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09:09 schestowitz-TR; "Teaching assistants are paid $24,000 per year" https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/16/ucs-student-workers-cant-afford-california/ | Source: Scheerpost
09:09 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-UC's Student Workers Can't Afford California - scheerpost.com
09:09 schestowitz-TR; says how much education is valued
09:13 Techrightssec; Exactly
09:13 Techrightssec; Then if they win the academic lottery they can advance to being part-time
09:13 Techrightssec; "adjunct" faculty, working three jobs just to stay afloat. Then if lightning
09:13 Techrightssec; strikes twice in the same spot, they get a tenure track job and the false hope
09:13 Techrightssec; of a permanent job, still at low pay unless they are able to pivot into
09:13 Techrightssec; administration.
09:13 schestowitz-TR; not a uniquely US problem anymore
09:23 Techrightssec; Not nice the Bologne Process, which is fancy clothes for the destruction of
09:23 Techrightssec; higher education on the other side of the Atlantic:
09:23 Techrightssec; https://education.ec.europa.eu/education-levels/higher-education/inclusive-and-connected-higher-education/bologna-process
09:23 Techrightssec; It had fancy marketing and a lot of hangers-on.
09:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-education.ec.europa.eu | The Bologna Process and the European Higher Education Area | European Education Area
09:29 Techrightssec; Three years is not enough to either specialize in a topic nor to gain a well-
09:29 Techrightssec; rounded experience. The failure is then double if trying to do both.
09:31 schestowitz-TR; introducing lesser skilled people into a workplace typically helps bring wages down, over time
09:31 schestowitz-TR; same with introducing women where not many women are suitably qualified
09:31 schestowitz-TR; but it's unpopular to say that
09:34 Techrightssec;
09:34 Techrightssec; That appears to be one of the goals. Now there are two or three academic
09:34 Techrightssec; generations of half-educated people flooding the market and vying for
09:34 Techrightssec; jobs including university jobs
09:34 Techrightssec; It's not like the universities have a separate supply chaing.
09:34 Techrightssec; Introducing unqualified but certified individuals means that the individual
09:34 Techrightssec; in question knows that they are in over their head and keep their job only
09:34 Techrightssec; at the whim of the decision makers. As a result there is no pushback against
09:34 Techrightssec; other stupidity.
09:34 Techrightssec;
09:37 schestowitz-TR; two words: jim. zemlin
09:37 schestowitz-TR; one word: spamnil.\\
09:37 schestowitz-TR; they could instead keep carla schroder or jack wallen onboard
09:37 schestowitz-TR; vastly more qualified
09:37 schestowitz-TR; imagine being carla and they choose spamnil over you
09:37 schestowitz-TR; she called LF "poo"
09:37 schestowitz-TR; maybe she write "shit" and then changed that to something more polite.
09:37 schestowitz-TR; deep inside many people know what LF really is
09:37 schestowitz-TR; but there is concern that speaking out about it woukd seem "unprofessional"
09:37 schestowitz-TR; or anti-corporations, lessening the % of netting another 6-figure salary
09:38 schestowitz-TR; if this job candidate can tolerater the shit of the LF, he will tolerate our antics and keep quiet too. -company recruiter
09:39 Techrightssec; LF wants to avoid competent writers likely for similar reasons as above.
09:39 Techrightssec; Ideally it looks like its goal is to collapse the brand as quickly as possible.
09:39 Techrightssec; Also they have to make LT appear irrelevant so he can be shoved out the door too
09:39 Techrightssec; CoC violation for criticizing a corporation.
09:39 Techrightssec; CoCs were never, not even for a minute, about anything else than that.
09:40 schestowitz-TR; rather, it's about allowing corporations to weaponise something (borad, vague, anything) against people who get
09:40 schestowitz-TR; marked for removal
09:40 schestowitz-TR; seen it firsthand earlier this month ;-)
09:40 Techrightssec; The weapon is less important than the targets: the leadership and control of
09:40 Techrightssec; the various, key FOSS projects.
09:40 Techrightssec; They'd weaponize hairstyle when they can.
09:42 schestowitz-TR; "he didn't shave often enough. we caught him in his desk with stubble."
09:42 schestowitz-TR; (apropos, today, this morning, after 5+ years, I reminded myself why I quit using shaving foam)
09:43 Techrightssec; hygiene ...
09:44 schestowitz-TR; says a boss who drives a car that emits 3 times the gases of a normal car
09:44 schestowitz-TR; for vanity purposes alone
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10:10 Techrightssec; ack
10:10 Techrightssec; s/car/suv(truck)/
10:10 Techrightssec; https://www.vice.com/en/article/3abk7b/bidens-new-fuel-economy-standards-still-allow-cars-to-pollute-more-if-theyre-not-called-cars
10:10 Techrightssec; https://me.engin.umich.edu/news-events/news/cafe-standards-could-mean-bigger-cars-not-smaller-ones/
10:10 Techrightssec; https://www.fleetmanagementweekly.com/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-and-so-are-their-front-blind-zones-children-are-paying-th
10:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.vice.com | Bidens New Fuel Economy Standards Still Allow Cars to Pollute More If Theyre Not Called Cars
10:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-me.engin.umich.edu | CAFE Standards Could Mean Bigger Cars, Not Smaller Ones Mechanical Engineering
10:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.fleetmanagementweekly.com | America's Cars & Trucks are Getting Bigger and So Are Their Front Blind Zones. Children are Paying the Price - Fleet Management WeeklyFleet Management Weekly
10:10 Techrightssec; e-price/
10:10 Techrightssec; https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americas-cars-trucks-are-getting-bigger-are-front-blind-zones-children-rcna52109
10:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nbcnews.com | America's cars and trucks are getting bigger, and so are their front blind zones. Children are paying the price.
10:11 schestowitz-TR; That's OK as long as they are not embroyes anymore
10:11 schestowitz-TR; *embryos
10:12 Techrightssec; yep
10:39 Techrightssec; ack
10:39 schestowitz-TR; It's 2022 and some dumb sites like Spamnil's still use the misleading misnomer "serverless". How repulsive and objectionable that liars
10:39 schestowitz-TR; and charlatans are treated like the more "repesctable" 'web3' 'bros'.... because corporate media officially recognises their buzzwords
10:39 Techrightssec; ack
10:39 schestowitz-TR; . We're in for some painful reckoning when people realise "clown computing" does not exist; it's a ruinous buzzword enshrining a trap.
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12:40 schestowitz-TR; "Personally, I seek very little social interaction in the real world; the everyday family life is quite enough." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1205
13:09 schestowitz-TR; should I rebut the 3 POS 'articles' in "Linux" sites about WSL 1.0 (w00t! 1) or would that just give it more
13:09 schestowitz-TR; publicity than it's worth? I think after the 3 I saw it stopped
13:09 schestowitz-TR; betanews, itsfoss (idiot took over), and brad linder
13:09 schestowitz-TR; I'd rather see it going away
13:09 schestowitz-TR; countdown to phoronix doing a puff piece about it....
13:10 Techrightssec; ack
13:14 Techrightssec; WSL spam is thick on many sites these days.
13:14 schestowitz-TR; I reckon I can ignorew it and cover something else?
13:14 schestowitz-TR; left out from Daily Links, as it is WINDOWS news
13:14 schestowitz-TR; just hijacking a brand
13:15 Techrightssec; Probably rebut the concept of WSL. There are certainly some technical short
13:15 Techrightssec; comings in addition to the loss of freedom and security
13:16 schestowitz-TR; I think the 1.0 thing is RER-announcing it to get people to give it another look
13:16 schestowitz-TR; as very few use it and sites quit mentioning it
13:16 schestowitz-TR; I reckon it will be mothball not too long from now
13:16 Techrightssec; Yes, brand hijacking. It's marketed as "being able to run Linux" which
13:16 Techrightssec; at least with the first version, it is not.
13:16 Techrightssec; It's definitely a talking point being pushed by m$ marketeerts.
13:16 Techrightssec; ^marketeers.
13:17 schestowitz-TR; if the googlebombing stops, I'll carry on ignoring
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13:40 schestowitz-TR; this re-affirms what we've all been seeing for years
13:40 schestowitz-TR; sites that behave like this deserve no users at all
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13:55 Techrightssec; That's usually how it works afaik
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14:49 schestowitz-TR; otaX3
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15:59 schestowitz-TR; otaX3
15:59 schestowitz-TR; DONE
16:15 schestowitz-TR; covid-19 tests in the uk has sunk to new lows and it's winter already. gov strategy: pretend we don't see it
16:24 Techrightssec; ack
16:24 Techrightssec; If they don't check, they can then confirm that the number of verified cases
16:24 Techrightssec; has gone down. :/
16:24 schestowitz-TR; draft
16:34 Techrightssec; checking
16:34 Techrightssec; Mastodon and Pleroma etc are social control media not a publishing platform
16:34 Techrightssec; like gemini, so a comparison would be irrelevant.
16:34 Techrightssec; s/videos on/videos about/
16:35 schestowitz-TR; typo fixed
16:35 schestowitz-TR; yes, I will add a footnote
16:41 Techrightssec; excellent
16:44 schestowitz-TR; was anything changed in tm-new?
16:44 schestowitz-TR; rianne tried twice to add a page and it gives a .PM complaint
16:44 Techrightssec; updated the packages but not the scripts
16:44 Techrightssec; checking
16:44 Techrightssec; At what stage does it give an error?
16:44 schestowitz; [y/N] y
16:44 schestowitz; Waiting for database to unlock ...lock acquired
16:44 schestowitz; Can't locate object method "host" via package "URI::_generic" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/TuxMachines/ReadOn.pm line 27.
16:44 schestowitz; Creating temporary directories and files
16:44 schestowitz; Creating static XHTML and GemText hierarchies
16:44 schestowitz; Updating SSI files
16:44 schestowitz; Writing the RSS feed for HTTP
16:44 schestowitz; Writing the Atom feed for Gemini
16:44 schestowitz; Writing the Gemini index
16:44 schestowitz; Pinging via MQTT
16:45 schestowitz; Erasing temporary directories and their files.
16:48 Techrightssec; Just checked. It can add, modify, and delete records.
16:48 Techrightssec; HOwever the error described is that there is a bad URL in the 'ReadOn' link.
16:48 Techrightssec; Perhaps a check should be added to ensure that there is something there.
16:48 Techrightssec; But if the record can be edited to ensure that there is a valid
16:48 Techrightssec; URL in the href element it should be good.
16:48 Techrightssec; Perhaps the URL is outside the quotes?
16:48 schestowitz-TR; rianne made a mistake
16:48 schestowitz-TR; she put the title in the URL
16:48 schestowitz-TR; sorry, our error
16:49 Techrightssec; np
17:11 Techrightssec; The non-bot traffic for tm-new has been increasing. I see however that
17:11 Techrightssec; one of the clients (FB?) mangles the URLs resulting in 404 errors. They
17:11 Techrightssec; are not paying attention to the fact that URLs are case sensitive.
17:12 schestowitz-TR; nothing can save "meta"
17:12 schestowitz-TR; btw, the earlier article on twitter mentions someone rianne knows in person
17:12 schestowitz-TR; i didn't know till i sent it to her
17:13 Techrightssec; ack
17:14 schestowitz-TR; I haev just added anothger draft. 13 pages of pdf. NOT my area of expertise, but very relevant to daemonFC and us.
17:19 Techrightssec; Per the discussion about sub-minimum wages for working in academia:
17:19 Techrightssec; "Mr. Robbins teaches at several universities around Manhattan. "
17:19 Techrightssec; https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/17/realestate/nyc-harlem-west-side-apartment.html
17:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Harlem or Upper West Side? Two Longtime Renters Test 20 Years Worth of Savings on a New Apartment. - The New York Times
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [16:20] <psydruid> https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/academic-publishing-and-the-death
17:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [16:20] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- tedgioia.substack.com | Academic Publishing and the Death Instinct - by Ted Gioia
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> Academic Publishing sucks on MANY levels
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it's exploitative
17:19 schestowitz-TR; [16:25] <schestowitz[TR]> it was not always like that
17:29 Techrightssec; Not just the publishing. It's the wages (not salary) and hours too.
17:29 Techrightssec; They're not getting quality work if the dude has to juggle three jobs to get
17:29 Techrightssec; by economically.
17:29 Techrightssec; Then that just goes to show that the goal is not to provide quality education
17:29 Techrightssec; or research but to simply go through the motions and siphon money out through
17:29 Techrightssec; charades.
17:29 Techrightssec; He's probably working hard but multi-tasking four tasks (three jobs
17:29 Techrightssec; plus transportation) does not make for an efficient result.
17:29 Techrightssec; There is a lot of overhead for multi-tasking, especially in people, but also
17:29 Techrightssec; in computers.
17:29 Techrightssec; Then there are the journals themselves which are churning out lots of filler
17:29 Techrightssec; in addition to extorative pricing to buy back the work the universities and
17:29 Techrightssec; faculty provided them for free.
17:31 schestowitz-TR; after two years as a postdoc I pulled the plug
17:31 schestowitz-TR; actually after 6 months or less
17:31 schestowitz-TR; but then I just worked both my current job and the older job in paralell
17:31 schestowitz-TR; *llel
17:31 schestowitz-TR; did you see the draft
17:31 schestowitz-TR; I fixed something
17:42 Techrightssec; checking
17:42 Techrightssec; The body of the post ought to mention a little about what is in the open
17:42 Techrightssec; letter to support the link rather than relying 100% on the hope that the
17:42 Techrightssec; link will get clicked and the PDF handled.
17:43 schestowitz-TR; good suggestion
17:43 schestowitz-TR; I've added a long paragraph and checked it over several times for clatity
17:43 schestowitz-TR; final (3rd) video will cover the WSL BS (without linking)
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17:46 Techrightssec; ack
17:47 schestowitz-TR; thanks for the irc suggestions on that
17:47 schestowitz-TR; it helps guide what's covered and how
17:47 schestowitz-TR; itsfoss and phoreonix are explained in passing
17:47 schestowitz-TR; in the epo video, i still casually mention the copyright trolling
17:47 Techrightssec; Great
17:48 Techrightssec; it's apparently a common tactic
17:53 schestowitz-TR; the claimant is from same place as Campinos' boss
17:53 schestowitz-TR; the timing of the letter same as OOXML "finish the job" but for UPC
17:53 Techrightssec; ack
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