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IRC: #boycottnovell @ Techrights IRC Network: Thursday, January 12, 2023

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2 AM, January 12

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3 AM, January 12

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4 AM, January 12

04:44 schestowitz-TR; draft

04:44 schestowitz-TR; might interest you

04:44 schestowitz-TR; video processing still


5 AM, January 12

05:22 techrigthssec; checkingf

05:22 schestowitz-TR; adding link

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8 AM, January 12

08:01 schestowitz-TR; nations run by their people want to get ahead

08:01 schestowitz-TR; by teaching the young

08:01 schestowitz-TR; nations run against their people want to keep people behind

08:01 schestowitz-TR; stagnation, not advancement, can also be a business model

08:01 schestowitz-TR; like moderna raising the price of covid vaccines by %4000

08:01 schestowitz-TR; without bothering to even improve them


9 AM, January 12

09:08 schestowitz-TR; msft layoffs likely next week

09:08 schestowitz-TR; draft

09:09 schestowitz-TR; marked accordingly in categories and headline

09:09 schestowitz-TR; sometimes it's the best one has

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09:26 techrigthssec; still a rumor though


10 AM, January 12

10:14 schestowitz-TR; firefox, quiterss and other reply on rss/feed/meta to tell where the feed is

10:14 schestowitz-TR; he probably didn't craft the page to highlight where the feed is

10:14 schestowitz-TR; returning visits/bookmarks/subs are very valuable

10:14 schestowitz-TR; the lifeblood of a sitge

10:14 schestowitz-TR; feedburner burned a lot of sites

10:14 schestowitz-TR; they outsourced

10:14 schestowitz-TR; foolishly

10:14 schestowitz-TR; in exchange for some worthless stats and widgets

10:14 schestowitz-TR; *rely on

10:44 schestowitz-TR; the kids today look the same

10:45 schestowitz-TR; but don't act the same

10:45 schestowitz-TR; i wonder how that's perceived by those in positions of power

10:45 schestowitz-TR; either way, not direcly my problem

10:49 schestowitz-TR; but we noticed that in recent decades the number of kids with mental "diagnosis'

10:49 schestowitz-TR; nto birth defects, not that it's not a problem tooo..

10:49 schestowitz-TR; seems to have increased shrply

10:50 schestowitz-TR; lots of "problematic" kids

10:50 schestowitz-TR; mental, physical

10:50 schestowitz-TR; the explanations or hypothesis are not easy to have a stab at

10:50 schestowitz-TR; but common sense helps

10:50 schestowitz-TR; irc mentions rising costs of raising cats

10:50 schestowitz-TR; now with soaring food prices

10:50 schestowitz-TR; the same goes for kids

10:50 schestowitz-TR; cars' median/average price is not over $40k

10:50 schestowitz-TR; and it's hard to raise kids without a car


11 AM, January 12

11:04 techrigthssec; Two of the latest Louis Rossmann videos address patents and their anticompetitive nature. The shorter video is a

11:04 techrigthssec; digest of the longer one. It's on the edge

11:04 techrigthssec; of hardware patents and not a software patent matter but the same kind of

11:04 techrigthssec; games are being played with the hardware by Samsung

11:18 techrigthssec; https://roadzen.medium.com/the-real-cost-of-owning-a-car-eu-efa814dde33a

↺ https://roadzen.medium.com/the-real-cost-of-owning-a-car-eu-efa814dde33a

11:18 techrigthssec; 30k ammortized over 5 yerars = 6k / year

11:18 techrigthssec; 100 per week in fuel = 5k / year

11:18 techrigthssec; 2k per year in maintenance

11:18 techrigthssec; 1k per year in insurance

11:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-roadzen.medium.com | The Real Cost of Owning a Car EU | by Roadzen | Medium

11:18 techrigthssec; sum = 14k per year, with the above completely made up, low-ball numbers

11:18 techrigthssec; so owning a car is like taking a 15k to 20k paycut

11:19 techrigthssec; Kids are in the ball park of 250k per kid to raise to age 18,

11:19 techrigthssec; ammortized over 18 years is about 14k per year

11:19 techrigthssec; So two cars and two kids could be 56k per year minimum,

11:19 techrigthssec; then there is mortgage, etc

11:19 techrigthssec; In some countries one must save for college expenses, too

11:19 techrigthssec; a basic in-state 4-year degree will be about 11k per year, not counting

11:19 techrigthssec; room and board

11:20 schestowitz-TR; from what I understand, back in 2000 (I checked in the 90s) a 4-year degree in a "decent"

11:20 schestowitz-TR; US uni can cost 200-250k all things included

11:20 schestowitz-TR; forget about the diploma mills

11:20 schestowitz-TR; I still have letters from some

11:20 schestowitz-TR; 1990s

11:23 techrigthssec; Yes, out of state will run on average 25k per year, but the high-end schools

11:23 techrigthssec; will be substantially more. There is a *world* of difference between

11:23 techrigthssec; the different levels of institution there. Some will run around 50k per year.

11:23 techrigthssec; And 4 years is not necessarily realistic. In the hard sciences or in engineering 4.5 or 5 years is much more com

11:23 techrigthssec; mon.

11:23 techrigthssec; So our of state at certain schools will run 250k just for the basic degree, not

11:23 techrigthssec; a good deal. Then taking on a loan for that will cripple future earnings

11:23 techrigthssec; and while it will allow a masters degree, it will actively eliminate the

11:23 techrigthssec; possiblility of a PhD.

11:24 schestowitz-TR; 2022 fares?

11:24 schestowitz-TR; 2023?

11:24 schestowitz-TR; 2010?

11:24 schestowitz-TR; 2000?

11:24 schestowitz-TR; it only moves up

11:24 schestowitz-TR; same for cars in the above-mentioned url

11:24 schestowitz-TR; now average 42,000 usd

11:24 schestowitz-TR; (my phd was funded by eu)

11:24 schestowitz-TR; except cost of living, but i worked jobs at the same time

11:29 techrigthssec; Most student jobs are not ecomonically sensible only good for a combionation

11:29 techrigthssec; of entertainment and "experience".

11:36 schestowitz-TR; thankfully I never picked high-budget vices

11:36 schestowitz-TR; btw, the smell/odor of himalayan salt got bad

11:36 schestowitz-TR; like sulfur

11:36 schestowitz-TR; didn't notice that as much before

11:36 schestowitz-TR; microsoft is trying to showhorn vista into massively underpowered PCs

11:36 schestowitz-TR; those are disposed of at the stores for nothing

11:36 schestowitz-TR; dfc noticed the same

11:38 techrigthssec; That is only a show to make people dissatisfied with the "old" hardware

11:38 techrigthssec; so they will go out and unquestioningly buy TPM 2.0; It also distracts from

11:38 techrigthssec; coverage of how to upgrade "old" hardware with GNU/Linux

11:41 schestowitz-TR; the cooking salt has been himalayan for a while

11:41 schestowitz-TR; but only in recent days the odor became more of an issue

11:41 schestowitz-TR; so it'll be limited to some dishes, like pastas

11:41 schestowitz-TR; I've just had so much paste that i might be done eating for the day (11am)

11:41 schestowitz-TR; with pesto

11:53 schestowitz-TR; "Two U.S. universities have recently taken the cultivation of ignorance to new lows" https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/11/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/ | Source: Scheerpost

↺ https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/11/patrick-lawrence-dimming-the-lights/

11:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Patrick Lawrence: Dimming the Lights - scheerpost.com

11:56 schestowitz-TR; blackrock https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/11/blackrock-says-were-all-doomed-its-being-optimistic/ | Source: Scheerpost

↺ https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/11/blackrock-says-were-all-doomed-its-being-optimistic/

11:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-BlackRock Says We're All Doomed. It's Being Optimistic - scheerpost.com


noon, January 12

12:00 techrigthssec; The Government Killed Him: A Tribute to Activist and Programmer Aaron Swartz 10 Years After His Death"""

12:00 techrigthssec; https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/12/the-government-killed-him-a-tribute-to-activist-and-programmer-aaron-swartz-10-

↺ https://scheerpost.com/2023/01/12/the-government-killed-him-a-tribute-to-activist-and-programmer-aaron-swartz-10-

12:00 techrigthssec; years-after-his-death/

12:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-'The Government Killed Him': A Tribute to Activist and Programmer Aaron Swartz 10 Years After His Death - scheerpost.com

12:02 schestowitz-TR; maybe conde nasty can write something nasty

12:02 schestowitz-TR; their rag, new yorker, is under attack at the moment

12:03 schestowitz-TR; running plutocratic shite front to back

12:03 schestowitz-TR; same rag that started the attack on torvalds

12:03 schestowitz-TR; resulting in temporary ousting

12:03 schestowitz-TR; to room "101" (`984)

12:03 schestowitz-TR; *1984

12:12 techrigthssec; ack

12:34 schestowitz-TR; Twitter Going Down the Drain https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/12/twitter-down-the-drain/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2023/01/12/twitter-down-the-drain/

12:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Twitter Going Down the Drain


3 PM, January 12

15:00 schestowitz-TR; need to keep an eye on TR httpd

15:00 schestowitz-TR; for the first time in months I resatarted the service

15:00 schestowitz-TR; as it was timing out on me

15:00 schestowitz-TR; seems back to normal now

15:00 schestowitz-TR; heavy loads on the site today, 5-10 hits/sec

15:01 techrigthssec; Once TM is fully migrated, TR is next.


4 PM, January 12

16:57 techrigthssec; The error I see from here is "Timed out" failed to reach a server.

16:59 schestowitz-TR; restarting httpd

16:59 schestowitz-TR; back later


7 PM, January 12

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9 PM, January 12

21:38 techrigthssec; HTTP requests continue to trickle in slow enough to skim as the log grows

21:38 techrigthssec; \

21:38 techrigthssec; otr: router update back in ~ 30 minutes

21:38 techrigthssec; Inkjet printers are to be avoided at all costs and in all situations.

21:38 techrigthssec; The problem is the ink, which dries quickly when not used and is

21:38 techrigthssec; outrageously expensive

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10 PM, January 12

22:11 psydruid; I have a Brother all-in-one laser printer here that has worked for 5 years and that you can also scan from using fully free drivers


11 PM, January 12

23:43 schestowitz-TR; our printer died recently

23:43 schestowitz-TR; a replacement would be uneconomic at this point

23:44 schestowitz-TR; we never - not even once - used the scanner in it

23:44 schestowitz-TR; they are cash cows for the ink

23:44 schestowitz-TR; but we only used black and bought that cheaply in ebay


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