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08:47 schestowitz-TR; you have linked to "Kim Diaz" (SPAM< fictional template)
08:47 schestowitz-TR; in "News Trace" (fake news)
08:47 schestowitz-TR; likely computer-generated clickbair based on some anchent taxt
08:47 schestowitz-TR; I LOLed a bit when I opened it
08:47 schestowitz-TR; I had already added the site to my mental list is not spamSites too
08:47 schestowitz-TR; it's not a real article
08:47 schestowitz-TR; it's webspam
08:47 schestowitz-TR; If Gulag promotes this site, than shame onm Gulag too
08:47 schestowitz-TR; "Kim Diaz" used to have a very sexy picture
08:47 schestowitz-TR; obv. something nicked from somewhere
08:47 Techrights-sec; sorry, I'll add it to the blacklist but I figure that oen was important
08:47 Techrights-sec; to observe in the 'other' links to track what the bullshitters are on about
08:47 Techrights-sec; these days
08:48 schestowitz-TR; one good giveaway it, mostly BS or empoty site footer
08:48 schestowitz-TR; FAR too broad a range of topics, either at top or front page
08:48 Techrights-sec; hence the x preceding the link
08:48 schestowitz-TR; nobody wrote this article
08:48 schestowitz-TR; it's fake
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11:06 Techrights-sec; From IRC, were you able to get in contat with that politician regarding
11:06 Techrights-sec; patents?
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11:10 schestowitz-TR; Udall?
11:10 Techrights-sec; COuld be
11:10 Techrights-sec; There is need for global coordination here since otherwise the patent cartel
11:10 Techrights-sec; or whatever it should be called will otherwise just do a divide-and-conquer
11:10 Techrights-sec; tactic.
11:18 schestowitz-TR; I want to talk to his about the Torture Report, then some about patents
11:18 Techrights-sec; ack
11:19 schestowitz-TR; He and Wyden were working together on that
11:19 schestowitz-TR; I'd love to speak to him directly (not assistants)
11:19 Techrights-sec; cool
11:28 Techrights-sec; the search engine is returning 'patients" instead of "patents"
11:31 Techrights-sec; mobile phones used to last a week or so
11:31 Techrights-sec; piperwire is supposed to be the replacement, I will have t olook at that
11:31 Techrights-sec; in the futute but not now
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13:33 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/Ghost6Shell/status/1526360012741672960#m
13:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Ghost6Shell (@Ghost6Shell): "This is an amazing article over at techdirt; #encryption #rowvswade #techrights #encryptitall https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/16/the-end-of-roe-will-bring-about-a-sea-change-in-the-encryption-debate/" | nitter.it
13:33 schestowitz-TR; .https://nitter.it/puppetmaster0x0/status/1526360053036351488#m
13:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Project 2501 (@puppetmaster0x0): "This is an amazing article over at techdirt; #encryption #rowvswade #techrights #encryptitall https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/16/the-end-of-roe-will-bring-about-a-sea-change-in-the-encryption-debate/" | nitter.it
13:56 schestowitz-TR; ota
13:56 schestowitz-TR; draft
14:00 schestowitz-TR; at work, when I receive a call from the US (more common this year), even without the accent I can tell
14:00 schestowitz-TR; people are rude
14:01 Techrights-sec; ack
14:01 Techrights-sec; checking
14:01 Techrights-sec; the "massive campaign of bribery and blackmail against publishers" could use
14:01 Techrights-sec; a link or something
14:01 schestowitz-TR; I will add some links
14:01 schestowitz-TR; iut's still uploading the video anyway
14:01 schestowitz-TR; IU've meanwhiole added a meme as another draft
14:22 schestowitz-TR; OK, Iv'e added links to the post, now shotput exercise while doiugn final read
14:23 Techrights-sec; ack
14:27 schestowitz-TR; latest gitm push laregly reactiopnary
14:27 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I forget to fetch the latest tags BEFORE finalising daily links
14:27 schestowitz-TR; the issue is now resolved as I pullevery 5 mins and the file is updated when needed
14:27 schestowitz-TR; this will also vastly reduce change of commit conflicts
14:27 schestowitz-TR; the screen shows me when something is pushed within <5 mins
14:27 schestowitz-TR; like a notification so to speak
14:27 schestowitz-TR; but unlike social control media, this one will always be informative
14:34 schestowitz-TR; (ot-ish) lately the reg was not as bad as before. ms tim is not there anymore (he is elsewhere), they
14:34 schestowitz-TR; hired some foss-focused authors, but they still have some issues.
14:34 schestowitz-TR; but it was a lot worse last year
14:59 schestowitz; [14:54] <techrights-news> UK COVID-19 tests waning, even when so many people still get ill (and hundreds per day die with it). Lowest testing rates since 17-08-2020.
14:59 schestowitz; > Its a bit sad, no more roy@diaspora
14:59 schestowitz; >
14:59 schestowitz; > there is also a PATENT file that comes with Go lang licence... u are the expert on patents right? :-p
14:59 schestowitz; >
14:59 schestowitz; > Yeah with the Corona dodging... look at China & NorthKorea ... sorry to say but with Omicron...
14:59 schestowitz; >
14:59 schestowitz; > 1) it is still a prolem, like a hefty flue, those with preconditions (lile asthma) might get into trouble
14:59 schestowitz; >
14:59 schestowitz; > 2) everyone will sooner or later get it, zero covid failed, nature is stronger, mankind was arrogant, what can ye do?
14:59 schestowitz; >
14:59 schestowitz; > The Chinese realize that now too.
14:59 schestowitz; Gulag (Google) is part of the patent "cabal".
14:59 schestowitz; I'm not interested in Go or anything else Gulag controls.
14:59 schestowitz; Regarding COVID-19, responses will improve over time, e.g. pills and stuff. My mom got it twice already, so just "getting it" doesn't mean jack. It harms the body each time. Minimising the number of infections until we can combat this thing like we do the flu... probably worthwhile if one can work from home.
15:01 schestowitz; > As a content creator
15:01 schestowitz; >
15:01 schestowitz; > U might like this web3 presentation :)
15:01 schestowitz; >
15:01 schestowitz; > https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv0pSQxYiFkI'm watching it now, thanks.
15:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.youtube.com | NO TITLE
15:01 schestowitz; I'm very sceptical when I see the term web3, but I will look past the "labels" and pay attention to the substance.
15:01 Techrights-sec; ok I suppose it will be ok to resume checking The Register again for a while_
15:01 Techrights-sec; ?
15:02 schestowitz-TR; probably not worth is unless you pass by it in searches, which is what happens to me as they do
15:02 schestowitz-TR; very dirty SEO thhat plasters their site's articles all over unrelated searches ("related" links
15:02 schestowitz-TR; are scanned by Gulag as "body")
15:04 Techrights-sec; ok I stumble across it sometimes but have previously ignored it when that
15:04 Techrights-sec; happens; I'll give it a second look for now
15:05 schestowitz-TR; 3 days ago I wanted to say that they cover microsoft malware a LOT
15:05 schestowitz-TR; and quite a few unflattering things about Microsoft
15:05 schestowitz-TR; the Microsoft fluff still happens, but not as often this year
15:05 schestowitz-TR; also, for Microsoft malware you need to read between the lines to demonstrate that
15:05 schestowitz-TR; this is in fact windows
15:06 Techrights-sec; Sam is still allowed to do that but most sites and authors treat malware
15:06 Techrights-sec; as an act of God rather than the natural fallout from M$ bad design
15:07 schestowitz-TR; we need to blast them for blaming the victims and attackers
15:07 schestowitz-TR; while the hole makers and those transmitting the malware (NPM/GitHub/Microsoft)
15:07 schestowitz-TR; are seen as merely victims
15:08 Techrights-sec; yes that has been a long term practice by microsofters: blame the victim
15:08 Techrights-sec; it has become so widespread and generaly accepted to do so, such that
15:09 Techrights-sec; even mozilla has started to behave that way
15:50 schestowitz-TR; The Web cancels fast
15:50 schestowitz-TR; Forgots fast
15:50 schestowitz-TR; Loses information fast
15:50 schestowitz-TR; inc. any syllabus
15:50 schestowitz-TR; so I made local copies of many things over the years
15:50 schestowitz-TR; inc. Web pages
15:50 schestowitz-TR; I don't even know the URL of the norsoc site anymore
15:50 schestowitz-TR; so it would be hard to check the Wayback Machine
15:50 schestowitz-TR; maybe very old backups have it in the bookmarks somewhere
15:51 Techrights-sec; ack
15:51 Techrights-sec; It's hard to make copies of everyting "just in case" That's what libraries and
15:51 Techrights-sec; archives used to do but don't any more
15:51 Techrights-sec; One library in Canada was supposed to keep a copy of a reference specification
15:51 Techrights-sec; of the final draft of a specific standard and got money to do so. Then
15:51 Techrights-sec; a few years later deleted the etirety of the last remaining copy i nthe world
15:51 Techrights-sec; from their web site to save a few kilobytes becase it "was not accessed so often:
15:52 Techrights-sec; "
15:52 Techrights-sec; It cost them extra work to delete it, it cost them nothing to keep it unmolested
15:52 Techrights-sec; and furthermore they had already accepted the money to keep the copy on record
15:52 Techrights-sec; for more than just a few months
15:52 schestowitz-TR; not everyone thinks like you
15:52 schestowitz-TR; and therein lies the issue
15:53 Techrights-sec; Archival librarians are supposed to do their job in regards to preservation
15:53 Techrights-sec; especially when the contract stipulates it.
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15:55 schestowitz-TR; if you are technical and not on shoestring budget, you can take advantage of the situation
15:55 schestowitz-TR; as long as the Web is "open" and storage is cheap, you can step in and fill the gap
15:55 schestowitz-TR; while many "news" sites perish the last account og events will be yours
15:55 schestowitz-TR; then, the lawyer of Mr. Hovsepian will adk you ever so kindly to delete your own record
15:55 schestowitz-TR; so you have one extra letter to add to the "ecollection"
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16:08 schestowitz-TR; Phoronix today: "Microsoft's Newest Linux Driver..." Way to piss off and turn off your audience, Michael.
16:08 schestowitz-TR; Sometimes (esp. this year) it feels like Schneier 'died' or sold/licensed his name/blog for the state to "field"... this isn't the same person who cared deeply for Real Security. Very disappointing. :/
16:08 schestowitz-TR; Ubuntu Kylin 20.04 OS works on RISC-V hardware http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/164901#comment-33697
16:08 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | China's Kylin Linux targets second RISC-V platform | Tux Machines
16:10 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Today's society and its digital platforms thrive on engagement. What's the most engaging thing? Content that produces the extremes of human emotions. Usually, that is, borderline gore, blantant clickbait that induces rage, acting like the end of the world is near, arguing online about useless things, and the list can go on." gemini://altesq.net/~masqq/gemlog/2022-05-17.gmi
16:11 schestowitz-TR; "A microwave oven on low may put out a couple of hundred watts; a cell phone struggling to reach a tower, maybe 3 watts, and will get hot in your hand. So you get to cook your brain _very_ slowly. But living behind a microwave antenna -- all bets are off." gemini://gemini.ctrl-c.club/~stack/gemlog/2022-05-17.cell.gmi
16:24 Techrights-sec; yep
16:27 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> This is openwashing, paid-for openwash-as-a-service, as Bloomberg is proprietary-first; OSI lost touch and sight of its original purpose, which it now undermines for cash (only about 3% of less of OSI's money comes from members; it's corporate) https://blog.opensource.org/memray-project-showcases-why-bloomberg-is-an-open-source-first-company/ http://techrights.org/2021/12/30/osi-budget-for-proprietary-software-monopoly/
16:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.opensource.org | Memray project showcases why Bloomberg is an open source first company
16:27 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- blog.opensource.org | Memray project showcases why Bloomberg is an open source first company
16:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | In the Latest OSI Tax Filing (From the IRS), Filed 13 Months Ago, Only 4% of the Revenue Comes From Members (People, Not Corporations) and $252,702 Goes to Microsoft Projects (Propping Up Proprietary Software Monopoly) | Techrights
16:27 schestowitz-TR; techrights.org | In the Latest OSI Tax Filing (From the IRS), Filed 13 Months Ago, Only 4% of the Revenue Comes From Members (People, Not Corporations) and $252,702 Goes to Microsoft Projects (Propping Up Proprietary Software Monopoly) | Techrights
16:27 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> OSI says that a proprietary Wall Street firm is "open", but this is GitHub (proprietary/Microsoft) promotion. i.e. more of the same from OSI
16:27 schestowitz-TR; It is so ironic that an organisation called "accessnow" has outsourced to an oligarchs-owned censorship platform and speaks about "privacy" when that platform is notorious for its mass surveillance and manipulation thereof https://www.accessnow.org/cpdp-2022/
16:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.accessnow.org | Where can you find Access Now at CPDP 2022? - Access Now
16:28 schestowitz-TR; I've come to the conclusion that the Web is "garbage amplifier" and "reinforcer"
16:28 schestowitz-TR; even the EFF
16:28 schestowitz-TR; look what those people (the news ones) are doing
16:28 schestowitz-TR; *new
16:30 schestowitz-TR; christine has once again abandoned her site
16:30 schestowitz-TR; and is going ibm stenography again
16:30 schestowitz-TR; habitually throwing snide remarks at those who criticise those who pay her
16:30 schestowitz-TR; which is basically what they pay for
16:32 Techrights-sec; tragic
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16:54 Techrights-sec; with twitter, the public usually misinterprets snideness as correctness
16:54 Techrights-sec; and the medium is to abbreviated to dive into any facts, deeply or shallowl
16:54 Techrights-sec; y
16:57 schestowitz-TR; moments ago I went out of my way to avoid
16:57 schestowitz-TR; a) billBC
16:57 schestowitz-TR; b) socialcontrolmedia
16:57 schestowitz-TR; to get some update on toinights Liverpool FC game
16:57 schestowitz-TR; I nowadays go to the official sites of the team
16:57 schestowitz-TR; they usually have fine ways to display what's going on
16:57 schestowitz-TR; but most people do not value official sources
16:57 schestowitz-TR; and the teams two emphasise the outsourcing
16:57 schestowitz-TR; like the official manchester city fc site would show a TWEET
16:57 schestowitz-TR; with the player lineup
16:57 schestowitz-TR; as embedded element
16:57 schestowitz-TR; instead of writing it properly in the site
16:57 schestowitz-TR; without hashtags and spying and all that
16:57 schestowitz-TR; as if they MUST do this via Twitter
16:57 schestowitz-TR; their site won't be visited much
16:57 schestowitz-TR; nor will they control their OWN message
16:57 schestowitz-TR; if they carry on doing this
16:57 schestowitz-TR; politicians alike
16:57 schestowitz-TR; they will hav e ba million fake "followers"
16:57 schestowitz-TR; and maybe a thousand people visiting their site
16:57 schestowitz-TR; YouTube "stars" with a site nobody visits
16:58 schestowitz-TR; but millionf of subs
16:58 schestowitz-TR; that guag no longer informs
16:58 schestowitz-TR; no rss feeds
17:01 Techrights-sec; yes, it's strange that some people go very far out of their way to avoid the
17:01 Techrights-sec; official site for their team
17:01 Techrights-sec; every site that sends people away and over to social control media loses out
17:01 Techrights-sec; just a bit more each time it happens
17:01 Techrights-sec; https://www.geekwire.com/2017/oatmeal-creator-rips-facebook-comic-facebook-asks-wants-boost-post/
17:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-'The Oatmeal' creator rips Facebook in comic and Facebook asks if he wants to 'boost' the post GeekWire
17:01 Techrights-sec; some people get it
17:04 schestowitz-TR; someone from germany who followed me via diaspora thought something had happened to me
17:04 schestowitz-TR; wrongly assuming I only exist in that context
17:04 schestowitz-TR; my dad, boorish enough to think FB ons Twitter and that all I do online was "tweet"
17:04 schestowitz-TR; (he could barely tell the difference), worried when I did not "tweet" for a whole
17:04 schestowitz-TR; there was really never a need to adopt identica, as trmanco wanted me to,
17:04 schestowitz-TR; but back then the malignant elemented had not yet shown themselves
17:04 schestowitz-TR; we already had IRC
17:04 schestowitz-TR; I think the german guy is noted in today's irc logs
17:04 schestowitz-TR; maybe I underestimated how many people "followed" in OTHER pods of
17:04 schestowitz-TR; identica
17:04 schestowitz-TR; but really, all pods are ticking time bombs
17:09 Techrights-sec; interesting, I hope you were able to widen his horizons as to the available
17:09 Techrights-sec; technologies and services
17:09 Techrights-sec; one problem of many with the 'pods' and such is the extremely heavy overhead
17:09 Techrights-sec; and high maintenance; too many people build things out until the verge of
17:09 Techrights-sec; collapse and then hover at the brink; Gemini is a refreshing change from
17:09 Techrights-sec; that;
17:12 schestowitz-TR; gemini does not hae to be "ugly" either
17:12 schestowitz-TR; client side, DE side etc. you can enhance the appearance
17:12 schestowitz-TR; and make it suit your own prefs
17:12 schestowitz-TR; but the upside is, plain text files, low b/w (hence cost)
17:12 schestowitz-TR; though I think "tying" together the space would help
17:12 schestowitz-TR; hence I try to gradually make a sort of "directory"
17:12 schestowitz-TR; doing a search engine is hard and expensive
17:12 schestowitz-TR; directories are cheap
17:12 schestowitz-TR; like dmoz before people said "just gulag it!"
17:24 schestowitz-TR; these ~30 lemons we bought may help us lose weight, they're good appetite suppressors
17:24 schestowitz-TR; either
17:24 schestowitz-TR; with tea of just water. We plan another journey tomorrow if the weather is as OK as forecasted
17:24 schestowitz-TR; I'm "low" on topiscs to cover at the moment, but not short on time, this morning I finished a series of 4 shifts
17:26 Techrights-sec; ack
17:26 schestowitz-TR; I did trawl invidious for interesting videos
17:27 schestowitz-TR; but it's very time-consuming with low roi
17:45 Techrights-sec; videos are mostly a waste of time unless there is a specific post referencing
17:45 Techrights-sec; it and giving a good indication why it /might/ be worth watching. even
17:45 Techrights-sec; then you won't know until having spent some time on it.
17:46 schestowitz-TR; let me check spamnil
17:46 schestowitz-TR; spamnil seems to have run out of "bot credits"
17:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe he should ask Sheela and James for some more tokens
17:46 schestowitz-TR; latest video 2 days ago,. 11 views
17:47 schestowitz-TR; what a star filmmaker
17:47 Techrights-sec; RIPE84 has most of its presentations online
17:47 Techrights-sec; :/
17:47 Techrights-sec; If they just shut everything down, there would have been an uproar and negative
17:47 Techrights-sec; press. If they let spamnil ruin it for a while, people will be relieved that
17:47 Techrights-sec; it (he) is gone, when they finally do get around to pulling the plug
17:49 schestowitz-TR; "fake it till you make it mode"
17:49 schestowitz-TR; fake= bot farms
17:49 schestowitz-TR; like "air support" (plane or artillery)
17:49 schestowitz-TR; there isa delay between the request and the time it's "actioned"
17:49 schestowitz-TR; and it works in "clusters"
17:49 Techrights-sec; https://ripe84.ripe.net/archives/
17:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-ripe84.ripe.net | Archives RIPE 84
17:50 schestowitz-TR; tdf/libo also outsourced to gulag
17:50 schestowitz-TR; but it has this plugin that absically demands you click to unfold the embed
17:50 schestowitz-TR; like a privacy condom of sorts
17:50 schestowitz-TR; I did not check where they host their site/s
17:50 Techrights-sec; :(
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17:51 schestowitz-TR; like debian, gulag sends money their way
17:51 schestowitz-TR; so tdf almost never says anything bad abot gulag apps
17:51 schestowitz-TR; gulag-sweet
17:51 schestowitz-TR; (*gsuite)
17:52 Techrights-sec; openwashing is a perennial topic: https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/05/15/1139243
17:52 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-soylentnews.org | Open Source Community Sets Out Path to Secure Software - SoylentNews
17:53 schestowitz-TR; I think you sdsent this to me
17:53 schestowitz-TR; without an "x"
17:53 schestowitz-TR; so I responded by adding some words to accompany that
17:53 schestowitz-TR; I think one positive and constructive approach is,
17:53 schestowitz-TR; remind people what lf is
17:53 schestowitz-TR; agan and again
17:53 schestowitz-TR; until people realise who or what is telling them those things
17:53 schestowitz-TR; and become cynical
17:56 schestowitz-TR; "yo spamnil, your video from 2 months ago has 12 views... the one next to it 700... and it's about something
17:56 schestowitz-TR; as dry as a tumble-drier)
17:56 schestowitz-TR; you could writ e atool with gulag api (bound to break at a whim) that takes channel ID
17:56 schestowitz-TR; and then does some heuristics to tell you if it's a spam/bot shit
17:56 schestowitz-TR; like spamnil's
17:56 schestowitz-TR; gulag probably has such a thing already
17:56 schestowitz-TR; but turns ablind eye
17:56 schestowitz-TR; this "content creator" is paid by a "third party"
17:57 schestowitz-TR; just checked twitter analytics
17:57 schestowitz-TR; it's impressive
17:57 schestowitz-TR; the momentr musk complaint about "bots"
17:57 schestowitz-TR; my daily impressions are halved
17:57 schestowitz-TR; every day :-)
17:58 schestowitz-TR; the web is fake
18:05 Techrights-sec; I hope the investors figure out that Twitter is so fake
18:05 Techrights-sec; Anything lately about 'bugdoors' ?
18:07 schestowitz-TR; yes,
18:07 schestowitz-TR; 1) Schneier boosting and endorsing NSA claims
18:07 schestowitz-TR; 2) TechDirt wrote about encryption yesterday, naming Snowden
18:07 schestowitz-TR; 3) some more BS from Schneier
18:07 schestowitz-TR; Schneier might soon become a meme like Microbell
18:07 schestowitz-TR; I wrote severalk things about CISA last night
18:09 schestowitz-TR; (bonus: daniel p thinks that debian started harping about firmware blobs
18:09 schestowitz-TR; to distract from a new thread, which he was engaged in, regarding spy agencies
18:09 schestowitz-TR; controlling a few devs in the Debian project without ever disclosing it
18:09 schestowitz-TR; the vetting process in Debian has no way to stepo this
18:09 schestowitz-TR; like goiv. clearances
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and kaniini told me says ago they now adopt a better practice
18:09 schestowitz-TR; in alpine for this reason)
18:10 Techrights-sec; controlling debian percolates down to /hundreds/ of derivative distros both
18:10 Techrights-sec; directly and indirectly
18:10 Techrights-sec; can Alpine continue to stand tall? Debian was doing rather well for many
18:10 Techrights-sec; years but was weakened when Mark Shuttleworth hired away too many key people
18:10 Techrights-sec; for his project; then who knows WTF really happened with systemd, not only
18:10 Techrights-sec; did one guy make the call, nearly *everyone* else toed the line and kicked
18:10 Techrights-sec; out not just dissenters but skeptics and even neutral parties.
18:11 schestowitz-TR; maybe you can find some incriminating material on LP and team
18:11 schestowitz-TR; post-hoc
18:11 schestowitz-TR; it is a very time-consuming process
18:11 schestowitz-TR; the video predates much of the controversy
18:12 schestowitz-TR; back in the PA+avahi days
18:13 Techrights-sec; Seeing Poettering in that 2011 panel, I;m almost surprised that the others
18:13 Techrights-sec; on the stage didn't just throw a tarp over him and start kicking and punching
18:13 Techrights-sec; To find anything incriminating on the Debian TC would require someone involved
18:13 Techrights-sec; coming clean in one way or another. They'd be readily identifiable and
18:13 Techrights-sec; retribution would be certain, based on the way the public and even other devs
18:13 Techrights-sec; were treated post-decision.
18:17 schestowitz-TR; shortly after I had moved offic we decided not to go "inbox zero" on patents
18:17 schestowitz-TR; so it freed up time
18:17 schestowitz-TR; and except EPO exclusives we can dig into Free software matter
18:17 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the remainder about github lacks spunk becuase of the departure
18:17 schestowitz-TR; e.g. stephenie schatz friedman
18:17 schestowitz-TR; so we need to iddentity priority issues
18:17 schestowitz-TR; then work towards outcomes
18:17 schestowitz-TR; the LF focus (and torvalds) isa respons to their "seucirty" PR
18:17 schestowitz-TR; grnades
18:17 schestowitz-TR; that make it into MSM
18:17 schestowitz-TR; with "open source" champions like Microsoft
18:19 schestowitz-TR; ping
18:19 schestowitz-TR; phoronix is a sinking ship (scrollback warning):
18:21 Techrights-sec; pong
18:21 Techrights-sec; yes that's really too bad since he did such great work consistently for
18:21 Techrights-sec; many years
18:21 Techrights-sec; ack
18:22 Techrights-sec; ack
18:22 Techrights-sec; The Turing Pi and a great many other pi-derived projects are quite interesting
18:22 Techrights-sec; but are all contingent on RPF surviving a while longe despite being infiltrated
18:22 Techrights-sec; at both the board and the engineer level by microsofters
18:23 schestowitz-TR; china as mangopi
18:23 schestowitz-TR; sooner or later the chinese will beat the welsh at their own game
18:23 schestowitz-TR; they also control the supply chain and rare earth
18:24 schestowitz-TR; I love mango
18:24 schestowitz-TR; you will know RPF loses the plot when it starts abusing TM law to try to shut down similarly-named
18:24 schestowitz-TR; rivals
18:24 schestowitz-TR; inc. banana and jetson/nano
18:24 schestowitz-TR; beagelboard we don'\t hear much about
18:24 schestowitz-TR; or gumstix
18:27 Techrights-sec; The RPi is not about cost, it is about education. As long as they stick to
18:27 Techrights-sec; that, they can maintain their lead. But if they go off on a tangent or turn
18:27 Techrights-sec; to moneygrubbing then of course they will get surpassed quickly.
18:31 schestowitz-TR; maybe the item is thus shared among the stuff or their friends
18:31 schestowitz-TR; *staff
18:31 schestowitz-TR; that would encourage making the service worse
18:31 schestowitz-TR; we already lost a parcl ages ago
18:31 schestowitz-TR; when I say shared I mean stolen
18:31 schestowitz-TR; I know how they treat lost/unclaimed items at the gym
18:31 schestowitz-TR; unofficially "auctioned" but more likely claimed by an insider or a friend
18:31 schestowitz-TR; in a rigged process
18:31 schestowitz-TR; some are high-value items
18:31 schestowitz-TR; like fancy watches
18:32 Techrights-sec; could be. France is like that.
18:34 schestowitz-TR; anyway, let me know if you find a good topic
18:34 schestowitz-TR; I'm starving for a new set of topic
18:34 schestowitz-TR; github stuff is there and will be unshelved when the time is strateggic
18:34 schestowitz-TR; like the next github debacle
18:36 Techrights-sec; ok
18:38 schestowitz-TR; rianne back, no discounts found today except milk :/
18:38 schestowitz-TR; I am guessing competition has increased
18:38 Techrights-sec; ok
18:38 Techrights-sec; probably
18:39 schestowitz-TR; she said athat at one shop (she checks about 7 small ones) the front page of a "news"
18:39 schestowitz-TR; paper said
18:39 schestowitz-TR; "if you are poor, find a job that pays better" (paraphrasing)
18:39 schestowitz-TR; I said, that's why ytou should ignore the oligarchs' press
18:39 schestowitz-TR; ivanka: start something news
18:39 schestowitz-TR; kushner the husband: blacks need to want to succeed
18:39 schestowitz-TR; poor shaming -> poor blaming
18:39 schestowitz-TR; "STOP BEING POOR!!"
18:39 Techrights-sec; :(
18:39 Techrights-sec; blame the victims is not just an M$ trend any more
18:40 schestowitz-TR; One SBM per child
18:40 schestowitz-TR; *SBOM
18:40 schestowitz-TR; itwire's stan beer wrote an article some days ago where he said Microsoft now charges money to fix its own mess
18:40 schestowitz-TR; I un--disabled the itwire feed in quiterrss but most days there are zero items
18:40 schestowitz-TR; very weird
18:42 schestowitz-TR; as they cannot even maintain a consistent host and have at one point outsourced to microsloth
18:42 schestowitz-TR; you might wish to set expectations accordingly
18:42 schestowitz-TR; maybeon their last foot
18:43 Techrights-sec; I hope they shake out of it, they have some good articles there though
18:43 Techrights-sec; maybe 75% - 80% of them are by Sam
18:43 schestowitz-TR; you are referring to one person as "they" :-)
18:44 Techrights-sec; he does almost all the heavy lifting there
18:44 Techrights-sec; there are on occasion more than one author, but I cannot remember the names
18:44 Techrights-sec; besides Sam
18:44 schestowitz-TR; more than a decade ago, in the digg days, there was david williams (or williamson)
18:44 schestowitz-TR; I don't think he writes there anymore
18:45 Techrights-sec; the more worrying trend is that it seems there are many aricles by "staff"
18:45 schestowitz-TR; itwire's microsoft booster dave winder (or similar) moved to forbes
18:45 schestowitz-TR; and the editor is no longer stan beer afaik
18:46 Techrights-sec; that's too bad, Forbes was dabbling in FOSS topics for a while
18:46 Techrights-sec; I guess their bosses shut that down.
18:49 schestowitz-TR; jason evangelho wrote about steam deck there EVERY DAY
18:49 schestowitz-TR; then I did a post showing the pattern
18:49 schestowitz-TR; then he vanished! :-)
18:49 schestowitz-TR; like they saw him and sacked him on the spot
18:49 schestowitz-TR; but deck is not an enemy
18:49 schestowitz-TR; days ago, in rely to lunduke article re suse
18:49 schestowitz-TR; jason evangelho said in twitter that lunmduke had questioned his credibility and authenticity
18:49 schestowitz-TR; I also got mail claiming the same
18:49 schestowitz-TR; forbes is not journalism
18:49 schestowitz-TR; they have clientele
18:49 schestowitz-TR; like "TLG", the man formerly known as Linux something
18:51 Techrights-sec; yes they sell a message rather than do proper reporting or at least confine
18:51 Techrights-sec; their reporting in such a way as to limit it to being on-message
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19:17 schestowitz-TR; 0/
19:17 schestowitz-TR; hi, techrights_guest|95
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20:20 schestowitz-TR; [20:18] <techrights-news> Linux Foundation continues to behave like a front group of enemies of Linux, spreading the same FUD they do and distracting from prorperietary software having back doors https://www.scmagazine.com/perspective/devops/open-source-burnout-an-opening-to-more-security-gaps
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21:42 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/LuureAmet/status/1526563874203488260#m.
21:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LuureAmet (@LuureAmet): "Rick Allen Jones -> KGB smearier agent as is Epstein. It had nothing to do whit "Bill Home",except Agent should have been fired for being gay-in USA not allowed to test it. Always try to add most realistic links to accusations: http://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/14-22121-1_Redacted.pdf #RickAllenJones #RickJones" | nitter.it
21:42 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/osintph/status/1526561982534631425#m
21:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-OSINTPH (@osintph): "Links 10/05/2022: Fedora Linux 36 Released | Techrights https://cstu.io/abbda3 #InformationTechnology" | nitter.it
21:53 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> apt search rss whats in the repo? https://dwaves.de/2022/05/17/apt-search-rss-whats-in-the-repo/
21:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- apt search rss whats in the repo? | dwaves.de
21:53 schestowitz-TR; seems like he took my advice and will follow using rss feeds, not diaspora
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22:00 schestowitz-TR; "YLE Teksti-TV is the teletext service provided by Finland's national broadcasting company." gemini://skyjake.fi/teksti-tv/about.gmi
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22:29 schestowitz-TR; rianne and I decided that the longterm plan (to eventually leave the company) still stands
22:29 schestowitz-TR; we continue to milk so to speak, but there's no assurance that 1) we'll be a respectable company (old issue)
22:29 schestowitz-TR; 2) the company will survive for many more years
22:30 schestowitz-TR; I passed rianne her very old CV, which is in latex. she wants to pursue a similar role, there's really nothing to lose
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