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1 AM, April 15

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03:21 *Topic for #boycottnovell set by schestowitz!~roy@haii6za73zabc.irc at Tue Jun 1 20:22:10 2021

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4 AM, April 15

04:24 schestowitz-TR; just fyi

04:24 schestowitz-TR; last night bee-tea updated the firmware

04:24 schestowitz-TR; I rarely check if they do this

04:24 schestowitz-TR; unless I have something critical

04:24 schestowitz-TR; so anyway, 3:15am they rebooted it again

04:24 schestowitz-TR; IP address changed

04:24 schestowitz-TR; thankfully I was awake and quickly changed dns

04:24 schestowitz-TR; I am going to mess around with obs shortly

04:24 schestowitz-TR; it is VERY impressive

04:25 Techrights-sec; nice

04:25 Techrights-sec; I hear good things all around about OBS but have not looked at a it

04:25 schestowitz-TR; I have a few topic ideas to cover

04:25 schestowitz-TR; but they are not great

04:25 schestowitz-TR; some ae lf-related

04:25 schestowitz-TR; I leave patents aside for a moment

04:25 schestowitz-TR; do you have a topic in mind?

04:25 schestowitz-TR; I've just cleaned rss for "main" feeds

04:26 Techrights-sec; NDAs were mentioned in the IRC logs, they are pribably at least as harmful

04:26 Techrights-sec; as patents and far more insidious

04:26 schestowitz-TR; yes, sadly trade secrets and NDAs are not a legal area I feel comfortable to comment on

04:26 schestowitz-TR; would rather pass tbh

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04:29 Techrights-sec; ok

04:29 Techrights-sec; I figure those and the nondisparagement clauses in termination contracts

04:29 Techrights-sec; are covering billions if not trillions of dollars in damage by hiding corporate

04:29 Techrights-sec; misdeeds.

04:30 schestowitz-TR; you have just given me topic idea

04:30 schestowitz-TR; btw, zemlin seems to be doing some pr campaign for himself

04:30 schestowitz-TR; rianne notified me

04:30 schestowitz-TR; but I cannot comment on it

04:30 schestowitz-TR; as he piggybacks a toddler with severe disabilities

04:30 schestowitz-TR; so it's too toxic to even comment on

04:31 Techrights-sec; yes but I have not followed his antics lately

04:31 Techrights-sec; yes that's the game the microsofters play

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5 AM, April 15

05:28 schestowitz-TR; ota

05:28 schestowitz-TR; dfraft

05:34 Techrights-sec; ack

05:34 Techrights-sec; a few words in the first paragraph about the nature of the FUD would help

05:34 Techrights-sec; https://www.nngroup.com/articles/inverted-pyramid/

↺ https://www.nngroup.com/articles/inverted-pyramid/

05:34 Techrights-sec; https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/stratcommwriting/chapter/inverted-pyramid-style/

↺ https://ohiostate.pressbooks.pub/stratcommwriting/chapter/inverted-pyramid-style/

05:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nngroup.com | Inverted Pyramid: Writing for Comprehension

05:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ohiostate.pressbooks.pub | Inverted pyramid style Writing for Strategic Communication Industries

05:34 schestowitz-TR; thanks, I added some words and links

05:35 Techrights-sec; np

05:37 Techrights-sec; maybe, to refine it further,

05:37 Techrights-sec; s/tends to be mentioned in dark/tends to only be mentioned in dark/

05:38 schestowitz-TR; I think that would be untrue though

05:38 schestowitz-TR; it's not exclusive a trend

05:38 Techrights-sec; ah, ok

05:38 Techrights-sec; It is, however, a predominant trend

05:42 schestowitz-TR; hang on

05:42 schestowitz-TR; I shall expand

05:42 schestowitz-TR; ok, see now

05:50 Techrights-sec; "too often" rather than "only" ?

05:50 Techrights-sec; checking

05:50 Techrights-sec; s/its not going to improve/its not going to improve for the forseeable future/

05:50 Techrights-sec; ?

05:50 Techrights-sec; ^forseeable

05:50 schestowitz-TR; check out the latest post from LFossFarce

05:51 Techrights-sec; ok

05:51 Techrights-sec; https://fossforce.com/2022/04/dirk-hohndel-linux-linus-licenses-and-the-business-of-open-source/

↺ https://fossforce.com/2022/04/dirk-hohndel-linux-linus-licenses-and-the-business-of-open-source/

05:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fossforce.com | Dirk Hohndel: Linux, Linus, and the Business of Open Source - FOSS Force

05:51 schestowitz-TR; we have spamnil #2

05:52 Techrights-sec; :(

05:52 schestowitz-TR; yes

05:53 schestowitz-TR; money talks

05:53 schestowitz-TR; some people talk for mney

05:53 schestowitz-TR; she did ibm/redhat through some media contractor last year

05:53 schestowitz-TR; many puff pieces

05:53 schestowitz-TR; not the money is LF

05:53 schestowitz-TR; Not just the pieces

05:53 schestowitz-TR; also the site

05:53 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if she removed past articles about LF

05:53 schestowitz-TR; or will

05:53 Techrights-sec; say-for-pay

05:53 Techrights-sec; It would be interesting to know what leverge they gain to get people to sell out

05:55 schestowitz-TR; we used to cover cases. real concrete examples,

05:55 schestowitz-TR; of sites that blast gates, his foundation and microsoft

05:55 schestowitz-TR; he then bribes them

05:55 schestowitz-TR; and they take down the criticism

05:55 schestowitz-TR; I think LF is another foundstion of this kind

05:55 schestowitz-TR; at the very least they muzzle their critics

05:55 schestowitz-TR; and zemlin is now "protecting children"

05:55 schestowitz-TR; so I'd better say nothing

05:55 Techrights-sec; there's often a carrot and a stick not just a carrot

05:55 Techrights-sec; perhaps. for the time being.


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8 AM, April 15

08:46 schestowitz-TR; LOL "Unicorn Media"

08:46 schestowitz-TR; Is that what fossforce is going under?

08:49 Techrights-sec; perhaps; gambling / speculation on random sites in hopes of a big payoff at the IPO?

08:50 schestowitz-TR; do you want me to copy the latest proxy code? I see you made further changes

08:52 Techrights-sec; yes, probably a good idea

08:52 Techrights-sec; that one has been tested locally

08:53 Techrights-sec; the one in GIt, that is


9 AM, April 15

09:09 schestowitz-TR; done

09:09 schestowitz-TR; green

09:09 schestowitz-TR; testing manually

09:16 schestowitz-TR; this afternoon we shop for food

09:16 schestowitz-TR; not sure if you noticed in irc, but leah is like us in that regard

09:16 schestowitz-TR; 'stealing' the discounts

09:16 schestowitz-TR; here, they can be like 90% off or more if you are lucky

09:19 schestowitz-TR; food is one of those things, along with water, you cannot import to dodge high pricing locally

09:19 schestowitz-TR; so that imposes more threat of monopoly or oligopoly abuse

09:19 schestowitz-TR; iow, price-fixing

09:19 schestowitz-TR; there are other words for it

09:20 schestowitz-TR; happiest country on the planet, not polling in the local supermarkets ;-)

09:22 schestowitz-TR; -

09:22 schestowitz-TR; Lxer had a 3-day downtime recently and it acts like it is run by somehow careful

09:22 schestowitz-TR; or is desperate due to media deserts

09:22 schestowitz-TR; a lot of links they post they are not 'supposed' to post

09:22 schestowitz-TR; and they will put off real gnu/linux neophiles or users

09:24 schestowitz-TR; I will NOT do videos about such sites becauise I assume no ill intent

09:24 schestowitz-TR; there, the isue is different

09:24 schestowitz-TR; but I think in a hurried rush to post anything

09:24 schestowitz-TR; even webspam from linux.com

09:24 schestowitz-TR; they only dig their own grave,

09:24 schestowitz-TR; accelerating their demise

09:24 schestowitz-TR; like our stupid company thinkintg that making compromises

09:24 schestowitz-TR; would keep us around lonmger

09:24 schestowitz-TR; while in reality driving awaysome geeks

09:42 Techrights-sec; as for driving people away; A-players hire A-players; B-playes hire C-players and worse, driving away the talent

09:42 Techrights-sec; comprimises often mean appeasementg instead, and appeasment always fails sooner

09:42 Techrights-sec; or later

09:42 Techrights-sec; usually sooner

09:42 Techrights-sec; there are several insterests that gain from the demise of Linux.com

09:42 Techrights-sec; and OpenSource.com

09:42 Techrights-sec; THose sites could serve as beacons but are intentionally prevented frmm

09:42 Techrights-sec; anything benefiial like that

09:42 Techrights-sec; Speaking of Freedom, is RMS talk online anywhere? The TR video seems

09:42 Techrights-sec; broken. I tried to listen to it in VLC but it started looping after a while

09:44 schestowitz-TR; if you mean the audio started looping, that's the fault of the streamer

09:44 schestowitz-TR; their playback thing got stuck like a broken record during the ted talk

09:44 schestowitz-TR; also, the talk became audio-only

09:44 schestowitz-TR; which does not make free software seem too good

09:44 schestowitz-TR; although I suspect the culprit was RMS and his connection

09:47 Techrights-sec; It's the problem that people go out of their way to make things complex

09:47 Techrights-sec; and furthermore refractoring is not valued in either business or popular culture

09:47 Techrights-sec; If it compiles, throw it over the fence and run away.

09:50 schestowitz-TR; afaik, figosdev dumped the webm to a local file

09:50 schestowitz-TR; and I recorded from my end

09:50 schestowitz-TR; if you use another media player, you will mostly see irc channels and get the voice

09:50 schestowitz-TR; nothing missed as rms turned off his cameras after 1 min of technical difficulties

09:50 schestowitz-TR; from what I saw yesterday, as per bnchs iirc (in IRC), fsf has since then locked down access to IRC

09:50 schestowitz-TR; IOW, this stream attracted a platoon of prolonged disruption

09:52 Techrights-sec; I tried to listen to it in VLC but it started looping after a while

09:52 Techrights-sec; I haven

09:52 Techrights-sec; I haven't looked at streaming video for a very logn time and don't know

09:52 Techrights-sec; how that might have been set up. It would make sense for the distribution

09:52 Techrights-sec; of the streams go go from another node and not RMS himself but there are

09:52 Techrights-sec; so many very stupid decisions being made in software development these days

09:52 Techrights-sec; that it might have been the case that the bottleneck was his connection.

09:52 Techrights-sec; It's the problem that people go out of their way to make things complex

09:52 Techrights-sec; and furthermore refractoring is not valued in either business or popular culture

09:52 Techrights-sec; If it compiles, throw it over the fence and run away.

09:52 Techrights-sec; yes software freedom and especially its successful proponents are in the sights

09:52 Techrights-sec; of teams of astroturfers paid for by interestes aligned with M$ if not M$ itselfFSF and others are not willing to acknowledge that

09:52 Techrights-sec; reality and appear to

09:52 Techrights-sec; accept astroturfers as grassroots.

09:54 schestowitz-TR; bot ok, let me put it like this

09:54 schestowitz-TR; 1) fsf would have little use for this file

09:54 schestowitz-TR; as if cointains no video

09:54 schestowitz-TR; and RMS was struggling to understand what the questions were about

09:54 schestowitz-TR; I stopped after the first one

09:54 schestowitz-TR; 2) even if I got the raw file from fig/matey, same problem as (1)

09:54 schestowitz-TR; not to brag, but at least in our version you have something to look at like 2 IRC networks

09:54 schestowitz-TR; I tried not to talk much

09:54 schestowitz-TR; except when I could not resist or when there were technical issues

09:54 schestowitz-TR; it's perfecctly possible this talk will never be published

09:54 schestowitz-TR; not officially anyway

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09:57 Techrights-sec; I wonder if the webm at TR can be salvaged then.

09:59 schestowitz-TR; as I said, the file generally works

09:59 schestowitz-TR; I only started noticjing issues in vlc, and vlc alone, about 2 weeks ago

09:59 schestowitz-TR; and after checking files produced on a DIFFERENT machine,

09:59 schestowitz-TR; I saw the same issue in VLC

09:59 schestowitz-TR; so I don't think it's due to the recording software

09:59 schestowitz-TR; post-processing it is fine

09:59 schestowitz-TR; webcamoid is not the same version on both machines

09:59 schestowitz-TR; so I suspect vlc is at fault


10 AM, April 15

10:08 Techrights-sec; ok I will look in Audacity

10:08 Techrights-sec; ^Listen

10:13 schestowitz-TR; IME, any media player that does video works OK with it

10:13 schestowitz-TR; I got miffed if not upset a few times

10:13 schestowitz-TR; seeing that the video got stuck

10:13 schestowitz-TR; then I tried a different media player

10:13 schestowitz-TR; I spent 1 hour yesterday trying to 'fix' webcomoid

10:13 schestowitz-TR; my conclusion is, neon updates the kernel

10:13 schestowitz-TR; a lot

10:13 schestowitz-TR; not like point releases

10:13 schestowitz-TR; so they may have broken noisetorch

10:13 schestowitz-TR; after the reboot last week

10:13 schestowitz-TR; either way, I organised things around here

10:13 schestowitz-TR; and studies obs basicsa

10:13 schestowitz-TR; so I suspect videos will be recorded mostly on that machined

10:13 schestowitz-TR; soon I might extend the shell script for videosi might even make it go faster

10:13 schestowitz-TR; webm/ogg do no support "copy" operation in or from the proiprietyary formats

10:13 schestowitz-TR; in ffmpeg

10:13 schestowitz-TR; and the conversions are a bit lossy

10:13 schestowitz-TR; a 'round-trip' would not give the same quality

10:13 schestowitz-TR; maybe same file size, not qua<lity

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10:17 Techrights-sec; proprietary formats should never be written

10:17 Techrights-sec; enough is lost when reading them and

10:17 Techrights-sec; even if not converting much

10:22 schestowitz-TR; i want to read out to you what format the "open" OBS supports for output:

10:22 schestowitz-TR; mkv - default

10:22 schestowitz-TR; flv

10:22 schestowitz-TR; mp4

10:22 schestowitz-TR; mov

10:22 schestowitz-TR; ts

10:22 schestowitz-TR; m3u8

10:22 schestowitz-TR; i do not even know the last two

10:22 Techrights-sec; ack

10:22 Techrights-sec; It's a variant of MPEG / MP3

10:27 schestowitz-TR; OK

10:27 schestowitz-TR; rianne is now posting in tuxmachines

10:27 schestowitz-TR; then I will post Daily Links and look into improving voice quality

10:27 schestowitz-TR; there are lots of things to tinker with there

10:27 schestowitz-TR; failing that, maybe external mic

10:27 schestowitz-TR; on the machine 'vonick' I could get voice to the point of being

10:27 schestowitz-TR; relatively clean with noisetorchj

10:37 Techrights-sec; In the RMS video, your voice and the stream are mushed into the same channel

10:37 Techrights-sec; rather than separate channels. It would be so much better to have them

10:37 Techrights-sec; separate

10:37 Techrights-sec;

10:38 schestowitz-TR; i am not adding more 'schenes'

10:38 schestowitz-TR; with effects when I shift from one to another

10:38 schestowitz-TR; like moving between 2cams+deskto

10:38 schestowitz-TR; to just face

10:38 schestowitz-TR; or just desktop

10:38 schestowitz-TR; I can add text, images etc.

10:38 schestowitz-TR; re rms, had I used obs, the sound would come directly from the output

10:38 schestowitz-TR; no headphone involved

10:38 schestowitz-TR; and there would be channels

10:38 schestowitz-TR; but it's too late now

10:39 Techrights-sec; it's a learning process

10:39 schestowitz-TR; "IT's TOO LATE!!" -RMS

10:39 Techrights-sec; also a lot of typing is heard on your side in the audio

10:39 Techrights-sec; does it have push-to-talk?

10:40 schestowitz-TR; maybe

10:40 schestowitz-TR; it has many hundreds of knobs and menu items

10:40 schestowitz-TR; I've only scratched the surfave

10:40 schestowitz-TR; I know webcamoid very well

10:40 schestowitz-TR; and would still use it

10:40 schestowitz-TR; but obs is a whole different league


11 AM, April 15

11:10 schestowitz-TR; ok, as of this morning I am off work till monday afternoon

11:10 schestowitz-TR; as I said, errands later

11:10 schestowitz-TR; but this coming weekend will be productive

11:10 schestowitz-TR; prioovided no major technical blunders

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11:28 Techrights-sec; excellent

11:28 Techrights-sec; though I expect that news will be even more quiet than it has been

11:28 schestowitz-TR; that's good

11:28 schestowitz-TR; I hope it will slow down

11:28 schestowitz-TR; at least to let me catch up with 400 or so patent items I wish to go through

11:28 schestowitz-TR; I dumped gulag alerts

11:28 schestowitz-TR; it was very poor s/n ratio anyway

11:28 schestowitz-TR; but so is the web

11:28 schestowitz-TR; GiGI

11:28 schestowitz-TR; GIGO

11:28 schestowitz-TR; Garbage in, Gulag Out

11:30 Techrights-sec; yep

11:30 Techrights-sec; The good part is that there are some more RSS feeds than there were before

11:30 Techrights-sec; but only a few and it dooes take a LOT of time to go through those anyway

11:30 Techrights-sec; The updater does not rely on the network functioning :/

11:30 schestowitz-TR; I have just spent a long time going througn our caposule

11:30 schestowitz-TR; mostly to stady the daily links

11:30 schestowitz-TR; the success ratio for the updater improved

11:30 schestowitz-TR; and we have very extensive sets of daily links

11:30 schestowitz-TR; with headings for 'bookmarks' in the traditional snese

11:30 schestowitz-TR; at least for clients that support these

11:50 schestowitz-TR; --

11:51 schestowitz-TR; ota

11:51 schestowitz-TR; when I start doing transititons (animations) and hogh framerate cameras and stuff like music

11:51 schestowitz-TR; it seems like compression goes off the chart and back to similar file sizes as

11:51 schestowitz-TR; webcamoid generates

11:51 schestowitz-TR; I will try to learn how to play "nice" with the compression, like little

11:51 schestowitz-TR; optical flow, so to speak

11:51 schestowitz-TR; that's the algorithm typically used, with artifacts seen when the signal goes

11:51 schestowitz-TR; "off"

11:51 schestowitz-TR; so a lot of upcoming videos will be a tad experimental

11:51 schestowitz-TR; unless I record on the "old" machine


noon, April 15

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12:43 schestowitz-TR; i am typing some draft up

12:43 schestowitz-TR; i wanted to know

12:43 schestowitz-TR; are you trying to produce something from this recording?

12:43 schestowitz-TR; draft

12:43 Techrights-sec; ack

12:43 Techrights-sec; ack

12:43 Techrights-sec; no, just wanted to listen to the recording


1 PM, April 15

13:09 schestowitz-TR; hold yo' guns

13:09 schestowitz-TR; FSF has uploaded the talk

13:09 schestowitz-TR; will share now

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13:41 Techrights-sec; thanks

13:41 Techrights-sec; severe compression artefacts in the audio

13:41 Techrights-sec; seems to be a concessin speech, withdrawing and conceding to the growth

13:41 Techrights-sec; of non-free rather than reaching out to the /sources/ causing the use of

13:41 Techrights-sec; non-free software

13:41 schestowitz-TR; I am preparing humour for epo people

13:41 schestowitz-TR; re rms,, I did not interpret his speech as such at all

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2 PM, April 15

14:33 Techrights-sec; he promotes backing up rather than advancing

14:33 Techrights-sec; the examples need to be better suited to long term strategic planning

14:36 schestowitz-TR; what you insinuates, I think

14:36 schestowitz-TR; is a Winstonm moment

14:36 schestowitz-TR; or Stockholm syndrome

14:36 schestowitz-TR; or brainwash

14:36 schestowitz-TR; or coup

14:36 schestowitz-TR; or conditions imposed upon him

14:36 schestowitz-TR; or weakly-functioning mental faculties

14:36 schestowitz-TR; maybe you are right, but I did not sense that

14:36 schestowitz-TR; Remember that before the strat of this coup he literally wnt to

14:36 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft

14:36 schestowitz-TR; which I thought was very dump and counter-productyive

14:36 schestowitz-TR; also bad for morale

14:41 Techrights-sec; yes that was foolish on many levels incouding loss of credibility and damage

14:41 Techrights-sec; to general morale

14:41 Techrights-sec; However I fully expect that M$ planned for that when it extended the

14:41 Techrights-sec; "invitation"

14:42 schestowitz-TR; SJVN, colleague of Mary Jo Microsoft, weaponised this visit as much as she had done

14:43 Techrights-sec; Yes, above all it gave lots of ammo to his detractors.

14:45 schestowitz-TR; on the one hand RMS is a "pervet" and crazy

14:45 schestowitz-TR; and at the same time he is "reasonable"

14:45 schestowitz-TR; because he visited criminals who bribe officials and attack us

14:45 schestowitz-TR; and phone my boss

14:45 schestowitz-TR; and bribe

14:45 schestowitz-TR; so he's helluva lot more useful as fodder

14:45 schestowitz-TR; "whhy d you support RMS? IT IS PEDO!"

14:45 schestowitz-TR; "why can't you accept Micrtosoft? Even RMS made peace with them.."

14:46 Techrights-sec; the trolls play those themes

14:46 Techrights-sec; Or boss' boss

14:46 Techrights-sec; Except that those lies were cultivated in the defense of Bill who they

14:46 Techrights-sec; needed to distract from, and still do.

14:46 Techrights-sec; Notice all the yammering about the "insecurity" of FOSS tools but no mention

14:46 Techrights-sec; anywhere about Windows TCO in regards to malware, especially ransomware.

14:47 schestowitz-TR; vmware blames "linux" for sec issues

14:47 schestowitz-TR; after it violated GPL in Linux

14:47 schestowitz-TR; aand made shitty proprietary crap

14:47 schestowitz-TR; and Zemlin makes money from them

14:49 Techrights-sec; not necessarily. He could probably bring in more money by enforcing the GPL

14:49 Techrights-sec; and otherwise showing morals. NOtice that over the years the LF turned,

14:49 Techrights-sec; as others have put it, into a serial infringers' club. Also over the years,

14:49 Techrights-sec; the public has been turned against reciprocal licensing towards non-reciprocal

14:49 Techrights-sec; or, as some call it, push-over licensing. The latter cannot be ddual licensed

14:49 Techrights-sec; in any meaningful way and thus cuts the developers off from an important source of Funding.

14:53 schestowitz-TR; while I find this subject fascinating I am hesitent to do

14:53 schestowitz-TR; an article or videom about this

14:53 schestowitz-TR; as none of this is new

14:53 schestowitz-TR; or even a very unique insight

14:53 schestowitz-TR; but...

14:53 schestowitz-TR; our goal should be to make such truisms weidely understood

14:53 schestowitz-TR; FOSSForce won't do that!

14:54 Techrights-sec; ack

14:54 Techrights-sec; yes

14:55 schestowitz-TR; SJVN is very predictable

14:55 schestowitz-TR; IBM/Red Hat puff pieces

14:55 schestowitz-TR; Micreosoft apologism

14:55 schestowitz-TR; LOT Netowkr//OIn puff piece

14:55 schestowitz-TR; LF ad

14:55 schestowitz-TR; repeat step 1

14:55 schestowitz-TR; profit from the sponsors (i.e. the above )

14:55 Techrights-sec; his article in The Register was a lame recycled article

14:55 Techrights-sec; ack

14:59 schestowitz-TR; RMS: the four freeedoms are

14:59 schestowitz-TR; SJVN: RMS is a pedo, don't listen to him

14:59 schestowitz-TR; The four pillars are: swwpats: LF (not Linux), IBM, and Microsoft

14:59 schestowitz-TR; Spamnil's site, which I last saw 10 mins ago, has managed to become 100% spam

14:59 schestowitz-TR; I was gonna tell you but thought it was not newsworthy

14:59 schestowitz-TR; thankfully, nobody pays attention to this shit


3 PM, April 15

15:00 schestowitz-TR; people would rather piff in the lake

15:00 schestowitz-TR; *piss

15:00 schestowitz-TR; Soon he will be cut off and let go like ERric Brown

15:00 schestowitz-TR; But for now he can do more damage

15:00 schestowitz-TR; Sheela and James will keep this demolition man

15:00 schestowitz-TR; I'll check again if Sheeela works directly for Microsoft already

15:00 schestowitz-TR; or not yet

15:00 schestowitz; Sheela Zemlin - Chief Revenue Officer (IPO on NYSE 2021)

15:00 schestowitz; "My expertise is in leading revenue-generating functions of an organization to extraordinary growth, creating the operational discipline to scale efficiently, building high-performing teams that last, and delivering results for internal and external customers. Have directly led revenue growth from $20MM to $50MM, from $80MM to $100MM and as a GM for $100MM+ businesses. Over my career, Ive taken on a diverse mix of responsibilities by design

15:00 schestowitz; in order to become a great, multi-disciplinary leader; Im an initiator, operator, coach and problem solver at the core. Id describe myself as a culture builder, bold, data-driven, collaborative, results oriented, transparent, strategic and hands-on."

15:01 schestowitz; https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/19085484

↺ https://www.bloomberg.com/profile/person/19085484

15:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

15:02 schestowitz; https://investors.bakkt.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=ee4ad7b3-e3d5-4cb1-8ba1-55be8e91fdb1

↺ https://investors.bakkt.com/governance/board-of-directors/person-details/default.aspx?ItemId=ee4ad7b3-e3d5-4cb1-8ba1-55be8e91fdb1

15:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-investors.bakkt.com | Bakkt - Governance - Board of Directors - Person Details

15:02 schestowitz; "Sheela Zemlin has served as Bakkts Chief Revenue Officer since April 2021. Prior to joining Bakkt, Ms. Zemlin was the lead, client-facing partner for the emerging Fintech practice of and Chief Revenue Officer for PricewaterhouseCoopers New Ventures. Prior to this role, Ms. Zemlin was an Executive in Residence with PricewaterhouseCoopers New Ventures from 2017 to 2018. Before she joined PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ms. Zemlin was the General

15:02 schestowitz; Manager and Senior Vice President for TIBCO Software, where she managed a global team across sales and customer success for the SaaS business. Ms. Zemlin earned a degree in operations management from Michigan State University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She also serves as a director for Digimarc Corporation and as an Executive Fellow at Harvard Business School."

15:09 schestowitz; very money-centric

15:09 schestowitz; if zemlin ever did care about linux

15:09 schestowitz; the wife would lecture him about her "success" with Microsoft

15:10 schestowitz; https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=460503801&name=LINUX%20FOUNDATION&city=&state=&countryAbbr=US&dba=&type=COPYOFRETURNS&orgTags=COPYOFRETURNS

↺ https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=460503801&name=LINUX%20FOUNDATION&city=&state=&countryAbbr=US&dba=&type=COPYOFRETURNS&orgTags=COPYOFRETURNS

15:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 403 @ https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=460503801&name=LINUX%20FOUNDATION&city=&state=&countryAbbr=US&dba=&type=COPYOFRETURNS&orgTags=COPYOFRETURNS )

↺ https://apps.irs.gov/app/eos/detailsPage?ein=460503801&name=LINUX%20FOUNDATION&city=&state=&countryAbbr=US&dba=&type=COPYOFRETURNS&orgTags=COPYOFRETURNS

15:10 schestowitz; still nothing since 2018

15:11 Techrights-sec; ack

15:13 schestowitz-TR; should i doi a vid response to sjvn el reg?

15:13 Techrights-sec; not sure. depends on the approach.

15:18 schestowitz-TR; reading it now

15:18 schestowitz-TR; 411 commens

15:18 schestowitz-TR; he should do more areticles like this

15:18 schestowitz-TR; not 'obligatory shit' for OIN

15:18 Techrights-sec; :(

15:18 Techrights-sec; conflict of interest to be sure

15:23 schestowitz-TR; bear in mind

15:23 schestowitz-TR; to some people, "success" means chromebooks

15:23 schestowitz-TR; and patent pools

15:23 schestowitz-TR; but not to everyone

15:23 schestowitz-TR; softwaree freedom aside,

15:23 schestowitz-TR; conrrupt corporations cannot be reformed

15:23 schestowitz-TR; and should not be rewarded

15:23 schestowitz-TR; they should be eradicated

15:23 schestowitz-TR; media that misleads people

15:23 schestowitz-TR; as the business model

15:23 schestowitz-TR; is no better than SEO spamfarms that mislead seach engines

15:23 schestowitz-TR; sjvn takes a salary from such media

15:23 schestowitz-TR; at one point we were exchanging emails and he told me how he would cope

15:23 schestowitz-TR; with the loss of his site to quinstreet

15:23 schestowitz-TR; saying he would write in [list of pubs]

15:23 schestowitz-TR; but he ended up writing almost exclusively to a publisher

15:23 schestowitz-TR; that gave him no freedom

15:24 schestowitz-TR; intsead, it gave him instructions

15:24 schestowitz-TR; in other words, thje clients (advertisers) decided for sjvn what to write about

15:24 schestowitz-TR; and what positions are permissible

15:24 schestowitz-TR; so far at the register his pieces his pieces are very different from zdnet

15:24 schestowitz-TR; also when he writes at idg, which is very rare


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19:59 schestowitz-TR; [19:59] <techrights-news> "I am now a single-issue voter in the US: stop taxing expats! You can get some insight into the financials of SourceHut in the recently-published financial report." https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/15/Status-update-April-2022.html

↺ https://drewdevault.com/2022/04/15/Status-update-April-2022.html

19:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-drewdevault.com | Status update, April 2022


8 PM, April 15

20:00 schestowitz-TR; https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/new-mozilla-docuseries-firefox-presents-launch/ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/abby-wren-makeup-artist-alopecia-advocate/

↺ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/new-mozilla-docuseries-firefox-presents-launch/

↺ https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/abby-wren-makeup-artist-alopecia-advocate/

20:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.mozilla.org | New Mozilla Docuseries Firefox Presents Celebrates Creators

20:00 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.mozilla.org | Firefox Presents: A makeup artist with alopecia redefining beauty online

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20:19 schestowitz-TR; > "One thing that really interests me in the Lagrange project is exploring the boundaries of native cross-platform programming, be

20:19 schestowitz-TR; cause I fundamentally dislike the notion that modern cross-platform apps need to be based on a web browser for things to make sens

20:19 schestowitz-TR; e." gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-04_land-of-columns.gmi

↺ gemini://skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-04_land-of-columns.gmi

20:19 schestowitz-TR; [18:31] <matey> <Techrights-sec> of non-free rather than reaching out to the /sources/ causing the use of <- yes, i said the state

20:19 schestowitz-TR; of the movement sounded more like articles of surrender

20:19 schestowitz-TR; [18:50] <techrights-news> "VMware Multiple Products Privilege Escalation Vulnerability" https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-acti

↺ https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-acti

20:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-acti )

↺ https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-acti

20:19 schestowitz-TR; vity/2022/04/15/cisa-adds-nine-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Vmware the frauds try to blame "Linux" for their own defect

20:19 schestowitz-TR; ive crap http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2022

http://techrights.org/wiki/VMware#2022

20:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | VMware - Techrights

20:19 schestowitz-TR; [18:50] <techrights-news> "An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system." VMware is crap lik

20:19 schestowitz-TR; e Windows. No wonder as Microsofters stole the company. https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/15/vmware-releases-

↺ https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/15/vmware-releases-

20:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/15/vmware-releases- )

↺ https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/current-activity/2022/04/15/vmware-releases-

20:19 schestowitz-TR; security-updates-cloud-director

20:19 schestowitz-TR; [18:52] <techrights-news> Linux Foundation is now fronting for serial GPl violators like VMware and Microsoft. "Less Time on Compl

20:19 schestowitz-TR; iance"... https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/more-time-on-innovating-less-time-on-compliance/

↺ https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/more-time-on-innovating-less-time-on-compliance/

20:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxfoundation.org | More Time on Innovating, Less Time on Compliance - Linux Foundation

20:19 schestowitz-TR; [19:01] <techrights-news> SJVN shilling Microsoft for LF (the sponsor of this) https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-finally-brings-arm

↺ https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-finally-brings-arm

20:19 schestowitz-TR; -based-vms-to-azure/

20:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-finally-brings-arm )

↺ https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-finally-brings-arm

20:19 Techrights-sec; I hope Cory Doctorow is able to put away enough to cover a comfortable

20:19 Techrights-sec; retirements so that he does not end up like some others ...

20:20 schestowitz-TR; were you able to 'scroll' back or rather see the link about lagrange?

20:20 schestowitz-TR; while afak I wanted to share some more links but worried they would nuke freom sight older ones

20:22 Techrights-sec; I saw that there was something about Lagrange but did not have a chance to check it

20:22 Techrights-sec; https://gmi.skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-04_land-of-columns.gmi

↺ https://gmi.skyjake.fi/gemlog/2022-04_land-of-columns.gmi

20:22 Techrights-sec; ??

20:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-gmi.skyjake.fi | In the Land of Columns and Characters

20:22 schestowitz-TR; Yes, I also need to find better methods og buffering thoughts

20:22 schestowitz-TR; with irc on several screens it's far too easy to get distracted

20:22 schestowitz-TR; Twitter seems to have stated faking "impression" numbers some days ago

20:22 schestowitz-TR; I posted nothing

20:22 schestowitz-TR; but # of impressions more than quadrupled each and every day

20:22 schestowitz-TR; they were sued for faking and settled (lost)

20:23 Techrights-sec; Interesting. I wonder how they can be called out and their fakery exposed.

20:27 schestowitz-TR; either way, there were more things I wanted to share with you but they must not have been too important or else I would have

20:27 schestowitz-TR; written them down. If not here, then my notes somewhere.

20:27 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to record soon.

20:27 schestowitz-TR; Not many annoying bits of noise/news this week.

20:27 schestowitz-TR; I prefer it that way

20:27 schestowitz-TR; Rianne saved us about 30 pounds on the food bills today

20:27 schestowitz-TR; Had I joined, it would be 60

20:27 schestowitz-TR; lots of dirt-cheap items she copuld not carry

20:27 schestowitz-TR; I will doa journey sunday night

20:27 schestowitz-TR; coffee got more expensive

20:27 schestowitz-TR; let me check the weight, hang on

20:27 schestowitz-TR; aldi arbia roast, the cheapest, for the brewing, 227grams at around 1.19 pounds

20:27 schestowitz-TR; the one I used to buy is abotu 1.50

20:28 Techrights-sec; ack

20:28 Techrights-sec; excellent

20:28 schestowitz-TR; regarding twitter, I called them out on it years ago

20:28 schestowitz-TR; of course

20:28 schestowitz-TR; bots

20:28 schestowitz-TR; were gaming the site

20:28 schestowitz-TR; and they looked the other way

20:31 Techrights-sec; I think that may be avout 6.88 EUR per kilo, which is just over half what it

20:31 Techrights-sec; is here nowadays

20:31 Techrights-sec; even the cheapes brand

20:31 Techrights-sec; ^6.34 EUR

20:31 Techrights-sec; If there is Quarterlky profit to be gained, then of course they look the other

20:31 Techrights-sec; way

20:31 Techrights-sec; fossil fuel pricing is used to maniplate elections, especially US elections

20:31 Techrights-sec; there is a myth tying pump prices to satisfaction with the incumbents

20:31 Techrights-sec; that's false but cultivated in the minds of the public anyway

20:31 Techrights-sec; and then the prices are modified to push the election a few points in

20:31 Techrights-sec; on direction or the other.

20:32 schestowitz-TR; one more lever of control or a spiggot for oil magnates to get the country's "leader" to

20:32 schestowitz-TR; "owe them one"

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