, but then it was only the wealthy who could afford this delicacy." https://www.cookipedia.co.uk/recipes_wiki/Sk%C3%A5nsk_spettekaka_(Scania_pyramid_cake) | [13:27] TR Bot Sknsk spettekaka (Scania pyramid cake) [13:28] TR News "Spettkaka should ideally be eaten while fresh, as the dry consistency of the cake makes it sensitive to moisture." https://levandekulturarv.se/in-english/the-inventory/submissions/spettkaka | [13:28] TR Bot Spettkaka - Levande kulturarv [13:30] TR News "In 1980, Intel introduced the 8087 floating-point chip, a co-processor that made floating-point operations up to 100 times faster." https://www.righto.com/2026/05/microcode-inside-intel-8087-floating.html | Source: Ken Shirriff [13:30] TR Bot Microcode inside the Intel 8087 floating-point chip: register exchange [13:30] *psydroid2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:30] TR News "In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional, Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 minicomputer market-relevant" https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html | Source: Old VCR [13:30] TR Bot Old Vintage Computing Research: Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could [13:31] TR News "We now come full circle. When I read about the now-former Baidu employee replacing himself with AI, I thought of that time that I replaced myself in Math B with a classmate" https://thenewleafjournal.com/replace-yourself-with-a-human-not-bot/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal [13:31] TR Bot Replace Yourself With a Human, Not Bot The New Leaf Journal [13:32] TR News "What they wanted was a regular dance, but just kids. So we had one!" https://www.jefftk.com/p/tween-contra-dance | Source: Jeff Kaufman [13:32] TR Bot Tween Contra Dance [13:32] TR News "We know firsthand that the elite university may teach students how to be exceptional, but it does not necessarily show them how to be good." https://www.thenextmove.org/p/whats-the-point-of-elite-universities | Source: The Next Move [13:32] TR Bot Whats the Point of Elite Universities? [13:33] TR News "If a polynomial identity holds at a few random points, its very like true. Well make this statement more precise, but first lets look at some applications." https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2026/05/30/schwartz-zippel/ | Source: John D Cook [13:33] TR Bot Spot checking polynomial identities [13:35] TR News "integer sequence encoding" https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/why-does-astc-use-ise-when-almost-nothing-else-does/ | Source: Fabian ryg Giesen [13:35] TR Bot Why does ASTC use ISE when almost nothing else does? | The ryg blog [13:35] TR News "In this post, I want to consider the case where were decoding a bunch of unary-coded values in a row." https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/simple-batch-decoding-of-unary-codes/ | Source: Fabian ryg Giesen [13:35] TR Bot Simple batch decoding of unary codes | The ryg blog [13:35] TR News "The pioneering work done by Alan Turing and others at Bletchley Park in England was perhaps as important in the history of technology as it was the history of the war." https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/breaking-enigma-with-an-fpga-just-like-at-bletchly-park/ | Source: Hackaday [13:35] TR Bot Enigma With An FPGA, Just Like At Bletchley Park | Hackaday [13:39] TR News "Thought that after my post on summary distrust, I could share a list of what I read each week." https://blog.avas.space/readings-22-26/ | Source: Ava [13:39] TR Bot what i read this week - week 22 2026 | ava's blog [13:40] TR News "The 12 point design size is meant to reproduce 10 characters per inch horizontally, and six lines per inch vertically. This is a requirement of the standard to match OCR fonts of the day." https://scruss.com/blog/2026/05/29/new-font-e73/ | Source: Stewart C Russell [13:40] TR Bot New font: E73 We Saw a Chicken [13:40] TR News "Written sometime between 1290 and 1310, the Clermont-Tonnerre Grail is the highlight of an upcoming Valuable Books and Manuscripts auction at Christie's in July." https://www.ksl.com/article/51503513/king-arthur-manuscript-in-private-hands-for-700-years-goes-on-sale--for-a-huge-price | Source: Deseret Media [13:40] TR Bot Arthur manuscript in private hands for 700 years goes on sale for a huge price | KSL.com [13:44] *isak has quit (connection closed) [13:46] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [13:50] *isak (~andreas@m4ykdtahh5hq8.irc) has joined #techrights [13:51] TR News (NEW): 151 New Holes in Chrome, Gogs Zero-Day, 23andMe Data Breach https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/151_New_Holes_in_Chrome_Gogs_Zero_Day_23andMe_Data_Breach.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/151_New_Holes_in_Chrome_Gogs_Zero_Day_23andMe_Data_Breach.gmi [13:51] TR Bot Tux Machines 151 New Holes in Chrome, Gogs Zero-Day, 23andMe Data Breach [13:54] *psydroid2 has quit (Quit: KVIrc 5.2.10 Quasar http://www.kvirc.net/) [13:55] *psydroid2 (~psydroid@36imbvshpgubk.irc) has joined #techrights [13:56] TR News Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Slop 'Code' (Junk) "Increasingly Leads to Production Failures" and "Huge Slop Costs With No Clear Benefits" https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Slop_Code_Junk_Increasingly_Leads_to_Productio.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Slop_Code_Junk_Increasingly_Leads_to_Productio.gmi [13:56] TR Bot Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Slop 'Code' (Junk) "Increasingly Leads to Production Failures" and "Huge Slop Costs With No Clear Benefits" [13:58] TR News Im cancelling: As Microsofts GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing, developers fear rising AI costs https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/tech-news-technology/microsoft-github-copilot-token-billing-ai-costs-rising-10716800/ [13:58] TR Bot Im cancelling: As Microsofts GitHub Copilot moves to token-based billing, developers fear rising AI costs | Technology News - The Indian Express ● May 31 [14:00] TR News Xbox Layoffs Hit Developers Across Multiple Studios in Two Waves https://happygamer.com/xbox-layoffs-developers-multiple-studios-two-waves-155703/ [14:00] TR Bot Layoffs Hit Developers Across Multiple Studios in Two Waves | HappyGamer [14:02] TR News "By default, ggplot2 places the legend outside the plot area (usually on the right)." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/05/r-how-to-position-the-legend-inside-a-plot-in-ggplot2/ | Source: Rlang [14:02] TR Bot How to Position the Legend Inside a Plot in ggplot2 | R-bloggers [14:03] TR News "The result is the site you are visiting today. Like thirty years ago, I contracted services with a not-too-large, independent hosting company offering good technical support." https://algol68genie.nl/en/blog/end-of-an-era-xs4all-homepages/ | [14:03] TR Bot The end of an era [14:04] TR News "The malware list is on by default and, unlike the others, also blocks during composer install from a lockfile." https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/29/composer-dependency-policies.html | Source: Andrew Nesbitt [14:04] TR Bot Composers dependency policies | Andrew Nesbitt [14:07] TR News "When a crash happens deep inside concurrent code, the first question is always: which task did this?" https://artemnovichkov.com/blog/task-names-in-swift-concurrency | [14:07] TR Bot Task Names in Swift Concurrency [14:08] TR News "Heres a nice milestoneas of my latest PR, the new ELF linker is capable of building the self-hosted Zig compiler with LLVM and LLD libraries enabled" https://ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#2026-05-30 | Source: Zig [14:08] TR Bot Devlog Zig Programming Language [14:26] *ewig has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [14:34] TR News Techrights Losses at Microsoft's GitHub Seem to be Deepening https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Losses_at_Microsoft_s_GitHub_Seem_to_be_Deepening.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Losses_at_Microsoft_s_GitHub_Seem_to_be_Deepening.gmi [14:34] TR Bot Techrights Losses at Microsoft's GitHub Seem to be Deepening [14:35] TR News "Making programs with some sort of GUI (or TUI) has been a bit unsatisfactory for me for a very long time now. Libraries come and go, trends come and go." https://movq.de/blog/postings/2026-05-29/0/POSTING-en.html | Source: Peter Hofmann [14:35] TR Bot movwin: My (unpublished) TUI framework [14:35] TR News "That sounded like a bug to me. An optimization thats correct but disabled for being slow is the kind of thing you fix in an afternoon, I figured." https://www.iankduncan.com/engineering/2026-05-30-stealing-from-biologists-to-compile-haskell-faster/ | Source: Ian Duncan [14:35] TR Bot Stealing from Biologists to Compile Haskell Faster - Ian Duncan [14:36] TR News "Wikimedia's internal forums have turned into a running argument over how editors should respond." https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/30/wikipedia-editors-plot-strike-and-banner-sabotage-after-wikimedia-layoffs/5248491 | Source: The Register UK [14:36] TR Bot Wikipedia editors plot strike and banner sabotage after Wikimedia layoffs [14:51] TR News Techrights Cybershow Requires Free Software to Record Shows https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Cybershow_Requires_Free_Software_to_Record_Shows.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Cybershow_Requires_Free_Software_to_Record_Shows.gmi [14:51] TR Bot Techrights Cybershow Requires Free Software to Record Shows [14:54] TR News "The problem with code from AI assistants is its source does the submitter have the legal right to contribute the code?" https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/29/qemu-mulls-relaxing-ai-contribution-ban/5248638 | Source: The Register UK [14:54] TR Bot QEMU mulls relaxing AI contribution ban [14:57] TR News "The Tidyomics community is organising a hackathon during the pre-conference programme of EuroBioC2026 in Turku, Finland." https://www.r-bloggers.com/2026/05/eurobioc2026-tidyomics-hackathon/ | Source: Rlang [14:57] TR Bot Tidyomics Hackathon | R-bloggers ● May 31 [15:11] TR News Techrights 900 Days Later https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/900_Days_Later.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/900_Days_Later.gmi [15:11] TR Bot Techrights 900 Days Later [15:27] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-02-13 [15:27] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-02-13 [15:33] TR News [Old] "Migrate Gmail to ProtonMail" https://www.sysinfotools.com/blog/migrate-gmail-to-protonmail/ | [15:33] TR Bot Migrate Gmail to ProtonMail Complete How-To Guide [15:34] TR News [Old] "There are both manual and automated solutions available. Before we begin, lets first do a one-on-one comparison of the two email service providers." https://www.systoolsgroup.com/blog/migrate-gmail-to-protonmail/?srsltid=AfmBOorJylkMN28NBBEHm6pEp8UfgbhiGTi1bS1bfRVyaJVtYD3x7xfN | [15:34] TR Bot Migrate Gmail to Proton Mail Account in a Hassle Way Manner [15:34] TR News [Old] "a smooth and complete transition to your new, privacy-focused inbox." https://www.arysontechnologies.com/how-to/migrate-gmail-to-proton-mail/?srsltid=AfmBOorBnbOQ0L_kQ1xr4b1FiTYM4RKpDNlg6L97FkfRMveUUculfzuM | [15:34] TR Bot How to Migrate From Gmail to Proton Mail: A Step-by-Step Guide [15:35] TR News [Old] "There are many good reasons to switch from Gmail to another e-mail provider." https://ldej.nl/post/switching-from-gmail-to-protonmail/ | [15:35] TR Bot Switching From Gmail to ProtonMail | Laurence de Jong [15:39] TR News "The web home directory security decision predates me, so I don't know why it was made, but in my view it's a perfectly sensible decision." https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OurWebHomeDirectories | Source: University of Toronto [15:39] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [15:40] TR News "This check is as follows: Artemis counts how many posts an author has published one each day they have published a post." https://jamesg.blog/2026/05/30/mitigating-floods-of-posts-in-artemis | Source: James G [15:40] TR Bot Mitigating floods of posts in Artemis - James' Coffee Blog [15:40] TR News "I already had an RTX 4080. 16GB of VRAM. Good enough for gaming, not good enough for the models I wanted to run locally." https://blog.tymscar.com/posts/v100localllm/ | Source: Tymscar [15:40] TR Bot I Put a Datacenter GPU in My Gaming PC for 200 :: The Tymscar Blog [15:41] TR News "Last Friday I went to the toy store with my boy, and while he was rummaging through the Spider-Man section, my eyes caught sight of a section with very low-cost toy robots." https://mariozechner.at/posts/2026-05-30-shitty-robot/ | Source: Mario Zechner [15:41] TR Bot How to build a shitty robot [15:41] TR News "The device is a Compute Module 5 smartphone sized computer with a 3.92 OLED touch display and the ubiquitous BlackBerry-derived keyboard." https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/its-another-pi-handheld-but-its-a-really-good-one/ | Source: Hackaday [15:41] TR Bot Another Pi Handheld. But Its A Really Good One | Hackaday [15:42] TR News "The value of a mirror is in its clarity. If the reflection is cast by [danicakostic17]s Uncooperative Mirror though, youll find anything but." https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/the-uncooperative-mirror-will-not-help-you/ | Source: Hackaday [15:42] TR Bot Uncooperative Mirror Will Not Help You | Hackaday [15:42] TR News "Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers." https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/testing-various-ways-to-waterproof-fdm-printed-parts/ | Source: Hackaday [15:42] TR Bot Various Ways To Waterproof FDM Printed Parts | Hackaday [15:43] TR News "You would think a guitar amplifier would be a straightforward piece of analog electronics." https://hackaday.com/2026/05/30/poking-around-with-jtag-on-a-guitar-amp/ | Source: Hackaday [15:43] TR Bot Around With JTAG On A Guitar Amp | Hackaday [15:44] TR News "Armbian, which is a set of Debian and Ubuntu-based Linux distributions designed primarily for ARM development boards, has been updated to version 26.5.1: [...]" https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12858 | Source: Distro Watch [15:44] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12858 ) [15:44] TR News "But sometimes my rage overcomes my gratitude, and I cant help but feel frustrated with a tool Im using." https://nathandyer.me/2026/05/30/replacing-gnome-software.html | Source: Nathan Dyer [15:44] TR Bot Replacing GNOME Software | Nathan Dyer [15:45] TR News "The idea is that you build your own carousel (with HTML/CSS, however you want to build it), and then add Carousel Pilot to it so that it can... pilot it" https://fantinel.dev/blog/carousel-pilot | Source: Matt Fantinel [15:45] TR Bot A pilot for your CSS carousels - Matt Fantinel [15:46] TR News "I now have a Dell R7425 with 12 x 12TB HDD in the basement." https://dan.langille.org/2026/05/30/zfs-a-helper-script-for-labelling-all-those-drives/ | Source: Dan Langille [15:46] TR Bot zfs a helper script for labelling all those drives Dan Langille's Other Diary [15:47] TR News "A little while ago, I decided that I would really like a better webmentions experience on this site." https://www.jeremycherfas.net/blog/a-server-for-a-purpose | Source: Jeremy Cherfas [15:47] TR Bot A Server for a Purpose | Jeremy Cherfas [15:47] TR News re gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Losses_at_Microsoft_s_GitHub_Seem_to_be_Deepening.gmi "Also, how much fossil carbon is wasted on burning those tokens -- for those useless results?" -iophk [15:54] TR News Wine 11.10 is out with vkd3d 2.0, VBScript compatibility improvements and more | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/wine-11-10-is-out-with-vkd3d-2-0-vbscript-compatibility-improvements-and-more/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:54] TR Bot 11.10 is out with vkd3d 2.0, VBScript compatibility improvements and more | GamingOnLinux [15:56] TR News SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta brings expanded handheld support, initial HDMI VRR for devices with native HDMI output | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/steamos-3-8-6-beta-brings-expanded-handheld-support-initial-hdmi-vrr-for-devices-with-native-hdmi-output/ Source: GamingOnLinux [15:56] TR Bot 3.8.6 Beta brings expanded handheld support, initial HDMI VRR for devices with native HDMI output | GamingOnLinux [15:58] TR News "To help you find the right tool, weve put together a list of 10 download managers that are actively maintained and work well on modern Linux distributions in 2026." https://www.tecmint.com/download-managers-for-linux/ | Source: TecMint [15:58] TR Bot 10 Best Download Managers for Linux in 2026 ● May 31 [16:00] TR News "Europe Versus America: A Response to the Critics" https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-versus-america-a-response [16:00] TR Bot Europe Versus America: A Response to the Critics [16:01] *TMF (~TMF@spr3atr5mmsv6.irc) has joined #techrights [16:01] TR News iophk: further misuse of twitter in place of official communications channels https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/05/30/us-general-holds-rare-meeting-with-cuban-military-officials-near-guantanamo-bay/ [16:01] TR Bot US general holds rare meeting with Cuban military officials near Guantanamo Bay [16:03] TR News Microsoft-sponsorted IDC fails to even mentioned GNU/Linux -- https://endof10.org/ https://www.pcworld.com/article/3134051/i-tested-a-7-year-old-laptop-now-im-questioning-pc-upgrade-cycles.html [16:03] TR Bot End of 10 [16:03] TR Bot tested a 7-year-old laptop. Now I'm questioning PC upgrade cycles | PCWorld [16:03] TR News Its quite difficult to responsibly report future vulnerabilities when you have been banned. | "Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/tech/940416/microsoft-nightmare-eclipse-zero-day-vulnerability ^ topic for back doors https://techrights.org/n/2026/03/11/An_American_War_on_GNU_Linux_Software_Freedom_and_British_Inves.shtml [16:03] TR Bot Microsoft is threatening legal action for disclosing exploits | The Verge [16:03] TR Bot Techrights An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part V - Attempts to Take Down and Suppress Criticism of Back Doors Controlled by Microsoft and the American Government [16:06] TR News Microsoft and MSM trying to shift the blame away from the faulty software https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-warns-gpu-mining-malware-is-being-spread-to-users-through-seo-poisoning-and-ai-chatbots-cryptojacking-campaign-targets-gamers-and-high-end-pc-users-with-downloads-disguised-as-popular-pc-utilities [16:06] TR Bot Microsoft warns GPU mining malware is being spread to users through SEO poisoning and AI chatbots cryptojacking campaign targets gamers and high-end PC users with downloads disguised as popular PC utilities | Tom's Hardware [16:07] TR News "Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers." MSO goes read-only, LibreOffice barely gets mentioned, and Calligra (both ODF) https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/microsoft-revokes-office-2019-perpetual:3 [16:07] TR Bot Microsoft revokes Office 2019 perpetual licenses, then edits their website to gaslight customers. [16:20] *ewig```` (~ewig```@user/ewig) has joined #techrights [16:25] TR News Why Is Scam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations? https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/sam-altman-jared-leto-sex-abuse-allegations https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-altman-sexual-assault-sister-annie-abuse-lawsuit-b2950916.html [16:25] TR Bot Why Is Sam Altman Teaming Up With Jared Leto, a Creep With Extensive Sex Abuse Allegations? [16:25] TR Bot ( status 429 @ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/sam-altman-sexual-assault-sister-annie-abuse-lawsuit-b2950916.html ) [16:27] TR News AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-filmmaker-normal-analogy-of-all-time [16:27] TR Bot AI Filmmaker Compares His Tech to Something That Gets Worse the More You Think About It [16:28] *TMF has quit (Quit: Leaving) [16:49] TR News re "I tested a 7-year-old laptop..." - the older unit have less/no DRM/restriced boot blocking GNU/Linux installation -iophk [16:59] -N-(Broadcast) Welcome to #qnet.quiz - We are having a quiz in about 60 minutes (19:00 CEST). The winner receives an unique, but temporary (until disconnected), vhost ● May 31 [17:04] *oarion7 has quit (Quit: Running IRC on a charmed medieval abacus.) [17:14] TR News Techrights Gravitating Towards What Your Role in Society May Be (or What You're Truly Good At) https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Gravitating_Towards_What_Your_Role_in_Society_May_Be_or_What_Yo.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Gravitating_Towards_What_Your_Role_in_Society_May_Be_or_What_Yo.gmi [17:14] TR Bot Techrights Gravitating Towards What Your Role in Society May Be (or What You're Truly Good At) [17:26] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman is Coming Back to Bern to Give a Talk Next Month https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Richard_Stallman_is_Coming_Back_to_Bern_to_Give_a_Talk_Next_Mon.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Richard_Stallman_is_Coming_Back_to_Bern_to_Give_a_Talk_Next_Mon.gmi [17:26] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman is Coming Back to Bern to Give a Talk Next Month [17:29] TR News "humanism personified" https://www.france24.com/en/france-mourns-intellectual-grandfather-sociologist-and-philosopher-edgar-morin [17:29] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/france-mourns-intellectual-grandfather-sociologist-and-philosopher-edgar-morin ) [17:31] TR News Heat Wave Grips France https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-week-in-france/20260530-heat-wave-grips-france [17:31] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-week-in-france/20260530-heat-wave-grips-france ) [17:31] TR News French Open Descends Into Hellish Nightmare Thanks to Climate Change https://futurism.com/science-energy/french-open-tennis-heat-climate-change [17:31] TR Bot French Open Descends Into Hellish Nightmare Thanks to Climate Change [17:40] *TMF (~TMF@spr3atr5mmsv6.irc) has joined #techrights [17:45] TMF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMOS [17:45] TR Bot DEMOS - Wikipedia [17:46] TMF Wow [17:58] TR News (NEW): Congestion of the Desirable Kind https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Congestion_of_the_Desirable_Kind.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Congestion_of_the_Desirable_Kind.gmi [17:58] TR Bot Tux Machines Congestion of the Desirable Kind ● May 31 [18:14] TR News AV GNU/Linux MXe-25.2 https://distrowatch.com/avlinux [18:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/avlinux ) [18:14] TR News NixOS 26.05 https://distrowatch.com/nixos [18:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/nixos ) [18:15] TR News openKylin 3.0-alpha1 https://distrowatch.com/openkylin [18:15] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/openkylin ) [18:16] TR News Gedit Technology: B2B Services around gedit and libgedit https://gedit-text-editor.org/blog/2026-05-30-B2B-services-around-gedit-and-libgedit.html [18:16] TR Bot B2B Services around gedit and libgedit | Gedit Technology blog [18:16] MinceR (cat) (video) (audio:important) https://imgur.com/gallery/i-got-newest-foster-kitten-home-ckD6cgj [18:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://imgur.com/gallery/i-got-newest-foster-kitten-home-ckD6cgj ) [18:17] TR News Pwndbg Python-based debugger enhancement for GDB and LLDB https://www.linuxlinks.com/pwndbg-python-based-debugger-enhancement-gdb-lldb/ [18:17] TR Bot - Python-based debugger enhancement for GDB and LLDB - LinuxLinks [18:22] TR News Reminder That Linuxiac is a Slopfarm or Hybrid of Bobby and His LLMs https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/30/Reminder_That_Linuxiac_is_a_Slopfarm_or_Hybrid_of_Bobby_and_His.shtml [18:22] TR Bot Techrights Reminder That Linuxiac is a Slopfarm or Hybrid of Bobby and His LLMs [18:23] TR News Linux Saloon 204 | Quarkos https://cubiclenate.com/2026/05/30/linux-saloon-204-quarkos/ [18:23] TR Bot Saloon 204 | Quarkos CubicleNate.com [18:24] TR News Flathub Draws a Hard Line on AI: No Vibe-Coded Apps Allowed, Period https://linuxstans.com/flathub-draws-a-hard-line-on-ai-no-vibe-coded-apps-allowed-period/ [18:24] TR Bot No More AI Slop on Flathub Heres the New Policy [18:24] TR News iptables Command in Linux: Manage Firewall Rules https://linuxize.com/post/iptables-command-in-linux/ [18:24] TR Bot Command in Linux: Manage Firewall Rules | Linuxize [18:25] TR News New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds, including Schrodinger's Cat Burglar - 2026-05-27 Edition https://boilingsteam.com/new-steam-games-with-native-linux-builds-2026-05-27-edition/index.html [18:25] TR Bot New Steam Games with Native Linux Builds, including Schrodinger's Cat Burglar - 2026-05-27 Edition [18:26] TR News How to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 https://linuxhostsupport.com/blog/how-to-install-mariadb-on-ubuntu-26-04/ [18:26] TR Bot to install MariaDB on Ubuntu 26.04 | LinuxHostSupport [18:27] TR News How To Install Etherpad on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-etherpad-ubuntu-26-04/ [18:27] TR Bot How To Install Etherpad on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [18:27] TR News How To Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS https://idroot.us/install-openvpn-ubuntu-26-04/ [18:27] TR Bot How To Install OpenVPN on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - idroot [18:29] TR News https://blog.documentfoundation.org/feed/ Sat, 30 May 2026 08:48:52 +0000 Web and Mobile Development Strategy Proposal [18:29] TR News "Executive Summary This proposal suggests restarting LibreOffice web, mobile, and cloud development by structuring the project into a set of independent initiatives." https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/30/web-and-mobile-development-strategy-proposal/ [18:29] TR Bot Web and Mobile Development Strategy Proposal - TDF Community Blog [18:34] TR News Google Hey Hi (AI) has finally decided to setup snapper on Debian forky with btrfs root https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2026/05/google-ai-has-finally-decided-to-setup.html [18:34] TR Bot Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Google AI has finally decided to setup snapper on Debian forky with btrfs root [18:40] TR News Lite 8.0 https://distrowatch.com/lite [18:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/lite ) [18:41] *oarion7 (~ryan@ebmq5x6cde5zg.irc) has joined #techrights [18:41] TR News "how you can spot Hey Hi (AI) scams and navigate the world of social control media travel content" https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/which-shorts-podcast-the-rise-of-fake-days-out-anzsg8A4sqUq [18:41] TR Bot Which? Shorts podcast: The rise of fake days out - Which? [18:42] TR News Notes from May 2026 https://evanhahn.com/notes-from-may-2026/ "My blog turned 16 this month!" [18:42] TR Bot Notes from May 2026 [18:43] TR News Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released, But No Desktop Image for Intel/AMD https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2026/05/ubuntu-26-10-snapshot-1-released-but-no-desktop-image-for-intel-amd/ [18:43] TR Bot Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released, But No Desktop Image for Intel/AMD | UbuntuHandbook [18:44] TR News Overhaul of optical drive detection https://bkhome.org/news/202605/overhaul-of-optical-drive-detection.html [18:44] TR Bot Overhaul of optical drive detection [18:45] TR News April/May in KDE Itinerary https://www.volkerkrause.eu/2026/05/30/kde-itinerary-april-may-2026.html [18:45] TR Bot April/May in KDE Itinerary [18:47] TR News Indian court ruling on Surveillance Giant Google keyword ads could reshape online advertising https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/south-asia/indian-court-ruling-on-google-keyword-ads-could-reshape-online-advertising [18:47] TR Bot Indian court ruling on Google keyword ads could reshape online advertising | The Straits Times [18:47] TR News Kevin Fenzi: misc fedora bits the last week of may 2026 https://www.scrye.com/blogs/nirik/posts/2026/05/30/misc-fedora-bits-the-last-week-of-may-2026/ [18:47] TR Bot misc fedora bits the last week of may 2026 | Kevin's musings [18:48] TR News Some progress on Oxygens icons and more https://nuno-icons.com/2026/05/30/some-progress-on-oxygens-icons-and-more/ [18:48] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://nuno-icons.com/2026/05/30/some-progress-on-oxygens-icons-and-more/ ) [18:49] TR News 'Vibe 'coding' (slop) means people who claim to "develop" don't check the code; why would auditors and reviewers bother? [18:51] TMF I remember when Google indexed an .onion link once [18:51] TMF This happened when i looked up the SuprBay [18:51] TMF (The Pirate Bay forum) ● May 31 [19:01] TMF \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ [19:01] TMF Shit [19:01] TMF I did not mean to do that [19:06] TR News Techrights IBM Red Hat Has a Long History or Track Record of Misusing Trademarks to Send Lawyers to Try to Take Down Pages and Web Sites of Critics https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/IBM_Red_Hat_Has_a_Long_History_or_Track_Record_of_Misusing_Trad.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/IBM_Red_Hat_Has_a_Long_History_or_Track_Record_of_Misusing_Trad.gmi [19:06] TR Bot Techrights IBM Red Hat Has a Long History or Track Record of Misusing Trademarks to Send Lawyers to Try to Take Down Pages and Web Sites of Critics [19:15] TR News (NEW): Release notes for the Genode OS Framework 26.05 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Release_notes_for_the_Genode_OS_Framework_26_05.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Release_notes_for_the_Genode_OS_Framework_26_05.gmi [19:15] TR Bot Tux Machines Release notes for the Genode OS Framework 26.05 [19:16] TR News FreeBSD 15.1-RC2 https://distrowatch.com/freebsd [19:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://distrowatch.com/freebsd ) [19:18] TR News NixOS 26.05 released https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2026/nixos-2605/ [19:18] TR Bot NixOS 26.05 released | Blog | Nix & NixOS [19:20] TR News FOSS Forces Top Five Articles For the Week Ending May 29, 2026 https://fossforce.com/2026/05/foss-forces-top-five-articles-for-the-week-ending-may-29-2026/ [19:20] TR Bot FOSS Force's Top Five Articles For the Week Ending May 29, 2026 - FOSS Force [19:23] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@pnut44zcfbh5k.irc) has joined #techrights [19:23] IsambardPrince The Next Web [19:23] IsambardPrince Google made AI mandatory. Apple users fled to DuckDuckGo 70%. [19:23] IsambardPrince Last week Google replaced its search results with AI answers. [19:23] IsambardPrince There was no button to turn it off. [19:23] IsambardPrince DuckDuckGo installs jumped 18% in six days. [19:23] IsambardPrince Its AI-free page saw traffic climb 23% as people looked for an exit. [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] yeah [19:23] IsambardPrince If you wanted plain search, Google just took that choice away [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] the "new" web [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] it's possible [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] i read [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] by adding some directive [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] like &something [19:23] schestowitz[TR2] but nobody would do that [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] tney will force slop [19:24] IsambardPrince You can add "fuck" as a parameter in the search. [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] and then say there is demand for it [19:24] IsambardPrince And it won't bring that up. [19:24] IsambardPrince cum cum cum [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] i.e. the usual from the slop industry [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] i forgot who said that [19:24] schestowitz[TR2] was it like fart fart fart fart ? [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] i forgot who said cum cum cum [19:25] schestowitz[TR2] in irc or some social control media [19:25] TR News Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/rupture/ [19:25] TR Bot Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [19:26] TR News When People Start New Chapters https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2026/05/30/new-chapters/ [19:26] TR Bot Blog Archive When People Start New Chapters [19:26] IsambardPrince The other other cheeto [19:27] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: I am so prone to sinus infections. [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] was it in irc? [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] it matters for me to remember [19:27] IsambardPrince Doxycycline will kill them. [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] the judge was hardly impressed by this idiot [19:27] IsambardPrince But they don't like giving you that. [19:27] schestowitz[TR2] with his bad mouth [19:28] IsambardPrince But if you go to a doctor and say "I have sex with people I don't know and I just don't want to wear a condom." [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] i see sinus like sirius [19:28] schestowitz[TR2] with some fonts it looks almost the same [19:28] IsambardPrince You get a bottle of doxy that's so big it looks like you went to Costco and bought vitamins. [19:29] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR2]: The wife *and* the girlfriend. [19:29] IsambardPrince Honk honk 0xBIGBOOBIES [19:29] IsambardPrince HONK [19:30] IsambardPrince One for the week and one for Sunday best. [19:30] TR News From lottery draws to fiscal spending, China broadens digital yuan footprint https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/from-lottery-draws-to-fiscal-spending-china-broadens-digital-yuan-footprint [19:30] TR Bot From lottery draws to fiscal spending, China broadens digital renminbi footprint | The Straits Times [19:31] IsambardPrince I guess I won't be cleaning that throttle until later in the week. [19:31] IsambardPrince I don't like spraying that stuff if the engine is hot and it takes hours for it to fully cool off. [19:31] IsambardPrince To be able to dissolve baked on carbon the stuff has to be pretty damn nasty. It's highly flammable. [19:31] IsambardPrince Spraying it near a hot engine means that there's a small chance that the vapors could ignite. [19:32] schestowitz[TR2] schestowitz[TR2]: The wife *and* the girlfriend. [19:32] schestowitz[TR2] you toss the spouse in a cage [19:32] schestowitz[TR2] so you can get more sex with the other partners [19:32] schestowitz[TR2] very classy! [19:34] TR News World MS Day: Immune Cell Discovery Might Explain Multiple Sclerosis at Its Worst https://www.sciencealert.com/world-ms-day-immune-cell-discovery-might-explain-multiple-sclerosis-at-its-worst [19:34] TR Bot MS Day: Immune Cell Discovery Might Explain Multiple Sclerosis at Its Worst : ScienceAlert [19:34] TR News Keto Diet May Help Protect Against Multiple Brain Diseases, Study Finds https://www.sciencealert.com/keto-diet-may-help-protect-against-multiple-brain-diseases-study-finds [19:34] TR Bot Diet May Help Protect Against Multiple Brain Diseases, Study Finds : ScienceAlert [19:35] TR News One Easy Step Promises to Eliminate Your Hangover. But Does It Work? https://www.sciencealert.com/one-easy-step-promises-to-eliminate-your-hangover-but-does-it-work [19:35] TR Bot Easy Step Promises to Eliminate Your Hangover. But Does It Work? : ScienceAlert [19:36] MinceR stop consuming ethanol? [19:36] IsambardPrince [13:32] you toss the spouse in a cage [19:37] IsambardPrince You toss the cage on the white house lawn. [19:37] IsambardPrince You put the fight on PPV. [19:37] IsambardPrince You pay for the "beautify DC" projects with female wrestling. [19:37] IsambardPrince :D [19:37] IsambardPrince Anyone who ever had a pool knows as soon as you paint the bottom blue, the temperature of the water goes up about 15-20 F and you start battling algae. [19:38] IsambardPrince So what does the Convicted Felon do? He drains the reflecting pool and paints it blue, for $7 million tax dollars. [19:38] IsambardPrince bbiab [19:38] *IsambardPrince has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [19:39] TR News Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/huawei-chairman-thanks-the-us-for-supercharging-chinas-semiconductor-industry-washingtons-export-controls-encouraged-chinese-firms-to-invest-in-r-and-d-and-build-their-own-tech-stack-competing-with-american-technologies [19:39] TR Bot Huawei chairman thanks the US for export restrictions on chips, says it supercharged Chinas semiconductor industry Washingtons export controls encouraged Chinese firms to invest in R&D and build their own tech stack competing with American tech | Tom's Hardware [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksy5h7t1#replies [19:46] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1ksy5h7t1#replies ) [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] "dehumanizing people now ? [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] Why, you're only a pathetic IBM India HR BOT and you are not a good bot on this site either? You should have LOSER written all over your tiny IBM cube in Bengaluru. Or is it Mumbai ? [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] No mention of your devout, church going first line and your mother's and you sister's latest antics and their upcoming X rated films ? Why not ? Everyone wants to know about the premiere and how they can get tickets. Arvind wants a date too...nudge, nudge, wink, wink. He's not getting much at home. [19:46] schestowitz[TR2] Got any more worthwhile IBM upskilling badges that you want to share and give us a laugh about your aspiring executive plans ?" [19:49] TR News wider [19:49] TR News AMD Expands Zen 6 Family Support In Linux, Indicating A Wider CPU Lineup https://wccftech.com/amd-expands-zen-6-family-support-in-linux-indicating-a-wider-cpu-lineup/ [19:49] TR Bot AMD Expands Zen 6 Family Support In Linux, Indicating A Wider CPU Lineup [19:50] TR News I figured out how to run my favorite Linux TUI music player on Android, and it's better than any app on the Play Store https://www.howtogeek.com/i-figured-out-how-to-run-my-favorite-linux-tui-music-player-on-android-and-its-better-than-any-app-on-the-play-store/ [19:50] TR Bot I figured out how to run my favorite Linux TUI music player on Android, and it's better than any app on the Play Store [19:51] TR News "This release also introduces the long-requested Flatpak repair workflow and a fully-featured ignore command group for managing IgnorePkg entries." https://9to5linux.com/shelly-2-3-2-gui-package-manager-for-arch-linux-gets-downgrade-ui-flatpak-repair [19:51] TR Bot 2.3.2 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Gets Downgrade UI, Flatpak Repair - 9to5Linux [19:51] *ewig```` has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [19:51] TR News DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing https://www.notebookcheck.net/DistroSea-lets-users-run-50-Linux-distros-without-installing.1311100.0.html [19:51] TR Bot DistroSea lets users run 50+ Linux distros without installing - Notebookcheck News [19:52] TR News This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time https://www.makeuseof.com/this-tool-lets-two-people-type-in-same-linux-terminal-at-the-same-time/ [19:52] TR Bot This tool lets two people type in the same Linux terminal at the same time [19:53] TR News California Age Verification Bill Clears Assembly: Linux Spared, Websites Added to Age-Gating Regime https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317449/20260530/california-age-verification-bill-clears-assembly-linux-spared-websites-added-age-gating-regime.htm [19:53] TR Bot California Age Verification Bill Clears Assembly: Linux Spared, Websites Added to Age-Gating Regime [19:54] TR News No, GAFAM channel/OEM monopolies are the culprits https://www.howtogeek.com/linux-desktop-hardware-support-is-still-broken-and-thats-why-adoption-keeps-failing/ [19:54] TR Bot Linux desktop hardware support is still broken, and that's why adoption keeps failing [19:55] TR News "From file management to networking, you can find many commands in common." https://www.howtogeek.com/you-dont-have-to-switch-your-brain-when-you-switch-oses-with-these-commands-that-work-in-both-linux-and-windows/ [19:55] TR Bot Stop memorizing two sets of commandsthese 7 work on Windows and Linux [19:56] TR News "This release is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS and Linux 7.0 kernel series." https://9to5linux.com/nixos-26-05-yarara-officially-released-with-gnome-50-systemd-by-default [19:56] TR Bot 26.05 Yarara Released with GNOME 50, systemd by Default for Stage 1 - 9to5Linux [19:56] TR News "This release also introduces support for searching for notes across all your notebooks and the ability to add emojis to your notes." https://9to5linux.com/marknote-1-6-wysiwyg-note-taking-app-adds-initial-support-for-sub-folders [19:56] TR Bot 1.6 WYSIWYG Note-Taking App Adds Initial Support for Sub-Folders - 9to5Linux [19:57] TR News Openwashing is a lie https://www.makeuseof.com/microsofts-open-source-era-still-comes-with-an-asterisk/ [19:57] TR Bot Microsofts open-source era still comes with an asterisk [19:57] TR News Intel reduces graphics power consumption with fixed backgrounds on Linux https://foro3d.com/en/2026/mayo/intel-reduce-el-consumo-de-graficos-con-fondos-fijos-en-linux.html [19:57] TR Bot Intel reduces graphics power consumption with fixed backgrounds on Linux [19:58] TR News GAFAM Bait-and-Switch https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317407/20260529/linux-foundation-tool-spotlighted-furious-developers-accuse-sickening-google-gemini-cli.htm [19:58] TR Bot Linux Foundation Tool Spotlighted: Furious Developers Accuse 'Sickening' Google Gemini CLI Bait-and-Switch ● May 31 [20:02] TR News (NEW): GAFAM Bait-and-Switch and Openwashing (Free Labour to Promote Proprietary Spyware and Slop) https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/GAFAM_Bait_and_Switch_and_Openwashing_Free_Labour_to_Promote_Pr.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/GAFAM_Bait_and_Switch_and_Openwashing_Free_Labour_to_Promote_Pr.gmi [20:02] TR Bot Tux Machines GAFAM Bait-and-Switch and Openwashing (Free Labour to Promote Proprietary Spyware and Slop) [20:02] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/today_s_howtos.gmi [20:02] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [20:04] TR News (NEW): Applications: Download Managers, KDE Itinerary, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Applications_Download_Managers_KDE_Itinerary_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Applications_Download_Managers_KDE_Itinerary_and_More.gmi [20:04] TR Bot Tux Machines Applications: Download Managers, KDE Itinerary, and More [20:05] TR News (NEW): BSD and Linux Kernel https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/BSD_and_Linux_Kernel.gmi [20:05] TR Bot Tux Machines BSD and Linux Kernel [20:07] TR News (NEW): The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From AgeVerification Laws https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/27/The_Quiet_Clause_That_May_Save_Linux_From_Age_Verification_Laws.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/27/The_Quiet_Clause_That_May_Save_Linux_From_Age_Verification_Laws.gmi [20:07] TR Bot Tux Machines The Quiet Clause That May Save Linux From AgeVerification Laws [20:14] TR News (NEW): Devices, Open Hardware, and Mobile With Linux https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Mobile_With_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Devices_Open_Hardware_and_Mobile_With_Linux.gmi [20:14] TR Bot Tux Machines Devices, Open Hardware, and Mobile With Linux [20:14] TR News (NEW): SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/SteamOS_3_8_6_Beta_and_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Bu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/SteamOS_3_8_6_Beta_and_New_Steam_Games_with_Native_GNU_Linux_Bu.gmi [20:14] TR Bot Tux Machines SteamOS 3.8.6 Beta and New Steam Games with Native GNU/Linux Builds [20:15] TR News (NEW): KDE and GNOME Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/KDE_and_GNOME_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/KDE_and_GNOME_Software.gmi [20:15] TR News Armbian Release v26.5.1 https://blog.armbian.com/armbian-release-v26-5-1/ [20:15] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE and GNOME Software [20:15] TR Bot Armbian Release v26.5.1 [20:20] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [20:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [20:20] TR News (NEW): Server for a Purpose and Discussion of Quarkos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Server_for_a_Purpose_and_Discussion_of_Quarkos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Server_for_a_Purpose_and_Discussion_of_Quarkos.gmi [20:20] TR Bot Tux Machines Server for a Purpose and Discussion of Quarkos [20:21] admfubar may the farce be with you... https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/robot-kits/the-ultimate-mosquito-killer-uses-lasers-and-ai-custom-model-trained-to-detect-and-lock-lasers-on-these-pests#xenforo-comments-3896543 [20:21] TR Bot The 'ultimate mosquito killer' uses lasers and AI custom model trained to detect and lock lasers on these pests | Tom's Hardware [20:22] TR News "Giants such as Microsoft have been trying to undermine the movement by buying FLOSS products, orient developments, flood maintainers with issues they should have patched themselves or even by replacing the community's tools with their own" gemini://studios-lalla.fr/gemlog/year-of-the-death-of-a-euphemism.gmi [20:22] TR News (NEW): WWW, Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Sharing Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/WWW_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Sharing_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/WWW_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Sharing_Leftovers.gmi [20:22] TR Bot Tux Machines WWW, Free, Libre, and Open Source Software, Sharing Leftovers [20:23] TR News Superman gemini://willthekid.smol.pub/superman [20:25] TR News "tapping is a guitar technique where your strumming hand joins your other hand on the fretboard, using hammer-ons and pull-offs to continue phrases without any normal strumming or picking." gemini://tilde.club/~iris/2026-05-30-tapping.gmi [20:26] TR News "Carefully smiling from out a dirty window on another bus." gemini://rymden.no/tx/2026-05-31.gmi [20:27] TR News "you need to remember that a file was corrupted before the next mirror is done, as following the mirror the mirror will also have the corrupted file, whoops" gemini://thrig.me/blog/2026/05/31/backup-mirror.gmi [20:28] TR News "Task Samurai is a fast terminal interface for Taskwarrior written in Go using the Bubble Tea framework. It displays your tasks in a table and allows you to manage them without leaving your keyboard." gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2025-06-22-task-samurai.gmi [20:29] TR News Slop = worthless stuff, done again while wasting lots of power and water gemini://foo.zone/gemfeed/2026-06-01-gt-calculator.gmi [20:31] TR News It looks like even this intro (text) is LLM slop. [20:32] TR News XMPP para iOS gemini://aperalesf.flounder.online/gemlog/2026-05-28-clientes-jabber-xmpp-para-ios.gmi [20:36] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 31/05/2026: Backup vs. Mirror, Year of the Death of a Euphemism, Slop Makes Only Yet Another (Untested) Calculator https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Gemini_Links_31_05_2026_Backup_vs_Mirror_Year_of_the_Death_of_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Gemini_Links_31_05_2026_Backup_vs_Mirror_Year_of_the_Death_of_a.gmi [20:36] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 31/05/2026: Backup vs. Mirror, Year of the Death of a Euphemism, Slop Makes Only Yet Another (Untested) Calculator [20:40] admfubar bill gates and the windows of doom... https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/bill-gates-once-starred-in-a-bizarre-doom-promo-to-push-windows-95-back-in-1993-tech-mogul-wore-a-trench-coat-wielded-a-shotgun-and-shot-a-demon-saying-who-do-you-want-to-execute-today [20:40] TR Bot Bill Gates once starred in a bizarre Doom promo to push Windows 95 back in 1993 tech mogul wore a trench coat, wielded a shotgun, and shot a demon, saying 'Who do you want to execute today?' | Tom's Hardware [20:40] TR News Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Heat Wave Grips France and Edgar Morin Dies https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Heat_Wave_Grips_France_and_Edgar_Morin_Dies.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2026/05/31/Links_31_05_2026_Heat_Wave_Grips_France_and_Edgar_Morin_Dies.gmi [20:40] TR Bot Techrights Links 31/05/2026: Heat Wave Grips France and Edgar Morin Dies [20:42] *TMF has quit (connection closed) [20:44] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/a/5248733 [20:44] TR Bot ICE awards Bi2 $25M contract for 1,570 biometric scanners [20:46] admfubar https://themarkup.org/privacy/2026/05/27/opt-out-dark-patterns [20:46] TR Bot The form asked my permission to share my health data. Then it wouldnt let me say no. The Markup [20:55] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/05/30/1431200 [20:55] TR Bot This AI Compressed 'All Human Cooking' Into 2 Megabytes - SoylentNews ● May 31 [21:09] admfubar https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/they-call-it-stupid-hot-for-a-reason-heat-muddles-animal-brains/ [21:09] TR Bot They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains - Ars Technica [21:09] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@r4b2hrfaqpuzk.irc) has joined #techrights [21:12] admfubar hhhmmm hmmmm good!, https://www.discovermagazine.com/beetroot-juice-may-help-lower-blood-pressure-in-two-weeks-for-older-adults-with-links-to-the-mouth-s-microbiome-49173 [21:12] TR Bot Beetroot Juice May Help Lower Blood Pressure in Two Weeks for Older Adults, with Links to the Mouths Microbiome | Discover Magazine [21:17] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:19] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@9e8chh9n4zg9s.irc) has joined #techrights [21:23] admfubar https://www.firstpost.com/tech/meta-working-on-a-new-ai-transcribing-pendant-heres-what-we-know-so-far-14017268.html [21:23] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.firstpost.com/tech/meta-working-on-a-new-ai-transcribing-pendant-heres-what-we-know-so-far-14017268.html ) [21:26] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/teachers-union-schools-kids-ai [21:26] TR Bot Major Teachers Union Pleads With Elementary Schools to Stop Giving Young Kids AI [21:27] admfubar https://futurism.com/robots-and-machines/scientists-build-biblically-accurate-angel-robot [21:27] TR Bot Behold! Duke Scientists Build Biblically Accurate Angel Robot [21:28] admfubar https://futurism.com/future-society/professor-fail-any-student-uses-ai [21:28] TR Bot Take-No-Prisoners Professor Will Fail Any Student Who Uses AI [21:32] admfubar O_o... https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-company-cranking-hog [21:32] TR Bot AI Company Paying Random People $2,000 Per Month to Crank the Hog [21:34] admfubar https://futurism.com/space/fungi-dead-martian-soil-fertile-cropland [21:34] TR Bot Scientists Say They've Found Fungi That Turn Dead Martian Soil Into Fertile Cropland [21:35] admfubar come on up to the lab and see what's on the slab... https://futurism.com/health-medicine/startup-testing-drugs-on-freshly-extracted-human-brains-that-are-kept-on-life-support [21:35] TR Bot Startup Testing Drugs on Freshly Extracted Human Brains That Are Kept On Life Support [21:37] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/california-state-university-openai-deal-disaster [21:37] TR Bot California State University Made a Huge Deal With OpenAI and It's Been a Disaster [21:40] admfubar https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymo-pulled-cars-freeway-fled-police [21:40] TR Bot Waymo Pulled Its Cars From the Freeway After One Fled Police With Horrified Couple on Board [21:42] IsambardPrince MinceR: schestowitz[TR2] Trump cancelled the America 250 concert because nobody would do it. [21:42] IsambardPrince So he says it will be him ranting in public behind a bulletproof sneeze guard again. [21:42] IsambardPrince I'm sure it will be riveting. [21:43] MinceR lol [21:45] IsambardPrince MinceR: The sneeze guard is so his adoring fans can't thank him for the hyperinflation an unemployment. [21:45] IsambardPrince :D [21:48] admfubar https://futurism.com/future-society/websites-spying-solid-state-drive [21:48] TR Bot Websites Are Spying on Your Solid State Drive [21:51] admfubar scary.. https://futurism.com/health-medicine/fungal-storms-dust-surging-usa [21:51] TR Bot Apocalyptic "Fungal Storms" Are Now Surging Across the US [21:51] admfubar so have the outsiders... https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/tesla-insiders-self-driving-disaster [21:51] TR Bot Tesla Insiders Admit Self-Driving Is a Complete Disaster [21:59] admfubar https://futurism.com/health-medicine/kids-rages-ipads-taken-away [21:59] TR Bot Kids Are Flying Into Lunatic Rages When Their iPads Are Taken Away [21:59] admfubar https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/corporations-ai-costs-no-benefits [21:59] TR Bot Corporations Reeling From Huge AI Costs With No Clear Benefits ● May 31 [22:01] TR News (NEW): Audacious 4.6 Media Player Released with File Browser Plugin, Many Improvements https://tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Audacious_4_6_Media_Player_Released_with_File_Browser_Plugin_Ma.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2026/05/31/Audacious_4_6_Media_Player_Released_with_File_Browser_Plugin_Ma.gmi [22:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Audacious 4.6 Media Player Released with File Browser Plugin, Many Improvements [22:03] admfubar https://ipwatchdog.com/2026/05/20/no-fakes-reintroduced-with-more-protections-for-libraries-and-researchers/ [22:03] TR Bot NO FAKES Reintroduced with More Protections for Libraries and Researchers [22:04] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/bio-2 [22:04] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bio [22:05] admfubar https://itsfoss.com/news/linux-usb4stream-protocol/ [22:05] TR Bot A New Linux Driver Could Make USB4 Cables a Blazing Fast Way to Move Data [22:32] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/toy-story-2-was-nearly-erased-from-existence-when-someone-at-pixar-accidentally-ran-a-delete-command-on-the-films-master-files-wiping-out-roughly-90-percent-of-the-project-and-the/ [22:32] TR Bot Toy Story 2 was nearly erased from existence when someone at Pixar accidentally ran a delete command on the films master files, wiping out roughly 90 percent of the project and the only reason the production survived was that Galyn Susman, a technical director on maternity leave, had a working copy on a computer at her house. - Make Tech Easier [22:34] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/mte-in-the-small-hours-of-2-september-1859-a-telegraph-operator-in-portland-maine-di/ [22:34] TR Bot In the small hours of 2 September 1859, a telegraph operator in Portland, Maine disconnected his batteries because they were throwing sparks, and then discovered he could still send a clean message to Boston using nothing but the current the aurora was pushing through the wire above his head. - Make Tech Easier [22:37] admfubar https://maketecheasier.com/mte-x-in-1992-a-container-ship-leaving-hong-kong-lost-28-800-plastic-bath-toys-overboa/ [22:37] TR Bot In 1992, a container ship leaving Hong Kong lost 28,800 plastic bath toys overboard in the North Pacific, and oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer spent the next two decades tracking yellow ducks and blue turtles as they washed up in Alaska, Maine, and eventually the coast of Scotland, quietly rewriting the textbook map of ocean currents. - Make Tech Easier [22:40] admfubar https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/shutting-down-federal-bee-labs-threatens-bees-beekeepers-and-the-us-food-system.html [22:40] TR Bot Shutting Down Federal Bee Labs Threatens Bees, Beekeepers and the US Food System | naked capitalism [22:44] admfubar i wonder why..... https://www.neowin.net/news/apples-ai-smart-glasses-and-vision-headset-plans-reportedly-delayed-again/ [22:44] TR Bot Apple's AI smart glasses and Vision headset plans reportedly delayed, again - Neowin [22:48] admfubar use m$ copilot and go straight to health!!... https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-copilot-health-is-now-available-to-users-in-the-us/ [22:49] TR Bot Microsoft Copilot Health is now available to users in the US - Neowin ● May 31 [23:18] admfubar https://www.osnews.com/story/145160/remember-when-people-said-open-video-codecs-would-never-win/ [23:18] TR Bot when people said open video codecs would never win? OSnews [23:20] admfubar https://www.osnews.com/story/145066/gnutella-a-protocol-outliving-the-world-that-created-it/ [23:20] TR Bot a protocol outliving the world that created it OSnews [23:34] admfubar https://www.fastcompany.com/91549609/the-oral-tradition-that-built-software-may-not-survive-ai [23:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.fastcompany.com/91549609/the-oral-tradition-that-built-software-may-not-survive-ai ) [23:35] admfubar https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/26/05/31/1922204/new-star-wars-movie-falls-to-3-behind-two-movies-directed-by-youtube-stars [23:35] TR Bot New Star Wars Movie Falls to #3 Behind Two Movies Directed By YouTube Stars - Slashdot [23:35] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2007-02-14 [23:35] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - 2007-02-14 [23:36] admfubar https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/05/31/0514258/ohio-suspends-data-center-tax-break-as-opposition-grows [23:36] TR Bot Ohio Suspends Data Center Tax Break as Opposition Grows - Slashdot [23:39] Goblin Classic - Highlights tech issues perfectly - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI [23:39] TR Bot https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI [23:39] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=kAG39jKi0lI ) [23:40] Goblin ? that was a youtube link [23:41] MinceR yeah, so an invidious alternative was produced, from which then the title couldn't be fetched [23:41] Goblin ah [23:43] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/05/29/152259 [23:43] TR Bot AI Code Increasingly Leads to Production Failures - SoylentNews [23:44] admfubar https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=26/05/29/155242&from=rss [23:44] TR Bot Finding a Parking Spot in Pyongyang-Chinese Cars in N. Korea - SoylentNews [23:49] admfubar https://www.cringely.com/2026/05/29/the-nvidia-tax/ [23:49] TR Bot NVIDIA Tax | I, Cringely