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03:23 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> "Open-source software enables researchers to see materials in 3D while they're still on the electron microscope" https://news.umich.edu/visualizing-nanoscale-structures-in-real-time/
03:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.umich.edu | Visualizing nanoscale structures in real time | University of Michigan News
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06:03 Techrights-sec; ack
06:04 schestowitz-TR2; just sent instructions to marius
06:05 schestowitz-TR2; Marius uses the automated script not the shell.
06:05 schestowitz-TR2; So which instructions?
06:05 Techrights-sec; Marius uses the automated script not the shell.
06:05 Techrights-sec; So which instructions?
06:06 schestowitz-TR2; see email
06:06 Techrights-sec; Thanks
06:09 Techrights-sec; Though the script might change since it's not considered completed.
06:10 schestowitz-TR2; yeah, i'm aware
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10:16 schestowitz-TR2; mate, :) it's worse
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; theverge.com
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; ANY page I visit with falkan
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; becomes 500
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; lol!!!
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; good luck with billg
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; I never liked them after patel fired the person who was preparing an article for them
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; because he exposed billg
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; and then billg took over
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; so deep inside I hope they join, along with zdnet, the graveyard of sites
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; I would not miss them
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; they dn't target me
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; I'm not their audience
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; they probably only test with "smart" phones
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; ads, infinite scroll...
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; WAIT< WTF!!!!
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; the bottom links link to VOXMEDIA!
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; so theverge is vox
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; goldman sachs et al
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; very notorious
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; bottom of pages
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; "the verge is a vox mnedia network"
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; so they sold or sold out
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; or cashed in on the exit
10:16 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot even enter any article there, not with falkon anyway
10:34 Techrights-sec; ack
10:34 Techrights-sec; When did they sell to that company?
10:36 schestowitz-TR2; i wondered the exact same thing, maybe wikipedia can tell
10:36 schestowitz-TR2; maybe it has gone on for years without them declaring it
10:36 schestowitz-TR2; sort of like pia and freenode
10:37 Techrights-sec; Here's a hint: https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/4/23056898/the-verge-partners-with-vox-media-studios-and-21-laps-on-new-netflix-series
10:37 Techrights-sec; It's been a while though, already in 2021:
10:37 Techrights-sec; https://deadline.com/2021/12/vox-media-group-nine-to-merger-digital-consolidation-1234890285/
10:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.theverge.com | The Verge Partners with Vox Media Studios and 21 Laps on New Netflix Series - The Verge
10:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Vox Media And Group Nine Media On Verge Of Merging Amid Digital Consolidation Wave Deadline
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; same with zdnet
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; it has been complicated since cbs collapsed
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; and then another company stepped in
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; even weirder when you check out the families that own these companies
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; wikipedia is not helping much, it feels like it covers up
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; zdnet, in its own words, sells sponsored narratives
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; like the oin and lf bs
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; that's the product
10:39 schestowitz-TR2; assigned to staff writer
10:42 Techrights-sec; "Lockhart Steele, founder and C.E.O. of the Curbed Network, met Bankoff about two years ago, around the same time Vox Media acquired The Verge. Though the t
10:42 Techrights-sec; wo have "flirted" with the prospect of joining forces the timing was never right, until now that is."
10:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.politico.com/media/story/2013/11/with-curbed-buy-vox-media-is-done-with-acquisitions-for-a-while-001312/
10:42 Techrights-sec; Sure kept that low-key
10:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-With Curbed buy, Vox Media is done with acquisitions, for a while- POLITICO Media
10:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8663975/vox-media-recode-deal-explained
10:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Vox Media-Re/code deal, explained by Vox Medias CEO - Vox
10:42 Techrights-sec; Re/code used to be around but faded away rather rapidly at some point.
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; I've long been in favour of boyotting billbc, billpr, and the verge
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; all compromsied by the bill, just like bill's guardian
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot stand sending them traffic, thinking about what monsters that helps support (even if not linking directly to the hagiographies and revisionism)
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; re re/code, you beat me to it
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; I was about to say the same thing you did
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; yesterday I sae ina fried (Microsoft mole) boosting LF trash, i.e. github
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; microsoft tim became a nomad, just like catalin cimpanu and bogdan popa
10:44 schestowitz-TR2; they won't be done till they sell pencil from a cup in the street
10:45 Techrights-sec; :(
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; they are actively malicious
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; with some publishers, like pro publica, they just drink from the fountain billg pisses in
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; and that makes them tainted rather than actively malicious
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; so that's the lesser problematic tier
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; now that more people know what the bill and lolita foundation is, it is important to remind people who took bribes from it
10:47 schestowitz-TR2; that's just karma
10:50 Techrights-sec; https://www.axios.com/2022/03/03/vox-media-group-nine-merger-layoffs
10:50 Techrights-sec; anti-investment to drive de-growth towards an eventual "successful" bankruptcy
10:50 Techrights-sec; https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/The_Verge#Vox_Media_/_SB_Nation
10:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.axios.com | Vox Media lays off 3% of staff after Group Nine merger
10:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ultimatepopculture.fandom.com | The Verge | Ultimate Pop Culture Wiki | Fandom
10:55 schestowitz-TR2; two common tactics (HR)
10:55 schestowitz-TR2; -reduce hours for a perios of time according to which severance if calculated, then lay off
10:56 schestowitz-TR2; -assign workers to a new (obsolete) unit, then scuttle the unit (happened in epo)
10:56 schestowitz-TR2; btw, I am failing to leave the company, no matter what I try; cannot do anything abrupt because of rianne's position
10:56 Techrights-sec; ack
10:56 Techrights-sec; https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/27/vox-media-cuts-staff-slows-down-hiring-as-recession-fears-grow.html
10:56 Techrights-sec; ack
10:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cnbc.com | Vox Media cuts staff, slows down hiring as recession fears grow
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; maybe the new site (redesign) is a low-cost skeleton, time will tell. i cannot open any page there, they obv. lost me as a reader.
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; the new zdnet most certaionly feels like a rush job, a low-budget pull-shit-together work
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; with a logo a little child can make
11:00 schestowitz-TR2; *rushed
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11:07 Techrights-sec; https://www.capterra.com/p/179174/StoryStream/
11:07 Techrights-sec; "best for ..."
11:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.capterra.com/p/179174/StoryStream/ )
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11:09 schestowitz-TR2; best for > optimised for > limited to
11:09 schestowitz-TR2; site might not be safe -> press many buttons to go ahead -> this site is malicious, close tab
11:09 schestowitz-TR2; the www is for tim b-l to share info -> it's to share DATA -> it's transport for DRM shit
11:09 schestowitz-TR2; wikipedia is for collaboration on info -> wikipedia is to 'guard' info from spinners -> wikipedia is for spinners to guardian brands from "harmful" facts
11:10 Techrights-sec; https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/storystream
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/storystream )
11:10 Techrights-sec; ack
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; rip, www
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; thge casket has been ready, made by the master carpenter
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; but the www does not yet know it is there
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; it insists things will be ok if only everyone downloaded timbl's JS framwork from proprietary microsoft'nsa shithub
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; if only...
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; we meanwhile have other frameworks for interlinked pages that are safe to use and don't come with 200MB binaries
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; and can do as well as doxygen and other vital stuff
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; "due, WTF!!! I don't need your fucking FONTS to read your fucking recipe!!"
11:12 schestowitz-TR2; *dude
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11:32 Techrights-sec; ack
11:32 Techrights-sec; Which recipe site(s) push external fonts?
11:33 schestowitz-TR2; lots of the "big ones" for sure
11:33 schestowitz-TR2; the ones that think sites are always viewed like a poster with the same device and configs
11:33 schestowitz-TR2; some sites are like a PDF
11:33 schestowitz-TR2; and that too makes wrong assumption about the client device
11:34 Techrights-sec; Many CMS-based sites in general push external fonts.
11:34 Techrights-sec; The pages end up being many tens of megabytes, all told.
11:34 Techrights-sec; The Verge's new layout is "quite cleve" but basically unusable on a standard
11:34 Techrights-sec; landscape mode screen. I bet they only bothered to test it on a smartphone.
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; that is not a smart move
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; they are on the verge of driving away many readers
11:35 schestowitz-TR2; I cannot even access the site, not even with JS
11:42 Techrights-sec; It does not need javascript, as far as I know, but the abuse of CSS makes for
11:42 Techrights-sec; very agitated, distracting movement while scrolling and a miserably narrow
11:42 Techrights-sec; column for the actual content. The crap on the screen moves around despite
11:42 Techrights-sec; me not telling to explicitly. Clever is not the same as useful.
11:42 Techrights-sec; I used to be able to skim the site quickly and pick out interesting articles.
11:42 Techrights-sec; Now it is hard to see what the articles are about and what to even click on.
11:42 Techrights-sec; Usability is not a goal, very clearly. That's not a problem limited to
11:42 Techrights-sec; The Verge. Usability is so out of fashion that you can buy some of the best
11:42 Techrights-sec; books on the topic for a few EUR, including shipping. One of the thinks which
11:42 Techrights-sec; I suspect has happened is that the people who grew up with "engagement" in their
11:42 Techrights-sec; interfaces think that is how the site is best made. If it does not have RSS
11:42 Techrights-sec; I might stop checking it, since it requires too much time and effort for the
11:42 Techrights-sec; meager return it still provides.
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; too much spice spoils the broth
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; we need to start over
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; back to 90s www
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; i know the feeling
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; in 2004ish I wrote a bunch of scriptc to follow sites that did not have rss feeds (yet)
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; right now I have list of sites to check
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; for which either new rss exists or no specific-enough feeds exist, e.g. linux
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; today rianne asked about traffic in new TM
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; I told her I don't know and don't care much
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; it's not even clear what and who to measure
11:45 schestowitz-TR2; e.g. bots or x requests per page (images, css, favicon...)
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; to impress or to lie to shareholders like FB and twitter do
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; you could just double the number of objects in each page, then count "hits"
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; or you could count spiders are "active users" etc etc
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; i told you years ago that I learned from addiction until around 2006 that tracking "stats" can be a major waste of time
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; time better spent producing more instead
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; and not giving a damn about perceived "popularity"
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; it can be down-putting
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; spamnil keeps increasing spambot/clickfrauds doses to keep the same level of self-delusion/satisfaction
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; but deep inside he knows he's a fraud and utter failure
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; like many managers (inwards)
11:49 schestowitz-TR2; insecure to the poiint of bullying anyone who might expose them
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14:21 Techrights-sec; There are a lot of possible dead ends to explore still.
14:27 schestowitz-TR2; you can grab the key in roy @ tr-new or tm-new
14:27 schestowitz-TR2; it is the one I use
14:29 Techrights-sec; ok
14:29 schestowitz-TR2; ota (lf)
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15:08 schestowitz-TR2; <techrights-news> "Many of Peiter (Mudge) Zatkos former colleagues have received offers of payment for information about him." https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-search-for-dirt-on-the-twitter-whistle-blower
15:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.newyorker.com | The Search for Dirt on the Twitter Whistle-Blower | The New Yorker
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16:34 schestowitz-TR2; recorded, done
16:34 schestowitz-TR2; thanks, I shall take a look when I wake up later
16:34 schestowitz-TR2; need to first catch up with links to assure TM is ehad of the surve
16:35 schestowitz-TR2; *ahead of the curve
16:36 schestowitz-TR2; search functionality can later be used to check other (prior) pages for proxmity and then add "pages related to this:"
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