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03:04 schestowitz-TR; still very low temps here
03:04 schestowitz-TR; going to OTA in a moment
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07:57 techrightssec2; s/not use/nor use/
07:57 techrightssec2; Happy Birthday today
07:57 schestowitz-TR; thanks!, catching up
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09:58 schestowitz-TR; i did not watch it all, but trust your judgement and reposted that
09:58 schestowitz-TR; still falling behind because of all the "happy bday" calls, which are mostly repetitive
09:58 schestowitz-TR; probably the thing I like the least tbh
10:04 techrightssec2; The first third was about WeaSeL specifically, the rest was two other segments
10:04 techrightssec2; putting it into proper context and warning about what Restricted Boot, TPM 2,
10:04 techrightssec2; and M$ Pluton are doing against general-purpose computing, specifically how
10:04 techrightssec2; it bans BSD and Linux from the hardware.
10:04 techrightssec2; .
10:05 schestowitz-TR; yes, this is the general direction
10:05 schestowitz-TR; "we're not preventing competition; we SUPPORT it!"
10:05 schestowitz-TR; and canonical sold out in 2016, just like LF
10:10 mjg59_; Pluton doesn't block any OS from the hardware
10:11 techrightssec2; That direction was laid out back 20+ years ago when M$ tried to buy some BIOS
10:11 techrightssec2; company and at the same time added DRM to WMP after the public rejected it from
10:11 techrightssec2; MSO or something more serious. At the time, people let their kids install
10:11 techrightssec2; whatever the fuck they got a hold of regardless of the damage it would do
10:11 techrightssec2; -- on actual work computers. People rejected the DRM so M$ operated through
10:11 techrightssec2; their kids and non-essiential software, with the victims not realizing or not
10:11 techrightssec2; caring that the changes affected the whole system. The BIOS company was either
10:11 schestowitz-TR; draft
10:11 techrightssec2; Pheonix or AMI. They stopped pursuing the BIOS as it could not lock out Linux
10:11 techrightssec2; and other kernels until it was replaced by UEFI.
10:11 techrightssec2; Canonical was infiltrated but the UEFI team had something very wrong with it
10:11 techrightssec2; from the start. The premise was wrong from the beginning and thus only fools
10:11 techrightssec2; or traitors, or a mixture of both, signed on.
10:12 schestowitz-TR; going to be a busy day today
10:12 schestowitz-TR; started by lots of boring stuff
10:12 schestowitz-TR; I'll try to get ahead with rss feeds
10:21 psydruid; if you don't want M$ Pluton in your hardware, you're an unreasonable puppy kicker
10:27 psydruid; unfortunately for M$ the company will play an increasingly smaller role in the world of computing in general and hardware in particular
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10:42 schestowitz-TR; mg works for microsoft
10:44 techrightssec2; ack
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11:04 techrightssec2; M$ is spinning and will continue to spin Pluton as either necessary or harmless
11:04 techrightssec2; and will do a lot to distract from how dangerous it is to self-determination
11:04 techrightssec2; and general-purpose computing.
11:04 techrightssec2; DOJ should be considering it an antitrust regression but won't due to political
11:04 techrightssec2; and resource constraints
11:40 schestowitz-TR; rianne found a greeting she wrote to me in 2013 but only handed over last night
11:40 schestowitz-TR; so that was quite special
11:40 schestowitz-TR; most bday greetings are dull, shallow, repetitve, corny and basically without any value/worth
11:40 schestowitz-TR; and that gets worse over the years
11:40 schestowitz-TR; like the age of emoji
11:40 schestowitz-TR; where even words can barely be used
11:41 techrightssec2; :)
11:41 techrightssec2; and the interpretations of the meanings of 'emoji' change from month to month
11:42 schestowitz-TR; some "apps" apparently have "stickers"
11:42 schestowitz-TR; and I think those are proprietary
11:42 schestowitz-TR; we don't use mobile p;hones or "apps"
11:42 schestowitz-TR; but I saw exchanges of greetings that boil down to pressing a button or choosing something
11:42 schestowitz-TR; from a selector
11:42 schestowitz-TR; that's not a greeting
11:42 schestowitz-TR; that's utter bullshit
11:43 schestowitz-TR; it's like writing someone a cheque as a "gift"
11:43 schestowitz-TR; or worse
11:43 schestowitz-TR; making a bank transfer
11:43 schestowitz-TR; although that takes more effort then sending emoji
11:44 schestowitz-TR; haha, bank transfer with transaction note that is an emoji
11:44 schestowitz-TR; party like it's 2025
11:59 techrightssec2; ack
12:07 schestowitz-TR; i think that owing to our very very old wsl articles being read lately there will be more people out there
12:07 schestowitz-TR; who unlike concern trolls and shills will point out what the "grand plan" is
12:07 schestowitz-TR; but tbh, not much remains to be said now
12:07 schestowitz-TR; microsoft rebrands it and re-annnounces it to googlebomb "linus"
12:07 schestowitz-TR; with WINDOWS
12:09 schestowitz-TR; i amk still trying to figure out where to shave off time and how
12:09 schestowitz-TR; some of that might require writing custom-made programs
12:09 schestowitz-TR; e.g. duplicate detection
12:09 schestowitz-TR; quiterss is very gui-centri (qt)
12:09 schestowitz-TR; so writing extensions to it is not an option
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12:12 schestowitz-TR; one time-consuming task can be figuring out which links you already check throughout the week
12:12 schestowitz-TR; atm I check against a complete db of the links
12:15 techrightssec2; One way might be to have a script which loads and processes an OPML file and
12:15 techrightssec2; then creates a web page using the summary/details elements and let the browser
12:15 techrightssec2; track which URLs have been visited?
12:15 techrightssec2; The script could have duplicate detection easily.
12:15 techrightssec2; The browser does that the only problem is that there seems to be no way to
12:15 techrightssec2; mark a URL unread once it has been read.
12:15 schestowitz-TR; i quite like how, more so lately, rss is in headlines
12:15 schestowitz-TR; esp. on blogs, not msm
12:15 schestowitz-TR; how to make social control media based on rss
12:15 schestowitz-TR; how to manage it
12:15 schestowitz-TR; why use rss
12:15 schestowitz-TR; that's a refreshing thing
12:15 schestowitz-TR; social control media is inhernely an attack on rss
12:15 schestowitz-TR; they promise the do the same
12:15 schestowitz-TR; but the masters are the miam
12:15 schestowitz-TR; messing about with what you cannot and won't see
12:16 techrightssec2; Yes and more sites are clearly labeling the Atom or RSS feeds which they have.
12:16 techrightssec2; Many of those that do not have the feeds can add them very easily through
12:16 techrightssec2; their CMS.
12:19 schestowitz-TR; it's a shame that bakersoft, a gulag subsidiary, won't restore
12:19 schestowitz-TR; 1) hot bookmarks or live bookmarks
12:19 schestowitz-TR; 2) auto highlightingg, once a page is visited, where the RRS feed is
12:19 schestowitz-TR; 3) proper parsing of xml/atom/rss objects
12:19 schestowitz-TR; they fucked up all 3 intentionally
12:19 schestowitz-TR; gulag reader ran at a oss to kill the rivals, like feedlounger
12:19 schestowitz-TR; than it shut down
12:19 schestowitz-TR; self-destructed
12:19 schestowitz-TR; same for feedburder
12:19 schestowitz-TR; the WARNING is in thje NAMER ;)
12:19 schestowitz-TR; BURNER!!
12:22 schestowitz-TR; (sorry for typos)
12:22 schestowitz-TR; btw, gulagtube is not enterring the territory of morality police more and more
12:22 schestowitz-TR; vaccine science... banned
12:22 schestowitz-TR; sexy stuff.... banned
12:22 schestowitz-TR; linux... demonetised or suspended... kodi is PIRACY!!!
12:22 schestowitz-TR; they are doing a musk, gravitating towards msm
12:22 schestowitz-TR; sexy is OK, if it is mainstream
12:22 schestowitz-TR; like black women in thongs "shakin' their booty" on some bouncing vehicle
12:22 schestowitz-TR; morality police, soon qataer and mbs might offer to 'cushion' the losses in gulagtube*
12:22 schestowitz-TR; ___
12:22 schestowitz-TR; * conditions apply
12:23 techrightssec2; If one were suspicious, that kind of method worked well to harm RSS/Atom usage.
12:23 techrightssec2; by centralizing the service so that the alternatives die off or are abandoned
12:23 techrightssec2; and then once the competition is gone pull the plug. GM and Firestone did
12:23 techrightssec2; that to the streetcars in the US a long while back.
12:23 techrightssec2; ack
12:24 schestowitz-TR; we cannot prove that the war on rss was orchetrated like this
12:24 schestowitz-TR; rather, more plausible, they had another vision
12:24 schestowitz-TR; and promoted this
12:24 schestowitz-TR; like that POS "pocket" from mozilla
12:24 schestowitz-TR; telling you what to read and tracking firefox users
12:24 schestowitz-TR; see their very latest blog posts
12:24 schestowitz-TR; they don't even hide the spying
12:24 schestowitz-TR; they boast about it
12:24 schestowitz-TR; f* mozill
12:24 schestowitz-TR; move to librewolf
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12:42 techrightssec2; Either would be a possibile motive but there is insufficient data to prefer
12:42 techrightssec2; one explanation over the other at this point. Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malic
12:42 techrightssec2; e. :/
12:42 techrightssec2; Which institution granted m$ the sw patent on ANS-Coding used in JPEG XL ?
12:42 techrightssec2; Was it USPTO or EPO ?
12:44 schestowitz-TR; wasn't and the controversial thing duda (polish prof) complained about?
12:44 schestowitz-TR; you might want to lookm into it
12:44 schestowitz-TR; TR wote about it sveeral times
12:44 schestowitz-TR; we even spoke to duda many times
12:44 techrightssec2; Yes his approach was to complain to Google to get them to back off but then
12:44 techrightssec2; m$ just went and submitted a copy of the application somewhere and ignored
12:44 techrightssec2; him.
12:44 techrightssec2; Which institution granted m$ the sw patent on ANS-Coding used in JPEG XL ?
12:44 techrightssec2; Can Duda recall which institution, EPO or USPTO, it was which granted the patent?
12:45 schestowitz-TR; uspto iirc
12:46 schestowitz-TR; look up 'dude theregister 2020' (ish)
12:46 schestowitz-TR; *duda
12:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe arsetechnically pedo also covered that around the same year (from memory)
12:48 techrightssec2; Features Of Range Asymmetric Number System Encoding And Decoding
12:48 techrightssec2; PATENT NUMBER: 11234023; DOCUMENT ID: US 11234023 B2; DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-01-25
12:48 techrightssec2; USPTO
12:48 techrightssec2; Not possible to link to the USPTO's database, their web "app" is a javascript
12:48 techrightssec2; abomination and not an actual useful site or web page.
12:48 techrightssec2; The front end is /only/ a "web app" and not possible to bookmark or link to.
12:48 schestowitz-TR; iirc, it is java at the back end
12:48 schestowitz-TR; unless they have changed that
12:48 schestowitz-TR; and they gave that away in the url structure, which is bad practice
12:49 techrightssec2; The web "app" even captures the mouse buttons, preventing their function.
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13:02 techrightssec2; Anyway, looking at the old TR link lists, the topic was not linked to much
13:02 techrightssec2; so perhaps in light of recent maneuvers by Google and M$ it could be a
13:02 techrightssec2; topic to cover again?
13:02 techrightssec2; The patent number and such is "new" information.
13:05 techrightssec2; Duda developed ANS back in 2007 already.
13:05 techrightssec2; https://libreplanet.org/2022/speakers/
13:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-libreplanet.org | LibrePlanet Speakers
13:06 schestowitz-TR; yes, i remember his talk
13:06 schestowitz; http://techrights.org/2022/03/28/ans-talk-by-jarek-duda/
13:06 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | LibrePlanet 2022 Talk on Software Patent Issues (by Jarek Duda) | Techrights
13:28 techrightssec2; Yes
13:28 techrightssec2; The LibrePlanet web site is a bit hard to navigate, with an excessive number
13:28 techrightssec2; of links and so on, but then TR is no example either.
13:28 techrightssec2; https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/ans-coding-replacing-huffman-and-ac-from-introduction-to-patent-iss
13:28 techrightssec2; ues/
13:28 techrightssec2; At about 21:30 he starts to address the sw patents.
13:28 techrightssec2; At about 35:50 he talks about defending against those who copy-pasta public code
13:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 308 @ https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/ans-coding-replacing-huffman-and-ac-from-introduction-to-patent-iss )
13:28 techrightssec2; and use that for a patent
13:37 techrightssec2; The interviewer doesnt understand patents and talks about implementations as
13:37 techrightssec2; if it were a matter of copyright instead
13:37 techrightssec2; That misunderstanding persists globally.
13:37 techrightssec2; ^ topic ?
13:45 techrightssec2; The sound quality is worse than dreadful however
13:46 schestowitz-TR; contents should matter more than quality of equipment
13:49 techrightssec2; Below a certain threshold, which in this case was crossed, the content is no
13:49 techrightssec2; longer accessible in practice
13:49 techrightssec2; The sound quality was so poor that most of the words were unintelligible.
13:51 techrightssec2; Perhaps some filtering with Audacity or similar might help but few are going
13:51 techrightssec2; to go through the trouble
13:51 techrightssec2; It is ironic that a talk about lossless compression should be rendered
13:51 techrightssec2; unusable by lossy compression.
13:51 techrightssec2; .
14:00 schestowitz-TR; there ios an interesting discussion atm in irc (tr) re rss vs email vs fedi vs twitter
14:00 schestowitz-TR; but that sort of goes around in circles
14:00 schestowitz-TR; atm, the topology of the net is a joke
14:00 schestowitz-TR; you have "gadget holders" connecting to just one domain
14:00 schestowitz-TR; say, tiktok
14:00 schestowitz-TR; and that domain then governs all the others
14:00 schestowitz-TR; a device should be accessing thousands of domains each day
14:00 schestowitz-TR; and now rely on one being a sieve
14:01 techrightssec2; ack
14:01 techrightssec2; s/tiktok/bytedance/
14:01 techrightssec2; ack
14:01 schestowitz-TR; you called that chokepoint a very, veyr long time ago
14:01 schestowitz-TR; now that also applied to person-to-person comms
14:01 schestowitz-TR; not just broadcasting (news etc)
14:01 schestowitz-TR; "mega-aggragators"
14:03 schestowitz-TR; I think beign IN a planet
14:03 schestowitz-TR; is a risk
14:03 schestowitz-TR; not just FOLLOWING one
14:03 schestowitz-TR; because peoplke wrongl;y assume they already follow you
14:03 schestowitz-TR; until someone gets in the middle
14:03 schestowitz-TR; and severs the wire
14:03 techrightssec2; ack
14:27 schestowitz-TR; "If you can avoid COVID, avoid COVID. Its probably not worth doing whatever it was that got you infected." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/still-alive-after-the-month-of-hell-covid-and-shingles/
14:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-baronhk.wordpress.com | Still alive after the month of Hell. (COVID and Shingles) | BaronHK's Rants
14:32 techrightssec2; ack
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17:34 schestowitz-TR; just book a migration to fibreoptics feb 1st
17:34 schestowitz-TR; this time they do it right
17:34 schestowitz-TR; underground
17:34 schestowitz-TR; not all over people's homes
17:34 schestowitz-TR; they dug it up and the lines are underground
17:34 schestowitz-TR; the connection will be 20 times faster up
17:34 schestowitz-TR; and 7.5 times faster down
17:34 techrightssec2; \
17:34 techrightssec2; Hopefully so.
17:34 schestowitz-TR; can be 15 times faster for extra charge, but I opted out
17:34 schestowitz-TR; not sure how reliable it'll be
17:34 schestowitz-TR; but I can be refunded within 2 or 4 weeks
17:38 schestowitz-TR; it'll be 6 pounds a monthless than what I pay now
17:38 schestowitz-TR; anyway, good way to start my 'sabattical' year
17:38 schestowitz-TR; *bbatrical
17:38 schestowitz-TR; draft
17:38 schestowitz-TR; after 26 years of non-stop employment almost
17:40 techrightssec2; I expect the reliability and connectivity will be more stable but the speed
17:40 techrightssec2; will be less noticed since so many web sites have devolved into crappy, slow
17:40 techrightssec2; web "apps" with several layers of up to dozens of objects mostly retrieved
17:40 techrightssec2; in serial.
17:40 techrightssec2; Yes. A sabbatical is a good way to look at it.
17:40 techrightssec2; With web "apps" no amount of bandwidth on your part will speed up the subjective
17:40 techrightssec2; experience. But there will be a lot of other smaller benefits.
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