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06:07 schestowitz-TR; The reason the ytalk connection was dropped, my machine was rebooted
06:07 schestowitz-TR; I studied the logs, after I had taken the opportunity to do a full system update
06:07 schestowitz-TR; and could not see anything connection the ongoing drive warnings
06:07 schestowitz-TR; to the incident
06:07 Techrights-sec; no worries, it should have reconnected automatically form my
06:07 Techrights-sec; end though
06:07 Techrights-sec; from my end though
06:08 Techrights-sec; I have a loop going here.
06:10 schestowitz-TR; so it turns out alex jones, like andrew lee, is also living the us lifestyle
06:10 schestowitz-TR; 50k in assets, then just borrow... 1 million to 10 million
06:10 schestowitz-TR; and they say this is the world's most potent economt
06:10 schestowitz-TR; (never mind motivation o bury the debt in ch11)
06:10 Techrights-sec; yep goog riddance to him though I suppose his backers won;t let his be the end of him and his bullshit
06:10 Techrights-sec; yep another "successful bankruptcy" to show at business schools as a model
06:12 schestowitz-TR; theory: the national deficit, granting about 20 trillion in public debt is about a decade or a little more
06:12 schestowitz-TR; covers up for the fakeness of the private sector
06:12 schestowitz-TR; which is in the red
06:16 Techrights-sec; it's hard to explain but the money is not the global currency but the debt
06:16 Techrights-sec; itself, that also gives more leverage over the borrower
06:16 Techrights-sec; yes and it does help hide the fakeness of the private sector
06:16 Techrights-sec; an additional problem is that Enron-style accounting is now allowed and
06:16 Techrights-sec; encouraged so it is almost impossible to find out what the bottome line is.
06:17 Techrights-sec; Generally that takes an audit and business schools have prepared scammers
06:17 Techrights-sec; for that by teaching everyone how to keep two separate sets of books, only
06:17 Techrights-sec; one of which is for the government. The big Enterprise Resource Planning
06:17 Techrights-sec; packages don't let people keep track of that for their business anyway.
06:17 Techrights-sec; It has become a shell game.
06:17 Techrights-sec; Yes, in otherwords they are intentionally obfuscating their dire situation
06:17 schestowitz-TR; See, I am not so stupid but I could never make sense of the financial statement of a 10-person (little more) company
06:17 schestowitz-TR; where I have been for over 10 years
06:17 schestowitz-TR; my BS meter off the chart, I still needed help from better sniffers
06:22 schestowitz-TR; don't mean to sound cocky, but it seems a good majority of companies are like that
06:22 schestowitz-TR; some are more upfront about it
06:22 schestowitz-TR; apparently rianne and I, as we do have actual savings and no debt/liabilities, are
06:22 schestowitz-TR; a lot better off than a god majority of households
06:22 schestowitz-TR; two days ago I saved about 30 pounds on food and did exercise at the same time (went to 7 shops+1 at
06:22 schestowitz-TR; the end, a second visit)
06:22 schestowitz-TR; not many people in those
06:22 schestowitz-TR; high inflation rates penalise not only savers, they hurt everybody
06:23 Techrights-sec; perhaps, but as mentioned it is now established practice to cook the books
06:23 Techrights-sec; and to use accoubnting methods which facillitate that
06:23 Techrights-sec; yes that is a goal ,but the low interest rates also discourage savings,
06:23 Techrights-sec; they try to push everyone to put their money into speculation instead.
06:23 Techrights-sec; Basically they wish people to gamble what little they might have put away
06:25 schestowitz-TR; yes, in IRC I've said this repeatedly over the past year
06:25 schestowitz-TR; Wall Street now eats the middle class (what's left of it)
06:25 schestowitz-TR; by putting more pressure on remaining savers to "feed the machine"
06:25 schestowitz-TR; this will end like in 2007-8
06:25 Techrights-sec; ... what's left of the middle class is rapidly vanishing, pushed down
06:25 Techrights-sec; into poverty
06:28 schestowitz-TR; 1) the standards of "poverty" are adjusted
06:28 schestowitz-TR; 2) "full employment" redefined
06:28 schestowitz-TR; 3) more hours, more working people per household
06:28 schestowitz-TR; 4) reducation in compensation, pension age etc.
06:28 schestowitz-TR; "if you can't make it good, make it look like you need Epstein for "rich people"..."
06:28 schestowitz-TR; Because that's all he is renowned for, nothing else....
06:29 Techrights-sec; the definition of poverty is bent also to exclude more impoverished people
06:29 Techrights-sec; from the category, so effectively much of the lower end of what had been
06:29 Techrights-sec; middle class is in practice poor and feeling it
06:29 Techrights-sec; basically
06:30 schestowitz-TR; it is even worse when you factor in much of the "lifestyle" being fed by loans
06:30 schestowitz-TR; our old filmmaking friend contemplated suicide over it 15 years ago
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06:32 Techrights-sec; that's too bad;
06:32 Techrights-sec; I think he's doing much better now, bites from pinnepeds aside
06:32 Techrights-sec; ^pinniped
06:32 schestowitz-TR; it's the financial equiv of anabolic steroids
06:32 schestowitz-TR; make me look big now
06:32 schestowitz-TR; we'll worry about all "that bad stuff" later on
06:32 Techrights-sec; yep, to a certain extent
06:40 schestowitz-TR; with soma and all that, they make yet more "susccess stories"
06:40 schestowitz-TR; more billionaires like sackler family with purdue
06:40 schestowitz-TR; so there's something to celebrate after all!
06:40 schestowitz-TR; in 'ol england' they had pubs and booze to compel the hard-working class to keep
06:40 schestowitz-TR; working harder
06:40 schestowitz-TR; but the drugs are no longer limited to liquid form
06:40 schestowitz-TR; the last effect is also longer
06:40 schestowitz-TR; if the drinking shortens the life, no pension, work till death
06:40 schestowitz-TR; a sort of lifespan or longevity 'eugenics'
06:42 Techrights-sec; another thing the us does is the culture, especialy through business, puts
06:42 Techrights-sec; nearly everybody in a dire situation where the normal reaction is stress
06:42 Techrights-sec; if not downright depression then instead of fixing the problem or moving the
06:42 Techrights-sec; people to better jobs (on the false assumption that any exist) they sell
06:42 Techrights-sec; expensive mindaltering medication to force a happy or at least less depressed
06:42 Techrights-sec; feeling into their heads -- for an additional fee
06:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db377.htm
06:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cdc.gov | Products - Data Briefs - Number 377 - September 2020
06:42 Techrights-sec; and that's the /old/ data, not including recent years
06:42 Techrights-sec; https://pharmaceutical-journal.com/article/news/antidepressant-prescribing-up-6-since-2019
06:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-pharmaceutical-journal.com | Antidepressant prescribing up 6% in last three months of 2020 - The Pharmaceutical Journal
06:42 Techrights-sec; (UK(
06:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2020/09/04/Antidepressant-use-rising-in-US-mostly-in-women-CDC-says/7341599224503/
06:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Antidepressant use rising in U.S., mostly in women, CDC says - UPI.com
06:42 Techrights-sec; on average women are more in tune with surroundings and environment
06:42 Techrights-sec; pint-a-day
06:42 Techrights-sec; more importantly larger business can charge more for them and they
06:42 Techrights-sec; are able to exclude smaller businesses from participation
06:42 Techrights-sec; old:
06:42 Techrights-sec; https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/astounding-increase-in-antidepressant-use-by-americans-201110203624
06:42 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.health.harvard.edu | Astounding increase in antidepressant use by Americans - Harvard Health
06:42 Techrights-sec; chinese fentanyl or taliban heroin shortens it more and faster
06:42 Techrights-sec; it also removes people from politics, like Pince or Tom Petty, more conveniently than what had to be done with John Lennon
06:55 Techrights-sec; yes in pratcie there is a eugneics programme against those that are honest
06:55 Techrights-sec; hard working , smart, or a combination there of.
06:55 Techrights-sec; Look for example at the characteristics selected for in the US military and
06:55 Techrights-sec; then the long term darwinian fitness effect their time in the service has
06:55 Techrights-sec; it's even bad for the officers, not just the enlisted
06:55 Techrights-sec; patriotism overlaps with a kind of altruism, so that too is being bred out
06:55 Techrights-sec; china is also doing a heavy eugenics programme against its citizens with
06:55 Techrights-sec; the social credit score; they look to be trying to breed obedience and
06:55 Techrights-sec; unquestioningness into the population or at least remove independence and
06:56 Techrights-sec; questioning from the gene pool
06:56 Techrights-sec; Europe is doing quite badly too.
06:57 schestowitz-TR; I have checked the film archive of our friend
06:57 schestowitz-TR; it's still there fully intact (on the surface of it)
06:57 schestowitz-TR; in the Internet Archive
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07:16 schestowitz-TR; "At the Chevrolet dealer to get the Buick fixed, I noticed that nobody was in there to buy a car." https://baronhk.wordpress.com/2022
07:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-baronhk.wordpress.com | 2022 BaronHK's Rants
07:17 schestowitz-TR; /04/19/at-the-chevrolet-dealer-to-get-the-buick-fixed-i-noticed-that-nobody-was-in-there-to-buy-a-car/\
07:17 Techrights-sec; yep the "luxury" cars are real lemons since all repairs *must* take place
07:17 Techrights-sec; at the dealer so that too becomes a revenue stream
07:18 schestowitz-TR; https://www.projectcensored.org/in-push-for-profits-pfizer-pre-empting-national-governments-powers/
07:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/in-push-for-profits-pfizer-pre-empting-national-governments-powers/ )
07:21 Techrights-sec; ack
07:21 Techrights-sec; and the other vaccine lines seem to have been starved of funding even
07:21 Techrights-sec; though they looked very promising
07:21 Techrights-sec; on another topic, /tmp/techrights-monitor-tr.py has the updated monitoring
07:21 Techrights-sec; script here; it's not set up for more than one site at a time but has a lot
07:21 Techrights-sec; of bells and whistles which I find useful
07:21 Techrights-sec; at around 03:40 UTC each day there is a bit of a slowdown but not long enough
07:21 Techrights-sec; to trigger a full alarm
07:21 Techrights-sec; yes I remember, it's just that even with ionice and nice in use the site
07:21 Techrights-sec; slows down enough to notice
07:22 schestowitz-TR; that's the backup time, with wordpress being the biggest toll
07:22 schestowitz-TR; that used to result in much longer period of unavailability
07:22 schestowitz-TR; when that machine was about 8 cores
07:22 schestowitz-TR; maybe the db locks up until the dump is complete and httpd keeps connections to it on hold
07:22 schestowitz-TR; i forgot how that works, we've not had to worry much since the server move
07:23 Techrights-sec; that could be it though I don't know enough about the db to say either way
07:23 Techrights-sec; it has to lock the tables in some way for a period of time in order to
07:23 Techrights-sec; have a coherent dump
07:25 schestowitz-TR; this technical approach may sound obscene until you realise the size of the DB when not compressed
07:25 schestowitz-TR; for tuxmachines the 170k nodes being dump also leads to a sort of 'hang', but it lasts under a minute
07:25 schestowitz-TR; to tuxmachines visitors it's like "the site is a bit slow" and then it comes back OK with a page
07:25 Techrights-sec; yes it is huge
07:25 Techrights-sec; TR is as far as I know an unusually large wordpress instance
07:25 Techrights-sec; yes the slowdown is short nowadays, that is quite good
07:27 schestowitz-TR; I don't have to speculate how much hosting on such hardware costs "in the market", per anum
07:27 schestowitz-TR; *annum
07:28 Techrights-sec; It is quite a generous contribution
07:50 schestowitz-TR; https://www.projectcensored.org/one-third-of-child-care-workers-in-us-going-hungry-despite-labor-shortage/
07:50 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 520 @ https://www.projectcensored.org/one-third-of-child-care-workers-in-us-going-hungry-despite-labor-shortage/ )
07:51 Techrights-sec; the dedicated work ethic is being bred out
07:51 Techrights-sec; as people starve to death while doing important/essential jobs
07:51 Techrights-sec; That study was from 2019, the situatioon is most likely far worse from
07:51 Techrights-sec; 2020 and 2021
07:54 schestowitz-TR; i could sound like an old cliche, but...
07:54 schestowitz-TR; automation was supposed to help people work less
07:54 schestowitz-TR; let the invention take care of much of the rest
07:54 schestowitz-TR; sweden did, at one point, experiement with workhours reduction
07:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe that was there to stay
07:54 schestowitz-TR; switzerland (rich) dabbled in ubi
07:54 schestowitz-TR; for some corporate/ruling class these programmes are undesirable
07:54 schestowitz-TR; in weaker democracies these can never materialise
07:54 schestowitz-TR; let alone get tested
07:54 schestowitz-TR; one alternative does exist
07:54 schestowitz-TR; reject the system
07:54 schestowitz-TR; work at the margins of it
07:54 schestowitz-TR; and do not obey
07:58 Techrights-sec; kind of, but the societal pressure to work oneself deep into debt is
07:58 Techrights-sec; tremendous and a matter of knowledge, given that the educational system
07:58 Techrights-sec; was neutralied in the US during the Reagan administration the knoweldge
07:58 Techrights-sec; has been gone for a while
07:58 schestowitz-TR; I am miffed only by the term "work deep into debt"
07:58 schestowitz-TR; as it is the consumption (of kids) that cause the debt
07:58 schestowitz-TR; the work, unless it's something like gambling, it not likely to cause
07:59 schestowitz-TR; the debt
07:59 schestowitz-TR; but creating a business that operates at a loss might
07:59 schestowitz-TR; you work and lose at the same time
07:59 Techrights-sec; partially, cars, wasteful travel and kids
07:59 Techrights-sec; kids are reckeoned to cost 250 k EUR to raise to 18, and the costs
07:59 Techrights-sec; extend for quite a few years after 18 these days
07:59 Techrights-sec; https://www.gutenberg.org/files/51233/51233-h/51233-h.htm
07:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.gutenberg.org | The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Marching Morons, by C. M. Kornbluth.
08:03 schestowitz-TR; kids and cars are connected
08:03 schestowitz-TR; because cars are expected when you have kids
08:03 schestowitz-TR; people ask funny questions when you walk the kids 45-minute walks
08:03 schestowitz-TR; to get places
08:03 schestowitz-TR; esp. in certain weather
08:03 schestowitz-TR; so it is another "hidden" cost
08:03 schestowitz-TR; which few ould factor in
08:03 schestowitz-TR; *would
08:03 schestowitz-TR; lol, "the marching morons"
08:03 schestowitz-TR; I like the title
08:03 schestowitz-TR; incidentally, upstairs 20 mins ago rianne and I joked about our colleagues
08:03 schestowitz-TR; who actually invested their personal money in the company
08:03 schestowitz-TR; to them, well... they work hard like mules
08:03 schestowitz-TR; to us, no... we do the bare minumium and don't care
08:05 Techrights-sec; yes if you have kids the logistics of raising them *requires* that a car
08:05 Techrights-sec; is used even in most of Europe
08:05 Techrights-sec; that adds to the debt, and now even in Europe there is a growing trend
08:05 Techrights-sec; for societies to cultivate "student debt" as if that were a normal thing
08:05 Techrights-sec; wtf? That's foolish
08:05 Techrights-sec; especially given the pull towards clown and M$
08:05 Techrights-sec; if the company were heading in a viable direction that woud be a different
08:05 Techrights-sec; matter, but clown and m$ are a dead end
08:05 Techrights-sec; tyhen again mules are not smart nor known for being smart
08:08 schestowitz-TR; 1) it's not clown and MS, but clown and some occasional nonfree
08:08 schestowitz-TR; which is still now goog
08:08 schestowitz-TR; *good
08:08 schestowitz-TR; 2) in the UK we had the show (predates my adult life) Only Fools and Horses
08:08 schestowitz-TR; and you know what comes after that
08:08 schestowitz-TR; rianne anmd I already joke that if one day the company goes under we'll be like "LOL! real sorry!"
08:08 schestowitz-TR; This sort of mindset is quite healthy, I think
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08:10 Techrights-sec; yes, the numbers show that it is a bad investment, one should never invest
08:10 Techrights-sec; for other than solid numbers not wishful thinking or other emotional factors
08:10 Techrights-sec; At least a certain level of detachment is healthy
08:10 Techrights-sec; However, apropos cores mentioned earlier, Kaniini mentioned "soon", is there
08:10 Techrights-sec; any way to help with that? I suppose it is a matter of time which he doesn
08:10 Techrights-sec; have though
08:11 schestowitz-TR; a new job and little spare time led to this
08:11 schestowitz-TR; but worry not, at least the verbal commitment is there
08:11 schestowitz-TR; 12 months ago it was not that good
08:13 schestowitz-TR; judging by volume of daily links, easter monday too got shaved off as a holiday
08:13 schestowitz-TR; each year it feels to me like the "champion" economy and the "bext system!"
08:13 schestowitz-TR; is trying to sustain itself like the EPO does
08:13 schestowitz-TR; by stealing more and more from workers
08:13 schestowitz-TR; Battistelli tookm away many holidays
08:13 schestowitz-TR; his orange minion brought nonse back
08:13 schestowitz-TR; *non
08:13 schestowitz-TR; *none
08:15 schestowitz-TR; holiday became "long weekend" and long weekend is now just "slow Friday"
08:15 schestowitz-TR; boohoo! can't wait till dec 24th (rianne already booked a day off work so we can
08:15 schestowitz-TR; bargain-hunt that day) when we have a "long weekend" again
08:15 Techrights-sec; yes, the presence of any links at all is due almost entuirely to
08:15 Techrights-sec; trolling through the RSS feeds
08:17 schestowitz-TR; same in quiterss
08:17 schestowitz-TR; it doesn't feel much different than the average weekene
08:17 schestowitz-TR; but maybe cause I mostly follow non-corporate blogs
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08:20 Techrights-sec; same
08:22 schestowitz-TR; can't complain
08:22 schestowitz-TR; I need to post some things to "feel" productive
08:22 schestowitz-TR; and I don't need a break from work/kids/stress
08:22 schestowitz-TR; but I had some tgasks in my TODO list which I relied on the "long weekend" (formerly known as holiday)
08:22 schestowitz-TR; to get everything done
08:22 schestowitz-TR; some of the backup stuff for instance
08:22 schestowitz-TR; lots of stuff happening in the background
08:22 schestowitz-TR; without it, I'd be able to write more
08:22 schestowitz-TR; I lowered my irc activities a bit
08:22 schestowitz-TR; a lot of the time it's not leading to any good articles
08:23 Techrights-sec; ack
08:23 Techrights-sec; excercise several times per day is important and getting up from the computer every 20 minutes for at least a few miniutes is essenti
08:23 Techrights-sec; al
08:23 Techrights-sec; ok if it is in good hands with mincer
08:24 schestowitz-TR; one potential area to expand in: find more stuff, esp. aggregator, for Planet Gemini
08:24 schestowitz-TR; this is where I go for all my "discoverables"
08:26 schestowitz-TR; as for exercise, I got my shotput ball wrapped up in a used pillowcase to do exercise with, like in a gym
08:26 schestowitz-TR; the other ball is with a friend, Mark
08:26 schestowitz-TR; I've not seen him in 10 months due to the plague
08:26 schestowitz-TR; there's no sign of that being brought under control
08:26 schestowitz-TR; "we are the controls!!!"
08:27 Techrights-sec; excellent
08:27 Techrights-sec; if you had 3 you could juggle but only if there are neighbor below :P
08:27 Techrights-sec; yes, there is no sign of leveling off anywhere that I have read about
08:28 schestowitz-TR; this is the proper 7.2kg, the 6kg is with my friend
08:28 schestowitz-TR; he too might be using it sometimes
08:28 schestowitz-TR; so I don't want to ask for it back
08:28 schestowitz-TR; one can be creative to get the same done with one, like one set each arm
08:28 schestowitz-TR; and stairs foir climbing exercise
08:31 Techrights-sec; "The Flying Karamazov Brothers" used to challeng the audience to bring
08:31 Techrights-sec; up 3 things to juggle until one person brought up to the stage
08:31 Techrights-sec; 1) a bowling ball
08:31 Techrights-sec; 2) a pingpong ball
08:31 Techrights-sec; 3) a pound of butter
08:31 schestowitz-TR; LOL!
08:31 schestowitz-TR; paper, rock, scissors
08:32 Techrights-sec; they've since modified the rules for their challenge
08:37 schestowitz-TR; Chinese Republic of Macron https://www.techdirt.com/2022/04/18/french-president-again-calls-for-an-end-to-online-anonymity/
08:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-French President (Again) Calls For An End To Online Anonymity | Techdirt
08:37 schestowitz-TR; I should prepare to explain that my two masks and hoodie are a religious ritual
08:37 schestowitz-TR; and that it would violate by religious freedom to identify with something other
08:38 schestowitz-TR; than fingerprints on cash In hand out
08:39 Techrights-sec; LOL might work
08:39 Techrights-sec; these days
08:40 schestowitz-TR; next, the "cranks" and "COVIDiots" are people who take their health seriously
08:40 schestowitz-TR; according yo modified government narratives and leaflets
08:40 schestowitz-TR; worse yet -- they might be terroprists anmd pedos waiting to attack
08:40 schestowitz-TR; "take off their mask! Punch the nazis"
08:40 schestowitz-TR; I should form a united front with Saudi women!
08:40 schestowitz-TR; We do have some shared interests after all!!
08:40 schestowitz-TR; (not the Saudi feminists, the ones who protect the sexists)
08:40 Techrights-sec; https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/02/28/a-look-behind-the-plague-doctor-mask/
08:40 Techrights-sec; even back then it was a business
08:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.forbes.com | A Look Behind The Plague Doctor Mask
08:42 schestowitz-TR; next, the "cranks" and "COVIDiots" are people who take their health seriously
08:42 schestowitz-TR; according yo modified government narratives and leaflets
08:42 schestowitz-TR; worse yet -- they might be terroprists anmd pedos waiting to attack
08:42 schestowitz-TR; "take off their mask! Punch the nazis"
08:42 schestowitz-TR; I should form a united front with Saudi women!
08:42 schestowitz-TR; We do have some shared interests after all!!
08:42 schestowitz-TR; (not the Saudi feminists, the ones who protect the sexists)
08:42 schestowitz-TR; like I said in the video from Sunday, part of the objective is to keep people away
08:42 schestowitz-TR; we have millions of infections per month
08:43 Techrights-sec; https://www.forbes.com/sites/kionasmith/2021/02/28/a-look-behind-the-plague-doctor-mask/
08:43 Techrights-sec; even back then it was a business
08:43 Techrights-sec; from the link above "Canes also make handy tools for enforcing social distancing, which was actually something medieval and Renaissa
08:43 Techrights-sec; nce people had realized could slow the spread of plague."
08:53 Techrights-sec; yep
09:11 schestowitz-TR; "There should be a mandatory course in public health in our nation's law schools." https://www.commondreams.org/n
09:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.commondreams.org/n )
09:11 schestowitz-TR; ews/2022/04/18/right-wing-judge-kills-cdc-mask-mandate-travel
09:11 schestowitz-TR; you don't want people who use PUBLIC transport to live long anyway
09:11 schestowitz-TR; if you are a RICH sociopath
09:11 schestowitz-TR; pollute
09:11 schestowitz-TR; infect
09:11 schestowitz-TR; saddle with debt
09:11 schestowitz-TR; saturate with narcotics
09:11 schestowitz-TR; make sure they reproduce like rabits
09:11 schestowitz-TR; more consumers and collaterals for debt
09:11 schestowitz-TR; "There are (IIRC) 168 hours in a week! WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK, WORK HARDER, PEASANTS!"
09:27 schestowitz-TR; funny thought that occured to me many times while walking back home
09:27 schestowitz-TR; 5-7 years ago I was thinking, as I walked
09:27 schestowitz-TR; Assange is in there posting things from an embasst
09:27 schestowitz-TR; not touching a pavement for many years
09:27 schestowitz-TR; now, assange is stuck in a cell with signal deprivation for 1000+ days
09:27 schestowitz-TR; whereas me and rianne are like him inside the embassy
09:27 schestowitz-TR; doing workouts at home
09:27 schestowitz-TR; going up and down a bit
09:27 schestowitz-TR; So one might joke that for many in soviety, esp. non-docile folks,
09:27 schestowitz-TR; prison is the next phase
09:27 Techrights-sec; ack
09:27 Techrights-sec; sensory
09:27 Techrights-sec; ack
09:28 schestowitz-TR; I have always found it ridiculous that rich people are confined to home arrests
09:28 schestowitz-TR; they have mansions!!
09:28 schestowitz-TR; Is that supposed to teach them a lesson?
09:28 schestowitz-TR; "work harder, make a bigger mansion, as one day this mansion will be your cell|"
09:41 Techrights-sec; mansions are large and often have a lot of facilities on sitge
09:54 schestowitz-TR; rianne's aunt has bad news
09:54 schestowitz-TR; her husband died
09:54 schestowitz-TR; I knew him
09:54 schestowitz-TR; he died while jogging
09:54 schestowitz-TR; someone found him dead
09:54 schestowitz-TR; next month we'll travel to here (Yorkshire)
09:54 schestowitz-TR; because she wants family to be with her
09:54 schestowitz-TR; to not be alone at home
09:54 schestowitz-TR; rianne will probably stay over a few days
09:54 schestowitz-TR; I will visit for the day and get back
09:54 Techrights-sec; thanks sad. my condolences
09:54 Techrights-sec; take extra strong filters for the train
09:57 schestowitz-TR; we are still debating the details here
09:57 schestowitz-TR; maybe rianne stays there 3 nights, then brings her here for some days
09:57 schestowitz-TR; we still have 2 spa/massage vouchers
09:57 schestowitz-TR; we've not used due to concerns (about contact)
09:57 schestowitz-TR; so I reckon they can use those
10:03 schestowitz-TR; in Dec. 2018 I slepyt "away" (Berlin)
10:03 schestowitz-TR; Ever since then the nightly cron jobs have meant
10:03 schestowitz-TR; I cannot easily be afk overnight
10:03 schestowitz-TR; possible, but can be tricky
10:03 schestowitz-TR; the cron jobs were set up around 2019
10:03 schestowitz-TR; anyway, all this is not applicable, still up to debate, until next month
10:03 schestowitz-TR; for rianne it'll be good to spend a lot of time with family
10:03 schestowitz-TR; she is a nurse and very COVID-aware
10:03 schestowitz-TR; so I don't worry about THAT
10:03 schestowitz-TR; If there's a guest I feel safe being here, it's her
10:03 schestowitz-TR; as a side note, a friend who is a nurse killed herself recently
10:03 schestowitz-TR; and a doctor at the hospital also killed himself this year
10:03 schestowitz-TR; those don't count as COVID deaths
10:03 schestowitz-TR; the mental and financial devastation cause due to or alongside the
10:03 schestowitz-TR; pandemic do not get added to tallies
10:03 schestowitz-TR; today in irc (main channel) our young ukrainian lad is again talking
10:03 schestowitz-TR; about him being suicidal
10:03 schestowitz-TR; (an hour ago)
10:05 Techrights-sec; :/ the stress at those jobs is terrible in normal times and as the politicians
10:05 Techrights-sec; ramp it up to drive people to privatized
10:05 Techrights-sec; war is awful )thats an understatement=
10:05 Techrights-sec; hope he hangs in there most of the rest of Europe supports defense of
10:05 Techrights-sec; UA but the bureaucracy is deadly slow to act on it
10:05 Techrights-sec; tech savy is important in these times
10:07 schestowitz-TR; I am careful not to say the wrong things
10:07 schestowitz-TR; saying nothing is also unhelpful
10:07 schestowitz-TR; he is about 18
10:07 schestowitz-TR; but VERY tech-savvy and mature in this regard
10:07 schestowitz-TR; bnchs also (22)
10:34 schestowitz; Twitter is JOURNALISM DONCHU NO??? http://techrights.org/2022/03/21/ukraine-in-twitter/
10:34 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Twitter: Were Actually a News Site, Follow These Tweets and Twits | Techrights
10:36 schestowitz-TR; the trigger word was mentioned in IRC
10:36 schestowitz-TR; CoC and PoCoC
10:36 schestowitz-TR; which triggered a troll
10:36 schestowitz-TR; but "matey" shot the troll and the troll lost
10:36 schestowitz-TR; I will use an alarm clock from the 90s that uses fm and am radio
10:36 schestowitz-TR; it still works
10:36 schestowitz-TR; earlier this month I let it run on for a bit
10:36 schestowitz-TR; inc. into commercial breaks and "content"
10:36 schestowitz-TR; what an awful pile of shit it was
10:36 schestowitz-TR; i eneded up mentally drained
10:36 schestowitz-TR; before even waking out of bed
10:36 schestowitz-TR; Twitter is JOURNALISM DONCHU NO??? http://techrights.org/2022/03/21/ukraine-in-twitter/
10:36 schestowitz-TR; Yesterday I was thinking of the AOL flopppy=subscriber slant
10:36 schestowitz-TR; When Twitter says it has "x active users"
10:36 schestowitz-TR; what does Twitter Inc. mean??
10:36 schestowitz-TR; Active as in clicked on some twitter link in Gulag search and had twitter browser cookie?
10:36 schestowitz-TR; Logged in but just reading
10:36 schestowitz-TR; Logged in in past 365 days?
10:37 schestowitz-TR; Reading but not posting? Not even liking? You know what the Twitter CFO will favour,,,
10:37 Techrights-sec; I can't tolerate any commercial radio or television, and not just because of
10:37 Techrights-sec; the ads
10:37 Techrights-sec; yes, there is a strong parallel from what I see
10:37 Techrights-sec; it sounds like they are lying about a lot of stats
10:40 schestowitz-TR; I have repeatedly stated, and can provide some prooof/evidence, that they herd all the users
10:40 schestowitz-TR; into few accounts/tweets/topics
10:40 schestowitz-TR; they funnel in all the traffic to give a false impression of importance
10:40 schestowitz-TR; they might as well pay MSM to feed into this frenzt
10:40 schestowitz-TR; in the past the traffic was more nicely spread
10:40 schestowitz-TR; but now they herd people into few places by provoking them
10:40 schestowitz-TR; if now pushing things, even into "NOTIFICATIONS"
10:40 schestowitz-TR; thinss that have nothing to do with you
10:40 schestowitz-TR; they show me "tweets" from people I do not "follow"
10:40 schestowitz-TR; in my notifications bar
10:40 schestowitz-TR; I last saw it when I checked last week
10:40 Techrights-sec; tht would be profitable for them to do and be easy for them to do and
10:40 Techrights-sec; be low risk for them to do so it is probable that even without strong
10:40 Techrights-sec; evidence one can presume it is being done
10:46 schestowitz-TR; they might try to argue they are trying to help YOU!
10:46 schestowitz-TR; To know what's important
10:46 schestowitz-TR; the pluocrats have long sought ways to control public rage
10:46 schestowitz-TR; and tpo shift focus to and away from certain topics
10:46 schestowitz-TR; like FB rebranding as "mta"
10:46 schestowitz-TR; to break the news/noise cycle
10:46 schestowitz-TR; BTW, the "Linux" events that pocker money from these mobsters
10:46 schestowitz-TR; now they change their sites to say "meta" is a sponsor
10:46 schestowitz-TR; LF has one for meta, one for FB
10:46 schestowitz-TR; like Microsoft with the two palms, GitHub and Microsoft
10:46 schestowitz-TR; I was gona say something else ebut forgot
10:46 schestowitz-TR; though maybe it was about FB doing its "experiments" with manipulatiob of emotions
10:46 schestowitz-TR; they do not need to make it directly profitable
10:46 schestowitz-TR; they can rent or outright sell the platforms to oligarchs like Trump and Musk
10:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe they want to "take turns"
10:46 schestowitz-TR; hence resist the temptatiun to sell to just one power broker
10:46 schestowitz-TR; butr the ability to shift TO and AWQAY from topics all around the world
10:46 schestowitz-TR; in many languages
10:46 schestowitz-TR; is incredible powerful
10:46 schestowitz-TR; with media scattered across nations, languages and different owners it's very easy to
10:46 schestowitz-TR; coordinates blackouts etc.
10:46 schestowitz-TR; I have much to say about how Russian invasion was handled by social control media
10:46 schestowitz-TR; but that might get me labeled "Russian agents" or "apologist"
10:46 schestowitz-TR; media consolidation has been studied as a threat for decades
10:46 schestowitz-TR; few dare question consolidatiomn aspects
10:47 schestowitz-TR; of this new form of aggregatinon
10:47 schestowitz-TR; like one universal fake RSS reader
10:47 schestowitz-TR; where rich people and politicians constantyly stick their palms
10:58 Techrights-sec; RSS is mostly limited to blogs, as far as the useful stuff goes
11:00 schestowitz-TR; Well, that's too bad then :-)
11:00 schestowitz-TR; So I won't be seeing much of the corporate "media"
11:00 schestowitz-TR; Like I said earlier, one area for expansion might be Planet Gemini
11:00 schestowitz-TR; I saw only one sponsored spam there so far
11:00 schestowitz-TR; As for my patent feed, good lord! I have to go through maybe 40 shits to find just one decent article
11:00 schestowitz-TR; but I found an approach of extracting value from the set
11:00 schestowitz-TR; and I lowered its priority in general
11:02 schestowitz-TR; I don't trust Planets they are good usually for only a while after they
11:02 schestowitz-TR; are first set up and then people either figure out how to game them
11:02 schestowitz-TR; or otherwise start maniupulating the output
11:02 Techrights-sec; I don't trust Planets they are good usually for only a while after they
11:02 Techrights-sec; are first set up and then people either figure out how to game them
11:02 Techrights-sec; or otherwise start maniupulating the output
11:08 Techrights-sec; 40:1 is still better than what has become the new average
11:08 Techrights-sec; FWIW it's Earth Day again on Friday, but the airlines are increasing their
11:08 Techrights-sec; flights again and on top of that were still flying empty planes to "keep" their slots at the airports.
11:11 schestowitz-TR; if not enough people "help" them by flying, then maybe our regimes
11:11 schestowitz-TR; should bail them out some more
11:11 schestowitz-TR; IOW, taking our money as taxpayers forcibly
11:11 schestowitz-TR; to feed the likes of starving Dick Bransom and his ilk
11:11 schestowitz-TR; because planes are too big to FALL
11:11 schestowitz-TR; and they help prototype bombers and jets
11:11 schestowitz-TR; we really need those
11:11 schestowitz-TR; for their very very "precise" targeting
11:11 schestowitz-TR; Boeing: we make missiles and war planes
11:11 schestowitz-TR; (we also design some made-in-china, assembled-in-Murica "civilian" products)
11:11 schestowitz-TR; we are the "JBO CREATORS", bail us out.
11:11 schestowitz-TR; Biden, increase the military budget. Ukraine something....
11:12 Techrights-sec; unfortunately most of the military budget looks like graft and other
11:12 Techrights-sec; non-producing crap, such as the large bailouts to M$
11:12 schestowitz-TR; the hoplolens BS doesn't seem like it's coming to fruition
11:13 schestowitz-TR; the "media deserts" occasionally float some puff piece about parents' homes
11:13 schestowitz-TR; who will be held accountable for this theft (graft)?
11:13 schestowitz-TR; can't criticise "the troops", they keep US/us safe...
11:14 Techrights-sec; that's what it amounts to -- theft -- and money spent there means taht
11:14 Techrights-sec; actual effective tools are not bought or used so lives are lost directly
11:14 Techrights-sec; and indirectly
11:16 schestowitz-TR; fiscally eugenicist :-)
11:16 schestowitz-TR; (the use and misuse of money to eliminate the "undesirable" -- to the fake economy -- elements)
11:18 Techrights-sec; again those with a base level of altruism, patriotism/loyalty, health,
11:18 Techrights-sec; intellect, and education are those that are entering the military service
11:18 Techrights-sec; under a defacto draft due to poverty and such; so it is those attributes
11:18 Techrights-sec; which are being eliminated from society
11:18 schestowitz-TR; if microsoft could get money from qatar for computing services in a department that doe snot have computers
11:18 schestowitz-TR; and the US regime turns a blind eye to complaints about it
11:18 schestowitz-TR; why not hand over $22,000,000,000 to Microsoft for something that will never be delivered?
11:18 schestowitz-TR; "SUPPORT THE TROOPS.... TROOPS NEED HELMETS!!!"
11:19 Techrights-sec; yep
11:19 Techrights-sec; qatarr and worse
11:19 Techrights-sec; entering the miliatary lowers their biological fitness, for the most part
11:19 Techrights-sec; there are many drawbacks with few to no benefits and even when there are
11:19 Techrights-sec; advantages they are usually offset by the disadvantages.
11:19 Techrights-sec; https://www.nbcnews.com/health/cancer/forever-chemical-poisons-drinking-water-near-military-bases-n1101736
11:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nbcnews.com | A 'forever chemical' contaminates drinking water near military bases
11:20 Techrights-sec; https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pfas-forever-chemicals-groundwater-us-military-bases/
11:20 Techrights-sec; https://apnews.com/article/us-army-fort-ord-chemical-exposure-cancer-c1078dd520322f2a4130e2f7077b7892
11:20 Techrights-sec; many bases, not just one or two
11:20 Techrights-sec; and it affects the communities nearby as well
11:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cbsnews.com | Toxic "forever chemicals" found in groundwater near more U.S. military bases - CBS News
11:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-apnews.com | What Lies Beneath: Vets worry polluted base made them ill | AP News
11:20 schestowitz-TR; don't worry, there are no military bases anywhere near manhattan and beverly hills
11:22 schestowitz-TR; Rape https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022/04/18/i-can-do-whatever-i-want-to-you
11:22 schestowitz-TR; reminded me of Okinawa when I first saw it
11:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-meduza.io | NO TITLE
11:22 schestowitz-TR; or the women who drank poison when the Sovets advanced towards Berlin
11:24 Techrights-sec; that last article is a longer read
11:24 Techrights-sec; unfortunately it's all throttled through facebook
11:26 schestowitz-TR; another cancer alley-like story
11:26 schestowitz-TR; I think I saw it in alternative media years before th MSM touched the matter
11:27 schestowitz-TR; first in hawaii IIRC
11:27 schestowitz-TR; pentagon is the world's biggest contributor to both pollution and climate change IIRC
11:27 schestowitz-TR; air, water etc.
11:27 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft ios again copying ICBM
11:27 schestowitz-TR; for many years ICBM made a tons of money off gov/military contracts
11:27 schestowitz-TR; Aamzon is also entering the space
11:27 schestowitz-TR; as even domestically states enagage in war and intel operations against
11:27 schestowitz-TR; their "own" population
11:28 Techrights-sec; Youre not just serving for six years, like me, and then youre out, she said. If youve been given cancer, thats a life sentence
11:28 Techrights-sec; .
11:28 Techrights-sec; most bases with heavy equipment (which is nearly all) especially planes
11:28 Techrights-sec; are toxic
11:28 Techrights-sec; carbon and chemicals
11:28 Techrights-sec; yes amazzon is a bad deal for the nation in many ways
11:28 Techrights-sec; https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/12/water-contamination-on-military-bases-isnt-new-and-thats-a-problem/
11:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.civilbeat.org | Water Contamination On Military Bases Isn't New. And That's A Problem - Honolulu Civil Beat
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11:29 schestowitz-TR; why was the subject suppressed by the media for so long
11:29 schestowitz-TR; and what finally broke the silence
11:29 schestowitz-TR; also, what will the outcome of this "ourage" be?
11:29 schestowitz-TR; fewer planes?
11:29 schestowitz-TR; greenwashing?
11:29 schestowitz-TR; reperations? (LOL, sorry I spat out my coffee)
11:31 Techrights-sec; o
11:31 Techrights-sec; outrage which will be express impotently as "tweets" which are so ephemeral
11:31 Techrights-sec; 'that no one will notice
11:31 Techrights-sec; '
11:35 schestowitz-TR; so Musk Social will change the trending a bit with a few button presses
11:35 schestowitz-TR; and maybe add some will smith or kardahian arse to herd people some other place
11:35 schestowitz-TR; when it comes to ourage cycles, the subject have been studied
11:35 schestowitz-TR; you can change people'e aattention span and outrage quotient or faces
11:35 schestowitz-TR; ('rage-shifting' for lack of a proper term)
11:35 schestowitz-TR; in less than 18 months
11:35 schestowitz-TR; maybe in 18 seconds
11:35 schestowitz-TR; "she said what?"
11:35 schestowitz-TR; "he slapped who?"
11:35 schestowitz-TR; "Trump tweets WHAT??"
11:35 schestowitz-TR; BTW, few people still read "long form"
11:35 schestowitz-TR; books, long articles etc.
11:35 schestowitz-TR; unless it's some action firms with breasts and explosions
11:35 schestowitz-TR; re techrights, not many topics I see for today
11:35 schestowitz-TR; but that's alright, we have a large trove of material and the important thing is keeping the site online, running, ranks
11:35 schestowitz-TR; OK for people to find info on pertinent info they look for
11:35 schestowitz-TR; rianne finished cooking and is now posting to TM
11:35 schestowitz-TR; I will follow after she's done (we try to avoid overlap for risk of "dupes")
11:53 Techrights-sec; *very* few people /can/ read long form any more
11:53 Techrights-sec; of those not all actually do
11:53 Techrights-sec; and to paraphrase an unattributed / unattributable saying,
11:53 Techrights-sec; there is no difference between those that cannot read and those that do not
11:53 Techrights-sec; read
11:53 Techrights-sec; in practice
11:55 schestowitz-TR; same with swimming and many other things
11:55 schestowitz-TR; I've not driven for a long time but can still drive OK
11:55 schestowitz-TR; driving is actually very easy with today's cars
11:55 schestowitz-TR; the human rights issues aside
11:55 schestowitz-TR; even parking became simpler because they give you prompts about cars, pavements and show you angles you could not
11:55 schestowitz-TR; get before
11:55 schestowitz-TR; \
11:55 schestowitz-TR; btw, my video about LF CoC was in front page of LXer
11:55 schestowitz-TR; those are the sorts of topics you do NOT expect to appear (or stay) in Reddit, Fucker News, and other
11:55 schestowitz-TR; corporate BS that posthumously exploits victims of themselves
11:56 Techrights-sec; :)
11:57 schestowitz-TR; news of actual vericity is again thin today
11:57 schestowitz-TR; so I think I will take it easy and focus on my maintenance tasks from TODO
11:57 schestowitz-TR; things like backups and shuffling around equipment (did lots of that yesterday again)
11:57 schestowitz-TR; I work 5:30pm onwards
11:57 schestowitz-TR; rianne barelyy found news worthy of TM this morning
11:57 schestowitz-TR; we'll widen the draft nets a bit
11:57 schestowitz-TR; *drift
11:59 schestowitz-TR; *veracity
11:59 schestowitz-TR; you can tell I'm not alarmed by IRC typos, I think people can recognise the informal value of it
11:59 schestowitz-TR; and in case of faux pas you can use the typos to reaffirm this assertion that IRC
11:59 schestowitz-TR; should be interpreted as informal
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12:49 Techrights-sec; it may be nextweek before the news recovers a bit but it seems that for many
12:49 Techrights-sec; years the news diminishes permanently after each major holida
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I think that's to do with operational cycles
12:51 schestowitz-TR; like, your contract ends at the end of the year i.e. dec 23rd
12:51 schestowitz-TR; or various other decision made effective after a break
12:51 schestowitz-TR; to me, personally, it seems like assurance that our articles
12:51 schestowitz-TR; on particular topics will be ranked higher
12:52 schestowitz-TR; esp. those which are very old and have no "competition" left
12:52 schestowitz-TR; online
12:52 schestowitz-TR; keeping sites online is not cheap
12:52 schestowitz-TR; the MBAs and marketers who run interferences do not know even the very basics
12:52 schestowitz-TR; and need to hire companies like us, under SLA, to do simple stuff like
12:52 schestowitz-TR; restart mysql or apply system updates
12:52 Techrights-sec; it may be nextweek before the news recovers a bit but it seems that for many
12:52 Techrights-sec; years the news diminishes permanently after each major holiday
12:52 Techrights-sec; perhaps it is something like that
12:52 Techrights-sec; yes but overall it would be better for more sites to cover important issues
12:52 Techrights-sec; well
12:54 schestowitz-TR; the sites which perrish (not blogs IME) are doing more harm than good, on average
12:54 schestowitz-TR; because the output is decided on by advertisers
12:54 schestowitz-TR; A lot of Mono and .NET boosting came not from blogs
12:54 schestowitz-TR; but from complicity corporate media
12:54 schestowitz-TR; hotice how zdnet too fell to less than 50% of its capacity 2 years ago
12:54 schestowitz-TR; this is what we want!!!
12:55 Techrights-sec; well
12:55 Techrights-sec; kind of. as zdnet is now, it would be better for the world if it shutdown; however the zdnet of 20 years ago was great and had prope
12:55 Techrights-sec; r FOSS coverage, like
12:55 Techrights-sec; most magazines also had back then; BYTE was one of the first shutdown IIRC
12:55 Techrights-sec; CMP killed it probably because all the editors became enthusiastic about
12:55 Techrights-sec; "Linux"
12:56 schestowitz-TR; many other CMP "properties" in its "portfolio" vanished or became inactive
12:56 schestowitz-TR; one of those "toxic asets" to put on the "bad" book or "balance sheet"
12:57 Techrights-sec; yes their goal is to shutdown anything that's not toeing the line
12:57 Techrights-sec; It's not an investment per se, though they may try to call it that in the
12:57 Techrights-sec; press release, but instead an ideological maneuver
12:57 schestowitz-TR; Elop <3 Nokia
12:57 schestowitz-TR; Icahn <3 Yahoo!
12:57 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft <3 Linux
13:00 schestowitz-TR; I supported LF when it started
13:00 schestowitz-TR; Now I cannot wait to see it reaching its "successful bankruptcy"
13:04 Techrights-sec; yes LF seemed like a good idea at the beginning, if I understand
13:04 Techrights-sec; correctly it was to provide independent employment for Linus but rather quickly it
13:04 Techrights-sec; got infiltrated by microsofters and subverted to represent corporate interests
13:04 Techrights-sec; within the kernel rather than general promotion and advancement of the
13:04 Techrights-sec; kernel itself. No project is too small for M$ to attack and LF was not
13:05 Techrights-sec; just big but important.
13:05 schestowitz-TR; and now, in turn, LF is used to corrupt media
13:05 schestowitz-TR; FOSS Force is one of many
13:06 Techrights-sec; FOSSforce fell more recently
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16:20 schestowitz-TR; I think we need to research tidelift and explain to people what this POS is
16:20 schestowitz-TR; seems like another OSI if not worse
16:20 schestowitz-TR; but I once heard a Red Hat founder too was involved
16:20 schestowitz-TR; I found out they'r e bankrolled by 'curious' entities
16:20 schestowitz-TR; that remind me of things we saw in the novell era
16:20 schestowitz-TR; [16:17] <techrights-news> Regarding TideLift, it's funded by 'former' Microsoft as the General Manager of General Gatalyst (Quentin C
16:20 schestowitz-TR; lark)
16:20 schestowitz-TR; [15:42] <techrights-news> Don't ask Tidelift about Stalin. It might say something about Hitler being bad and thus Stalin being good.
16:20 schestowitz-TR; Tidelift = corporate shills.
16:20 schestowitz-TR; [15:41] <techrights-news> Tidelift is a longtime Microsoft booster, in effect trying to reform the image of a company that commits cr
16:20 schestowitz-TR; imes and attacks Free software https://tidelift.com/about/lifter/microsoft_commits https://blog.tidelift.com/wtf-the-data-behind-micr
16:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-tidelift.com | Which open source projects has Microsoft committed to?
16:20 schestowitz-TR; osofts-surprising-open-source-track-record
16:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://blog.tidelift.com/wtf-the-data-behind-micr )
16:20 schestowitz-TR; [15:36] <techrights-news> tidelift is joining the Microsoft-led FUD campaign https://blog.tidelift.com/finding-1-security-is-open-sou
16:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://blog.tidelift.com/finding-1-security-is-open-sou )
16:20 schestowitz-TR; rce-developers-most-urgent-challenge-while-complying-with-government-requirements-is-a-rising-concern see http://techrights.org/2022/
16:20 schestowitz-TR; 01/14/white-house-security-theatre/
16:20 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | 2022 | Techrights
16:20 Techrights-sec; ack
16:20 Techrights-sec; ok
16:22 schestowitz-TR; 20 years at Microsoft, now behind tidelift https://www.thetwentyminutevc.com/uncategorised/quentinclark/
16:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thetwentyminutevc.com | 20VC: Lessons From Working with Bill Gates, How To Lead Without Authority and The Difference Between Leadership and Management & How Fundraising Changes In A COVID World with Quentin Clark, Managing Director @ General Catalyst - 20VC
16:23 schestowitz-TR; we need to do at least one blog post on the matter
16:23 schestowitz-TR; they also have "everyone who opposes me is homophobic" Simmons
16:23 Techrights-sec; :(
16:23 Techrights-sec; shills and astroturfers abound
16:23 Techrights-sec; yep
16:23 Techrights-sec; ack
16:24 schestowitz-TR; I seem to have underestimated how awful they are
16:24 schestowitz-TR; when they were first introduced it still seemed benign
16:24 schestowitz-TR; now they are another black duck
16:24 schestowitz-TR; pretending to speak 'for' us
16:25 Techrights-sec; blackduck and snyk and other fake fronts
16:25 Techrights-sec; I have met people fooled by blackduck
16:25 Techrights-sec; most people don't know where to turn for information so they believe the
16:25 Techrights-sec; marketing lies spread by the two
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19:34 Techrights-sec; I used to read MsGNULinux and notice that the daily links mention of
19:34 Techrights-sec; Pedro Francisco's passing. Any more details about that?
19:34 schestowitz-TR; lwn, gnu, and the project
19:35 schestowitz-TR; I put these in TM
19:35 schestowitz-TR; lwn links to the email
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19:36 Techrights-sec; Yes the LWN and the
19:36 Techrights-sec; Savannah links were about the same e-mail.
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19:46 Techrights-sec;
19:46 Techrights-sec; Perhaps there is more somewhere? The actual site he ran has been offline
19:46 Techrights-sec; for a long time.
19:47 schestowitz-TR; rianne has just mistakenly posted a dupe
19:47 schestowitz-TR; but to a different source
19:47 schestowitz-TR; and out of respect we decided to leave it
19:47 schestowitz-TR; I told her you had asked about him
19:47 schestowitz-TR; if you find more, post here or in next batch/es and I will add as a comment
19:47 schestowitz-TR; Techrights Daily Links title included his name
19:48 Techrights-sec; It has been offline since last year basically
19:48 Techrights-sec; ok
19:48 Techrights-sec; https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.masgnulinux.es
19:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-web.archive.org | Wayback Machine
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