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04:15 schestowitz-TR; no end in sight (yet) to this cold wave
04:15 schestowitz-TR; many people here suffer from it
04:15 schestowitz-TR; aside from the financial aspect (energy bills)
04:15 schestowitz-TR; we have heating in the whole home, but have not turned that on since 2019
04:15 schestowitz-TR; the berlin thermometer says 10 degrees indoors, sometimes 9
04:15 schestowitz-TR; the clobbering on TR has stopped
04:15 schestowitz-TR; judging by gemini stats, many people still read old articles, which is very encouraging news!
04:16 schestowitz-TR; yesterday I made offsite backups of TM and TR DBs, plus wiki
04:16 schestowitz-TR; but for the file system I have no recent backups, so I'm at the mercy of the RAID
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08:03 schestowitz-TR; Question for commissioner Sinkevicius in the ENVI committee https://yewtu.be/watch?v=fojK9nhBSJY by father of Linus Torvalds 12 days ago, about the packaging and packaging waste regulation.
08:03 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | Question for commissioner Sinkevicius in the ENVI committee - Invidious
08:21 techrightssec2; Be sure to insulate the water pipes adequately!
08:21 techrightssec2; In today's batch of links, there is a Japanese host name in the Instructionals
08:21 techrightssec2; section. Can you double-check that the label is correct? It will be a good
08:21 techrightssec2; additional test of UTF-8
08:22 techrightssec2; Yes, it's a good sign that even older articles in Gemini are being read. That
08:22 techrightssec2; could indicate that there are discussions going on elsewhere
08:24 schestowitz-TR; i don't typically check those things
08:24 schestowitz-TR; but I tried to figure out that clobbering activity from the past 1-2 days
08:24 schestowitz-TR; it has stopped on its own
08:24 schestowitz-TR; if I understand correct, you want me to git pull camelcase, get links, add the howto from an
08:24 schestowitz-TR; 'oddball' dns entry, then check that it picks the right label with perl for resultant Batch
08:25 schestowitz-TR; *correctly
08:26 techrightssec2; Yes, please, the hostname is already there, it just needs to be checked on your
08:26 techrightssec2; end that the UTF-8 is ok. It is the third instructional in the set.
08:26 techrightssec2; It should have a title and host name composed of the same four Japanese
08:26 techrightssec2; characters but with a .com tacked on for the host name.
08:26 schestowitz-TR; unicode in TLD = good for phishers
08:33 schestowitz-TR; no label was picked for that domain
08:34 techrightssec2; In some ways, yes, due to similar looking glyphs due to poor typefaces
08:34 techrightssec2; There should be a label there in the latest pull
08:35 schestowitz-TR; yes, but it did not get picked up
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09:06 techrightssec2; Is line 23 in CamelCase.pm in Japanese?
09:06 techrightssec2; Ok, links-interleave-social-control-media.pl needs work.
09:06 schestowitz-TR; the perl mod uses what's in git
09:06 schestowitz-TR; it pulls and copies before running anything else
09:07 techrightssec2; Yes it needs work. Checking atm
09:07 schestowitz-TR; cheers
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10:21 techrightssec2; It'll take some research first
11:04 schestowitz-TR; it'll be interesting when youtube deletes many accounts like twitter
11:04 schestowitz-TR; does
11:04 schestowitz-TR; they're never promisiung hosting for eternity
11:04 schestowitz-TR; and some accounts don't bring money
11:04 schestowitz-TR; it'll be amusing to see the reaction when this happens
11:04 schestowitz-TR; having to host lots of old and dubious accounts
11:04 schestowitz-TR; just a question of when...
11:17 techrightssec2; Apropos YouTube:
11:17 techrightssec2; https://youtu.be/TbMpHGs3q7k
11:17 techrightssec2; https://odysee.com/@eBuzz_Central:7/microsoft-still-hates-linux-open-source:9
11:17 techrightssec2; he wastes the second half of the video being played by an m$ astroturfer
11:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://inv.bp.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=TbMpHGs3q7k
11:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Connection timed out after 10001 milliseconds ( status 0 @ https://inv.bp.mutahar.rocks/watch?v=TbMpHGs3q7k )
11:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | Microsoft Still HATES Linux & Open Source
11:19 techrightssec2; He does recover by addressing m$ GitHub
11:21 schestowitz-TR; it's nto often you find videos like these
11:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe gulag will "take care of that"
11:21 schestowitz-TR; IBM, SUSE, and Caninical don't even target vista 8 users who will soon need to change ON on their PC
11:23 techrightssec2; It's quite good but for the above problem. Also he /has to/ parrot the
11:23 techrightssec2; "Windows, too" line and go on about how it is "ok to use Windows" or else
11:23 techrightssec2; he would lose his channel. That has to be kept in mind.
11:23 techrightssec2; Too bad he mistook the astroturfer for a legitimate visitor's comment.
12:33 schestowitz-TR; like john has to parrot some BS from gulag
12:33 schestowitz-TR; even if his videos are factual
12:33 schestowitz-TR; more than WHO
12:33 schestowitz-TR; anyway, gulag did ban windows, at least partially, about a decade back
12:33 schestowitz-TR; it was demeed an unacceptable risk after a breach or several
12:35 techrightssec2; Longer ago than that but they never completed the ban and instead started
12:35 techrightssec2; hiring in micosofter until the workplace had become so contaminated with its
12:35 techrightssec2; toxicity that the problems made international news. Sadly not a single
12:35 techrightssec2; article ever connected the dots. Microsofters might leave the payroll but
12:35 techrightssec2; they never really leave the company and bring its very toxic culture with then
12:35 techrightssec2; ^them
12:35 techrightssec2; into any new workplaces they might enter.
12:37 mjg59_; Google never prevented the use of Windows internaly
12:37 techrightssec2; mistakng astroturfers for legitimate commenters ...
12:37 techrightssec2; ^ topic ?
12:45 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I'm not sure I have much to say about that tbh
12:45 schestowitz-TR; just cleaned the feeds
12:45 schestowitz-TR; worked a bit on drafts today and did other chores
12:45 schestowitz-TR; been very productive
12:46 schestowitz-TR; preparatory work
12:46 techrightssec2; ack
12:47 schestowitz-TR; concern trolling is often mentioned in passing in videois that respond to FUD
12:47 schestowitz-TR; and in articles too
12:47 schestowitz-TR; it's important to call them out
12:47 schestowitz-TR; no need to even respond to concern trolls
12:47 schestowitz-TR; btw, zemlin has joined the ranks of concern trolls
12:47 techrightssec2; yep
12:47 techrightssec2; However, many /still/ do not know what it is nor that it is used so exetensively
12:48 schestowitz-TR; concern-trolling was used a lot against wikileaks
12:48 schestowitz-TR; time-wasting at the very least
12:48 schestowitz-TR; and lowering morale
13:03 schestowitz-TR; it sank upon me today that epo PR has no "spunk" anymore
13:03 schestowitz-TR; the staff jokes about all the femmewashing
13:03 schestowitz-TR; pointing out with facts that it's just trolling disguised as "feminism"
13:03 schestowitz-TR; so when it comes to the swpats battle in europe we do super-well
13:03 schestowitz-TR; the upc scandals trickle into some major media
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and it's delayed again
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and again
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and again
13:03 schestowitz-TR; so it shows activism does work
13:03 schestowitz-TR; btw, rms is styill giving talk
13:03 schestowitz-TR; and still shrap in the head
13:03 schestowitz-TR; based on what I saw of him this month
13:03 schestowitz-TR; we need to hawk any news about upcomign msft layoffs
13:03 schestowitz-TR; I am pretty certain they make the lists right now
13:03 schestowitz-TR; ahead of xmas
13:03 schestowitz-TR; but won't announce it just before holidays
13:10 techrightssec2; ack
13:14 schestowitz-TR; important thing is:
13:14 schestowitz-TR; 1) don't be trolled
13:14 schestowitz-TR; 2) remember the goal (rms)
13:14 schestowitz-TR; 3) platform and finances need to be secured
13:14 schestowitz-TR; 4) no infighting (common way to destroy orgs, communities... studying differences, then weaponising them)
13:14 schestowitz-TR; a decade of hard work secured (3) for at least a decade ahead
13:14 schestowitz-TR; (4) seems to have been attempted, but did not succeed
13:14 schestowitz-TR; it will be attempted again (reminds me of john at eff)
13:14 schestowitz-TR; the living one
13:14 schestowitz-TR; toad.com seems to be offline from here
13:24 techrightssec2; ack
13:26 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft Windows TCO https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2022/12/06/rackspace-ransomware/
13:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.helpnetsecurity.com | Rackspace Hosted Exchange outage was caused by ransomware - Help Net Security
13:27 schestowitz-TR; rackspace was already struggling
13:27 schestowitz-TR; now this
13:37 psydruid; Maybe they can peacefully go out of business now
13:45 schestowitz-TR; do you know them well?
13:55 techrightssec2; ack
13:55 psydruid; A few friends of mine worked there
13:55 schestowitz-TR; they got rid of many
13:55 schestowitz-TR; lost many clients
13:57 psydruid; Last time I talked to someone at Google Cloud Summit that I was invited to they were unsurprisingly shilling cloud environments and signalling that they were winding down their hosting efforts
13:57 psydruid; If that is the case, why do you need them as a middleman anymore?
14:04 schestowitz-TR; it's worse
14:04 schestowitz-TR; we had clients that used rackspace
14:04 schestowitz-TR; rackspace owns the servers
14:04 schestowitz-TR; and has its own support team
14:04 schestowitz-TR; so we were there to manage the servers
14:04 schestowitz-TR; but, failing that, would escalate to rackspace
14:04 schestowitz-TR; of course our role was somewhat obsolete
14:05 schestowitz-TR; as the client can go directly to racksp[ace
14:05 schestowitz-TR; clown computing = webhosts, sans the "web" sometimes
14:05 schestowitz-TR; share hosting -> tenanted accounts
14:05 schestowitz-TR; same thing, semantic difference
14:05 schestowitz-TR; or technical abstraction level
14:05 schestowitz-TR; like GUI for "clown"
14:05 schestowitz-TR; instead of cpanel or cli classic
14:06 schestowitz-TR; now I can talk about all this
14:06 schestowitz-TR; because I resigned this month
14:06 schestowitz-TR; and without NDA or gag order per se
14:11 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.pussthecat.org/maffsie/status/1601939848251801601#m
14:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.pussthecat.org | ^^ ( #ACAB! #BLM! ) (@maffsie): "weird the article seems to avoid mentioning the employer by name, going as far as to blank it out in the resignation email screenshot, but the alt text for the screenshot (popped up because of a cert error on techrights) and the permalink for the whole post still say Sirius." | Nitter | PussTheCat.org
14:12 schestowitz-TR; here comes mjg59_ the "hero" of the "yobs"
14:12 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.pussthecat.org/mjg59/status/1601897519654371329#m
14:12 schestowitz-TR; lol
14:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-nitter.pussthecat.org | Matthew Garrett (@mjg59): "Huh apparently Roy Schestowitz (@schestowitz) quit his job anyway don't employ him he's awful https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/02/sirius-open-source-went-rogue/" | Nitter | PussTheCat.org
14:14 schestowitz; LOL!
14:14 schestowitz; Microsofters!!
14:14 schestowitz; https://twitter.com/marypcbuk/status/1601926447257600000
14:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@marypcbuk: @mjg59 "liberated to work around the clock"
14:14 schestowitz; he is entertaining Microsofters
14:14 schestowitz; https://twitter.com/steubens7/status/1601905169096388610
14:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@steubens7: @mjg59 @schestowitz very "i didn't change the world changed"
14:15 techrightssec2; ack
14:15 techrightssec2; Yes, IIRC the Rackspace news was also in a recent set of links.
14:36 psydruid; lol
14:37 psydruid; Matthew Butt Erick on top of his game
14:50 psydruid; who can stand this two-faced piece of shit for more than 5 seconds
14:50 schestowitz-TR; uefi 'secure' boot
14:50 schestowitz-TR; attack on Linux
14:51 schestowitz-TR; quite the accomplishment
14:51 schestowitz-TR; computers that refuse to boot perfectly ok distros
14:51 schestowitz-TR; we can hope microsoft layoffs will be fast enoug
14:51 schestowitz-TR; and target the windows divisions
14:51 schestowitz-TR; so that software freedom (like freedom to boot your OS of choice) will be maintained
14:52 psydruid; I watched the video about Microsoft
14:52 psydruid; nothing new for me
14:53 psydruid; next year I'll be buying more non-x86 SBCs
14:53 psydruid; what he is doing is mostly irrelevant to my needs
14:55 schestowitz-TR; mjg59_: you said you run your own masto server
14:55 schestowitz-TR; that seems wrong
14:55 schestowitz-TR; you use a server controlled by GNOME Foundation guy
14:56 schestowitz-TR; robert from their Board
14:56 schestowitz-TR; if he throws in the towel, trouble for your presence there
14:56 schestowitz-TR; a longstanding problem with fediverse
14:56 schestowitz-TR; I lost 3 accounts there this way
14:56 schestowitz-TR; they just shut down
14:56 schestowitz-TR; and won't even pass the baton
16:49 schestowitz-TR; Pfizer Lied About Efficacy of the Vaccines It Was Selling, China Takes Different Approach https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/12/11/pfizer-lies/
16:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Pfizer Lied About Efficacy of the Vaccines It Was Selling, China Takes Different Approach
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