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02:24 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "A post-pandemic trend"? The pandemic is NOT over. There's no "post". Huge numbers of people continue to needlessly die. https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/23093-a-post-pandemic-trend-nearly-half-of-finns-dream-of-moving-to-the-countryside.html
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02:46 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Australias flu cases up 100-fold in first 2 months of 2023 https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-influenza-cases-up-100-fold-in-first-2-months-of-2023 some early studies in 2021 said the COVID-19 vaccines _can_, in fact, weaken the immune system to some viruses
02:46 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.straitstimes.com | Australias flu cases up 100-fold in first 2 months of 2023 | The Straits Times
02:56 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Was it a Finn or migrant Finn? Kids aged 13 don't tend to stab people. https://yle.fi/a/74-20021432
02:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Police suspect 13-year-old of stabbing classmate at Helsinki school | News | Yle Uutiset
02:59 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> Probably not a shortage of skills but a desire to LOWER SALARIES https://yle.fi/a/74-20021387
02:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yle.fi | Finland's foreign worker share doubles in a decade | News | Yle Uutiset
03:42 schestowitz-pi2; db <techrights-news> Were masks useless? The deceptive interpretation of what science tells us https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/opinions/mask-mandate-cochrane-study-covid-sepkowitz-ctrp/index.html
03:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Opinion: Were masks useless? The deceptive interpretation of what science tells us | CNN
03:52 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "The most prominent strain of A.I. encodes a flawed conception of language and knowledge." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html
03:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT - The New York Times
05:17 schestowitz-pi2; if the wayback machine has old and important documents that are not offline, i think
05:17 schestowitz-pi2; we can and should RE-publish thes
05:33 schestowitz-pi2; i cannot see a link in the redditson video
05:33 schestowitz-pi2; checked all the comments
05:33 schestowitz-pi2; anyway, he needs "material"
05:33 schestowitz-pi2; finds it in a hive controlled by microsofters
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; i don't comment in sites
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; i thought about doing a video about this later
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; but that would just give platform/more audience to the straw man
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; trolling tactics
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; and it would 'feel' like a waste of time
05:36 schestowitz-pi2; putting out fires started by Redmond's arsonists
05:57 schestowitz-pi2; having windows ANYWHERE ruins compatibility
05:57 schestowitz-pi2; because it's not standards-basded
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; my 90s laptop had windows 98
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; all it gave was a lot of troubke
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; like, when trying to make backups of files
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; it would fail for lousy reasons
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; like "bad" file name, iirc
05:58 schestowitz-pi2; i wrote about it in usenet at the time
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; based on what rianne saw
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; it seems like many public sector job openings are theatre
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; they already know who to give the job to
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; and knows the candidates
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; give them a token chat
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; i heard from the university that it was commonly done
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; they hire inhouse or from circles
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; but need to advertise the job
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; iow, rigged from start to finish
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; 20 years ago i experienced something like this
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; i went all the way to the south for a job interview
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; but later it turned out they had already agreed to hire someone
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; so i said, what's the point having me travel all the way there?
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; my dad was furious when he heard it and started phoning the company
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; i did not him to, but aged 20, he was protective
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; and that became a major embarassment to them
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; i did receive job offers (that i turtned down/declined) in the "official" channels
06:16 schestowitz-pi2; but i think the ones I got were not through formal interviews
06:17 schestowitz-pi2; glorified "apes" are still apes
06:17 schestowitz-pi2; they don't go by "rules"
06:17 schestowitz-pi2; they go in tribes
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; head of euipo has just been busted for it
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; friend of campinos
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; but will they tackle epo crime?
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; not likely.
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; cover it up?
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; for sure.
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; like i said, glorified apes
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; iow, tribes, not science
06:41 schestowitz-pi2; even in a PATENT office
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; when there is a society rife with corruption
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; it beomes a rewarding experience (but not job, not a business) exposing the corruption
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; in fact, you have little 'competition'
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; except for me and lunduke, who speaks out against LF corruption
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; who in general speaks about OSI and FSFE
06:47 schestowitz-pi2; ok, pocock does too, to some extent..
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; the non-corrupt can do a 200-part series about a company
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; or 6000-part series about a large org with dissenting insiders
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; uni researchers can also be frauds
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; they milk "students" (usually postgrads), which they bribe with pieces of accredited and glorified
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; stacks of papers
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; of one glorified sheet of paper
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; work for nothing
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; add name as author
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; for having a one-hour meeting per week
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; to "mentor' or "advise"
06:53 schestowitz-pi2; but do none of the actual worek
06:54 schestowitz-pi2; i had one uni boss who worked for gulag at the same time
06:54 schestowitz-pi2; the unis tolerate this because those same companies bribe the faculties
06:54 schestowitz-pi2; sso it becomes like marketing, microsoft reseach with unpaid intern/slaves
06:55 schestowitz-pi2; aka "students"
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; just to be clear, my last job was not nepotism
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; it was the employer chasing me and phoning me
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; like gulag had done 3 times over the years
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; even mathworks at one point
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; but i did not have to undergo any formal interview
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; i don't know what the law says
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; but i doubt it forbids private companies just targeting peoplea
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; and hiring them like this
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; it's done a lot in tech companies
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; another approach is staff brings a friend
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; or vouches for someone
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; but then I think they still arrange and set up an interview
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; whether rigged or not
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; in 2023 i don't suppose many companies are aggressivbely recruiting
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; and those who are in the workforce are subjected to abuse
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; with the "you're lazy" (quiet quitting, "great resignation") rhetoric
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; and forcing people to get exposed and infested by a bad virus again and again
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; for which, unlike te flu, we still lack a potent and save vaccine for
07:14 schestowitz-pi2; *safe
07:17 schestowitz-pi2; in the month of February we equipped ourselves with better tools by which to analyse, curate, collate news. I very much doubt I'll reduce focus on TR in the coming decade, be it over WWW or whatever comes along/in tadem/next
07:18 schestowitz-pi2; i would say I'm now 50% more efficient at news or, framed another way, I can curate 50%
07:19 schestowitz-pi2; more news with the same amount of time
07:19 schestowitz-pi2; for TM the ongoing peril is, unlike TR, the limited scope
07:19 schestowitz-pi2; as blogs and sites perish we need to cast the web wider for the same number of relevant stories
07:19 schestowitz-pi2; *cast the net rather, I am not a spider :-)
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; lol. scientists <3 ticktok
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; tiktok is green
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; RTL, which relays propaganda also to bill pretzel gates
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; amid major scandals mconnected to sex smuggling
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; RTL, go back to 'soft' pr0n
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; and stop shilling crap,
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; https://today.rtl.lu/news/science-and-environment/a/2039121.html
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; science-and-env
07:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-today.rtl.lu | RTL Today - Climate literacy: Scientists use TikTok to explain, fight climate change
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; yes, tiktok is science-and-env
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; just like bill gates
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; science-and-env
07:25 schestowitz-pi2; did he finish college yet?
07:27 techrights[sec]; Broadband Breakfast has also turned to crap. RTL mostly because of the feeds
07:27 techrights[sec]; it relaysmutx
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; sites do this when they give up
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; and they try to see how much they can squeeze instead of or before shutting down
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; a key person from BB moved to techdirt
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; and techdirt has not been terrible informative for a while
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; reason.com is becoming rather extremist
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; i mostly skip through it in recent weeks
07:29 schestowitz-pi2; to avoid the shock of the shit they promote
07:29 techrights[sec]; Broadband Breakfast has also turned to crap. RTL mostly because of the feeds
07:29 techrights[sec]; it relays. BB seems to have sold out to the entities it was supposed to
07:29 techrights[sec]; be watching and gaurding against. It's disingenuous propaganda at this point
07:29 techrights[sec]; Most dangerously it is about the only site covering the section 230 politics
07:29 techrights[sec]; so that causes a big threat.
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; the threat is "reduce" as more and more people give up and stop being the "audience"
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; but the peak "shilling" is when the readers have not _yet_ figured that out
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; many "linux" sites do the same
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; then they stop complelely and vanish
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; like cnet right now and zdnet next...
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; linutoday.com barely published more thsn 4 "Stories" per day
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; and they're old or mere howtos
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; so that site lacks a purpose
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; i would not even check it anymore
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; with phoronix i just scroll through the headlines in case i missed some release
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; that takes only seconds
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; better than quiterss
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; gulag noise for 'linux' is dominated by that lkml->text "generator"
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; aka michael larabel
07:33 schestowitz-pi2; with microsoft thrown in for good measure or, as he said it to me, for "entertainment"
07:36 schestowitz-pi2; in my feeds only one feed habitually spams tiktok
07:36 schestowitz-pi2; it's that music/copyright site
07:36 schestowitz-pi2; i forgot its name
07:36 schestowitz-pi2; the rest are all negatyive stories
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09:29 techrights[sec]; What remains on porting tm-old to tm-new?
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; as the pages there age traffic goes down
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; and the main component is easier
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; it's /node/1..latest
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; with some variation for related request for a given node
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; as those are the lion's share of remaining page requests
09:29 techrights[sec]; Those have been copied already AFAIK
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; there are other sections such as forums, but those are not accessed as much
09:29 schestowitz-pi2; due to various factors
09:33 techrights[sec]; /node/1..n are mostly there
09:34 schestowitz-pi2; sorry, i was away for exercise, before that speaking to many ex colleagues
09:34 schestowitz-pi2; do you reckon if the CEO goes to prison billy gates will go visit him?
09:34 schestowitz-pi2; it's closer than the facility jeffrey epstein was in
09:34 schestowitz-pi2; the CEO is in Seattle area/WA somewhere
09:34 schestowitz-pi2; hiding
09:50 schestowitz-pi2; things already heating up at EPO and I have several new documents
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10:21 techrights[sec]; Good that you are able to cover it!
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; we now have
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; 1) 2 site migrations
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; 2) epo
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; 3) sirius
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; 4) github
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; ...
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; so i don't worry about lacking material, only time ;-)
10:22 schestowitz-pi2; epo is in deep shit atm. euipo also (connected to epo, former epo VP)
10:23 schestowitz-pi2; which gives me more motivation
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; the euipo (EU!) scandal can curtail upc
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; as for sirius, expect another "book"
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; i was not expecting this, but am unearthing stuff
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; github is already collpsing
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; not just financially, also layoffs
10:33 schestowitz-pi2; rianne is planning to write today about her observations re nepotism in p
10:47 schestowitz-pi2; m in public sector
10:47 schestowitz-pi2; http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sirius_Open_Source&diff=17172&oldid=17171
10:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Sirius Open Source - Techrights
10:47 schestowitz-pi2; http://techrights.org/wiki/Crimes_of_Sirius_Open_Source
10:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Crimes of Sirius Open Source - Techrights
10:51 techrights[sec]; biab
11:11 techrights[sec]; back
11:44 schestowitz-pi2; Microsoft itself is worse than ugly, it is criminal. techdirt sprinkles this with the illusion of parity. https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/09/the-microsoft-sony-fight-over-the-activision-purchase-is-getting-ugly/ | Source: Techdirt
11:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Microsoft, Sony Fight Over The Activision Purchase Is Getting Ugly | Techdirt
11:53 schestowitz-pi2; truthout today (connected to commondreams) has devoted like 30% of the space
11:53 schestowitz-pi2; to crazy people. maybe they too are being changed from the inside to push
11:53 schestowitz-pi2; self-defeating agenda that alienates readers
11:53 schestowitz-pi2; i will monitor the % over time.
11:53 techrights[sec]; Likely
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; sorry if judging bt TR is looks like i'm lazy, i'm still super-busy investing in upcoming stories
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; rianne and i have thankfully kept on top of tm
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; i've not checked its back end for ages, planned to back it up against last weekend
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; but ran of time
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; the most important thing is perservrance and preservation
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; as more and more sites go offline the value of tm and tr will grow
12:14 schestowitz-pi2; it's hard to find any info on novell anymore
12:14 techrights[sec]; np
12:20 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> "Maggie Thatchers rule in Britain was, like the same years in Ronnie Reagans United States, a vicious attempt to move their nations as far right as they could." https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/10/maggie-thatcher-sucked-but-the-music-she-inspired-didnt/ | Source: Counter Punch
12:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Maggie Thatcher Sucked, But the Music She Inspired Didnt - CounterPunch.org
12:26 schestowitz-pi2; <techrights-news> tiktok protected by techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/09/the-great-tiktok-moral-panic-continues-as-senators-thune-warner-attempt-a-more-elaborate-ban/ | Source: Techdirt
12:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Great TikTok Moral Panic Continues As Senators Thune, Warner Attempt A More Elaborate Ban | Techdirt
12:27 schestowitz-pi2; yet again
12:27 schestowitz-pi2; it's regulation, hence bad, hence we are voice of koch
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12:30 techrights[sec]; I suspect a more sinister motive, that of control and cultura
12:31 schestowitz-pi2; och
12:31 schestowitz-pi2; passive, defeatist populatiomn
12:31 schestowitz-pi2; aka
12:31 schestowitz-pi2; oppopsite of what media now dubs "toxic masculinity"
12:32 techrights[sec]; I suspect a more sinister motive, that of control and cultural destruction.
12:32 techrights[sec]; Beyond passivity and defeatist, their values, mores, ethics, are /formed/
12:32 techrights[sec]; not re-formed into the mold provided by the controllers of ByteDance\
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12:34 techrights[sec]; Name calling works. That's how the world's distros all ended up in systemd
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; it was snowing this morning
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; persistent, stayed mon ground
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; now it's bright and sunny
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; quite the contrast
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; the past few days it was about 0.
12:43 schestowitz-pi2; hopefuly the last such cold wave.
14:58 schestowitz-pi2; just recorded 2 videos, short ones
14:58 schestowitz-pi2; i will try to make a time of days to always make some
14:58 schestowitz-pi2; going to write now :-)
14:58 schestowitz-pi2; gonna go to shop at 5pm, it's nice outside
14:58 schestowitz-pi2; 5pm is when colour labels come out
15:32 techrights[sec]; Excellent!
17:10 schestowitz-pi2; http://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/03/10/Job_Hunting_Experience.shtml
17:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | Tux Machines Job Hunting Experience
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