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00:50 schestowitz-TR; cheaply-made printers
00:50 schestowitz-TR; sold at a loss
00:50 schestowitz-TR; to sell toner
00:50 schestowitz-TR; and then break down after 5-10 years
00:51 schestowitz-TR; so you need to buy the "razor handle" again
00:51 schestowitz-TR; we have decided not to buy "razor handle" again
00:51 schestowitz-TR; 2015-2022 RIP
01:05 schestowitz-TR; epo and .de lunacy!
01:05 schestowitz-TR; \
01:06 schestowitz-TR; fcc throws out complaint from BEFORE brexit
01:06 schestowitz-TR; citing brexit
01:06 schestowitz-TR; germany is a rogue country
01:06 schestowitz-TR; (still)
01:06 schestowitz-TR; anyway, I will try to focus on another series
01:06 schestowitz-TR; epo abuses stand out on their own
01:06 schestowitz-TR; and we have lots of info online about that
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03:20 techrigthssec; FCC?
03:29 schestowitz-TR; federal con s. cout in de
03:29 schestowitz-TR; *cons court
03:35 techrigthssec; thanks
03:35 techrigthssec; The significance of that action is worth several posts
03:37 schestowitz-TR; it happened yesterday and it's in german
03:37 schestowitz-TR; so give it time...
03:37 schestowitz-TR; either way, beyond tech there are all these malicious political things
03:37 schestowitz-TR; impacting even "pharma"
03:37 schestowitz-TR; but media has mostly vanished
03:37 schestowitz-TR; so it's easier for them to get away with it
03:37 schestowitz-TR; for social control media, just buy some ads (like apple became biggest twitter spenders)
03:37 schestowitz-TR; and they can "take care of things" for you at "scale"
03:38 techrigthssec; And the media vanishing is a pernennial subject. :/
03:39 schestowitz-TR; there is no media left to cover that there is no media left to cover...[recursion]
03:39 techrigthssec; Yep
03:43 schestowitz-TR; bubi was backed up this week
03:43 schestowitz-TR; it has a lot of the most important files, sans material that's stored on several disks and rare/never changes
03:43 schestowitz-TR; going to finish the text for the video, biab, irc causes overwhelming multitasking that I'm unable to cope
03:43 schestowitz-TR; with lately (troll and troll feeding atm)
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04:36 schestowitz-TR; draft
04:51 techrigthssec; checking
04:52 schestowitz-TR; at the end I'll do grand overview of sorts
04:52 schestowitz-TR; with links and all
04:52 schestowitz-TR; semes to incorporate a lot of dirty tricks
04:52 schestowitz-TR; all in one so to speak
04:52 schestowitz-TR; and as I do not look for another job i'm not afraiud to talk abotu those things
04:53 techrigthssec; "sliding away the debt" is an awkward phrase
04:53 techrigthssec; maybe hiding the debt in
04:53 schestowitz-TR; i will rephrase
04:54 techrigthssec; thanks
04:58 techrigthssec; In the archive of the tm gallery, should symbolic links be used to de-duplicate
04:58 techrigthssec; the files or are hard links ok?
05:00 schestowitz-TR; i'm surprised suan uploaded duplicate screenshots
05:00 schestowitz-TR; not sure how to best ahndle that
05:00 schestowitz-TR; I only know it would be great to have all the same pages and objects accessed using the same addresses
05:00 schestowitz-TR; so none will be penalised or delisted
05:00 schestowitz-TR; for some distros these are the latest remaining memroeis
05:00 schestowitz-TR; the isos are gone along with old reviews/screenshot
05:00 schestowitz-TR; it's like a museum for distros
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05:28 schestowitz-TR; 1 hour ago: "That's the day of bonus announcements! Be positive!" https://www.thelayoff.com/t/1kEVRR1U#replies
05:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thelayoff.com | Jan 17 - post regarding Microsoft Corp. layoffs
06:17 techrigthssec; The screen shots are not duplicate but an artifact of the scraping.
06:18 schestowitz-TR; i see, that makes sense now
06:18 schestowitz-TR; the reviews and screeenshots are imporant
06:18 schestowitz-TR; on the www, technical debt doomed many sites
06:18 schestowitz-TR; inc. siets that had a massive catalogue of screenshot galleries
06:18 schestowitz-TR; they became too hard to maintain
06:18 schestowitz-TR; ended up in a torrent site a decade ago
06:18 schestowitz-TR; probably unreachable soon afterwards
06:18 schestowitz-TR; not sure who wants tens of gigs of screenshots
06:19 techrigthssec; The scraping preserves the old site map, but at the cost of a lot of unnecessary
06:19 techrigthssec; linking and (due to scraping) duplicates.
06:20 schestowitz-TR; that is what happens with "smart" systems that offer many ways to access the same thing or things
06:20 schestowitz-TR; inc. drupal and wordpress
06:21 techrigthssec;
06:21 techrigthssec; smart == complicated , at best
06:21 techrigthssec; I am beginning to question the use of MySQL / Postgresql for the back end of
06:21 techrigthssec; most CMS systems.
06:32 techrigthssec; The concept of CMS does not really lend itself to a table
06:32 techrigthssec; like structure.
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06:41 techrigthssec; The language SQL is thus the problem.
06:43 schestowitz-TR; maybe the modality
06:43 schestowitz-TR; not the lang per se
06:43 schestowitz-TR; relational dbs
06:43 schestowitz-TR; tm-new: db of pages
06:43 schestowitz-TR; and pages derived from it
06:43 schestowitz-TR; rm-old: db -> pages -> caches
06:43 schestowitz-TR; *tm
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08:30 schestowitz-TR; twitter staff not booted from the office
08:30 schestowitz-TR; "it's over, joe"
08:30 schestowitz-TR; "it's dead, jim"
08:30 schestowitz-TR; i was asleep from 3:30 to 9:30pm
08:30 schestowitz-TR; too groggy when i woke up
08:30 schestowitz-TR; so today startes yesterday
08:30 schestowitz-TR; also distracted by the n (as in s/n) in main channel
08:30 schestowitz-TR; going to consider just looking away from it most of the time
08:30 schestowitz-TR; to get stuff done
08:30 schestowitz-TR; twitter staff not booted from the office
08:30 schestowitz-TR; /t/not/now
08:30 schestowitz-TR; it's a lot faster than soap operas
08:30 schestowitz-TR; maybe he wants to "stage" the demise a bit
08:30 schestowitz-TR; then blame it on others, like freenode
08:30 schestowitz-TR; "don't pay bills" -> people get angry -> people leave -> operations failing
08:30 schestowitz-TR; and not in that order necessarily
08:34 schestowitz-TR; just noticed colgate moved from local to china, now more production in eastern europe
08:34 schestowitz-TR; for much higher prices than before, so we buy like half a dozen different brands and compare
08:34 schestowitz-TR; decades ago I said they should make bigger packs to save the planet
08:34 schestowitz-TR; but would would rather pay "just 70p" for a 100ml tube than 20 pounds for 4 litres
08:34 schestowitz-TR; it's about presentation and packaging, partly due to ads and class consciousness
08:34 schestowitz-TR; people don't want toothpaste "refills"
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11:04 techrigthssec; https://torrentfreak.com/sony-patents-anti-piracy-blacklist-for-smart-tvs-and-media-players-230111/
11:04 techrigthssec; Further spreading of the misleading term "sideloading" rather than normal
11:04 techrigthssec; installation
11:04 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Sony Patents Anti-Piracy Blacklist for Smart TVs and Media Players * TorrentFreak
11:05 schestowitz-TR; yes, I noticed more and more mpeople who should know better, even rossmann iirc, using the
11:05 schestowitz-TR; term like it'\s modern or hip or "informative"
11:05 schestowitz-TR; I still hate it when people say "piracy"
11:05 schestowitz-TR; they imply guilt, or presumption thereof
11:05 schestowitz-TR; and miss the context of the whole debate
11:05 schestowitz-TR; worse -- they serve to spread the propaghanda
11:16 techrigthssec; https://torrentfreak.com/images/sony-patent.pdf notice that TF has to host the
11:16 techrigthssec; PDF themselves because the USPTO site is not a site but a web "app" and
11:16 techrigthssec; completely impossible to link to
11:18 schestowitz-TR; companies house (uk) outsourced all the PDFs to amazon/aws
11:18 schestowitz-TR; and the links are not permanent
11:18 schestowitz-TR; massively long urls that seem like hashes for cache
11:19 Moocher5254; Tangentially related, have you tried asking ChatGPT how to remove DRM from ebooks (after informing him it is valid in your own country)?
11:20 schestowitz-TR; maybe this is what thhey tech engs to do now
11:20 schestowitz-TR; I should not have to connected to an american companiy as a birtish resident looking for ingo on
11:20 schestowitz-TR; british ciompasnies
11:20 schestowitz-TR; there are many decent software firms here
11:20 schestowitz-TR; surely some of them know how to -gasp - store pdfs locally and serve them
11:20 schestowitz-TR; maybe even ith varnish
11:21 schestowitz-TR; Moocher5254: ChatGPT is nonsense
11:21 schestowitz-TR; just microsoft 'open'HEY HI PR stunt
11:21 schestowitz-TR; ot does a lot of plagiarism
11:21 Moocher5254; It is, but you can't dismiss it
11:21 schestowitz-TR; and some mixing/blending
11:21 schestowitz-TR; it creates new problems
11:22 schestowitz-TR; manually plagiarising does not take a lot longer
11:22 schestowitz-TR; same for coe
11:22 schestowitz-TR; images are tricky
11:22 Moocher5254; Yes it does
11:22 schestowitz-TR; because you need to tailor the seams
11:22 schestowitz-TR; coe>code
11:22 Moocher5254; Anyway, I'm thinking of relabelling the Internet to CableNet
11:22 schestowitz-TR; nice
11:22 schestowitz-TR; nut
11:23 Moocher5254; And start 'living' on one of the alternatives
11:23 schestowitz-TR; the internet involved fewer cables then before
11:23 schestowitz-TR; esp. the client end
11:23 schestowitz-TR; not satellite
11:23 schestowitz-TR; wifi, bt, etc.
11:23 Moocher5254; Nah, thinking more of CableTV's immense number of garbage channels
11:24 techrigthssec; PDF themselves because the USPTO site is not a site but a web "app" and
11:24 techrigthssec; completely impossible to link to.
11:24 techrigthssec; ^ topic ?
11:24 schestowitz-TR; i think at the end of last year i did a video about uspto site beign webapp
11:24 Moocher5254; Anyway I just have to find the alternative. Last time I went to a random I2P site it was full of nutjobs
11:24 schestowitz-TR; i would expect so
11:33 techrigthssec; The "app" itself is a problem and keeps the material from being examined.
11:33 techrigthssec; Though other topics can be the misleading term "sideloading" used in place
11:33 techrigthssec; of the established term "installation". Another, related topic, copuld be
11:33 techrigthssec; the use of the misleading term "piracy" which bundles copyright infringement
11:33 techrigthssec; with a bunch of other concepts, quite wrongly. A third topic can be the
11:33 techrigthssec; stupidity of the USPTO to grant such a dumb patent.
11:33 schestowitz-TR; around 2005 a microsofter and micrtosoft troll in usenet (COLA) called me "pirate" in the subject line
11:33 schestowitz-TR; (title) after I linked to a cartoon of bill gates and showed it in my site
11:33 schestowitz-TR; it was clearly fair use, but that was the first time a-holes tried weaponising copyrights
11:33 schestowitz-TR; for time-wasting etc.
11:33 schestowitz-TR; btw, eff has not followed up
11:33 schestowitz-TR; it's just parked there in a ticket, i guess in case there is escalation
11:35 techrigthssec; Microsofters use ad hominem fallacies when they have nothing else to use,
11:35 techrigthssec; There had been no expectation of action from the EFF, that they opened a
11:35 techrigthssec; ticket in the first place is more than usual. The point in contacting them
11:35 techrigthssec; is to document the silence and inaction.
11:37 schestowitz-TR; i mailed about 4 addressed at eff.org
11:37 schestowitz-TR; inc. cory
11:37 schestowitz-TR; maybe that's why they bothered with a ticket
11:37 schestowitz-TR; somethign behind the scenes
11:37 schestowitz-TR; they don't seem to recognise patent activism unless it is attriobuted to CindyCohn
11:37 schestowitz-TR; and helped them raise reven... donations
11:45 techrigthssec; ^ silence and inaction on what was once and still should be a core topic
11:46 schestowitz-TR; google used to worry about software patents
11:47 schestowitz-TR; than, around 2010, it had gathered enough of its own
11:47 schestowitz-TR; became close uspto p[artner
11:47 schestowitz-TR; and became part of this cartel
11:47 schestowitz-TR; sort of like msft in the 1990s
11:47 schestowitz-TR; fearing icbm's "warchest"
11:47 schestowitz-TR; eithher way, that shows those patents are about obstruction
11:47 schestowitz-TR; at the behest of monopolies
11:47 schestowitz-TR; nothing else
11:47 techrigthssec; That still won't protect any of them from NPEs
11:47 techrigthssec; It's only useful in crushing startups and stealing their work.
12:02 schestowitz-TR; http/s proxy for gemini, not external but native, clocked about 5k requests yesterday
12:02 schestowitz-TR; ir probably serves about a million a year
12:02 schestowitz-TR; geminis still growing
12:02 schestowitz-TR; but the lack of media coverage impedes momentum
12:02 schestowitz-TR; i try to think how else we can help hasten adoption of gemini://
12:10 techrigthssec; More promotion of Gemini clients is the main way.
12:10 techrigthssec; Writing in a Gemini-friendly manner (clear prose) helps a lot too.
12:10 techrigthssec; ^standalone articles written in clear prose
12:10 techrigthssec; The proxy is not Gemini, it is HTTPS and thus does not count in any way
12:10 techrigthssec; as promotion of Gemini. It is probably time to decommission it, or at least
12:10 techrigthssec; work out a time line for doing so.
12:12 schestowitz-TR; each page there links to the list of gemini clients
12:12 schestowitz-TR; so in a sense it helps promote these
12:12 schestowitz-TR; I'd hate to lose it
12:12 schestowitz-TR; before that we used third parties
12:12 schestowitz-TR; like ... i forgot
12:12 schestowitz-TR; there was a couple
12:12 schestowitz-TR; vulpes.one was one
12:48 techrigthssec; If there are Gemini clients then there is no remaining need to keep the
12:48 techrigthssec; proxy in place.
12:48 techrigthssec; It was only a temporary stop-gap for the time when Gemini clients were hard
12:48 techrigthssec; to get.
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13:27 techrigthssec; If it's a matter of local URLs mistakenly pointing to the proxy, they
13:27 techrigthssec; can be intercepted with the RewriteEngine
13:42 techrigthssec; The scraper needs to continue running over TM's gallery still. This is
13:42 techrigthssec; a very inefficient way of archiving but one of the advantages is that the
13:42 techrigthssec; result preserves a large amount (all or nearly all) of the original structure.
13:44 schestowitz-TR; Gallery the software is not green
13:44 schestowitz-TR; for each image retrieved it needs to get lots of work done
13:44 schestowitz-TR; my albums in gallery2 and 3 must have taken lots of power over the years
13:44 schestowitz-TR; millions of DB queries
13:47 techrigthssec; Yes, the back end is terribly inefficient too.
13:47 techrigthssec; There are much more efficient database technologies than SQL but everyone
13:47 techrigthssec; learns to program SQL and MySQL, now MariaDB, was the goto tool without
13:47 techrigthssec; questioning what it is good or bad at. Switchin to Postgresql, SQLite, or
13:47 techrigthssec; any other SQL is not going to help either. With so little change, it's a good
13:47 techrigthssec; candidate for a static site generator, too.
13:47 techrigthssec; I guess it was a way of thinking in the 00s and no one was allowed to question
13:47 techrigthssec; the trend/
13:49 schestowitz-TR; there are many pros, many cons
13:49 schestowitz-TR; depends on the case
13:49 schestowitz-TR; but prior to wordpress (I adopted it for two blogs in 2004, a year after its birth)
13:49 schestowitz-TR; I did everything without DBs, just html files
13:49 schestowitz-TR; and some tools that help craft and manage these
13:49 schestowitz-TR; some perished due to the CMS treadmill
13:49 techrigthssec; WordPress started out OK but drifted badly in recent years.
13:53 schestowitz-TR; in 2005 (iirc) wordpress wanted to copy "ajax" (yes, the term was used back then) from drupal
13:53 schestowitz-TR; so went ahead and did that for uploaded
13:53 schestowitz-TR; *der
13:53 schestowitz-TR; a lot of cms things compete upwards (bloat)
13:53 schestowitz-TR; like a dick enjoy content
13:53 schestowitz-TR; so they all end up getting bigger and more complex
13:53 schestowitz-TR; at best, they modularise
13:53 schestowitz-TR; same for linux
13:53 schestowitz-TR; "all i wanted is some fucking script to display the 10 blog posts per year that I type!"
13:53 schestowitz-TR; typos: like a dick enjoy content
13:53 schestowitz-TR; like a dick envy contest
13:53 schestowitz-TR; freudian word
13:53 schestowitz-TR; btw, what's the deal with people saying kids are a selfish thing and then call the baby after themselves?
13:53 schestowitz-TR; or people trying to impress mom and dad (boys copy dad) to "virture signal" to a-hole dad?
13:53 schestowitz-TR; by copying bad things and outdated worldviews?
13:56 techrigthssec; A slew of database queries per each page retrieval is not reasonable, especially
13:56 techrigthssec; with how many cycles SQL requires
13:56 techrigthssec; LOL
13:56 techrigthssec; Billy the III
13:57 schestowitz-TR; john dick the III = grandpa was a failure, so he wanted a second chance and called his son the same,
13:57 schestowitz-TR; worked towwards it till age 65, then dad was failing too, so he called me the same and worked hard till
13:57 schestowitz-TR; 67
13:57 schestowitz-TR; now dick III needs to show that he finally can do something worth a f* in life
13:57 schestowitz-TR; ah, yeah... "trey" gates III
13:58 schestowitz-TR; maybe he wants to pass on his dna to young women
13:58 schestowitz-TR; who arew not his daughter
14:09 schestowitz-TR; Kurt Opsahl https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/01/kurt-opsahl-moves-eff-special-counsel | Source: EFF
14:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Kurt Opsahl Moves to EFF Special Counsel | Electronic Frontier Foundation
14:12 techrigthssec; What's behind the change there at EFF? At least he'll be sticking around
14:12 techrigthssec; I hope they have someone with the right background to step up to the
14:12 techrigthssec; vacancy.
14:12 schestowitz-TR; the headline is misleading
14:12 schestowitz-TR; but they have "people for that"
14:12 schestowitz-TR; spin the nagative as a good thing
14:16 techrigthssec; The name 'Filecoin' sounds dodgy.
14:16 techrigthssec; It's another cryptocurrnecy, according to wikipedia, but nothing informative
14:16 techrigthssec; on their own pages. https://fil.org/about/
14:16 techrigthssec; Worse, it mentions "Web3" there.
14:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fil.org | About - Filecoin Foundation
14:16 techrigthssec; and promotes "Slack" (the proprietary one, not Slackware)
14:17 schestowitz-TR; like zemlin (bakkt)
14:17 schestowitz-TR; brian of apache (but he moved to security later)
14:17 schestowitz-TR; and many others who moved to crypto crap
14:17 schestowitz-TR; even jack dorsey
14:17 schestowitz-TR; when it was still all the rage
14:17 schestowitz-TR; lots more
15:14 schestowitz-TR; "Some years ago, a friend, a director of the Swiss think tank Avenir Swiss, proposed in the press that the University of Geneva raise it fees from CHF500 to CHF5,000 per semester" https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01/13/swiss-scandal-a-canton-tries-to-raise-university-fees/ | Source: Counter Punch
15:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Swiss Scandal: A Canton Tries to Raise University Fees - CounterPunch.org
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