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07:15 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents https://scheerpost.com/2022/06/22/the-federal-bureau-of-tweets-twitter-is-hiring-an-alarming-number-of-fbi-agents/ | Source: Scheerpost
07:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Federal Bureau of Tweets: Twitter is Hiring an Alarming Number of FBI Agents scheerpost.com
07:22 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> HDMI = DRM https://hackaday.com/2022/06/22/hdmi-is-an-attack-surface-so-heres-an-hdmi-firewall/ | Source: Hackaday
07:22 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-HDMI Is An Attack Surface, So Heres An HDMI Firewall | Hackaday
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07:28 Techrights-sec2; yes HDMI has DRM embedded
07:28 Techrights-sec2; it's being sneake in everywhere, in the war on general-purpose computing
07:29 schestowitz-TR; not even one article about coronavirus today
07:29 schestowitz-TR; the news is rather depressing today
07:29 Techrights-sec2; ack
08:28 Techrights-sec2; they're universally ignorig the epidemic and the behaviors which worsen it
08:28 Techrights-sec2; one rag had a bullshit article blaming "lockdowns" for the economic troubles
08:28 Techrights-sec2; in the UK and ignored the role "Brexit" had in smashing the economy
08:28 Techrights-sec2; furthermore the news reports continue to ignore the explosive growth
08:28 Techrights-sec2; of overpopulation and the problems, such as climate collapse, it is causing
08:28 Techrights-sec2; related to water "shortages" and drought, both
08:28 schestowitz-TR; I think this is what bothered me the most, not second to the LF spam
08:29 Techrights-sec2; ack
08:30 schestowitz-TR; so started the day, after oversleeping 3.5 hours (alarm did not work)
08:30 schestowitz-TR; with some bad news
08:30 schestowitz-TR; at least I got many posts on EPO done
08:30 schestowitz-TR; I might focus on that for th coming weeks
08:30 schestowitz-TR; since it's an area where we have moire impact
08:30 Techrights-sec2; ack
08:30 Techrights-sec2; EPO posts are important
08:33 Techrights-sec2; especially with the action next week
08:39 schestowitz-TR; we need a lot of startegic and mental recalibration, I think
08:39 schestowitz-TR; in light of protocols, issues (threats), economic realities
08:39 schestowitz-TR; and things like social control media along with Gulag Noise being more or less a
08:39 schestowitz-TR; control mechanism (psydroid just shared a link about BillG spending
08:39 schestowitz-TR; $100ml to keep Twitter to himself and his buddies)
08:42 Techrights-sec2; There was a decent blog post (albeit on the proprietary site Medium) about
08:42 Techrights-sec2; the problems of Reddit
08:42 Techrights-sec2; It is blocked by gratuitious javascript but shows some interesting things
08:42 Techrights-sec2; about the censorship there
08:42 Techrights-sec2; Control mechanisms consist mostly of the public, including much of the tech
08:42 Techrights-sec2; sector, mistaking social control media for communications tools rather
08:42 Techrights-sec2; than seeing them for the control and misdirection which they actually are
08:43 schestowitz-TR; I thought abotu doing an open letter to ItsFOSS, ZDNet/SJVN and FOSSForce
08:43 schestowitz-TR; to ask them how they deem it ethical that they receive bribes from proprietary software
08:43 schestowitz-TR; companies to push LF spam and diploma mills
08:43 schestowitz-TR; but that would likely just make us fewer allies
08:44 Techrights-sec2; if you can prove they have bribes from the proprietary software houses ...
08:44 Techrights-sec2; yes that would irritate them in the wrong way and while some are now mostly
08:44 Techrights-sec2; bad they are not yet /all/ bad
08:44 Techrights-sec2; that situation sucks
08:44 Techrights-sec2; since it is apparent that they are all in a downward spiral, some much further
08:44 Techrights-sec2; down than the others
09:02 schestowitz-TR; the only solace I have these days
09:02 schestowitz-TR; is that most of my friends online who do reporting on difficult issues
09:02 schestowitz-TR; are in vastly worse trouble than me
09:02 schestowitz-TR; at least for now
09:02 schestowitz-TR; that can quickly change if one is not careful
09:02 Techrights-sec2; :(
09:02 Techrights-sec2; I hope that their situations improve as well as even your own
09:04 schestowitz-TR; for me, the main nuisance is morale
09:04 schestowitz-TR; I lost track of how many annoying, demorialising, depressing news I saw this morning
09:04 schestowitz-TR; I had some more adjectives but forgot them
09:04 schestowitz-TR; anyway, thew LF trash I shelve with editorial comments mostly in TM comments
09:04 schestowitz-TR; to reduce their visibility
09:04 schestowitz-TR; in TR they already show up further down in very long pages
09:04 schestowitz-TR; this is one of many struggles
09:04 schestowitz-TR; but one that we are bettere equipped to handle
09:05 Techrights-sec2; It's all depressing and one has to become somewhat inured to certtain news
09:05 Techrights-sec2; or else it's not possible to wade through it. However, leaving social control
09:05 Techrights-sec2; media is the best way to avoid completely unnecessary toxicity and misinformation / disinformation.
09:07 schestowitz-TR; Gulag News included. Most of the "Linux" security BS came from there
09:07 schestowitz-TR; not seeing it isn't ideal, as you cannot respond, but the priority should be pro-Linux news finding
09:09 schestowitz-TR; tbh,m I do NOT know where the Web and Net are going
09:09 schestowitz-TR; nobody knows for sure, either
09:09 schestowitz-TR; it's a very multi-dimentional simulation problem
09:09 schestowitz-TR; but it seems safer to assume Mozilla will perish and not be bought (foundation, so tricky)
09:09 schestowitz-TR; then, what happens to the Web I do not know
09:09 schestowitz-TR; you sent me a link to the effect of Gulag engs just impkemewnting browser stuff
09:09 schestowitz-TR; and later "standardising" what was implemented
09:09 schestowitz-TR; This is WebOOXML
09:11 Techrights-sec2; The web is in big trouble since the change happened where W3C no longer calls
09:11 Techrights-sec2; the shots but instead merely documents the wishes of Google and Facebook
09:11 Techrights-sec2; The collapse of the cryptocurrencies might be helpful in breaking the
09:11 Techrights-sec2; "Web3" hype and, if we are lucky, cancel movement in that direction.
09:11 Techrights-sec2; Yes, they just do what hurts the public while benefiting Google, and only Google, and then document that new behavior as the new standard. They've been
09:11 Techrights-sec2; doing that so long that it would be very hard to rein them in again.
09:11 Techrights-sec2; TBL was *no* help in that regard, him and his EME crap.
09:11 schestowitz-TR; not just EME. That was just the cherry on top of the shitcake
09:11 schestowitz-TR; that had been cooking for quite some time already
09:12 Techrights-sec2; s/cooking/fermenting/
09:14 schestowitz-TR; what should we do? broad question, I know...
09:14 schestowitz-TR; people often ask that
09:14 schestowitz-TR; when things get really bad, like in recent years
09:14 schestowitz-TR; they want to do something, but they lack the coordination, even if they can or could mobilise in large groups
09:14 schestowitz-TR; orf courrse many take that to "social" "media" where their actions are controlled by those whom they oppose
09:15 Techrights-sec2; they take to social control media where their ability to communicate is
09:15 Techrights-sec2; quickly neutralized either through algorithmic interference, shadowbanning,
09:15 Techrights-sec2; or simply chaff from shills
09:16 schestowitz-TR; it looks like epo is about to collapse completely
09:16 schestowitz-TR; that would mean upc too
09:16 schestowitz-TR; mobilising most of the insiders can lead to it
09:16 schestowitz-TR; but it looks like Campinos pays 6 million europs to lawyers who attack the staff
09:16 schestowitz-TR; and maybe they pay more for union busters
09:17 schestowitz-TR; it seems like that in light of what we covered last night
09:21 Techrights-sec2; European Patent Convention (real) or European Patent Court (fraud)
09:21 Techrights-sec2; ??
09:21 Techrights-sec2; Shedding light on the Union busting is very important
09:22 schestowitz-TR; need more leaks for that
09:22 schestowitz-TR; we did 8 posts about EPO last night after you had afk
09:22 schestowitz-TR; then overslept
09:22 schestowitz-TR; maybe the body knew better than the failing alarm clock
09:22 schestowitz-TR; either way, here we are
09:22 schestowitz-TR; I'm looking for ways to tackle the issues
09:22 schestowitz-TR; and tbh we're increasingly ioslated
09:22 schestowitz-TR; not much help from other orgs
09:22 schestowitz-TR; they perish fast
09:22 schestowitz-TR; or waste all their time fighting against lawyers
09:31 schestowitz-TR; notice I've posted 4-5 batches of Daily Links lately
09:31 schestowitz-TR; in our own little way, by curating with rss, we can do a little to tackle the social control media
09:31 schestowitz-TR; and gulag noise issue, I think
09:31 schestowitz-TR; we're tiny compared to them
09:31 schestowitz-TR; but it's one way we can at least try to peddle in the right direction
09:32 schestowitz-TR; though the aors move,
09:32 schestowitz-TR; *oars
09:32 schestowitz-TR; we'll never managed to get back to the "Web we Had"
09:32 schestowitz-TR; meanwhile, Linux means nothing (see Linux.com)
09:32 schestowitz-TR; Gulag Noise tells me it it's some transvestite "Last Month in NYC"
09:35 schestowitz-TR; http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/166352#comment-34110
09:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.tuxmachines.org | Linux and Linux Foundation | Tux Machines
09:35 Techrights-sec2; ack
09:37 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Maybe 'Linux' Foundation holds its event in Texas because it reckons a ton of lies will be better tolerated around that area
09:38 Techrights-sec2; checking
09:38 Techrights-sec2; they did an "interview" with LT
09:38 Techrights-sec2; presumably LT's pimp scheduled the meetup
09:38 schestowitz-TR; yes, and then coin-operated SJVN did an abligatory puff piece for LF (Microsoft) funded ZDNet
09:38 schestowitz-TR; They use him like a mascot or prop
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09:46 Techrights-sec2; until they can succeed in making him seem irrelevant and thus discardable
09:47 schestowitz-TR; sooner or later they figure out how to silence people, like suing them (techdirt), scaring them (groklaw), harassing them (Daniel P)...
09:47 schestowitz-TR; he too will be on some lists of some interests
09:47 schestowitz-TR; afaik, he is still relatively new in the (h)acktivism turf
09:47 Techrights-sec2; yes he is still very relevant and they most important technical person in the
09:47 Techrights-sec2; whole project
09:48 schestowitz-TR; coffee break, need to get back to normal mental tempo
09:48 schestowitz-TR; btw, Daniel P also write sa load of crap sometimes
09:48 schestowitz-TR; but he did not originally
09:48 schestowitz-TR; it was a result of the abuse he recived
09:49 Techrights-sec2; ack
09:49 Techrights-sec2; yes not everything at his blog is press worthy
09:49 Techrights-sec2; harrassment and bullying do take their toll regardless of the strenght and
09:49 Techrights-sec2; 'righteousness' of the target
09:52 schestowitz-TR; covid19
09:52 schestowitz-TR; water
09:52 schestowitz-TR; feamine (related, not the same)
09:52 schestowitz-TR; military budget
09:52 schestowitz-TR; war with russia (already happenining, but localised, proxy)
09:52 schestowitz-TR; war on media
09:52 schestowitz-TR; lots of issues to be covered
09:52 schestowitz-TR; I need to focus on just EPO until end of June
09:52 schestowitz-TR; and sort out the employment status
10:12 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> British Hospitals Increasingly Overpopulated With COVID-19 Patients Again (and It's Only Summer!) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/06/23/hospitals-summer-of-covid/
10:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive British Hospitals Increasingly Overpopulated With COVID-19 Patients Again (and Its Only Summer!)
10:12 schestowitz-TR; I will write more about covid-19, but it's a race here against vanishing data disclosure
10:12 schestowitz-TR; that helps highlight a number of key issues like business loybbing ()e.g. aiurlines, hotals) and
10:12 schestowitz-TR; also aspects related to overpopulation and need to have people commute a lot less, to name just
10:12 schestowitz-TR; a few issues
10:12 schestowitz-TR; turning the siwtch "off" on COVID-19 to get back to... war with Russia, is not acceptable
10:13 Techrights-sec2; ack
10:15 schestowitz-TR; iirc, (it is conbfusing what they say) this evening they will rel;ease more data. mondays and thurs.
10:15 schestowitz-TR; I may write more.
10:15 schestowitz-TR; if nobody writes about a topic, e.g. epo, it does not mean this is not important
10:15 schestowitz-TR; just checked latest wordpress dump, it is OK
11:02 Techrights-sec2; I will try doing the remote backups again soon. They have been difficult of
11:02 Techrights-sec2; late, something bogs them down.
11:02 schestowitz-TR; do you know at which end?
11:03 Techrights-sec2; not sure but it had been grinding away without progress so
11:03 Techrights-sec2; if I cannot find a way around that, I will look into other options for backup
11:04 schestowitz-TR; OK, I am going to get offsite backups too
11:04 schestowitz-TR; just had to turn of ipfs here
11:04 schestowitz-TR; without throttling
11:04 schestowitz-TR; because it turns out last night thew cron job did not work right
11:04 schestowitz-TR; as I overslept
11:04 schestowitz-TR; and the IRC post thus produced an empty table
11:04 schestowitz-TR; I'm working to correct this atm
11:14 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:18 schestowitz-TR; I ama slso updating the pi atm (mostly vlc-related pacxpackages)
11:18 schestowitz-TR; still no kernel update
11:18 schestowitz-TR; so I need to swiutch ipfs on and off\
11:18 Techrights-sec2; ack
11:29 schestowitz-TR; done, wow that one missed alarm did cost a lot of time
11:29 schestowitz-TR; other than the time overslept ;/
11:29 schestowitz-TR; downloading latest DB dumps now
11:29 schestowitz-TR; won't include any of the file system :/
12:20 Techrights-sec2; trying backups now
12:20 Techrights-sec2; did not work
12:23 schestowitz-TR; as I understand it or guess, rsync is bruce-forcing shecksums of portions of files or whole files
12:23 schestowitz-TR; so it is very i/o intensive
12:44 schestowitz-TR; I've just rsynched uploads directory for the year
12:44 schestowitz-TR; 670MB total
12:55 Techrights-sec2; I wonder if slowing it down /a lot/ might help
12:57 schestowitz-TR; I am guessing that with LUKS scanning contiguous blocks would be a lot less efficienct than, say, the server side
12:57 schestowitz-TR; I don't know how full disk encyrption works in practice
12:57 Techrights-sec2; slowing it down does not help ...
13:00 Techrights-sec2; trying with --inc-recursive instead ...
13:01 schestowitz-TR; If you track bugs via rss feeds, maybe you saw a similar issue associated with a particular new version?
13:01 schestowitz-TR; hard to believe rsync was not fully tested with encryption partitions
13:13 Techrights-sec2; the problem has persisted since the autumn, iirc
13:13 Techrights-sec2; this is not lennertware but lennertware is upstream :/
13:13 Techrights-sec2; I'll try with a different architecture but need to add a bunch of packages
13:24 Techrights-sec2; seems to work on Linux 5.15.32-v8+ aarch64
13:24 Techrights-sec2; without problem, perhaps the problem is limited to x86_64 :(
13:24 Techrights-sec2; that's annoying
13:24 Techrights-sec2; the files are 1.3 GB in size
13:25 schestowitz-TR; thanks, it's good to have offsite backups too
13:25 schestowitz-TR; not that there's any tension at present
13:25 schestowitz-TR; but trusting that one raid is "thoughts and prayers"
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14:33 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "i've read some posts here and am excited to get to know y'all. i used to spend most if not all my time on twitter, but slowly i'm weaning off of it. didn't really serve me much apart from a time-killer and a mind-occupier." gemini://midnight.pub/posts/1030
14:40 schestowitz; > Now the cat is out of the bag ...
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:40 schestowitz; > -------- Forwarded Message --------
14:40 schestowitz; > Subject: recognition of Linus Torvalds, Honorary Debian Developer
14:40 schestowitz; > Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 17:32:32 +0200
14:40 schestowitz; > From: Daniel Pocock <daniel@softwarefreedom.institute>
14:40 schestowitz; > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:40 Techrights-sec2; ack
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:40 schestowitz; > I've recently been able to acquire[1] the Debian trademark in Switzerland
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:40 schestowitz; > Using whatever authority comes with the trademark, I'm recognizing Linus
14:40 schestowitz; > Torvalds as an Honorary Debian Developer
14:40 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; > For safety, I revoked the Code of Conduct before[1] doing this.
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; > Thanks Linus, none of the competing Debian trademark registrations would
14:41 schestowitz; > exist without your efforts creating Linux in the first place.
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; > Regards,
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; > Daniel
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; >
14:41 schestowitz; > 1. https://danielpocock.com/using-the-debian-trademark-for-good/
14:41 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-danielpocock.com | Using the Debian trademark for good
14:43 schestowitz; >>>>> Thinking back, I believe they attacked you and you stopped syndicating
14:43 schestowitz; >>>>> onto Techrights in March 2021, the same time as the RMS mob
14:43 schestowitz; >>>> Who do you mean by they?
14:43 schestowitz; >>> I don't know but I get regular reports about gangstalkers from a subset
14:43 schestowitz; >>> of FSFE/Debian who send messages to my friends, clients and
14:43 schestowitz; >>> collaborators in other open source projects
14:43 schestowitz; >>>
14:43 schestowitz; >>> Just out of interest, did anybody ever try to contact your wife to
14:43 schestowitz; >>> harass you? That is the type of thing they are doing now.
14:43 schestowitz; >>>
14:43 schestowitz; >>> It seems they eventually realized who owns the trademark in CH. I
14:43 schestowitz; >>> avoided saying anything about it publicly to save them embarrassment but
14:43 schestowitz; >>> now the cat is out of the bag.
14:43 schestowitz; >> I intentionally said nothing on the subject until late last night as it
14:43 schestowitz; >> had already become common knowledge.
14:43 schestowitz; > It doesn't look like they are going to submit to my trademark any time soon
14:43 schestowitz; >
14:43 schestowitz; > Do you want an Honorary Debian Developer certificate for your cat or
14:43 schestowitz; > something?
14:43 schestowitz; I think it would be wise to avoid doing anything that can be seen as trolling or provocation. If it can be used to smear, it will be used to smear.
14:46 Techrights-sec2; ack
14:50 Techrights-sec2; definitely
14:50 Techrights-sec2; though *anything* can and will be used to smear him
14:50 schestowitz-TR; right, but do not hand them a rope to hang you with
14:50 schestowitz-TR; like anon emails
14:53 schestowitz-TR; got some epo material
14:53 schestowitz-TR; oha
14:53 schestowitz-TR; ota
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15:05 schestowitz-TR; going to record now, prepared mentally for a bit
15:05 schestowitz-TR; if you have thoughts about "hot-desking"
15:05 schestowitz-TR; "hotelling"
15:05 schestowitz-TR; when they dynamically allocate a desk at work
15:05 schestowitz-TR; I don't have expoerience with it except in CS labs
15:05 schestowitz-TR; as a postdoc we got inidividual desks
15:05 Techrights-sec2; ack
15:05 Techrights-sec2; nothing direct, just that it has been proven through multiple studies
15:05 schestowitz-TR; thanks
15:05 Techrights-sec2; to be both inefficient and demoralizing
15:05 Techrights-sec2; it really is intended to limit the employee's ability to get work done
15:05 Techrights-sec2; and to mess with their status
15:05 schestowitz-TR; i guess it makes blowing the whistleharder too
15:05 Techrights-sec2; no citations handy at the moment though
15:05 schestowitz-TR; like saving stuff
15:05 schestowitz-TR; I have some references in the documents
15:05 Techrights-sec2; it makes *everything* more difficult, that is a primary goal
15:05 schestowitz-TR; thanks
15:05 schestowitz-TR; OTA
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16:14 schestowitz-TR; crude first draft
16:14 schestowitz-TR; this is a very tech-rights issue
16:14 schestowitz-TR; and applicable to a lot of people and workplaces imho
16:14 Techrights-sec2; checking
16:14 Techrights-sec2; repeat for emphasis: "rightly concerned about ..."
16:14 Techrights-sec2; citation needed for the hotdesking
16:14 Techrights-sec2; https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/06/20/how-hot-desking-will-kill-your-company/
16:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.forbes.com | How Hot-Desking Will Kill Your Company
16:14 Techrights-sec2; https://www.ft.com/content/bff71b8c-ae34-11e9-8030-530adfa879c2
16:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.ft.com | Subscribe to read | Financial Times
16:15 schestowitz-TR; they used this very citation
16:15 schestowitz-TR; in the publiucation
16:15 schestowitz-TR; what do you mean by "repeat for emphasis"?
16:16 Techrights-sec2; https://www.wired.co.uk/article/hot-desking-meaning-benefits
16:16 Techrights-sec2; the sentence ending in "rightly concerned" needs a few more words to complete
16:16 Techrights-sec2; it with the gist of the probem.
16:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.wired.co.uk | Hot desking was meant to save us all time and money. It hasnt | WIRED UK
16:26 Techrights-sec2; "no citations handy at the moment though," can be removed and replaced
16:26 Techrights-sec2; with a citation
16:26 Techrights-sec2; or three
16:27 schestowitz-TR; I've merged them in another way
16:27 schestowitz-TR; as a shortcut
16:27 schestowitz-TR; adding some missing bits
16:27 schestowitz-TR; but you were right, the into was far too thin
16:31 Techrights-sec2; ack
16:31 Techrights-sec2; this part: ""The associate said he had no citations handy at the moment though, but there are some references in the document below."" can be removed
16:32 schestowitz-TR; done
16:32 schestowitz-TR; upload just finished
16:32 schestowitz-TR; doing a final pass
16:32 schestowitz-TR; first pass: type qiucikly
16:33 schestowitz-TR; second pass: read slowly
16:33 schestowitz-TR; had it been a more formal thing, there would be anothr pass
16:33 schestowitz-TR; but there's more from epo on the way
16:33 Techrights-sec2; ack
17:19 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Weekly Increase of 56% in COVID-19-Linked Deaths, But the Government's Disclosure of Data is Almost Going Away Next Week https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/06/23/covid-deaths/
17:19 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive Weekly Increase of 56% in COVID-19-Linked Deaths, But the Governments Disclosure of Data is Almost Going Away Next Week
17:33 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:00 schestowitz-TR; lol, the employer kicked the can another 2.5 weeks down the road
18:00 schestowitz-TR; so typical
18:00 schestowitz-TR; and it's spun as good news
18:00 schestowitz-TR; "new sales"
18:00 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:00 Techrights-sec2; bizarre
18:00 Techrights-sec2; it sure looks like terrible management
18:00 schestowitz-TR; this snail pace may mean it'll take months before I start with new capacity/role
18:00 schestowitz-TR; but comes to show what terrible timetables/planning these "managers" can adhere to
18:00 schestowitz-TR; or why they lose both staff and clients
18:00 schestowitz-TR; maybe they make wrong assumptions about their actions and reputation
18:00 schestowitz-TR; but I won't say this to their face
18:02 schestowitz-TR; sareenGaz was the worse (SarinGas)
18:02 schestowitz-TR; or worst rather
18:02 schestowitz-TR; she drove out some important workers
18:02 schestowitz-TR; by being herself
18:02 schestowitz-TR; in turn, when you lose such staFF, you can also lose clients
18:02 schestowitz-TR; like the NHS
18:02 schestowitz-TR; and then, instead, bring in companies that I'd rather see offline and with severe data loss
18:02 schestowitz-TR; it would be better for society
18:09 schestowitz-TR; credit to rianne though
18:09 schestowitz-TR; she does work hard (covering extra for a colleague tonight, 1-9am)
18:09 schestowitz-TR; so we have OK savings and that reduces anxiety
18:09 schestowitz-TR; I wanted to leave around end of last year as I was arguing a lot with management and it got me angry
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and some clients we added I refused to work for
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and wanted to distance myself by passing to colleagues like they're the "unethical" so-called 'shabos goy'
18:09 schestowitz-TR; thjat does not work in thre long run
18:09 schestowitz-TR; but I think we 'lost' 2 of the worst clients
18:09 schestowitz-TR; I hope so
18:09 schestowitz-TR; just earlier today they said we had lost a client
18:09 schestowitz-TR; and then comes the "good news" message about "new sales"
18:09 schestowitz-TR; I learned to reas through their BS many years ago
18:09 schestowitz-TR; but I'm no shareholder, I barely even give a shit nor am I attached to it like a uni faculty,
18:09 schestowitz-TR; so we "milk on"
18:09 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:09 Techrights-sec2; good that at least the two worst are gone, hopefully some more palatable ones
18:09 Techrights-sec2; will be picke up instea
18:09 Techrights-sec2; too bad they bullshit so much
18:11 schestowitz-TR; some new clients are universities and maybe something that restores morale
18:11 schestowitz-TR; but tbh, I quit giving a shit back in 2018 (SarinGas)
18:11 schestowitz-TR; since then it was like 'sex witout emotion'
18:11 schestowitz-TR; just cashing in and minding our own business with the sites
18:11 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:17 schestowitz-TR; Yes!
18:17 schestowitz-TR; The company SHOULD be avoided
18:17 schestowitz-TR; as investor
18:17 schestowitz-TR; or jos seeker
18:17 schestowitz-TR; I mentioned it in the last meeting
18:17 schestowitz-TR; that we're an extremely unattractive employer (not in these words)
18:17 schestowitz-TR; but if you can get in one hour's actual work done enough to earn about 100 pounds after tax (and NHS, pension etc) it's hard to justify leaving
18:17 schestowitz-TR; a friend and my father as well said it's hard to justify leaving and that owing to experience gained we're in this position, as a couple even
18:17 schestowitz-TR; the skills aren't too far from techrights stuff, so there's something to be learned too
18:17 schestowitz-TR; \
18:17 schestowitz-TR; I just really didn't want to be associated with some of those companies
18:17 schestowitz-TR; and a whislteblower told me inside stories about one of them
18:17 schestowitz-TR; there are also Mono/Friednman connection, however disyant, like format Xamarin person and "Nat" being buddies with someone
18:17 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:17 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:17 Techrights-sec2; https://medium.com/yardcouch-com/the-fall-of-reddit-why-its-quickly-declining-into-chaos-cb0da61aca56
18:17 Techrights-sec2; also similar ties there, too
18:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-The Fall Of Reddit: Why Its Quickly Declining into Chaos | by Isaiah McCall | Yard Couch | Jun, 2022 | Medium
18:19 schestowitz-TR; I am very surprised reddit survivied this long
18:19 schestowitz-TR; it used to compete against digg
18:19 schestowitz-TR; digg was bigger
18:19 schestowitz-TR; digg fiolded very fast
18:19 schestowitz-TR; maybe lack oif business model
18:19 schestowitz-TR; or low user retention
18:19 schestowitz-TR; and then reddit veered in some other direction
18:19 schestowitz-TR; maybe made money by the shilling
18:19 schestowitz-TR; back then (digg still arouund) it marketed IE9 for/with Microsoft
18:19 schestowitz-TR; people still thouht all this AMA crap was grassroots
18:19 schestowitz-TR; it's just "screen time" or "links" for sale
18:20 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:21 schestowitz-TR; lots of "copilot" spam this week
18:21 schestowitz-TR; for a shallow reason
18:21 schestowitz-TR; I am tempted to do the series again
18:21 schestowitz-TR; but it does not tie into the "announcement"
18:21 schestowitz-TR; I want to see where Miguel and Nat rear their ugly head
18:21 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:21 Techrights-sec2; yes they will, unfortunately
18:21 schestowitz-TR; they WILL be back
18:22 schestowitz-TR; I don't want to name companies they can poison('pill') by "joining"...
18:22 schestowitz-TR; lkook what miguel and nat did to novell
18:22 schestowitz-TR; the micreosoft deal was partly their iudea
18:22 schestowitz-TR; *idea
18:22 schestowitz-TR; miguel for sure
18:22 schestowitz-TR; jeremy allison confirmed to me
18:23 Techrights-sec2; miguel has always been an m$ fanboi / saobteur
18:24 schestowitz-TR; maybe EPO should hire him and close shop
18:24 schestowitz-TR; instant impact
18:24 schestowitz-TR; if only he got his VISA... for Europe
18:30 Techrights-sec2; :(
18:31 schestowitz-TR; ximian dead
18:31 schestowitz-TR; novell dead
18:31 schestowitz-TR; xamarin does not exist by name
18:31 schestowitz-TR; microsoft sucking tax money (debt) like a leech
18:31 Techrights-sec2; 67?
18:31 schestowitz-TR; he left
18:31 schestowitz-TR; to spend more time with... I dunno
18:31 schestowitz-TR; he's 67 already
18:32 schestowitz-TR; yes, he looks young for his age ;-)
18:32 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:32 Techrights-sec2; deicaza is from 1972
18:34 schestowitz-TR; I know, I was kidding
18:34 schestowitz-TR; but I was told he's super short and aside from that I think it's techrights that caused him to leave but cannot prove it
18:34 schestowitz-TR; the height thing does not matter, but anecdote (nat is also very short)
18:34 schestowitz-TR; they compensate for it like little soft billy
18:34 schestowitz-TR; "trey"
18:34 Techrights-sec2; ok
18:36 schestowitz-TR; judge penfield, iirc, compared "trey" to nepoleon
18:36 schestowitz-TR; the putin/neloleon "complex"
18:36 schestowitz-TR; "I'm small, but look what evil I can do... I will be remembered... while ruining other people's lives"
18:36 Techrights-sec2; https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99269&page=1
18:36 Techrights-sec2; https://www.independent.ie/world-news/judge-brands-bill-gates-an-arrogant-napoleon-26098870.html
18:36 Techrights-sec2; https://www.wired.com/2001/01/ms-judge-rips-gates-again/
18:36 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-abcnews.go.com | Judge: Gates a Napoleon - ABC News
18:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Judge brands Bill Gates 'an arrogant Napoleon' - Independent.ie
18:37 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-MS Judge Rips Gates Again | WIRED
18:38 schestowitz-TR; the enalogy guess a long way and explains human nature/soviety
18:38 schestowitz-TR; the kid you bullied or mocked at school.... watch out
18:38 schestowitz-TR; they will look for revenge
18:38 Techrights-sec2; https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/07/09/the-microsoft-verdict
18:38 Techrights-sec2; microsofters are a criminal group
18:38 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.newyorker.com | The Microsoft Verdict | The New Yorker
18:39 schestowitz-TR; a dropouts' club
18:39 schestowitz-TR; the bright kids join unix and gnu
18:40 schestowitz-TR; front page of /, linux has just pushed rust in linux
18:40 schestowitz-TR; an hour ago
18:45 Techrights-sec2; the schools have been cut out of the loop, they don't teach CS any more
18:45 Techrights-sec2; and the training the provide in place of real education is of very weak quality
18:45 Techrights-sec2; then most projects have been undermined through gratuitous complexity or
18:45 Techrights-sec2; politics to have no real onramps any more
18:45 Techrights-sec2; I only checked /. once on purpose during the last n years
18:45 Techrights-sec2; I don't intend to do it again for another long interval, it's
18:45 Techrights-sec2; just a bunch of spam articles, ads, and shill posts
18:45 Techrights-sec2; m$ succeeded in taking out the once great FOSS site
18:45 Techrights-sec2; they are nothing if not tenacious in their cult
18:45 schestowitz-TR; it took them a while
18:45 schestowitz-TR; if at first you fail...
18:45 schestowitz-TR; they also had a run at OSI
18:45 schestowitz-TR; and at Raspi
18:45 schestowitz-TR; to some extent they succeeded at least twice
18:45 schestowitz-TR; I could make a timeline for each
18:46 schestowitz-TR; XP, repo, board
18:46 schestowitz-TR; OSI: licence (asay), bribe, clearlyDefined, board...
18:46 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:46 Techrights-sec2; they've fully infiltrated the Raspbery Pi Foundation and it's board
18:51 schestowitz-TR; I am trying to find, but failing to find, the image where it shows Microsoft, then fist holding a human heard (like the mayan ritual)
18:51 schestowitz-TR; that's how Microsoft (hearts) stuff
18:51 schestowitz-TR; we just need to keep hammering away at themn
18:51 schestowitz-TR; it's a big target
18:51 schestowitz-TR; so needs a ton of hammering
18:51 schestowitz-TR; epo is like a node in a network
18:51 schestowitz-TR; includes un, wipo, wto, uspto, and lots of corporations with their law firms
18:51 schestowitz-TR; so epo is a lot harder to than take down than novel
18:51 schestowitz-TR; if though the head count is about the same
18:51 Techrights-sec2; ack
18:53 schestowitz-TR; EPO = european branch (one of few) of an international hydra
18:53 schestowitz-TR; the good thing is, by exposing EPO crimes we also expose corruption in many of these other, closely connected institutions
18:53 schestowitz-TR; inc. some governments, .e.g EU/EC and Germany
18:53 schestowitz-TR; people inside observed and documented those things for decades and now they spill out what they learned
18:54 Techrights-sec2; yes it appears that the corruption is interrelated
18:54 Techrights-sec2; with luck the national news services, or at least one, will pick that up
18:56 schestowitz-TR; like I said in the video today, while reading a golf book I saw some golfer wearing FTI Consulting hat
18:56 schestowitz-TR; sponsorshipo
18:56 schestowitz-TR; and I recalled how many milklions in bribes EPO passed for them to game the press
18:56 schestowitz-TR; and when I got a call from a German politician FTI Consulting was mentioned
18:56 schestowitz-TR; they have deep pockets
18:56 schestowitz-TR; so they can buy the press, media etc.
18:57 schestowitz-TR; small companies and countries cannot afford that
18:57 schestowitz-TR; for one small revelation we expose they might have to spend a folrtune on "damage control"
18:57 schestowitz-TR; ICBM lost a ton of goodwill in recent years and staff of Red Hatr is fleeing
18:57 schestowitz-TR; serves them right
18:57 schestowitz-TR; they took on reddit and 'hacker' noise to attack me personally
18:57 schestowitz-TR; to prevent people linking to TR
19:00 schestowitz-TR; this is the "shit we're up against"
19:00 schestowitz-TR; and Daniel P too for that matter
19:00 schestowitz-TR; they control the press, the politicians, but there's a limit to how much lying the population can absorb
19:00 schestowitz-TR; so then they try to take you out of Twitter
19:00 schestowitz-TR; based on something they found from years ago
19:00 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:00 schestowitz-TR; maybe part of the intention is to make you lose your cool
19:00 schestowitz-TR; and then become what they want you to seem
19:00 schestowitz-TR; like you said, it's a political tactic
19:00 schestowitz-TR; rile up the oppositioin
19:00 schestowitz-TR; and they start saying f this and f that
19:00 schestowitz-TR; and then you use that for eternity
19:00 schestowitz-TR; like ballmer "monkey dance"
19:00 schestowitz-TR; or those billg esptein photo ops
19:01 schestowitz-TR; epo publications reminds the f bomb incident
19:02 schestowitz-TR; *recalls
19:02 schestowitz-TR; in publications it is mentioned all the time
19:02 schestowitz-TR; I know he said that because of our series
19:02 schestowitz-TR; based on what he asked just prior to that temper tamtrum
19:02 schestowitz-TR; now he looks like a mug
19:02 schestowitz-TR; and they keep coylu asking for the recording
19:02 schestowitz-TR; *coylu
19:02 schestowitz-TR; *coyly
19:02 schestowitz-TR; he won't comply
19:02 schestowitz-TR; but they are making a point
19:02 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:12 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity (severity 8.8/10). Of course it's ProprietaryShit(R), so CorporateMedia(TM) won't say a word. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-174-05
19:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | Elcomplus SmartICS | CISA
19:12 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.cisa.gov | Elcomplus SmartICS | CISA
19:12 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> CVSS v3 9.8 (out 10!). Will corrupt corporate media cover it? Probably not. If it's not "Open Source" and Microsoft sends bribes to create a stigma against what's safer. https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-174-04
19:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | Pyramid Solutions EtherNet/IP Adapter Development Kit | CISA
19:12 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- www.cisa.gov | Pyramid Solutions EtherNet/IP Adapter Development Kit | CISA
19:17 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Why does LXer add the story "TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup"? To help Microsoft? This is an attack on the free and vendor-neutral stuff.
19:19 schestowitz-TR; The article is only based on some self-selecting survey (easy to game) and used by Microsoft booster Richard Speed to promote Microsoft's agenda. This is what happens when "surveys" are just sophisticated marketing plots... and the publisher is paid by criminals from Microsoft
19:20 schestowitz-TR; if lxer wants to kill itself, maybe I should welcome it
19:20 schestowitz-TR; some people in the comments there, however rare, complained
19:20 schestowitz-TR; and the links consequently removed
19:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe not enough people underrstand what typoescript is and what it's intended to do
19:21 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft tried this before (java++, Basic/VB in Web pages..)
19:21 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:21 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:21 Techrights-sec2; yes m$ games stats and analyses
19:21 schestowitz-TR; "evangelism is war"
19:21 schestowitz-TR; "life and death" analogies
19:21 schestowitz-TR; and RELIGION
19:22 Techrights-sec2; from Comes v Microsoft
19:32 Techrights-sec2; I took a look for that human sacrifice image with M$ but could not find
19:32 Techrights-sec2; anything relevant
19:32 schestowitz-TR; I tried again
19:32 schestowitz-TR; no success
19:32 schestowitz-TR; it's not important, either ;-)
19:32 schestowitz-TR; we have it iun at least a couple of places
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19:36 Techrights-sec2; ok
19:40 schestowitz-TR; you have it on your hard disks (from rsync)
19:40 schestowitz-TR; as a student I dreamt sof the day we have something like Gulag Street View
19:40 schestowitz-TR; but did not envision it would be 1) privatised 2) spyware
19:40 schestowitz-TR; the other thing was, sometimes to organise my photos by scanning and understganding what's and who's in them
19:40 schestowitz-TR; that too barely became a reality
19:40 schestowitz-TR; people still cannot find photos easy without lots of meta and long file names of many layers of filing
19:40 schestowitz-TR; but I suppose some private companies with private (stoken) collections
19:40 schestowitz-TR; ;like clearview HEY HI do have capabilities close to that
19:41 Techrights-sec2; similar here
19:41 Techrights-sec2; though I saw that VRML would not be practical at scale, and it wasn't
19:41 schestowitz-TR; they're allowed to know us too well
19:41 schestowitz-TR; but if we know they too well, they treat us like assange
19:41 schestowitz-TR; now on suicide watch, according to his dad (shipman) following last friday's ruling
19:41 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:41 Techrights-sec2; they've been working to kill him through the stress of mistreatment, both
19:41 Techrights-sec2; physical and psychological and legal
19:43 schestowitz-TR; slower but safer than "pull an epstein"
19:45 Techrights-sec2; s/safer/lower profile/
19:46 schestowitz-TR; chelsea manning said epstein was killed
19:46 schestowitz-TR; remember she said that when he (brad) was in prison he was mrely "surviving"
19:46 schestowitz-TR; same as done to Assange on a number of or array of methods
19:46 schestowitz-TR; then came financial attacks
19:46 schestowitz-TR; and mom died
19:46 schestowitz-TR; russia did a gulonov
19:46 Techrights-sec2; ack
19:49 schestowitz-TR; MIR report on Epstein asked billg lawyers
19:49 schestowitz-TR; that was enough for them
19:49 schestowitz-TR; some "investigation"
19:49 schestowitz-TR; here, have $100,000...
19:49 schestowitz-TR; see you in a few years when another swartz hangs himself
19:49 schestowitz-TR; swartz did play some role in wikileaks
19:49 schestowitz-TR; *MIT
19:50 Techrights-sec2; MIT basically killed Swartz through their passivity in the case
19:50 Techrights-sec2; they could have quickly smoothed things over but chose to aggravate the
19:50 Techrights-sec2; situation through inaction, over a very long period of time
19:51 Techrights-sec2; https://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-swartzs-girlfriend-has-a-damning-theory-about-the-young-reddit-co-founders-suicide-2013-2?r=US&IR=T
19:51 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.businessinsider.com | Aaron Swartz's Girlfriend Has a Damning Theory About the Young Reddit Co-Founder's Suicide
19:53 schestowitz-TR; getting people to confess crimes they did not commit helps "solve" cases and game the numbers
19:53 schestowitz-TR; but I was always baffled by this appeoach
19:53 schestowitz-TR; we wrote about it many timnes in TR in the distant past
19:53 schestowitz-TR; I think in relation to EPO actually
19:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe also eric lundgren or whatever his name was
19:54 Techrights-sec2; plea "deals" are a crime in themselves and cause lots of people to fold
19:54 Techrights-sec2; Taren's words are spot on regarding the US legal system, from the scores
19:54 Techrights-sec2; of high profile cases visible in the press over the recent decades
19:54 Techrights-sec2; "solve" them and the prosecutors are evaluation based on convictions not justice
19:58 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "The Linux Foundation is a sponsor of The New Stack" so they get to tell the media what to say or 'report' for LF sponsors' agenda https://thenewstack.io/rust-in-the-linux-kernel-by-2023-linus-torvalds-predicts/ https://linux.slashdot.org/story/22/06/23/1348251/linus-torvalds-says-rust-for-the-kernel-could-possibly-be-merged-for-linux-520
19:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-thenewstack.io | Rust in the Linux Kernel by 2023, Linus Torvalds Predicts The New Stack
19:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linux.slashdot.org | Linus Torvalds Says Rust For The Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged For Linux 5.20 - Slashdot
20:00 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Torvalds says he only worked on Git for 6 months. It took off because Linux used it and Linux was a high-profile project with strong reputation (before LF came, attacking it reputation for money... from Linux foes and GPL haters)
20:01 Techrights-sec2; ack
20:01 Techrights-sec2; I remember Lundgren. He has been too quiet given the amount he certainly
20:01 Techrights-sec2; could say about things
20:01 Techrights-sec2; s/Lundgren/Lundgren's situtation/
20:06 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Linux succeeded because of GNU and the GPL (GCC and all that). Git succeeded because of Linux and the GPL. Maybe we should all pay attention to where it all started and WHY it took off.
20:13 Techrights-sec2; ack
20:13 Techrights-sec2; GCC is still important but it has been actively undermined for a long time now
20:15 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> No, Linux Foundation. We need to abolish software patents, not "Ensur[e] Patents Foster Innovation in Open Source" https://linuxfoundation.org/blog/ensuring-patents-foster-innovation-in-open-source/ they literally repeat lies IBM told in Europe
20:15 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-linuxfoundation.org | Ensuring Patents Foster Innovation in Open Source - Linux Foundation
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