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04:03 Techrightssec; I hope SN pulls through. It is about the last site left where comments are
04:03 Techrightssec; possible. ncommander seems willing to try to either right it or archive it
04:03 Techrightssec; by the 10th anniversary.
04:06 schestowitz-TR; they will last longer than twitter, based on news reports
04:07 Techrightssec; The sooner Twitter is removed, the better.
04:07 Techrightssec; Corporate disinformation and propaganda engines like Reddit are another matter
04:07 Techrightssec; That one is a lot cheaper to operate, or so it looks.
04:09 schestowitz-TR; regarding corona, I still 'monitor' what happens here
04:09 schestowitz-TR; we thought about spendign this weekend trekking, but weather is not cooperative
04:09 schestowitz-TR; contact with other people can lead to infection
04:13 schestowitz-TR; it is 4am here and 15 degrees
04:13 schestowitz-TR; i still have many unknowns, so cannot change some workflows indefinitely
04:13 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I did FOUR rounds of Daily Links
04:13 schestowitz-TR; atm there is some time overhead associated with adjusting
04:13 schestowitz-TR; when that clears, I should have lots of more time
04:15 schestowitz-TR; i am reluctant to even link to LINUXHINT anymore
04:15 schestowitz-TR; seeing some of the trash they're filling the site with
04:18 schestowitz-TR; today: windows, discord, git ASSUMING YOU USE WINDOWS (!), JS ... maybe time to delete my feed soon
04:18 schestowitz-TR; I also suspect they're adopted plagiarism artists
04:18 schestowitz-TR; who hide that but use quotes to sort of pretend, we're quoting
04:18 schestowitz-TR; maybe the site got sold to pakistan
04:18 Techrightssec; There are self-styled OSS specialists promoting their activity via "Slack"
04:18 Techrightssec; -- not Slackware, but the proprietary IRC competitor
04:19 schestowitz-TR; I know a company that does that ^_^
04:23 schestowitz-TR; reading feeds
04:23 schestowitz-TR; a) more an MOAR webspam
04:23 schestowitz-TR; b) we can cope
04:23 schestowitz-TR; 3) Daily Links has enough, but granularity changed
04:23 schestowitz-TR; d) need to get more people OFF the Web
04:23 schestowitz-TR; mumble, irc, gemini etc.
04:23 Techrightssec; :/
04:23 Techrightssec; I think the work flow for the links can be moved to tr-new soon. There
04:23 Techrightssec; are some details to work out with Git, but now that the TR Git repository
04:23 Techrightssec; is now in place, that is a step closer to realization.
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04:29 Techrightssec; The web in and of itself is fine, that is until HTTP/3 kicks in.
04:29 Techrightssec; Then it's as good a dead in regards to any characteristics it might have shared
04:29 Techrightssec; with its original goals and vision. However, the web as a vehicle for
04:29 Techrightssec; delivering proprietary javascript browser-based "apps" is better off dead.
04:29 schestowitz-TR; i have a 'stupid' question
04:29 schestowitz-TR; given what happened to FB and still happened to Twitter
04:30 schestowitz-TR; and given how awful youtube has become in pursuit of %
04:30 schestowitz-TR; and given that this strategy still reportedly resulted ina DECLINE ($)
04:30 schestowitz-TR; is youtube next to jump the shark?
04:30 schestowitz-TR; no youtube -> no invidious
04:30 Techrightssec; Youtube has already jumped the shark but as to whether it declines financially
04:30 Techrightssec; enough to see major cuts is another matter.
04:30 Techrightssec; https://grammarist.com/idiom/jump-the-shark/
04:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-grammarist.com | Jump the shark Idiom Definition
04:31 Techrightssec; I'm loath to say it but invidious was a stupid idea anyway, it's only a front
04:31 Techrightssec; end
04:32 schestowitz-TR; it helps against ads mostly
04:32 schestowitz-TR; but also has other advantages
04:32 schestowitz-TR; the hard part is hosting large files and then delivering them to millions
04:32 schestowitz-TR; i reckon the business model there is the censorship
04:32 schestowitz-TR; or rather, mind control
04:33 Techrightssec; https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JumpingTheShark
04:33 Techrightssec; The ads, as originally done, were simply the cost of using a "free" service.
04:33 Techrightssec; Now they are invasive, obnoxious, and longer than the actual video content.
04:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-tvtropes.org | Jumping the Shark - TV Tropes
04:34 schestowitz-TR; yes, youtube became that
04:34 schestowitz-TR; they need to show potential to profit, too
04:34 schestowitz-TR; Bailout Biden might not find more coins between the sofa cushion
04:34 schestowitz-TR; for the so-called psy-ops
04:35 Techrightssec; I'm not sure if FOSS conferences have abandoned youtube or if they have
04:35 Techrightssec; abandoned posting videos. I'm hoping for a third option: self-hosting like
04:35 Techrightssec; CCC has done. But there will be no CCC this year either.
04:35 Techrightssec; Yes, youtube is certainly manipulative.
04:36 schestowitz-TR; if you want to secure access to some video, then download it
04:36 schestowitz-TR; VHS VCRs with record button were not a crimew
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04:45 schestowitz-TR; motta: survival of the fittest (darwin iirc)
04:45 schestowitz-TR; intel/grove: survival of the paranoid
04:45 schestowitz-TR; tech: survival of the agile
04:45 schestowitz-TR; youtube and twitter are too heavy and far too messy to operate
04:45 schestowitz-TR; not sure about soylent news, but it seems like they over-engineered it
04:45 schestowitz-TR; staying on olkd wordpress LTS was wise
04:45 schestowitz-TR; but it's time to move
04:45 schestowitz-TR; youtube may never become financially sustainable
04:45 schestowitz-TR; and to keep "agile" it might looks for excuses to ban "useless" channels
04:45 schestowitz-TR; like those that promote FS
04:45 schestowitz-TR; and have many minutes of video (storage)
04:45 schestowitz-TR; plus bandwidth costs that are hard to "monetise" due to 'uncooperate' (to ads) audience
04:45 schestowitz-TR; and no political gain (brownie points) either3~
04:56 Techrightssec; SN is using the old /. infrastructure which was ambitious and aimed for
04:56 Techrightssec; a larger scale than what is needed anymore. Harware and networks handle
04:56 Techrightssec; much more work and there are fewer visitors anyway. So what they have
04:56 Techrightssec; is kind of overkill.
04:57 schestowitz-TR; i thought it was a lookalike, not same or similar code
04:57 schestowitz-TR; anyway, wordpress is becoming overkill for 99% of sites that use wordpress
05:05 Techrightssec; /. was one of the largest sites 20 years ago
05:05 Techrightssec; in terms of visitors, posts, and traffic. Most importantly, and the reason
05:05 Techrightssec; it drew the ire of the powers that be, was that it reflected the zeitgeist
05:05 Techrightssec; of the era and focused on FOSS and Open Standards and hated with a burning
05:05 Techrightssec; passion all things M$
05:05 Techrightssec; Team99 was active there but was, for a while mitigated, that's where the
05:05 Techrightssec; abbreviation "M$" came from AFAIK. M$ had a search engine continually scraping
05:05 Techrightssec; forums and /. in particular for the string "microsoft" case-insensitive.
05:05 Techrightssec; In the seconds after a thread acquired the string "microsoft", it would
05:05 Techrightssec; be burried in hostile and off-topic comments usually about perversions and
05:05 Techrightssec; unnacceptable practices.
05:05 Techrightssec; https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-building-a-team-99/
05:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.neowin.net | Microsoft Building a 'Team 99' - Neowin
05:08 schestowitz-TR; i have just started one cpu-intensive task again, on my main machine
05:08 schestowitz-TR; seeing it has not had stroage issues for a while
05:08 schestowitz-TR; undecided on next course of action, but for now it seems 'back to normal'
05:08 schestowitz-TR; cleaned my rss feeds just now
05:08 schestowitz-TR; did not net many important stories
05:09 schestowitz-TR; to put it mildly
05:09 schestowitz-TR; but some clusters of links
05:11 Techrightssec; ack
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05:37 schestowitz-TR; going a post about our 16th bday...
05:37 schestowitz-TR; draft
05:37 Techrightssec; ack
05:41 schestowitz-TR; re SN
05:41 schestowitz-TR; I saw they use patreon
05:41 schestowitz-TR; iirc, it was patereon that fired ALL sec staf
05:41 schestowitz-TR; and is likely laying off all across the board
05:41 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if,
05:41 schestowitz-TR; like in social control media
05:41 schestowitz-TR; herding all supporters in that one platform
05:41 schestowitz-TR; makes one too financially dependent
05:41 schestowitz-TR; like with a salary
05:41 schestowitz-TR; on the existence and health of that platform
05:41 schestowitz-TR; did they plan for a siatuino of ban or platform shutdown (patreon)?
05:41 schestowitz-TR; not yet thinking of 'crowdfunding' TR
05:42 schestowitz-TR; as we are not broke
05:42 schestowitz-TR; but it's always "in the cards"
05:42 schestowitz-TR; from what I saw, if people start funding, then they throw a fit when some
05:42 schestowitz-TR; article isn't making them happy
05:42 schestowitz-TR; and then use a threat of discontinuing to induce (self)censorship
05:42 Techrightssec; then a disclaimer needs to be visible up front
05:43 schestowitz-TR; right, good point
05:43 schestowitz-TR; anyway, health is ok, financially we're ok
05:43 schestowitz-TR; TR will be fine
05:43 schestowitz-TR; and this is what I've wanted to do since 2006 anyway
05:43 Techrightssec;
05:43 Techrightssec; "as-is"
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08:09 Techrightssec; The various news sites seem to be largely blaming the Mediabank breach
08:09 Techrightssec; on either a) not paying the ransom, or b) the ransomware gang itself,
08:09 Techrightssec; instead of where the blame really lies: M$ and those that brought M$ product
08:09 Techrightssec; into the working environment.
08:09 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
08:10 schestowitz-TR; thsnks, got 3 topic now
08:10 schestowitz-TR; we might go to town later today/tonight
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09:17 schestowitz-TR; gym
09:17 schestowitz-TR; 2 daily links batches at 9am ;-)
09:17 schestowitz-TR; i like it
09:17 Techrightssec; ack
11:11 Techrightssec; 2022-11-11 11:11
11:34 Techrightssec; There are some echo settings she might be able to do on her end.
11:34 Techrightssec; Configure -> Settingd -> Audio Input -> Interface -> Echo Cancellation
11:34 Techrightssec; afaik it is off by default and there are two other options which could be tested
11:34 schestowitz-TR; we even did the silence thing
11:34 schestowitz-TR; i think we now have (had) 6 people in mumble
11:35 schestowitz-TR; should have done that years ago
11:35 schestowitz-TR; the echo is bad because rianne does not use a headset
11:35 schestowitz-TR; thanks, having another go at it now
11:35 schestowitz-TR; did mine last night again
11:48 schestowitz-TR; the echo is always worse from some users who are on mumla on android
11:48 schestowitz-TR; but not all
11:48 schestowitz-TR; and I am not sure what the culprit is
11:48 schestowitz-TR; maybe some of them use speaker mode
12:06 Techrightssec; no idea about android
12:08 schestowitz-TR; if social control media take a tumble
12:08 schestowitz-TR; than the addition associate with it via "phones"
12:08 schestowitz-TR; *addiciton
12:09 schestowitz-TR; may diminish
12:09 Techrightssec; ack
12:09 schestowitz-TR; and maybe there can be a rebound for real computing
12:09 schestowitz-TR; not those palm-size skinner UIs
12:10 schestowitz-TR; the "like" interaction was made for pal-sized and keyboardless things
12:10 schestowitz-TR; so the devices impacted the UIs
12:10 schestowitz-TR; not the other way around
12:10 schestowitz-TR; to the point many programs became worse
12:10 schestowitz-TR; including banking UIs
12:10 schestowitz-TR; equipping the users with worse devices for improved screen time (always in the pocket, making many noises)
12:10 schestowitz-TR; rather than increased productivity
12:10 Techrightssec; s/improved/increased/
12:11 schestowitz-TR; (from advertisers' POV or state propAGANDA, A subset of the PR industry)
12:38 schestowitz-TR; mumble us hard when trying to balance the volumes between several people with different software,
12:38 schestowitz-TR; different devices, and different modes, all in the same room
12:38 schestowitz-TR; one person's bad settings impacts everyone present, unless one goes deaf/mute
12:38 schestowitz-TR; but this is an inherent issue for that kind of application
12:38 schestowitz-TR; with proprietary craps in "Apps" and "Browser" there is only one "approved" client
12:38 schestowitz-TR; with very limited OS or browser support
12:39 schestowitz-TR; going to record in a bit
12:39 schestowitz-TR; we have put our most of the xmas decor by now
12:39 schestowitz-TR; inc. at the office, entrance, bedrooms
12:39 schestowitz-TR; rianne is crazy about that stuff, even it's mostly for kids
13:31 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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15:34 schestowitz-TR; draft
15:34 schestowitz-TR; epo quiet, so I recorded just 3 videos
15:34 schestowitz-TR; draft for ms+russia
15:38 Techrightssec; checking
15:38 Techrightssec; checking
15:38 Techrightssec; empty
15:38 Techrightssec; s/face-checking/fact-checking/
15:38 Techrightssec; "attribution" is intentionally difficult in such situations
15:43 schestowitz; https://wikileaks.org/vault7/ https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
15:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 502 @ https://wikileaks.org/vault7/ )
15:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 502 @ https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/ )
15:43 schestowitz; go to "Mable Framework"
15:44 schestowitz-TR; *Marble
15:46 Techrightssec; ack
15:48 schestowitz-TR; done
15:56 schestowitz-TR; I did not do any preparation for the video
15:56 schestowitz-TR; but I think it got covered in it
15:56 schestowitz-TR; my arguments can improve a bit over time
15:57 schestowitz-TR; the idea is to get people to argue similarly and push back against BS 'articles'
16:27 schestowitz-TR; is it ok for TR to have a consistent policy of,
16:27 schestowitz-TR; let's quit all social control media? or do you veto?
16:28 Techrightssec; I'm not sure I have a veto but either way I would agree with the push to
16:28 Techrightssec; quit all social control media.
17:14 schestowitz-TR; soon 72 hours since last PC crash
17:14 schestowitz-TR; now got 6-7 people 'enrolled' into mumble
17:15 schestowitz-TR; quite a few client downloads
18:03 Techrightssec; ack
18:03 schestowitz-TR; "Why LBRY was never going to win, and how they have just screwed all crypto." https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows#entry-9030
18:19 Techrightssec; ck
18:19 Techrightssec; ack
18:19 Techrightssec; That's a feed not a web page.
18:19 schestowitz-TR; yes, their web page does not yet have that listed
18:19 schestowitz-TR; only the feed
18:22 schestowitz; "Other hospitals also are experiencing high levels of RSV cases, but the pediatric intensive care unit occupancy rate in Michigan has dipped. Statewide data indicates an 86% pediatric ICU occupancy as of Thursday, down from 89% last Friday."
18:22 schestowitz; COVID mentioned also
18:23 schestowitz; for-profit hospitals and insurance companies
18:23 Techrightssec; https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/08/eat-me/
18:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-EAT ME - scheerpost.com
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20:36 Techrightssec; for-profit means that they already run at capacity without any pandemic or
20:36 Techrightssec; other outbreaks
20:36 Techrightssec; insurance means that the treatment will be based on how it affects profitability
20:36 Techrightssec; regardless of whether it is suitable or functional, decided by MBAs not MDs
21:50 schestowitz-TR; Sir Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch, on Covid-19 Vaccines Safety https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/11/cardio-safety/
21:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Sir Christopher Chope, MP for Christchurch, on Covid-19 Vaccines Safety
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