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04:17 schestowitz-TR; "I was originally leaning towards Gopher, but exploring Gemini in the Lagrange browser reminded me just how much I love it. Rather than
04:17 schestowitz-TR; boiling the ocean, I might try running my own server with some basic stuff on it first." https://rubenerd.com/feedback-about-gemini-an
04:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://rubenerd.com/feedback-about-gemini-an )
04:17 schestowitz-TR; d-gopher/
04:18 schestowitz-TR; end of month tasks are now done
04:38 schestowitz-TR; we've just donated to the elepahants again
04:38 schestowitz-TR; still giving to the blind every month
04:38 schestowitz-TR; today i think I can pick up publication pace again
04:38 schestowitz-TR; invested much of the past fortnight
04:50 Techrightssec; ack
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05:29 Techrightssec; The handling of the EA sw patent, especially how the press is mishandling it,
05:29 Techrightssec; would be a relevant topic: 20220362677
05:29 schestowitz-TR; i've put that in the list for videos to do today
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07:59 schestowitz-TR; earlier today I got caught up in distraction and some bad feelings over the football
07:59 schestowitz-TR; and maybe some other news I saw
07:59 schestowitz-TR; I really need to find a better way, but this reminded me of twitter
07:59 schestowitz-TR; esp. before I started ignoring it ("write-only")
07:59 schestowitz-TR; it's a sea of fast-changing topics and noise
07:59 schestowitz-TR; almost desighed to not just overwhelm the brain but also provoke
07:59 schestowitz-TR; it was getting really bad some years ago when they curated instead of letting the feeds and stuff work
07:59 schestowitz-TR; in a neutral way based on who or what you actually "followed"
07:59 schestowitz-TR; i'm going to finish links around 9am, then feeds again, then videos
08:25 Techrightssec; ack
08:25 Techrightssec; Rob Braxman's most recent video toed the m$ line to a certain extent.
08:25 Techrightssec; While in some way's knuckling under like that may seem "pragmatic" on the
08:25 Techrightssec; surface, it is 1) wasting your time with m$ junk, methods, and quirks and
08:25 Techrightssec; 2) limiting your future options by 2a) not spending time learning real methods
08:25 Techrightssec; and 2B) feeding market share to m$ instead of squashing it
08:25 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
08:25 Techrightssec; https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/11/30/1230232
08:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | Patent Detects in-Game Collusion by Tracking External Connections - SoylentNews
08:25 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
08:27 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I have that latter one already
08:27 schestowitz-TR; so 3 in total
08:34 schestowitz-TR; linuxbuz is a dead site. never publishes anything. but today it posted LINKSPAM for clown computing. Fake 'article'. https://linuxbuz.com/best-resources/pointers-for-picking-a-cloud-hosting-provider
08:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Pointers for Picking a Cloud Hosting Provider - LinuxBuz
08:36 Techrightssec; linuxbuz or linuxbuzz ? the former might be a scam
08:36 schestowitz-TR; ng-provider
08:36 schestowitz-TR; not the same
08:36 schestowitz-TR; and this one did publish on topic in the past
08:37 Techrightssec; linuxbuz or linuxbuzz ? the former might be a scam by typo squatters
08:37 Techrightssec; the latter seems still on topic but has not published in nearly a month
08:38 schestowitz-TR; I follow both, IIRC
08:38 schestowitz-TR; we might need to 'hunt' for more RSS feeds
08:38 schestowitz-TR; some exist that we don't know about but not many are active
08:38 schestowitz-TR; some are not worth adding because you might get one iterm in 3 years
08:38 schestowitz-TR; or nothing since 3 years ago
08:38 schestowitz-TR; so you are wasting bandwidth at both ends
08:56 Techrightssec; True, but I've been keeping some around anyway on the off chance that
08:56 Techrightssec; they do publish again. They don't take space in the compact view and that
08:56 Techrightssec; is the important thing. Otherwise it would be too inconvenient to wade past
08:56 Techrightssec; them each time.
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09:45 schestowitz-TR; Cryptome https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/30/cryptome-founder-asks-to-be-indicted-with-assange/ | Source: Scheerpost
09:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Cryptome Founder Asks to be Indicted With Assange - scheerpost.com
09:46 schestowitz-TR; I've longer wondered what happened to Cryptome
09:46 schestowitz-TR; brought that up in IRC and prior years in social conntrol media too
09:46 schestowitz-TR; Cryptome was spared
09:46 schestowitz-TR; afaik
09:54 Techrightssec; ack
10:11 schestowitz-TR; education https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/desantis-backed-education-purge-begins-after-school-board-takeovers-florida | Source: Common Dreams
10:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | DeSantis-Backed Education Purge Begins After School Board Takeovers in Florida
10:13 schestowitz-TR; twitter https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/evidence-grows-left-wing-twitter-purge-directed-musk | Source: Common Dreams
10:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Evidence Grows of Left-Wing Twitter Purge Directed by Musk
10:16 schestowitz-TR; this might be the 'missing' piece for my next video+article re twitter
10:30 schestowitz-TR; OTAx3 (3 videos)
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13:06 schestowitz-TR; my upstream speed is awful today
13:06 schestowitz-TR; maybe some device hogging it
13:06 schestowitz-TR; but I've put two drafts online while videos are being sent
13:07 Techrightssec; check nethogs on all machines and maybe iotop on them too
13:07 Techrightssec; do you have openwrt on the router? if so there are some utilities for it as well
13:09 schestowitz-TR; sorry, my writing style is
13:09 schestowitz-TR; type fast, then check afterwards
13:09 schestowitz-TR; so I pass you crude draftsw
13:09 schestowitz-TR; corrected now
13:09 Techrightssec; In the twitter post, the first and second paragraphs should be joined or else
13:09 Techrightssec; the second one bridged content-wise to the first and expanded significantly.
13:09 Techrightssec; In the condenast one, perhaps a few words about how the editorial choices are
13:09 Techrightssec; poor would be warranted.
13:18 Techrightssec; People might not know what Slashdot was or how central it was to tech. Even
13:18 Techrightssec; if they do, they might be unaware about how there were whole teams dedicated
13:18 Techrightssec; to attacking it through derailing the discussions.
13:19 schestowitz-TR; I made that a link to the wiki and added the third draft
13:19 schestowitz-TR; uploads still very slow
13:23 Techrightssec; Team99 was one example.
13:23 Techrightssec; checking third draft
13:23 Techrightssec; s/mindframe/mind set/
13:23 Techrightssec; or world view?
13:23 Techrightssec; s/still dominant/still rather dominant/
13:24 Techrightssec; ???
13:24 Techrightssec; Windows is still rather dominant in laptops and desktops, but only laptops and desktops, plus these days those are even the majority of
13:24 Techrightssec; client devices
13:24 Techrightssec; ???
13:24 Techrightssec; s/are/aren't/
13:25 schestowitz; Windows is still rather dominant in laptops and desktops, but laptops and desktops aren't the majority of devices, certainly not the majority of Internet-connected devices.
13:26 schestowitz-TR; changed as per your rephrasing
13:26 schestowitz-TR; can you give me one ujrl for team 99?
13:28 Techrightssec; not offhand
13:30 schestowitz-TR; you saw a comment from "elizabeth from microsoft" in soylent news too
13:30 schestowitz-TR; that's just when they disclose it upfront
13:30 Techrightssec; but there are a lot of examples of m$ astroturfing against FOSS or for their
13:30 Techrightssec; own products, albiet many hidden
13:30 Techrightssec; https://www.pcworld.com/article/439883/microsoft-caught-astroturfing-bloggers-again-to-promote-internet-explorer.html
13:30 Techrightssec; which thread?
13:30 Techrightssec; Yes, that's just when they disclose it.
13:30 Techrightssec; https://www.pcworld.com/article/439883/microsoft-caught-astroturfing-bloggers-again-to-promote-internet-explorer.html
13:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Microsoft caught 'astroturfing' bloggers again to promote Internet Explorer | PCWorld
13:31 Techrightssec; https://www.theregister.com/2005/05/03/ms_blog_team99/
13:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | Microsoft recruits Longhorn bloggers The Register
13:31 Techrightssec; They've been astroturfing nonstop before during and since Team99
13:33 Techrightssec; https://www.theregister.com/2001/09/26/ms_targets_linux_mac_rivals/
13:33 Techrightssec; from back when The Register was still independent
13:33 Techrightssec; I guess it is to their credit that they have not deleted nor 'reorganized' away
13:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theregister.com | MS targets Linux, Mac rivals with IIS astroturf The Register
13:33 Techrightssec; the old articles. The same goes for Wired.
14:05 Techrightssec; also recall usenet
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14:36 Techrightssec; there was an awful lot of astroturfing from m$ and other anti-Freedom interests
14:36 Techrightssec; towards the end; eventually the ISPs stopped hosting it altogether and
14:36 Techrightssec; for the average person that was the end of it;
14:40 schestowitz-TR; i suppose these days they would just dub it "illegal content" and then pressur the so-called store to ban
14:40 schestowitz-TR; all applications that can handle newsgrouops
14:40 schestowitz-TR; i posted maybe 70k-100k messages to usenet
14:40 schestowitz-TR; but that was a long time ago
14:40 schestowitz-TR; protocols get swapped over over time
14:40 schestowitz-TR; or "replaced"
14:40 schestowitz-TR; twitter and maybe FB are now on the ropes
15:07 Techrightssec; the protocol could not stand up to the astroturfing set against it
15:49 schestowitz-TR; maybe setting quiterss to work from disk rather than from ram solved my io issue
15:49 schestowitz-TR; so far ity appears to have done the trick, after 4 weeks of struggle
15:53 Techrightssec; Interesting
15:53 Techrightssec; QuiteRSS has not been updated for a long time so I hope the developers are ok.
15:54 schestowitz-TR; i tested many rss readers since 2003 or 2004
15:54 schestowitz-TR; quiterss is still best for gui
16:06 schestowitz-TR; Shusain has been flooding his site with linkspam lately. Fake articles. Spam farm. Latest examples: https://linuxtechlab.com/best-streaming-cameras/ https://linuxtechlab.com/what-is-a-cross-platform-android-and-ios-app-development-company-specialized-in/ rotting site. Dead soon?
16:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Best Streaming Cameras - LinuxTechLab
16:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-What is a Cross Platform (Android and iOS) App Development Company Specialized in? - LinuxTechLab
16:13 schestowitz; https://lwn.net/Articles/916223/
16:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://lwn.net/Articles/916223/ )
16:13 schestowitz; "The Document Foundation (TDF) was created in 2010 to steward and support the development of the LibreOffice suite, which was then a new fork of OpenOffice.org. TDF has clearly been successful; unlike OpenOffice, which is currently under the Apache umbrella, LibreOffice is an actively developed and widely used project. But TDF has also been showing signs of stress in recent years, and the situation does not appear to be getting better. There are
16:13 schestowitz; currently some significant disagreements over just what role TDF should play; if those cannot be resolved, there is a real chance that they could rip the Foundation apart. "
16:17 schestowitz-TR; Perl should spent no time and effort cushioning Microsoft proprietary software that's a major threat to security (can quietly introduce back doors at compile time) https://blogs.perl.org/users/tom_wyant/2022/12/making-github-ci-work-with-perl-58.html
16:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Making GitHub CI work with Perl 5.8. | Tom Wyant [blogs.perl.org]
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17:13 schestowitz-TR; "Over the last nine years I have written 300,000 words for this blog on the topics which are important to me. I am not certain that I have much left to say." https://drewdevault.com/2022/12/01/I-shall-toil-quietly.html
17:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-drewdevault.com | I shall toil at a reduced volume
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17:19 Techrightssec; ack
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18:18 Techrightssec; BTW Gannett is cutting more staff yet again.
18:20 schestowitz-TR; they can go to hell
18:20 schestowitz-TR; I feel bad for the real journalists among them
18:20 schestowitz-TR; I hope they start something like scheer did
18:20 schestowitz-TR; first truthdig
18:20 schestowitz-TR; then took the people (mr. fish, hedges etc.) to a new home
18:20 schestowitz-TR; very good site
18:20 Techrightssec; It owns quite a few of the
18:20 Techrightssec; remaining US newspapers
18:20 Techrightssec; Gannett wasn't great but it wasn't as bad as the fake local papers which
18:20 Techrightssec; are owned nationally and rather than finding and reporting local news only
18:20 Techrightssec; serve to disseminate national level propaganda at a local level.
18:21 schestowitz-TR; ok, so Gannett is not as sisnister as I thought
18:21 schestowitz-TR; IIRC, it was pushing trumpism for a bit
18:21 schestowitz-TR; but owns usa today and other historically important names
18:27 Techrightssec; A lot of papers pushed that crap because even though it was terrible for the
18:27 Techrightssec; nation, it was good for their bottom line in the very short term. Though
18:27 Techrightssec; it probably led to the collapse seen now, so they probably shot their own foot.
18:43 Techrightssec; I forget what company owned one local paper but they served a left-of-center
18:43 Techrightssec; community and published matching articles most of the time, except when
18:43 Techrightssec; push came to shove. For example, right before the coup (of sorts) in 2000 they
18:43 Techrightssec; quietly endorsed Little Bush even though every last editorial they had previously published went against that conclusion.
18:43 schestowitz-TR; like billg did
18:45 Techrightssec; Bill appeared to step down as CEO to get into politics, the timing was the
18:45 Techrightssec; big loss that m$ ran the previous year.
18:46 schestowitz-TR; afk
18:46 Techrightssec; Can't find the link for that thouk.
18:46 Techrightssec; ack
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