IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Sunday, January 28, 2024

beginning of new day, January 28

00:01 TR News; ...and now nvidia uses terms like "hey hi chips". They just mean boards with accelerators and directives that do some calculations faster, i.e. nothing to do with "hey hi" any more than GPUs and OpenGL are "hey hi"....

00:01 TR News; "DOES DIS CHIP DO OPENGL? VULKAN? OMG, HEY HI CHIP!!" - but not until recent years when media was bribed to spam this buzzword.

00:02 TR News; OpenCL can also be spun as "HEY HI".

00:03 TR News; That mostly serves to show that the "tech industry" has become a bunch of bottom feeders, occasionally feeding off of those remnants of people who understand tech and don't just get "certified" in AWS and use Electron.

00:04 TR News; Ecological machines gemini://njms.ca/gemlog/2024-01-27.gmi

00:04 TR News; "Ecological machines have finite resources. Resources are recycled within the machine and cells must adapt to the dynamic constraints of the universe to be productive." gemini://njms.ca/gemlog/2024-01-27.gmi

00:09 TR News; Linux Foundation Newsletter: January 2024 mentions kernel only once. https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/linux-foundation-newsletter-january-2024 compare to http://techrights.org/n/2023/12/01/Just_Like_Its_Budget_Allocation_the_Linux_Foundation_Devotes_Ab.shtml http://techrights.org/n/2023/10/20/This_Month_s_Linux_Foundation_Newsletter_Does_More_Promotion_of.shtml http://techrights.org/o/2023/09/15/linux-foundation-newsletter-for-se

00:09 TR Bot; Linux Foundation Newsletter: January 2024

00:09 TR Bot; Techrights Just Like Its Budget Allocation, the Linux Foundation Devotes About 3% Of Its Latest Newsletter to Linux, Devotes More to Linux's Rivals

00:09 TR Bot; Techrights This Month's Linux Foundation Newsletter Does More Promotion of Linux Rivals (Such as Zephyr) Than of Linux Itself

00:09 TR Bot; ( status 404 @ http://techrights.org/o/2023/09/15/linux-foundation-newsletter-for-se )

00:11 TR News; Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Fashion Company Apple Numbers https://www.linuxlinks.com/best-free-open-source-alternatives-apple-numbers/

00:11 TR Bot; Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Numbers - LinuxLinks

00:11 TR News; Hans de Goede: A fully open source stack for MIPI cameras https://hansdegoede.livejournal.com/27909.html

00:11 TR Bot; A fully open source stack for MIPI cameras - Hans' hacking log LiveJournal

00:12 TR News; Red Hat Based Derivatives: A Comprehensive Guide https://net2.com/red-hat-based-derivatives-a-comprehensive-guide/

00:12 TR Bot; Red Hat Based Derivatives: A Comprehensive Guide

00:13 TR News; Linux Kernel 6.7 Released with Various Security Improvements https://linuxsecurity.com/news/security-projects/linux-kernel-6-7

00:13 TR Bot; Kernel 6.7 Released with Various Security Improvements | LinuxSecurity.com

00:13 TR News; Redcore GNU/Linux Hardened 2401 Released, Heres Whats New https://linuxiac.com/redcore-linux-hardened-2401/

00:13 TR Bot; Redcore Linux Hardened 2401 Released, Here's What's New

00:14 TR News; Budgie Desktops 2024 Roadmap Unveiled https://linuxiac.com/budgie-desktops-2024-roadmap-unveiled/

00:14 TR Bot; Budgie Desktop's 2024 Roadmap Unveiled

00:14 TR News; Ubuntu 24.04 Firewall: A Quick Guide https://linuxconfig.org/ubuntu-24-04-firewall-a-quick-guide

00:14 TR Bot; Ubuntu 24.04 Firewall: A Quick Guide - Linux Tutorials - Learn Linux Configuration

00:16 TR News; Community support for Spring Boot applications on OpenShift and RHEL https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/01/26/community-support-spring-boot-applications-openshift-and-rhel

00:16 TR Bot; Community support for Spring Boot applications on OpenShift and RHEL | Red Hat Developer

00:19 TR News; (NEW): Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Fedora_Family_Red_Hat_IBM_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Fedora_Family_Red_Hat_IBM_Leftovers.gmi

00:19 TR Bot; Tux Machines Fedora Family / Red Hat / IBM Leftovers

00:20 TR News; (NEW): Openwashing by OSI and Linux Foundation (Promotion of Proprietary as "Open") http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Openwashing_by_OSI_and_Linux_Foundation_Promotion_of_Proprietar.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Openwashing_by_OSI_and_Linux_Foundation_Promotion_of_Proprietar.gmi

00:20 TR Bot; Tux Machines Openwashing by OSI and Linux Foundation (Promotion of Proprietary as "Open")

00:22 TR News; "10000 tons Tetra style packages get recycled every year in Sweden. Thats way more than I feared. Im such a pessimist and knowing how Tetra loves to greenwash things, I expected way less. This is millions of packages." gemini://idiomdrottning.org/tetra-recycling

00:23 TR News; govidious: "I made a new service for triapul's gopher hole. It's a simple URL parser for youtube links." gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-01-27-govidious.txt

00:24 TR News; Wget and Curl for Downloading Files in GNU/Linux A Complete Guide https://draculaservers.com/tutorials/wget-and-curl-for-files/

00:24 TR Bot; Wget and Curl for Downloading Files in Linux - A Complete Guide - Dracula Servers Tutorials

00:25 TR News; Extract raster values to points with bilinear interpolation https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/01/extract-raster-values-to-points-with-bilinear-interpolation/

00:25 TR Bot; raster values to points with bilinear interpolation | R-bloggers

00:25 TR News; Unveiling the Earliest Date: A Journey Through R https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/01/unveiling-the-earliest-date-a-journey-through-r/

00:25 TR Bot; the Earliest Date: A Journey Through R | R-bloggers

00:25 TR News; Confirmation dialog in a Shiny app https://www.r-bloggers.com/2024/01/confirmation-dialog-in-a-shiny-app/

00:25 TR Bot; dialog in a Shiny app | R-bloggers

00:30 TR News; "I switched to KDE for some time now, and I love it. I plan to spend a few hours executing some of the test scenarios. Do it as well if you are using Fedora and KDE." https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4104/

00:30 TR Bot; Thunderbird Council, FOSDEM, OpenStreetMap, KDE Plasma6. Bogomil Shopov

00:30 TR News; (NEW): Microsoft Trying to Capture Developers by Paying Projects to Spread .NET and C# http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Microsoft_Trying_to_Capture_Developers_by_Paying_Projects_to_Sp.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Microsoft_Trying_to_Capture_Developers_by_Paying_Projects_to_Sp.gmi

00:30 TR Bot; Tux Machines Microsoft Trying to Capture Developers by Paying Projects to Spread .NET and C#

00:32 TR News; (NEW): KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/KDE_Plasma_6_and_Qt_Now_Proprietary.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/KDE_Plasma_6_and_Qt_Now_Proprietary.gmi

00:32 TR Bot; Tux Machines KDE, Plasma 6, and Qt (Now Proprietary)

00:34 TR News; 'Microsoft's' (in practice, that's what he is) Matthew Garrett still publicly attacking Eben Moglen. Garrett fails to note how he's connected to SFC, which was sued by Moglen, and rightly so. See https://techrights.org/wiki/Free_Software-Hostile_Militants/

00:34 TR Bot; Free Software-Hostile Militants

00:38 TR News; There is no lack of unprincipled sellouts willing to work for Jeffrey Epstein's BFF (Bill Gates) and serial criminals at Microsoft. They panic when people point out these loyalties.

00:39 admfubar; https://www.pogowasright.org/phones-track-everything-but-their-role-in-car-wrecks/

00:39 TR Bot; ( status 403 @ https://www.pogowasright.org/phones-track-everything-but-their-role-in-car-wrecks/ )

00:40 schestowitz[TR]; :-)

00:40 schestowitz[TR]; nice headline

00:40 schestowitz[TR]; industry says,

00:41 schestowitz[TR]; "you get discounts for spying device inside the car" (insurance)

00:41 schestowitz[TR]; reality is,

00:41 schestowitz[TR]; you get PENALISED for not being spied on inside your own car

00:45 TR News; (NEW): Programming Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Programming_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Programming_Leftovers.gmi

00:45 TR Bot; Tux Machines Programming Leftovers

00:48 TR News; Techrights Gemini Links 28/01/2024: TetraPaks, Govidious, and More http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Gemini_Links_28_01_2024_TetraPaks_Govidious_and_More.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Gemini_Links_28_01_2024_TetraPaks_Govidious_and_More.gmi

00:48 TR Bot; Techrights Gemini Links 28/01/2024: TetraPaks, Govidious, and More

00:50 DaemonFC; "Conservative lawyer John Yoo told Fox News: "The whole point of this... is to tell Donald Trump to shut up."

00:50 DaemonFC; John Yoo? George W. Bush's "Torture Lawyer" John Yoo?

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; ues

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; yes

00:51 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Yoo

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; that one

00:51 TR Bot; John Yoo - Wikipedia

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; wikipedia

00:51 schestowitz[TR]; regarding politics

00:52 schestowitz[TR]; which is not accurate science

00:52 schestowitz[TR]; maybe GOP should donate more to Jimbo Wales

00:52 schestowitz[TR]; and move criticism to a separate page

00:52 schestowitz[TR]; maube more rich persons' foundations

00:52 schestowitz[TR]; of "conservative" oligarchs

00:53 schestowitz[TR]; https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/01/Video_Wikipedia_is_Perishing_as_an_Authoritative_Source_It_s_Be.shtml

00:53 TR Bot; Techrights [Video] Wikipedia is Perishing as an Authoritative Source, It's Being Overrun by Public Relations (PR) and Professional Propagandists

00:54 TR News; "Cellphones can track what we say and write, where we go, what we buy and what we search on the internet. But they still arent being used to track one of the biggest public health threats: crashes caused by drivers distracted by the phones." https://www.yahoo.com/news/phones-track-everything-role-car-192632127.html

00:54 TR Bot; Phones Track Everything but Their Role in Car Wrecks

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00:56 schestowitz[TR]; same with chewney the daughter

00:56 schestowitz[TR]; who opposes trump

00:56 schestowitz[TR]; but not her dad

00:57 schestowitz[TR]; *cheney

00:57 schestowitz[TR]; then you have amash vanishing

00:57 schestowitz[TR]; after lashing out at trumpism

00:57 TR News; (NEW): Applications and Free Software http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Applications_and_Free_Software.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Applications_and_Free_Software.gmi

00:57 TR Bot; Tux Machines Applications and Free Software

1 AM, January 28

01:00 TR News; (NEW): Bootable USB and CD Rescue Systems (Mostly GNU/Linux Based) http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Bootable_USB_and_CD_Rescue_Systems_Mostly_GNU_Linux_Based.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Bootable_USB_and_CD_Rescue_Systems_Mostly_GNU_Linux_Based.gmi

01:00 TR Bot; Tux Machines Bootable USB and CD Rescue Systems (Mostly GNU/Linux Based)

01:02 TR News; (NEW): Open Hardware: Arducam, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Open_Hardware_Arducam_Raspberry_Pi_and_ESP32.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Open_Hardware_Arducam_Raspberry_Pi_and_ESP32.gmi

01:02 TR Bot; Tux Machines Open Hardware: Arducam, Raspberry Pi, and ESP32

01:02 DaemonFC; https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2024/01/27/3-transported-to-hospital-after-stolen-vehicle-rams-police-cars-strikes-officer-in-waukegan/

01:02 TR Bot; 3 transported to hospital after stolen vehicle rams police cars, strikes officer in Waukegan

01:03 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Another reason I laugh at "policing by consent". Think two junkies that tried to run over a police officer are going to respect that lady cop from the London Met who doesn't even have a gun?

01:04 DaemonFC; > The male passenger of the vehicle attempted to run away on foot and officers gave chase, Chastain said.

01:04 DaemonFC; > As the passenger fled, the female driver struck an officer with the open passenger car door while continuing to try and drive away.

01:04 DaemonFC; > The officer was knocked to the ground and suffered injuries to his elbow, Chastain said.

01:04 DaemonFC; > The two suspects were eventually taken into custody and were believed to be overdosing after having just injected drugs.

01:04 DaemonFC; > Both of the cars occupants were transported to an area hospital to be treated for the overdose, Chastain said.

01:04 DaemonFC; > The officer injured was also transported to the hospital.

01:04 DaemonFC; > The investigation is still ongoing and charges have not been announced yet.

01:04 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: How many of these do you see every day around the UK?

01:04 DaemonFC; https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2024/01/27/suspect-attempts-to-forcibly-kidnap-child-into-minivan-in-grayslake-neighborhood/

01:04 TR Bot; Suspect attempts to forcibly kidnap child into minivan in Grayslake neighborhood

01:05 DaemonFC; And there's someone trying to kidnap teenagers. This was the second time the cops didn't catch then.

01:05 DaemonFC; *them

01:05 admfubar; https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-lawsuit-with-19tb-of-data-one-ton-of-print-discovery-heads-for-trial-240127/

01:05 TR Bot; Lawsuit With 19TB of Data & ONE TON of Print Discovery Heads For Trial * TorrentFreak

01:05 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Maybe they should teach this to people in school.

01:05 TR News; (NEW): Microsoft Layoffs and Prolonged Downtimes http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Prolonged_Downtimes.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Microsoft_Layoffs_and_Prolonged_Downtimes.gmi

01:05 TR Bot; Tux Machines Microsoft Layoffs and Prolonged Downtimes

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: maybe

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; i saw cops in thee us

01:06 DaemonFC; Felony eluding capture, resisting arrest, and running over the police are not good for "survivability" or if you make it to court after that.

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; not firsthand

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; afai can recall

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; seeems in the us you get terrifies just seeing them

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; because they shoot at people so often

01:06 schestowitz[TR]; you just walk away

01:07 schestowitz[TR]; that's really not good

01:07 schestowitz[TR]; when i speak to cops here i am never afraid

01:07 schestowitz[TR]; even if i cannot trust them much

01:07 schestowitz[TR]; they are not that likely to kill people

01:07 schestowitz[TR]; and then say "'i was afraid"

01:09 schestowitz[TR]; the us has that word for fear of cops

01:09 schestowitz[TR]; not copphobia

01:09 schestowitz[TR]; there is another word

01:09 schestowitz[TR]; and then it's not by consent but fear

01:09 schestowitz[TR]; like in some really bad countries

01:10 DaemonFC; The US is a really bad country. We deal not only with generational shit, but criminals and terrorists that come here a million a month now as Venezuela empties out.

01:11 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: My dad compared it to a book he read called City of Embers.

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; the main issue is,

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; ime

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; a lack of action of insuffient action

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; they triage cases

01:11 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_City_of_Ember

01:11 TR Bot; The City of Ember - Wikipedia

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; and then prioritise based on

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; 1) importance of victim

01:11 schestowitz[TR]; 2) scale of damage

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; so they prioritise murder and such

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; or "property rights" of the rich

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; the rest is "british-polite"

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; as in

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; act police

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; pretend to care

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; but in practice do the bare minium

01:12 TR News; (NEW): Security and Windows TCO Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.gmi

01:12 TR Bot; Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; I hear PNP is t he sa,me

01:12 schestowitz[TR]; but worse,

01:13 schestowitz[TR]; PNP might just kill people it does not like

01:13 schestowitz[TR]; and then make up stories

01:13 schestowitz[TR]; duterte killed people like flies

01:13 schestowitz[TR]; and literally called them flies

01:14 DaemonFC; Yeah and he called President Obama "putang ina mo".

01:15 DaemonFC; For complaining about the crimes he was inflicting on his own people.

01:15 DaemonFC; "Puting ina mo! We're not a colony! Who does he think he is?"

01:15 DaemonFC; Well, it was better off as a colony than with these idiots running it.

01:15 DaemonFC; It's a gangster government.

01:15 DaemonFC; It's far worse than anything we or even the Japanese could have done to them.

01:15 TR News; (NEW): Events: FSD Meeting Recap and Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Events_FSD_Meeting_Recap_and_Canonical_at_Mobile_World_Congress.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Events_FSD_Meeting_Recap_and_Canonical_at_Mobile_World_Congress.gmi

01:15 TR Bot; Tux Machines Events: FSD Meeting Recap and Canonical at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2024

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; japan was very short lived there

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; after that the indoctrination came back

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; locals meant to forget 150,000 wiped out

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; by the us army

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; which calls them "niggers"

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; as if asians are from africa

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; and tortured many

01:17 schestowitz[TR]; they don't teach that in school

01:18 DaemonFC; Calling anyone niggers is an insult. Even their dumbest don't deserve that.

01:18 TR News; Techrights Links 28/01/2024: Microsoft Lays Off 30% of Staff in Sledgehammer Games http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Links_28_01_2024_Microsoft_Lays_Off_30_of_Staff_in_Sledgehammer.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Links_28_01_2024_Microsoft_Lays_Off_30_of_Staff_in_Sledgehammer.gmi

01:18 TR Bot; Techrights Links 28/01/2024: Microsoft Lays Off 30% of Staff in Sledgehammer Games

01:19 DaemonFC; The Philippines isn't the best place in the world, but nothing on the African continent is better than the Philippines.

01:19 DaemonFC; 30 years after deposing "the whites", South Africa is back to hunger, disease, pit toilets, and rolling blackouts.

01:19 DaemonFC; They dance whenever Putin or Xi tell them to.

01:20 DaemonFC; This ICJ thing is just a way to distract and cause trouble because it benefits Putin or Xi to do that.

01:20 DaemonFC; South Africa is so corrupt and plagued with crime that they couldn't care less about Gaza.

01:20 DaemonFC; South Africa commits crimes against its people all the time.

01:21 DaemonFC; They stole a farm from a white man and gave it to their sheboon House Speaker.A

01:21 DaemonFC; Within weeks, hundreds of farm animals were dead and rotting where they fell.

01:21 DaemonFC; And then the crops rotted away.

01:21 DaemonFC; And then she was like "I'm learning!"

01:21 DaemonFC; This is the country taking Israel to the ICJ, so take it with some salt.

01:22 DaemonFC; https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/court-hears-of-how-animals-suffered-on-speaker-thandi-modises-farm-78a146b9-ed55-49fa-9db7-777184559ec8

01:22 TR Bot; Court hears of how animals suffered on Speaker Thandi Modises farm

01:22 DaemonFC; His evidence centred mainly on his personal experiences of what the dire situation was in which the animals were found on Modises farm. Testimony indicated that animals had suffered from muscle loss and anaemia, resulting from lack of food. Some of the carcasses were in an advanced stage of decay. He also detected evidence of the animals feeding on the carcasses.

01:22 DaemonFC; They found pigs eating other pigs.

01:22 DaemonFC; "Well hello, Clarice!"

01:22 schestowitz[TR]; anyway, back to tech

01:22 DaemonFC; "Are the lambs still screaming!?"

01:23 schestowitz[TR]; that started with duterte

01:23 schestowitz[TR]; and prior to that laws

01:23 DaemonFC; Yeah, my point was....

01:23 schestowitz[TR]; south aftrica is backsliding

01:23 DaemonFC; To call Filipinos niggers is to equate them with South Africa, or worse.

01:23 DaemonFC; Because that continent gets progressively worse from there.

01:23 DaemonFC; Top to bottom, Africa is a garbage can.

01:24 schestowitz[TR]; hmm... we need to backup "NEW" pi to HDD/USB

01:25 schestowitz[TR]; i really don't trust this microSD card

01:25 schestowitz[TR]; our backups were always good

01:25 schestowitz[TR]; if we suffer data losses, we have something to restore from

01:25 schestowitz[TR]; it just takes _time_

01:26 schestowitz[TR]; quality of storagee deviecs fell

01:26 schestowitz[TR]; they call it "innovation"

01:27 DaemonFC; I just don't think that word should be bandied about so much.

01:27 DaemonFC; It dilutes the level of contempt.

01:27 DaemonFC; Save it, age it like a fine wine.

01:27 DaemonFC; Pull it out for special occasions.

01:28 DaemonFC; "Workers at the California State University will go on strike on all 23 campuses, demanding a raise." -RMS

01:28 DaemonFC; What he means to say is "Demanding that college becomes even more unaffordable in a fucked up state operated by fools."

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01:48 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I'm fairly certain there will be a plea deal at some point from my ex.

01:48 DaemonFC; Just how much worse he makes it for himself by not attending his hearings until they compel him through the process and add more charges for not showing up remains seen.

01:48 DaemonFC; I wouldn't put it past him to turn a misdemeanor case (although they are very bad misdemeanors) into a felony one.

01:49 DaemonFC; These sorts of people don't attend because if they don't go they won't be in any trouble THAT DAY.

01:54 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Quality of storage devices....

01:54 DaemonFC; LOL

01:54 DaemonFC; Seagate is making massive layoffs.

01:54 DaemonFC; Their hard drives were generally the least reliable.

01:54 DaemonFC; They often had twice as many failures as other brands for a given number of hours of runtime.

01:54 schestowitz[TR]; WD also

01:54 schestowitz[TR]; quality dseclines

01:54 schestowitz[TR]; universally

01:55 schestowitz[TR]; it's not a goal anymoore

01:55 schestowitz[TR]; cheaply made in thailand

01:55 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Why have one laptop for ten years when you can have a different laptop every two years?

01:55 DaemonFC; Even Apple doesn't make them well.

01:55 schestowitz[TR]; not toshiba or hitachi in japan

01:55 DaemonFC; MARISOL managed to damage her macbook keyboard so badly that half the keys were missing.

01:55 schestowitz[TR]; yes, apple too

01:55 DaemonFC; Then gave it to Mandy "for school".

01:55 schestowitz[TR]; glorified plasticware

01:56 schestowitz[TR]; biab

01:56 schestowitz[TR]; working on epo leak

01:56 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I moved him over to a Chromebook that I got for $100 and it was a better laptop than the Macbook.

01:56 admfubar; https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/01/27/1852249&from=rss

01:57 TR Bot; NASAs Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends After Three Years on Mars - SoylentNews

01:57 DaemonFC; Chrome on the Macbook was screaming that it hadn't been updated in years and not to use it and Mandy would just click past it.

01:57 schestowitz[TR]; can you check spelling for me?

01:57 schestowitz[TR]; in draft?

01:57 schestowitz[TR]; it applies also to non-epo people

01:57 schestowitz[TR]; universal trend

01:57 schestowitz[TR]; European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members)

01:58 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Walmart is furious with Biden.

01:58 schestowitz[TR]; are they?

01:58 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: can you see draft?

01:58 DaemonFC; They're getting out ahead of this overtime thing by raising manager pay just enough to not qualify for it.

01:58 DaemonFC; Ahead of the regulation.

01:58 schestowitz[TR]; many read our epooi artoicles

01:58 DaemonFC; I mean, I guess it's better for those managers than nothing.

01:58 schestowitz[TR]; so i need to cross the i's and t's

01:58 schestowitz[TR]; we get over a million hits a day

01:59 DaemonFC; Yeah.

01:59 schestowitz[TR]; thanks

2 AM, January 28

02:00 DaemonFC; link?

02:01 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/European_Patent_Office_Wants_Staff_to_Work_More_Hours_for_No_In.shtml

02:01 TR Bot; Techrights European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members)

02:01 TR News; Techrights European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members) http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/European_Patent_Office_Wants_Staff_to_Work_More_Hours_for_No_In.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/European_Patent_Office_Wants_Staff_to_Work_More_Hours_for_No_In.gmi

02:01 TR Bot; Techrights European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members)

02:04 DaemonFC; Looks okay.

02:04 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: FMLA in the US needs to be tweaked.

02:04 DaemonFC; I noticed Biden hasn't taken any action on this.

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; is there a walmart analogy?

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; i don't know walmart

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; but..

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; you tell me

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; gonna add:

02:04 schestowitz[TR]; Imagine that. You do the same work as before and each year, as <a href="http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/02/While_the_EPO_Decreased_Budget_for_Steps_and_Promotions_by_36_t.shtml">promotion and rewards have been severely curtailed</a>, your real salaries are in effect going down, not up, in spite of growing body of knowledge and experience.

02:04 TR Bot; Techrights While the EPO Decreased Budget for Steps and Promotions by 36% the Staff Spoke Out (Patent Examiners Lacking Incentives to Improve Their Work)

02:04 DaemonFC; FMLA is a federal law and it applies to most people who work at Walmart.

02:05 DaemonFC; https://www.hrdive.com/news/6-types-of-managerial-offenders/705059/

02:05 TR Bot; The lazybones, the jerk and the badgerer: 6 types of managerial FMLA, ADA offenders | HR Dive

02:06 DaemonFC; > We dont hire managers to be FMLA experts, Morris said. We hire them because they are good people managers. They are good subject matter experts.

02:06 DaemonFC; > But sometimes, managers blindness or inaction to the Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act can lead to charges and large payouts, Morris explained.

02:06 DaemonFC; ---

02:06 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Walmart farmed this all out to another company called Sedgwick that specializes in complying with FMLA and other laws and employer disability insurance policies.

02:07 DaemonFC; That way if Sedgwick fucks up your FMLA, they get to cover the damages if you lose your job.

02:07 DaemonFC; A little bird told me a long time ago that Walmart wrote into the contract that if Sedgwick mishandles your case, they compensate Walmart for having to rehire you and pay you back pay plus pain and suffering and anything else.

02:08 schestowitz[TR]; added that bit

02:08 schestowitz[TR]; now meme time

02:08 schestowitz[TR]; the epo insiders love meme

02:08 DaemonFC; So Walmart has a "compliance expert" to handle this so that a manager at Walmart can't get them in trouble by misinterpreting the law or something, or doing something that was a reprisal.

02:09 DaemonFC; The managers have no control over FMLA and therefore don't have to be trained on it.

02:09 DaemonFC; Which also can lower management salaries.

02:09 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: If it gets approved, your points for those days disappear out of the system and the managers can't add them to your employee file.

02:09 DaemonFC; It's completely out of their hands.

02:10 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Walmart despises the FMLA but if they don't follow the law there can be treble damages.

02:11 DaemonFC; So they have good reason to want to follow it to the letter.

02:11 DaemonFC; They take all sorts of horrible action against employees that even make it into the news sometimes.

02:11 DaemonFC; Like firing cancer patients for smoking medical marijuana with a state medical card.

02:12 DaemonFC; The situation on that is real real murky because the federal government doesn't consider it a pain reliever like State law might. They consider it a schedule I narcotic, worse than meth, crack, and fentanyl.

02:14 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The FMLA technically protects your job for 26 weeks out of the year. So you can use that all at once or intermittently if you have more than one valid FMLA claim.

02:14 DaemonFC; Like, if you were sick with the flu and had to take a week off that year, but then the same calender year you broke your leg or had a child or your spouse was in the hospital and you needed time off, you'd have 25 weeks left that year.

02:15 DaemonFC; It's more useful to people in white collar jobs who tend to have savings that could get them by longer.

02:15 DaemonFC; But it is important that even if it's just the flu you don't take attendance points and lose your job.

02:15 DaemonFC; I don't know what employment law in Europe is like. Probably better than this.

02:17 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I had Mandy enrolled in Enhanced Short Term Disability. Instead of covering 50% of his check while he's out it would cover 75%. The additional premium is paid by the employee but it's pretty cheap.

02:17 DaemonFC; It doesn't kick in until after you've been out a full week though.

02:17 DaemonFC; But it'll help you hobble by if you're stuck in the house with a broken leg or something.

02:18 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Indiana is a lot more generous with Unemployment Insurance.

02:19 DaemonFC; Back when they tried cutting me from 40 to 24 hours I went to the Department of Workforce Development and filed unemployment.

02:19 schestowitz[TR]; indiana

02:19 schestowitz[TR]; iirc, a red state

02:20 DaemonFC; It took the managers by surprise when they were informed by the State that they would be paying out 64% of the missing wages anyway. So I would have worked 24 hours and then gotten 4 days off each week, but paid for 64% of those 16 hours.

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; now the issues like free speech are cast as "colours"

02:20 DaemonFC; They quickly put me back on the schedule and added a second job code and told me to work dry grocery those nights.

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; this means,

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; in blue states

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; free speech is "nazis"

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; and, ironically

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; even americans are natuurailed

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; as opponents of the FIRST amenement

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; compare:

02:20 schestowitz[TR]; "Matthew Garrett is a tenured professor at Bakersfield College where he organized a faculty coalition dedicated to free speech." https://www.givesendgo.com/GAJV2

02:20 TR Bot; - Free Speech Legal Defense for Prof Matthew Garrett: The Leader in Freedom Fundraising.

02:21 schestowitz[TR]; to https://techrights.org/o/2023/06/17/free-speech-rejected-by-freesw-haters/

02:21 TR Bot; Free Speech Rejected by Opponents of Free Software

02:21 DaemonFC; Yeah, because they come from countries where you can be arrested for telling people "Are you from China? Why do you think I can't film you in public?"

02:21 DaemonFC; By that lady cop at the train station.

02:22 DaemonFC; They kept saying "Image Right".

02:22 DaemonFC; There's no "Image Right" in the UK.

02:22 DaemonFC; They made up a term, then when it wasn't working they shouted "Don't touch her! Take your hands off her!" to make it seem like he was assaulting someone, when the camera showed that he wasn't.

02:22 DaemonFC; Then they started yelling "Racism".

02:23 DaemonFC; He said they were yelling that because it makes the police in the UK "melt like a jelly".

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02:26 TR News; Techrights [Meme] The Smear Campaign Against Eben Moglen Isn't Over, SFC Associates Still Defame Him and Pretend Their Critics Are Just Ableists (More Namecalling) http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_The_Smear_Campaign_Against_Eben_Moglen_Isn_t_Over_SFC_Asso.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_The_Smear_Campaign_Against_Eben_Moglen_Isn_t_Over_SFC_Asso.gmi

02:26 TR Bot; Techrights [Meme] The Smear Campaign Against Eben Moglen Isn't Over, SFC Associates Still Defame Him and Pretend Their Critics Are Just Ableists (More Namecalling)

02:27 darwin; SFC--bankrolled by M$

02:32 schestowitz[TR]; several times

02:32 schestowitz[TR]; via deb nicholson

02:32 schestowitz[TR]; she is now in another org

02:35 darwin; some planes have Rolls Royce engines but we don't call those Rolls Royces. Similarly, some OS have Linux kernel, but that's mostly not what the OS are--they're mostly GNU OS, and the rest mostly GNU GPL license just like the kernel is

02:36 TR News; Techrights [Meme] European Patent Office, Run by Microsoft, for Microsoft http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_European_Patent_Office_Run_by_Microsoft_for_Microsoft.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_European_Patent_Office_Run_by_Microsoft_for_Microsoft.gmi

02:36 TR Bot; Techrights [Meme] European Patent Office, Run by Microsoft, for Microsoft

02:36 DaemonFC; https://www.hrdive.com/news/6-types-of-managerial-offenders/705059/

02:36 TR Bot; The lazybones, the jerk and the badgerer: 6 types of managerial FMLA, ADA offenders | HR Dive

02:36 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: same in automobiles

02:37 DaemonFC; > #5: The badgerer

02:37 DaemonFC; > The type: Improperly contacted an employee during the leave.

02:37 schestowitz[TR]; the pertinent parts are "sourced"

02:37 DaemonFC; > The training: Let managers know they cant condition continued employment on completing work while on FMLA leave or coerce or require an employee to work while on FMLA leave. Tell them they can contact an employee on FMLA leave to request a password to access a file or locate paperwork, request update on where a particular matter was left or to ask to pass on institutional knowledge. But a general rule is to leave the employee alone and to contact

02:37 DaemonFC; HR first.

02:37 schestowitz[TR]; engines, windows

02:37 DaemonFC; I got a "badgerer" during my leave once.

02:37 schestowitz[TR]; and German cars are not German

02:37 schestowitz[TR]; parts are china, turkey, poland

02:37 DaemonFC; The guy was calling me every few days asking if I planned to come back.

02:37 schestowitz[TR]; the brand is german

02:37 DaemonFC; I said "It's on the FMLA form."

02:39 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1174.jpg

02:39 TR News; [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D824.jpg

02:40 TR News; Techrights already preparing good leaks from the EPO for next week

02:41 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Outlook IMAP is down again.

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; https://techrights.org/images/2024/sc23125cp_with_annexes.pdf [pdf]

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: screenshot

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; fast

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; lots of msft downtimes latelty

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; as they lay off many

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; when they "don't review"

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; or don't renew

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; they don't count as layoffs

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; just "contractors"

02:42 schestowitz[TR]; "your contract is hereby finished"

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; so it sounds like,

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; like, well 2023 iirc

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; they have too few people

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; azure or "360" down for over a day

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; and then , iirc

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; it turned out they had only TWO people on-site

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; 2 people

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; and then the whole thing goes down

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; for over a day

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; in a whole country

02:43 schestowitz[TR]; microsoft is coming apart

02:44 schestowitz[TR]; Teams was dowwn for many hours days ago

02:44 schestowitz[TR]; and you say Outlooks is very flaky

02:44 schestowitz[TR]; the media does not mention the latter

02:45 schestowitz[TR]; https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/10/New_Pension_Scheme_EPO_Staff_Faces_Stubborn_and_Mean_Spirited_M.shtml

02:45 TR Bot; Techrights 'New Pension Scheme': EPO Staff Faces Stubborn and Mean-Spirited Managers While Trying to Take Money Out of British Pension Schemes, Escalation to International Tribunal Next

02:46 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell-social and #techpol IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-270124.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-social-270124.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-social-270124.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-social-270124.txt

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02:47 TR Bot; IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, January 27, 2024

02:47 schestowitz[TR]; https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/26/European_Patent_Office_Talks_of_New_Tools_Based_on_Open_Source_.shtml

02:47 TR Bot; Techrights European Patent Office Talks of New Tools Based on 'Open Source' While Outsourcing Almost Everything to Proprietary Spyware of Microsoft

02:48 TR News; Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-270124.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-270124.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-270124.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-270124.txt

02:48 TR Bot; IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, January 27, 2024

02:49 schestowitz[TR]; https://techrights.org/n/2024/01/19/The_European_Patent_Office_EPO_Swimming_in_Billions_Acquired_by.shtml

02:49 TR Bot; Techrights The European Patent Office, EPO, Swimming in Billions (Acquired by Selling Monopolies to Mostly Non-European Companies), Cannot Afford Printers and Rewards for Staff

02:49 TR News; Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-270124.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techbytes-270124.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techbytes-270124.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techbytes-270124.txt

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02:50 TR News; Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2024-01-27.txt

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02:54 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: It just says login to server failed.

02:54 admfubar; :P https://www.osnews.com/story/138464/tiny11-creates-a-100mb-version-of-windows-11-by-axing-the-windows/

02:54 TR Bot; creates a 100MB version of Windows 11 by axing the windows OSnews

02:54 DaemonFC; Then minutes or hours later it works again.

02:54 MinceR; i can create a 0 byte version of any windows by axing the windows

02:57 DaemonFC; https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Network-Displays-0.91

02:57 TR Bot; Network Displays Adds Support For Chromecast & Miracast MICE Protocols - Phoronix

02:58 DaemonFC; GNOME support for MiraCRASHed.

02:59 DaemonFC; https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-122-Available

02:59 TR Bot; 122 Available With Official Debian Package, Many Web Improvements - Phoronix

02:59 DaemonFC; LOL

3 AM, January 28

03:01 DaemonFC; https://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/court-hears-of-how-animals-suffered-on-speaker-thandi-modises-farm-78a146b9-ed55-49fa-9db7-777184559ec8

03:01 TR Bot; Court hears of how animals suffered on Speaker Thandi Modises farm

03:01 DaemonFC; > His evidence centred mainly on his personal experiences of what the dire situation was in which the animals were found on Modises farm. Testimony indicated that animals had suffered from muscle loss and anaemia, resulting from lack of food. Some of the carcasses were in an advanced stage of decay. He also detected evidence of the animals feeding on the carcasses.

03:01 DaemonFC; > Leask said the second witness to take the stand was Tebogo Mokaedi, who had worked on the farm.

03:01 DaemonFC; > He was the last person who was employed on the farm and worked there for about two months on a promise of being paid R30 a day. He never got paid, only had minimal animal feed and received only one delivery from a half-packed truck, which did not last long enough or was sufficient to feed the animals.

03:01 DaemonFC; > Animals were already dying upon his initial arrival and he was told to dump carcasses in a hole on the farm. He witnessed animals eating each other and trying to digest the concrete flooring as food. Having no food for the animals or himself, he left the farm and returned home, said Leask.

03:02 DaemonFC; > A statement by the NSPCA explained that Modises farm was littered with the carcasses of over 50 pigs and other dead animals such as geese, ducks, sheep and goats. The NSPCA had been forced to euthanise more than 224 animals at the farm when it visited there in July 2014.

03:02 DaemonFC; > Head of AfriForums private prosecution unit, advocate Gerrie Nel, has been pursuing the private prosecution case on behalf of the NSPCA.

03:02 DaemonFC; > Modise, who faces six counts of contravening the Animal Protection Act, has pleaded not guilty to the charges.

03:03 DaemonFC; MinceR: Typhoid and swans. They all come from the same place.

03:03 MinceR; Earth?

03:03 DaemonFC; The charge sheet reads that Modise ill-treated and neglected the animals on her farm by failing to procure and/or provide adequate feed for the animals on her farm to wit more than 147 pigs, more than 59 sheep, more than 11 lambs, more than 54 goats and more than 25 chickens and geese, causing the emaciation and even death of the animals; unnecessarily starved and/or under-fed and/or denied water or food to the animals on her farm; confine and

03:03 DaemonFC; restrain the animals on her farm without making adequate provision for suitable food, potable water and rest for such animal in circumstances where it is necessary and being the owner of any animal, deliberately or without reasonable cause or excuse, abandons it, whether permanently or not, in circumstances likely to cause that animal unnecessary suffering.

03:04 DaemonFC; ---

03:04 DaemonFC; MinceR: Steal the farm from the white man. Force the white man into suicide. Take over the farm....

03:04 DaemonFC; Throw the dead animals down the hole.

03:04 DaemonFC; Profit?

03:05 DaemonFC; File "charges" against the Jews on behalf of Xi.

03:07 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thandi_Modise#Animal_cruelty_charges

03:07 TR Bot; Thandi Modise - Wikipedia

03:08 DaemonFC; > Animal cruelty charges

03:08 DaemonFC; > In July 2014, the NSPCA discovered a number of dead animals, including chickens, pigs, goats and geese, on a farm owned by Modise in Modderfontein outside Potchefstroom. The animals had starved to death and some of the surviving pigs were eating the carcasses of other animals.[53][54] Modise said that the animals had been abandoned by a caretaker she had hired to monitor the farm while she was attending to her NCOP responsibilities in Cape Town, and

03:08 DaemonFC; she said she was "saddened" by the incident.[54] She also said, "I am not a farmer. I am trying to farm. I am learning. But if you are a woman and you are learning you are not allowed to make mistakes".[55] The Freedom Front Plus said that Modise was a poor example for emerging black farmers.[53]

03:08 DaemonFC; > On behalf of the NSPCA, AfriForum instituted private prosecution against Modise on animal cruelty charges. However, in April 2021, a Potchefstroom court found Modise not guilty, ruling that Modise had not been negligent and that the hired caretaker should be held responsible for the incident.[56]

03:08 DaemonFC; ---

03:08 DaemonFC; The caretaker she didn't pay for over two months until he walked away?

03:08 DaemonFC; The caretaker who she told to throw the dead animals "down a hole"?

03:08 DaemonFC; That one?

03:09 DaemonFC; He's responsible for her not sending any food for the animals?

03:09 MinceR; i saw that one coming a mile away

03:09 DaemonFC; "When you're a woman, you're not allowed to make mistakes."?

03:09 DaemonFC; This sounds like Brandon Lobster "in defense of Holly Million".

03:09 DaemonFC; "Any criticism is because she's a woman."

03:10 DaemonFC; Meanwhile, the "woman" Brandon Lobster is "defending" a "woman" that eats garden slugs and performs "energy cleansings" being in charge of GNOME.

03:11 DaemonFC; Holly Million's home page implies cruelty to animals in furtherance of some sort of occult witchcraft religion.

03:11 DaemonFC; Or it did, before she deleted it.

03:11 DaemonFC; The animal skull.

03:12 DaemonFC; MinceR: "I'm learning. Can't make an omelet without a farm littered with 500-600 dead animals." Right?

03:13 DaemonFC; "It's the caretaker's fault for walking off after not being paid and being given nothing to feed them."

03:13 DaemonFC; "Stop the genocide in Gaza!"

03:14 DaemonFC; MinceR: Now, let's assume she did send food for the animals and they weren't already dying, and she did pay the caretaker.

03:14 DaemonFC; Is one man supposed to take care of hundreds of farm animals?

03:14 MinceR; Can't make an omelette without killing a few people. Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

03:14 schestowitz[TR]; "my pork ate pork'

03:14 schestowitz[TR]; mad cow disease

03:15 schestowitz[TR]; animal eats the same animal which died

03:15 schestowitz[TR]; morbid meat

03:15 schestowitz[TR]; what could go wrong?

03:15 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The pork ate pork, the chicken ate chicken, the horse ate Aldi frozen lasagnas.

03:15 DaemonFC; MinceR: ^

03:15 schestowitz[TR]; lolll

03:16 schestowitz[TR]; i remember that

03:16 MinceR; :>

03:16 schestowitz[TR]; stay tuned for part II

03:16 schestowitz[TR]; wherein Aldi frozen lasagna eats a horse!

03:16 schestowitz[TR]; "i am so hungry i could eat a horse!"

03:16 MinceR; Tarquin: You can't make an omelette without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others.

03:17 DaemonFC; https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/feb/09/aldi-100-percent-horsemeat-beef-products

03:17 TR Bot; Aldi confirms up to 100% horsemeat in beef products | Food & drink industry | The Guardian

03:17 DaemonFC; NAY!

03:20 TR News; Techrights Techrights Statement on Harassment Against Family Members http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Techrights_Statement_on_Harassment_Against_Family_Members.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Techrights_Statement_on_Harassment_Against_Family_Members.gmi

03:20 TR Bot; Techrights Techrights Statement on Harassment Against Family Members

03:23 TR News; Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 27, 2024 http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_January_27_2024.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/IRC_Proceedings_Saturday_January_27_2024.gmi

03:23 TR Bot; Techrights IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 27, 2024

03:26 DaemonFC; https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/11/horsemeat-bute-very-low-risk

03:26 TR Bot; Horsemeat scandal: bute drug 'presents very low risk to public health' | Horsemeat scandal | The Guardian

03:27 DaemonFC; > "The FSA's clear advice is to continue buying and eating all the products for sale.

03:27 DaemonFC; > "Should evidence come forward of any serious threat to health, obviously we will react very swiftly, and that could mean action on imports. But at the moment, all the evidence is that these products are entirely safe and people are open to eat them if they are advised so by the FSA and they are."

03:27 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The FSA advised people to just go ahead and eat it.

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; did it?

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; i used to work for FSA

03:28 DaemonFC; That's what the article says.

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; the tech side

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; oh, wait

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; this is not what you say

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; they say,

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; it is safe to eat

03:28 schestowitz[TR]; not what is in it

03:29 schestowitz[TR]; the blunder of animal welfare

03:29 schestowitz[TR]; not health

03:29 schestowitz[TR]; horse, cow, same thing, no?

03:30 DaemonFC; I guess they probably didn't want the "waste" since what's done is done

03:31 TR News; (NEW): Today in Techrights http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Today_in_Techrights.gmi

03:31 TR Bot; Tux Machines Today in Techrights

03:31 TR News; Techrights Over at Tux Machines... http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi

03:31 TR Bot; Techrights Over at Tux Machines...

03:32 jrmu; Is this satire or real: https://lunduke.substack.com/p/new-javascript-trademark-policy-announced

03:32 TR Bot; New JavaScript trademark policy announced

03:35 MinceR; who knows anymore

03:35 MinceR; Poe's law applies to alleged technology

03:35 jrmu; I couldn't find this corroborated anywhere else

03:41 DaemonFC; Regarding "pro-Palestine" protests, almost every American is revolted by these.

03:42 DaemonFC; It's just a few bums we have to tolerate because of the first amendment. Like the Nazis in Skokie.

03:42 DaemonFC; The Nazis would have gotten along famously with Hamas, for obvious reasons.

03:43 DaemonFC; So that says a lot about the "protesters".

03:46 MinceR; could be satire

03:46 MinceR; i mean, the javascript one

03:47 MinceR; rust's trademark policy is pretty insane

03:47 jrmu; it did feel like satire to me

03:47 MinceR; which fits the language

03:48 jrmu; I wish he would at least publish it on April 1st and not April 13th

03:48 jrmu; highly confusing

03:49 DaemonFC; MinceR: Does it involve pronouns for the gender dysphorics?

03:49 MinceR; \_()_/

03:50 MinceR; maybe not yet

03:55 schestowitz[TR]; lunduke is a lot of satire

03:55 schestowitz[TR]; sometimes not marked as such

03:57 jrmu; oh I see

03:57 jrmu; I used to listen to jupiter broadcasting podcasts

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; he also went to anorher platform

03:57 jrmu; so he seemed familiar

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; left substack

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; he is a nomad noww

03:57 jrmu; nomad as in platform wanderer or goatherder?

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; yes

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; LAS

03:57 schestowitz[TR]; then youtube

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then his own site

03:58 jrmu; ah gotcha :)

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then boycott youtube

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then odysee

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then boycott odysee

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then goes back to youtuve

03:58 MinceR; lol

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; which he had said people must boycott

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then substack

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; then it turns nazi

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; and he creates a paywall

03:58 schestowitz[TR]; goes full GOP:

03:59 jrmu; you're saying substack went nazi or lunduke?

4 AM, January 28

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; no

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; neither

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; but they accept some stuff

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; if you are into free speech, ok

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; some are not

04:00 schestowitz[TR]; some actively against it

04:03 jrmu; ah gotcha yeah it happens

04:03 jrmu; nazis are being banned so they need a place to go, I wouldn't blame it on substack

04:04 jrmu; depends if they can keep up the quality of articles there though

04:04 jrmu; substack used to have pretty high quality material, but I haven't checked it in years

04:04 schestowitz[TR]; https://conservativenerds.locals.com/landing/article

04:04 TR Bot; ConservativeNerds

04:04 schestowitz[TR]; this is lunduke

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; many left substack

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; for concerns they would be associated with the far right

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; i set aside the argument, whether it is fair or not

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; but the nomad thing is explaiened about

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; lunduke himself used to work for Microsoft

04:05 schestowitz[TR]; then LAS, SUSE, and other companies

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; his views on things are as rollercoaster

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; one day microsoft is good

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; then microsoft sucks

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; linux is grea

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; linux sucks

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; RMS is insane

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; RMS is my friend. DEFEND RMS!

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; one moment he is "BE NICE"

04:06 schestowitz[TR]; then he goes full Trump

04:07 schestowitz[TR]; http://techrights.org/o/2022/04/28/straw-men-issue/

04:07 TR Bot; Lunduke Touches an Important Set of Issues, But Still Gets Pertinent Details a Little Wrong

04:08 schestowitz[TR]; aside from TR, he's among the few who acually look at what the real LF does:

04:08 schestowitz[TR]; http://techrights.org/o/2020/06/09/lunduke-concern-trolling-again/

04:08 TR Bot; Bryan Lunduke is Still 100% Trolling With His Facts-Free Provocation 'Masterpiece' Called 'Linux Sucks'

04:13 jrmu; heh

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04:18 schestowitz[TR]; The harassment against my wife continues today (Sunday).

04:18 schestowitz[TR]; escalating to the police again

04:19 TR News; EPO working on lowering patent quality. We have new leaks now.

04:33 DaemonFC; The Lobster

04:34 DaemonFC; What do the cops make of him?

04:36 DaemonFC; https://apnews.com/article/missouri-senate-republicans-conservatives-freedom-caucus-81870973cd083305f719cec5cd65761c

04:36 TR Bot; Missouri Republican leader suggests expulsion of GOP lawmaker as tensions mount in state Senate | AP News

04:36 schestowitz[TR]; i can not allowed to comment

04:37 schestowitz[TR]; *am

04:37 DaemonFC; The police told you not to discuss the Lobster.

04:37 schestowitz[TR]; the police deals wiih the cases

04:37 schestowitz[TR]; which is good

04:38 schestowitz[TR]; things are progressing

04:38 schestowitz[TR]; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_deficit_hyperactivity_disorder

04:38 TR Bot; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder - Wikipedia

04:39 DaemonFC; https://edition.cnn.com/2024/01/26/politics/senate-deal-shutdown-border/index.html

04:39 TR Bot; Biden endorses emerging deal to give US new power to clamp down on border crossings | CNN Politics

04:40 DaemonFC; This "compromise" basically just leaves things where they stand now.

04:40 schestowitz[TR]; biden is in a hard place

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; and they rely a lot on arresting trump

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; that should have happened ages ago

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; seeing trump's crimes

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; but the us has leniency for some people

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; like bill gates

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; or people who plead insanity

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; afaik, reiser is due for release in a few years

04:41 schestowitz[TR]; with "good behaviour"

04:42 schestowitz[TR]; "i chopped my wife... but that's just some "social isssues"..."

04:42 schestowitz[TR]; http://techrights.org/n/2024/01/19/Meme_Writing_Articles_From_Prison.shtml

04:42 TR Bot; Techrights [Meme] Writing Articles From Prison

04:42 schestowitz[TR]; we have a ggood and long article about LLMs coming

04:42 schestowitz[TR]; their hype factor wears off

04:42 schestowitz[TR]; and microsoft will have questions

04:43 schestowitz[TR]; when it releases fake "results" in a couple of days

04:43 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Assembly_of_South_Africa

04:43 TR Bot; National Assembly of South Africa - Wikipedia

04:43 DaemonFC; According to Business Insider South Africa, SA MPs are in the top 1% earning bracket in the nation.[10] The lowest earning MP earns a monthly salary of around R92,245.[9][8] This salary comes while the average South African earned a monthly salary of around R21,432, as of September 2019[11] and the minimum wage was just R20 per hour.[12]

04:43 DaemonFC; LOL

04:43 DaemonFC; MinceR: So the lowest paid MP earns 500% the average salary of their constituents.

04:43 DaemonFC; NOICE

04:43 DaemonFC; Sounds like STATE OF ILL on steroids.

04:43 MinceR; it's probably similar in orbanistan

04:44 MinceR; MPs get crazy high salaries, plus can have the state pay for lots of expenses

04:45 MinceR; they also tend to sit on a lot of committees, which are basically channels for payouts

04:46 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: RMS was concerned that most school "remote learning" software spies on kids and sends things to ad servers.

04:46 DaemonFC; I've also heard of teachers seeing guns or something in the background in a video call and sending the cops to the kid's house.

04:46 DaemonFC; So just turning the camera on and forgetting you have a gun on the dresser can get you caught even though the police would never have come into the house and seen it.

04:48 DaemonFC; When you have hundreds of thousands of kids in a State on video calls with the teacher, that's not good.

04:48 DaemonFC; It lets State employees look into people's houses and decide they don't like what they see and send the police on a "welfare check".

04:50 DaemonFC; https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/with-police-support-mass-senate-to-debate-gun-bill-next-week-2/3260714/

04:50 TR Bot; With police support, Mass. Senate to debate gun bill next week NBC Boston

04:50 DaemonFC; "We now, unlike five or 10 years ago, respond to crime scenes where it is not unusual to find that over 100 shots have been fired, sometimes in less than 10 seconds," said Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan, who joined senators and police chiefs at the bill unveiling. "Those bullets go somewhere. They often go into people's homes, they go into cars, and sometimes they hit innocent bystanders."

04:50 DaemonFC; ----

04:50 DaemonFC; So here's what you do.

04:50 DaemonFC; Find the people who are doing that. Electric bleachers. Problem solved.

04:51 MinceR; ?

04:51 DaemonFC; MinceR: Just put all of them on bleachers and throw the switch.

04:51 MinceR; lol

04:51 DaemonFC; When they're all dead, no more mass shootings from those people.

04:52 DaemonFC; They should just have thousands of executions at once and bury them all somewhere and they'll never get out of prison and hurt anyone again.

04:53 DaemonFC; MinceR: You just take all the rapists, child molesters, people in there on armed robbery, murder, dealing fentanyl, etc. etc.......

04:54 DaemonFC; And you put them in a gas chamber, as many as will fit at a time.

04:54 DaemonFC; Efficient.

04:54 DaemonFC; 100 people at a time you can blow it all out in a few weeks.

04:54 DaemonFC; They're not costing you millions of dollars to keep in prison and more crime if they ever get out.

04:56 DaemonFC; MinceR: Anyone in there on a Class I to III Felony, gets gassed. Then all you have left are people who made a little trouble and they're on misdemeanor probation or a low level white collar felony or something and that's your whole criminal justice system. Those are the worst people you deal with.

04:57 MinceR; you know the state would find a way to fuck that up

04:57 MinceR; they'd kill a lot of innocent people

04:57 DaemonFC; Everyone in prison didn't do it.

04:57 DaemonFC; That's what they all say.

04:58 DaemonFC; MinceR: After "the surge" there wouldn't be much crime to speak of.

04:58 DaemonFC; Put it on TV. Let 'em watch.

04:58 MinceR; lol

04:58 MinceR; that's even more wrong

04:58 MinceR; the greatest crimes are committed by the most powerful people

04:58 MinceR; who rarely get caught with anything

04:58 MinceR; if ever

04:59 MinceR; and the state fucks up everything it does

04:59 MinceR; no one is motivated to do their job right

04:59 DaemonFC; MinceR: Why do you think most criminals get caught?

04:59 MinceR; so they don't

04:59 MinceR; DaemonFC: i don't think most criminals get caught

04:59 MinceR; did bill gAIDS get caught?

04:59 MinceR; did steve "blow" jobs get caught?

5 AM, January 28

05:00 DaemonFC; Of the ones that do, what do they all have in common?

05:00 DaemonFC; They were sloppy.

05:00 MinceR; did putler get caught?

05:00 DaemonFC; They left evidence everywhere.

05:00 MinceR; no, they weren't rich or powerful enough

05:00 MinceR; they weren't idolized by the masses for their wealth

05:02 schestowitz[TR]; the "media"

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; rich, hence smart

05:03 MinceR; not just the media

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; not rich, hence corrupt

05:03 DaemonFC; https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/media-spotlight/201702/why-does-rape-happen

05:03 TR Bot; Why Does Rape Happen? | Psychology Today

05:03 DaemonFC; Male-hating Feminazis writing this shit.

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; did not clickk

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; werid headline

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; and a bit rude

05:03 schestowitz[TR]; to women

05:04 schestowitz[TR]; not to men

05:04 schestowitz[TR]; sometimes people need to explain to cops

05:04 schestowitz[TR]; stuff like false rape accussations

05:04 schestowitz[TR]; which can be akin to swatting

05:04 schestowitz[TR]; thew spouse of mjg fancies rape

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; it's like a weapon

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; offer yourself to men

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; which,

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; if she were he back then

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; would be treated as a crine

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; indecent exposure and worse

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; like a gay exposing his dick to some woman

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; at a party

05:05 schestowitz[TR]; buffy did this to nadim

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; who is a high-profile sec reseachers

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; gulagbot and buffy are not security people

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; thjey are imposters

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; so they try to make scandals

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; implicating high-profile fakecoin people

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; or security pros

05:06 schestowitz[TR]; to make a name for themselves

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; remember monika lewinski?

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; as an intern she could say no

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; but she did not

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; went for the whole cigar

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; told a friend

05:07 schestowitz[TR]; kept thee dress with the stains

05:25 schestowitz[TR]; (source: public court documents)

05:25 schestowitz[TR]; wee have copies of these

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05:39 TR News; UPDATED: The best Linux distros for beginners: Expert tested https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-linux-desktops-for-beginners/

05:39 TR Bot; best Linux distributions for beginners in 2024: Expert tested and reviewed | ZDNET

05:39 TR News; "One way to stop it crashing is to increase your vm.max_map_count setting. For some distributions, it can be quite low by default. For example on Kubuntu 23.10 (upgraded from 23.04) mine was set by default to only 65530." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/the-finals-freezing-on-linux-heres-ways-you-can-fix-it/

05:39 TR Bot; FINALS freezing on Linux? Here's ways you can fix it | GamingOnLinux

05:39 TR News; "I think Flathub is great personally, it's often made it far easier to tell people where to grab something that's actually up to date. Telling people "it's on Flathub, install via GNOME Software or KDE Discover" makes Linux a lot easier." https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/flathub-now-has-over-one-million-active-users/

05:39 TR Bot; now has over one million active users | GamingOnLinux

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05:51 TR News; "Determine whether Garrison Union Free School District (District) officials secured the Districts network user accounts, established physical controls and maintained inventory records for information technology (IT) equipment, and developed an IT contingency plan." https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2024/01/19/garrison-union-free-school-district-information-technology-2023m-127

05:51 TR Bot; ( status 403 @ https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2024/01/19/garrison-union-free-school-district-information-technology-2023m-127 )

05:52 TR News; Cybercrime in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/matthew-philbert-ransomware-cybersecurity-court-sentencing-1.7096493

05:52 TR Bot; Ottawa-based cyberfraudster sentenced to 2 years | CBC News

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05:56 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I am surprised that the cops take the lobster seriously.

05:57 DaemonFC; Has it gone much further than just some harassment over IRC and stuff?

05:57 TR News; (NEW): This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/27/This_week_in_KDE_everything_everywhere_all_at_once_edition.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/27/This_week_in_KDE_everything_everywhere_all_at_once_edition.gmi

05:57 TR Bot; Tux Machines This week in KDE: everything everywhere all at once edition

05:57 TR News; (NEW): Parch Linux: A Simple Arch-Based Distribution for All http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Parch_Linux_A_Simple_Arch_Based_Distribution_for_All.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Parch_Linux_A_Simple_Arch_Based_Distribution_for_All.gmi

05:57 TR Bot; Tux Machines Parch Linux: A Simple Arch-Based Distribution for All

6 AM, January 28

06:01 DaemonFC; https://www.menshealth.com/sex-women/a30740897/gay-porn-performers-wage-per-scene/

06:01 TR Bot; Gay Porn Performers Reveal How Much They Earn Per Scene

06:01 DaemonFC; Almost nothing.

06:01 DaemonFC; Less than a french fry cook at McDonalds.

06:02 DaemonFC; $300-500 to get exposed to HIV and other nasty stuff.

06:02 DaemonFC; Porn is very exploitative and barely regulated.

06:04 DaemonFC; To make $30,000 in a year, a man would have to do over 100 films. So like, that's still less than minimum wage.

06:05 DaemonFC; And I've heard people describe it as "not pleasant at all" the way they arrange the scenes.

06:05 DaemonFC; This is gig economy shit.

06:05 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: ^

06:05 schestowitz[TR]; it is not even rooms

06:05 DaemonFC; If the jobs market was any good, if college were affordable, nobody would do this.

06:05 schestowitz[TR]; but "studios"

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; it's like 'real' work

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; not for fun

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; "ok, let's tryn this again

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; "cut'

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; do this, do that

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; make this noise

06:06 schestowitz[TR]; say this thing

06:06 DaemonFC; Yeah, and then one of the models brings HIV in and gives it to everyone else.

06:06 DaemonFC; And you can't even bring a worker's comp case or anything because you're a "contractor".

06:07 schestowitz[TR]; for some pervert "director"

06:07 schestowitz[TR]; and another pervery "producer"

06:07 schestowitz[TR]; like sport, you only do this a few years

06:07 schestowitz[TR]; and then maybe find some other cateer as you become old

06:07 schestowitz[TR]; so 30k a year would be very little

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; and then colleagues might find out you did this thing

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; and it's on some site

06:08 DaemonFC; Right, because it's on the Web forever.

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; and that reduces the range of jobs you can do

06:08 DaemonFC; And it gets copied illegally to other sites.

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; like teacher

06:08 DaemonFC; Put on BitTorrent.

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; or customer service

06:08 DaemonFC; Then you never get rid of it no matter what you do.

06:08 schestowitz[TR]; even if one person can recognise you

06:09 schestowitz[TR]; it doesn't matter if you had a fake name

06:09 DaemonFC; Yeah, there are teachers that were paid so badly they turned to porn shoots to make ends meet.

06:09 DaemonFC; Then the schools find out and fire them and they can't work as a teacher again.

06:09 schestowitz[TR]; and after that, cannot teach

06:09 schestowitz[TR]; because kids might find out

06:09 schestowitz[TR]; and then the school needs to distance itself from it

06:10 DaemonFC; Right, the reason they can pay so little is the alternatives in the jobs market are so bad.

06:10 schestowitz[TR]; put that on russian tv of chinese state channel:

06:10 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Mom said "I noticed rent is coming down where I live."

06:11 DaemonFC; I said, "Yeah, with everyone getting laid off and going years without raises..."

06:11 schestowitz[TR]; "us so poor teachers get literallyed *****"

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06:11 DaemonFC; "They thought they'd move from California or Illinois or New York to Indiana and work remotely and then the bank or the software company fired them."

06:11 DaemonFC; "Now there's nowhere in Indiana to work that pays that much so they have to get up and leave again.

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06:11 schestowitz[TR]; i saw an article about remote work

06:11 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: It slays me when people fondly recall the "economy" under Trump.

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; cannot recall when

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; hours ago

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; it said somewthing

06:12 DaemonFC; In Indiana all I ever heard was "Is anyone hiring?"

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; oh, i knoe wherer

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; it said the us government is trying to end remote work

06:12 DaemonFC; It's fucking horrible out there.

06:12 schestowitz[TR]; i saw only the first paragrraph

06:13 schestowitz[TR]; so the long term plan is to 'save' the business estate "sector"

06:13 schestowitz[TR]; and force epeople to buy a car

06:13 schestowitz[TR]; and gasolinne

06:13 schestowitz[TR]; to commute to glass and metal cages

06:13 schestowitz[TR]; where they have a little pew and a portion of a desk

06:15 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I welcome it.

06:15 DaemonFC; I wanted to get Mandy's Social Security card unrestricted.

06:15 TR News; Interest rate cuts are coming, but the Bank of Canada won't say when https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/interest-rates-mortgage-bank-of-canada-inflation-1.7093530

06:15 TR Bot; Interest rate cuts are coming, but the Bank of Canada won't say when | CBC News

06:15 DaemonFC; But thanks to "COVID" they shut down the local office and wouldn't let anyone come in.

06:16 DaemonFC; Only now will we get around to that this week.

06:16 DaemonFC; They need to actually go back to the office and work.

06:16 TR News; Drug problems in Canada https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-sets-grim-record-with-2-511-toxic-drug-deaths-in-2023-1.7093528

06:16 TR Bot; B.C. sets grim record with 2,511 toxic drug deaths in 2023 | CBC News

06:16 DaemonFC; They wanted me to mail his green card to them and hope nobody lost it!

06:16 TR News; Toxic drugs can make toxic people

06:16 DaemonFC; So that they could spend weeks or months before mailing it back.

06:16 TR News; March for Life 2024 Rally usnews.com/photos/2024/01/19/march-for-life-2024-rally

06:17 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I told the lady on the phone, "You're kidding, right? Immigration is like the DMV times 1 million and you want me to go ask them for a replacement green card and pay $600 for it if the post office or someone at Social Security mishandles this?"

06:18 TR News; wrong suspect photo being sent https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/fifth-day-of-jscn-inquest-first-week-wraps-up-1.7088385

06:18 TR Bot; Experts delve into killer's psychology at James Smith Cree Nation massacre inquest | CBC News

06:18 DaemonFC; "Also, it's a misdemeanor if he doesn't carry it on him at all times, so how does that work? Me mailing it to you."

06:18 DaemonFC; They need to just get in there and do their jobs and quit moping about in their pajamas.

06:19 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: It's harder for Canada to control inflation rates with interest hikes than it is for the United States.

06:20 DaemonFC; The US economy is much bigger and the world is pretty much dollarized.

06:20 TR News; Cloudwashing https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/deploying-automation-mesh-ansible-clouds

06:20 TR Bot; Deploying Automation mesh with Ansible on Clouds

06:20 DaemonFC; If they move in lockstep with the Federal Reserve and some other central banks, then it will have more effect.

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06:21 DaemonFC; It would be appropriate for smaller countries with iffy national credit ratings to use the USD or Euro.

06:21 DaemonFC; But many don't.

06:21 TR News; My 2023 in Perl https://blogs.perl.org/users/leon_timmermans/2024/01/my-2023-in-perl.html

06:21 TR Bot; 2023 in Perl | Leon Timmermans [blogs.perl.org]

06:22 DaemonFC; They instead inflict triple digit inflation on their citizens.

06:22 DaemonFC; Until there's closets worth of cash worth so little it's not worth taking to any bank.

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06:22 TR News; Alaska Charter Company Pays $900k After Guide Caused Wildfire by Not Properly Extinguishing Campfire www.usnews.com/news/best-states/alaska/articles/2024-01-24/alaska-charter-company-pays-900k-after-guide-caused-wildfire-by-not-properly-extinguishing-campfire

06:23 TR News; Raku Conference 2024 to Host a Science Track! "https://blogs.perl.org/users/oodler_577/2024/01/perl-raku-conference-2024-to-host-a-science-track.html

06:23 TR Bot; & Raku Conference 2024 to Host a Science Track! | Oodler 577 [blogs.perl.org]

06:23 DaemonFC; https://www.ocregister.com/2024/01/25/javier-milei-reminds-the-world-of-the-dangers-of-collectivism-and-the-value-of-capitalism/

06:23 TR Bot; Javier Milei reminds the world of the dangers of collectivism and the value of capitalism Orange County Register

06:24 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Richard Stallman is one of those people that doesn't really know shit about economics.

06:25 DaemonFC; I've spent most of the past ten years telling anyone who would listen that there would be a high price to pay for keeping interest rates near zero and that they should have started going up a long time ago.

06:25 DaemonFC; If the Fed had kept them around 3-4% for the duration we wouldn't have seen that bout of horrific inflation.

06:25 DaemonFC; It lowers them too much, keeps them there for too long, then raises them sharply and won't commit to that for long enough.

06:26 TR News; (NEW): Perl Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Perl_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Perl_Leftovers.gmi

06:26 TR Bot; Tux Machines Perl Leftovers

06:26 DaemonFC; So you get the economy being tossed around and the people suffering every sort of pain it brings.

06:26 DaemonFC; From bouts of inflation to horrific waves of layoffs and back again.

06:28 schestowitz[TR]; <DaemonFC> schestowitz[TR]: Richard Stallman is one of those people that doesn't really know shit about economics.

06:28 schestowitz[TR]; we clashed politely

06:28 schestowitz[TR]; about this

06:28 schestowitz[TR]; when i said us is like socialism for the rich

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; and then he insisted it's the wrong term

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; "socialism"

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; maybe because he then explained what socialism means

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; or is for

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; and why to equate the us system to socialism for the rich is wrong

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; i have this on camera

06:29 schestowitz[TR]; video

06:29 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The "business cycle".

06:30 DaemonFC; It's artificial. It's designed to make it so cheap to borrow money they pay the people to do it.

06:30 DaemonFC; Because the loans cost less than the inflation rate.

06:30 DaemonFC; So people can pump money into stupid things, then skim and shut down the business before it ever has a product or profits.

06:31 DaemonFC; And it creates "jobs" for a while.

06:31 DaemonFC; But you can see that not even Microsoft is set up to survive these interest rates.

06:31 DaemonFC; If they don't stop soon, Microsoft is in very deep shit.

06:31 DaemonFC; And that's not a startup, it's Microsoft.

06:31 DaemonFC; They'll probably go on in some capacity.

06:32 DaemonFC; But they're scuttling everything that's not part of their core business to try to keep other areas running.

06:32 schestowitz[TR]; https://simplywall.st/stocks/us/software/nasdaq-msft/microsoft/news/microsoft-nasdaqmsft-seems-to-use-debt-rather-sparingly-1

06:32 TR Bot; Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Seems To Use Debt Rather Sparingly - Simply Wall St News

06:32 schestowitz[TR]; http://techrights.org/n/2023/11/15/Microsoft_s_Total_Debt_Has_Just_Surged_to_an_All_Time_High_of_1.shtml

06:32 TR Bot; Techrights Microsoft's Total Debt Has Just Surged to an All-Time High of 106 Billion Dollar (26 Billion Increase in Just 3 Months Despite Mass Layoffs)

06:33 DaemonFC; Where's the cash, Roy?

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; in somewherew

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; i keep saying

06:33 DaemonFC; Does this factor in the nearly $30 billion they owe the IRS now?

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; noboody audits this

06:33 DaemonFC; :)

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; they claim to have x in the bank

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; or in cash

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; whichh bank?

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; which country?

06:33 DaemonFC; That's almost half their "official debt".

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; how much?

06:33 DaemonFC; What they owe in back taxes to the IRS.

06:33 admfubar; https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=24/01/27/1857230&from=rss

06:33 TR Bot; California Bill Calls for Tech to Make New Cars Unable to Speed - SoylentNews

06:33 schestowitz[TR]; who checkss?

06:34 schestowitz[TR]; microsoft audiots microsoft

06:34 schestowitz[TR]; and then lays off thousands

06:34 schestowitz[TR]; *audits

06:34 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: You think we're seeing more Microsoft layoffs because they realize they are going to pay the IRS at least most of this?

06:34 DaemonFC; And they panic.

06:34 schestowitz[TR]; i forgot about this already

06:35 DaemonFC; I mean, you can fight the IRS in tax court but it's very rare that you walk away not owing them most of what they demanded, or all of it even.

06:35 schestowitz[TR]; http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/10/12/Microsoft_Tax_Evasion.shtml

06:35 TR Bot; Tux Machines Microsoft Tax Evasion

06:35 admfubar; audiots... i like that one.. idiots who audit

06:36 schestowitz[TR]; :D

06:36 schestowitz[TR]; funny typo

06:36 admfubar; perfect typing

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06:36 schestowitz[TR]; so they might declare 160 billion in debt?

06:37 schestowitz[TR]; when they finally pay irs?

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06:37 schestowitz[TR]; how much interest is that on a debt?

06:37 admfubar; they work at dewy cheetam, and howe

06:37 schestowitz[TR]; at 5% per annum

06:37 schestowitz[TR]; maybe bill gates can bail them out with his "vaccine money"

06:38 admfubar; he'll pay them in m$ stocks

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; :D

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; they are worth a lot

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; because

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; if you divide it

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; a company with sagging share is worth 3000 billion

06:38 schestowitz[TR]; somehow

06:39 schestowitz[TR]; pump and HEY HI DUMP

06:42 admfubar; time for bed

06:54 DaemonFC; https://www.newsweek.com/russia-car-crisis-western-sanctions-putin-chukotka-1859832

06:54 TR Bot; Russia Faces Car Crisis

06:54 DaemonFC; > market in response to the war in Ukraine, the Russian Union of Automotive Services said in 2023 that Chinese vehicles frequently break down and regularly require repair and maintenance.

06:54 DaemonFC; > Complaints are also made about the quality of spare parts made in China.

06:54 DaemonFC; > "These are similar to parts for European cars but of very low quality. They cost much less than original spare parts, but they can and do lead to serious damage," an employee of a car service station told local publication URA.RU on condition of anonymity in October 2023.

06:56 DaemonFC; https://finance.yahoo.com/news/covid-era-program-awash-fraud-141658128.html

06:56 TR Bot; A COVID-era program is awash in fraud. Congress aims to wind it down and expand the child tax credit

06:56 DaemonFC; > WASHINGTON (AP) When IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel met privately with senators recently, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee asked for his assessment of a startling report: A whistleblower estimated that 95% of claims now being made by businesses for a COVID-era tax break were fraudulent.

06:56 DaemonFC; > He looked at his shoes and he basically said, Yeah, recalled the lawmaker who posed that question, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.

06:56 DaemonFC; > The answer explains why Congress is racing to wind down what is known as the employee retention tax credit. Congress established the program during the coronavirus pandemic as an incentive for businesses to keep workers on the payroll.

06:57 DaemonFC; > I dont have the exact number, but its like almost universal fraud in the program. It should be ended, Johnson said. I dont see how anybody could support it.

06:57 DaemonFC; > Warren added: The standards were too loose and the oversight was too thin."

06:57 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Funded out of Biden coming for your dog walking money with PayPal 1099s.

06:57 DaemonFC; :)

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08:12 DaemonFC; https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/mortgages/renters-data

08:12 TR Bot; Data: Why Some Renters Wont Buy Homes, Even as Rates Drop - NerdWallet

08:12 DaemonFC; It's about which one is a bigger shit sandwich.

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08:13 DaemonFC; Having to install new pipes and windows is expensive and not being able to move if the economy gets bad where you are or the neighborhood goes to hell is an issue.

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08:13 DaemonFC; Buying a home was "safer" when employment was a steadier thing.

08:14 DaemonFC; The life expectancy of a lot of companies is less than five years from start to finish now, and a lot of jobs really don't want you to stick around for 2-3/

08:14 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: In a couple months, Mandy earns PTO hours twice as fast as a person on their first year.

08:15 DaemonFC; He's worked with a lot of people that have been fired twice and come back since he started.

08:15 DaemonFC; Yeah, the vacation time alone is one reason they don't want you hanging around. Especially in a State that says you get to use it when you want for whatever you want.

08:16 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: They used to make you put in for it before the schedule for that week came out.

08:16 DaemonFC; Now as long as you give them a reasonable notice they have to take you off the schedule and replace it with a vacation day.

08:20 DaemonFC; It really sucks at 0-2 years.

08:20 DaemonFC; You have to work 41.05 hours to get one PTO hour.

08:21 DaemonFC; At 3 years you get 1 PTO hour per 31.20.

08:21 DaemonFC; At 4-6 you get 1 PTO hour per 19.5 hours worked.

08:21 DaemonFC; On year 7 you get 1 every 15 hours.

08:23 DaemonFC; So that's about 6.5 vacation days a year on year 4, but only about 4 days a year right now.

08:24 DaemonFC; The reason why we took some longer vacations than that is some of the days I told him to just ask to be removed from the schedule.

08:24 DaemonFC; This year, I don't expect to owe any federal income tax, so there's no incentive to take unpaid days off.

08:24 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: According to the feds, we're finally so broke we don't pay any income tax.

08:24 DaemonFC; Bidenomics, yay!

08:38 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I got a red light camera ticket thrown out.

08:38 DaemonFC; What a pain in the ass though.

08:39 DaemonFC; The city didn't adequately mark the intersection so they were out of compliance with the State law.

08:40 DaemonFC; I took it up with the police department and they agreed to get rid of it.

08:41 DaemonFC; It got me because I went just SLIGHTLY over the line because of a patch of ice on the road.

08:41 DaemonFC; But the sign that's supposed to be there that says "RED LIGHT PHOTO ENFORCED" is missing.

08:42 DaemonFC; It figures the one day I take that route.

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08:55 DaemonFC; > 3. Homeownership requires more ongoing work

08:55 DaemonFC; > Generally, homeowners are advised to set aside 1% to 4% of their homes value each year for ongoing maintenance costs. The maintenance and repairs of a rental home, on the other hand, are largely left up to the landlord. While the service quality may vary, it rarely comes at an additional cost to the renter. And this isnt lost on those tenants: 55% of renters prefer renting to all of the expenses and effort of homeownership, according to the

08:55 DaemonFC; survey.

08:55 DaemonFC; > While DIY trends have grown significantly over the years through popular culture on television and social media, and later through necessity during the early pandemic not everyone wants to invest in the tools and time necessary to maintain their own home. And those homeowners who choose not to would otherwise have to do the work of hiring someone, another dreadful task.

08:55 DaemonFC; Brown water fuck yeah!

08:55 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: If a pipe explodes, that is the landlord's problem.

08:56 DaemonFC; If the building gets too terrible, we can move to another place.

08:56 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: This is not the best place in the world, but I've lived in much bigger dumps than this.

08:57 DaemonFC; The apartment I described to MinceR where you couldn't turn on the computer, the cooktop, and the TV unless you wanted the people cooking meth downstairs to flip the breaker for you was the worst.

08:57 DaemonFC; It got so cold in winter, there just weren't enough blankets in the world

08:58 DaemonFC; I had an air mattress from Walmart and I put a bed tent on it and opened it enough to blow the heat from a little heater fan in there with me at night.

08:59 DaemonFC; There was no heat in that room.

9 AM, January 28

09:00 DaemonFC; Nothing came out of the register. I had to leave the faucet running all winter (slightly) to prevent it from freezing up completely.

09:00 DaemonFC; Why did I live there? It was $60 a week.

09:00 DaemonFC; I made less than $10 an hour at the time.

09:02 DaemonFC; The government took a big huge bite out of my ass every year because I filed taxes "single".

09:02 DaemonFC; And Trump's tax cut wasn't the law yet.

09:02 DaemonFC; Not for another 13 years.

09:03 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The people cooking meth downstairs had an open WiFi router.

09:03 DaemonFC; So I didn't have an internet bill.

09:04 DaemonFC; I was living on about $1,600 a month working full time, and that was before taxes.

09:05 DaemonFC; The Democrats just cause a bunch of inflation and then raise the minimum wage to what it bought before they inflated your money away.

09:05 DaemonFC; Your standard of living never goes up.

09:05 DaemonFC; They just point to the minimum wage and say "Bigger number herp derp."

09:06 DaemonFC; Meanwhile more and more people are actually making minimum wage.

09:06 DaemonFC; If they can even do that.

09:07 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The greatest lie the devil ever told was convincing people that the government cared about them and was passing legislation to improve their life.

09:07 DaemonFC; :)

09:07 DaemonFC; MinceR: ^

09:08 DaemonFC; You're supposed to report $20 you find laying on the street so they can tax it.

09:08 DaemonFC; They spend that money on illegal aliens they put up at the Four Seasons.

09:08 DaemonFC; While you WORK and PAY to live in a moldy apartment with rotten wood and stuck windows.

09:08 DaemonFC; Trying to eat hot dogs to save on the grocery bill.

09:09 DaemonFC; While the illegals go to Communist Dreams and other leftist loon "news" sites and complain they don't like the food.

09:10 DaemonFC; https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas-defies-supreme-court-border

09:10 TR Bot; Biden Urged to Take 'Control of the Texas National Guard' as State Defies Supreme Court

09:10 DaemonFC; Biden isn't in control of his own faculties.

09:10 DaemonFC; My theory is he died and they replaced him with the thing they were going to put in the Hall of Presidents.

09:12 DaemonFC; https://www.commondreams.org/news/texas-defies-supreme-court-border

09:12 DaemonFC; > Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) called the Supreme Court decision "unconscionable" on social media and argued that Texas should ignore it, both in his post and in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday.

09:12 DaemonFC; > "If someone's breaking into your house, and the court says, 'Oh, sorry. You can't defend yourself.' What do you tell the court?" Roy said. "You tell the court to go to hell, you defend yourself, and then figure it out later."

09:12 DaemonFC; > Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) introduced the Restricting Administration Zealots from Obliging Raiders (RAZOR) Act on Wednesday that would prohibit the federal government from removing or tampering with any state border barriers.

09:17 DaemonFC; MinceR: https://i.imgur.com/kxiPf8K.jpeg

09:18 *schestowitz[TR] back

09:19 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Meme time.

09:20 DaemonFC; :)

09:20 schestowitz[TR]; what about?

09:20 DaemonFC; Biden's Cabinet Tranny.

09:20 DaemonFC; https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/dr-rachel-levine-becomes-first-openly-transgender-person-confirmed-senate-n1262000

09:20 TR Bot; Dr. Rachel Levine becomes first openly transgender person confirmed by Senate to federal post

09:21 DaemonFC; That's no woman, baby! It's a man man!

09:21 TR News; "One thing I love about the newish :focus-visible pseudo-state" https://daverupert.com/2024/01/focus-visible-love/ | Source: Dave Rupert

09:21 TR Bot; beautiful, beefy focus states with :focus-visible | daverupert.com

09:21 TR News; "Topping my CSS wishlist in 2024 are scroll-driven animations and style queries." https://ryanmulligan.dev/blog/scroll-triggered-animations-style-queries/ | Source: Ryan Mulligan

09:21 TR Bot; CSS Scroll-triggered Animations with Style Queries

09:22 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Levine

09:22 TR Bot; Rachel Levine - Wikipedia

09:22 DaemonFC; Pediatrics? Jesus Christ.

09:22 DaemonFC; Who the Hell is going to let THAT near their children?

09:22 DaemonFC; Eww.

09:22 TR News; "Way back in 1993, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature review on Unix desktops." https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/27/opinion_column/ | Source: The Register UK

09:22 TR Bot; The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops The Register

09:23 TR News; (NEW): The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/The_Land_Before_Linux_The_Unix_desktops.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/The_Land_Before_Linux_The_Unix_desktops.gmi

09:23 TR Bot; Tux Machines The Land Before Linux: The Unix desktops

09:23 TR News; "Today, Im ready to adding two recently obtained 12T spinning disks to r730-03." https://dan.langille.org/2024/01/27/adding-another-pair-of-drives-to-a-zpool-mirror-on-freebsd/ | Source: Dan Langille

09:23 TR Bot; Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD Dan Langille's Other Diary

09:23 DaemonFC; I told you Roy, they let some gross fucking people in the government.

09:24 DaemonFC; "Levine was named as one of USA Today's women of the year in 2022, which recognizes women who have made a significant impact on society.[8]"

09:24 DaemonFC; LOL

09:24 DaemonFC; Wow, they had no actual women in the entire country to give the award to?

09:24 TR News; "If you're comfortable logging into a Linux server via SSH and running commands you shouldn't have any major troubles setting it up" https://josh.is-cool.dev/running-a-mastodon-instance-entirely-free-forever/ |

09:24 TR Bot; Running a Mastodon instance entirely free forever | Josh's Cool Dev Blog

09:25 TR News; "Its a vanilla query replace which has lots of convenient ways to get out of it or tweak the text at point and so on." https://idiomdrottning.org/fix-spaces | Source: Idiomdrottning

09:25 TR Bot; Fixing mistyped spaces

09:25 DaemonFC; Of course nobody will tell you what this guy's real name is.

09:26 DaemonFC; Apparently, it's Richard.

09:26 TR News; "Apples new rules in the European Union mean browsers like Firefox can finally use their own engines on iOS." https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/26/24052067/mozilla-apple-ios-browser-rules-firefox | Source: The Verge

09:26 TR Bot; Mozilla says Apples new browser rules are as painful as possible for Firefox - The Verge

09:27 DaemonFC; Kiwi Farms has him under Most Physically Repulsive Tranny.

09:27 DaemonFC; I don't know, between him and Brandon Lobsta, I'd say Levine is the looker.

09:28 TR News; "Have you ever had a brain slip and put out the wrong bins on trash day?" https://lubieniebieski.pl/posts/2024/01/trash-day-website/ | Source: Adam Nowak

09:28 TR Bot; I built a simple app for trash collection reminders :: lubieniebieski by adam nowak

09:30 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I'm so glad I don't live in a country where the police can come harass me for "pronouns".

09:31 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: You ever wonder what goes through their head?

09:32 DaemonFC; "Life just isn't hard enough. Let's make people want to vomit when we go ask for a job application."

09:32 TR News; "His focus was time. Every machine has its own internal clock" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/technology/david-l-mills-dead.html | Source: New York Times

09:32 TR Bot; David L. Mills, Who Kept the Internet Running on Time, Dies at 85 - The New York Times

09:33 DaemonFC; I mean, I don't know how Lobsta even worked for that guy, honestly.

09:34 DaemonFC; If I saw him send the Lobsta over, I'd say "Oh wow, uh, my computer started working again. Have a nice day."

09:34 TR News; "The reasons that have sparked this thought process are not sharable" https://www.gr36.com/2024/01/27/not-a-knowledge.html | Source: Greg Morris

09:34 TR Bot; Greg Morris - Not A Knowledge Problem

09:35 TR News; "Quick PSA for all the people who are subscribed to the People and Blog newsletter with an address that converts the newsletter to an RSS feed: there is a dedicated RSS feed." https://manuelmoreale.com/a-people-and-blogs-psa | Source: Manuel Moreale

09:35 TR Bot; A People and Blogs PSA Manu

09:35 TR News; "Its not that I dont start the process early enough, and its not like I dont have a deadline." https://deadserious.beehiiv.com/p/another-year-another |

09:35 TR Bot; Another year another...

09:36 TR News; "one of the most powerful things I learned early on was in order to drive strong performance" https://makoism.com/the-curse-of-meh/ |

09:36 TR Bot; The Curse of Meh

09:36 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: for now, focusn on tehcnology

09:36 schestowitz[TR]; channel your energy into productive things

09:36 schestowitz[TR]; the EPO tried the same

09:36 schestowitz[TR]; ane it bloew up in their face eventually

09:36 schestowitz[TR]; for years to come

09:37 schestowitz[TR]; evernnn though they had hired seveal expensive law firms

09:37 schestowitz[TR]; and were not some imbeciles

09:37 TR News; "The irony isnt lost on me that this is a small post." https://rubenerd.com/longer-form-posts/ | Source: Ruben Schade

09:37 TR Bot; Longer-form posts

09:38 schestowitz[TR]; pulling lion tails and poking is a bad idea

09:38 schestowitz[TR]; the EPO stopped contacting me after that

09:38 schestowitz[TR]; 2015

09:38 schestowitz[TR]; i had a very high-profile firm protecting me pro bono

09:38 TR News; "We asked a piano teacher what is the deal with digital pianos." https://rachsmith.com/roland-f701/ | Source: Rach Smith

09:38 TR Bot; Roland F701

09:39 schestowitz[TR]; but there are processes to follow

09:39 schestowitz[TR]; with EPO, all the threats came out to the open eventually

09:39 schestowitz[TR]; many newspapers covered it

09:39 schestowitz[TR]; inc. several times Public Eye

09:40 schestowitz[TR]; it is very heard to censor techrights

09:40 schestowitz[TR]; and it gets harder to censor it each year

09:41 DaemonFC; It's very clear that "Not Lobsta" is Lobsta.

09:41 DaemonFC; Same speech patterns. Always calls me "gay Ben Shapiro" whoever that is.

09:42 DaemonFC; > Jon S. von Tetzchner

09:42 DaemonFC; > @jon@vivaldi.net

09:42 DaemonFC; > Soon it will be possible to run browsers on iOS that are not using Webkit. That is a big deal.

09:42 DaemonFC; > Apple is trying to frame it as dangerous.

09:42 DaemonFC; > Sadly it will only possible to run those browsers in the EU and browser makers need then to provide different browsers in the EU and outside. This requires more resources, which makes it harder for smaller developers.

09:42 DaemonFC; > Apple also wants developers to pay for the right to provide downloads from other app stores, which now become possible in the EU, and directly.

09:42 DaemonFC; > IMHO every user on an iPhone, as well as on any other device, should be allowed to run the browser of their choice!

09:43 DaemonFC; ---

09:43 DaemonFC; Don't use an iPhone.

09:43 DaemonFC; Webkit isn't a horrendous browser engine but it's far from the best.

09:43 TR News; "Gould's enigma will probably never be answered." https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-01-26/a-legendary-experiment-that-began-in-1988-suggests-that-evolution-is-predictable.html | Source: El Pas

09:43 TR Bot; A legendary experiment that began in 1988 suggests that evolution is predictable | Science | EL PAS English

09:43 TR News; "One is the quantum simulation of materials" https://www.axios.com/2024/01/27/quantum-computing-ai-algorithms | Source: Axios

09:43 TR Bot; ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2024/01/27/quantum-computing-ai-algorithms )

09:44 TR News; "The objective of this proposal is to widen the scope of Council Regulation (EU) 2021/1173 of 13 July 2021" https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14138-Proposal-for-a-Council-Regulation-on-HPC_en | Source: European Commission

09:44 TR Bot; Have your say

09:45 TR News; "inroads to Indian classrooms with nearly 60% of the educators" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/what-artificial-intelligence-means-for-the-future-of-education/articleshow/107191941.cms | Source: India Times

09:45 TR Bot; generative artificial intelligence: What artificial intelligence means for the future of education - The Economic Times

09:46 TR News; "The Biden administration is expected to award billions of dollars in subsidies to top semiconductor companies including Intel" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/us-to-announce-billions-in-subsidies-for-advanced-chips/articleshow/107188568.cms | Source: India Times

09:46 TR Bot; semiconductor companies: US to announce billions in subsidies for advanced chips - The Economic Times

09:48 TR News; "Last February, the PCRM publicized a new batch of records" https://gizmodo.com/neuralink-hazardous-materials-fine-brain-implant-musk-1851202293 | Source: Gizmodo

09:48 TR Bot; Elon Musk's Brain Implant Company Neuralink Fined for 'Hazardous Materials' Violation

09:49 DaemonFC; https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2024/01/27/1227062470/keto-ketogenic-diet-mental-illness-bipolar-depression

09:49 TR Bot; Keto diets' new frontier: Bipolar disorder, depression and other mental illness : Shots - Health News : NPR

09:49 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I think this is what my mother is talking about all the time.

09:50 TR News; "The DOT inquiry was launched last year after Reuters reported that Neuralink employees made internal complaints about animal experiments being rushed" https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-brain-implant-company-violated-us-hazardous-material-transport-rules-2024-01-26/ | Source: Reuters

09:50 TR Bot; ( status 401 @ https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-brain-implant-company-violated-us-hazardous-material-transport-rules-2024-01-26/ )

09:50 DaemonFC; "Keto diet followers have to get used embracing larger amounts of fat in their diet. The classic form calls for 90% of calories from fat."

09:50 schestowitz[TR]; we have sokme keto products

09:50 schestowitz[TR]; heavily diascounted

09:51 DaemonFC; My reaction to this was it's Atkins all over again.

09:51 schestowitz[TR]; we had so many that we gave some to my inlaws

09:51 schestowitz[TR]; magic and marketing

09:51 schestowitz[TR]; ask microsoft

09:51 schestowitz[TR]; LLMs work

09:51 DaemonFC; Dumpster diving for lobster and computer monitors again?

09:51 schestowitz[TR]; just keep saying it

09:52 DaemonFC; Getting poor Amelia pregnant? LOL

09:52 schestowitz[TR]; people see it's junk

09:52 schestowitz[TR]; but the media will promote the crock anyway

09:52 schestowitz[TR]; for moneey

09:52 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC: fefamation is no laughing matter

09:52 schestowitz[TR]; we keep all the evidence to sue

09:52 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Capitalism. Make too much and if it doesn't sell, just unload it on someone cheaply.

09:53 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I think I mentioned about the toothpaste yesterday.

09:53 DaemonFC; They do it with motor oils too.

09:54 DaemonFC; I grabbed some "Full Synthetic for gasoline trucks" and some for "Hybrid cars".

09:54 DaemonFC; They roll it out and say it has "special benefits".

09:54 DaemonFC; But if you look on it, it all has the dexos logo and is in 5w30, so I mean, it's not going to blow up your old Buick when they cut the price and put it on clearance.

09:55 schestowitz[TR]; in 2015 EPO picked on the wrong people

09:55 schestowitz[TR]; as a result, techrights has since then published thousands of articles about EPO crimes

09:55 schestowitz[TR]; the EPO never tried intimidation anymore

09:55 schestowitz[TR]; it just backfired, each time

09:58 schestowitz[TR]; Microsoft tried too

09:58 schestowitz[TR]; but differently

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; usually catspaw like "Drpizza"

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; they literally sent CHILD RAPISTS Bto this channel

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; to play IRC police

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; irckkkops

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; actually c hild rapists

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; for Microsofct

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; ane then arrested:

09:59 schestowitz[TR]; http://techrights.org/wiki/Peter_Bright/

09:59 TR Bot; Peter Bright

10 AM, January 28

10:00 schestowitz[TR]; `saying you don't like criticism

10:00 schestowitz[TR]; or might kill yourself if it does not stop is not a legal argument

10:00 schestowitz[TR]; i bet bright wished he had n ot been born

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; and thee press needs to do more

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; to hold micerosoft accountable for it

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; it used Bright to plant many hits pieces

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; and to promote UEFI among lother horrible tthings

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; i reckon Microsoft knew he was raping kids

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; but they could use that for leverage over him

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; he hardlly hide the fact he was raping kids

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; he wore a tshift

10:01 schestowitz[TR]; he called himself that

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; he kept dropping hints he was targeting children

10:02 DaemonFC; Most people like that see nothing wrong with their crimes.

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; yes

10:02 DaemonFC; So they don't go to great effort to hide how perverted and disgusting they are.

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; they get accusotmed to it

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; deluded

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; they think they can go on twitter

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; adovocate lowering age of consent

10:02 schestowitz[TR]; and people will be like "hey, cool, liberal"

10:02 DaemonFC; Like any child should have some morbidly obese man in his 40s trying to do sex shit to them. This world is falling apart.

10:03 DaemonFC; People have no shame.

10:03 DaemonFC; Big fat disgusting pervert promoting Microsoft on Ars.

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; he was not the first

10:03 DaemonFC; While making cringeworthy comments on his Twitter, which is still there.

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; there was also Emill

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; and another onbe

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; whose nname i forgot

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; emil then moved to another site

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; then vanished

10:03 schestowitz[TR]; Microsoft Peter tuirned out to have been raping kids

10:04 schestowitz[TR]; while on MicrosoftNast dole

10:04 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: What will Microsoft do now that even the media they could bribe and slip articles to falls apart?

10:04 DaemonFC; Probably falling apart because the Microsoft gravy train is coming to a halt.

10:07 DaemonFC; https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/google-launches-chrome-nightlies-for-windows-11-on-arm/

10:07 TR Bot; The year of Windows on Arm? Google launches official Chrome builds. | Ars Technica

10:07 DaemonFC; LOL

10:08 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Windows is warmed over 90s garbage.

10:08 DaemonFC; Chromebooks work fine for most people.

10:08 DaemonFC; Mandy uses one.

10:08 DaemonFC; I showed him how to install Debian and use apt.

10:09 DaemonFC; Microsoft ends up giving up on Windows ARM ports and taking billions in write downs and doing it all over again.

10:09 DaemonFC; Intel threatened them openly if they put an x86 emulator on them.

10:09 DaemonFC; So it's just not viable.

10:11 TR News; "As generative AI rollouts go, though, this is a big one." https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2024/01/new-ai-powered-google-chrome-browser-end-of-human-internet.html | Source: NYMag

10:11 TR Bot; New AI-Powered Google Chrome Browser: End of Human Internet?

10:11 TR News; "Ive just completed the process to delete my 14-years-old Soundcloud account." https://minutestomidnight.co.uk/blog/leaving-soundcloud/ | Source: Simone Silvestroni

10:11 TR Bot; Minutes to Midnight - Leaving Soundcloud

10:11 DaemonFC; https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/01/openai-updates-chatgpt-model-with-potential-fix-for-ai-laziness-problem/

10:11 TR Bot; OpenAI updates ChatGPT-4 model with potential fix for AI laziness problem | Ars Technica

10:11 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Open"AI" cut their prices in half.

10:11 schestowitz[TR]; SPAM

10:11 DaemonFC; They can't get people to take it.

10:11 schestowitz[TR]; from Microsoft site

10:11 schestowitz[TR]; funded by Microsofgt

10:11 DaemonFC; The cost to process this shit hasn't gone down.

10:11 TR News; "Cruise, the self-driving car company whose robotaxi dragged a pedestrian" https://gizmodo.com/bad-internet-concealed-cruise-s-dragging-incident-1851200958 | Source: Gizmodo

10:11 TR Bot; Bad Internet Connection Concealed Cruises Pedestrian-Dragging Incident

10:13 TR News; "Their operations often involve compromise of valid accounts and" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/russian-hackers-which-hit-microsoft-also-targeted-other-organisations/articleshow/107180182.cms | Source: India Times

10:13 TR Bot; Microsoft: Russian hackers who hit Microsoft also targeted other organisations - The Economic Times

10:21 TR News; "If someone breaks into my apartment" https://hamatti.org/posts/please-dont-force-me-to-log-in/ | Source: Juha-Matti Santala

10:21 TR Bot; Please, dont force me to log in : Juha-Matti Santala

10:23 TR News; "Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a letter Thursday alleging that the US National Security Agency (NSA)" https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/us-senator-releases-letter-alleging-nsa-buys-personal-data-without-warrant/ | Source: JURIST

10:23 TR Bot; US senator releases letter alleging NSA buys personal data without warrant - JURIST - News

10:28 TR News; "Just over half of what gets collected (19800 tons), the rest is used as fuel" https://idiomdrottning.org/tetra-recycling | Source: Idiomdrottning

10:28 TR Bot; Recycling of TetraPaks in Sweden

10:28 TR News; "The arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning" https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-01-26/will-we-ever-be-able-to-have-a-conversation-with-animals.html | Source: El Pas

10:28 TR Bot; Will we ever be able to have a conversation with animals? | Science | EL PAS English

10:30 TR News; "Ukraine was the number one targeted country, followed by the United States" https://www.dw.com/en/eu-elections-a-prime-target-for-disinformation/a-68085224 | Source: Deutsche Welle

10:30 TR Bot; elections a 'prime target' for disinformation DW 01/25/2024

10:30 TR News; "This month, Elon Musk, who has since bought Twitter and rebranded it X" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/elon-musk-is-spreading-election-misinformation-but-xs-fact-checkers-are-long-gone/articleshow/107182722.cms | Source: India Times

10:30 TR Bot; Elon Musk: Elon Musk is spreading election misinformation, but X's fact checkers are long gone - The Economic Times

10:32 TR News; "This would be a nasty end for any independent media property." https://www.wired.com/story/plaintext-hairpin-blog-ai-clickbait-farm/ | Source: Wired

10:32 TR Bot; Beloved Indie Blog 'The Hairpin' Turned Into an AI Clickbait Farm | WIRED

10:32 TR News; "Two weeks after Ghazaleh's arrest, I received a message from her mobile phone." https://www.dw.com/en/iran-sentences-niece-of-dw-journalist-to-jail/a-68095325 | Source: Deutsche Welle

10:32 TR Bot; sentences niece of DW journalist to jail DW 01/26/2024

10:33 TR News; "A Moscow court ruled on Friday to extend the sentence of imprisoned Wall Street Journal" https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/moscow-court-extends-wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-prison-sentence/ | Source: JURIST

10:33 TR Bot; Moscow court extends prison sentence for WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich - JURIST - News

10:34 TR News; "Sattoriy, 42, is known for investigating corruption allegations against local officials and criticizing regional authorities in his native Surkhondaryo Province on his vlog People's Opinion" https://www.rferl.org/a/uzbekistan-bloggers-prison-visits/32794480.html | Source: RFERL

10:34 TR Bot; Uzbek Rights Defender Given Rare Access To Imprisoned Bloggers

10:34 TR News; "No other information was given to the people who were with Altnta in the car." https://anfenglishmobile.com/freedom-of-the-press/ma-journalist-altintas-taken-into-custody-in-adiyaman-71484 | Source: ANF News

10:34 TR Bot; ANF | MA journalist Altnta taken into custody in Adiyaman

10:36 TR News; "Today in Tedium: Its not unheard of for smartphones to be tied to specific countries" https://tedium.co/2024/01/26/region-locking-history-apple/ | Source: Tedium

10:36 TR Bot; How Region-Locking Shaped Technology

10:37 TR News; "Apple has long resisted any changes to its App Store rules, citing security and privacy." https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/apple-app-store-eu-changes | Source: Axios

10:37 TR Bot; ( status 403 @ https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/apple-app-store-eu-changes )

10:38 TR News; "core technology fee" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/spotify-says-apples-plan-to-comply-with-eu-regulation-farce/articleshow/107178280.cms | Source: India Times

10:38 TR Bot; Spotify: Spotify says Apple's plan to comply with EU regulation 'farce' - The Economic Times

10:38 TR News; "I, as a user, have absolutely no desire to install another App Store on my device" https://www.gr36.com/2024/01/27/other-app-stores.html | Source: Greg Morris

10:38 TR Bot; Greg Morris - Other App Stores

10:38 TR News; "But Rovenskys framing captures the dichotomy" https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/apples_plans_for_the_dma | Source: John Gruber

10:38 TR Bot; Daring Fireball: Apples Plans for the DMA in the European Union

10:38 TR News; "The European Union is fascinating case study in law and geopolitics" https://rubenerd.com/the-eus-iphone-plans/ | Source: Ruben Schade

10:38 TR Bot; The EUs iPhone plans

10:38 TR News; "Apple is being forced to allow outside web rendering engines on iOS in the EU" https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/international-version/ | Source: Jamie Zawinski

10:38 TR Bot; jwz: "International" Version

10:43 TR News; "X has effectively gutted its moderation team since its transition into Elon Musk rule" https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/01/25/explicit-ai-generated-taylor-swift-pics-circulate-online/ | Source: Digital Music News

10:43 TR Bot; ( status 520 @ https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/01/25/explicit-ai-generated-taylor-swift-pics-circulate-online/ )

10:43 TR News; "deluge of nonconsensual pornographic material" https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/deepfake-explicit-images-of-taylor-swift-spread-on-social-media-swifties-are-fighting-back/articleshow/107181842.cms | Source: India Times

10:43 TR Bot; Taylor Swift: Deepfake explicit images of Taylor Swift spread on social media: Swifties are fighting back - The Economic Times

10:43 TR News; "White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre weighed in yesterday as well" https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/27/24052841/taylor-swift-search-blocked-x-twitter-ai-images | Source: The Verge

10:43 TR Bot; X appears to block Taylor Swift searches... barely - The Verge

10:44 TR News; "this is not the first time this has happened to a celebrity" https://www.salon.com/2024/01/26/taylor-swift-george-carlin-ai-deepfakes/ | Source: Salon

10:44 TR Bot; Swift and George Carlin nonconsensual deepfakes prompt possible legal actions against AI use | Salon.com

10:44 TR News; "The assault on Swift's famous image serves as a reminder of how deepfakes have become easier to make" https://text.npr.org/1227091070 | Source: NPR

10:44 TR Bot; Deepfakes exploiting Taylor Swift images exemplify a scourge with little oversight

10:46 TR News; "social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management" https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-house-calls-legislation-regulate-ai-amid-explicit/story?id=106718520 | Source: ABC

10:46 TR Bot; Fake explicit Taylor Swift images: White House is 'alarmed' - ABC News

10:46 TR News; "The George Carlin in that video is not the beautiful human who defined his generation and raised me" https://siliconangle.com/2024/01/26/george-carlins-estate-files-suit-ai-generated-comedy-special/ | Source: Silicon Angle

10:46 TR Bot; Carlins estate files suit over AI-generated comedy special - SiliconANGLE

10:47 TR News; Jetflicks and iStreamitAll https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-lawsuit-with-19tb-of-data-one-ton-of-print-discovery-heads-for-trial-240127/ | Source: Torrent Freak

10:47 TR Bot; Lawsuit With 19TB of Data & ONE TON of Print Discovery Heads For Trial * TorrentFreak

10:48 TR News; assange https://thedissenter.org/project-censored-assange-update-book-talk-red-emmas/ | Source: The Dissenter

10:48 TR Bot; January Assange Update, 'Guilty of Journalism' Book Talk

10:52 TR News; "SparkFun has just unveiled the latest addition to its BlueSMiRF lineup" https://linuxgizmos.com/bluesmirf-v2-high-speed-esp32-based-module-with-duplex-transmissions-up-to-921600bps/ | Source: Linux Gizmos

10:52 TR Bot; ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/bluesmirf-v2-high-speed-esp32-based-module-with-duplex-transmissions-up-to-921600bps/ )

10:53 TR News; "Following the stable Wine 9.0 release recently" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/wine-91-released-starting-off-another-year-of-development/ | Source: GamingOnLinux

10:53 TR Bot; 9.1 released starting off another year of development | GamingOnLinux

11 AM, January 28

11:07 TR News; COVID-19 jabs have not proven to be good value thus far; this is why many people are still sceptical of them. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/opinion/covid-vaccine-skepticism-doctor.html

11:07 TR Bot; Opinion | Covid Vaccine Hesitancy Took Off This Winter. Can We Fix It? - The New York Times

11:07 TR News; Pluralistic: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons (27 Jan 2024) https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/27/here-comes-the-sun-king/

11:07 TR Bot; Pluralistic: Solar is a market for (financial) lemons (27 Jan 2024) Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

11:19 TR News; U.S takes the China chip war to the next level - will soon stop Chinese companies from using American clowns for Hey Hi (AI) training https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/us-takes-the-china-chip-war-to-the-next-level

11:19 TR Bot; U.S takes the China chip war to the next level - will soon stop Chinese companies from using American clouds for AI training | Tom's Hardware

11:21 *psydroid2 (~psydroid@u8ftxtfux23wk.irc) has joined #techrights

11:28 TR News; Russia Puts Writer Akunin On Wanted List After Anti-Kremlin Comments https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-writer-akunin-wanted-list-foreign-agent/32793607.html

11:28 TR Bot; Russia Puts Writer Akunin On Wanted List After Anti-Kremlin Comments

11:29 TR News; Russian comedian declared foreign agent says denied entry to Indonesia per Russias request https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/01/27/russian-comedian-declared-foreign-agent-says-denied-entry-to-indonesia-per-russia-s-request | Source: Meduza

11:29 TR Bot; Russian comedian declared foreign agent says denied entry to Indonesia per Russias request Meduza

11:31 TR News; Moscow court extends prison sentence for WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/moscow-court-extends-wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-prison-sentence/

11:31 TR Bot; Moscow court extends prison sentence for WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich - JURIST - News

11:32 schestowitz[TR]; https://lunduke.substack.com/p/no-the-c-mascot-is-not-a-diseased

11:32 TR Bot; No. The C++ Mascot is not a "diseased rat named Keith" drawn by RMS.

11:33 schestowitz[TR]; did not click

11:33 schestowitz[TR]; DaemonFC might have a laugh

11:37 TR News; How To Install Arduino IDE on Fedora 39 https://idroot.us/install-arduino-ide-fedora-39/

11:37 TR Bot; How To Install Arduino IDE on Fedora 39 - idroot

11:38 TR News; How to Check System Integrity on Ubuntu https://idroot.us/check-system-integrity-ubuntu/

11:38 TR Bot; How to Check System Integrity on Ubuntu - idroot

11:38 TR News; Find Command on GNU/Linux with Examples https://idroot.us/find-command-linux/

11:38 TR Bot; Find Command on Linux with Examples - idroot

11:38 TR News; How to Get GNU/Linux Apps: The 7 Ways To Do It https://fosspost.org/how-to-get-linux-apps-software/

11:38 TR Bot; How To Get Linux Apps: The 7 Ways To Do It

11:40 TR News; How to fix zypper command not found https://owlhowto.com/how-to-fix-zypper-command-not-found/

11:40 TR Bot; How to fix zypper command not found

11:41 TR News; How to Install GNOMEs New Camera App in Ubuntu 24.04/23.10 https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2024/01/install-gnomes-camera-app-ubuntu/

11:41 TR Bot; How to Install GNOMEs New Camera App in Ubuntu 24.04/23.10 | UbuntuHandbook

11:45 TR News; Linux: Create Encrypted Tunnels with SSH Port Forwarding https://thenewstack.io/linux-create-encrypted-tunnels-with-ssh-port-forwarding/

11:45 TR Bot; Linux: Create Encrypted Tunnels with SSH Port Forwarding - The New Stack

11:45 TR News; Over at Tux Machines... https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml

11:45 TR Bot; Techrights Over at Tux Machines...

11:49 TR News; EndeavourOS Galileo Neo Released with GNU/Linux Kernel 6.7 and Improved Installer https://9to5linux.com/endeavouros-galileo-neo-released-with-linux-kernel-6-7-and-improved-installer

11:49 TR Bot; Galileo Neo Released with Linux Kernel 6.7 and Improved Installer - 9to5Linux

11:55 TR News; Pets Appear to Slow Cognitive Decline in Older People Who Live Alone https://www.sciencealert.com/pets-appear-to-slow-cognitive-decline-in-older-people-who-live-alone

11:55 TR Bot; Appear to Slow Cognitive Decline in Older People Who Live Alone : ScienceAlert

noon, January 28

12:01 TR News; (NEW): Today's HowTos http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/today_s_howtos.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/today_s_howtos.gmi

12:01 TR Bot; Tux Machines today's howtos

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12:41 TR News; (NEW): Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 11 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Arch_Linux_Based_SystemRescue_11_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6_6.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Arch_Linux_Based_SystemRescue_11_Released_with_Linux_Kernel_6_6.gmi

12:41 TR Bot; Tux Machines Arch Linux-Based SystemRescue 11 Released with Linux Kernel 6.6 LTS

1 PM, January 28

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2 PM, January 28

14:05 TR News; "A quick tip - if you spend a lot of time on the smolnet, you'll invariably end up on non-encrypted www sites. Later versions of Firefox will "helpfully" block downloads, such as PDFs, from such sites. To disable this annoyance, go to about:config and set 'block_download_insecure' to false." gopher://gopher.unixlore.net:70/0/glog/firefox-block-download-insecure.md

14:06 TR News; Finding DEIMOS: Johnny as the fool gemini://obsessivefacts.com/fiction/2024-01-28-johnny-as-the-fool.gmi

14:07 TR News; SpellBinding: DHIMORU Wordo: POPES gemini://gemini.ucant.org/heterodox-tech/links/2024-01-28_links.gmi

14:08 TR News; SpellBinding: DHIMORU Wordo: POPES gemini://tilde.cafe/~spellbinding/gemlog/2024-01-28.gmi

14:09 TR News; "Playing around with govidious, I grew comfortable enough to make something more useful. This gopher hole now hosts lists of various privacy respecting foss front-ends in _ /files/underside/ _[1], sourced from the fantastic farside[2] project." gopher://triapul.cz/0/phlog/2024-01-28-underside.txt

14:13 TR News; Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD https://dan.langille.org/2024/01/27/adding-another-pair-of-drives-to-a-zpool-mirror-on-freebsd/

14:13 TR Bot; Adding another pair of drives to a zpool mirror on FreeBSD Dan Langille's Other Diary

14:16 MinceR; 28 101726 <@DaemonFC> MinceR: https://i.imgur.com/kxiPf8K.jpeg

14:16 MinceR; lol

14:16 TR News; (NEW): Today's Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/today_s_leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/today_s_leftovers.gmi

14:16 TR Bot; Tux Machines today's leftovers

14:18 TR News; (NEW): Security and Windows TCO Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.1.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Security_and_Windows_TCO_Leftovers.1.gmi

14:18 TR Bot; Tux Machines Security and Windows TCO Leftovers

14:25 TR News; (NEW): Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Free_Libre_and_Open_Source_Software_Leftovers.gmi

14:25 TR Bot; Tux Machines Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers

14:36 TR News; Techrights Links 28/01/2024: David L. Mill Obituary and Right of Publicity as Growing Issue Due to Fakes http://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Links_28_01_2024_David_L_Mill_Obituary_and_Right_of_Publicity_a.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Links_28_01_2024_David_L_Mill_Obituary_and_Right_of_Publicity_a.gmi

14:36 TR Bot; Techrights Links 28/01/2024: David L. Mill Obituary and Right of Publicity as Growing Issue Due to Fakes

4 PM, January 28

16:09 TR News; European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members) (updated) https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/European_Patent_Office_Wants_Staff_to_Work_More_Hours_for_No_In.shtml

16:09 TR Bot; Techrights European Patent Office Wants Staff to Work More Hours, for No Increase in Pay, and Abandon Families (E.g. Children, Elderly People, Disabled Family Members)

16:09 TR News; [Meme] European Patent Office, Run by Microsoft, for Abusive Monopolist Microsoft https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_European_Patent_Office_Run_by_Microsoft_for_Microsoft.shtml

16:09 TR Bot; Techrights [Meme] European Patent Office, Run by Microsoft, for Microsoft

16:10 TR News; Galileo Neo with Kernel 6.7.1, Plasma offline and Calamares fixes https://endeavouros.com/news/galileo-neo-with-kernel-6-7-1-plasma-offline-and-calamares-fixes/

16:10 TR Bot; Neo with Kernel 6.7.1, Plasma offline and Calamares fixes EndeavourOS

16:10 TR News; Techrights Statement on Harassment Against Family Members https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Techrights_Statement_on_Harassment_Against_Family_Members.shtml

16:10 TR Bot; Techrights Techrights Statement on Harassment Against Family Members

16:10 TR News; [Meme] The Smear Campaign Against Eben Moglen Isn't Over, SFC Associates Still Defame Him and Pretend Their Critics Are Just Ableists (More Namecalling) https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/28/Meme_The_Smear_Campaign_Against_Eben_Moglen_Isn_t_Over_SFC_Asso.shtml

16:10 TR Bot; Techrights [Meme] The Smear Campaign Against Eben Moglen Isn't Over, SFC Associates Still Defame Him and Pretend Their Critics Are Just Ableists (More Namecalling)

16:10 TR News; Yesterday https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/27/Microsoft_Front_Group_Via_Microsoft_Funded_Staff_Promoted_Micro.shtml

16:10 TR Bot; Techrights Microsoft Front Group, Via Microsoft-Funded Staff, Promoted Microsoft-Funded Think Tank Yesterday

16:14 TR News; Videos and Shows: A Week's Outline and TLLTS https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/27/Videos_and_Shows_A_Week_s_Outline_and_TLLTS.shtml

16:14 TR Bot; Techrights Videos and Shows: A Week's Outline and TLLTS

16:17 TR News; The Future of Academic Freedom https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-future-of-academic-freedom

16:17 TR Bot; The Future of Academic Freedom | The New Yorker

16:20 TR News; The serial strangler of men, as per police reports, wishes Techrights to stop talking about him strangling women. "Father" of GitHub CoPilot, loves women.. when they're dead. Loves films where woman totally subconscious (coma) are raped. THIS IS MICROSOFT MANAGEMENT MATERIAL!!

16:21 TR News; The Talospace Project: Firefox 122 on POWER https://www.talospace.com/2024/01/firefox-122-on-power.html

16:21 TR Bot; Firefox 122 on POWER

16:22 TR News; Building a Powerful CRUD Application with Next.js and Vercel Postgres https://medevel.com/crud-example-with-next-js-and-vercel-postgres/

16:22 TR Bot; Building a Powerful CRUD Application with Next.js and Vercel Postgres

16:23 TR News; Exploring Web Hacker's Weapons: The Ultimate Toolkit for Ethical Hackers https://medevel.com/web-hackers-weapons/

16:23 TR Bot; Exploring Web Hacker's Weapons: The Ultimate Toolkit for Ethical Hackers

16:24 TR News; "Terrorist group sez" articles... https://www.rferl.org/a/us-strikes-yemen-huthi/32794197.html find out if it is true, THEN report

16:24 TR Bot; Huthis' TV Says U.S., British Air Strikes Target Yemen Port

16:26 TR News; headline: state verifiable facts, verified observations. summary: present the gist of the findings. body: speak to experts, give their views. No room for "Putin says" if what he says contradicts the above

16:28 TR News; European Patent Office Talks of New Tools Based on 'Open Source' While Outsourcing Almost Everything to Proprietary Spyware of Abusive Monopolist Microsoft https://news.techrights.org/n/2024/01/26/European_Patent_Office_Talks_of_New_Tools_Based_on_Open_Source_.shtml

16:28 TR Bot; Techrights European Patent Office Talks of New Tools Based on 'Open Source' While Outsourcing Almost Everything to Proprietary Spyware of Microsoft

16:33 TR News; MedRescue: Simplify Emergency Medical Services (Free and Open-source App) https://medevel.com/medrescue/

16:33 TR Bot; MedRescue: Simplify Emergency Medical Services (Free and Open-source App)

16:34 TR News; Building a Powerful Note App with Tauri, React, and TailwindCSS https://medevel.com/note-app-with-tauri/

16:34 TR Bot; Building a Powerful Note App with Tauri, React, and TailwindCSS

16:35 TR News; "Martin Dvok expressed his frustration with the failed vote Thursday on X (formerly known as Twitter)"... outsourced to Elon Musk. Insane! https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/czech-republic-senate-rejects-istanbul-convention/

16:35 TR Bot; Czech Republic senate rejects Istanbul Convention on violence against women - JURIST - News

16:36 TR News; Expats: Amazon show with Hong Kong Umbrella Movement protest scenes not shown in city https://hongkongfp.com/2024/01/27/expats-amazon-show-with-hong-kong-umbrella-movement-protest-scenes-not-shown-in-city/

16:36 TR Bot; 'Expats' show with Hong Kong protest scenes not available in city

16:37 TR News; Raspberry PI Robot HAT (by SunFounder): Control Sensors and Motors for DIY Robots https://peppe8o.com/raspberry-pi-robot-hat-sunfounder/

16:37 TR Bot; Raspberry PI Robot HAT (by SunFounder): Control Sensors and Motors for DIY Robots

16:43 TR News; Hamas inside? https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240127-%F0%9F%94%B4-live-un-security-council-to-meet-after-icj-issues-gaza-ruling

16:43 TR Bot; Western countries suspend funding for UN agency in Gaza after Israeli accusations

16:44 TR News; UN manned by people who believe in stoning

16:44 TR News; US, China say top officials had 'candid' talks in Bangkok https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240127-us-china-say-top-officials-had-candid-substantive-talks-in-bangkok

16:44 TR Bot; US, China say top officials had 'candid' talks in Bangkok

16:45 TR News; US senator releases letter alleging NSA buys personal data without warrant https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/us-senator-releases-letter-alleging-nsa-buys-personal-data-without-warrant/

16:45 TR Bot; US senator releases letter alleging NSA buys personal data without warrant - JURIST - News

16:47 TR News; (NEW): Budgie 10.9 Desktop Adds Initial Wayland Support, Redesigned Bluetooth Applet http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Budgie_10_9_Desktop_Adds_Initial_Wayland_Support_Redesigned_Blu.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Budgie_10_9_Desktop_Adds_Initial_Wayland_Support_Redesigned_Blu.gmi

16:47 TR Bot; Tux Machines Budgie 10.9 Desktop Adds Initial Wayland Support, Redesigned Bluetooth Applet

16:50 TR News; Libel, the Knights of Malta, and Demons https://reason.com/volokh/2024/01/27/libel-the-knights-of-malta-and-demons/

16:50 TR Bot; Libel, the Knights of Malta, and Demons

16:51 TR News; Spot prices negative Sunday night https://yle.fi/a/74-20071685

16:51 TR Bot; Spot prices negative Sunday night | Yle News | Yle

16:53 TR News; (NEW): GNOME battery charge control http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/GNOME_battery_charge_control.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/GNOME_battery_charge_control.gmi

16:53 TR Bot; Tux Machines GNOME battery charge control

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5 PM, January 28

17:03 TR News; No, couples choosing not to over-populate the planet is not "fertility crisis" https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/baby-boom-expected-in-china-during-dragon-year-not-enough-to-save-fertility-crisis

17:03 TR Bot; Baby boom expected in China during Dragon Year not enough to save fertility crisis | The Straits Times

17:07 TR News; (NEW): 9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/9_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Graphical_YouTube_Tools_Bypassing_t.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/9_Best_Free_and_Open_Source_Graphical_YouTube_Tools_Bypassing_t.gmi

17:07 TR Bot; Tux Machines 9 Best Free and Open Source Graphical YouTube Tools Bypassing the Web-Only Barrier

17:13 TR News; Chinas new youth jobless rate does little to quell scepticism about economic data https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/china-s-new-youth-jobless-rate-does-little-to-quell-scepticism-about-economic-data

17:13 TR Bot; Chinas new youth jobless rate does little to quell scepticism about economic data | The Straits Times

17:13 TR News; (NEW): 5 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/5_Compelling_Reasons_Why_You_Should_Learn_Linux.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/5_Compelling_Reasons_Why_You_Should_Learn_Linux.gmi

17:13 TR Bot; Tux Machines 5 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Learn Linux

17:15 TR News; "Like a lot of people on Twitter at the time, I watched the transfer of ownership to Elon Musk play out like two aircraft carriers on an unalterable collision course." gemini://rawtext.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/1-28.gmi

17:16 TR News; "Games such as RoboRally use random movement cards to program the motion of an object through a hazardous environment." gemini://thrig.me/blog/2024/01/28/the-cards-my-destination.gmi

17:35 TR News; (NEW): SparkyLinux Kicks Off 2024 with MLVWM Macintosh-Like WM and Calamares 3.3 http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/19/SparkyLinux_Kicks_Off_2024_with_MLVWM_Macintosh_Like_WM_and_Cal.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/19/SparkyLinux_Kicks_Off_2024_with_MLVWM_Macintosh_Like_WM_and_Cal.gmi

17:35 TR Bot; Tux Machines SparkyLinux Kicks Off 2024 with MLVWM Macintosh-Like WM and Calamares 3.3

17:45 TR News; (NEW): Niri: A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Niri_A_Scrollable_Tiling_Wayland_Compositor.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Niri_A_Scrollable_Tiling_Wayland_Compositor.gmi

17:45 TR Bot; Tux Machines Niri: A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor

6 PM, January 28

18:02 TR News; (NEW): Annotating the Debian packaging directory http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Annotating_the_Debian_packaging_directory.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/Annotating_the_Debian_packaging_directory.gmi

18:02 TR Bot; Tux Machines Annotating the Debian packaging directory

18:05 TR News; (NEW): AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/AMD_Open_Sources_Drivers_for_XDNA_Based_NPUs.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/AMD_Open_Sources_Drivers_for_XDNA_Based_NPUs.gmi

18:05 TR Bot; Tux Machines AMD Open Sources Drivers for XDNA-Based NPUs

7 PM, January 28

19:55 TR News; (NEW): New renderers for GTK http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/New_renderers_for_GTK.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/01/28/New_renderers_for_GTK.gmi

19:55 TR Bot; Tux Machines New renderers for GTK

19:59 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/24011634

19:59 TR Bot; WHOOPSIE

8 PM, January 28

20:55 MinceR; https://ircz.de/p/24011548

20:55 TR Bot; WHOOPSIE

9 PM, January 28

21:24 *psydruid (~psydruid@jevhxkzmtrbww.irc) has left #techrights

21:30 DaemonFC; > [1/28/24 5:32 am] <schestowitz[TR]> https://lunduke.substack.com/p/no-the-c-mascot-is-not-a-diseased

21:30 TR Bot; No. The C++ Mascot is not a "diseased rat named Keith" drawn by RMS.

21:30 DaemonFC; > [1/28/24 5:32 am] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- lunduke.substack.com | No. The C++ Mascot is not a "diseased rat named Keith" drawn by RMS.

21:30 DaemonFC; > [1/28/24 5:33 am] <schestowitz[TR]> did not click

21:30 DaemonFC; > [1/28/24 5:33 am] <schestowitz[TR]> DaemonFC might have a laugh

21:30 DaemonFC; :)

21:30 DaemonFC; I think it should be a pig with lipstick named Brandon.

21:30 DaemonFC; But that's totally my idea for a mascot.

21:31 DaemonFC; Not for any particular reason.

21:31 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: A diseased rat named Keith who abandoned his girls, cheated the IRS, and doesn't get Social Security.

21:32 DaemonFC; Keith lives on an oxygen tank now from all those years inhaling fumes in his shop, with his elderly parents.

21:32 DaemonFC; When they die, the IRS will take their house to satisfy Keith's back taxes and he still won't get Social Security.

21:33 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Karma.

21:33 DaemonFC; If he didn't run out on his girls and paid his taxes, he'd have had a much better life.

21:37 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: He could always hope for bureaucratic inefficiency.

21:37 DaemonFC; Hurry up and sell the house through an estate sale and take the cash before the IRS realizes he has a house and slaps a lien on it.

21:37 DaemonFC; But then he'd have to put actual cash money somewhere before they realized what happened.

21:38 DaemonFC; And file a return for that tax year and pay his taxes on the house out of the money from the house so that they can't pursue criminal charges (because his older taxes are too old for criminal charges).

21:42 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Outlook IMAP is down again.

21:57 DaemonFC; "HP also questions the security of third-party ink companies' supply chains, especially compared to its own supply chain security, which is ISO/IEC-certified."

21:57 DaemonFC; Major companies shipped Windows malware before.

21:57 DaemonFC; Apple shipped some that installed itself when you plugged an iPod in.

21:58 DaemonFC; Then said this was your fault for not buying a Mac.

21:58 DaemonFC; Blame the customer seems to be a thing at Apple.

10 PM, January 28

22:00 DaemonFC; https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/driverless-cars-always-have-a-driver/

22:00 TR Bot; jwz: "Driverless" cars always have a driver

22:00 DaemonFC; > Tonight I was chatting with an old acquaintance who now works for one of these murderbot companies (the conversation was... fraught) and they told me that it was commonly known amongst their staff that SFPD is well aware that every vehicle has a responsible party, but they pretend not to know, because it sounds complicated and annoying to deal with.

22:00 DaemonFC; > Now, I'm also not crazy about this model where the corporation shields themselves with these call-center "liability crumple zones". The model is to use a contractor as ablative shielding. If anything goes wrong due to the design of their wildly unsafe and speculative murderbots, the company will just chum another minimum-wage employee into the jaws of the legal system and slot a new one in place, as happened in Arizona. It is not a great model!

22:01 DaemonFC; > Even if it were true that the current laws do not have a mechanism for anyone to be held accountable when a driverless car breaks the law, endangers, injures or kills someone -- which, again, is not true -- the proper response to that would be to say, "Well, I guess we'll have to adjust those laws BEFORE we allow these vehicles on the roads."

22:01 DaemonFC; > But that didn't happen because Capitalism wants you dead.

22:02 DaemonFC; https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/y-combinator-ceo-wishes-death-to-sf-supervisors/

22:02 TR Bot; jwz: Y Combinator CEO wishes death to SF supervisors

22:03 DaemonFC; https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/01/international-version/

22:03 TR Bot; jwz: "International" Version

22:03 DaemonFC; > Apple is being forced to allow outside web rendering engines on iOS in the EU, so in the full spirit of malicious compliance, they are going to allow that only in the EU. Mozilla's mad that they will have to maintain two different browser releases.

22:03 DaemonFC; > Hmmm, this rings a bell, why does this sound so familiar....

22:11 MinceR; corporations don't want to take responsibility for the damage they cause

22:11 MinceR; there's a shocker

22:26 DaemonFC; > "That is incorrect -- it was not drawn by me. (I would be unable to draw that; I am not very good at drawing.)

22:26 DaemonFC; > I have a low opinion of C++, but I don't hate it.

22:26 DaemonFC; >

22:26 DaemonFC; > Dr Richard Stallman"

22:28 DaemonFC; ---

22:28 DaemonFC; MinceR: The border "compromise" basically only gives the President the ability to close the border if there are more than 5,000 illegal immigrant encounters per day on average for a week.

22:29 DaemonFC; That's 1.825 million per year.

22:29 DaemonFC; And that's the ones Border Patrol encounters.

22:29 DaemonFC; So the bill doesn't actually do anything.

22:29 DaemonFC; Even at the worst of it, we were having less than 5,000 encounters per day.

22:29 DaemonFC; Biden also closed the border at several points without this law he claims he needs.

22:29 MinceR; 28 231114 <@MinceR> corporations don't want to take responsibility for the damage they cause

22:30 MinceR; but at least some genius figured out the cause: "capitalism"

22:30 MinceR; they probably can't define what that is, but that doesn't matter

22:31 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Why would Biden say he needs a new law for something he's already done before and nobody stopped him from doing?

22:31 DaemonFC; This is very confusing. :)

22:31 MinceR; (let alone come up with a solution)

22:32 DaemonFC; https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2024/01/28/man-charged-with-sexually-assaulting-child-under-10-on-multiple-occasions-in-waukegan/

22:32 TR Bot; Man charged with sexually assaulting child under 10 on multiple occasions in Waukegan

22:32 DaemonFC; Mario J. Neckbeard

22:32 DaemonFC; :P

22:32 DaemonFC; Amirite?

22:33 DaemonFC; "The girl told Saldana to stop but he ignored her, Wanzenberg said, adding that Saldana told the child to keep what happened a secret and that he would purchase her a toy."

22:33 DaemonFC; Democrats

22:33 DaemonFC; Democrat's, Patrick! Democrats everywhere!

22:33 DaemonFC; "Wanzenberg said the child did not even understand what was happening to her until she attended the Erins Law presentation at her school recently."

22:34 DaemonFC; Sounds like Peter Bright was here.

22:34 DaemonFC; It's good that they explain to children to talk to their teachers if they are being abused.

22:34 DaemonFC; It's sad that they have to.

22:34 DaemonFC; As fucked up as our public education system is, this is one part that works sometimes.

22:36 DaemonFC; "Attorney Doug Roberts, who is representing Saldana, said in court that there is no physical evidence in the case."

22:36 DaemonFC; Send the attorney to the incinerator too.

22:37 DaemonFC; https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2024/01/28/judge-releases-man-accused-of-hitting-toddler-in-face-causing-serious-injuries-in-round-lake/

22:37 TR Bot; Judge releases man accused of hitting toddler in face, causing serious injuries in Round Lake

22:37 DaemonFC; They let him out and told him to show up on Wednesday.

22:38 DaemonFC; After he punched a baby.

22:38 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: The local "news" is now just copypasting things people on Facebook say annoy them at the grocery store.

11 PM, January 28

23:05 MinceR; (cat) (no audio) https://i.imgur.com/Yab4WQx.mp4

23:18 DaemonFC; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_the_system

23:18 TR Bot; Gaming the system - Wikipedia

23:18 DaemonFC; NHS dentistry in the UK sees the frequent use of gaming the system in the form of adapting treatment to the payment system, which is frequently referred to as simply "gaming". The practice of adapting treatment to payment systems, rather than clinical need, is thought to be widespread in NHS dentistry and is considered by some to be a result of a poorly planned target based system.[12] The term is also used to describe obfuscation of the scope of NHS

23:18 DaemonFC; dentistry in order to "upsell" items of treatment that should be available.

23:18 DaemonFC; ----

23:18 DaemonFC; Same with Medicaid.

23:18 DaemonFC; My Ex, "the sponge" was at the dental clinic with me where they found one cavity. Mom found him a Medicaid dentist to go see for the filling, and they took him the X-Rays.

23:19 DaemonFC; This old German dentist walked in, according to "the sponge", and said "It is a lovely day we are having, of course every day is lovely when you're my age."

23:19 DaemonFC; And then drilled and filled four teeth.

23:20 DaemonFC; "The sponge" recently pleaded guilty to felony charges for shooting a senior citizen while firing a shotgun in a field.

23:23 DaemonFC; He works for the county community school corporation now.

23:33 TR News; WSJ: missing UK businessman convicted and being held for espionage in China https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/wsj-missing-uk-businessman-convicted-of-espionage-in-china/

23:33 TR Bot; WSJ: missing UK businessman convicted and being held for espionage in China - JURIST - News

23:34 TR News; China music student convicted in US for harassing democracy activist https://www.jurist.org/news/2024/01/china-music-student-convicted-in-us-for-harassing-democracy-activist/

23:34 TR Bot; China music student convicted in US for harassing democracy activist - JURIST - News

23:34 TR News; Chinas young workers turn to singing bowls to combat sleeplessness, stress https://hongkongfp.com/2024/01/27/chinas-young-workers-turn-to-singing-bowls-to-combat-sleeplessness-stress/

23:34 TR Bot; China's workers nap away worries with singing bowls

23:35 TR News; Problems run deep as Chinese football slides into abyss https://hongkongfp.com/2024/01/28/problems-run-deep-as-chinese-football-slides-into-abyss/

23:35 TR Bot; Problems run deep as Chinese football 'slides into abyss' | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP

23:35 TR News; "Hydroelectric dams are usually major infrastructure projects that costs tens of millions of dollars to construct." https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/a-hydroelectric-dam-built-out-of-lego/ | Source: Hackaday

23:35 TR Bot; Hydroelectric Dam, Built Out Of LEGO | Hackaday

23:36 TR News; "Simple" https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/in-praise-of-simple-projects/ | Source: Hackaday

23:36 TR Bot; Praise Of Simple Projects | Hackaday

23:38 TR News; Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) Hey Hi (AI) https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-makes-a-big-ai-push-with-future-cpus-panther-lake-in-2025-will-double-the-ai-performance-over-arrow-lake-and-lunar-lake

23:38 TR Bot; Intel to deliver a 5X jump in AI in just two chip generations Panther Lake in 2025 will double the AI performance over Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake | Tom's Hardware

23:38 TR News; Fiasco over Hong Kongs solid waste charging scheme highlights flaws in the way government works https://hongkongfp.com/2024/01/28/fiasco-over-hong-kongs-solid-waste-charging-scheme-highlights-flaws-in-the-way-government-works/

23:38 TR Bot; Hong Kong's waste charging fiasco highlights flaws in government

23:40 TR News; Im Okay With Layoffs If A Video Game Company Shakes Its Keys At Me https://www.thegamer.com/im-okay-with-layoffs-if-a-video-game-company-shakes-its-keys-at-me/

23:40 TR Bot; Im Okay With Layoffs If A Video Game Company Shakes Its Keys At Me

23:41 TR News; Recent Microsoft Layoffs Casts Doubt on Future of Call of Duty https://www.xfire.com/microsoft-layoffs-doubt-future-call-of-duty/

23:41 TR Bot; Microsoft Layoffs Casts Doubt on Future of Call of Duty - Xfire

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; Hey, as a MS stock holder I appreciate the price bump following every layoff.

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1qNbQfAn#replies

23:42 TR Bot; There's no need for these layoffs - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; Was gaming ever a core competency at MS?

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:42 schestowitz[TR]; https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1qMfpAMH#replies

23:42 TR Bot; Microsoft Lays Off 30% of Staff in Sledgehammer Games - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs

23:43 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:43 schestowitz[TR]; This is not driven by bad results. Only by greed.

23:43 schestowitz[TR]; "

23:44 admfubar; https://discuss.pixls.us/t/intriguing-shapes-in-buddhabrot-like-fractals/41816/2

23:44 TR Bot; Shapes in Buddhabrot-like Fractals - #2 by AdmFubar - G'MIC - discuss.pixls.us

23:44 TR News; A General-Purpose PID Controller https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/a-general-purpose-pid-controller/ | Source: Hackaday

23:44 TR Bot; General-Purpose PID Controller | Hackaday

23:45 schestowitz[TR]; admfubar: nice

23:46 schestowitz[TR]; we did Mandelbrot algos in university around 2001

23:46 schestowitz[TR]; in C

23:46 admfubar; that was wierd

23:46 schestowitz[TR]; https://d2x313g9lpht1q.cloudfront.net/original/3X/b/0/b0ae71a260861a8502d25fecf0e73f87c586406c.png

23:46 admfubar; it grabbed my comment

23:46 schestowitz[TR]; looks like a cat

23:47 TR News; "[king process] decided to show us how professional-grade LED signage is made in a Korean shop that specializes in the work." https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/a-look-at-3d-printed-professional-led-signage/ | Source: Hackaday

23:47 TR Bot; Look At 3D Printed Professional LED Signage | Hackaday

23:47 admfubar; yes.. watch the video david posted, it morphs into a starfish like shape

23:47 TR News; Mcuzone MP4GM 4G LTE PCIe Module for Raspberry Pi 5 also adds three USB 2.0 interfaces https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/01/28/mcuzone-mp4gm-4g-lte-pcie-module-raspberry-pi-5-three-usb-2-0/

23:47 TR Bot; Mcuzone MP4GM 4G LTE PCIe Module for Raspberry Pi 5 also adds three USB 2.0 interfaces - CNX Software

23:49 TR News; Devpost for Woman and then nature of womanhood gemini://njms.ca/gemlog/2024-01-28.gmi

23:50 DaemonFC; By paying dentists well below a market rate, what single payer dental encourages is for the dentist to go looking for things that don't actually need done, to run the meter.

23:51 DaemonFC; Canada has already completely fucked up single payer healthcare, and instead of fixing it by paying nurses and doctors better than McDonald's employees, they want to go further and nationalize dental as well.

23:51 DaemonFC; "We're already out of money and nurses and doctors flee the country to work in the US. What should we do? Run a dental program!"

23:52 DaemonFC; "We can also pay plastic surgeons to do medically unnecessary surgery on mentally ill people."

23:53 TR News; Ground-Effect Vehicle To Carry Passengers Around Hawaii https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/ground-effect-vehicle-to-carry-passengers-around-hawaii/ | Source: Hackaday

23:53 TR Bot; Vehicle To Carry Passengers Around Hawaii | Hackaday

23:54 TR News; Hovercraft https://hackaday.com/2024/01/27/hotshot-3d-printed-hovercraft-is-devastatingly-fast/ | Source: Hackaday

23:54 TR Bot; 3D Printed Hovercraft Is Devastatingly Fast | Hackaday

23:54 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: Amusingly, NetSurf loads the "local" "news" sites without those annoying autoplay videos.

23:54 schestowitz[TR]; yes

23:54 schestowitz[TR]; it works with mannnnnny sites

23:54 schestowitz[TR]; just now the way they envision them looking

23:54 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: "The annoying things people do at grocery stores."

23:54 DaemonFC; "People on Facebook say...."

23:54 DaemonFC; This is news now.

23:55 DaemonFC; Just go Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V some crap from Facebook.

23:55 TR News; Racine Review: I Couldn't Make It https://boilingsteam.com/racine-review/index.html

23:55 TR Bot; Racine Review

23:56 schestowitz[TR]; that is "news" now

23:56 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I had a tailgater in a big pickup truck today.

23:56 schestowitz[TR]; it added nothing new

23:56 DaemonFC; I just slowed down until he passed me.

23:56 schestowitz[TR]; an article whose core thing is, someone said in twitter

23:57 DaemonFC; My a tailgater should be national news.

23:57 DaemonFC; I mean, forget the war in Ukraine, the Hamas thing, the Houthis, COVID, just forget all of that.

23:58 DaemonFC; The tailgater annoyed me. If I put it on TikTok this is in the national interest section.

23:58 TR News; Londons Highline Will Echo Its New York Inspiration, With Local Notes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/world/europe/london-camden-high-line.html

23:58 TR Bot; Londons Highline Will Echo Its New York Inspiration, With Local Notes - The New York Times

23:58 schestowitz[TR]; maybe they should check efficacy of the vaccine

23:58 schestowitz[TR]; or why excess mortality is so high

23:59 schestowitz[TR]; but that's harder

23:59 TR News; Step-by-Step Guide: Developing a Flask Application for Running System Commands and Bash Scripts https://medevel.com/build-a-flask-app-to-run-system-commands-and-bash-scripts/

23:59 TR Bot; Step-by-Step Guide: Developing a Flask Application for Running System Commands and Bash Scripts

23:59 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR]: I'm on the sewing machine right now.

23:59 DaemonFC; Stitching up some pajamas and underwear with holes.

23:59 DaemonFC; This too is national news.

23:59 DaemonFC; :)

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