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07:31 Techrights-sec; restgarting httpd
07:31 Techrights-sec; How much FOSS experience does Mendoza have? https://linuxgizmos.com/about/
07:31 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/about/ )
07:32 schestowitz-TR; My last post on LinuxGizmos Tux Machines http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/163347
07:32 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | My last post on LinuxGizmos | Tux Machines
07:32 schestowitz-TR; I don't know his name
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07:50 schestowitz-TR; thanks for catching the downtime. Based on montastic's emails, that happened literally when I went to sleep and was corrected minutes later. Had nothing been done, there could be a 6-hour downtime. After 43 days apachetop also crashed, so I assume something in apache went a little funny.
07:52 Techrights-sec; How much FOSS experience does Mendoza have? https://linuxgizmos.com/about/
07:52 Techrights-sec; He's mentioned in https://linuxgizmos.com/my-last-post-on-linuxgizmos/
07:52 Techrights-sec; I tried sifting through the Apache logs later but could not find anything
07:52 Techrights-sec; incriminating.
07:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://linuxgizmos.com/my-last-post-on-linuxgizmos/ )
07:53 schestowitz-TR; yes, he got mentioned there
07:53 schestowitz-TR; I said more in IRC
07:53 schestowitz-TR; about linux.com and eric browsn
07:53 schestowitz-TR; he's a casualty of spamnil zemlin
07:53 schestowitz-TR; and zemlin has just hired some unqualified "social" spammer as editor
07:53 schestowitz-TR; a person who does not even use Linux!
07:53 Techrights-sec; Too bad
07:53 Techrights-sec; Yes. Zemlin is working /against/ Linux and seems to always have been doing so.
07:54 schestowitz-TR; I thought about doing a video about it
07:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should
07:54 schestowitz-TR; but I don't have much to go with for more than 2 mins
07:55 Techrights-sec; ack
07:58 schestowitz-TR; I have (this morning) marked all the remainingf libreplanet talk as "read"
07:58 schestowitz-TR; At this point I sift through many low-quality
07:58 schestowitz-TR; or not-relevant-to-us
07:58 schestowitz-TR; "talks"
07:58 schestowitz-TR; some of them are very low quality and can barely be called talks
07:58 schestowitz-TR; to think they had snowden as keynote years ago
07:58 schestowitz-TR; this year's keynote was nothing special
07:58 schestowitz-TR; and talks about two artists and their maca dna boat
07:58 schestowitz-TR; very odd they eleveated this to keynote
07:58 schestowitz-TR; mike gerwitzx stepped down it seems
07:58 schestowitz-TR; at least from the FSD things
07:58 schestowitz-TR; but amin bendali took his place immeiatelyt
07:59 Techrights-sec; yes I noticed in a spot check. They were too numerous so I stopped checking
07:59 Techrights-sec; further.
08:00 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I had to go through 6 talks before finding something adequate
08:00 schestowitz-TR; and it was aobout ebooks
08:00 schestowitz-TR; and not so relevant to us
08:01 schestowitz-TR; so that was likel;y a sign that I've exhausted the stock
08:01 schestowitz-TR; if you watch the librevr talk you may get a laugh
08:01 Techrights-sec; that is unfortunate, but matches what I saw
08:04 Techrights-sec; On another topic, there could be a use for SUEPO to contact the national news
08:04 Techrights-sec; services directly via e-mail with a short paragraph in English or in translation
08:04 schestowitz-TR; you assume they have not thought of that or have not done that
08:04 schestowitz-TR; this is not a new issue and we wrote many articles about the media
08:04 schestowitz-TR; blackout
08:04 schestowitz-TR; speaking of which, ursula and otehr eu officials get flack in twitter
08:04 schestowitz-TR; citing some of our posts
08:04 schestowitz-TR; the EPO scandals spill over to EU
08:06 Techrights-sec; yes I assume that
08:06 Techrights-sec; twitter censors heavily based on pro-M$ politics, and pro-M$ is pro-software
08:06 Techrights-sec; patent
08:06 Techrights-sec; Is there a published e-mail address for a SUEPO contact, should a way to break
08:06 Techrights-sec; the news blackout be found?
08:06 schestowitz-TR; I think it is on their web site, but SUPO (different one) might watch the comms
08:08 Techrights-sec; They don't have a standalone e-mail address? It would be dangerous to run
08:08 Techrights-sec; all their written communications through the EPO management.
08:09 schestowitz-TR; the suepo domain is separate from epo
08:09 schestowitz-TR; SUPO is an intel agency
08:09 schestowitz-TR; so I was making a joke
08:47 schestowitz-TR; otrs
08:47 schestowitz-TR; video about LF
08:47 schestowitz-TR; OTR
08:47 schestowitz-TR; OTA
08:47 Techrights-sec; ah
09:05 schestowitz-TR; I have avoided naming anyone but Zemlin and the founder of LG
09:05 schestowitz-TR; as the new people deserve benfit of the doubt
09:05 schestowitz-TR; sort of
09:05 schestowitz-TR; it's 20 mins long
09:05 schestowitz-TR; working on the text now
09:15 schestowitz-TR; draft
09:22 Techrights-sec; ack
09:22 Techrights-sec; ack
09:22 Techrights-sec; The announcementof interest ought ot have a short, one-line-or-less description
09:22 Techrights-sec; also "includes an image" of what?
09:27 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I have made several improvements
09:27 schestowitz-TR; I will think of more info to add while it's processing
09:27 schestowitz-TR; expect the "news" to dry up some more now that Eric Brown is out
09:27 Techrights-sec; np
09:27 Techrights-sec; yes, and other news sites seem to be slowing down. ITWire to name one has
09:27 Techrights-sec; been unavailable for days
09:28 Techrights-sec; others have been slow to post or not posted at all the last few days
09:42 schestowitz-TR; don't wanna rammnble much
09:42 schestowitz-TR; but yes
09:42 schestowitz-TR; it's the same with patents
09:42 schestowitz-TR; you get updates from maybe 20% of what you added to the feeds
09:42 schestowitz-TR; the downside is
09:42 schestowitz-TR; we don'\t know what goes on
09:42 schestowitz-TR; or have very fewe data points
09:42 schestowitz-TR; yupside is,
09:42 schestowitz-TR; we have less ideaological opposition
09:42 schestowitz-TR; and less "competition"
09:42 schestowitz-TR; including in searches
09:42 schestowitz-TR; but either way
09:42 schestowitz-TR; we are NOT IN CONTROL OF WHAT OTHER SITES DO
09:42 schestowitz-TR; it is what it is
09:43 Techrights-sec; 20% would be a very high estimate, the RSS feeds I see are about 5% per day at
09:43 Techrights-sec; best
09:43 Techrights-sec; yes, there are so few covering topics that a great many important issues fall
09:43 Techrights-sec; between the cracks.
09:44 schestowitz-TR; my 20% figures was for weekly
09:44 schestowitz-TR; as I started reading patents only on sundays
09:44 schestowitz-TR; I am notw experimenting with daily again
09:44 schestowitz-TR; but the yield is not good
09:44 schestowitz-TR; the net is empty
09:44 schestowitz-TR; and I stopped checking Gulag Noise alaerts
09:44 schestowitz-TR; they are too noisy
09:44 schestowitz-TR; I might even cancel them all
09:44 schestowitz-TR; one more step towards gulag-free life
09:45 Techrights-sec; ack
09:53 Techrights-sec; BTW the backup drive here is pushing 90% full. Using rsync means that
09:53 Techrights-sec; deletion would have to occur on the server in order to save space.
09:53 Techrights-sec; Thoughts?
09:54 schestowitz-TR; rsync has a flag for deleting files that can no longer be found on the server, so if you rsync across from TR the older DB dumps that are no longer there would also get removed from your HDD
09:54 schestowitz-TR; I personally do not like setting that flag, in case an accidental file deletion then gets propagated to the backup to
09:54 schestowitz-TR; *too
09:55 schestowitz-TR; one workaround is doing a run with that option once a month
09:55 schestowitz-TR; so that run is a 'compacting pass'
10:09 Techrights-sec; yes, that implies that we delete more of them from the server
10:10 schestowitz-TR; you already wrote a script that culls out older stacks of backups
10:21 Techrights-sec; yes that thins out a portion but perhaps more should be thinned out manuall
10:21 Techrights-sec; manually on occasion?
10:23 schestowitz-TR; my backup regime for the site is rather poor
10:23 schestowitz-TR; I trust the RAID, if any, too much
10:23 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I take copies of the latest DB
10:23 schestowitz-TR; or the latest year in the uploads directory
10:24 schestowitz-TR; my relationship with the admin improved
10:24 schestowitz-TR; compared to one year ago
10:24 schestowitz-TR; but it's good to have backups in case of total hardware
10:24 schestowitz-TR; breakdowns
10:24 schestowitz-TR; maybe this coming weekend I will dump a full copy onto the new laptop
10:24 schestowitz-TR; it's about 160GB, so can take days to complete
11:06 Techrights-sec; It's good that there is improvement.
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12:08 schestowitz-TR; The platforms chosen by the EFF contradict its own stance of policy (if they still have any) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/podcast-episode-your-tax-dollars-work
12:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Podcast Episode: Your Tax Dollars At Work | Electronic Frontier Foundation
12:09 Techrights-sec; They go so far as to boost M$ these days.
12:09 Techrights-sec; At least they also mention the Internet Archive but that should have been
12:09 Techrights-sec; featured first and foremost among the options presented.
12:09 Techrights-sec; Ogg would have been a better container than MP3
12:13 schestowitz-TR; there is anon-stat.eff.org
12:13 schestowitz-TR; tbh, no such thing should exist
12:13 schestowitz-TR; they should not behave like a company
12:13 schestowitz-TR; this loads up when you open their side
12:13 schestowitz-TR; whose idea was it?
12:13 schestowitz-TR; they use the term "big tech" several time in this episode
12:13 schestowitz-TR; maybe they should get back to shilling DDG
12:13 schestowitz-TR; and maybe https://www.eff.org/pages/effs-diversity-statement
12:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | EFF's Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion | Electronic Frontier Foundation
12:13 schestowitz-TR; this likely means a quotas system
12:14 Techrights-sec; ack
12:15 schestowitz-TR; I am alol for diversity
12:15 schestowitz-TR; but quotas are not the way
12:15 schestowitz-TR; they can be damaging
12:15 schestowitz-TR; because they necessarily means lowering one's quality of recruit
12:15 schestowitz-TR; or their suitability for the job
12:15 schestowitz-TR; mostly for optic's sake
12:15 schestowitz-TR; and then companies reward for it
12:15 schestowitz-TR; they do for D &I
12:15 schestowitz-TR; but it's more about defanging the watchdog IMHO
12:16 Techrights-sec; there are very strong arguments against quotas
12:16 Techrights-sec; recruiting and call for papers can be done "blind" to much greater effect.
12:16 Techrights-sec; See how LFSE did it, yet were attacked for having neither quotas nor sucking CocC
12:16 schestowitz-TR; attacked?
12:16 schestowitz-TR; That's what social control media is for
12:16 schestowitz-TR; Ukraine obliterated the Web this way
12:16 schestowitz-TR; siccing mobs
12:18 Techrights-sec; Yes the mob went after him and, in person, threatened physical violence IIRC
12:18 Techrights-sec; Several references were in the links many years ago including a long interview
12:18 Techrights-sec; s/LFSE/SELF/
12:41 schestowitz-TR; off topic ran
12:41 schestowitz-TR; rant:
12:41 schestowitz-TR; techdirt resorted to very bad language in recent years
12:42 schestowitz-TR; like very bad words like "fucking" in headlines
12:42 schestowitz-TR; the topics covered are not what they had been until a decade ago
12:42 schestowitz-TR; I often do not agree with the position or the conclusion either
12:42 schestowitz-TR; but then again mmasnick isn't the sole mwrite there
12:42 schestowitz-TR; he used to sling like 10 decent posts a day
12:42 schestowitz-TR; that changed after a while
12:42 schestowitz-TR; and now it's TONS of politics
12:42 schestowitz-TR; or some things about police
12:42 schestowitz-TR; that addresses a set of ssubjects already covered by media
12:42 schestowitz-TR; and leaves vacuum in areas like copyrights
12:43 Techrights-sec; It's so that the topics are more easily downranked in the search engine results,
12:43 Techrights-sec; as sort of reverse SEO
12:43 Techrights-sec; When they stick to technology, and technology policy, they still do a good job.
12:43 Techrights-sec; With politics and related controversies, they often pick up easily debunked but
12:43 Techrights-sec; populist positions.
12:43 Techrights-sec; Yes, they used to cover copyright issues quite thoroughly and are losing the
12:43 Techrights-sec; plot there.
12:43 schestowitz-TR; it is just that copyright issue make up no more than 20% of the total
12:43 schestowitz-TR; patents not even 5-10%
12:45 Techrights-sec; ack
12:47 schestowitz-TR; i guess that on some rather supierficial level I am ok with i
12:47 schestowitz-TR; *it
12:47 schestowitz-TR; knowing it means less "competition" for us
12:47 schestowitz-TR; but sometimes it helps with a wider set of people is outraged by
12:47 schestowitz-TR; obvious bad policy
12:47 schestowitz-TR; EPO and Microsoft crimes are among thosee
12:47 schestowitz-TR; when did you LAST see ANY article concerning software patents?
12:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe we can get will smith to slap some patent troll on stage
12:47 schestowitz-TR; and bring the issue back to the center/front
12:48 Techrights-sec; I figure more sites covering those topics help with outreach
12:48 Techrights-sec; Last? Months ago and then mabye a year or so before that again.
12:48 schestowitz-TR; yes, I was going to say some time last year
12:57 schestowitz-TR; fossforce gets paid by Zemlin for this webspam of LF https://fossforce.com/2022/04/free-training-and-certification-linux-foundation-taking-submissions-for-lift-scholarships see http://techrights.org/2022/04/05/not-so-linux-foundation/
12:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fossforce.com | Free Training and Certification: Linux Foundation Taking Submissions for LiFT Scholarships - FOSS Force
12:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Linux Foundation Should Remove Linux From Its Name | Techrights
12:57 schestowitz-TR; It is worth remembering that only years afo fossforce was a vocal critic
12:57 schestowitz-TR; of LF
12:57 schestowitz-TR; will they persist with a consistent position on that issue?
12:57 schestowitz-TR; haha, not bloody likely !!
12:57 Techrights-sec; :(
12:57 Techrights-sec; unfortunate.
12:57 schestowitz-TR; the modus operandi of EPO management
12:58 schestowitz-TR; and winston in 1984
13:01 Techrights-sec; ack
13:01 schestowitz-TR; Winston Nichols
13:06 schestowitz-TR; if you can suggest a video topic, it would help me a lot
13:06 schestowitz-TR; a tad slow at epo and linux is just fluff
13:06 Techrights-sec; ack
13:06 Techrights-sec; if there were more data to track the decline of Linux coverage that would
13:06 Techrights-sec; be useful; there is data on the general dismantling of journalism but nothing
13:06 Techrights-sec; specific to Linux or FOSS or even general ICT
13:08 schestowitz-TR; we covered this in the past
13:08 schestowitz-TR; also, as you note, the real news isn't to do with linux
13:08 schestowitz-TR; but all topics
13:08 schestowitz-TR; or
13:08 schestowitz-TR; all of "the web"
13:08 schestowitz-TR; or "readers' 'consumption'"
13:08 schestowitz-TR; I am not in a position to comment on this
13:08 schestowitz-TR; but it would be a nice dissertatioin/thesis topic
13:08 schestowitz-TR; which would involve collecting a lot of data
13:08 schestowitz-TR; like # of writers
13:08 schestowitz-TR; number of sites
13:08 schestowitz-TR; mind you, social control media is rotting also
13:08 schestowitz-TR; inc. gulagtube
13:08 schestowitz-TR; they juyst try to squeeze some cash on the way out
13:09 schestowitz-TR; OTA, found something at epo.orgf
13:09 Techrights-sec; ack
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13:55 schestowitz-TR; https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/05/how-to-get-your-domain-suspended-in-five-easy-steps/BBB
13:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/04/05/how-to-get-your-domain-suspended-in-five-easy-steps/BBB )
13:55 schestowitz-TR; i read quickly through it
13:55 schestowitz-TR; JS+social contropl media+dns
13:55 schestowitz-TR; bloat shit = 3-4 days offline
13:55 Techrights-sec; ack
13:55 schestowitz-TR; he mentions gulag clown at the end
13:55 schestowitz-TR; $500/year
13:55 schestowitz-TR; I should show this to some idiots
13:55 schestowitz-TR; maybe they will stomp saying "Google is your friend"
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15:01 schestowitz-TR; ota\
15:01 schestowitz-TR; I keep pushing the point about vaccines and patents
15:01 schestowitz-TR; which I think will help
15:02 schestowitz-TR; given that the audience includes many patent examiners
15:02 schestowitz-TR; I hope I speak in an accent and pace that makes it easy to understand
15:02 schestowitz-TR; even for those whose English is not a first language
15:02 schestowitz-TR; some people don't take into account the pace and the target
15:02 schestowitz-TR; audience, so their ability to get a message across is impeded
15:02 schestowitz-TR; apmnil just chews up lots of words and is buzzword-dropping
15:02 schestowitz-TR; no wonder nobody watches that shit
15:02 schestowitz-TR; but the EPO's presidents are appalling spreakers
15:02 schestowitz-TR; it's like watching a couple of frenchmen in a fish market
15:02 schestowitz-TR; of course their mpoor communication skills work in our favour
15:02 Techrights-sec; ack
15:02 Techrights-sec; I think so
15:02 Techrights-sec; putting his shit on that site is killing it on purpose
15:02 Techrights-sec; they are not in their office because of their skills or abilities, which they
15:02 Techrights-sec; generally lack
15:03 schestowitz-TR; this is what senior staff has long complained about
15:03 schestowitz-TR; the hiring standards have collapsed also for examiners
15:04 schestowitz-TR; now I can record another video on ther other laptop while the first is processing
15:04 schestowitz-TR; I think I will use both for this
15:04 schestowitz-TR; can you think of a pressing topic?
15:34 Techrights-sec; not off the top of my head
15:50 schestowitz-TR; I eneded up doing a video showing how I use the new setup
16:20 schestowitz-TR; drafgt
16:25 Techrights-sec; Does SUEPO have a news or blog feed covering the strike before and after?
16:25 Techrights-sec; \
16:25 schestowitz-TR; yes, rss and web site. the media ignored that.
16:26 Techrights-sec; then that should be linked in the post
16:26 Techrights-sec; thanks
16:26 schestowitz-TR; adding
16:34 Techrights-sec; I think it helps to try to drive traffic their direction
16:35 schestowitz-TR; if done too often, either way, it contributes to the idea of 'collusion' or coordination
16:41 Techrights-sec; :/
16:41 Techrights-sec; Their site is not navigable
16:41 schestowitz-TR; they 'modernised' it about 5 years ago
16:42 Techrights-sec; One can't just start at the SUEPO site and find out their activities and goals
16:42 Techrights-sec; maybe they like it like that.
16:42 Techrights-sec; Modernized as in removed all aspects of usability and discoverabuility in
16:42 Techrights-sec; exchange for "engagement" as measured by fruitless interacvtion for long
16:42 Techrights-sec; durations.
16:54 Techrights-sec; (around but not near the computer)
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21:38 schestowitz-TR; draft
21:38 Techrights-sec; ack
21:38 Techrights-sec; a few words about what is exposed in the metadata would help
21:43 schestowitz-TR; done
21:44 Techrights-sec; thanks
21:44 schestowitz-TR; at least you can tell that they feel the heat :-)
21:44 Techrights-sec; yes but their reaction is to attack the messenger not fix their behavior
21:50 Techrights-sec; ack
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