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08:13 schestowitz-TR; Why does techdirt help promote this lie that FB does encryption???? https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/07/social-responsibility-organization-says-metas-embrace-of-encryption-is-important-for-human-rights
08:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Social Responsibility Organization Says Metas Embrace Of Encryption Is Important For Human Rights | Techdirt
08:14 Techrights-sec; The myth of end-to-end encryption being possible in a web browser is problematic
08:14 Techrights-sec; The public does not gain but surveillance capitalism does win from spreading
08:14 Techrights-sec; the myth. A browser is basically a highly insecure VM running other people's
08:14 Techrights-sec; unvetted, unauthenticated programs on your computer using your computer's
08:14 Techrights-sec; resources.
08:14 schestowitz-TR; the rest of the latest in techdirt wasn't so bad
08:15 schestowitz-TR; there was one about "big tech"
08:15 schestowitz-TR; but eff uses that term too
08:17 Techrights-sec; I hope that the EFF and Techdirt both include M$ in that category.
08:17 Techrights-sec; It's stupid that one even has to wonder about that.
08:17 Techrights-sec; However, M$ has been spinning fools' heads rather successfully over the years.
08:17 schestowitz-TR; no, no
08:17 schestowitz-TR; keep hoping
08:17 schestowitz-TR; that would make them MicrosoftHaters(R)
08:23 Techrights-sec; People don't wake up one day and suddenly decide to "hate" M$. Many years of
08:23 Techrights-sec; very hard work by a great many people have gone into M$ earning and maintaining
08:23 Techrights-sec; that hate.
08:56 Techrights-sec; For what it's worth the site did not have even the normal termporary lack
08:56 Techrights-sec; of access accompanying the daily backups and cron jobs. Normally there
08:56 Techrights-sec; are a few minutes of slowness or unavailability each morning UTC
08:58 schestowitz-TR; TR?
08:58 schestowitz-TR; I think that with this many cores we only have 1-2 mins of the site being not accessible
08:58 schestowitz-TR; I checked backup sizes yesterday
08:58 schestowitz-TR; this weekend I plan to do full backup to the new laptop
08:58 schestowitz-TR; maybe also TR /root and TM
08:58 schestowitz-TR; TM does not have many files in it
09:32 Techrights-sec; I have a new drive for backups here.
09:32 Techrights-sec; It is all set up and seems to be working.
09:32 Techrights-sec; How did things settle out yesterday?
09:35 schestowitz-TR; Thanks for asking
09:35 schestowitz-TR; I as actually about to open up about that myse
09:35 schestowitz-TR; mysef
09:35 schestowitz-TR; *I have just cleared out the broken(by rianne, while washing) coffeee
09:35 schestowitz-TR; making glass thingie
09:35 schestowitz-TR; I put in a better one
09:35 schestowitz-TR; and cleaned surfaces, arrange the hot beverages utntils a lot better, still
09:35 schestowitz-TR; need to 'test' it later
09:35 schestowitz-TR; but rianne gave me the predictably shit news
09:35 schestowitz-TR; about a colleague getting excited by almalinus doing wsl
09:35 schestowitz-TR; see? I work with some truly idiotic people
09:35 schestowitz-TR; some fo not even use gnu/linux
09:35 schestowitz-TR; and barely care
09:35 schestowitz-TR; and this is what the company looks like
09:35 schestowitz-TR; last night I devoted 1-2 hours to an unethical clients
09:35 schestowitz-TR; which I was not ahppy to do
09:35 schestowitz-TR; yes, and a colleague nwas like, oh! We'll share this in "social media"
09:35 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft approves :-)
09:36 Techrights-sec; :/ WSL undermines FOSS
09:36 Techrights-sec; :( some people can be so stupid about M$ and not see it is harmful even to
09:36 Techrights-sec; proprietary software
09:38 schestowitz-TR; I just keep as distant as possible and mind my own business
09:38 schestowitz-TR; costs me no time
09:38 schestowitz-TR; but the "general pride in the occupation" aspect (like at EPO)
09:38 schestowitz-TR; eroades
09:38 schestowitz-TR; that's the sort of thing I confronted the boss about
09:38 schestowitz-TR; finding work from home is hard enough
09:38 schestowitz-TR; for two people even harder
09:38 schestowitz-TR; for little actual work (NOC) very hard
09:39 Techrights-sec; However, it sounds like the company is getting corrupted from within.
09:39 Techrights-sec; Yes that is true, but it would not hurt to key an eye open for other
09:39 Techrights-sec; opportunities. It's not something to waste a lot of effort on but just
09:39 Techrights-sec; keep alert for options.
09:40 schestowitz-TR; a few years ago I could envision taking a break, but with inflation going mad no amount of savings can suffice for a lifetime
09:42 Techrights-sec; not any more,there are "investements" but they are often part of the probelm
09:42 Techrights-sec; and make the world worse often locally too
09:45 schestowitz-TR; yes, well... oil-rich nations had big investments in airlines
09:45 schestowitz-TR; they hardly see returns for that now
09:45 Techrights-sec; airlines have been scams for decades
09:46 schestowitz-TR; either way, to sum up
09:46 schestowitz-TR; (to self, and for you)
09:46 schestowitz-TR; colleagues don't get freedom
09:46 schestowitz-TR; some clients I strogly dislike (nothing to do with Windows/Microsoft)
09:46 schestowitz-TR; proprietary tools
09:46 schestowitz-TR; for now I dissent and lower hours worked
09:46 schestowitz-TR; which is 1) a way to maintain a lack of guilt
09:46 schestowitz-TR; 2) way to increase hourly salary (lower the hours)
09:47 Techrights-sec; ack
10:00 schestowitz-TR; ok, this seaset is lovely
10:00 schestowitz-TR; *teaset
10:00 schestowitz-TR; to be clear, all the work I did last night was gnu/linux
10:00 schestowitz-TR; but the client's business I consider to be unethical
10:00 schestowitz-TR; so my skills contribute to something which is overall
10:00 schestowitz-TR; not good to society
10:00 schestowitz-TR; the FSF has had VASTLY worse patrons
10:00 schestowitz-TR; sspeaking of which, a colleague used the company's "social" media
10:00 schestowitz-TR; account to link to some libel about RMS
10:00 schestowitz-TR; we used to have Debian Developes as staff
10:00 schestowitz-TR; Our Web site literally had gnu logos in it
10:00 schestowitz-TR; as part of the design
10:03 Techrights-sec; +1 teaset
10:03 Techrights-sec; -1 libel against RMS
10:04 schestowitz-TR; is it worth covering fedora phasing out BIOS support? wante dto cover
10:04 schestowitz-TR; this and another topic (then got assignment at work) but it's
10:04 schestowitz-TR; one of those topics where in 60 seconds you can run out of things to say
10:04 schestowitz-TR; IBM bad, UEFI fake advacncement, and then there was some other
10:04 schestowitz-TR; obnoxious stuff in "the news", but I didn't take note of it
10:04 schestowitz-TR; so it could not be THAT important
10:04 schestowitz-TR; freebsd will have a final mrelease soon, this month...
10:04 Techrights-sec; FreeBSD runs on the RPi and OpenBSD does too, at least to a certain extent
10:06 schestowitz-TR; phoronix only continues to reaffirm what we wrote this past winter
10:06 schestowitz-TR; but I don't want to persist in covering that
10:06 schestowitz-TR; as it would contribute tioo the concept of obsession or
10:06 schestowitz-TR; attacking each othger
10:06 schestowitz-TR; for this reason I'd not do a piece calling out fossforce either
10:06 schestowitz-TR; IRC is enough
10:07 Techrights-sec; best to give phoronix' misdeeds coverage a pause
10:09 schestowitz-TR; There is something I love about gemini
10:09 schestowitz-TR; even if the "quality" is sometimes low
10:09 schestowitz-TR; but the other day I saw "influencer" there
10:09 schestowitz-TR; should I do a video about it?
10:10 schestowitz-TR; that would be off-putting
10:10 schestowitz-TR; but still a cautionary note
10:10 schestowitz-TR; (it's line when a company sends something to 'review')
10:11 Techrights-sec; not sure. "influencer" is a euphemism for "shill"
10:15 schestowitz-TR; DT spams also
10:15 schestowitz-TR; fake reviews
10:15 schestowitz-TR; not sure if that's what you're about to say
10:16 Techrights-sec; Derek Taylor closed his Gemini capsule, he could write a perl or python
10:16 Techrights-sec; scraper for that.
10:16 Techrights-sec; Yes, but I think on average he's mostly a positive force. And despite
10:16 Techrights-sec; the most recent video so is Brodie Robertson. I disgree with most of the
10:16 Techrights-sec; assessment he made but one point he mentioned almost as an aside is actually
10:16 Techrights-sec; very important: M$ can play the attrition game and force those locked into
10:16 Techrights-sec; windoze to suck it up and deploy vista11 even though it would be more effort
10:16 Techrights-sec; than migrating away.
10:16 Techrights-sec; He only mentioned the attrition part, but the rest needs to be emphasized
10:16 Techrights-sec; The EU considers exit costs part of the TCO
10:18 schestowitz-TR; OK< EPO quiet so far today
10:18 schestowitz-TR; I look behind the curtains a bit
10:18 schestowitz-TR; BTW, I dumped Gulag Alerts
10:18 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned this only ina video
10:18 schestowitz-TR; s/n ratio there too became awful
10:18 schestowitz-TR; I think I will cover gemini something
10:18 schestowitz-TR; the "Linux" side had no compelling enough topics for us to cover, so instead I focused on Links, Links, Links
10:18 Techrights-sec; ack
10:20 schestowitz-TR; not sure you agree, but the risk of spam creeping into gemini as it grows (in the webspam sense)
10:20 schestowitz-TR; is an underreported risk
10:20 schestowitz-TR; The www, based on my rss feeds, is a lost cause esp. once I open up to something that's not a personal blog
10:20 schestowitz-TR; even opensource.com is mostly ICBM marketin cruft
10:21 Techrights-sec; It's definitely a potential problem.
10:21 Techrights-sec; yes spam is there too
10:22 schestowitz-TR; it is difficult to use the term spam there
10:22 schestowitz-TR; it's like calling everyone "nazi"
10:22 schestowitz-TR; which devalues thej word
10:22 schestowitz-TR; opensource.com is a misnamed IBMHat site
10:22 schestowitz-TR; and could be named differently
10:25 Techrights-sec; unnecessary voluminous marketing?
10:25 Techrights-sec; no, just as a placeholder for marketeering
10:25 schestowitz-TR; they keep around and recently rennovated the site not as a service to "community"
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I thiuk we covered the topic last year in articles and videos
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I will start OTA shortly, re gemini
10:28 Techrights-sec; ack
11:08 schestowitz-TR; ok, i covered geminia
11:08 schestowitz-TR; and veered off to fossforce, phoronix ewtc.
11:08 schestowitz-TR; wioth their paid-for BS
11:08 schestowitz-TR; akllong the way
11:08 Techrights-sec; ack
11:10 schestowitz-TR; IO have just addded a very incomplete draft
11:10 schestowitz-TR; let me know whgat points o add
11:10 schestowitz-TR; I plan to add more paras later
11:10 schestowitz-TR; I want to record another video while the other laptop is processing
11:10 Techrights-sec; ack
11:14 Techrights-sec; s/go at it/go at corrupting it/
11:14 Techrights-sec; or "go at infiltrating and coopting it"
11:14 Techrights-sec; s/is what/is that/
11:14 Techrights-sec; Perhaps emphasis that due to the text-only nature of Gemini it is of necessity
11:14 Techrights-sec; focused on content and leaves the insecure or obstructive fluff aside
11:14 schestowitz-TR; thanks, correcting ans ddding
11:14 schestowitz-TR; OTA
11:14 schestowitz-TR; *and adding
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12:23 schestowitz-TR; ota
12:23 schestowitz-TR; added another draaft
12:23 schestowitz-TR; this one is short but with many links
12:24 Techrights-sec; ack
12:24 Techrights-sec; mostly away from the computer for the next n hours
12:24 Techrights-sec; about foisting new purchase onto end users, M$ had a strategy with
12:24 Techrights-sec; Intel to force new purchases every other year or so
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14:50 schestowitz-TR; fyi I rotated openssl cert a monmth early
14:50 schestowitz-TR; and put some more informative things in them
14:50 schestowitz-TR; not to appease Gulag/Mozilla/CAs
14:50 schestowitz-TR; but people who review the cert
14:50 schestowitz-TR; so your browser might issue an alert that this has changed, if you
14:50 schestowitz-TR; set exceptions
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