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00:41 schestowitz-TR; https://www.fsf.org/blogs/gnu-press/beat-the-heat-with-gnu-summer-swag
00:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fsf.org | Beat the heat with GNU summer swag Free Software Foundation Working together for free software
00:41 schestowitz-TR; now you know fsf means business ;-)
01:08 DaemonFC; I especially like how when you hover over the images in Firefox it repeatedly zooms in and out.
01:08 DaemonFC; Very good site design.
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07:41 schestowitz-TR; i went tp shop.fsf.org
07:41 schestowitz-TR; DaemonFC: I see what you mean now
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11:07 Techrights-sec2; there's no date on this post: https://fsfe.org/activities/upcyclingandroid/openletter.en.html
11:07 Techrights-sec2; and for that matter theu are still using the FSFe name
11:07 Techrights-sec2; no info even in document metadata
11:07 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fsfe.org | Open letter for the right to install any software on any device - FSFE
11:07 schestowitz-TR; using a 37-year-old brand helps them 'dope' their way into the limelight
11:07 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:21 Techrights-sec2; also there was apparently another"decision" against JA again, but it's not
11:21 Techrights-sec2; really picked up by any sites yet (if it ever will be)
11:21 Techrights-sec2; the decision has been kind of a done deal when they 1) failed to recuse
11:21 Techrights-sec2; the judge who had a conflict of interest and 2) address only the health concerns
11:21 Techrights-sec2; and not the matters of press or journalism
11:21 schestowitz-TR; yes,
11:21 schestowitz-TR; 1) rianne told me
11:21 schestowitz-TR; 2) one minute later alexey said it in irc
11:22 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:24 schestowitz-TR; maybe the sad thing is that I cannot say I'm surprised at this point and when rianne told me this
11:24 schestowitz-TR; I said, he'd appeal
11:24 schestowitz-TR; but wasn't mortified by the outcome
11:24 schestowitz-TR; the whole thing shows you the state of politics
11:24 schestowitz-TR; you see the same in the EPO
11:24 schestowitz-TR; i already play word games in my mind, what to say when the AC "AUTHORISES CRIMES"
11:26 schestowitz-TR; soon eff will play the world's tiniest violin
11:26 schestowitz-TR; with some photos of barlow's face
11:26 schestowitz-TR; like the fsfe with fsf type branding like gnu heads
11:26 schestowitz-TR; barlow was a close friend of assange
11:26 schestowitz-TR; they even cofounded freedom of the press fdn iirc
11:26 schestowitz-TR; before it turned into an anti-assange group funded partly by pierre omidyar
11:32 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:32 Techrights-sec2; the news is more likely to be picked up in India than in the US
11:32 Techrights-sec2; or th eUK or Australia
11:32 Techrights-sec2; there has been some intermittent coverage in Australia but nothing which has
11:32 Techrights-sec2; succeeded in eliciting even the smallest of responses from any of the politicians
11:32 schestowitz-TR; if such news gets picked up, you can bet your COVID they will interject some unrelated BS about girld in Sweden
11:32 schestowitz-TR; one of whom is not a "he/him" and the other vanished completely with money and infamy
11:32 schestowitz-TR; /s/not/now/
11:32 Techrights-sec2; ack
12:05 Techrights-sec2; the few sites mentioning it at all are, as expected, omitting all reference
12:05 Techrights-sec2; to war crimes and the UN's report on his ongoing torture
12:05 schestowitz-TR; 'Trial' by media
12:06 schestowitz-TR; maybe the media can whip up hatred in some totally insane mobs and get them to spread hate there too
12:06 schestowitz-TR; as happened in past years
12:08 schestowitz-TR; Today the UK 'court' system or regime decided to once again 'virtue-signal' to war criminals: we are on the side of war criminals, we shall protect war criminals (unless they speak Russian), we'll even assassinate people who merely speak about or expose the war crimes. This means that, inter alia, we've governed by criminals.
12:11 schestowitz-TR; iTWire - UK approves Assange extradition to US, WikiLeaks says it will appeal https://itwire.com/strategy/uk-approves-assange-extradition-to-us,-wikileaks-says-it-will-appeal.html Source: itwire
12:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - UK approves Assange extradition to US, WikiLeaks says it will appeal
12:19 Techrights-sec2; just saw that one, it uses tweets in place of sources
12:19 schestowitz-TR; vico is the new trial
12:19 schestowitz-TR; tweets are the new decisions
12:23 Techrights-sec2; tweets allow manipulation of the public and those agencies which make
12:23 Techrights-sec2; announcements via social control media know that and wish to exploit it further
12:23 schestowitz-TR; they can be the ones commenting, indirectly, using pseudonyms and troll armies
12:24 Techrights-sec2; astrotufer armies
12:24 Techrights-sec2; ^astroturfer
12:43 schestowitz-TR; draft
12:43 schestowitz-TR; see title
12:43 schestowitz-TR; trying to setg the tone here
12:43 schestowitz-TR; goint to leave shortly to escape the heat, get foot on bike
12:43 Techrights-sec2; checking
12:56 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> From "The Linux Gamer" to "The Valve Shill" (even Windows sometimes) https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_L-RJkFOdCc Source: Video | Invidious | Multimedia
12:56 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-yewtu.be | A new Deck APU driver for Windows fixes Halo Infinite regression (plus other Deck News) - Invidious
13:01 Techrights-sec2; i've made a point of avoiding clicking on gardiner's crap videos since he
13:01 Techrights-sec2; sold out even if I do check the headlines / titles to keep track of what
13:01 Techrights-sec2; he is shilling
13:01 Techrights-sec2; apparently Assange could also appeal to the European Court of Human Rights
13:01 Techrights-sec2; but only one article even mentioned that and even then only in passing
13:01 Techrights-sec2; no details if the journalism and press aspects of the case would come up
13:01 Techrights-sec2; there at all or if it would just be a rehash of 'mental health' issues
13:01 Techrights-sec2; ECHR ought to at least address the matter of ongoing torture
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15:54 Techrights-sec2; ack
15:54 Techrights-sec2; Norway was probably also complicit in the untimely end of Arjen Kamphuis there
15:54 Techrights-sec2; but their coverage of the extradition is only a few words long and much of
15:54 Techrights-sec2; that is wasted on refering to a "tweet".
15:54 Techrights-sec2; furthermore, dragging him out of the embassy was in violation of several other
15:54 Techrights-sec2; treaties
15:54 Techrights-sec2; that, too, gets little coverage
15:54 Techrights-sec2;
15:55 schestowitz-TR; Kamphuis is mentioned in the PDF sent to WIPO re Debian
15:55 schestowitz-TR; basically Debian's stewartship in in doubt
15:55 schestowitz-TR; *wardship
16:01 schestowitz-TR; china is starting to build distros off of debian and ubuntu
16:01 schestowitz-TR; so this is becoming a nat sec matter
16:01 schestowitz-TR; and serious stuff
16:01 schestowitz-TR; but no proof of a state-conducted intervention
16:04 Techrights-sec2; they are already playing hardball with the internal politics in those distros
16:04 Techrights-sec2; it will only get much worse until China is able to fork and the US will do all
16:04 Techrights-sec2; it can to prevent or sabotage that even if it means taking down Debian the
16:04 Techrights-sec2; rest of the way
16:05 schestowitz-TR; like I said, proof is very thin on this
16:05 schestowitz-TR; partly hypoerbolic and hypothetical
16:06 schestowitz-TR; but if it does happen, we need to be safer from slapp
16:06 schestowitz-TR; I suppose you saw those 2 (so far) articles about Microsoft paying GNOME some slush funds
16:09 schestowitz-TR; off to another topic, hypothetical threats aside
16:09 schestowitz-TR; like theoretical threats to gemii (someone other than me did an article about this too)
16:09 schestowitz-TR; today tesco was full of many people, either because it's friday or a hot day
16:09 schestowitz-TR; that was resulting in less discounted food, too
16:09 schestowitz-TR; so a tad unsafe and disappointing
16:09 schestowitz-TR; lessons learned
16:09 schestowitz-TR; we got many drinks (alcohol) to make up in weight
16:11 Techrights-sec2; a lot of the alcoholic drinks can be of low quality ingredients if one is not
16:11 Techrights-sec2; careful with the selection
16:11 Techrights-sec2; the grain shortages (prior to the attack on Ukraine) were already driving up
16:11 Techrights-sec2; food costs, beer getting hit earlier
16:15 schestowitz-TR; I had never been in a meeting in my 33-year business career in which a competitor had so blatantly implied that we should either stop competing with it or the competitor would kill us" https://www.computerworld.com/article/3663442/death-of-internet-explorer-good-riddance-to-ba
16:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The death of Internet Explorer: Good riddance to bad rubbish | Computerworld
16:19 schestowitz-TR; until 7pm or so will need to remain calm and cool to avoid sweating
16:19 schestowitz-TR; doors are open, but humidity rose
16:19 schestowitz-TR; in IDG the SJVN articles seem to say what ZDNet ius rejecting
16:23 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Mozilla is not a tech company but a leech living off of Google money to pretend choice and competition exist https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/brandon-kyle-goodman-big-mouth-messy-mondays-online-community/
16:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.mozilla.org | Firefox Presents: Redefining love and identity, one viral video at a time
16:25 Techrights-sec2; ack
16:26 schestowitz-TR; the saying for that is, "get woke, go broke"
16:26 Techrights-sec2; ack
16:26 Techrights-sec2; yep
16:26 Techrights-sec2; mozilla is now all about dismantling both the brand and the technology itself
16:26 Techrights-sec2; and build up a bad reputation with animosity against both
16:35 Techrights-sec2; however that can be weaponized to take out projects without revealing the real
16:35 Techrights-sec2; attacker, just incite them to go woke until the infighting kills off the
16:35 Techrights-sec2; software and, more importantly, the development community.
16:37 schestowitz-TR; I wonder if those tactics can be turned back against them -- them as in the original attackers
16:37 schestowitz-TR; I know you can proavtively prepare material to demonstrate hypocrisy so when they troll you then
16:37 schestowitz-TR; you make that very costly to them
16:37 Techrights-sec2; perhaps but only when there is awareness. for the time being there is too
16:37 Techrights-sec2; much "divide and conquer" as brigading and ad hominem have worked so well so far
16:38 Techrights-sec2; the one who fought the best ran South East Linux Fest
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16:42 Techrights-sec2; the one who fought the best ran Southeast Linuxfest, Jeremy.
16:42 Techrights-sec2; The attacks are quite distributed though there seems to be a core of aggressors
16:42 Techrights-sec2; they appear to function by drumming up very large lynch mobs so that they
16:42 Techrights-sec2; can work by proxy while the load for any individual mob participant is rather
16:42 Techrights-sec2; low and without much commitment
16:44 schestowitz-TR; last night in the maain channel dfc was stirring up political arguing with the person who he should, instead,
16:44 schestowitz-TR; confront over fake security and technical, corporate issues
16:44 schestowitz-TR; that's under observation
16:44 schestowitz-TR; better not to have that channel as a risk and liability
16:44 schestowitz-TR; I moved some covid rants to this channel
16:44 schestowitz-TR; sleep-related side effects
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16:48 Techrights-sec2; too bad he got so badly off topic
16:48 Techrights-sec2; going on like that so often ends up being quite harmful
16:48 Techrights-sec2; the post he made on MSIE not actually going away was rather useful and covered
16:48 Techrights-sec2; very important points
16:48 Techrights-sec2; I suppose all the non-GUI components and DLLs are still spread throughout the
16:48 Techrights-sec2; system and can still be invoked at will by malware
16:57 schestowitz-TR; he was very deeply into windows mechanics around that time
16:57 schestowitz-TR; even earned him MS MVP
16:57 schestowitz-TR; but he's not even remoately loyal to that company
16:57 schestowitz-TR; I'd rather not talk about his life and the politics
16:57 schestowitz-TR; remember which state he lives in
16:57 schestowitz-TR; last night, after over a week of deep thinking, I came to the conclusion flying is off limits for quite some time
16:57 schestowitz-TR; not just the inconvenience of it
16:57 schestowitz-TR; but rather than risk of getting infected while also
16:57 schestowitz-TR; away and that opens a whole jar of worms
16:57 schestowitz-TR; if the purpose of the travel s "going places" and "meeting people" (not "bunkering"),
16:57 schestowitz-TR; than the chance is infection is very high
16:57 schestowitz-TR; (side aspect: my daily routine requires direct access to some machines; since automating some of these things I've
16:57 schestowitz-TR; not slept overnight
16:57 schestowitz-TR; or part overnight elsewhere)
16:59 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:00 Techrights-sec2; yes flights are very unhealthy to the point of being dangerous, that is
17:00 Techrights-sec2; on top of the social/psychological abuse dished out by the security theatre
17:00 Techrights-sec2; teams
17:00 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:00 Techrights-sec2; still it would probably be best to at least slowly enable things for remot
17:00 Techrights-sec2; activity
17:00 Techrights-sec2; doing it while there is no pressure is easier and might also bring up opportunities for further optimization of the work flow
17:02 schestowitz-TR; a lot of it can e done remotely, remediated remotely, but it is extra work and another kind of workflow
17:02 schestowitz-TR; esp. when things do not go as expected
17:02 schestowitz-TR; that, in its own right, can lead to mild anxiety or stress
17:02 schestowitz-TR; in my notes I wrote some tricks and hacks for ssh
17:02 schestowitz-TR; like starting a program remoately, on the local machine...
17:03 Techrights-sec2; I try to do it all through SSH so that the work flow becomes independent
17:03 Techrights-sec2; from physical location as much as possible
17:03 Techrights-sec2; ^SSH or plain local shell
17:11 schestowitz-TR; Corporate media: Western "tech" corporations are a success story. Us sceptics: BUT DO THEY MAKE MONEY? (Other than Pentagon graft, i.e. subsidies from US taxpayers through national debt) https://www.maketecheasier.com/snapchat-plus-paid-subscription/
17:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.maketecheasier.com | Snapchat Plus Is Paid Subscription to Cover Revenue Loss - Make Tech Easier
17:13 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:17 schestowitz-TR; enron-style accounting is not a cautionary tale
17:17 schestowitz-TR; it's a lecture theme ;-)
17:17 schestowitz-TR; I often joke to rianne
17:17 schestowitz-TR; something along the line os,
17:17 schestowitz-TR; *of,
17:17 schestowitz-TR; give me TOO $10,000,000,000 in capital
17:17 schestowitz-TR; to hire peoplke and do pet project?
17:17 schestowitz-TR; Will that be PROFITABLE?
17:17 schestowitz-TR; Haha, that's the HARD part
17:17 schestowitz-TR; and that sums up how penaton budget gets spent not just on high-0tehc
17:17 schestowitz-TR; but also failing projects like F0-25
17:17 schestowitz-TR; whose guns did not even work for YEARS
17:17 schestowitz-TR; *F-35
17:17 schestowitz-TR; Thomask Drake blew the whistle on fraud, waste, and another them
17:17 schestowitz-TR; in twitter
17:17 schestowitz-TR; we used to joke about how the F-35 could not even work
17:17 schestowitz-TR; with an AMAZING budget like this!
17:17 schestowitz-TR; He focused on NSA though
17:17 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:17 Techrights-sec2; yes, fraud has become normalized, same for bailouts not just handouts
17:19 Techrights-sec2; those would be dangerous if deployed in situations where functionality and
17:19 Techrights-sec2; performace are critical to survival
17:21 schestowitz-TR; hush hush tinfoil hat: how much of Rd Hat's budget and income/revenue was DoD? (we do not know, they don't break down by client)
17:21 schestowitz-TR; If I tried to find out the answer, I would be "assisting hacking" and thus be charged, as a a German, under US Espionage Act ;-)
17:21 schestowitz-TR; that's the message they tell us...
17:22 Techrights-sec2; so they cover up fraud that way
17:23 schestowitz-TR; "what exposes or CAN expose our crimes is a crime... so WATCH OUT!"
17:23 schestowitz-TR; "we know where your kids are"-John Bolton
17:23 Techrights-sec2; "security" but not as one normally thinks of it, more as in /their/ job security
17:25 schestowitz-TR; they even spied on Jen Robinson
17:25 schestowitz-TR; not her love life (she asked me in person not to mention this)
17:25 schestowitz-TR; bur what she does to make the casue for Assange in court and in the media (she is good at both)
17:25 schestowitz-TR; shed made her name in east timor actuallyt
17:25 Techrights-sec2; yep
17:25 Techrights-sec2; don't post it here then :(
17:25 schestowitz-TR; I did not
17:25 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:28 schestowitz-TR; the CIA ha haspel
17:28 schestowitz-TR; who is ugly and brutal
17:28 schestowitz-TR; they must have it that Assange is passionatewly defended by someone who is both intelligent and attractive
17:28 schestowitz-TR; these sort of people don't build CIA careers
17:28 schestowitz-TR; they settle for an obese Pompous Pompeo
17:28 schestowitz-TR; who incidentally travelled to Minsk for his Moskvite President
17:29 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:31 schestowitz-TR; sometimes I wish I had gone to meet Julian in person as it was too late already around 2018
17:31 schestowitz-TR; but seeing how people who met him are entered into lists (even visitors from USA and Spain), maybe
17:31 schestowitz-TR; it's better I never did
17:31 schestowitz-TR; Omidyar-funded mflee (micah) seems to have incited rms against ja after he had met him
17:31 schestowitz-TR; I was a bit shocked that rms was upset at ja because he sensed that Trump was ja's fault
17:31 schestowitz-TR; which is of cours rthe same bs they use against jill stein
17:31 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:33 schestowitz-TR; today we purchased another bottle of vegetable ol
17:33 schestowitz-TR; price rose to 1.59 iirc
17:33 schestowitz-TR; when I was doing all the shopping myself it was about 1.00 or less
17:33 schestowitz-TR; rianne is cooking now and we have cider
17:33 schestowitz-TR; we fed about 200 geese and ducks
17:34 Techrights-sec2; those are hard to get these days
17:34 Techrights-sec2; they'll be rarer and more expensive all too soon
17:34 Techrights-sec2; careful, there is real cider and then there is chemical cider
17:34 Techrights-sec2; which were you able to get?
17:34 Techrights-sec2; real cider is quite tasty, the chemical stuff is nasty and poisonous
17:37 schestowitz-TR; I think all the low-cost one are just cheap shit
17:37 schestowitz-TR; this one is tesco-branded
17:37 schestowitz-TR; so you rely on the shop not selling poison under its own name/brand
17:37 Techrights-sec2; store brands can be ok but you have to always check the ingredients list first
17:40 schestowitz-TR; it as the first time we bought this, it was not planned, I wanted to make up with weight for the scarcity of good bargains
17:40 schestowitz-TR; we also took 4 lites of lemonade (for the vodka)
17:40 schestowitz-TR; *litres
17:40 schestowitz-TR; we do not drink often, very rarely by English standards
17:40 schestowitz-TR; I want my mind to be functional for another 40 years
17:41 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:41 Techrights-sec2; https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/256595496
17:41 Techrights-sec2; "Water, Glucose Syrup, Apple Concentrate, Glucose-Fructose Syrup ..."
17:41 Techrights-sec2; it's not the quantity as much as the quality, even "cheap" stuff if made with
17:41 Techrights-sec2; real ingredients is not that bad but a chemical solution :(
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17:43 schestowitz-TR; thanks for the quick research
17:43 schestowitz-TR; we won't be buying this again
17:43 schestowitz-TR; I've told rianne
17:43 Techrights-sec2; less bad:
17:43 Techrights-sec2; https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/307147691
17:47 schestowitz-TR; the latter is about 50% more expensive per litre and hareder to carry
17:47 schestowitz-TR; also, those f*ers give a discount only if you present your "lotalty" ID to them
17:47 schestowitz-TR; I refuse to buy such production
17:47 schestowitz-TR; products
17:47 schestowitz-TR; it is a form of discrimination
17:47 schestowitz-TR; the "we don't know you!" tax
17:50 Techrights-sec2; there's probably better stuff there at a not bad price if one looks but
17:50 Techrights-sec2; with bargain stores, when trying new products of /any/ kind one has to read
17:50 Techrights-sec2; the ingredients carefully;
17:50 Techrights-sec2; ah that's poorly done of them
17:50 Techrights-sec2; there are probably other types though
17:50 Techrights-sec2; boxed apple juice is sterile so a bit of live bakers' yeast off the tip of a
17:50 Techrights-sec2; sterile knife ought to innoculate it and by next week (in the refrigerator)
17:50 Techrights-sec2; you'll have your own cider
17:50 Techrights-sec2; longer == stronger up to a low limit, thereafter you'd have to change yeast
17:50 Techrights-sec2; I accidentally got some chemical cider in my mouth once, and regretted the flavor quickly; it was not unlike the ingredient list on the tesco cider
17:51 schestowitz-TR; I'm no alcohol enthusiast and won't home-brew
17:51 schestowitz-TR; it's just another narcohtic
17:51 schestowitz-TR; and not even good at that (fatterning, addictive, harmful to vital organs)
18:25 Techrights-sec2; there are also a lot of beer-like fluids out there on the shelves
18:25 Techrights-sec2; masquerading as beer, like with the cider, one has to read the ingredients
18:25 Techrights-sec2; carefully
18:25 Techrights-sec2; https://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/Lexikon/EN:Purity_Law,_1516
18:25 schestowitz-TR; I don't fancy the taste of most beers
18:25 schestowitz-TR; even expensive ones
18:25 schestowitz-TR; until I am very very thristy
18:32 Techrights-sec2; dilute juice is quite good, too, the extra dilution can make it seem less
18:32 Techrights-sec2; sweet yet retain much of the flavor
18:32 Techrights-sec2; again check the ingredients list before putting it in the basket
18:34 schestowitz-TR; I've just had 2 more nectarines
18:34 schestowitz-TR; I think I had about 3 or 4 this morning
18:34 schestowitz-TR; then 3 again afternoon
18:34 schestowitz-TR; just short of 10 in total, but I craved sweets and we still have loads of these
18:34 schestowitz-TR; the company has just sent us a mesage to say that next week they will send a message LOL
18:34 schestowitz-TR; I told her, they don't know what the heck they are doing
18:35 Techrights-sec2; those are quite tasty
18:35 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:40 Techrights-sec2; why would they send a more or less empty message?
18:40 Techrights-sec2; why would they send a more or less empty message?
18:44 schestowitz-TR; because they keep missing their own self-imposed deadlines or breaking promises
18:44 schestowitz-TR; and they need to say something to say "hang in there"
18:44 schestowitz-TR; likewise, they said they'd send weekly updates back in January
18:44 schestowitz-TR; that did not happen
18:44 schestowitz-TR; rianne and I kept joking about it and the name "TheLiar" was born
18:44 schestowitz-TR; he had lied before, but it was more suitble
18:44 schestowitz-TR; *subtle
18:44 schestowitz-TR; there is information vacuum and mythology being spread
18:44 schestowitz-TR; I told rianne they're too focused on optics
18:44 schestowitz-TR; instead of skill retention
18:44 schestowitz-TR; I even told it to them directly last week
18:45 schestowitz-TR; I hope they took to heart
18:45 schestowitz-TR; at this stage we hardly care, and that's what's importanty
18:45 schestowitz-TR; "que sera sear" -rianne (spalling might be wrong, she can do some spanish, I cannot)
18:45 schestowitz-TR; one way or another, the company may be doomed already
18:45 schestowitz-TR; and we wanted to leave before all that
18:45 schestowitz-TR; but the alternatives out there were even worse
18:45 Techrights-sec2; :(
18:45 Techrights-sec2; sounds problematic
18:45 Techrights-sec2; they can only sweep so much of the problem unde the rug and only for so long
18:45 Techrights-sec2; they may not know what skills are any more
18:45 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:45 schestowitz-TR; yes, the management is mostly not technical. lol.
18:45 schestowitz-TR; this was not always the case.
18:46 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:48 schestowitz-TR; "closing a ticket" is not a akill
18:48 schestowitz-TR; not a vaulable one anyway
18:48 schestowitz-TR; "picking up the phone" is a very basic skills
18:48 schestowitz-TR; assurances and solution-finding are not the same
18:48 schestowitz-TR; you could get a monkey to read assurances off some script or spin the grmphone
18:48 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:48 Techrights-sec2; script suck
18:48 Techrights-sec2; in many ways
18:49 schestowitz-TR; it is a waste of time
18:49 schestowitz-TR; to both sides
18:49 schestowitz-TR; if you won't make progress, there's no point to it
18:49 schestowitz-TR; it's psychological, plabebo
18:49 schestowitz-TR; and gives false hope
18:49 schestowitz-TR; so it is temporary
18:49 schestowitz-TR; you need 1) to know their system
18:49 schestowitz-TR; 2) technical skills
18:49 schestowitz-TR; otherwise you will wake someone else up
18:50 schestowitz-TR; in which case you are not doing your job
18:50 Techrights-sec2; yes it's a time wasting exercise, about the only goal would be to get people to
18:50 Techrights-sec2; hang up so that it can be crossed off the list as a "solved" ticket
18:53 schestowitz-TR; or worse -- assigned to someone who works daytime
18:53 schestowitz-TR; in which case the 24/7 SLA misses the point
18:53 schestowitz-TR; they need solution-finding 24/7
18:53 schestowitz-TR; not somene on the line to open a ticket
18:53 schestowitz-TR; I joked last night (pillow-talk) that x cannot even check logs
18:53 schestowitz-TR; and y, her ("they") "husband" (without a ***k), is only there in the company
18:53 schestowitz-TR; because of the person they live with
18:53 schestowitz-TR; the clients cannot tell
18:53 schestowitz-TR; because they all have different surnames
18:53 schestowitz-TR; and I said it was inapproprirate that on the call they all show up in the same
18:53 schestowitz-TR; frame with one webcam
18:53 schestowitz-TR; they could at least log in individually, each with another device
18:54 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:55 schestowitz-TR; nepotism is a symptom of all sorts of things
18:55 schestowitz-TR; that begets kakistocracy, coverup, infair treatment, lack of skill, harmed morale
18:55 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:00 schestowitz-TR; when I met rianne what clicked after maybe half an hour when she told me she had studied CS
19:00 schestowitz-TR; it was her dad's choice
19:00 schestowitz-TR; I spoke to her because she seemed nice
19:00 schestowitz-TR; that she had background in computing was a big bonus because she'd be able
19:00 schestowitz-TR; to relate to what I dsid
19:00 schestowitz-TR; *did
19:00 schestowitz-TR; but I did not envision her working in the same company or TM or me teaching her gnu/linux
19:00 schestowitz-TR; that happened a very long time later
19:00 schestowitz-TR; as for the aforementioned couple, one had a degree in classics and the other has parents
19:00 schestowitz-TR; who own a pub
19:00 schestowitz-TR; you can compensate for it with hard work
19:00 schestowitz-TR; but strong desire cannot put you on the fast track to scripting, debugging etc.
19:00 schestowitz-TR; at the party where rianne and I started talking there were other girls
19:00 schestowitz-TR; some were dumb and superficial
19:00 schestowitz-TR; or promiscuous
19:00 schestowitz-TR; instant turnoff
19:01 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:01 Techrights-sec2; excellent
19:01 Techrights-sec2; TM has increased in importance under her tenure
19:01 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:06 schestowitz-TR; today's expected very hot day was short lived, became cloudy, now too cold for the door to stay open for much longer
19:08 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:09 schestowitz-TR; we can fly people to the moon, cannot forcast the weather reliably for 12 hours
19:11 schestowitz-TR; we are, however, good at gunning down almost a whole classroom
19:11 schestowitz-TR; just 19 people in over one hour with like 100 magazines
19:11 schestowitz-TR; and a fast rifle, high velocity and rate of rounds
19:11 schestowitz-TR; I think it's a miracle he killed only 19
19:11 schestowitz-TR; but who am I to talk of it in the terms of computer games?
19:12 Techrights-sec2; sadly some of the frequencies used by 5G impair weather radar and thus
19:12 Techrights-sec2; make the forecasts even more unreliable but you'll get called out as a crank
19:12 Techrights-sec2; whenever even mentioning that fact
19:12 Techrights-sec2; it's going to hurt the east coast of the US badly because it will shorten
19:12 Techrights-sec2; the lead time they get as warning for incoming hurricanes and in some cases
19:12 Techrights-sec2; it will be to short a forwarning to allow for evacuation :(
19:16 schestowitz-TR; some forums got ruined by people or trolls who came there, speaking about ufos
19:16 schestowitz-TR; with vaccines and 5g and bill gates they still try to associate cirtics witrh cranks
19:16 schestowitz-TR; but I think they were met with very limited success
19:16 schestowitz-TR; the media is still having a go at iut
19:16 schestowitz-TR; same for pedophilia
19:16 schestowitz-TR; they try to equate critics with "qanon" and several other dodgy circles
19:16 schestowitz-TR; I think these tactgics are very, very old
19:16 schestowitz-TR; and they rarely work
19:16 schestowitz-TR; as for ufo, that's different because there is no solid basis to it
19:16 Techrights-sec2; or by shills
19:16 Techrights-sec2; or astroturfers faking opposition with strawman arguments
19:16 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:18 schestowitz-TR; the forums I was alluding to... that was well over a decade ago, and friend too had witnessed it
19:18 schestowitz-TR; it's rather old Internet/Web tactic, we think
19:18 schestowitz-TR; wikileaks got its share of moles or provocateurs
19:18 schestowitz-TR; they became a liability much later
19:18 schestowitz-TR; for different reasons (spying, bigotry, misogyny)...
19:20 Techrights-sec2; I figure that many of the issues have been infiltrated since perhaps two or so
19:20 Techrights-sec2; decades back
19:20 Techrights-sec2; now the wokery is used as a weapon and it has the added advantage in their use
19:20 Techrights-sec2; of it in that it provides no benefit to the afflicted organization
19:21 schestowitz-TR; going to brew some coffee
19:21 schestowitz-TR; feeling fatigue
19:21 schestowitz-TR; and a very unsuitable tiem for a nap (they become long sleep)
19:21 schestowitz-TR; I still want o record something and write posts, cannot do it with such low energy levels
19:22 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:39 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> I subscribed to this blog because it covered technical stuff. This past week almost 7 posts about queer stuff, almost 100% of the posts. Now https://blog.mozilla.org/en/internet-culture/queer-singer-songwriter-criibaby-finds-pride-and-joy-at-the-intersection-of-tech-and-music/
19:41 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> It's like Mozilla is trying hard to intentionally spoil the Mozilla and Firefox by associating them with divisive political issues, consciously. What next? You cannot use Firefox if you support abortion?
19:42 Techrights-sec2; yes mozilla appears to be actively trying to spoil the brand, in part as
19:42 Techrights-sec2; a distraction from them despoiling what's left of the code base
19:42 schestowitz-TR; maybe they will relicense it all as "ethical source" :-)
19:42 schestowitz-TR; and be done with it
19:46 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> It is highly doubtful Mozilla actively tries to kill itself -- I never ever claimed that !! -- but that the wrong people were left in positions of power when Gulag sponsors and picks the leadership... that's possible. Then they grab popcorn and see Firefox share going down.
19:46 Techrights-sec2; :/
19:46 Techrights-sec2; as you already know "ethical source" is a weapon used against FOSS
19:46 Techrights-sec2; dressed up as helping someone somewhere
19:48 schestowitz-TR; create a new notion of "ethics"
19:48 schestowitz-TR; promote that by obfuscation
19:48 schestowitz-TR; sign petitions and stuff
19:48 schestowitz-TR; OSI/Open Source did that already
19:48 schestowitz-TR; now the latter Trojan Horse tries it on OSI too
19:48 schestowitz-TR; it's a chain of co-opting waves
19:48 schestowitz-TR; the MEDIA HELPS THEM
19:48 schestowitz-TR; that's the key point
19:48 schestowitz-TR; why does the media help such people?
19:48 Techrights-sec2; indeed
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