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04:32 schestowitz-TR2; not many new articles
04:32 schestowitz-TR2; don't worry
04:32 schestowitz-TR2; i do TONS of backups
04:32 schestowitz-TR2; and tidying up
04:32 schestowitz-TR2; local machines
04:32 schestowitz-TR2; want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity
04:33 techrightssec; There seem to be fewer with each passing week
04:33 techrightssec; That's on an absolute level. On a relative level, relevant articles are
04:33 techrightssec; even more rare
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; not many new articles
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; don't worry
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; i do TONS of backups
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; and tidying up
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; local machines
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; want to be better prepared for the next hardware calaity
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; i actually want to discuss this:
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; a) [to keep tidy] all google rss feeds - blogspot, youtube etc. -seem to block rss downloaders
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; this is ok, f* google
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; b) yes, fewer new items over time
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; c) (B) is a reason to adapt some more
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; d) some sites temporarily try to make a comeback, like foss force last month
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; e) twitter is dyng. maybe feb 14th tuxmachines will become inactive there. xrevan was not sure if disapora
04:35 schestowitz-TR2; api impacted
04:36 techrightssec; ok
04:36 techrightssec; a) google's new way of hiding the destination RSS links is unacceptable and
04:36 techrightssec; dangerous
04:36 techrightssec; e) probably, best to plan for the possibility
04:36 techrightssec; c) what kind of adaptations? It's hard to wade through blogs even as RSS and
04:36 techrightssec; even harder to discover them.
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; the lifeblood of TM is good, notable stories re bsd and gnu/linux
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; e.g. reviews (very rare these days, low roi)
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; casting the net wider is one option
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; that i have nearly exhausted
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; with the hardware crash i lost only months' worth of new feeds in opml
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; i made backups to bubi after adding many
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; backups of the opml dump
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; opml files are the best bet, i think
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; when i find a new site and it is on topic i try to add it
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; unless the ratio of signal/noise is very bad
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; like some that veer way off topic or post something like tweets as "posts"
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; sparkfun??
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; using those blogs up and distracts from the real feeds
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; cisa is also very template-like
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; one upside of ditching quitrrss is that in blockquote i now have "proper" html
04:40 schestowitz-TR2; with some links and styling
04:42 techrightssec; Yes, reviews have more or less vanished but that is ok because it is mostly
04:42 techrightssec; from the uniformly high quality of desktop distros and systems
04:42 techrightssec; Yes
04:42 techrightssec; sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers
04:42 schestowitz-TR2; it kept filling up my 'inbox'
04:42 schestowitz-TR2; to the point where i knew it wasn't as 'full' as I had gotten accustomed to
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; this enlightened me as to a new trouble ahead
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; spending far too much effort and time separatinh wheat from chaff
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; while adding/posting almost nothing
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; after 20 years of posting from rssowl thunderbird, quiterss we do need 'fresh' thinking
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; and social control media is waning
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; it was sort of 'replacing' feeds for a lot of people
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; they even called it newsfeeds or "timelines"
04:47 schestowitz-TR2; curated by a-holes
04:54 techrightssec; sparkfun is a good feed but probably not relevant due to what it covers
04:54 techrightssec; and their algorithms
05:09 schestowitz-TR2; youtube seems to be breaking itself again
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; i cannot play ANYTHING infalkon
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; not even via invidious instances
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; youtube tells me to reboot my pc!
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; when rianne wakes up i can check what it does to librewolf
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; which blocks all youtube ads
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; wait, restarting falkon itself restored some sanity
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; but still, on rianne's librewolfsetup all newer videos - recent eyars -
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; won't play
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; we reckon it's some drm
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; or some anti-invidious mechanism
05:10 schestowitz-TR2; making life hard for those who want to dodge the youtube ui, ads, drm
05:10 techrightssec; It has too many ads most of the time. When there are ads they often are
05:10 techrightssec; longer than the video itself and break it up to the point of being unwatchable
05:10 techrightssec; :/
05:10 techrightssec; youtube is no longer a web site but has become a javascript "app
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; alphabet releases fin' results days ago
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; youtube revenue is DOWN
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; 12 month period apart
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; so the past 12 months' ad blitz did not result in higher income
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; it seems to be scaring people away
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; maybe they can say advertisers... downturn etc etc
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; this is GOOD news
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; unless you are "vested" in Google 'subscribers'
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; lunduke stopped again uploading to yutube, which he had protested against years ago
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; his videos did not get many views anyway
05:13 schestowitz-TR2; hundreds
05:16 psydruid; I use an mpv frontend for YouTube on my laptop
05:17 schestowitz-TR2; what is ti called?
05:17 schestowitz-TR2; i use mpv by default
05:17 psydruid; QMPlay2, it's on shithub
05:17 psydruid; after I came across it on Haiku
05:18 schestowitz-TR2; does it work like mpv --something youtube id/url?
05:18 psydruid; I don't know, it's a GUI
05:18 schestowitz-TR2; in repo also?
05:18 psydruid; probably not
05:18 schestowitz-TR2; q as in qt?
05:18 psydruid; yes
05:19 schestowitz-TR2; i used some guis for youtube in the past
05:19 schestowitz-TR2; they keep breaking
05:19 schestowitz-TR2; yutube breaks them
05:19 schestowitz-TR2; then the developer gives up
05:19 schestowitz-TR2; project abandoned/forked
05:20 techrightssec; It was a waste of time for him there but then also he doesn't cover much of \
05:20 techrightssec; interest any more. He did a few *really* good ones a long while back but they
05:20 techrightssec; turn out to have been anomalies
05:22 schestowitz-TR2; i see unduke a lot in kate
05:22 schestowitz-TR2; but nothing worth anything this past week
05:22 schestowitz-TR2; some satire about shitGPT
05:22 schestowitz-TR2; that was not even remotely funny
05:22 schestowitz-TR2; and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust
05:23 techrightssec; Mentioning it by name seeds the alogorithms with it and keeps it visible, sadly
05:24 schestowitz-TR2; yesm, exactly
05:24 schestowitz-TR2; daemonfcis mentioning it again in techrights
05:24 schestowitz-TR2; and his blog
05:24 schestowitz-TR2; at this very moment
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07:01 schestowitz[TR2]; "On recent results alone, the club is in crisis."
07:01 schestowitz[TR2]; https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/05/football/jurgen-klopp-liverpool-refuses-to-answer-question-spt-intl/index.html
07:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Jurgen Klopp refuses to answer journalist's question after Wolves loss | CNN
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; i see unduke a lot in kate
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; but nothing worth anything this past week
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; some satire about shitGPT
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; that was not even remotely funny
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; and helps keep this shit in the zeitgeust
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; msft cut a lot of marketing staff
08:54 schestowitz-TR2; and soon the shitgpt pr spam will run dry too
08:55 schestowitz-TR2; and nobody will remeber any microsoft product promosing this pixie dust
08:55 techrightssec; Yes that is an additional advantage of them cutting.
08:55 techrightssec; I hope that what's left of the media can reinvent itself without m$ money but
08:55 techrightssec; those that were once indpendent of m$ money, and thus influence, have been
08:55 techrightssec; bought and shut down or else paid by M$
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12:29 schestowitz-TR2; crude draft
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; do you consent to then generla direction?
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; www become so shitty
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; that going back to quiterss 'felt' wrong
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; i sarted posting links to indivious videos
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; some were not evengood
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; like "linux" gamer
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; valve spam
12:29 schestowitz-TR2; i stopped
12:29 techrightssec; your call but will check anyway
12:29 techrightssec; Might bowdlerize some of the pejoratives for the one gimmick software
12:29 techrightssec; By hand? Does the script not help?
12:29 techrightssec; s/classic spam/egregious spam/ ??
12:30 schestowitz-TR2; i will change the text and clarify
12:30 schestowitz-TR2; thanks!
12:30 schestowitz-TR2; it was a fast rough type
12:30 techrightssec; np
12:31 schestowitz-TR2; today's main video and feature is epo 'leak'
12:31 schestowitz-TR2; that'll take longer to put in text
12:33 techrightssec; ack
13:27 schestowitz-TR2; the past 3 days no "other-links" in tr:links
13:27 schestowitz-TR2; a bug or intentional?
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13:37 techrightssec; bug
13:37 techrightssec; checking
13:55 techrightssec; They were in the wrong dir, will verify the script tomorrow to be sure it is
13:55 techrightssec; fixed
13:55 techrightssec; thanks for catching that
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17:02 schestowitz-TR2; "Modern" and "progress" meaning worse and more annoying https://rubenerd.com/booking-a-hotel-in-2023/
17:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Rubenerd: Booking a hotel in 2023
17:10 techrightssec; Is KDE's default browser / own browser still Konqueror?
17:10 schestowitz-TR2; might dependon he distro
17:10 schestowitz-TR2; in debian 11 it's firefoxand konq
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