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04:00 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> [JAMA Health Forum] Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/03/health/long-covid-health-consequences/index.html
04:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Long Covid is associated with significantly increased risk of death, heart and lung problems, study finds | CNN
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05:08 schestowitz-pi2; sorry, got distracted as I needed to reboot a machine
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; x org can be sensitive to dragging of windows
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; maybe the GPU
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; a reboot after 50 days
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; gonna post daily links shortly
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; the workflow is now vastly better
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; but I'm not so used to it yet
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; tomorrow the fish will have been in the hospital for 2 whole weeks
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; still swimming sometimes, but not most of the time
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; today will be a busy day and we leave hom in an hour (foods)
05:08 schestowitz-pi2; should I relay your remarks on the article?
05:15 schestowitz-pi2; i agree
05:20 schestowitz-pi2; i agree
05:20 schestowitz-pi2; there are some bits left about it in logs, with names and places removed
05:20 schestowitz-pi2; i did redact as best i could
05:20 schestowitz-pi2; the wipo protest site also
05:20 schestowitz-pi2; and sirius
05:35 techrights[sec]; checking
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; it was past midnight today, so next log cycle
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; it is logged by the machine i needed to reboot
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; i need to make an inventory of what to start on it
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; some cannot be automated
05:37 schestowitz-pi2; as it's cli processes
05:37 schestowitz-pi2; like tails-irc.sh
05:37 schestowitz-pi2; *tail
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05:54 techrights[sec]; Letting reddit frame m$ as a 'religious' choice is an attack, an attempt at
05:54 techrights[sec]; removing the debate from the realm of facts and ethics over to that of
05:54 techrights[sec]; opinions and preferences. Objectively, m$ is a bad choice in several meanings
05:54 techrights[sec]; of the word.
05:54 techrights[sec]; m$ does act as a cult but Andy does not let that distract him from ethical
05:54 techrights[sec]; objections which top off technical, econimic, and legal reasons to avoid m$
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; yes, i mentioned a lot the reddit angle
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; gonna leave in 30 mins
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; racing to finish some tasks first
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09:41 schestowitz-pi2; saved about 100gbp again
09:41 schestowitz-pi2; lisa and her van were back again
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; missing last week
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; not expired, just orphaned cargo
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; got 8 large packs of protein bars -- those are very expensive and very good diet
09:42 schestowitz-pi2; gonna catch up now
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11:46 schestowitz-pi2; i cluster wires into 'braids
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; with twisted metal strips
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; and try to put them away from sight
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; some can be made to go near or beneath items
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; so that they are barely visible
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; cords don't bother me
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; today i saw a nice-looking "gaming" mouse for 5 quid
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; didn't take it at the end
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; as i don't know the brand
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; and it might turns out to last 2 months, not 2 years
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; or 2 weeks
11:46 schestowitz-pi2; no return policy
11:55 schestowitz-pi2; on another topic, the new workflow is very pleasing and it's getting simpler for me to grasp mentally
11:55 schestowitz-pi2; after 20 years of more or less the same thing every day
11:55 schestowitz-pi2; when returning home we typically put in supermarkets' sites the items we found to assess the savings
11:55 schestowitz-pi2; the high-protien products are best bang/buck or bang/wdight
11:55 schestowitz-pi2; we must have "saved" about 150 pounds on just the protiein bars
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; most of them fit inmy backpack
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; but i took all there was in stock
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; some days there's none to be found, irrepsective of price
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; and vendors come and go
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; or start sucking, depending on their supplier's
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; so you need to recognise the faces of people, there are hundreds of stalls
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; no persistent slot at times
11:56 schestowitz-pi2; we now have a reserve of about 50kg in pasta, grain etc.
11:56 techrights[sec]; Excellent!
12:00 schestowitz-pi2; we stock up not on the cheap stuff, just heavily discounted premium products
12:00 schestowitz-pi2; and in a decade we saw one mouse, only once, and he left on his own
12:00 schestowitz-pi2; we very very seldon let food spoil. very rare. rianne has a mental overview of the inventory.
12:00 schestowitz-pi2; and can be creative in mixing it. buckwheat and kabanos today (very east european)
12:00 schestowitz-pi2; she even found vegetarian kabanos, i think they're like 80-90% off original price
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/eu-cra-secure-coding-solution/
12:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-berthub.eu | The EU's new Cyber Resilience Act is about to tell us how to code - Bert Hubert's writings
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; i look at this a third time
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; tbh, i am not familr enough with it to say something insightful
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; but we covered the similar "supply chain" plot
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; *ploy
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; in the US
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; where they try to complicate things for Free s/w
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; in the name of "protecting" us
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; and mention log4j a lot
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; because 2021 is just 2 months ago ;-)
12:02 schestowitz-pi2; and heartbleed was last week
12:03 schestowitz-pi2; found by google engineer
12:03 schestowitz-pi2; advertised by microsofters
12:03 schestowitz-pi2; for fud's wortth
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12:10 techrights[sec]; RMS and Perens are needed for input, but the former was cancelled, perhaps
12:10 techrights[sec]; in preparation for all the politics which are now in the works.
12:10 techrights[sec]; Without RMS, the rest at the FSF need to step up, if they have an interest
12:10 techrights[sec]; in maintaining software Freedom.
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; any person who can maintain the goal
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; and get "shit done"
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; will be described as extremist
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; "religious"
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; unfit for the role
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; "NOT GOOD FOR FUND RAISING"
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; I'd not even submit a talk to libreplanet
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; and in a prior article I explained why
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; (i don't counder myself to be outlandish, but in a cowardly society any "misfit" or "outlier" stands out)
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; in reddit, from what you showed me, saying that gnu/linux works better than osux gets you ['flagged]
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; bakkt="success story" that zemlin brags about in his talk even AFTER the collapse (ponzi)
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; putting gnu on 100 million servers and desktops is "SUPPLY CHAIN CRISIS"
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; in the eyes of people who control panels, news, politicians, etc.
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; and hold jimmy by the b0lls while stuffing him with potatoes
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; KabanOS
12:16 schestowitz-pi2; look up "kaban"
12:16 techrights[sec]; Yes, reddit only masquerades as a tech forum and is a severe source of
12:16 techrights[sec]; misinformation, disinformation, and FUD against FOSs of all stripes, but
12:16 techrights[sec]; especially against GNU and GNU.Linux
12:18 schestowitz-pi2; this is the source of [Reseach] that Breddit Robertson keeps bragging about
12:18 schestowitz-pi2; while uttering all the talking points against what saner users want
12:18 schestowitz-pi2; and posing as leet because "arch" and "tilting WM"
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; in a war of words the rules are different
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; money _can_ win, but not always
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; it gets to the point where paying t o win on ideas
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; it too much and too risky (blowback)
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; in the case of patents, pieter said that raising the lobbying bills of evil forces to the point
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; where they walk away from the table is the only war
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; *way
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; bar transformation of the political system
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; team upc does a ton of lobbying, we don't
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; they also control the media
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; tons of propaganda outlets disguised as news site
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; *sites
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; reddit is passing the labour costs to people like Breddit
12:24 schestowitz-pi2; who are using youtube to relay the BS
12:24 techrights[sec]; Same for YouTube, you will get demonetized for promoting GNU/Linux and maybe
12:24 techrights[sec]; even banned.
12:24 techrights[sec]; Quite few sites fit that description.
12:24 techrights[sec]; Yes that seems to be were he get a lot of BS from
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; reddit already wweeded out all the "greybeards" and "neckbeards" who can give a substantial
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; response and counter-point
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; which leaves idiots with "social justice warrior" as a reddit flair
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; to turf the space
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; after failing onen phd and exploring anotrher... in a completely unrelated discpline
12:27 techrights[sec]; Precisely
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; i noticed that about reddit in 2007 already
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; not 2017
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; novell turfing
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; against BN
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; and microsofters joining them
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; ganging up in comments
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; for bagel bill and ron hovsepian
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; whomm I've not received letters from in a long time
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; must have taken a short break from his home swimming session
12:29 schestowitz-pi2; to ask some attorney to pester with me
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; speaking of which, the 'founder' of sirius is working 16-hour shifts now
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; trying to save the company all in his own
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; while clients are fleeing
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; and debt cannot be repaid
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; serves him right... karma
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; the current pension provider was repeatedly warned not to do anything he asks for
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; while we still investigate the prior one
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; standard life must be handling pensions of like 10 million people
12:32 schestowitz-pi2; so it's a potentially huge scandal
12:43 techrights[sec]; Wow.
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; my friend whom you saw in the photograph spoke in length about this
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; 50% of his salay goes to pension
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; he had about 4-5 pensions already, one for each past employer
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; he's vested in standard life
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; to retire in 3.5 years (55)
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; he told me to accuse them of "theft"
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; but that's just semantics
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; I said to their managers something to that effect twice already
12:45 schestowitz-pi2; my colleagues don't even get as far as the management
12:47 techrights[sec]; I suspect that there might be a very specific term or phrase which will
12:47 techrights[sec]; launch major action against them if it is raised, but a big question is
12:47 techrights[sec]; what (legally speaking) that actual phrase is. In many cases you have to
12:47 techrights[sec]; use the exact term, I expect, if it is like dealing with banks or airlines.
12:47 techrights[sec]; Of by a bit in the phrasing and they won't lift a finger and they certainly
12:47 techrights[sec]; won't ever volunter information.
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; yes, this was brought up in the car this paast weds
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; and it's even worse when the person calling is a widow
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; or a child
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; and there is even less certainty or hard proof to press with
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; so he gave his partner a list of all the pension
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; i kept all the paperwork
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; from hem and payslip
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; that's not enoigh
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; *enough
12:49 schestowitz-pi2; when a colleague asked the company, sirius
12:50 schestowitz-pi2; they did not even reply!
14:09 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "Fizz, a social media app where members of the Emory University community can anonymously publish text posts, polls and photos." https://emorywheel.com/sga-presidential-candidates-respond-to-title-ix-misogyny-discourse-on-fizz/ APP??
↺ https://emorywheel.com/sga-presidential-candidates-respond-to-title-ix-misogyny-discourse-on-fizz/
14:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-emorywheel.com | SGA presidential candidates respond to Title IX, misogyny discourse on Fizz | The Emory Wheel
14:34 techrights[sec]; gemini.techrights.org/2023/03/05/windows-share-lockdowns/
14:34 techrights[sec]; It would be useful in such posts to remind about the role that monopoly rents
14:34 techrights[sec]; play and that they are now way below the market threshold at which they
14:34 techrights[sec]; are possible. In other words, the balloon is deflating.
14:34 techrights[sec]; Rapidly
14:34 techrights[sec]; Look for another .gov bailout / handout soon.
14:34 techrights[sec]; How much longer before the nations cannot avoid addressing the EPO?
14:34 techrights[sec]; It is complicated by Germany's conflict of interest in regards to income.
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; got epo material
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; will do daily links _quickly_
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; and leap to epo
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; catching up, sorry for that
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; i _did_ think about mentioning the monopoly rents in that post ^_^
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; but did not at the end
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; i think TR does show some positive news for us
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; to keep morale higher
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; as for epo, what makes me hopeful is the dissent
14:35 schestowitz-pi2; maybe a breaking point soon
14:36 techrights[sec]; It's often ignore and more often not even recognized.
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; epo staff are, in general, smart people
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; most are examiners
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; which makes them easy to work 'for
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; or 'with'
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; i'm hopeful that all this union-busting ("Bringing Teams Together")
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; will make the whole house of cards collapse
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; stakeholders are upset
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; Team UPC spent a lot on "lobbying" and bribing/grooming media
14:39 schestowitz-pi2; and we'll 'crash' their fake 'court'
14:39 techrights[sec]; As far as the management component there at the EPO goes, there needs to be
14:39 techrights[sec]; 100% turn over with no connection at all between the incoming and outgoing
14:39 techrights[sec]; management.
14:39 techrights[sec]; The staff are mostly good as far as I can tell but not the management
14:41 schestowitz-pi2; no, a lot of the important staff left years ago
14:41 schestowitz-pi2; and isn't coming back
14:41 schestowitz-pi2; now there are many type Zs
14:41 schestowitz-pi2; and they are not to blame
14:41 schestowitz-pi2; they just want to make a living
14:41 libertybox_; https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/GinaMacina60/status/1632374614184669187#m
14:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | Gina Macina (@GinaMacina60): "Wikileaks/CableGate reveals Bill Gates Microsoft worked closely with governments. Microsoft gives them access to source code. US embassy cables: China uses access to Microsoft source code to help plot cyber warfare, US fears http://techrights.org/2010/12/06/microsoft-topsec-in-china/ https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1632374614184669187" | La Contre-Voie
14:41 libertybox_; https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/Wireshark777/status/1632291190795272192#m
14:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.lacontrevoie.fr | mojo #1776 #Free Assange (@Wireshark777): "http://techrights.org/2019/12/17/gates-secrets-gatekeeper/ https://theirishsentinel.com/2020/08/10/depopulation-through-forced-vaccination-the-zero-carbon-solution/" | La Contre-Voie - nitter
14:42 schestowitz-pi2; hilly-billy attracting attention to himself again
14:42 schestowitz-pi2; there is a price to be paid
14:45 techrights[sec]; Ah
14:45 techrights[sec]; Then maybe the whole thing needs a starting over, fresh from the beginning.
15:03 techrights[sec]; A strong reason to harp on about monopoly rents is to kill the myth that m$
15:03 techrights[sec]; makes its money from OEM "sales" of Windows or MSO. The sales drive the
15:03 techrights[sec]; monopoly in the case of Windows and the monopoly in turn provides income
15:03 techrights[sec]; (though not necessarily enough to make a profit) With MSO, it is the monopoly
15:03 techrights[sec]; on the file formats which drive the monopoly rents
15:03 techrights[sec]; (though again not necessarily enough to make a profit there either)
15:03 techrights[sec]; Either way, there is a myth falsely glorifying the company and their products
15:03 techrights[sec]; It goes along with the conflation of common with popular. M$ may be common
15:04 techrights[sec]; but it is certainly not popular and is indeed the reason that most people
15:04 techrights[sec]; absolutely hate "computers" since they have no experience with real operating
15:04 techrights[sec]; systems or real software.
15:12 schestowitz-pi2; can i reuse and edit your words for a later post?
15:12 schestowitz-pi2; btw, zdnet is next after cnet
15:12 schestowitz-pi2; layoffs, management canned, spam
15:12 schestowitz-pi2; zdnet very quiet lately
15:12 schestowitz-pi2; the clock is ticking on them
15:50 techrights[sec]; Paraphrasing or expanding would be best if possible,
15:50 techrights[sec]; I would not be surprised if ZDNet finally went away, they have been deinvesting
15:50 techrights[sec]; for ages. For all practical purposes there is nothing left now.
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; the genral approach is
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; 1) collect info
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; 2) improve arguments
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; 3) change the public debate
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; 4) media joins our side
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; 5) opponents perish or change behaviour
15:57 schestowitz-pi2; for EPO we're trying (4)
15:58 schestowitz-pi2; some media DID cover the latest EPO scandals
15:58 schestowitz-pi2; EPO is a monopoly and not accounrable
15:58 schestowitz-pi2; working on epo post atm
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; the fish has died
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; after 2 weeks
17:00 schestowitz-pi2; but i was expecting this, due to lack of eating
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