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3 AM, March 6

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03:45 schestowitz-TR2; I wasn't always so wrinkled :-) https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=_BfxMH1GEpU

↺ https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=_BfxMH1GEpU

03:45 schestowitz-TR2; I am going to post a link or list of links to invidious instances

03:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-invidious.snopyta.org | Ramble About Software Patents and Their Harms - Part 3 - Invidious

03:45 schestowitz-TR2; we ought to encourage their use


4 AM, March 6

04:02 Techrights-sec; I have not looked at Invidious before. Odysee needs an account to be useful

04:02 Techrights-sec; and the javascript burden there is egregious. The account is needed because

04:02 Techrights-sec; the signal to noise ratio is so poor that you have to spend a /very/ long time

04:02 Techrights-sec; blocking accounts. There is really good material in Odysee but it is otherwise

04:02 Techrights-sec; completely drowned out in utter garbage and even disinformation and

04:02 Techrights-sec; propaganda style disinformation.

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; I am going to post a link or list of links to invidious instances

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; we ought to encourage their use

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; btw, earlier today I was going to type something herere

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; but decided not to

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; it was not important, I don't remember what it was anymore

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; but I did not want to oiverwhelm you upon wake-up

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; as you can see, I'm posting more than usual this weekend

04:03 schestowitz-TR2; as a result of not wasting time on "social" crap

04:09 Techrights-sec; Yeah there's not much of a buffer, about 24 lines or so.

04:09 Techrights-sec; :(

04:09 Techrights-sec; Their web skills are awful and that is compounded by their abuse of javascript

04:09 Techrights-sec; for even the smallest thing.

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; i am going to try odysee at random

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; see how laughable it gets

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; i see youtube style clickbait-oiptimised front page

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; sex, putin, cults like musk, cover photos designed to get clicks

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; btw i did saome testing of ipfs

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; it still works, but for large files like bulletins we get capped a bit by network capacity

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; I did nnot click anything in odysee

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; it's like twitter with mutimedia as medium

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; annd has no items of mental iinput

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; heck, they promote some thing where a women sells jarred farts

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; did not click

04:09 schestowitz-TR2; this is stuff they promte

04:13 Techrights-sec; Like I wrote, they have a lot of garbage. If Invidious is much better, then

04:13 Techrights-sec; maybe it is worth investigating.

04:13 Techrights-sec; Oh. Then it;s filtered garbage anyway.

04:13 Techrights-sec; ack

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; the way I understand it, invidious is just a relay for gulagtube and can also prox the

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; traffic

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; but... for some instances you ghave them curate promotes videos

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; based on some theme

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; e.g. anime for japanese

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; soime nl instance, finnish instance, tech ones

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; so you can cut through the crap like "recommended

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; and it nevere ever plays any ads

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; when we do workouts we use yewtu.be

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; so the general idea is, let's try to get more people to use it

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; when gulag gets angry it'll try to block it

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; but it'll be hard to block the "bad" or "unwanted" ones

04:13 schestowitz-TR2; without cutting off alksso what gulag sees as "lkegit"

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04:51 schestowitz-TR2; do not worry if I am too harsh on gulag

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; IU will finish thes erants soon

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; some things do need to be said

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; btw, I am not sure

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; if what I wanted help from you earlier

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; was with zoe videos

04:51 schestowitz-TR2; I found something and did it myself at the end

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; but maybe it was another task-like thing I had in my head

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; it doesn't matter

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; as the saying goes

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; if it was really important, I'd have written it down

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; you shall see there is a moral here

04:52 schestowitz-TR2; to do with founders

04:52 Techrights-sec; I'm not familiar with many of the new names.

04:59 schestowitz-TR2; url for businesses schools making sociopaths (mba)?

04:59 schestowitz-TR2; see draft

04:59 Techrights-sec; https://dealbreaker.com/2017/05/business-schools-might-have-tiny-little-psychopath-problem

↺ https://dealbreaker.com/2017/05/business-schools-might-have-tiny-little-psychopath-problem

04:59 Techrights-sec; https://www.economist.com/whichmba/better-class-psychopath

↺ https://www.economist.com/whichmba/better-class-psychopath

04:59 Techrights-sec; There is also probably an inverse relation between the number of MBAs on the

04:59 Techrights-sec; payroll and the viability of a business, especially a startup.

04:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Business Schools Might Have A Tiny Little Psychopath Problem - Dealbreaker

04:59 Techrights-sec; https://hbr.org/2004/10/executive-psychopaths

↺ https://hbr.org/2004/10/executive-psychopaths

04:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-A better class of psychopath | Which MBA? | The Economist

04:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-hbr.org | Executive Psychopaths


5 AM, March 6

05:04 Techrights-sec; There was not much written about the displacement of Google's founders.

05:04 Techrights-sec; RMS and eventually Linus must pass on the reins and assume an advisory role

05:04 Techrights-sec; if only to ensure a smooth transition and a continuation of the values they

05:04 Techrights-sec; founded their respective projects on. Both waited a bit too long and got

05:04 Techrights-sec; sidelined instead. Both can recover (AFAIK) but would have to expend effort.

05:04 Techrights-sec; RMS can advise now, I hope the FSF and GNU are on good footing.

05:04 Techrights-sec; Linux though is in a harder spot with so many microsofters now in high places

05:04 Techrights-sec; A purge is needed there.

05:08 schestowitz-TR2; published, you can try to find typos in there, esp. the quoted bits

05:38 schestowitz; D<"

05:38 schestowitz; I got a link via e mail today to download my data I have spent the hours since trying to

05:38 schestowitz; decode the json file and view it in a readable form I have tried various online methods

05:38 schestowitz; of doing this It just crashes firefox Can you someone please just explain how one goes

05:38 schestowitz; about viewing this data in a readable form, thanks

05:38 schestowitz; "

05:38 schestowitz; https://pod.diaspora.software/posts/4984491

↺ https://pod.diaspora.software/posts/4984491

05:38 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pod.diaspora.software | An update on the future of JoinDiaspora.com


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noon, March 6

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; I have just managed to expore the full joindiapora account of tuxmachinmnes

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; should i

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; 1) import this to another pod

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; 2) if so, whiich one?

12:09 Techrights-sec; 1) depends

12:09 Techrights-sec; It'd be rather good, in some ways, for TM to maintain a presence.

12:09 Techrights-sec; 2) no idea which pod,

12:09 Techrights-sec; I've not followed Diaspora for a long time and no longer have a good overview.

12:09 Techrights-sec; Can mastodon.technology be the 'home base' of TM?

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; I am checking the list

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; will sask you before I do anything

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; to recap, that instance then exports to tumblr, twitter, and from twitter

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; it gets picked up by mastodon.technology

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; asside from irc

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; manstodom does not contain the full histopry of posts

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; and also it does not export like diaspora can

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; the most active users are said to be in diapora-fr.org

12:09 schestowitz-TR2; diasp.org is dsecond

12:09 Techrights-sec; ack

12:09 Techrights-sec; Then a Diaspora pod would be a better choice for the epicenter.

12:09 Techrights-sec; Is the -fr a geographical or linguistic distinction?

12:11 schestowitz-TR2; to me, what's important is logevity, uptime, and services supported

12:11 schestowitz-TR2; i am checking

12:11 schestowitz-TR2; it's an important decision that is hard to change later

12:11 schestowitz-TR2; maybe I can even link it to wordpress.com

12:11 schestowitz-TR2; unlike joindiapora

12:12 schestowitz; https://the-federation.info/diaspora

↺ https://the-federation.info/diaspora

12:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-the-federation.info | the federation - a statistics hub

12:12 schestowitz; scroll down a bit

12:12 schestowitz-TR2; diasp.eu is based in .de but wuld imply tuxmachines is an eu thing

12:13 schestowitz-TR2; it supports 3 services, most support just 1 or 2

12:18 Techrights-sec; ack

12:18 Techrights-sec; the list says nothing about intended userbase for the nodes.

12:18 Techrights-sec; Is there a difference for any of them?

12:21 Techrights-sec; How to tell the quality of the admins?

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; https://the-federation.info/diaspora

↺ https://the-federation.info/diaspora

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; scroll down a bit

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; no hurry, let me know what you think

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; I asses # of users 65 months vs month

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; it tells you which ones are dying fast

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; and might shut down next

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; pluspora I think plans to shut down too

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; buit the platform is also used as cross-dservice and cross-pod firehose

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; the instances have local and non-local

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; some have some extra theming

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; \

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; some have lousy admins

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; I am tryint to assess user (active) retention

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; by compsrins 6m months to 1 month

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; that tells you something about ttl

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; for the pod in general

12:22 schestowitz-TR2; notice some are "No" for opensignups

12:30 schestowitz; https://pod.tchncs.de/

↺ https://pod.tchncs.de/

12:30 schestowitz; "

12:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pod.tchncs.de | tchncs*

12:30 schestowitz; Discontinuation Warning

12:30 schestowitz; This has been the first public service of tchncs.de, but it's time to move on. As development and community adoption slowed down significantly over the years, your admin considers to shut down this services in June, 2022.

12:30 schestowitz; "

12:35 schestowitz; https://diaspora.psyco.fr/users/sign_up I don't like the domain name, what do you think?

↺ https://diaspora.psyco.fr/users/sign_up

12:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-diaspora.psyco.fr | diaspora*

12:35 schestowitz; and support for the account would likely not be in English

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12:36 schestowitz-TR2; some have not even updated to the latest version of diapora

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; which mifght mean neglect by admin

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; pluspora admin died

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; and the pod was not up to date

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; diasp.eu is up to date, open, seems to have good user retention

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; let me try to open an account to see if I can, at all, imporrt to it

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; I can delete it afterwards

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; they charge 11 euros per year

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; and ask for card details

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; while seemingly fair

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; I don;'t give card numbers

12:36 schestowitz-TR2; not for testing, either

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; 11 eurosx ~250 active users might be enough to cover iunfra

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; but...

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; I also know nothing about the admin

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; Diaspora Europe wants 11 euros a year

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; Diaspora Germany wants 1 a month

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; diaspora france lacks support for tumbler export

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; https://pod.tchncs.de/

↺ https://pod.tchncs.de/

12:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pod.tchncs.de | tchncs*

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; "

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; pod.tchncs.de | tchncs*

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; Discontinuation Warning

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; This has been the first public service of tchncs.de, but it's time to move on. As development and community adoption slo

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; wed down significantly over the years, your admin considers to shut down this services in June, 2022.

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; part of a trend lately

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; dfeels like no matter what we choosse, it won't last too long..

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; lol!

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; some of these pods I look at have fewer TOTAL posts than what the Linux account would impoirt

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; so it would bloat upm their DB

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; https://diaspora.psyco.fr/users/sign_up I don't like the domain name, what do you think?

↺ https://diaspora.psyco.fr/users/sign_up

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; diaspora.psyco.fr | diaspora*

12:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-diaspora.psyco.fr | diaspora*

12:37 schestowitz-TR2; and support for the account would likely not be in English

12:37 Techrights-sec; I noticed

12:41 Techrights-sec; Yes, I think they would (or at least many would) grumble about English

12:42 schestowitz-TR2; well, the UI is in English

12:42 schestowitz-TR2; I am looking into it atm

12:42 schestowitz-TR2; as the number of active users seems to be improviing

12:42 schestowitz-TR2; i am willing to pay, but not with card

12:48 schestowitz; https://diaspora.psyco.fr/help/account_and_data_management

↺ https://diaspora.psyco.fr/help/account_and_data_management

12:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-diaspora.psyco.fr | Help

12:48 schestowitz; "Version 0.7.0.0 of diaspora* provides the first stage of account migration: you can now export all your data from the Account section of the user settings. Keep your data safely! In a future release you will be able to migrate your whole account, including posts and contacts, to another pod."

12:48 schestowitz; LOL!

12:48 schestowitz; So they let you export

12:49 schestowitz; but no import support

12:49 schestowitz; so what is the point?

12:49 schestowitz; I need to wait, I guess

12:50 schestowitz; this pod has a total of 99087 posts

12:50 schestowitz; that's about as many as "Linux" (TM) has

12:50 schestowitz; and schestowitz might be about 600,000

12:51 schestowitz; can you imagine the reaction is I attempted to import?

12:51 Techrights-sec; So are there any limits on import?

12:53 schestowitz-TR2; I asked last month (the code dev team) about import contraints

12:53 schestowitz-TR2; they said they would sort it out

12:53 schestowitz-TR2; for now I guess I have a parked account

12:53 schestowitz-TR2; while import is not even supported... or something

12:55 schestowitz; https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/unique-user-reference-changing-pods-backup/4441

↺ https://discourse.diasporafoundation.org/t/unique-user-reference-changing-pods-backup/4441

12:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-discourse.diasporafoundation.org | Unique user reference, changing pods, backup - Development - diaspora* Discourse

12:56 Techrights-sec; That's one of the reasons for asking. I'm not sure of the back end but if it is

12:56 Techrights-sec; not efficient in storing the posts, the import might cause a noticeable load

12:56 Techrights-sec; and take time.

12:56 schestowitz-TR2; or, yet worse, damage the site (pod)

12:59 schestowitz-TR2; the export of linux, exc. media, is 38mb of gz'ed file

12:59 schestowitz-TR2; i can imagine schestowitz wouyld be about 300MB at most

12:59 schestowitz-TR2; I wonder, given that many are in the same situation

12:59 schestowitz-TR2; should I now do a video about this?


1 PM, March 6

13:00 Techrights-sec; Not sure, do you have some short-listed English language pods with uptodate

13:00 Techrights-sec; software and reliable admins? It would have to be clear that there are other

13:00 Techrights-sec; good pods out there, too.

13:00 Techrights-sec; not just the ones on the shortlist.

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; just explainng the situation for what it is can help

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; as I saw some baffled users

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; asking what to do with the data they have exported

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; I have some things to say about the direction of the project too

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; like the shutdowns

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; but it won't be so flattering to the hard-working devs

13:02 schestowitz-TR2; for that reason alone I prefere to keep silent for now

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; mastodon toook out much of the wind from diaspor'a sails, I think

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; the official site for The Federation, which is looking for a new maintainer, sya

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; that acroos ALL platforms there are 6000 million posts

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; pleroma now has over 1000 nodes

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; diaspora 171

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; total posts 7.3 million

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; almost 10% of them are mine

13:14 schestowitz-TR2; linux and glynmoody also have lots

13:15 Techrights-sec; Yes, best not to point out that some are in a hard spot.

13:15 Techrights-sec; So maybe best to skip a video on the topic for now. I'm sure there will be some

13:15 Techrights-sec; obvious things to say pubicly once a pod has been selected and an agreement

13:15 Techrights-sec; reached.

13:23 psydroid2; I think there could/should be a tuxmachines Diaspora instance if you really want to maintain a presence on Diaspora

13:23 psydroid2; but I don't think it's worth it in terms of resources and maintenance

13:26 psydroid2; maybe Diaspora isn't even the best implementation of such a social network anymore

13:27 psydroid2; I think what is important is the data and the options to connect to people, but the exact codebase doesn't need to be preserved

13:27 psydroid2; especially if it it's far from optimal

13:27 psydroid2; (I'm not familiar with the codebase)

13:45 schestowitz-TR2; i have

13:45 schestowitz-TR2; 1) left a message in diapora to devs (positive) assuring another user (Gary

13:45 schestowitz-TR2; 2) come to realise import will take a long time

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; 3) started connectinmg the new account to external services

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; seems tumblr already broke compat back in november

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; i did not evben notce

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; 500 internal server error

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; such is the nature of working on projects that rely on THIRD-PARTy 'clown;

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; APIs

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; which are of course a moving target

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; you do not get to use "the older versions" of things

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; it's like site ToS

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; you must agree

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; lol wordpress.com compatibility is still broken

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; I think unless you connected it as a servic some time prior to 20917 it could work

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; but not after that

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; fb compat was removed altogether

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; so I now assume I won't be able to connectd @schestowitz account

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; to wordpress.com either

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; only "twitter"

13:46 schestowitz-TR2; this lessens the appeal

13:46 Techrights-sec; ack

13:46 Techrights-sec; :( changing APIs are no good, as are proprietary APIs

13:46 Techrights-sec; Walled gardens actively avoid and prevent interoperability,

13:46 Techrights-sec; ack

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; psydroid2: it would be hard

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; for starters

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; diaspora has export

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; which isn't even reliable

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; and no import

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; so the data cannot travel with you... yet

13:47 schestowitz-TR2; and the underlying complexity is horrendous, I've messed around with the code since a decade back

13:53 psydroid2; I've exported the little data I had in my account, but even the data file in JSON looks complex

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; ok, so I have connected this new account to birdsite and so from that it'll cross over to mastodon as before

13:53 psydroid2; I don't know why all of that is in there

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; no code changes are needed

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; just some configs in kde

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; to keep the window bolted to the right place

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; what was lost: all followers in diaspora

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; though they claim they might be able to port them over in the futurr

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; and access to tumblr was already lost last year

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; tumbler seems to be a toally dead zone

13:53 schestowitz-TR2; iirc, wordpress/automattic took over it

13:54 Techrights-sec; maintenace would be a headache and lots of javascript

13:54 schestowitz-TR2; psydroid2: some british photographer, gary, said the same

13:54 schestowitz-TR2; when he attempted to open his file yesterday


2 PM, March 6

14:06 schestowitz-TR2; ok, so the new instance has some of the very same bugs as the old one

14:06 schestowitz-TR2; otho, tuxmachines in manstodon and in twitter are workking again

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14:06 schestowitz-TR2; as does the zero-folloeers account in diaspora

14:06 schestowitz-TR2; tumblr and wordpress killed off compat with diaspora

14:06 schestowitz-TR2; just like facebook had done ages earlier

14:07 schestowitz; http://techrights.org/2022/02/10/social-control-media-bubbles/

http://techrights.org/2022/02/10/social-control-media-bubbles/

14:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Social Control Media is a Bubble and JoinDiaspora Might be the Next Casualty | Techrights

14:07 schestowitz; https://mastodon.technology/@tuxmachines

↺ https://mastodon.technology/@tuxmachines

14:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Tux Machines (@tuxmachines@mastodon.technology) - Mastodon for Tech Folks

14:18 Techrights-sec; " Joined Apr 2017 "

14:37 schestowitz-TR2; I have just pushed some changed to git

14:37 schestowitz-TR2; 3 services restroed, abeit one out of 1 is without followers

14:37 schestowitz-TR2; so locally orphaned

14:37 schestowitz-TR2; tumblr alrweady died silently last year

14:48 Techrights-sec; looking

14:48 Techrights-sec; ack

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; the internet will be around for the coming decade

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; in spite of putler

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; but I doubt any of the social control media things

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; will still be a think

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; about 5 years ago I was trying to get a picture of what was happening

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; as it seemed htts as a whole was waning

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; because of "apps" and such

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; browsers in 2020: "apps" i.e. JS

14:50 schestowitz-TR2; not www/html , just trnasport layrr for junk

14:51 Techrights-sec; One thing which could make the social control media drag on and on is the

14:51 Techrights-sec; utility that major interest find in its ability to manipulate popular opinion.

14:51 Techrights-sec; It can be kept (and probably is kept) afloat artifically like M$ has been, but

14:51 Techrights-sec; with money and influence only not the cult-like aspects which M$ rides on too.

14:56 schestowitz-TR2; gemini now at 2204 capsules

14:56 schestowitz-TR2; are you still working on code for techrights gemini xml?

14:56 schestowitz-TR2; I think it was last updated (the xml file) about 4 days ago

14:56 schestowitz-TR2; if you have not yet startd aggregator for existing gemini feeds, maybe I can have a go?


3 PM, March 6

15:24 Techrights-sec; I've put the aggregator on pause because of some trouble reading feeds.

15:24 Techrights-sec; The method used is not quite right and results in, for some obscure reason,

15:24 Techrights-sec; data which is not accepted as XML. By all means have a try at it.

15:24 Techrights-sec; Strange that TR's own feed has not updated.

15:29 schestowitz-TR2; what code makes techrights xml file??

15:29 schestowitz-TR2; I can see it is updated now

15:29 schestowitz-TR2; I think it has not yet been pushed to git

15:29 schestowitz-TR2; there are double slashes in url, so probably an easy thing to amend

15:29 Techrights-sec; gemini-make-feed.pl it's in cron via a wrapper script but the cron part fails

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; I have just saved the xml to a file, then opoended it okk

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; in librewolf

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; so I assume this is alreeady working mostly ok

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; should we link to it from the front page under "Feeds"?

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; in amfora, telescope, lagrange and kristall the double slash after year does not cause problems opening the

15:34 schestowitz-TR2; pages, but I think it might split requests for the pages into two

15:35 Techrights-sec; gemini-make-feed-wrapper.sh

15:35 Techrights-sec; adding to Git

15:35 Techrights-sec; pushed

15:37 schestowitz-TR2; looking at the wrapped

15:37 schestowitz-TR2; the perl part is harder for me to digest ;-)

15:37 schestowitz-TR2; because PL isn't a thing I am fluent in at all

15:37 Techrights-sec; not until the cron job is working properly also the double slash can be fixed

15:37 Techrights-sec; Hopefully the perl is clear (enough) to muddle through.

15:39 schestowitz-TR2; you have worked on programs in an area that few explored before, so there are

15:39 schestowitz-TR2; good prospects of others adopting it when they look for ways to build and

15:39 schestowitz-TR2; maintain their capsules

15:39 schestowitz-TR2; some is generalisable

15:39 schestowitz-TR2; but maybe not enoiugh to have a fancy name and "marketing"

15:41 schestowitz; roy@vonick:~/Git$ find | grep -v .git | wc -l

15:41 schestowitz; 130

15:47 schestowitz; "Still doesn't make this "racism" at worst it is regulatory risk aversion from IBM - your error is expecting that corporations will operate under a moral framework (be it racist or otherwise) corporations are not moral entities - they exist to make a profit and nothing else."

15:48 schestowitz; https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346242767696695308?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1346242767696695308:0:0:0:1346366190242500623

↺ https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346242767696695308?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1346242767696695308:0:0:0:1346366190242500623

15:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Imperialistic Blacklist Machines: Racist IBM and Red Hat ... | Minds

15:51 schestowitz; this is good so far: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346608083308122115

↺ https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346608083308122115

15:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Future of Censorship | Minds

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; sorry if I bother a bit, not intended

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; but it seems exciting that there's this gradual 'diaspora' away

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; from html and maybe away froim JS too

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; even if it starts mostly with geeks

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; gulagtube, being social control media to,

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; and tighting the screws in ways that annoy the users,

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; might also give way

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; eventuaklly I hope people will put down the 'phone'

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; and "apps" will be abandoned along

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; tith their notificatgions "addiction" (not the best term)

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; the fsf missed the baot several times

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; but rms will bring up gemini

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; there are more issues now than just software freedom and

15:52 schestowitz-TR2; software patents

15:53 schestowitz-TR2; some of these were articulated by "diogital vegan"

15:53 Techrights-sec; double slash fix pushed


4 PM, March 6

16:05 Techrights-sec; ack

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; this is good so far: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346608083308122115

↺ https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1346608083308122115

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; this is equally applicable to twitter, FB, etc.

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; still watching it

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; he goes off the deep end a lot

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; and not good to associate with

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; but having said that, his commentary on sociul control media

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; has long been correcte

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; and he is self-hosting in his own site

16:05 schestowitz-TR2; even the videos


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