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04:20 techrigthssec; gm
04:20 techrigthssec; "The above was covered in ..."
04:20 techrigthssec; http://techrights.org/2023/01/15/microsoft-dropping-its-offices/
04:20 techrigthssec; What was above which was covered?
04:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Sunday (Holiday Weekend) News Drop: Microsoft is Dropping Its Offices in Its Homebase (Seattle) | Techrights
04:23 schestowitz-TR; this would be a problem for people who read onlyn summary but not gemini users
04:23 schestowitz-TR; in gemini they see headlines
04:24 schestowitz-TR; having said that, above can also b the title os post
04:24 schestowitz-TR; seems they timed layoff for day after mlk day
04:37 techrigthssec; ack
04:37 techrigthssec; The summary could summarize that however? ;)
04:37 techrigthssec; Running the de-javascripting script today over the archived tm gallery archive
04:55 schestowitz-TR; thanks for that
04:55 schestowitz-TR; I've put a draft in while video processes
04:56 schestowitz-TR; btw: gemini clocked ~75k reqs in past 3 days
04:56 schestowitz-TR; did not check what hoards pages
04:56 schestowitz-TR; posts about layoffs still top the list
04:56 schestowitz-TR; which I am happy about as it means people from inside Mirosoft read TR
04:56 schestowitz-TR; like EPO examiners reading about the issues with the patent systems
04:58 schestowitz-TR; when employees of X read TR, it is bad for management and agenda of X
04:58 schestowitz-TR; X= EPO, Microsoft, Sirius...
04:59 techrigthssec; Five of the top 8 are about M$ layoffs, the others are feeds and the main page
04:59 techrigthssec; etc
04:59 techrigthssec; The Edda Franz post is #10
04:59 techrigthssec; gemini://gemini.techrights.org/stats/
04:59 techrigthssec; but that's from a longer period than the last three days
05:02 schestowitz-TR; even if just 10% of them become demoralised, that can already drive positive change
05:02 schestowitz-TR; and it's not easy getting there
05:02 schestowitz-TR; because there are typically preventive, proactove ad hom attacks on person/site
05:02 schestowitz-TR; russia uses that in a dirty way to sir up violence and hatred in europe and elsewhere
05:02 schestowitz-TR; here, it's corporate
05:02 schestowitz-TR; *stir
05:07 techrigthssec; Unfortunately most of the recent traffic seems to be from 'vulpes.one'
05:07 techrigthssec; Microsofters don't change their spots just because Bill has kicked them to
05:07 techrigthssec; the curb. They'll still be operatives for the larger cult until having
05:07 techrigthssec; a deep introspective look and repenting sincerely, or else captured and
05:07 techrigthssec; actively deprogrammed as per other cults.
05:07 techrigthssec; I'm betting that the former is a rare event and that Washington state is
05:07 techrigthssec; unwilling to shell out the money to do the latter, even if it had the backbone
05:07 techrigthssec; to go against a local political donor of that size.
05:07 techrigthssec; Furthermore most probably will be tricked or pressured into signing both
05:07 techrigthssec; NDAs and broad non-disparagement clauses in their separation "agreements"
05:08 schestowitz-TR; yes, them "just leaving" to get a bigger salary elsewhere (e.g. Google) won't solve the issue
05:08 schestowitz-TR; we need to see more Lewises who turn against Microsoft
05:09 techrigthssec; Yes, very much so.
05:10 schestowitz-TR; that depends on what divison/project they worked on
05:10 schestowitz-TR; it is still a (too) large company
05:10 schestowitz-TR; not sure how to consistently make money
05:10 schestowitz-TR; as "monopoly rents" egg away and the product is financialisation
05:10 schestowitz-TR; and graft
05:10 schestowitz-TR; *ebb
05:12 techrigthssec; They subsist on monopoly rents and almost none of the population understands
05:12 techrigthssec; that. The money is not from the "sale" of Windows, it is from the monopoly
05:12 techrigthssec; rents enabled by the OEM monopoly. Likewise, the money is not from the "sale"
05:12 techrigthssec; of MSO, it is from the monopoly rents enabled by the monopoly over productivity
05:12 techrigthssec; software file formats. Thus projects like "OnlyOffice" are exercises in
05:12 techrigthssec; futility as long as they fail to push an open standard like ODF and instead
05:12 techrigthssec; chase m$ ever-changing, undocumented, proprietary formats.
05:14 schestowitz-TR; draft
05:14 schestowitz-TR; I have begun writing some of the later terms in more general terms that might strike a nrve
05:14 schestowitz-TR; at a later point there will be a lengthy summary of the points covered
05:14 schestowitz-TR; and what advice I can give based on my personal experience
05:14 schestowitz-TR; I don't intend to get back into this _kind_ of job
05:18 techrigthssec; Excellent
05:18 techrigthssec; Good point
05:18 techrigthssec; Though some kind of other job can provide a good baseline or interaction outsideof advocacy. It in and of itself
05:18 techrigthssec; would provide localized outreach but also
05:18 techrigthssec; experience of how others are interacting with technology and their viewpoints
05:18 techrigthssec; and challenges.
05:18 techrigthssec; However, your /average/ person has worse than zero knowledge of ICT and actually
05:18 techrigthssec; believe and propagate misinformation about the services they are being used by.
05:19 schestowitz-TR; i am guessing some companies or unis move to microsoft
05:19 schestowitz-TR; when things fail microsot pushes them MORE microsoft
05:19 schestowitz-TR; to "prove" it'll work
05:19 schestowitz-TR; if only everything ran on Microsoft
05:25 techrigthssec; Yes. The problem is always that there wasn't sufficient faith in m$ and that
05:25 techrigthssec; is always solved by buying TheNextVersion(tm) and MOAR of it. For decades the
05:25 techrigthssec; cycle has been the same, it'd work if only they could achieve 100% m$ integration. Once that happens, the target
05:25 techrigthssec; goal posts move, and it would work if only they
05:25 techrigthssec; could purhcase TheNextVersion, and if that happens before they run out of
05:25 techrigthssec; money then the goals posts move again. At that point it becomes, it'd work
05:25 techrigthssec; if only they had the right m$ training. Then by that time, the $TheNextVersion
05:25 techrigthssec; has become $ThePreviousVersion and that part of the cycle starts again. And
05:25 techrigthssec; yes they still blame outright collapses on "Linux people" and your average
05:25 techrigthssec; worker agrees to believe that excuse.
05:25 techrigthssec; Since you mention the divisions enhanced and exploited by the Kremlin, the
05:25 techrigthssec; presence of m$ in the univerisities could be part of that since it severly
05:25 techrigthssec; impairs both learning, teaching, and research in both the short term and
05:25 techrigthssec; the long term, but especially the latter.
05:26 schestowitz-TR; mind if I quote or paraphrase the msft example?
05:30 techrigthssec;
05:30 techrigthssec; Paraphrasing is better if possible
05:30 techrigthssec; low quality hot takes don;t make good quotes unless polished substantiallly
05:30 techrigthssec; The problem is not new, it goes back to the 1990s. But for a recent example
05:30 techrigthssec; look at Aaron Swartz's blog post about CondeNast and why he had no choice but
05:30 techrigthssec; to walk out the door and not look back.
05:30 techrigthssec; http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/officespace
05:30 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.aaronsw.com | Office Space (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
05:53 techrigthssec; PeopleSoft is far worse, and far more expensive, than SAP
05:53 techrigthssec; even
05:53 techrigthssec; "the only winning move is not to play"
06:03 schestowitz-TR; i tried focusing only on grammar
06:03 schestowitz-TR; some people hate being MIS-quoted
06:33 schestowitz-TR; "I suspect modern sites consider it unusual behaviour to log out, or not have their cookies. If you run your browser in private mode, or use security extensions that periodically clear your cookies, or are using VPNs for certain tasks, you know what Im talking about." https://rubenerd.com/do-you-log-out-of-sites/
06:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Rubenerd: Do you log out of sites?
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07:05 schestowitz-TR; the url is wrong, sorry
07:05 schestowitz-TR; I pasted the wrong url
07:05 schestowitz-TR; doign the rest of the sirius series is going to be simpler
07:05 schestowitz-TR; less complex stories to cover from all angles
07:05 schestowitz-TR; and it's partly drafted already
07:05 schestowitz-TR; this week we'll hopefully see some microsoft layoffs
07:06 schestowitz-TR; can do 10 posts/day on average
07:06 schestowitz-TR; i think we're done buying food for now, got a backlog with whole boxes and crates
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07:16 schestowitz-TR; Rumour: Microsoft Managers Trained 4 Days Ago on How to Tell About 5,000 Microsoft Employees That Theyre Sacked | Techrights http://techrights.org/2023/01/16/microsoft-managers-layoff-training/ | Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/01/16/microsoft-managers-layoff-training/
07:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Rumour: Microsoft Managers Trained 4 Days Ago on How to Tell About 5,000 Microsoft Employees That Theyre Sacked | Techrights
07:28 techrigthssec; How will those 5k get de-programmed so that they can change enough to become
07:28 techrigthssec; productive members of society for once?
07:28 techrigthssec; They'd also need serious retraining since due to m$ they are unfit for work
07:28 techrigthssec; anywhere with IT. The mind set for learning IT is probably missing so different
07:28 techrigthssec; fields would be necessary.
07:29 schestowitz-TR; many large firms with similar salary levels have hiring freeze
07:29 schestowitz-TR; this means they might have to aim not downwards
07:29 schestowitz-TR; but another kind of occupation
07:29 schestowitz-TR; then, microsoftism has minimal effect
07:29 schestowitz-TR; lewis does gardening, iirc
07:29 techrigthssec; Yes but Lewis reformed. Most others are still corrupt and ignorant even of how
07:29 techrigthssec; bad the products they are spreading have been, and so will continue to spread
07:29 techrigthssec; them even without further pay.
07:38 schestowitz-TR; with these 5-pound binocular we can both see the city centre buildings at window level
07:38 schestowitz-TR; it's not gigantic optical stack, but enough for most needs
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08:14 schestowitz-TR; (of course many things are becoming more plastic-y over time and shops reassure you that this is ok
08:14 schestowitz-TR; and you should buy it regardless. it's "progress"; new is "better"; we saw some typewriters on sale yesterday)
08:14 schestowitz-TR; ((no, i have no use for them and ribbons are probably expensive anyway these day, like coffee "capsules"))
08:24 techrigthssec; Fabric ribbons can be re-inked. Carbon film ribbons are an environmental
08:24 techrigthssec; problem being plastic and all.
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10:11 schestowitz-TR; i saw a lot of articles about leaving twitter this past week
10:11 schestowitz-TR; one can hope things like these, which many people read, will influence them
10:11 schestowitz-TR; the latest TR post is unfinished
10:11 schestowitz-TR; I published it with typoe as exercise started
10:11 schestowitz-TR; maybe you can spot mistakes, still editing..
10:37 schestowitz-TR; trying to find more topics to cover till links are ready
10:37 schestowitz-TR; 12 posts in past 24 hours
10:38 techrigthssec; The first gallery might be ready: http://news.tuxmachines.org/gallery/
10:38 techrigthssec; The Google Analytics script has been defanged.
10:38 techrigthssec; Anything missing or broken
10:38 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.tuxmachines.org | TuxGallery
10:38 schestowitz-TR; going to ehcek now
10:45 schestowitz-TR; did you stop tm-new?
10:45 schestowitz-TR; or did I do something at the ui that causes it?
10:46 techrigthssec; Thanks
10:46 techrigthssec; No change here but can check
10:49 schestowitz-TR; maybe firewalled?
10:49 schestowitz-TR; i see rss feed link, search box, and advanced search remained unchanged
10:49 schestowitz-TR; lloks like my ip got bloakced for http+s
10:55 techrigthssec; It's still going
10:55 techrigthssec; Should those be changed? They're currently copied verbatim from tm-old
10:55 techrigthssec; checking
10:55 techrigthssec; Which IP address? nft list ruleset | less
11:00 techrigthssec; a BT address is runing wget against tm-new, is that yours?
11:00 techrigthssec; -Another script to neutralize the Advanced Search links is needed
11:00 techrigthssec; Same for the RSS Feed links
11:00 schestowitz-TR; yes, sorry, biab, food
11:07 schestowitz-TR; ok, back, i think that's all I caught before the address got blocked
11:08 schestowitz; <li>
11:08 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://9to5linux.com/kodi-20-nexus-released-with-av1-hardware-decoding-on-linux-pipewire-support">Kodi 20 Nexus Released with AV1 Hardware Decoding on Linux, PipeWire Support</a></h5>
11:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Kodi 20 "Nexus" Released with AV1 Hardware Decoding on Linux, PipeWire Support - 9to5Linux
11:08 schestowitz; <blockquote>
11:08 schestowitz; <p>Kodi 20 Nexus is a massive update that comes nearly two years after Kodi 19 Matrix to introduce major and exciting new features like support for the PipeWire multimedia server, AV1 hardware decoding on Linux via VA-API (Video Acceleration API), AV1 codec support for InputStream, as well as built-in Steam Deck controller support.</p>
11:08 schestowitz; </blockquote>
11:09 schestowitz; </li>
11:41 techrigthssec; It should be unblocked by now. It is just a matter of removing it from
11:41 techrigthssec; the set in NFT. Working on neutralizing the Advanced Search and RSS links.
11:41 techrigthssec; script running
11:41 techrigthssec; It will take a long time
11:55 schestowitz-TR; "It is astonishing how many people are incapable of comprehending the following phrase from the article below..." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/01/twitter-ban/ | Source: Craig Murray
11:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.craigmurray.org.uk | Twitter Ban - Craig Murray
11:58 schestowitz-TR; "All this on a 15 year old blue tick account with 110,000 followers. The account still exists and is visible online, though very difficult to find because of extreme shadowbanning." https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2023/01/twitter-ban/
11:59 schestowitz-TR; in eurasia you don't get silenced
11:59 schestowitz-TR; you "CHOOSE" to say nothing
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12:08 techrigthssec; Yep he's paying the price for having fed twitter.
12:08 techrigthssec; It's a bad situation all around -- still
12:09 schestowitz-TR; it was
12:09 schestowitz-TR; a) inevitable
12:09 schestowitz-TR; b) causing his to blog less
12:09 schestowitz-TR; c) distracted from the importance of rss feeds, mailing lists etc. (in his control/domain)
12:09 schestowitz-TR; s/his/him/
12:10 techrigthssec; d) political in origin
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13:11 schestowitz-TR; the fsf's choice of keynote seems political
13:11 schestowitz-TR; never heard of that speaker
13:11 schestowitz-TR; the fsf became too much about "optics"
13:12 schestowitz-TR; you lose sight of the goal when you assess papers or talks based on desired political outcomes
13:22 techrigthssec; Searching for "fsf" and "keynote"
13:22 techrigthssec; brings up a news.tuxmachines.org link among the first 10 hits
13:22 techrigthssec; :)
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23:20 techrigthssec; The gallery has been updated, though the login link needs to be eliminated still
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