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08:58 schestowitz-TR; irc logs for the day
08:58 schestowitz-TR; are now
08:58 schestowitz-TR; posted :-)
08:58 schestowitz-TR; thanks!!
08:58 schestowitz-TR; been spenfing/wasting a lot of time in IRC this past week
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10:00 schestowitz-TR; I am about to read this text
10:00 schestowitz-TR; before I do
10:00 schestowitz-TR; I wanted to say
10:00 schestowitz-TR; I removed cars, TVs and to some extent phones from my life
10:00 schestowitz-TR; the mind can focus better
10:00 schestowitz-TR; and also I spoke about electric windows in cars
10:00 schestowitz-TR; You would not expect electronic replacements for many
10:00 schestowitz-TR; mechanical things that are otherwise easy to repair by
10:00 schestowitz-TR; hand inc. bikes
10:00 schestowitz-TR; reading now...
10:03 schestowitz-TR; OK, so this is more about ISPs than cars
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I do need an ISP and they all suck, almost literally\
10:03 schestowitz-TR; so it ends up being a "least evil" choice
10:04 schestowitz-TR; the energy providers here are the same
10:04 schestowitz-TR; price hikes while profits soar
10:04 schestowitz-TR; so I sarted using the electric shaver again
10:04 schestowitz-TR; it's from my grnandpa who dies 25 years ago
10:04 schestowitz-TR; *died
10:04 schestowitz-TR; those don't last that long anymore
10:04 schestowitz-TR; I mean the shavers, not the grandpas
10:04 schestowitz-TR; though with covid-19, both statements would be true
10:04 schestowitz-TR; you can see this week's rants of mine in schestowitz.com
10:04 schestowitz-TR; covid is infecting more than 1% of the pop every single week
10:06 schestowitz-TR; vis a vis cars,
10:06 schestowitz-TR; last night when doing the nend of month tasks (takes about 30 mins)
10:06 schestowitz-TR; I watched the talk rms gave in germany in 2019
10:06 schestowitz-TR; he did mention some aspects of modern cars
10:06 schestowitz-TR; that I had not thought off
10:06 schestowitz-TR; *of
10:06 schestowitz-TR; made a joke about KSA/MbS along the way
10:06 schestowitz-TR; and how they would use cars
10:06 schestowitz-TR; iirc,. uber is largely KSA_funded
10:09 schestowitz-TR; the shaver that I use still uses the same blades grandpa weas using in the 90s
10:10 schestowitz-TR; they are not the best, but they are good enough
10:10 schestowitz-TR; maybe the companies cheapaned the material since then
10:10 schestowitz-TR; the lightbulb model
10:12 Techrights-sec; Yes, I guessed at the beginning that if 35% become infected and 1% of those die
10:12 Techrights-sec; then that is a /lot/ of people. I may have been overly optimistic in both
10:12 Techrights-sec; numbers
10:12 Techrights-sec; Not a surprise that Uber has such financial backing given how badly it damages
10:12 Techrights-sec; society in general and the labor market in particular.
10:12 Techrights-sec; The blades wear out regardless of how well they could make them but they
10:12 Techrights-sec; don't emphasize quality there since the blades now cost a sizable portion
10:12 Techrights-sec; of the cost of a whole new shaver
10:14 schestowitz-TR; call me eccentric
10:14 schestowitz-TR; but there is sentimental value associated with stuff I got from
10:14 schestowitz-TR; grandparents
10:14 schestowitz-TR; so there is also a reluctance to 'modernise' those things
10:14 schestowitz-TR; not being a museum, but rather preserving what I can
10:14 schestowitz-TR; also seeing how utterly shitty the "modern" equivalents tene dto be
10:14 schestowitz-TR; esp. in the sense they do not last long
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10:22 Techrights-sec; "durable" goods aren't any more. They're designed for key, irreplaceable parts
10:22 Techrights-sec; to faile within a year of the warranty ending. A lot of work is apparently
10:22 Techrights-sec; put into that. There is some potential EU legislation about repair that
10:22 Techrights-sec; might cause that to change but odds are that the companies will either lobby
10:22 Techrights-sec; their way out of the legislation or else just ignore it
10:22 Techrights-sec; There was some investigative reports on that kind of thing going back to the
10:22 Techrights-sec; early days of incandescent lightbulbs and nylons. The lifespan of the bulbs
10:22 Techrights-sec; was intentionally reduced through industry-wide consipiracy. Similar with the
10:22 Techrights-sec; nylons which could be made high quality as far as appearance and texture but
10:22 Techrights-sec; robust and resistant to "running". The other industries have slowing started
10:22 Techrights-sec; to follow that kind of scam. In recent years it has been getting out of
10:22 Techrights-sec; conttrol. Louis Rossmann has been finding and publicizing more companies and
10:22 Techrights-sec; products that screw customers that way.
10:22 schestowitz-TR; we now boil water only on the hob with a cover on, as you suggedted
10:22 schestowitz-TR; the hob might not last very long
10:23 schestowitz-TR; but at least it is already there, used for other things too
10:26 schestowitz-TR; quiterss can be a RAM hog
10:26 schestowitz-TR; if you have a lot of feed
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I monitor cpu usage all the time
10:26 schestowitz-TR; over ssh to my main laptop
10:26 schestowitz-TR; quiterss does not do much if idle
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if I will get a home visot from Borisnaro
10:26 schestowitz-TR; for using a Russian RSS reader
10:26 Techrights-sec; That too
10:26 Techrights-sec; Perhaps
10:26 Techrights-sec; I should write one
10:26 Techrights-sec; in Python3
10:26 schestowitz-TR; [H]omer, who helped set up our IRC, did that
10:26 schestowitz-TR; about 15 years ago
10:26 schestowitz-TR; python 2 I think
10:27 schestowitz-TR; slated.org guy
10:30 Techrights-sec; there are a lot of improved things available nowadays
10:30 Techrights-sec; for python scripting
10:30 schestowitz-TR; I've lost any affection I had for python
10:30 schestowitz-TR; (i never had much)
10:31 schestowitz-TR; for technical reasons and guido reasons
10:35 Techrights-sec; never had any for it myself, but python is an unfortunate necessity in many
10:35 Techrights-sec; cases
10:36 schestowitz-TR; i turn off quiterss a lot. afaik, it's still the best option around for several reasons.
10:36 schestowitz-TR; I am glad feedburner is dead
10:36 schestowitz-TR; not so glad some sites outsource to DF
10:36 schestowitz-TR; CF
10:36 schestowitz-TR; which then sends JS instead of RSS
10:37 schestowitz-TR; but if those sites are that dumb
10:37 schestowitz-TR; then let them suffer
10:40 Techrights-sec; Javascript also kills the laptop battery; in 99% of the cases where I've seen
10:40 Techrights-sec; javascript it has been unecessary and counterproductive
10:40 schestowitz-TR; I always have it turned off in quiterss
10:41 schestowitz-TR; if possible, I also view the raw summary, not the html
10:55 Techrights-sec; QuiteRSS consumes *LOTS* of CPU even without javascript
10:55 Techrights-sec; Most "web" pages burn CPU through gratuitous javascript. I wonder how many
10:55 Techrights-sec; of the world's power plants are running full time just to serve javascript
10:55 Techrights-sec; instead of regular HTML + CSS
10:56 schestowitz-TR; i have just observed quiterss
10:56 schestowitz-TR; when idle it takes not even 1% of cpu cycles here
10:56 schestowitz-TR; maybe check config
10:56 schestowitz-TR; or benchmark by observation
10:57 Techrights-sec; powertop shows it also
10:57 Techrights-sec; anyway back in a few hours
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11:23 schestowitz; Do you think it's worth clipping 22:30-23:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jmUNkvvjM ?
11:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Q2jmUNkvvjM
11:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> yewtu.be | Richard Stallman - "Are we facing surveillance like in China?" (Frankfurt, Germany) Jul 15, 2019 - Invidious
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15:13 schestowitz-TR; Do you think it's worth clipping 22:30-23:30 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2jmUNkvvjM ?
15:13 schestowitz-TR; last I tried youtube-dl the whole pipoeline was out of date
15:14 schestowitz-TR; gulag keeps breaking things
15:14 schestowitz-TR; with help from shithub (microsoft)
17:01 Techrights-sec; the gist of the Johnson presentation at LibrePlanet is that the web browsers
17:01 Techrights-sec; are basically functioning as VMs, though he describes the problem very differently
17:01 Techrights-sec; he does nail it by describing javascript sites as slow, bloated, and insecure
17:02 schestowitz-TR; yes, metaphorically a VM
17:02 schestowitz-TR; even the technical term is metaphor
17:02 schestowitz-TR; same for containers
17:02 schestowitz-TR; there are types of these
17:02 schestowitz-TR; microsoft still pretends windows has thgeseB
17:02 Techrights-sec; it is a VM which runs unsigned unauthenticated programs from random origins
17:02 schestowitz-TR; did you see the RMS talk? I think we can link to the whole thing
17:03 schestowitz-TR; he didn't act too badly
17:03 schestowitz-TR; only a small burp halfware
17:03 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned the one minute with light jokes
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17:26 Techrights-sec; yes, I suppose the jokes are humorous but having them in video form
17:26 Techrights-sec; is quite a lot of effort and bandwidth, so if they are used there should
17:26 Techrights-sec; be a summary warning that there are two lighthearted jokes in the video
17:26 Techrights-sec; the second joke was much better than the first one
17:26 schestowitz-TR; oh, yeah, it needs a complete download first
17:26 schestowitz-TR; never mind, at least you alone enjoyed the pointer
17:27 schestowitz-TR; I have about 12-18 more talks from libreplanet I want to share
17:27 schestowitz-TR; some are not appropriate
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17:55 Techrights-sec; which ones would be best?
17:55 Techrights-sec; I have not gone through the others yet, just the two. The years seemed off
17:55 Techrights-sec; in the Johnson summary of WWW history.
17:56 schestowitz-TR; today I posted the jami one
17:56 schestowitz-TR; it was quite popular in the event, I think
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18:22 Techrights-sec; I was going to checkout the Usenet talk soon, either today or tomorrow
18:48 Techrights-sec; otr: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/92e9bb33fac744c9a084381fc35aa3c7
18:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-experience.arcgis.com | Experience
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