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07:44 Techrights-sec; The image processor test now has some primitive de-duplication capabilities.
07:44 Techrights-sec; MD5 would probably be enough but it uses SHA256. Maybe that is too much space
07:44 Techrights-sec; in the db.
07:44 schestowitz-TR2; testing...
07:44 schestowitz-TR2; today btw we get Liz Shell confirmed, our new business supremacist
07:49 schestowitz-TR2; it does not deal with webp
07:49 schestowitz-TR2; another suggestion: as the web is so broken and many image URLs have trailing "?junk" it might help for the wrapped to buffer the input with ''
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08:39 Techrights-sec; Shell already announce de-investment in services and infrastructure, aka
08:39 Techrights-sec; dismantling society.
08:39 Techrights-sec; The script hasn't been tested with ? yet, though it /should/ in principle work
09:04 schestowitz-TR2; the first test I did was webp, not by choice
09:04 schestowitz-TR2; and then I realised that like my older machines it does not support the format
09:04 Techrights-sec; webp? https://developers.google.com/speed/webp
09:04 Techrights-sec; The current incarnaton can only handle gif, jpeg, and png
09:04 Techrights-sec; Though it can be refitted for other formats. \
09:04 Techrights-sec; Which formats should be supported?
09:04 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-developers.google.com | An image format for the Web | WebP | Google Developers
09:04 Techrights-sec; The current, limited set leaves a nice, lightweight dependency list.
09:04 Techrights-sec; SVG is not supported yet either. Should it be?
09:05 Techrights-sec; Adding in ImageMagick is a lot heavier and, sometimes, introduces vulnerabilities.
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; no need for any additonal package, your program deals with over 90% of cases
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; I was just unfortunate trying to pick at random a page, only to realise it uses webp
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; I can use the old way, with Features, to add unsupported formats
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; the main downside is, others cannot or won't learn
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; notably rianne and marius
09:06 schestowitz-TR2; but if it works OK most of the time, then fine
09:26 Techrights-sec; The details are not finalized yet, so /i/ can still get cleared out during
09:26 Techrights-sec; further testing. But do test, please.
09:26 Techrights-sec; Looking at Image::Magick now
09:26 Techrights-sec; It handles webp just fine.
09:26 schestowitz-TR2; I've meanwhile pushed a little script that assumes current url heirarchy in /i/
09:26 schestowitz-TR2; *hierarchy
09:27 schestowitz-TR2; are you ok with me adding some images using the new tool, knowing it is still in testing phase?
09:27 schestowitz-TR2; I see you left the ones in ~i top level dir in tact
09:44 Techrights-sec; in /i/ the new hierarchy is /i/YYYY/MM/ so the files are grouped by month
09:44 Techrights-sec; de-duplication tries to work on a global scale though
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; RANT: just been noticing lately that manyw www "sites" cannot even leave images along
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; they add tracking cruft to the end of the url of the image
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; the www is a lost cause as far as I'm concerned
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; not sure what comes after it exactly
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; but the www is a malicious spying operation that has some "value"
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; not even much of that anymore
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; businesses telling me to "do online" what could be done faster and bette rin person or over the phone is NOT progress
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; and they make long queue, robocalsl etc. to discourage using an actual person to get something done
09:50 schestowitz-TR2; or make the journey by foot longer
09:54 Techrights-sec; ack
09:54 Techrights-sec; just about set for a new test, adding Image::Magick support now;
09:54 Techrights-sec; That coverse GIF, JPEG, PNG, and WebP. Have to check about SVG. that
09:54 Techrights-sec; will need a little different internal workflow, maybe.
09:54 Techrights-sec; New *testing* version now
09:57 Techrights-sec; Thinking about SVG support and how to do that, atm
09:58 schestowitz-TR2; with scg there is no need to resize anything
09:58 schestowitz-TR2; just copy the file, toss it in the path
09:58 schestowitz-TR2; the scaling is done not in raster space anyway
09:58 schestowitz-TR2; they're the simplest case to deal with usuallu
10:07 Techrights-sec; Updated *testing* script available. If this one works, then it should go into
10:07 Techrights-sec; Git at this point.
10:07 schestowitz-TR2; using it with success, see past 2-3 pages
10:07 Techrights-sec; checking
10:17 Techrights-sec; Nice
10:18 Techrights-sec; Right but the work flow is built around resizing in that a thumbnail is
10:18 Techrights-sec; expected. It looks like the uncomplicated way around that is to use
10:18 Techrights-sec; a symlink or a hard link for that. Trying hard link first.
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11:00 schestowitz-TR2; I was expcitng to see names of peole
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; rather than a wall of text for polciies
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; my general view on wikipedia since after I firts found out abotut it in 2003
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; is, this thing is not really for editiing
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; it's just a circle or friend, some connected to the monarch,m
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; who do their own thing with their page
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; ssome of these pages aren't bad, like pages that explain somke scientific things or places (biuas in thew latter)
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; so I basically though, write your own thing, maybe habitually link to that thing, but eneve participate unless you just correct a typo
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; it's not YOUR thing, youare just a temporary tenant and unless it is your job,n your work will go down the drain
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; some people edit and then make their own copy, which they themselves host
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; I think that's a compeomised
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; ut many articles are ads,
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; cpocock showed that FSFE made an ad there
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; and some fsfe-affiliated people tool
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; it's not too hard
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; *too
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; you can get a frien d to writeanbout you tyo dodge the rules about compsoiign text about onesself
11:04 Techrights-sec; ack
11:05 schestowitz-TR2; sorry for ytypos
11:05 schestowitz-TR2; I will sopon post a bunch of links again
11:05 schestowitz-TR2; I try to offload from rianne
11:05 schestowitz-TR2; so she can spend more time preparing for Thurs
11:05 Techrights-sec; ack
11:06 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> finland https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/09/06/the-helsingin-sanomat-case-prosecuting-journalists-in-finland/ | Source: Counter Punch
11:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Helsingin Sanomat Case: Prosecuting Journalists in Finland - CounterPunch.org
11:15 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot even reall the context anymore, it must have been weeks ago
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; not nice to hear
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; nor is it nice for me to say
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; but glyn became too irreelevant in recent years
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; I think partly because of bad choices
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; for one thing, too much stuff in wteets
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; he did not bother putting these things in "proper" writing
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; either in open dot dot... or whatever it was called
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; then, duting lockdowns, he fetched old notebooks of his from journeys decades ago
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; and typed up essasys or poems he had written ages ago
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; and that new blog had no real gfollowers
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; but that stage twitter was already dominated by boyts
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; to give the merel illusion it was still a livewly platform
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; in the past twitter disseminated visibility to all
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; base don who they followed
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; around the trumpo era tey started funnelling all the users to "engagement" BS
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; whgich meant that the ordinary old users (the originals) were left down some pit or alley
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; among them were glyn and me
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; you could see how within 5 years the "likes" etc. went down
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; even view counts
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; no matter what "followers" count said
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; he alkso told me joindiasdpora dying was no major deal as he was posting elsewhere too
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; but mastodon too is dying
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; his googleplus account turned outn to be a wast eof productivity
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; and meanwhile Linux Journal perished
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; unlike his Gulag-hosted blogspot blog
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; either way, one thing I saw the other day (2 days ago I( think) was Lukew Smith, who keeps getting throwqn into the Google "gulag"
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; (he too calls it that), saying something to the effect of, steop being werb peasnats, get your own site
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; many youtube users learned it the ohard way
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; they put all their eggs in baskets they do not even hold
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; it's easyfor regime to "switch off" people this way
11:24 schestowitz-TR2; later came new terms like shadowbanning, "deploatmrning", "cancel culture", "snowflake"...
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; ---
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; worst thing is, twitter "Exclusives"
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; it's what I call ti when a journalist has some explosive material3~
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; like wikileaks did
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; and instead of putting that on the site and building a readership/audience there
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; they just uploaded to twitter
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; even if later they add it to their own platform
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; people won't know
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; because first avenue does matter
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; and later on, in various way, twitter put the pillow over the face of Assange, Wikileaks, and many accounts sympathetics to those two
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; IU can give many examples, esp. those I recall very well
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; twitter hide thwm and sometimes locked them, e=i.e. nobody can log into them anymore
11:27 schestowitz-TR2; in effect, archives, "thanks for all the fish"
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; ---
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; here's another thought while I'm at it
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; pardom typos
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; the way I view twitter in 2022 is very didfferent
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; not because of a "Waking up" or eureka moment
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; becaus twitter ITSELF changed
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; not sure if you saw the screenshot I posted last night of Jake
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; if not, have a look
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; even jake regrets what twitter became
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; it's a shithole
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; and I now treat it as a shithole
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; for corporate trolls, brigades, gossip
11:34 schestowitz-TR2; and don't wish to legitimiise it
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; not to take kreline (kremlin like)
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; but when the war rboke out ukraine narrative was spreading like fire in social control media
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; to the point where inciting to kill peoiple was seen as OK
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; when agent smith wrote a decent post in the PCLOS magazine people were infuriated
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; what by?
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; by him saying that calling tfor death of Russians is noit cool
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; this is like the FB experiment about manipulation of emopoi being put to prcitice
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; twitter would certainly ban and cull farms of accounts from "ofrign" nations
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; but is US Navy/Army/AFRICOM/
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; was to use a farm of 100,000 accounts
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; twitter would likely look the other way
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; they newver ever banned such a farm that was found to be operatede by uk and us govs
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; so you generally know where it leads to
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; you might even claim that china, russia etc. are just tryint to counter or balance out a recognised threat
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; but they are not in control of these platforms
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; ksa bought some influence with the oil cmoney
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; now doeing other stuff like sportwashing as well
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; so they can carry on butchering their own people while showinfg double standatd
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; of course the corporations are ANOTHER realm
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; the above speaks ONLY of govs.
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; not private interests, which only partly overlap the naitonal
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; on the www, assuming no dns culls (clownflare does not count; you never truly depend on it),
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; all domains should be run unabated
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; obut of course the politiciasns then bring up CP and terrorism and nazis and stuff
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; to put an end to DNS neutrality
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; so all in all, same all shit as newspaper era
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; excwept the web is intl in scope so one nation can censor the "paper" of the other country
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; or enticing its poipulation for manipulation and incitement from afar
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; ---
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; the www is not free
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; it's not oipen
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; it's not truly standard based anymore
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; some are too complictaed
11:41 schestowitz-TR2; now we also have ad hoc
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; webp, spdy etc.
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; so in effect it's about threat mitigatiuon ina messy platform
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; like, take TM for examplke
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; we need toms www presence
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; and rss
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; but we juggle weird and competitiong specs
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; rss, atom (which version?), and then some extended variants of them
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; some clients do not support them
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; today in irc a new person came to ask about rss changes
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; I gave an answewr
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; then there's the acms person who had certain ideas in mind for tuxmachines feeds
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; like all links in one <entry>
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; (rss and atom do not use the same scema either!)
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; and full text inside the items
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; re censorship
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; you have CAs
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; sudcumb to that
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; and they can revoke certs
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; do not surrender, then the browser get all nasty
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; use web standards, then you have limitations
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; like "can't do this", "can do that"
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; the other day in the opml you gave me some blog talked about whgether people who craft web page still bother checking for validation at all
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; another spoke about writing one's pages by hand (the old way, with text editor)
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; turns out not many validate anymore
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; and when it comes to accessibility it is even worse
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; there are unofficial validators for that too
11:42 Techrights-sec; FF is loaded with dodgy CAs, any one of which can authorize a MitM attack.
11:42 Techrights-sec; With Javascript payloads, that becomes a very serious matter.
11:42 schestowitz-TR2; like ones that check colour contrasts for colour-blind people
11:44 schestowitz-TR2; ---
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; some total bafoon from the corpoorate troll's twitter thread equated people who speak about mitm in CAs with antivaxxers
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; the extenbt to which labels get misused
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; and all clownflare staff seemed to have blocked me at one point
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; not because I said anything to them
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; but because I wrote some facts about their em,ployers like 8 years ago
11:45 Techrights-sec; log4j has been milked not just in the press but politically. m$ lobbyists
11:45 Techrights-sec; have used that to gain access to far more politicians than most would suspect
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; the fake sec crowd...
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; carries "mobile" phone to access things
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; says lastpass is cool and trendy
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; pursued paperword (digital mtoilet) from OSI
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; ISO
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; claims "security!"
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; evewn the EPO had a whole due to log4j some months ago
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; *hole
11:46 schestowitz-TR2; I think my post about FSF 2 days ago was 'misused' to FUD them today
11:46 schestowitz-TR2; iun gemini:
11:47 schestowitz-TR2; What is it the Free Software Foundation does, exactly? gemini://blog.snowfrost.garden/2/index.gmi
11:48 schestowitz-TR2; very long, did not read the whole thging
11:48 schestowitz-TR2; poretends it's the FSF's job to speak about Microsoft buzzwords and treat Micrtosoft FUD as a real thing
11:48 schestowitz-TR2; then goes on to blaming FSF for things it has nothing to do with
11:57 Techrights-sec; checking
11:57 Techrights-sec; It was long and mostly a lot of intentional misinterpretations and M$ talking
11:57 Techrights-sec; points. Microsofters cannot be reasoned with. They don't operate in a fact-
11:57 Techrights-sec; based mindset. They will attempt to bend any criticism, even constructive
11:57 Techrights-sec; criticism, into supporting their anti-Freedom agenda.
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; sorry, my mind is not working in an organised fashion today
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; when I went to sleep it was after I had forgotten something I wanted to do
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; and I'm still covering up for rianne, so multi-dimensional thinking
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; so she can study
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; about the FSF, that followed from what we spoke about wre WWW
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; WWW and SF are very closely related things
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; because Net=some commoidty hw and software stacks on top
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; combine this with total faolure of media tro report, study, investigate anything
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; we have a society drifting passively intoo an abyss a
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; and many already conceded to GAFAM on the WWW
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; and some forms of WWW-DRM/EME too
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; on mobile devices, working around such restrictions is hard
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; ans they increasdingly restrict what people can 'sideload' on such devices
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; Gulag with ICBM now does the same to gnu/linux
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; "sigstore"
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; using LF as their "neutral" proxy
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; I'm sure Microsoft too likes the idea
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; it's like "Mirosoft Defender" but one that's controlled by seemignly 'Linuxy' companies
12:02 schestowitz-TR2; like the two which played a big role in taking over and derailing the FS movement
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; ---
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; if you already have a test-level script for images, and if you can consider putting it in some location outside homedirs (I still copy yours to my homedir).
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; then maybe I can alias it
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; I loathe how zsh handles line editing
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot even "home" and "end
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot even navigate the line itself
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; to correct it
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; the same data entry behaviour as when adding new pages
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; the only sems to be doing it all oveer again, or backspacing to the typo
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; adding alias :-)
12:05 schestowitz-TR2; cheers
12:08 Techrights-sec; ok, it's in /usr/local/bin/ now, tm-scale-and-process-image.pl replacing
12:08 Techrights-sec; what was there before
12:08 Techrights-sec; chsh can change thedefault shell back to bash
12:08 Techrights-sec; or zsh can be configured to modify its behavior, it is much more configurable
12:08 Techrights-sec; than bash and more capable too
12:08 Techrights-sec; checking...
12:08 Techrights-sec; bash is now added, but you'll need to bring your own .profile and/or .bashrc
12:18 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Canonical working for Microsoft https://ubuntu.com//blog/ubuntu-22-04-active-directory-jp-webinar
12:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-[] Ubuntu 22.04Active Directory | Ubuntu
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13:40 schestowitz; "
13:40 schestowitz; Contest lack of rewards: Request for Review -> LATEST DEADLINE 26 OCTOBER 2022
13:40 schestowitz; Dear colleagues,
13:40 schestowitz; As every year since the introduction of the New Career System in 2015, only part of staff eligible to receive a pensionable salary progression in the form of a step has been rewarded accordingly. Similarly, only part of staff has received a reward in the form of a non-pensionable bonus.
13:40 schestowitz; Colleagues who wish to contest a lack of reward can file a Request for Review (RfR) pursuant to Article 109 ServRegs within 3 months from the explicit or implicit communication of a decision which affects you negatively, i.e., in the case of the reward exercise a decision that you would not receive a reward.
13:40 schestowitz; An explicit communication is a documented, written communication saying that you would not get a reward, for example an email from your line manager.
13:40 schestowitz; An implicit communication is the realisation that you did not get a reward by looking at your pay slip of July 2022.
13:40 schestowitz; For most staff, the deadline to file a Request for Review is the 26 October 2022. Beware of the deadline applicable to you!
13:40 schestowitz; At this stage, we suggest not to argue at length why you should have had a reward, especially if you do not have a written statement of the motivations for not having received one.
13:40 schestowitz; You are entitled to ask for a written explanation, and we propose this to be the main point of the RfR. In the case the RfR is rejected you can bring your arguments forward in the next stage of the litigation path, i.e., when filing an internal appeal.
13:40 schestowitz; "
13:57 Techrights-sec; The new versions of Ubuntu advertise M$ technologies, products, and services
13:57 Techrights-sec; very prominently both during the installation and during the first boot.
14:01 schestowitz-TR2; screenshots would or would have helped
14:01 schestowitz-TR2; without them, it is just some OTR words on paper
14:01 schestowitz-TR2; for people to assess whether the promotion is disproportionate
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; today Canonical pushed clown, but AWS
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; something they shill Gulag things
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; I think Canonical's business model is selling Ubuntu users to nasty companies
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; until they run out of users
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; then they need to think of another approach
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; this is what it's called selling out
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; you run out
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; you have an exit strategy
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; there is no vision beyond that
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; anyway, the realm of FS is changing
14:02 schestowitz-TR2; and the threats change too
14:20 Techrights-sec; Can someone in IRC fire up Qemu and grab some screenshots from 22.04?
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14:24 schestowitz-TR2; yle gives me blank pages in falkon
14:24 schestowitz-TR2; earlier on even TDF gave me pages that don't work in Falkin
14:24 schestowitz-TR2; the WWW is a fucking JOKE!
14:24 schestowitz-TR2; I have have JS turned out and it uses Blink
14:24 schestowitz-TR2; sooner or later I might just textify everything and if it does not work, then so long
14:24 schestowitz-TR2; I shouldn't have to fire up a 200MB browser to read a headline
14:25 schestowitz-TR2; or a few paragraphs of text with not even hyperlink in them
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; ------
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; yle has been like this for a long time
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; I have to juggle bretween broweser just to figure what the fuck the link is about
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; the link itself is useless barcode shit
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; and once you get the fuicking page to fucking do something
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; you get a popup instead of an actual page
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; by that stage they already do a lot of spying, you opened 3 bloated browsers
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; and the reporting leaves much to be desired
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; later they wonder why "the media" perishes
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; the news is very slow today
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; so slow that I started opening all those MSM feeds you sent by OPML
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; big mistake! More noise than signal, even when filtered on some topic like "suerveillance"
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; it's like reading oligarchs' PR department
14:44 schestowitz-TR2; and does not resemble reality
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; ---
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; won't do that again
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; I might filter on words like "bsd", "linux", and "raspb"
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; but nothing political in nature
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; this is insane BS, with the few exception here and there
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; gulag noise gave rise that that "gearrise" BS
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; which I think is plagiarised BS with bot
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; at least gulag did muzzle some of the old spam sites
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; but I only see once a day what comes from "linux"
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; for the sole purpose of seeing if there's another rss feed I need adding for another section in some site which
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; habitually covers a relevant topic
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; the www has over 100 million domain, but if you search "linux" in gulag noise you will find that 80%+ of the results
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; are from about half a dozen domains
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; shit like phoronix (barely original, marketing brochures presented as 'articles')
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; the occasional FUD, scripted as if Microsoft's PR department sends the same email to 100 'publishers',
14:49 schestowitz-TR2; hoping to net a spamnil
14:49 Techrights-sec; http://techrights.org/2022/09/06/techrights-in-haiku/
14:49 Techrights-sec; :)
14:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Techrights in Haiku | Techrights
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; spamnil's thing is dying, but he is in imposter mode
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; like james and sheela Microsoft
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; sooner or later he'll wank himself to the numbers that are 99% bots, himself, his guest, and maybe his mom
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; but remember
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; "Fake it till you make it"
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; also see the kirk video I shared the other day
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; he references a study that mortified him
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; about how 90% of people polled in the US said cheating is OK
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; and then you get those people growing up to run orgs
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; and you basically need to compete against lying and fraud
14:52 schestowitz-TR2; skaniini's employer is under attack by Microsoft vapourware (lies to freeeze interest in the alternative)
14:52 Techrights-sec; yes and the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too
14:52 Techrights-sec; :)
14:52 Techrights-sec; yes and the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too
14:53 schestowitz-TR2; it 'FEELS' like education here is still functioning, thankfully
14:53 schestowitz-TR2; but what do I know? I've no kikds and have not seen it from the insider for decades already
14:53 schestowitz-TR2; not sure what Tories do or did to schools
14:53 schestowitz-TR2; school uniform still a think, but I see kids walking with their heads down
14:53 schestowitz-TR2; you know why
14:55 schestowitz-TR2; Our New Prime Minister: More of the Same https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/09/06/truss-more-of-the-same/
14:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Our New Prime Minister: More of the Same
14:55 Techrights-sec; the lack of general education there is a long term nation-killer too
14:55 Techrights-sec; there , two generations have passed, starting on a third, without basic
14:55 Techrights-sec; education. there is not enough knowledge to run a nation any more. look at
14:55 Techrights-sec; how most of the "politicians" don't even know (or pretend not to know) the
14:55 Techrights-sec; basics of how government works, the different parts with their differing
14:55 Techrights-sec; areas of responsiblity, and the official process / work flow. it has become
14:55 Techrights-sec; only a shouting contest, run by hostile foreign or corporate interests via
14:55 Techrights-sec; social control media.
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; uk 1990s: john major
14:56 schestowitz-TR2; uk 2020: major baffoon johnson
15:04 Techrights-sec; ack
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; marius liks the aliases and rianne looks forward to the uploader
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; on my account only I've aliased that as "upload"
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; a wrapped (whichever one, maybe bash, maybe the add... program that's a shell which ends in an update)
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; *wrapper
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; would help by removing everything after "?" in the first argument
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; I'd say nearly 30% of all image URLs have trailing cruft
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; even if I add ''
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; it'll result in an ugly filename that has question marks in it
15:08 schestowitz-TR2; and does not end with the file extension
15:09 Techrights-sec; nice
15:09 Techrights-sec; ok
15:09 Techrights-sec; I think so. Most material to the right of the question mark is tracking cruft
15:09 Techrights-sec; The filename is made without the trailing cruft, if it is working correctly.
15:09 Techrights-sec; If not, then the script needs modification.
15:10 schestowitz-TR2; I've not tried
15:10 schestowitz-TR2; I am already into that habit of removing it manually
15:10 schestowitz-TR2; but, if not, zsh itself is complaining, as I don't include quotes
15:10 schestowitz-TR2; OSI pissing me off again, not sure how to effectively respond without linking
15:10 schestowitz-TR2; those are corrupted orgs and it's very easy to see what agenda and narrative they push (and who for)
15:11 Techrights-sec; I should check if one can also point to an image already on TM by its TM URL
15:11 Techrights-sec; and let the de-duplication part do its work.
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; wishlist: after a year add search-image [arg]
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; pl/sh
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; you enter a string like Kroah
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; it turns it into case-neutral/insensitive string
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; find | grep [search_term]
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; and returns potential completition
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; with the image
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; e.g. search-image torvalds
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; returns 6 possible html portions to choose from
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; e.g. when there is a new release of RC
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; reuse of existing images would save disk space
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; (I already did this manually a few times under Features)
15:13 schestowitz-TR2; but it takes more steps
15:15 Techrights-sec; yep., it works
15:15 Techrights-sec; Just put in the TM address for the image and it will get a link pointing to
15:15 Techrights-sec; the single image. No need to re-download and waste space as well.
15:15 Techrights-sec; e.g.
15:15 Techrights-sec; tm-scale-and-process-image.pl https://news.tuxmachines.org/i/2022/09/Topton-2-Bay-NAS-N1-720x680.jpg
15:23 Techrights-sec; The -v option will inform you if it was a duplicate or not and then show
15:23 Techrights-sec; the link markup.
15:23 Techrights-sec; The string search can only deal with the file name at the moment, so if the
15:23 Techrights-sec; file name is not informative, then the search results are no good or else
15:23 Techrights-sec; very incomplete. I'm not sure there is a good return on effort for adding
15:23 Techrights-sec; embedded metadata for any of the images, but it is still an option regardless.
15:24 schestowitz-TR2; I suppose my suggestion was too simple to be worth making a shell script for as find | grep likelt cuts it
15:24 schestowitz-TR2; then paste result in
15:25 Techrights-sec; There's no feasible way for grep to work. The file name is in the db however.
15:25 Techrights-sec; I suppose the images could be scanned for EXIF data on the way in but relying
15:25 Techrights-sec; on other people's metadata is a waste of effort and time.
15:26 schestowitz-TR2; sometimes the filenames say enough and if you have thousands of them, then there are some hits, never mind the many misses
15:27 Techrights-sec; At the same time, it is almost certainly not worth the effort to "tag" all
15:27 Techrights-sec; incoming images. Though it would be technically feasible to set up that
15:27 Techrights-sec; possibility.
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; thinking a step ahead
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; user enters title
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; key word taken from it
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; backend scans for it
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; suggests possible images (after many images were added)
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; the issue here is fair use
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; it's ok to use an image from article you send traffic to
15:29 schestowitz-TR2; dodgy is you use image from one site to promote another
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; another topic, I think, is how Linus surrendered and make Linux a company
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; sort of
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; a decision he'd come to regret
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; he's still young
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; imagine if nils torvalds had some do-nothing charlatan going about in the EP
15:31 schestowitz-TR2; saying, "I'm Nil's boss [sniggers]"
15:32 Techrights-sec; Run it like a compan? Into the ground and ask for a bailout?
15:33 schestowitz-TR2; no, into the ground and then start a new job again.... in August. like sheela microsoftr
15:33 schestowitz-TR2; after robbing many people
15:33 schestowitz-TR2; thiis harvard mba sure did her "successful insolvency" at bakkt of shit
15:33 schestowitz-TR2; just months after proudly taking it to nyse
15:33 schestowitz-TR2; "do it again!! do it again!"
15:33 Techrights-sec; ack
15:35 schestowitz-TR2; many pension funds left to empty
15:35 schestowitz-TR2; inc. some retired profs'
15:35 schestowitz-TR2; call it bad luck or "investment" in the age of "quiet quitting" and "great resignation" and "slowdown"
15:35 schestowitz-TR2; "just bad luck, buddy..."
15:35 schestowitz-TR2; (try depositing the cash in bermuda next time; ask the banksters in london or nyc about doing a 'foundation' with money in cayman like gates)
15:40 Techrights-sec; ack
15:48 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Conflating attacks with actual compromise. Typical Microsoft nonsense. https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/defenders-prepared-cyberattacks-linux-cloud-migration Source: Dark Reading | Gemini address: gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/waffle.cgi/view?https%3A//www.darkreading.com/application-security/defenders-prepared-cyberattacks-linux-cloud-migration
15:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.darkreading.com | Defenders Be Prepared: Cyberattacks Surge Against Linux Amid Cloud Migration
15:53 Techrights-sec; ack
15:53 Techrights-sec; m$ and its minions continue to try to convince the world that all systems are
15:53 Techrights-sec; equally vulnerable
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; draft
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; I think this line is very important to push
16:14 schestowitz-TR2; as I see bullshit artists trying to distract from it
16:18 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> Jack Wallen helps Microsoft spread that lie that "VS Code is one of the most popular open-source IDEs" when it is in fact proprietary software and spyware (many reject it; popularity as a self-fulfilling prophecy/PR tactic?); ZDNet and this sister site are paid by Microsoft to keep pushing such lies. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/deploy-docker-container-vs-code/
16:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How to deploy a Docker Container with VS Code | TechRepublic
16:22 Techrights-sec; checking
16:22 Techrights-sec; the rate of decline is important to cite in hard numbers
16:22 schestowitz-TR2; I shall add that, thanks
16:22 schestowitz-TR2; we need to keep REPEATING these things
16:22 schestowitz-TR2; as NOBODY else seems to do it
16:26 Techrights-sec; The minions try to hide the decline of their mafia
16:27 schestowitz-TR2; yes, it spoils marketing and premises like "windows is here to stay"
16:27 schestowitz-TR2; and "easy to use"
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16:35 schestowitz-TR2; this sort of thing used to be occasionally covered by gregg/greg kaiser (or similar spelling) at IDG
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; before China fed IDG to the hounds
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; not that much good was lost
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; I thinkm kaiser was in ComputerWorld
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; he'd show how Windows/Microsoft lost market share rapidly
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; I have seen nothing from him in years
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; at least we have the news covered .... by tweets about RMS signs on door
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; that aren't even his signs but pranks
16:35 Techrights-sec; There are many writers who have disappeared, about 20 years ago there were
16:35 Techrights-sec; some really great ones, even at places like ZDNet
16:35 Techrights-sec; ack
16:59 schestowitz-TR2; how easy/hard would it be to make tghe rss feed 100 items long?
16:59 schestowitz-TR2; I'm asking because atm some days we have more than 50 update+new
16:59 schestowitz-TR2; and that can cause a situation of spillover
16:59 schestowitz-TR2; where the updated items don't fall off the list until the following day (midnight)
17:00 Techrights-sec; :(
17:00 Techrights-sec; easy but long
17:00 Techrights-sec; IIRC the current is n items OR n days, which ever is the larger set
17:00 Techrights-sec; Yes, checking the --help option and the source, if both -d and -n are specified
17:00 Techrights-sec; the result is the union of the two sets. So if you have it set to 50 items
17:00 Techrights-sec; and 1 day, then there will be at least 50 items in the feed, but more if the
17:00 Techrights-sec; last day has more.
17:01 schestowitz-TR2; thanks, it's only a 'problem' for tuxurl-new.sh because it gets very different 50 each time the feed is regenerated
17:01 schestowitz-TR2; after a day has many updated in particular
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17:05 schestowitz-TR2; "Unfortunately, I'll have to start this month's newsletter with sad news. The co-creator of Let's Encrypt, Peter Eckersley, lost his battle with cancer at the age of 43." https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2022/09/04/RIP_Peter_Eckersley.shtml
17:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines RIP, Peter Eckersley (UPDATEDx3)"
17:06 schestowitz-TR2; cancer.
17:07 Techrights-sec; The refresh script takes the last two days just to be sure, so the feed will
17:07 Techrights-sec; be quite long sometimes.
17:11 Techrights-sec; ack
17:11 schestowitz-TR2; EFF lost others due to ehalth reasons lately
17:13 Techrights-sec; ack
17:24 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> "tricking AVEVA Edge into loading an unsafe DLL." DLL. OBVIOUSLY "DA LUNIX"! https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-249-02
17:24 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | AVEVA Edge 2020 R2 SP1 and all prior versions | CISA
17:26 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> "authorized user with ADMIN or ENGINEER role rights, to inject an operating system (OS) command" Which OS? Sounds like MICROF~1 WINDOWS to me. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-249-04
17:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | Hitachi Energy TXpert Hub CoreTec 4 | CISA
17:28 Techrights-sec; Yes, lots of misdirection. It's the "Microsoft Effect", a variation of
17:28 Techrights-sec; "Sour Grapes". The idea the microsofters wish to promote is the idea that
17:28 Techrights-sec; since all computers have problems it is not worth even looking at other
17:28 Techrights-sec; operating systems. Sort of a false equivalence.
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; just added 3 links to that effect (TM)
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; as tedious as these things are, I think repetition is certainly needed
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; apropos, epo series still "coming soon"
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; you seem to have changed rss feed length
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; thanks, that solved my longstanding "problem"
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; I could explain the problem better, but I think you got what was happening
17:35 schestowitz-TR2; I am not automaticallt relaying updates to irc
17:36 Techrights-sec; ack
17:36 Techrights-sec; Periodic repetition over time has effect. That script has not changed for
17:36 Techrights-sec; some days.
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; if the script has not changed, then perhaps changes at my end helped a bit, will know when I add more items if that tackled it
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; CISA is a fucking joke and disgrace
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; you even see the flaws' reporters
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; usually some corporations that push FUD to make sales
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; CISA itself does nothing
17:37 schestowitz-TR2; CERT either
17:37 Techrights-sec; The union of the two sets has been there for weeks, though.
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17:46 Techrights-sec; commit 8da6115549917b0062b62b059595f80a4e99028c
17:46 Techrights-sec; Date: Tue Jul 26 21:32:31 2022 +0300
17:46 Techrights-sec; create union of sets when -d and -n are used together
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19:53 schestowitz-TR2; This site, which is controlled by Microsofters, is trying hard to stigmatise Linux -- not Windows -- as a malware issue; never mind if installing malware on Linux in the first place is hard, whereas Windows itself is malware and it has back doors https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-malware-evades-detection-using-multi-stage-deployment/
19:53 schestowitz-TR2; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.bleepingcomputer.com | New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment
19:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.bleepingcomputer.com | New Linux malware evades detection using multi-stage deployment
19:53 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> this article says "The malware exploits vulnerabilities to elevate its privileges", but how does it get there in the first place (before elevating privileges)? It does not say, and moreover doesn't care as long as they can blame "Linux" for something else https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-linux-malware-evades-detection-using-multi-stage-deployment/
20:21 Techrights-sec; ack
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21:31 DaemonFC; schestowitz[TR2]: I talked to one of the SeaMonkey developers about the Fedora patches.
21:31 DaemonFC; He told me that Fedora has not pursued getting them upstreamed or even notified SeaMonkey that they were patching it for Fedora.
21:32 DaemonFC; But he's looking at merging _some_ of it as it pertains to better Web site compatibility. Mostly, this means the patch for better spoofing as Firefox. :P
21:38 schestowitz-TR2; hi DaemonFC
21:38 schestowitz-TR2; is fedora the one to target?
21:38 schestowitz-TR2; seems many big distros are debian based
21:39 schestowitz-TR2; ICBM seems to have driver fedora and planet fedora to incommunicado
23:23 starstreak; what is going on?
23:26 psydruid; Not upstreaming patches as a competitive advantage and as a business model
23:35 schestowitz-TR2; yeah
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