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05:40 schestowitz-TR; 2022.47 Migratory - Rakudo Weekly News https://rakudoweekly.blog/2022/11/21/2022-47-migratory/ "FreeNode fiasco comes to mind, and now Twitter appears to be going the same direction. So it was a good opportunity to start an official channel for the Raku Programming Language on Mastodon"
05:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-rakudoweekly.blog | 2022.47 Migratory Rakudo Weekly News
05:40 schestowitz-TR; Sourav Rudra knows it's NOT FOSS and he even admits it ("It isn't open-source but works quite well."), so what does the site ItsFOSS st
05:40 schestowitz-TR; and for? https://news.itsfoss.com/vmware-workstation-17-release/
05:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-news.itsfoss.com | VMware Workstation 17 Series Releases; Adds New Linux Guest OS
05:50 schestowitz-TR; :-)
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07:12 schestowitz-TR; 'foss'todon = bank pages in falkon with JS on ;-)
07:12 schestowitz-TR; *blank
07:42 Techrightssec; Yes, the support of FOSS and standards is not even lip service there.
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08:59 Techrightssec; Apparently COP27 did not even raise the question of overpopulation even once.
09:00 schestowitz-TR; 1. create a panel to discuss prolem x
09:00 schestowitz-TR; 2. invite those causing x
09:00 schestowitz-TR; 3. discuss no actual solution
09:00 schestowitz-TR; 4. brag about the discussion
09:00 schestowitz-TR; ...
09:00 schestowitz-TR; x. profit
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09:17 Techrightssec; Sounds also like Nokia and the fraudulent attempt at the Unified Patent Court.
09:17 Techrightssec; They're unwilling to admit how badly they got screwed by their own board an
09:17 Techrightssec; d Microsoft's Elop.
09:17 Techrightssec; The only politicians that seem aware of the situation in any country also seem
09:17 Techrightssec; to be corrupt or seem under conflict of interests. Definitely a major threat
09:17 Techrightssec; to not just technological advancement but even general purpose computing.
09:17 Techrightssec; They don't make general purpose computers so as an American company they are
09:17 Techrightssec; not affected. Furthermore, the more trouble they cause in Europe the more
09:17 Techrightssec; advantage they have in the international market. So there are a lot of
09:17 Techrightssec; perverse incentives involved.
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09:46 Techrightssec; ack
10:30 schestowitz-TR; weird
10:30 schestowitz-TR; I swear I opened the SN link and it gave me 404
10:30 schestowitz-TR; maybe twice even
10:30 schestowitz-TR; after it had also taken a long time for the bot to get a response from it
10:30 schestowitz-TR; and now it works... twice in a row
10:30 schestowitz-TR; suggests (i think) some trouble at the back end, maybe OH cluster
10:30 schestowitz-TR; *HA
10:30 schestowitz-TR; high-avail
10:36 schestowitz-TR; wow, the SN story is quite sad
10:36 schestowitz-TR; and they cannot get ircd back up and running
10:36 schestowitz-TR; btw, i heard yesterday from someone who knows someone in MSFT that the expense cuts are very noticeable
10:36 schestowitz-TR; this means Microsoft will think twice or thrice about stuff like extra astrotturfing
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10:52 Techrightssec; ack
10:52 Techrightssec;
10:52 Techrightssec; Yes, there will be an unavoidable long tail, but the world will benefit from
10:52 Techrightssec; a sudden drop in M$ astroturfers once their budget is cut enough.
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11:01 schestowitz-TR; thanks for buynothing urls
11:01 schestowitz-TR; i did not forget to work on that
11:01 schestowitz-TR; de and nl links are good too
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11:10 schestowitz-TR; James Zemlin: Sheela Microsoft controls me. Microsoft-funded Sheela does not listen to anything I have to say: (new talk) http://techrights.org/2022/11/16/jim-ftx-zemlin/
11:10 schestowitz-TR; techrights.org | Jim FTX Zemlin: My Wife Who is a Successful Technology Executive and Harvard MBA [and Fraudster Facing Class Action Lawsuit for Securities Fraud] Really Had an Obvious Look of Disappointment When I Told Her I Worked at a Non-Profit [sic] | Techrights
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Jim FTX Zemlin: My Wife Who is a Successful Technology Executive and Harvard MBA [and Fraudster Facing Class Action Lawsuit for Securities Fraud] Really Had an Obvious Look of Disappointment When I Told Her I Worked at a Non-Profit [sic] | Techrights
11:10 schestowitz-TR; James Zemlin and the husband, Sheela Microsoft, promote Bill Gates as "security". Just see comment by zoobab https://lwn.net/Articles/914840/ for background: http://techrights.org/2022/09/28/discriminating-against-free-software/ http://techrights.org/2022/10/12/jim-zemlin-applauding-bill-gates/
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Open-source software vs. the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (NLnet Labs) [LWN.net]
11:10 schestowitz-TR; techrights.org | Attempts to Legislate Against Free Software in Order to Elbow Such Software Aside | Techrights
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Attempts to Legislate Against Free Software in Order to Elbow Such Software Aside | Techrights
11:10 schestowitz-TR; techrights.org | Jim Zemlin Idolises Microsoft and Bill Gates (in New Talk Published This Week), Applauding a Back Doors Company and Jeffrey Epsteins Enabler | Techrights
11:10 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Jim Zemlin Idolises Microsoft and Bill Gates (in New Talk Published This Week), Applauding a Back Doors Company and Jeffrey Epsteins Enabler | Techrights
11:10 Techrightssec; thanks!
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11:12 schestowitz-TR; the attack surface we have here is extensible, and seems to be an HR issue as much as a technical issue
11:12 schestowitz-TR; having said that, judging by comments online people grew invcreasingly sceptical of LF
11:12 schestowitz-TR; it's wiely viewed as "Big Business" lobby
11:12 schestowitz-TR; which is correct
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11:13 Techrightssec; ack
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11:16 Techrightssec; Too many are still fooled by the name and through wishful thinking about
11:16 Techrightssec; what they would have liked the LF to be about. The hard reality is that
11:16 Techrightssec; it represents corporate interests inside kernel development and are actually
11:16 Techrightssec; antagonistic to the idea of promoting and advancing Linux in the world in
11:16 Techrightssec; general.
11:16 Techrightssec; tldr; it's a corporate lobbying group
11:17 schestowitz-TR; 1. go to linux.com
11:17 schestowitz-TR; 2. scan with the eyes
11:17 schestowitz-TR; 3. count articles about linux DESKTOP
11:17 schestowitz-TR; 4. counting articles about LINUX
11:17 schestowitz-TR; 5. count articles about COMMUNITY
11:17 schestowitz-TR; do the same in TFIR (don't; te videos are dying, too)
11:17 schestowitz-TR; the companies that run LF do NTO want Linux to succeed
11:17 schestowitz-TR; they want Linux to be CONTROLLED
11:17 schestowitz-TR; and NOT by USERS or COMMUNITIES
11:18 Techrightssec; I refuse to look at anything I know in advance is from spamnil.
11:18 Techrightssec; Right. That much was obvious when the LF eliminated community representation.
11:18 Techrightssec; That incident still does not get the attention it deserves, even though
11:18 Techrightssec; it is now so long ago in the past.
11:20 schestowitz-TR; 2016: community naughty, microsoft good
11:20 schestowitz-TR; guess who made the project LF is named after
11:20 schestowitz-TR; IN SPITE of Microsoft
11:20 schestowitz-TR; remember their finances looked awful for 2020
11:20 schestowitz-TR; I think they are also rather quiet this past month, and for a REASON
11:20 schestowitz-TR; it's not easy to get info on or from them
11:20 schestowitz-TR; if you can dig in a little, that will help
11:20 schestowitz-TR; open-source int
11:23 schestowitz-TR; --
11:23 schestowitz-TR; wow, linux.com seems like autopilot
11:23 schestowitz-TR; like nobody actually runs the site
11:23 schestowitz-TR; latest 3 "Stories" are merely links to the same site (redhat.com)
11:23 schestowitz-TR; prior to it, mere copy-pasre of linuxfoiundation.org [sic] material
11:23 schestowitz-TR; so you might as well stick a fork in that site
11:23 schestowitz-TR; it's done
11:23 schestowitz-TR; i'm doing an investigate post atm about the demise of blogs too, or sites about patents
11:23 schestowitz-TR; gathering evidence atm
11:24 Techrightssec; Check the RSS feed list. There are hundreds which have gone defunct during
11:24 Techrightssec; the last two years or less.
11:24 schestowitz-TR; investigating a bit while posting links
11:28 schestowitz-TR; brainstorming: before tantek went to Googlezilla he had technorati
11:28 schestowitz-TR; that used to hav an extensive list of blogs
11:28 schestowitz-TR; circa 2005 it still flourished
11:28 schestowitz-TR; getting a list of blogs and checking when they died might be... interesting
11:28 schestowitz-TR; owing to the very large dataset (what media might now dub "BIG DATA")
11:28 schestowitz-TR; I think I'm done with ONS for now
11:28 schestowitz-TR; do you have links to the new fatalities (by status) study?
11:28 schestowitz-TR; I'm sure the response woulkd be predominantly ad hom and similar
11:28 schestowitz-TR; "i found a typo"
11:28 schestowitz-TR; "they don't do it right" (variety of slants)
11:28 schestowitz-TR; "they are shills"
11:34 schestowitz-TR; ffii had no press release for nearly 9 months, 3 only in the past year, and i suspect its rss feed, which previously workd,
11:34 schestowitz-TR; stopped working
11:34 schestowitz-TR; then, a few weeks ago or a week back it issues one press release
11:34 schestowitz-TR; but that's far too little
11:34 schestowitz-TR; zoobab spent too much time in twitter
11:34 schestowitz-TR; and now that it's being freenoded it seems even more like wasted effort tbh
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11:56 Techrightssec; Twitter was and is a waste of time
11:56 Techrightssec; just like other manifestations of social control media
11:56 Techrightssec; That's just at the individual level. The costs and damage that social control
11:56 Techrightssec; media have done and will continue to do to society have yet to be assessed but
11:56 Techrightssec; even at this point it is very, very clear that the costs are already
11:56 Techrightssec; catastrophically high.
11:56 Techrightssec; See CBS' 60 Minutes program about "opium tiktok"
12:00 schestowitz-TR; china did not forget opiun war I and opium war II
12:00 schestowitz-TR; so it blocked shit like FB right from the get-go
12:00 schestowitz-TR; and I never condemned them for doing so (nor did I conduse)
12:00 schestowitz-TR; *condone
12:00 schestowitz-TR; you might say tiktok is "cheap chinese imitation"
12:00 schestowitz-TR; albeit in very very large doses
12:00 schestowitz-TR; like with drugs they export to other countries
12:00 schestowitz-TR; synthetic (like "spice")
12:00 schestowitz-TR; turns humsn into zombies
12:03 schestowitz-TR; speaking of addictions, to oil, to sport, money etc
12:03 schestowitz-TR; I still seriously consider boycotting EPL too
12:03 schestowitz-TR; top 3 teams (by ranking) are oil money
12:04 schestowitz-TR; and it is not improving over time, it gets a lot worse fast
12:04 schestowitz-TR; I don't want to participate in promoting their sportwashing PR
12:06 Techrightssec; ack
12:09 schestowitz-TR; if you write a blog post to point this out (I''m sure many others did already)
12:09 schestowitz-TR; you risk running afoul of the "islamophobia" policing
12:09 schestowitz-TR; as if opposing
12:09 schestowitz-TR; a) human rights abuse
12:09 schestowitz-TR; b) sport 'doping' (money)
12:09 schestowitz-TR; c) sportwashing
12:09 schestowitz-TR; d) envioronmental pollution and global warning
12:09 schestowitz-TR; is something to do with religion
12:09 schestowitz-TR; a side effect is that it undermines a unifying cultural ritual ("footie")
12:09 schestowitz-TR; some people here in the UK tried to silently protest in the stadium MbS buying a football club
12:09 schestowitz-TR; the police did not mind MbS
12:09 schestowitz-TR; but instead targeted his critics
12:09 Techrightssec; ack
12:09 Techrightssec; It's the go-to excuse for most coverups these days.
12:13 schestowitz-TR; but again, no point blogging about it
12:13 schestowitz-TR; I'm sure many people noticed already
12:13 schestowitz-TR; you just look at the jerseys
12:13 schestowitz-TR; and the league ranks
12:13 schestowitz-TR; common denopminator: huge salaries covered by dirty oil
12:13 schestowitz-TR; Liverpool if owned by some financial firm I don't truly know very well
12:13 schestowitz-TR; and they seem to have lowered their ability or willingness to spend
12:13 schestowitz-TR; so they sank in the rankings
12:13 schestowitz-TR; PSG (Paris) is the most obscene example of paying like quarter billion for one transfer
12:13 schestowitz-TR; and still having a bizarre team of "human trophies"
12:13 schestowitz-TR; dancing to enterain some sheikh
12:13 schestowitz-TR; who won't have top pay as much tax and get protection from politicians in paris
12:13 schestowitz-TR; for the "generocity"
12:33 schestowitz-TR; hmm.. only just stumbled upon https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Roy_Schestowitz
12:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Roy Schestowitz - Wikispooks
12:33 Techrightssec; checking
12:33 Techrightssec; """
12:33 Techrightssec; Wikipedia has been revealed all the way back in the 2000s by Wikiscanner to be monitored, infiltrated and its content edited by royals,
12:33 Techrightssec; dozens of intelligence agencies, hundreds of corporations and even the assistants of politicians themselves.
12:33 Techrightssec; """
12:36 schestowitz-TR; that much is rather obvious
12:36 schestowitz-TR; but takes work to show
12:36 schestowitz-TR; like nat friedman tryint to proavtively distance himself from serious scandals
12:37 schestowitz-TR; he has a whole bundle of them
12:37 schestowitz-TR; I keep notes and add more
12:37 schestowitz-TR; it'll have its time, for now he lays low
12:43 Techrightssec; Friedman is representative of the corporate culture over at m$ not an exception.
12:44 schestowitz-TR; he always swam close to the money
12:44 schestowitz-TR; even as a microsoft intern in the 90s
12:44 schestowitz-TR; so it was about power and money
12:44 schestowitz-TR; not about any practical contribution to society
12:45 Techrightssec; None of them are about contibutions or advancement of either society or
12:45 Techrightssec; technology. None. They wouldn't be attracted to that institution if they were.
12:46 schestowitz-TR; graveley is a chronological liar
12:46 schestowitz-TR; they did a popdcast together
12:46 schestowitz-TR; friedman apparently paid that 'PR' firm to destroy that link
12:46 schestowitz-TR; when you have money...
12:54 Techrightssec; ... and when there is only a single copy of the item ...
12:55 schestowitz-TR; it would be harder to recall all the books that wrongly say (because of Microsoft bribed) that Torvalds
12:55 schestowitz-TR; had plagiarised minix
12:55 schestowitz-TR; even after minix founder itself denied that
12:55 schestowitz-TR; *bribes
12:55 schestowitz-TR; *pathological
12:55 schestowitz-TR; sorry for typos
12:59 Techrightssec; The spread of disinformation has been essential to their religion.
12:59 Techrightssec; ^ cult
13:00 schestowitz-TR; now they encoruage plagiarising billions of lines of code
13:00 schestowitz-TR; if you pay them monthly subscription to help
13:00 schestowitz-TR; to hide the plgiarism under veil of "HEY HI"
13:19 Techrightssec; It's not the plagiarism they aim for, though they enjoy that. They
13:19 Techrightssec; use it to scrape off the license and make GPL'd and other FOSS code
13:19 Techrightssec; proprietary.
13:19 Techrightssec; That's neither legal nor ethical but is embraced anyway because it happens
13:19 Techrightssec; to meet the anti-Freedom goals of m$
13:22 schestowitz-TR; yes, true
13:22 schestowitz-TR; a bit short on topics tbh other than buynothing which is due fri morn
13:22 schestowitz-TR; but not to worry, I ahve lots to catch up with, on or before thnkgicving
13:22 schestowitz-TR; *thanklgiving
13:26 Techrightssec; Thursday would be better for BND since lead time and planning determines
13:26 Techrightssec; shopping. If people /plan/ in advance to buy, the article is unlikely to
13:26 Techrightssec; affect their plans. However, if the article is in their thoughts while
13:26 Techrightssec; making plans, then it is more likely to effect a change. My 2 cents.
13:27 schestowitz-TR; i need your help. can you think of a scientific quantitative way to demonstrate demise of blogs in 2020,
13:27 schestowitz-TR; 2021, 2022? demise of social control media notwithstanding
13:27 schestowitz-TR; my feeds have a rule to delete after 30 days since read or retain while unread
13:27 schestowitz-TR; I cannot go far enough backwards
13:29 Techrightssec; Perhaps the feed links in the OPML file could be polled for last update time.
13:29 Techrightssec; No not reading the feeds per se, but polling over HTTP and checking the
13:29 Techrightssec; update time in the XML
13:30 schestowitz-TR; several pitfalls: selection bias (only surviving feeds assessed)
13:30 schestowitz-TR; scope as long as the length of the feed
13:30 schestowitz-TR; favouring ones that barely publish
13:33 Techrightssec; yes of course
13:33 Techrightssec; the feeds are not a random sample
13:33 Techrightssec; The OPML file here still has hundreds of defunct blog feeds listed, they have
13:33 Techrightssec; not been culled.
13:33 Techrightssec; The ones that publish only rarely would still count as much as the frequent
13:33 Techrightssec; posts, using the methodology I have in mind. Perhaps there is a better way.
13:33 Techrightssec; However, there is nothing in the standard about how long entries must be
13:33 Techrightssec; retained within a feed. So some feeds have only very recent articles. Others
13:33 Techrightssec; have a mixture of new along with ancient. However, the obviously defunct ones
13:33 Techrightssec; would either respond with HTTP 404 Not Found or else return only really old
13:33 Techrightssec; entries.
13:34 schestowitz-TR; let me check if others already did such research and published some numbers...
13:34 schestowitz-TR; (not likely; spoiler: nobody seems to measure share of code forges, either)
13:36 Techrightssec; I would not know how to investigate code forges. A confound there is that m$
13:36 Techrightssec; will (and is doing) it's utmost to hide and obscure data about M$ GitHub and
13:36 Techrightssec; it's loss of projects and accounts.
13:37 schestowitz-TR; with help from microsoft-bribed (fact) 'analysts' like redmonk
13:37 schestowitz-TR; and LPI/LF-connected cheerladers like FOSSLife, citing Microsoft's own marketing brochures as "facts"
13:39 schestowitz; 2009: https://www.briansolis.com/2009/11/rumors-of-the-death-of-blogs-are-greatly-exagerated/
13:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.briansolis.com | Rumors of the Death of Blogs are Greatly Exaggerated - Brian Solis
13:39 schestowitz; 2019: https://hub.wtm.com/were-in-2019-and-blogs-havent-died/
13:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-hub.wtm.com | Were in 2019 and blogs havent died | WTM Global Hub
13:40 schestowitz; "I haven't seen a post-mortem on web communities that really captures the collapse of the particular math teacher group I was part of. They always tend to focus on the demise of blogs/rise of twitter but I think that's small compared to the *professionalization* of online life."
13:40 schestowitz; nitter
13:40 schestowitz; https://www.debbiestyleslife.com/2022/08/my-7th-blog-anniversary.html
13:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.debbiestyleslife.com | Debbie Styles Life: My 7th Blog Anniversary
13:40 schestowitz; "I think blogging as a whole has diminished and with the demise of blogs the readers have gone bye-bye as well. Instagram and Tik-Tok are the new "flavors of the month" and have taken the place of many blogs and I find that very sad."
13:45 schestowitz-TR; apropos, many "news" sites and blogs are in a panic right now
13:45 schestowitz-TR; the lion's share of their followers are in zuckerverse and muskdom
13:45 schestowitz-TR; they didn't build a direct followerbase with rss feeds or similar
13:45 schestowitz-TR; pretty much every "youtuber" is the same
13:45 schestowitz-TR; those vloggers dance to the whims of the sponsors of youtube
14:27 Techrightssec; FB really is a hostile enemy of news sites and blogs. Worse, many fools
14:27 Techrightssec; think that FB is a vehicle for information.
14:27 Techrightssec; fb
14:28 schestowitz-TR; fb
14:28 schestowitz-TR; a) spies on people
14:28 schestowitz-TR; b) customises what those people see; for
14:28 schestowitz-TR; c) maximal engagement (or ad-selling)
14:28 schestowitz-TR; that is not the definition of informing people but maximising diversion (ads, in.c political)
14:46 Techrightssec; Google's Youtube demonetizes and bans videos not just in pursuit of FOSS-hostile
14:46 Techrightssec; agendas but also on various undocumented whims. It's also easy enough to get
14:46 Techrightssec; a channel banned quite by accident or based on what was legitimate when posted
14:46 Techrightssec; at the time years ago.
14:46 Techrightssec; False copyright strikes are another problem area.
14:47 schestowitz-TR; it's like reddit
14:47 schestowitz-TR; sooner or later you get the messaage
14:47 schestowitz-TR; you are not wanted there
14:47 schestowitz-TR; stop cointributing
14:47 schestowitz-TR; *contributing
15:24 Techrightssec; checking
15:24 Techrightssec; The summary could spell out "EPO" as either European Patent Office etc.
15:24 schestowitz-TR; draft
15:24 schestowitz-TR; to show you how one can handle links in the summary
15:25 schestowitz-TR; showing up inline with title, even in gemini
15:53 Techrightssec; "who ... really is..." couldbe expanded a few words
15:53 Techrightssec; and a hint about why he is a liability
15:53 Techrightssec; np
15:53 schestowitz-TR; adding, thanks...
15:59 schestowitz-TR; epo boobytrapped epo with microsoft-nsa
15:59 schestowitz-TR; and we know who signed the paperwork
15:59 schestowitz-TR; relevant to what I am proofreading right now ;-)
15:59 schestowitz-TR; it's NOT about the crime
15:59 schestowitz-TR; but about WHOI BENFITS from it
16:36 schestowitz-TR; Spamnil's site promoting Microsoft trash again ("NVIDIA, Microsoft To Build Azure-Hosted AI Supercomputer"). 'Fuck you NVIDIA' -Torvalds
16:43 schestowitz-TR; This was always a bad idea. No IMPORTANT communications should ever have been done on "Twitter" https://walledculture.org/if-twitter-goes-down-in-flames-what-happens-to-its-huge-and-historically-important-collection-of-tweets/
16:43 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Empty reply from server ( status 0 @ https://walledculture.org/if-twitter-goes-down-in-flames-what-happens-to-its-huge-and-historically-important-collection-of-tweets/ )
16:45 schestowitz-TR; Hopefully not: Can Twitter Survive Elon Musk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-0Ey3eXWJo
16:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Invidious: https://yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=N-0Ey3eXWJo
16:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> yt.artemislena.eu | Can Twitter survive Elon Musk? | The Listening Post - Invidious
16:47 Techrightssec; The rightful outburst against Nvidia is always used as a distraction from
16:47 Techrightssec; what he said first in that Q & A session: that choosing the GPL was the
16:47 Techrightssec; best decision he ever made regarding the kernel
16:47 Techrightssec; s/kernel/Linux/
16:47 Techrightssec; I hope (or have an unfounded wish) that the governments and agencies which
16:47 Techrightssec; have been using proprietary Twitter in place of official channels of communication will wise up and change their behavior to resume usi
16:47 Techrightssec; ng and promoting their
16:47 Techrightssec; own official web sites.
16:47 Techrightssec; This kind of even was obvious a hundred miles away and years ago before
16:47 Techrightssec; Twitter even grew big. Using it can be "entertaining" but it should never
16:47 Techrightssec; be allowed to interfere with or replace official channels simply because it
16:47 Techrightssec; cannot.
16:47 Techrightssec; The best possible outcome is that this takes down both. The next best thing
16:47 Techrightssec; would be for Twitter to go down for the count, never to return.
16:48 schestowitz-TR; I agree 99%.
16:48 schestowitz-TR; the "1%" is, maybe they can download they archive, rehost it, use that as "site archive for that
16:48 schestowitz-TR; idiotic time we used some other site"
16:48 schestowitz-TR; I reckon Musk might soon disable downloads as an option
16:48 schestowitz-TR; seeing that many use that to flee for good... with their 'goods'
17:24 Techrightssec; Not really that would still be playing into the agendas of the manipulators
17:24 Techrightssec; calling the shots at Twitter. Even the least harmful approach of making
17:24 Techrightssec; an announcement pointing only to the official pages feeds Twitter and lends
17:24 Techrightssec; it unwarranted credibility. People would assume that because the governments
17:24 Techrightssec; are using it that it is vetted and reliable. There is a lot of projection
17:24 Techrightssec; and magical thinking going on in that regard. The data, and court and
17:25 Techrightssec; congressional testimonties, show that Twitter is unreliable and maniuplative
17:25 Techrightssec; regardless of which agencies are feeding it.
17:25 Techrightssec; Stuff that /was/ in Twitter is gone. People missed their chance to try
17:25 Techrightssec; to download it and as good as 100% of those who did download either have
17:25 Techrightssec; no ability to process the format or not spare time to do so even if they can.
17:25 Techrightssec; Those that have both the ablity, interest, and time are not even a rounding
17:25 Techrightssec; error, I figure.
17:51 schestowitz-TR; Sweden Expands Espionage Law https://scheerpost.com/2022/11/21/sweden-expands-espionage-law-endangering-freedom-of-journalists-and-whistleblowers/ | Source: Scheerpost
17:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Sweden Expands Espionage Law, Endangering Freedom of Journalists and Whistleblowers - scheerpost.com
17:52 schestowitz-TR; iirc, the main reason wikileaks was orbiting .se was the perceived protection of the host and state
17:52 schestowitz-TR; for journalism
18:27 schestowitz-TR; Sam Varghese posting obligatory spam under "black friday" theme https://itwire.com/home-it/belong,-konec-offer-mobile-deals-for-black-friday.html\\\
18:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-iTWire - Belong, Konec Mobile offer deals for Black Friday
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