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06:20 techrights[sec]; People /still/ don't see ByteDance for what it is, even in spite of
06:20 techrights[sec]; the CBS 60 Minutes segement covering it.
06:20 techrights[sec]; https://www.cbs.com/shows/video/S0bgsSTHv87osLyzWtLXib0kgmTYBc1B/
06:20 techrights[sec]; https://theglobalherald.com/news/tiktok-in-china-versus-the-united-states-60-minutes/
06:20 techrights[sec]; It's not a privacy matter, it's more health matter. More than that, it
06:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Watch 60 Minutes: The question about TikTok - Full show on CBS
06:20 techrights[sec]; is a culture, value, mores, and customs matter. The kids which have been
06:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-theglobalherald.com | TikTok in China versus the United States | 60 Minutes - The Global Herald
06:20 techrights[sec]; programmed by ByteDance via Tiktok may speak English natively but are not
06:20 techrights[sec]; American
06:21 techrights[sec]; It (ByteDance) does need to be banned.
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07:42 techrights[sec]; More precisely it is psychological warfare, out to harm and destroy.
07:42 techrights[sec]; It gets ignore because it is "on a phone"
07:42 schestowitz-pi2; no wonder thy hire lobbyists, rebranded, and bought puff pieces lately
07:51 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "This reflects a loss of 4,638,508 sites, 240,148 domains and 13,907 computers". The Web is shrinking. Many sites go offline. https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2023/02/28/february-2023-web-server-survey.html
07:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.netcraft.com | February 2023 Web Server Survey | Netcraft News
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; i think i got into the rhythm and am posting more articles, linsk etc.
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; while culling bad ones
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; i must admit: it's MENTALLY DIFFICULT to not have RSS reader in the routine
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; for the sole reason that I used one for 20 years
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; now, I always feel like I "need to check out RSS feeds"
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; but remind myself rssoql/thunderbird/quiterss are no more
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; *rssowl (iirc, the first one I used)
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; so everything goes through kate by defauly
09:37 schestowitz-pi2; editor and command lane
09:38 schestowitz-pi2; *line
09:38 schestowitz-pi2; kate has a command lne component too, but I prefer terminals detached
09:38 schestowitz-pi2; vonick has about 20 terminals, two for password management
09:38 techrights[sec]; The new work flow cuts way down on unscheduled surfing, at least for me.
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; in a sense, the programs have turned the www into gemini
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; or plain text with mild formatting
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; mind as in, just some formatting and hypertext, href
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; that in itself can be more readable then a web page because i don't need to click or hover on links
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; i can see right there in the text where they'd go
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; years ago I did wonder if I could quickly extrtact richer text than what I got off quiterss (uses blink or simi
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; lar)
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; today i configured the desk to dim down all screens except one when afk
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; turns out we pay for power almost half what some other couples pay
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; but i want to stretch it further so that never again i'll do a job i don't like for companies I cannot trust
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; i'd work casually, upon needs, there's a new report saying for "Software Development" 40% of workers
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; will one day be "remote"
09:43 schestowitz-pi2; the important thing is to keep the skills and practice them
09:46 schestowitz-pi2; m
09:46 schestowitz-pi2; the unlterior goal is to transition from "i earn, you earn" to "i work all year long, you are free to do projec
09:46 schestowitz-pi2; ts"
09:47 schestowitz-pi2; iow, competing over salaries vs. competing over freedom/happiness (very few jobs mean "freedom")
09:55 techrights[sec]; The push for new PCs is about getting TPM2.0 out among the population in
09:55 techrights[sec]; great enough concentrations as to be able to force more software compliance
09:55 techrights[sec]; Less freedom becomes even theorertically possible with each step in that
09:55 techrights[sec]; direction.
09:56 schestowitz-pi2; TPM2 is being pushed by Club Gulagboy into Linux
09:56 schestowitz-pi2; Torvalds can no longer speak his mind out
09:56 schestowitz-pi2; that's "hate"
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "reason: Because a Chinese company owns TikTok a smart phone app for creating and sharing short videos the Chinese government may be using it to spy" https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/02/the-proposed-tiktok-ban-goes-too-far-the-current-tiktok-ban-doesnt-go-far-enough/ | Source: Counter Punch
09:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Proposed TikTok Ban Goes Too Far. The Current TikTok Ban Doesn't Go Far Enough. - CounterPunch.org
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; the worst part about brexit and cambridge analytica is... PRIVACY?
10:20 schestowitz-pi2; some computing freedom might "always" be possib
10:20 schestowitz-pi2; but "powers that be" will keep it niche, with things like Chrome OS to neutralise
10:20 schestowitz-pi2; it as means of compromise
10:20 schestowitz-pi2; Windows is still bleeding (see TR post)
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10:32 techrights[sec]; Yes, Windows is declining, they're way below the point where they can
10:32 techrights[sec]; demand monopoly rents. Thus the overwhelming majority of their income
10:32 techrights[sec]; from Windows has vanished. Their only other traditional area of income
10:32 techrights[sec]; has been their monopoly rents from the productivity software via their
10:32 techrights[sec]; control of the ever-changing proprietary formats it spreads and exploits.
10:32 techrights[sec]; There have been a lot "bill sez" lately
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; the corporate media is of course all over this
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; reporting the "facts"
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; or bagging money from "bill h. sez" and microSoft
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; i hope more people nowadays know how to respond to the billness puff pieces
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; even if almost no site allows comments anymore
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; the criminal will be gone in a decade or two
10:43 techrights[sec]; Hopefully sooner
10:52 schestowitz-pi2; With the Lord Mayor of Manchester https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/03/02/lord-mayor-of-manchester/
10:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive With the Lord Mayor of Manchester
11:24 techrights[sec]; checking
11:24 techrights[sec]; Good photos
11:24 techrights[sec]; Quite an honor that the lordmayor was there
11:25 schestowitz-pi2; apparently it's quite the exception (they said)
11:25 schestowitz-pi2; and they also did the group photo
11:25 schestowitz-pi2; mike is rianne's referee
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12:58 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Sometimes it seems like Techdirt isn't just running Microsoft ads but it also habitually lobbying for GAFAM interests, including for Microsoft, while bagging "deregulation" Koch money https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/01/microsoft-inks-10-year-deal-to-bring-xbox-games-to-nintendo-consoles/
12:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Microsoft Inks 10 Year Deal To Bring Xbox Games To Nintendo Consoles | Techdirt
13:02 techrights[sec]; What happened? He used to be quite good on /tech/ matters?
13:10 techrights[sec]; However, I stopped reading the site ages ago as fewer and fewer of the articles
13:10 techrights[sec]; were either good or relevant, unlike when he started out.
13:13 schestowitz-pi2; techdirt history
13:13 schestowitz-pi2; 90s: short pists by young man, some links to long articles outside
13:13 schestowitz-pi2; *posts
13:13 schestowitz-pi2; 2000s: longer posts by one man, very high volume, focusing on copyrights
13:14 schestowitz-pi2; 2010: a team of people, many covering politics, don't always agree with them
13:14 schestowitz-pi2; 2015: bad words in headlines, koch money (shiva "help"), pushing to deregulate everything
13:14 schestowitz-pi2; "leave FB alone"... leave tiktok alone... microsoft doing better now
13:14 schestowitz-pi2; i am still in love with the old techdirt
13:14 schestowitz-pi2; so it has ok karma, like sjvn had until ~3 years ago
13:14 techrights[sec]; I forgot about the Koch money :(
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; this is where T.D. and reason.com go off the rails
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; except. reason is worse
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; it attacks net neutrality and some decent politicians
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; esp. in the past 2 weeks
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; i stopped even staring at it
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; as it published some truly disgusting thing
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; so i feel more gulty linking to that domain
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; *thingsa
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; *things
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; (reason.com taks koch money, reasons means whatever kochs call "freedom"... libertarian think tanks)
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; Federalist Society.. same ones pushing for patent maximalists while at the same time shouting
13:29 schestowitz-pi2; "DEF
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; i was just thinking
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; (and hoping) that rather than or not only
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; banningtiktokfor kids' use
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; they will compel politicians to not use FB etc. for "privacy" reasons
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; no high-profile people active in social control media
14:16 schestowitz-pi2; can help wean billions off it
14:22 techrights[sec]; Weaning billions of it would be a good thing but as long as they are distracted
14:22 techrights[sec]; by the strawman of privacy they will not address the even more severe problem
14:22 techrights[sec]; of maniuplation and intentional damage to mental and physical health.
14:23 schestowitz-pi2; it is currently about whose manipulation
14:23 schestowitz-pi2; not the manipulation itself
14:23 schestowitz-pi2; and certainly not a matter of public health
14:23 schestowitz-pi2; like the "residue" or "side effects" of "info" ny algorithms
14:23 schestowitz-pi2; misframed as "by peer"
14:23 techrights[sec]; Yes and it appears they'd really prefer to keep attention off the manipulation.
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; twitter timeline (not sure about other sucj sites)
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; 1) people to follow, chronology and subs honours
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; nothing "injected" from outside who you follow, no "algo"
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; 2)manipulationstarting
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; 3) shadowbanning
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; there are many other aspects
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; it sort of peaked around 2015, i think
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; it manipulated less
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; after 2016 lots of mass culls
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; and optimising for "engagement"
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; ads
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; sort of like gulag youtube in more recent years
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; in 2010 i watched lots of youtube
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; it only presented to me new stuff from channels i had subscribed to
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; this limited "provocation" and time-wasting
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; youtube quality was also higher back then
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; now a lot of youtube is the "bitchute of tiktok"
14:46 schestowitz-pi2; iow, people crapflooding youtube with useless crap they make for the "opium" platform
14:47 techrights[sec]; The biggest turning point against Twitter was the move to aglorithmic sorting
14:47 techrights[sec]; of messages away from chronological order.
15:09 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> (NEW): Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.gmi
15:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday
15:27 schestowitz-pi2; ACLU: banning TikTok would violate the First Amendment https://www.jurist.org/news/2023/02/aclu-banning-tiktok-would-violate-the-first-amendment/
15:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.jurist.org | ACLU: banning TikTok would 'violate the First Amendment' - JURIST - News
15:36 schestowitz-pi2; Lithuania wont ban TikTok from official devices https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1925533/lithuania-won-t-ban-tiktok-from-official-devices
15:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.lrt.lt | Lithuania wont ban TikTok from official devices - LRT
15:36 techrights[sec]; Someone has infiltrated the ACLU and inverted them?
15:36 techrights[sec]; They're taking the opposite stance, one against the public health of the nation.
15:36 techrights[sec]; s/the/an/
15:36 techrights[sec]; s/an/a/
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; we're at the cusp of debate consensus being soldified
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; and i think it already gravitates towards
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; tiktok=militarised=ban it
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; and any other claim would seem insane
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; this is where they rebrand, lobby, and buy "happy stories"
15:39 schestowitz-pi2; critical time
15:40 techrights[sec]; Yes, there is currently a flood of "happy" stories about social control media
15:40 techrights[sec]; going on. It'd say, without much evidence, that it sure seems related to the
15:40 techrights[sec]; ongoing debate about ByteDance
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; i saw the link above hours before you had sent it
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; seeing it now again as I am catching up
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; the weekend is, near so i can complete the catchup
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; we're going to the library soon
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; 12 min walk
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; rianne drops off her resume there
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; then I check the tesco 200m from there
15:43 schestowitz-pi2; they are showing her around
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; we're trying to establish a plan to 67
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; wherein we are mostly free and happy
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; no more 24/7 shifts
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; they are building a massive arena across the road from here, next to the stadium
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; that too can open up some "walking distance" opportunities
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; like a few hours a night
15:44 schestowitz-pi2; my sleep, diet, family life improve, aside from online activities
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; next to rianne sat a young gentleman from HK, tall and maybe 25 years old
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; i think they managed to "suck" some talent out of PRC
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; after that in the restaurant chinese... btw...
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; a friend noted that had hire some guy form HK
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; who said that over there they worked 8am till 8pm
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; at the office
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; some stayed in the office till 11pm
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; 6 times a week
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; sounds no better than japan and s korea
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; now he can work from home 4 hours a day and is very pleased
15:47 schestowitz-pi2; they do highway engineering and such
15:48 techrights[sec]; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/996_working_hour_system
15:48 techrights[sec]; aka modern slavery
15:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | 996 working hour system - Wikipedia
15:50 techrights[sec]; https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-23/tang-ping-lying-flat-generation-rejecting-chinas-work-culture/100477716
15:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.abc.net.au | 'Lying flat': The millennials quitting China's '996' work culture to live 'free of anxiety' - ABC News
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; for full time work i am "done"
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; casual? ok
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; things will come by, over time, but i don't need to hoard
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; living large => slavery
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; opposite => more personal freedom
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; we still have (some level of) national insurance to "fall back" on
15:52 schestowitz-pi2; no eye-watering hospital bills
15:52 techrights[sec]; Exactly
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; btw, look up microsoft github 996
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; and "censorship"
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; many people forgot about this
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; also "gvreat cannon of china" (ddos, iirc via brwoser extensions)
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; in china, gulag search is small
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; and bing is not small
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; because his billness made a pact with .... his kind of people
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; from what i recall, when not cheating on his wife with lolita express
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; he may have gone with some adults of chinese lineage
15:55 techrights[sec]; Yes, a distraction;
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; but I am not sure
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; the latter is mostly used as a distraction from his complicity in outright
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; crimes
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; and maxwell is back in the news again, pleading her innocent while india media
15:55 schestowitz-pi2; is in "spread buttcheeks, publish bill sez"
15:58 techrights[sec]; "bill sez" puff pieces do double service: they distract and they launder
15:59 schestowitz-pi2; they're done for a fee
15:59 schestowitz-pi2; i think more people now resist this BS
16:02 schestowitz-pi2; Young Chinese feeling 'political depression' amid hopelessness about future https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/political-depression-02282023090024.html
16:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.rfa.org | Young Chinese feeling 'political depression' amid hopelessness about future Radio Free Asia
16:06 techrights[sec]; nder
16:06 techrights[sec]; One can hope, but there was a time 20 - 25 years ago when /everyone/ knew
16:06 techrights[sec]; what Bill was about.
16:06 techrights[sec]; https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE
16:06 techrights[sec]; *All* the tech magazines and any newspaper which even had a tech column knew
16:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://y.com.sb/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
16:06 techrights[sec]; about him.
16:06 techrights[sec]; If the same situation were today, he'd be described "as a meme"
16:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> y.com.sb | Homer Simpson and Bill Gates buy out - Invidious
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; the library is nice, connected to a school
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; lots of PCs there
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; so i assume a lot of activity is people "online"
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; the books are "modern" or contemporary ventilation OK
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; sanitary
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; back to the news now...
17:01 techrights[sec]; https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20221016-let-it-rot-once-flourishing-middle-class-faces-end-of-chinese-dream
17:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.france24.com | Let it rot: Once-flourishing middle class faces end of Chinese Dream
17:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Many in Hong Kong continue to wear masks despite end of mandate https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/many-in-hong-kong-keep-wearing-masks-despite-end-of-945-day-long-mandate
17:03 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Many in Hong Kong continue to wear masks despite end of mandate | The Straits Times
17:03 schestowitz-pi2; we were the only ones in the library wearing masks
17:07 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> That seems like a smart move from Japan. Why the negative tone? Because this paper is owned and controlled by PAP and its ilk? https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/japan-s-birth-rate-plunges-to-a-record-low-in-7th-year-of-decline
17:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Japans birth rate plunges to a record low in 7th year of decline | The Straits Times
17:10 schestowitz-pi2; cphpost publishing spam, as do some other sites, might need to add a filter for these to my scripts as even just scrolling past them is unnecessary distraction (notice URL): https://cphpost.dk/2023-03-02/sponsored/a-new-fitness-supplement-sarms/
17:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cphpost.dk | A New Fitness Supplement: SARMs - The Post The Post
17:21 techrights[sec]; checking
17:21 techrights[sec]; It'd be hard to filter from the feed itself though there is /sponsor/ in the
17:21 techrights[sec]; URL path
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; it's the first time i see them do this
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; techdirt has that, the-scientist has loads of these
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; aap in michaelwest is not a solved issue
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; algorithmically, not with the gui in quiterss ("filter")
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; but i still have an abundance of "signal"
17:23 schestowitz-pi2; with 1000+ feeds and two ways to see them
17:24 techrights[sec]; Let me check on the Michael West links...
17:26 schestowitz-pi2; you've fixed it already, i follow that via "merged"
17:26 schestowitz-pi2; today i did lots of catching up with stories
17:26 schestowitz-pi2; phipps just covered FRAND/SEP in OSI's site
17:26 schestowitz-pi2; rianne added this despite it being OSI
17:26 schestowitz-pi2; he's still the least sinister person in OSI
17:26 techrights[sec]; I thought the automated script now skips the AAP posts there
17:26 techrights[sec]; FRAND is pure toxic waste
17:27 schestowitz-pi2; yes, it is fixed there
17:27 schestowitz-pi2; but i use two modes, even three
17:28 schestowitz-pi2; the falkon stuff is best for "sweeping"
17:28 schestowitz-pi2; it shows only headlines and is concise
17:28 techrights[sec]; and amounts to shilling for software patents
17:28 techrights[sec]; In -merged AAP posts are culled from Michael West's feed.
17:36 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> The title here is misinformation which serves Microsoft https://www.linuxtoday.com/developer/pop-os-new-text-editor/
17:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.linuxtoday.com | Pop!_OS Is Working on a New Text Editor Based on Vim, VS Code
17:37 schestowitz-pi2; "Based on Vim, VS Code"
17:38 techrights[sec]; The python script cannot process content. That'd be a waste of time and
17:38 techrights[sec]; effort each time it was run unless there was some major change to the work
17:38 techrights[sec]; flow such that it would make sense.
17:38 techrights[sec]; It's slow as it is and making a full HTTP request for each item in the feed
17:38 techrights[sec]; would take tens of minutes to complete each time. That's just fetching.
17:38 techrights[sec]; Then parsing the HTML would slow that down further.
17:38 techrights[sec]; A more serious problem is that there were 202 links in the latest post
17:38 techrights[sec]; containing links. Regardless of what's in them, that's way too many for
17:38 techrights[sec]; a single post.
17:39 schestowitz-pi2; what's a good number or "sweet spot"?
17:39 schestowitz-pi2; 100?
17:39 schestowitz-pi2; i try to focus on technical things and judge by importance, i.e. no sport, gossip...
17:57 techrights[sec]; I'm not sure. Maybe 100 or less for now.
17:57 techrights[sec]; The thing is that there are quotes included along with the titles so
17:57 techrights[sec]; even 100 is a lot to wade through. Quality is better than quantity.
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; ok, i will finalise my current batch
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; it's mostly gnu/linux
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; if we have MOAR of those links, the better
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; as they're not so easy to find anymore
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; and you can see sites like linuxtoday slowing down to like 4 posts per day, half of which howtos
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; and missing some very important news of the day
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; the quality, i think, is in the topology and clustering
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; both in TM and TR
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; other sites lack the tools and workflow to organise them similarly
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; some tried and gave up
17:59 schestowitz-pi2; and we have 3 people working on it, if not more if you count marius
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; so emergent news can come within <1 hour, almost real time
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; even when we're outside the house
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; the problem witn long Daily Links is,
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; the entaiol a lag between breaking news and appearance in TR
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; so breaking them down into smaller batches means latency is lower
18:00 schestowitz-pi2; biab, finalising
18:06 techrights[sec]; ity.
18:06 techrights[sec]; Given the work flow as it is, there is not a way to shorten the cycle that I
18:06 techrights[sec]; can think of.
18:08 schestowitz-pi2; with the new cms we can tailor-make and change workflowsf
18:08 schestowitz-pi2; for irc, links, short posts, in-depth
18:08 schestowitz-pi2; but the transition takes planning
18:08 schestowitz-pi2; today rianne did a "blog" in TM
18:08 techrights[sec]; I think so.
18:08 techrights[sec]; Nice.
18:09 schestowitz-pi2; eeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.shtml | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/02/Meeting_Manchester_s_Mayor_Yesterday.gmi
18:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Meeting Manchester's Mayor Yesterday
18:09 schestowitz-pi2; you might also say she is gemlogging now
18:10 techrights[sec]; Which one? It is not distinguished by title.
18:15 techrights[sec]; Checking
18:15 techrights[sec]; Excellent!
18:16 schestowitz-pi2; the important thing is that she's almost always happy
18:16 schestowitz-pi2; it's all about perspective
18:16 schestowitz-pi2; and it helps keep oneself focused, motivated
18:16 schestowitz-pi2; no social control media
18:16 schestowitz-pi2; not comparing to anyone
18:17 techrights[sec]; Great news.
18:17 techrights[sec]; Social control media is about dissatisfaction by exploiting negative emotions.
18:17 techrights[sec]; Happiness is inversely proportional to exposure to it.
18:17 techrights[sec]; there are other factors in happiness, of course, but exposure to social control
18:17 techrights[sec]; media is a guaranteed path to misery
18:18 schestowitz-pi2; is it fair to say "happy" people buy less?
18:18 schestowitz-pi2; or is another work more suitable here?
18:18 schestowitz-pi2; *word
18:20 techrights[sec]; Probably
18:20 techrights[sec]; Fear and jealousy are usually the main emotions used to drive advertising and
18:20 techrights[sec]; thus sales.
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; social control media is for people who want to show, not do
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; esp. the facebook branch
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; i think tiktok rewards westerners for mischivious, unruly behaviour
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; sort of like youtube
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; had a chat about it with mike yesterday
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; people making a "scene", giving the cops extra job
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; just so that they can cause drama and make videos
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; provocation
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; re "fear and jealousy", they are connected in the sense that the latter is relatd to "social anxiety"
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; class consciousness
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; fear of losing connection due to perceived "poverty" ('failure')
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; but that's going into psychological philosophy
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; ryan has been clinically sad lately
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; he chats with me more privately sometimes
18:22 schestowitz-pi2; same with trmanco
18:32 techrights[sec]; The "mischevious" aspect of tiktok is actually highly destructive to the
18:32 techrights[sec]; individual and society, on purpose. ByteDance is a propganda company, and
18:32 techrights[sec]; up front about that. The damage to the individual is both physical and to
18:32 techrights[sec]; the psyche. It's warfare. Psychological warfare but warfare nonetheless.
18:32 techrights[sec]; Worse, it is aimed at pre-teens
18:32 techrights[sec]; and thus the real damage escapes the attention of ignorant adults who dismiss
18:32 techrights[sec]; the attack as "just a phone" or "just playing on the phone"
18:32 schestowitz-pi2; i did not watch the documentary, only read articlkes about it (at the time)
18:32 schestowitz-pi2; if they actually do call it spinach and opium, then it sounds like they
18:32 schestowitz-pi2; justify this by recalling the opium wars I and II by the british
18:32 schestowitz-pi2; but that was so long ago
18:33 techrights[sec]; With enough exposure, they become culturally removed from the preceding
18:33 techrights[sec]; generations and no longer culturally part of the nation they reside in despite
18:33 techrights[sec]; speaking the local language(s).
18:33 techrights[sec]; A more recent article called it digital fentanyl, as a nod to both the harm
18:33 techrights[sec]; and to the origin. If ByteDance is digital fentanyl, then M$ is digital
18:33 techrights[sec]; krokodil. :(
18:33 techrights[sec]; People might make some money selling it, but anyone on the receiving end is
18:33 techrights[sec]; worse off and for businesses the injection will prove very harmful if not
18:33 techrights[sec]; outright fatal.
18:35 schestowitz-pi2; at the library i spoke to one staffer, who was nice and helpful
18:35 schestowitz-pi2; i checked their computer terminals but could not figure out the OS
18:35 schestowitz-pi2; as there is just a login screen
18:57 techrights[sec]; Likely Vista10 there unless they are modern and use LTSP
18:57 techrights[sec]; the latter is increasingly rare though.
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