●● IRC: #boycottnovell-social and #techpol @ Techrights IRC Network: Saturday, December 28, 2024 ●● ● Dec 28 [02:40] TR News Yesterday's #boycottnovell IRC logs ready. HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-271224.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-271224.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-271224.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-271224.txt [02:40] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, December 27, 2024 [02:41] TR News Yesterday's #techbytes IRC logs ready. 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HTML: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-271224.html TEXT: http://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-271224.txt GEMINI GemText: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/irc-gmi/irc-log-techrights-271224.gmi GEMINI Plain Text: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/tr_text_version/irc-log-techrights-271224.txt [02:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | IRC: #techrights @ Techrights IRC Network: Friday, December 27, 2024 [02:50] TR News Yesterday's Tux Machines bulletin is now ready! : http://news.tuxmachines.org/txt-archives/tuxmachines-2024-12-27.txt [02:59] *hawer has quit (Ping timeout: 120 seconds) ● Dec 28 [03:00] *haver has quit (Ping timeout: 265 seconds) [03:43] TR News "Band 9 and below to be replaced with offshoring of any north american resources. If you are not south asian...bye." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w78xzcM [03:43] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1w78xzcM ) [03:44] TR News "I am 67, Band 10 Sales person. Should I worry ?" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vVKVukf [03:44] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1vVKVukf ) [03:45] TR News "Time to cash out if you are not of asian dna. It's been going on for a few years since he took over but now the partner level feel embolden to take out whites and blacks in the USA at the band 7-9 levels and replace them with offshoring or more visa workers." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1waJEpFd [03:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1waJEpFd ) [03:45] TR News "Neither Elmo or Trump's wife are legal immigrants." https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wbvO1Ek [03:45] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1wbvO1Ek ) [03:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/sneps/D1157.jpg [03:50] TR News [cat] gemini://nytpu.com/cheetahs/D1507.jpg [03:51] TR News "I really wanted to do some creative work today. Pulled out brutaldon and started working on converting my most recent personal patch to a patch request on gitlab, only to get discouraged by gitlab being so user-hostile." gemini://carcosa.net/journal/2024-12-27-bored.gmi [03:52] TR News "Something that has been missing from my life, since I started having children, is music. What I mean is that I used to play musical instruments, but I haven't for several years now." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20241227-0.gmi [03:52] TR News "Here are some links related to my contention that LLM or generative AI is not as amazing and wonderful as many think it is. More specifically, LLM is not some intelligent being that has some somehow surpassed the capabilities of mere human reason. Some of the links below were pulled out of the gemini post." gemini://gem.librehacker.com/gemlog/starlog/20241227-1.gmi [03:53] TR News End of Year Sleeplessness gopher://gopher.prismdragon.net:70/0/phlog/2024-12-27_sleepless.txt [03:54] TR News "I should note that all my experience with Ada, save for one course in college in the 1980s, has been with the open source GNAT Ada compiler and the open source Ada ecosystem. I suspect that the situation for commercial Ada users has generally been better than the situation of the open source ecosystem." gemini://consp.org/blog/2024/2024-12-27-re-failing-at-ada-again-things-are-looking-better.gmi [03:55] TR News On Ada's Dependent Types, and its Types as a Whole gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-12-27 [03:56] TR News "This serves as a loosely-related addendum to my post on dependent types in Ada, since it's notable as being the only normal-ish imperative language with dependent types." gemini://nytpu.com/gemlog/2024-12-27-2 [03:57] TR News Little Notes: Small Web and Post-Christmas Edition gemini://tilde.club/~winter/gemlog/2024/12-27.gmi "* I just became aware of Nekoweb as another small web hosting site. Maybe the only actual neocities alternative? It does however, if you go to the Most Followed section, seem to have an overwhelmingly anime vibe (great if that's you're thing, a pass if it's from me)" [03:58] TR News I hate my boss gemini://midnight.pub/posts/2429 "In Robert Greene's book "The 48 Laws of Power," the First Law states to "never outshine the master." The natural sociological order is them in control, you submitting. Both of you benefit from the dynamic being that way." [03:59] TR News sweetallergies gemini://wampa.smol.pub/sweetallergies ● Dec 28 [04:01] TR News i'm not about to de-solder and yank up traces gemini://wampa.smol.pub/im-not-about-to-de-solder-and-yank-up-traces "Was hypertext a mistake?" [04:02] TR News "I stick to my old computers, mainly this average mid-90s desktop and an average early 2000s laptop." gopher://aussies.space:70/0/~freet/phlog/2024-12-28Timewarp_Toolset.txt [04:07] TR News Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 27, 2024 https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_27_2024.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/IRC_Proceedings_Friday_December_27_2024.gmi [04:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 27, 2024 [04:07] TR News Techrights Links 28/12/2024: Having Bosses, Ada's Dependent Types https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Links_28_12_2024_Having_Bosses_Ada_s_Dependent_Types.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Links_28_12_2024_Having_Bosses_Ada_s_Dependent_Types.gmi [04:07] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Links 28/12/2024: Having Bosses, Ada's Dependent Types [04:08] TR News Tux Machines https://tuxmachines.org/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/ [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines [04:08] TR News (NEW): Today in Techrights https://tuxmachines.org/n/2024/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2024/12/28/Today_in_Techrights.gmi [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Today in Techrights [04:08] TR News Techrights Over at Tux Machines... https://techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/n/2024/12/28/Over_at_Tux_Machines.gmi [04:08] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-techrights.org | Techrights Over at Tux Machines... [04:11] TR News FSF fund-raising at 243k now [04:13] TR News "This is my first attempt of writing a plugin. We can select a window (in the GIF below I am using a bash terminal as target) and send any text to that window. This will be helpful in my teaching sessions. Specially modifying larger Python functions etc." https://kushaldas.in/posts/pastewindow-nvim-my-first-neovim-plugin.html [04:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-kushaldas.in | Kushal Das [04:13] TR News "At work, I've been maintaining a perl script that needs to run a number of steps as part of a release workflow." https://grep.be/blog//en/computer/Writing_an_extensible_JSON-based_DSL_with_Moose/ [04:13] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-grep.be | Writing an extensible JSON-based DSL with Moose [04:18] TR News "Companies that reduced their presence in Austin include Microsoft" https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-tech-layoffs-2024-19983796.php [04:18] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- ( status 403 @ https://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/austin-tech-layoffs-2024-19983796.php ) [04:22] TR News GNU/Linux is about 5% in Azerbaijan https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/azerbaijan/#monthly-200902-202412 [04:22] -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social-gs.statcounter.com | Desktop Operating System Market Share Azerbaijan | Statcounter Global Stats [04:22] TR News