●● IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Wednesday, June 25, 2025 ●● ● Jun 25 [00:22] *includeals (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [00:31] IsambardPrince MinceR, Think of the dentistry bills! [00:31] IsambardPrince :D [00:31] IsambardPrince WHAP! [00:36] MinceR :> [00:47] IsambardPrince I should go to a dentist in Orbanistan. [00:47] IsambardPrince I'm sure they aren't gouging people like they are here. [00:47] IsambardPrince $10,000 for an implant. $800 for a filling. [00:47] IsambardPrince Bill the insurance $400 and say it was a "deep cleaning". [00:48] IsambardPrince Deeply cleaning out your wallet. [00:49] MinceR :> [00:55] *includeals has quit (Quit: ZNC - https://znc.in) [00:55] *includeals (~includeal@2001:8a0:e95a:4e00::2000) has joined #techrights ● Jun 25 [01:02] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/tech [01:02] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tech [01:08] *IsambardPrince has quit (connection closed) [01:21] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@mumw5xsbhyj8c.irc) has joined #techrights [01:45] TR News "Besides permutations there are also combinations, which have seen use in music composition. Computers make this easier, both for generation and performance." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2025/06/24/combinatorial.gmi [01:48] TR News Maybe theyll update the app first, rendering this entire post moot gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/scrawlspace/2025/ [01:49] TR News "Hi! Its been a long time since i've earnestly interacted with the gemini-space. I was once an active poster here by the name of 'Smokey', using the pubnix tilde.team." gemini://tomcon.net/gemlog/2025-06-24-tomcon-says-hello.gmi [01:49] TR News Combining pdf and zip proof of concept (by ~seifferth) gemini://tilde.club/~seifferth/blog/pdf-zip-poc.pdf [01:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1333.jpg [01:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1683.jpg [01:52] TR News "a need to shed light on aspects often hidden under a veil of patriotism, religion, and nationalism." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-24_former_israeli_on_israel.gmi [01:53] TR News |sobriety| >>> part DEUX ^^ gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2651 [01:54] TR News "People mistakenly think that Book Week is a national holiday, an initiative of the Ministry of Culture or Education. But the fairs are organized by the Book Publishers Association a professional association of the large publishers" gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-25_oded_carmeli_who_reads_books.gmi ● Jun 25 [02:07] IsambardPrince Today's Blu Rays are High and Low and Only Yesterday. [02:09] MinceR High and Low, not to be confused with Sweet'N Low [02:13] TR News Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights https://techrights.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/ [02:13] TR Bot Techrights Welcome to the New Techrights [02:13] TR News Techrights Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.gmi [02:13] TR Bot Techrights Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected [02:24] TR News Techrights The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_New_BetaNews_7_New_Articles_All_of_Them_LLM_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_New_BetaNews_7_New_Articles_All_of_Them_LLM_Slop.gmi [02:24] TR Bot Techrights The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop [02:34] TR News Techrights How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/How_Many_More_Women_Will_Managers_at_Microsoft_Strangle_and_Tel.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/How_Many_More_Women_Will_Managers_at_Microsoft_Strangle_and_Tel.gmi [02:34] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/video/circle-rally-falters-reported-microsoft-171722913.html [02:34] TR Bot Techrights How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? [02:34] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], ^ [02:34] TR Bot Circle rally falters, reported Microsoft cuts, Uber & Waymo [02:35] IsambardPrince Microsoft announced more job cuts in the gaming division. [02:35] IsambardPrince https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/microsoft-plans-major-job-cuts-at-xbox-gaming-division [02:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-24/microsoft-plans-major-job-cuts-at-xbox-gaming-division ) [02:36] IsambardPrince Cuts to the XBOX division. [02:36] IsambardPrince "Microsoft Corp. will conduct another round of major layoffs in its Xbox division next week as part of a company-wide reorganization. [02:36] IsambardPrince Managers within Xbox are expecting substantial cuts across the entire group, according to people familiar with the plans who asked not to be identified discussing nonpublic information. The company declined to comment. [02:36] IsambardPrince This will be the fourth big layoff at Xbox in the past 18 months, following three major cuts last year and the closure of several subsidiaries. Xbox, which produces video-game hardware and software, has been under pressure from Microsoft executives to boost profit margins since purchasing Activision Blizzard Inc. for $69 billion in a deal that closed in 2023." [02:44] TR News Techrights Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Social_Control_Media_Technology_Catholicism_Synod_on_Synodality.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Social_Control_Media_Technology_Catholicism_Synod_on_Synodality.gmi [02:44] TR Bot Techrights Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback [02:46] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. 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[02:49] *SomeGoat has quit (connection closed) [02:49] TR News Yesterday's bulletin is now ready! : http://techrights.org/txt-archives/techrights-2025-06-24.txt | gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/techrights-2025-06-24.txt (tentative address, to work an hour from now) [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2025-06-24.txt [02:52] MinceR :> [02:59] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_June_24_2025.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/IRC_Proceedings_Tuesday_June_24_2025.gmi [02:59] TR Bot Techrights IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, June 24, 2025 ● Jun 25 [03:00] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [03:00] TR Bot Tux Machines Today in Techrights [03:01] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [03:01] TR Bot Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [03:09] TR News Techrights Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Richard_Stallman_Coming_Back_to_Europe_This_Autumn_to_Give_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Richard_Stallman_Coming_Back_to_Europe_This_Autumn_to_Give_More.gmi [03:09] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks [03:11] TR News 16% towards target now https://www.fsf.org/appeal [03:11] TR Bot Free software can defy dystopia Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyex11wa [03:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyex11wa ) [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] "" [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] People were laid off for this [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] LinkedIn CEO Admits AI Writing Tool Isnt Catching On [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky recently revealed something surprising LinkedIns AI writing assistant isnt quite the hit they thought it would be. [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] Speaking with Bloomberg, Roslansky explained that although many LinkedIn users are exploring AI tools, theyre a lot more hesitant when it comes to using AI to polish their own posts. [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] https://autogpt.net/linkedin-ceo-admits-ai-writing-tool-isnt-catching-on/ [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] People were laid off for this [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] LinkedIn CEO Admits AI Writing Tool Isnt Catching On [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky recently revealed something surprising LinkedIns AI writing assistant isnt quite the hit they thought it would be. [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] Speaking with Bloomberg, Roslansky explained that although many LinkedIn users are exploring AI tools, theyre a lot more hesitant when it comes to using AI to polish their own posts. [03:13] schestowitz[TR3] https://autogpt.net/linkedin-ceo-admits-ai-writing-tool-isnt-catching-on/ [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] " [03:14] TR Bot LinkedIn CEO Admits AI Writing Tool Isnt Catching On [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] " [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] Microsoft planning major Xbox layoffs next week [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] These latest layoffs will be in addition to the 6,000 cuts Microsoft already made in May, and on top of the more than 300 impacted earlier this month, too. Any major Xbox cuts will be the latest in a series of big gaming-related layoffs over the past 18 months, after Microsoft laid off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees in January 2024 and then in May 2024 the company closed several game studios, including Hi-Fi Rush dev [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] eloper Tango Gameworks and Redfall developer Arkane Austin. [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.theverge.com/microsoft-xbox/691967/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-job-cuts-rumor [03:14] schestowitz[TR3] " [03:14] TR Bot Microsoft planning major Xbox layoffs next week | The Verge [03:15] TR News Yandex gaining https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share#monthly-200902-202506 [03:15] TR Bot Search Engine Market Share Worldwide | Statcounter Global Stats [03:16] TR News Randomly chosen images from Geminispace gemini://freeshell.de/picpages/2025-06-25.gmi [03:19] TR News Techrights Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Gemini_Links_25_06_2025_Combinatorial_Music_and_Self_Hosting.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Gemini_Links_25_06_2025_Combinatorial_Music_and_Self_Hosting.gmi [03:19] TR Bot Techrights Gemini Links 25/06/2025: Combinatorial Music and Self Hosting [03:20] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/tesla_robotaxi_austin/ [03:20] TR Bot Tesla Robotaxi videos show Elon's way behind Waymo The Register [03:21] MinceR to everyone's surprise [03:21] admfubar 'cept elon's [03:22] MinceR for melon to be surprised by this, he'd first have to perceive it [03:22] MinceR but due to his extreme NPD, he's incapable of perceiving it [03:22] admfubar exactly [03:23] admfubar npd? no personality disorder? [03:25] MinceR lol [03:26] MinceR narcissistic personality disorder [03:36] TR News Techrights Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_LinkedIn_is_Dying_and_Many_More_Layoffs_Are_on_the_Wa.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_LinkedIn_is_Dying_and_Many_More_Layoffs_Are_on_the_Wa.gmi [03:36] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way [03:38] admfubar same thing [03:38] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-autopilot-staged-engineer-says-company-faked-full-autopilot/ [03:38] TR Bot Tesla engineer says company faked "full autopilot" video: Report - CBS News [03:38] admfubar https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/wd_escapes_half_a_billion/ [03:38] TR Bot WD escapes $0.5B in patent damages as judge cuts award to $1 The Register [03:39] schestowitz[TR3] one dolar [03:39] schestowitz[TR3] ^_^ [03:39] schestowitz[TR3] why not zero dollars? [03:40] admfubar ask the judge.... [03:40] admfubar https://www.tweaktown.com/news/105949/you-can-buy-nintendo-switch-2-motherboard-direct-from-production-lines-in-china-for-just-124/index.html [03:40] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.tweaktown.com/news/105949/you-can-buy-nintendo-switch-2-motherboard-direct-from-production-lines-in-china-for-just-124/index.html ) [03:41] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], He couldn't reduce it to nothing. [03:41] IsambardPrince So they only have to pay one dollar. [03:42] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Write a one dollar check with "fuck you" in the memo? [03:42] IsambardPrince :) [03:43] admfubar making amerika eunuch again... https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/21/sex-offender-law-louisiana-castration-crime [03:43] TR Bot Castrating Sex Offenders Wont Prevent Future Crimes, Experts Say. Heres Why. | The Marshall Project [03:45] schestowitz[TR3] bad people do bad things [03:45] schestowitz[TR3] with or without a "thingie" [03:46] admfubar https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/06/07/ai-police-camera-new-orleans [03:46] TR Bot AI And Policing: How New Tech Tracks You | The Marshall Project [03:46] schestowitz[TR3] coffee time! [03:46] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: i am still finding some good blends [03:46] schestowitz[TR3] but it is not easy [03:46] schestowitz[TR3] when i find some i buy in volume/bulk [03:47] schestowitz[TR3] i still struggle to find a good old traditional coffee grinder [03:47] schestowitz[TR3] the one of wood and metal [03:47] schestowitz[TR3] not glass/plastic [03:49] IsambardPrince Stainless steel ones are the best. [03:50] admfubar standard grinder or a burr grinder? [03:50] IsambardPrince The burr grinders are more consistent. [03:51] IsambardPrince Blade grinders can do okay but they might leave some odd size chunks that they missed. [03:51] IsambardPrince But they're very cheap. [03:51] IsambardPrince I think I got one for $10 a few years back. [03:52] IsambardPrince For percolator coffee you want a very coarse grind anyway, and you really should be using a filter even though almost nobody does. You can. [03:52] IsambardPrince You don't want grit in the coffee and you also don't want diterpenes. [03:53] IsambardPrince But percolators are not the best way to make coffee no matter how you set it up. [03:53] schestowitz[TR3] 7 pounds forr 300gm nescafe https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-original-instant-coffee-200g [03:53] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-original-instant-coffee-200g ) [03:53] IsambardPrince They boil the water and there's no control over how many times it goes through. [03:53] schestowitz[TR3] i swear it used to be a couple of pounds when I was young\ [03:53] IsambardPrince So you end up with a very strong cup of coffee, and all the subtle flavors are gone. [03:53] schestowitz[TR3] oih, even 200grams now (ha!) [03:53] schestowitz[TR3] they keep reducing [03:53] IsambardPrince Which is okay if you're not putting great coffee through it anyway. [03:53] schestowitz[TR3] from 300 to 250... 225.. now 200 [03:54] schestowitz[TR3] just like toothpaste [03:54] IsambardPrince But if you buy good coffee you'll want to use some other brewer. [03:54] schestowitz[TR3] 150 becomes 125 becomes 100, now 75 ml [03:54] schestowitz[TR3] at one point you ask, [03:54] schestowitz[TR3] "when i was young they lasted a whole" [03:54] schestowitz[TR3] (spoiler: yes, the tube used to contain TWICE as much) [03:54] IsambardPrince Yeah, I got 98 cents per 5.5 ounce tube of AIM. [03:54] IsambardPrince And some of the premium toothpastes are like 2.8 ounces and $7 now. [03:55] IsambardPrince Fucking stupid idiots who pay that. [03:55] IsambardPrince It only encourages them to do it again! [03:55] schestowitz[TR3] the logic i saw or hear is a bit like [03:56] IsambardPrince Where does it all go? 2 ounces for $14? [03:56] schestowitz[TR3] 1) dentists cost a lot [03:56] schestowitz[TR3] 2) avoid dentists [03:56] schestowitz[TR3] 3) prevention with better products [03:56] IsambardPrince Yeah, but it does not work that way. [03:56] schestowitz[TR3] 4) more expensive = "better" [03:56] IsambardPrince It's all basically the same if it has fluoride and the ADA label on it. [03:56] IsambardPrince You're just getting hosed with the really expensive ones. [03:56] schestowitz[TR3] 5) by buying MOST expensive I actually SAVE... on dentists' bills [03:56] IsambardPrince I can get paying $1 more or something if you like the flavor better. [03:56] IsambardPrince But that's really as far as I'd go. [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] yes, it is called comparative pricing iirc [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] something like that... [03:57] IsambardPrince I'm not doing $7 for a little mini tube. [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] they place the expensive next to cheap [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] but the cheap is not cheap [03:57] IsambardPrince You can get 7 tubes that are twice as big for that price. [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] it only looks cheap in comparison [03:57] schestowitz[TR3] so you think you get "cheap" colgate [03:58] IsambardPrince My teeth feel just as clean with AIM as they do with anything else. [03:58] schestowitz[TR3] because it's not the same price as the "one with all the colours and words and emboss" [03:58] IsambardPrince It has the same amount of the same kind of flouride. [03:58] IsambardPrince The inactive ingredients are _mostly_ the same other than some flavors and colors. [03:58] IsambardPrince Which have nothing to do with dental health. [03:58] IsambardPrince But it's so much cheaper to just buy AIM. [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] they started selling the colour stuff in the 90s [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] all those ice cream-like pastes [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] with colour effects [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] they make the paste seem like candy around the time they did that to breakfast cereal [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] and in due course they did, techncially, became andy, not cereal [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] *become [03:59] schestowitz[TR3] *candy ● Jun 25 [04:00] schestowitz[TR3] if you analyse the ingredients, a lot of breakfast cereal is not candy now... the kids get addicted to that [04:00] schestowitz[TR3] inside cartons that are 50% air [04:01] IsambardPrince I agree with Kennedy on that point. [04:01] schestowitz[TR3] rfk piggbacks people [04:01] IsambardPrince The food stamp crowd is pissed that Kennedy is letting their state cut off things like Mountain Dew and Mars bars and Oreos. [04:01] schestowitz[TR3] he didn't pioneer his arguments [04:01] schestowitz[TR3] he';s just a vile opportunist [04:01] IsambardPrince Yep [04:02] schestowitz[TR3] then he adds his BS [04:02] schestowitz[TR3] btw, larry lessig spoke of the big sugar lobby [04:02] schestowitz[TR3] and its impact on dietary recomms. [04:02] schestowitz[TR3] that was ages ago [04:02] schestowitz[TR3] and he didn't have to add any of that "causes autism" nonsense [04:03] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-gold-smooth-instant-coffee-200g [04:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-gold-smooth-instant-coffee-200g ) [04:03] schestowitz[TR3] ha! 5 pounds per 100grams [04:03] schestowitz[TR3] 100grams dont' even make many cups [04:03] schestowitz[TR3] "well, it is CHEAPER THAN STARBUCKS!!" [04:03] schestowitz[TR3] 6 pounds per 100grams https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-gold-origins-alta-rica-instant-coffee-100g [04:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-gold-origins-alta-rica-instant-coffee-100g ) [04:04] schestowitz[TR3] 60 pounds/KG! [04:04] schestowitz[TR3] also 60 pounds/kg https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-espresso-instant-coffee-100g [04:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-espresso-instant-coffee-100g ) [04:05] schestowitz[TR3] 80 pounds/KG https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-azera-intenso-instant-coffee-100g [04:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/nescaf%C3%A9-azera-intenso-instant-coffee-100g ) [04:05] schestowitz[TR3] over 100 dollars for a kilo [04:07] schestowitz[TR3] 100grams became 95grams [04:07] schestowitz[TR3] when did THAT happen? [04:07] schestowitz[TR3] trying to hide the price increases... 5% at a time [04:10] TR News "Ubuntu 25.10 to ditch Intel graphics security trade-offs for OpenCL and Level Zero Troubled Chipzilla's long-suffering GPU compute stack is getting a breather, as it and Ubuntus Canonical have decided to chuck out security mitigations that were kneecapping performance by up to 20per cent." https://fudzilla.com/news/graphics/61250-canonical-and-intel-scrap-gpu-mitigations [04:10] TR Bot Canonical and Intel scrap GPU mitigations [04:12] TR News pad [04:12] TR News Ubuntu & Intel: When security becomes a brake pad GPU mitigations on the brink of extinction https://www.igorslab.de/en/ubuntu-intel-when-security-becomes-a-brake-pad-gpu-mitigations-before-the-end/ [04:12] TR Bot Ubuntu & Intel: When security becomes a brake pad - GPU mitigations on the brink of extinction | igorsLAB [04:21] TR News Techrights WebProNews is a Slopfarm https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/WebProNews_is_a_Slopfarm.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/WebProNews_is_a_Slopfarm.gmi [04:21] TR Bot Techrights WebProNews is a Slopfarm [04:22] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I'm drinking through a pile of coffee that expired over a year ago right now. [04:22] IsambardPrince Someone sold it less than half price. [04:23] IsambardPrince Still tastes perfectly fine. [04:38] TR News Techrights Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors' https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Linux_Journal_is_a_Slopfarm_It_s_Experimenting_With_LLM_Authors.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Linux_Journal_is_a_Slopfarm_It_s_Experimenting_With_LLM_Authors.gmi [04:38] TR Bot Techrights Linux Journal is a Slopfarm, It's Experimenting With LLM 'Authors' [04:40] TR News Xlibre forks to the rescue but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/mixed_news_for_x11/ [04:40] TR Bot Xlibre forks to the rescue but Kubuntu gives X11 the boot The Register [04:42] TR News "The checks Microsoft runs before allowing Windows 11 installation to proceed exclude most PCs manufactured before 2018." https://technical.ly/civic-news/windows-11-upgrade-myth-old-pcs-still-work/ [04:42] TR Bot Windows 11 upgrade myth: Keep using your old computer [04:43] TR News How new tools can fix legacy Linux systems that threaten critical infrastructure https://www.scworld.com/perspective/how-new-tools-can-fix-legacy-linux-systems-that-threaten-critical-infrastructure [04:43] TR Bot How new tools can fix legacy Linux systems that threaten critical infrastructure | SC Media [04:44] TR News OpenELA launches verification tool for Enterprise Linux https://www.techzine.eu/news/applications/132473/openela-launches-verification-tool-for-enterprise-linux/ [04:44] TR Bot OpenELA launches verification tool for Enterprise Linux - Techzine Global [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: coffee can be like beer [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] it's not about the taste [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] you add stuff to itr [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] i have aa kettle next to me atm [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] it has italian coffee (kimbo) [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] it's in date [04:46] schestowitz[TR3] but thee taste comess fom pear syrup and kendamil [04:47] TR News (NEW): ELValidated Announced https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/ELValidated_Announced.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/ELValidated_Announced.gmi [04:47] TR Bot Tux Machines ELValidated Announced [04:47] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.boots.com/kendamil-classic-ready-to-feed-follow-on-milk-250ml-6s-10344665?traffic=paid.shopping&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=21390460794 [04:47] TR Bot NO TITLE [04:47] schestowitz[TR3] the pear syuprup and Kendamil are also in date [04:48] schestowitz[TR3] i got a good price on them, but the point is, there is a sweetener and creamer [04:48] schestowitz[TR3] and they are not bad like "white sugar" (ultraprocessed) [04:52] lxo https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-06-24-AIDS [04:52] TR Bot AIDS ● Jun 25 [05:03] admfubar medical tri-corders here we come.. https://thedebrief.org/scientists-detect-light-passing-through-a-human-head-in-medical-first/ [05:03] TR Bot Scientists Detect Light Passing Through a Human Head in Medical First - The Debrief [05:10] TR News Techrights In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/In_Recent_Hours_Google_News_Promoted_at_Least_3_Slopfarms_That_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/In_Recent_Hours_Google_News_Promoted_at_Least_3_Slopfarms_That_.gmi [05:10] TR Bot Techrights In Recent Hours Google News Promoted at Least 3 Slopfarms That Relayed Linux Foundation Propaganda Made by Bots or LLM "Bullshit Generators" (as Dr. Stallman Dubbed Them) [05:12] schestowitz[TR3] lxo: you had me worried for a moment [05:12] schestowitz[TR3] be suuuuure to improve the diet regardless [05:12] lxo ha [05:12] schestowitz[TR3] for a moment i thought you got hiv [05:12] lxo ACK [05:12] schestowitz[TR3] it's an analogy [05:12] lxo sorry about the unintended worries [05:13] schestowitz[TR3] you know how people announce those things [05:13] schestowitz[TR3] like bkuhn about gayness [05:13] schestowitz[TR3] some vague title [05:13] schestowitz[TR3] i forgot how cory spoke aboutt his cancer [05:13] schestowitz[TR3] it was buried inside an unrelated post [05:14] schestowitz[TR3] many people don't know bruce perens too has cancer [05:14] schestowitz[TR3] lots of free software people seem to get it [05:14] lxo I suppose this one won't be a very popular post. too bad :-( [05:14] schestowitz[TR3] i will reply to it in TR regardless [05:15] lxo thanks for sharing your concern and for the implied advice on communication [05:22] schestowitz[TR3] lxo: http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Moral_Duty_for_Linux_Sites_to_Speak_Out_Against_LLM_Slop.shtml [05:22] TR Bot Techrights Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop [05:23] TR News Techrights Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Moral_Duty_for_Linux_Sites_to_Speak_Out_Against_LLM_Slop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Moral_Duty_for_Linux_Sites_to_Speak_Out_Against_LLM_Slop.gmi [05:23] TR Bot Techrights Moral Duty for "Linux Sites" to Speak Out Against LLM Slop [05:25] lxo heh, my blog doesn't identify as "Linux sites", but fair enough ;-) thanks for spreading the word [05:33] IsambardPrince Google News has a lot of slopfarms. [05:33] IsambardPrince And no matter how many you ban from your feed, more float to the top. [05:34] IsambardPrince It's like someone threw dynamite into the lake and dozens of dead fish float to the top along with debris from the riverbed, right? [05:34] IsambardPrince It's just so incredibly destructive and wasteful. There are laws against blast fishing because they know how much harm it can do. [05:35] IsambardPrince But Google's encouragement of slop is blast fishing except you might be able to use some fish, but all of the slop that rises to the top of Google just wastes your time. [05:35] IsambardPrince At first glance it seems useful. [05:35] IsambardPrince Then a minute or so later you realize you've completely wasted your time because someone dumped garbage into a webpage. [05:36] IsambardPrince Time is wasted, energy is wasted, fresh water is wasted, by slop. (to cool data centers) [05:36] IsambardPrince But nothing of any real value is made. [05:36] IsambardPrince Just shit that's useless that might be slathered in ads. [05:37] IsambardPrince And once good sites go bad you'll never gain trust again. [05:38] IsambardPrince https://finance.yahoo.com/video/housing-pace-worst-decades-meredith-145125583.html [05:38] TR Bot Housing is on pace for 'worst year in decades': Meredith Whitney [05:38] IsambardPrince "KB Home (KBH) slashed its full-year revenue outlook after a weak second quarter, highlighting just how sluggish the housing market has become, with existing home sales seeing their worst May since 2009." [05:38] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Nothing could possibly be amiss. [05:38] IsambardPrince Everything fine. Situation normal. Robust economy. [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] Google News has a lot of slopfarms. [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] on many topics the MAJORITY oif Google New results are slopfamrs [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] many are Indian (not being racist, it's a fact!) [05:39] lxo machines don't produce value, ever. machines progressively transfer their own value to that which they make over their expected lifetime. only human labor makes value, and this sort of automation devalues human labor. some believe that's their point [05:39] IsambardPrince Their search is slop too. [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] they are in english [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] but operated from indian [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] leeching off of sites like AP, Bloomberg etc. [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] adding nothing of value [05:39] schestowitz[TR3] and losing meanings or the originals [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] so peoplee end up reading/finding the slop [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] and never reading the fact-checked originals [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] lxo: it's a Linux-LIBRE site :)) [05:40] lxo nah [05:40] schestowitz[TR3] anyway, the headline does not "follow" from the body [05:40] lxo :) [05:41] lxo *nod* [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] rianne says borisov and marius and others need to speak out [05:41] lxo that bit was quoting rianne, I got it [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] their work is being "ripped off" [05:41] schestowitz[TR3] and they never talk about this problem except in private emails to me [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] And once good sites go bad you'll never gain trust again. [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] yes, see: [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2025/04/10/Once_You_Slop_You_Can_t_Stop_and_If_You_re_a_Serial_Slopper_Nob.shtml [05:42] TR Bot Techrights Once You Slop You Can't Stop and If You're a Serial Slopper Nobody Will Believe You Really Wrote an Article (Even If You Did) [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] it takes a long time to gain trust [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] like 1000 good articles [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] 10 slop articles in a row.... reputation gone for good [05:42] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2025/01/30/Jack_M_Germain_LinuxInsider_Seems_to_Have_Turned_to_LLM_Slop_Gr.shtml [05:42] TR Bot Techrights Jack M. Germain (LinuxInsider) Seems to Have Turned to LLM Slop, Graphics Slop, and B2B SPAM [05:43] schestowitz[TR3] same for coders [05:43] schestowitz[TR3] and students [05:43] schestowitz[TR3] once you are caught plagiarising your teacher or boss will never trust anythingf rom you again [05:44] schestowitz[TR3] in relationship they say [05:44] schestowitz[TR3] "once a cheater, always a cheater" [05:44] schestowitz[TR3] "Once You Slop You Can't Stop" is like that except pringles with "once you pop... can't stop" [05:44] schestowitz[TR3] you lessen your ethics and standards [05:44] schestowitz[TR3] nothing to "keep up" [05:45] schestowitz[TR3] zemlin sold out to vmware [05:45] schestowitz[TR3] so why not microsoft [05:45] schestowitz[TR3] torvalds does thumbs up to Vista 7? [05:45] schestowitz[TR3] why not "deepthroat" (his term) Bill Epsteingate [05:45] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/linus-torvalds-windows-7-linux,8920.html [05:45] TR Bot Linus Torvalds Gives Windows 7 a Thumbs Up | Tom's Hardware [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] he thinks it's "funny" [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] 23 October 2009 [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] 2019: [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.stallman.org/articles/microsoft-talk.html [05:46] TR Bot My Talk at Microsoft [05:46] schestowitz[TR3] Copyright 2019 Richard Stallman [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] weeks later the microsoft-friendllly press 'canceled' him [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/o/2019/12/21/police-report-bill-gates/ [05:47] TR Bot Mansion of Pedophilia - Part II: Dr. Stallman Defamed in the Media One Day After Request Made for King County Sheriffs Office to Divulge Information About Pedophilia in Home of Bill Gates [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] smart people do not associate with bad people [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] that includes "gulgboy" [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] bad people are... bad [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] and they won't change [05:47] schestowitz[TR3] you just learn to keep a distance from sociopaths [05:48] schestowitz[TR3] and avoid their coy concern-trolling [05:48] schestowitz[TR3] iirc, IsambardPrince was repeatedly subjected to calls for a ban... by this man: http://techrights.org/wiki/Peter_Bright/ [05:48] TR Bot Peter Bright [05:48] schestowitz[TR3] who also kept shilling http://techrights.org/wiki/UEFI/ [05:48] TR Bot UEFI [05:49] IsambardPrince Yeah, a morbidly obese pedophile that probably hadn't even seen his dick in so many years he could have it declared legally dead. (Peter Bright) [05:49] IsambardPrince He says, "Just the tip." [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] microsoft... only the best "journalists" [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] when things ggo wrong, turn them in [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] put them in prison [05:56] IsambardPrince All these degenerates can actually do is exude grossness. [05:56] IsambardPrince Even on Twitter. [05:56] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/As_Expected_Microsoft_Uses_Media_Operative_Jordan_Novet_to_Down.shtml [05:56] TR Bot Techrights As Expected, Microsoft Uses Media Operative (Jordan Novet) to Downplay the Scale of Mass Layoffs [05:57] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2025/05/13/Unless_a_Third_of_All_Microsoft_Layoffs_Worldwide_Are_in_Redmon.shtml [05:57] TR Bot Techrights Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers) [05:57] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2025/01/15/More_Microsoft_Cuts_and_Layoffs_Microsoft_Media_Mole_Jordan_Nov.shtml [05:57] TR Bot Techrights More Microsoft Cuts and Layoffs (Microsoft Media Mole Jordan Novet Tries to Float "Hiring Freezes" Spin After the "Headcount" Spin Failed) [05:57] schestowitz[TR3] where does microsoft find these people? [05:57] schestowitz[TR3] grindr? [05:57] schestowitz[TR3] doordash? [05:58] IsambardPrince Something worse than Grindr. [05:58] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/i-was-laid-off-from-microsoft-after-23-years-and-i-m-still-going-into-the-office-i-feel-responsible-for-my-team-and-customers/ar-AA1HbnmS [05:58] -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights-MSN [05:58] schestowitz[TR3] he works for free for Microsoft [05:58] schestowitz[TR3] crazy [05:58] schestowitz[TR3] sadism [05:58] IsambardPrince I haven't even seen any trannies half as ugly as Brandon Lobsta. [05:58] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-will-reportedly-hit-xbox-division-with-a-massive-wave-of-layoffs-soon/ [05:58] TR Bot Microsoft will reportedly hit Xbox division with a massive wave of layoffs soon - Neowin [05:58] IsambardPrince As a man you might get away with looking kind of meh. After starting with that and "transitioning" and putting on blue lipstick? Not so much. [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.purexbox.com/news/2025/06/report-xbox-suffering-major-layoffs-next-week-microsoft-declines-to-comment [05:59] TR Bot Report: Xbox Suffering Major Layoffs Next Week, Microsoft Declines To Comment | Pure Xbox [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] Google News promotes MANY slopfarms/ covering this [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] the original is Bloomberg [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] but maybe 5% of people will see it in the original [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] many will fall ontto soem slopfarm [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] that destroys the original [05:59] schestowitz[TR3] and distorts what it reported ● Jun 25 [06:00] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HE8TSvqg6e8 [06:00] TR Bot North Korea's Famous Newscaster: Ri Chun-hi] - YouTube [06:00] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], ^ [06:00] IsambardPrince They need this woman to do their press releases. [06:00] IsambardPrince Kim Jong Un gave her a really sweet apartment for all her years of service to the state. [06:00] schestowitz[TR3] "beginning today, i am refusing solid food in hunger strike" https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1922685152347533453 [06:00] TR Bot ( status 400 @ https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1922685152347533453 ) [06:01] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: see this photo https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1886669781107138886 [06:01] TR Bot ( status 400 @ https://x.com/isislovecruft/status/1886669781107138886 ) [06:01] schestowitz[TR3] and tell me this person is not insane [06:02] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olke3k9pxrs [06:02] TR Bot https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=olke3k9pxrs [06:02] TR Bot not resolve host: vid.priv.au ( status 0 @ https://vid.priv.au/watch?v=olke3k9pxrs ) [06:02] IsambardPrince North Korea's Revered News Anchor [06:02] schestowitz[TR3] "i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook" [06:03] schestowitz[TR3] "in other news, due to an accident i currently look like this, my eye is bleeding :(" [06:03] IsambardPrince Isis didn't look and sound gross like Brandon Lobsta does. [06:03] schestowitz[TR3] seems like a common issue in that cabin [06:03] schestowitz[TR3] eye bleeds [06:04] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Isis has set the twitter to private. [06:04] IsambardPrince Someone must have noticed you talking about the booby hatch. [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] it's rather insane [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] the whole lot [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/07/Drug_Addiction_is_a_Real_Problem_It_Destroys_Families.shtml [06:05] TR Bot Techrights Drug Addiction is a Real Problem, It Destroys Families [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] there are signs there of plans to commit suicide [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] people probably noticed and reported it [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] and the husband also spoke about his death in public [06:05] schestowitz[TR3] birds of a feather [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] and then they pick on m,eentally fit people [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] trying to degrade them [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] to bring them down to their own level [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] it fails [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] so they start picking on [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] my wife [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] my mother [06:06] IsambardPrince I don't want to pick on people who are suicidal. [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] my siblings [06:06] IsambardPrince Life is fucked up. [06:06] IsambardPrince Society is fucked up. [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] my dead grandparennts [06:06] schestowitz[TR3] who NOT? [06:06] IsambardPrince Dealing with life and society is fucked up. [06:06] IsambardPrince If you get exposed to it, it can really grind you down if you can bring yourself to care. [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] i don't talk much about my personal life [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] to protect people who are not connected to my writings [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] but [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] some peoople dig in [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] and even pay the uk gov. [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] to produce informmation [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] so they can then harass other people [06:07] schestowitz[TR3] and hope that, if they cannot make me sad, they can sadden other people [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] this is illegal btw [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] and was reported to the police [06:08] IsambardPrince Usually becoming suicidal springs from money problems. [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] imagine if you start phoning the mother of some football player [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] and harass her [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] because you don't like her son [06:08] IsambardPrince You need money or you need people who are in your corner and will step in if you cannot carry the entire load. [06:08] schestowitz[TR3] right [06:08] IsambardPrince When people don't have enough of either/or, then they get suicidal. [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] gulagboy was toold by his lawyers this year he would need to shell out another 330,000+ pounds [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] that's almost $500,000 [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] his pension pot does not have that [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] so one can guess what goes through the mind of his spouse [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] seeing those eye-watering bills [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] with eyes that blleed [06:09] schestowitz[TR3] both of them have eye bleedings [06:10] schestowitz[TR3] how mnuch does that cosssst to treat in the US? [06:10] schestowitz[TR3] $10,000 up? [06:10] schestowitz[TR3] *ccost [06:10] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Suicide goes up or down, broadly, with the state of the economy and jobs market. [06:10] IsambardPrince If suicide had nothing to do with money and basic ability to live, then it would remain roughly the same. [06:11] IsambardPrince But when the economy just gets a little bit worse, it can go up 20-30% for years before coming back down a bit for a while, and it eventually falls for two reasons. [06:11] IsambardPrince The economy returns to a baseline, not necessarily as good as it was, but... [06:11] IsambardPrince Also because demand was pulled from the system. [06:11] IsambardPrince All the people who were the most vulnerable killed themselves during the spike. [06:12] IsambardPrince It's these vulnerable people who go from just barely making it to deciding that they no longer have a place in the world. [06:13] IsambardPrince Even if they can barely survive, nobody likes doing this long term. It's not fulfilling. [06:13] IsambardPrince And if you are a burden on others for too long, you start to feel guilty about it. [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] anyway, abck to tech now [06:13] IsambardPrince So this is what works this idea into their head. [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] you mentiojned peter bright [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] and other such people [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] he has no purpose to society [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] he was just a sponge of microsoft [06:13] IsambardPrince No he doesn't. [06:13] schestowitz[TR3] spread a lot of lies for microsoft [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] got arrested [06:14] IsambardPrince They should execute pedophiles. [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] after he wanted you banned [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] because you spoke about legit tech issues [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] for many years [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] like the foxconn thing, then lenovo [06:14] IsambardPrince They won't cost anything to incarcerate, they won't reoffend, and they won't take up menial employment that could go to more fit human beings for society. [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/o/2016/10/02/lenovo-forums-censorship/ [06:14] TR Bot Guest Post: Lenovo Forums Possibly Banned All Comcast Users in Illinois in Order to Silence Discussion of Linux on Yoga Problems [06:14] schestowitz[TR3] (before he was arrested for raping kids) [06:15] IsambardPrince A guy that hasn't done anything wrong should get that job at McDonald's before a god cursed pedophile. [06:15] IsambardPrince So you execute the pedophile, and there's one more job at McDonald's for a guy who hasn't done anything horrible. [06:16] IsambardPrince One more empty prison cell to put someone who might, in theory, redeem themselves someday. [06:16] IsambardPrince Who hasn't done something bad enough to warrant death. [06:16] IsambardPrince They don't jail all pedos for the rest of their lives. [06:17] IsambardPrince There's almost half a million of them, convicted, but running around semi-free on probation or parole. [06:17] IsambardPrince You hang all of them as their punishment, there's half a million problems gone, that are no longer in your country. [06:17] IsambardPrince Taking up jobs from people who deserve to live. [06:18] IsambardPrince It's harsh punishment, for the very worst. [06:18] IsambardPrince Three was a man who slipped into a funeral home and raped a 9 year old girl a few years ago. [06:18] IsambardPrince The judge ruled he was "too crazy" to put in jail. [06:18] IsambardPrince So they put him in the care of a psych hospital. [06:19] IsambardPrince They released him saying that their work was done. [06:19] IsambardPrince He returned to a state of homelessness. Absconded from parole. [06:19] IsambardPrince Then was back in the news more recently, having lured a child at a McDonald's playground into the bathroom. [06:19] IsambardPrince Someone needs to just drag this guy out into the street and give him a good old fashioned burning alive at the stake. [06:20] IsambardPrince Peter Bright will never NOT be a sicko. [06:20] IsambardPrince He's too dangerous to allow to live. [06:20] IsambardPrince 10 years in prison won't change him. [06:20] IsambardPrince It may make him even worse. [06:21] IsambardPrince If I was running the prison I'd put him in solitary confinement and justify it as "for his protection" and he'd spend the entire 10 years in there.. [06:21] IsambardPrince Never knowing what time or day it was. [06:21] IsambardPrince Talking to nobody. [06:21] IsambardPrince With the light and a wall. [06:21] IsambardPrince The entire point would be that when they released him he'd be too far gone to even speak English anymore. [06:23] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], He got canceled. [06:23] IsambardPrince Thank God for the FBI. [06:25] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Ars Technica's "Guest Author" [06:26] IsambardPrince https://www.businessinsider.com/top-microsoft-writer-microsofts-windows-rt-experiment-is-a-failure-2013-3 [06:26] TR Bot Top Microsoft Writer: Microsoft's Windows RT Experiment Is a Failure - Business Insider [06:26] IsambardPrince "Microsoft's Windows RT seems to be failing, Peter Bright, a Microsoft expert over at ArsTechnica's reports." [06:28] IsambardPrince https://www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-activist-ars-technica-writer-charged-with-sexually-soliciting-minors-peter-bright/ [06:28] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.womenarehuman.com/transgender-activist-ars-technica-writer-charged-with-sexually-soliciting-minors-peter-bright/ ) [06:30] TR News Techrights What is "MATA"? https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/What_is_MATA.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/What_is_MATA.gmi [06:30] TR Bot Techrights What is "MATA"? [06:30] IsambardPrince "US New York, New York. A man who dismissed concerns about the effects of the gender identity movement on womens and girls privacy and safety in locker rooms and restrooms as TERF fearmongering and fact-free drivel has been convicted of the sexual solicitation of children who were aged seven-years-old and nine-years-old. He is also suspected of repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl. [06:30] IsambardPrince 38-year-old Peter Bright, a prominent reporter for Ars Technica, was accused by an FBI agent of meeting her in person with the intention of engaging in sexual activity with two children." [06:30] IsambardPrince "I think age-based rape laws (rather than consent-based) are stupid, Peter Bright proclaimed in a tweet on May 8, 2013. [06:30] IsambardPrince Mr Bright had first made contact with the undercover FBI agent on April 18, 2019 through KinkD, a BSDM and fetish lifestyle network and dating app. The FBI agent had posted a message posing as a mother who was seeking a person to teach her children the birds and the bees. [06:30] IsambardPrince The complaint shows that, under the username randomanon, Mr Bright initiated a correspondence with the agent, describing in detail how hed like to teach the womans son and daughter lessons that would not necessarily be heteronormative. The lessons would involve the children performing oral sex, and Mr Bright genitally penetrating the girl." [06:31] IsambardPrince "During the conversations, which later moved to WhatsApp, Mr Bright said he regularly sexually abuses an 11-year-old girl who lives in the Bronx, the complaint states. I have a girl Ive been teaching off and on for a couple of months now, he allegedly wrote to the undercover agent. [06:31] IsambardPrince As the exchanges continued, Mr Bright sent photos of his bare genitals and STD test results to the FBI agent." [06:33] IsambardPrince https://media.breitbart.com/media/2019/06/Accused-pedohile-Peter-Bright-of-Ars-technica-640x480.jpg [06:33] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nixR6wVa4HY [06:33] TR Bot https://onion.tube/watch?v=nixR6wVa4HY [06:33] TR Bot onion.tube | NO TITLE [06:33] IsambardPrince Fat Bastard - Get In My Belly! [06:34] IsambardPrince :D [06:46] TR News Techrights Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_is_Perfect_Nobody_Can_Escape_Its_Perfection_Or_Not.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_is_Perfect_Nobody_Can_Escape_Its_Perfection_Or_Not.gmi [06:46] TR Bot Techrights Wayland is Perfect, Nobody Can Escape Its Perfection! (Or Not) [06:47] IsambardPrince https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/24/ice-arrests-iranians-amid-conflict/84344487007/ [06:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/06/24/ice-arrests-iranians-amid-conflict/84344487007/ ) [06:48] IsambardPrince The article says very few Iranians are arrested by ICE. Yes, if you were a hostile nation state that was embedding sleeper cells in another country, you'd tell them to stay low and avoid breaking any laws. [06:49] TR News "Did they really replace the jobs with AI? Or did they move the jobs to India and just tell Wall Street they replaced them with AI?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfekwf8 [06:49] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfekwf8 ) [06:50] TR News "The answer is both. Initially IBM outsourced everything because AI wasnt very good. As AI has gotten more sophisticated, it has moved upstream and is replacing mundane tasks quite rapidly at a 90% fulfill rate. So not everyone even today is getting replaced by AI (just look at IBMs HR implementation), BUT 90% of folks who encounter AI do get the ax." [06:51] schestowitz[TR3] " IBM isnt innovative anymore! They buy the innovation at a fair to quasi overvalued price. So how can they make money? They buy companies who are not widely dispersed so have a great product, but limited market share. What IBM brings to the table is worldwide distribution and marketing. Yep its worth a lot, and IBM exploits that via their consulting engagements (get the word and the product out there). You can sell a lot wh [06:51] schestowitz[TR3] en your consultant says this product is the best thing since sliced bread There is also a tangential effect in purchasing innovation, and that is the retirement of the legacy products that are being replaced. Its a two for, and IBM has exploited this strategy quite well since they purchased Redhat. So yes there is not a lot of growth to this strategy, BUT the adder of cost take out to the initial marketing efforts makes i [06:51] schestowitz[TR3] t quite profitable. ALSO remember cost takeout is two pronged 1. Retirement of the legacy products 2. AI replacing all of the support costs This strategy will easily run 10 years "" [06:51] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 [06:51] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 ) [06:51] schestowitz[TR3] "Innovation by Acquisition. CA was built on this model, so nothing new, but very sad. " [06:52] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 [06:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 ) [06:52] schestowitz[TR3] " [06:52] schestowitz[TR3] AK said: American students spend more than $300k for a college education and then I replace them with cheaper Indians; this is stressful for them; thats how I make my $80 million per year compensation package [06:52] schestowitz[TR3] " [06:53] schestowitz[TR3] "US New York, New York. A man who dismissed concerns about the effects of the gender identity movement on womens and girls privacy and safety in locker rooms and restrooms as TERF fearmongering and fact-free drivel has been convicted of the sexual solicitation of children who were aged seven-years-old and nine-years-old." [06:53] schestowitz[TR3] I didn't know he did that [06:53] schestowitz[TR3] that's new to me [06:53] schestowitz[TR3] i guess bright is the "P" in LGBTQ+ [06:53] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Pedophiles tried to crash pride parades 20+ years ago. [06:53] schestowitz[TR3] in the uk, iirc, there's this thing called "lgb alliance"'''' [06:53] IsambardPrince And got beaten up by gay men who did NOT want them there. [06:54] schestowitz[TR3] and their position is that they limit the scope to lgb" [06:54] schestowitz[TR3] for fear of association with other things [06:54] IsambardPrince Right. [06:54] IsambardPrince Trannies can go do their own thing somewhere else. [06:55] schestowitz[TR3] tbh,, i was never too keen on gay men in the changing rooms if I am naked and it's not a real problem, but if they don't stare or say something inadequate almost nobody cares [06:56] schestowitz[TR3] i already told you some stories [06:56] schestowitz[TR3] like some gay man entering the spa bath [06:56] schestowitz[TR3] and telling me to my face [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] "do you want a blow job?" [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] there are real problems [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] but they are not men problems [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] there are also men who do this to women? [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] they walk in [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] and say stuff like this to women [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] i heard from girls who in the streets were stoped by men [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] gross men [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] who directly talked to them about their dicks [06:57] schestowitz[TR3] it's really badd [06:58] schestowitz[TR3] what are they supposed to do? phone the police? ● Jun 25 [07:00] IsambardPrince It's just society falling appart. [07:00] IsambardPrince *apart [07:00] TR News "After some supply chain issues that put both the Steam Deck OLED models out of stock for the US and Canada, they're now back." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steam-deck-oled-back-in-stock-in-the-us-canada/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:00] TR Bot Deck OLED back in stock in the US / Canada | GamingOnLinux [07:00] IsambardPrince Too many people like the Microsoft Bunch out there. [07:00] schestowitz[TR3] you bear me to it [07:00] schestowitz[TR3] re societal issues [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] but that goes a long time back [07:01] IsambardPrince Exuding grossness. [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] maybe it worsened [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] some people's lives suck so much [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] so they reckon, [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] hey, let's jusst ask many random people for sex [07:01] schestowitz[TR3] and maybe get "lucky" [07:02] TR News "Need a free game? You can currently claim SteamWorld Dig to keep for a limited time, and the later games in the series have heavy discounts." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/steamworld-dig-is-free-to-claim-and-keep-with-later-games-heavily-discounted/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:02] TR Bot Dig is free to claim and keep, with later games heavily discounted | GamingOnLinux [07:02] TR News "Build up your game collection with the Serenity Forge Humble Bundle." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-serenity-forge-humble-bundle-has-more-great-games-for-cheaps/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:02] TR Bot Serenity Forge Humble Bundle has more great games for cheaps | GamingOnLinux [07:02] TR News "Combining the classic game of Billiards with various news rules and roguelike features, Drop Pockets is set to arrive on August 8th." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/billiards-roguelike-drop-pockets-arrives-in-august/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:02] TR Bot roguelike Drop Pockets arrives in August | GamingOnLinux [07:02] schestowitz[TR3] we are making more teas these days [07:03] schestowitz[TR3] seems we have too much tea atm [07:07] IsambardPrince hey, let's jusst ask many random people for sex [07:07] IsambardPrince Lots of this on Grindr. [07:07] IsambardPrince It's a distraction. [07:07] IsambardPrince They're broke. [07:08] IsambardPrince There's nothing to do for entertaining except fuck strangers I guess. [07:08] IsambardPrince Most behavior people engage in is ritualistic in some fashion. [07:08] IsambardPrince Including sexual behavior, especially sexual behavior. [07:09] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Everyone has rituals without realizing it. [07:09] IsambardPrince Patterns become comfortable. [07:09] IsambardPrince Rituals that mask insecurities lead to some psychological satisfaction. [07:10] IsambardPrince Some people like to be humiliated, others to dominate. [07:10] IsambardPrince So there are of course sex practices for all of this. [07:10] IsambardPrince And almost everything leads back to sex somehow. [07:10] IsambardPrince It's wired into the brain because without it, we stop existing as a species. [07:11] IsambardPrince So we have to be very determined to make it happen, and then we spend a lot of our lives indirectly working to that goal. [07:11] IsambardPrince A man who is a big dumb brute attracts a certain type of woman. [07:11] IsambardPrince Perhaps not a desirable woman, but a certain type. [07:12] IsambardPrince To compete, men who are not physically imposing have to do something else. They have to educate themselves and advertise that they are able to provide. [07:12] IsambardPrince Which means high income potential. [07:12] IsambardPrince Then you attract women. Again, maybe the wrong kind in another way. [07:13] IsambardPrince Not impressed by physical prowess, but sees you as a "provider" for the family she wants to have. [07:13] IsambardPrince Women have a nesting instinct. They want to find men who can provide and protect, and have children. [07:13] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:13] IsambardPrince Women will only take care of their own children, never someone else's, unless all other avenues have been tried and exhausted. [07:13] TR News "Maze Mice is getting ready to leave Early Access - that was fast. A major update for this survivor game that blends time-stopping Pac-Man features is out now. From the same developer as Luck be a Landlord." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/time-stopping-pac-man-like-survivor-game-maze-mice-gets-a-big-upgrade/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:13] TR Bot Pac-Man like survivor game Maze Mice gets a big upgrade | GamingOnLinux [07:14] IsambardPrince They will literally force men to work themselves to death paying $50,000 or more for things like IVF that may not even work, before they will consider adoption. [07:14] TR News "It should be criminal for a game as good as Glass Cannon to see so few players and Steam reviews, because it's simply awesome." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/the-criminally-overlooked-turn-based-roguelike-shoot-em-up-glass-cannon-just-got-a-lot-bigger/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:14] TR Bot criminally overlooked turn-based roguelike shoot-em-up Glass Cannon just got a lot bigger | GamingOnLinux [07:15] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Walmart sent out a benefits flyer that said they'll pay the employee to adopt or have children, including IVF. [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] who pays?\ [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] waltons? [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] the us gov? [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] oor [07:15] IsambardPrince I think corporate America is in the middle of a freakout. Well, how about fucking paying people enough on an ongoing basis so they don't go "One time payments? Gee, I can barely afford my rent on this rundown shithole. Pass." [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] does walmart get gov benefits for doing it? [07:15] schestowitz[TR3] (pr aside) [07:16] IsambardPrince No, I shredded the flyer. [07:16] IsambardPrince After laughing. [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] press "reply" [07:16] IsambardPrince They barely pay enough that with two people in the house you can live if the other one already has an income. [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] to walmart [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] write: [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] "make your own" [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] "regarrds, Ryan" [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] make them in chiina or something [07:16] schestowitz[TR3] like all the other "goods" [07:16] IsambardPrince Not my circus, not my monkeys. [07:17] TR News "Another free game release for you. Midnight Riff is a rhythm roguelike where you have to jam with the music to deal damage and win battles." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/midnight-riff-is-a-free-new-rhythm-roguelike-to-vibe-with/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:17] TR Bot Riff is a free new rhythm roguelike to vibe with | GamingOnLinux [07:17] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: walmart already has enough workers [07:17] schestowitz[TR3] they are known as shopper [07:17] schestowitz[TR3] and it goes a little like this [07:17] schestowitz[TR3] "AI" [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] as in, All India https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4 [07:18] TR Bot ( status 404 @ https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actually-1-000-people-in-india-2024-4 ) [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/4/amazons-just-walk-out-stores-relied-on-1000-people/ [07:18] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/apr/4/amazons-just-walk-out-stores-relied-on-1000-people/ ) [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] https://nichegamer.com/amazons-walk-out-grocery-store-ai-was-actually-just-indian-contractors/ [07:18] TR Bot Amazons walk-out grocery store AI was actually just Indian contractors [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] "Amazon has seemingly abandoned their walk-out grocery store model, where customers could just pick up what they need and walk out of the building without interacting with a cashier. [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] The plan was for users to enter the store and swipe an app or card, meanwhile Artificial Intelligence would track the customer and charge them for the items they picked up once they left. However it turns out this AI was actually just a thousand guys in India. [07:18] schestowitz[TR3] Far from the high-tech fantasy we were promised, it seems individuals were manually watching cameras around the clock in order to follow users and bill them for their items. While it definitely cut out cashiers, were not sure if being camera-stalked by someone half a world a way is a better alternative." [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] corporate efficiency gravitates towards slavery [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] starts with wave slaves [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] then serfdom [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] eventually slavery [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] like "gig econopmy" [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] no sick leave [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] no maternity leave [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] no holidays (not paid) [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] nothing [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] again [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] corporate efficiency gravitates towards slavery [07:19] schestowitz[TR3] that inc. walmart [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] slavery was not just abolished because "changed our minds"\ [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] people fought back [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] even by force [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] so the overlords and slaveowners stepped back [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] now they push back [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] towards slavert [07:20] schestowitz[TR3] piggybacking "globalisation" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] disguised as "HEY HI ERA/REVOLUTION" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "suportintelligence" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "agentic" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "advanced" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "generativce" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] etc etc [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] all buzzwords for the me thing [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "we don't do anything anymore" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] "we just ran programs" [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] :"we don' [07:21] schestowitz[TR3] t ccare if they don't do the job right" [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] "we call it ... HEY HI!!! AMAZZZZZZINGGG!!!!!!'\ [07:22] TR News "I've been after a competitive game for a while for the Steam Deck and it certainly looks like REMATCH fits the bill." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/rematch-is-the-perfect-competitive-game-for-steam-deck/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:22] TR Bot is the perfect competitive game for Steam Deck | GamingOnLinux [07:22] TR News "We may potentially be in for some big changes in Fedora 44, with plans in place being discussed to drop 32-bit multilib / i686 packages." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:22] TR Bot Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers | GamingOnLinux [07:22] IsambardPrince Their goal is to stupefy people into accepting this. [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] they never call barcode-scanning at the shop "HEY HI" [07:22] IsambardPrince And they have. [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] why npt? [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] it's HEY HI, no? [07:22] schestowitz[TR3] an intelligent lasere beam [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] analysing the distance and widthof black lines [07:23] IsambardPrince Dynamite with a laser beam? [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] "HEY HI", no? [07:23] IsambardPrince Guaranteed to blow your mind. [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] very old tech [07:23] IsambardPrince Yes Roy, Indiana was the first place to get it. [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] it can be done on 8-bit computers [07:23] IsambardPrince Marsh Supermarket. [07:23] schestowitz[TR3] in an innstance [07:23] IsambardPrince 1970s. [07:23] IsambardPrince First item sold with barcode was a pack of chewing gum. [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] now it's better [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] now there is "an app" [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] want coffee? [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] app! [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] yesterday i had like 10 coffees out [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] and the machine had a section next to it [07:24] schestowitz[TR3] is said that area was resevrd for "apop orders" [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] wtf is app orders? i will tell you [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] it means some lazy f* sits there on android or ios skinnerbox [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] pressing some buttons [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] then staff reader what's on there [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] and identifies the person like s/he has rfid [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] then pours out or makes what s/he wants [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] then serves it [07:25] schestowitz[TR3] instead of the person doing it [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] it saves almost no time [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] download "app", learn ui [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] verabal is faster [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] "what kind of potato dishes you have...?" [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] "oh, wait, i'll have that second one" [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] it's a good interface: mouth [07:26] schestowitz[TR3] but from barcode we moved to slob-culture [07:27] schestowitz[TR3] where people get apps to order in the "app order" section [07:27] schestowitz[TR3] which basically means wasted space [07:27] schestowitz[TR3] it only takes me seconds to get to a person serving [07:27] schestowitz[TR3] no slower than swipe to unlock [07:27] schestowitz[TR3] this gets sold as "progress" [07:28] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2024/12/07/Meme_Self_Checkout_and_Banking_Apps_Passing_All_Accountability_.shtml [07:28] TR Bot Techrights [Meme] 'Self-Checkout' (and Banking 'Apps'): Passing All Accountability to the Customers [07:28] TR News "If you wish to stress-test your Linux PC or your Steam Deck, it's now easier than ever thanks to OCCT." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/stress-testing-toolkit-occt-arrives-on-steam-with-linux-and-steam-deck-support/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:28] TR Bot toolkit OCCT arrives on Steam with Linux and Steam Deck support | GamingOnLinux [07:29] TR News "The total mash-up mod Fortress Connected has been announced for a Steam release where the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 collide." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/merging-the-worlds-of-half-life-2-left-4-dead-and-tf2-fortress-connected-is-coming-to-steam/ | Source: GamingOnLinux [07:29] TR Bot the worlds of Half-Life 2, Left 4 Dead and TF2 - Fortress Connected is coming to Steam | GamingOnLinux [07:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], They have people so dumbed down they think GrubHub is how you eat every night. [07:30] TR News "The Permanent War Economy Doesnt Benefit Workers" https://jacobin.com/2025/06/war-economy-military-keynesianism-workers/ [07:30] TR Bot The Permanent War Economy Doesnt Benefit Workers [07:30] TR News "Pickpocketing the Power of the Purse - Truthdig" https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pickpocketing-the-power-of-the-purse/ [07:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.truthdig.com/articles/pickpocketing-the-power-of-the-purse/ ) [07:30] IsambardPrince They can't figure out that when you pay $50 to have food delivered every single night, eventually you won't pay rent because the money isn't there. [07:31] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [07:31] TR News "Mr Mikkelsen, claimed the officers then threatened him with a $5,000 fine or five years in prison if he refused to give the password to his mobile phone." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14842359/Norwegian-tourist-21-barred-entering-US-ICE-guards-meme.html [07:31] TR Bot Norwegian tourist, 21, is barred from entering the US after ICE guards find meme showing JD Vance with a bald head on his phone | Daily Mail Online [07:32] TR News "Noted Ketamine enthusiast posts own SSN on Twitter" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/noted-ketamine-enthusiast-posts-own-ssn-on-twitter/ [07:32] TR Bot connection timeout ( status 0 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/noted-ketamine-enthusiast-posts-own-ssn-on-twitter/ ) [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] GrubHub is not a 'thing' here [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] we have others [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] yesterday we watched them pass by [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] one rode some cart like the old milk delivery people [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] with "AMazon" [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] we notice he took the sidewalk [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] it's like a bicycle [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] but also like an actual vehicle [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] going on the sidewalk [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] insane [07:33] schestowitz[TR3] ludicrous [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] then you have what is likely illegally-migrating people who cannot speak english [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] with a box on their back [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] and large gloves [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] sometimes they end up at your door [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] not able to speak english [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] coming to tthe wrong address [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] as they cannot read [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] it's a real nuisance [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] even if you never order [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] and the other day, days ago, one wanted to drop flowers at ours [07:34] schestowitz[TR3] because he could not speak english [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] and could not understand [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] rianne explained [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] wrong street [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] even pointed to itr [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] but he wanted to drop that at ours [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] lots of money wasted [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] society slowed down [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] by this "gig economt" nonsense [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] we used to have reliable couriers [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] now you have bicycles [07:35] schestowitz[TR3] very much like tricicads [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] on the f*ing sidewalk [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] with people on wheels and carts [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] going past you [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] probably have to work 12 hours a daY [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] and live in bunk beds still [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] that's where capitalism led us [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] we did not hace this in the 90s [07:36] schestowitz[TR3] people who knocked on your doors spoke ennnnglish [07:37] schestowitz[TR3] and had vans for deliveries [07:37] schestowitz[TR3] not some "app" with map [07:37] schestowitz[TR3] for illiterates [07:38] schestowitz[TR3] (i did not mention anything about race) [07:44] TR News (NEW): Games: Fortress Connected, OCCT, Steam Deck, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Games_Fortress_Connected_OCCT_Steam_Deck_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Games_Fortress_Connected_OCCT_Steam_Deck_and_More.gmi [07:44] TR Bot Tux Machines Games: Fortress Connected, OCCT, Steam Deck, and More [07:44] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Another day of beer and pretzels. [07:45] IsambardPrince That's what my dad's friend at RCA said to tell my teacher I had for breakfast next time she asked. [07:45] IsambardPrince She was appalled that the morning of a test I had some orange danish rolls. [07:45] IsambardPrince And coffee. [07:45] IsambardPrince (Fifth grade. That teacher was a real snob.) [07:46] schestowitz[TR3] https://betanews.com/2025/06/16/betanews-is-growing-with-you-alongside/#comments [07:46] TR Bot Is Growing Alongside You - BetaNews [07:46] schestowitz[TR3] see comments, who is ashley? [07:46] schestowitz[TR3] their social control media accounts are dormantt [07:46] schestowitz[TR3] what company runs the site? [07:46] schestowitz[TR3] b2b spam? [07:46] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], That same friend of my dad's was caught stealing the cheap toilet paper out of the RCA janitor closet. [07:46] IsambardPrince They told him he wasn't fired but he'd never get a raise again. [07:47] schestowitz[TR3] at least he wiped well [07:48] schestowitz[TR3] "Ashley, Beta News Community Team" [07:48] IsambardPrince Well, what was he going to do about it? He had a 30 year mortgage on a house that couldn't be moved out of Marion, Indiana. [07:48] IsambardPrince And it's not like there were a million TV tube plants in the county. [07:49] schestowitz[TR3] https://betanews.com/2025/06/16/will-windows-10-stop-working-see-if-your-pc-will-survive-the-switch-to-windows-11/#comments [07:49] TR Bot Windows 10 stop working? See if your PC will survive the switch to Windows 11 - BetaNews [07:49] schestowitz[TR3] "Hi Thos, Beta News has undergone some exciting changes - https://betanews.com/2025/0.... Expect new content soon! - Ashley, Beta News Community Team" [07:49] schestowitz[TR3] Found it [07:49] IsambardPrince then you have what is likely illegally-migrating people who cannot speak english [07:49] TR Bot News and Analysis - BetaNews [07:49] schestowitz[TR3] https://disqus.com/by/ashleyclarendon/? [07:49] IsambardPrince Yes, these are the people who do the apps. [07:49] TR Bot Profile - ashleyclarendon [07:49] schestowitz[TR3] Ashley Clarendon [07:49] IsambardPrince Illegal aliens who use someone else's ID. [07:50] IsambardPrince They pull up and hand you food and it's not the woman in the picture. [07:50] IsambardPrince :) [07:50] IsambardPrince Like maybe one of them is a citizen so they all use her Social Security number. [07:50] IsambardPrince Then her family delivers on the app, as her. [07:51] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], One day it was supposed to be a Mexican woman. [07:51] schestowitz[TR3] not Clarendon, Jamaica [07:51] IsambardPrince It was a Mexican man and a child. [07:51] IsambardPrince Right car though. [07:51] IsambardPrince Another day it was a Russian man. [07:52] IsambardPrince I gave him a good tip because I didn't realize it was the El Famous Burrito two cities over. [07:52] IsambardPrince So I felt bad and got back in there and added more to compensate him for his trouble. [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] it might be a pseudonym, "Ashley Clarendon"' [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] lots of dodgy things going on [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] all staff fired [07:52] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I try not to be a dick. [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] no real authors [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] Ashley Clarendon showing up [07:52] schestowitz[TR3] who are they? what sort of business? [07:53] IsambardPrince If I'm too lazy to cook or we're in here with COVID and too sick to go get food or something, I at least leave them a nice tip. [07:53] IsambardPrince So one night I was watching Shogun (the 1980 miniseries) on Blu Ray. [07:53] IsambardPrince And eating sushi. [07:53] IsambardPrince :) [07:53] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [07:54] IsambardPrince And then the next night I think I was watching the Samurai trilogy and eating a big burrito and some refried beans. [07:54] IsambardPrince But I try to cook. [07:54] IsambardPrince I was just SO SICK and I hadn't been to the store. [07:54] schestowitz[TR3] https://disqus.com/by/ashleyclarendon/about/ "Joined Jun 19, 2025" [07:54] TR Bot Profile - ashleyclarendon [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] new account [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] like the twitter account [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] of the fake author [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] seems like a slopfarm [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] from top to bottomn [07:55] IsambardPrince El Famous is good. [07:55] schestowitz[TR3] even the authors are fakes [07:55] IsambardPrince I like everything on the menu there really. But I'm partial to the chorizo and scrambled egg burrito. [07:56] IsambardPrince I love chorizo. I cook arroz con pollo a lot and put some ground chorizo in it. [07:56] IsambardPrince That's good stuff. [07:56] IsambardPrince For a while there, eggs were almost a luxury item. [07:56] IsambardPrince $8.99 a dozen. [07:57] IsambardPrince Hell, I think the worst I saw was $12.99 a dozen if you could get any. [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] i am more or less conclusding that, [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] in light of thheir sole "author" [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] and the sole staff becoming visible [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] both are fake [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] pen names [07:59] schestowitz[TR3] betanews is a slopfarm run by people who do not exist ● Jun 25 [08:01] TR News (NEW): Free and Open Source Software https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Free_and_Open_Source_Software.gmi [08:01] TR Bot Tux Machines Free and Open Source Software [08:01] schestowitz[TR3] like in https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-67560354 [08:01] TR Bot Sports Illustrated accused of publishing AI-written articles - BBC News [08:01] schestowitz[TR3] "Sports Illustrated deleted web articles after a report claimed they were generated by artificial intelligence and published under fake author names. " [08:01] IsambardPrince Yes, increasingly sites are giving pen names to ChatGPT. [08:01] schestowitz[TR3] ""We demand the company commit to adhering to basic journalistic standards, including not publishing computer-written stories by fake people," the union said on X." [08:01] IsambardPrince Did Brian Ravioli find a new job pasting ChatGPT crap? [08:02] schestowitz[TR3] "The company alleged that AdVon Commerce had allowed its writers to use pseudonyms "in certain articles" to protect their privacy, however. That was why the AI-generated pictures were used and the author names cannot be found elsewhere on the internet." [08:02] schestowitz[TR3] Staff Author [08:02] schestowitz[TR3] Peter Bright [08:02] schestowitz[TR3] "''He changed his name on X to "Mitch Goldich (human)" to further emphasise the point. " [08:02] schestowitz[TR3] "Mitch Goldich, an editor at Sports Illustrated who leads the union, said the magazine had done "real damage to the credibility of the hardworking humans I have been honored to work with for the past 9 years"." [08:03] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] betanews seems likee the same [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] except the old staff names remain, forr now.. [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: no [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] he made a news site [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] geeks xyz iirc [08:03] schestowitz[TR3] let me check [08:04] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/n/2025/06/18/BetaNews_Appears_to_Have_Fired_All_Of_Its_Staff.shtml [08:04] TR Bot Techrights BetaNews Appears to Have Fired All Of Its Staff [08:04] schestowitz[TR3] nerds.xyz [08:04] schestowitz[TR3] same crap [08:04] schestowitz[TR3] another domain [08:04] schestowitz[TR3] slop images, e.g. https://nerds.xyz/2025/06/google-launches-imagen-4-with-better-text-rendering-and-gemini-api-access/ [08:04] TR Bot Launches Imagen 4 With Better Text Rendering And Gemini API Access - NERDS.xyz [08:05] schestowitz[TR3] more slop https://nerds.xyz/2025/06/ditch-windows-11-refreshos-2-5-linux-alternative/ [08:05] TR Bot Windows 11 For RefreshOS 2.5 The Fast And Modern Linux Alternative - NERDS.xyz [08:05] schestowitz[TR3] still making slooop about "linux" [08:05] schestowitz[TR3] and Vista 11 [08:05] schestowitz[TR3] even like 10+ per day [08:05] schestowitz[TR3] it's a slopfarm! [08:06] schestowitz[TR3] i will write about this [08:10] *birkoff has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [08:12] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I predict that the layoffs are going to be heavily centered on advertising soon. [08:13] IsambardPrince Many companies have gotten so big they don't need to inform or remind anyone they exist. [08:13] IsambardPrince And the ones that fail don't need to advertise anymore. [08:15] TR News Techrights Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Brian_Fagioli_Created_Another_Slopfarm_Targeting_Linux_After_Be.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Brian_Fagioli_Created_Another_Slopfarm_Targeting_Linux_After_Be.gmi [08:15] TR Bot Techrights Brian Fagioli Created Another Slopfarm Targeting "Linux" After BetaNews Became a Slopfarm of Phantom Accounts and Pseudonyms [08:16] TR News (NEW): XLibre Proposed as Fedoras New Default X11 Server https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/XLibre_Proposed_as_Fedora_s_New_Default_X11_Server.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/XLibre_Proposed_as_Fedora_s_New_Default_X11_Server.gmi [08:16] TR Bot Tux Machines XLibre Proposed as Fedoras New Default X11 Server [08:19] TR News "We share our experiences of adapting curriculum resources with our partners in Kenya, and the impact of this work." https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/adapting-our-computing-curriculum-resources-for-kenya-the-journey-so-far/ | Source: Raspberry Pi [08:19] TR Bot Adapting our computing curriculum resources for Kenya the journey so far - Raspberry Pi Foundation [08:19] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: no, irt started already [08:19] schestowitz[TR3] e.g. [08:19] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.prweek.com/article/1898672/edelman-lays-off-330-people-amid-expected-8-drop-us-revenue [08:19] TR Bot Edelman lays off 330 people amid expected 8% drop in US revenue | PR Week [08:20] schestowitz[TR3] https://techrights.org/o/2008/11/19/waggener-edstrom-bribe/ [08:20] TR Bot Waggener-Edstrom Behind the 2008 Laptop Bribes, Edelman Behind 2006's [08:20] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/wiki/Edelman/ [08:20] TR Bot Edelman [08:20] schestowitz[TR3] re http://techrights.org/wiki/Waggener_Edstrom/ [08:20] TR Bot Waggener Edstrom [08:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Brian Ravioli looks a lot like Joy's husband, Dave. [08:20] schestowitz[TR3] http://techrights.org/o/2023/07/24/yet-more-waggener-edstrom-layoffs/ [08:20] TR Bot Mass Layoffs at Microsoft's PR Department (Waggener Edstrom) and Agencies That Bribe Bloggers and Journalists on Microsoft's Behalf (to Act as a Proxy, Distance the Liability) [08:22] TR News "Giving Information To The Enemy" https://thedissenter.org/israels-ban-on-al-jazeera-extends-foreign-broadcasters/ | Source: The Dissenter [08:22] TR Bot Israel Expands Al Jazeera Ban To Foreign Broadcasters [08:22] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1TaI4NvVBQ [08:22] TR Bot https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=c1TaI4NvVBQ [08:22] TR Bot ww25.invidious.slipfox.xyz | NO TITLE [08:22] IsambardPrince "Edelweiss" ft. Christopher Plummer's Original Vocals | The Sound of Music Super Deluxe Edition [08:23] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I watched this recently. [08:24] IsambardPrince I got a box set of Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals on DVD. [08:26] TR News "A consistent theme among organizations considering alternatives to their legacy virtualization platforms was the importance of executive buy-in." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/approaching-openshift-virtualization | Source: Red Hat Official [08:26] TR Bot Adopting Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization: Real customer lessons learned [08:26] TR News "Built on Red Hat OpenShift, NERC includes several clusters (test, production and infrastructure), each with specific user access limitations." https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/lab-enterprise-translating-observability-innovations-research-platforms-real-world-business-value-red-hat-openshift | Source: Red Hat Official [08:26] TR Bot From the lab to the enterprise: translating observability innovations from research platforms to real-world business value with Red Hat OpenShift [08:26] TR News The hidden cost of large language models https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/hidden-cost-large-language-models [08:26] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/hidden-cost-large-language-models ) [08:27] TR News (NEW): Look at what we've achieved together https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Look_at_what_we_ve_achieved_together.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Look_at_what_we_ve_achieved_together.gmi [08:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Look at what we've achieved together [08:28] TR News "Banana Pi has shared hardware details about an embedded platform built around the Renesas RZ/V2N Vision AI MPU." https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-puts-rz-v2n-vision-ai-mpu-into-embedded-platform-with-jetson-like-form-factor/ | Source: Linux Gizmos [08:28] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/banana-pi-puts-rz-v2n-vision-ai-mpu-into-embedded-platform-with-jetson-like-form-factor/ ) [08:28] *birkoff (birkoff@freenode-adfd07.pp8t.eshf.59jtia.IP) has joined #techrights [08:28] TR News "The release is built on the excellent Qwen3-4B base model and uses a LoRA adapter (Low-Rank Adaptation) to detect legally relevant text" https://news.opensuse.org/2025/06/24/suse-refines-releases-os-llm-to-fuel-community-collaboration/ | Source: OpenSUSE [08:28] TR Bot SUSE Refines, Releases Open-Source LLM to Fuel Community Collaboration - openSUSE News [08:30] TR News "Beast plagiarizes himself in the initial demo to avoid any snags, but with the ability to rip off entire channels in one fell swoop or even specific videos, the writing is pretty clearly on the wall." https://boingboing.net/2025/06/23/mr-beast-launches-ai-powered-youtube-plagiarism-machine.html | Source: BoingBoing [08:30] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/23/mr-beast-launches-ai-powered-youtube-plagiarism-machine.html ) [08:30] TR News "Getty was among the first to recognize the threat AI posed to its business." https://cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/the-trial-that-could-reshape-ai | Source: Jrme Marin [08:30] TR Bot The trial that could reshape AI - by Jrme Marin [08:36] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:37] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [08:37] TR News "Anthropic bought a huge amount of print books and scanned them into a private library to train from. But it also downloaded 7 million pirate copies of books from LibGen and Books." https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/24/anthropic-wins-broad-fair-use-for-training-but-not-on-pirated-books/ | Source: Pivot to AI [08:37] TR Bot Anthropic AI wins broad fair use for training! but not on pirated books Pivot to AI [08:38] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) [08:38] TR News "In a nutshell, the judge says that legally purchased books can be used to train AI, as long as the models do not reproduce verbatim the original copyrighted works." https://www.manton.org/2025/06/24/training-llms-on-books-judged.html | Source: Manton Reece [08:38] TR Bot Manton Reece - Training LLMs on books judged as fair use [08:39] TR News "The judgement itself is a very readable 32 page PDF, and contains all sorts of interesting behind-the-scenes details about how Anthropic trained their models." https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/24/anthropic-training/#atom-everything | Source: Simon Willison [08:39] TR Bot Anthropic wins a major fair use victory for AI but its still in trouble for stealing books [08:39] TR News "A judge rules that Anthropic's training on copyrighted works without authors' permission was a legal fair use, but that stealing the books in the first place is illegal." https://www.404media.co/judge-rules-training-ai-on-authors-books-is-legal-but-pirating-them-is-not/ | Source: 404 Media [08:39] TR Bot Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not [08:40] TR News "removed all mentions of its partnership with Jony Ives new hardware startup io from its website" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/openai-jony-ive-partnership-scrubbed-trademark-dispute/ | Source: Digital Music News [08:40] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/openai-jony-ive-partnership-scrubbed-trademark-dispute/ ) [08:40] TR News "However, Windows will continue ignore the default browser in two heavily-used Microsoft applications, Outlook and Edge." https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/british-browser-boiz-fun-microsoft-dma-compliance-meeting/ | Source: Bruce Lawson [08:40] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://brucelawson.co.uk/2025/british-browser-boiz-fun-microsoft-dma-compliance-meeting/ ) [08:41] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM): "The feature is still in development, with no confirmed release date yet. APK teardowns typically only provide hints about future releasesreferences to Spotifys still missing HiFi tier were discovered years ago" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/spotify-music-import-tool/ | Source: Digital Music News [08:41] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/23/spotify-music-import-tool/ ) [08:41] TR News Digital Restrictions (DRM) https://warmedal.se/~bjorn/posts/2025-06-24-subscription-costs-for-my-entertainment.html | Source: Bjrn Wrmedal [08:41] TR Bot Subscription Costs for My Entertainment - Bjrn Wrmedal [08:41] TR News "In the last edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, our series analysing BGP leaks" https://blog.apnic.net/2025/06/24/the-scourge-of-excessive-as-sets/ | Source: APNIC [08:41] TR Bot The scourge of excessive AS-SETs | APNIC Blog [08:42] TR News "A major problem with letting billionaires decide how your country is run is that they will back whichever psycho promises the lowest taxes and least regulation, no matter how completely batshit and unfit that person is: [...]" https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/23/billionaires-eh/#galen-weston-is-a-rat | Source: CoryDoctorow [08:42] TR Bot Pluralistic: The case for a Canadian wealth tax (23 Jun 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [08:42] TR News "In an excerpt from her book, I Want to Burn This Place Down, Maris Kreizman writes about the way law enforcement officers are mythologized in popular culture and how she became 'radicalized' by reality" https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/copaganda-book-excerpt-1235351675/ | Source: Rolling Stone [08:42] TR Bot Book Excerpt: Copaganda and Me [08:45] TR News "Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/fucklapd-dot-com/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [08:46] TR Bot connection timeout ( status 0 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/fucklapd-dot-com/ ) [08:46] TR News "We deserve to know who is shooting us in the face even when they have their badge covered up" https://www.404media.co/fucklapd-com-lets-anyone-use-facial-recognition-to-instantly-identify-cops/ | Source: 404 Media [08:46] TR Bot FuckLAPD.com Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops [08:48] TR News "Bacon said the House Speaker assured him that money lost in the massive bill would be restored later." https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/23/accurate-information-our-responsibility/ | Source: Nebraska Examiner [08:48] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/06/23/accurate-information-our-responsibility/ ) [08:48] TR News "Here is the video archive for our FOIA Forum where we explained how we got records about Massive Blue, a company selling AI personas to cops." https://www.404media.co/heres-the-video-for-our-sixth-foia-forum-massive-blue/ | Source: 404 Media [08:48] TR Bot Here's the Video for Our Sixth FOIA Forum: Massive Blue [08:48] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:48] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [08:49] *liberty_box (~liberty@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:49] *rianne has quit (connection closed) [08:50] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:50] *rianne_ (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [08:50] *rianne has quit (Connection closed) [08:53] *rianne has quit (connection closed) [08:53] *rianne_ has quit (Connection closed) [08:53] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:53] *rianne (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [08:54] *rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:54] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:54] *rianne_ (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [08:54] *rianne has quit (Connection closed) [08:54] IsambardPrince "Interestingly, the proposals owner, Kevin Kofler, has quickly distanced Fedora from the political views of XLibres upstream maintainer, who has been criticized for controversial statements and past conflicts with Red Hat. Kofler emphasizes that the technical benefitsnot the politicsmotivate the change." [08:55] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Is Kofler back or is the damnatio memoriae still in effect from Rex Dieter by decree of IBM? [08:56] *rianne_ has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:56] *rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [08:56] *rianne (~rianne@qiysgnj2chdjg.irc) has joined #techrights [08:56] *rianne_ (~rianne@freenode-b2n.ra8.a7lnth.IP) has joined #techrights [08:57] IsambardPrince https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/veto-x11libre-replacing-xorg-for-fedora/155926 [08:57] TR Bot Veto X11Libre replacing Xorg for fedora - Fedora Discussion [08:57] TR News "campaign of retribution" https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/technology/media-matters-ftc-lawsuit.html | Source: New York Times [08:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/technology/media-matters-ftc-lawsuit.html ) [08:57] IsambardPrince "Switching from Xorg to X11Libre is pure insanity" [08:57] IsambardPrince So it's okay to say "insanity" now? [08:58] schestowitz[TR3] no [08:58] IsambardPrince "I doubt nvidia will ever support this dodgy xorg fork." [08:58] IsambardPrince nvidia is dodgy [08:58] schestowitz[TR3] it insults insane people like matt gravley [08:58] IsambardPrince They do weird shit that crashes X and don't return your emails if you ask what's up with that. [08:58] schestowitz[TR3] no, nvidia is a suit [08:58] schestowitz[TR3] it has money [08:58] schestowitz[TR3] cannot be crazy [08:59] IsambardPrince But we have to pretend XLibre is at fault for that? [08:59] schestowitz[TR3] crazy people want "young meet" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html [08:59] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html ) [08:59] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], If I was maintaining a Linux distribution my policy would be fuck nvidia. If it works for you, great, but I refuse to take responsibility for that and things that cause it to stop working are not bugs. [08:59] schestowitz[TR3] ibm: helping hitler is ok ● Jun 25 [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] giving a finger to nvidia... not ok [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] nvidia [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] where people who on proprietary crap [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] on DRM [09:00] IsambardPrince That is the only nvidia policy that makes sense. If you use a proprietary driver, you're on your own. [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] and TPMs etc. [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] that's fine [09:00] schestowitz[TR3] just don't give them the finger [09:00] IsambardPrince Fedora used to release without checking or caring if the Nvidia driver worked or not. [09:01] IsambardPrince And said if it bothers you wait until nvidia fixes it or use a card that supports Free drivers. [09:01] TR News "After handing over his password, Mads was told he would not be allowed to go through with his planned vacation after two images were not to the officers' liking." https://www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-news/man-refused-entry-us-border-31925059 | [09:01] IsambardPrince Fedora changed a lot and not for the better. [09:01] TR Bot Man 'refused entry into US' as border control catch him with bald JD Vance meme - Dublin Live [09:01] TR News "A visitor from Norway was reportedly denied entry to the United States after border officers found an unflattering meme of Vice President JD Vance on it." https://boingboing.net/2025/06/24/european-tourist-denied-entry-to-us-over-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone.html | Source: BoingBoing [09:01] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://boingboing.net/2025/06/24/european-tourist-denied-entry-to-us-over-jd-vance-meme-on-his-phone.html ) [09:01] IsambardPrince Now we have to deal with dodgy shit to work around broken drivers. [09:01] IsambardPrince Then nvidia uses the dodgy workarounds to say problem solved. Moving right along... [09:01] IsambardPrince It only encourages them to never clean up their fucking mess. [09:02] IsambardPrince They're slobs. [09:02] TR News "Mads from Troms reacts strongly to the treatment he received at American border control on his way into the United States: [...]" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/always-scrub-your-travel-phone-of-jd-vance-memes/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski [09:02] IsambardPrince From the point of view of proprietary software, if you can hide the bug, you have fixed the bug. [09:02] TR Bot connection timeout ( status 0 @ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/always-scrub-your-travel-phone-of-jd-vance-memes/ ) [09:02] IsambardPrince That's a great reason not to use it all by itself. [09:03] TR News "NO FAKES Act" https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/services/files/BBD6E069-2ED5-473A-B81A-4815134B876F | [09:03] TR News "The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) says the revised version of the NO FAKES Act, reintroduced in April, would be a disaster for free speech and innovation if signed into law." https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/say_no_to_no_fakes_act_eff/ | Source: The Register UK [09:03] TR Bot Just say no to NO FAKES Act, EFF argues The Register [09:03] IsambardPrince Because hiding bugs doesn't fix bugs and they can still crop up somewhere else, like when Windows accidentally loads a broken shell from a prior version. Or the startup noise from 2006. [09:03] IsambardPrince And Microsoft plays it off that they're not really maintaining it anyway. [09:04] IsambardPrince Without getting to the root of the problem, you just end up in a mound of them that can come roaring back at any time. [09:04] IsambardPrince Any Windows user sees some variation of this nearly every time it updates itself. [09:05] TR News "Empire of AI covers the history of OpenAI, from before ChatGPT to early 2025. It profiles CEO Sam Altman and several other executives. It also discusses the broader AI industry." https://evanhahn.com/empire-of-ai-book-notes/ | Source: Evan Hahn [09:05] TR Bot Notes from "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI" [09:06] TR News "Cybersecurity company Snyk Ltd. today announced that it has acquired Invariant Labs AG, a Swiss artificial intelligence security research firm, for an undisclosed price." https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/24/snyk-acquires-invariant-labs-expand-ai-agent-security-capabilities/ | Source: Silicon Angle [09:06] TR Bot acquires Invariant Labs to expand AI agent security capabilities - SiliconANGLE [09:06] TR News "Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received AI emails from a group called KICLEI, a name that mimics the international network ICLEI." https://www.desmog.com/2025/05/28/a-weaponized-ai-chatbot-is-flooding-canadian-city-councils-with-climate-misinformation/ | Source: DeSmog [09:06] TR Bot Weaponized AI Chatbot Is Flooding Canadian City Councils with Climate Misinformation - DeSmog [09:07] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], This entire post is AI slop! [09:07] IsambardPrince The one about why not to merge XLibre [09:07] TR News "But really the thing that I've really not been praising enough is Thunderbird's new approach to donation campaigns." https://blog.cyrneko.eu/everyone-should-copy-thunderbird | [09:07] TR Bot Everyone should copy Thunderbird alexia's blog [09:09] TR News "Globeleq, an independent power company in Africa, has signed a share purchase agreement with Norfund," https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/globeleq-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-zambias-lunsemfwa-hydro-power-company/ | Source: Renewable Energy World [09:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/hydro-power/globeleq-to-acquire-majority-stake-in-zambias-lunsemfwa-hydro-power-company/ ) [09:10] TR News "As Chinese EV brands expand from competing on low prices to promoting premium features and sleek designs, they are increasingly putting their factories in the spotlight." https://www.wired.com/story/china-electric-vehicle-factory-tours-xiaomi/ | Source: Wired [09:10] TR Bot Electric-Vehicle Factories Have Become Tourist Hot Spots | WIRED [09:10] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Is Fedora out of people who can't reply to something without using a chatbot? [09:10] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: what is the post's url? [09:10] schestowitz[TR3] pls specify also if you scanned it [09:10] schestowitz[TR3] seems like a scandal [09:11] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [09:11] IsambardPrince https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/veto-x11libre-replacing-xorg-for-fedora/155926 [09:11] TR Bot Veto X11Libre replacing Xorg for fedora - Fedora Discussion [09:11] IsambardPrince Leigh Scott's post. [09:12] IsambardPrince The part where it says [09:12] schestowitz[TR3] checking [09:12] IsambardPrince "Why Replacing Xorg with a Recent Fork is Problematic" [09:12] IsambardPrince gptzero says that part is likely "AI" [09:12] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [09:12] schestowitz[TR3] what %? [09:12] schestowitz[TR3] pls share screenshot [09:12] schestowitz[TR3] this is a massive black eye for them [09:14] IsambardPrince 51% [09:14] IsambardPrince So not real strong. [09:14] IsambardPrince Might be some of the particular words. [09:14] IsambardPrince You know about packages and stuff. [09:14] schestowitz[TR3] can you screenshot it? [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] looks like he runa summarise [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] on the wiki [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] and then pasted it in [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] as he cannot argue the facts [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] that's a reallyu "bad optics" [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] pls screenshot [09:15] schestowitz[TR3] i ran our of "visits" to gptzero [09:16] schestowitz[TR3] they have some ip thing [09:16] schestowitz[TR3] i got flagged as prolific user of gptzero [09:16] TR News (NEW): KDE Slick New First Run Setup Tool Taking Shape https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/KDE_Slick_New_First_Run_Setup_Tool_Taking_Shape.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/KDE_Slick_New_First_Run_Setup_Tool_Taking_Shape.gmi [09:16] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE Slick New First Run Setup Tool Taking Shape [09:17] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], https://i.ibb.co/Ld3fksBG/Screenshot-2025-06-25-3-16-16-AM.png [09:17] schestowitz[TR3] ty [09:18] IsambardPrince I just saw that list and I was like "This looks like something a chatbot summarize request would toss out. [09:19] TR News (NEW): : Google Android Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Android_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Android_Leftovers.gmi [09:19] TR Bot Tux Machines Android Leftovers [09:20] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Merging this as the X server has no impact on KDE or GNOME. They can both continue using Xwayland because you don't need the rest of the tree for this. [09:20] IsambardPrince And XLibre dropped it anyway. [09:20] IsambardPrince So really they're saying it could break things, but it couldn't possibly break their two main spins of Fedora. [09:20] IsambardPrince It would just provide a different version of the X server for actual X window managers. [09:22] IsambardPrince Since they dropped the X11 session and code from their GNOME and KDE, there exists no possibility of the user accidentally logging into a broken native X11 session on Fedora with those desktops. [09:22] TR News Techrights Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_Pushers_Lose_the_Argument_Use_LLM_Slop_and_Chatbots_to_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Wayland_Pushers_Lose_the_Argument_Use_LLM_Slop_and_Chatbots_to_.gmi [09:22] TR Bot Techrights Wayland Pushers Lose the Argument, Use LLM Slop and Chatbots to Make Up Arguments for IBM [09:24] schestowitz[TR3] Lars l-c-g agrees with the SLOP [09:24] schestowitz[TR3] could even be IBM staff [09:24] schestowitz[TR3] they don't say [09:24] schestowitz[TR3] it just says " Pronouns: he / him / his " [09:24] schestowitz[TR3] which says nothing about who pays his salary [09:25] schestowitz[TR3] Jef Spaleta in there [09:25] schestowitz[TR3] it is an IBM echo chamber [09:25] IsambardPrince There's no good reason to not "consume" the fork for the spins that want to stay working with X11 native. [09:25] schestowitz[TR3] sorry, i means gas chamber [09:25] schestowitz[TR3] you know, IBM... [09:25] IsambardPrince They seem to be terrified of losing control over something they're trying to crush to death. [09:25] IsambardPrince That's literally all this seems to be. [09:25] schestowitz[TR3] "Koflers change proposal should be done. Open Source is all about users choice. Everything around this topic recently has been someone elses choice." [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] "Koflers change proposal should be done. Open Source is all about users choice. Everything around this topic recently has been someone elses choice." [09:26] IsambardPrince It's not easy to recover from application errors under Wayland. [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] the chatbot man replies [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] "You clearly havent read the change proposal or understand the significance and impact of the change. [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] It isnt about wayland, its about switching from xorg to an untested xorg fork that is likely to last longterm." [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] read what? [09:26] IsambardPrince Particularly when there's no good equivalent of xkill. [09:26] schestowitz[TR3] ths SLOP? [09:27] IsambardPrince And applications now seem to like spinning up billions of processes and then not making sure that the child processes die when the parent one dies. [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] i sometimes use x tools to recover from errors [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] seems they throw away reliability [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] intnetionally [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] " [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] And nobody is taking the freedom to get the source and to build it on your machine away from you. [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] However, I think it is a bad idea to waste resources on packaging one mans fork of what is essentially a dead protocol and make it appear that using it is a good idea." [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] oh, wow, IBM logic [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] do what you want [09:27] IsambardPrince Wayland causes horrible problems. [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] but don't give options to users [09:27] IsambardPrince JWZ mentioned the worst part about it. [09:27] schestowitz[TR3] that's... FREEDOM [09:28] IsambardPrince It's a collection of optional protocols and custom protocols. [09:28] schestowitz[TR3] jwz would know [09:28] schestowitz[TR3] he knows it better than most [09:28] IsambardPrince It's even hackier than X11 in that regard. [09:28] IsambardPrince While X clients and server can negotiate down, in reality the distribution tends to ship up to date components that are aware of all of the X servers extensions they would like to use. [09:29] IsambardPrince it just means that if the user should like to open and run something really old it would still work. It just wouldn't be aware of the new extensions and features. [09:29] IsambardPrince So it would not work better or worse than it ever did before. [09:29] schestowitz[TR3] "Thats not my personal attack. Im one of those mentioned myself. Above I was politely answering your questions. Nor dont tell me what to do, Im responsible of my own comments like everyone else." [09:29] schestowitz[TR3] can you check if those people in there are IBM staff [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] it does not say [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] linkedin (msft) might say [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] maybe they just overcrowd and outnumber the real community [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] chatbot man: "What about my freedom to continue to use Xorg and not have it replaced with crapware from a single dev with a massive chip?" [09:30] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], They shut down the discussion. [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] so freedom means deleting something [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] from all machine [09:30] IsambardPrince And said "OMG CoC" [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] how very freedom! [09:30] IsambardPrince Like they always do. [09:30] IsambardPrince OMG CoC! [09:30] IsambardPrince Like Grindr. [09:30] schestowitz[TR3] "Maybe you should stop reading the flame bait from Lunduke." [09:31] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Remember when I started making fun of CoC in 2006-07 or so? [09:31] IsambardPrince And the first joke I made was Ubuntu people running around screaming "OMG CoC!" [09:33] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], It was always obvious what a CoC was. [09:33] IsambardPrince It was a way to try to kill off the water cooler talk in the "hacker" community. [09:34] IsambardPrince And replace it with "corporate culture". [09:34] IsambardPrince And jargon and mild language. [09:35] IsambardPrince Even if you go to your own turf and say something they don't like, they can use the "OMG CoC!" to boot you from all your roles within the project. [09:35] IsambardPrince So you start censoring yourself on your own time too. [09:36] IsambardPrince It's like some scene out of Canada or the UK where they arrest someone for saying something rude on the bus. [09:36] IsambardPrince Because they have no actual crime there, I guess. [09:37] IsambardPrince There's a strong culture in the United States, one that's under attack though, that your freedom of speech is off limits to the government. [09:37] *guideddrone (~guideddrone@3fuu86phvx4es.irc) has joined #techrights [09:37] IsambardPrince The whole Bill of Rights is a reaction to abuses that were occurring rampantly in Europe at the time. [09:38] IsambardPrince The whole theory that people should be more or less equal in the eyes of the law is basically the antithesis of the European system. [09:38] IsambardPrince It's like they had some shitty beta version and never got it right. [09:39] TR News "Over the last year, Ive been unintentionally planning a bike route." https://austingil.com/luger/ | Source: Austin Gil [09:39] TR Bot Luger [09:39] TR News "And its not the only e-flop from a legacy automaker: Just last week Ferrari announced that it is delaying its second EV model (the first will arrive in October) until at least 2028 because of weak demand." https://www.wired.com/story/this-is-why-high-end-electric-cars-are-failing/ | Source: Wired [09:39] TR Bot Is Why High-End Electric Cars Are Failing | WIRED [09:40] IsambardPrince Europe has less of a sense of individualism, and so you get sucked into things like politicized socialism for healthcare, where you have to wait so long for oncology that you're statistically dead ten times over. [09:40] TR News "In other words, the findings are a grim sign of things to come for the environmental impacts of the AI industry: the more accurate a model is, the higher its toll on the climate." https://futurism.com/ai-pollution-carbon-energy | Source: Futurism [09:40] TR Bot Scientists Just Found Something Unbelievably Grim About Pollution Generated by AI [09:40] IsambardPrince While some tranny complains it'll take 4 years to get to them with their weirdo shit. [09:40] TR News "Trumps fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation" https://truthout.org/articles/youth-who-fought-the-climate-crisis-in-court-are-now-targeting-trump/ | Source: TruthOut [09:40] TR Bot Youth Who Fought the Climate Crisis in Court Are Now Targeting Trump | Truthout [09:40] IsambardPrince That you are paying for while you die waiting for cancer treatment. [09:40] TR News "Stocks of eel species, most notably those in temperate Northern Hemisphere regions, have exhibited declines." https://phys.org/news/2025-06-grilled-eel-products-japanese-retail.html | Source: Omicron Limited [09:40] TR Bot ( status 422 @ https://phys.org/news/2025-06-grilled-eel-products-japanese-retail.html ) [09:41] *guideddrone has quit (Quit: Leaving) [09:41] TR News "At present, heat action plans (HAP) are Indias primary approach for managing heat waves and keeping essential services running." https://www.wired.com/story/india-is-using-ai-and-satellites-to-map-urban-heat-vulnerability-down-to-the-building-level/ | Source: Wired [09:41] TR Bot Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level | WIRED [09:42] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Are you familiar with the phrase "toxic positivity"? [09:42] IsambardPrince Corporations tend to inflict it on people. [09:42] IsambardPrince Like the "Walmart Cheer". [09:42] IsambardPrince Or the Fedora Code of Conduct. [09:42] TR News "Amid Elon Musk's attempt to kneecap OpenAI, attorneys for the billionaire claim he doesn't use a computer even though he obviously does, including the fact that he's posted about doing so multiple times in the recent past." https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-lawyers-computer | Source: Futurism [09:43] TR Bot Elon Musks Lawyers Claim He Doesnt Use a Computer, Even Though There's a Vast Amount of Evidence That He Does [09:43] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], Toxic positivity is why Torvalds was forced into therapy he didn't need, in order to stay in his position at a project he started. [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] i saw that term [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] and laughed at it [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] it assests being happy is bad [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] like being a man makes you guilty [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] it's like a form of racism-ish [09:44] IsambardPrince The people bringing him shitty code to look at and waste his time with it were the people who need therapy so they learn skills to cope in a world full of harsh feedback. [09:44] schestowitz[TR3] yoiu are using a disallowed mood [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] you have disallowed genitals at birth [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] you are born the "Wrong" race [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] they try to bring you down [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] even at work [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] don't smile at people [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] OR [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] SMILE at people [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] even if you are sad [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] and hate them [09:45] schestowitz[TR3] it's a form of mental abuse [09:45] IsambardPrince Yes, it's like some sort of enforced compliance. [09:45] IsambardPrince To control how you are allowed to feel and act. [09:45] TR News [Old] "On August 11th, I took the leap and, with a small team, launched my campaign Web site." https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/why-i-dropped-out | Source: New Yorker [09:45] TR Bot Why I Dropped Out | The New Yorker [09:46] TR News "political speech" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/embrace-irony | Source: New Yorker [09:46] TR Bot Lawrence Lessig v. Citizens United | The New Yorker [09:46] IsambardPrince It's not enough to show up at Walmart and stock shelves. You have to shout "Give me a W! Give me an A!" "Give me a SQUIGGLY!" [09:46] TR News "Yet Taiwan, which has set an ambitious target of producing 180,000 drones per year by 2028, is struggling to create this industry from scratch." https://www.wired.com/story/taiwans-rush-to-make-its-own-drones-before-its-too-late/ | Source: Wired [09:46] TR Bot Is Rushing to Make Its Own Drones Before It's Too Late | WIRED [09:46] TR News "Ukraine aims to produce 4.5 million drones in 2025 alone, three times as many as in 2024." https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/working-with-ukraine-is-how-australia-can-supercharge-defence-innovation/ | Source: The Strategist [09:46] TR Bot Working with Ukraine is how Australia can supercharge defence innovation | The Strategist [09:47] TR News "The U.S. House's chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers Monday that messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices, Axios has learned." https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-congress-staffers-messaging-app | Source: Axios [09:47] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2025/06/23/whatsapp-house-congress-staffers-messaging-app ) [09:47] IsambardPrince You know, maybe people are dealing with some really heavy shit in their life and shouldn't have to be forced to act like they're happy with a minimum wage job? [09:48] schestowitz[TR3] remind mem,\was it in Downfall [09:48] schestowitz[TR3] where he asks for breakfast menu [09:48] schestowitz[TR3] and the lady is forced to act happy? [09:48] schestowitz[TR3] or another movie? [09:48] IsambardPrince The one with Hitler? [09:48] IsambardPrince I haven't seen that movie in years. [09:48] IsambardPrince I watched it because of all the Youtube memes. [09:49] TR News "Elon Musks Twitter (surely no-one really calls it X?) is suing New York State." https://grahamcluley.com/twitter-refuses-to-explain-what-its-doing-about-hate-speech-and-misinformation-sues-new-york-state-for-asking/ | Source: Graham Cluley [09:49] TR Bot Twitter refuses to explain what its doing about hate speech and misinformation, sues New York State for asking Graham Cluley [09:49] TR News "This change in attitude didnt come out of nowhere. There is growing evidence that social media can do real harm, especially to children." https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-big-tech-turned-against-democrats | Source: Paul Krugman [09:49] TR Bot Why Big Tech Turned Against Democrats and Democracy [09:49] TR News "The chambers chief administrative officer issued a memo Monday that the messaging app is not approved for official use." https://cyberscoop.com/meta-confused-over-whatsapp-ban-issued-to-house-staffers/ | Source: Scoop News Group [09:49] TR Bot confused over WhatsApp ban issued to House staffers | CyberScoop [09:50] IsambardPrince It's actually very common for low wage workers who are unhappy to have to deal with toxic positivity. Although I only recently encountered the term, I know what they refer to. [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] wait, not downfall [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] was it falling down? [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] the one where he comes to fake mcdonalds [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] douglas [09:50] IsambardPrince Like Office Space where that woman working at one of those shitty chain restaurants had to wear "flair" and he goes "You know, the Nazis made people wear flair." [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] with a shotcut in a leather bag [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] *shotgun [09:50] IsambardPrince Yeah, Falling Down. [09:50] schestowitz[TR3] and later walks to a golf course [09:51] schestowitz[TR3] maybe it was another movie where they showed the "sitcom" satire re staff being forced to smile [09:51] schestowitz[TR3] no matter how badly the customers acted [09:51] IsambardPrince Yeah, I fucking hate the public. [09:51] schestowitz[TR3] in the 90s people already joked about the fake colgate smiles [09:51] IsambardPrince I had to just stand there and take it when I worked at Walmart no matter what they did. [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] from shady salespeople [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] and people forced to smike at work [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] a survey this month showed us people curse more than uk and aussie people [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] i linked to that the other week [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] my sister says the same [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] about americans [09:52] schestowitz[TR3] very rude [09:53] schestowitz[TR3] good place for matt graveley [09:53] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], I always joke that I'm going to send Mandy into work with a radiation badge that measures how fucked up what the customers and bosses around him do. [09:53] IsambardPrince And if it turns red he can take a vacation day. [09:53] IsambardPrince I remember Walmart, not fondly. [09:53] schestowitz[TR3] imagine walking into a store in the uk talking about cheetos and cum-stained pants like matt graveley does [09:54] TR News "This talk aims to give an introduction into the design, protocol and implementation of onion services" https://media.ccc.de/v/gpn23-52-onion-services-design-protocol-and-implementation | Source: CCC [09:54] TR Bot Services: Design, Protocol and Implementation - media.ccc.de [09:54] schestowitz[TR3] IsambardPrince: union-busting training [09:54] schestowitz[TR3] did you lean a "life skill"? [09:55] schestowitz[TR3] *learn [09:55] IsambardPrince Ugh, I had to sit through that. [09:55] TR News "One of the incidents resulted in the illegal downloading of about 190 million wireless customer accounts." https://insidetowers.com/court-okays-atts-177-million-data-breach-settlement/ | Source: Inside Towers [09:55] TR Bot Court Okays AT&T's $177 Million Data Breach Settlement - Inside Towers [09:55] IsambardPrince Walmart goes to red alert if there's any sign of union activity. [09:55] IsambardPrince Raise the shields and activate the photon torpedoes. [09:56] TR News Entrapment (Microsoft GitHub) trash https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/setting-ubuntu-desktop-installation-ssh-quickly | Source: Jeff Geerling [09:56] TR Bot Setting up an Ubuntu Desktop installation for SSH, quickly | Jeff Geerling [09:56] TR News Windows TCO" https://therecord.media/mclaren-health-care-data-breach-notification-ransomware | Source: The Record [09:56] TR Bot Data of more than 740,000 stolen in ransomware attack on Michigan hospital network | The Record from Recorded Future News [09:57] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The only thing that might be nice is when and if we can take Social Security retirement we can get the fuck out of this popsicle stand and go live soemwhere where it might actually spend. [09:57] TR News "Only one thing will take me from zero to 60 faster than a museum selfie-taker, and thats a museum selfie-taker who thinks its beyond hilarious to assume the same pose as the subject of the painting." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/24/ban-selfie-takers-from-museums/ | Source: The Telegraph UK [09:57] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/24/ban-selfie-takers-from-museums/ ) [09:57] TR News "Therefore YouTube thumbnails are often a contentious topic." https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/how-i-make-thumbnails-youtube | Source: Jeff Geerling [09:57] TR Bot How I make thumbnails for YouTube | Jeff Geerling [09:57] TR News "Young people have always felt misunderstood by their parents, but new research shows that Gen Alpha might also be misunderstood by AI." https://www.404media.co/ai-models-and-parents-dont-understand-let-him-cook/ | Source: 404 Media [09:57] TR Bot AI Models And Parents Dont Understand Let Him Cook [09:57] IsambardPrince schestowitz[TR3], The average Social Security check in the US barely covers the rent on a one bedroom apartment, the worst possible one in the area. [09:57] TR News "The parallels with our AIs are not subtle." https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/23/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-ai-part-three/ | Source: Marcy Wheeler [09:57] TR Bot What We Talk About When We Talk About AI (Part Three) - emptywheel [09:58] IsambardPrince People who plan on the government taking care of them obviously have not thought this through. [09:58] TR News "We understand that DeepSeek has willingly provided and will likely continue to provide support to China's military and intelligence operations" https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-aids-chinas-military-evaded-export-controls-us-official-says-2025-06-23/ | Source: Reuters [09:58] TR Bot ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/world/china/deepseek-aids-chinas-military-evaded-export-controls-us-official-says-2025-06-23/ ) [09:58] TR News "The U.S. could restrict DeepSeek soon, especially through unofficial platforms many Zimbabweans use." https://www.techzim.co.zw/2025/06/deepseek-accused-of-helping-chinese-military-evade-us-tech-bans/ | Source: Zimbabwe [09:58] TR Bot DeepSeek Accused of Helping Chinese Military Evade US Tech Bans - Techzim US Accuses DeepSeek of Helping Chinas Military Why That Matters for Zimbabwe [09:58] IsambardPrince I'll probably bug out and head for a tropical country somewhere where everyone around me is poor. It's all relative, right? [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] then you catch malaria [09:59] schestowitz[TR3] and get cremated in a grill to cook some pagpag :) ● Jun 25 [10:00] TR News "This document provides an overview of three R packages, RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo, that implement spatial machine learning methods" https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/specialized-r-packages-for-spatial-machine-learning-an-introduction-to-randomforestsgls-spatialrf-and-meteo/ | Source: Rlang [10:00] TR Bot R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo | R-bloggers [10:00] TR News "Platform engineers are on the front lines of securing these AI systems, especially as large language models (LLMs) enter production." https://thenewstack.io/6-key-security-risks-in-llms-a-platform-engineers-guide/ | Source: The New Stack [10:00] TR Bot 6 Key Security Risks in LLMs: A Platform Engineer's Guide - The New Stack [10:00] TR News "In contrast, hard-to-learn tasks do not have a clear connection between performing an action and achieving the desired outcome." https://criticaledtech.com/2025/06/25/ai-not-great-for-hard-tasks-and-teaching-is-full-of-hard-tasks/ | Source: Neil Selwyn [10:00] TR Bot AI not great for hard tasks and teaching is full of hard tasks Critical Studies of EDUCATION & TECHNOLOGY [10:01] TR News "One area of AI which is being spoken a lot about at the moment is Computer Vision" https://itwire.com/business-it-news/data/what-is-computer-vision-a-beginner-friendly-introduction-with-real-world-examples.html | Source: IT Wire [10:01] TR Bot - What Is Computer Vision? A Beginner-Friendly Introduction with Real-World Examples [10:01] IsambardPrince then you catch malaria [10:01] IsambardPrince The First Lady? [10:01] IsambardPrince What does she have to do with this? [10:01] TR News "The strategy? Ride the hype wave of AI search traffic to quietly drop malware onto the systems of curious users." https://thecyberexpress.com/poisoning-google-search-results-infostealers/ | Source: Cyble Inc [10:01] TR Bot Hackers Poisoning AI Tools' Google Search Results To Deliver Infostealers [10:01] schestowitz[TR3] wait, did i miss somerhting? [10:01] schestowitz[TR3] did malaria trump ..? [10:02] TR News "We know that in the past two or three days, the Iranians have been trying to connect to cameras to understand what happened and where their missiles hit to improve their precision" https://therecord.media/iran-espionage-israeli-security-cameras-missile-attacks | Source: The Record [10:02] TR Bot Israeli officials say Iran exploiting security cameras to guide missile strikes | The Record from Recorded Future News [10:02] TR News "Its going to be a long summer." https://mandarismoore.com/2025/06/23/macos-beta-is-worse.html | Source: Mandaris Moore [10:02] TR Bot MacOS 26 Beta 2 is worse - Mandaris [10:03] TR News "Redline was one of the most widely used tools by cybercriminals until the takedown last year, allowing hackers to steal usernames, browser information, passwords, credit cards, VPN logins and more from infected devices." https://therecord.media/data-leak-paraguayan-millions-infostealer | Source: The Record [10:03] TR Bot Leak of data belonging to 7.4 million Paraguayans traced back to infostealers | The Record from Recorded Future News [10:04] TR News "Digesting hundreds of posts through my RSS feed is becoming a tiring task rather than a pleasant one, so Im dedicating less and less time to it" https://contino.com/blog/42 | Source: Andrea Contino [10:04] TR Bot - Andrea Contino - Go With The Flow [10:04] TR News "There is another working group that looked at the topic of polygamy." https://danielpocock.com/en/social-control-media-technology-catholicism-synod-on-synodality-progress-review-feedback/ | Source: Daniel Pocock [10:04] TR Bot Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback [10:04] TR News "That's when a company charges different customers different amounts based on inferences about their willingness to pay." https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/# | Source: CoryDoctorow [10:04] TR Bot Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [10:04] TR News "this post investigates how recent MKL versions behave on Zen CPUs. You should read the MKL license before using MKL. I shall not be held responsible for how you use MKL." https://danieldk.eu/Intel-MKL-on-AMD-Zen | Source: Danil de Kok [10:04] TR Bot Intel MKL on AMD Zen [10:04] TR News "Thats why some people still swear by their old Fujis, their beat-up Leicas or even a creaky old DSLR that feels like home." https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/cameras/mirrorless-cameras/we-obsess-over-specs-but-no-one-asks-how-the-camera-feels | Source: Digital Camera World [10:04] TR Bot We obsess over specs, but no one asks how the camera "feels" | Digital Camera World [10:05] TR News "These nationwide trends are reflected in the University. Other than plant biology and pediatric dentistry, the majority of the Universitys 10 least popular majors are in the humanities field." https://www.michigandaily.com/web/data/mapping-major-trends-at-umich/ | Source: University of Michigan [10:05] TR Bot Mapping major trends at UMich [10:05] TR News "In other words, while the purpose of other departments is ultimately to create a product, a humanities education is meant to be different, because the student herself is the product." https://www.vox.com/advice/413189/ai-cheating-college-humanities-education-chatgpt | Source: Vox [10:05] TR Bot cheating: With more students using ChatGPT, what should teachers do? | Vox [10:05] TR News "The past decade has brought with it the increasingly accelerating passage of time." https://blakewatson.com/journal/40/ | Source: Blake Watson [10:05] TR Bot - 40 [10:06] TR News "Wiegert and his team calculated that 2024 YR4 could create a kilometre-wide crater on the moon the largest lunar impact for at least the past 5000 years, though relatively small compared with a typical crater." https://www.newscientist.com/article/2484769-asteroid-on-collision-course-with-moon-could-fire-shrapnel-at-earth/ | Source: New Scientist [10:06] TR Bot Asteroid 2024 YR4 is on collision course with the moon and could fire shrapnel at Earth | New Scientist [10:08] TR News "All experiments are conducted in a closed dark room at 20C 1C room temperature and 30% 3% relative humidity." https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8 | Source: Cell Press [10:08] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/S2666-3864(25)00221-8 ) [10:09] TR News "The first ever DinoCon will be this summer Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th August at the University of Exeter." https://svpow.com/2025/06/24/come-hear-matt-and-mike-at-darrens-dinocon/ | Source: Matt Wedel [10:09] TR Bot Come hear Matt and Mike at Darrens DinoCon! | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week [10:12] TR News "While ARRL Field Day is a fun, social, occasion to get together and get on the air, it also serves as an opportunity to test equipment in a way that it would be needed in a time of crisis." https://www.arrl.org/news/view/local-county-and-state-governments-proclaim-value-of-amateur-radio | Source: ARRL [10:12] TR Bot Local, County, and State Governments Proclaim Value of Amateur Radio [10:12] TR News "The promises of the [Internet] I grew up with have gone whistling past, in the mad rush to addict users to everything" https://www.sevarg.net/2025/06/23/ebr-i-tour-and-automation/ | Source: Russell Graves [10:12] TR Bot EBR-I Museum, Nuclear Jet Engines, and Automation [10:13] TR News "Back in May of 2011, I was 22 and had just recently finished University." https://www.tommyp.org/blog/is-it-shorts-weather-today/ | Source: Tommy Palmer [10:13] TR Bot Is It Shorts Weather Today? | Tommy Palmer [10:13] TR News "A lot of people seem to dislike this notion, but I don't understand whyI don't believe free will exists." https://vereis.com/posts/my_take_on_free_will | Source: Vereis [10:13] TR Bot Vereis.com [10:14] TR News "I was recently poking around inside the original Power Macintosh G3s ROM and accidentally discovered an easter egg that nobody has documented until now." https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/ | Source: Doug Brown [10:14] TR Bot Downtown Doug Brown Finding a 27-year-old easter egg in the Power Mac G3 ROM [10:14] TR News "I wish my 3D printer was big enough to pull this off: [...]" https://512pixels.net/2025/06/quinn-nelson-printed-his-own-macintosh/ | Source: Stephen Hackett [10:14] TR Bot Quinn Nelson Printed His Own Macintosh - 512 Pixels [10:14] TR News "This means we would have to add a new button and have it briefly connect two wires." https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/heating-water-from-afar/ | Source: Max Bernstein [10:14] TR Bot Heating water from afar | Max Bernstein [10:16] TR News Enable confidential computing in OpenShift Virtualization https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/enable-confidential-computing-openshift-virtualization [10:16] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/enable-confidential-computing-openshift-virtualization ) [10:16] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, 3-D Printing, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_3_D_Printing_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Open_Hardware_Modding_Raspberry_Pi_3_D_Printing_and_More.gmi [10:16] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware/Modding: Raspberry Pi, 3-D Printing, and More [10:17] TR News How to automate multi-cluster deployments using Argo CD https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/how-automate-multi-cluster-deployments-using-argo-cd [10:17] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/06/24/how-automate-multi-cluster-deployments-using-argo-cd ) [10:18] TR News (NEW): Red Hat Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Red_Hat_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Red_Hat_Leftovers.gmi [10:18] TR Bot Tux Machines Red Hat Leftovers [10:21] TR News (NEW): Today's Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/today_s_leftovers.gmi [10:21] TR Bot Tux Machines today's leftovers [10:22] TR News Techrights Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musks Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Links_25_06_2025_Elon_Musk_s_Lawyers_Caught_Lying_WhatsApp_Face.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Links_25_06_2025_Elon_Musk_s_Lawyers_Caught_Lying_WhatsApp_Face.gmi [10:22] TR Bot Techrights Links 25/06/2025: Elon Musks Lawyers Caught Lying, WhatsApp Faces More Bans [10:28] TR News "AuraGem Search now has a new domain: aurasearch.ddns.net. I've been hard at work the past week optimizing the speed and crawling of the search engine and cleaning up the capsule" gemini://auragem.ddns.net/techlog/20250625_aurasearch.gmi [10:29] TR News to my mother who loves water gemini://coldscars.smol.pub/to_my_mother_who_loves_water ● Jun 25 [11:06] *IsambardPrince has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [11:18] TR News "Beyond that, here are the last couple things I need to not need SCSS anymore: [...]" https://nathansnelgrove.com/2025/06/the-slow-removal-of-scss-from-my-projects | Source: Nathaniel Snelgrove [11:18] TR Bot Nathan Snelgrove | The slow removal of SCSS from my projects [11:19] TR News "I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics." https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/reading-nfc-passport-chips-in-linux/ | Source: Terence Eden [11:19] TR Bot Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux Terence Edens Blog [11:19] TR News [Old] "This approach does not require using any custom serializers or deserializers." https://brandonrozek.com/blog/filesystem-as-persistent-kvs-python/ | Source: Brandon Rozek [11:19] TR Bot Filesystem as a persistent key-value store in Python | Brandon Rozek [11:20] TR News "It has become common practice to start with a "Hello World" program when learning a new programming language. This is a simple program that outputs the text "Hello, World!" to the screen." https://blog.sylver.dev/build-a-compiler-from-scratch-part-11-a-hello-world-of-sorts | Source: Geoffrey Copin [11:20] TR Bot Build a Compiler from Scratch, Part 1.1: A Hello World of sorts [11:20] TR News "In this series, we'll go through this journey together, one tiny iteration at a time. We'll build a program to compile a minimalistic language inspired by Python into x86 assembly code." https://blog.sylver.dev/build-a-compiler-from-scratch-part-0-introduction | Source: Geoffrey Copin [11:20] TR Bot Build a Compiler from Scratch, Part 0: Introduction [11:20] TR News "Interesting is a neutral word" https://ericwbailey.website/published/quality-is-a-trap/ | Source: Eric Bailey [11:20] TR Bot Quality is a trap Eric Bailey [11:21] TR News "If you're given some function of f(x: int, y: int, ): int and a set of unit tests asserting specific inputs give specific outputs, then you can find a polynomial that passes every single unit test." https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/you-can-cheat-a-test-suite-with-a-big-enough/ | Source: Buttondown LLC [11:21] TR Bot can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Buttondown [11:21] TR News "Join Andrea Richetta, Principal Product Evangelist at Arduino, and Roxana Escobedo, EDU Product Marketing Specialist" https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/24/arduino-cloud-cafe-teach-real-coding-concepts-with-arduino-ai-assistant/ | Source: Arduino [11:21] TR Bot Arduino Cloud Caf: Teach real coding concepts with Arduino AI Assistant | Arduino Blog [11:22] TR News "Vectors are a popular topic for databases now, related to LLM and AI use cases." https://peter.eisentraut.org/blog/2025/06/24/waiting-for-sql-202y-vectors | Source: Peter Eisentraut [11:22] TR Bot Waiting for SQL:202y: Vectors | Peter Eisentraut [11:23] TR News "This version includes important security updates to Firefox" https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-1454/ | Source: Tor [11:23] TR Bot New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.4 | The Tor Project [11:23] TR News "There are some handy fresh features in this version." https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/24/firefox_140_esr/ | Source: The Register UK [11:23] TR Bot Mozilla rolls out Firefox 140 ESR with fresh features The Register [11:23] TR News "The Browser Choice Alliance is a coalition of browsers dedicated to the principle that consumers should have the right to use their browser of choice on Windows devices." https://browserchoicealliance.org/ | [11:23] TR Bot The Browser Choice Alliance [11:23] TR News "The v0.2 branch in git will only receive bugfixes. Further work on new features will continue on the master branch." https://chawan.net/news/chawan-0-2-0.html | Source: Chawan [11:23] TR Bot Chawan: 0.2.0 [11:24] TR News "ssh-import-id - retrieve one or more public keys from a public keyserver and append them to the current user's authorized_keys file" https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man1/ssh-import-id.1.html | [11:24] TR Bot Ubuntu Manpage: ssh-import-id - retrieve one or more public keys from a public keyserver and append them to the current [11:24] TR News "Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations." https://linuxiac.com/fedora-44-plans-to-drop-i686-support-and-32-bit-multilib-compatibility/ | Source: Linuxiac [11:24] TR Bot Fedora 44 Plans to Drop i686 Support and 32-Bit Multilib Compatibility [11:26] TR News "Only a week after Plasma 6.4 was released, the KDE team rolled out version 6.4.1, the first bugfix update to its 6.4 series." https://linuxiac.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-desktop-environment-released/ | Source: Linuxiac [11:26] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Desktop Environment Released [11:26] TR News "But maybe you dont have the money for that. Or maybe youre repelled by Windows 11." https://www.pcworld.com/article/2803571/dont-toss-your-windows-10-pc-try-switching-to-kde-plasma-instead.html | Source: PC World [11:26] TR Bot toss your Windows 10 PC! Try switching to KDE Plasma instead | PCWorld [11:27] TR News "Well, this one really caught me off guard. As you probably know, after the dramatic fork of the Xorg server into a new project called XLibreled by the developer whos been its most active contributor in recent yearsthe open-source community was buzzing with intense debate. And now, theres another twist in the story." https://linuxiac.com/xlibre-proposed-as-fedoras-new-default-x11-server/ | Source: Linuxiac [11:27] TR Bot XLibre Proposed as Fedora's New Default X11 Server [11:28] TR News "Hyprland, the popular open-source Wayland compositor known for its sleek, highly customizable user experience, is introducing a paid subscription service called Hyprland Premium. For 5 per month (plus tax), subscribers gain access to exclusive perks, including: [...] " https://linuxiac.com/hyprland-launches-subscription-plan-to-sustain-development/ | Source: Linuxiac [11:28] TR Bot Hyprland Launches Subscription Plan to Sustain Development [11:29] TR News "Back in the early days of GPU computation, the hardware, drivers, and software were so relatively untrustworthy" https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ComputeGPUsStillFinicky | Source: University of Toronto [11:29] TR Bot You're using a too-old browser [11:29] TR News [Old] "The following are the steps that I take to replace a hard drive in Btrfs with a drive of equal capacity or larger." https://brandonrozek.com/blog/replacing-drive-btrfs/ | Source: Brandon Rozek [11:29] TR Bot Replacing a drive in Btrfs | Brandon Rozek [11:29] TR News "Fredrik talks to Gitte Klitgaard about managers, diversity, and communication." https://kodsnack.se/international/648/ | Source: Kodsnack [11:29] TR Bot Kodsnack 648 - Difficult skills, with Gitte Klitgaard [11:29] TR News "Anthropic and Apple have a bar fight" https://grahamcluley.com/the-ai-fix-56/ | Source: Graham Cluley [11:29] TR Bot The AI Fix #56: ChatGPT traps man in a cult of one, and AI is actually stupid Graham Cluley [11:31] TR News Thibault Martin: Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server? https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/06/24-why-restore-raspi-slow/ [11:31] TR Bot Why is my Raspberry Pi 4 too slow as a server? ● Jun 25 [12:13] *SomeGoat (~SomeGoat@r9ruxqydtdctn.irc) has joined #techrights [12:34] TR News 5 Years Later, RFE/RL Journalist Losik Still Behind Bars On Charges Seen As Convicted Feloned Up https://www.rferl.org/a/rfe-journalist-losik-charges-trumped-up-anniversary/33453720.html [12:34] TR Bot 5 Years Later, RFE/RL Journalist Losik Still Behind Bars On Charges Seen As Trumped Up [12:37] TR News forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/forbidden-secrets-of-ancient-X11-scaling-technology-revealed [12:37] TR Bot forbidden secrets of ancient X11 scaling technology revealed [12:37] TR News Songwriters Guild of America and Society of Composers & Lyricists File Brief in High-Stakes Copyright Termination Case https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/songwriters-guild-of-america-copyright-termination-brief/ [12:37] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/songwriters-guild-of-america-copyright-termination-brief/ ) [12:40] TR News Christine Hieber Named TTAB Acting Chief Administrative Trademark Judge http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2025/06/christine-hieber-named-acting-chief.html [12:40] TR Bot The TTABlog: Christine Hieber Named TTAB Acting Chief Administrative Trademark Judge [12:41] TR News New LibreOffice merchandise is here! https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/06/24/new-libreoffice-merchandise-is-here/ [12:41] TR Bot New LibreOffice merchandise is here! - The Document Foundation Blog [12:42] TR News GNOME Attacks Lunduke & XLibre Dev, in Anti-Jewish, Libelous, Defamatory Way https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-attacks-lunduke-and-xlibre [12:42] TR Bot GNOME Attacks Lunduke & XLibre Dev, in Anti-Jewish, Libelous, Defamatory Way [12:42] TR News GNOME: "Wayland is Gay" https://lunduke.substack.com/p/gnome-wayland-is-gay [12:42] TR Bot GNOME: "Wayland is Gay" - by Bryan Lunduke [12:44] TR News How To Install SeaMonkey on Fedora 42 https://idroot.us/install-seamonkey-fedora-42/ [12:44] TR Bot How To Install SeaMonkey on Fedora 42 - idroot [12:44] TR News How To Install Firefox on Rocky GNU/Linux 10 https://idroot.us/install-firefox-rocky-linux-10/ [12:44] TR Bot How To Install Firefox on Rocky Linux 10 - idroot [12:44] TR News Touch Command on GNU/Linux with Examples https://idroot.us/touch-command-linux/ [12:44] TR Bot Touch Command on Linux with Examples - idroot [12:45] TR News How to draw a pie chart on a map in R with ggplot2 and scatter pie? An example for Turkey https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/how-to-draw-a-pie-chart-on-a-map-in-r-with-ggplot2-and-scatter-pie-an-example-for-turkey/ [12:45] TR Bot to draw a pie chart on a map in R with ggplot2 and scatter pie? An example for Turkey | R-bloggers [12:45] TR News How To Install VMware on AlmaLinux 10 https://idroot.us/install-vmware-almalinux-10/ [12:45] TR Bot How To Install VMware on AlmaLinux 10 - idroot [12:46] TR News How To Install Telegram on Manjaro https://idroot.us/install-telegram-manjaro/ [12:46] TR Bot How To Install Telegram on Manjaro - idroot [12:50] TR News GNU Guix: Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416) https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2025/privilege-escalation-vulnerabilities-2025// [12:50] TR Bot Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-46415, CVE-2025-46416) 2025 Blog GNUGuix [12:51] TR News GSoC'25 Kwin Project Blog Post: Week 1-2 https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/24/gsoc25-kwin-project-blog-post-week-1-2/ [12:51] TR Bot GSoC'25 Kwin Project Blog Post: Week 1-2 - KDE Blogs [12:53] TR News IPFire GNU/Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol https://9to5linux.com/ipfire-linux-firewall-now-ships-with-support-for-the-wireguard-vpn-protocol [12:53] TR Bot Linux Firewall Now Ships with Support for the WireGuard VPN Protocol - 9to5Linux [12:53] TR News Firefox 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is Whats New https://9to5linux.com/firefox-140-esr-web-browser-is-now-available-for-download-this-is-whats-new [12:53] TR Bot 140 ESR Web Browser Is Now Available for Download, This Is What's New - 9to5Linux [12:53] TR News GIMP3.2 Promises New Paint Mode, Support for Importing Photoshop Patterns https://9to5linux.com/gimp-3-2-promises-new-paint-mode-support-for-importing-photoshop-patterns [12:53] TR Bot Promises New Paint Mode, Support for Importing Photoshop Patterns - 9to5Linux [12:53] TR News Clonezilla Live 3.2.2-15 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various Changes https://9to5linux.com/clonezilla-live-3-2-2-15-disk-cloning-imaging-tool-released-with-various-changes [12:53] TR Bot Live 3.2.2-15 Disk Cloning/Imaging Tool Released with Various Changes - 9to5Linux [12:53] TR News KDE Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes https://9to5linux.com/kde-plasma-6-4-1-released-with-various-improvements-and-bug-fixes [12:53] TR Bot Plasma 6.4.1 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes - 9to5Linux [12:56] TR News Jiri Eischmann: GNU/Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5 https://enblog.eischmann.cz/2025/06/23/linux-desktop-migration-tool-1-5/ [12:56] TR Bot Linux Desktop Migration Tool 1.5 Brno Hat [12:56] TR News devd is a local web server for developers https://www.linuxlinks.com/devd-local-web-server-developers/ [12:56] TR Bot is a local web server for developers - LinuxLinks [12:57] TR News FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, June 27, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-06-27-irc [12:57] TR Bot Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, June 27, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [12:57] TR News FSF Events: Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, July 11, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) http://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2025-07-11-irc [12:57] TR Bot Free Software Directory meeting on IRC: Friday, July 11, starting at 12:00 EDT (16:00 UTC) Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [12:57] TR News FSF Blogs: Look at what we've achieved together http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/look-at-what-weve-achieved-together [12:57] TR Bot Look at what we've achieved together Free Software Foundation Working together for free software [12:58] TR News GNUnet News: GNUnet 0.24.3 https://gnunet.org/en/news/2025-06-0.24.3.html [12:58] TR Bot GNUnet [12:58] TR News GIMP 3.1.2 Released as First Dev Version for Next GIMP 3.2 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/gimp-3-1-2-released-as-first-dev-version-for-next-gimp-3-2/ [12:58] TR Bot GIMP 3.1.2 Released as First Dev Version for Next GIMP 3.2 | UbuntuHandbook [12:59] TR News Firefox 140.0 is Available with Custom Search Engine https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2025/06/firefox-140-0-is-available/ [12:59] TR Bot Firefox 140.0 is Available with Custom Search Engine | UbuntuHandbook [12:59] TR News Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/firefox-140-new-features-update [12:59] TR Bot Firefox 140 Brings Tab Unload, Custom Search & New ESR - OMG! Ubuntu [12:59] TR News This Rubbish Icon Might Get a Makeover in Ubuntu 25.10 https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/ubuntu-trash-icon-redesign [12:59] TR Bot This Rubbish Icon Might Get a Makeover in Ubuntu 25.10 - OMG! Ubuntu ● Jun 25 [13:00] TR News Kubuntu 25.10 Wont Come with a Plasma X11 Session https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/06/kubuntu-25-10-drops-x11-session [13:00] TR Bot Kubuntu 25.10 Won't Come with a Plasma X11 Session - OMG! Ubuntu [13:00] TR News The Fridge: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897 https://fridge.ubuntu.com/2025/06/23/ubuntu-weekly-newsletter-issue-897/ [13:00] TR Bot Ubuntu Fridge | Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 897 [13:03] TR News IBM: blind people, DIE!! Also IBM: poor people, DIE!! That is IBM "DEI" https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Change-No-i686 see http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/08/planned-obsolescence-ibm/ [13:03] TR Bot 44 Looks To Drop i686 Support: No More Multi-Lib / x86 32-bit Packages - Phoronix [13:03] TR Bot IBM and Fedora: Stop Being Poor! Buy a New PC! [13:03] TR News IBM is an acronym that stands for two words: evil f-ers. [13:04] TR News Two Local Privilege Escalation Flaws Discovered in Linux http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Two-Local-Privilege-Escalation-Flaws-Discovered-in-Linux [13:04] TR Bot Two Local Privilege Escalation Flaws Discovered... Linux Magazine [13:04] TR News Turning GNU/Linux Into a Political Football https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Turning_GNU_Linux_Into_a_Political_Football.shtml [13:04] TR Bot Techrights Turning GNU/Linux Into a Political Football [13:06] TR News "judge, who handled the Oracle v. Surveillance Giant Google case" https://heathermeeker.com/2025/06/24/ai-training-ruled-fair-use/ As covered by a Microsofter who backs a GPL violating machine, GitHub [13:06] TR Bot AI Training Ruled Fair Use Copyleft Currents [13:06] TR News Apple, Netflix, Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Sites Hacked for Tech Support Scams https://www.securityweek.com/apple-netflix-microsoft-sites-hacked-for-tech-support-scams/ [13:06] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/apple-netflix-microsoft-sites-hacked-for-tech-support-scams/ ) [13:07] TR News Firefox Developer Experience: Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 140 https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-140/ [13:07] TR Bot Firefox WebDriver Newsletter 140 Firefox Developer Experience [13:08] TR News Only a Third of or 1 in 3 Web-Connected Devices is a Desktop or Laptop, According to statCounter (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Only_a_Third_or_1_in_3_of_Web_Connected_Devices_is_a_Desktop_or.shtml [13:08] TR Bot Techrights Only a Third of or 1 in 3 Web-Connected Devices is a Desktop or Laptop, According to statCounter [13:09] TR News Photo-Stealing Spyware Sneaks Into Fashion Company Apple App Store, Surveillance Giant Google Play https://www.securityweek.com/photo-stealing-spyware-sneaks-into-apple-app-store-google-play/ [13:09] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/photo-stealing-spyware-sneaks-into-apple-app-store-google-play/ ) [13:11] TR News Toronto Sees Record Temperatures as Extreme Heat Settles Over Canada https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/canada/toronto-heat-wave.html [13:11] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/world/canada/toronto-heat-wave.html ) [13:17] TR News Korean students seek digital undertakers amid US visa social control media screening https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/korean-students-seek-digital-undertakers-amid-us-visa-social-media-screening [13:17] TR Bot Korean students seek digital undertakers amid US visa social media screening | The Straits Times [13:17] TR News statCounter Estimates Only 1 in 300 Iranians Would Use Abusive Monopolist Microsoft for Search https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/statCounter_Estimates_Only_1_in_300_Iranians_Would_Use_Microsof.shtml [13:17] TR Bot Techrights statCounter Estimates Only 1 in 300 Iranians Would Use Microsoft for Search [13:17] TR News Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.shtml [13:17] TR Bot Techrights Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected [13:17] TR News Nirbheek Chauhan in Planet GNOME Explains Why Wayland Pushers Are Losing https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Nirbheek_Chauhan_in_Planet_GNOME_Explains_Why_Wayland_Pushers_A.shtml [13:17] TR Bot Techrights Nirbheek Chauhan in Planet GNOME Explains Why Wayland Pushers Are Losing [13:18] TR News The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_New_BetaNews_7_New_Articles_All_of_Them_LLM_Slop.shtml [13:18] TR Bot Techrights The New BetaNews: 7 New 'Articles', All of Them LLM Slop [13:18] TR News The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/The_Days_Are_Getting_Shorter_the_First_Half_of_2025_is_Almost_O.shtml [13:18] TR Bot Techrights The Days Are Getting Shorter, the First Half of 2025 is Almost Over [13:18] TR News Exactly a Week Ago "BetaNews Staff" Said "Betanews Is Growing Alongside You". Since Then Every Article (All by "Camila Nogueira") Has Been LLM Slop. https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Exactly_a_Week_Ago_BetaNews_Staff_Said_Betanews_Is_Growing_Alon.shtml [13:18] TR Bot Techrights Exactly a Week Ago "BetaNews Staff" Said "Betanews Is Growing Alongside You". Since Then Every Article (All by "Camila Nogueira") Has Been LLM Slop. [13:18] TR News Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/23/Peter_Moon_s_Computerworld_Interview_With_Richard_Stallman.shtml [13:18] TR Bot Techrights Peter Moon's (Computerworld) Interview With Richard Stallman [13:19] TR News Microsoft to fire more employees next week, said to be fourth biggest layoff in past 18 months https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/microsoft-to-fire-more-employees-next-week-said-to-be-fourth-biggest-layoff-in-past-18-months-2745792-2025-06-25 [13:19] TR Bot Microsoft to fire more employees next week, said to be fourth biggest layoff in past 18 months - India Today [13:20] TR News Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Richard_Stallman_Coming_Back_to_Europe_This_Autumn_to_Give_More.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights Richard Stallman Coming Back to Europe This Autumn to Give More Talks [13:20] TR News Another "Told You So!": XBox Mass Layoffs at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft (Many Recent Reports Were Chaff and Spin), Many Other Divisions Affected (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Another_Told_You_So_XBox_Mass_Layoffs_at_Microsoft_Many_Recent_.shtml [13:20] TR News From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/23/From_Do_Your_Own_Research_to_Do_Your_Own_Search.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights From Do Your Own Research to Do Your Own Search [13:20] TR News Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Polygamy_from_Catholic_Synod_on_Synodality_to_Social_Control_Me.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights Polygamy, from Catholic Synod on Synodality to Social Control Media & Debian CyberPolygamy [13:20] TR News How Many More Women Will Managers at Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/How_Many_More_Women_Will_Managers_at_Microsoft_Strangle_and_Tel.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights How Many More Women Will Managers at Microsoft Strangle and Tell to Kill Themselves (or Try to Kill)? [13:20] TR News Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Social_Control_Media_Technology_Catholicism_Synod_on_Synodality.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights Social Control Media, Technology & Catholicism: Synod on Synodality review and feedback [13:20] TR News When the Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers) (updated) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/When_the_Microsoft_Aggressors_Rely_on_Several_Law_Firms_Attack_.shtml [13:20] TR Bot Techrights When the Microsoft Aggressors Rely on Several Law Firms ('Attack Dogs', 'Guns for Hire'), Not Just One, Lawyering Up Against Techrights (Acting on Behalf of Americans Against UK Publishers) [13:21] TR News Nirbheek Chauhan: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. https://blog.nirbheek.in/2025/06/a-strange-game.html [13:21] TR Bot Nirbheeks Rantings: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. [13:22] TR News "Team Wayland" is scoring MANY own goals this month. Trying to FORCE some distros to default to Wayland isn't winning, it's making a lot more enemies and earning even MOAR pushback than ever before. [13:24] TR News Mali Junta Continues War Against Free Speech, Multiparty Politics https://adf-magazine.com/2025/06/mali-junta-continues-war-against-free-speech-multiparty-politics/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mali-junta-continues-war-against-free-speech-multiparty-politics [13:24] TR Bot Mali Junta Continues War Against Free Speech, Multiparty Politics - Africa Defense Forum [13:24] TR News Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppRedis 0.2.6 on CRAN: Extensions http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/blog/2025/06/24#rcppredis_0.2.6 [13:24] TR Bot Thinking inside the box [13:25] TR News Uwe Kleine-Knig: Temperature and humitidy sensor on OpenWrt https://blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/temperature-and-humitidy-sensor-on-openwrt.html [13:25] TR Bot Temperature and humitidy sensor on OpenWrt [13:25] TR News Israel imposes sweeping censorship on foreign media https://www.jurist.org/news/2025/06/israel-imposes-sweeping-censorship-on-foreign-media/ [13:25] TR Bot Israel imposes sweeping censorship on foreign media - JURIST - News [13:25] TR News Help people bypass censorship: Run Snowflake https://alirezahayati.com/2025/06/24/help-people-bypass-censorship-run-snowflake/ [13:25] TR Bot Help people bypass censorship: Run Snowflake | Ali Reza Hayati [13:26] TR News In war, the firs casualty is free speech (and truth) [13:29] *darwin has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [13:32] TR News China tries to shift appetite for extreme eating shows https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-tries-to-shift-appetite-for-extreme-eating-shows [13:33] TR Bot China tries to shift appetite for extreme eating shows | The Straits Times [13:33] TR News Surge in Shopping in China by tourists due to changes in visa, tax policies https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/shopping-in-china-boom-among-tourists-drawn-by-changes-in-visa-tax-policies [13:33] TR Bot Surge in Shopping in China by tourists due to changes in visa, tax policies | The Straits Times [13:35] TR News Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/mosquito-sized-drone-is-designed-for-chinese-spy-missions-military-robotics-lab-reveals-incredibly-tiny-bionic-flying-robots [13:35] TR Bot Mosquito-sized drone is designed for Chinese spy missions military robotics lab reveals incredibly tiny bionic flying robots | Tom's Hardware [13:36] TR News Software Patents: Another Dialect natural language patent monopoly challenged https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/23/another-dialect-natural-language-patent-challenged [13:36] TR Bot Another Dialect natural language patent challenged Unified Patents [13:37] TR News UPC is illegal and this is EPO corruption merging with the illegality at the EU level; now EU patent law is one big giant corruption https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/g1-24-enlarged-boards-of-appeal-harmonise-epo-and-upc-legislation/ [13:37] TR Bot G1/24: EBA harmonises EPO and UPC legislation [13:38] TR News Hidden Ratchet in Eurasian Patent Applications https://patentblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/06/24/hidden-ratchet-in-eurasian-patent-applications/ [13:38] TR Bot Hidden Ratchet in Eurasian Patent Applications - Kluwer Patent Blog [13:38] TR News Seeds of Doubt: Sexual Reproduction and Territorial Limits in Plant Patent Law https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/sexual-reproduction-territorial.html [13:38] TR Bot Seeds of Doubt: Sexual Reproduction and Territorial Limits in Plant Patent Law | Patently-O [13:39] TR News USPTO Implements Penalty System for False Small/Micro Entity Status Claims https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/implements-penalty-system.html [13:39] TR Bot USPTO Implements Penalty System for False Small/Micro Entity Status Claims | Patently-O [13:39] TR News Label-Plus Infringement: The Tinderbox Theory of Generic Inducement https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/infringement-tinderbox-inducement.html [13:39] TR Bot Label-Plus Infringement: The Tinderbox Theory of Generic Inducement | Patently-O [13:39] TR News USPTO Discontinues Accelerated Examination Program for Utility Applications (Design Patent Rocket Docket is also Suspended) https://patentlyo.com/patent/2025/06/discontinues-accelerated-applications.html [13:39] TR Bot USPTO Discontinues Accelerated Examination Program for Utility Applications (Design Patent Rocket Docket is also Suspended) | Patently-O [13:40] TR News Why Purism Manufactures Electronics in the USA https://puri.sm/posts/why-purism-manufactures-electronics-in-the-usa/ [13:40] TR Bot Why Purism Manufactures Electronics in the USA Purism [13:40] TR News First Run Experience Progress https://merritt.codes/blog/2025/06/24/2025/first-run-experience [13:40] TR Bot First Run Experience Progress | Merritt Codes [13:41] TR News ESPHome 2025.6.0 adds ESP32-P4 and OpenThread support https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/24/esphome-2025-6-0-adds-esp32-p4-and-openthread-support/ [13:41] TR Bot ESPHome 2025.6.0 adds ESP32-P4 and OpenThread support - CNX Software [13:42] TR News The "Tarzan Effect" in Compilers and Software https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/The_Tarzan_Effect_in_Compilers_and_Software.shtml [13:42] TR Bot Techrights The "Tarzan Effect" in Compilers and Software [13:42] TR News Heavy rain batters south-west China; shopping mall basements underwater https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/heavy-rain-leaves-south-west-china-underwater-more-storms-on-horizon [13:42] TR Bot Heavy rain batters south-west China; shopping mall basements underwater | The Straits Times [13:43] *darwin (~darwin@ezriia7nzimpg.irc) has joined #techrights [13:43] TR News Support for Istio 1.24 has ended https://istio.io/latest//news/support/announcing-1.24-eol-final/ [13:43] TR Bot Istio / Support for Istio 1.24 has ended [13:44] TR News Gunnar Wolf: Private key management Oh, the humanity... https://gwolf.org/2025/06/private-key-management-oh-the-humanity.html [13:44] TR Bot Gunnar Wolf Private key management Oh, the humanity... [13:44] TR News Firefox 140.0 released https://lwn.net/Articles/1026701/ [13:44] TR Bot 140.0 released [LWN.net] [13:46] TR News Rethinking my keyboard shortcuts (part 1) https://cukic.co/2025/06/23/rethinking-my-keyboard-shortcuts [13:46] TR Bot Rethinking my keyboard shortcuts (part 1) | Ivan uki [13:47] TR News Next-generation EasyOS 6.94 V7pre-alpha https://bkhome.org/news/202506/next-generation-easyos-694-v7pre-alpha.html [13:47] TR Bot Next-generation EasyOS 6.94 V7pre-alpha [13:48] TR News Using Bash Declare: Gateway For Effective Variable Management https://linuxhandbook.com/bash-declare/ [13:48] TR Bot Using Bash Declare For Effective Variable Management [13:48] TR News Security updates for Tuesday https://lwn.net/Articles/1026646/ [13:48] TR Bot updates for Tuesday [LWN.net] [13:49] TR News Evgeni Golov: Using LXCFS together with Podman https://www.die-welt.net/2025/06/using-lxcfs-together-with-podman/ [13:49] TR Bot LXCFS together with Podman | die-welt.net [13:50] TR News Flrig is a transceiver control program https://www.linuxlinks.com/flrig-transceiver-control-program/ [13:50] TR Bot is a transceiver control program - LinuxLinks [13:50] TR News Orange Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption https://www.linuxlinks.com/orangepi-rv2-single-board-computer-running-linux-power-consumption/ [13:50] TR Bot Pi RV2 Single Board Computer Running Linux: Power Consumption - LinuxLinks [13:50] TR News minesVIiper is a minesweeper clone with mouse and VT220 support https://www.linuxlinks.com/minesviiper-minesweeper-clone/ [13:50] TR Bot is a minesweeper clone with mouse and VT220 support - LinuxLinks [13:50] TR News 23 Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools typeset beautifully https://www.linuxlinks.com/latextools/ [13:50] TR Bot Essential Free and Open Source LaTeX Tools - typeset beautifully - LinuxLinks [13:51] TR News roobuilder Vala and JavaScript IDE https://www.linuxlinks.com/roobuilder-vala-javascript-ide/ [13:51] TR Bot - Vala and JavaScript IDE - LinuxLinks [13:51] TR News Future got better at finding global variables https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/future-got-better-at-finding-global-variables/ [13:51] TR Bot got better at finding global variables | R-bloggers [13:52] TR News Segmented Total Bar Chart in R with `ggsegmentedtotalbar` https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/segmented-total-bar-chart-in-r-with-ggsegmentedtotalbar/ [13:52] TR Bot Total Bar Chart in R with `ggsegmentedtotalbar` | R-bloggers [13:52] TR News R version of Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/r-version-of-backpropagating-quasi-randomized-neural-networks/ [13:53] TR Bot version of Backpropagating quasi-randomized neural networks | R-bloggers [13:54] TR News Siemens Notifies Customers of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft Defender Antivirus Issue https://www.securityweek.com/siemens-notifies-customers-of-microsoft-defender-antivirus-issue/ [13:54] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/siemens-notifies-customers-of-microsoft-defender-antivirus-issue/ ) [13:57] TR News Mozilla Addons Blog: Updated Add-on policies simplified, clarified https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/06/23/updated-add-on-policies-simplified-clarified/ [13:57] TR Bot Updated Add-on policies simplified, clarified - Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog [13:58] TR News OPEN LETTER: The European Commission must act now to defend fundamental rights in Hungary https://edri.org/our-work/open-letter-the-european-commission-must-act-now-to-defend-fundamental-rights-in-hungary/ [13:58] TR Bot The European Commission must act now to defend fundamental rights in Hungary - European Digital Rights (EDRi) [13:59] TR News Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42 https://dbaxps.blogspot.com/2025/06/switching-wallpapers-with-hyprpaper-in.html [13:59] TR Bot Openstack RDO && KVM Hypervisor: Switching Wallpapers With Hyprpaper in Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles on Fedora 42 [13:59] TR News You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/you-can-cheat-a-test-suite-with-a-big-enough/ [13:59] TR Bot can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial Buttondown ● Jun 25 [14:00] TR News My Copy of The Internet Phone Book https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/internet-phone-book/ [14:00] TR Bot My Copy of The Internet Phone Book - Jim Nielsens Blog [14:01] TR News The Private Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Heg (ca. 18951903) https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/berg-and-hoeg [14:01] TR Bot The Private Photographs of Bolette Berg and Marie Heg (ca. 18951903) The Public Domain Review [14:02] TR News Quick Password Brute Forcing Evolution Statistics, (Tue, Jun 24th) https://isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32068 [14:02] TR Bot Quick Password Brute Forcing Evolution Statistics - SANS Internet Storm Center [14:02] TR News Pitfalls in PySide6 https://www.basyskom.de/pitfalls-in-pyside6/ [14:02] TR Bot basysKom GmbH | Pitfalls in PySide6 [14:04] TR News Brent Loves Building Things | LINUX Unplugged 620 https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/linux-unplugged/620/ [14:04] TR Bot Brent Loves Building Things | LINUX Unplugged 620 | Jupiter Broadcasting [14:05] TR News MuseAmp is an audio normalizer for MP3/FLAC https://www.linuxlinks.com/museamp-audio-normalizer-mp3-flac/ [14:05] TR Bot is an audio normalizer for MP3/FLAC - LinuxLinks [14:05] TR News Linux Matters: The Very Hungry Caterpillar https://linuxmatters.sh/58/ [14:05] TR Bot The Very Hungry Caterpillar [14:06] TR News Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/25/image-compatibility-in-cloud-native-environments/ [14:06] TR Bot Image Compatibility In Cloud Native Environments | Kubernetes [14:06] TR News LLM slop!! https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/windows-freedom-how-zorin-os-18-makes-migrating-linux-seamless [14:06] TR Bot From Windows to Freedom: How Zorin OS 18 Makes Migrating to Linux Seamless | Linux Journal [14:07] TR News Software Patents: $3,000 awarded for Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge - prior art found on Lower48 https://www.unifiedpatents.com/insights/2025/6/24/3000-awarded-for-cloud-native-heroes-challenge-prior-art-found-on-lower48 [14:07] TR Bot $3,000 awarded for Cloud-Native Heroes Challenge - prior art found on Lower48 Unified Patents [14:08] TR News SpellBinding CGHLNSO Wordo: CADDY gemini://tilde.team/~stack/gemlog/2025-06-25.gmi [14:09] TR News "I made a new blog post about my (short) time on gemini so far" gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/u/Breebee/29263 [14:11] TR News LinuxFest Northwest: GNU/Linux Loves All https://www.infosecurity.us/blog/2025/6/24/linuxfest-northwest-gnulinux-loves-all [14:11] TR Bot - https://infosecurity.us - LinuxFest Northwest: GNU/Linux Loves All [14:12] TR News "A little while ago, I gave Linux Mint a spin as a Windows fanboy. At the time, it was a fun experiment; I had just reported on PewDiePie making the jump, and I thought, well, why not? Turns out, Linux Mint worked a ton better than I thought it would" https://www.xda-developers.com/i-refuse-upgrade-windows-11/ [14:12] TR Bot I refuse to upgrade to Windows 11, here's what I'm doing instead [14:12] TR News Kali Linux 2025.1c Fixes Key Issue, Adds New Tools and Interface Updates https://hackread.com/kali-linux-2025-1c-fix-issue-adds-tools-interface-update/ [14:12] TR Bot Kali Linux 2025.1c Fixes Key Issue, Adds New Tools and Interface Updates [14:13] TR News "The Fedora developers do at least note in the proposal that Wine and Steam are part of the dependencies on this, so they are thinking it through and aware of the issues." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/06/fedora-linux-devs-discuss-dropping-32-bit-packages-potentially-bad-news-for-steam-gamers/ [14:13] TR Bot Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers | GamingOnLinux [14:14] TR News "It's the end of an era in Linux history." Tell us IBMers. https://www.zdnet.com/article/x11s-dying-days-mean-youll-be-forced-to-switch-to-wayland/ [14:14] TR Bot dying days mean you'll be forced to switch to Wayland | ZDNET [14:23] TR News (NEW): Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Linux Matters, and More https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Linux_Matters_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Audiocasts_Shows_LINUX_Unplugged_Linux_Matters_and_More.gmi [14:23] TR News (NEW): Today's HowTos https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/today_s_howtos.gmi [14:23] TR Bot Tux Machines Audiocasts/Shows: LINUX Unplugged, Linux Matters, and More [14:23] TR Bot Tux Machines today's howtos [14:25] TR News (NEW): KDE: Kwin, Moving From Vista 10, and "First Run Experience Progress" https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/KDE_Kwin_Moving_From_Vista_10_and_First_Run_Experience_Progress.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/KDE_Kwin_Moving_From_Vista_10_and_First_Run_Experience_Progress.gmi [14:25] TR Bot Tux Machines KDE: Kwin, Moving From Vista 10, and "First Run Experience Progress" [14:25] TR News (NEW): Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, OpenWrt, Librem, ESP32 https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_OpenWrt_Librem_ESP32.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Open_Hardware_Raspberry_Pi_OpenWrt_Librem_ESP32.gmi [14:25] TR Bot Tux Machines Open Hardware: Raspberry Pi, OpenWrt, Librem, ESP32 [14:27] TR News (NEW): FSF and GNU Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/FSF_and_GNU_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/FSF_and_GNU_Leftovers.gmi [14:27] TR Bot Tux Machines FSF and GNU Leftovers [14:27] TR News (NEW): Web Browsers: Browser Choice Alliance, Chawan, Tor Browser, Mozilla Addons https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Web_Browsers_Browser_Choice_Alliance_Chawan_Tor_Browser_Mozilla.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Web_Browsers_Browser_Choice_Alliance_Chawan_Tor_Browser_Mozilla.gmi [14:27] TR Bot Tux Machines Web Browsers: Browser Choice Alliance, Chawan, Tor Browser, Mozilla Addons [14:28] TR News (NEW): Programming Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Programming_Leftovers.gmi [14:28] TR Bot Tux Machines Programming Leftovers [14:30] TR News (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi [14:30] TR Bot Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers [14:32] TR News (NEW): GNU/Linux Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/GNU_Linux_Leftovers.gmi [14:32] TR Bot Tux Machines GNU/Linux Leftovers [14:32] TR News (NEW): Security Leftovers https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Security_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Security_Leftovers.gmi [14:32] TR Bot Tux Machines Security Leftovers [14:34] TR News Techrights Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Links_25_06_2025_Thwarting_More_Software_Patents_Overlap_Grows_.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Links_25_06_2025_Thwarting_More_Software_Patents_Overlap_Grows_.gmi [14:34] TR Bot Techrights Links 25/06/2025: Thwarting More Software Patents, Overlap Grows Between EPO Corruption and Illegal Kangaroo Patent Courts in EU [14:37] schestowitz[TR3] lxo: u got a compliment re your post [14:37] schestowitz[TR3] someone likes the wordplay [14:44] TR News Techrights Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Slopwatch_A_Wreck_and_a_Dreck_Flooding_the_Zone_With_Dreck_or_F.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Slopwatch_A_Wreck_and_a_Dreck_Flooding_the_Zone_With_Dreck_or_F.gmi [14:44] TR Bot Techrights Slopwatch: A Wreck and a Dreck, "Flooding the Zone With Dreck" or Flooding the Web With Junk [14:44] MinceR https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/back-2 [14:44] TR Bot Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Back [14:52] TR News Techrights Microsoft Has Lost "The War" https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_Has_Lost_The_War.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_Has_Lost_The_War.gmi [14:52] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft Has Lost "The War" [14:56] *Righty has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [14:58] TR News This MIGHT be their first REAL writer. MIGHT be. https://betanews.com/author/elena-martin/ [14:58] TR Bot Martn - BetaNews [14:59] TR News Probably a real person this time https://bestdaily.com/finance [14:59] TR Bot - BestDaily ● Jun 25 [15:00] *Righty (~Username@nn58qcu3qngy2.irc) has joined #techrights [15:00] schestowitz[TR3] oh oh [15:00] schestowitz[TR3] slopper also [15:01] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). [15:02] *Now talking on #techrights [15:07] TR News Techrights BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/BetaNews_Beginning_to_Show_What_Its_True_Goals_Are.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/BetaNews_Beginning_to_Show_What_Its_True_Goals_Are.gmi [15:07] TR Bot Techrights BetaNews Beginning to Show What Its True Goals Are [15:12] TR News On Microsoft, 1 hours ago: "how can the tech companies justify having thousands of workers who do nothing. Literally nothing. What a waste of their increasing debt $$$$$$" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyhnv9xa [15:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyhnv9xa ) [15:12] TR News "Lay us off = we might get brain aneurysms. I can't. Just stop" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 [15:12] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 ) [15:12] *Disconnected (Remote host closed socket). [15:13] TR News Now where did we hear that one before ? LOL !" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m [15:13] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m ) [15:13] *Now talking on #techrights [15:13] TR News "Rearranging the deckchairs on the Titanic to get the maximum share price for IBM before Alvind's House Of Cards collapses...it's called "Winning "." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m [15:13] TR News "AI Winner in what way? Has anyone bought Watson X and deployed it in Prod? Or just got it as part of an ELA for existing SW? The more autonomous a company gets, the less people it has, the richer the company will become." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 [15:14] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 ) [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] " youre right about IBM trying to bring its WW sales engine to grow the revenue of the acquired company. And its a good strategy. However, its certainly not true to say the software acquisition strategy has worked well. The software revenue has been declining in real terms despite acquisitions and (substantial) price rises. IBM thinks it can scale to exploit the opportunity in the acquired companies, but it clearly cannot [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] . " [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] " IBM trying to bring its WW sales engine to grow the revenue of the acquired company [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] ... IBM thinks it can scale to exploit the opportunity in the acquired companies, but it clearly cannot. [15:14] schestowitz[TR3] because all the good salespeople left because of commissions thefts and the rest were laid off? " [15:14] TR News Pet Hacks Winners https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/announcing-the-2025-pet-hacks-winners/ | Source: Hackaday [15:14] TR Bot The 2025 Pet Hacks Winners | Hackaday [15:15] TR News Bench Meter https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/do-you-need-a-bench-meter/ | Source: Hackaday [15:15] TR Bot You Need A Bench Meter? | Hackaday [15:16] TR News Social Media Might Impair Your Recovery From Injury. Here's Why. https://www.sciencealert.com/social-media-might-impair-your-recovery-from-injury-heres-why [15:16] TR Bot Media Might Impair Your Recovery From Injury. Here's Why. : ScienceAlert [15:18] TR News Mexico posts stronger-than-expected growth as inflation hovers above 4.5% https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexico-growth-inflation/ [15:18] TR Bot Mexico posts April growth as inflation hovers above 4.5% [15:18] TR News Hong Kong court suspends pro-Beijing lawmakers libel suit against 3 democrats https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/hong-kong-court-suspends-pro-beijing-lawmakers-libel-suit-against-3-democrats/ [15:18] TR Bot HK court suspends pro-Beijing lawmaker's libel suit against 3 democrats [15:19] TR News What's New in QML formatting https://www.qt.io/blog/whats-new-in-qml-formatting [15:19] TR Bot What's New in QML formatting [15:19] TR News How Policy Experts Run the Internet https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2025/06/how-policy-experts-run-the-internet/ [15:19] TR Bot How Policy Experts Run the Internet - Internet Society [15:21] TR News Pong In Discrete Components https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/pong-in-discrete-components/ | Source: Hackaday [15:21] TR Bot In Discrete Components | Hackaday [15:21] TR News 64-Megapixel Upgrade https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/digitally-converted-leica-gets-a-64-megapixel-upgrade/ | Source: Hackaday [15:21] TR Bot Leica Gets A 64-Megapixel Upgrade | Hackaday [15:22] TR News "Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with a map of the data center infrastructure in the United States." https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/nrel-maps-out-us-data-infrastructure/ | Source: Hackaday [15:22] TR Bot Maps Out US Data Infrastructure | Hackaday [15:22] TR News AIDS https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/2025-06-24-AIDS.en.html [15:22] TR Bot AIDS [15:23] TR News KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Bugfix Release for June https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.1/ [15:23] TR Bot KDE Plasma 6.4.1, Bugfix Release for June - KDE Community [15:23] TR News Beyond the Buzz: How Deep Tech Startups Are Changing the Game https://fossforce.com/2025/06/beyond-the-buzz-how-deep-tech-startups-are-changing-the-game/ [15:23] TR Bot Beyond the Buzz: How 'Deep Tech' Startups Are Changing the Game - FOSS Force [15:24] TR News X Server Still Works for Many People https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/X_Server_Still_Works_for_Many_People.shtml [15:24] TR Bot Techrights X Server Still Works for Many People [15:24] TR News Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/price-discrimination/ [15:24] TR Bot Pluralistic: Surveillance pricing lets corporations decide what your dollar is worth (24 Jun 2025) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow [15:25] TR News China: Truck with driver inside dangling in mid-air https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-china-truck-with-driver-inside-dangling-in-mid-air [15:25] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250624-china-truck-with-driver-inside-dangling-in-mid-air ) [15:25] TR News qBittorrent 5.1.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Improves Wayland Support https://9to5linux.com/qbittorrent-5-1-1-open-source-bittorrent-client-improves-wayland-support [15:25] TR Bot 5.1.1 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Improves Wayland Support - 9to5Linux [15:26] TR News Roderika Fan-Art - Elden Ring https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1081/roderika-fan-art-elden-ring [15:26] TR Bot Roderika Fan-Art - Elden Ring - David Revoy [15:26] TR News Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social control media ban https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australia-regulator-and-youtube-spar-over-under-16s-social-media-ban [15:26] TR Bot Australia regulator and YouTube spar over under-16s social media ban | The Straits Times [15:26] TR News YouTube exemption from Australian teen social control media ban opposed by regulator https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/youtube-exemption-from-australian-teen-social-media-ban-opposed-by-regulator [15:26] TR Bot YouTube exemption from Australian teen social media ban opposed by regulator | The Straits Times [15:26] TR News Trijets https://hackaday.com/2025/06/24/why-trijets-lost-against-twinjets/ | Source: Hackaday [15:26] TR Bot Trijets Lost Against Twinjets | Hackaday [15:27] TR News Shiny in Production 2025: Lightning Talk Lineup https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/shiny-in-production-2025-lightning-talk-lineup/ [15:27] TR Bot in Production 2025: Lightning Talk Lineup | R-bloggers [15:27] TR News Specialized R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo https://www.r-bloggers.com/2025/06/specialized-r-packages-for-spatial-machine-learning-an-introduction-to-randomforestsgls-spatialrf-and-meteo/ [15:27] TR Bot R packages for spatial machine learning: An introduction to RandomForestsGLS, spatialRF, and meteo | R-bloggers [15:28] TR News CMA set to force Surveillance Giant Google to work more fairly with UK publishers https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to-force-google-to-work-more-fairly-with-uk-publishers/ [15:28] TR Bot CMA set to start curbing Google power in UK from October [15:28] TR News Microsoft Microsoft's Surveillance Arm LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Microsoft_LinkedIn_is_Dying_and_Many_More_Layoffs_Are_on_the_Wa.shtml [15:28] TR Bot Techrights Microsoft LinkedIn is Dying and Many More Layoffs Are on the Way [15:28] TR News Google News Does Great Harm by Promoting Slopfarms as Legitimate News Sites https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/24/Google_News_Does_Great_Harm_by_Promoting_Slopfarms_as_Legitimat.shtml [15:28] TR Bot Techrights Google News Does Great Harm by Promoting Slopfarms as Legitimate News Sites [15:29] TR News UK regulator proposes giving Surveillance Giant Google strategic market status under new antitrust law https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/24/uk-regulator-proposes-giving-google-strategic-market-status-new-antitrust-law/ [15:29] TR Bot regulator proposes giving Google strategic market status under new antitrust law - SiliconANGLE [15:29] TR News And what about Microsoft. Did Microsoft bribe the UK gov. ENOUGH? http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/01/It_s_Cheaper_to_Pay_Bribes_and_Produce_Press_Releases_Than_to_P.shtml [15:29] TR Bot Techrights It's Cheaper to Pay Bribes (and Produce Press Releases) Than to Pay Fines (After Lots of Negative Publicity) [15:30] TR News Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 is an AMD Zynq 7010/7020-based board for measurement, control, and signal processing https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/06/24/red-pitaya-stemlab-125-14-pro-gen-2-is-an-amd-zynq-7010-7020-based-board-for-measurement-control-and-signal-processing/ [15:30] TR Bot Red Pitaya STEMlab 125-14 PRO Gen 2 is an AMD Zynq 7010/7020-based board for measurement, control, and signal processing - CNX Software [15:32] TR News 'Fixing' malware https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-fixes-windows-vista-boot-sound-bug-in-latest-windows-11-insider-build-adds-recall-homepage-and-customizable-system-indicators [15:32] TR Bot Microsoft fixes Windows Vista boot sound bug in latest Windows 11 Insider Build adds Recall Homepage and customizable system indicators | Tom's Hardware [15:33] TR News Electric Boats Offer a More Eco-Friendly Way to Travel in the Amazon https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/americas/electric-boats-ecuadorian-amazon.html [15:33] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/world/americas/electric-boats-ecuadorian-amazon.html ) [15:33] TR News This novel wearable provides touchless haptic feedback for VR typing https://blog.arduino.cc/2025/06/23/this-novel-wearable-provides-touchless-haptic-feedback-for-vr-typing/ [15:33] TR Bot This novel wearable provides touchless haptic feedback for VR typing | Arduino Blog [15:34] TR News Prometei Botnet Activity Spikes https://www.securityweek.com/prometei-botnet-activity-spikes/ [15:34] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/prometei-botnet-activity-spikes/ ) [15:35] TR News Chinese APT Hacking Routers to Build Espionage Infrastructure https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-hacking-routers-to-build-espionage-infrastructure/ [15:35] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.securityweek.com/chinese-apt-hacking-routers-to-build-espionage-infrastructure/ ) [15:37] TR News Meta hits back after US House bans WhatsApp for staffers https://siliconangle.com/2025/06/23/meta-hits-back-us-house-bans-whatsapp-staffers/ [15:37] TR Bot hits back after US House bans WhatsApp for staffers - SiliconANGLE [15:37] TR News American Oversight Sues Convicted Felon Administration Over Withheld Records on DOGE Social Security Takeover https://americanoversight.org/american-oversight-sues-trump-administration-over-withheld-records-on-doge-social-security-takeover/ [15:37] TR Bot American Oversight Sues Trump Administration Over Withheld Records on DOGE Social Security Takeover - American Oversight [15:39] TR News New INTERPOL report warns of sharp rise in African cybercrime https://www.protectionweb.co.za/cyber-security/new-interpol-report-warns-of-sharp-rise-in-african-cybercrime/ [15:39] TR Bot New INTERPOL report warns of sharp rise in African cybercrime - ProtectionWeb [15:40] TR News Hong Kong man who challenged local security law after being denied early prison release loses appeal https://hongkongfp.com/2025/06/24/hong-kong-man-who-challenged-local-security-law-after-being-denied-early-prison-release-loses-appeal/ [15:40] TR Bot HK man denied early prison release under local security law loses appeal [15:43] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights [15:44] TR News University of Southern California Moves to Dismiss Entire Sony Music Infringement Suit: USC Is Not Subject to Personal Jurisdiction in New York https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/sony-music-usc-lawsuit-dismissal-push/ [15:44] TR Bot ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/06/24/sony-music-usc-lawsuit-dismissal-push/ ) ● Jun 25 [16:04] TR News Techrights 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/5_600_Pages_Articles_Per_Year.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/5_600_Pages_Articles_Per_Year.gmi [16:04] TR Bot Techrights 5,600 Pages/Articles Per Year [16:08] *Righty has quit (connection closed) [16:08] *Righty (~Username@sbztduaz6hmuc.irc) has joined #techrights [16:26] TR News Techrights Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_the_Wayland_People_and_Rust_People_Will_Lose_Hearts_and_Min.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_the_Wayland_People_and_Rust_People_Will_Lose_Hearts_and_Min.gmi [16:26] TR Bot Techrights Why the "Wayland People" and "Rust People" Will Lose Hearts and Minds (Same Reasons) [16:36] *bleb has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [16:42] *bleb (~cm@user/bleb) has joined #techrights [16:44] TR News Techrights Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Microsoft https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Austrian_GNU_Linux_Usage_Up_to_About_5_as_More_of_Europe_Abando.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Austrian_GNU_Linux_Usage_Up_to_About_5_as_More_of_Europe_Abando.gmi [16:44] TR Bot Techrights Austrian GNU/Linux Usage Up to About 5% as More of Europe Abandons Microsoft [16:52] TR News Instead of "uploading to the CLOWN" people need to learn how to make encrypted media. But regimes do NOT like that. https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ [16:52] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/howto-linux-hard-disk-encryption-with-luks-cryptsetup-command/ ) ● Jun 25 [17:11] TR News Techrights Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People) https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_Techrights_Cannot_be_Vilified_and_Instead_It_Gets_SLAPPed_R.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/Why_Techrights_Cannot_be_Vilified_and_Instead_It_Gets_SLAPPed_R.gmi [17:11] TR Bot Techrights Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People) [17:42] TR News Techrights The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case' https://techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_Case_of_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_is_a_Lot_of_Cop.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2025/06/25/The_Case_of_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_is_a_Lot_of_Cop.gmi [17:42] TR Bot Techrights The 'Case' of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft is a Lot of Copypasta (Maybe Also LLM Slop) From the Matthew Garrett 'Case' [17:55] *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jun 25 [18:08] *anxious_aqua_gayal (~anxious_a@freenode-15g.bhq.4mml09.IP) has joined #techrights [18:09] *phebus has quit (Ping timeout: 2m30s) [18:09] anxious_aqua_gayal You can reach me on +44-7599248843 or maddyczura@gmail.com or madeleine.czura@arcadis.com anytime! [18:09] anxious_aqua_gayal Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/maddy-czura [18:09] anxious_aqua_gayal Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maddy_czura/ [18:09] anxious_aqua_gayal Address: Top Floor, 164 Plashet Road, London, United Kingdom, E13 0QT [18:09] *anxious_aqua_gayal (~anxious_a@freenode-15g.bhq.4mml09.IP) has left #techrights [18:11] *phebus (~phebus@f95gnd3zj7732.irc) has joined #techrights ● Jun 25 [19:04] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 [19:04] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jy7wbjp4 ) [19:04] schestowitz[TR3] "" [19:04] schestowitz[TR3] you are 110% right. Too many of the Partners and Managers are clueless particularly the ones from our favorite geography, India. Friends keep promoting friends and neighbors - am I right, Alvind ? They know little or nothing about running the business profitably but they are a protected species (per Alvind) and short of them losing a mega-million dollar deal, they collect their paychecks for doing the bare minimum of work. And DE [19:04] schestowitz[TR3] I is apparently the law of their land, so they do little or nothing but get promoted on the Partner track. That game needs to stop... it's pay for performance or don't let the door hit you on the way out. If AI can do a better job than third world crooks, why not showcase it? " [19:05] TR News "IBM Research is working on Artificial Aneurysms .. the next big thing!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 Only if it is also on the blockchain in Second Life metaverse. [19:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyfe4ta8 ) [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m [19:05] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1jyjv5w7m ) [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] " [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] The more autonomous a company gets .. [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] The easier it is for some competitor to do better than that brainless automaton. [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] the richer the company will become [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] And will be among the first against the wall when society and the economy collapses around it due to nobody actually having any money anymore. How's that autonomous company going to protect itself against a mob of millions with pitchforks and torches? [19:05] schestowitz[TR3] " [19:07] TR News (NEW): Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now https://tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Firefox_141_Promises_to_Use_Less_Memory_on_Linux_Systems_Beta_O.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2025/06/25/Firefox_141_Promises_to_Use_Less_Memory_on_Linux_Systems_Beta_O.gmi [19:07] TR Bot Tux Machines Firefox 141 Promises to Use Less Memory on Linux Systems, Beta Out Now [19:09] TR News "without any bots I managed to get to 666th generation and named my plant Beelzebub ." gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/s/Astrobotany/29562 [19:10] TR News "I learnt to program computers when I was about 5 years old, on my dad's TRS-80 Pocket Computer, with its single line LCD display and 1Kb of RAM. For better and for worse, I was largely self-taught." gemini://gemini.ucant.org/gemlog/2025-06-25_learning-to-code.gmi [19:12] TR News "The stigma against mental illness, homosexuality, left-wing views, secular or simply different is destructive. These artists were not given a foothold, neither in the establishment nor in society; Sometimes not even in the family." gemini://kolhaam.flounder.online/gemlog/2025-06-25_how_not_to_die_as_david_avidan.gmi [19:13] TR News "Filespooler is a Unix utility for managing queues in a decentralized and strictly ordered way. Filespooler takes commands from a source and writes them to jobs, which can be piped into a stream or written to a file system." gemini://jsreed5.org/log/2025/202506/20250625-robs-filespooler-guide.gmi [19:34] *includeals_ (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [19:35] *includeals has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [19:35] *includeals_ is now known as includeals ● Jun 25 [21:14] *includeals_ (~includeal@bl18-27-126.dsl.telepac.pt) has joined #techrights [21:15] *includeals has quit (Ping timeout: 252 seconds) [21:15] *includeals_ is now known as includeals [21:24] admfubar instagram, contains one dehydrated grandma, just add water! collect all the colors!!! https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/instagram-users-complain-of-mass-bans-pointing-finger-at-ai.457197/ [21:24] TR Bot Instagram users complain of mass bans, pointing finger at AI | Wilders Security Forums [21:27] admfubar https://walledculture.org/fighting-fire-with-fire-how-to-tackle-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-the-open-web/ [21:27] TR Bot stream 1 was not closed cleanly: PROTOCOL_ERROR (err 1) ( status 0 @ https://walledculture.org/fighting-fire-with-fire-how-to-tackle-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-the-open-web/ ) ● Jun 25 [22:04] *martin (~martin@n4vxahqe6qqfk.irc) has joined #techrights [22:18] *lxo has quit (connection closed) [22:19] *IsambardPrince (~isambardprince@zs7dsggefb89k.irc) has joined #techrights [22:35] *lxo (~lxo@zj26zv4kdh4g2.irc) has joined #techrights [22:38] admfubar https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106028/made-in-usa-phone-priced-at-1-999-raises-questions-about-trump-mobile/index.html [22:38] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.tweaktown.com/news/106028/made-in-usa-phone-priced-at-1-999-raises-questions-about-trump-mobile/index.html ) [22:42] MinceR https://explosm.net/comics/bad-dog#comic [22:42] TR Bot & Happiness (Explosm.net) [22:42] admfubar https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/nintendo/switch-2-has-a-120-hz-screen-with-response-times-that-are-too-slow-for-60-hz-gaming-tester-claims [22:42] TR Bot Switch 2 has a 120 Hz screen with response times that are too slow for 60 Hz gaming, tester claims | Tom's Hardware [22:45] IsambardPrince https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/25/us/santa-monica-waymo-battles [22:45] TR Bot Residents say Waymo robotaxis are driving them mad | CNN [22:46] IsambardPrince MinceR, People are causing Waymo "driverless taxis" to "stack themselves" in the street by forcing them to stop and then putting duct tape on the sensors. [22:46] MinceR :) [22:46] IsambardPrince The meter maids are then fining Google $100 per car for having a vehicle idling there with no driver. [22:46] admfubar the handyman's secret weapon! duct tape... [22:47] IsambardPrince "As we were wrapping up chatting to Stacker One on a recent sunny afternoon in Santa Monica, we saw Waymos gathering, gridlocked around the gate of the already overflowing charging lot. A Santa Monica Police Department parking enforcement officer was frantically printing out parking tickets and slipping them under the robots windshield wipers. The offence: parked in an alley without a driver behind the wheel. If there were huma [22:47] IsambardPrince n drivers inside, she couldnt give the cars a parking ticket. She can give them to robots." [22:48] IsambardPrince "But would a $300 ticket be as strong a disincentive to a corporation that owns a robot as it is to a human driver who is paying out of their own, much smaller pocket?" [22:48] IsambardPrince Err, $300 per car. [22:48] IsambardPrince Well, if you have 10-12 cars stacked then you get a bit of cash for the city. [22:48] IsambardPrince Then if they're still there you can tow them and make google pay the impound fee. [22:58] IsambardPrince https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/519/text [22:58] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolution/519/text ) [22:58] IsambardPrince "(5) calls on all community leaders and elected officials to publicly and unequivocally denounces acts of political violence; and" [22:59] IsambardPrince You'd think they could check these things before they pass them. ● Jun 25 [23:00] IsambardPrince MinceR, Peter Griffin: "It's in the Ten Commandments, Lois. Congress passes these things for a reason!" [23:03] IsambardPrince https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65176049/hertz-ai-scan-rental-car-damage/ [23:03] TR Bot ( status 403 @ https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a65176049/hertz-ai-scan-rental-car-damage/ ) [23:07] IsambardPrince https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cm2ld0e0rzkt [23:07] TR Bot says Nato defence spend rising to 5% of GDP is 'big win' for US and the West - BBC News [23:07] IsambardPrince 5% is not unreasonable when Russia is next door. [23:08] IsambardPrince This 2% thing lingered forever and most of Europe wasn't even spending that. [23:08] IsambardPrince They let their military fall apart, with Russia next door, while they spent 1.2% or something, like the Germans. [23:08] IsambardPrince And expected to have the US on the hook if they got attacked. [23:09] MinceR 26 000027 < IsambardPrince> MinceR, Peter Griffin: "It's in the Ten Commandments, Lois. Congress passes these things for a reason!" [23:09] MinceR lol [23:41] IsambardPrince https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcjiXYzMJ28 [23:41] TR Bot https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=DcjiXYzMJ28 [23:41] TR Bot ( status 502 @ https://invidious.lunar.icu/watch?v=DcjiXYzMJ28 ) [23:41] IsambardPrince Family Guy - Peter as Moses