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07:02 Techrights-sec; what kind of activities have they been moving to the US and what kind have they
07:02 Techrights-sec; been going out of their way to increase? And though you've covered it,
07:02 Techrights-sec; which activities have they already outsourced?
07:02 Techrights-sec; The message gives no details but reads like its closing down in the UK
07:02 Techrights-sec; Regarding the compensatin, what does your union say about the situation?
07:05 schestowitz-TR; gm
07:05 schestowitz-TR; There is a lof of bluff
07:05 schestowitz-TR; I think the plan is to bury debt
07:05 schestowitz-TR; and then start afresh elsewhere
07:05 schestowitz-TR; very long story, but nothing was really moved to the US, it's more like a shell
07:05 schestowitz-TR; game. We did some reading and incolvency may mean that compensation cannot be pursued
07:05 schestowitz-TR; in which case leaving might not be the worse option
07:34 Techrights-sec; ack
07:35 schestowitz-TR; let's put it this way:
07:35 schestowitz-TR; a) company struggling financially for years
07:35 schestowitz-TR; b) looks for way to cut costs (clown, office shutdown etc.)
07:35 schestowitz-TR; c) lying to everyone
07:35 Techrights-sec; a) and making bad decisions which make the financial situation worse ...
07:35 schestowitz-TR; d) betrsying core principles
07:36 Techrights-sec; b, c. and d come from the bad decisions exacerbating a
07:36 Techrights-sec; in other words, a death spiral
07:40 schestowitz-TR; as long as payments were made, it was convenient
07:40 schestowitz-TR; one option is, cash in until the very end
07:40 schestowitz-TR; based on the assumptiom it's an extraction maximised
07:40 Techrights-sec; ack
07:44 schestowitz-TR; so you do not think it is unreasonable. we can save up another large lump each month and if the losses is
07:44 schestowitz-TR; at their own expenses, nothing to lose anyway?
07:44 Techrights-sec; I guess so
07:44 Techrights-sec; Was there any advice about the situation from the labor union?
07:48 schestowitz-TR; there is no union, just a few colleagues who can speak over the phone
07:48 schestowitz-TR; mind you, we've been in 'extraction' mode for years
07:48 schestowitz-TR; some unpleasant decisions made is seem impertative to leave on the basis of principles mostly
07:48 schestowitz-TR; but it was just too darn convenient
07:48 schestowitz-TR; with the current climate, taking it easy would be even easier
07:48 schestowitz-TR; if there is a task reassignment, then it's a whole new pandora's box
07:48 schestowitz-TR; but based on my reading (official gov. site) recovering compensation in case of shutdown would
07:48 schestowitz-TR; likely be off the books. may depend on the country, but I'm no expert
07:49 Techrights-sec; the union can be specific to the field of work not a specific employer
07:49 schestowitz-TR; yes, I was asked about joining an external union about 3 years ago when SarinGad was abusing people
07:49 schestowitz-TR; more like 4 years ago
07:49 schestowitz-TR; it was already grim back then
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07:53 Techrights-sec; ack
07:55 schestowitz-TR; leaving in "good terms" or semi-retiring means better references
07:55 schestowitz-TR; but there is also an element of respect
07:55 schestowitz-TR; all in all, they never treated us badly
07:55 schestowitz-TR; so we might just cash in, say thank you, and boodbye
07:55 Techrights-sec; yes
07:55 Techrights-sec; ack
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10:38 schestowitz-TR; brb
10:38 schestowitz-TR; it looks like, given that one week os work is one month of expenses, better push it till end
10:38 schestowitz-TR; willm speak to co.
10:38 Techrights-sec; ack
10:55 schestowitz-TR; another relatively slow news day
10:55 schestowitz-TR; EPO series has 2 parts left to it
10:55 schestowitz-TR; lupa seems to have slowed down the crawling
10:55 schestowitz-TR; hence, less capacity to see all the new capsules
10:55 Techrights-sec; India is in practice banning VPN usage
10:56 schestowitz-TR; 1-2 days ago I posted an article or link to an articler rather
10:56 schestowitz-TR; about how india was crushing things like a dictatorship under false pretences
10:56 schestowitz-TR; or rather committing crimes whilke claiming ro protect people from crimes
10:56 schestowitz-TR; modi H. Gates :-)
10:56 schestowitz-TR; anyway,m this week feels like "Mayday Week"
10:56 schestowitz-TR; very little news of substance
10:56 schestowitz-TR; I'm OK with it, I can produce more articles
11:00 schestowitz-TR; when we did exercise today I recalled I should really extend planet gemini
11:00 schestowitz-TR; it was accessed 26 times yeterday, so I assume others are starting to use it too
11:00 schestowitz-TR; it gives visibility to more capsules and I too use it to find picks
11:00 schestowitz-TR; encouraging people to QUIT thinking ogf HTTP/S as the only game in town
11:01 Techrights-sec; more articles heelps, it's why Reddit and other BS sites complain so much about
11:01 Techrights-sec; TR
11:01 Techrights-sec; good, Gemini is useful -- if one can discover the interesdting capsules
11:03 schestowitz-TR; there is something called geddit for discussion within gemini (like social control media),
11:03 schestowitz-TR; but I am not a fun
11:03 schestowitz-TR; Re : [subject] is how we did it iun the golden era of blogging (around 2004), sometimes pingbacks, trackbacks of
11:03 schestowitz-TR; even blog comments
11:03 schestowitz-TR; social control media is centralisation of all those things
11:03 schestowitz-TR; we need to shun that mindset
11:03 schestowitz-TR; there are now about a dozen new articles in geminisppace about free speech
11:03 schestowitz-TR; it's discussed across lots of capsules
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11:14 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Why is EFF trying to boost and save BAD things???? "LISTEN ONYOUTUBE [...] How to Prevent Twitt
11:14 schestowitz-TR; er from Going the Way of the Dodo" https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/digital-rights-updates-effector-343 | So
11:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Digital Rights Updates with EFFector 34.3 | Electronic Frontier Foundation
11:14 schestowitz-TR; urce: EFFBBB
11:14 schestowitz-TR; me: twitter SHOULD go the way of the dodo
11:14 schestowitz-TR; and I've been saying that for a very long time
11:14 schestowitz-TR; as for youtube, eff took money from gulag for lobbying
11:14 schestowitz-TR; which caused what'sHerNameFromIceland to get upset
11:14 schestowitz-TR; after she had joined the Board of the EFF and read my blog post
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12:19 schestowitz-TR; I've decuded at the end there's no point adding more capsules
12:19 schestowitz-TR; as others already syndicate a lot and more importantly sort them by date (I'm not sure how they di
12:20 schestowitz-TR; do it unless the rss feed has a field for that)
12:35 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Surveillance https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/03/indian-government-now-wants-vpns-to-collect-and-turn-over-personal-data-on-users/ | Source: Techdirt
12:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Indian Government Now Wants VPNs To Collect And Turn Over Personal Data On Users | Techdirt
12:37 Techrights-sec; yes more in the next batch of links
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14:21 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Unfortunately, this change resulted in some users no longer being able to use their OpenPGP keys. We learned that the affected users still depend on keys that were created or modified with OpenPGP software that used SHA-1 for the signatures that are part of OpenPGP keys." https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/05/openpgp-keys-and-sha-1/
14:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.thunderbird.net | OpenPGP keys and SHA-1 The Thunderbird Blog
14:23 Techrights-sec; SHA-1 is old and unsafe, that is different from the problem exhibited by
14:23 Techrights-sec; thunderbird blockign use of multi-address keys
14:23 Techrights-sec; Either way, it is a bad decision to continue to allow SHA-1 or if nothing
14:23 Techrights-sec; else failing to make a clear statement about the timeline on which it will
14:23 Techrights-sec; be phased out in the future
14:25 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/new-sophisticated-malware.ht
14:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/05/new-sophisticated-malware.ht )
14:25 schestowitz-TR; ml
14:25 schestowitz-TR; of course bruicie does not mention the part about Windows. Goodin is a Microsoft booster in Dondy Nasty. *Conde
14:33 schestowitz-TR; ack
14:33 schestowitz-TR; the press is full of M$ boosters who conveniently omit M$ role in establishing
14:33 schestowitz-TR; a vulnerable industry
14:33 schestowitz-TR; Louis Rossmann covers DRM far better than the EFF, in fact the EFF seems
14:33 schestowitz-TR; to have forgotten about DRM
14:33 schestowitz-TR; He has a interesting interview with Willie Cade about the tractors and
14:33 schestowitz-TR; both understant the problems involved.
14:33 schestowitz-TR; The EFF has been pedalling twitter and m$ against its own principles
14:33 Techrights-sec; ack
14:33 Techrights-sec; the press is full of M$ boosters who conveniently omit M$ role in establishing
14:33 Techrights-sec; a vulnerable industry
14:33 Techrights-sec; Louis Rossmann covers DRM far better than the EFF, in fact the EFF seems
14:33 Techrights-sec; to have forgotten about DRM
14:33 Techrights-sec; He has a interesting interview with Willie Cade about the tractors and
14:33 Techrights-sec; both understant the problems involved.
14:33 Techrights-sec; The EFF has been pedalling twitter and m$ against its own principles
14:33 schestowitz-TR; EFF has been too busy trying to 'save' Twitter and campaigning in Gulag's censorship network to do
14:33 schestowitz-TR; something to SAVE a network which MANDATED proprietary JS to writes CENSORED comms
14:33 schestowitz-TR; I appreciate EFF partly for humour's purposes, much like Mozilla, which is located nearby and has some overlaps
14:33 Techrights-sec; Tragedy is not funny :(
14:33 Techrights-sec; Mozilla is a similar situation. :(
14:34 schestowitz-TR; It is a sad situation
14:34 schestowitz-TR; but laughter is the best medicine
14:38 schestowitz-TR; if you work in a landfill, better to get used to or love the odor
14:38 schestowitz-TR; if you deal with shit every day, better learn to smile at it
14:38 schestowitz-TR; because it makes the work a lot more tolerable and you don't burn out easily
14:40 schestowitz-TR; I have dealt with shit like this since my early 20s
14:40 schestowitz-TR; most of the time we won't get our way, esp. when choosing very steep slopes
14:40 schestowitz-TR; but when we do win, even just a little, it feels good
14:40 schestowitz-TR; BTW, it's halfway in 2022 and still no UPC
14:43 Techrights-sec; ack
14:43 schestowitz-TR; merely slowing down a massive monsster of great proportions and huge threat is something
14:43 schestowitz-TR; UPC and Microsoft are monsters
14:43 schestowitz-TR; Novell is "small time"
14:43 schestowitz-TR; Murk is already taking Twitter to the cleaners with plans for "fees"
14:43 schestowitz-TR; he runs a losing company, where the only way is down...
14:43 schestowitz-TR; Maybe he can ALREADY short-sell it
14:43 Techrights-sec; it's still a problem that EFF does not act on the harm that social control media
14:43 Techrights-sec; inherently causes
14:44 schestowitz-TR; afaik Barlow never had an account there
14:44 schestowitz-TR; I asaw none anyway
14:44 schestowitz-TR; EFF cofounders got things done
14:44 schestowitz-TR; instead of tweeting
14:44 Techrights-sec; correct
14:49 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Mastodon Basics Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164455 Twitter = one boss. Mastodon = one thousand bosses (some above others). Running your own blog, with RSS feeds = you're the boss.
14:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Mastodon Basics | Tux Machines
14:50 Techrights-sec; correct
14:50 Techrights-sec; ack
14:50 Techrights-sec; Yes, RSS feeds have an advanatage over the Fediverse. Few wish to point out
14:50 Techrights-sec; that the blacklists are centralized os while the instances might be distributed
14:50 Techrights-sec; the control is not
14:52 schestowitz-TR; Tim Wilson pointed this out in JoinDiaspora, in writing, IIRC, and moreover brought this up in at least
14:52 schestowitz-TR; one show/ep of techbytes
14:52 schestowitz-TR; tbh, he saw it ahead of me. Back then I could not grasp what he was getting at, or have not seen the s
14:52 schestowitz-TR; severity of it yet
14:52 schestowitz-TR; The people who flocked from G+ to plupora are on a dying site now too
14:52 schestowitz-TR; its podadmin died
14:52 Techrights-sec; the overhead for running and instance is outrageous anyway
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:51] <schestowitz> https://the-federation.info/diaspora
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:51] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- the-federation.info | the federation - a statistics hub
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:51] <DaemonFC> Imagine holiday dinners and stuff.
14:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-the-federation.info | the federation - a statistics hub
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <DaemonFC> You let the police in because it's your brother-in-law.
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <schestowitz> Users: 822088
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <schestowitz> Last 6 months users: 30393
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <schestowitz> Last month users: 8825
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <DaemonFC> He sees something. You're arrested for Christmas.
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14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <schestowitz> only 1 in 100 registered users if active
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <matey> last time i was looking for a place, i found a state trooper lived there
14:53 schestowitz-TR; [11:52] <schestowitz> so for each user on the network you have to maintain data, inc. images, for 99 more people
14:54 schestowitz-TR; there is a lot more about this in the main IRC channel today, but that's one of many. We did the same for other "federated" platforms
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15:07 schestowitz-TR; Melinda Gates: I divorce my husband because of Jeffrey Epstein, whose only 'value' was giving access to underage sex. Corporate media: Gates is divorced over adult relationships. Yeah, gaslight the wife for your SPONSOR Bill...
15:08 schestowitz-TR; IF???? https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220503-activists-urge-ad-boycott-if-musk-turns-twitter-toxic
15:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.france24.com | Activists urge ad boycott if Musk turns Twitter toxic
15:20 Techrights-sec; there are a lot of red herrings thrown out there to try to protect bill
15:20 Techrights-sec; he's s bad that you can almost make up stuff and find out later it's true anyway
15:20 schestowitz-TR; that reptile alien illuminati :-)
15:20 schestowitz-TR; don't think he can pull it off.
15:20 schestowitz-TR; In Twitter I saw people linking a lot to TR in recent days
15:20 schestowitz-TR; the more he speaks, the louder people react
15:21 schestowitz-TR; then he comes back from hiding
15:21 schestowitz-TR; hoping that people forgot
15:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe Zuck Musk can silence those "cranks" for him next time around
15:22 Techrights-sec; thus the 'control' part of the social control media epithet
15:23 schestowitz-TR; they made wikileaks go away by locking many accounts and making wikileaks PLUS its high-profikle supporters
15:23 schestowitz-TR; a lot less visible
15:23 schestowitz-TR; they can talk
15:23 schestowitz-TR; but getting an audience will be hard
15:23 schestowitz-TR; even people whom they're followed by
15:23 schestowitz-TR; same issue in gulagtube BTW, from what I am able to gather
15:23 schestowitz-TR; they can arbitrarily decide who wins and who loses
15:45 schestowitz-TR; HELP, accidentially deleted my capsule gemini://jdj.golf/gemlog/shit.gmi
15:46 schestowitz-TR; notice hiw like and comment feature at the bottom
15:46 schestowitz-TR; not bad
15:46 schestowitz-TR; not sure abouyt client compat
15:46 Techrights-sec; backups are important -- every day if not more often, depending on the work
15:46 Techrights-sec; "Moral of the story: backup your stuff"
15:48 Techrights-sec; Interesting
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18:23 schestowitz-TR; Chart: Only Lockdowns Have Stopped COVID-19 From Spreading http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/05/04/covid-
18:23 schestowitz-TR; test-case-ratio/
18:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Chart: Only Lockdowns Have Stopped COVID-19 From Spreading
18:24 schestowitz-TR; it goes close to zero after separating people
18:24 schestowitz-TR; at this point their data portal become a propaganda avenue
18:24 schestowitz-TR; they present data in a misleading fasdhion
18:24 schestowitz-TR; asnd several times they made changes, each time to belittle the issue
18:24 Techrights-sec; not a surprise
18:24 Techrights-sec; "based on official NHS data" ... link ?
18:24 Techrights-sec; the chart goes from right to left instead of the usual left to right though
18:24 schestowitz-TR; e data would be an extra hassle, so I did not bother
18:24 schestowitz-TR; you can open the ods and do your own thing
18:24 schestowitz-TR; the chart is there, too
18:26 Techrights-sec; ack
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18:37 schestowitz-TR; [18:37] <techrights-news> Fewer than 50 million Brits got a second shot of 'fake' COVID-19, which means that almost 20 millions have not. But our government brags about figures like "92.5%" -- a misleading peer pressure tactic
18:38 Techrights-sec; ack
18:45 schestowitz-TR; [18:44] <techrights-news> CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/04/cisa-adds-five-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog 40% are APPLE and 40% are Microsoft, but CIA is omitting that because it does not wish to admonish proprietary stuff with NSA back doors?
18:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA
18:45 schestowitz-TR; *CISA
18:49 Techrights-sec; I would guess so
18:49 Techrights-sec; Remember M$ got in on Biden's election campagin and according to custom
18:49 Techrights-sec; he owes them a big one
18:49 Techrights-sec; for that
18:49 Techrights-sec; even if it is more likely they actually hurt his campaign as much or more
18:49 Techrights-sec; than they helped
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