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01:28 schestowitz-TR; COVID Effect: Almost 20% Increase in England and Wales Deaths in Latest Weeks Data From Office for National Statistics (ONS) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/20/11207-deaths/
01:28 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive COVID Effect: Almost 20% Increase in England and Wales Deaths in Latest Weeks Data From Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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07:21 schestowitz-TR; The perils of selling out gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/10/19.1 "I was then reminded of the time I sold out [5] to get that sweet-sweet sponsored money (it wasn't muchabout $100 for seven ads) and the aftermath five years later [6]."
07:28 techrights-sec; gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2009/05/22.1
07:31 schestowitz-TR; yeah, I did want to follow that links.
07:31 schestowitz-TR; Just did.
07:31 schestowitz-TR; It's never worth it.
07:31 schestowitz-TR; His conclusion was that... 13 years ago.
07:31 schestowitz-TR; Did you see the 2 covid-19 posts? I look forward to more data
07:32 schestowitz-TR; we see quire an aftermath, not only here
07:44 techrights-sec; not yet
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07:57 schestowitz-TR; todat at 4pm we get more figures
07:57 schestowitz-TR; but several aspects of them are no longer trustworthy
08:06 techrights-sec; How have the data been made less reliable?
08:12 schestowitz-TR; i have lost track of the number of different ways, but some places like scotland stopped reporting
08:12 schestowitz-TR; and they also changed defintion of what they measure several times
08:12 schestowitz-TR; so in effect they compare apples to orange
08:12 schestowitz-TR; from the first video (above) it seems they also tamper with registrations
08:12 schestowitz-TR; and testing levels are very low
08:12 schestowitz-TR; so we rely on random samples from ZOE Study or similar
08:12 schestowitz-TR; they suggest we have about 2 million infected per week or at any given time
08:12 schestowitz-TR; there are other things, sorry I do not have a more exhaustive list
08:12 schestowitz-TR; ONSA data on mortality, I think, is a lot harder to fake
08:12 schestowitz-TR; I disregard causes of death and focus on the sums
08:13 schestowitz-TR; to myself, I rekckon that studying an hour ago studying the situatyion (for myself) is
08:13 schestowitz-TR; better than getting very ill for several daya and then dealing with potential long-term effects
08:13 schestowitz-TR; on a daily basis, isolation from carriers is mostly a "passave" task
08:13 schestowitz-TR; tldr; until you figure out wth is going on, I will minimise the risk
08:13 schestowitz-TR; they suppressed certain investigations, at least in academic and public sector
08:13 schestowitz-TR; the new "thank you for smoking" is "thank you for returning to the office" (to support The System)
08:14 techrights-sec; ack
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08:18 schestowitz-TR; I focus on uk ("close to hom") and countries that report data in ENGLISH, but if figures are more or less homogen
08:18 schestowitz-TR; eous around thr world (same strains?), then it seems safe to assume 1 in 30 is infected around summertime
08:18 schestowitz-TR; and 1 in 10 during winter
08:18 schestowitz-TR; a scary statistic (ZOE survey)
08:19 schestowitz-TR; for comparison's sake, in 2020 we still tested a lot and in summer had about 500 cases in the UK _per day_
08:19 schestowitz-TR; i.e. one in 100,000
08:19 schestowitz-TR; so it seemed safe to use the sauna and talk face to face to people you knew well
08:19 schestowitz-TR; I hear more reports of hospitals being overrun by patients
08:19 schestowitz-TR; young males dying in large numbers (the stats suggest the same!)
08:19 schestowitz-TR; never mind the exodus of underpaid and overworked surses
08:19 schestowitz-TR; rianne's aunt wants to retire already, had an operation to remove a tumour this month
08:22 schestowitz-TR; weirdest thing is, they literally ship the sample (biopsy) to the United States
08:22 schestowitz-TR; as if nowhere in the UK can the tumour tissue be studied
08:22 schestowitz-TR; like we're some third world country
08:22 schestowitz-TR; more likely some graft, privatisation contract
08:22 techrights-sec; ack
08:26 techrights-sec; Graft /and/ privatization
08:27 schestowitz-TR; sickening to think some company with portfolio and shareholders is issuing congratulatory reports
08:27 schestowitz-TR; on havins secure an inflow of tumours from the NHS (flown by plane I assume)
08:27 schestowitz-TR; iow, profiting off the national insurance (NI, taxpayers)
08:27 schestowitz-TR; *having secured
08:27 schestowitz-TR; I noticed that the NHS becomes little but a "contractor" feeder for a slew of private companies
08:27 schestowitz-TR; esp. when it's spcaialist services rather than GP that checks vital signs, among other basic services
08:27 schestowitz-TR; but I'm 40, so cannot compare to his it was, say, in the 70s
08:33 techrights-sec; I suspect the major damage to the NHS was done since 2012 or so.
08:35 schestowitz-TR; seems like a global wave
08:35 schestowitz-TR; I'm not an "economist"
08:35 schestowitz-TR; but I think a lot of the commons and public sector get privatised to 'extend the life' of The SYstem
08:35 schestowitz-TR; because there is "market value" in what is shared joinly by the general population
08:35 schestowitz-TR; so they take it away from the population and then sell that "back" to it
08:38 schestowitz-TR; there used to be MORE reporting on these issues
08:38 schestowitz-TR; but now that journalism perishes you're more likely to find a "bill sez" piece
08:38 schestowitz-TR; than something about scandals impacting the health of nearly 70 million Brits
08:38 schestowitz-TR; a lot of COVID-19 reporting was outsourced to "Microsoft BI" and MOOX
08:38 schestowitz-TR; to me, this is a good reason to make a copy of liberated (ODF) versions of files
08:39 techrights-sec; There used to be more reporting on all issues. :/
08:40 schestowitz-TR; when things get worse and worse you cross the threshold where informed populace isn't tenable with StatusQuo(TM)
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08:45 schestowitz-TR; we need to see MOAR posts ("articles" are rare these days)
08:45 schestowitz-TR; about
08:45 schestowitz-TR; how 'hacker' 'news' is BS
08:45 schestowitz-TR; Reddit is censorship
08:45 schestowitz-TR; Twitter is manipulation
08:45 schestowitz-TR; and so on
08:45 schestowitz-TR; then, one can hope, alternatives would advance
08:45 schestowitz-TR; Robertson continues to get his 'info' from Reddit "research" (his word)
08:45 schestowitz-TR; spoonfed by conde nasty moderators
08:45 schestowitz-TR; curated by clients like billg, microsoft, and icbm
08:47 schestowitz-TR; TM (and to lesser degress TR; it's not its focus) is a filter for signal
08:47 schestowitz-TR; no corporate influence, no blind loyalty
08:47 schestowitz-TR; yesterday the maintainer of FOSS Weekly told me he was getting his news from Daily Links
08:47 schestowitz-TR; so what we post (curation) propagates further and trickles down to other sites
08:58 techrights-sec; ack
08:58 techrights-sec; Each month it takes a little more work to get the links and the resulting
08:58 techrights-sec; quantity diminishes anyway. There is simply much less material out there.
08:58 techrights-sec; RSS feeds for thousands of blogs help a bit, but that requires lots and lots
08:58 techrights-sec; of manual screening which can't be done in the same way as when visiting
08:58 techrights-sec; mainstream sites. The latter conform to a fairly consistent structure, so
08:58 techrights-sec; once you know the mainstream site you known more or less which strategy to
08:58 techrights-sec; use to skim the document. The blogs are not consistent like that, often
08:58 techrights-sec; not even within a single author's collection of work. However, that is not
08:58 techrights-sec; a bad thing except for the time it costs.
08:59 schestowitz-TR; that is a _fair_ price to pay for not having
08:59 schestowitz-TR; 1) centralisation
08:59 schestowitz-TR; 2) monopolies
08:59 schestowitz-TR; 3) censorship (related to (!) and (2)
08:59 schestowitz-TR; RSS/RDF help standardise the reading a bit
08:59 schestowitz-TR; so you can leverage a piece of sofwtare to aggregate consistently
09:00 techrights-sec; I expect though that I'll not get off my ass and write a proper RSS reader :/
09:00 techrights-sec; QuiteRSS is just adequate. It has its good points but overall is merely
09:00 techrights-sec; adequate for the job. It waste too much effort on trying to render crap rather
09:00 techrights-sec; than just showing the text and metadata while farming out more complex work
09:00 techrights-sec; to specialized software like Chromium or Firefox.
09:02 schestowitz-TR; rianne moved from thunderbird to quiterss
09:02 schestowitz-TR; we set it to show raw html text for items, unless we press spacebar
09:03 schestowitz-TR; and JS is off always
09:03 schestowitz-TR; it makes things faster
09:03 schestowitz-TR; I wrote some tools like url.sh to help me a bit more
09:03 schestowitz-TR; using the mouse mostly
09:03 schestowitz-TR; I wrote another tool for rianne
09:16 techrights-sec; ack
09:17 schestowitz-TR; btw, are irc logs to be posted later?
09:17 schestowitz-TR; yesterdayy's had "frog" pendulum due to disk space running out
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09:27 techrights-sec; checking
09:27 schestowitz-TR; thanks!!
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09:43 techrights-sec; np
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10:08 techrights-sec; ack
10:08 techrights-sec; They seem to have sold out long ago with no sign of reforming.
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10:10 schestowitz-TR; [10:07] <techrights-news> EFF to corporations and oligarchs (some of whom with EPO vested interests, like many mo
10:10 schestowitz-TR; nopolies): pay us to decide where to direct public outrage, for corporate and personal gain. Advocacy-as-a-servic
10:10 schestowitz-TR; e (for the rich).
10:10 schestowitz-TR; they diverge further away over time
10:10 schestowitz-TR; no posts at all about patents anymore
10:10 schestowitz-TR; so to me their value diminished a lot
10:10 schestowitz-TR; BTW, LF is a similar business model
10:10 schestowitz-TR; Zemlin did an 'interviews' last month where he semi-admitted companies like Gulag basically
10:10 schestowitz-TR; pay him to dictate tech trends and promote/advocacy things like kubernetes
10:10 schestowitz-TR; LF does this... for a fee
10:11 schestowitz-TR; nowadays LF is shilling "secure core"
10:11 schestowitz-TR; "condifential computing"(TM)
10:12 schestowitz-TR; sigstore ("sorry, you can't run this file!" CAs for binaries...)
10:12 schestowitz-TR; other crap
10:12 schestowitz-TR; we must call them out on it
10:23 techrights-sec; Yes, "secure core" is shutting the door on general-purpose computing and
10:23 techrights-sec; maybe a single step away from subsqeuently turning the lock on that door.
10:26 schestowitz-TR; my video responses ranted about phoronix just reprinting slides sent to him as if he was "Analyst"
10:26 schestowitz-TR; to do gratis propaganda for Microsot
10:26 schestowitz-TR; I lost all respect for him
10:26 schestowitz-TR; in a rush to maintain 10 posts/day he starts copypasta of marketing brochures
10:26 schestowitz-TR; and turning 2-line git commits into extensive 'articles' that say nothing at all, just like to prior
10:26 schestowitz-TR; phoronix articles for "engagement"
10:26 schestowitz-TR; 2 lines of code, not two-line git commit message
10:26 schestowitz-TR; /s/like/link to prior...'
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10:41 techrights-sec; Copying brochures or reposting slides is marketing not related to journalism
10:41 techrights-sec; or even tech, regardless of the alleged content.
10:41 schestowitz-TR; media kits or "guest" BS (like the one sean conner fell for) is seductive to the Spamnils of the worl
10:41 schestowitz-TR; or drpizza reprinting shit for microsoft
10:41 schestowitz-TR; because there is minimal effort
10:41 schestowitz-TR; but better to post nothing than to 'dilute' the signal with garbage
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12:46 schestowitz-TR; i see names of family members in some recipes
12:46 schestowitz-TR; but not the mother
12:47 schestowitz-TR; today we used two tomato soups we got discounted as paste sauce
12:47 schestowitz-TR; *pasta
12:47 schestowitz-TR; ½ does not get interpreted correctly in gemini
12:47 schestowitz-TR; it does plain unicode
12:48 techrights-sec; Oh.
12:50 schestowitz-TR; I reckon a lot of money can be saved (for later) by preparing stuff at home
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I'm not talking about "eating out" but all that "prepared" food on shelves
12:51 schestowitz-TR; the underlying ingredients are much cheaper and can be bought without unwanted preservatives and plastics
12:51 schestowitz-TR; I've been checking routes outwards lately, esp. for winter
12:51 schestowitz-TR; seems premature for any kind of gym
12:51 schestowitz-TR; #s at 4pm today
12:56 schestowitz-TR; was checking the lemon pie as we still have w+ bags of lemons
12:56 schestowitz-TR; I bought them half price
12:56 schestowitz-TR; eggs have become more expensive for 6 than we used to buy 15 for
12:56 schestowitz-TR; so any dish with eggs in it changed in cost
12:56 schestowitz-TR; but rianne finds some discounted sometimes, i.e. same as "old" price
12:56 schestowitz-TR; milk is also very expensive, but at discounted rates it can be old price or less
12:57 schestowitz-TR; what she used to find in 3-4 stores a year ago this year she can barely find by visiting 11 (nearby)
12:57 schestowitz-TR; and the radius of search expanded a bit
12:58 schestowitz-TR; i reckon these fixes should be typed up as "sed" hacks, then chained for future pages
12:59 schestowitz-TR; [12:59] <techrights-news> What a weird think for a BROWSER company to be posting https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/midterms-2022-election-prep/
12:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.mozilla.org | Prep for the U.S. midterm elections with these online tools
13:10 schestowitz-TR; those are so hard to find that I don't think we ever found them on discount
13:10 schestowitz-TR; we most go to small, empty stores
13:10 schestowitz-TR; the large ones have too many people (or had them recently)
13:10 schestowitz-TR; hence high riskf
13:10 schestowitz-TR; first line of defence is good diet
13:10 schestowitz-TR; second line of defence is keeping certain viruses away
13:10 schestowitz-TR; and atm the saying "humans are the lice of the planet" seems applicable
13:10 schestowitz-TR; esp. those who act as if deaths are not 20% higher than before
13:10 schestowitz-TR; (forgot to mention: small stores = high prices, UNLESS discounted)
13:10 schestowitz-TR; "smart" shopping lowers a GOOD diet from 10pp/day to 3
13:10 schestowitz-TR; or 600 per month (good items, not bread and jam) to under 200
13:16 schestowitz-TR; --
13:16 schestowitz-TR; I didn't go into lidl for ages
13:16 schestowitz-TR; they pissed off rianne when they insisted that she ues a machine
13:16 schestowitz-TR; and even closed an already-open till in the process
13:16 schestowitz-TR; so they can go *** themselves
13:16 schestowitz-TR; we get much better service at the small store and usually no queues
13:16 schestowitz-TR; (rianne left the basket there, like I taught her... I hope this was reported to the higher "chain of command")
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13:35 schestowitz-TR; the managers will "register the message" when more people abandon baskets if the queues become too long
13:35 schestowitz-TR; and possibly express themselves, clarifying why they are leaving
13:35 schestowitz-TR; some stores here moved to all machines, then WENT BACK to manned tills
13:35 schestowitz-TR; even some big chains
13:35 schestowitz-TR; IOW, it was a failure
13:36 schestowitz-TR; they're been experimenting with this BS for over a decade here
13:36 schestowitz-TR; and they tell the dumb doormen (yes, they usually ARE dumb... just some "gym heroes")
13:36 schestowitz-TR; to try to direct people to machines when they stand in the line
13:36 schestowitz-TR; expressing no interest in machines
13:36 schestowitz-TR; so doorman role becomes doorman slash nagger
13:36 schestowitz-TR; while they ask tioll workings to also stock shelves and stuff to abandon tills
13:36 schestowitz-TR; *till workers
13:36 schestowitz-TR; so sometimes nobody stands there until you use body language and maybe utter something
13:36 schestowitz-TR; they are 'crowdsourcing' the employment to UNPAID workers (customers)
13:36 schestowitz-TR; 'gig economy' at zero rate
13:38 techrights-sec; Yes they are trying to turn customers into unpaid workers with zero overhead.
13:38 techrights-sec; The "gig economy" is nothing but a rip-off for all involved even the assholes
13:38 techrights-sec; who think they are benefiting from it.
13:40 schestowitz-TR; a very long time ago I came to the conclusion we can win this fight only if we convince others to join us
13:40 schestowitz-TR; and to convince their friends too to do the same
13:40 schestowitz-TR; to the point where these tills become a waste of space, maintenance overhead, and source of unhappy
13:40 schestowitz-TR; customers
13:40 schestowitz-TR; this will not only make better service
13:40 schestowitz-TR; it'll protect the jobs of people who are already financially vulnerable
13:44 schestowitz-TR; I am now recalling having a chat with a bank teller about 7 years ago
13:44 schestowitz-TR; I told her I used the service also to protect her job
13:44 schestowitz-TR; but they are like robots
13:44 schestowitz-TR; repeating what the boss tells them to tell us
13:44 schestowitz-TR; like, "don't worry, they will give the staff other tasks"
13:44 schestowitz-TR; easy to debunk
13:44 schestowitz-TR; years down the line the same bank has only 1.5 branches in the whole of town
13:44 schestowitz-TR; they "consolidated"
13:44 schestowitz-TR; long queues and unhelpful staff that won't even print an a4 sheet of paper without asking shit
13:44 techrights-sec; https://dilbert.com/strip/2016-02-25
13:44 techrights-sec; ack
13:44 schestowitz-TR; like, did you try the web site? "you got the app?"
13:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Asok The Uber Driver - Dilbert Comic Strip on 2016-02-25 | Dilbert by Scott Adams
13:44 schestowitz-TR; so these people who were unhelpful years ago are not out of a job
13:44 schestowitz-TR; because they didn't dare challenge the boss
13:44 schestowitz-TR; they play "safe"
13:44 schestowitz-TR; and they ended up broke
13:45 schestowitz-TR; in M&S I confronted the boss
13:45 schestowitz-TR; when he intervened after a staff member opened a till to serve us
13:45 schestowitz-TR; that shop went downhill
13:45 schestowitz-TR; but I made it very clear to him that his worker was very good
13:45 schestowitz-TR; and that his attitude put us off
13:45 schestowitz-TR; we just left the basket there
13:47 schestowitz-TR; sudo make me an app (sandwich)
13:47 schestowitz-TR; maybe the FSF should start some campaign against crApp
13:47 schestowitz-TR; or maybe not...
13:47 schestowitz-TR; do they hhave any ongoing campaigns at all?
13:53 schestowitz-TR; regarding firings, there are ways to 'terrorise' companies
13:53 schestowitz-TR; for firing good staff
13:53 schestowitz-TR; not sit-ins
13:53 schestowitz-TR; example:
13:53 schestowitz-TR; "where is john? he did good service for me..."
13:53 schestowitz-TR; if they fire good workers, you make a complains to the boss of the boss
13:53 schestowitz-TR; about people who helped bring business
13:53 techrights-sec; ack
13:53 schestowitz-TR; being driven away
13:53 schestowitz-TR; so the lower boss starts to realise there is risk associated with firing good workers
13:53 schestowitz-TR; in our company, rianne and I are valued because people know how long we've been around
13:53 schestowitz-TR; and gave decent service
13:53 schestowitz-TR; this means firing us is barely an option
13:53 schestowitz-TR; (so far)
13:53 schestowitz-TR; another, more positive approach is to identify till workers or tellers who do a good job
13:53 schestowitz-TR; and signal to the shop/bank managers that you like them
13:53 schestowitz-TR; and then you fortify their standing
13:53 schestowitz-TR; it's easier to do somewhere like the gym because people know each others' faces
13:53 schestowitz-TR; I once campaigned for someone to be hired by the gym (kieran) by asking other members to drop by the office and
13:53 schestowitz-TR; say a good word about him
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14:13 schestowitz-TR; it has occurred to me that all this "put microphones and net-connected cameras everywhere"
14:13 schestowitz-TR; BS can, in due course, be used in effort to automate collective informants, enforcement, punishment
14:13 schestowitz-TR; and they will just call it "HEY HI" or assistanted
14:13 schestowitz-TR; too many people already carry tracking devices and covid-19 panic accelerated the trend
14:13 schestowitz-TR; like "no cash accepted"
14:13 schestowitz-TR; but maybe I think too far aheads
14:13 schestowitz-TR; cops are not predictable
14:13 schestowitz-TR; they can also have compassion sometimes
14:13 techrights-sec; New cars apparently have a multitude of both, inside and out.
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14:36 schestowitz-TR; new cars is like a taxi with microphones and cctv in it
14:37 schestowitz-TR; except in your own car they also know your name and lots more
14:37 schestowitz-TR; the tracking of cars can be "sold" to the public as "traffic control" and "environment"
14:37 schestowitz-TR; e.g. if every new car must have GPS receiver somewhere and requires "apps" and stuff
14:37 techrights-sec; "smartphones" also have GPS and most "apps" seem to require full access to the
14:37 techrights-sec; GPS data.
14:38 schestowitz-TR; already discused in irc for 30 mins: uk pm resigned
14:38 schestowitz-TR; only last night I asked rianne about it
14:38 schestowitz-TR; what billbc "sez"
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15:38 techrights-sec; Will the replacement be yet worse?
15:38 techrights-sec; ack
15:38 schestowitz-TR; chuck windsor
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16:09 schestowitz-TR; I think I've neatly refined the way I do clustering of news in TM
16:09 schestowitz-TR; a workflow I only recently experimented with
16:09 schestowitz-TR; now checking nhs #s
16:09 schestowitz-TR; then, I need topic :-0
16:09 techrights-sec; ack
16:10 schestowitz-TR; [16:01] <MinceR> https://nitter.it/Alan_McGuinness/status/1582780559989739522
16:10 schestowitz-TR; [16:01] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness): "My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He's four months old."|nitter.it
16:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Alan McGuinness (@Alan_McGuinness): "My son has lived through four chancellors, three home secretaries, two prime ministers and two monarchs. He's four months old."|nitter.it
16:11 techrights-sec; ack
16:11 techrights-sec; Well it seems that EFF is promoting Facebook for some things.
16:11 techrights-sec; Yep
16:11 techrights-sec; Some of the old stuff was misguided, too, choosing to play whac-a-mole
16:11 techrights-sec; instead of going after the cause
16:11 techrights-sec; https://www.eff.org/issues/patent-busting-project
16:11 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Patent Busting Project | Electronic Frontier Foundation
16:12 schestowitz-TR; EFF being shit if hardly even news anymorea
16:12 schestowitz-TR; and kaniini noticed the same and asked me about them
16:12 schestowitz-TR; crazy matt seems happy to meet the coup plotters there
16:12 schestowitz-TR; there seems to be overlap in agenda
16:12 schestowitz-TR; maybe even cross-coordination
16:12 techrights-sec; Here's an old link again:
16:12 techrights-sec; https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/2021-we-fought-more-open-balanced-patent-system
16:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.eff.org | Fighting For A More Open, Balanced Patent System: 2021 in Review | Electronic Frontier Foundation
16:13 schestowitz-TR; to eff's credit, later it did "lobby" in favour os better uspto (it lways ignored epo)
16:13 schestowitz-TR; and even named swpats sometimes
16:14 schestowitz-TR; but the people who did this no longer post there
16:14 schestowitz-TR; I guess the funding for this campaigning ran out
16:14 techrights-sec; Ok that lobbying might be a topic even if it is just to lament its absence
16:14 techrights-sec; from current EFF activities
16:14 schestowitz-TR; ok, yes, going through their web site on video to make a point
16:14 schestowitz-TR; and noting epo apathy
16:19 schestowitz-TR; in short, today's eff does not step on the toes of large US corporations (private sector)
16:19 schestowitz-TR; and instead focuses on the public sector, which includes politics
16:19 schestowitz-TR; just getting off someone's "side" or barking up some other tree is enough
16:19 schestowitz-TR; to please some companies that pay or "partner with" EFF
16:19 schestowitz-TR; I have 4 topics written down now
16:19 schestowitz-TR; brb
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16:39 schestowitz-TR; COVID-19 in England in October (10): Over 10 Thousand in Hospital, Over a Thousand Admitted Per Day, Over 10% Testing Positive (PCR) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/20/england-october-2022/
16:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive COVID-19 in England in October (10): Over 10 Thousand in Hospital, Over a Thousand Admitted Per Day, Over 10% Testing Positive (PCR)
16:40 techrights-sec; ack
16:42 schestowitz-TR; [16:41] <techrights-news> In 2022 (October) we have twice as many COVID-19 admissions to hospital in England compared to the same period one year ago (after we had lifted all restrictions). This is NOT an improvement!
16:45 schestowitz-TR; gov policy: make the portal "covid" "look good"..
16:45 schestowitz-TR; putin does not need to worry about lawmakers working to oust him
16:45 schestowitz-TR; if such lawmakers existed, they would cease to exist
16:45 schestowitz-TR; maybe putin sends out drones to check where the sauna is good and where there's more water for it
16:45 schestowitz-TR; in case he wants to embark on winter holiday andnd drink in a tank
16:45 schestowitz-TR; or drink the tank to get warmer
16:45 schestowitz-TR; tank of water
16:45 schestowitz-TR; or oil
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16:48 schestowitz-TR; England official data shows we have more COVID-19 deaths so far in October than the same month a year ago. We've improved in NO WAY, other than pretending the problem is "old"...
16:48 schestowitz-TR; [16:47] <techrights-news> COVID Effect: Almost 20% Increase in England and Wales Deaths in Latest Weeks Data From Office for National Statistics (ONS) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/10/20/11207-deaths/
16:48 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive COVID Effect: Almost 20% Increase in England and Wales Deaths in Latest Weeks Data From Office for National Statistics (ONS)
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16:51 techrights-sec;
16:51 techrights-sec; ack
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18:43 schestowitz-TR; did a 47-min video on eff
18:43 techrights-sec; ack
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