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07:47 techrightssec2; ack
07:48 schestowitz-TR; "This website is becoming increasingly polluted by MS. I come here to read about Linux and Free Software!" http://lxer.com/module/forums/t/36810/
07:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-LXer: MS Pollution: Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Planner
07:48 techrightssec2; ack
07:49 schestowitz-TR; thankfully TM never did this
07:49 schestowitz-TR; susan did not, either
07:49 schestowitz-TR; nor does marius
07:49 schestowitz-TR; he's a "no bullshit" writer
07:58 techrightssec2; ack
07:58 techrightssec2; That is /very/ important.
07:59 schestowitz-TR; he also started saying gnu/linux some years ago
07:59 schestowitz-TR; I think it's my fault
07:59 schestowitz-TR; in fact, this year I see more people adding "gnu"
07:59 schestowitz-TR; and that's a big deal
07:59 schestowitz-TR; as the brand linux now means microsoft and maps and all sorts of crapo
07:59 schestowitz-TR; *crap
08:04 techrightssec2; Well, GNU/Linux does contrast with Systemd/Linux :/
08:04 schestowitz-TR; i hope some people can 'take' from the current 'series' some lessons that they find applicable to their
08:04 schestowitz-TR; present or past experiences
08:04 schestowitz-TR; I reckon many of these things are almost universl in IT
08:04 schestowitz-TR; so it helps to communicate the patterns
08:05 techrightssec2; That can be an additional reason to consider a part-time, remote job since it
08:05 techrightssec2; would provide contact with a situation where the technology is applied and
08:05 techrightssec2; can serve (accurately or inaccurately) as a base line.
08:08 schestowitz-TR; regarding systemd
08:08 schestowitz-TR; noticed how almost nobody talks about that ior LP@Microsoft anymor
08:08 schestowitz-TR; business a s usual, let the cancer spread to more cells in the system tree
08:08 schestowitz-TR; but anyway, they are fighting the EEE from the inside
08:08 schestowitz-TR; and it seems like any "true" user understands this
08:08 schestowitz-TR; shame lxer is playing along with thew Microsoft Tims of the world
08:08 schestowitz-TR; they alienate their own audiences
08:08 schestowitz-TR; a day ago we were at the front page there
08:08 schestowitz-TR; I did not even notice
08:08 schestowitz-TR; very little traffic in relative terms
08:08 schestowitz-TR; apachetop says 15 ml hits since it was started less than 50 days ago
08:08 schestowitz-TR; 7 TB
08:09 techrightssec2; Yes, many see LP now officially on M$ payroll and realize what he had been doing
08:09 techrightssec2; all along but are still subdued about saying anything.
08:09 techrightssec2; I would guess that alienating those specific audiences is one of the goals of M$
08:09 techrightssec2; Remember "killed two Mac conferences by injecting Windows into it" (paraphrased)
08:11 schestowitz-TR; after 12 years with firsthand experience almost every day I can take a little break
08:11 schestowitz-TR; I think there's lots of important stuff to write about technology
08:11 schestowitz-TR; and there is no urgency for income, we're not broke like Sirius
08:11 schestowitz-TR; they could finish things amicable, but the brain works like crodile
08:11 schestowitz-TR; with fake tears
08:11 schestowitz-TR; royally fucked it up
08:11 schestowitz-TR; and they KNOW it
08:11 schestowitz-TR; i had no intention of writing anything
08:13 techrightssec2; ack
08:13 techrightssec2; The more M$ crap is injected into FOSS sites, the faster those sites lose their
08:13 techrightssec2; audiences and thus their raison d'tre and from that their funding.
08:13 schestowitz-TR; yes, not just sites
08:13 schestowitz-TR; also companies
08:14 schestowitz-TR; there are companies that used to be FOSS
08:14 schestowitz-TR; then came along microsoft
08:14 schestowitz-TR; docker comes to mind as one
08:14 schestowitz-TR; csn you imsgine voolunteers with gps going out there to map for OSM now?
08:14 schestowitz-TR; who would they be working for? Jeff bezos and Bill Gates? See the Lunduke article too
08:16 techrightssec2; Checking
08:16 techrightssec2; I recall that M$ sued TomTom because the latter had failed to see the value
08:16 techrightssec2; in EXT2 or XFS.
08:16 techrightssec2; "the founder (FOSS guy) was ousted"
08:16 techrightssec2; a common occurance
08:16 techrightssec2; ^ topic ?
08:17 schestowitz-TR; docker got more or less superceded
08:17 schestowitz-TR; the founder (FOSS guy) was ousted
08:17 schestowitz-TR; and they put a total jerk in charge
08:17 schestowitz-TR; taking the company to the cleaners
08:17 schestowitz-TR; and more proprietary
08:18 schestowitz-TR; I spoke to the founder in twitter
08:18 schestowitz-TR; where he was still trying to defend the company pushing as proprietary 'surplus'
08:18 schestowitz-TR; he meant well
08:18 schestowitz-TR; but his ownerrs ($) controlled him
08:18 schestowitz-TR; like the rust companies control Torvalds
08:20 schestowitz-TR; bottom line: if you let in the money (e.g. VC, "patrons", "sponsors") those with the money will call the shots
08:20 schestowitz-TR; you yourself might be rendered a mascot
08:20 schestowitz-TR; as a person of senimental worth
08:20 schestowitz-TR; sometimes staying "Smaller" means lasting longer
08:20 schestowitz-TR; greedy people want big returns, FAST
08:20 schestowitz-TR; and they are sociopaths
08:20 schestowitz-TR; they don't care who did all the work, who started the thing erc.
08:20 schestowitz-TR; *etc.
08:20 schestowitz-TR; see bakkt+zemlin
08:20 schestowitz-TR; or, for that matter, James Zemlin
08:35 techrightssec2; Zemlin works against LF and Linux despite is position. Really his situation
08:35 techrightssec2; renders him ineligible to even work there in any capacity, but he or someone
08:35 techrightssec2; like him is what m$ wants so they can destroy it from the inside as well as
08:35 techrightssec2; the outside
08:38 schestowitz-TR; afaik, osdl's cohen was the same
08:38 schestowitz-TR; but they kissed him goodbye and left
08:38 schestowitz-TR; after he had shilled microsoft office
08:38 schestowitz-TR; endorsed the microsoft-novell patent collusion
08:38 schestowitz-TR; and even went to visit redmond
08:38 schestowitz-TR; I can find the refs for that
08:41 techrightssec2; References for that would be good to revisit in the context of current day's
08:41 techrightssec2; LF and Zemlin's antics and Zemlin's conflicts of interest.
08:46 schestowitz-TR; you know, I could never get to the bottom of where cohen is today
08:46 schestowitz-TR; iirc, he formed some conultancy calles CIS or similar
08:46 schestowitz-TR; and the media did puff pieces for it
08:46 schestowitz-TR; it went nowhere
08:46 schestowitz-TR; and after that he's totally off the radar unless career//name changed
08:46 schestowitz-TR; soirt of like the guy who "invented" ODF
08:46 schestowitz-TR; still has a twitter account though
08:46 schestowitz-TR; durusau
08:47 techrightssec2; Probably in Redmond
08:47 techrightssec2; Yes it would be very, very interesting to find out what M$ did to Durusau to
08:47 techrightssec2; break him.
08:47 techrightssec2; He's probably under several NDAs about that himself.
08:48 schestowitz-TR; it foes not look like he swins in money
08:49 schestowitz-TR; *does not
08:49 schestowitz-TR; based on his online presence
08:49 schestowitz-TR; but he fell to obscurity
08:49 schestowitz-TR; like bbyfield, mgj, and countles other useful idiots, as the Soviets called them
08:49 schestowitz-TR; christine hall also vanished
08:50 techrightssec2; Only after she too was crushed
08:52 schestowitz-TR; in what sense? did I miss some online event?
08:52 schestowitz-TR; though credibility had been lost for years
08:52 schestowitz-TR; on a number of moral grounds
08:52 schestowitz-TR; and "force" became "corporate power"
08:53 techrightssec2; Didn't she soften on M$ before fading away?
08:53 techrightssec2; Also health issues stopped Ken Starks, after an otherwise good run:
08:53 techrightssec2; https://fossforce.com/2021/11/ken-starks-hangs-up-his-spurs-at-reglue/
08:53 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-fossforce.com | Ken Starks Hangs Up His Spurs at Reglue - FOSS Force
09:21 techrightssec2; "Fediverse encourages status games by enabling such moves."
09:21 techrightssec2; gemini.circumlunar.space/users/shufei/phlog/20221217-Misc-Tech-AisAndMen.gmi
09:21 techrightssec2; Quite a rambling post though
09:21 techrightssec2;
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11:25 techrightssec2;
11:25 techrightssec2; This site will be redone any week now: https://switchedtolinux.com/
11:25 techrightssec2; and will be, at least initially, soliciting articles. A general-audience
11:25 techrightssec2; introductory primer to software patent and the current political state
11:25 techrightssec2; might have a lot of impact there in reaching many people who might not
11:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-switchedtolinux.com | Switched To Linux | Why I switched to Linux OS
11:25 techrightssec2; necessarily find their way to TR
11:27 schestowitz-TR; I never spoke to him before, but he gets many links from both TM and TR
11:27 schestowitz-TR; our articles are CC or similar
11:27 schestowitz-TR; so he can 'lift' any of them with attribution
11:27 schestowitz-TR; maybe you want to reach out to him?
11:27 schestowitz-TR; The foregone conclusion is, if you don't have your own site and/or domain name,
11:27 schestowitz-TR; somebody else bosses you
11:32 schestowitz-TR; temps jumped about 15 degrees in just 24 hours
11:32 schestowitz-TR; need to do some repair tomorrow, not huge a job
11:32 schestowitz-TR; but productivity will increase
12:01 techrightssec2; It'd be more a matter of writing such an article and seeing abouut possibly
12:01 techrightssec2; cross-posting
12:02 schestowitz-TR; yes, somebody wants to do that with TR soon
12:13 schestowitz-TR; the www is changing
12:13 schestowitz-TR; 1980s: write books, get them into libraries/unis
12:13 schestowitz-TR; later: write web pages
12:13 schestowitz-TR; now: social media crap
12:13 schestowitz-TR; but that too is ending
12:13 schestowitz-TR; at each step the quality goes down
12:13 schestowitz-TR; as the access barrier is lower
12:13 schestowitz-TR; which means crap like disinfo geats through by the truckloads
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12:25 techrightssec2; One of the main purposes of social control media has been the dissemination of
12:25 techrightssec2; disinformation and confusion., unfortunately, and it has been that way from its
12:25 techrightssec2; first begining. Surveillance is just a distraction and only a prerequisite for
12:25 techrightssec2; the disinformation.
12:26 schestowitz-TR; are you sure that is not just a side effect?
12:26 schestowitz-TR; and centralisation the main objective?
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12:58 techrightssec2; Maybe at the very, very beginning it was not so, but the ability to maniuplate
12:58 techrightssec2; opinions at scale became very noticable. Either way, it's about control and
12:58 techrightssec2; centralization is a primary method for achieving that.
12:59 schestowitz-TR; Moving on from Twitter https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/moving-on-from-twitter/ "Mastodon links are still completely blocked though. For now, I will still be pointing you to follow us in other places."
12:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Moving on from Twitter | GamingOnLinux
13:00 schestowitz-TR; TR was a little ahead of the curve ;-)
13:00 schestowitz-TR; never started
13:00 schestowitz-TR; myself - I left in February-ish
13:00 schestowitz-TR; my "write-only" account
13:00 schestowitz-TR; before there was a rush to the door ;-)
13:06 techrightssec2; :)
13:06 techrightssec2; Good timing for that.
13:07 schestowitz-TR; we wrote many things about why people should quit twitter
13:07 schestowitz-TR; even before musk placed a big
13:07 schestowitz-TR; not just after
13:07 schestowitz-TR; so those aged well
13:07 schestowitz-TR; /s/big/bid/
13:13 techrightssec2; Software patents are threat to general software usage, but the FOSS community
13:13 techrightssec2; is the canary in the coal mine so to speak since many are more aware of
13:13 techrightssec2; licensing than joe sixpack or his tiktok-numbed kids.
13:17 schestowitz-TR; posting text from your text editor into someone else's server/computer = clown computing
13:17 schestowitz-TR; there are ways to keep the local copies, just in case
13:17 schestowitz-TR; imho, there are better ways
13:17 schestowitz-TR; wikis might be ok is there is a circle of reputable people
13:17 schestowitz-TR; without an incentive to sabotage and mislead
13:17 schestowitz-TR; irc is also for a clique of people are are not there for a fight
13:17 schestowitz-TR; daemonfc treats it like a diary spacem unfotunately
13:19 techrightssec2; Wikis fall victim to a similar problem as youtube, at least on the technical
13:19 techrightssec2; site of things: for each item there are ever-growing layers of storage needs
13:19 techrightssec2; since all the diffs are retained.
13:33 schestowitz-TR; wiki cahnges can be easily compressible
13:33 schestowitz-TR; one lessons learned last year from freenode and again this year from twitter
13:33 schestowitz-TR; banning people is just the start
13:33 schestowitz-TR; it might feel good at first
13:33 schestowitz-TR; having no blog posts reduces the change of heckling
13:33 schestowitz-TR; or astroturfting by "elizabeth from microsoft"
13:33 schestowitz-TR; sorry, I mean, having no blog comments
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13:36 techrightssec2; ack
13:42 schestowitz-TR; sorry to be going on a tangent (sometimes I want to also type thing but worry it would exceed the
13:42 schestowitz-TR; buffer that you can see, but then it's likely nothing urgent or important)
13:42 schestowitz-TR; when it comes to time management, you could classify social control media as "big phat waste of time"
13:42 schestowitz-TR; but it's hard to see at the time
13:42 schestowitz-TR; it's like game addition
13:42 schestowitz-TR; you feel a sense of temporary accomplishment
13:42 schestowitz-TR; but only in hindsight, in retrospect, you realise some games you played in teh 90s were meaningless
13:42 schestowitz-TR; and the grade you got in subjectx x y and z in first, second, even 6th grade don't matter even 0.001%
13:42 schestowitz-TR; to your adult life
13:42 schestowitz-TR; so when it comes to comments, it's somewhere there near social control medioa
13:42 techrightssec2; ack
13:42 schestowitz-TR; because comments you types in digg 15 years ago are gone for good
13:42 schestowitz-TR; nobody ever will go to wayback machine to find them
13:43 schestowitz-TR; and some blog comments in old blogs are likely only on some old hard drive of the person who took it offline
13:43 schestowitz-TR; (if at all)
13:43 schestowitz-TR; same for identi.ca
13:43 schestowitz-TR; all gone
13:43 schestowitz-TR; so then you start to value libraries and books
13:43 schestowitz-TR; but they too are going away, kaka "digitised"
13:43 schestowitz-TR; i.e. reduce to some electric charge on some low-grade, cheaply-made semi conductors/magnets
13:43 schestowitz-TR; now they last even shorter times... not magnetic tapes
13:43 schestowitz-TR; optical (CD-ROM) isn't so bad in comparison, with CRC built in
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13:53 techrightssec2; CD-RW and CD+RW can last some years but only in good storage conditions.
13:53 techrightssec2; Light, heat, and air pollution all shorten the life span significantly.
13:54 schestowitz-TR; I have never tested that systematically
13:57 schestowitz-TR; i have a very different approach
14:01 schestowitz-TR; every 10 or so years whole directories of stuff can be "archived" away into multiple drives
14:02 schestowitz-TR; i still have it in my todo to check some old mp3 file that I suspect went bad on only one of the drives
14:14 techrightssec2; Only if the drives themselves do not flip any bits and that gets *much* harder
14:14 techrightssec2; to avoid with the high densities we have on the market nowadays.
14:26 techrightssec2; Maybe BtrFS has that capability too, not just OpenZFS, but I got the idea
14:26 techrightssec2; somehow that BtrFS is not quite production ready and safe enough for
14:26 techrightssec2; preservation.
14:27 schestowitz-TR; largew and complex file systems might not enjoy adoption
14:27 schestowitz-TR; by users
14:27 schestowitz-TR; and by developers
14:27 schestowitz-TR; so 10 or 20 years down the line support might drop
14:27 schestowitz-TR; like with reiserfs after about 15 years
14:35 techrightssec2; The OpenZFS is quite well though of but an employee at Sun made a point of
14:35 techrightssec2; putting it under a license which she chose for the sole purpose of being
14:35 techrightssec2; incompatible with the GPL. It has gotten wide spread adoption by the FreeBSD
14:35 techrightssec2; crowd simply because they choose to ignore licenses and pretend they don't exist
14:35 techrightssec2; just like Canonical does when it decided to work with OpenZFS. Most if not
14:35 techrightssec2; all of it has gone under at least one full refactoring so it could have been
14:35 techrightssec2; re-licensed ship-of-theseus-style. But the developers, as amazingly technically
14:35 techrightssec2; proficient as they are, just roll over and accept a dreadful license. Then
14:35 techrightssec2; the distros and systems using OpenZFS simply, in turn, also turn a blind eye to
14:35 techrightssec2; the licensing and the blockage it creates.
14:42 schestowitz-TR; in SN, the number of people who contribute seems to be decreasing
14:42 schestowitz-TR; reversing this trend can be very difficult
14:42 schestowitz-TR; judging by other site
14:42 schestowitz-TR; then the wind is not in the sails
14:42 schestowitz-TR; and key people might "move on"
14:42 schestowitz-TR; in lxer, they also shot their own foot with microsoft "content"
14:42 schestowitz-TR; phoronix may be next
14:42 schestowitz-TR; almost all comments oppose this
14:42 schestowitz-TR; and systemd
14:42 schestowitz-TR; michael shoudl take a clue
14:42 schestowitz-TR; microsoft trolls are not legit POVs
14:42 schestowitz-TR; they are like black people who complain about words that I never saw anyone black complaining about
14:42 schestowitz-TR; (i'm sure some exist, maybe a fringe)
14:42 schestowitz-TR; likely corporations tryigng to rile people up and cause strife
14:42 schestowitz-TR; russia trolls in twitter did in fact do this
14:42 schestowitz-TR; they take divisive issues and then amplify the most extreme POVs
14:42 schestowitz-TR; for infighting
14:43 techrightssec2; Astroturfers and paid shills can do a lot of damage simply because they are
14:43 techrightssec2; not on the radar for too many people. In some forums, they make up 90% of the
14:43 techrightssec2; comments, when the comments are sourced. :(
14:43 techrightssec2; Yes, that is a play right out of the playbook: amplify division and extreme
14:43 techrightssec2; view. It happens in all forums that I have seen, and seems to be the main
14:43 techrightssec2; activity of social control media because rage feeds 'engagement' and thus
14:43 techrightssec2; the shills end up getting full backing by the algorithm designers/tuners.
14:44 schestowitz-TR; it is grossing out people
14:44 schestowitz-TR; until some choose not to come back anymore
14:45 techrightssec2; Yes, grossingthem out is the goal.
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14:55 schestowitz-TR; "Back in 1981, when Ronald Reagan was sworn in and implicitly promised to destroy our government" https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/12/18/dying-phase-reaganism-and-its-hideous | Source: Common Dreams
14:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Opinion | This Is the Dying Phase of Reaganismand It's Hideous | Thom Hartmann
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15:26 techrightssec2; ack
15:26 techrightssec2; https://showmethefacts.com/us-federal-debt-as-a-percentage-of-gdp-2012/
15:26 techrightssec2; Grover Nordquist even had other politicians sign their names to a list
15:26 techrightssec2; backing sedition and openly stating the goal of tearing the country down.
15:26 techrightssec2; It went unprosecuted.
15:26 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-showmethefacts.com | US Federal Debt as a Percentage of GDP 2012
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