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09:16 schestowitz-TR; sam varghese wrote only 4 or 5 articles this past month
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10:10 Techrights-sec; I noticed he was s
10:10 Techrights-sec; has slowed down. He was one of the last good mainstream journalists
10:10 Techrights-sec; not perfect, by far, but overall quite good#################
10:10 Techrights-sec; I hope it is not an editorial decision behind that
10:14 schestowitz-TR; back around 2008 the editor was censoring him
10:14 schestowitz-TR; he was confronting jeff waugh, an aussie, over gnome and mono stuff
10:14 schestowitz-TR; then miguel de icaza
10:14 schestowitz-TR; then mister gulag
10:14 schestowitz-TR; and others
10:14 schestowitz-TR; and stan beer at the time was trying to curtail his writings a bit iirc
10:14 schestowitz-TR; sometimes they would edefend him thouhg
10:14 schestowitz-TR; the attacks on rms last year show poor judgment imho
10:14 schestowitz-TR; spamnil has meanwhile all but ground to a halt
10:14 schestowitz-TR; which I was waitingg for
10:14 schestowitz-TR; at some stage he might realise nobody gives a shit about his openwashing BS
10:14 schestowitz-TR; this morning itsfodss did some ms github puff
10:14 schestowitz-TR; one person who never lets me down is marius nestor
10:17 Techrights-sec; LF ought to drop spamnil; he's one of the options which is worse than nothing
10:17 schestowitz-TR; fossforce has routinely criticised the LF
10:17 schestowitz-TR; now go to fossforce
10:17 schestowitz-TR; any page
10:17 schestowitz-TR; watch at the top
10:18 schestowitz-TR; my comment is not even needed on this
10:19 Techrights-sec; FossForce seems to have become a spam site
10:20 schestowitz-TR; well, technically it helps a diploma mill for money
10:20 schestowitz-TR; at one point itsfoss was doing the same
10:20 schestowitz-TR; still habitually does
10:20 schestowitz-TR; this is why I recently noted, in some context or anothjer, that LF is a corruptin
10:20 schestowitz-TR; g
10:20 schestowitz-TR; force that sort of poisons sites and interject crap into them
10:21 schestowitz-TR; this is also why the coin-operated sjvn puppet spouts out so many BS talking
10:21 schestowitz-TR; points re sw patents, vmware, Microsoft etc.
10:21 schestowitz-TR; He wants more coins. "Insert coin"
10:27 Techrights-sec; Yes, it changed years ago and one symptom was eliminiating community membership
10:27 Techrights-sec; from the board
10:27 Techrights-sec; I feel bad that SJVN did not survive until retirement. He was one of the last
10:27 Techrights-sec; good ones until he suddenly went over to say-for-pay.
10:27 Techrights-sec; Though 20+ years ago, ZDNet had quite GOOD Linux and FOSS coverage.
10:34 Techrights-sec; s/Perlow/M$ Perlow/
10:34 Techrights-sec; LF did not hire him to advance Linux, his background precludes that.
10:35 schestowitz-TR; [10:32] <techrights-news> Yesterday in #zdnet Perlow from #linuxfoundation (and f
10:35 schestowitz-TR; ormerly #microsoft !): "I'll assume you already have an antimalware/antivirus sol
10:35 schestowitz-TR; ution in place, such as Windows Security, which is built into Windows 10 and Wind
10:35 schestowitz-TR; ows 11" (LF spokesperson shilling Windows)
10:35 schestowitz-TR; [10:34] <techrights-news> You could joke that the untold goal of the #linuxfounda
10:35 schestowitz-TR; tion is to kill off the community enthusiasm around "Linux", making the handover
10:35 Techrights-sec; Unfortunately that is a realistic possibility.
10:35 schestowitz-TR; or privatisation by large corporations a lot simpler.
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13:09 schestowitz-TR; ota
13:09 schestowitz-TR; draft
13:49 schestowitz-TR; i have just thrown into techbytes a few more redacted notes from work
13:49 schestowitz-TR; I think they can be related to
13:49 schestowitz-TR; by many who in the workplace deal with shitty managers
13:49 schestowitz-TR; who are pointing fingers at anyone but themselves
13:49 schestowitz-TR; anyway, I've throttled down
13:49 schestowitz-TR; my work participation even further to about 1 hour of
13:49 schestowitz-TR; actual work per shift
13:49 schestowitz-TR; which means around 5, at most, hours per week
13:49 schestowitz-TR; the net pay, per hour, is good thius way
13:49 schestowitz-TR; and enough to keep me going
13:50 schestowitz-TR; it is in irc logs, next time around
13:50 schestowitz-TR; at some point I will also add some github stuff to that
13:50 schestowitz-TR; as I still need to decide what to shelve, what to do articles about etc.
13:50 schestowitz-TR; I have thousands of lines
13:53 schestowitz-TR; news has been particularly slow this week, i think presidents day is not an actua
13:53 schestowitz-TR; l day off, so I am assuming it's just further slowdown, with varghese being
13:53 schestowitz-TR; an example from australia
13:53 schestowitz-TR; their website is some mambo or similar fossil
13:53 schestowitz-TR; not mambo
13:53 schestowitz-TR; I forgot what mambo and that other project became
13:53 schestowitz-TR; maybe because so few are still using it
13:53 Techrights-sec; ack
13:53 Techrights-sec; I did not even notice the "holiday" I think it's just that the free press is
13:53 Techrights-sec; at the end of being killed off
13:55 schestowitz-TR; oh, I meant joomla
13:55 schestowitz-TR; drupal might one day be obliterated by wordpress
13:55 schestowitz-TR; of course the people who built up WP don't receive recognition
13:55 schestowitz-TR; mike little
13:55 schestowitz-TR; alex king
13:55 schestowitz-TR; karthik
13:55 schestowitz-TR; I ployed a relatively small role
13:55 schestowitz-TR; but now it's a fucking big company which censoirs, pushes ads, '\freemium'...
13:55 Techrights-sec; ok
13:55 Techrights-sec; ... and they use FTP ...
13:55 Techrights-sec; :(
13:56 schestowitz-TR; ftp for software installation and wp code updates isn't even the worst
13:56 schestowitz-TR; of offenders
13:56 schestowitz-TR; I installed wordpress at work last year and it was... oh, where to start???
14:07 Techrights-sec; ack
14:07 Techrights-sec; WP is not a realistic option any more; it looks also like they aim to
14:07 Techrights-sec; make it impossible except for "software as a service"
14:07 schestowitz-TR; I don't agree with that. They still make it easy to self-host and managed, it serves their interests too... the problem is other companies, which try to make self-hosting hard and web hosting very centralised ("clown")
14:09 Techrights-sec; there are too many design mistakes being added to the already large mess for
14:09 Techrights-sec; it to be much else
14:10 schestowitz-TR; you can look up what b2 UI looked like
14:10 schestowitz-TR; i.e. before wordpress took it and 'enhanced'it
14:10 Techrights-sec; I've taken a look at it
14:10 Techrights-sec; ack
14:12 schestowitz-TR; even debian outsourced a lot of infra, ci at the least, to gulag
14:13 schestowitz-TR; obv. gulag paid them tons of money, iirc 300k per year r total
14:13 schestowitz-TR; clown is a bubble because it is being subsidised
14:13 schestowitz-TR; the long-term risk m is ignored
14:13 schestowitz-TR; because it's left for future leaders to wrestle with
14:13 schestowitz-TR; and you only focus on short-term objectives
14:22 Techrights-sec; yes, too much is outsourced but then new students at the university come in
14:22 Techrights-sec; to their programmes without any experience and then, through M$ infiltration
14:22 Techrights-sec; of the programmes, have not any opportunity to acquire hands on. So their
14:22 Techrights-sec; whole ICT experience is really just using pre-made services and not ever
14:22 Techrights-sec; actually building anything
14:25 schestowitz-TR; or "building things" means click this, click that, in amazon aws
14:25 schestowitz-TR; so the idea of taking some piece of hardware and installing things on it
14:25 schestowitz-TR; like OS (not "spinning off") is foreign and scary
14:41 Techrights-sec; and prohibited even in a closed lab
14:45 schestowitz-TR; 0/
14:45 schestowitz-TR; otho
14:45 schestowitz-TR; to put laipstick or slant on it
14:45 schestowitz-TR; the scarcity of such skills may make opportunisties form some
14:45 schestowitz-TR; the issue is, in some cases companies come in and impose on
14:45 schestowitz-TR; you their outsourced crap, which they overpay for
14:49 Techrights-sec; I would have agreed but experience has shown ignorance and hostility to skills:
14:49 Techrights-sec; "in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is in for one hell of a hard time."
14:49 Techrights-sec; People follow trends senselessly and the senseless trend is now to use
14:49 Techrights-sec; proprietary "cloud" services. The "cloud" companies have hidden all of what
14:49 Techrights-sec; used to be commodity systems behind proprietary interfaces which vary even
14:49 Techrights-sec; within the same service providing company.
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17:52 schestowitz-TR; draft
17:53 Techrights-sec; In the draft, the last two sentences of the first paragraph could be the
17:53 Techrights-sec; first two. They'd make a good lead-in.
17:54 schestowitz-TR; hanks, I will restructure that whole block and expand while it processes th
17:54 schestowitz-TR; e video
17:54 schestowitz-TR; the drafts are the very first pass
17:55 Techrights-sec; ack
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22:24 schestowitz; https://joindiaspora.com/posts/22564032
22:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Not a Diaspora post?
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