●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 ●● ● Mar 23 [00:00] TR News Tux Machines turning 18 soon. Before COVID-19 broke out in China we had a 15-year party. http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/15-Year-Anniversary-Party-for-Tux-Machines [00:00] TR Bot 15-Year Anniversary Party for Tux Machines [00:00] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162882 [00:00] TR Bot today's howtos | Tux Machines [00:01] TR News When NBA was in Manchester http://schestowitz.com/royrianne/gallery/index.php/NBA-Teams-Come-to-Manchester/nba0 [00:01] TR Bot nba0 [00:04] TR News "If I close my Facebook account, I won't have friends" ~= "If I quit drinking alcohol, I'll never be happy again" [00:11] *techrights-ipfs-bot (~techrights-ipfs-bot@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techrights [00:11] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 26.76 k/sec., IPFS upstream 51.53 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.91 [00:11] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 26.76 k/sec., IPFS upstream 51.53 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.91 [00:16] TR News FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ [00:16] TR Bot FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights [00:19] TR News Techrights is just 169 pages short of 40k pages in Gemini gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/index.gmi we'll be there next week [00:22] TR News "Gemini is similar to WWW, with content mixed with site structure. So in Gopher, we would link to content, rather than to site structure like in WWW and Gemini." gemini://szczezuja.space/tinylog.gmi [00:22] DaemonFC Groceries are so expensive you can hit the $35 minimum pickup at Walmart just buying a day or two's worth now. [00:22] DaemonFC Even lunch meat's gone up by at least a third. [00:22] TR News "The job market in my sector, and for my skill set, is to my advantage. Especially now that so many companies offer remote work. I don't expect to be between jobs for long." gemini://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2022-03-22-being-laid-off-starting-new-chapter.gmi [00:24] TR News "For ebooks going DRM-free can limit your choices. For example, I haven't seen DRM-free versions of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings out there. But sometimes you can buy DRM-free versions of books straight from the publisher. It is always worth going and checking it out." gemini://lantashifiles.com/gemlog/entries/2022-02-15.gmi [00:25] schestowitz-TR DaemonFC: I buy those quarter price [00:25] schestowitz-TR last did yesterday [00:25] schestowitz-TR rianne will do the same tomorrow [00:26] MinceR library genesis has both, without DRM :> [00:27] DaemonFC I've switched to just picking up groceries on my way to get Mandy from work. Walmart's credit card gives you more "points" to shop online. [00:28] TR News LOL, BT. Like some "online" 'banks' that simple FAIL (by design) to operate at certain times: "Sorry, but we are doing some maintenance on the site at the moment. It should be back, better than ever, in a short while." [00:36] DaemonFC For some reason, they REALLY don't want people shopping in the store. 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[01:17] DaemonFC Either they can't get it in or nobody wants to apply for a job so it gets stocked. [01:20] DaemonFC "For ebooks going DRM-free can limit your choices [01:20] DaemonFC Yeah, between the pirate bay and 1337x, it's a tough choice really. [01:21] DaemonFC Literacy should not just be for the rich, schestowitz-TR [01:28] MinceR :> [01:33] DaemonFC Walmart just canceled my entire order due to "unusual activity on your account. [01:33] DaemonFC They get nasty with VPN users lately. [01:33] DaemonFC First it was a bunch of "Are you Human?" and now this. [01:37] DaemonFC I can't be the only one who has noticed all of these companies that are working together to make you miserable if you want to use a VPN. [01:38] DaemonFC But this is weird because they've never canceled an order on me before. 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[04:34] *u-amarsh04 has quit (connection closed) [04:44] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techrights [04:50] *matey (~matey@6byxczt6txq2u.irc) has joined #techrights [04:54] *DaemonFC has quit (Quit: Leaving) ● Mar 23 [05:08] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 22.43 k/sec., IPFS upstream 50.95 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.88 [05:08] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@sy7ss5msyeqgk.irc) has joined #techrights [05:09] *gooseheaded has quit (Quit: Leaving) [05:09] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@sy7ss5msyeqgk.irc) has joined #techrights [05:10] gooseheaded hi [05:10] gooseheaded o/ [05:10] matey hi goose [05:10] gooseheaded high i'm high! [05:11] gooseheaded the other day, a seagull flied into me... [05:11] matey yep [05:11] gooseheaded believe it or not... [05:11] matey sounds painful [05:11] gooseheaded and then previous day to that one when this happened, it was the other fucking way around!!! [05:11] gooseheaded haha [05:11] matey now that i believe [05:12] gooseheaded HHAHA [05:12] gooseheaded omg dude... [05:12] gooseheaded the other day i had to board an elevator to get higher but i got right fucking off of it... [05:12] gooseheaded because i COULD NOT GET ANY FUCKING HIGHER!!! [05:12] gooseheaded so it was not safe... [05:12] gooseheaded ofc [05:13] matey https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Gn6SNbTD0 [05:13] TR Bot ( status 500 @ https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Gn6SNbTD0 ) [05:14] gooseheaded omg i was on the fucking train, i pulled the fucking emergency intercom to speak with the driver!!! [05:14] *prep has quit (Quit: Connection closed) [05:15] gooseheaded i was like rofl... and they were like O_O i told to him that "can i drive!!??" and then that like "i wish to see how it would handle on the ocean!!!" ahha [05:15] gooseheaded it really does make me curious how such a locomotive would handle on the ocean... [05:15] gooseheaded y'know... [05:16] matey it really does make me curious how such a locomotive would handle on the ocean <- probably like a lead zepplin [05:16] gooseheaded LOL!!! [05:16] gooseheaded omh [05:17] gooseheaded omg* [05:17] matey /me blames robert plant for spelling [05:17] gooseheaded i would have driven the fucking train straight to my fucking dealer's joint, tbh... [05:17] gooseheaded ngl [05:18] matey as long as youre not drivin that train high on cocaine [05:18] gooseheaded i took one toke over the line!!! [05:18] gooseheaded full on, i was walk in ZIGZAGs... no fucking shit, dude... [05:19] gooseheaded https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9HXClusp_E [05:19] TR Bot https://yewtu.be/watch?v=L9HXClusp_E [05:19] TR Bot yewtu.be | One Toke Over the Line - Invidious [05:19] gooseheaded haha [05:19] gooseheaded do you know the one..? [05:19] matey not sure really [05:19] gooseheaded oh yes... [05:20] gooseheaded i need to order some diethyl ether... [05:20] gooseheaded tbh [05:20] gooseheaded it is FANTASTIC to inhale, tbh... [05:21] gooseheaded you feel like a fucking '40s-era' gentlemen wearing a top-hat and etc.. [05:21] gooseheaded lol [05:21] gooseheaded it is sooo good... [05:23] matey roy is going to love this [05:29] gooseheaded oh yes... [05:42] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [05:54] *gooseheaded has quit (connection closed) [05:54] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@sy7ss5msyeqgk.irc) has joined #techrights [05:55] *SkywaveC3 has quit (connection closed) [05:56] *SkywaveC3 (~SkywaveC3@nvsayyu8c4dbn.irc) has joined #techrights ● Mar 23 [06:05] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 22.43 k/sec., IPFS upstream 50.95 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.82 [06:14] *gooseheaded has quit (connection closed) [06:20] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@78wxasu7nn4ms.irc) has joined #techrights [06:20] matey hi [06:20] SomeH4x0r hi [06:20] schestowitz 0/ [06:23] *XRevan86 (~XRevan86@sp6mg7ktjfurg.irc) has joined #techrights [06:24] matey /me is still doing fuckloads of research [06:24] TR News KeePassXC 2.7.0 is a Massive Upgrade with Tags, Improved Auto-Type, and Windows Hello Support http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162445#comment-33159 [06:24] TR Bot KeeWeb is a multiplatform password manager with a full KeePass database support | Tux Machines [06:25] matey activelow, for his faults, is doing something i wish more people would do [06:25] matey or at least, he appears to be doing-- without publishing his findings his work would have to be recreated to be verified [06:26] matey i presume the c++ needed to bootstrap gcc thing is real at the very least, i think thats interesting [06:26] matey XRevan86: this negates none of your critiques of course [06:26] matey not that you would care, but it doesnt [06:27] TR News "For those of you who keep tabs on the compiler space, you might have heard that last week an announcement was made on the GCC mailing list to share with the world gcobol, a new GCC frontend" https://briancallahan.net/blog/20220321.html [06:27] TR Bot Brian Robert Callahan [06:27] TR News "Last week I wrote a system daemon to manage the CPU frequency from userland, entirely bypassing the kernel automatic mode. While this was more of a toy at first" https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-03-21-openbsd-cool-frequency.html [06:27] TR Bot Solene'% : Keep your OpenBSD system cool with obsdfreqd [06:28] TR News "Apple's first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced in 1976. This early microcomputer used an unusual type of storage for its display: shift register memory." http://www.righto.com/2022/03/inside-apple-1s-unusual-mos-clock.html [06:28] Alternative link Cloudflare: righto.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/http://www.righto.com/2022/03/inside-apple-1s-unusual-mos-clock.html [06:28] TR Bot Inside the Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip [06:29] matey his argument about zilog could dovetail nicely with the sorts of things that are happening with free hardware (although he probably wont say so because niig) [06:29] TR News "Im starting a new series with this 2022 edition where I think about what Information Security could or should look like in the distant futuresay in 2050." https://danielmiessler.com/blog/thinking-about-the-future-of-infosec-v2022/ [06:29] matey /me sighs [06:29] Alternative link Cloudflare: danielmiessler.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://danielmiessler.com/blog/thinking-about-the-future-of-infosec-v2022/ [06:29] TR Bot Thinking About the Future of InfoSec (v2022) - Daniel Miessler [06:29] matey niid rather [06:29] matey /me already decided that the former was the wrong acronym, but typed it anwyay [06:29] matey not invented in deutschland [06:29] TR News "Do you indent your code with one tab, two spaces, or eight spaces? Do you feel strongly about the location of the curly brace closing a function definition? Do you have naming preferences?" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/03/coding-style-coding-etiquette/ [06:29] Alternative link Cloudflare: r-bloggers.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.r-bloggers.com/2022/03/coding-style-coding-etiquette/ [06:29] TR Bot style, coding etiquette | R-bloggers [06:30] TR News "Linux Command Line offers various techniques to play with folders." Linux ix a kernel, stop calling everything "Linux", and it has directories, not "folders" https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-linux-command-line-tips-and-tricks/ [06:30] TR Bot Top Linux Command Line Tips and Tricks - GeeksforGeeks [06:31] TR News "When designing for the CLOWN, pricing is one of the most important signals to take into account." https://danielcompton.net/2022/03/21/penny-wise-cloud-foolish [06:31] Alternative link Cloudflare: danielcompton.net | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://danielcompton.net/2022/03/21/penny-wise-cloud-foolish [06:31] TR Bot Penny Wise and Cloud Foolish Daniel Compton [06:34] matey /me highly recommends xzgv as an image viewer [06:34] matey #classicfreesw [06:34] matey i mean ive used geeqie and g?view before [06:37] TR News #Techrights Bulletin for Tuesday, March 22, 2022 http://techrights.org/txt full archive: http://techrights.org/txt-archives #gnu #linux #freesw #plaintext [06:37] TR Bot Bulletin Archives [06:38] TR News #Techrights full #IPFS index updated just now http://techrights.org/ipfs available as plain text @ http://techrights.org/ipfs/txt #dweb #sharing [06:38] TR Bot Techrights Full IPFS Index [06:38] matey another recommendation is xfi, an image viewer that comes with xfe [06:38] TR News "The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the stark limitations of the US public health data systems" https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990852/cdc-public-health-data-covid [06:38] matey which i already had installed but just found [06:38] TR Bot The CDC is still trying to fix its data problem - The Verge [06:39] matey ive liked xfe for a long time, but i dont trust its handling of symlinks (i wouldnt use it to move large directory trees) [06:39] IPFS Gemini requests since start of month: 353368 total Total number of pages in capsule: 39848 Active: active (running) since Mon 2022-02-07 16:50:38 GMT; 1 months 13 days ago [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22990637/okta-breach-single-sign-on-lapsus-hacker-group [06:40] TR Bot Okta hack puts thousands of businesses on high alert - The Verge [06:40] matey (or even copy them) [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.reuters.com/technology/authentication-services-firm-okta-says-it-is-investigating-report-breach-2022-03-22/ [06:40] TR Bot hit authentication firm Okta, customers 'may have been impacted' | Reuters [06:40] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/599243-software-firm-investigates-digital-breach [06:40] TR Bot firm investigates digital breach | TheHill [06:41] matey i rarely use a graphical file manager anyway, but when i do xfe is suitable for viewing folders and opening files [06:41] IPFS IPFS local node stats (bandwidth since last reset) calculated. TotalIn: 36 MB TotalOut: 7.2 MB [06:41] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/okta-changes-tune,-says-about-375-customers-hit-by-january-incident.html "2.5% of its customers which amounts to about 375 companies have been affected by the January breach" [06:41] Alternative link Cloudflare: itwire.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://itwire.com/business-it-news/security/okta-changes-tune,-says-about-375-customers-hit-by-january-incident.html [06:41] TR Bot - Okta changes tune, says about 375 customers hit by January incident [06:41] matey xfi is a separate binary and can be called by itself [06:42] IPFS New daily bulletin is now being generated and assembled. [06:44] TR News Proprietary: "These have all happened to me. Technology X may be too expensive because we're using another technology with a special discount that's confidential." https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2022-03-19/why-dont-you-use.html [06:44] TR Bot Why Don't You Use ... [06:45] matey /me also has xvkbd installed, but always thinks its the soviet secret police [06:45] TR News "A timeless strategy for technical products. One of the most effective forms of API warfare which Microsoft was (is) most notorious for." https://matt-rickard.com/embrace-extend-extinguish/ [06:45] Alternative link Cloudflare: matt-rickard.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://matt-rickard.com/embrace-extend-extinguish/ [06:45] TR Bot Embrace. Extend. Extinguish. [06:45] schestowitz-TR [06:34] /me highly recommends xzgv as an image viewer [06:46] schestowitz-TR 2 years ago I tried many CLI image viewers [06:46] schestowitz-TR chafa is very good [06:46] schestowitz-TR it does colours, too [06:46] TR News Windows TCO: https://text.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087903332/us-companies-russia-cyberattacks-ukraine-infrastructure [06:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: npr.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://text.npr.org/2022/03/21/1087903332/us-companies-russia-cyberattacks-ukraine-infrastructure [06:46] TR Bot The U.S. warns companies to stay on guard for possible Russian cyberattacks [06:46] matey xzgv is a gui of course, but im sure you realise that [06:46] TR News Windows TCO: https://circleid.com/posts/20210831-what-are-the-internet-domains-connected-to-the-conficker-botnet [06:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: circleid.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://circleid.com/posts/20210831-what-are-the-internet-domains-connected-to-the-conficker-botnet [06:46] TR Bot What Are the Internet Domains Connected to the Conficker Botnet? [06:47] matey id like a cli viewer but [06:47] matey github.com/hpjansson/chafa [06:47] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/22/22991409/lapsus-microsoft-security-windows-source-code [06:47] TR Bot Microsoft confirms Lapsus$ hackers stole source code via limited access - The Verge [06:47] matey i finally founda two replacements for gnu less [06:47] schestowitz-TR iit also plays videos [06:48] matey mplayer does that [06:48] TR News Microsoft Windows TCO: https://www.pcworld.com/article/625175/nvidias-hackers-say-theyve-stolen-37gb-of-microsoft-code.html [06:48] TR Bot hackers say they've stolen 37GB of Microsoft code | PCWorld [06:48] schestowitz-TR yes, this one can write the output to a file [06:48] matey mplayer does that too i think [06:48] schestowitz-TR frame by frame [06:48] matey thats fun [06:49] schestowitz-TR we use that in our daily bulletin [06:49] schestowitz-TR the animated gifs [06:49] matey microsoft gnu less of course, is pretty treacherous [06:49] matey jed works very nicely as a less replacement [06:49] matey though the author also has a standalone cli pager (less replacement) called most [06:50] matey most is great-- if you already have jed, jed works for the same purpose [06:50] matey not enough cli editors let you pipe text to them like you can with less [06:51] matey on the lighter side of text editors, moe also lets you use it as a pager [06:51] TR News "Trust in how governments handle data is a critical piece in developing a successful government digital identification system." https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2022/03/to-build-a-digital-identity-system-governments-must-build-trust-about-data-collection-panelists/ [06:51] Alternative link Cloudflare: broadbandbreakfast.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://broadbandbreakfast.com/2022/03/to-build-a-digital-identity-system-governments-must-build-trust-about-data-collection-panelists/ [06:51] TR Bot To Build a Digital Identity System, Governments Must Build Trust About Data Collection: Panelists : Broadband Breakfast [06:52] matey i cant say if its as close to less in features as jed or most though [06:52] matey note i found all of these through the free software directory (the fsf one) [06:52] IPFS QmVmhebNywnTu6B8SmaNwvmpQrK5uGfyPHsAeM383HwKRx [06:52] IPFS New daily bulletin has just been added to IPFS, hereon retrievable with the CID above. [06:52] matey so if im talking about packages or applications in here, odds are good its in the fsd [06:54] matey chafa is also in the fsd https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Chafa but since its github-based i ignore it [06:54] TR Bot Chafa - Free Software Directory [06:54] matey its still impossible to get away from github entirely of course-- completely impossible unless you write your own operating system [06:55] matey or use one that is so obscure you might as well have written it yourself [06:55] matey when we have free hardware, i think that is going to be a boon to people writing more modest kernels [06:56] matey even if most people of course, are using less obscure hardware like riscv [06:56] matey riscv may also be boon to the same [06:56] matey linux was a modest kernel once [06:57] TR News Windows helps Russia/Putin https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/biden-russia-cyberattack.html see http://techrights.org/2022/03/21/putin-loves-windows/ [06:57] Alternative link Cloudflare: nytimes.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/21/world/europe/biden-russia-cyberattack.html [06:57] TR Bot Biden Warns Private Sector of Potential Russian Cyberattacks - The New York Times [06:57] TR Bot Putins Russia Loves It When Its Enemies Use Microsoft Windows | Techrights [06:57] matey at least it was modest throughout the announcement [06:59] TR News "Navalnys extended sentence came as Russia amended an already draconian censorship law to make discrediting the activities abroad of all government bodies a potentially criminal offense" https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/briefing/russia-navalny-pfizer-covid-pills.html [06:59] Alternative link Cloudflare: nytimes.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/briefing/russia-navalny-pfizer-covid-pills.html [06:59] TR Bot Your Wednesday Briefing: Russia Extends Navalnys Sentence - The New York Times [06:59] matey revolution os is such a farce, even if you watch it ● Mar 23 [07:00] matey the "revolution" concludes with a stock market listing [07:00] matey not that theres anything wrong with corporations using gnu-- im not against that at all [07:00] TR News Stop saying "Big Tech"; that helps Microsoft lobbyists https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/21/jeffersonian-v-hamiltonian/#dinheiro-fala [07:00] TR Bot Pluralistic: 21 Mar 2022 Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [07:00] matey gnu (was) a revolutionary os-- the most revolutionary os so far [07:01] matey gnu/linux is a counterrevolutionary os [07:01] TR News Gulag goes into hiding https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/doj-accuses-google-of-withholding-documents-in-anti-trust-case.html [07:01] Alternative link Cloudflare: itwire.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://itwire.com/government-tech-news/technology-regulation/doj-accuses-google-of-withholding-documents-in-anti-trust-case.html [07:01] TR Bot - DoJ accuses Google of withholding documents in anti-trust case [07:01] matey a least it has been for most if not all of its existence [07:02] TR News Satire https://www.theonion.com/kamala-harris-enrolls-in-6-week-coding-boot-camp-1848636358 [07:02] Alternative link Cloudflare: theonion.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.theonion.com/kamala-harris-enrolls-in-6-week-coding-boot-camp-1848636358 [07:02] TR Bot Kamala Harris Enrolls In 6-Week Coding Boot Camp [07:02] matey gnu/hurd has become counterrevolutionary, though if thibalt is thrown out and other architectures are possible to support (ive only heard rumours, and i heard them here) thats-- i dont know, some kind of potential perhaps [07:02] matey it would be more secure in that status if tinycc can compile it. [07:03] TR News Russians against the war https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/16/a-new-symbol-of-russia-s-anti-war-movement [07:03] Alternative link Cloudflare: meduza.io | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/03/16/a-new-symbol-of-russia-s-anti-war-movement [07:03] TR Bot NO TITLE [07:03] matey but if its only an x86 kernel, thats not very useful to users controlling their computing [07:03] TR News As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next? https://text.npr.org/1087903348 iophk: many problems, including bad UI [07:03] Alternative link Cloudflare: npr.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://text.npr.org/1087903348 [07:03] TR Bot As a nurse faces prison for a deadly error, her colleagues worry: Could I be next? [07:04] matey the same people who do the most to liberate x86 are tired of the architecture themselves, afaict [07:04] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 26.58 k/sec., IPFS upstream 42.38 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.76 [07:04] matey liberating x86 is like trying to teach decorum to a racist in their 60s or 70s [07:05] TR News "In Great Britain they occupy Russian oligarchs houses and take over their yachts (what the hell are they going to do with them?)." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/its-all-oligarchs-all-the-way-down/ [07:05] Alternative link Cloudflare: counterpunch.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/its-all-oligarchs-all-the-way-down/ [07:05] TR Bot All Oligarchs All the Way Down - CounterPunch.org [07:05] matey its just constant work, that at least feels like it has some purpose, but its also known that it will probably never change anything in the big scheme of things [07:05] matey of course people who actually work to liberate x86 should have their word taken over this [07:06] matey this is just what i gather from them to the best of my ability [07:07] TR News NVIDIA Unveils Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162852#comment-33161 [07:07] TR Bot Latest Jetson Development Kit | Tux Machines [07:08] TR News "To participate in the Visa Waiver Programme, Israel allows U.S. authorities access to its biometric data. The government in Washington wants to make this mandatory for another 40 countries." https://digit.site36.net/2022/03/22/screening-of-travellers-u-s-wants-to-query-fingerprint-databases-in-europe/ [07:08] TR Bot Screening of travellers: U.S. wants to query fingerprint databases in Europe Matthias Monroy [07:09] TR News One America News (OAN) canned https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/six-republican-ags-try-to-pretend-oan-was-censored-by-directv/ [07:09] Alternative link Cloudflare: techdirt.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/six-republican-ags-try-to-pretend-oan-was-censored-by-directv/ [07:09] TR Bot Republican AGs Try To Pretend OAN Was Censored By DirecTV | Techdirt [07:09] TR News "Old habits die hard, even when limited by incarceration. Convicted lawyer/Prenda mastermind Paul Hansmeier apparently isnt going to let being locked up for 14 years steer him clear of recidivism." https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/court-tells-convicted-fraudster-paul-hansmeier-to-stop-wasting-the-courts-time-with-frivolous-litigation/ [07:09] Alternative link Cloudflare: techdirt.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/court-tells-convicted-fraudster-paul-hansmeier-to-stop-wasting-the-courts-time-with-frivolous-litigation/ [07:09] TR Bot Tells Convicted Fraudster Paul Hansmeier To Stop Wasting The Courts Time With Frivolous Litigation | Techdirt [07:10] *darwin (~darwin@7d3n498busjrn.irc) has joined #techrights [07:10] *darwin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [07:10] kingoffrance "I can't be the only one who has noticed all of these companies that are working together to make you miserable if you want to use a VPN." there are some good questions here to ask about 1) what is lost switching away from "cash" 2) when is this type of "discrimination" crossing the lines of what is acceptable for businesses (may vary with type of business, but in general) [07:11] TR News Stop saying "Big Tech"; you're playing into the hands of corrupt Microsoft's lawyers https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/big-tech-fundamentally-odds-childrens-well-being-advocates-say [07:11] Alternative link Cloudflare: commondreams.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/big-tech-fundamentally-odds-childrens-well-being-advocates-say [07:11] TR Bot Big Tech 'Fundamentally At Odds With Children's Well-Being,' Advocates Say [07:11] kingoffrance that was online, but somehow flagged as "suspicious" [07:12] TR News "Despite their popularity, all of these companies have huge problems, especially when it comes to privacy and surveillance." https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/ it's still social control media, so the wrong approach [07:12] Alternative link Cloudflare: privateinternetaccess.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/ [07:12] TR Bot The Fediverse: Decentralized Social Media for Human Beings [07:14] TR News "Similarly, although I didn't mention it running on OpenBSD is another low-cost way to improve security." gemini://republic.circumlunar.space/users/dbane/gemlog/2022-03-22.gmi [07:14] matey kingoffrance if you really were the king of france, only long enough to change one thing [07:14] matey what would you change [07:15] kingoffrance :/ [07:15] matey youre a regular so [07:15] matey take your time [07:15] matey take a week if you need it [07:15] TR News RE What do you selfhost gemini://gmi.bacardi55.io/gemlog/2022/03/22/what-do-you-selfhost/ [07:16] kingoffrance you're assuming i'd make some outside change [07:16] TR News "For my recent birthday I received Isaac Asimovs Nightfall and Other Stories and I, Robot. I remembered him as a great author from when I was younger, but hadn't read anything of his for around 15 or so years." gemini://november.smol.pub/asimov [07:16] matey no im really not assuming anything at all [07:16] matey or at least, im assuming as little as its possible to assume and even ask the question [07:17] kingoffrance first, a king is a person who governs themself :D [07:17] kingoffrance stone walls do not a prison make etc. [07:17] TR News "It's been only 38 hours or so since I tested positive for COVID, but it feels like it has been so much longer. I don't feel too bad, really. The worst part is being hulled up in a corner of the house while my wife has to take care of our three kids all alone." gemini://rawtext.club/~mieum/allokdallok.gmi [07:17] matey /me chuckles [07:17] kingoffrance a magician is a person who baptizes themself, etc. you can go on :D [07:17] matey this answer is very you [07:18] kingoffrance ok, well with that out of the way... [07:19] TR News "Their bill proposes to have the US Copyright Office mandate that all websites accepting user-uploaded material implement technologies to automatically filter that content." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/cc-opposes-mandatory-copyright-filters-as-well-as-using-cc-to-justify-them/ [07:19] Alternative link Cloudflare: creativecommons.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/cc-opposes-mandatory-copyright-filters-as-well-as-using-cc-to-justify-them/ [07:19] TR Bot CC opposes mandatory copyright filters, as well as using CC to justify them - Creative Commons [07:19] TR News "The Fellowship is made up of the greatest thinkers, researchers, and practitioners working in or with Scotland today." https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/creative-commons-ceo-honored-as-rse-fellow/ [07:19] Alternative link Cloudflare: creativecommons.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://creativecommons.org/2022/03/22/creative-commons-ceo-honored-as-rse-fellow/ [07:19] TR Bot Creative Commons CEO honored as RSE Fellow - Creative Commons [07:19] matey mmhmm ill accept that premise [07:19] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techrights [07:21] TR News I can understand why... https://torrentfreak.com/were-turning-off-the-comments/ [07:21] Alternative link Cloudflare: torrentfreak.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://torrentfreak.com/were-turning-off-the-comments/ [07:21] TR Bot Turning Off The Comments... * TorrentFreak [07:22] TR News "One of the best-known pirate streaming sites says it will go to extreme lengths to prevent its latest new domain from being seized." https://torrentfreak.com/primewire-well-ban-pirate-streaming-sources-introduce-upload-filters-220322/ [07:22] Alternative link Cloudflare: torrentfreak.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://torrentfreak.com/primewire-well-ban-pirate-streaming-sources-introduce-upload-filters-220322/ [07:22] TR Bot We'll Ban 'Pirate' Streaming Sources, Introduce Upload Filters * TorrentFreak [07:23] TR News "The MPA has teamed up with Google to remove pirate site domain names from search results in countries where these are already blocked by ISPs." https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-googles-delisting-of-thousands-of-pirate-sites-works-220322/ [07:23] Alternative link Cloudflare: torrentfreak.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-googles-delisting-of-thousands-of-pirate-sites-works-220322/ [07:23] TR Bot Google's Delisting of Thousands of Pirate Sites Works * TorrentFreak [07:24] kingoffrance well, i think the implication is "society at large" (pun intended) so, just keep the words "legal" and "lawful" separate. wouldnt change a thing, just prevent the merger [07:24] TR News "We already knew that the UKs Online Safety Bill was going to be an utter disaster for the open internet, because that had been made clear early on" https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/the-uks-online-safety-bill-would-be-a-complete-and-utter-disaster-for-an-open-internet/ [07:24] Alternative link Cloudflare: techdirt.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/the-uks-online-safety-bill-would-be-a-complete-and-utter-disaster-for-an-open-internet/ [07:24] TR Bot UKs Online Safety Bill Would Be A Complete And Utter Disaster For An Open Internet | Techdirt [07:25] SomeH4x0r any laws about Internet usage are disaster [07:26] matey just keep the words "legal" and "lawful" separate. <- do you know their french counterparts? i dont know if its too important, especially provided that we know the french counterparts have the exact same issues as the english ones [07:26] schestowitz they are a filppant response [07:26] matey for all i know, "legal" is french for "legal" [07:27] matey i doubt "lawful" is french [07:27] SomeH4x0r because it is about governments and corporations taking over the Internet over time [07:27] matey because it is about governments and corporations taking over the Internet over time <- [07:27] kingoffrance well it doesnt matter, just call it subjective/objective, spirit/body, whatever. just keep the split [07:27] matey of course the governments already took over the internet [07:27] matey but the corporate takeover is relevant (as is government bureaucratic creep) [07:28] matey spirit/body, whatever <- mother theresa at least seemed to have this much figured out [07:28] TR News "Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book Spam Nation, was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud." https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/03/spam-nation-villain-vrublevsky-charged-with-fraud/ [07:28] TR Bot Spam Nation Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud Krebs on Security [07:29] matey when the body of the law becomes the spirit of the law, the law becomes meaningless [07:29] kingoffrance yes, i was going to make a pun on body of the law, well done [07:29] kingoffrance well, it becomes pure idolatry [07:29] matey /me nods [07:29] kingoffrance thought has fled at that point [07:29] kingoffrance or pure dictatorship [07:29] matey like propping up a corpse [07:29] matey "behold, a man!" [07:29] kingoffrance YES :) [07:30] matey /me honestly considers the fsf this way [07:30] matey weekend at bernies [07:30] matey the body of their law has become the spirit [07:30] matey moreso at libreplanet, also for the board [07:31] matey we have rules! [07:31] matey "what about principles?" [07:31] matey the rules ARE our principles! [07:31] matey "oh, youre fucked then" [07:32] matey of course if they dispute doing this, it becomes harder to accuse them of it [07:32] matey NOW you have to go prove that theyre mistaken about what they themselves are doing [07:32] matey but its not impossible to do so [07:33] TR News "Corporate media outlets are calling for the United States and its allies to react to Russias illegal invasion of Ukraine by escalating the war." https://fair.org/home/escalation-without-consequences-on-the-op-ed-page/ [07:33] TR Bot Escalation Without Consequences on the Op-Ed Page - FAIR [07:33] matey if you see a guy plucking feathrs off a chicken, and you ask "what are you doing" and he says "im trying to get this car to start" he is probably mistaken [07:33] TR News Fake companies that can operate at a loss https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/sanders-opposes-america-competes-act-over-billions-corporate-welfare [07:33] Alternative link Cloudflare: commondreams.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/sanders-opposes-america-competes-act-over-billions-corporate-welfare [07:33] TR Bot Sanders Opposes America COMPETES Act Over Billions in 'Corporate Welfare' [07:33] matey maybe in some deeply meaningful way hes right, but if you cant find any evidence of that, he could simply be deluding himself. or fucking with you. [07:35] TR News Throwing away fine vehicles and producing new one is hugely costly to the planet, too https://truthout.org/articles/usps-could-reduce-emissions-by-300-percent-with-all-electric-fleet-report-finds/ https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/watchdog-finds-postal-service-could-serve-99-routes-electric-fleet [07:35] Alternative link Cloudflare: truthout.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://truthout.org/articles/usps-could-reduce-emissions-by-300-percent-with-all-electric-fleet-report-finds/ [07:35] TR Bot USPS Could Reduce Emissions by 300 Percent With All-Electric Fleet, Report Finds [07:35] Alternative link Cloudflare: commondreams.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/watchdog-finds-postal-service-could-serve-99-routes-electric-fleet [07:35] TR Bot Watchdog Finds Postal Service Could Serve 99% of Routes With Electric Fleet [07:35] matey if you can no longer show an organisation or any governing body, the difference between their principles and their rules-- but you can see them, this is a BAD sign [07:35] matey incidentally, i had no idea your answer would trigger a rant about the fsf [07:36] matey i wasnt expecting something relevant to that. but hey! i made it about tech anyway [07:36] matey i certainly think it apples to other important things as well [07:36] matey or even applies [07:36] TR News Boycott Starbucks https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-tells-starbucks-ceo-to-stop-union-busting-and-obey-the-law/ [07:36] Alternative link Cloudflare: truthout.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-tells-starbucks-ceo-to-stop-union-busting-and-obey-the-law/ [07:36] TR Bot Sanders Tells Starbucks CEO to Stop Union Busting and Obey the Law [07:37] matey if your tree bears no fruit, it is non-applecable [07:38] matey orange trees are also non-applecable, but its apples and oranges [07:39] TR News Just boycott Starbucks. It needs to be bankrupt. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/bernie-sanders-returning-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-end-union-busting [07:39] Alternative link Cloudflare: commondreams.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/bernie-sanders-returning-starbucks-ceo-howard-schultz-end-union-busting [07:39] TR Bot Bernie Sanders to Returning Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz: 'End the Union-Busting' [07:40] TR News How to lose the audience https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/when-the-press-tries-to-hide-or-discredit-the-facts-it-discredits-itself-instead/ [07:40] Alternative link Cloudflare: counterpunch.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/03/22/when-the-press-tries-to-hide-or-discredit-the-facts-it-discredits-itself-instead/ [07:40] TR Bot The Press Tries to Hide or Discredit the Facts, It Discredits Itself Instead - CounterPunch.org [07:41] matey kingoffrance your answer was better than i expected. i probably should have expected a better one. [07:43] TR News Their wealth is our sickness https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/pandemic-rich-richer/ see https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/bill-gates-investments-covid/ [07:43] Alternative link Cloudflare: thenation.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/pandemic-rich-richer/ [07:43] TR Bot The Pandemic Made the Rich $1.7 Trillion Richer | The Nation [07:43] TR Bot While the Poor Get Sick, Bill Gates Just Gets Richer | The Nation [07:44] TR News Not Western oligarchs, too? https://www.thenation.com/article/world/yacht-oligarch-sanctions-putin/ [07:44] Alternative link Cloudflare: thenation.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.thenation.com/article/world/yacht-oligarch-sanctions-putin/ [07:44] TR Bot Sanctioning Oligarchs | The Nation [07:44] TR News Gulagtube https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/tesla-fires-employee-for-posting-critical-footage-to-youtube/ [07:44] Alternative link Cloudflare: techdirt.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/tesla-fires-employee-for-posting-critical-footage-to-youtube/ [07:44] TR Bot Fires Employee For Posting Critical Footage To YouTube | Techdirt [07:45] kingoffrance well ppl keep saying "protect the institutions" that used to be a sign of the end of civilization/democracy, when they are more important than whatever they are doing/whoever they are supposed to serve [07:46] matey thats exactly what happened in russia [07:46] matey stalin wanted to protect the bureaucracy at all costs [07:46] matey and he really meant it [07:46] TR News Making a killing https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/khanna-warren-bill-would-ban-wall-street-profiteering-water-scarcity [07:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: commondreams.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/03/22/khanna-warren-bill-would-ban-wall-street-profiteering-water-scarcity [07:46] TR Bot Khanna-Warren Bill Would Ban Wall Street Profiteering on Water Scarcity [07:46] matey at all costs [07:47] matey pudding is worse [07:47] TR News War Against Piracy. [sic] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/routinely-terrible-anti-piracy-company-seeks-court-order-preventing-torrentfreak-from-covering-its-terribleness/ [07:47] Alternative link Cloudflare: techdirt.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.techdirt.com/2022/03/22/routinely-terrible-anti-piracy-company-seeks-court-order-preventing-torrentfreak-from-covering-its-terribleness/ [07:47] TR Bot Terrible Anti-Piracy Company Seeks Court Order Preventing TorrentFreak From Covering Its Terribleness | Techdirt [07:47] matey he doesnt give a shit about anything except himself and his masters [07:47] matey though i think SO FAR, stalins regime was worse [07:47] matey im not married to that assessment and either way, that could still change [07:48] matey im moderately optimistic. [07:48] matey at least minimally optimistic [07:49] matey but i dont think anyone is crazy for saying how bad it could get [07:50] TR News IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/irc-log-220322/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/irc-log-220322/ [07:50] TR Bot IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 | Techrights [07:50] matey im sure youd rather be the king of france than the president of russia [07:51] matey worst case scenario, the people revolt and cut your head off-- and youd probably have options (before, at least) [07:51] matey france sounds safer, other than one aspect i wouldnt bother to mention. [07:52] TR News #HowTo Enable X11 and Disable Wayland Window System Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162883 [07:52] TR Bot How to Enable X11 and Disable Wayland Window System | Tux Machines [07:56] TR News LOL. Client at work refers to Moodle as "noodle" this morning. ● Mar 23 [08:00] matey kingoffrance one of the worst things about laws (not necessarily the only thing) is their inability (or inadequacy) at dealing with exceptios [08:01] matey of course some try to, fewer succeed in doing a good job [08:01] matey a principle can do that, typically better than a law can [08:01] matey people love to make broad sweeping rules as if doing this doesnt often make things even worse [08:02] matey so a good principle from the start is not to have TOO MANY laws [08:02] matey keep it manageable [08:02] matey then it doesnt overwhelm the public [08:02] matey the unix philosophy outside of unix [08:03] matey but in science, when a law fails to account for an exception, you revise, make a law that covers the exception, or even throw it out entirely [08:03] kingoffrance that was teh "maxim" system. the judges were supposed to refactor. they got accused of writing new code [08:03] kingoffrance :) somewhere, someone, needs to refactor [08:03] matey in law, when a law fails to account for an exception, people say "well, its the law" or they even make it broader, stronger and worse to "compensate" [08:04] matey there was a democrat (i wasnt thrilling with yangs platform, but it certainly was interesting) proposing garbage collection for laws [08:05] matey something like c++ gc afact, automatic sunsetting [08:05] matey i like the idea, at least-- im not sure its a bad one [08:05] *inky has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [08:06] matey its not the same as refactoring, but it might have a similar effect [08:06] matey its lower resolution, so in an arbitrary instance it could be more destructive [08:06] matey thats assuming the worst of course [08:11] *inky (~inky@178.78.158.161) has joined #techrights [08:13] TR News Proprietary Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162884 [08:13] TR Bot Proprietary Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:14] TR News Programming Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162885 [08:14] TR Bot Programming Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:14] TR News Linux History and Why Are There So Many Distros Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162886 [08:14] TR Bot Linux History and Why Are There So Many Distros | Tux Machines [08:15] TR News Links 23/3/2022: GNU Parallel 20220322, Microsoft Breaches | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/microsoft-breaches/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/microsoft-breaches/ [08:15] TR Bot Links 23/3/2022: GNU Parallel 20220322, Microsoft Breaches | Techrights [08:15] TR News Free Software/Open Source Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162887 [08:15] TR Bot Free Software/Open Source Leftovers | Tux Machines [08:15] TR News Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162888 [08:15] TR Bot today's leftovers | Tux Machines [08:16] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 21.13 k/sec., IPFS upstream 40.15 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.76 [08:17] TR News "Russia is inching closer to a sovereign internet." https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [08:17] Alternative link Cloudflare: accessnow.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [08:17] TR Bot Updates: Digital rights in the Russia-Ukraine conflict - Access Now [08:19] TR News If you use Gulag Chrome, then you are doing it wrong ALREADY https://www.maketecheasier.com/best-chrome-security-extensions/ [08:19] TR Bot 12 Chrome Security and Privacy Extensions to Stay Safe Online - Make Tech Easier [08:22] matey /me giggles that "xbae" exists [08:24] matey "bae" is a term of endearment that means "before all else" that i havent heard in years because it was noted it also means "poo"p" or something [08:24] TR News How Valves Long-Standing Embrace of Linux Is Helping Games Run Better https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dg4ab/how-valves-long-standing-embrace-of-linux-is-helping-games-run-better [08:24] TR Bot How Valves Long-Standing Embrace of Linux Is Helping Games Run Better [08:24] matey its also a table widget for motif [08:26] TR News "To make set clock time and count increase with rotation probe, rotatory encoder ky-040 with Arduino is still best to use" https://peppe8o.com/ky-040-and-arduino-rotatory-encoder-wiring-and-code/ [08:26] Alternative link Cloudflare: peppe8o.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://peppe8o.com/ky-040-and-arduino-rotatory-encoder-wiring-and-code/ [08:26] TR Bot KY-040 and Arduino: Rotatory Encoder wiring and code [08:30] matey /me probably found non-free firmware just now in the free software directory [08:31] TR News Stallman also spoke after LibrePlanet 2020 (in the 35-year anniversary of the FSF), so hes basically speaking every year, during or at least after LibrePlanet. Heres a video from LibrePlanet 8 years ago. http://techrights.org/2022/03/22/richard-stallman-libreplanet/ [08:31] TR Bot FSF Announces Post-LibrePlanet Speech by Richard Stallman | Techrights [08:32] matey https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/XRoar [08:32] TR Bot XRoar - Free Software Directory [08:32] TR News CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS [08:32] matey from the xroar website: "Firmware ROM images are required to usefully run this emulator. If you have difficulty extracting these from your real Dragon, CoCo or MC-10, dumps may be available from the Dragon Archive or the Color Computer Archive." [08:32] TR News CodeWeavers CrossOver 21.2 for Linux Mac and Chrome OS http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162853#comment-33162 [08:32] TR Bot Announcing CrossOver 21.2.0 | Tux Machines [08:32] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162889 [08:32] TR Bot today's howtos | Tux Machines [08:33] matey "usefully" [08:33] matey implying it can be run in a useless way without the firmware. [08:35] matey /me chuckles https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/stop-the-internet-blacklist [08:35] TR Bot Stop the Internet blacklist Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [08:35] matey (2010) [08:35] *techrights-ipfs-bot has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:36] matey compare: https://techrights.org/2020/09/07/freesw-blacklists/ (2020) [08:36] TR Bot Blacklists in Free Software Communities | Techrights [08:36] matey thats debian though [08:38] matey this is what i was actually looking for https://libreplanet.org/wiki/List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines [08:38] TR Bot List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines - LibrePlanet [08:47] MinceR https://i.redd.it/d8lbek2yzwo81.jpg [08:50] matey :) libreplanet wiki hides the links to history pages [08:50] matey https://libreplanet.org/wiki?title=List_of_software_that_does_not_respect_the_Free_System_Distribution_Guidelines&action=history [08:50] TR Bot Revision history of "List of software that does not respect the Free System Distribution Guidelines" - LibrePlanet [08:50] matey it took several tries to get there [08:50] matey i havent seen many wikis (if any) that do that [08:51] matey it just seems like a very libreplanet-like thing to do [08:51] *techrights-ipfs-bot (~techrights-ipfs-bot@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techrights [08:53] matey fsd doesnt do that https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Vosk-API [08:53] TR Bot Vosk-API - Free Software Directory [08:53] matey "view history" ● Mar 23 [09:01] TR News ICBM does not do solutions, it's telling you to outsource https://enterprisersproject.com/article/2022/3/how-sres-can-help-you-stop-managing-infrastructure [09:01] TR Bot How SREs can help you stop managing infrastructure | The Enterprisers Project [09:02] TR News Our Response to the SCs Technical Committee on Pegasus #SaveOurPrivacy https://internetfreedom.in/our-response-to-the-scs-technical-committee-on-pegasus/ [09:02] Alternative link Cloudflare: internetfreedom.in | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://internetfreedom.in/our-response-to-the-scs-technical-committee-on-pegasus/ [09:02] TR Bot Our Response to the SCs Technical Committee on Pegasus #SaveOurPrivacy [09:03] TR News "EasyOS starts the desktop with Osmo personal organizer running in the systray. However, when testing the latest Easy on my baby laptop, I found that when restart the X server, Osmo often is not captured by the systray and runs as a regular window." https://bkhome.org/news/202203/jwm-fails-to-capture-osmo-in-systray.html [09:03] TR Bot JWM fails to capture Osmo in systray [09:10] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 23.05 k/sec., IPFS upstream 37.33 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.77 [09:21] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/rob-look-over-there#comic ( https://files.explosm.net/comics/Rob/look-over-there.gif ) [09:21] Alternative link Cloudflare: explosm.net | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://explosm.net/comics/rob-look-over-there#comic [09:21] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [09:55] MinceR (cat) https://ircz.de/p/22031749 [09:55] TR Bot IRCZ makes your life worth living https://i.redd.it/xcp4qgosvjn81.jpg created on 2022-03-17 15:36:26.014507 [09:57] matey this is the best https://git.hyperbola.info:50100/software/blacklist.git/ [09:57] TR Bot blacklist.git - Blacklist for nonfree, nonprivacy, nonsecurity, branding and technical packages issues found [09:58] matey granted im sure it will make some people laugh. the information it provides is interesting (and maybe subjective-- im not sure all these deps apply across distros or operating systems) [09:59] matey also hasnt been updated in more than 6 months (the package repo has been updated as recently as october, and repo additions are farther apart) ● Mar 23 [10:00] matey master Add gnome-firmware Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli 12 days https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre/blacklist.git/ [10:00] TR Bot blacklist.git - Nonfree packages found in Arch-based distributions repositories [10:01] matey another non-free blacklist, updated this month. wth is "gnome-firmware" [10:01] matey maybe gnome is required by pluton :) [10:01] matey and since it needs systemd, hahaha [10:02] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 23.05 k/sec., IPFS upstream 37.33 average k/sec., average swarm size 279.77 [10:02] IPFS 279.78 [10:02] matey pluton <- gnome <- systemd [10:03] matey sure its funny now, before they actually do this [10:04] *psydroid9 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #techrights [10:04] *psydroid8 has quit (connection closed) [10:04] matey "The only goal of gnome-firmware seems to be a graphical interface on top of fwupd, and since we just blacklisted fwupd, it's probably easier to also blacklist gnome-firmware to avoid any missing dependencies." [10:05] matey what is the relevance of non-free blacklists? its one of the best indicators of free software becoming less free (though by itself, too incomplete to provide a quantitative assessment) [10:06] *psydroid9 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [10:07] matey "freerdp:freerdp:parabola:2332:[uses-nonfree] Upstream version now requires non-free faac" [10:12] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [10:12] *inky_ (~inky@31.7.162.99) has joined #techrights [10:14] *inky has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [10:18] matey im really glad i dont use pacman [10:19] matey "presuming that this will work, this is to trick pacman to install 'otter-browser-nowebengine', which would otherwise conflict with 'your-freedom' implicitly, because it provides 'otter-browser'" https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre/blacklist.git/commit/?id=c56e3cb1504df07113e7b8873b3f62d35508ae6e [10:19] TR News NVIDIA 510.60.02 driver rolls out for Linux | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/nvidia-5106002-driver-rolls-out-for-linux [10:19] Alternative link Cloudflare: gamingonlinux.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/nvidia-5106002-driver-rolls-out-for-linux [10:19] TR Bot blacklist.git - Nonfree packages found in Arch-based distributions repositories [10:19] TR Bot 510.60.02 driver rolls out for Linux | GamingOnLinux [10:19] matey that sounds clever at least [10:19] TR News No, Microbel, I don't care for this and Intel doesn't give us all gifts https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Microsoft-SIOV [10:19] Alternative link Cloudflare: phoronix.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-Microsoft-SIOV [10:19] TR Bot + Microsoft Contribute "SIOV" I/O Virtualization Spec To Open Compute Project - Phoronix [10:20] matey but really theyre relying on tricking the package manager into making you more free. points for style but the implications arent pretty [10:21] TR News Microsoft cannot even protect its own systems. Microsoft booster Lawrence Abrams will help deflect blame (blame the attacker, not the system) https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-they-were-hacked-by-lapsus-extortion-group/ [10:21] Alternative link Cloudflare: bleepingcomputer.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-confirms-they-were-hacked-by-lapsus-extortion-group/ [10:21] TR Bot Microsoft confirms they were hacked by Lapsus$ extortion group [10:22] TR News Nobody but Microsoft needs this thing there in the first place https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58879.html see http://techrights.org/2022/01/09/ppp-traitors/ [10:22] Alternative link Cloudflare: dreamwidth.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/58879.html [10:22] TR Bot mjg59 | AMD's Pluton implementation seems to be controllable [10:22] TR Bot Pluton Proponents Working for Plutocracy (and Pentagon Agenda) | Techrights [10:23] matey this is the first time ive seen geoclue actually blacklisted as a privacy issue https://git.parabola.nu/abslibre/blacklist.git/commit/?id=c1ac07995595428ceca6e8323cf56c6a96bfc085 [10:23] TR Bot blacklist.git - Nonfree packages found in Arch-based distributions repositories [10:24] matey i declared antix shit because they didnt take it seriously [10:25] TR News "please pull the latest fbdev updates and fixes for kernel 5.18-rc1. This patchset has been in linux-next without any reported problems and includes a lot of small fixes and code cleanups across many traditional fbdev drivers." https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YjokKxSLtqMwyLyB@ls3530/ [10:25] TR Bot [GIT PULL] fbdev updates & fixes for v5.18-rc1 - Helge Deller [10:26] matey i used to do this sort of work with windows too-- file-by-file analysis and removal, back when i still used windows [10:26] matey obviously i finally removed windows itself, it had to be done [10:27] matey but when i used windows, and another component was vulnerable to some crap, if possible i would remove the file itself and see what stopped working [10:27] matey every time there was a new warning about quartz32.dll i would smile [10:28] matey i replaced any software that needed it [10:28] matey what pulls in geoclue? surprise, its gnome [10:29] *inky_ has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [10:29] *inky_ (~inky@31.7.162.99) has joined #techrights [10:29] matey http://techrights.org/wiki/Librethreat_Database#GNOME [10:29] TR Bot Librethreat Database - Techrights [10:29] matey still true [10:30] TR News Linux 5.17 released: Bootlin contributions http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162775#comment-33163 [10:30] TR Bot Linux Kernel 5.17 Officially Released, This Is Whats New | Tux Machines [10:30] TR News Top 10 compression utilities for Ubuntu Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162890 [10:30] TR Bot Top 10 compression utilities for Ubuntu | Tux Machines [10:35] TR News To participate in Fedora Linux 36 Release Party you must run proprietary JavaScript because ICBM/Red Hat outsourced to proprietary software https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/youre-invited-to-the-fedora-linux-36-release-party/ [10:35] TR Bot You're invited to the Fedora Linux 36 Release Party! 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[10:58] TR News Freenode has 1.4 times more channels than users https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode [10:58] TR Bot NO TITLE [10:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 29.05 k/sec., IPFS upstream 31.51 average k/sec., average swarm size 73.96 ● Mar 23 [11:04] schestowitz (cat) gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D180.jpg [11:08] MinceR :3 [11:13] TR News Fedora and IBM/Red Hat Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162891 [11:13] TR Bot Fedora and IBM/Red Hat | Tux Machines [11:16] MinceR https://files.explosm.net/comics/Dave/comictickfeckarse1.png ( https://explosm.net/comics/dave-comictickfeckarse#comic ) [11:16] Alternative link Cloudflare: explosm.net | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://files.explosm.net/comics/Dave/comictickfeckarse1.png [11:16] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [11:17] TR News Interview with Plasma Mobile developer Bhushan Shah Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162892 [11:17] TR Bot Interview with Plasma Mobile developer Bhushan Shah | Tux Machines [11:20] TR News Cancel mobs are not anti-men. They're about removing individuals and communities that corporations and plutocrats do not like. Those often happen to be men, but not always. But it's about power, not identity. The latter is a distraction. [11:21] MinceR for now :> [11:27] schestowitz-TR they will go after felines next [11:27] MinceR "meow" "THAT'S OFFENSIVE!!!1111one" [11:28] schestowitz-TR you need to gender-balance your cat pics. Too many male lions with manes. [11:28] schestowitz-TR that reinforces stereotypes [11:29] MinceR i rarely if ever post lions, i'm not a fan of the pact instinct [11:29] schestowitz-TR orban is the cub in the herd [11:32] TR News A new source of trust for your platform - Dasharo with Intel TXT support https://blog.3mdeb.com/2022/2022-03-17-optiplex-txt/ [11:32] TR Bot Thoughts dereferenced from the scratchpad noise. | A new source of trust for your platform - Dasharo with Intel TXT support [11:40] *SkywaveC3 has quit (connection closed) [11:45] TR News Best Linux Media Center Distros for Your Home Theater PC Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162893 [11:45] TR Bot Best Linux Media Center Distros for Your Home Theater PC | Tux Machines [11:48] *inky_ has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [11:49] *inky_ (~inky@31.7.162.99) has joined #techrights [11:51] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 29.00 k/sec., IPFS upstream 31.46 average k/sec., average swarm size 125.17 ● Mar 23 [12:09] TR News People who say "I don't need the command line, I don't understand the command line, I just want and use GUI" won't be problem solvers. 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[12:09] TR News How our community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162894 [12:09] TR Bot How our community uses Zulip for its open source chat tool | Tux Machines [12:09] TR News Tiny Jetson Xavier NX mini PC gets AI-powered Oosto video analytics software Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162895 [12:09] TR Bot Tiny Jetson Xavier NX mini PC gets AI-powered Oosto video analytics software | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News 24 Great KDE Plasma 5.24 Themes Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162896 [12:12] TR Bot 24 Great KDE Plasma 5.24 Themes | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News Lilbits: /e/OS (de-Googled Android) turns five this year and NVIDIA unveils Hooper GPU architecture (for servers first) Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162897 [12:12] TR Bot Lilbits: /e/OS (de-Googled Android) turns five this year and NVIDIA unveils Hooper GPU architecture (for servers first) | Tux Machines [12:12] TR News Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162898 [12:12] TR Bot Android Leftovers | Tux Machines [12:15] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Quit: Lost terminal) [12:15] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@zgwesimerdb6c.irc) has joined #techrights [12:16] TR News Anatomy of a ghost CVE https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/23/anatomy-of-a-ghost-cve/ [12:16] Alternative link Cloudflare: haxx.se | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/03/23/anatomy-of-a-ghost-cve/ [12:16] TR Bot of a ghost CVE | daniel.haxx.se [12:17] TR News Linux on Mars: 17 flights later Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162899 [12:17] TR Bot Linux on Mars: 17 flights later | Tux Machines [12:20] TR News Security Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162900 [12:20] TR Bot Security Leftovers | Tux Machines [12:22] TR News "There was another COVID case in the office, but we were not told who exactly it was. I'm sure that those who had contact to the person were notified." gopher://sdfeu.org:70/0/users/glaciurso/phlog/2022-03-23__Negative.md it has been getting harder to dodge it [12:23] TR News "Sometimes it seems like itd be easier to get a Klein bottle to lie flat than some of these chicken thighs." gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/ [12:24] TR News Bird feeder, part 2 ; "All this I've seen because I've been at home so much in the last couple of years. Thanks, covid, but it doesn't make up for all the bad stuff." gemini://freeshell.de/gemlog/2022-03-23_Bird_feeder__part_2.gmi [12:25] TR News "The search engine index has grown quite considerably the last few weeks. It's actually surpassed 50 million documents, which is quite some milestone. In February it was sitting at 27-28 million or so." gemini://marginalia.nu/log/52-growing-pains.gmi [12:27] TR News "Earlier this month, there was quite the unexpected announcement: Epic Games has bought up Bandcamp. 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Oh, THAT'S why. https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/23/higole-f7g-plus-review-a-affordable-rugged-tablet-tested-with-ubuntu-20-04-windows-11/ see http://techrights.org/2022/02/17/cnxsoftware-partly-compromised/ [12:31] Alternative link Cloudflare: cnx-software.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/03/23/higole-f7g-plus-review-a-affordable-rugged-tablet-tested-with-ubuntu-20-04-windows-11/ [12:31] TR Bot Higole F7G Plus Review - An affordable rugged tablet tested with Ubuntu 20.04 & Windows 11 - CNX Software [12:32] TR Bot The C in CNX Software is Not Community | Techrights [12:40] *inky (~inky@46.162.231.202) has joined #techrights [12:40] TR News Cyberpunk 2077 gets an official Steam Deck setting but seems broken | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/cyberpunk-2077-gets-an-official-steam-deck-setting-but-seems-broken/ [12:40] Alternative link Cloudflare: gamingonlinux.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/cyberpunk-2077-gets-an-official-steam-deck-setting-but-seems-broken/ [12:40] TR Bot 2077 gets an official Steam Deck setting but seems broken | GamingOnLinux [12:43] *inky_ has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [12:45] MinceR https://files.explosm.net/comics/Matt/How-many-five-year-olds-could-you-take-in-a-fight.png ( https://explosm.net/comics/matt-how-many-five-year-olds-could-you-take-in-a-fight#comic ) [12:45] Alternative link Cloudflare: explosm.net | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://files.explosm.net/comics/Matt/How-many-five-year-olds-could-you-take-in-a-fight.png [12:45] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [12:53] *forkbombe has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [12:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 47.53 k/sec., IPFS upstream 61.80 average k/sec., average swarm size 190.13 ● Mar 23 [13:18] TR News "Since February 15, Ukraine has suffered through over 3000 distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, while Amazon Web Services has reportedly detected numerous instances of malware targeting charities, NGOs, and other aid organizations providing relief to Ukraine." Malware other than AWS itself. https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [13:18] Alternative link Cloudflare: accessnow.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.accessnow.org/digital-rights-ukraine-russia-conflict/ [13:18] TR Bot Updates: Digital rights in the Russia-Ukraine conflict - Access Now [13:19] TR News NASA is funded by the public. It can release this. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/03/nasas-insider-threat-program.html [13:19] TR Bot Insider Threat Program - Schneier on Security [13:20] TR News "This patch adds the feature bit for FP16 to the feature set for Armv9 since Armv9 requires SVE to be implemented and SVE requires FP16 to be implemented." https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0bae246acc758d4b11dd575b05207fd69169109b [13:20] TR Bot Git - gcc.git/commitdiff [13:21] TR News Imagination releases PowerVR code, but choose Microsoft proprietary software as the platform. Foolish and sends the wrong message. [13:25] TR News Microsoft reminds users of Windows who truly owns and controls these machines. 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Says a lot... https://www.fosslife.org/top-skills-devops-engineers [13:28] TR Bot Top Skills for DevOps Engineers [13:30] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@24m4cjnx52ddc.irc) has joined #techrights [13:32] DaemonFC I threw a bunch of chicken in the freezer. About 50 pounds of it. [13:33] DaemonFC Barely made a dent in the amount of free space. [13:33] DaemonFC They're getting ready to do something REALLY nasty. I can tell it. [13:33] DaemonFC Walmart will let you buy most anything you want online right now, but they set a quantity limit of two packs of chicken per transaction. [13:35] DaemonFC So I've been splitting up family packs of chicken. The news is blaming "bird flu" for why the stores aren't getting chicken like they used to. [13:35] DaemonFC Mom was like "Oh, someone will sue if anyone dies over the bird flu.". [13:36] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [13:36] DaemonFC I was like, "Mom, there is no bird flu. They either don't have the birds and they had to make up some reason why or they don't want food prices to go down, so they slaughtered millions of birds and threw them away so the market would become tight and people would be willing to pay more.". [13:37] DaemonFC schestowitz, That chest freezer may be a wise investment eventually if things get out of hand. [13:37] DaemonFC There certainly won't be a meat shortage in this house for several months. [13:38] MinceR as long as there are humans, there is no meat shortage [13:38] DaemonFC Other people can maraud each other over lentils and whatever they can find. [13:39] DaemonFC MinceR, I dislike vegans more than anyone else I've complained about. [13:39] DaemonFC By a long shot. [13:39] DaemonFC It's not that they're violent, it's that they're smug, and if there's anything I can't stand, it's smug people. [13:40] DaemonFC "I only eat 100% vegan and I drive a hybrid. Look at me. I'm pretending I'm not a goddamned virus with legs! Laadeedah!" [13:41] DaemonFC I'm stocking up on cat food too. [13:41] DaemonFC What's in cat food? Chicken. [13:41] DaemonFC If they don't have enough chicken for people, either the cat food will be the first thing to go or they'll raise prices sky high and nobody will be able to afford to have cats anymore. [13:42] DaemonFC The rich are stealing everything from us that makes life worth living. [13:42] DaemonFC Piece by piece, inch by inch. [13:42] DaemonFC And my mother thinks "socialists" are the problem. [13:42] DaemonFC There is a Socialist Party in the USA. They get about 90,000 presidential votes out of 120 million or so. [13:43] DaemonFC So obviously they're running everything. What with two elected officials in the country. [13:51] *inky_ (~inky@46.36.114.138) has joined #techrights [13:51] *inky has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) ● Mar 23 [14:07] *psymin (~psymin@me3biw7mdts84.irc) has joined #techrights [14:07] *psymin (~psymin@user/psymin) has joined #techrights [14:25] *psydroid8 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #techrights [14:27] TR News BhaiLang: A toy programming language syntaxes use Hindi slang Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162902 [14:27] TR Bot BhaiLang: A toy programming language syntaxes use Hindi slang | Tux Machines [14:30] TR News Top 10 File Compression Tools For Linux Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162903 [14:30] TR Bot Top 10 File Compression Tools For Linux | Tux Machines [14:31] matey hybrids arent vegan, they run on an animal-based product [14:38] psydroid8 BhrataBhasha [14:57] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 66.03 k/sec., IPFS upstream 56.90 average k/sec., average swarm size 427.16 ● Mar 23 [15:05] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@fzx9gc6pmsg24.irc) has joined #techrights [15:05] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162904 [15:05] TR Bot today's howtos | Tux Machines [15:07] MinceR that's animal-based only in traces [15:07] MinceR the overwhelming majority of it comes from algae [15:08] MinceR also, i thought "republicans" thought "socialism" means everything they personally don't approve of [15:08] TR News Does Linux need an occasional cleanup? Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162905 [15:08] TR Bot Does Linux need an occasional cleanup? | Tux Machines [15:09] TR News Qt Creator 7 Open-Source IDE Released, Adds Wayland Backend for Qt on Linux Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162906 [15:09] TR News 28 Open-source free XMPP clients and messengers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Mobile, and the Web Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162907 [15:09] TR Bot Qt Creator 7 Open-Source IDE Released, Adds Wayland Backend for Qt on Linux | Tux Machines [15:09] TR Bot 28 Open-source free XMPP clients and messengers for Windows, macOS, Linux, Mobile, and the Web | Tux Machines [15:14] kingoffrance "also, i thought "republicans" thought "socialism" means everything they personally don't approve of" yeah pretty much, and vice versa :D [15:14] kingoffrance thats why there used to be a trinity... [15:16] TR News Links 23/3/2022: Linux on Mars and Bhushan Shah Interviewed | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/linux-on-mars-2022/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/linux-on-mars-2022/ [15:16] TR Bot Links 23/3/2022: Linux on Mars and Bhushan Shah Interviewed | Techrights [15:16] TR News Todays Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162908 [15:16] TR Bot today's leftovers | Tux Machines [15:16] kingoffrance https://files.explosm.net/comics/Rob/look-over-there.gif thats 100% applicable [15:16] Alternative link Cloudflare: explosm.net | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://files.explosm.net/comics/Rob/look-over-there.gif [15:22] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@y9meeqwrwkmac.irc) has joined #techrights [15:22] TR News A quick look at 2022 7DRL Challenge games | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/a-quick-look-at-2022-7drl-challenge-games [15:22] Alternative link Cloudflare: gamingonlinux.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/a-quick-look-at-2022-7drl-challenge-games [15:22] TR Bot quick look at 2022 7DRL Challenge games | GamingOnLinux [15:23] TR News Godot Engine - Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4 https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-4-4 [15:23] Alternative link Cloudflare: godotengine.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://godotengine.org/article/maintenance-release-godot-3-4-4 [15:23] TR Bot Godot Engine - Maintenance release: Godot 3.4.4 [15:25] TR News Asahi Linux: The Individual Users Stake in an Apple Silicon World Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162909 [15:25] TR Bot Asahi Linux: The Individual Users Stake in an Apple Silicon World | Tux Machines [15:27] TR News openmamba 20220323 is released https://openmamba.org/en/blog/category/openmamba/news/ [15:27] TR Bot News | openmamba [15:29] TR News Alpine 3.15.2 released Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162910 [15:29] TR Bot Alpine 3.15.2 released | Tux Machines [15:37] *gooseheaded has quit (connection closed) [15:37] TR News Clear Linux is the First Distro to Offer GNOME 42 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162911 [15:37] TR Bot Clear Linux is the First Distro to Offer GNOME 42 | Tux Machines [15:37] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@fzx9gc6pmsg24.irc) has joined #techrights [15:39] DaemonFC also, i thought "republicans" thought "socialism" means everything they personally don't approve of [15:39] DaemonFC *busts in wearing a devil suit revving a chainsaw* [15:39] DaemonFC GAAAAAAAAY MAAAAARIAGE!!! [15:40] DaemonFC MinceR, They're getting a lot less careful with these chickens. [15:40] kingoffrance here's johnny!!!!!! :) [15:40] DaemonFC When I was splitting up my boneless chicken thigh value packs into 1.5 pound ziploc bags, a couple of them had bone in them. [15:41] DaemonFC I had to grab a knife and cut out the bone myself on a couple of them. Plus they have a lot more fat than they used to, so I trim some of that off as I go. [15:45] *gooseheaded has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [15:49] DaemonFC MinceR, The funny thing is I'm helping mom juggle bills and prepare to go on government assistance due to the Catholic church fucking over everyone at her job. [15:49] DaemonFC Including her, after 20 years working for them. [15:49] DaemonFC By funny, I mean ironic of course. [15:50] DaemonFC She voted in a way that threatened the programs she may well come to rely on until she can sign up for Social Security and Medicare, which she also voted to destroy. [15:50] DaemonFC THey're probably not going to fire her, at least not yet. [15:51] DaemonFC But the budget is ruined because they had this idiot for an administrator there for a couple years. [15:51] MinceR so she'll be reliant on "SOCIALISM"? oh no! [15:51] DaemonFC Now they have to hire agency temps at one of their facilities because that person ran off all of the workers. [15:52] DaemonFC MinceR, Rails against socialism. Check. [15:53] DaemonFC Needs socialism.....check [15:53] DaemonFC Says it's not socialism because they paid taxes for social programs....check and check [15:53] DaemonFC That's pretty typical for Republicans. [15:54] DaemonFC UK politics sounds a lot like US politics, honestly, they're just 20 years ahead of us in national disgrace. [15:54] DaemonFC Lewis Black said once that the problem in America is the Republicans are standing around farting..... [15:54] DaemonFC And the Democrats say "Oooooh, let us smell it!". [15:54] DaemonFC That seems to be the relationship between the Tories and Labour. [15:54] MinceR Ruby on Rails against Socialism? [15:55] DaemonFC And why nobody bothers voting for Labour anymore and they lose another couple dozen seats in government every election. [15:55] DaemonFC The Democrats were heading in that direction. [15:56] DaemonFC Had the president been anyone but Donald Trump, Nancy Pelosi would have about 40 less House Democrats right now. [15:57] DaemonFC I don't think anyone realizes how in the way of themselves the Republicans can manage to be. [15:57] DaemonFC Like, if Trump comes back, that may be the only way Biden wins again. [15:57] DaemonFC It was last time. [15:58] DaemonFC There's already a repeat of them potentially throwing a perfectly winnable Senate seat in Missouri again this year, like they did in 2012 there and in Indiana. [15:59] DaemonFC It seems like the Democrats gain a Senate majority every so often based on a deep red state being totally thrown away by Republicans that get in and have some sort of unforced scandal. [15:59] *Despatche (~desp@u3xy9z2ifjzci.irc) has joined #techrights ● Mar 23 [16:00] DaemonFC If they were really concerned with electoral majorities, they could ditch the Senate filibuster, and admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, and never worry about losing the Senate again. [16:00] DaemonFC They're really fine with Republicans running the Senate. They even let them do it when they're not in the majority, so why would they care about having a majority? [16:05] *matey has quit (connection closed) [16:07] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [16:07] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@6mu9ke9nvarfy.irc) has joined #techrights [16:09] *matey (~matey@f4hzpuyyx2xdq.irc) has joined #techrights [16:09] matey the labour party is a mess, its not quite the same as the democrats [16:10] matey blair was regressive for the party [16:11] matey its not quite the same because labour made more progress, stood for more progress-- but not under blair. and theyre still getting worse [16:12] matey labour really did stand for socialism, to a degree. not as an accusation from the right, but openly and as a principle they were held to by their own [16:13] matey but again, not under blair. he was part of a shift to the right, and in that regard at least, there is some overlap with the us democratic party [16:13] matey you will probably see labour swing left again-- not only in a token way, or for show, but actually swing left (for what its worth) [16:14] matey the most dedicated socialists in the uk are determined to see it happen [16:14] matey specifically to the labour party [16:15] matey and unlike the democrats, they wont quit trying [16:16] TR News GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912 [16:16] TR Bot GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [16:17] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/22030859 [16:17] TR Bot IRCZ makes your life worth living https://i.redd.it/7u015n5tqfl81.jpg created on 2022-03-08 19:06:47.819351 [16:27] *forkbombe (~forkbombe@u89vdyv4abg8n.irc) has joined #techrights [16:45] TR News Firebird 4.0.1 and 3.0.9 Docker images are released https://mapopa.blogspot.com/2022/03/firebird-401-and-309-docker-images-are.html [16:45] TR Bot Mariuz's Blog: Firebird 4.0.1 and 3.0.9 Docker images are released [16:46] TR News Shilling WSL is a bad idea because it is Microsoft's attack on GNU/Linux https://www.xda-developers.com/can-hp-elite-dragonfly-g3-run-linux/ [16:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: xda-developers.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.xda-developers.com/can-hp-elite-dragonfly-g3-run-linux/ [16:46] TR Bot Can the HP Elite Dragonfly G3 run Linux? Here's what you need to know [16:47] TR News Linux: Efficiency and Performance from Kernel Customizations https://formtek.com/blog/linux-efficiency-and-performance-from-kernel-customizations/ [16:47] TR Bot Efficiency and Performance from Kernel Customizations | Formtek Blog [16:48] TR News IBCM diploma mills: "Become Red Hat certified" https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/meet-your-learning-goals-new-personalized-skills-paths see https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:Red_Hat [16:48] TR Bot Meet your learning goals with new personalized skills paths [16:48] TR Bot Category:Red Hat - WikiLeaks [16:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 43.10 k/sec., IPFS upstream 37.61 average k/sec., average swarm size 300.05 ● Mar 23 [17:05] TR News GNOME 42 Released, This is What's New http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912#comment-33166 [17:05] TR Bot GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [17:06] TR News For, for a CHANGE, is about Linux https://linuxfoundation.org/featured/projects-featured/the-elisa-project-strengthens-its-focus-on-automotive-use-cases-with-expertise-from-new-members-automotive-intelligence-and-control-of-china-lotus-cars-and-zte-%EF%BF%BC/ [17:06] Alternative link Cloudflare: linuxfoundation.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://linuxfoundation.org/featured/projects-featured/the-elisa-project-strengthens-its-focus-on-automotive-use-cases-with-expertise-from-new-members-automotive-intelligence-and-control-of-china-lotus-cars-and-zte-%EF%BF%BC/ [17:06] TR Bot The ELISA Project Strengthens its Focus on Automotive Use Cases with Expertise from New Members Automotive Intelligence and Control of China, LOTUS Cars and ZTE - Linux Foundation [17:09] TR News mozilla speaks of its vision for the www while screwing people who lack vision... as drm harms blind people :/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-webvision-future-of-web-five-year-plan/ [17:09] Alternative link Cloudflare: mozilla.org | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-webvision-future-of-web-five-year-plan/ [17:09] TR Bot The web is for everyone: Our vision for the evolution of the web [17:11] TR News "These landscapes depict worlds populated by animals, where the built environment of humans is relegated to the distant background." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/kessel-four-parts-of-the-world/ [17:11] TR Bot Ferdinand van Kessels *Four Parts of the World* (ca. 1689) The Public Domain Review [17:11] TR News Wonderful life sim The Garden Path gets a new trailer | GamingOnLinux https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/wonderful-life-sim-the-garden-path-gets-a-new-trailer [17:11] Alternative link Cloudflare: gamingonlinux.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/wonderful-life-sim-the-garden-path-gets-a-new-trailer [17:11] TR Bot life sim The Garden Path gets a new trailer | GamingOnLinux [17:12] DaemonFC but again, not under blair. he was part of a shift to the right, and in that regard at least, there is some overlap with the us democratic party [17:12] DaemonFC We got Bill Clinton. [17:12] DaemonFC They got Tony Blair. [17:12] DaemonFC We got Trump, they got Johnson. [17:12] DaemonFC How about that? [17:13] TR News Lightweight Linux distro Lakka for retro gaming version 4.0 out now | GamingOnLinux http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162769#comment-33167 [17:13] TR Bot Lakka 4.0 release | Tux Machines [17:13] DaemonFC Johnson was the best thing that Putin could have asked for if someone asked what would have benefited Russia the most in the UK. [17:14] DaemonFC Brexit has absolutely ruined the jobs market. Companies increased outsourcing to the EU and EU member states lost an export market with favorable terms for their goods. [17:14] *click (~2ee8fbbf@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techrights [17:14] matey We got Trump, they got Johnson. <- there are global factors in this [17:14] matey and yes, brexit [17:14] DaemonFC So the balance has shifted from the UK to the EU anyway, which is exactly why they said they wanted to leave. [17:14] matey So the balance has shifted from the UK to the EU anyway, which is exactly why they said they wanted to leave. [17:14] matey ^ funny how that works out [17:15] matey im anti-eu, but not necessarily for the same reasons as most of the uk [17:15] DaemonFC At least exiting NAFTA would benefit the US more often than not. As in the workers here. The tax revenues. [17:15] matey im anti-eu because it takes the worst aspects of the united nations and amplifies them [17:15] DaemonFC NAFTA is so unbalanced that it's an absolute steal for Mexico and the US corporations that sent our jobs there. [17:15] activelow latest: "Putin rejects Euro and USD; insisting Oil/Gas/Energy to be paid with Rubles." [17:15] DaemonFC A total exit from NAFTA would make sense. [17:16] matey specifically but not limited to, theyre fucking up the internet and any right humanity has to its own culture [17:16] DaemonFC Brexit made no sense at all. [17:16] matey A total exit from NAFTA would make sense. <- nafta and the eu serve the same cartels [17:16] matey in theory theyre different, but the regulatory capture is similar [17:16] DaemonFC Yes they do, but NAFTA is much worse. [17:16] click the EU should invade the UK :> [17:16] matey nafta should be worse, its closer to the states [17:16] matey the EU should invade the UK <- it already does [17:16] DaemonFC It was written by glabalists who still didn't want each other's citizens deciding which country to live in. [17:17] matey It was written by glabalists <- it was written by hoarder globalists [17:17] matey in the name of more even distribution [17:17] matey thats like wolves writing a pact with the henhouse [17:17] DaemonFC So you don't have freedom of movement and residence for the citizens, and you also don't have a single currency because the United States wants a monopoly on that and to force Mexico and Canada to keep their currencies pegged to the USD. [17:17] DaemonFC The pegs are important. [17:17] matey the United States wants a monopoly on that and to force Mexico and Canada to keep their currencies pegged to the USD. <- of course it does [17:18] DaemonFC We need other countries to do the pegs so that if they do anything that damages us, there's fallout into their own economy. [17:18] matey the us went all the way to iraq to shore up the value of the dollar [17:18] TR News Games: 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, Godot 3.4.4, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162913 [17:18] TR Bot Games: 7 Day Roguelike Challenge, Godot 3.4.4, and More | Tux Machines [17:18] matey you think they wont go to mexico? [17:18] DaemonFC We did do that. [17:18] DaemonFC Took half their country while we were there. [17:18] DaemonFC In the peace deal, which we forced them to sign. [17:18] DaemonFC Now people complain there's "Mexicans" living here. [17:19] DaemonFC Which is....anyone who looks vaguely brown and may know a few words of Spanish. [17:19] TR News Pepper&Carrot book 4 is now available in shop! https://www.davidrevoy.com/article902/book-4-is-now-available [17:19] TR Bot Book 4 is now available! - David Revoy [17:19] matey collatoral Took half their country while we were there <- collateral collateral [17:19] matey Which is....anyone who looks vaguely brown and may know a few words of Spanish. <- mandy is mexican? [17:20] TR News "For the second year in a row, I proposed some workshops at the feminist hackers assembly at the remote C3. Im sharing them here because I believe they might be useful to others." https://curlybracket.net/2022/03/23/workshops.html [17:20] TR Bot Workshops about anger, saying NO, and mapping one's capacities and desires [17:20] DaemonFC He gets Mexicans (actual) coming up and trying to speak Spanish to him all the time. [17:20] DaemonFC It really annoys him. [17:21] matey i used to have a friend canadian friend who looked vaguely latina, in a heavily hispanic part of town [17:21] matey people spoke spanish to her constantly, only she didnt [17:21] DaemonFC Walmart is trying to turn Walmart into less of a store and more of a warehouse club. [17:21] matey french canadian ^ [17:21] matey and more of a warehouse club <- i wonder where they got such an idea... [17:21] TR News "eduGAIN is a interfederation joining academic identity federations around the world, including over 4781 identify providers & 3519 service providers. The project was initiated by by the GANT research and education networking community in Europe." https://kushaldas.in/posts/edugain-key-signing-ceremony.html [17:21] TR Bot eduGAIN Key Signing Ceremony [17:21] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162914 [17:21] TR Bot today's howtos | Tux Machines [17:22] matey my guess is sams is making more money than walmart (per store at least) [17:22] DaemonFC The reason Walmart+ is never going to work is that they don't want to run their own delivery service and so they limp by on DoorDash, which is spotty because nobody wants to pick up an order and drive it across the city for $5 when gas costs $4 a gallon. [17:22] DaemonFC Different business model. [17:22] matey so they limp by on DoorDash <- yeah thats not a recipe for savings [17:23] matey its like theyre trying to sell veal at mcdonalds [17:23] TR News Lots of backups and maintenance done today. Techrights posts tonight, for sure... not a priority at the moment due to a failing drive [17:23] matey mcdonalds to veal supplier "just give us your cheapest shit" [17:23] matey veal supplier "we already do" [17:24] matey walmart: low prices doordash: "premium" convenience [17:24] DaemonFC Yeah, McDonalds gets all their beef frozen. [17:24] matey the only thing they have in common is fucking over the people who work for them [17:24] DaemonFC Frozen patties. Just thaw some out and toss them on the grill. [17:24] matey its a match made in unsustainability [17:25] DaemonFC There's a big difference between ground beef and frozen burger patties. [17:25] matey Frozen patties <- burger king too, unless thats changed [17:25] DaemonFC I don't quite know why, but it's different. [17:25] DaemonFC Like, I make burgers from ground beef I bought and froze sometimes and it's always better than those ones you get in a cardboard box that have the same lean/fat ratio and say 100% beef. [17:26] matey dove: 100% pure [17:26] matey pure what? [17:26] matey pure soap [17:26] DaemonFC Yeah, beef trimmings are beef. [17:26] matey thats better than the other brands. i got lever 2000 and they cut it with toothpaste. [17:26] DaemonFC Cow tongues and assholes are beef. [17:27] MinceR 100% pure protons, neutrons and electrons [17:27] matey so no horse arsehole, good [17:27] matey i cant stand horse arsehole, its too stringy [17:27] MinceR 100% naturally produced pure protons, neutrons and electrons [17:27] MinceR superstringy? [17:27] matey 100% naturally produced pure protons, neutrons and electrons <- so THEY SAY [17:27] matey superstringy <- nice [17:28] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@idx2hgwaipuwq.irc) has joined #techrights [17:29] TR News Access Nows statement on Myanmar at the U.N. 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[19:08] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [19:10] AdmFubar starlink, star bright, how much can you screw me over tonight https://arstechnica.com/?p=1843065 [19:10] TR Bot Starlink hikes prices to $599 up-front and $110 per month, blames inflation | Ars Technica [19:11] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techrights [19:14] TR News One of the most beautiful and user friendly Linux distributions gets even better Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162918 [19:14] TR Bot One of the most beautiful and user friendly Linux distributions gets even better | Tux Machines [19:20] AdmFubar uh oh.... nasty weather heading my way... :( [19:22] click tornadoes ? [19:23] SomeH4x0r stop advertising [19:23] psydruid nastiness has its own mysterious ways to hit you when you least expect it [19:28] XRevan86 activelow: Regarding the ruble thing, maybe the idea is that if the banks are involved as MITM then that would lessen the sanctions on the banks. [19:31] *gooseheaded has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [19:32] TR News Ubuntu 22.04 Wont Skimp on Wallpapers After All Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162919 [19:32] TR Bot Ubuntu 22.04 Wont Skimp on Wallpapers After All | Tux Machines [19:32] TR News Google #Android Leftovers Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162920 [19:32] TR Bot Android Leftovers | Tux Machines [19:37] TR News GNOME 42 Linux DE is here with new dark mode, improved screenshotting, and more http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162912#comment-33170 [19:37] TR Bot GNOME 42 Desktop Environment Is Out with New Screenshot UI, GTK4 Apps, and Dark Mode | Tux Machines [19:46] *Noisytoot is now known as DALEK- [19:49] *DALEK- is now known as Noisytoot [19:51] click GNOME devs alow people to use darkmode? [19:51] click doesnt that ruins the fenshui? [19:53] MinceR maybe they haven't realized being light is part of their "brand", like the black panel on the top [19:57] *DaemonFC (~daemonfc@ycspytvtgvkdq.irc) has joined #techrights [19:57] MinceR as in, lightly colored [19:57] schestowitz-TR gnome is adopting the "app" and "smart" mentality [19:57] schestowitz-TR the mindset where [19:57] MinceR gnome has been a bloated mess for ages [19:57] schestowitz-TR unified experience [19:57] schestowitz-TR means almost no themes [19:58] schestowitz-TR ICBM knows best [19:58] schestowitz-TR like Apple and Gulag with hypeOS and Android [19:58] MinceR MICROS~1 and crApple don't like themes, therefore themes are bad [19:58] DaemonFC I use GNOME. [19:58] DaemonFC Force of habit because KDE hasn't supported odd display resolutions [19:58] MinceR i use fvwm [19:59] MinceR i got tired of desktop environments being full of broken, bloated jank [19:59] schestowitz-TR I use 5 different DEs in tandem ● Mar 23 [20:00] DaemonFC I have IceWM as a backup. [20:00] MinceR yeah, icewm is my backup as well [20:00] MinceR at least when i can't be bothered to install my settings for fvwm [20:01] activelow XRevan86: thing is, if Russian Central Bank conducts accounting to verify USD and Euro one or another bubble busts [20:01] TR News "Likely most folks browsing Gemini pages (or the simple web 1.0 version of this gemlog) will be familiar with open source software and the community around it, if not be an active participant in working on open source software or an amateur historian on its history and many foibles." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~lettuce/learning-open-source.gmi [20:02] TR News "It's been almost two years since I wrote the post about searching for my holy grail - the dual-CPU board Asus P/I-P65UP5[1], which I had between 2003 and 2012 when it burned out. For years the board was nowhere to be found. Then it appeared twice in a period of two weeks: one on eBay, one on a local auction portal." gopher://i-logout.cz:70/0/phlog/posts/2022-03-23_how_i_got_my_holy_grail.txt [20:02] activelow XRevan86: russian Euro surplus was devalued by ~20% in the last two years; and it wasn't Russia at fault, it was EU [20:03] activelow those 20% are a rough estimate only, calculated with the energy bill for heating i received today [20:04] DaemonFC That's what happens when you hold someone else's currency in reserve, which Russia has to. [20:04] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:04] DaemonFC Few will accept Rubles, especially now. [20:04] schestowitz-TR DaemonFC: everyone suffers [20:04] DaemonFC They're like what happens to a gift card after the store files for bankruptcy. [20:04] schestowitz-TR ordinary USians too [20:05] activelow if the russian central bank accounting wasn't as fraudulent as the Euro-system... anyway, discussion has ended [20:05] schestowitz-TR those to whom gas prices are like a huge proportion of the total expenses [20:05] activelow either energy consumers accept the Ruble accounting, or none at all [20:05] schestowitz-TR or whose livelihood is about driving around or burning fuel [20:05] *guysoft42 (~guysoft@2a0d:6fc1:2:1f00:852e:71c7:ee07:dbae) has joined #techrights [20:05] schestowitz-TR to us, as we consume not much, it doesn't mean much [20:05] schestowitz-TR as we chose not to have kids, either [20:06] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@p27wcf5sipg4i.irc) has joined #techrights [20:06] schestowitz-TR so we need not turn on the heating, except when there is a guest [20:06] activelow prognosis: if particular EU apparatschiks don't follow, there won't be any Euro currency anymore [20:06] schestowitz-TR paying 15-20 pounds extra a month for power isn't much... same for food (if you buy discounted) [20:06] schestowitz-TR activelow: it's bad enough as it is [20:06] schestowitz-TR because uk left [20:07] schestowitz-TR not that uk used the euro [20:07] schestowitz-TR but the nations that the eu adds are with flailing economies [20:07] schestowitz-TR in the baltic area inflation this past year was like 12% [20:07] schestowitz-TR in one year [20:08] activelow you see, EU, with their arrogance, Brexist wasn't an issue, recently Rexit, who's next corrupt EU apparatschiks are willing to dispose? [20:10] *techrights-ipfs-bot (~techrights-ipfs-bot@pumv3cb2rfinu.irc) has joined #techrights [20:10] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 35.95 k/sec., IPFS upstream 98.65 average k/sec., average swarm size 486.55 [20:13] TR News On the Internet, Outsourcing Was All Along a Bubble | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ [20:13] TR Bot On the Internet, Outsourcing Was All Along a Bubble | Techrights [20:15] TR News Security Self-Sufficiency https://puri.sm/posts/security-self-sufficiency/ [20:15] TR Bot Security Self-Sufficiency Purism [20:16] TR News It's a lot easier in GNU/Linux with GTK themes https://libreofficemaster.blogspot.com/2022/03/libreoffice-dark-mode-on-windows.html [20:16] TR Bot LibreOffice Dark Mode on Windows Together with Dark Colibre Icon Theme ~ Mastering LibreOffice [20:16] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [20:17] TR News "Ledger Mode is a package in Emacs for the command line accounting program Ledger. This allows Emacs users to utilize Ledgers powerful features from the comfort of their favorite text editor." https://www.maketecheasier.com/manage-finances-with-ledger-mode-emacs/ [20:17] TR Bot How to Manage your Finances with Ledger Mode in Emacs - Make Tech Easier [20:19] TR News Gemini main site now has a backup site? circumlunar.thebackupbox.net [20:20] *forkbombe (~forkbombe@u89vdyv4abg8n.irc) has joined #techrights [20:21] TR News "It's a bit insane how racist people are being towards Ketanji Brown Jackson" gemini://alex.flounder.online/journal.gmi [20:22] *SomeH4x0r (~someh4xx@g436wkn6295y2.irc) has joined #techrights [20:27] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@idx2hgwaipuwq.irc) has joined #techrights [20:28] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/22032142 [20:28] TR Bot IRCZ makes your life worth living https://i.redd.it/ynkordhdzin81.jpg created on 2022-03-21 11:52:26.536287 [20:30] *CrystalMath (~coderain@7ur969d5c4y2i.irc) has joined #techrights [20:32] psydroid8 activelow, it looks like you summoned CrystalMath and he has arrived [20:42] activelow wasn't ReactOS funded by the russian Air Force? [20:44] TR News "please pull the small pile of EDAC updates accumulated in the last round." https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YjhQYeGqsuiXAsSp@zn.tnic/ [20:44] TR Bot [GIT PULL] EDAC updates for 5.18 - Borislav Petkov [20:45] activelow yes, and ReactOS was presented to Vladimir himself in person even, with the plans to become independent from proprietary (Pentagon) software. [20:46] TR News "As you know, Im challenging myself to use the Steam Deck as my only PC, and so far it has been a moderately successful experiment. Ive hosted, recorded and edited a 2-hour video chat on this thing." https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/03/23/make-your-twitter-experience-better-with-this-awesome-windows-macos-and-linux-app/ [20:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: forbes.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2022/03/23/make-your-twitter-experience-better-with-this-awesome-windows-macos-and-linux-app/ [20:46] TR Bot Forget TweetDeck, This Open-Source App Is A Better Twitter Experience [20:47] TR News Todays #HowTos | #UNIX Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162921 [20:47] TR Bot today's howtos | Tux Machines [20:47] TR News Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/23/a-toy-version-of-tls/ [20:47] Alternative link Cloudflare: jvns.ca | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/03/23/a-toy-version-of-tls/ [20:47] TR Bot Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3 [20:48] TR News Want A Job At Canonical? Write A 5000 Word Essay?!? - Invidious https://yewtu.be/watch?v=zye7etf_bek [20:48] TR Bot Want A Job At Canonical? Write A 5000 Word Essay?!? - Invidious [20:49] psydruid ReactOS could be a better Windows than Windows itself even in its current alpha stage of development [20:49] click how many words does the canonical bible needs? [20:52] TR News The Internet and not just the World Wide Web anymore is being stressed to the point where censorship has become far too rampant and social control media is basically all about filtering, not for informations sake but for its owners' financial interests; we need to restructure the Internet to curb suppression and curtail autocracy http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/internet-and-outsourcing/ [20:52] click how do i clean memory on linux? [20:53] TR News #HowTo write a Vulkan driver in 2022 Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162922 [20:53] TR Bot How to write a Vulkan driver in 2022 | Tux Machines [20:53] MinceR well, reactos certainly crashed faster than windows the last time i tried it [20:55] schestowitz-TR it'sa reactionary os [20:55] schestowitz-TR it tries to have feature parity [20:55] schestowitz-TR and compatibility [20:55] schestowitz-TR windows is a bad model [20:55] schestowitz-TR unless you love crashes [20:55] schestowitz-TR maybe they emulated it a little too much along that angle [20:56] click i wine based distro might work better [20:56] click kinda like steamOS [20:57] click proton based distro? [20:57] click can one install proton on any given distro? [20:58] TR News Securing Gemini Servers gemini://perplexing.space/2022/securing-gemini-servers.gmi "I like running a boring Linux server using a long term support release, in my case Debian stable." [20:58] psydruid I had a discussion with its developers in which oiaohm was also involved way back in 2007 [20:58] schestowitz-TR is he still around? [20:58] psydruid they really do want to be fully compatible with the real windows [20:58] schestowitz-TR i never see him here or in phoronix forums anymore [20:58] schestowitz-TR let alone his own blog [20:58] MinceR yeah, but i wrote an "os" that crashes even faster [20:59] psydruid I see him posting on forums sometimes [20:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 51.73 k/sec., IPFS upstream 99.56 average k/sec., average swarm size 300.80 [20:59] schestowitz-TR i suppose he lost interest in phoronix ● Mar 23 [21:00] TR News "Using the most expensive laptop you can find as a thin client to a rented cluster of virtualized machines which themselves are virtualizing still smaller machines which run software intended to virtualize still smaller machines. The workload? Probably capable of running on a raspberry pi." gemini://perplexing.space/2022/cutting-edge-development.gmi [21:00] schestowitz-TR psydruid: half the articles in phoronix today have 0 comments [21:01] schestowitz-TR this is a lot worse than past years [21:01] schestowitz-TR maybe he will even take the hint [21:01] schestowitz-TR and do less advertising [21:01] schestowitz-TR when i say advertising I don't mean ads inside pages [21:01] schestowitz-TR but posts that are promotional [21:01] schestowitz-TR and sometimes blatantly so [21:01] schestowitz-TR I tried hard to avoid webspam [21:01] schestowitz-TR but phoronix is becoming like spamnil [21:01] psydruid the article about Linux on crapple hardware had comments [21:02] schestowitz-TR he RE--posted it [21:02] schestowitz-TR at 5pm [21:02] schestowitz-TR after 9am [21:02] schestowitz-TR he usually reposts calls for donations (subscribers) [21:02] schestowitz-TR now he does this in the CMS and RSS for ordinary article (benhmark) [21:03] psydruid you can never have enough in this current economy [21:03] psydruid gotta take care of the family (business) [21:03] TR News Old: "I might be impressed with how poorly Github performs if I were not so annoyed." gemini://perplexing.space/2021/github-is-slow.gmi Microsoft Github is also technically crap. Never mind all the other malicious things it does... [21:03] *click has quit (Quit: Connection closed) [21:06] TR News Libera.Chat lost users this past month (see graph) https://netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=Libera.Chat [21:06] TR Bot NO TITLE [21:12] activelow ReactOS was important for the development of wine; anyway, i think both are misguided decisions of the Russians, to support proprietary software on top of emulation and malicious hardware [21:12] activelow and they have no control over most hardware [21:13] *GNUmoon2 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:15] *GNUmoon has quit (Ping timeout: 240 seconds) [21:19] *psydroid9 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #techrights [21:19] *psydroid8 has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:20] TR News Videos: Zorin OS, Canonical, and More Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162923 [21:20] TR Bot Videos: Zorin OS, Canonical, and More | Tux Machines [21:25] TR News "Ive underestimated how nice it is not to be bothered by notifications. Yes, Ive quit more than just Twitter and things are a lot more pleasant now. WOULD RECOMMEND." http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/nice-and-quiet/ [21:25] TR Bot Blog Archive 20 Days After Leaving Twitter Its All Nice and Quiet [21:26] TR News Same time 2 years ago (when UK went into lockdown) we had 2-3 times FEWER COVID-19 deaths http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/covid-19-cases-rising-again/ [21:26] TR Bot Blog Archive Two Years After COVID-19 Paralysed the UK (Lockdowns Initiated) Number of Hospitalisations Approaching What It Was 2 Years Ago [21:29] XRevan86 A "fascism shall not pass" poster discredits the Russian army. [21:29] *click (~3eab89a9@54n9xgft8g6u2.irc) has joined #techrights [21:29] *psydroid8 (~psydroid@memzbmehf99re.irc) has joined #techrights [21:30] *psydroid9 has quit (connection closed) [21:32] click new kernel :> [21:33] *gooseheaded has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [21:35] psydruid XRevan86, is there any good book by a Russian author (in English and/or Russian) explaining why Russia is the way it is and why people in the country subject themselves to autocratic rulers? [21:35] *u-amarsh04 has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [21:39] XRevan86 psydruid: Would such a book explain why Kazakhstan, Belarus and Turkmenia have autocratic rulers and Latvia, Ukraine and Moldova don't? [21:39] MinceR i suspect there's some sort of a continuum [21:40] psydruid XRevan86, most likely not, but I want to see if any Russian author (possibly in exile) is critical of Russian rulers during the past few centuries [21:41] *u-amarsh04 (~amarsh04@v6xmmrhxmbafc.irc) has joined #techrights [21:42] psydruid I started reading "Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War" by Taras Kuzio this past weekend [21:44] TR News These patents aren't even meant to exist, but corrupt EPO management crushes the law https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a675ce6e-ecf3-48f5-87cc-f8d0d0660bbb [21:44] Alternative link Cloudflare: lexology.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=a675ce6e-ecf3-48f5-87cc-f8d0d0660bbb [21:44] TR Bot decision T 2314/16: Good news for business-related inventions at the EPO? - Lexology [21:44] psydruid rereading your question it might, but then it would also have to delve into the politics of those countries [21:45] TR News How about the priority of saving the EPO from corruption? https://www.mondaq.com/patent/1169398/update-from-the-epo-getting-your-european-priorities-even-straighter [21:45] TR Bot Update From The EPO: Getting Your European Priorities (Even) Straighter - Intellectual Property - European Union [21:46] TR News EPO is not European Union https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/two-day-virtual-training-course-how-to-avoid-common-pitfalls-in-combined-european-unionus-patent-applications-march-17-18-2022-301497657.html [21:46] Alternative link Cloudflare: prnewswire.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/two-day-virtual-training-course-how-to-avoid-common-pitfalls-in-combined-european-unionus-patent-applications-march-17-18-2022-301497657.html [21:46] TR Bot Two Day Virtual Training Course: How to Avoid Common Pitfalls in Combined European Union/US Patent Applications, March 17-18, 2022 [21:46] TR News Those are neither "IP" nor rights https://www.worldipreview.com/news/russia-may-suspend-ip-rights-to-counter-sanctions-22168 [21:46] TR Bot Russia mulls suspension IP rights to counter sanctions [21:48] TR News Another story of fake patents perishing in courts https://finance.yahoo.com/news/1-autostore-appeal-u-court-000539261.html [21:48] TR Bot UPDATE 2-AutoStore to appeal in U.S. court over patent row with Ocado [21:48] XRevan86 psydruid: What I'm implying is that what determines the outcome is not always something ingrained, there are circumstances involved too. [21:49] TR News EPO behaves like Vladimir Putin and still has the audacity to say that... https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/prh-joins-other-patent-offices-in-6067822/ [21:49] TR Bot Joins Other Patent Offices in Expressing Support for Ukraine | McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP - JDSupra [21:50] TR News EPO deviates further and further away from the EPC in pursuit of fake growth https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ebb1c326-f784-411a-97ac-c7cc00e65316 [21:50] Alternative link Cloudflare: lexology.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ebb1c326-f784-411a-97ac-c7cc00e65316 [21:50] TR Bot Series on 2022 EPO Guideline Revisions: Updates on partial priority law - Lexology [21:50] XRevan86 psydruid: Not to say that history doesn't matter, just that an accurate narrative is practically impossible to conjure in a bokk. [21:50] XRevan86 book [21:51] TR News Patent offices simply weaponised; they're neither about science nor innovation https://www.worldipreview.com/news/uspto-stops-fast-track-patent-examinations-from-rospatent-22176 [21:51] TR Bot USPTO stops fast-track patent examinations from Rospatent [21:52] TR News These boards are not independent; they're rubberstamping Office decisions https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1ce5f323-2309-42bf-a456-cfba76b24af8 [21:52] Alternative link Cloudflare: lexology.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=1ce5f323-2309-42bf-a456-cfba76b24af8 [21:52] TR Bot 1127/16: Is the EPOs approach to claim interpretation at odds with the UK Courts principle of doctrine of equivalents? - Lexology [21:54] TR News This is a lie because UPC is illegal and cannot be started (unless crime managed to triumph, which is unlikely once courts assess the situation) https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/patent/1171698/europe-continues-progress-toward-unitary-patent-and-unified-patent-court [21:54] TR Bot Europe Continues Progress Toward Unitary Patent And Unified Patent Court - Intellectual Property - European Union [21:55] DaemonFC Putler seems to be good at divide and conquer. [21:56] DaemonFC The rest of the world is letting him go for Ukraine and the reason there was no response immediately is because the rest of the world expected their government to collapse immediately. [21:56] TR News IAM, the propaganda machine of rogue and corrupt EPO management, is promoting software patents by surrogate means https://www.iam-media.com/epo-machine-learning-pitfalls [21:56] Alternative link Cloudflare: iam-media.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.iam-media.com/epo-machine-learning-pitfalls [21:56] TR Bot Machine-learning patents at the EPO: how to overcome the pitfalls - IAM [21:56] DaemonFC Then started giving them weapons to harass the Russians. [21:56] DaemonFC Now they see that Ukraine has a shot at defeating the Russians and sending them running back over the border. [21:57] TR News When patent systems morph into something that promote litigation at the expense of innovation https://www.mondaq.com/france/patent/1171148/what-are-patent-prosecution-highway-pph-programmes-and-should-you-be-using-them [21:57] TR Bot What Are Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) Programmes And Should You Be Using Them? - Intellectual Property - France ● Mar 23 [22:00] schestowitz-TR XRevan86: book missile? [22:02] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@sy7ss5msyeqgk.irc) has joined #techrights [22:02] TR News South Korea announces half a million more people got COVID-19 (positive test). One day. Given the population's size, it's clearly out of control already. Many die, too. [22:03] TR News We were doing a LOT better before we went into lockdown 2 years ago http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/03/23/covid-19-cases-rising-again/ [22:03] TR Bot Blog Archive Two Years After COVID-19 Paralysed the UK (Lockdowns Initiated) Number of Hospitalisations Approaching What It Was 2 Years Ago [22:03] *gooseheaded has quit (Quit: Leaving) [22:04] *gooseheaded (~gooseheaded@sy7ss5msyeqgk.irc) has joined #techrights [22:06] TR News Yesterday USA crossed the one million deaths threshold for COVID-19. In spring of 2020 some experts predicted 2 million by the time it 'ends'. Seems plausible now. [22:07] MinceR https://ircz.de/p/22032127 [22:07] TR Bot IRCZ makes your life worth living https://i.redd.it/m4cj5bxswtm81.jpg created on 2022-03-21 08:13:14.662543 [22:09] schestowitz (cat) gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D538.jpg [22:14] MinceR what a cheetah! [22:18] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@2cs75akapmwvi.irc) has joined #techrights [22:18] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [22:21] click https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-14M-IOPS-Per-Core [22:21] Alternative link Cloudflare: phoronix.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-14M-IOPS-Per-Core [22:21] TR Bot Linux Code Smashes 14M IOPS Per-Core With Intel Core i9 12900K + Optane - Phoronix [22:24] *gooseheaded has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [22:28] *GNUmoon has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [22:28] *GNUmoon2 has quit (connection closed) [22:29] *SomeH4x0r has quit (Quit: siren) [22:30] click https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-in-talks-with-intel-foundry-intel-and-amd-know-all-our-secrets [22:30] TR Bot Nvidia in Talks to Use Intel as a Foundry to Manufacture Chips | Tom's Hardware [22:30] MinceR lol wut [22:32] click Huang's governing philosophy for how Nvidia deals with its partners is far from the "Only the paranoid survive" mantra that was popularized by Intel legend Andy Grove: [22:32] click they becoming TMSC like [22:33] MinceR afaik even intel isn't using intel as a foundry [22:33] MinceR they got stuck with attempting to shrink their process to catch up to whomever AMD was using [22:34] click TMSC [22:34] click and arm also [22:35] click https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-pat-gelsinger-clients-want-custom-x86-socs [22:35] TR Bot Intel CEO: Clients Want Custom x86-Based SoCs | Tom's Hardware [22:36] click IDM 2.0 strategy [22:37] *zleap has quit (Quit: Leaving) [22:38] TR News EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ [22:38] TR Bot EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally | Techrights [22:39] *GNUmoon2 (~GNUmoon@xut3kp7tmzcx4.irc) has joined #techrights [22:39] *GNUmoon (~GNUmoon@gateway/tor-sasl/gnumoon) has joined #techrights [22:41] click https://www.tomshardware.com/news/tpm-invisible-dell-alienware-bios-vulnerability [22:41] TR Bot TPM Invisible BIOS Vulnerability Affects Dell, Alienware Machines | Tom's Hardware [22:43] *activelow has quit (connection closed) [22:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [22:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [22:44] MinceR Industrial Dance Music? [22:48] click INTeLligent Dance Music [22:50] click what does pro audio means on the pulse mixer? [22:50] MinceR probably nothing [22:50] click i have also HDMI digital stereo [22:50] MinceR or maybe "pay ibm/deadrat for more snake oil" [22:52] *activelow (~activelow@925vru5petmta.irc) has joined #techrights [22:52] click you can only take advantage of Optane on intel platform [22:55] click Optane on intel platform + microsoft DirectStorage Windows 11 = killer combo? [22:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [22:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [22:55] MinceR do i want to? [22:55] MinceR what i've read about intel ssd-s didn't make me want to buy them [22:56] click Optane on intel platform actes like non volatile ram [22:56] MinceR automatically shutting down after a given quota of writes was reached regardless of status, far earlier than any other ssd would; using compression to try and cheat at benchmarks [22:56] MinceR not really my thing [22:56] MinceR and why would i want non-volatile ram? [22:57] click but you still need ram on the board? [22:57] MinceR if i want to keep the computer on, i keep it on; if i want to suspend it, i suspend it; if i want to hibernate it, i hibernate it; if i want to turn it off, i turn it off [22:57] click optane my guess is to replace hdd/ssd+ram [22:57] MinceR and why would i want my ram to wear out? [22:57] TR News http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ [22:58] TR Bot [Meme] Survey Versus Surveillance | Techrights [22:58] TR News [Meme] Survey Versus Surveillance | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ [22:58] click should be cheaper and simpler but good luck with that [22:59] IPFS IPFS downstream 60 minutes average 21.80 k/sec., IPFS upstream 72.45 average k/sec., average swarm size 308.60 ● Mar 23 [23:01] *psymin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [23:01] *psymin has quit (Quit: Leaving) [23:08] TR News GNU Turns 40 Next Year. Heres Cory Doctorows Message to the FSF at 30. | Techrights http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ [23:08] TR Bot GNU Turns 40 Next Year. Heres Cory Doctorows Message to the FSF at 30. | Techrights [23:17] TR News "You're a US president. You just botched a major military exfiltration and your approval ratings are in the shit. You also just so happen to have received $3.2 million in campaign contributions from defense contractors." gemini://gemini.panda-roux.dev/log/entry?50 [23:18] TR News Today in #Techrights Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162924 [23:18] TR Bot Today in Techrights | Tux Machines [23:19] TR News Salary Negotiation https://xkcd.com/2597/ [23:19] Alternative link Cloudflare: xkcd.com | Alternative: https://web.archive.org/web/https://xkcd.com/2597/ [23:19] TR Bot Salary Negotiation [23:20] TR News They've customised pervasive surveillance devices to kids and now pay webspam sites to promote it to children https://www.maketecheasier.com/take-60-off-an-amazon-fire-hd-10-kids-pro-tablet/ [23:20] TR Bot Take $60 off an Amazon Fire HD 10 Kids Pro Tablet - Make Tech Easier [23:22] TR News Staff of the EPO will have a say without the oppressor watching every move and making lists of 'enemies' http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/epo-external-survey/ [23:22] TR Bot EPO is Banning and Spying, So the Union (SUEPO) Conducts a Staff Survey Externally | Techrights [23:24] click to supplement their playtime outside ?!! LOL [23:24] schestowitz-TR indeed [23:24] click must solar powered only [23:25] TR News The EPO survey of SUEPO takes privacy seriously; by joining this survey, staff of the EPO will make the message loud and clear its not some loud minority which is dissatisfied http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/survey-versus-surveillance/ [23:25] TR News Cory Doctorow, who is at the EFF at the moment, sent this message 7 years ago http://techrights.org/2022/03/23/gnu-midlife/ [23:26] click if amazon marketing would tall me that white is black and black is white i would almost belive them [23:27] schestowitz-TR I'm sure those tablets were forged together using solar power only [23:27] schestowitz-TR including thew batteries [23:28] schestowitz-TR tablets .... they lost a couple of years and brick themselves. Go buy another one, made in China by sweatshops [23:32] *guysoft42 has quit (Quit: Ex-Chat) [23:37] TR News "Portmgr has restarted the portmgr-lurker program and has selected the first two lurkers: Stefan Eer. They will join portmgr for the coming months and learn all about its inner workings." https://www.freebsd.org/news/newsflash/#2022-03-23:1 [23:37] TR Bot FreeBSD News Flash | The FreeBSD Project [23:38] TR News "A couple of days ago, Linux Mint released their latest Linux Mint Debian Edition version 5 codenamed "Elsie." LMDE is Linux Mint's hedge in case anything ever happens to Ubuntu that would force Mint to base off of another distro. 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