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00:30 schestowitz-pi2; Duration of masters degrees to be shortened https://cphpost.dk/2023-03-07/news/politics/duration-of-masters-degrees-to-be-shortened/
00:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-cphpost.dk | Duration of masters degrees to be shortened - The Post The Post
00:31 schestowitz-pi2; eventually they might just ask you for tuition fees to get one
00:40 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Slashdot article with some new news about Daryl http://grokthelaw.freeforums.net/thread/394/slashdot-article-new-news-daryl
00:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-grokthelaw.freeforums.net | Slashdot article with some new news about Daryl | GroktheLaw
03:53 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Abandoning security theatre at long last? Little by little? https://yle.fi/a/74-20021299
03:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Helsinki Airport to toss out travel-sized bottle requirements by summer | News | Yle Uutiset
04:54 techrights[sec]; m$ may be running out of marketing money and will have to rely more on its
04:54 techrights[sec]; cult's minions for free actions
04:54 techrights[sec]; chatgpt is probably completely unsutainable for them an only burning unused
04:54 techrights[sec]; azure space in their empty datacenters. It's certainly costing them money
04:54 techrights[sec]; in both ways, without a revenue let alone a profit
04:54 techrights[sec]; Probably more government bailouts are on the way.
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; i posted a lot of links yesterday, but this was not why i lacked time to do articles
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; the real reason was, pension investigation
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; i'm going to do some articles and maybe videos today
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; topics needed
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; i have some ideas, but they are not "great"
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; also, i should note, not many anti-linux articles out there so far this year
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; just the typical "hey hi" spam/noise from microsoft
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; i think they accepted the losses in client side and tried "server" via "clown" (Azure)
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; now that it's failing microsoft is 'pulling a metaverse" (meta)
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; with "hey hi"
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; this helpos delude some shareholder
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; "no, we are not actually losing, we are just CHANGING"
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; admfubar posted something related to this in #techrights about an hour ago
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; it's basically a sort of alarm among investors or something
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; hey hi might, after all, not be possible to monetise, according to them
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; gpt-4 is just more waste of power and does not fix the glaring issues
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; hey hi hype is waste of money along two lines
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; 1) spam budget
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; 2) electricity bills (plus hardware, staff...)
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; let them burn themselves out
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; the chatbot is worthless, glorified ELIZA
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; it DID help persuade the media not to talk about the layoffs
04:57 schestowitz-pi2; inc. github, azure layoffs
05:00 techrights[sec]; it
05:00 techrights[sec]; Probably more government bailouts are on the way.
05:01 schestowitz-pi2; microsoft has had the media declare there is an "HEY HI _ARMS_ race"
05:01 schestowitz-pi2; this is "war"
05:01 schestowitz-pi2; china china china
05:01 schestowitz-pi2; give us bailout, we are market LEEEEDERS. NOM NOM NOM.
05:09 techrights[sec]; Apparently they need bailouts to maintain even the illusion.
05:09 techrights[sec]; Especially 2)
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; >
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > The article singles out Microsoft's software for rejection. It says
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > nothing about Apple's software, which is roughly equally unjust.
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > They are not exactly equivalent, but each does important injustices
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > that the other doesn't do (or not that we know of).
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; >
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > My experience says that this is likely to have the effect of teaching
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > people that Apple is superior.
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; >
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > I was also disappointed that it doesn't criticize nonfree software
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; > as unethical. Did I overlook something to that effect?
05:09 schestowitz-pi2; On the basis of ethics, in various senses, Microsoft is by far worse. To spare a lot of examples (history of 50 years almost), let's just say that Microsoft's attack on computing in general, on computer users in general, and on GNU/Linux is not comparable to what any other company did. Not even close.
05:11 techrights[sec]; These days Apple is trying hard to catch up with m$ on the race to the bottom.
05:11 techrights[sec]; Maybe if there is a follow up article it could emphasize the general unethical
05:11 techrights[sec]; nature of proprietary software. Apple seems to be working an approach towards
05:11 techrights[sec]; lock-in via the file formats and "cloud". I hear that when using Apple systems
05:11 techrights[sec]; it is all but impossible to avoid uploading your files to them. Eventually
05:11 techrights[sec]; they will pull an Adobe.
05:20 techrights[sec]; With Adobe it may be that you have to, in practice,
05:20 techrights[sec]; upload all your files to them to even begin to work on them with rented software
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; the media will call it smart, clown, and modern
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; this is where peer pressure can really harm people
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; inc. advertising
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; which is a phanton "friend"
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; in FB's case, they might even borrow the face
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; it creates a sort of social anxiety
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; and nobody wants to "admit" using an 'old' phone
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; or doing things the 'old' way
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; "what will my friends think !!"
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; https://blog.opensource.org/meet-the-2023-candidates-for-osis-board/
05:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.opensource.org | Meet the 2023 candidates for OSIs board - Voices of Open Source
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; thoughts?
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; Gael Blondelle (proposed by Open Forum Europe)
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; Gabriele Columbro (proposed by Linux Foundation)
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; Matt Jarvis (proposed by OpenUK)
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; Anne-Marie Scott (proposed by Apereo Foundation)
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; they even tell me the genders
05:23 schestowitz-pi2; thst's more important than software freedom
05:25 techrights[sec]; d software
05:25 techrights[sec]; Facebook dumping "Metaverse" apparently and trying to jump on the low-income
05:25 techrights[sec]; high-energy costs of "AI" instead
05:47 schestowitz-pi2; spring has come. 1 degree here, i was thinking about bringing the bikes out and garden
05:47 schestowitz-pi2; but that can wait..
05:47 schestowitz-pi2; i want to see if by summer we get "sane" numbers of weekly deaths
05:47 schestowitz-pi2; if not, the "new normal" is like 100,000 _extra_ deaths per year
05:47 schestowitz-pi2; across all age groups
05:53 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> RMS gave talks in Spain, India, and Switzerland at the end of last year. FSF did not even _mention_ them. https://stallman.org/talks.html next week he turns 70 and the following day he gives a talk that the FSF did in fact advertise. It's about so-called "phones" that are "smart".
05:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-stallman.org | Talks - Richard Stallman
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; i just posted something about OSI
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; not sure the above has much in it to be worth publishing (rms and fsf)
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; regarding sco, i cannot add much to the debate, just mention the importance of the date
05:55 schestowitz-pi2; anything about microsoft "hey hi" at this point would be "free publicity"
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> ZDNet has changed the presentation of the "Linux" section to hide how inactive the site has truly become. It's the next CNET, a botfarm.
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "do-not-sell-or-share-my-personal-information" is a lie. ZDNet sells your data through its owner/parent company. This is face-saving obligatory lie. https://www.zdnet.com/do-not-sell-or-share-my-personal-information/
06:03 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Do Not Sell or Share My Information | ZDNET
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- Do Not Sell or Share My Information | ZDNET
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-ipfs-bot> IPFS downstream, 60 mins: avg(k/sec) 34.13 IPFS upstream: avg(k/sec) 215.23 swarm size (avg): 0
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> " 2023 ZDNET, A Red Ventures company. All rights reserved." " 2023 CNET, a Red Ventures company. All rights reserved." Same company, same shit. Expect yet MORE layoffs and more bot-written fake 'articles'. Red Ventures is a data-harvesting operation and it issues lies/clickbait to lure you into the spyboxes.
06:03 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> view-source:https://www.cnet.com/do-not-sell-or-share-my-personal-information/ so they say, hey!! you can opt out of spying. just fill out this form in a page with dozens of XSS/trackers!!
06:04 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information - CNET
06:04 schestowitz-pi2; -TechrightsBot-tr/#techrights- Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information - CNET
06:04 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> The WWW is no longer a news platform and probably never was. Unlike newspapers, it lacks a viable business model for anything other than manipulation, surveillance, and censorship. Those three things say what the REAL product is. It's NOT news and not information.
06:58 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "I feel sad about leaving this behind, but also relieved from the amount of work, not to speak of the insults (You are a Nazi etc) I often get from the Debian side. I also feel sorry for all of you who have relied on these packages for long time, have given valuable feedback and helpful comments." http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/08/End_of_support_and_updates_to_the_KDE_Plasma_Debian_builds.shtml
06:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines End of support and updates to the KDE/Plasma Debian builds
08:11 techrights[sec]; Can the hypertext anchore text be expanded from "don't even code" to
08:11 techrights[sec]; "people who don't even code" instead? Thinking SEO and such there.
08:11 techrights[sec]; s/anchore/anchor/
08:11 techrights[sec]; https://www.grammarly.com/blog/sentence-diagramming/
08:11 techrights[sec]; https://www.wikihow.com/Diagram-Sentences
08:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Everything You Need to Know About Sentence Diagramming | Grammarly
08:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-How to Diagram Sentences: 13 Steps (with Pictures) - wikiHow
08:13 schestowitz-pi2; I've just changed the anchor text
09:41 techrights[sec]; thanks
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; regarding my letter
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; i joked that I could:
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; 1) cc, "so how has that secret money from bill gates worked out for you, eh?"
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; emails to the CEO are now bouncing
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; from... GMAIL!!
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; weird
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; not sure if forwarding relay or...
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; 2) send cc to his g/f in the US
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; then hear days later he has been kicked out with a suitcase
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; he is working double-shifts at the moment
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; trying to slow down the collapse, which is inevitable
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; when i organise all the evidence i think it can be reported to auth/police
09:45 schestowitz-pi2; no point using a lawyer from a company that hides
09:57 techrights[sec]; It certainly appears that fraud and other crimes may have been committed by
09:57 techrights[sec]; the company executives.
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; better to report to authorities before or after I publish aboutit?
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; I think I already have right here all the evidence that I need. I don't want to give them
09:59 schestowitz-pi2; time to shift money between unfrozen accounts.
10:09 techrights[sec]; What did your lawyer have to say?
10:35 techrights[sec]; Not about suing about about the most effective channel to report the crime to.
10:35 schestowitz-pi2; no point suing
10:35 schestowitz-pi2; as by the time it's a finished case they cannot pay up
10:36 techrights[sec]; Not about suing about about the most effective channel to report the crime to.
10:59 techrights[sec]; o report the crime to.
10:59 techrights[sec]; Then is there any further action needed on your part? Will the provider
10:59 techrights[sec]; report any criminal activity they might find or is it practice to cover it up?
10:59 techrights[sec]; What kind of evidence is needed for a formal police report?
11:00 schestowitz-pi2; i already reported to the pension provider
11:00 schestowitz-pi2; they are investigating, but there's no timeline
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; been over a day already
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; i cannot rely on them as they have no strong incentive to work on this quickly
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; and swifly and cannot seize a bank account
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; the most obvious evidence is,
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; them saying (manager, recorded) my money wasn't paid in
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; against all my payslips showing otherwise
11:01 techrights[sec]; Is there a unit specializing in white collar crime?
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; and colleagues being stonewalled when asking the company about it
11:01 schestowitz-pi2; yes, it's not "999" police, I need to first check which unit
11:03 techrights[sec]; Important to contact the right organization.
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11:18 schestowitz-pi2; police here uses the term (in heading)
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; "MICROSOFT SCAMS"
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; as a category
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; as if only Microsoft applies
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; Microsoft itself is a scam
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; biab
11:18 schestowitz-pi2; OTA (on phone)
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; f*ing useless
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; met my expectations
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; they suggest phoning someone else
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; oe solicitor etc.
12:15 schestowitz-pi2; maybe I'll cover this in my personal site
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13:56 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "Left commentators on YouTube periodically raise alarms about the algorithmic bias on YouTube that favors right wing outlets and broadcasters." https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/08/drug-use-harm-reduction-and-youtube-hyperventilators/ | Source: Counter Punch
13:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Drug Use, Harm Reduction, and YouTube Hyperventilators - CounterPunch.org
14:08 techrights[sec]; I'm disappointed but not surprised. It's about as same as their coverage
14:08 techrights[sec]; for computer crime, death threats, and everything else.
14:08 techrights[sec]; Is there /any/ way to pressure them into filing a report on the matter?
14:08 techrights[sec]; Is dealing with crime still their responsibility?
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; i shall post portions maybe this week
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; i need to first listen and write down time markers
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; also, this will be second of a set of 3
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; in the Standard Life section
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; after that I can get back to NOW:Pensions
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; I not only warned them about the account holder
14:17 schestowitz-pi2; but also have them on the record lying to me about sending 2 people
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; written assurances
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; either way, it's both a deterrence and liability for them
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; so it sort of shields of solidifies the newer accounts
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; however, the older one is likely worth like 12k per staff
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; could easily amount to 100k total
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; for a company that keeps its uk accounts empty,
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; based on the accountants' report
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; epo is becoming a liability to the eu (see the link in latest Daily Links)
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; likewise, sirius helps me report on the state of pensions... and police enforcement
14:18 schestowitz-pi2; so i'm grateful in a sense for _that_ (at least; yes, it's generally annoying, but that's life)
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; rianne goes to central library tomorrow
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; we practice topics
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; like, how the library can compete for kids' minds and "(screen)time"
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; i make the argument that offering more terminals with internet misses the point
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; as that would compete over the wrong things
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; she had some better ideas
14:48 schestowitz-pi2; she doesn't do any social control media, but watches some channels in youtube a lot
14:50 techrights[sec]; Wise. There is generally no safe level of exposure so best to keep it
14:50 techrights[sec]; second or third hand.
14:54 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> fishing expedition, but techdirt defends condy nasty. just bypass these "masters; they're themselves the censorship monsters https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/07/reddit-pushes-back-on-idiotic-unmasking-fishing-expedition-by-movie-studios/ | Source: Techdirt
14:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Reddit Pushes Back On Idiotic Unmasking Fishing Expedition By Movie Studios | Techdirt
14:55 schestowitz-pi2; some time in the coming weeks we might know
14:55 schestowitz-pi2; rianne goes to yorkshare next week
14:55 schestowitz-pi2; *shire
15:05 schestowitz-pi2; did i miss something?
15:05 schestowitz-pi2; i looked away, session was reset
15:11 schestowitz-pi2; snowing here today
15:11 schestowitz-pi2; but doesn't "feel" cold
17:17 schestowitz-pi2; wrapping things up shorty
17:17 schestowitz-pi2; this month will be culmination of months of investigation
17:17 schestowitz-pi2; should be "fun"...
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