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01:01 schestowitz-pi; it looks like yesterday we published about 600-700 links, likely all-time high
01:01 schestowitz-pi; and I'm still merely adapting
01:01 schestowitz-pi; i initially planned to do some articles and videos, but none was truly urgent
01:01 schestowitz-pi; still to come: major EPO leaks (zoobab/ffii), pensiongate, more on github
01:01 schestowitz-pi; it'll be a productive year for syre
01:01 schestowitz-pi; *sure
01:59 techrights[sec]; quality and relevance are better than quantity with the link curation
01:59 schestowitz-pi; yes, this is the objective
02:00 schestowitz-pi; it also gets clustered and organised
02:00 schestowitz-pi; in tuxmachines we have a sort of growing 'library' of coverage for key events
02:02 techrights[sec]; Event coverage is important even if m$ has been attacking events for years now
02:02 techrights[sec]; via the event organizers and funders.
02:04 schestowitz-pi; i still find time to add some "Ed"itorial comments where needed
02:04 schestowitz-pi; on patents, FOSS etc.
02:04 schestowitz-pi; as that helps contextualise
02:04 schestowitz-pi; but all in all, i think Daily Links will become a lot more extensive in the post-quiterss era
02:04 schestowitz-pi; rianne still uses quiterss and covers the core issues very quickly
02:04 schestowitz-pi; when I'm asleep
02:04 schestowitz-pi; usually 6-midnight
02:04 techrights[sec]; What does she find most advantageous about QuiteRSS?
02:04 schestowitz-pi; probably habits
02:04 schestowitz-pi; she still uses thunderbird for rss too
02:04 schestowitz-pi; but not much
02:04 schestowitz-pi; mozilla ruined that
02:08 techrights[sec]; I wish Thunderbird had focused on mail processing instead of chasing everything
02:08 techrights[sec]; except mail processing.
02:08 techrights[sec]; I haven't checked but I suppose it has a music player built in by now :/
02:09 schestowitz-pi; no, they already killed almost every useful extension for thunderbird
02:09 schestowitz-pi; i stopped caring, as I don't use it much anymore
02:09 schestowitz-pi; just out of need
02:09 schestowitz-pi; but they sucked the fun out of it
02:25 techrights[sec]; It's still not got a replacement, though Google as all but banned access.
02:26 schestowitz-pi; i reckon email will get used less over time
02:26 schestowitz-pi; same for snail mail/post
02:26 schestowitz-pi; so just like knode, it'll go away when the protocol dies
02:29 techrights[sec]; E-mail, as it was back pre-spam, and certainly pre-embedded HTML is still
02:29 techrights[sec]; exceptionally useful. But that is why GAFAM and various supporting agencies
02:29 techrights[sec]; aim to kill it. The mail protocols are all but dead. M$ has carved out its
02:29 techrights[sec]; market and Google has carved out its market and both appear to use proprietary
02:29 techrights[sec]; protocols internally and broken variants of standard protocols on the times
02:29 techrights[sec]; they deign to communicate externally.
02:29 schestowitz-pi; if they take the advice/choice of Mr. Kink "Google is Your Friend"
02:29 schestowitz-pi; then dark times ahead
02:29 schestowitz-pi; turns out other senior colleagues really disliked that
02:30 schestowitz-pi; and left
02:30 schestowitz-pi; thankfully, however, I'm no longer part of "the [or this] system"
02:30 schestowitz-pi; so I get to watch from afar
02:47 techrights[sec]; https://web.archive.org/web/20041231030825/http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0%2C1283%2C5060%2C00.html
02:47 techrights[sec]; The original has been erased / hidden by Conde Nast
02:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-web.archive.org | Wired News: Spamming Lawyer Disbarred
02:48 schestowitz-pi; conde nast has a business model
02:48 schestowitz-pi; it's not journalism
02:54 techrights[sec]; :(
02:55 schestowitz-pi; blunt
02:55 schestowitz-pi; but afaik true
02:55 schestowitz-pi; see also News Corp.
02:55 schestowitz-pi; thankfully, they too have many layoffs
02:55 schestowitz-pi; turns out even the hate and disinformation business cannot thrive in times like these
02:57 schestowitz-pi; first layer of credibility is trust and reputation
02:57 schestowitz-pi; News Corp did not have that
02:57 schestowitz-pi; but compensating by pandering to very bad people worked for a while
02:57 schestowitz-pi; as for conde nast, it did many "bill sez"-type 'journalism'
02:57 schestowitz-pi; and also attacked RMS and LT a lot
02:57 schestowitz-pi; so f* them!!
02:57 techrights[sec]; News Corporation went under abuot a decade ago.
02:57 techrights[sec]; It was Rupert Murdoch
02:58 schestowitz-pi; you mean LT? RMS? I remember the timeline roughly and can comment from memory
02:58 schestowitz-pi; tuxmachines also had them catalogued chronologically
02:58 schestowitz-pi; i kept telling rianne it would come in handy later on
03:02 schestowitz-pi; btw, tangentially related:
03:02 schestowitz-pi; zdnet and techrepublic reduced editor time to 1 or 2 timesd a week
03:02 schestowitz-pi; you can see the publication patterns
03:02 schestowitz-pi; cnet is already run by seo bots
03:02 schestowitz-pi; spamfarm with some hey hi mildly "edited" by some actual person
03:02 schestowitz-pi; watch the contents of their rss feed if you don't believe me
03:02 schestowitz-pi; same company, same cms as zdnet et al
03:02 schestowitz-pi; they are cashing in before going stale or offline
03:03 schestowitz-pi; used to have download.com
03:03 schestowitz-pi; in the 1990s boon era
03:03 schestowitz-pi; and news.com
03:08 schestowitz-pi; 1) publishers come and go all the time (remember Linux Journal?)
03:08 schestowitz-pi; 2) people come and go (remember bully de blanc?)
03:08 schestowitz-pi; 3) companies rise and fall (novell?)
03:08 schestowitz-pi; EPO is falling BTW, you need to see internal and external comments about them. I view UPC as an effort
03:08 schestowitz-pi; to ram down INVALID patens down our throats, 'judge' Grabinski colluding with Team Battistelli/Campinos
03:20 schestowitz-TR2; SPOT ON: "In late 2021 Facebook rebranded as Meta during a recorded event in which they tried convincing us that the metaverse was the future of our lives and that they were going to be at the center of it. Now, nearly a year and a half later, the word "metaverse" is little more than a meme." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2023-02-15-is-ai-this-years-metaverse.gmi
03:20 schestowitz-TR2; "So here we are today. ChatGPT has had an explosion of interest unlike anything before and companies are racing each other to be the first to capitalize on it. Notably, both Microsoft and Google are rolling AI chat bots into their search engines. Microsoft already has a public early access version available." gemini://moddedbear.xyz/logs/2023-02-15-is-ai-this-years-metaverse.gmi
03:20 techrights[sec];
03:20 techrights[sec]; I stopped following CNET a long while ago for that reason, it is painfully
03:20 techrights[sec]; obvious about the lack of quality.
03:24 schestowitz-pi; afaik, zdnet is still composed by human beings
03:24 schestowitz-pi; but poorly
03:24 schestowitz-pi; some is "dressed up" press releases
03:25 schestowitz-pi; meanwhile, techrepublic is another story
03:25 schestowitz-pi; aside from microsoft moles like mary and simon
03:25 schestowitz-pi; it has diploma mill spam
03:25 techrights[sec]; They churn out only filler these days and it's fooling fewer and fewer people.
03:25 schestowitz-pi; sponsored "white papers'
03:25 schestowitz-pi; and last week another new form of spam
03:25 schestowitz-pi; i saw an "openRAN" spam piece
03:25 schestowitz-pi; they are clealy sablling and exploring
03:25 schestowitz-pi; cnet is a mix of seo, spam, and CG (not HEY HI) "content"
03:25 schestowitz-pi; it'll fail badly
03:25 schestowitz-pi; gulag will stop givcing them googlejuice in the name of relevance
03:25 schestowitz-pi; and penalise that domain
03:25 schestowitz-pi; cnet would even spam football games, upcoming football matches, knowing
03:25 schestowitz-pi; many would search for streams. cnet was a TECH site
03:25 schestowitz-pi; engadget became spam partner of microsoft, so i started passing over it completely
03:25 schestowitz-pi; engadget also started posting more and more 'shopping spam' (long yahoo urls with referrer tokens)
03:25 schestowitz-pi; disguised as "articles", "best", and "deals"
03:25 schestowitz-pi; f* this shit, the wwww is a mess!!
03:27 techrights[sec]; I had been ignoring Egadget too, also for quality reasons
03:29 schestowitz-pi; The Register is an odd one
03:30 schestowitz-pi; I added the rss feeds for only 2 authors
03:30 schestowitz-pi; they became less active
03:30 schestowitz-pi; after some initial flurry of postings
03:30 schestowitz-pi; sjvn started his own site, AGAIN
03:30 schestowitz-pi; maybe 4th time
03:30 schestowitz-pi; and it loses momentum already
03:30 schestowitz-pi; they think stuff like Google+ and Twitter followers are an RSS feed
03:30 schestowitz-pi; rant: rianne on and on for hours with siste on mumble
03:30 schestowitz-pi; talking about youtueb "subscribers" and FB "fans" or whatever they call it
03:30 schestowitz-pi; they mistake some privatised social control media sites foer popuilarity
03:30 schestowitz-pi; so i had to budg in several times to correct
03:30 schestowitz-pi; *budge
05:02 schestowitz-TR2; GOT FOUR VACCINE DOSES... and ..... "It hurts to look at a screen and type, so logging off for now. See you again soon." https://rubenerd.com/caught-covid/
05:02 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Failed connect to rubenerd.com:443; No route to host ( status 0 @ https://rubenerd.com/caught-covid/ )
05:06 schestowitz-pi; clean and quarantine things: an hour per week
05:06 schestowitz-pi; isolate from people: compromise, for now
05:06 schestowitz-pi; he will have days of "downtime" now
05:06 schestowitz-pi; not counting long-term harms, which are partly unknown for now (no long-term studies yet)
05:06 schestowitz-pi; f* these polciies, and f* BillPR (NPR)
05:06 schestowitz-pi; stop shaming people into getting infected and reinfected
05:06 schestowitz-pi; boosters tested on mice are of questionable quality
05:06 schestowitz-pi; yesterday I studied UK suicide figures
05:06 schestowitz-pi; an increase in suicide per week barely 50 per week
05:06 schestowitz-pi; so a surplus in deaths (2000-3000 per week) is not due to suicides
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