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Wed 16:42:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Latest From Red Hat and Red Hat-Sponsored Marketing Mills ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Latest_From_Red_Hat_and_Red_Hat_Sponsored_Marketing_Mills.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Latest_From_Red_Hat_and_Red_Hat_Sponsored_Marketing_Mills.gmi ∎
Wed 16:42:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 16:44:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Releases and News on Free, Libre, and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Releases_and_News_on_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Releases_and_News_on_Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Wed 16:46:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and Hardware Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/GNU_Linux_and_Hardware_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 16:46:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/02/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Wed 16:48:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 02/04/2025: Seizures and Returns to Windows of 24 Years Ago ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_Seizures_and_Returns_to_Windows_of_24_Years_Ag.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_Seizures_and_Returns_to_Windows_of_24_Years_Ag.gmi ∎
Wed 16:49:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 02/04/2025: More Layoffs, Nokia Again Takes Advantage of Illegal and Unconstitutional Patent Court With Nokia Staff as 'Judges' ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_More_Layoffs_Nokia_Again_Takes_Advantage_of_Il.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_More_Layoffs_Nokia_Again_Takes_Advantage_of_Il.gmi ∎
Wed 16:58:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ schestowitz[TR2]: :)
Wed 16:58:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :3
Wed 17:23:55 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ now I can't find any articles about OpenSUSE secretly re-enabling Secure Boot
Wed 17:24:08 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ do they scour for these articles and delete them or something?
Wed 17:24:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ web search is also broken
Wed 17:26:04 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ everything is broken
Wed 17:26:12 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ let's go back to being cavemen
Wed 17:26:32 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ using clay tablets for communication
Wed 17:28:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Wed 17:28:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://apina.biz/190803.webp?mode=sfw
Wed 17:30:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ WebPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Wed 17:30:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's Peees all over the Web.
Wed 17:30:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *It
Wed 17:31:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ At least WebP is better than Rust.
Wed 17:31:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ As far as I know, WebP has no troll army accusing people who have technical criticisms of WebP of transphobia.
Wed 17:34:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, No psy model, but a very complicated compressor that is full of bugs.
Wed 17:34:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Obviously fit to take over from jpeg.
Wed 17:34:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It reminds me of the MPEG-4 ASP debacle.
Wed 17:34:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But at least at the time there was an excuse for using that.
Wed 17:36:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-pixel-hidden-linux-terminal/
Wed 17:36:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, Good article. Doesn't seem to be spew.
Wed 17:36:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If Google brings a Crostini to Android, then hooking up any Android phone to a monitor would basically get you a Debian system.
Wed 17:37:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ now if they did this back when debian was worth running, it would have been interesting
Wed 17:38:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, if it made its way to phones that have removable storage before debian became worthless crap, anyway
Wed 17:38:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ which hasn't even happened yet, afaik
Wed 17:42:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ as for webp, if you have a lossless image, presumably you can encode it to webp, see how much space it takes up and whether you can tolerate the way it looks, you can also do this with jpeg, and then decide what version you want to publish
Wed 18:11:19 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://michaelhorowitz.com/funny.vpn.story.php
Wed 18:39:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2613
Wed 19:12:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-137-is-now-available-with-hevc-playback-support-on-linux
Wed 19:12:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, ^
Wed 19:13:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ wow, mozilla found the time to work a bit on firecocks?
Wed 19:15:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, They have to compensate for this by donating 500% of this amount to the DEI Tranny at a Chicago UPS PO Box.
Wed 19:15:06 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Wed 19:15:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "AI Mode uses advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities from Gemini 2.0."
Wed 19:16:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just what your browser needs
Wed 19:16:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, I asked it to tell me what 7/10ths of 1% was as decimal and it said 0.007%.
Wed 19:16:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Clearly advanced.
Wed 19:16:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ lol
Wed 19:17:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, BEHOLD tha advanced reasoning, of a 3rd grade Special Ed student!
Wed 19:18:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Only from Google!
Wed 19:18:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This cost billions of dollars somehow.
Wed 19:18:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Ask it what the meaning of life is.
Wed 19:18:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This will be good.
Wed 19:18:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i'm sure you can also get the same thing from MICROS~1, i mean "openai"
Wed 19:18:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and also from melon fusk
Wed 19:19:33 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ presumably "grok" will also tell you "heil hitler" after the same answer
Wed 19:20:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.barrons.com/articles/musk-trump-doge-wisconsin-loss-30d24de7
Wed 19:20:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump made no mention of John "Schlemiel" losing the Wisconsin supreme court seat.
Wed 19:21:55 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and you can probably also buy "MICROS~1 INTELL~1" from crApple, and then it will give you a quote from ROTFL Mao after the wrong answer
Wed 19:40:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I don't know why but I've learned to sing the Count's Aria from The Marriage of Figaro.
Wed 19:40:48 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :)
Wed 19:44:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I sing part of it loudly now when I pass by those neighbors in the hall.
Wed 19:45:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They complained they could hear my door shut.
Wed 19:46:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Wed 19:54:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2614
Wed 20:01:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I think I have a good voice for it.
Wed 20:01:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Not much understanding of the language though.
Wed 20:03:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It translates, but you can't sing it in English.
Wed 20:06:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6zho46HUgo
Wed 20:06:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hmm.
Wed 20:07:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYq_WrWKFaU
Wed 20:10:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now I see what that guy meant when he said he's done it in English, sadly.
Wed 20:23:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a
Wed 20:23:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Wed 20:23:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Kelly Chambliss
Wed 20:23:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Retired leaving October 2025 but immediately being replaced by Neil Dhar has all the writing of given the choice of being fired or retire. They would of given her 6 months pay anyway so now she can use IBM resources to get a job with clients etc. Standard executive dismissal when the job performance was fine but the door will hit ya on the way out one way or the other. A professional up yours.
Wed 20:23:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Wed 20:23:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " YtY revenue and net profit margin both down in '24 is not "fine". "
Wed 20:23:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Here's Mandy Logic.
Wed 20:23:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ML
Wed 20:23:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm putting cans of soda in the fridge.
Wed 20:23:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He shouts "Get out of my way!"
Wed 20:23:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] already bad idea
Wed 20:23:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then says "What's all this soda doing on the floor!?"
Wed 20:24:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If he'd waited about 10 seconds it would be in the fridge.
Wed 20:24:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm glad my car has a loud horn.
Wed 20:24:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://newsroom.ibm.com/Kelly-Chambliss
Wed 20:24:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yesterday, someone was sitting at a green light playing on the phone.
Wed 20:25:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Honking about 3-4 times didn't work.
Wed 20:25:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So I just leaned on the horn for about 6 seconds and all of a sudden she mashes the gas pedal down and spins her tires out on dry pavement taking off.
Wed 20:26:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People are operating at a severe deficit these days thanks to those things.
Wed 20:29:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tussling, trying to open aircraft door: Jetstar deals with disruptive passengers on 2 flights ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/travellers-from-hell-jetstar-deals-with-disruptive-passengers-on-2-separate-flights
Wed 20:29:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Retailers in Malaysia stop displaying smoking products from April 1 ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/retailers-in-malaysia-stop-displaying-smoking-products-from-april-1
Wed 20:31:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Xiaomi EV car with driver assistance crashes in China, 3 reported dead ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/chinas-xiaomi-says-it-is-cooperating-with-police-after-fatal-ev-accident
Wed 20:32:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How Convicted Felon’s tariffs are hitting one Chinese factory owner: ‘We are helpless’ ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/how-trumps-tariffs-are-hitting-one-chinese-factory-owner-we-are-helpless
Wed 20:35:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Maker Faire" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/philadelphia-maker-faire-returns-this-weekend/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 20:41:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel announces 18A process node has entered risk production — crucial milestone comes as company ramps to Panther Lake chips ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-announces-18a-process-node-has-entered-risk-production-crucial-milestone-comes-as-company-ramps-to-panther-lake-chips
Wed 20:42:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://wgntv.com/news/judge-holds-ice-agent-in-contempt-after-he-detained-suspect-during-a-trial/
Wed 20:44:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=5kaNPLJKJE0
Wed 20:45:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], USCIS says they're hiring.
Wed 20:46:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I got an ad in my gmail that they want field officers at all their locations in the country including Chicago.
Wed 20:47:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Right now they want "volunteers" from USCIS to help them deport people.
Wed 20:47:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I would never cooperate with that and eventually it'll probably be mandatory.
Wed 20:50:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Trump is basically perverting everything, everything involving laws.
Wed 20:51:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're twisting immigration laws that were meant to quickly remove a specific person in the case of a horrible threat to national security, because they held a sign at a political protest.
Wed 20:51:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they go after thousands of people, scattershot.
Wed 20:54:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.newsnationnow.com/crime/principal-skip-scanning-walmart-self-checkout
Wed 20:55:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "“We sit around talking, ‘Hey I did this.’ Let me try and see what I can get away with,” Lewis said on body-worn camera video, speaking to a Winter Haven police officer. “I did something dumb today and I understand it.”
Wed 20:55:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The affidavit said that Lewis stole a large pack of light bulbs, bacon and frozen butterfly shrimp, which totaled $37.45."
Wed 20:55:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ LOL
Wed 20:55:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Irving Family Provides Many Jobs to a Canadian Province, But Also Draws Concerns ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/canada/irving-family-canada-oil-environment.html
Wed 20:55:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "He suggests people think twice before thinking they can get away with theft at self-checkout.
Wed 20:55:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ “These successful rollouts of self-checkouts have included a lot of business intelligence systems behind them, a lot of algorithms, even seeing some artificial intelligence applied,” he said."
Wed 20:55:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “Missing The Mark” – How Antitrust Remedies Should Address Specific Competition Concerns ☞ https://project-disco.org/competition/missing-the-mark-antitrust-remedies-should-address-specific-competition-concerns/
Wed 20:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Yeah, I had the self-check at Walmart stop and make a cashier come over. I told her, "I would hope that if I was a thief, that I could do better thn some marked down chicken."
Wed 20:58:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I do most of my grocery shopping at the grocery store.
Wed 20:58:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart's sort of a jack of all trades, master of none.
Wed 20:58:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong Officials for Pursuing Activists Abroad ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/world/asia/china-hong-kong-sanctions.html
Wed 20:58:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can get some motor oil and car filters there, wiper blades, windshield wiper fluid.
Wed 20:58:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But you can't get car parts.
Wed 20:59:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can get basic hardware, but not anything more.
Wed 20:59:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So what that does is, it erodes the profits and then you lose the hardware and automotive specialty stores.
Wed 20:59:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you can't get everything you need at Walmart, and it's because everyone said what a good price Walmart had on a hammer or a jug of oil.
Wed 21:00:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dispersed responsibility, lack of asset inventory is causing gaps in medical device cybersecurity ☞ https://cyberscoop.com/gaps-in-medical-device-cybersecurity/
Wed 21:01:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart's thing is they want the stuff that flies off the shelf.
Wed 21:01:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because that enables them to turn around to their suppliers and say we're selling millions of jugs of motor oil every month, give us a better price.
Wed 21:01:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And it sort of feeds into itself.
Wed 21:01:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Congress requests information about Chinese national students, cites national security concerns ☞ https://stanforddaily.com/2025/04/01/congress-chinese-stude-information/
Wed 21:02:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Check Point Responds to Hacking Claims ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/check-point-responds-to-hacking-claims/
Wed 21:02:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They don't want to carry a door lock actuator for the passenger side of a 2008 Buick.
Wed 21:02:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They want windshield wipers.
Wed 21:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hackers Looking for Vulnerable Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect Portals ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/hackers-looking-for-vulnerable-palo-alto-networks-globalprotect-portals/
Wed 21:04:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Social Security Administration probes origin of website portal outage ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/benefits/2025/04/social-security-administration-probes-origin-of-website-portal-outage/
Wed 21:04:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hackers Could Unleash Chaos Through Backdoor in China-Made Robot Dogs ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/undocumented-remote-access-backdoor-found-in-unitree-go1-robot-dog/
Wed 21:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plain-home-talk
Wed 21:05:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Many of us know the basic Blink Arduino sketch" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/shrinking-blinky-as-far-as-possible/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 21:05:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gender-Based Digital Transnational Repression and the Authoritarian Targeting of Women in the Diaspora ☞ https://citizenlab.ca/2025/04/gender-based-digital-transnational-repression-and-the-authoritarian-targeting-of-women-in-the-diaspora/
Wed 21:06:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], DOGE claims the VA had a $380,000 a year contract to do "minor website modifications" and that the work is now being done 10 hours a week by a VA IT person they are already paying.
Wed 21:06:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I wonder if that's true.
Wed 21:07:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Previously, they claimed that there was a $160,000 contract to water 8 plants.
Wed 21:07:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ No, Microsoft puts back doors in things. Microsoft is the worst at security. Saying Microsoft "Using Hey Hi (AI) to Uncover Critical Bootloader Vulnerabilities" is framing the CULPRIT as the hero ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/microsoft-using-ai-to-uncover-critical-bootloader-vulnerabilities/ see http://techrights.org/wiki/Microsoft_and_the_NSA/
Wed 21:07:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Department of Government Efficiency
Wed 21:07:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ @DOGE
Wed 21:07:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Good work by @DeptVetAffairs
Wed 21:07:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ VA was previously paying ~$380,000/month for minor website modifications. That contract has not been renewed and the same work is now being executed by 1 internal VA software engineer spending ~10 hours/week.
Wed 21:07:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ ---
Wed 21:07:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Uhhh, $380,000 a MONTH?
Wed 21:07:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TinyBeast FPGA – A Microchip PolarFire MPF300T/MPF100T FPGA PCIe reference design (Crowdfunding) ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/tinybeast-fpga-a-microchip-polarfire-mpf300t-mpf100t-fpga-pcie-reference-design/
Wed 21:07:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That sounds suspicious.
Wed 21:08:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/nx-s1-5348934/tesla-sales-protests-musk-trump
Wed 21:08:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ SoK25 Highlights: My Season of KDE Journey With KEcoLab ☞ https://eco.kde.org/blog/2025-03-25-utkarsh-sok25-kecolab/
Wed 21:09:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Enable 3.5 times faster vision language models with quantization ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/01/enable-faster-vision-language-models-quantization
Wed 21:10:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Spreading Beefy Miracle love ☞ https://michel-slm.name/posts/2025-04-01-spreading-beefy-miracle-love/
Wed 21:11:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ France’s Antitrust Watchdog Fines Fashion Company Apple for Problems With App Tracking Transparency ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/frances-antitrust-watchdog-fines-apple-for-problems-with-app-tracking-transparency/
Wed 21:13:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Cybercom discovered Chinese malware in South American nations — Joint Chiefs chairman nominee ☞ https://defensescoop.com/2025/04/01/cybercom-chinese-malware-south-america-dan-caine-joint-chiefs-trump/
Wed 21:14:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozilla Security Blog: Updated GPG key for signing Firefox Releases ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2025/04/01/updated-gpg-key-for-signing-firefox-releases-2/
Wed 21:16:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Fix Exec line in .desktop file has quotes ☞ https://bkhome.org/news/202504/fix-exec-line-in-desktop-file-has-quotes.html
Wed 21:18:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Red Hat is trying to sell back doors for Microsoft and endless, limitless surveillance under the false guise of "confidential" ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/01/how-set-openshift-confidential-clusters-azure
Wed 21:19:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LibreArts Weekly recap — 30 March 2025 ☞ https://librearts.org/2025/03/week-recap-30-mar-2025/
Wed 21:19:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Matters: Great Scott, 1.21 Jiggabits! ☞ https://linuxmatters.sh/52/
Wed 21:20:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Pluralistic: Anyone who trusts an Hey Hi (AI) therapist needs their head examined (01 Apr 2025) ☞ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/01/doctor-robo-blabbermouth/
Wed 21:21:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KStars v3.7.6 is Released ☞ http://knro.blogspot.com/2025/04/kstars-v376-is-released.html
Wed 21:22:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozilla Firefox 137 Is Available with HEVC Playback Support on Linux, Tab Groups ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-firefox-137-is-now-available-with-hevc-playback-support-on-linux
Wed 21:22:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on GNU/Linux ☞ https://9to5linux.com/valves-latest-steam-client-release-brings-faster-download-of-updates-on-linux
Wed 21:22:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox 138 Is Out for Public Beta Testing with New Contrast Control Settings ☞ https://9to5linux.com/firefox-138-is-out-for-public-beta-testing-with-new-contrast-control-settings
Wed 21:22:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Steam On GNU/Linux Shows A Wild Swing Back Up For March 2025 ☞ https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-March-2025
Wed 21:25:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux App Release Roundup (March 2025) ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025
Wed 21:26:37 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/oracle_breach_disaster_planning/
Wed 21:26:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The chiropractor managed to fix the stiff neck I've had all week.
Wed 21:26:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Joint Letter: Henry VIII powers in Data Use and Access Bill could undermine election integrity ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/joint-letter-henry-viii-powers-in-data-use-and-access-bill-could-undermine-election-integrity/
Wed 21:26:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He was talking about that Wintrust bank.
Wed 21:26:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Briefing: Data Use and Access Bill Henry VIII powers threaten democracy and UK adequacy ☞ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-data-use-and-access-bill-henry-viii-powers-threaten-democracy-and-uk-adequacy/
Wed 21:27:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He said don't go over there because they got him pretty bad when he took on the loan to open up his practice.
Wed 21:27:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox 137 Released with Address Bar Revamp & Tab Groups ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/firefox-137-new-features
Wed 21:27:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They required him to open a checking account to get the loan and then they started charging him business checking fees that added up to almost $500 one year.
Wed 21:27:55 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ thought police next..... https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/speech_now_streaming_from_brains/
Wed 21:27:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When he closed the checking account they got mad at him even though he was never late on his loans.
Wed 21:28:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] admfubar: not feasible
Wed 21:28:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i saw some articles about this and skipped them
Wed 21:28:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's like people who said you could draw with your htought
Wed 21:28:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they overstate the prospect
Wed 21:29:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but it makes attractive headlines
Wed 21:29:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I said, "That seems pretty unfair. The money they make on the loan is the interest you pay on the loan. I'm not sure why they'd be angry if you're paying them interest and paying the loan on time."
Wed 21:29:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Doesn't sound right to me.
Wed 21:29:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But you know, businesses can be like "What have you done for me lately?
Wed 21:30:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From the company that let Sarah Sharp put turds in Linux and then throw tantrums at Torvalds for not fancying her turds https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Patches-Hide-Turds
Wed 21:30:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Most any bank is happy when people pay their loans on time every month, I should think.
Wed 21:31:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CODE HAS FEELINGS TOO!!" - Companies (aka "people")
Wed 21:32:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY TORVALDS IS SO RUDE TO ME FOR ATTACKING LINUX... for Microsoft's benefit"
Wed 21:32:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Firefox 137.0 is out with Tab Group & HEVC Playback for GNU/Linux ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/firefox-137-0-tab-group-hevc-linux/
Wed 21:33:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Intel gives Linus Torvalds funny taste of his own language to "hide disgusting broken turds" ☞ https://www.neowin.net/news/intel-gives-linus-torvalds-funny-taste-of-his-own-language-to-hide-disgusting-broken-turds/
Wed 21:33:58 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://lifehacker.com/money/fake-online-car-dealership-scams-are-more-convincing-than-people-think
Wed 21:34:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/h8422i2 = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/h8422i2
Wed 21:35:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linus Torvalds rages against ‘random turd files’ in Linux 6.15-rc1 directories ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/03/31/Linus_Torvalds_rages_against_random_turd_files_in_Linux_6_15_rc.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/03/31/Linus_Torvalds_rages_against_random_turd_files_in_Linux_6_15_rc.gmi ∎
Wed 21:37:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux 6.14 released, Bootlin contributions inside ☞ https://bootlin.com/blog/linux-6-14-released-bootlin-contributions-inside/
Wed 21:39:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nonlinear conformalized Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) with R package ‘rvfl’ (and other models) ☞ https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/03/nonlinear-conformalized-generalized-linear-models-glms-with-r-package-rvfl-and-other-models/
Wed 21:39:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "His particular way of explaining things has definitely helped many electronics newbies to learn new concepts quickly!" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/why-the-lm741-sucks/ | Source: Hackaday
Wed 21:40:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Algorithmic sabotage for static sites II: Images gemini://tilde.club/~gedankenstuecke/blog/2025-04-01-algorithmic-sabotage-ii.gmi
Wed 21:41:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Well, March is over, and the second installment of OFFLFIRSOCH is over with it! I managed to put up the official archive pages of all entries on Gemini and Gopher last night, but the round up post unfortunately had to wait until today." gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/gemlog/offlfirsoch-2025-round-up.gmi
Wed 21:42:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Printed books are fascinating to me. They occupy a place in societal conscience that no other medium can, at least reliably." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202504/20250402-books-unlike-any-other.gmi
Wed 21:42:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ <li><h5><a href="gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/02/tea-hot.gmi">Tea. Hot?</a></h5>
Wed 21:43:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This conventional wisdom also has a Temperate or more pole- or mountaintop-wards bias; in Tropical climates the tea is sometimes poured between metal cups too cool it down enough for drinking, a warm climate reversal of a cold climate "heat the saké up before serving"." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/04/02/tea-hot.gmi
Wed 21:43:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Historia de Facebook para dummys gemini://moribundo.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-04-02-historia_facebook.gmi
Wed 21:48:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2562
Wed 21:49:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "i enjoy the work i put into my garden here, but i realize that my Overly Complicated Tag and Index System can be greatly improved with bear's tag system." gemini://angelai.smol.pub/23
Wed 21:49:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Being able to use midnight.sh to post replies is pretty convenient- is there a similar way to write a shell script or use some other CLI to upload and modify my midnight personal home page?" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2561
Wed 21:51:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ head in sand gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/gef/reflections/headInSand
Wed 21:53:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 02/04/2025: Books and Cold Tea ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Gemini_Links_02_04_2025_Books_and_Cold_Tea.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Gemini_Links_02_04_2025_Books_and_Cold_Tea.gmi ∎
Wed 22:35:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3uSjHDLIU8
Wed 22:35:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ L̲a̲st A̲c̲t̲i̲on H̲e̲ro Soundtrack (Full Album)
Wed 22:35:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I found this at the thrift store today.
Wed 23:19:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There we go. What a hassle. Straining cooking oil.
Wed 23:19:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But at $12.99 a gallon, stuff's not cheap anymore.
Wed 23:36:34 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Coffee filters cost about a penny each, so even if you go through a couple while you reclaim nearly half a gallon of oil, that's a good deal.
Wed 23:36:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But it's a slow process.
Wed 23:37:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ First you have to mesh strain it then scoop out all the sludge from making the fried chicken into the garbage then strain it again into a clean bowl through the coffee filter-lined mesh, about a cup and a half at a time.
Thu 00:14:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2616
Thu 00:34:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Wish there were more cafeteria restaurants around, but those went away when the Greatest and Silent generation did.
Thu 00:34:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ These companies target Millennials now, GenZ, everything has to be an "experience".
Thu 00:35:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The generation MCL targeted just isn't there anymore.
Thu 00:36:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're either in the nursing home or gone.
Thu 00:36:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Would you like some liver and onions, an iced tea, mashed potatoes, and a dinner roll? I would love that. How about a small slice of strawberry rhubarb pie? That's my favorite!
Thu 00:36:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then you get down there and the whole think is like $6 or something crazy.
Thu 00:37:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ *thing
Thu 00:40:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ We went to one in Indianapolis and one in Springfield. It's all older folks. I think we were the youngest people in there.
Thu 00:40:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One guy (in 2023!) had a rolled up paper copy of a New York Times.
Thu 00:43:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5228328-trump-canada-tariffs-resolution-gop-senators/
Thu 00:52:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ http://ffn.nodwick.com/?p=2620
Thu 01:08:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Free oil filter with any oil change" from the Chevy dealer.
Thu 01:09:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Let's see $100 for the oil change, deduct $4 for the filter.
Thu 01:09:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Leaves you with too fucking much for an oil change.
Thu 01:16:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I made my doctor and her assistant laugh pretty hard one day.
Thu 01:16:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Several times, but...
Thu 01:17:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They asked me if I used drugs. I said, "No, in fact I have to use four air purifiers because of my neighbor's drugs."
Thu 01:17:07 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ :>
Thu 01:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, I had a useful idea from the movie Down Periscope.
Thu 01:17:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I filtered some cooking oil with a coffee maker I don't use much.
Thu 01:18:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's got a mesh filter anyway.
Thu 01:18:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Which one do you think we're gonna use more often, sailor!? The coffee, or the lard!? Do you think we'll all get up one morning and enjoy a nice hot steaming cup of PIG FAT!?"
Thu 01:18:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Well, it depends sir. On a cold morning, it could go either way.
Thu 01:21:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "That's what she said! Or he, I could go either way, really. And that is also what she said!"
Thu 01:31:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, It's time for thump thump n**** n**** n**** again from across the hall.
Thu 01:31:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He was screaming at her earlier, again.
Thu 01:32:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then sometime around midnight the smell of cheap tobacco and drugs will creep across the hallway.
Thu 01:46:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techpol + social irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-020425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-020425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-020425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-020425.txt
Thu 01:46:36 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ you need to build an EMP rifle and toast his electronics
Thu 01:47:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techrights irc ■ Yesterday's #techrights IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-020425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-020425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-020425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-020425.txt
Thu 01:48:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 boycottnovell irc ■ Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-020425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-020425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-020425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-020425.txt
Thu 01:49:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🅸🆁🅲 techbytes irc ■ Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-020425.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-020425.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-020425.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-020425.txt
Thu 01:49:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's 𝕿𝖊𝖈𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙𝖘 bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-04-02.txt | 🅶🅴🅼🅸🅽🅸 gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-04-02.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now)
Thu 01:50:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ✩░▒▓▆▅▃▂▁Tux Machines 𝐁𝐔𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐓𝐈𝐍▁▂▃▅▆▓▒░✩ Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! 🅷🆃🆃🅿: http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-04-02.txt
Thu 01:54:01 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://scheerpost.com/2025/04/02/the-secret-military-history-of-the-internet-w-yasha-levine-the-chris-hedges-report/
Thu 01:59:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.reuters.com/markets/trump-tariffs-pile-stress-ailing-world-economy-2025-04-02/
Thu 01:59:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ NOW the world economy is "ailing". LOL
Thu 02:15:50 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/
Thu 02:27:12 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://xkcd.com/3071/
Thu 02:28:56 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ xkcd used to be funnier
Thu 02:30:44 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ have you ever watched SAMTIME?
Thu 02:30:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no
Thu 02:31:38 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ he is hilarious... skewers the tech world...
Thu 02:32:24 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://yewtu.be/channel/UCd6vEDS3SOhWbXZrxbrf_bw
Thu 02:37:14 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ now sea lions have gone crazy https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/02/california-sea-lion-poisoning
Thu 02:42:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/07/05/tony-evers-extends-increases-for-public-schools-in-perpetuity/70381898007/
Thu 03:18:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <admfubar> https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/
Thu 03:18:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they can ask Bill Gates and Microsoff for more money
Thu 03:18:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to pay for that bandwidth
Thu 03:18:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] while they edit wikipedia
Thu 03:18:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and wikipedia lets them
Thu 03:18:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to feed LLMs with lies
Thu 03:19:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ confirmed, SAMTIME is indeed funny
Thu 03:20:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ pity it keems reminding me of Sametime
Thu 03:20:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why You Should Go for Grafana ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/why-you-should-go-for-grafana/
Thu 03:21:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 03 051837 < schestowitz[TR2]> they can ask Bill Gates and Microsoff for more money
Thu 03:21:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or they could tell those dumbasses to download a database dump instead of scraping the website
Thu 03:22:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Elegant Writer ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/01/an-elegant-writer-for-a-more-civilized-age/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 03:22:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: but that requires writing more code
Thu 03:22:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are better at just crawling and scraping
Thu 03:23:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ they keep telling us their bullshit generator can write code
Thu 03:23:09 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ maybe they could ask it
Thu 03:23:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "write"
Thu 03:23:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i suspect it wouldn't even be worse than what their code monkeys produce
Thu 03:23:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3711675&doi=10.1145%2F3711675
Thu 03:25:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Destination Linux 413: What is Open Source’s True Value? Plus NVIDIA’s Open Robots ☞ https://tuxdigital.com/podcasts/destination-linux/dl-413/
Thu 03:26:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Corporate marketing spam from charlatan and buzzword slingers https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/01/preparing-iot-security-for-the-quantum-computing-era/
Thu 03:26:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Merlin Slaps Triller With $2.55 Million Lawsuit After Sony Music Deal Terms Leak ☞ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/01/merlin-triller-lawsuit-sony-music-deal-leak/
Thu 03:28:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lessons from open source in the Mexican government https://lwn.net/Articles/1013776/
Thu 03:30:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft OSI 'election' is just PR exercise; it's a lobbying organisation for proprietary giants https://lwn.net/Articles/1014603/
Thu 03:31:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ MM medley: huge page allocation, page promotion, KSM, and BPF https://lwn.net/Articles/1014220/
Thu 03:31:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Multiple memory classes for address-space isolation https://lwn.net/Articles/1014440/
Thu 03:32:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The guaranteed contiguous memory allocator https://lwn.net/Articles/1015000/
Thu 03:32:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Development statistics for 6.14 https://lwn.net/Articles/1013892/
Thu 03:36:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): LWN Coverage of Kernel (Linux) ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/LWN_Coverage_of_Kernel_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/LWN_Coverage_of_Kernel_Linux.gmi ∎
Thu 03:37:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 03:39:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: Linux Matters and Destination Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Matters_and_Destination_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Audiocasts_Shows_Linux_Matters_and_Destination_Linux.gmi ∎
Thu 03:39:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Fedora and Red Hat Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Fedora_and_Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 03:41:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNU/Linux and Devices Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNU_Linux_and_Devices_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNU_Linux_and_Devices_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 03:42:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 03:45:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 03/04/2025: Apple Fined Over Secret Surveillance, "Elegant Writer For A More Civilized Age" ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_Apple_Fined_Over_Secret_Surveillance_Elegant_W.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_Apple_Fined_Over_Secret_Surveillance_Elegant_W.gmi ∎
Thu 03:49:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was originally planning to put the banana jacks on the lid of the project box (cookie tin) but the lid is not quite large enough, and I was concerned that the weak tin might bend downward after all the holes and weight was added." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20250402-0.gmi
Thu 03:49:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is a simple, tasty, vegan meal - and if your spice rack is already well-stocked, then it's also pretty inexpensive. The better-quality coconut milk will cost a bit more, but to me has a much better consistency and flavour." gemini://gemini.patatas.ca/recipes/daal.gmi
Thu 03:50:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2025-04-03 Picture Page gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-04-03.gmi
Thu 03:50:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I noticed that I was looking at my crawler stats page for random images from Geminispace. Hmm, maybe other people would enjoy that. So starting today, I have a daily post of some of them." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2025-04-03_Picture_pages.gmi
Thu 03:52:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1253.jpg
Thu 03:52:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1603.jpg
Thu 03:55:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, April 02, 2025 ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_02_2025.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IRC_Proceedings_Wednesday_April_02_2025.gmi ∎
Thu 03:56:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today in Techrights ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Today_in_Techrights.gmi ∎
Thu 03:57:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Over at Tux Machines... ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi ∎
Thu 04:10:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Microsoft joins corporate China exodus with Shanghai AI lab closure https://www.digitimes.com/news/a20250401PD224/microsoft-shanghai-iot-technology-2024.html
Thu 04:19:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ anon: nokia has become problematic with its support for the illegal Unified Patent Court https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&u=https://www.hs.fi/talous/art-2000011135152.html ("Nokia sopi patenttiriitansa Amazonin kanssa | HS.fi") see https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Links_02_04_2025_More_Layoffs_Nokia_Again_Takes_Advantage_of_Il.shtml
Thu 04:32:10 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tranny on Reddit: I had to flee the country!
Thu 04:32:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Me: Okay, bye.
Thu 04:32:23 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I laughed though.
Thu 04:32:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They were talking about having the incorrect gender marker on the passport and the passport expires in less than a year.
Thu 04:33:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You can renew a passport whenever you want, so this could have been avoided by renewing it last year and getting another 10 years.
Thu 04:33:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Now they say "What if I have to come back due to an emergency!"
Thu 04:33:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you fled the country but you want to come back sometimes?
Thu 04:33:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Because you're scared of the country.
Thu 04:33:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Where nothing is endangering you.
Thu 04:34:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Slopwatch: Anti-Linux Articles, Not Even Written by Humans ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Slopwatch_Anti_Linux_Articles_Not_Even_Written_by_Humans.gmi ∎
Thu 04:34:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And then to make it even better, the country they went to is one of those European ones where the Islamists just run people over with cars when the police should have arrested them like 5 years ago and knew it would happen.
Thu 04:34:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like Germany, you know.
Thu 04:34:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They know a terrorist will attack but it's not politically correct to arrest a terrorist.
Thu 04:35:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not even sure if anything I buy would be subject to the tariffs on Europe. What do they even sell us? Some wine?
Thu 04:35:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Bad cars?
Thu 04:36:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MinceR, Orbanistan is now being tariffed as part of the EU.
Thu 04:38:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Some of this will certainly be avoidable.
Thu 04:39:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The four worst car brands you can buy.
Thu 04:40:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which are also some of the most expensive.
Thu 04:40:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Japan doesn't get a 20% tariff, they get a 10%, and they do a lot of their manufacturing in the US.
Thu 04:41:24 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/trump-told-cabinet-that-elon-musk-will-leave-administration-in-coming-months/6209864/
Thu 04:41:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz-pi, The defeat in Wisconsin is landing hard.
Thu 04:41:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Today Republicans in the Senate were unable to stop two bills from the Democrats from passing.
Thu 04:42:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ One would cancel the tariffs on Canada.
Thu 04:42:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The other expresses the sense of the Senate that USPS should not be privatized.
Thu 04:42:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Musk made a horrible mistake in getting that involved in Wisconsin.
Thu 04:43:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He wanted to dump a ton of money into that race to make a point that he could just buy people into office and therefore make others afraid that the knife cuts both ways.
Thu 04:43:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Instead, he dumped a LOT of money in and John "Schlemiel" still lost by 10 points, which is a lot. It's a landslide as these things go.
Thu 04:44:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Wisconsin supreme court elections usually are like 3-4%. Musk coming in and dumping $50 million actually more than doubled the margin of loss, and now people don't think he's an asset.
Thu 04:45:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Dumping $50 million into everything including voter bribery in Wisconsin while not paying his child support.
Thu 04:50:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – More Gains for GNU/Linux, Based on Web Surveys ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/More_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Based_on_Web_Surveys.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/More_Gains_for_GNU_Linux_Based_on_Web_Surveys.gmi ∎
Thu 04:58:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ thelayoffs site took it up a notch with clownflare "challenges", so is it under DDOS attacks or out-of-control LLM scrapers?
Thu 05:00:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You are 110% accurate in everything you have written in your post." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 05:00:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Bloodbath it T&O and my manager dumps work on everyone while he can’t write 1 line of code... No more late nights. I’m not doing it. I’m not slacking off but I’m not going to figuratively work myself to de@th" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 05:01:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yep, this. My work ethic won't allow me not to give my best but I'm not doing anymore 12-14 hour days and picking up the phone at 9pm or pushing my vacay because of some fabricated deadline." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 05:01:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "All for what? An insulting GDP and being told there is no money for raises? All while our fearless leader helps himself to a 25% one. This is the most toxic company I have every worked for. And that's saying a lot!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 05:03:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PwC all but fired Neil Dhar, who was relieved of command and booted from leadership for shady electioneering when he campaigned to lead their US business in March 2024. This ethical sl--e bucket is a perfect fit for IBM. There must have been another reason Alvind gave this PwC reject a second chance... but I can’t quite put my head bob on it." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a
Thu 05:03:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Corrupt people being put in charge of IBM is a bad sign, further reinforcing the belief the company cheats on its finances
Thu 05:05:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LLM is not a writer, it is worthless slop. This is about layoffs being spun as buzzwords. https://www.channelnews.com.au/canva-lays-off-technical-writers-amid-ai-push/
Thu 05:07:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM is the biggest loser so far in DOGE's consulting crackdown: "The list includes Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM, and General Dynamics. [...] IBM: 10 contracts, $34.3 million." https://www.businessinsider.com/deloitte-doge-consulting-crackdown-contracts-cuts-big-four-2025-4
Thu 05:08:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Consulting Giants Offer Billions in Cuts to Federal Contracts. It Might Not Be Enough. https://www.wsj.com/business/consulting-giants-offer-billions-in-cuts-to-federal-contracts-it-might-not-be-enough-f7c872d2
Thu 05:09:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " Jettisoning Ms. Chambliss is just the beginning. There's going to be many more shake-ups in Consulting." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka
Thu 05:21:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Hmm, got a couple years worth of water filters. Good deal on them. Amazon said made in Europe. Price hasn't gone up yet.
Thu 05:29:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – IBM Gets Rid of Kelly Chambliss as Mass Layoffs Reported in IBM Consulting, IBM Loses Key Contracts/Graft ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.gmi ∎
Thu 05:32:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM Loses Big Contracts https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/IBM_Gets_Rid_of_Kelly_Chambliss_as_Mass_Layoffs_Reported_in_IBM.shtml
Thu 05:38:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Brita has been hiking their prices like mad.
Thu 05:39:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The difference in price between the Brita and Amazon filter is now $2 per filter. We drink so much water that I replace 12 of these things each year.
Thu 05:40:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Walmart has changed suppliers for their version so many times I've lost count.
Thu 05:40:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ QA is really hit or miss.
Thu 05:40:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Sometimes you get good ones, then they change supplier again and they clog.
Thu 05:42:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: draft?
Thu 05:42:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] re msft
Thu 05:42:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble
Thu 05:43:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Earlier this week we showed that mostly Asian media had the 'nerve' to mention Microsoft silently shutting down its 'AI' lab
Thu 05:43:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah
Thu 05:43:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I suspect that we'll eventually see companies mitigate the tariff fallout somehow.
Thu 05:43:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IsambardPrince: http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.shtml
Thu 05:43:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Re-shoring was starting to become a thing by the end of Trump 1.0 sometimes.
Thu 05:43:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] still working on it
Thu 05:43:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you can give me your views to add
Thu 05:44:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Taiwan's Media Covers Closure of Microsoft's "AI" Lab, It's Time to Talk About the Gradual Death of Windows and Implosion of the "AI" Bubble ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Taiwan_s_Media_Covers_Closure_of_Microsoft_s_AI_Lab_It_s_Time_t.gmi ∎
Thu 05:44:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I saw an article about Microsoft in Wisconsin the other day.
Thu 05:44:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Huge data center. They plan to open it early, but the article mentioned that they've been canceling many others.
Thu 05:45:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The demand just isn't there to justify more.
Thu 05:45:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Plus the Wisconsin project is pretty far along and they can run it more cheaply. I have a feeling, this is just a guess, that they want it close to Lake Michigan so they can use the water.
Thu 05:45:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's also a lot of cheap solar and wind energy there.
Thu 05:46:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And the overall business climate is friendly, and it's within spitting distance of Chicago.
Thu 05:47:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I don't think Illinois needs to get super deregulatory and have people showing up with chainsaws.
Thu 05:47:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But some of the taxes produce minimal revenue and a lot of compliance costs.
Thu 05:47:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I think they could look at that.
Thu 05:49:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "It's not unthinkable that amid the rise of GNU/Linux [1, 2].
Thu 05:49:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft can hardly charge anything for Windows anymore and as a server (or VM or container) provider Microsoft has failed to (hence mass layoffs in Azure every year since 2020), so all it has now is hype like "AI" and "Quantum". How patient will shareholders be? There will be no financial returns, only financial fraud."
Thu 05:49:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Should that be joined?
Thu 05:49:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes
Thu 05:49:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fixed
Thu 05:50:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Windows is hardly loved.
Thu 05:50:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] refresh now
Thu 05:51:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Consistently the most popular tools are things that turn off all the spyware and find ways to pock around the Digital Markets Act bit to make the undesirable shovelware, like Microsoft Edge, go away, even in regions other than the EU those enablement bits are in Windows.
Thu 05:51:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://bogdan-patraucean.github.io/about/wintoys/
Thu 05:51:54 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I ran across this yesterday and was laughing because most consumer operating systems (like Chrome OS and Mac OS) and Linux distributions tend to be very intuitive these days.
Thu 05:52:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: notably that programme got torpedoed in prep for the tariffs, now the US has no manufacturing to fall back on https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/
Thu 05:52:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Either they use their own products and want them to work, or they see the customer as important and not just a dumping ground for shovelware, ads and trash, or there's Free Software where the angle is nobody would ever want the shovelware and trash so nobody bundles it.
Thu 05:53:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ With Free Software, if anyone ever got the idea to do that, someone else would just fork it.
Thu 05:53:44 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ There's suddenly a version that does not. Like the difference between Firefox and Librewolf.
Thu 05:53:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i see
Thu 05:53:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] we use Librewolf
Thu 05:54:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://news.tuxmachines.org/node/158708
Thu 05:54:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] iirc, rianne adopted it that year
Thu 05:54:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 2021
Thu 05:54:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Chrome OS and Mac OS are proprietary, but they want users to choose them.
Thu 05:54:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Microsoft is helping the exodus along by making Windows slow and full of more garbage.
Thu 05:54:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So we should really be thanking them.
Thu 05:54:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not very often that the competitor signs their own death warrant.
Thu 05:55:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ But that's what this whole thing is right? With the ads, with the bloatware and the garbage web browser nobody asked for and would immediately uninstall if there was a clear way to.
Thu 05:56:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The people using Edge, thus MSN (which is a captive portal for Edge users, mostly), tend to skew older.
Thu 05:56:16 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They have no idea how a computer works.
Thu 05:56:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're on a budget so most of them can't afford a Mac.
Thu 05:56:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The budget came from a life of hardship, imposed by lack of savings and lack of education.
Thu 05:57:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So you get on these MSN News re-posts of the major news sites...
Thu 05:57:22 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And all the comments are from these really uneducated people, most of them are MAGA.
Thu 05:58:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ These are the only people that seem to use Edge and MSN and it's because it's right the hell there and it hasn't occured to them to customize anything, or that they're being fed a drip drip drip of bot spew.
Thu 05:59:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ MSN doesn't add any value. It's basically like a cake mixer where the ingredients are two parts actual posts from various news sites that were at least written by people, 1 part ad carousel, and 1 part bot spew.
Thu 05:59:41 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You just blend it together and slop the trough.
Thu 06:00:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And so a lot of what Microsoft does these days is slopping the trough, really.
Thu 06:00:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's not very good, but you're feeding it to animals to fatten them up.
Thu 06:00:27 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And there's a lot of it and it's cheap.
Thu 06:00:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Autodesk Strikes Back with Unexpected Layoffs – What’s Behind the Cut? https://lkouniexam.in/autodesk-strikes-back-with-unexpected-layoffs/
Thu 06:01:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/
Thu 06:01:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions
Thu 06:01:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], ^
Thu 06:01:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Raising questions.
Thu 06:01:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
Thu 06:02:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], This is like what happens when my broke bullshitting landlord's operation falls apart.
Thu 06:02:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] thanks
Thu 06:03:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yes, common
Thu 06:03:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The city is trying to find him to shut off the water and take the meter out.
Thu 06:03:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] very common
Thu 06:03:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's a bad landlord
Thu 06:03:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] seems like a faker
Thu 06:03:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a charlatan like marisol
Thu 06:03:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ytou don't want your "crib" controlled by such people
Thu 06:03:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are very unredictable
Thu 06:03:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like you lose the water
Thu 06:03:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and it does not come back for DAYS
Thu 06:03:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] reminds me of siorius CEO
Thu 06:04:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i won't name him here
Thu 06:04:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you know why they don't ffix things?
Thu 06:04:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they are putting out fires
Thu 06:04:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they cannot p[ay all the bills
Thu 06:04:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so they triage them
Thu 06:04:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and figure out,. if i don't fdix water, i will be fined
Thu 06:04:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or, ryan will complain
Thu 06:04:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or ryan will leave
Thu 06:04:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it'll cost me more than fixing it
Thu 06:04:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in risius
Thu 06:04:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] as i covered in 2022 and 2023
Thu 06:04:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tghe company would not pay some bytemark bills
Thu 06:04:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for hosting
Thu 06:05:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] till bytemark just shut down the whole DB server
Thu 06:05:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Yeah, the water gets shut off and suddenly everyone is looking for a way out of here and stops paying him.
Thu 06:05:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then the CEO was in apanic
Thu 06:05:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So it has to be turned back on.
Thu 06:05:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he could not pay
Thu 06:05:19 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] tried this credit card
Thu 06:05:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then this
Thu 06:05:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] \rejected
Thu 06:05:24 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not enough
Thu 06:05:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] a bit from this card
Thu 06:05:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then from this card
Thu 06:05:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] till he paid like 5k overdue
Thu 06:05:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he kept not paying
Thu 06:05:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the bills kepty rising
Thu 06:05:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] adding up
Thu 06:05:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] bytemark got fed up
Thu 06:05:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] issued a warning of shutdown
Thu 06:05:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] he ignored it
Thu 06:06:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and then they really turned it off
Thu 06:06:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they told my colleague to lie to the client
Thu 06:06:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to say we just rebvooted it
Thu 06:06:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i kepty eivdnce this was a lie
Thu 06:06:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now this colleague is SUING the company
Thu 06:06:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but I cannot publish the tribunal papers, YET
Thu 06:06:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because it's ongoing
Thu 06:07:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ^ thjat's your landlord
Thu 06:07:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] then he gets sued
Thu 06:07:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it goes downhill from there
Thu 06:07:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] pissing off too many people
Thu 06:07:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lying to themn
Thu 06:07:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] breaching contracts
Thu 06:08:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the "trump way" of doing business
Thu 06:08:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] see how much you can chjeat and steal
Thu 06:08:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like he stoile pension money from my colleagues and I
Thu 06:08:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] knowing that taking action would cost more than we can get
Thu 06:08:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I mentioned that to my doctor.
Thu 06:08:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and he can just do "Administration" (like Ch11)
Thu 06:08:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in case we sue and win in default judgement
Thu 06:08:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] because he cannot put in a Defence
Thu 06:09:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the evidence is just too clear of pensionf raud
Thu 06:09:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so in short
Thu 06:09:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] consider moving
Thu 06:09:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] don't rely on this a-hole
Thu 06:09:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is not mark
Thu 06:09:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is like "
Thu 06:09:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Microsoft is losing control of the narrative here.
Thu 06:09:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] alvind and the pipmunks"
Thu 06:10:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have a feeling that he'll file bankruptcy and the building will be in receivership.
Thu 06:10:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ After he loses.
Thu 06:10:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Someone else will get all the leases but then we'll be on our third landlord.
Thu 06:10:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe.
Thu 06:11:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> schestowitz[TR2], Microsoft is losing control of the narrative here.
Thu 06:11:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] where?
Thu 06:11:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] context?
Thu 06:11:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ On the data centers.
Thu 06:11:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yeah
Thu 06:11:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The news now reports that they're canceling so many.
Thu 06:11:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] people can count
Thu 06:11:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ People have "questions".
Thu 06:11:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and make lists
Thu 06:11:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] something does not "add up"
Thu 06:11:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions Microsoft in Wisconsin; some national data center plans canceled, raising questions https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions
Thu 06:12:05 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/
Thu 06:12:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "The decision was partly driven by a decrease in anticipated workloads from OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT."
Thu 06:12:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "The company cites reduced need for AI training workloads from OpenAI as a contributing factor."
Thu 06:12:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in 2023 kaniini admitted being a partner of a Microsoft staff
Thu 06:12:50 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Microsoft has halted several data center projects in the U.S. and Europe due to lower-than-expected demand."
Thu 06:12:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that kaniini's partner worked in Azure
Thu 06:13:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that's quite.... worrying
Thu 06:13:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how did that come about?
Thu 06:13:13 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You mean where Cantrell worked?
Thu 06:13:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and Microsoft gavce kaniini a job offer
Thu 06:13:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in 2021
Thu 06:13:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Where Cantrell did drugs and asked people on StackExchange how to do his job.
Thu 06:13:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] when we got a megascoop about microsoft corruption in europe
Thu 06:13:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Then stabbed a guy.
Thu 06:13:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] days before publishing the series
Thu 06:13:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.fox6now.com/news/microsoft-wisconsin-some-data-center-plans-canceled-raising-questions
Thu 06:13:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://eu.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2025/03/27/microsoft-abandons-some-data-center-projects-wisconsin-impact-unclear/82686121007/
Thu 06:14:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Well, you know how those left-coast people are.
Thu 06:14:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ When they say "a partner" it means one of several people they're in some sort of casual "fucking relationship" with.
Thu 06:15:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They might as well say "I drift between people I occasionally fuck, and fuck buddies are the new partner."
Thu 06:15:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like Orange is the New Black.
Thu 06:15:43 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "I went to the doctor today to pick up mah hormones!"
Thu 06:15:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Now it's back in the sex swing in my dog costume!"
Thu 06:16:12 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They're just weird.
Thu 06:16:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Like, totally fucked in the head.
Thu 06:17:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The male partner is actually a woman, the woman partner is actually a man.
Thu 06:17:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They "flee the country" because X isn't allowed on a passport.
Thu 06:17:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Which means of course, people are trying to kill them.
Thu 06:17:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (Not really, but you know....)
Thu 06:17:49 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (They think so.)
Thu 06:22:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] draft coming
Thu 06:22:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] hand on
Thu 06:22:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] will quite you and the articles
Thu 06:22:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], The Indiana porn ban law is already rankling some feathers.
Thu 06:22:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] eta 2 mins
Thu 06:22:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so want you to check or add
Thu 06:22:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] espp. the chatgpt stuff
Thu 06:24:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Confirmed_in_the_Mainstream_Media_A_Lot_of_Microsoft_Workloads_.shtml
Thu 06:24:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] draft
Thu 06:28:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Trump pardoned a company last week.
Thu 06:28:53 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The first time that's ever been done.
Thu 06:28:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ He pardoned BitMex.
Thu 06:29:03 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ For securities fraud.
Thu 06:29:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Why not invest in crypto and put it on an exchange? When they defraud you and the president pardons not only the people running the company, but the company itself...
Thu 06:31:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], It's time to cut ties from companies that have had a track record of defrauding people and breaking the law.
Thu 06:31:25 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I closed our credit cards at Wells Fargo this week.
Thu 06:36:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] right
Thu 06:48:47 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Great, another cockroach.
Thu 06:48:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I've killed like two of them in the last 6 months.
Thu 06:49:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Guessing someone who lives in the building has a major infestation and a stray gets in here sometimes.
Thu 06:49:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No use telling the landlord.
Thu 06:49:40 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "They say they're not doing it."
Thu 06:49:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Meanwhile they have garbage and old pizza everywhere.
Thu 06:50:01 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Maybe even cheetos and cum.
Thu 07:06:15 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeRGnHuYol8
Thu 07:06:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not certain why Amazon Basics filters would remove about a quarter of the fluoride from the water while Brita had no effect at all.
Thu 07:07:02 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Oh, 32%.
Thu 07:07:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Usually granular activated carbon filters have no effect at all on fluoride levels.
Thu 07:26:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/2025/04/01/trump-paper-checks-executive-order-treasury-irs-social-security-impacts/82756873007/
Thu 07:26:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Historically, Department of the Treasury checks are 16 times more likely to be reported lost or stolen, returned undeliverable, or altered than an electronic funds transfer.
Thu 07:26:58 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Maintaining the physical infrastructure and specialized technology for digitizing paper records cost the American taxpayer over $657 million in fiscal year 2024 alone," the order said.
Thu 07:28:38 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.nbcnews.com/business/personal-finance/federal-government-phasing-paper-checks-will-affected-rcna199166
Thu 07:28:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ "Banking groups applauded the move."
Thu 07:29:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i have not used one in ages
Thu 07:29:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but am not against that
Thu 07:29:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i used to demand those for accounts
Thu 07:29:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in case i need them
Thu 07:29:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the pitfalls are many
Thu 07:30:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -cannot check if funds are available (risk)
Thu 07:30:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -can be forged
Thu 07:30:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I write checks to the landlord.
Thu 07:30:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -requires some additional equipment
Thu 07:30:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] cash does not have most of the problems
Thu 07:30:33 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I didn't get blindsided this month due to HIS bank account being shut down.
Thu 07:30:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for very large transactions you can also pay with cash
Thu 07:30:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like electronics
Thu 07:30:42 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Everyone else did.
Thu 07:30:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and get a receipt as inssurance/warranty
Thu 07:30:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even if they don't know your name
Thu 07:31:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they can ccheck the receipt matches what's on their system
Thu 07:31:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] item id, time, date
Thu 07:32:07 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'm simplifying our finances.
Thu 07:32:13 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] yesterday i saved about 100 pounds a year on our internet
Thu 07:32:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Moving to one charge card instead of over 11 credit cards.
Thu 07:32:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just by speaking to a higher up
Thu 07:32:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for those you cannot pay anonymously
Thu 07:32:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they know your home, socket etc.
Thu 07:32:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but landlords can be paid in cash i think, depending on tax rules
Thu 07:32:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It makes it hard to get behind on bills.
Thu 07:33:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] are they paying a tax on each rent payment?
Thu 07:33:09 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Just have everything hit the charge card and then have the charge card pay itself.
Thu 07:33:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you say you had "over 11 credit cards."
Thu 07:33:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds like you play with fire again
Thu 07:34:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ This latest one has No Preset Spending Limit.
Thu 07:34:26 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That doesn't mean no limit, it means that it's flexible.
Thu 07:34:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] there is no 'free money'
Thu 07:34:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] those cards are fire
Thu 07:35:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I have pay over time turned off.
Thu 07:35:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It has to be paid in full.
Thu 07:37:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ It's impossible to carry a balance or pay interest like this.
Thu 07:39:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i don't trust them
Thu 07:39:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] nor should you
Thu 07:39:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] that is all i can say
Thu 07:40:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] remember sirius defrauded many of us
Thu 07:40:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] none of us knew how
Thu 07:40:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they made it look credible
Thu 07:40:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] by producing fradulent payslips
Thu 07:40:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] don't trust bad companies and people
Thu 07:40:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] also, start looking for anorher home, imho
Thu 07:40:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] before it's too late
Thu 07:41:03 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if you are in a bad relationship. it is not likely to improve
Thu 07:41:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] your excuses might improve
Thu 07:41:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but not the relationship
Thu 07:53:19 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Did you see the message?
Thu 07:58:39 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A lot of the fault for the Russian invasion of Ukraine is the EU's.
Thu 07:59:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They took in Orbanistan and stopped expanding after that.
Thu 07:59:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They swallowed Putin's mole, of course not that the more respectable European countries aren'tt to blame more directly for Ukraine being attacked.
Thu 07:59:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They helped make Russia rich off gas that Putin turns on and off whenever he makes demands.
Thu 08:00:08 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ To those ends they even shut down functioning nuclear power plants.
Thu 08:00:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Only on April 1st Can the Free Software Foundation Associate With Microsoft's Open Source Initiative (OSI) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Only_on_April_1st_Can_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Associate_Wi.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Only_on_April_1st_Can_the_Free_Software_Foundation_Associate_Wi.gmi ∎
Thu 08:02:56 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The RCA SelectaVision CED "videodisc" was nothing but problems. They were expensive, they were huge.
Thu 08:03:32 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ They weren't supposed to ever be ejected from the cartridge except by the player, but they could get dirt or fluff on the disc which would get etched in really badly.
Thu 08:03:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And you had to flip the movie over about halfway through to keep watching it.
Thu 08:04:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ BetaMax at least might have succeeded. BetaMax was the better format between that and VHS. If Sony was smarter, they would have licensed BetaMax either freely or on reasonable terms.
Thu 08:06:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): I'm a Linux power user and this distro has the most refreshing take on OS design ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_has_the_most_refreshing_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/I_m_a_Linux_power_user_and_this_distro_has_the_most_refreshing_.gmi ∎
Thu 08:08:30 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I'd like to see cassettes come back. In HD. They could do that, but they never would.
Thu 08:08:35 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Too paranoid about piracy.
Thu 08:08:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Every movie they put out that has DRM is on all the pirate sites an hour later, if that.
Thu 08:09:04 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ And they just pester people who bought the stupid thing.
Thu 08:12:40 │ 〖Sompi_〗 │ https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/brainwash-an-executive-today/
Thu 08:16:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Introducing_Fedora_Project_Leader_Jef_Spaleta.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Introducing_Fedora_Project_Leader_Jef_Spaleta.gmi ∎
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Thu 08:26:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – statCounter Says GNU/Linux Usage is Up Again (Internationally) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/statCounter_Says_GNU_Linux_Usage_is_Up_Again_Internationally.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/statCounter_Says_GNU_Linux_Usage_is_Up_Again_Internationally.gmi ∎
Thu 08:26:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): New to Linux? 4 things to focus on before you switch ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/New_to_Linux_4_things_to_focus_on_before_you_switch.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/New_to_Linux_4_things_to_focus_on_before_you_switch.gmi ∎
Thu 08:29:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Android surging in China? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/china/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:31:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, it’s my fault ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/If_your_notifications_look_kind_of_stupid_in_Plasma_6_3_4_it_s_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/If_your_notifications_look_kind_of_stupid_in_Plasma_6_3_4_it_s_.gmi ∎
Thu 08:32:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Android in Asia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share//all/asia/#monthly-202503-202504-map
Thu 08:35:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Practical Payment Solutions for Murena and /e/OS Users ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Practical_Payment_Solutions_for_Murena_and_e_OS_Users.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Practical_Payment_Solutions_for_Murena_and_e_OS_Users.gmi ∎
Thu 08:35:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux roses a lot in China this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/china/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:36:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also in Japan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/japan/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:36:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows falling in South Korea https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/south-korea/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:38:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux 25% in Singapore https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/singapore/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:38:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows falls in Malaysia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/malaysia/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:40:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux rose to highest levels in years in Russia https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/russian-federation/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:41:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Same in Belarus https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/belarus/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:41:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software, howtos and Installations ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_howtos_and_Installations.gmi ∎
Thu 08:42:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux+ChromeOS 7% in Germany https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/germany/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:43:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ About 20% in Sweden https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/sweden/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:43:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): GNOME Has A New App for Daily Wallpapers from Bing, Wikimedia ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNOME_Has_A_New_App_for_Daily_Wallpapers_from_Bing_Wikimedia.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/GNOME_Has_A_New_App_for_Daily_Wallpapers_from_Bing_Wikimedia.gmi ∎
Thu 08:43:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ And in Norway https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/norway/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:44:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ In France and Spain GNU/Linux at around 5% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/france/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/spain/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:46:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows steadily down in Brazil https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/brazil/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:47:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux about 8% in venezuela and cuba https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/venezuela/#monthly-200902-202504 https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/cuba/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:48:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mexico: GNU/Linux up steadily https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/mexico/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 08:56:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Apparently DOS is sending out "prove you aren't a tranny" letters to people who submit passport applications now.
Thu 08:56:20 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So even people who aren't nutcases are getting their passports delayed.
Thu 09:02:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Indonesia: All-Time Highs for GNU/Linux ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Indonesia_All_Time_Highs_for_GNU_Linux.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Indonesia_All_Time_Highs_for_GNU_Linux.gmi ∎
Thu 09:22:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows falls in Argentina https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/argentina/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 09:23:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux around 10%. Doing well in home of Torvalds. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/finland/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 09:28:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Dull Desktop? Install ‘Picture of the Day’ App on Ubuntu ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Dull_Desktop_Install_Picture_of_the_Day_App_on_Ubuntu.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Dull_Desktop_Install_Picture_of_the_Day_App_on_Ubuntu.gmi ∎
Thu 09:29:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Since threats by the US against Greenland, Apple and Microsoft share in Denmark seems to have collapsed https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/denmark/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 09:31:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU/Linux ~5% in Egypt https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/egypt//#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 09:35:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/DeaDBeeF_1_10_Release_Brings_New_Features.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/DeaDBeeF_1_10_Release_Brings_New_Features.gmi ∎
Thu 09:37:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/amdsSTO072I
Thu 09:45:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ On IBM: "this company is bankrupt. only thing holding up above water is india. But the water is rising quickly. Everything is going to be underwater. if there are no sales or poor sales, then we know it will go underwater. when that happens nobody will even remember this place. it is going underwater. like a forgoten city." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh
Thu 09:45:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/pVV0MlknkjU
Thu 09:45:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "TESLA is the biggest loser so far, and that is just delicious." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx0qrge
Thu 09:46:59 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], Bill Gates isn't going to be too influential for this administration.
Thu 09:47:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM should just eject the consulting business. The whole business is rife with corruption." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a
Thu 09:47:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What ? Leave the consulting business and force all Alvind's layabout friends and cronies on the IBM India Friends and Family Plan into lives without IBM jobs ? That's just plain selfish and unthinkable. Alvind has to give a daily progress report to Modi so he can collect a new set of medals to show Trump his fake values." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvqrm7a
Thu 09:47:14 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ The last vestiges of COVID shot thuggery have been swept away.
Thu 09:47:21 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Including forcing immigrants to take them
Thu 09:47:28 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ So there go the "customers"/
Thu 09:47:42 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you took them
Thu 09:47:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] you did not have to
Thu 09:47:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no employer forced you to
Thu 09:47:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] but you were "Weak"
Thu 09:48:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i said all along it was still an experiment
Thu 09:48:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and i am not impressed with the results
Thu 09:48:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Given the BOZOs that Trump has hired, if anyone is expecting any of this to make 'sense' they are dreaming. It most likely goes down to who is giving Trump the most bribes." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka
Thu 09:49:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Yes, IBM under Alvind excels and thrives on lies, deceit, bribery and corruption which is what Indian culture is built on. That's why Modi is such a great friend of Trump." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka
Thu 09:49:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "IBM BCGs (Business Conduct Guidelines) don't count for anything except blah-blah-blah on w3. They are just "guard rails" to show in event of a Federal government audit of IBM and its business practices (or lack thereof) . But we all know that will never happen in a billion years." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqwxxeka
Thu 09:49:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What happened ? A deafening silence from you to the response (@yc). Alvind got your tongue. Again ? Maybe the new sl--eball dirtbag, Neil Dhar will fix it all in Consulting like he did at PwC. And maybe he will get canned this time. Can you do the needful to make sure it happens ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqffgwez
Thu 09:50:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Web these days feels "small"; not many people or material, LLM slop does NOT count
Thu 09:51:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Apps" are not "the Web", but a lot of the Web got reduced into 'webapps'
Thu 09:53:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 09:54:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Week 11 deaths in England and Wales. 2019: 10,567. Same week in 2025: 11,745. Nothing to see here, plebs, move along fast!
Thu 09:56:52 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], I've been cleaning up what we eat, a lot. It's just terrifying really what kind of shit and garbage they'll throw in the supermarket.
Thu 09:57:10 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-reviving-site-blocking-and-its-just-dangerous-ever
Thu 09:57:18 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ You know, half or more of what they have in there isn't even food at all.
Thu 09:58:48 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ I'm not terribly concerned about canola oil. I just don't think it's the monster they're making it out to be.
Thu 09:59:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In part 2 we've more interviews with infosec providers, both established and startups from the Florida ZTW2025 event sposored by Threatlocker. Ed, Helen and Alicja visit Games Bars and meet more heroic comic-book characters" ☛ https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=44 https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/ztw-p2.mp3 | Source: The Cyber Show
Thu 10:00:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Franz Jetzinger from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, investigates the impact of teacher training on HEY HI education." ☛ https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/supporting-teachers-to-integrate-ai-in-k-12-cs-education/ | Source: Raspberry Pi
Thu 10:00:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tallow fat, which is being promoted by these MAHA idiots, is loaded with saturated fats, and they keep screaming conspiracy theories about how Canada is selling repurposed machine oil. They did use it for that before they figured out how to purify it to remove the erucic acid.
Thu 10:00:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ohio ☛ https://therevelator.org/ohio-toxic-algae/ | Source: The Revelator
Thu 10:00:57 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ That's what makes it canola. Rapeseed oil is generally highly toxic.
Thu 10:01:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve have released the Steam Hardware & Software Survey for March 2025, and as expected with the Simplified Chinese language dropping the Linux stats have shot back up." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/linux-shoots-back-up-the-steam-survey-for-march-2025-with-simplified-chinese-dropping/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:02:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Valve released and then rereleased a fresh stable update to the Steam Client for Desktop and Steam Deck with a whole bunch of fixes and improvements." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/steam-desktop-and-steam-deck-stable-update-released-with-various-fixes-plus-tweaks-to-the-download-ui/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:02:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is not a drill. Hollow Knight: Silksong is alive, thankfully, and it's even going to be releasing this year. On Nintendo Switch 2 that is at least." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/hollow-knight-silksong-lives-and-its-releasing-in-2025/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:03:50 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Dodge Roll and Devolver Digital announced Enter the Gungeon 2 today, teased during the Nintendo Switch 2 event and it's coming to Steam as well in 2026" ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/bullet-hell-dungeon-crawler-enter-the-gungeon-2-announced-with-a-new-3d-style/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:04:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One classic point and click adventure game fans have been excited about has arrive." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/western-point-and-click-adventure-rosewater-is-out-now/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:04:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "UNDERTALE fans are pretty excited about this one! DELTARUNE from tobyfox is finally coming to Steam with chapters 1, 2, 3 and 4 on June 5th." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/deltarune-chapters-1-4-release-on-steam-in-june/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:05:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "After a couple of duds, Humble Bundle actually have a properly good deal here with Humble Choice for April 2025 having a really nice selection of games." ☛ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/04/humble-choice-for-april-2025-has-a-quality-list-of-games/ | Source: GamingOnLinux
Thu 10:08:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Games: DELTARUNE, Rosewater, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Games_DELTARUNE_Rosewater_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Games_DELTARUNE_Rosewater_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 10:12:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Canadians Ditch US Holidays in Rage: Potential £1.6bn Fallout and 14,000 Face Job Loss" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/canadians-ditch-us-holidays-rage-potential-16bn-fallout-14000-face-job-loss-1732345
Thu 10:12:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Tesla’s sales plummet 13 percent as Musk backlash grows | The Verge" https://www.theverge.com/news/641311/tesla-q1-2025-delivery-production-sales-slump-musk
Thu 10:13:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What It’s Like to Get Long COVID Now" https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/04/long-covid-clinics-closing/682251/
Thu 10:14:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ iophk: not even a hint at the massive downsides only unwarranted glowing praise propaganda not reporting https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/energy/1265880/smart-meters-to-help-cypriots-save-money/ (I"Smart meters to help Cypriots save money") https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2024/02/16/e-on-next-admits-more-than-a-third-of-customers-reject-smart-meter/
Thu 10:15:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Back to Cash: Life Without Money in Your Pocket is Not the Utopia Sweden Hoped" https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=25/03/31/1218257
Thu 10:16:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Trump’s Tariffs Could Reshape the US Tech Industry" https://www.wired.com/story/trump-global-tariffs-tech-industry-impacts/
Thu 10:16:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ good riddance: "US Airline Stocks Are Plummeting Amid Waning Demand—Is Now The Right Time To Invest?" https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-airline-stocks-are-plummeting-amid-waning-demand-now-right-time-invest-1732352
Thu 10:17:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "„Going Dark“: EU stellt Strategie zur Inneren Sicherheit vor" | EU presents internal security strategy https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/2025/going-dark-eu-stellt-strategie-zur-inneren-sicherheit-vor/
Thu 10:17:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Why Trump’s tariffs are self-defeating and pointless" https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/406453/trump-tariffs-china-shock
Thu 10:18:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Trump’s Tariff Plan Is Going to Hurt" https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2025/04/trump-tariff-plan-imports/682278/
Thu 10:18:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Elon Musk Lost His Big Bet" https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/04/elon-musk-has-overstayed-his-welcome/682275/
Thu 10:19:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Musk's Cuts at US Social Security Agency Are Illegal, Lawsuit Claims" https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2025-04-02/musks-cuts-at-us-social-security-agency-are-illegal-lawsuit-claims
Thu 10:20:11 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], We could defeat Canada in a war in 3-5 days, if that.
Thu 10:20:51 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ If Trump wanted it, he doesn't have to destroy the economy.
Thu 10:21:42 │ 〖admfubar〗 │ https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/researchers-build-a-risc-v-processor-using-a-2d-semiconductor/
Thu 10:31:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Texas State Board of Education" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-cypress-fairbanks-removed-textbook-chapters | Source: Pro Publica
Thu 10:31:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] <IsambardPrince> If Trump wanted it, he doesn't have to destroy the economy.
Thu 10:31:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it would
Thu 10:31:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] if us invaded canada, that would destroy us relations with europe
Thu 10:31:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and not just with europe
Thu 10:32:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it's a dumb move
Thu 10:32:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] did russiam get strongher after invading ukraine?
Thu 10:32:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Cryptocurrency" ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/hud-cryptocurrency-blockchain-democrats-maxine-waters | Source: Pro Publica http://techrights.org/n/2025/03/05/Just_Because_Common_Currencies_Including_the_US_Dollars_Are_Con.shtml
Thu 10:32:46 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ No. Even the US is still sanctioning them.
Thu 10:33:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Abducted ☛ https://thedissenter.org/abducted-for-writing-an-op-ed-dissenter-weekly/ | Source: The Dissenter
Thu 10:34:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One tenant was a Morgan State University student facing struggles typical of residents in the Kushner complexes." ☛ https://www.propublica.org/article/kushner-kushnerville-apartments-tenants-lawsuits-andrew-rabinowitz-lawyer | Source: Pro Publica
Thu 10:38:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But, with the mainstream emergence of generative AI, that social agreement has come into question and come under threat" ☛ https://creativecommons.org/2025/04/02/reciprocity-in-the-age-of-ai/ | Source: Creative Commons
Thu 10:38:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The trio set out to determine whether GPT-4o had, without the publisher's permission, ingested 34 copyrighted O'Reilly Media books." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/openai_copyright_bypass/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 10:44:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A bill that aims to further undermine operators of restricted platforms including Meta, Instagram, and X" ☛ https://torrentfreak.com/advertising-banned-on-all-sites-blocked-in-russia-starting-september-250402/ | Source: Torrent Freak
Thu 10:46:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "CPJ’s research shows that RFE/RL and VOA journalists often put themselves at risk by reporting in highly censored countries." ☛ https://cpj.org/2025/04/cpj-supports-legal-efforts-to-protect-rfe-rl-voa-after-trump-executive-order/ | Source: CPJ
Thu 10:47:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Whether from religious conservatives or progressive educators, today’s book bans share a common moral claim: some texts are too harmful to circulate." ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/censorship-book-banning-free-speech/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Thu 10:47:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "By the end of Friday The Telegraph offered to remove the article and cover Stop Funding Hate’s legal costs, although it did not accept any liability." ☛ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/telegraph-stop-funding-hate/ | Source: Press Gazette
Thu 10:48:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Protections on free speech look weaker than they did when I became a permanent resident." ☛ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/free-speech-deportation-crackdown/682258/ | Source: The Atlantic
Thu 10:50:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "driven by President Trump’s enthusiastic supporters" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-04-01/trump-network-newsmax-is-the-hottest-stock-on-wall-street | Source: Los Angeles Times
Thu 10:50:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "SoftBank is currently looking for someone to loan them $16 billion to help fund all of this." ☛ https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/02/openai-signs-its-40-billion-deal-with-softbank-or-maybe-30-billion-probably/ | Source: Pivot to AI http://techrights.org/n/2024/11/15/OpenAI_If_OpenAI_Survives_Another_2_Years_It_ll_be_About_30_Bil.shtml
Thu 10:50:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jefferies also notes that the low-cost mini-computer maker has not seen any impact so far from the tariffs imposed by Washington." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/raspberry_pi_not_affected_by_tariff/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 10:54:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ChromeOS has shot up in Iceland https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iceland/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 10:56:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows all-time low in Pakistan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/pakistan/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 10:57:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is a very basic slot machine with three wheels. Each has 12 symbols and there aren’t any complicated second screens, payline variations, or any of the other nonsense you’ll find in a modern casino." ☛ https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/04/02/this-student-made-his-own-odds-with-a-diy-slot-machine/ | Source: Arduino
Thu 10:58:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The laptop 12 is intended to be a budget machine, or at least a budget alternative, so it’s notably “chunkier” than the existing Laptop 13 design." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2656156/framework-laptop-12-pre-orders-start-april-9th.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:01:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Windows TCO: "The tribe "continued to take measures to contain the incident, including taking some systems offline" ☛ https://therecord.media/native-minnesota-tribe-says-cyber-incident-disrupted-healthcare-casino | Source: The Record
Thu 11:02:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, Framework, and Arduino ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Framework_and_Arduino.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_Framework_and_Arduino.gmi ∎
Thu 11:02:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 11:02:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Entrapment (Microsoft GitHJub) ☛ https://hamatti.org/posts/shared-rss-subscriptions-for-software-team/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala
Thu 11:02:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Peak Design says the wallet is constructed with TerraShell Ultra, which is an abrasion-resistant material." ☛ https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/bags-and-backpacks/peak-design-is-now-making-a-wallet-that-fits-3-passports-and-yet-still-fits-in-your-pocket | Source: Digital Camera World
Thu 11:03:06 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "You don’t need to take their word for it. Signal is open source, meaning the code is available for anyone to review" ☛ https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/locking-down-signal/ | Source: FPF
Thu 11:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “activist" ☛ https://jacobin.com/2025/04/wisconsin-supreme-court-election-musk/ | Source: Jacobin Magazine
Thu 11:03:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ [Old] "Yes, Vote-Buying Is Illegal. But Why?" ☛ https://law.stanford.edu/press/yes-vote-buying-is-illegal-but-why/ |
Thu 11:04:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Expenditures to influence voting" ☛ https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/597 | Source: uni Cornell
Thu 11:05:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wang regularly collaborated with researchers at the Institute of Information Engineering (IIE) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences" ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-research-probe-china/ | Source: Wired
Thu 11:06:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Few of the 431 members of the House of Representatives and the Senate who voted for the law have complained." ☛ https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-04-02/why-no-one-is-challenging-trumps-executive-order-that-keeps-tiktok-running | Source: US News And World Report
Thu 11:06:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Since our September 2024 report outlining the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) IT worker threat" ☛ https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dprk-it-workers-expanding-scope-scale/ | Source: Google
Thu 11:06:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The hermit kingdom (DPRK) runs a corps of operatives who apply for remote tech jobs and, if they get them" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/north_korean_fake_techies_target_europe/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 11:07:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This would allow governments to change primary legislation according to the politics of the day" ☛ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/briefing-data-use-and-access-bill-henry-viii-powers-threaten-democracy-and-uk-adequacy/ | Source: OpenRightsGroup
Thu 11:08:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "housing supply and birth rates have become twin focal points in America’s policy conversation" ☛ https://www.vox.com/policy/406604/abundance-ezra-klein-housing-yimby-pronatalism-birth-rates-donald-trump-ivf | Source: Vox
Thu 11:08:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "California isn’t recycling nearly enough water, according to a new report by UCLA researchers" ☛ https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-04-02/colorado-river-ucla-water-recycling | Source: Los Angeles Times
Thu 11:09:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "To this end, through our investigation we have developed a set of recommendations for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)" ☛ https://www.ioes.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Water-Reuse-Report.pdf |
Thu 11:15:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "But Trump couldn't have pulled this trick off without the Dem establishment's total unwillingness to confront the hollowness of their economic policies." ☛ https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/02/me-or-your-lying-eyes/#spherical-cows-on-frictionless-surfaces | Source: CoryDoctorow
Thu 11:17:26 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Islamic Republic Of Iran: GNU/Linux at all-time high this month https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/iran/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 11:19:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The show highlights how social media algorithms ensure certain content on our feed despite our choice" ☛ https://www.deccanchronicle.com/entertainment/digital-teens-unraveled-adolescence-series-shocks-with-social-medias-dark-influence-1870478 | Source: Deccan Chronicle
Thu 11:20:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "For that last category, authorities say the cartel uses social platforms — they’ve identified at least 60 pages" ☛ https://www.lonestarlive.com/nation-world/2025/04/jalisco-cartel-lures-recruits-on-social-media-with-fake-jobs-kills-those-who-resist.html | Source: Advance Local Media LLC
Thu 11:20:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That's due to the Wikimedia Foundation's caching scheme which distributes popular content to regional data centers around the globe for better performance." ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/wikimedia_foundation_bemoans_bot_bandwidth/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 11:20:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That said, while everybody else was either reacting with horror or delight at the tidal wave of gen-AI hype, I maintained my skepticism." ☛ https://nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-ambivalence/ | Source: Nolan Lawson
Thu 11:22:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Implanted BCIs are electrodes put in paralyzed people’s brains so they can use imagined movements to send commands from their neurons through a wire" ☛ https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/01/1114009/brain-computer-interfaces-10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/ | Source: MIT Technology Review
Thu 11:22:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "About half of U.S. adults say it is difficult to afford health care costs" ☛ https://www.kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs/ | Source: KFF
Thu 11:31:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Islamic Republic of Iran: GNU/Linux at All-time High This Month, Windows Falls to 12% ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_GNU_Linux_at_All_time_High_This_Month_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_GNU_Linux_at_All_time_High_This_Month_.gmi ∎
Thu 11:33:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Wired headphones are a more practical and reliable option than the wireless variety." ☛ https://www.pcworld.com/article/2637913/6-reasons-why-wired-headphones-are-better-than-wireless.html | Source: PC World
Thu 11:34:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My first article about things I overheard on the street tackled like as a verbal tic" ☛ https://thenewleafjournal.com/like-literally-like-unclear-thinking-and-speaking/ | Source: The New Leaf Journal
Thu 11:34:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I was a software web developer, a lot of time ago." ☛ https://mzll.it/2025/04/this-is-a-long-story/ | Source: Luigi Mozzillo
Thu 11:45:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "As a team lead, this isn’t going to work, because much more of your work is interrupt-driven or gets blocked for long periods of time." ☛ https://www.benkuhn.net/tmgr/ | Source: Ben Kuhn
Thu 11:46:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "John Kelsey and I wrote a short paper for the Rossfest Festschrift: “Rational Astrologies and Security“: [...]" ☛ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/rational-astrologies-and-security.html | Source: Bruce Schneier
Thu 11:46:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Visiting a web page and finding purple links in the article is a comforting experience. It means I'm familiar with most of the references the article makes to other content." ☛ https://susam.net/more-purple-links-please.html | Source: SusamPal
Thu 11:46:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Whereas new opportunities (or tragedies) may have caused your grandparents to move." ☛ https://www.8ball.report/p/the-millennial-friend-group-crisis | Source: Sean Monahan
Thu 11:53:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 🔤SpellBinding: AILSTWU Wordo: DOZED gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-04-03.gmi
Thu 11:54:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I am exhausted - about to fall asleep, in fact, but I have made a commitment to write something, no matter how small, every day." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2563
Thu 11:57:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Gemini Links 03/04/2025: Patch Panel and Pictures ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Gemini_Links_03_04_2025_Patch_Panel_and_Pictures.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Gemini_Links_03_04_2025_Patch_Panel_and_Pictures.gmi ∎
Thu 12:01:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 03/04/2025: SoftBank Money for Microsoft "Open" "AI" Probably Doesn't Even Exist, Wikimedia Foundation Blasts LLM Nuisance While Microsoft Admits Demand Has Shrunk ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_SoftBank_Money_for_Microsoft_Open_AI_Probably_.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_SoftBank_Money_for_Microsoft_Open_AI_Probably_.gmi ∎
Thu 12:08:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "There are no "LLMs based in India". They don't innovate, they don't build anything, all they have is endless supplies of cheap labor." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvh7shh
Thu 12:11:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "My Team At A 300K-Employee Firm Being Replaced" https://in.benzinga.com/news/25/04/44606752/dumpster-fire-cybersecurity-analyst-my-team-at-a-300k-employee-firm-being-replaced-by-an-ai-weve-been-secretly-training-for-2-years "guesses ranging from IBM"
Thu 12:22:43 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 12:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 12:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] I’ve been called so many times on vacation it got me into unnecessary arguments with my wife over that. With this company everything’s an emergency to he-l with your personal life is their creed
Thu 12:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Yesterday was my limit when I was at a funeral and they knew I was going to be offline and still they couldn’t at least wait until the afternoon
Thu 12:22:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] The days of working at least 12 hours are gone. No more!! I’m not going to be lazy but I’m not going to work myself to death so management can say good job but we need more
Thu 12:22:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Alvind and his Pipmunks are getting fat d-mb and happy from thousands of Americans who are producing while they get fatter
Thu 12:22:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 12:26:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] psydroid2: MinceR: i know at least two people like that
Thu 12:26:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they would even work 60 or 70 hours a week
Thu 12:26:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with or without token extra pay
Thu 12:26:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (usuall;y without)
Thu 12:26:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is what the "IT industry" seems to have becomme
Thu 12:27:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] my former colleague is now suing
Thu 12:27:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Rachel Sylvester named Observer political editor as around half staff leave title ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/rachel-sylvester-observer-political-editor/ "Around half current Observer staff have taken redundancy rather than join Tortoise Media."
Thu 12:27:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bangkok’s condo oversupply problem may worsen over quake fears about high-rise buildings ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/bangkoks-condo-oversupply-problem-may-worsen-over-quake-fears
Thu 12:28:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PEOPLE
Thu 12:28:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The "problem".... of RICH PEOPLE
Thu 12:31:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NV8600-Nano Hey Hi (AI) Developer Kit features NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB, quad GbE, Raspberry Pi Camera Module 2 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/nv8600-nano-ai-developer-kit-features-nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-8gb-quad-gbe-raspberry-pi-camera-module-2/
Thu 12:33:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ DeaDBeeF 1.10 Release Brings New Features ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/deadbeef-1-10-release-brings-new-features
Thu 12:34:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Destinaion Linux 413: What is Open Source's True Value? Plus NVIDIA's Open Robots ☞ https://destinationlinux.net/413
Thu 12:34:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dull Desktop? Install ‘Picture of the Day’ App on Ubuntu ☞ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/ubuntu-picture-of-the-day-app
Thu 12:35:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNOME Has A New App for Daily Wallpapers from Bing, Wikimedia ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/gnome-daily-wallpaper-bing/
Thu 12:37:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Practical Payment Solutions for Murena and /e/OS Users ☞ https://gaelduval.com/practical-payment-solutions-for-murena-and-e-os-users/
Thu 12:38:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ If your notifications look kind of stupid in Plasma 6.3.4, it’s my fault ☞ https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/02/if-your-notifications-look-kind-of-stupid-in-plasma-6-3-4-its-my-fault/
Thu 12:39:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the programs you may want to consider for your arsenal is GIMP, a free, open-source image editor. In many ways, it's unto Adobe Photoshop what LibreOffice is unto Microsoft Office." ☛ https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gimp-3-review.html | Source: Dedoimedo
Thu 12:40:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Mozilla has just unveiled Thunderbird version 137 of its widely adopted free and open-source desktop email client, now available for download. One of the more notable platform-specific updates comes on the Linux side." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-thunderbird-137-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
Thu 12:42:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Qt 6.9 cross-platform software development framework is out now with improved emoji rendering, 3D graph transparency, and performance boosts across all platforms." ☛ https://linuxiac.com/qt-6-9-now-available-with-boosts-to-performance-emoji-rendering/ | Source: Linuxiac
Thu 12:42:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Deploying an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and mobile core network using open source solutions can be complex, with challenges ranging from configuring dependencies to resolving registration issues." ☛ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/03/deploying-open-source-ims-and-mobile-core-networks-with-open5gs/ | Source: APNIC
Thu 12:44:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "See how trackers view your browser" ☛ https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ |
Thu 12:44:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I will do a live-streamed curl 8.13.0 release presentation on Twitch at 08:00 UTC (10:00 CEST)" ☛ https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/04/02/curl-8-13-0/ | Source: Daniel Stenberg
Thu 12:44:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016217/
Thu 12:46:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PorteuX 2.0 released ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016216/
Thu 12:47:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Security updates for Wednesday ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016205/
Thu 12:48:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Project 2025, a proposed road map for the current Trump administration authored by the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, had called for eliminating federal subsidies for the manufacturing program and letting the private sector “more properly” carry out its business advisory services." ☛ https://www.wired.com/story/nist-trump-manufacturing-extension-partnership/ | Source: Wired
Thu 13:06:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – StatCounter: Microsoft is Masking a Disaster, It's Way Behind DeepSeek Already and Interest in LLMs Has Waned ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/StatCounter_Microsoft_is_Masking_a_Disaster_It_s_Way_Behind_Dee.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/StatCounter_Microsoft_is_Masking_a_Disaster_It_s_Way_Behind_Dee.gmi ∎
Thu 13:08:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "In the same way that there are 10 “fifth Beatles”, I could have added many other kinds of optimisation, but I wanted to focus on what my experience has shown me to be the main contenders." ☛ https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2025/the_fifth_kind_of_optimisation.html | Source: Lawrence Tratt
Thu 13:08:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "What’s the difference between Option[A] and A | Null? How about between Either[A, B] and A | B?" ☛ https://alexn.org/blog/2025/04/02/tagged-vs-untagged-unions-in-scala/?pk_campaign=rss | Source: Alexandru Nedelcu
Thu 13:14:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "genAI is the next chapter in this calamitous cavalcade of computerised crapulance. This technology, whatever perceived or incidental benefit it has, slops out such enormous and uncaptured externalities that it affects all of us." ☛ https://rubenerd.com/im-so-tired-of-thinking-about-genai/ | Source: Ruben Schade
Thu 13:15:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] " The slave labour in Africa used to classify data. Our servers creaking under the load of their indiscriminate scrapers, to say nothing of our costs. Open source projects—the ones that deliver so much of the code necessary to make them work—being washed of their licences and clogged with spam. Creative outlets being forced to close under mountains of spam and genAI slop. I waste so much of my job now dealing with automated ab
Thu 13:15:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] use alerts it beggars belief. I could link to examples of each of these, but I’m tired, and I’m sure you’ve read the same stories."
Thu 13:16:05 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how true!
Thu 13:17:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install Deluge on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-deluge-fedora-41/
Thu 13:17:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Install JDownloader on Fedora 41 ☞ https://idroot.us/install-jdownloader-fedora-41/
Thu 13:18:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How To Put a GUI on Ansible, Using Semaphore ☞ https://thenewstack.io/how-to-put-a-gui-on-ansible-using-semaphore/
Thu 13:19:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Install Claude Code on Ubuntu Linux: A Developer’s Guide ☞ https://linux.how2shout.com/how-to-install-claude-code-ubuntu-linux/
Thu 13:19:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Nothing like slop "code" infecting your codebase and putting you at unknown legal risk?
Thu 13:21:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you are looking for a good remote password manager you can use from anywhere, there are plenty of excellent options to choose from." ☛ https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/18/installing-keepassxc-and-yubikey/ |
Thu 13:21:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here’s a CSS technique that produces blurry image placeholders (LQIPs) without cluttering up your markup — Only a single custom property needed!" ☛ https://leanrada.com/notes/css-only-lqip/ |
Thu 13:21:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "That 192900 number encodes everything needed to construct the placeholder - it manages to embed a single base color and six brightness components (in a 3x2 grid) in 20 bits" ☛ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/minimal-css-only-blurry-image-placeholders/ | Source: Simon Willison
Thu 13:22:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "A few days ago, I wrote a shitty pretty-printer for PHP 8.4's new Dom\HTMLDocument class." ☛ https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/an-opinionated-html-serializer-for-php-8-4/ | Source: Terence Eden
Thu 13:23:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "So I started tracking my backlog. The first game I finished was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D." ☛ https://tylersticka.com/journal/video-game-backlog-zero/ | Source: Tyler Sticka
Thu 13:24:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 HowTos ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_howtos.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_howtos.gmi ∎
Thu 13:24:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This is for everyone upgrading to Plasma 6.3.4, which was released yesterday. I suspect that some of you will notice something slightly wrong with notifications; the top padding is off, causing text to look not vertically centered most of the time." ☛ https://pointieststick.com/2025/04/02/if-your-notifications-look-kind-of-stupid-in-plasma-6-3-4-its-my-fault/ | Source: Nate Graham
Thu 13:26:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Less than a month after Plasma 6.3.3 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.3.4, the fourth bugfix update to its 6.3 series" ☛ https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-3-4-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac
Thu 13:27:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Also, I'm well aware of the calendar, thanks." ☛ https://www.talospace.com/2025/04/plan-9-finally-comes-to-power9.html | Source: Talospace
Thu 13:28:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "PorteuX, a Slackware-based Linux distribution whose main goal is to be super fast, small, portable, modular and immutable" ☛ https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12395 | Source: Distro Watch
Thu 13:29:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "was read by sshd before my '60-no-passwords.conf" ☛ https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenSSHConfigOrderMatters | Source: University of Toronto
Thu 13:30:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "We had it in our roadmap to launch Globstar already, and 80% of the work was done. When we saw the license change" ☛ https://thenewstack.io/deepsource-releases-globstar-amid-semgrep-licensing-backlash-2/ | Source: The New Stack
Thu 13:30:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "One of the primary claims made by the plaintiffs, among many others" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/oracle_breach_class_action/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 13:30:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "International optometry company Specsavers has paused the global standardization of its Oracle ERP system and moved to third-party support" ☛ https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/02/specsavers_oracle_ebs_standardization/ | Source: The Register UK
Thu 13:33:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ A practical guide to Llama Stack for Node.js developers ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/02/practical-guide-llama-stack-nodejs-developers
Thu 13:33:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Jef was an early contributor to fedora.us and the Fedora Project." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-fedora-project-leader-jef-spaleta | Source: Red Hat Official
Thu 13:36:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Here’s a look at who we recognized in London for helping to advance the community through their contributions" ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/meet-latest-openshift-superheroes | Source: Red Hat Official
Thu 13:37:05 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "I have almost 10 years here. Sure there were RAs under GR and she was incompetent but there’s something about Alvinds personality that irks me. Look I know CEOs aren’t supposed to be your best friend but read the damn room Alvind ! Specifically on your office hours meetings ! You don’t have to be so confrontational all the time !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 13:37:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ (IBM) "And Krabanaugh! How about people focusing on their jobs instead of people needing to learn 10,000 new skill for them to get a stupid badge and use products that nobody outside IBM Wants, They’re not reaping the benefits ! You are !!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqvcfdyb
Thu 13:38:16 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ (IBM) "I’m still going to do my tasks , actually excelling at them but no more 12-14 days and getting calls on vacation or at 11PM. My GDP amount this year was the final straw. I have a life outside this company" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqs461cq
Thu 13:39:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "The istio-csr agent enables a seamless integration with the Istio service mesh, allowing cert-manager to secure Istio workload and control plane components." ☛ https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-openshift-and-zero-trust-securing-workloads-cert-manager-and-openshift-service-mesh | Source: Red Hat Official
Thu 13:43:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "If you’ve ever wished Firefox had vertical tabs or an easier way to share links on your phone — and you left a comment somewhere asking for it — there’s a good chance someone saw it. And not just someone. The actual people building Firefox." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/about-mozilla-connect/ | Source: Mozilla
Thu 13:43:30 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "a long-requested Firefox feature designed to make tab management and multitasking easier." ☛ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/vertical-tabs-and-the-firefox-community/ | Source: Mozilla
Thu 13:49:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Ubuntu Blog: How does MongoDB work? ☞ https://ubuntu.com//blog/how-does-mongodb-work
Thu 13:50:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Choosing the right Container Network Interface (CNI) for Kubernetes is critical to achieving optimal performance, security, and scalability. With the launch of Canonical Kubernetes LTS (long-term support) last month" ☛ https://ubuntu.com//blog/canonical-kubernetes-cilium-and-other-cnis | Source: Ubuntu
Thu 13:56:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When a person conflates chainsaws with liberation... maybe you have a demented nutcase in charge.
Thu 13:58:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Baltic postage stamps celebrate energy disconnection from Russia ☞ https://eng.lsm.lv/article/society/society/02.04.2025-baltic-postage-stamps-celebrate-energy-disconnection-from-russia.a593883/
Thu 13:59:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Russian spy infiltrates ASML and NXP to steal technical data necessary to build 28nm-capable fabs ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/russian-spy-infiltrates-asml-and-nxp-to-steal-technical-data-necessary-to-build-28nm-capable-fabs
Thu 14:02:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 03 063951 < IsambardPrince> The four worst car brands you can buy.
Thu 14:02:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and i can't even buy the non-shit models anyway
Thu 14:02:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ less-shit, anyway
Thu 14:03:04 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ no F-150, no huge SUVs, no huge engines, no weird cars
Thu 14:03:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Challenging the Server Test for Image Embedding ☞ https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/04/challenging-server-embedding.html
Thu 14:03:41 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ just tiny, ugly, shitty fords designed in germany and tiny, shitty, mostly ugly stellantis cars (is GM even present in europe anymore since they got rid of opel?)
Thu 14:04:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] opel is vauxhall here
Thu 14:04:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and they still sell
Thu 14:04:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/
Thu 14:05:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] let's check their junkyard catalogue
Thu 14:05:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to see what
Thu 14:05:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "smart" crap they add
Thu 14:05:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (like they all do)
Thu 14:05:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ opel is a stellantis brand though
Thu 14:06:06 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] probably need "app" for them all
Thu 14:06:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i.e. some american spyphone
Thu 14:06:23 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ so instead of dressing up the tiniest, most laughable GM designs to be eye-wateringly ugly, they dress up shitty stellantis designs to be eye-wateringly ugly instead
Thu 14:06:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] MinceR: i don't know stellantis fits in
Thu 14:06:51 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ even though you can even buy the same stellantis designs with much less ugly designs from their french brands, right here
Thu 14:07:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i don't know why these merkin brands think that europeans want their cars specifically to be ugly
Thu 14:07:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] stellantis
Thu 14:07:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.vauxhall.co.uk/cars/grandland/model-overview.html
Thu 14:07:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] sounds like Greenland
Thu 14:07:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ hm, maybe GM is still selling the shit they got by buying daewoo motors
Thu 14:07:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they don't tell the price
Thu 14:07:47 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they sell loans
Thu 14:07:51 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in car form
Thu 14:07:54 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] installment plans
Thu 14:08:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] wow, that's a brand i have not heard of in a LONG time... daewoo
Thu 14:08:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] like "aiwa
Thu 14:08:30 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] remember "aiwa"?
Thu 14:08:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ yes
Thu 14:08:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ aiwa is still around, i think, but probably has nothing to do with what it used to be
Thu 14:08:52 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they dion't say how much the cars cost
Thu 14:08:55 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they hide it
Thu 14:08:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] to sell loans
Thu 14:09:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] how ridiculous!
Thu 14:09:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] is it normal for car sellers to hide all the prices?
Thu 14:09:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i cannot unfold any
Thu 14:09:50 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or see specs
Thu 14:10:33 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] what a useless site
Thu 14:10:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] just JS animationds
Thu 14:10:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] *animation
Thu 14:10:44 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and no actual relevant info
Thu 14:10:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ might depend on the seller
Thu 14:11:11 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ also, you might want to check the prices at the dealer's site
Thu 14:11:34 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and even then, at least here the custom is to have some sort of haggling happen at most of them
Thu 14:11:43 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ suzuki instead just has a "discounted price" that always applies
Thu 14:11:54 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and they list that next to the "list price"
Thu 14:12:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i found a version with prices now
Thu 14:12:58 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's absurd for a piece of tin with chassis
Thu 14:13:08 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 20 years ago they cost less than half and lasted 20 years
Thu 14:13:15 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ well, in europe it also has lots of alleged safety gear
Thu 14:13:18 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ and lots of computers
Thu 14:13:20 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now the panels are like some "ap"
Thu 14:13:22 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "app"
Thu 14:13:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no way they will issue patches till 2045
Thu 14:13:35 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ oh, and lots of extra complexity aimed at reducing emissions
Thu 14:13:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (if humans are not extinct by then)
Thu 14:13:42 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ with questionable efficacy
Thu 14:13:58 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (especially if you factor in all the part replacements it makes necessary)
Thu 14:14:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] lots of plasticware in the car
Thu 14:14:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not metal
Thu 14:14:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it is well known that models aimed at places like india from the same brands are much cheaper
Thu 14:14:37 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the sun will ruin the colour and form within years
Thu 14:14:38 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ though they're probably also less safe in a crash
Thu 14:14:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they dissolve
Thu 14:15:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they put volume control on the wheel
Thu 14:15:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] who needs critical functions anyway
Thu 14:15:38 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] aim for honk, lower volume instead
Thu 14:16:01 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] and you listen to music, so you cannot hear the surrounds, like other cars honking
Thu 14:16:04 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] must be veryu safe
Thu 14:16:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe add QWERTY keyboard to the wheel
Thu 14:16:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you can sms while you drive
Thu 14:16:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] or snapchat on the go
Thu 14:16:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] till you go on a sidewalk
Thu 14:17:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the handbrake looks like plastic
Thu 14:17:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe it's "Smart" and "power"
Thu 14:17:25 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] not nechanical
Thu 14:17:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you need to power on the car to put on the handbrake
Thu 14:17:40 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (not dangerous at all!)
Thu 14:18:12 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "smart springs"?
Thu 14:18:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "sorry, battery low"
Thu 14:18:48 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no power = no clock
Thu 14:18:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] it's rendering of analogue clock
Thu 14:19:07 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] instead of a normal clock that works also when it's turned on
Thu 14:19:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] (or off)
Thu 14:20:02 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no power = cannot roll up/down windows... no "rolling" per se
Thu 14:20:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] i hope the handles are mechanical
Thu 14:20:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so it's not a case of, no power = cannot enter/exit the car
Thu 14:22:11 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] glove compartment mechanical
Thu 14:22:18 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so no need for "app" to open it
Thu 14:24:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ TTAB Quarterly Index: January - March 2025 ☞ http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/04/ttab-quarterly-index-january-march-2025.html
Thu 14:24:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Video: Document Freedom Day with the Nepalese LibreOffice community ☞ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/04/02/video-document-freedom-day-with-the-nepalese-libreoffice-community/
Thu 14:25:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ IBM "White Men" Discrimination Lawsuit Moves Forward, Judge Denies IBM's Motion to Dismiss ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/ibm-white-men-discrimination-lawsuit
Thu 14:26:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Open Source DNA Project Dies of Convicted Felon Derangement Syndrome ☞ https://lunduke.substack.com/p/open-source-dna-project-dies-of-trump
Thu 14:26:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Gemini Protocol Has Growing Appeal (the Web Got Too Bloated and Full of LLM Slop) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Gemini_Protocol_Has_Growing_Appeal_the_Web_Got_Too_Bloated_and_.shtml
Thu 14:27:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ People who claim to do "Open Source" and believe in it: 1) would not GIVE their DNA. 2) would not COLLECT the DNA of people.
Thu 14:27:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ It's like saying "open source surveillance". It does not make any sense. It's like saying "good menace".
Thu 14:27:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 03 161538 < schestowitz[TR2]> aim for honk, lower volume instead
Thu 14:27:44 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ i never had that issue
Thu 14:28:03 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 03 161612 < schestowitz[TR2]> maybe add QWERTY keyboard to the wheel
Thu 14:28:05 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ would be nice
Thu 14:28:10 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ it would make satnav more comfy
Thu 14:28:27 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ instead of leaning to the center and typing on the screen, i could just type on the steering wheel
Thu 14:28:34 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] maybe add doom
Thu 14:28:39 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] so you can shoot while yoou drive
Thu 14:29:31 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://electrek.co/2020/08/26/tesla-driver-autopilot-watching-movie-when-crash-police-car/
Thu 14:29:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/01/tesla-driver-killed-autopilot-self-driving-car-harry-potter
Thu 14:29:59 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/tesla-crash-while-watching-movie-on-autopilot
Thu 14:30:00 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.bostonherald.com/2016/07/01/man-watching-movie-dies-in-tesla-on-autopilot/
Thu 14:30:36 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the swasticars suck at everything
Thu 14:30:49 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/
Thu 14:30:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] this is who runs the US now
Thu 14:30:56 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] liars and frauds
Thu 14:33:25 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ 03 162839 < schestowitz[TR2]> so you can shoot while yoou drive
Thu 14:33:31 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ adding doom is not the way to do that
Thu 14:33:36 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ getting a tank or APC is
Thu 14:33:45 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ or maybe mounting a RCWS somewhere...
Thu 14:34:14 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ that would probably work better on a pickup, though
Thu 14:44:22 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://imgur.com/gallery/YajxIO1 = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/YajxIO1
Thu 15:27:47 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (cat) https://imgur.com/gallery/9AhTBHw = https://rimgo.bloat.cat/gallery/9AhTBHw
Thu 16:04:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inside the C.D.C., a Final ‘Love Letter’ Before Mass Layoffs ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/cdc-layoffs-response.html
Thu 16:05:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ C.D.C. Cuts Threaten to Set Back the Nation’s Health, Critics Say ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/cdc-layoffs-kennedy.html
Thu 16:05:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/health/cdc-tump-health.html
Thu 16:07:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 2024 was South Korea’s hottest year in half a century ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/2024-recorded-as-south-koreas-hottest-year-in-half-century
Thu 16:10:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ North Korean IT warriors push to infiltrate European firms ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/north-korean-it-warriors-push-to-infiltrate-european-firms
Thu 16:13:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ China urges US to immediately lift tariffs, vows retaliation ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-urges-us-to-cancel-reciprocal-tariffs
Thu 16:15:11 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ I Just Saw the Future. It Was Not in America. ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/opinion/trump-tariffs-china.html
Thu 16:18:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US lawmakers seek to rename street for jailed Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/02/us-lawmakers-seek-to-rename-street-for-jailed-hong-kong-media-tycoon-jimmy-lai/
Thu 16:19:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man orders end to duty-free relief for small parcels from China, in blow to Shein, Temu ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/03/trump-orders-end-to-duty-free-relief-for-small-parcels-from-china-in-blow-to-shein-temu/
Thu 16:19:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Live: Convicted Felon tariffs are 'major blow to world economy', says EU chief ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250402-live-us-stocks-fall-ahead-of-trump-s-liberation-day-tariff-announcement
Thu 16:20:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Bookshelf: ‘Vampire state: The rise and fall of the Chinese economy’ ☞ https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-vampire-state-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-chinese-economy/
Thu 16:22:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to connect VMs to user-defined networks in OpenShift ☞ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/02/how-connect-vms-user-defined-networks-openshift
Thu 16:23:40 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ https://github.com/hugues-m/phpunit-vw
Thu 16:26:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Major Open-Source Boosts Kubernetes Security ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/major-open-source-boosts-kubernetes-security/
Thu 16:27:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ “TiDB supports scaling to millions of queries per second” ☞ https://www.opensourceforu.com/2025/04/tidb-supports-scaling-to-millions-of-queries-per-second/
Thu 16:30:19 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LILYGO T-Deck Pro – An ESP32-S3 LoRa messenger with e-paper touch display, keyboard, and 4G LTE or audio codec option ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/03/lilygo-t-deck-pro-esp32-s3-lora-messenger-e-paper-touch-display-keyboard-and-4g-lte-or-audio-codec-option/
Thu 16:31:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ P42 Pico2 M.2 – A Raspberry Pi RP2350 board in M.2 form factor ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/p42-pico2-m-2-raspberry-pi-rp2350-board-in-m2-form-factor/
Thu 16:32:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10-cent WCH CH570/CH572 RISC-V MCU features 2.4GHz wireless, Bluetooth LE 5.0, USB 2.0 ☞ https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/10-cents-wch-ch570-ch572-risc-v-mcu-features-2-4ghz-wireless-bluetooth-le-5-0-usb-2-0/
Thu 16:32:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Seeing the NSWGR 3526 steam locomotive! ☞ https://rubenerd.com/seeing-the-3576-steam-train/
Thu 16:33:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Surge in Scans for Juniper "t128" Default User, (Wed, Apr 2nd) ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31824
Thu 16:34:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Exploring Statistical Measures to Predict URLs as Legitimate or Intrusive ☞ https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/31822
Thu 16:34:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Merging Hong Kong’s public broadcaster and gov’t PR wing ‘counterproductive,’ commerce chief tells lawmaker ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/02/merging-hong-kongs-public-broadcaster-and-govt-pr-wing-counterproductive-commerce-chief-tells-lawmaker/
Thu 16:35:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Lightmatter unveils high-performance photonic 'superchip', claims world's fastest Hey Hi (AI) interconnect ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/lightmatter-unveils-high-performance-photonic-superchip-claims-worlds-fastest-ai-interconnect
Thu 16:35:44 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Right-Wing Group Used Photos of Emily Ratajkowski and Male Model to Lure Voters to the Polls ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/style/right-wing-group-wisconsin-voting-thirst-traps.html
Thu 16:36:20 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ From The Daily: In the face of DEI cuts, campus must mobilize ☞ https://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/editorials/from-the-daily-in-the-face-of-dei-cuts-campus-must-mobilize/
Thu 16:38:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki ☞ https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-limits-of-ai-generated-miyazaki
Thu 16:39:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ So it is NOT news, it is SLOP https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/newsquest-36-ai-assisted-reporters-non-canon-news-disintermediation/ see http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/26/The_UK_s_Press_Gazette_Has_No_Credibility_Anymore_It_Celebrates.shtml https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/11/Why_is_UK_Press_Gazette_Jingoistic_About_Plagiarists_and_LLM_Sl.shtml
Thu 16:39:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Also see https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/21/Paywalls_Bots_Spam_and_Spyware_is_Future_of_the_Media_According.shtml
Thu 16:40:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Blurble is a word guessing game ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/blurble-word-guessing-game/
Thu 16:41:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Free and Open Source Software ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi ∎
Thu 16:41:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ 10 Best Free and Open Source Subtitle Editors ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/subtitleeditors/
Thu 16:41:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ast-grep performs structural search, lint and rewriting ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/ast-grep-performs-structural-search-lint-rewriting/
Thu 16:41:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ maim takes screenshots of your desktop ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/maim-screenshots-desktop/
Thu 16:42:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ arttime is an intriguing clock, timer, time manager with text art ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/arttime-clock-timer-time-manager/
Thu 16:42:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Field Monitor is a remote desktop client designed for GNOME ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/field-monitor-remote-desktop-client-gnome/
Thu 16:43:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tabëla formats tables into HTML or Markdown ☞ https://www.linuxlinks.com/tabela-formats-tables-html-markdown/
Thu 16:43:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Amid Secret Shut-downs and Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (4 Waves of Layoffs in 3 Months of 2025) Some Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Staff Expected to Go On Strike ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/Amid_Secret_Shut_downs_and_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_4_Waves_of.shtml
Thu 16:44:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Rethinking Body Art With LEDs" ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/supercon-2024-rethinking-body-art-with-leds/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 16:45:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Climate Change Could Wipe 40% Off Global Economy, Study Predicts ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/climate-change-could-wipe-40-off-global-economy-study-predicts
Thu 16:47:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Breakthrough: World's Smallest Pacemaker Is The Size of a Rice Grain ☞ https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-worlds-smallest-pacemaker-is-the-size-of-a-rice-grain
Thu 16:49:09 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Inkscape 1.4.1 is out! Initial Linearity Curve Import & Splash Screen ☞ https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/04/inkscape-1-4-1-is-out-initial-linearity-curve-import-splash-screen/
Thu 16:50:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ GNU Artanis: A secure design of crypto custody with TEE ☞ https://artanis.dev/blog/better-custody.html
Thu 16:51:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Zorin_OS_17_3_takes_the_Brave_step_of_changing_its_default_brow.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Zorin_OS_17_3_takes_the_Brave_step_of_changing_its_default_brow.gmi ∎
Thu 16:53:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Is Out Today to Fix the Most Common Crashes and Other Bugs ☞ https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-3-4-is-out-today-to-fix-the-most-common-crashes-and-other-bugs
Thu 16:53:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.0 Distro Released with GNOME 48 and GNU/Linux Kernel 6.14 ☞ https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-0-distro-released-with-gnome-48-and-linux-kernel-6-14
Thu 16:53:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Mozilla Thunderbird 137 Open-Source Email Client Released, Here’s What’s Changed ☞ https://9to5linux.com/mozilla-thunderbird-137-open-source-email-client-released-heres-whats-changed
Thu 16:54:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Valve’s Latest Steam Client Release Brings Faster Download of Updates on Linux ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/01/Valve_s_Latest_Steam_Client_Release_Brings_Faster_Download_of_U.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/01/Valve_s_Latest_Steam_Client_Release_Brings_Faster_Download_of_U.gmi ∎
Thu 16:54:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Stefano Maffulli and His Microsoft-Funded OSI Staff Are Killing the OSI and Killing "Open Source" (All for Money!) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Stefano_Maffulli_and_His_Microsoft_Funded_OSI_Staff_Are_Killing.shtml
Thu 16:55:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Why We're Reporting Brett Wilson LLP for Apparently Misusing Their Licence to Protect American Microsofters Who Attack Women ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/01/Why_We_re_Reporting_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Apparently_Misusing_Th.shtml
Thu 16:55:23 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ My Motion Disbarring or “Striking Off” Brett Wilson LLP for Enabling Violent Americans Who Try to Crush Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Critics in the United Kingdom by Multiple SLAPPs ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/My_Motion_Disbarring_or_Striking_Off_Brett_Wilson_LLP_for_Enabl.shtml
Thu 16:55:35 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Web Can Survive LLM Slop, But Only If We Collectively Shun and Discourage Serial Sloppers ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/The_Web_Can_Survive_LLM_Slop_But_Only_If_We_Collectively_Shun_a.shtml
Thu 16:55:42 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LLM Slop Helps Obscure and Distort News About Layoffs (IBM, GAFAM) ☞ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/02/LLM_Slop_Helps_Obscure_and_Distort_News_About_Layoffs_IBM_GAFAM.shtml
Thu 16:56:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ One Book To Boot Them All ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/one-book-to-boot-them-all/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 16:57:53 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Tails 6.14.1 Released with Improved Tor Browser Integration ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Tails_6_14_1_Released_with_Improved_Tor_Browser_Integration.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Tails_6_14_1_Released_with_Improved_Tor_Browser_Integration.gmi ∎
Thu 16:58:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Hey Hi (AI) buzzword-slinging by Mozilla, as usual ☞ https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/04/01/new-mozilla-research-civil-liability-along-the-ai-value-chain/
Thu 16:59:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ When data never dies: How better GDPR enforcement could minimise hate and harm ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/when-data-never-dies-how-better-gdpr-enforcement-could-minimise-hate-and-harm/
Thu 16:59:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Building bridges for digital rights: The Civic Journalism Coalition ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/building-bridges-for-digital-rights-the-civic-journalism-coalition/
Thu 17:00:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Security Playbook ☞ https://edri.org/our-work/the-security-playbook/ "EDRi affiliate SUPERRR is challenging “Security Theater” as a societal maneuver."
Thu 17:01:51 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Programmer’s Macro Pad Bangs Out Whole Functions ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/programmers-macro-pad-bangs-out-whole-functions/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 17:03:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "it’s a command-line interface (CLI) for power monitoring smart plugs." ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/monitor-your-smart-plugs-on-the-command-line/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 17:03:38 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man announces sweeping global tariffs, risking a trade war and inflation ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250402-trump-announces-sweeping-global-tariffs-risking-trade-war-and-inflation-economy-trade-european-union-china-us
Thu 17:04:34 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Thunderbird Launches Open Source Services to Rival Gmail and Office365 ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Thunderbird_Launches_Open_Source_Services_to_Rival_Gmail_and_Of.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Thunderbird_Launches_Open_Source_Services_to_Rival_Gmail_and_Of.gmi ∎
Thu 17:04:43 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ İstanbul inflation rises 3.79 percent in March ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/istanbul-inflation-rises-3-79-percent-in-march-306073
Thu 17:05:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thunderbird plans "Thundermail" email and other services ☞ https://lwn.net/Articles/1016219/
Thu 17:07:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ PGDay UK 2025, September 9th, London, England ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgday-uk-2025-september-9th-london-england-3049/
Thu 17:07:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ openHalo Project is now Released! ☞ https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/openhalo-project-is-now-released-3048/
Thu 17:08:22 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Tech stocks slump after Convicted Felon announces ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs ☞ https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/02/tech-stocks-slump-trump-announces-liberation-day-tariffs/
Thu 17:08:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dihydroxyacetone Man’s New Tariffs Test Apple’s Global Supply Chain ☞ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/technology/trump-tariffs-apple-iphones.html
Thu 17:11:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.2.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.2.gmi ∎
Thu 17:12:55 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Programming Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Programming_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 17:14:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Back End/Databases: MongoDB, Postgres, and more ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Back_End_Databases_MongoDB_Postgres_and_more.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Back_End_Databases_MongoDB_Postgres_and_more.gmi ∎
Thu 17:14:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Mozilla: Firefox Features and Mozilla on Buzzwords ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Mozilla_Firefox_Features_and_Mozilla_on_Buzzwords.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Mozilla_Firefox_Features_and_Mozilla_on_Buzzwords.gmi ∎
Thu 17:16:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴: Google Android Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.1.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Android_Leftovers.1.gmi ∎
Thu 17:16:18 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Red Hat Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 17:17:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Videos and Shows: Destination Linux, Document Freedom Day, and Openwashing of Surveillance ("Open Source DNA") ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Videos_and_Shows_Destination_Linux_Document_Freedom_Day_and_Ope.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Videos_and_Shows_Destination_Linux_Document_Freedom_Day_and_Ope.gmi ∎
Thu 17:19:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, RISC-V, and More ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_and_More.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_RISC_V_and_More.gmi ∎
Thu 17:19:41 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Today's 𝘛𝘶𝘹 𝘔𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/today_s_leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 17:21:49 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Links 03/04/2025: Tariff Pains and C.D.C. Cuts ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_Tariff_Pains_and_C_D_C_Cuts.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Links_03_04_2025_Tariff_Pains_and_C_D_C_Cuts.gmi ∎
Thu 18:05:12 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Brett Wilson LLP Reported to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Brett_Wilson_LLP_Reported_to_the_Solicitors_Regulation_Authorit.gmi ∎
Thu 18:05:46 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ (video) (audio) https://imgur.com/gallery/SuapeVA/comment/2446382831
Thu 18:16:59 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ZINE ABOUT SMALL WEB - 7 issue is out: "I present to your attention the 7th issue of the magazine" gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2564
Thu 18:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ LQ’s account of the end gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2565
Thu 18:18:56 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Not all updates are so bad. The best and most important updates are ones companies hardly ever talk about: security updates. Vulnerabilities are found in software every day, some extremely serious, and it's important to fix those vulnerabilities." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202504/20250403-decoupling-updates.gmi
Thu 18:25:09 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqybecq1
Thu 18:25:10 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] ""
Thu 18:25:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] IBM must face discrimination claim from White male worker, judge says
Thu 18:25:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] Hopefully this helps the AFL win their lawsuit against IBM.
Thu 18:25:16 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] https://www.hrdive.com/news/ibm-reverse-discrimination-claim-from-white-male-worker/744121/
Thu 18:25:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] "
Thu 18:25:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Alvind will probably settle... He doesn’t want the bad press ... Alvind is beholden to his handlers on Wall Street ... On the Job and as CEO he walks around like an arrogant A Hole but to investors he’s their lapdog" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqybecq1
Thu 18:28:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The Magic Touch ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/02/the-magic-touch-a-555-touch-switch/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 18:28:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Handheld 18650 Analyzer Scopes Out Salvaged Cells ☛ https://hackaday.com/2025/04/03/handheld-18650-analyzer-scopes-out-salvaged-cells/ | Source: Hackaday
Thu 18:29:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Guardian journalist checked Noel Clarke allegations ‘again and again’ ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-journalist-checked-noel-clarke-allegations-again-and-again/
Thu 18:29:47 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Guardian journalist defends putting Noel Clarke investigation sources in touch ☞ https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/guardian-journalist-defends-putting-noel-clarke-investigation-sources-in-touch/
Thu 18:30:32 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Qt 6.9 Released ☞ https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.9-released
Thu 18:31:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Community Snapshot—March ☞ https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/04/community-snapshot-march/
Thu 18:31:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Chinese tech giants boosted Nvidia GPU purchases by 4x to 6x during Q1 ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chinese-tech-giants-boosted-nvidia-gpu-purchases-by-4x-to-6x-during-q1
Thu 18:34:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Thousands of websites created by AI: Unmasking the fake news generators ☞ https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/focus/20250402-thousands-of-websites-created-by-ai-unmasking-the-fake-news-generators
Thu 18:36:46 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ intellectual property? you mean PATENTS? COPYRIGHTS? what exactly. too value. propaganda terms. ☞ https://federalnewsnetwork.com/contracting/2025/04/the-government-confirms-its-rights-to-certain-contractor-intellectual-property/
Thu 18:37:17 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ‘We need not Hey Hi (AI) but technology that works for people’ ☞ https://bianet.org/haber/we-need-not-ai-but-technology-that-works-for-people-306076
Thu 18:38:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "AI-native" is one of the latest BS buzzwords. Adding adjectives to adjectives for hype.
Thu 18:40:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Union sues Convicted Felon administration over executive order revoking federal departments collective bargaining rights ☞ https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/04/union-sues-trump-administration-over-executive-order-revoking-federal-departments-collective-bargaining-rights/
Thu 18:42:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AI ambivalence ☞ https://nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-ambivalence/
Thu 18:43:21 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ AMD pins Ryzen 9000 'failures' on compatibility issues — BIOS update recommended to avoid boot problems ☞ https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-pins-ryzen-9000-failures-on-compatibility-issues-bios-update-recommended-to-avoid-boot-problems
Thu 18:45:29 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Madagascar: GNU/Linux up again ... 4.1% https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/madagascar/#monthly-200902-202504
Thu 19:06:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Techrights – Microsoft's Trouble in Africa and Asia ⇨ https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Microsoft_s_Trouble_in_Africa_and_Asia.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/04/03/Microsoft_s_Trouble_in_Africa_and_Asia.gmi ∎
Thu 19:14:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Australia to ‘stand up for national interests’ on US tariffs, says PM Albanese ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australia-to-stand-up-for-national-interests-on-us-tariffs-says-pm-albanese
Thu 19:16:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ US report says human rights further curtailed in Hong Kong, as city slams ‘slanders and smears’ ☞ https://hongkongfp.com/2025/04/02/us-report-says-human-rights-further-curtailed-in-hong-kong-as-city-slams-slanders-and-smears/
Thu 19:19:45 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ American Oversight’s Lawsuit Forces Creation of New Records Retention Policy for DOGE ☞ https://americanoversight.org/american-oversights-lawsuit-forces-creation-of-new-records-retention-policy-for-doge/
Thu 19:20:07 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ NSA Mike Waltz Used Gmail for Government Work — Here’s Why That Matters ☞ https://americanoversight.org/nsa-mike-waltz-used-gmail-for-government-work-heres-why-that-matters/
Thu 19:21:40 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Questions Remain Over Attacks Causing DrayTek Router Reboots ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/questions-remain-over-attacks-causing-draytek-router-reboots/
Thu 19:22:02 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ North Korea’s IT Operatives Are Exploiting Remote Work Globally ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/north-koreas-it-operatives-are-exploiting-remote-work-globally/
Thu 19:23:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition) ☞ https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/plain-home-talk
Thu 19:23:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ KDE Plasma 6.3.4, Bugfix Release for April ☞ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.3.4/
Thu 19:39:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Dirk Eddelbuettel: nanotime 0.3.12 on CRAN: Maintenance ☞ http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/04/02#nanotime_0.3.12
Thu 19:40:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Junichi Uekawa: I was hoping to go to debconf but the frequent travel is painful for me right now that I probably won't make it. ☞ http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/diary/daily/2025-Apr-3.html.en#2025-Apr-3-10:29:07
Thu 19:40:52 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Vulnerabilities Expose Jan Hey Hi (AI) Systems to Remote Manipulation ☞ https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-expose-jan-ai-systems-to-remote-manipulation/
Thu 19:41:37 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Converting from commerce to commerce with some trees around it https://themeteor.org/2019/09/19/proposal-to-develop-central-retail-park-into-a-car-park-represents-the-very-worst-of-urban-development-in-manchester/ https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/how-central-retail-park-site-30649952
Thu 19:42:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ With "trees" as just a "side dish" https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/plans-in-for-new-manchester-park/ https://constructionwave.co.uk/2024/08/28/consultation-opens-for-manchester-central-retail-park-transformation/
Thu 19:43:15 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Reforesting or rewilding would be vastly cheaper
Thu 19:45:14 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ WordPress owner Automattic announces major layoffs https://www.techradar.com/pro/wordpress-com-owner-automattic-announces-major-layoffs
Thu 19:47:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Trump tariffs live updates: Global stocks plunge as U.S. allies plan reaction"
Thu 19:56:04 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How are big tech layoffs influencing job markets in Asia? https://www.techinasia.com/question/how-are-big-tech-layoffs-influencing-job-markets-in-asia
Thu 20:00:24 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ The issue here is bad passwords, not "Linux" or "SSH" https://thehackernews.com/2025/04/outlaw-group-uses-ssh-brute-force-to.html
Thu 20:01:03 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ HEY HI nonsense. https://www.networkworld.com/article/3952538/linux-foundation-networking-shares-new-ai-projects-milestone-releases.html
Thu 20:01:28 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release also adds experimental Wayland sessions for the Cinnamon, LXQt, and Xfce editions." https://9to5linux.com/slackware-based-porteux-2-0-distro-released-with-gnome-48-and-linux-kernel-6-14
Thu 20:02:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary snake-oil? https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adaptiva-expands-onesite-patch-to-mac-and-linux-delivering-cross-platform-patching-at-scale-302417745.html
Thu 20:03:10 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Proprietary all the way https://news.itsfoss.com/proton-drive-docs-update/
Thu 20:04:00 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Working for Microsoft and its Ponzi scheme again, by proxy https://cio.eletsonline.com/news/infosys-joins-forces-with-linux-foundation-to-promote-ethical-ai-in-networking/74400/
Thu 20:04:25 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ How to Use Your Pixel's Hidden Linux Terminal (and Should You?) https://www.howtogeek.com/how-to-use-pixel-hidden-linux-terminal/
Thu 20:07:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Linux Foundation launches NeoNephos for digital sovereignty in Europe https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/130075/linux-foundation-launches-neonephos-for-digital-sovereignty-in-europe/
Thu 20:08:31 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ They say this https://tech.eu/2025/03/31/linux-foundation-europe-launches-neonephos-for-eu-digital-sovereignty/ but do this: http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/30/New_IRS_Filing_Shows_That_the_Most_Dominant_Company_in_the_Linu.shtml
Thu 20:09:01 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the release and general availability of Nitrux 3.9.1 as the latest ISO snapshot of this Debian-based immutable and systemd-free GNU/Linux distribution using a highly customized KDE Plasma desktop environment by default." https://9to5linux.com/immutable-distro-nitrux-3-9-1-brings-new-convergent-web-browser-linux-6-13
Thu 20:09:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Linux" Foundation = the primacy of greed
Thu 20:10:13 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "An iconic desktop weather app from Linux’s past has just blown in — yes, Typhoon is back!" https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/developer-revives-iconic-desktop-weather-app-for-linux
Thu 20:10:36 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "This release also fixes a rare issue on Linux where non-steam Protons could get assigned an incorrect compatibility tool." https://9to5linux.com/valves-latest-steam-client-release-brings-faster-download-of-updates-on-linux
Thu 20:10:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "March was another stellar month for Linux software updates, with big improvements to essential privacy tools like KeePassXC, creative apps such as Shotcut and DigiKam, and many more — updates that didn’t warrant dedicated articles on this blog." https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/linux-app-release-roundup-march-2025
Thu 20:10:58 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ Microsoft Foundation of Lies and Deceit
Thu 20:12:33 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Secure Boot causes issues" https://www.xda-developers.com/why-i-stopped-dual-booting-windows-and-linux-on-my-pc/ Microsoft is sabotaging Linux http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/08/21/Good_Reason_to_Delete_Windows_Not_Dual_Boot_and_Call_Out_the_Mi.shtml
Thu 20:14:58 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Security Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.3.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Security_Leftovers.3.gmi ∎
Thu 20:15:59 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2025/04/02/maximize-productivity-and-roi-with-windows-365-new-innovations-now-generally-available/
Thu 20:16:16 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ ooh, MICROS~1 INNOVA~1!
Thu 20:16:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] 360 spyware
Thu 20:16:23 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ sell a thin client for the price of a decent PC Microsoft Edition(TM)
Thu 20:16:24 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ those always work out great
Thu 20:16:29 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] with screenshots taken every aecond
Thu 20:16:32 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] fffor "hey hgi"
Thu 20:16:37 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ yes
Thu 20:16:39 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ➲ 𝕿𝖚𝖝 𝕸𝖆𝖈𝖍𝖎𝖓𝖊𝖘 ⨦ (NEW): Linux Foundation / Openwashing Leftovers ⇨ https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Linux_Foundation_Openwashing_Leftovers.shtml | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/04/03/Linux_Foundation_Openwashing_Leftovers.gmi ∎
Thu 20:16:53 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
Thu 20:17:24 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ if the spying isn't bringing the data to us, we'll come and take it from you!
Thu 20:17:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Zorin OS 17.3 takes the Brave step of changing its default browser from Firefox http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/06/is-microsoft-trying-to-commit-.html
Thu 20:18:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] for hey hi
Thu 20:19:14 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- blogs.windows.com | Maximize productivity and ROI with Windows 365: New innovations now generally available | Windows Experience Blog
Thu 20:19:17 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] no business model
Thu 20:19:21 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] they tried for ages to do this
Thu 20:19:23 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] renting windows
Thu 20:19:26 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] in this way
Thu 20:19:28 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] even patented it
Thu 20:19:35 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/02/25/Microsoft_is_Admitting_That_It_Has_No_Viable_Business_Model_Sta.shtml
Thu 20:19:41 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] now they sell office for "lifetime"
Thu 20:19:45 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] whatever that even means
Thu 20:19:52 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ because if they don't keep the client, the server is going to die too
Thu 20:19:57 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2024/09/15/Microsoft_and_the_Sunk_Cost_Fallacy.shtml
Thu 20:20:11 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ even if it's a Microsoft-sanctioned "thin client"
Thu 20:20:15 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] the server is already dead
Thu 20:20:22 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ Azure, I mean
Thu 20:20:27 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] dying
Thu 20:20:27 │ 〖psydroid2〗 │ that's going to die too
Thu 20:20:46 │ 〖schestowitz[TR2〗 │] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/11/Microsoft_in_Trouble_as_Azure_Breaks_and_Only_Days_After_Promis.shtml
Thu 20:22:08 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ "Foxconn 2.0. Wisconsin likes to be taken advantage of." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jqx4hp6e
Thu 20:22:57 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ UI/UX Improvements For the Redesigned Request Page ☞ https://openbuildservice.org/2025/04/02/ui-ux-improvements-for-redesigned-request-page//
Thu 20:23:27 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ ST Picks: Taiwan’s dilemma - Freedom of speech or national security? ☞ https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/st-picks-taiwans-dilemma-freedom-of-speech-or-national-security
Thu 20:25:54 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ New, Illegal, Guidance Means More Arbitrary Denials, Less Accountability at USPTO ☞ https://patentprogress.org/2025/04/new-illegal-guidance-means-more-arbitrary-denials-less-accountability-at-uspto/
Thu 20:26:48 │ 〖𝐈𝐑𝐂 TR NEWS〗 │ Event Wrap: ICANN 82 ☞ https://blog.apnic.net/2025/04/03/event-wrap-icann-82/
Thu 21:11:06 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-rates-tariffs-52dbb020a4c41122e31669c2da236d67
Thu 21:11:19 │ 〖MinceR〗 │ "golden age"!
Thu 21:11:37 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/stock-market-today-dow-plunges-1700-points-nasdaq-sp-500-pummeled-in-biggest-rout-since-2020-200415736.html
Thu 21:11:55 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/apple-sheds-over-300-billion-in-tariff-fueled-sell-off-notches-worst-drop-since-march-2020-202710020.html
Thu 21:12:36 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AAPL/
Thu 21:12:45 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ (-9.25%)
Thu 21:13:00 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ Tim Apple got his present from Trump.
Thu 21:13:17 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ A one day stock value drop of over $300 billion dollars.
Thu 21:13:29 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ schestowitz[TR2], You can quote me if you want.
Thu 21:13:31 │ 〖IsambardPrince〗 │ :)
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