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08:49 schestowitz-TR; [08:49] <techrights-news> A Critique of Lagrange gemini://ainent.xyz/gemlog/2022-05-07-critique-of-lagrange.gmi "This is not a full review of Lagrange, but rather discussing one specific aspect of it. My intention here is to start a conversation."
08:50 schestowitz-TR; [02:04] <matey> marisol, marisol, does whatever a marisol does
08:50 schestowitz-TR; [02:05] <matey> the legend of marisol would have made a highly amusing text adventure
08:50 schestowitz-TR; [02:05] <matey> you must collect apple airbuds at some point in the game
09:35 schestowitz-TR; Thanks for the links about FIDO
09:35 schestowitz-TR; Brian Krebs covered that too
09:35 schestowitz-TR; but I still cannot offer any good insights
09:35 schestowitz-TR; I was thinking of doing a video about China's move to GNU/Linux
09:35 schestowitz-TR; and then toss the Edge figures into the mix
09:35 schestowitz-TR; any thoguhts?
09:35 schestowitz-TR; I also did a plasma video last night
09:35 schestowitz-TR; on some fronts the news is very slow, so I reckon advocacy has itsd place atm
09:35 schestowitz-TR; [19:13] <schestowitz-TR> <techrights-news> China intends to transfer state institutions and state-owned enterprises to Linux and PCs of local manufacturers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164572#comment-33571
09:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | China Orders Government, State Firms to Dump Foreign PCs | Tux Machines
09:35 Techrights-sec; `ack
09:35 Techrights-sec; np
09:35 Techrights-sec; has China made any successful moves in that direction? I know they have
09:35 Techrights-sec; made protestations in that direction but figure they go not much further
09:35 Techrights-sec; than Russia.
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09:38 Techrights-sec; "Intends to". Russia tried that three times, several years apart. Nothing
09:38 Techrights-sec; happened except the third time, all those that knew computers got fired and
09:38 Techrights-sec; M$ cemented its position in politics. At least back in 2010 that was
09:38 Techrights-sec; then.
09:38 Techrights-sec; ^fired and replaced with microsofters
09:39 schestowitz-TR; [19:13] <schestowitz-TR> <techrights-news> China intends to transfer state institutions and state-owned enterprises to Linu
09:39 schestowitz-TR; x and PCs of local manufacturers http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164572#comment-33571
09:39 schestowitz-TR; say what you will, but moves are made after all. korea, china, turkey, russia, brazil.
09:39 schestowitz-TR; many schools in TR (turkey) now use gnu and libreoffice
09:39 schestowitz-TR; downplaying all this would notn help us
09:39 schestowitz-TR; it would help bogdan poa at al mocking the whole thing
09:39 Techrights-sec; https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redflag
09:39 Techrights-sec; disontinued
09:39 Techrights-sec; moves are good, it's just that the politics is far harder than most people
09:39 Techrights-sec; are willing to admit
09:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-DistroWatch.com: Red Flag Linux
09:41 schestowitz-TR; if at first you fail, keep trying
09:41 schestowitz-TR; many of us never gave up
09:41 schestowitz-TR; the desktop continues to be developed and few percentage in share of a very large share is still tens of millions, maybe so
09:41 schestowitz-TR; on hundreds of millions
09:41 Techrights-sec; BTW distowatch erroneously categorizes systemd as an init system
09:42 schestowitz-TR; systemd is a lot of things
09:45 schestowitz-TR; to borrow an analogy, many people thought we were idealists trying to stop UPC
09:45 schestowitz-TR; and a decade later we're still at it
09:45 schestowitz-TR; I think it's important that some sites don't play the defeatist "year of
09:45 schestowitz-TR; desktop" canard
09:45 schestowitz-TR; and we're consisteitnyly highlighted WHY this was happening
09:45 schestowitz-TR; like Microsoft infiltrating Walmart to stop Linspire
09:45 schestowitz-TR; among many other examples
09:45 schestowitz-TR; which are still perfectly documented both in posts, wiki page, and leaked
09:45 schestowitz-TR; docs
10:00 Techrights-sec; correct, "year of the linux desktop" has been changed to a defeatist meme
10:00 Techrights-sec; by microsoftes and, lately, with the help of useful idiots
10:00 Techrights-sec; Not just Linspire but also Asus EEE was blocked; The GNU/Linux edition
10:00 Techrights-sec; sold out almost immediately but M$ was able to get all over Aaus and
10:00 Techrights-sec; prevent restocking of them and just get the Windoze edition to the stores.
10:00 Techrights-sec; The latter had a very high return rate but the M$ beholden press
10:00 Techrights-sec; spun that as if the GNU/Linux edition didn't sell (without mentioning
10:00 Techrights-sec; that there were none to buy) and implied that the high return rate
10:00 Techrights-sec; was for trhe GNU/Linux EEE devices rather than the reality of the
10:00 Techrights-sec; high return rate for the WIndows EEE devices.
10:00 Techrights-sec; All those details are lost, buried, or subjected to revisionist history,
10:00 Techrights-sec; if you can find any coverage at all of M$ misdeeds against Asus.
10:00 schestowitz-TR; when michael was chief of OSI he egged me on to cover those things
10:00 schestowitz-TR; he was a TR reader
10:00 schestowitz-TR; now we have an OSI run by a bunch of idiotcs who try to censor TR
10:04 schestowitz-TR; I'm goine OTA
10:04 schestowitz-TR; either way, now with Steam OS and various other things we clobber away at Windows
10:04 schestowitz-TR; the bailouts do start to received more media scrutiny
10:04 schestowitz-TR; Mirosoft is, at this stage, more like Pentagon 'asset'
10:04 schestowitz-TR; I will also do another video on the Debian TM SLAPP
10:04 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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11:48 schestowitz-TR; done 2 vids
11:48 schestowitz-TR; draft
11:48 schestowitz-TR; 2 drafts now
11:48 schestowitz-TR; videos processing
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17:14 schestowitz-TR; got another draftr in place
17:39 Techrights-sec; checking
17:39 Techrights-sec; a neo-colonialist plot to ensure the continuing dominance of Western nations."""
17:39 Techrights-sec; link would be good there
17:39 Techrights-sec; is ushing lies about the UPC illegal or has the UPC become invalid / illegal itself?
17:39 Techrights-sec; yes some reinforcement of that can be added into the article
17:39 schestowitz-TR; lies CAN be a violation in the legal profession
17:39 schestowitz-TR; I think they have commitments
17:39 schestowitz-TR; and I think calling them out on it
17:39 schestowitz-TR; helps to silence them
17:39 schestowitz-TR; they don't want to get caught
17:39 schestowitz-TR; I will add some sentence and chase the link
17:39 Techrights-sec; thanks!
17:41 schestowitz; I cannot find a link, similar one in page 81 in
17:41 schestowitz; https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cEqgBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=%22+the+continuing+dominance+of+Western+nations.%22&source=bl&ots=L7omaXDc1L&sig=ACfU3U3-cnA-Kj2bvFDW3fp_3bNnSSnrKg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjO27GFrND3AhXKYMAKHY5oDzIQ6AF6BAgCEAM
17:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-books.google.co.uk | The City in the Developing World - Robert B. Potter, Sally Lloyd-Evans - Google Books
17:41 Techrights-sec; ack
18:07 schestowitz-TR; I have tons of unhandled patent items
18:07 schestowitz-TR; but would rather do articles
18:07 schestowitz-TR; topics are scarce though
18:07 schestowitz-TR; I'll think how to improve Planet some more
18:22 Techrights-sec; ack
18:51 Techrights-sec; nice
18:51 Techrights-sec; so in 2 years it is 20
18:53 schestowitz-TR; Renewing tuaxmachines domain until 2027 when it turns 23!
18:53 schestowitz-TR; in 25 months
18:53 schestowitz-TR; we're still "leading" in some metrics
18:53 schestowitz-TR; even if the site is not exceptionally well known
18:53 schestowitz-TR; so far I got no output from the backup scripts
18:53 schestowitz-TR; and I hope it just means the gz files are in good integrity
18:53 schestowitz-TR; I've just added a TM user account for someone who peronally asked for one
18:53 schestowitz-TR; maybe to add comments
18:53 Techrights-sec; excellent
18:53 Techrights-sec; though the account spam has been a problem for allowing automatic
18:53 Techrights-sec; enrollment
18:55 schestowitz-TR; this problem is not a unique
18:55 schestowitz-TR; # of comments/# of spam
18:55 schestowitz-TR; # of comments/stress of havign to moderate
18:55 schestowitz-TR; this is why many news sites remove the comment sectio
18:55 schestowitz-TR; it's letting people 'vandalise' a page without technical means, just oral or verbal means
19:03 Techrights-sec; yes most sites have removed comments long ago :(
19:04 schestowitz-TR; but not only do they "allow" FB and Twitter (outsourcing "mideration")
19:04 schestowitz-TR; they also outsource themselves to that
19:04 schestowitz-TR; with techrights you have to use rss
19:04 schestowitz-TR; cannot follow new material through other means\
19:04 schestowitz-TR; except unofficial stuff
19:06 Techrights-sec; the encouragement of social control media is misguided since few
19:06 Techrights-sec; know or are willing to admit the amount of spin and filtering that
19:06 Techrights-sec; goes on there. Maybe these issues will get raised via conflict with
19:06 Techrights-sec; China's TikTok since that is the main one that is not under the same
19:06 Techrights-sec; control as Twitter and FB
19:07 schestowitz-TR; sorry for a dumb question, but does this tiktok thing (never saw it)
19:07 schestowitz-TR; have a
19:07 schestowitz-TR; business model?
19:07 schestowitz-TR; I never heard of anyone "buying ads" there...
19:07 Techrights-sec; that's a good question, I have not heard of one but it might have
19:07 Techrights-sec; one beyond goverment influence campaigns, then again it might not
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19:09 schestowitz-TR; twitter was hybrid: ads as "trending" and whatnot and ads marked as such
19:09 schestowitz-TR; the former seems to be implicitly broken down into "paid trends",
19:09 schestowitz-TR; "government d-notice-like bias", and maybe some legit thing thrown in the mix
19:09 schestowitz-TR; but who he heck knows...
19:10 Techrights-sec; that's a good question, I have not heard of one but it might have
19:10 Techrights-sec; one beyond goverment influence campaigns, then again it might not
19:10 Techrights-sec; ads are still secondary in twitter, the mainpulation of opinion seems
19:10 Techrights-sec; top priority there
19:10 Techrights-sec; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/13/tiktok-russia-censorship-propaganda-tracking-exposed/
19:10 Techrights-sec; https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-eileen-gu-winter-olympics-technology-business-12de242ee53092693c0711b932c1da5c
19:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.washingtonpost.com | TikTok's Russia strategy: Censorship, loopholes and propaganda - The Washington Post
19:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-apnews.com | How China's TikTok, Facebook influencers push propaganda | AP News
19:12 schestowitz-TR; the web became a battleground of ideas
19:12 schestowitz-TR; and of corporations too, of course...
19:12 schestowitz-TR; but the latter control and have a stake in the battle
19:12 schestowitz-TR; so they shape the web to win their "ideas"....
19:12 schestowitz-TR; that alone makes the web unhealthy not just to people but to markets
19:13 Techrights-sec; not so much a battleground of ideas but a battleground of disinformation
19:13 Techrights-sec; versus, well, just about anything
19:16 schestowitz-TR; disinformation is the 'doping'
19:16 schestowitz-TR; when you cannot win, you reesort to cheating
19:16 schestowitz-TR; if you lack morals
19:16 schestowitz-TR; but based on what I see in my companies honesty is not how one gets pporomoted and rewarded
19:16 schestowitz-TR; hosentl;y is too "slow"... not "effective" when all one cares about is "winning" (by 'dopinn')
19:16 schestowitz-TR; so you end up working for a bunch of dopes
19:16 schestowitz-TR; I always get this stare or shocked response when highliught to them
19:16 schestowitz-TR; 1) that a statement we made was false
19:16 schestowitz-TR; 2) we are not actually ISO compliant
19:16 schestowitz-TR; or anythiung that somehow challenged the lies nobody is supported
19:16 schestowitz-TR; to poke with a stick
19:17 Techrights-sec; yes
19:17 Techrights-sec; business culture tends to not just encourage but idolize lying :(
19:17 Techrights-sec; those that have skills are seen as a threat by the liars and eventually
19:17 Techrights-sec; driven out
19:24 Techrights-sec; On a discussion forum recently someone commented, with several examples,
19:24 Techrights-sec; how liars are always a threat within a company and over time end up
19:24 Techrights-sec; taking over from the compentent people, reaching a tipping point afterwhich
19:24 Techrights-sec; the skilled people have no peers or insufficient peers to have incentive
19:24 Techrights-sec; to stay on. Steve Jobs said something to the effect of A players
19:24 Techrights-sec; hiring other A players but B players hire C players, who in turn hire D, etc
19:26 schestowitz-TR; seems to be ruining ours
19:26 schestowitz-TR; here, the tipping point was already years ago
19:26 schestowitz-TR; but the job stayed rather easy
19:26 schestowitz-TR; those are the ones who stayed onboard
19:26 schestowitz-TR; if you try hard to push them, they would leave
19:26 schestowitz-TR; we are 50% of those people
19:27 Techrights-sec; it is said to happen eventually in all companies; too bad the government
19:27 Techrights-sec; or public does not pull the plug on companies once they turn bad
19:27 schestowitz-TR; in EFF the B players also oust A players (John)
19:28 Techrights-sec; Yes, that is the common theme in all "reality" tv shows, the shows
19:28 Techrights-sec; which train the public to act that way
19:28 Techrights-sec; the world culture, at least in the west, is 1) identify the strong players
19:28 Techrights-sec; 2) form alliances to remove them at the earliest opporunity 3) squabble
19:28 Techrights-sec; internally afterwards
19:29 schestowitz-TR; I wish I could say out death spiral was around the same Jeff Epstein's BFF landed a little bribe
19:29 schestowitz-TR; but it predates that somewhat
19:29 schestowitz-TR; so you could not honestly say such a thing
19:30 Techrights-sec; I'm still curious what is behind that NDA. It seems the troubles there
19:30 Techrights-sec; manifested around then or at least that is the perception from outside.
19:33 schestowitz-TR; no, we took the train down to sign a new contract with a new shell
19:33 schestowitz-TR; months before the MIR expose
19:33 schestowitz-TR; *MIT
19:33 schestowitz-TR; Signing = around June 2019
19:33 schestowitz-TR; August 019 press reports on MIT
19:33 schestowitz-TR; Oct 2019 NDA mentioned
19:33 schestowitz-TR; the BFF is ther FIRST US client
19:33 schestowitz-TR; I kid you not
19:33 schestowitz-TR; SarinGas was already in the company by then
19:33 schestowitz-TR; annying not only us but also colleagues
19:33 schestowitz-TR; so a hypothetial if not creative timeline would be difficult tom prove
19:33 schestowitz-TR; like they say, "if you set up this shelkl, we'll become first company..
19:33 schestowitz-TR; blah blah...
19:34 Techrights-sec; The troubles allowed the NDA to be acceptable and left the company
19:34 Techrights-sec; open for contact from bill's minions
19:34 Techrights-sec; I think it is unrelated to MIT etc but targeted for other reasons
19:34 Techrights-sec; Yeah like those hockey stick growth charts which have only two real
19:34 Techrights-sec; data points in a flat line and the expontential growth 10 years in
19:34 Techrights-sec; the future...
19:35 schestowitz-TR; \
19:35 schestowitz-TR; (me avoids conspiratiroal thinking like me avoids covid)
19:35 schestowitz-TR; if there was some "Grand Plan" to oust us, it would not take years to "pull the trigger"
19:35 schestowitz-TR; so I rule that out and move on
19:37 Techrights-sec; m$ always looks for companies to crush, they'll go out of their way
19:37 Techrights-sec; to do so
19:37 Techrights-sec; not to oust any specific staff, though certainly they have tried that too,
19:37 Techrights-sec; but just to weaken or destroy the company -- because they can
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19:41 schestowitz-TR; the company was already in a weak position at the time
19:41 schestowitz-TR; but it became more unpleasant
19:41 schestowitz-TR; that was also the time we started adopting clown shits
19:41 schestowitz-TR; with growing pressure for me to follow
19:41 schestowitz-TR; after I had refused
19:41 schestowitz-TR; specifically, also in that June 2019 meeting
19:41 schestowitz-TR; you would assume by then the "BFF" was already in contact
19:41 schestowitz-TR; as 4 months later the NDA was mentioned
19:41 schestowitz-TR; "BFF" as first "US client"
19:41 schestowitz-TR; I asked a colleague what this whole US thing was about
19:41 schestowitz-TR; she would not even answer the qyestiuon
19:41 schestowitz-TR; she made up a fictional questions
19:41 schestowitz-TR; and then answered it
19:41 schestowitz-TR; we suspect the setting up of the new shell was a ploy to ofset employer liabilities
19:41 schestowitz-TR; like back to zero
19:41 schestowitz-TR; but not for pension reasons or compensation
19:41 schestowitz-TR; rather, the now-divorced wife was a director/board in the old company
19:41 schestowitz-TR; so it was a ploy to get her off the sheet
19:41 schestowitz-TR; and then flee the country
19:41 schestowitz-TR; that's my theory
19:41 schestowitz-TR; after that we've barely had any direct communications
19:42 schestowitz-TR; (I am OK with all thie being public)
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19:42 schestowitz-TR; (of course old email trails could easily and quikckly illuminate what had actually
19:42 schestowitz-TR; happened and when
19:42 schestowitz-TR; and how much money was at stake with that NDA)
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19:52 Techrights-sec; ack
19:59 schestowitz-TR; just been upstairs explaining the order of events
19:59 schestowitz-TR; rianne thinkks it is not implausable
19:59 schestowitz-TR; but she too says proof is needed
19:59 schestowitz-TR; I guess enough was done to deny and obfuscate anything up to now
19:59 schestowitz-TR; as a "professional job" would...
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