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08:06 schestowitz-TR; Turns out Debian 10 puts /tmp under /
08:06 schestowitz-TR; And so after putting some video backups in /tmp
08:06 schestowitz-TR; root partition ran out of space
08:06 schestowitz-TR; all I saw was unrelated error messages
08:06 schestowitz-TR; before finding the culprit
08:06 schestowitz-TR; I am surprised it took me so long to find the culprit
08:07 schestowitz-TR; I was focused on networking
08:07 schestowitz-TR; as it caused barrier not to work
08:07 schestowitz-TR; and then I could not save to remote places either
08:07 schestowitz-TR; as if the ssh socket died
08:07 schestowitz-TR; but anyway, shit happens, lessons learned
08:07 Techrights-sec; :( that's not a good arrangment # Connection from unexpected host! #
08:07 Techrights-sec; GNu/Linux distros are getting too much damage from Windows in the form of ###
08:07 Techrights-sec; bad ideas
08:07 Techrights-sec; full / is a too-common occurenc/ Filling /var/ is bad to because if it happens
08:07 Techrights-sec; when key files are being written, they go bad and AFAIK cannot be repaired
08:10 schestowitz-TR; no data (that I know of) done in this case
08:10 schestowitz-TR; just a waste of time
08:10 schestowitz-TR; most important things, and files, are in ~
08:10 schestowitz-TR; looking back, it would have been nice if I received disk space warnings of some kind
08:10 schestowitz-TR; either before or after it happened
08:12 Techrights-sec; i've taken to lookin at outpuf from df -Ph for / and other partitions here on
08:12 Techrights-sec; occasion
08:17 schestowitz-TR; side upside is, I got to check all sorts of other systems for their integrity
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I did not find anything broken, but could have. All in all I spent maybe half an hour.
08:17 schestowitz-TR; Checking a lot of things. Now I can move on, with the lesson learned. #
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I'm meant to periodically delete those mp4 files from /tmp but I got lazy as that's no longer
08:17 schestowitz-TR; a critical machine for my data, just some operational stuff
08:17 schestowitz-TR; it seems like those SSDs "expire" after a number of read/writes and then they consider themselves
08:17 schestowitz-TR; not fit/suitable anymore
08:17 schestowitz-TR; there was an article I saw yesterday from a friend that's related to lifetime of SSDs
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I finally understood, a few months back, what the % thing is, like 119%
08:17 schestowitz-TR; it basically goes up over time
08:17 schestowitz-TR; like a hea;lth quotient
08:17 schestowitz-TR; it also loogs, in the firmware, number of reboots
08:17 schestowitz-TR; so I can estimate how many times the previous owner reboots
08:18 Techrights-sec; smartmonctl ought to show some wear information, too
08:18 Techrights-sec; if you underprovision the SSD a little, it will last longer
08:18 Techrights-sec; (or so I have read)
08:19 schestowitz-TR; the pi is at 51% (one of the many things I tested this morning), I last backed it up a few days ago
08:19 schestowitz-TR; rianne uses it as a file server too (for her text files, over ssh or fish:// in KDE)
08:19 schestowitz-TR; as I said, a few sanity checks here and there cannot hurt
08:19 schestowitz-TR; afaik, no damage got done, just some 'lost' time due to weird symptoms
08:27 schestowitz-TR; oh, in hindsight I can sum up all the errors I saw as, /tmp has no space left
08:27 schestowitz-TR; but that's part fo root
08:27 schestowitz-TR; in theory I could parttiion debian to give //tmp its own dir
08:27 schestowitz-TR; writing a lot to /tmp might be OK, but not 10gb
08:32 Techrights-sec; ack
08:32 Techrights-sec; I'm not sure what hte recommended best practice is for such large files
08:32 Techrights-sec; One such file in the wrong partition can cause massive trouble
08:35 schestowitz-TR; these files are several times more massive when they come from obs on 'bubi' (elephant name)
08:35 schestowitz-TR; which is why it filled up so fast without me nolticing
08:35 schestowitz-TR; though it does show me the total size on the screen
08:35 schestowitz-TR; each time I make a video
08:35 schestowitz-TR; I just ignored it
08:35 schestowitz-TR; it was showing up for a reason
08:35 schestowitz-TR; I could configure it to wipe out those files when a certain thereshold is exceeded
08:35 schestowitz-TR; you can see preview.sh
08:35 schestowitz-TR; this issue could be a lot more catastrophic
08:35 schestowitz-TR; and so far I've not seen any real damage
08:38 Techrights-sec; find can do conditinoal deletions based on age and size
08:43 Techrights-sec; air gap is best
08:43 Techrights-sec; if the drive is connected, it is ony a copy and not an actual backup
08:43 Techrights-sec; I'd say that distinction applies for the durration of the time the drive
08:43 Techrights-sec; is plugged in
08:43 Techrights-sec; to the system where it is accessible from the system with the original data
08:52 schestowitz-TR; yes, a one liner might do
08:52 schestowitz-TR; if retire that machine this year, I might want to think of a different approach
08:52 schestowitz-TR; my backup drives are disconnected by default
08:52 schestowitz-TR; air-gapped to to speak
08:52 schestowitz-TR; but now the pi is always connected to one
08:52 schestowitz-TR; a better approach would send the mp4s (disposables) to a large external drive
08:52 schestowitz-TR; for my laptops I never back up root
08:52 schestowitz-TR; not enough of value in there
08:52 schestowitz-TR; and those are not servers
08:52 schestowitz-TR; so fast recovery less of an isue
08:52 schestowitz-TR; curiously enough, it turns out any program which relies a lot on /tmp
08:52 schestowitz-TR; it possibly more flaky that one that uses userspace but that depends on which one
08:52 schestowitz-TR; runs out of space or goes R-O
08:52 schestowitz-TR; nobody's backups are perfect, but I think mine are OK
08:52 schestowitz-TR; for the sites I rely too much on RAID and on you
08:52 schestowitz-TR; we got some traffic yesterday until Microsoft employees ganged up and censored it
08:52 schestowitz-TR; details in IRC logs
09:01 Techrights-sec; checking
09:01 Techrights-sec; HN is controlled if not outright owned by microsofters
09:01 Techrights-sec; "[flagged] Why People Should Never Ever Use DuckDuckGo (2020) (techrights.org)"
09:01 Techrights-sec; lots of M$ drivel and shills
09:01 Techrights-sec; in the comments there
09:02 schestowitz-TR; I did not even bother reading those
09:03 schestowitz-TR; but you can see hints
09:03 schestowitz-TR; we really should never rely on censored medium like this
09:03 schestowitz-TR; sites are better off isolation from the 'Controlled Web'
09:03 schestowitz-TR; the 'echo chamber' of the business owners
09:03 Techrights-sec; in some threads nearly all the comments are from shills, that is is one example
09:03 Techrights-sec; of many there
09:03 Techrights-sec; What's sad is that average social control media users seem to not see the
09:03 Techrights-sec; shilling for what it is and treat the shilling like grassroots
09:03 Techrights-sec; the HN thread had only a couple legitimate comments the rest from shills
09:03 Techrights-sec; "community manager"
09:04 schestowitz-TR; I did see my first name mentioned sometwhere
09:04 schestowitz-TR; and thought, hang on a sec
09:04 schestowitz-TR; I did not even write this
09:04 schestowitz-TR; it's just a factual list of items
09:05 Techrights-sec; yes they went straight to name calling and casteing apsersions like they
09:05 Techrights-sec; do to RMS
09:05 Techrights-sec; if you state facts, they have no counter except to resort to ad hominem
09:07 schestowitz-TR; it is good when you get used to it
09:07 schestowitz-TR; because you don't give a shit
09:07 schestowitz-TR; and just carry on
09:07 schestowitz-TR; the words they use and the tactics can deter other people from further public participation
09:07 schestowitz-TR; that never worked on me, except maybe (briefly) in 2005 or 2006
09:10 Techrights-sec; HN also seems designed to allow brigading by shills of all stripes, but
09:10 Techrights-sec; especially microsofters
09:10 Techrights-sec; the idea is not to deter you but to get people to stop reading
09:10 Techrights-sec; like the long campaign against RMS which ramped up > 15 years ago
09:10 Techrights-sec; As long as HN moderators are shills it is hard to set things straight there
09:10 Techrights-sec; and there is no way to correct from within their site, so yes, just ignore
09:10 Techrights-sec; them
09:10 Techrights-sec; and carry on
09:11 schestowitz-TR; same or similar tactics used against fsfe and debian critics
09:11 schestowitz-TR; there were several attempts to take down my twitter account last year
09:11 schestowitz-TR; which almost succeeded
09:11 schestowitz-TR; that can lead to an escalation of tone or tactics, hence
09:11 schestowitz-TR; self-fulfilling prophecy like a cycle of violence
09:18 Techrights-sec; yep
09:18 Techrights-sec; speaking of violence, with the war in Europe escallating so rapidly,
09:18 Techrights-sec; the repercussions for allowing microsofters to go unaddressedd will
09:18 Techrights-sec; be rubbed in peoole's faces ,but the question is whether the individual
09:18 Techrights-sec; nation states have waited too long and allowed too many saboteurs to spread
09:18 Techrights-sec; out and get established and dug in, having replaced IT people around the
09:18 Techrights-sec; continent with their own hostile flunkies
09:21 schestowitz-TR; one example we currently write about is SaM
09:21 schestowitz-TR; in videos I keep reminding people SaM works for Microsoft
09:21 schestowitz-TR; for USA
09:21 schestowitz-TR; not for belarus
09:21 schestowitz-TR; and not for EPO for that matter
09:21 schestowitz-TR; a lot of people don't know the VAR/reseller/MSP mindset and business model
09:21 schestowitz-TR; they're partly salespeople
09:21 schestowitz-TR; even lobbyists
09:21 schestowitz-TR; they might employ some coders
09:21 schestowitz-TR; but most of the code just comes as binaries from another nation
09:21 schestowitz-TR; and thye pocket money for the disruption they cause
09:21 schestowitz-TR; like outsisourcing SUPER-IMPORTANT EPO data to Microsoft
09:21 schestowitz-TR; EU turns a blind eye, partly because it too is culpable
09:21 schestowitz-TR; now they have a new word for outsourcing: transformation
09:21 schestowitz-TR; or "clown"
09:21 schestowitz-TR; among others
09:21 schestowitz-TR; it's the "smart" thing to do
09:21 schestowitz-TR; Why do you NOT send your data to the clown YET?
09:21 schestowitz-TR; Why are you still using server and keep the data local?
09:21 schestowitz-TR; what if...
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10:48 qa2; who's SaM?
10:52 schestowitz-TR; it's a firm in minsk
10:52 schestowitz-TR; see: SaM Solutions, the EPOs outsourcing partner, is subjected to rules of the dictator, not just the dictator Campinos who pretends to have sanctioned Belarus http://techrights.org/2022/05/03/sam-solutions-lukashenko/
10:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | SaM Solutions Controlled and Still Regulated by Lukashenkos Regime | Techrights
10:52 schestowitz-TR; Techrights-sec:
10:52 schestowitz-TR; correct me if IU am off my roicker
10:52 schestowitz-TR; SSD ensures
10:52 schestowitz-TR; 1) less torage capacity, henmce more clown
10:52 schestowitz-TR; 2) shorter lifetime for storage devices, hence more sale
10:52 schestowitz-TR; is this
10:52 schestowitz-TR; a) true?
10:52 qa2; ok, thanks!
10:52 schestowitz-TR; b) intentional?
10:53 schestowitz-TR; qa2: we do a series about it
10:53 schestowitz-TR; so far about 30 posts inc. memes and videos
10:56 schestowitz; x https://www.mediaite.com/donald-trump/chomsky-calls-trump-the-one-western-statesman-who-laid-out-sensible-plan-for-addressing-russia-ukraine-crisis/
10:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.mediaite.com | Noam Chomsky: Donald Trump Has 'Sensible' Plan for Russia
10:56 schestowitz; # :( chomsky is done and has lost the plot, threatening to undo his years of good work
10:57 schestowitz-TR; chomsky condemned trump countless times, calling him the biggest threat. it would be interesting to hear what he said and in what context
10:57 schestowitz-TR; I did not click mediaite because I do not trust the site
10:58 schestowitz-TR; maybe there is more context with a "but" in it
10:58 schestowitz-TR; but either way, chomsky is no apologist of Trump
10:58 schestowitz; # tips@dailymail.com ? for EPO scandal coverage?
10:59 schestowitz-TR; haha, IF they covered it, that would only DISCREDIT the reporting :-
10:59 schestowitz-TR; and make it seems like loons and anti-EU people condemn EPO crimes
11:00 schestowitz; x https://christine.website/blog/nix-flakes-4-wsl-2022-05-01
11:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-christine.website | Nix Flakes on WSL - Xe
11:00 schestowitz; # she has sold out, apparently
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11:10 schestowitz; https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=165154330204355&w=2
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-marc.info | 'Improvements to 'talk'' - MARC
11:10 schestowitz; "
11:10 schestowitz; Hello,
11:10 schestowitz; I have created a patch for the 'talk' program that does the following:
11:10 schestowitz; - Add the -t option for logging sessions to a transcript file
11:10 schestowitz; "
11:11 schestowitz; x https://www.thefastmode.com/technology-solutions/24600-sas-microsoft-to-build-deep-technology-integrations-for-advanced-health-analytics
11:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thefastmode.com | SAS, Microsoft to Build Deep Technology Integrations for Advanced Health Analytics
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12:16 Techrights-sec; what is the context for 1) and 2) there?
12:16 Techrights-sec; Just guessing, I would say that oboard storage capacities are lowered
12:16 Techrights-sec; intentionally to try to push fools into hosted storage, aka "cloud", for
12:16 Techrights-sec; personal files
12:22 Techrights-sec; 1) generally tru
12:22 Techrights-sec; 2) quite true, especially if left unpowered
12:22 Techrights-sec; b) probably both accidental and intentional, but there is little incentive
12:22 Techrights-sec; for them to fix the problem so it is as good as intentional
12:24 Techrights-sec; https://www.ionos.com/digitalguide/server/security/ssd-life-span/
12:24 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-SSD life span: How long does an SSD last? Are there any signs of failure? - IONOS
12:24 schestowitz-TR; "Announced almost 4 years ago, Nimbus Data set out to produce and sell a Solid State Drive (SSD) that was 100 Terabytes (TB) in size. It is called the ExaDrive." https://koutoupis.com/2022/05/02/nimbus-and-the-forever-lasting-ssd-is-it-cost-effective/
12:24 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-koutoupis.com | Nimbus and the Forever Lasting SSD: Is it cost effective? Random [Tech] Stuff
12:26 Techrights-sec; https://www.extremetech.com/computing/205382-ssds-can-lose-data-in-as-little-as-7-days-without-power
12:26 Techrights-sec; "cloud" isn't any better since there have been quite a few published incidents
12:26 Techrights-sec; of losing data, but hard to find hard data on just how frequently that happens
12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days without power - ExtremeTech
12:27 schestowitz-TR; data loss comes in many forms
12:27 schestowitz-TR; -service shutdown
12:27 schestowitz-TR; fees (vimeo)
12:27 schestowitz-TR; new copouts
12:27 schestowitz-TR; etc etc.
12:27 schestowitz-TR; the point is, you will never be ion true control of the data
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12:28 Techrights-sec; bits flipping can destroy a whole file or tarball or perhaps even an encrypted
12:28 Techrights-sec; partition
12:32 Techrights-sec; otr: here they didn't even try nor did they send an e-mail nor an sms
12:32 Techrights-sec; otr: I had to find out by checking the online tracking service
12:41 schestowitz-TR; I have parts 12 and 13 ready (re belarus)
12:41 schestowitz-TR; I put them in /tmp
12:41 schestowitz-TR; 14 will probably be last, and mostly a summary
12:41 schestowitz-TR; I am currently experimenting with a new time management approach
12:41 schestowitz-TR; it started poorly due to / (root) silently running out of space, but pace
12:41 schestowitz-TR; has been OK since
12:44 schestowitz-TR; EPO is gradually being privatised and quqlity of work/workers/service lowered
12:44 schestowitz-TR; of course part of that is just lying about |customer experience| etc.
12:47 Techrights-sec; Yes, the privatisation scam is hitting the EPO, soon they will move to
12:47 Techrights-sec; financialization and patents won't even be a charade / fascade, they
12:47 Techrights-sec; will simply spend all their time and money "investing" in stocks
12:47 Techrights-sec; all the while declaring themselves a patent office
12:48 Techrights-sec; https://scholarworks.umass.edu/sociol_faculty_pubs/6/
12:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-scholarworks.umass.edu | "Beware Financialization, Attractive and Dangerous, but Mostly Dangerou" by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
13:10 schestowitz-TR; "Algospeak is practiced by all types of social media users" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/tracking-exposed-demanding-gods-explain-themselves | Source: EFF
13:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Tracking Exposed: Demanding That the Gods Explain Themselves | Electronic Frontier Foundation
13:11 schestowitz-TR; so there is already a name for it
13:11 schestowitz-TR; this is what it talked about the other day
13:11 schestowitz-TR; I stopped using this "dialect" when I quit ALL social control media
13:11 schestowitz-TR; I'm beter off for it
13:11 schestowitz-TR; self-censorship and 'SEO' isn't for IRC
13:12 Techrights-sec; behaivor will change any time there is reward and punishment for choices
13:12 Techrights-sec; in this caise it is choice of words, phrases, and even whole topics
13:12 Techrights-sec; yes, the result is self-censorship.
13:12 Techrights-sec; Ah, good, it is a post by Cory.
13:12 Techrights-sec; I hope the others there start to listen to him or at least read his posts and
13:12 Techrights-sec; take to heart the core messages
13:14 schestowitz-TR; I reckon sooner or later you will be banned from twitter for using terms like
13:14 schestowitz-TR; "genderphobia" or anything that represents any counterargument
13:14 schestowitz-TR; to factors leveraged to destabilise society and take heat off the oligarchy
13:17 schestowitz-TR; btw, cory still works for elon musk
13:21 schestowitz-TR; so does fsf
13:21 schestowitz-TR; I never understood why they came there in the first place
13:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe the idea of johns
13:22 schestowitz-TR; and it took them like a year to point ut twitter now REQUIRES proprietary software
13:22 schestowitz-TR; (JS)
13:22 schestowitz-TR; Techrihgts had written about this problem several times by then
13:22 schestowitz-TR; and IIRC, that was the point I had already gone "write-only"
13:22 schestowitz-TR; what we saw in 2019 is fsf and eff moving into the realms of algospeak
13:22 schestowitz-TR; saying anything at all about epstein is "supporting pedophilia"
13:22 schestowitz-TR; meeting epstein himself in secret, even in prison, is "peace nobel prize"
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13:40 Techrights-sec; :/
13:40 Techrights-sec; also when twitter when to a non-chronological timeline, the operant conditioning
13:40 Techrights-sec; really began in earnest
13:40 Techrights-sec; as people modify their speech, written at first then IRL following, to please
13:40 Techrights-sec; the black box
13:40 schestowitz-TR; DENY box
13:40 schestowitz-TR; more words you cannot say
13:40 schestowitz-TR; they will remove those words and push to main
13:41 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> If you want free speech, quit Twitter and run your site https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/02/elon-musks-twitter-business-model-idea-ignore-free-speech-rights-and-try-to-the-charge-media-to-quote-tweets/ | Source: Techdirt
13:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Elon Musks Twitter Business Model Idea: Ignore Free Speech Rights And Try To The Charge Media To Quote Tweets | Techdirt
13:49 Techrights-sec; :/
13:49 Techrights-sec; yes, and the powers that be see that and move a little further each towards
13:49 Techrights-sec; making self-hosting impossible;
13:49 Techrights-sec; case in point: notice how the web browsers have started treating self-signed
13:49 Techrights-sec; certificates; the attititude seems to be that no institution should have
13:49 Techrights-sec; the audacity to stand for their authenticity of their own site(s)
13:49 Techrights-sec; it's about control as much as spying
13:49 schestowitz-TR; did you see how yesterday canonical was pushing AZURE
13:49 schestowitz-TR; as "CONFIDENTIAL computing"?
13:49 schestowitz-TR; I could vomit!
13:49 Techrights-sec; yes ans so is Raspberry Pi Foundation
13:56 schestowitz-TR; I am really not happy with the way the Net is going
13:56 schestowitz-TR; but I also also hopeful
13:56 schestowitz-TR; because I see teens who grew up into the Net who are not happy either
13:56 schestowitz-TR; also people in their 20s who help TR
13:56 schestowitz-TR; they don't like what happens around them and they begin to understand why
13:56 schestowitz-TR; and that other ways exist
13:56 schestowitz-TR; of course social control media will obstruct such messages
13:56 schestowitz-TR; and try to sell something "news"
13:56 schestowitz-TR; "new"
13:58 schestowitz-TR; now, regarding press, that's a trickeier one
13:58 schestowitz-TR; there's a battle between distributions mode
13:58 schestowitz-TR; net neutrality, centralisation, plagiarism etc.
13:58 schestowitz-TR; I used to be very unhappy about it
13:58 schestowitz-TR; the coping mechanism is, over time, come to grips with it being an opportunity
13:58 schestowitz-TR; if nobody else does the job right (like giving the voice to the oppressed and to WBers)
13:58 schestowitz-TR; then you feel the gap
13:58 schestowitz-TR; *fill it, too
13:58 schestowitz-TR; we still have material in store
14:03 schestowitz-TR; banning self-hosting would be like banning consumption of alcohol (which happened)
14:05 Techrights-sec; ack
14:05 Techrights-sec; not really, it creates more opportunities for surveillance and control but
14:05 Techrights-sec; at the same time it raises prices
14:05 Techrights-sec; should www.mediaite.com be considered junk or not?
14:06 schestowitz-TR; I got this site a lot from gulag noise around 5 years ago when I was looking for some political "content"
14:06 schestowitz-TR; it was always establishment trash, search for that domain in techrights and see if you can find worthy
14:06 schestowitz-TR; material from them
14:06 schestowitz-TR; they can 'do an RMS' on Chomsky
14:06 schestowitz-TR; it's an easy game to play
14:06 schestowitz-TR; RMS <3 Epstein
14:06 schestowitz-TR; Chomsky <3 Trump
14:06 schestowitz-TR; even though the exact opposite is true
14:07 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Imagine that the sum of consumption spending, investment, and government spending increased at 2.7 percent annual rate in the quarter (which they did)." https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/05/02/the-surge-in-imports-and-the-drop-in-gdp-offloading-the-ships-lined-up-offshore/ | Source: Counter Punch
14:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Surge in Imports and the Drop in GDP: Offloading the Ships Lined Up Offshore - CounterPunch.org
14:07 Techrights-sec; https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/worldpressfreedomday
14:07 Techrights-sec; ack
14:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.unesco.org | World Press Freedom Day
14:13 schestowitz-TR; my cheat cheat (mental)
14:13 schestowitz-TR; - less energy
14:13 schestowitz-TR; (my friend Mike says he and Saraah pay 250 pounds per month for energy, he could NOT BELIEVE rianne and I pay
14:13 schestowitz-TR; less than 100, with 8 PCs turned on 24/7)
14:13 schestowitz-TR; - less buying (do I need this? canm I reuse something we have already?)
14:13 schestowitz-TR; - fidn ways to entertain at home (rianne still watches 'oo much' gulagtube
14:13 schestowitz-TR; but thankfully librewolf blocks all the trash... FOR NOW)
14:13 schestowitz-TR; there are other things, but the above helps us keep bills, inc. home, at around 750 a month
14:13 schestowitz-TR; *cheat sheet (typo)
14:13 schestowitz-TR; apropos, gulagtube
14:13 schestowitz-TR; rianne loves watching farmers
14:13 schestowitz-TR; with their channels on very ordinary lives in villeges
14:13 schestowitz-TR; their number of views plunged
14:13 schestowitz-TR; they aren't into tech, they just have a "phone"
14:13 schestowitz-TR; so they don't understand what's happening
14:13 schestowitz-TR; people can blame themselves for actions of millionaires in California
14:13 Techrights-sec; reduce, reuse, recycle
14:15 schestowitz-TR; nearly done with links now; new routine: 1) clean general news, work on articles
14:15 schestowitz-TR; 2) clean linux-centric news after rianne, then again articles, sleep in between for mental breaks
14:18 schestowitz-TR; young people are trained to speak in buttons and emojis
14:18 schestowitz-TR; you don't even need to type in like
14:18 schestowitz-TR; that's partly the fault of the devices promoted to people
14:18 schestowitz-TR; they can choose a picture fastr or click an "up yours" 9x9 pixelspace
14:18 schestowitz-TR; but there are exceptions and the exceptions are those driving change in society
14:18 schestowitz-TR; mmost people are 'clickfarmers'
14:18 schestowitz-TR; (or pinch, scroll, zoon... not productive activities, no actual output, just consumption)
14:19 Techrights-sec; the buttons and emojis have shifting ephemeral meanings, changing week by week
14:19 Techrights-sec; so the noise they are used to produce is meaningless even in the short term
14:19 Techrights-sec; and is only about captivating attention for "engagement"
14:19 Techrights-sec; clickfarm livestock emit behaviors for harvesting
14:19 Techrights-sec; AAthey are not the product, their emitted behaviors are the product,
14:19 Techrights-sec; they are just the host or substrate for the actual product
14:22 schestowitz-TR; it happened before in history
14:22 schestowitz-TR; it comes and goes in waves
14:22 schestowitz-TR; to avoid being eliminated you need to know how to play the 'games'
14:22 schestowitz-TR; I explained this yesterdaay to a friend
14:22 schestowitz-TR; who is exceeedingly concerned about what he called "cancel culture"
14:22 schestowitz-TR; ethereum founder recently spoke about it as well, I can send you the
14:22 schestowitz-TR; video, he's an interesting led, never mind if the "coins" are
14:22 schestowitz-TR; garbage
14:22 schestowitz-TR; *interesting lad
14:22 Techrights-sec; ack
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15:15 schestowitz-TR; this year mayday happens thrice
15:15 schestowitz-TR; very slow news day so far
15:16 schestowitz-TR; even rianne is struggling
15:18 Techrights-sec; there was one article about that phenomenon, even naming stenographers as part
15:18 Techrights-sec; of the problem
15:18 schestowitz-TR; I'm "ok" (not) with it, except it makes it hard for me to find good topics to cover
15:18 schestowitz-TR; I have to find "leads" on my own
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15:24 Techrights-sec; As we discussed before, sifting through RSS feeds is quite time consuming.
15:24 Techrights-sec; It can't be automated for many feeds because the words and phrases present
15:24 Techrights-sec; are not necessarily the exact topic covered in a given post. Even the automated
15:24 Techrights-sec; feeds are (mostly) just a guess, though some of them are rather good most of
15:24 Techrights-sec; the time because those particular feeds are written very consistently to
15:24 Techrights-sec; summarize in a particular part of the document each timme
15:24 Techrights-sec; ^time
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15:28 schestowitz-TR; atm I still do in tadem the feeds from quiterss and the text file, until I get comfortable enough turning them off
15:28 schestowitz-TR; so far, so good
15:28 schestowitz-TR; it does
15:28 schestowitz-TR; save time
15:28 schestowitz-TR; esp. in feeds that rarely have anything major in them
15:28 schestowitz-TR; which means that manual cherry-picking isn't so important
15:28 schestowitz-TR; sadly, a large proportion of all feeds are like that
15:28 schestowitz-TR; we used to have sites such as linux.com and groklaw
15:28 schestowitz-TR; those did have some good material
15:28 schestowitz-TR; now I'm sifting through low-quality howto sites, some with poior english (india),
15:28 schestowitz-TR; and then there's the stuff which comes from Google, which either 'insults'
15:28 schestowitz-TR; what I am searching for or presents some very lousy non-investigative piece of crap
15:28 schestowitz-TR; x announced y
15:28 schestowitz-TR; z version N released
15:28 schestowitz-TR; time 10
15:28 schestowitz-TR; for ubuntt, times 100
15:28 schestowitz-TR; so it's mostly a clustering job
15:28 schestowitz-TR; not even studying pertinent pieces of unique info
15:28 schestowitz-TR; there used to be a lot more reviews of distros online
15:28 schestowitz-TR; I am guessing lack of traffic that they receive have decreased the incentive to produce them
15:30 Techrights-sec; distro reviews depend on people being able to to choose or wanting to choose
15:30 Techrights-sec; and new computers are getting locked into vista11 and old computers are
15:30 Techrights-sec; mostly already in use. The general public does not know about anything, even
15:30 Techrights-sec; vista10/11, and would not know what to make of the article should they even
15:30 Techrights-sec; see it. Also the desktop market is declining in comparison to the handset
15:30 Techrights-sec; market.
15:31 schestowitz-TR; sales in both are decreeasing, b ut that's a good thing
15:31 schestowitz-TR; also, reuse does favour gnu/linux
15:32 schestowitz-TR; esp. in poorer countries
15:32 Techrights-sec; There it's technically Linux albeit closed off for 85% and FOSS but
15:32 Techrights-sec; proprietary for the remaining 15%.
15:32 Techrights-sec; Reuse of desktops would favor GNU/Linux. It is already dominant in the server
15:32 Techrights-sec; market
15:32 schestowitz-TR; the wahat market??? Oh, the clown!
15:34 Techrights-sec; embedded, and supercomputers.
15:34 Techrights-sec; Yes, that is another threat: clown computing; It's another way of
15:34 Techrights-sec; decommoditizing GNU/Linux. AWS "skills" won't transfer to Google or the
15:34 Techrights-sec; others and vice versa. A few still allow for raw SSH connections but
15:34 Techrights-sec; those days are probably numbered.
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15:37 schestowitz-TR; fsf has done too little on this matter (rms does talk about it), maybe aas it is seen as a "lesse evil"
15:37 schestowitz-TR; because gnu is in there, unlike android
15:37 schestowitz-TR; but they need to deal more with concepts and not brands
15:37 schestowitz-TR; rms is bettere at that
15:37 schestowitz-TR; notice they are failing to set an example on social control media
15:37 schestowitz-TR; still not a single statement onon musk buying the site which mandates proprietary softwar (
15:37 schestowitz-TR; (wanand which fsf uses for "outreach")
15:38 Techrights-sec; I see much of that problem coming from the LF and it's implied encouragement
15:38 Techrights-sec; of GPL violations.
15:39 schestowitz-TR; (sometimes the mute buttons still work [existing blunders notwithstanding] so I can laugh with rianne
15:39 schestowitz-TR; when the CEO says we can get AWS "certified" and the company would help with that)
15:42 Techrights-sec; ack
15:42 schestowitz-TR; joke: what doy you call the twitter blue tick now? Musk certified (not verified).
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15:56 Techrights-sec; the tick has always been an endorsement, nothing more, nothing less, and
15:56 Techrights-sec; specifically a political endorsement in most cases
16:04 schestowitz-TR; Remember that Jack started Twitter and it was not always clownville or peer support of mob assembly
16:04 schestowitz-TR; Roy Schestowitz (tick) it/it (east my shorts)
16:04 schestowitz-TR; that started happening maybe 5 years ago
16:04 schestowitz-TR; when you also had the (((echo))) crowd and various other nefarious groups
16:04 schestowitz-TR; Pieter H left the platform around that time
16:04 schestowitz-TR; seeing what it had become
16:08 schestowitz-TR; Twitter looked infantile to me before I joined it
16:08 schestowitz-TR; it looks like making the Web a SMS service, which is actually what it is
16:08 schestowitz-TR; this is where Jack Dorsey came from
16:08 schestowitz-TR; and why he implemented it this way
16:08 schestowitz-TR; and then they go some high-profile adopters turning this silly tor/experiment (like bitcoin)
16:08 schestowitz-TR; into a real thing
16:08 schestowitz-TR; and reporters thought it would be a good idea to upload their material and write articles into
16:08 schestowitz-TR; "tweets"
16:08 schestowitz-TR; youcan find articles
16:08 schestowitz-TR; you cannot find tweets, certainly not context in them
16:08 schestowitz-TR; /s/tor/toy/
16:08 Techrights-sec; dunno. twitter was always useless even during its best years at the beginning
16:08 Techrights-sec; also the signal to noise ratio - there were a few MB of crap, includign
16:08 Techrights-sec; javascripts, to wrap a stupi 140 characters for each and every post
16:08 Techrights-sec; that's correct, the old tweets are not "discoverable".
16:10 schestowitz-TR; this is partly a design choice
16:10 schestowitz-TR; they derank for age
16:10 schestowitz-TR; and promote recently
16:10 schestowitz-TR; it give illusion of greater impact ooverall
16:10 schestowitz-TR; to entice more Musk-certified slaves
16:10 Techrights-sec; yes even from the beginning the "tweets' were always without contexxt
16:10 Techrights-sec; the goal is not communication but addiction and monopolization of attention
16:22 Techrights-sec; ack
16:26 schestowitz-TR; brb tea
16:26 schestowitz-TR; (rianne is out, will buy coffee, I miss brewing it)
16:26 schestowitz-TR; back now
16:26 schestowitz-TR; I use the dining room as an office now, so it's right next to the food, a wall apart
16:26 schestowitz-TR; a a plus and a minus
16:26 schestowitz-TR; I have meanwhile come to realise that phoronix descended into a format I strongly dislike
16:26 schestowitz-TR; it's basically hardware adds with "Kernel Trap" (the old Web site)-like editorials
16:26 schestowitz-TR; you pick some kernel mailing list message or commit found in it
16:26 schestowitz-TR; then write some blurb about it
16:26 schestowitz-TR; until the next 'review" (ad)
16:26 Techrights-sec; don't spill
16:26 Techrights-sec; :(
16:26 Techrights-sec; I forgot about Phoronix
16:29 schestowitz-TR; thinss on the desk are always being repositoned to make spills very improbable
16:29 schestowitz-TR; the teapot is at the back, need to get up to refill
16:29 schestowitz-TR; the mug is far from the laptops
16:29 schestowitz-TR; re phoronix
16:29 schestowitz-TR; I hardly find much of use there
16:29 schestowitz-TR; I felt bad for michael
16:29 schestowitz-TR; being treated like shit in reddit and lxer
16:29 schestowitz-TR; but he let me down very badly
16:29 schestowitz-TR; so I used to link to almost everything he posted, except "meta" posts
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16:32 Techrights-sec; yes larabel is in a hard spot and it hurt to watch him sell out
16:32 Techrights-sec; one of the reasons he was treated poorly in shit sites like reddit and such
16:32 Techrights-sec; was because he had been doing top quality work in high quantity as well
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16:34 schestowitz-TR; but wait
16:34 schestowitz-TR; that's not alll
16:34 schestowitz-TR; theres'ssssssss moar
16:34 schestowitz-TR; the thing is, he extensively covers a hard-to-grasp area
16:34 schestowitz-TR; one where, had he worked in some cubicle in a digi-farm, he'd earn a lot of money for
16:34 schestowitz-TR; rather than have to beg while working 100+ hours a week
16:34 schestowitz-TR; there are sosme commonalities to what I do
16:34 schestowitz-TR; except afaik he stopped doing "consulting"
16:34 schestowitz-TR; so now it's more like ads, as "reviews" etc.
16:34 schestowitz-TR; I checked comment counts through the front page back on monday and it was lower than before
16:34 schestowitz-TR; with alexa rank dead and people not using "toolbars" in a browser anymore it's just one way you can estimate activi
16:34 schestowitz-TR; ty
16:34 Techrights-sec; there are more dignified ways to make money than "reviews" and ads etc
16:34 Techrights-sec; https://futurism.com/neoscope/volunteer-drinks-dysentery-smoothie-diarrhea-vaccine-research
16:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-futurism.com | Brave Volunteer Drinks Dysentery Smoothie to Give Himself Life-Threatening Diarrhea
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16:37 schestowitz-TR; "brave"
16:37 schestowitz-TR; Jackass (MTV)
16:37 schestowitz-TR; you say dignified, but trust me, that's a hard task
16:38 schestowitz-TR; I chatted about my job with my dad in recent days, pension too
16:38 schestowitz-TR; he said, stay there! You're so lucky.
16:38 schestowitz-TR; it's a job for two, and tax rates are thus very low, and the work can be spread among two
16:38 schestowitz-TR; I think fatima helps michael behind the scnes
16:38 schestowitz-TR; he rarely talks about his private left, but she was a breadwinner until the pandemic
16:38 schestowitz-TR; that is "over"... and the "job market" has NEVER BEEN BETTER (thanks, CNN!! Now I feel good)
16:38 schestowitz-TR; /sleft/life/
16:38 Techrights-sec; yes that is correct, it is work. It's just that the employer is not trustable
16:38 Techrights-sec; and potentially maliciosu
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16:41 schestowitz-TR; the one thing I give credit for,
16:41 schestowitz-TR; the CEO stands up for speech of workers
16:41 schestowitz-TR; (tomorrow you will see the subject covered in relation to SaM, also on Thurs)
16:41 schestowitz-TR; even when pressured
16:41 schestowitz-TR; he's a BSD person
16:41 schestowitz-TR; but I reckon he's not even using BSD anymore
16:41 schestowitz-TR; the clown lunacy is sold as "cost-saving"
16:41 schestowitz-TR; to me, it is reputation-threatening
16:41 schestowitz-TR; clients need people who solve problem
16:41 schestowitz-TR; not people who send the job to other companies, which bag the business
16:44 Techrights-sec; ack
16:44 Techrights-sec; cloud is usually a solution in search of a problem
16:44 Techrights-sec; ack
16:46 schestowitz-TR; to frame it another way, to net and keep a client you need to carry out serevices for them
16:46 schestowitz-TR; not outsource things for them
16:46 schestowitz-TR; because you're done
16:46 schestowitz-TR; but it's not about money
16:46 schestowitz-TR; it's about actually doing the job, not delegating to X Y Z
16:46 schestowitz-TR; where X Y and Z are not you
16:46 schestowitz-TR; the old company domain name is now up for renewal
16:46 schestowitz-TR; let's see what happens
16:46 schestowitz-TR; rianne mentioned the nominey countdown last night
16:46 schestowitz-TR; *nominet
16:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe they can toss all the old domain and put "clown" in there instead
16:46 schestowitz-TR; or "sometimes"
16:46 schestowitz-TR; *old domains
16:46 schestowitz-TR; clown is surveillance and control (see what happens in Ukraine war, not DRM too!) disguised
16:46 schestowitz-TR; as "cost-saving"/"modern" (the future)/"uptime"/"security" (I regard the outsourcing itself to be a breach)
16:46 schestowitz-TR; they keep shuffling the fantasies and false promises around
16:46 schestowitz-TR; depeneing on the audience
16:46 schestowitz-TR; like Team UPC does
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16:51 Techrights-sec; ack
16:51 schestowitz-TR; the triger for rianne wanting to quit was a colleague pushing to move from asterisk (we've always used it, before
16:51 schestowitz-TR; I even joined) to Gulag Voice, which doesn't even work and was recently shut down to make way for
16:51 schestowitz-TR; "modern experience" (all the necessary stuff removed, for business reasons I assume, Gulag's)
16:51 schestowitz-TR; the colleague whom I think pushed for it used to say "Google is your friend"
16:51 schestowitz-TR; His main OS< I think, is Windowsd
16:52 Techrights-sec; asterisk is quite good, in addition to being able to self-host it
16:52 Techrights-sec; not a real tech person at all then. his statements and actions belie that
16:52 Techrights-sec; justa reseller, eventually an M$ reseller
16:52 Techrights-sec; has he come to that yet?
16:54 schestowitz-TR; no, he does not like Microsoft
16:54 schestowitz-TR; it's a peculiar situation
16:54 schestowitz-TR; to make matters worse, he lives with a lesbian couple
16:54 schestowitz-TR; and his former wife sort of swapped partners with him and the other coupe
16:54 schestowitz-TR; so on the personal side of things, two colleagues detect that too
16:54 schestowitz-TR; the lesbians have no clue about GNU/Linux and no qualifiactions in tec
16:54 schestowitz-TR; he shadows for them
16:54 Techrights-sec; :/ covering for unqualified people is never good
16:57 schestowitz-TR; that overurdens him
16:57 schestowitz-TR; *burdens
16:57 schestowitz-TR; and he is not THAT good, he just compensated with hours and passion
16:58 schestowitz-TR; the issue is, we cannot attract, let alone retain, any talented people
16:58 schestowitz-TR; we still had a few years back, but SarinGas scared them all
16:58 schestowitz-TR; and now TheLiar is gaslighting everyone
16:58 schestowitz-TR; we've just collecing or milking
16:58 schestowitz-TR; the latter is the phrase we use
16:58 schestowitz-TR; the former, IIRC, is what my friend said
16:58 schestowitz-TR; it won't last forver, I don't think...
16:58 schestowitz-TR; but we can set aside savings for little effort and we do not get bullied anymore
16:58 schestowitz-TR; SarinGas liked to abuse people, and she often did
16:58 schestowitz-TR; until she got the boot
16:59 Techrights-sec; it's too bad she was there so long, does the current top management know
16:59 Techrights-sec; about her and the other dickhead and have a plan to repair things?
17:02 schestowitz-TR; I came for tech, I stay for popcorn
17:02 schestowitz-TR; when working from home you get to call people name
17:02 schestowitz-TR; and they can never find out
17:02 schestowitz-TR; it makes life a little more sarcastic
17:02 schestowitz-TR; it would be hard to repair things after drain drain
17:02 schestowitz-TR; we had a new young colleague from seoul, who left after he realised a number of
17:02 schestowitz-TR; things in my estimation
17:02 schestowitz-TR; 1) the skill surve is very steep because we have accounts all over the place, at least 3 VPNs
17:02 schestowitz-TR; (we used to use LDAP, even for jabber)
17:02 schestowitz-TR; 2)the slaary is shit, and unless you're fine with (1) you need to spend a lot of time learning
17:02 schestowitz-TR; (there is no good documentation anymore; nobody bothers, either)
17:02 schestowitz-TR; 3) dead end, so why bother with (1)?
17:02 schestowitz-TR; 4) SarinGas and no transparency (well, unless you count lies as such)
17:04 schestowitz-TR; BOTTOM line: if you know what you are doing, you can get 100 pounds (post-tax)
17:04 schestowitz-TR; for about one hour of net work
17:04 schestowitz-TR; That's the only reason several of us stay and have stayed for a long time
17:04 schestowitz-TR; the management cannot afford to lose any of us, it would have a devastating effect
17:04 schestowitz-TR; on operations
17:04 schestowitz-TR; (due to (1) mostly)
17:04 Techrights-sec; beware hot mics
17:04 Techrights-sec; Yes, many companies fail to have a decent process or envrionment to bring
17:04 Techrights-sec; in new people and have them level up;
17:08 schestowitz-TR; in our case (us, rianne & roy, not $company), we've leveraged this to our advantage
17:08 schestowitz-TR; we're like a custom-made home with intercom (landline, 20 pounds 10 years ago), sip phone
17:08 schestowitz-TR; monitoring machines and workflow for collaboration... so doing a shift is easy-peasy
17:09 schestowitz-TR; when you are not on "famous" sites like Musk Social, and colleagues don't know what IRC is,
17:09 schestowitz-TR; you can carry on as usual and sometimes forget you are working
17:09 schestowitz-TR; leaving twitter has that benefit too
17:09 schestowitz-TR; I don't do FB,but I read and hear of people who get in trouble for what they post
17:09 schestowitz-TR; during working hours or what they post on their sick leave (of if "late" for work)
17:09 schestowitz-TR; FB as a service... for bosses
17:09 schestowitz-TR; Tomorrow we cover FB as career ender... for SaM
17:09 schestowitz-TR; I posted a teaser this morning
17:10 schestowitz-TR; btw, all this stuff is OK in public
17:10 schestowitz-TR; it's like insultign amish on live TV
17:10 Techrights-sec; ack
17:10 Techrights-sec; :/
17:14 schestowitz-TR; side story (nostalgia)
17:15 schestowitz-TR; more than 10 years ago a female colleague whom I won't name set up an IRC channel in freenode (IIRC) to make a
17:15 schestowitz-TR; place for staff to express dissent
17:15 schestowitz-TR; the management found out about it, and this wasn't the last such effort (I'm told)
17:15 schestowitz-TR; it's worse than a union
17:15 schestowitz-TR; one person got sacked over something similar (I was never told the exact details of what had happened)
17:15 schestowitz-TR; the mistake there was, too many people having to keep hushed)
17:15 schestowitz-TR; no anonymity and so on
17:15 schestowitz-TR; rookies
17:15 Techrights-sec; ack
17:15 schestowitz-TR; then, when a blind colleague was sacked (this is legally dynamite) the jabber server was temporarily shut down
17:15 schestowitz-TR; based on obviously BS excuses
17:15 schestowitz-TR; to discourage colleagues talking to one another
17:15 schestowitz-TR; as if they have no mobile phones etc.
17:15 schestowitz-TR; this reminds me of what EPO does to SUEPO
17:15 schestowitz-TR; or Lukashenko with his "brilliant" Internet shutdowns
17:15 schestowitz-TR; the people who do this would also block techrights as if workers live and sleep on the fanctory floor
17:17 schestowitz-TR; not sure if you saw it, but according to a new memoir from a military bigwig the Senile Politician considered order
17:17 schestowitz-TR; ing that protesters be shot
17:17 schestowitz-TR; maybe he never read books on what happens next, or maybe Xi gave up "Kung Flu" right up the head
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [13:03] <techrights-news> Esper's memoir https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/05/02/trump-wanted-shoot-protesters-says-his-former-pentagon-chief | Source: Common Dreams
17:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Trump Wanted to Shoot Protesters, Says His Former Pentagon Chief
17:21 schestowitz-TR; [17:19] <techrights-news> If you STILL "participate" in Twitter (a Musk-certified slave) you are a fool https://edition.cnn.com/2022/04/28/tech/elon-musk-authenticate-all-real-humans/index.html
17:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-edition.cnn.com | Elon Musk wants to 'authenticate all real humans' on Twitter. Here's what that could mean - CNN
17:21 schestowitz-TR; [17:19] [Notice] -TechrightsSocial to #boycottnovell-social- edition.cnn.com | Elon Musk wants to 'authenticate all real humans' on Twitter. Here's what that could mean - CNN
17:21 schestowitz-TR; [17:20] <techrights-news> "On Monday, the richest man in the world, Elon Musk, purchased Twitter and assigned himself the most honourable of tasks: saving civilisation as we know it." https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-palestine-white-saviour
17:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/elon-musk-twitter-palestine-white-saviour )
17:21 schestowitz-TR; bill gates complex
17:22 schestowitz-TR; I. Rich. Therefore. I. Good!
17:23 schestowitz-TR; make me more rich. I make more good.
17:23 schestowitz-TR; "job creators" mindset
17:23 Techrights-sec; ack
17:23 Techrights-sec; yes worship of wealth
17:23 schestowitz-TR; plutophilia
17:27 schestowitz-TR; I cannot find it anymore (did try), but about 15 years ago there were loads of headlines
17:27 schestowitz-TR; saying that Gates had the "mostdesirable" sperm among chinese women
17:27 schestowitz-TR; I cannot find it mostly because the media is now covering up for the Gates divorce
17:27 schestowitz-TR; blaming some schinese interpreter instead of epstein
17:27 schestowitz-TR; melinda maade it very clear that it was about esptein
17:27 schestowitz-TR; but there you go...
17:27 schestowitz-TR; corporate media, googlebombing, reputation laundering etc.
17:27 Techrights-sec; eww
17:27 schestowitz-TR; yes, I did not refine my search, I'd rather not even have entered what I did into that search box, so I carefully
17:28 schestowitz-TR; crafted the string
17:29 schestowitz-TR; hmm... coronavirus portal in the UK not updated since April 29th. It's 17:30 already. BillBC is in full propaganda
17:29 schestowitz-TR; mode, herding people back into their cages in the office
17:38 Techrights-sec; I think that portal or its data is getting phased out.
17:38 schestowitz-TR; they already revised, several times, what they publish and how to make it seem smaller than it is
17:38 schestowitz-TR; as I pointed out at the time
17:38 schestowitz-TR; and it's still the best we have
17:38 schestowitz-TR; billBC ic an insult to one's intelligence
17:48 Techrights-sec; Bill's money at work...
17:53 schestowitz-TR; when I go to bed rianne usually stays up with the laptop on either gulagtube or billbc
17:53 schestowitz-TR; the latter is only good for shits and giggles
17:53 schestowitz-TR; she says she only sees the pictures and headlines, barely clicks
17:53 schestowitz-TR; but to actually get meaningful news out of it is not possible
17:53 schestowitz-TR; it's pollution for the head and nothing of actual importance
17:53 schestowitz-TR; more like TV boradcast but more static
17:53 schestowitz-TR; sooner or later there will be no "creators" left in gulagtube
17:54 schestowitz-TR; not even spamnil
17:54 schestowitz-TR; no incentive to invest the time
17:54 schestowitz-TR; then the site will have no creators but licensors
17:54 schestowitz-TR; for "official" football videos, and adds front, end, and centre
17:54 schestowitz-TR; *ads
17:54 schestowitz-TR; gulag is "in for a shock" if it thinks it can retain viewers this way
17:54 schestowitz-TR; but video hosting is very complex and expensive
17:54 schestowitz-TR; so maybe the idea was, weed out the competition
17:54 schestowitz-TR; thewn start closing
17:54 schestowitz-TR; and put ads everywhere, use dmca etc. (lawyering up) alternative ways of "accessing"
17:54 schestowitz-TR; the "content"
17:54 schestowitz-TR; a lot of "smart" TVs or "screens" have bloted in ads, locked down stuff (not even able
17:54 schestowitz-TR; to bypass expired root cert for web browsing) and Gulag Tube is part of the "expoerience" there
17:54 schestowitz-TR; so the idea is, you will have no choice
17:54 schestowitz-TR; like having to "buy" Windows with any new PC
17:56 Techrights-sec; still exposure to their spin though
17:56 Techrights-sec; it mostly coasts on the reputation from decades past which has been unmaintained
17:56 Techrights-sec; for a very long time
17:56 Techrights-sec; it's squeezing the few remaining to the point they have to leave too
17:56 Techrights-sec; unfortunately M$ has programmed the public to see windoze as part of the computer
17:56 Techrights-sec; especially off the shelf models
17:56 schestowitz-TR; that changed in the past decade because of GA, not the M.
17:56 schestowitz-TR; though those can be no better for freedom, they are just branded differently.
17:56 schestowitz-TR; 'Linux' Foundation sees nothing wrong, in fact it became part of this
17:56 schestowitz-TR; problem.
18:01 schestowitz-TR; [17:59] <techrights-news> The gov. seems to be blocking sales of oil. Shortages foreseen. What a wonderful world, eh?
18:03 schestowitz-TR; COOKIGN oil
18:03 schestowitz-TR; Rianne says they don'd display it
18:03 schestowitz-TR; and media keeps quiet to avoid the panic buyinh
18:04 Techrights-sec; ack
18:04 Techrights-sec; it is long past time to leave petrochemical fuels in the dung heap of history
18:04 Techrights-sec; The new computer have no Windows stickers on them if that's what you mean
18:04 Techrights-sec; and the sales displays usually do not mention either Windows or M$
18:06 schestowitz-TR; rianne is now taking stock of how many cooking oils we have
18:06 schestowitz-TR; you need to make a special request at the shop to buy those
18:06 schestowitz-TR; "open secret, I guess
18:06 Techrights-sec; yes there is alreay a cooking oil shortage, it will worsen serverely and soon
18:06 Techrights-sec; and probably last a long while
18:07 schestowitz-TR; time to rethink what we cook, how, when..
18:07 schestowitz-TR; the price are also getting quite high, according to her
18:07 schestowitz-TR; this will harm poor people
18:07 schestowitz-TR; you ned oil for soups, rice etc.
18:08 Techrights-sec; not necessarily, it depends on the method
18:08 schestowitz-TR; right, but the recipes changee a bit
18:08 Techrights-sec; I've not seen such recipes though I can imagine that they are around
18:25 schestowitz-TR; got all set up now with the coffee kits, matching sets
18:25 schestowitz-TR; 1.69 pounds for 227grams, good quality mix, I think (will taste later)
18:25 schestowitz-TR; lots of perople struggling
18:25 schestowitz-TR; this has become "the new normal"
18:25 schestowitz-TR; but you would not know this based on Dick Brandon and Dickie gates' BBC
18:25 schestowitz-TR; they have sections for "lifestyle" IIRC
18:25 schestowitz-TR; just sticking it in to the "working class" (i.e. people who do ALL the actual work)
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18:42 schestowitz-TR; The body does not match the headline https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220503-01.en.html
18:42 schestowitz-TR; Gulag Deutschland (FSFE) tries to spin this as its OWN success story
18:42 schestowitz-TR; it's about HEY HI and the EU
18:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fsfe.org | European Parliament votes for Free Software in AI resolution This position must now be included in the AI regulation - FSFE
18:42 schestowitz-TR; I am sure they did not say "free software"
18:42 schestowitz-TR; and the first sentence suggests something not the same as the headline
18:42 schestowitz-TR; but I am guessing they appeal for donation
18:49 Techrights-sec; ack
18:49 Techrights-sec; The name problem with it calling itself FSFE has not been resolved yet.
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 1) they do not wish for people to know
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 2) or to find out
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 3) they cannot censor TR
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 4) so they have taken aim at things I wrote like a year earlier in Twitter
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 5) they leverages nazi-related laws in Germany
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 6) they managed to hide only one tweet, and only in Germany
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 7) they do promote freedom; that was one of several forces that had me thinking of stopping
18:49 schestowitz-TR; to bother with such time-wasting and emotion-draining proprietary platforms
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 8) later came ICBM with the same tactyics (I assume it was IBM, fronting with genderphobes)
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 9) then OSI, which afaik put me on last strike (week-long suspension, no ability to get my
18:49 schestowitz-TR; appeal processed at all)
18:49 schestowitz-TR; FSF thought it would be in a position of advantage by attacking the real (original) FSFE
18:49 schestowitz-TR; but it does not seem to have gained popularity this way
18:49 schestowitz-TR; worse yet, they have alienated many (like me) who were sympathetic towards both FSFE *AND*
18:49 schestowitz-TR; FSF at the same time
18:51 schestowitz-TR; oops, I reversed FSFE and FSF up above, FSFE was attacking FSF, the opposite never happened
18:51 schestowitz-TR; FSF had more class
18:51 schestowitz-TR; BTW, Phoronix today also struggles to write
18:51 schestowitz-TR; a bunch of photos attacked to some git change logs with dross to dress it up
18:51 schestowitz-TR; and AMD job ad as ARTICLE!
18:51 Techrights-sec; yes FSFE was and kind of still is a problem
18:53 schestowitz-TR; it barely blogs anymore
18:53 schestowitz-TR; I think it is becoming less relevant
18:53 schestowitz-TR; it latches onto news that have nothing to do with its campaign
18:53 schestowitz-TR; I think they try to ensor me because I drove a wedge between them and Gulag teats
18:53 Techrights-sec; Michael lost a lot of people when he made those 'changes'
18:54 schestowitz-TR; I can only judge/estimate/assess by # of comments, which isn't sa reliable measure
18:54 schestowitz-TR; as if can be a closely-knit community like us in IRC
18:54 schestowitz-TR; but not many unique readers. Plus, many readers never comment.
18:59 Techrights-sec; ack
19:01 schestowitz-TR; I fumble for story ideas
19:01 schestowitz-TR; I'm lost
19:01 schestowitz-TR; irc is very busy at the moment
19:01 schestowitz-TR; busier but of better substance or s/n than social control media, just presented differently
19:01 schestowitz-TR; last thing I want to do is publish mindless dross or page fillers
19:04 Techrights-sec; DRM is unfortunately a perrenial topic
19:04 Techrights-sec; that's a rcent example but care has to be taken so that JD cannot spin this as
19:04 Techrights-sec; a good thing; two wrongs don't make a right
19:05 schestowitz-TR; I could comment on the ukraine john deere story, I suppose
19:05 schestowitz-TR; easier in video
19:05 schestowitz-TR; like "chomsky <3 trumputin"
19:05 schestowitz-TR; yes, it's a difficult one, like free sofwtare and sanction
19:05 schestowitz-TR; you either support putin or support the opposition to sofwtare freedom
19:05 schestowitz-TR; hackaday went with a headline suggesting this was a Good THing
19:05 schestowitz-TR; I found that disappointing, but didn't read the whole thing
19:06 schestowitz-TR; [13:24] <techrights-news> Just don't buy 'new' cars https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/from-car-to-device-how-software-is-changing-vehicle-ownership/ | Source: Hackaday http://techrights.org/2022/01/02/no-control-over-cars/
19:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-From Car To Device: How Software Is Changing Vehicle Ownership | Hackaday
19:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Index: Loss of Control Over Cars | Techrights
19:06 schestowitz-TR; [13:23] <techrights-news> Are they glorifying DRM just because "RUSSIA"??? https://hackaday.com/2022/05/02/for-once-the-long-arm-of-john-deere-presses-the-right-button/ | Source: Hackaday
19:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-For Once, The Long Arm Of John Deere Presses The Right Button | Hackaday
19:08 Techrights-sec; CNN seems to have the first coverage of the JD drm incidents
19:08 Techrights-sec; the take away is that drm is no longer a theoretical threat it is now a matter
19:08 Techrights-sec; of who is the target, and there can be multiple targets
19:10 Techrights-sec; https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/cgi-bin/uy/webpages.cgi?/logicalfallacies/Two-Wrongs-Make-a-Right
19:10 Techrights-sec; https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/
19:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.logicallyfallacious.com | Two Wrongs Make a Right
19:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-15 Logical Fallacies You Should Know Before Getting Into a Debate - TheBestSchools.org
19:11 schestowitz-TR; putin wrong
19:11 schestowitz-TR; drm wrong
19:11 schestowitz-TR; wrong + wrong = wropng
19:11 schestowitz-TR; wrong x wrong = good
19:11 schestowitz-TR; only minutes ago admfubar (I know the real name) posted the cnn link in the main channel
19:11 schestowitz-TR; I saw the SN coverage
19:13 Techrights-sec; The CNN link is in the daily links either today or tomorow ... checking
19:13 Techrights-sec; today's
19:13 schestowitz-TR; I alreeady posted that in the latest daily links, along with hackaday
19:13 schestowitz-TR; I've not sseen an article debunking this
19:13 schestowitz-TR; if one existed, then it's "chomksy loves vladimir" time
19:16 schestowitz-TR; I am thinking hard how it can be preseted, e.g. in video, without it seeming lame
19:16 schestowitz-TR; or apologists for theft and for vicious 'Red Army'
19:16 schestowitz-TR; it boils down not to DRM but the
19:16 schestowitz-TR; logical fallacies in the media
19:16 schestowitz-TR; and then having to explain what's at stake with drm in general
19:19 Techrights-sec; yes that sums it up
19:29 schestowitz-TR; cost of today's sinner: about 5 pennies
19:29 schestowitz-TR; *dinneer
19:29 schestowitz-TR; I think less than the spoonfull of roast and soy drink inside it
19:29 schestowitz-TR; now I'll think if there's enough material for recording
19:29 schestowitz-TR; the text will be more important
19:29 Techrights-sec; oh buying food not indulgences ;)
19:31 schestowitz-TR; indulgences nowadays do not necessatily mean healthy diet
19:31 schestowitz-TR; more processed food ingredients
19:31 schestowitz-TR; class consciousness always plays a role
19:31 schestowitz-TR; like "air miles" vanity
19:31 schestowitz-TR; the more you spend, the more you will need to work, i.e. do things
19:31 schestowitz-TR; you may not enjoy
19:31 schestowitz-TR; so it's a tradeoff between indulgences
19:32 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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22:48 schestowitz-TR; I have relayed an hours-old email to you
22:48 schestowitz-TR; it's mostly BS talk
22:48 schestowitz-TR; which reaffirmed what we thought about the company going down the bin
22:48 schestowitz-TR; while pretending to be "OK"
22:48 schestowitz-TR; I may need advice on how to exit without losing the rights to compensatiom
22:48 schestowitz-TR; one scenario that I have in mind is
22:48 schestowitz-TR; they declare the outfit in the UK 'insoilvent'
22:48 schestowitz-TR; and then claim the other one is "USA"
22:48 schestowitz-TR; and therefore it's hard to take it to court here
22:48 schestowitz-TR; but maybe I'm thinking too far ahead
22:48 schestowitz-TR; to be clear, our intent to leave did not foresee this at all
22:48 schestowitz-TR; but was motivated purely by a dire stench
22:48 schestowitz-TR; in some sense this is good news as it opens up the potential for compensation
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