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04:18 schestowitz-TR; Substantial Underestimate of the True Circulation of COVID-19 https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/covid19-circulation/
04:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Substantial Underestimate of the True Circulation of COVID-19
04:19 Techrightssec; Summary?
04:19 schestowitz-TR; in that page
04:22 Techrightssec; Not seeing one there.
04:22 schestowitz-TR; right below the video. "Description:"
04:22 schestowitz-TR; with some references
04:24 schestowitz-TR; he chooses title to avoid "pissing up" Gulag and its sponsors
04:24 schestowitz-TR; his channel and all his videos will likely vanish at some point
04:24 schestowitz-TR; they can even pick years-old videos, like they dom SwitchedToLinux
04:40 Techrightssec; ack
04:41 schestowitz-TR; can the like other-links for 11-14 be disregarded for the time being?
04:43 Techrightssec; Yes, the file is being edited as an experiment in the work flow.
04:44 Techrightssec; I think it will be better to do editing off of tr-new and then upload
04:44 Techrightssec; as before. So tomorrow's will behave as more normal. But hopefully
04:44 Techrightssec; the automated links and such can be done on tr-new
05:15 schestowitz-TR; I think I will need to change my notifer for when the files are readt
05:15 schestowitz-TR; *ready
05:15 schestowitz-TR; atm it looks for latest other-links
05:25 Techrightssec; that method will be good once again starting after a few minutes
05:25 Techrightssec; I had forgotten about that.
05:25 Techrightssec; Hammering out some scripting migration atm
05:26 schestowitz-TR; thanks
05:26 schestowitz-TR; trying hard to find stories atm
05:26 schestowitz-TR; it gets harder over time
05:33 Techrightssec; ok try now, ignore 2022-11-14.html it is an artifact
05:33 Techrightssec; It'll take a few days to smooth out the details but the coarse part of
05:33 Techrightssec; the merge works now on tr-new
05:33 Techrightssec; In an interview, Mikko Hyppnen indicated that he thinks that the solution to
05:33 Techrightssec; ending the blaming the victim which m$ does is to remove the ability for
05:33 Techrightssec; the victim to modify his or her system and that only vendors should be in
05:33 Techrightssec; full control of the systems.
05:41 schestowitz-TR; ok, got the latest. should other links be ignored until later today?
05:41 schestowitz-TR; or did you refer to the one with ~ at the end?
05:59 Techrightssec; other links is good too
05:59 Techrightssec; the ~ files should be ignored
06:00 schestowitz-TR; Mikko Hyppnen is Establishment figure
06:00 schestowitz-TR; f-secure iirc
06:06 Techrightssec; Yes his fortune and his career is built on sucking up to m$
06:09 schestowitz-TR; the "media" picks "winners" and "losers" or "experts" and "cracks"
06:09 schestowitz-TR; that media is also funded by advertisers that work foir SUPO, NSA etc.
06:09 schestowitz-TR; the f in f-secure can stand for all sorts of things
06:09 schestowitz-TR; there is a trademark sign after "secure"
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07:31 Techrightssec; ack
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08:32 schestowitz-TR; Trying to blame "SSH" for people choosing lousy UNIX password. Amazing 'journalism'. https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/new-kmsdbot-malware-hijacking-systems.html
08:32 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thehackernews.com | New KmsdBot Malware Hijacking Systems for Mining Crypto and Launch DDoS Attacks
08:37 Techrightssec; Yep, their end goal is probably a push for proprietary interfaces rather
08:37 Techrightssec; than a commodity shell/
08:37 Techrightssec; It's been part of a push by microsofters to block the protocol at the firewall
08:39 schestowitz-TR; they associate real securityy with crime
08:39 schestowitz-TR; "sideloading"
08:39 schestowitz-TR; or remote "updates" (whose? what kind?) you cannot control or turn down
08:39 schestowitz-TR; notice this trend in "industry"
08:39 schestowitz-TR; proprietary VPNs and bloatware
08:39 schestowitz-TR; then "clown computing" and "webapps" that only work with compromsied browsers
08:39 schestowitz-TR; i.e. they're not "web", just "apps" for some hypervisor
08:41 schestowitz-TR; "Improving cyber-security by purchasing licenses for all proprietary software is expensive, however, a better alternative may be to migrate to open-source software like Ubuntu Linux and LibreOffice." https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/2022/11/14/sysnova-to-hold-cyber-security-awareness-training-for-it-professionals
08:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.dhakatribune.com | Sysnova to hold cyber security awareness training for IT professionals
08:43 schestowitz-TR; when it comes to scientific, fact-based analysis, we are winning hsnds down
08:43 schestowitz-TR; btw, that 'hypervisor' is no longer limited to JS
08:43 schestowitz-TR; with wasm and other craps you now rely on tons oc crappy code at the 'hypervisor' level
08:43 schestowitz-TR; not being defective, either intentionally or by accident (with CISA getting headsup_
08:45 schestowitz-TR; speaking of science, ons has new data tomorrow before midday (time judged by prior release times)
08:45 schestowitz-TR; if the trend persists, and if we see such strong evidence of 'cardiac events pandemic',
08:45 schestowitz-TR; then one has to start questioning those boosters, knowing that according to ons
08:45 schestowitz-TR; those excess deaths are neither due to covid or long covid
08:45 schestowitz-TR; *nor
08:58 Techrightssec; fters to block the protocol at the firewall
08:58 Techrightssec; ack
09:00 schestowitz-TR; Twitter is Collapsing: In Numbers... https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/twitter-is-collapsing/
09:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Twitter is Collapsing: In Numbers
10:18 Techrightssec; ack
10:24 schestowitz-TR; I've just posted a Torvalds clip
10:24 schestowitz-TR; I found a better way to encode those clips, both as webm and without missing frames
10:24 schestowitz-TR; I save the 'recipe' for future use cases
10:25 schestowitz-TR; topics would be nice, but likely hard to think of
10:25 schestowitz-TR; as the i/o in news is very low lately
10:25 schestowitz-TR; not much news of significance
10:33 schestowitz-TR; Antibodies tests for COVID-19 in the UK, 179 nanograms per millilitre (ng/ml) or 800 ng/ml: as of this past autumn, 70% or 95% have been exposed to COVID-19 (probably more so the latter; 179 nanograms is very little) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ons-antibodies.ods
10:35 Techrightssec; ack
10:35 Techrightssec; the above interview was full of canards to be addressed, not necessarily but
10:35 Techrightssec; s/but/by/
10:35 Techrightssec; drawing attention to the interview or the book. That those myths and attitudes
10:35 Techrightssec; are circulating in various monied circles is a *big* threat to the continued
10:35 Techrightssec; existence of general purpose computing. As forecast when the first version
10:35 Techrightssec; came out the xbox is a testbed for DRM to be rolled out to the general market
10:35 Techrightssec; over time. There was another article recently about general-purpose versus
10:35 Techrightssec; appliance-based computing.
10:35 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
10:35 Techrightssec; not an article but another video :/
10:35 Techrightssec; https://youtu.be/EiWov2GWgDc
10:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://invidio.xamh.de/watch?v=EiWov2GWgDc
10:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> invidio.xamh.de | An Interview with Eben Upton- Creator and CEO of Raspberry Pi - Invidious
11:19 schestowitz-TR; UK COVID-19 strategy: infect everybody, distract from the fact far more people than usual are dying every week
11:19 schestowitz-TR; Over 13,000 Registered Deaths in the UK Per Week in Autumn (We're Still Losing Almost as Many People as When COVID-19 Started) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/uk-deaths-based-on-ons/
11:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Over 13,000 Registered Deaths in the UK Per Week in Autumn (Were Still Losing Almost as Many People as When COVID-19 Started)
11:21 Techrightssec; https://odysee.com/@davidbombal:0/are-we-doomed-the-future-of-our-smart:c
11:21 Techrightssec; Both videos cover some common topics but from different directions
11:21 Techrightssec;
11:21 Techrightssec; ack
11:21 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-odysee.com | Are we doomed? The future of our smart world?
11:30 schestowitz-TR; watching the video now
11:30 schestowitz-TR; if it strikes many nerves, I might do a response
11:30 schestowitz-TR; he's dressed up not like a hacker
11:30 schestowitz-TR; but like a showman
11:30 schestowitz-TR; don't be offneded
11:30 schestowitz-TR; so far the video is shit
11:30 schestowitz-TR; like internet of shit
11:30 schestowitz-TR; 3 mins in
11:30 schestowitz-TR; doesn't say anything
11:30 schestowitz-TR; self-promotion
11:30 schestowitz-TR; from the guy who looks like a magician and talks like one
11:30 schestowitz-TR; now they add stock effects
11:30 schestowitz-TR; for dramatic effect
11:30 schestowitz-TR; don't want to trash-talk it
11:30 schestowitz-TR; will just close
11:30 schestowitz-TR; "smart... smart... smart"
11:30 schestowitz-TR; he talks their language
11:30 schestowitz-TR; anyway, it's just the media hyping up his name, I think
11:30 schestowitz-TR; and his talking the same language
11:30 schestowitz-TR; I've closed david copperfield and will check links now
11:31 Techrightssec; yep
11:31 Techrightssec; same with the gesturing and such; however, he's gen X
11:31 Techrightssec; regardless of how he hops around
11:31 Techrightssec; there are a lot of parts there, it is long
11:32 schestowitz-TR; even if there are parts about "HEY HI" and "clown", I doubt it will improve
11:32 schestowitz-TR; I know almost nothing about him except his name and where he works
11:32 schestowitz-TR; and people quoting him a lot
11:37 Techrightssec; the main topic ws his repeated pushing for appliance computing to replace
11:37 Techrightssec; general purpose computing and his assertations that only the vendors should
11:37 Techrightssec; have control over the computer not the people sitting at the keyboard
11:39 schestowitz-TR; he mentioned "netflix" on "smart TV"
11:39 schestowitz-TR; I think he's a hypocrite
11:39 schestowitz-TR; with his "dumb watch" and "smart" things he has no control over
11:39 schestowitz-TR; he is the pork-eating imam
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11:41 schestowitz-TR; like I said, I know very little about him
11:41 schestowitz-TR; but he's the gimmick version of (fake?) security
11:41 schestowitz-TR; like people who tell us about "software freedom" while shilling pluton, microsoft-restricted boot,
11:41 schestowitz-TR; and mess about with "smart" gadgets at home in spite of how many flaws that introduced at many levels, even whilem
11:41 schestowitz-TR; afk
11:42 Techrightssec; yes, see https://www.usenix.org/conference/woot-07/exploiting-concurrency-vulnerabilities-system-call-wrappers
11:42 Techrightssec; at least back in 2007 all such anti-virus hokum was just for show and bypasable
11:42 Techrightssec; if nothing has changed (which it probably hasn't) then it is still hokum
11:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.usenix.org | Exploiting Concurrency Vulnerabilities in System Call Wrappers | USENIX
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11:44 schestowitz-TR; the f can stand for f*** rather than a nation
11:44 schestowitz-TR; I am cycnical of the AV pushers
11:44 schestowitz-TR; inc. kaspersky
11:44 schestowitz-TR; no matter the outfit (black t-shirt, superhero, suit)
11:44 schestowitz-TR; maybe mikko is a good salesman
11:46 Techrightssec; see once instance at about 48m into the odysee video
11:46 Techrightssec; he lies about "getting better security" from locking people out of their own
11:46 Techrightssec; systems
11:46 Techrightssec; I guess if one defines security as job security for shysters and poor quality
11:46 Techrightssec; software then ok. But for standard confidentiality, integrity, and availability
11:46 Techrightssec; that is not true.
11:47 schestowitz-TR; there are analogies for this
11:47 schestowitz-TR; where you outsource control and call that security
11:47 schestowitz-TR; like slaves who got "barn safety" and food
11:47 schestowitz-TR; but they didn't enjoy safety if they tried to run away
11:47 schestowitz-TR; they could be shot in the back
11:47 schestowitz-TR; there is the buzz-term "managed service
11:47 schestowitz-TR; softer version of "outsourcing"
11:52 Techrightssec; "those are much more secure because they *are* closed", he says
11:52 Techrightssec; https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/17501-if-ye-love-wealth-better-than-liberty-the-tranquility-of
11:52 Techrightssec; usually they were hanged when caught if not returned to servitude immediately,
11:52 Techrightssec; at least in the US. Other regions had different practices through the ages
11:52 Techrightssec; and in MENA the practice of keeping people as slaves is still ongoing and not
11:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.goodreads.com | Quote by Samuel Adams: If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tran...
11:52 Techrightssec; let up over the centuries though the rest of the world modernized. Some cultures let slaves buy their freedom over a few years or else
11:52 Techrightssec; gradually become a normal member of the tribe over time. So it varied a lot. Again, MENA still has
11:52 Techrightssec; a prodigious slave trade.
11:52 Techrightssec; and slave holdings and many jobs done are not far from slavery there anyway.
11:52 Techrightssec; Thus it is reprehensible that sports events allow themselves to be used
11:52 Techrightssec; for reputation washing there.
12:02 schestowitz-TR; Poor research: "It's not immediately clear how the WordPress sites are breached, and Sucuri said it did not notice any obvious plugin flaws being exploited to carry out the campaign." https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/over-15000-wordpress-sites-compromised.html
12:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thehackernews.com | Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign
12:02 schestowitz-TR; thehackernews.com | Over 15,000 WordPress Sites Compromised in Malicious SEO Campaign
12:02 schestowitz-TR; Webspam disguised as 'article' https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/what-is-external-penetration-test.html
12:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thehackernews.com | What is an External Penetration Test?
12:02 schestowitz-TR; thehackernews.com | What is an External Penetration Test?
12:23 Techrightssec; THe part of his video which was not about IoT was about blaming the victim
12:23 Techrightssec; and using the blame as an excuse to wrest further control away from people.
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13:07 Techrightssec; and in that video, they both omit a real, major crisis with embedded systems,
13:07 Techrightssec; that of 32-bit time
13:07 Techrightssec; https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20130813072244
13:07 Techrightssec; https://people.cs.nctu.edu.tw/~tsaiwn/sisc/runtime_error_200_div_by_0/www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/critdate.htm#Y2038
13:07 Techrightssec; That's at least as big a crisis as having the devices be online
13:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-undeadly.org | 64-bit Time on OpenBSD
13:07 Techrightssec; More so in some ways because it affects old devices even whether they are
13:07 Techrightssec; online or not
13:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-people.cs.nctu.edu.tw | Merlyn - Critical and Significant Dates - J R Stockton
13:09 schestowitz-TR; email is fast becoming a massive waste of time
13:09 schestowitz-TR; I cherry-pick what to open not because of classic spam
13:09 schestowitz-TR; but PR agencies and shitheads writing "proposals"
13:09 schestowitz-TR; which I delete but need to scam for a few seconds anyway
13:09 schestowitz-TR; gmail does not solve this issue, it contributes to it
13:10 Techrightssec; GMail contributes to the worsening of e-mail all around.
13:10 Techrightssec; It's part of their ongoing moves to capture the service and take the protocols
13:10 Techrightssec; private.
13:11 schestowitz-TR; the best method I found was,
13:11 schestowitz-TR; let it pile up for about a month
13:11 schestowitz-TR; then, sort by subject line, author etc. to cluster the shit
13:11 schestowitz-TR; it makes deletion a lot faster
13:11 Techrightssec; It's part of their ongoing moves to capture the service and take the protocols
13:11 Techrightssec; private.
13:11 Techrightssec; /proprietary.
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13:36 schestowitz-TR; Bruce Schneier has mentioned "ransomware" and fails to note this is primarily a Microsoft Windows issue, to be resolved by disconnecting such machines and firing those who deployed such machines in the medical domain https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/11/a-digital-red-cross.html
13:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-A Digital Red Cross - Schneier on Security
13:36 schestowitz-TR; A Digital Red Cross - Schneier on Security
13:36 schestowitz-TR; Removing Microsoft would be vastly more effective https://www.wsj.com/articles/red-cross-wants-digital-symbols-to-deter-hackers-from-healthcare-institutions-11667571607
13:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Red Cross Wants Digital Symbols to Deter Hackers From Healthcare Institutions - WSJ
13:36 schestowitz-TR; Red Cross Wants Digital Symbols to Deter Hackers From Healthcare Institutions - WSJ
13:36 schestowitz-TR; or maybe mikko an blame the patients and try to lock them out
13:36 Techrightssec; ack
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13:38 schestowitz-TR; some weeks ago zemlin gave a talk in the uk about security
13:38 schestowitz-TR; yes, zemlin the sec guru
13:38 schestowitz-TR; parroting microsoft and snyk talking points
13:38 schestowitz-TR; link in IRC
13:38 schestowitz-TR; they pretend it's about money and propose tracking
13:38 schestowitz-TR; of course he mentions github lots of times
13:38 schestowitz-TR; I don't even want to link to it
13:39 Techrightssec; It's just part of their ongoing campaign against software freedom
13:39 Techrightssec; not about money at all
13:45 schestowitz-TR; the copyrioght troll has just sent a physical letter
13:45 schestowitz-TR; after like... 2 months?
13:45 schestowitz-TR; for me it's nothing
13:45 schestowitz-TR; to rianne (who doesn't know how such trolls operate)
13:45 schestowitz-TR; it's more of a nuisance
13:48 schestowitz-TR; good for the next letter-ripping video, I guess
13:48 schestowitz-TR; just a question of when
13:48 schestowitz-TR; then I can publish redacted PDFs too
13:48 schestowitz-TR; it's an obviously BS claim
13:49 schestowitz-TR; slow news today, at least I deleted about 300 spam
13:49 schestowitz-TR; and got some more maintenance work done
13:55 schestowitz-TR; This is Microsoft Windows, though the article fails to mention this explicitly (low-grade 'journalism' https://thehackernews.com/2022/11/new-earth-longzhi-apt-targets-ukraine.html
13:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thehackernews.com | New "Earth Longzhi" APT Targets Ukraine and Asian Countries with Custom Cobalt Strike Loaders
13:56 Techrightssec; anyway 32-bit time would be a possible topic as would be the push towards
13:56 Techrightssec; appliance computing. The lack of discussion about 32-bit time and whining
13:56 Techrightssec; at the same time about locking out end users show that the priority is not
13:56 Techrightssec; security and merely a ddistraction from their attacks on general-purpose
13:56 Techrightssec; computing.
13:56 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
14:00 schestowitz-TR; yes, that might be a good topic
14:00 schestowitz-TR; one thing I don't fully understand is,
14:00 schestowitz-TR; how does unix time system impact security?
14:00 schestowitz-TR; btw, spamnil still doing clickfraud, but with 11 videos in 21 days it's clear he's going nowhere and
14:00 schestowitz-TR; he knows it
14:00 schestowitz-TR; still need to understand how 32-bit systemd are a secyurity rather than invalidity/end of life issue
14:03 Techrightssec; The systems generally cannot be updated in the firmware, the whole unit must
14:03 Techrightssec; be replaced. The problem is that devices being deployed even today are
14:03 Techrightssec; still running 32-bit time.
14:04 schestowitz-TR; with today's appalling quality of engineering, I doubt many will outlast 16 yrs
14:14 schestowitz-TR; apropos, many "smart" systems depend on a clock to operate
14:14 schestowitz-TR; where no clocks should be needed at all!!
14:16 schestowitz-TR; imagine microwaves refusing to hear up because they got cracked
14:16 schestowitz-TR; smoker detectors not buzzing because they have not yet been "configured"
14:16 schestowitz-TR; or some washing machine failing due to having wrong time (not runtime but clock)
14:17 schestowitz-TR; https://dwaves.de/2022/11/14/mental-disorder-is-up-13-globally-41-up-in-germany-in-the-last-10-years-the-github-rant-good-technology-makes-efficient-but-does-not-automatically-make-good-culture-or-good-people/
14:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- mental disorder is up +13% globally +41% up in Germany in the last 10 years the github rant -> good technology makes efficient but does not (automatically) make good culture or good people | dwaves.de
14:17 schestowitz-TR; german, we used to chat, weak english, but the ideas are spot on
14:17 schestowitz-TR; published moments ago
14:18 Techrightssec; Or dishwashers, or laundry machines, or refirgerators, or ... cars
14:25 schestowitz-TR; cars are becoming exponentially more expensive to "repair" (you cannot mess with a scre driver in silicon)
14:25 schestowitz-TR; and of course to purchase too
14:25 schestowitz-TR; as for kettles, for now we just use the hob with a large pot instead because it's reliable
14:25 schestowitz-TR; this past weekend we saw some kettles at the shop and I joked about how long they last for
14:25 schestowitz-TR; the 'unbranded' (or "poorly" branded) ones barely stand a chace of aurviving a year
14:25 schestowitz-TR; the rest maybe enough to get past the warranty day
14:25 schestowitz-TR; I don't want a pile of half a dozen "good loocking but not working) kettle every decade
14:25 schestowitz-TR; *kettles
14:25 schestowitz-TR; electric showers can be similarly awful
14:25 schestowitz-TR; plasticware
14:25 schestowitz-TR; and not easy to replace, you'd need an electrician (almost as expensive as the plasticware) to safely
14:25 schestowitz-TR; dismount and install "the next one"
14:25 schestowitz-TR; so over the past 1-2 decades I find myself protesting a lot about tech that actually left the customer
14:25 schestowitz-TR; worse off, aside from the gimmicks
14:25 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I listen to football on FM radio (1990s) because going to a Web site takes longer
14:25 schestowitz-TR; JS mess
14:25 schestowitz-TR; and is more noise than signal
14:25 schestowitz-TR; in fact, I used to have a command line program for scores, but that keeps breaking upstream and takes
14:26 schestowitz-TR; ages to work around (for a few more months before next breakage)
14:26 schestowitz-TR; "Drive thru" mentality = the biggest problem with my food is that I need to get my fat arse off the seat
14:26 schestowitz-TR; "Smart things" = if only I could connect this thing to the Net, life would improve
14:26 Techrightssec; The computers built into the car's local network appear mostly a means to
14:26 Techrightssec; increase costs and lock out independent repair shops and force buyers into
14:26 Techrightssec; maintenance subscriptions at the dealer.
14:26 Techrightssec; I think we have a studdy on the waste of space that javascript causes...
14:28 schestowitz-TR; andry dubbed this digital veganism
14:28 schestowitz-TR; I think the association with morality (animals) misses the mark a bit
14:28 schestowitz-TR; vegans get ridiculed for all sorts of things
14:28 schestowitz-TR; but avoiding shitware is about practical benefits, too
14:28 schestowitz-TR; at the pet shop yesterday we saw pig ears for sale (in the dog section)
14:28 schestowitz-TR; that upset rianne, but dogs eat meat
14:33 schestowitz-TR; ---
14:33 schestowitz-TR; free software is about ethics of hoarding, sharing, and control over people (facilitated by the former two)
14:33 schestowitz-TR; but the issue we speak of here are also about pragmatism and economics
14:33 schestowitz-TR; I think for TR to analyse and put forth helpful vocabulary would be a contribution
14:33 schestowitz-TR; andy's "digital vegan" is a metaphor
14:33 schestowitz-TR; gemini tackles many issues at once, inc. energy consumption (lots more facets)
14:33 schestowitz-TR; i hope that having more free time will let me 1) think and 2) write properly on these issues
14:33 schestowitz-TR; do you still maintain that youtube-dl-based script for cutting and featching videos from gulagtube?
14:33 schestowitz-TR; i know the swiss army knife was attacked with help from friedman/microsoft
14:33 schestowitz-TR; but for the new TR it would help if I could make shortcuts and retrieve/process/clip vidoes
14:33 schestowitz-TR; directly on the server
14:41 Techrightssec; no that script has not been maintained or worth the effort due to
14:41 Techrightssec; various problems with youtube
14:41 Techrightssec; best to try other tools to download and then once the file is stored locally
14:41 Techrightssec; hit it with ffmpeg
14:41 Techrightssec; invidious might be better in that regard
14:41 schestowitz-TR; atm I use some instances of invidious, retreieve the mp4 (it's the only option for audio+vide)
14:41 schestowitz-TR; than ffmpeg with time range
14:41 schestowitz-TR; then upload via wordpress or kio (for large files)
14:41 schestowitz-TR; the new tr can handle many short posts like tm does
14:41 schestowitz-TR; then, being able to raise issues rapidly, with static pages and maybe video clips
14:41 schestowitz-TR; would imho be not just invaluable in the pace sense
14:41 schestowitz-TR; but also more "fun"
14:41 schestowitz-TR; with wordpress I spent some time messing about with knobs such as categories
14:41 schestowitz-TR; I'm glad rianne and I no longer need to enter/select/multiselect categories
14:41 schestowitz-TR; it speeds things up
14:41 schestowitz-TR; but having some archibg and search for that site might be useful, as a future feature so to speak
14:42 schestowitz-TR; I made a full backup of /var/www/t* last night and copied the tar.gz to "bubi"
14:44 schestowitz-TR; to wit: what hurts microsoft et al the most if not new exposes or rapid posts
14:44 schestowitz-TR; but a site that stays online decade after decade
14:44 schestowitz-TR; so even "old" scandsls never go undocumented and cannot be denied in the absence of evidnece
14:44 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines reviews go a llllooooonnnggg way back
14:44 schestowitz-TR; they show that even in 2005/6 the "desktop" was good enough compared to XP
14:44 schestowitz-TR; youtube will collapse after FB and Twitter
14:44 schestowitz-TR; the barrage of ads are suggestive of urgent call for profitability
14:57 schestowitz-TR; [14:46:48] <techrights-news> Well,, the copyright troll that tries to target techrights coverage of EPO crime now sends envelopes in the post. What next, anthrax attacks? Lawyers that do attend and copyright trolling need to be disbarred. Is the bar a "licence to blackmail"?
14:57 schestowitz-TR; [14:49:18] --> psymin (~psymin@me3biw7mdts84.irc) has joined #boycottnovell-social
14:57 schestowitz-TR; [14:52:22] <techrights-news> According to this (source: ONS), the British population sometimes loses antibodies against COVID-19 over time. https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/ons-health.ods
14:57 schestowitz-TR; [14:56:58] <techrights-news> UK Survey on Top Issues as Perceived by the Public https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/uk-top-issues/
14:57 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK Survey on Top Issues as Perceived by the Public
14:57 schestowitz-TR; [14:56:59] [TechrightsSocial] schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK Survey on Top Issues as Perceived by the Public
14:58 Techrightssec; They seem to object more about what articles are still online rather than
14:58 Techrightssec; a whole site, in most cases. Articles critical of m$ or bill seem to
14:58 Techrightssec; have frequently disappeared from sites that are still around
14:58 Techrightssec; Though the do seem to prioritize eliminating solid, easily understood criticism
14:58 Techrightssec; backed by clear data.
14:58 schestowitz-TR; yes, crosscut deleted articles about both Microsoft and Gates after the latter had dbribed it
14:58 schestowitz-TR; *bribed
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15:09 Techrightssec; Same for many blogs as well
15:10 schestowitz-TR; ONS: More than 1 in 50 People in England Estimated to be COVID-19 Positive This Month https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/covid-19-positive/
15:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive ONS: More Than 1 in 50 People in England Estimated to be COVID-19 Positive This Month
15:10 schestowitz-TR; the "new normal": quite a few people nearby coughing, and not even covering the mouth
15:32 Techrightssec; Same for many blogs as well
15:32 Techrightssec; ack
15:43 schestowitz-TR; An Emergent Pandemic of Sudden Deaths in the UK (People Dying at Home) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/pandemic-of-sudden-deaths/
15:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive An Emergent Pandemic of Sudden Deaths in the UK (People Dying at Home)
15:43 schestowitz-TR; Coronavirus (COVID-19) Deaths: Open Data as OpenDocument Format (ODF) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/ons-but-odf/
15:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Coronavirus (COVID-19) Deaths: Open Data as OpenDocument Format (ODF)
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16:15 Techrightssec; ack
16:15 Techrightssec; what was the summary?
16:15 Techrightssec; gemini.techrights.org/2022/11/14/pat-gelsinger-and-linus-torvalds/
16:15 schestowitz-TR; it's in the headline
16:15 schestowitz-TR; but transcript might help
16:16 schestowitz-TR; Office for National Statistics Makes It Hard to Demonstrate Increase in Heart Failures https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/11/14/office-for-national-statistics-data/
16:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Office for National Statistics Makes It Hard to Demonstrate Increase in Heart Failures
16:36 Techrightssec; The drive is really slow, IPFS must still be running there :/
16:36 Techrightssec; The post has kind of a bad spin on things since LT realized his mistake
16:36 Techrightssec; almost immediately and fixed the licensing right away, though he still
16:36 Techrightssec; insists on saying open source to avoid uttering the f-word
16:42 schestowitz-TR; a) ipfs is not running
16:42 schestowitz-TR; b) thanks, I for the transcript
16:42 schestowitz-TR; c) added it to www/wordpress too
16:43 Techrightssec; np
16:44 schestowitz-TR; i am still short on topics
16:44 schestowitz-TR; 8 posts in my personal blog in past day
16:44 schestowitz-TR; little in TR
16:47 Techrightssec; general-purpose computing and Freedom ?
16:47 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
16:47 Techrightssec; Linus really means the F-word when he says Open Source
16:47 Techrightssec; ^ topic ?
16:47 Techrightssec; Yes, and that intentionally created confusion can be rebutted.
16:47 Techrightssec; especially in light of his 2012 Q&A session where he emphasized that choosing
16:47 Techrightssec; the GPL for his work was the best decision he ever made *because of*
16:47 Techrightssec; the reciprocity. That was overshadowed by the M$-owned press fussing
16:47 Techrightssec; over his rightful frustration with nvidia.
16:49 schestowitz-TR; this was not 2012
16:49 schestowitz-TR; oh, maybe it was actually
16:49 schestowitz-TR; strange, I remembered it happening much later
16:52 schestowitz-TR; OTA
16:52 schestowitz-TR; I will go through the interview and remark on it
16:52 schestowitz-TR; noting the SF aspects along the way
16:52 schestowitz-TR; OTA
16:53 schestowitz-TR; in 1991 it was Free software
16:53 schestowitz-TR; he intentionally warps history
16:53 schestowitz-TR; this was not 2012
16:53 schestowitz-TR; oh, maybe it was actually
16:53 schestowitz-TR; strange, I remembered it happening much later
16:53 schestowitz-TR; OTA
16:53 schestowitz-TR; I will go through the interview and remark on it
16:53 schestowitz-TR; noting the SF aspects along the way
16:53 schestowitz-TR; OTA
16:54 Techrightssec; Yes, and that intentionally created confusion can be rebutted.
16:54 Techrightssec; especially in light of his 2012 Q&A session where he emphasized that choosing
16:54 Techrightssec; the GPL for his work was the best decision he ever made *because of*
16:54 Techrightssec; the reciprocity. That was overshadowed by the M$-owned press fussing
16:54 Techrightssec; over his rightful frustration with nvidia.
16:54 Techrightssec; It's in the TR WordPress site somewhere, many times, but can be approached
16:54 Techrightssec; from a slightly new angle based on the full Gelsinger interview with LT
16:54 Techrightssec; ack
16:54 Techrightssec; be sure to cite the 2012 comment! please!
18:23 schestowitz-TR; going to record epo video about menopause next
18:23 schestowitz-TR; see scrollback in irc
18:23 schestowitz-TR; mastodon'community' now censors critics of bill gates
18:23 schestowitz-TR; i'm disgusted
18:23 schestowitz-TR; i guess they might borrow some straw men
18:23 schestowitz-TR; if "don't like gates" => qanon
18:23 schestowitz-TR; OTA
18:23 schestowitz-TR; DaemonFC: ^
18:55 Techrightssec; checking
18:55 Techrightssec; It's rather important to note that LT still refers to freedom and reciprocity
18:55 Techrightssec; despite using the phrase "open source". So while he is definitely for
18:55 Techrightssec; backing the f-word up with deeds, he remains very reluctant to say it out loud.
19:38 schestowitz-TR; OTA
19:38 schestowitz-TR; draft
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