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1 AM, July 23

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07:37 Techrights-sec2; I've added the prerequisite CPAN modules to Alpine, some via the package

07:37 Techrights-sec2; manager (when possible) the remainder via the CPAN module

07:37 Techrights-sec2; I've created some placeholder accounts; hopefully the group memberships are

07:37 Techrights-sec2; correct

07:37 Techrights-sec2; Please try some of the work flow to be sure; I am sure there are still rough

07:37 Techrights-sec2; edges with the file system permissions.

07:37 Techrights-sec2; I've adjusted Apache's vhost configuration extensively.

07:37 Techrights-sec2; I'm wondering how we can split out the scripts and such from the main Git branch

07:37 Techrights-sec2; I notice that the TLS certificate is not using the right host name nor a wildcard

07:37 Techrights-sec2; I added coreutils so that the 'date' utility will behave as expected in the

07:37 Techrights-sec2; shell scripts

07:37 Techrights-sec2; The only downside to Alpine so far, and its a big one, is the lack of manual pages

07:37 Techrights-sec2; We should turn off password authentication for sshd as soon as convenient

07:37 Techrights-sec2; The CSS still needs a lot of polish

07:37 schestowitz-TR; 0/

07:37 schestowitz-TR; gm

07:37 schestowitz-TR; wonderful news about CPAN and package managers being able to retrieve all the required deps

07:37 schestowitz-TR; I've grown to like SPAN after

07:37 schestowitz-TR; SPAN

07:37 schestowitz-TR; >CPAN

07:37 schestowitz-TR; after first finding out about it 2 decades ago, it was a little intimidating at first

07:37 schestowitz-TR; the syntax, the permissions, the way to invoke the software and specify modules based

07:37 schestowitz-TR; on their context, how to locate/name them

07:37 schestowitz-TR; trying account access now, tests..

07:53 schestowitz-TR; after attempts to use the new account to access via ssh I realised, seeing /home, that it is not

07:53 schestowitz-TR; a UNIX account on the system and therefore refers to something else

07:53 schestowitz-TR; oh, I see

07:53 schestowitz-TR; web-end

07:53 schestowitz-TR; ok, I have attempted to add node via tuxmachines and roy

07:53 schestowitz-TR; it tries to use /bin/nano

07:53 schestowitz-TR; rather than

07:53 schestowitz-TR; /usr/bin/nano

07:53 schestowitz-TR; which is where 'which' tells me the binary is

07:53 schestowitz-TR; I can change this push to git and then pull to server but not yet sure about the workflow

07:53 schestowitz-TR; also, to get to 'roy' (keys and passwords did not work) I su roy from hv->tm-new


8 AM, July 23

08:14 schestowitz-TR; ok, git.tuxmachines.org and beta.tuxmachines.org registered now

08:15 schestowitz-TR; I've pulled from TM git just now

08:15 schestowitz-TR; do you want me to mail marius with password for the beta to give feedback?

08:15 Techrights-sec2; ack

08:15 Techrights-sec2; checking

08:15 Techrights-sec2; yes please his feedback is important since this is for him also

08:21 schestowitz-TR; one quick question

08:21 schestowitz-TR; your username is aaaa

08:21 schestowitz-TR; if that's iuntentional, then we can allow read-only access to git.tuxmachines.org for people to

08:21 schestowitz-TR; checkout the CMS and maybe replicate it, give back etc.

08:21 schestowitz-TR; unless there is something sensitive in the commit log

08:21 schestowitz-TR; at a later stage, assuming we have gemini.tuxmachines.org

08:21 schestowitz-TR; we can reuse the code from TR to present TM Git over gemini

08:21 schestowitz-TR; it would be one afternoon's work

08:21 schestowitz-TR; I've just exited cpanel, but before doing so I added subdomain gemini.tuxmachines.org

08:21 schestowitz-TR; not that this is a priority

08:21 schestowitz-TR; it would need its own separate dir with files (another format)

08:21 schestowitz-TR; and something like agate on port 1965

08:21 schestowitz-TR; but at least the server now had 4 aliases

08:21 schestowitz-TR; gemini, beta, news, and git

08:22 Techrights-sec2; I'm not sure about how to set up read-only access, Git is complicated that way

08:22 Techrights-sec2; thanks

08:22 Techrights-sec2; something for later

08:22 Techrights-sec2; still fighting with Git on news.tuxmachines.org :(

08:22 Techrights-sec2; when it works, it is rather good (i.e. useful) but it is hard to use

08:22 Techrights-sec2; and even harder to configure

08:25 schestowitz-TR; I'\ve just written the output as root history to my homedir

08:25 schestowitz-TR; assuming that might come in handy later when we do the same with TR

08:25 schestowitz-TR; maybe TR will have the same workflow and CMS

08:25 schestowitz-TR; alongside the existinf stuff

08:25 schestowitz-TR; workflow consolidation would simplify things

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08:29 schestowitz-TR; OK, nano works now

08:29 schestowitz-TR; adding test

08:29 schestowitz-TR; now it tries to find /usr/bin/tidy

08:29 schestowitz-TR; thanks

08:29 schestowitz-TR; record added :-)

08:29 Techrights-sec2; ok, the scripts are now available on news...

08:29 Techrights-sec2; adding

08:29 Techrights-sec2; added

08:29 Techrights-sec2; I forgot about the binary dependencies :/

08:29 Techrights-sec2; excellent

08:29 Techrights-sec2; ok test the tm-extract... script

08:32 schestowitz-TR; the -b option is no longer valid

08:32 schestowitz-TR; I tried without it, as the paths are the same

08:32 Techrights-sec2; tm-extract-posts-sql.pl -f -v -d $(date -d yesterday "+%Y%m%d") -s

08:32 Techrights-sec2; steps 2 - 5 in the workflow can be rolled into a single script

08:38 schestowitz-TR; OK, the node shows up OK, I think the genration of front page, rss etc. is still a separate thing

08:38 schestowitz-TR; but it looks like some time soon rianne and I will add new nodes to both sites at the same time

08:38 schestowitz-TR; to dry-testmaybe at a later stage let people have a sneak peak, maybe by month's end?

08:44 Techrights-sec2; those are separate scripts for now

08:44 Techrights-sec2; thanks

08:44 Techrights-sec2; there is an obnoxious variant of vi on alpine, I have to figure out what's the

08:44 Techrights-sec2; deal with that and if it can be countered

08:44 Techrights-sec2; the sqlite3 database is the authority for TM, from it new layouts and pages

08:44 Techrights-sec2; can be generated, it is also there to force an absolute, rigid structure on

08:44 Techrights-sec2; the data contained within

08:47 schestowitz-TR; btw, tuxmachines is not "orginal" "content" but techrgihts is

08:47 schestowitz-TR; but thinking about it, putting pertinent static pages in git would not be a good idea

08:47 schestowitz-TR; as that would not keep sqlite in sync and basically manifest two versions with possibly

08:47 schestowitz-TR; conflicting edits

08:47 schestowitz-TR; the techrights DB grows a lot faster because of Daily Links for the most part

08:47 schestowitz-TR; I've just checked db dumps, they are OK

08:47 schestowitz-TR; dmesg shows very few xfs-related messages

08:47 schestowitz-TR; but sometimes some gz files can still 'fail'

08:47 schestowitz-TR; when I say "few" I mean, I observed maybe 1 or 2 warnings per day

08:47 schestowitz-TR; having that said, after xfs_repair it seems like the issue isn't critical

08:47 schestowitz-TR; from the lenses of kaniini, I don't want to bother too much

08:47 schestowitz-TR; seeing that everything generally works, inc. the lion's share of backups,

08:47 schestowitz-TR; as we transitioned to a more "modern" and robust workflow, system

08:48 Techrights-sec2; ok but file system problems are very worrysome even if they are "just" warnings

08:52 schestowitz-TR; I agree. I will add

08:52 schestowitz-TR; a) this was recently looked at, fixed

08:52 schestowitz-TR; b) kaniini said from the admin's (hv) end it looks not a big deal, not to say "benign"

08:52 schestowitz-TR; c) I want to issue a payment soon, don't want to "waste" more time for now

08:52 schestowitz-TR; not sure if you noticed, but debian.community will likely be confiscated soon

08:52 schestowitz-TR; we have one epo series ongoing (more to come), 2 onging Microsoft series

08:53 schestowitz-TR; the one about media manipulation was in LXer yesterday

08:53 schestowitz-TR; and I try to keep productive too

08:53 schestowitz-TR; yesterday, albeit many posts were memes, there were 21 posts

08:53 schestowitz-TR; this weekend I have my plate full

08:53 schestowitz-TR; I will record shortly, re georg weber and swpats

08:53 schestowitz-TR; will say "ota" when I start to avoid system bell distracting

08:53 schestowitz-TR; thanks for all the word, tonight I will show marius the site

08:53 schestowitz-TR; and rianne may add some test posts after work (she finished 5:30pm, then I take over till 1am

08:53 schestowitz-TR; the OS migration task is finally, years late, "in progress"

08:53 schestowitz-TR; tuxmachines can be a model for techrights later, many of the same commands to be run there

08:53 schestowitz-TR; as the OS is identical

08:53 schestowitz-TR; we can make suibsites, e.g. wiki.techrights.org, with legacy URLs still working

08:53 Techrights-sec2; excellent

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9 AM, July 23

09:51 schestowitz-TR; OTA!

09:51 schestowitz-TR; 45 mins long

09:51 schestowitz-TR; so this can take a while to process

09:51 schestowitz-TR; it's about swpats

09:51 schestowitz-TR; and debunking all those lies from the EPO uusing their offical PDFs

09:51 schestowitz-TR; even if only a few INSIDERS at the EPO listen, that's good

09:51 Techrights-sec2; ack

09:51 Techrights-sec2; good

09:51 Techrights-sec2; every bit helps

09:53 schestowitz-TR; apachetop says 2MB/sec since reboot

09:53 schestowitz-TR; (motly video traffic)

09:53 schestowitz-TR; no editing needed, but I will start writing the text

09:53 schestowitz-TR; rianne already cleaned her feeds for tuxmachines before work at 9am

09:53 schestowitz-TR; having breakfast soon

09:53 schestowitz-TR; biab


10 AM, July 23

10:13 schestowitz-TR; draft

10:17 Techrights-sec2; checking

10:17 Techrights-sec2; CII needs to be expanded in the summary

10:17 Techrights-sec2; (I know what they are but it is not a common acronym)

10:17 Techrights-sec2; The closing paragraph could end with a call to stop issuing fraudulent patents

10:17 Techrights-sec2; or something

10:22 schestowitz-TR; correcting

10:22 schestowitz-TR; i cover some such in the video

10:22 schestowitz-TR; adding more text, jhang on

10:22 schestowitz-TR; examiners sort of ask for help

10:22 schestowitz-TR; they want the job, but don't want to break the law

10:22 schestowitz-TR; see last paragraph just added, I will do further work on it later, got daily links files

10:33 Techrights-sec2; checking

10:33 Techrights-sec2; s/using/issuing/ ?

10:36 schestowitz-TR; right,w ell spotted. eta for video 1 hour, maybe more like 40 mins if I push rsync repeatedly to improve overlap

10:36 schestowitz-TR; between upload and file processing

10:36 schestowitz-TR; but this video has no urgency, unlike some

10:36 schestowitz-TR; I'm going to do my round of weekend phonecalls soon

10:36 schestowitz-TR; still no word from my unvle in FL

10:36 schestowitz-TR; which makes me more worried, as I asked for updates

10:36 schestowitz-TR; they didn't tell me if it's coviv

10:36 schestowitz-TR; if it is, he's in the "right" age (90s)

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11 AM, July 23

11:04 schestowitz-TR; i wanted to comment on the "smart" phone video

11:04 schestowitz-TR; IO partly did in IRC

11:04 schestowitz-TR; as the topic was interesting to me

11:04 schestowitz-TR; he's not ditching tracking devices

11:04 schestowitz-TR; maybe that would be the next step

11:04 schestowitz-TR; so I cannot recommend it like thr RMS videos re phones

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11:47 Techrights-sec2; ack

11:54 schestowitz-TR; for the second weekend in a row no weekend edition from counterpunch

11:54 schestowitz-TR; maybe they make up for it during the week

11:54 schestowitz-TR; but on sunday they make some paywalled stuff and no ~50 items near end of week

11:54 schestowitz-TR; so bottom line is, I wonder what state they are in financially

11:54 schestowitz-TR; or health

11:54 schestowitz-TR; iirc, founder died

11:54 schestowitz-TR; many sites later syndicate C, and vice versa

11:54 schestowitz-TR; an important "counter punch" to power and MSM

11:54 schestowitz-TR; different, but FACTUAL

11:54 schestowitz-TR; the stuff MSM knows to be true but does not wish to SAY

11:54 schestowitz-TR; think of it like TR for for politics, finance, social issues...

11:54 schestowitz-TR; *but for


noon, July 23

12:14 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:16 schestowitz-TR; it would be a net loss to public voice/resistance

12:16 schestowitz-TR; from a selfish POV, fewer links for me to go through

12:16 schestowitz-TR; but then again MSM will have less pushback

12:16 schestowitz-TR; and that's further danger

12:16 schestowitz-TR; the vanishing "noise deserts"

12:16 Techrights-sec2; it would be a net loss to public voice/resistance

12:16 Techrights-sec2; from a selfish POV, fewer links for me to go through

12:16 Techrights-sec2; but then again MSM will have less pushback

12:16 Techrights-sec2; and that's further danger

12:16 Techrights-sec2; the vanishing "noise deserts"

12:16 Techrights-sec2; .

12:16 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:16 Techrights-sec2; their coverage is important

12:16 Techrights-sec2; even the WaPo and NYT are not very good any more

12:17 Techrights-sec2; they are on the edge of the news desert

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12:21 schestowitz-TR; sorry to dwell on it, but I saw washpo before bezos

12:21 schestowitz-TR; and nytimes when they covered stuxnet and had james risen ob board

12:21 schestowitz-TR; friend of wikileaks et al

12:21 schestowitz-TR; when WBers still had a voice in the media

12:21 schestowitz-TR; you know who leakeded the story to Risen

12:21 schestowitz-TR; almost died in prison with a heart condition

12:21 schestowitz-TR; Sterling

12:21 schestowitz-TR; nobody even mentions his name anymore

12:21 schestowitz-TR; RT still gave some western WBers a voice after that

12:21 schestowitz-TR; now RT is blacklisted, deplotformed etc.

12:21 schestowitz-TR; so they have nobody to turn to

12:21 schestowitz-TR; some drone WBer like Ling and others were reading TR

12:21 schestowitz-TR; ioerror too

12:21 schestowitz-TR; they're nowhere to be seen online anymore

12:21 schestowitz-TR; we live ina post=WBer age

12:21 schestowitz-TR; where those that exist are being called "CIA" and sometimes actually arer

12:21 schestowitz-TR; like when theyd decide to throw certain companies and/or oligarchs under the "bus"

12:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe for a lack of docility on some issue (hard to know what happens behind the covers)

12:24 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:26 Techrights-sec2; I agree that it looks coordinated

12:27 schestowitz-TR; if they can toss $70,000,000,000.00 habitually at some RICH companies under the guise of nationalism

12:27 schestowitz-TR; and "CHIPS"

12:27 schestowitz-TR; how about the national interest associated with minting capital for a free press?

12:27 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:27 schestowitz-TR; which of the two is more important?

12:27 schestowitz-TR; windowsXP for occupying troops hunting for middle eastern oil? or protecting Mo Bin SALAFI?

12:27 schestowitz-TR; (Hololens GRAFT)

12:30 schestowitz-TR; KSA funds for Twitter (before and DURING the Musk coup)

12:30 schestowitz-TR; but no KSA funds for journalism

12:30 schestowitz-TR; "dude, you could at least sponsor one tandoori oven for each news rooom" :s

12:33 schestowitz-TR; it is beyond plasusible that th attack on media receptive to indsiders in POWERFUL

12:33 schestowitz-TR; entitries (gov, companies, piublic, private , miitary) is not only intentional but well

12:33 schestowitz-TR; cooredinated at some level

12:33 schestowitz-TR; ad i slipped outside the control of those who wanted to give a 5th estate

12:33 schestowitz-TR; and regret it

12:33 schestowitz-TR; if they can toss $70,000,000,000.00 habitually at some RICH companies under the guise of nationalism

12:33 schestowitz-TR; and "CHIPS"

12:33 schestowitz-TR; how about the national interest associated with minting capital for a free press?

12:33 schestowitz-TR; which of the two is more important?

12:33 schestowitz-TR; windowsXP for occupying troops hunting for middle eastern oil? or protecting Mo Bin SALAFI?

12:33 schestowitz-TR; (Hololens GRAFT)

12:33 Techrights-sec2; I agree that it looks coordinated

12:44 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> UK COVID-19 Data Shows Citizens Should Keep Distance and Keep the Masks on https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/covid-19-soon-a-million-patients/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/covid-19-soon-a-million-patients/

12:44 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK COVID-19 Data Shows Citizens Should Keep Distance and Keep the Masks on

12:44 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:44 Techrights-sec2; it was disappointing and inappropriate for Biden to visit without firt

12:44 Techrights-sec2; resolving that matter; the US has instead chosen to allow KSA to brush

12:44 Techrights-sec2; the crime(s) under the rug

12:44 Techrights-sec2;

12:44 Techrights-sec2; ack

12:45 Techrights-sec2; US deaths have exceeded 1M

12:45 Techrights-sec2; https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

↺ https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/covid-cases.html

12:45 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | Covid in the U.S.: Latest Maps, Case and Death Counts - The New York Times

12:46 schestowitz-TR; maybe it'll kill my uncle

12:46 schestowitz-TR; I've been close to him for 23 years

12:47 Techrights-sec2; :(

12:47 Techrights-sec2; I hope he avoids it

12:49 schestowitz-TR; I've woried for years it would finish him

12:49 schestowitz-TR; he's not in a bad state relatively speaking

12:49 schestowitz-TR; I added one sentence tomy postr

12:49 schestowitz-TR; I forgot to paste that from my text fikle

12:49 schestowitz-TR; about 200,000+ dead in UK

12:49 Techrights-sec2; that's quite a lot and certain politicians encouraged the activities which

12:49 Techrights-sec2; prevented getting a lid on the situation and actually exacerbated the

12:49 Techrights-sec2; effects of the epidemic

12:50 schestowitz-TR; jwz (iirc, jeremy zawinsky or whatever, the mozilla (co)founder) showed this was done after intensive lobbying by travelk-lretaed insdustries

12:50 schestowitz-TR; at least in CA/SF area

12:52 Techrights-sec2; yes

12:52 Techrights-sec2; the airlines need to go under, at least as they are run today they should not

12:52 Techrights-sec2; be allowed to continue to go on both for environmental / climate reasons

12:52 Techrights-sec2; but also epidemiological reasons. There is also the matter of civil rights

12:52 Techrights-sec2; and the TSA has spread abusive, demeaning practices throughout the world and

12:52 Techrights-sec2; normalized such treatment

12:52 schestowitz-TR; tsa has normalised this also for land travel, e.g. buses and trains

12:52 schestowitz-TR; this would be unthionkable in the 1990s

12:52 schestowitz-TR; hysteria over potential train attack

12:52 schestowitz-TR; that would never kill 200,000 Brits anyhow

12:54 Techrights-sec2; specific politicians have had an active hand in those 200k deaths

12:54 schestowitz-TR; "party like it's y2k"

12:55 Techrights-sec2; :(

12:58 schestowitz-TR; "They took all the trees and put them in a tree museum / And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see them" https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/22/capitalisms-practicality-while-we-bake-death | Source: Common Dreams

↺ https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/07/22/capitalisms-practicality-while-we-bake-death

12:58 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.commondreams.org | Opinion | Capitalism's 'Practicality' While We Bake to Death | Tony Norman


1 PM, July 23

13:01 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Dear Brit, don't worry about the person next to you on the train being a bomber or carrying a long knife but the person next to you having COVID-19 because it's statistically obvious what's far more like to kill you https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/covid-19-soon-a-million-patients/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/covid-19-soon-a-million-patients/

13:01 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK COVID-19 Data Shows Citizens Should Keep Distance and Keep the Masks on

13:01 Techrights-sec2; ack

13:10 schestowitz-TR; my sister was told off for wearing a mask at work

13:10 schestowitz-TR; (of course later she caught the virus)

13:10 schestowitz-TR; polticians who wear is NOW will get trolled

13:10 schestowitz-TR; because it has been politicised

13:10 schestowitz-TR; and if they speak of organised hate crimes they get called "phobic"

13:10 schestowitz-TR; like thr "irrational fear" of Microsoft

13:10 schestowitz-TR; but that's another topic

13:10 schestowitz-TR; I'm gonna make some epo memes now

13:10 schestowitz-TR; tonight I will speak to marius

13:11 Techrights-sec2; everything in the US is politicized , IMO due to the pervasiveness of

13:11 Techrights-sec2; Facebook and other divisive social control media.

13:11 Techrights-sec2; The EU is not a bastion of rationality though, Facebook, Tiktok and other

13:11 Techrights-sec2; mind viruses are spreading

13:12 schestowitz-TR; quit being a facebookphobe, that's racist and luddite

13:13 Techrights-sec2; :/

13:13 schestowitz-TR; "but I have phd in tech field"

13:13 schestowitz-TR; "you are crazy, are you on the spectrum???"

13:13 schestowitz-TR; (voting [sic] machines come to mind)

13:13 schestowitz-TR; "do you support trump??????"

13:19 schestowitz-TR; metal poetry

13:19 schestowitz-TR; *mental

13:19 schestowitz-TR; when they are done destroying the media

13:19 schestowitz-TR; they will destroy how future gens "consume" information

13:19 schestowitz-TR; when they weed out traffic to what used to be made

13:19 schestowitz-TR; they will claim the latter is "better"

13:19 schestowitz-TR; it's a bit of a loop

13:19 schestowitz-TR; but I can't quite articulate it just yet

13:19 schestowitz-TR; the key point is

13:19 schestowitz-TR; convince young people that reading news sites is "uncool"

13:19 schestowitz-TR; or "dead"

13:19 schestowitz-TR; and that "your friends" (zuck, algo, musk) know better

13:19 Techrights-sec2; ack

13:19 schestowitz-TR; and are journalism

13:19 schestowitz-TR; twitter advertises itself as news outlet about ukraine

13:19 schestowitz-TR; I took screenshots months ago

13:19 schestowitz-TR; when I left it

13:19 schestowitz-TR; xrevan still keeps linking to social control media as a source of "news"

13:19 schestowitz-TR; re ukraine/russia

13:20 Techrights-sec2; there was a good blog post about the tragic generational differences

13:20 Techrights-sec2; about the newer generations not using computers but insted being exploited yby

13:20 Techrights-sec2; them instead

13:20 Techrights-sec2; :(

13:22 Techrights-sec2; social control media is -- at best -- hearsay

13:22 Techrights-sec2; it can be kind of used as a pointer to find real source but then one has to

13:22 Techrights-sec2; ask at the same time, which messages were suppressed and why was the message

13:22 Techrights-sec2; received chosen for advancement

13:24 schestowitz-TR; send him or her one of the many articles about much older experiments by FB

13:24 schestowitz-TR; so-called experimenta

13:24 schestowitz-TR; manuipulatio of emoption

13:24 schestowitz-TR; with the middleman ("platform") as the bookie or the power broker

13:25 schestowitz-TR; agenda-setter

13:25 schestowitz-TR; inciter

13:25 schestowitz-TR; suppressor

13:25 schestowitz-TR; spinner

13:25 schestowitz-TR; ....

13:25 schestowitz-TR; (distractor from other scandals or burning issues)

13:25 schestowitz-TR; Or burning THE issues

13:30 Techrights-sec2; It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! """

13:30 Techrights-sec2; There is also the addiction factor. Like other types of junkies they deny

13:30 Techrights-sec2; not just the addiction but the vehicle for it and the fallout from it.

13:30 Techrights-sec2; there was a report the other week confirming that many of the politicians

13:30 Techrights-sec2; I had supsected of being influenced by the kremlin, through money, actually

13:30 Techrights-sec2; were; I can't find the links again though. I think they were included

13:30 Techrights-sec2; in one of the batches

13:34 schestowitz-TR; from my own experiene, twitter can be "adddictive" becayse

13:34 schestowitz-TR; a) fomo

13:34 schestowitz-TR; b) notification

13:34 schestowitz-TR; c) a sense of impact, rewarded, like gamification

13:34 schestowitz-TR; angry birds, with like 330,000 points just to pass some level in 20 second

13:34 schestowitz-TR; the new video you sent re smartphone mentions the mental impact of notifications in one's pocket

13:34 schestowitz-TR; or stress, or overload outside your pace and tccontrol

13:34 schestowitz-TR; they push messages to you

13:34 schestowitz-TR; rather than you pulling when free/available

13:34 schestowitz-TR; the way I've done email for years now is once a day in batches

13:34 schestowitz-TR; I sent that "smart"phone video to rianne

13:34 schestowitz-TR; she doesn't use such shit

13:34 schestowitz-TR; but she did a decade ago

13:34 schestowitz-TR; I was a 'second hand smoker' of that sort of thing (through her)

13:34 schestowitz-TR; did not contriobute anything to my life

13:34 schestowitz-TR; when we sit to eat we talk

13:34 schestowitz-TR; GASP... to each other

13:36 schestowitz-TR; i try to teach my mom to do the same

13:36 schestowitz-TR; it's hard to treat addicts

13:36 schestowitz-TR; whoa re surrounded by other addcucius

13:36 schestowitz-TR; and are therefore lacking the capacity to comprehend their inadequacy

13:39 schestowitz-TR; ==

13:39 schestowitz-TR; it should be able table manners ands social cue, tact

13:39 schestowitz-TR; don't pick up something off the table when someone talks to you

13:39 schestowitz-TR; esp. don't stare into it and then mubme

13:39 schestowitz-TR; "muhhhh?"

13:39 schestowitz-TR; *mumble

13:39 schestowitz-TR; soner or later decent people won't sit down to interact with you

13:39 schestowitz-TR; and you will limit your live to other addicts

13:39 schestowitz-TR; sitting for dinner with miss sandbag

13:39 schestowitz-TR; pumping shit to your brain

13:40 Techrights-sec2; oh my

13:40 Techrights-sec2; yes, as far as I can tell all the rules about dealing with addicts apply

13:40 Techrights-sec2; but it's not just a basic addiction, the devices contain multple programs

13:40 Techrights-sec2; each acting effectively as Skinner boxes to control and program the victim

13:40 Techrights-sec2; Maybe a slap-and-stomp campaign can be cultivated globally?

13:40 Techrights-sec2; slap the phone down and stomp on it, if it is brought out at the table

13:40 Techrights-sec2; kids already are subjected to many more times the number of contact hours

13:40 Techrights-sec2; to corporate maniuplation than with their own "friends" and relatives

13:40 Techrights-sec2; yes, pumping shit and preventing learning and socialization

13:41 schestowitz-TR; I don't plan to ever have kids, so whatever they teach them re copyright, corporations etc.

13:41 schestowitz-TR; likely can be kept at bay

13:41 schestowitz-TR; the state does not educate kids here

13:41 schestowitz-TR; it "prepares" them

13:41 Techrights-sec2; afaik there is copyright maximalist lying which is the foundation of the

13:41 Techrights-sec2; curriculum and no facts are brought up, ever, in that regard

13:43 schestowitz-TR; years ago, in euipo, and again since then as epo head, campinos bragged about pushing this

13:43 schestowitz-TR; "IP" propaganda into schools

13:43 schestowitz-TR; moaning that the kids aren't bveing "taught" this shit

13:43 schestowitz-TR; BTW, he's a lawyer for a bank

13:43 schestowitz-TR; rebranded as "IP" guru

13:43 schestowitz-TR; he's a liar and crim

13:43 schestowitz-TR; I covered somke of his lying videos

13:43 schestowitz-TR; and mentioned his lying CV this morning in the video

13:43 schestowitz-TR; he's a pser

13:43 schestowitz-TR; *(poser

13:43 schestowitz-TR; and they try to target the next generations

13:44 schestowitz-TR; kids

13:44 schestowitz-TR; to start over with more leverage over public perceptions

13:44 Techrights-sec2; it's so bad that probably most people think that FOSS is illegal

13:44 Techrights-sec2; yes I read about him ;)

13:44 Techrights-sec2; I was going to modify one script but had to fix some other scripts first

13:44 Techrights-sec2; as a prerequisite to that and now I can't recall even which script it was

13:44 Techrights-sec2; let alone the planned task. Oh well

13:45 Techrights-sec2; At least the prerequisites are taken care of now.

13:46 Techrights-sec2; no it was before we resumed chatting, it was hours ago and I had completely

13:46 Techrights-sec2; forgotten about it;

13:46 Techrights-sec2; I'll have to have coffee or somethning else to see if the idea wanders back in

13:46 Techrights-sec2; as it had wandered out

13:47 schestowitz-TR; sorry, I'm distracted you

13:47 schestowitz-TR; *I'vee

13:47 schestowitz-TR; later.... :-)

13:47 schestowitz-TR; happens twiece to me today, 2pm here

13:47 schestowitz-TR; but I told rianne, what ZI do remembere is that neither was of importance

13:47 schestowitz-TR; and thinking about it would not be worth the time

13:48 Techrights-sec2; Git is hard to get to work in a read-only context, so I'm not sure about

13:48 Techrights-sec2; how to deal with the DocumentRoot on news. yet


2 PM, July 23

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14:18 Techrights-sec2; https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/software-james-bessen-book.html

↺ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/business/software-james-bessen-book.html

14:18 Techrights-sec2; Not just software patents, but decommitization through gratuitous complexity

14:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.nytimes.com | How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation - The New York Times

14:20 schestowitz-TR; Bessen knows Techreights

14:20 schestowitz-TR; I hope we taught him about several opther aspects

14:20 schestowitz-TR; does this go into next Daily Links?

14:20 schestowitz-TR; don't want to replicate effort

14:20 schestowitz-TR; thanks

14:21 Techrights-sec2; already there

14:21 Techrights-sec2; but worth extra attention since it does bring up software patents without

14:21 Techrights-sec2; naming them explicitly and it does at the same time perpetuate some persistent

14:21 Techrights-sec2; bits of disinformation too

14:21 schestowitz-TR; maybe to fit the editorial mindset of nytimes and boston u

14:22 schestowitz-TR; nobody gets tenures foer saying bolish patents

14:22 schestowitz-TR; only emeritus like richard wolff can say this

14:22 Techrights-sec2; probaly so

14:22 Techrights-sec2; ^probably

14:33 Techrights-sec2; looking at the navigation, if a post gets updated the backlink from the current

14:33 Techrights-sec2; post points to it but the updated post does not reciprocate; perhaps it would

14:33 Techrights-sec2; be better to roll back that change from the other day and not update the

14:33 Techrights-sec2; backlink, it might be enough just to leave it in the feed;

14:33 schestowitz-TR; as long as there is another navigational path, such as "calendar" style index,

14:33 schestowitz-TR; it would let everything get indexed and reindexed

14:33 schestowitz-TR; not many people press back and forth

14:33 schestowitz-TR; esp. those who do this within their feed-reading software, wherein the UI has a ton more

14:33 schestowitz-TR; flexibility

14:33 Techrights-sec2; yes above the footer, it is there in the "Other Recent Tux Machines" list of

14:33 Techrights-sec2; recent posts.

14:33 Techrights-sec2; Yes.

14:35 schestowitz-TR; pardon me doing lots of memes

14:35 schestowitz-TR; by popular demand

14:35 schestowitz-TR; it helps morale there

14:35 schestowitz-TR; and some get sent to me

14:35 schestowitz-TR; they come for the money

14:35 schestowitz-TR; and stay for the rotten tomatoes

14:58 Techrights-sec2; np

14:58 Techrights-sec2; fixed


3 PM, July 23

15:14 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> UK Government Advice on COVID-19 is a Hoax (Pretending It's No Longer a Peril That Costs Many Lives) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/safely-with-covid/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/safely-with-covid/

15:14 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK Government Advice on COVID-19 is a Hoax (Pretending Its No Longer a Peril That Costs Many Lives)

15:14 Techrights-sec2; still wondering what task I had planned for in the morning

15:14 Techrights-sec2; oh well, I'll avoid changing anything till tomorrow so that there is some

15:14 Techrights-sec2; stability in the UI

15:17 Techrights-sec2; ack

15:18 schestowitz-TR; I could, in hindsight, say

15:18 schestowitz-TR; "living safely with AIDS"

15:18 schestowitz-TR; to use their text there

15:18 schestowitz-TR; "living safely with flammable buildings"

15:18 schestowitz-TR; "living safely with Boris" LOL!

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15:23 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> [Meme] Back to Normal Just Means Adoption of Nihilism or Mass Culling of the Weak (Old People Who Typically Enjoyed Pensions) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/got-covid-meme/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/got-covid-meme/

15:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive [Meme] Back to Normal Just Means Adoption of Nihilism or Mass Culling of the Weak (Old People Who Typically Enjoyed Pensions)

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15:28 schestowitz-TR; there is no doubt in my mind

15:28 schestowitz-TR; a) financial institutions benefit from this

15:28 schestowitz-TR; b) pension companies depend on such culling

15:28 schestowitz-TR; c) behind the scnes they lobby a bit to "open up"

15:28 schestowitz-TR; this is what happens in rotting econommies

15:28 schestowitz-TR; German during hyper inflation gassed people

15:28 schestowitz-TR; Today we do it with class, and leave hospital bills to relatives too

15:28 schestowitz-TR; Germany did not send "gas bills" to relatives

15:28 schestowitz-TR; 200,000 dead (usually old, over 60) Brits, life shortened by 20 years

15:28 schestowitz-TR; 20x20,000poundx200,000

15:28 schestowitz-TR; ctrlalt+f for kclac

15:28 schestowitz-TR; 1.6 trillion pounds

15:28 schestowitz-TR; the national deficit (debt) here is about 2.2 trillion by now, I think

15:28 schestowitz-TR; unlike spanish flu, this virus very specifically kills people who are no longer working

15:28 schestowitz-TR; i.e. they don't bring much "capital" into the economy

15:28 schestowitz-TR; I

15:28 schestowitz-TR; I am NOT suggesting this was designed or intentional

15:28 schestowitz-TR; rather, it was embraced by many opportunists

15:28 schestowitz-TR; each with her or his own agenbda

15:28 schestowitz-TR; like companies being bailed out

15:28 schestowitz-TR; in the name of pandemic relief

15:28 schestowitz-TR; or shutting down small rivals

15:28 schestowitz-TR; now food prices go through the roofB

15:29 Techrights-sec2; ack

15:30 Techrights-sec2; b) if they didn't before they do now :/

15:30 Techrights-sec2; that pandemic has been going on long enough that I would expect the gamblers to

15:30 Techrights-sec2; try to count on it for a profit

15:30 Techrights-sec2; yes, embraced by opportunists and similar

15:37 schestowitz-TR; sen grayson;

15:38 schestowitz-TR; "don't stop working. if you stop working, die quickly"

15:38 schestowitz-TR; make away for new workers, you are taking up valuable space :/

15:38 schestowitz-TR; *way

15:38 schestowitz-TR; "see you in heaven..." *sniggers* *sends funeral bills"

15:38 schestowitz-TR; side story, my sister got married in 2005 or 06

15:38 schestowitz-TR; must be the latter

15:38 schestowitz-TR; as I already wrote in BN

15:38 schestowitz-TR; at the wedding, I spent like 2 hours chatting with my dad's cousin

15:38 schestowitz-TR; he felt like he didn't make use of his life

15:38 schestowitz-TR; and wasted it away sitting on inherited money

15:38 schestowitz-TR; he still hasn't found himself

15:38 schestowitz-TR; but he was fascinated by what I was doing online

15:38 schestowitz-TR; his kids are both do-nothing losers

15:38 schestowitz-TR; apparently common in such families with little incentive to study, work...

15:38 schestowitz-TR; unlike his family, we all need to work, all the time... he was never in that position

15:38 schestowitz-TR; as his dad was very very lucky

15:38 Techrights-sec2; ack

15:38 Techrights-sec2; :(

15:38 Techrights-sec2; yes that kind of money tends to do that to people

15:44 schestowitz-TR; some people realise at 20 that the money can technically go with them to the grave

15:44 schestowitz-TR; technically

15:44 schestowitz-TR; with "them"

15:44 schestowitz-TR; some realise it at 40

15:44 schestowitz-TR; but by then have dependpents

15:44 schestowitz-TR; some realise this at 80

15:44 schestowitz-TR; then they waste away money on gold and golf shit

15:44 schestowitz-TR; rianne bought land 2 months ago

15:44 schestowitz-TR; to help bail out the sister

15:44 schestowitz-TR; (not really out of choice)

15:47 schestowitz-TR; some rich people justify self-harm by saying shallow stuff like "need to enjoy life"

15:47 schestowitz-TR; equating narcotics with happiness

15:47 schestowitz-TR; they're in for quite a ride, esp. when the dependability stops being a choice

15:47 schestowitz-TR; nicotine, booze, pretty much all social control media ;-)

15:49 schestowitz-TR; (uncle in hospital now is how I matured faster as a teen, mentally)

15:49 schestowitz-TR; he was in his early 70 and considered me like his fourth son (he still does)

15:52 schestowitz-TR; 20+ years ago I said I'd travel there is something happen

15:52 schestowitz-TR; now with covid and post 9/11... very improbable

15:53 schestowitz-TR; even just the latter (travel got very unpleasant)

15:53 schestowitz-TR; when I was a kid flights were FUN! I looked forwar to the FLIGHTS

15:53 schestowitz-TR; nice food, sofa-like cushions

15:53 schestowitz-TR; passengers with manners

15:53 schestowitz-TR; when they turn off the light, quiet

15:53 schestowitz-TR; like in the cinema

15:55 schestowitz-TR; planes, my mom told me, reserve some seats for ewmergenices like funerals

15:55 schestowitz-TR; like when she flew to one

15:55 schestowitz-TR; I am probably forgetting whose... maybe her dad's

15:55 schestowitz-TR; coming back from holiday

15:56 schestowitz-TR; (yes, it was her dad's... and her dad told her not to go on holiday that time...

15:56 schestowitz-TR; so she felt guilt after that)


4 PM, July 23

16:02 schestowitz-TR; ===

16:02 schestowitz-TR; they put my mom on an overbooked flight

16:02 schestowitz-TR; and caused stress for both of us

16:02 schestowitz-TR; iirc, that was either jet2 or easyjet

16:02 schestowitz-TR; I wrote about it in my blog around 2014

16:02 schestowitz-TR; vis-a-vis, why NOT to fly anymore

16:02 schestowitz-TR; with practice like these, airlines should go under

16:02 schestowitz-TR; michael west does s aseries of articles about quantas right now

16:02 schestowitz-TR; like hos bailout money got sent to a chinese contractors

16:02 schestowitz-TR; so aussies basically subsidise some foreign fiurm that takes Aussie jobs

16:02 schestowitz-TR; offshore

16:02 schestowitz-TR; in my last flight, berlin, they put us on temporary 'airport' anc charge airport fees as if we were getting served

16:02 schestowitz-TR; and there were a lot of annoying delays and not even enough setas in whgich to wait for the plane... for hours

16:02 schestowitz-TR; many passengers literally just sat on the dirty floor

16:02 schestowitz-TR; welcome to deutschland

16:02 schestowitz-TR; the master race

16:04 Techrights-sec2; ack

16:07 schestowitz-TR; the last 3 air strips sucked out any remannt of desire to travel by air

16:07 schestowitz-TR; going tby boat to ireland

16:07 schestowitz-TR; removing the need for all that digit-trip searching

16:07 schestowitz-TR; and the boat itself give you pleny of room and things to do... in comfort

16:07 schestowitz-TR; *air trips

16:07 schestowitz-TR; *digital-step searching

16:07 schestowitz-TR; they should call it "air strips"

16:07 schestowitz-TR; they scan you naked as precondition for boarding a plane

16:07 schestowitz-TR; but they don't test you for covid-19

16:07 schestowitz-TR; trip-=strip - many punchline possible along those lines

16:08 Techrights-sec2; it's about establishing demeaning, dehumanizing behavior and normalizing

16:08 Techrights-sec2; that kind of treatment throughout society

16:10 schestowitz-TR; Ring has many punchlines associated with it now

16:10 schestowitz-TR; with "spy meters" they keep trying new pressure atctics

16:10 schestowitz-TR; now they phone us to scare us

16:10 schestowitz-TR; maybe one day the water companies (treatment companies) will save that "to save water"

16:10 schestowitz-TR; they need to attach some digital circuitry to your "dumb" bowl

16:10 schestowitz-TR; "OK, Google!"

16:18 schestowitz-TR; gen z: ok, master

16:18 schestowitz-TR; gen z_b: ok, master, may I have another one (reference)

16:18 schestowitz-TR; amazonp pays you in credit

16:18 schestowitz-TR; fb pays you in "likes"

16:18 schestowitz-TR; icbm pays fedora volunteers with panda NFTs (the community is too dead to get any, pocock had many "badges"

16:18 schestowitz-TR; and they still took lawyers to crush his voice)

16:18 schestowitz-TR; gulag poays in search rankings

16:18 schestowitz-TR; microsoft pays for you to open the gates to the trojan horse where you work/ed

16:18 schestowitz-TR; apropos, david stenberg

16:18 schestowitz-TR; *daniel

16:18 schestowitz-TR; i think you saw my post from last night

16:18 schestowitz-TR; I could not help myself any longer

16:18 schestowitz-TR; he's boapsting about the 'charity' Microsoft(TM)

16:18 schestowitz-TR; his blog is full of this shit

16:18 schestowitz-TR; sweden lost many citizens who left as they felt like the country had become us proxy

16:18 schestowitz-TR; I started hearing this around 2004/5

16:18 Techrights-sec2; ack

16:18 Techrights-sec2; stenberg is selling out for so very little

16:18 Techrights-sec2; I saw his blog post and, yes, your post

16:18 Techrights-sec2; Sweden is where Bill Gates personally invente The Internet don't you know?

16:33 schestowitz-TR; at least Microsoft sent the message to Daniel via a "She/her" booster

16:33 schestowitz-TR; because nothing says "progressive" like a bunch of criminals and thugs

16:33 schestowitz-TR; i did mention daniel's history of not getting us visa

16:33 schestowitz-TR; for some really bizarre reasons

16:33 schestowitz-TR; I don't even wish to speculate if encryption was in some way connected to it

16:33 schestowitz-TR; given stories I heard of people who develop their own ciphers

16:33 schestowitz-TR; and the menacing treatment they receive for it

16:33 schestowitz-TR; "the invisible threat"

16:33 schestowitz-TR; or "fear of the invisiblke" rathere

16:33 schestowitz-TR; like a couple of manunian who withdraw money once a year and pay for everything with cash

16:33 schestowitz-TR; *mancuinians

16:33 schestowitz-TR; and wear masks in summer 2022

16:33 schestowitz-TR; the mostly deadly covid19 by far so far...

16:33 schestowitz-TR; most deadly SUMMER

16:33 schestowitz-TR; I posted the numberc comparatively

16:35 Techrights-sec2; yes I recall that

16:35 Techrights-sec2; no idea

16:35 Techrights-sec2; he never wrote a retrospective analysis

16:37 schestowitz-TR; maybe I should do another post about it

16:37 schestowitz-TR; because the numbers got very ugly this month

16:37 schestowitz-TR; (covid19)

16:37 schestowitz-TR; re stenberg, he wrote a long and highly cited post detailing the chronology of his passport ordeal maybe 3 years aog

16:37 schestowitz-TR; when he finally, very belatedlky, got one

16:37 schestowitz-TR; no idea why he even bothered tbh

16:37 schestowitz-TR; the time wasting on such flights can be used to DeleteGithub or GiveUpGitHub sans stupid hashtags

16:37 schestowitz-TR; also the time he wastes tweeting and bragging about ShitHub "stars"

16:37 schestowitz-TR; I didn't take screenshots of those rave posts

16:37 schestowitz-TR; using Microsoft metrics for showoff

16:37 Techrights-sec2; yes but I never saw an explanation for the delay or why he bothered

16:37 Techrights-sec2; maybe if we send him some t-shirts and the occasional envelope of petty cash

16:37 Techrights-sec2; he'll change his tune (again)

16:39 schestowitz-TR; he even boasted about some stupid Microsoft NFT

16:39 schestowitz-TR; something about the space mission

16:39 schestowitz-TR; everyone got a "arctic vault" NFT

16:39 schestowitz-TR; he wrote some blog or several blog posts to brag about this crap

16:39 schestowitz-TR; legitimising the prison

16:39 schestowitz-TR; with its worthless NFTs

16:39 schestowitz-TR; anyway, I'll do a summer to summer comparison now.. covid19

16:39 schestowitz-TR; I startt work i 1 hours

16:49 schestowitz-TR; this should be interesting

16:49 schestowitz-TR; it always echoes what happens in other nations

16:49 schestowitz-TR; as the policies on this mater tend to get 'harmonised'

16:49 schestowitz-TR; cansscading down for rogue states

16:49 schestowitz-TR; regulatory capture

16:49 schestowitz-TR; then inherited outwards

16:49 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> UK 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths Was One Month Ago, Based on New Figures https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/uk-200000-covid-19-deaths/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/uk-200000-covid-19-deaths/

16:49 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive UK 200,000 COVID-19 Deaths Was One Month Ago, Based on New Figures

16:50 Techrights-sec2; ack

16:50 Techrights-sec2; 'harmonization' is used to ratchet down draconian and misdesigned laws

16:50 Techrights-sec2; one of the worst examples is copyright

16:50 Techrights-sec2; it;s the thin edge of the wedge in cases like that, the rogue states have

16:50 Techrights-sec2; little overt influence but changes for the worse there can still be leveraged

16:50 Techrights-sec2; elsewhere. However it is more common in recent decades for ostensibly

16:50 Techrights-sec2; democratic governments to allow corporations to engage in secret negotiations

16:50 Techrights-sec2; ^secret, binding

16:50 Techrights-sec2; on their behalf and then rubberstamp the results

16:51 schestowitz-TR; UPC

16:53 Techrights-sec2; UPC reminds me of EPC; When you write EPC, be sure to annotate whether

16:53 Techrights-sec2; you are referring to The European Patent Convention or something else.

16:53 Techrights-sec2; It is not always obvious from the context, and those less familiar with

16:53 Techrights-sec2; the topics will probably not guess right

16:53 schestowitz-TR; UPC

16:53 schestowitz-TR; \

16:54 schestowitz-TR; the choice of names is intentioanlly bad

16:54 schestowitz-TR; EU

16:54 schestowitz-TR; Community

16:54 schestowitz-TR; Unity

16:54 schestowitz-TR; \

16:54 schestowitz-TR; unified

16:54 schestowitz-TR; unitary

16:54 schestowitz-TR; and something that sounds like EPC

16:54 schestowitz-TR; but is in fact a complete violation of the EPC

16:54 schestowitz-TR; these are lawyers

16:54 schestowitz-TR; they know best how to lie and

16:54 schestowitz-TR; how to get away with the lie

16:54 schestowitz-TR; and make it seem plausible they didn't mean to mislead

16:54 Techrights-sec2; Yes of course, M$ does a lot of the same

16:54 Techrights-sec2; "plausible deniability" strikes again

16:56 schestowitz-TR; Miguel did this to MAUI

16:56 schestowitz-TR; mexican devs who actually LOVE GNU/Linux

16:56 schestowitz-TR; and make a distro

16:56 schestowitz-TR; nitrux

16:56 schestowitz-TR; I still await some court/case-connected material collected as evidence

16:56 schestowitz-TR; it can explain what happened to nat and miguel

16:56 schestowitz-TR; patience is a virtue here to avoid publishing unverified material or speculations

16:57 Techrights-sec2; excellent

16:57 Techrights-sec2; how long before the court material is available?

16:59 schestowitz-TR; it is avail;able already, but more work is needed

16:59 schestowitz-TR; we do 3 major series atm

16:59 schestowitz-TR; I plan to continue the media opne and epo one tonight

16:59 schestowitz-TR; and failing tonight, tomorrow

16:59 schestowitz-TR; I'm behind on rss feeds and also wait to tyest the new TM site when rianne's shift is finished

16:59 Techrights-sec2; ack


5 PM, July 23

17:01 schestowitz-TR; the github one can run/last until 2023

17:01 schestowitz-TR; at this turtle pace

17:01 schestowitz-TR; publish, test water, get email from the lawyer, carry on

17:01 schestowitz-TR; see what bugs them

17:01 schestowitz-TR; 3 people are very eager to hide the case and get on with it

17:01 schestowitz-TR; as they are too young to be unemployed

17:01 schestowitz-TR; they don't buy discounted foods and some live in super-expensive estates

17:01 Techrights-sec2; ack

17:01 Techrights-sec2; I would guess that their behavior is not unusual for microsofters and

17:01 Techrights-sec2; that enough investigation could kick over the ant nest.

17:05 schestowitz-TR; mr. hololens should have been arested

17:05 schestowitz-TR; mr. gates should have been arrested

17:05 schestowitz-TR; they should not "step down" or asked to leave

17:05 schestowitz-TR; miguel pretend he's some yuppie pensioner

17:05 schestowitz-TR; who do you think he does all day?

17:05 schestowitz-TR; (intel's last CEO should have also been arrestyed, but when did we last see CEO arrest in US of amnesty?)

17:05 schestowitz-TR; at Microsoft, like most places (epo also, plus eupipo, eu, eipo), everything is connected

17:05 schestowitz-TR; the miguel and nat thing is connected to azure too

17:05 schestowitz-TR; they went one suffocation "too far"

17:05 schestowitz-TR; not a "well, he's dead"

17:06 Techrights-sec2; yep

17:06 Techrights-sec2; ack

17:07 schestowitz-TR; clue is also in the header of the shithub series

17:07 schestowitz-TR; "why don't you just kill yourself"

17:07 schestowitz-TR; real sms

17:07 schestowitz-TR; well, messenger, not sms

17:07 schestowitz-TR; who does sms these days?

17:12 Techrights-sec2; afaik the SCO case is still ongoing

17:12 Techrights-sec2; and still sponsored by M$

17:12 Techrights-sec2; MIT as good as killed him

17:12 Techrights-sec2; MIT could have ended the case, heck they could have prevented it from starting

17:12 Techrights-sec2; but they were already in Bill's/Epstein's money by then weren't they?

17:13 schestowitz-TR; debian (spi) spent a fortune tryint to "kill" a site (in reality, just "relocating" all the very ame stories)

17:13 schestowitz-TR; when there are rich sponsors like in sco case trying to eliminate voices and you report every step ytou can prevent that from working

17:13 schestowitz-TR; aaron swartz killed himelf as it would be too expensive to thwart all the charges and his parents would have to sell their home

17:13 schestowitz-TR; iirc, based on what larry lessig had said

17:13 schestowitz-TR; lawyers avail themselves to the rich by making the prpocess more expensive

17:13 schestowitz-TR; and thus favourable to the rich

17:13 schestowitz-TR; faik daniel p did all the work on his won and it was a LOT of work

17:13 schestowitz-TR; like 500-page PDF

17:13 schestowitz-TR; bill has held all the "blue chips" since the late 90s or early 2000s

17:14 Techrights-sec2; probably

17:15 schestowitz-TR; mit wrote a self-arse-covering report both for itself/bill and for itself/jstor

17:15 schestowitz-TR; "report"

17:15 schestowitz-TR; another INDUSTRY

17:15 schestowitz-TR; "try to seem professional and objective"

17:15 schestowitz-TR; "shut up, you are being paid" -van der beld on OOXML at ECMA

17:25 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> NHS Summer Figures Compared (COVID-19 in 2020, 2021, and 2022) https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/apples-to-apples/

↺ https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2022/07/23/apples-to-apples/

17:25 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-schestowitz.com Blog Archive NHS Summer Figures Compared (COVID-19 in 2020, 2021, and 2022)

17:28 schestowitz-TR; turns out it's even more profound then I thought

17:28 schestowitz-TR; see? covid-19 became benign

17:28 schestowitz-TR; now go to the pub

17:28 schestowitz-TR; you can't save our grandparents

17:28 schestowitz-TR; they got "products'... those products are 99.99% effective because it's no longer in the news

17:28 Techrights-sec2; ack

17:28 Techrights-sec2; :(

17:31 schestowitz-TR; "There's so much bad stuff going on in the world right now. Apart from war (in Ukraine and other parts of the world) and pandemic (COVID19), there's looming and increasingly unavoidable planetary catastrophe incoming anyway." gemini://luka.smol.pub/1658588727

↺ gemini://luka.smol.pub/1658588727

17:31 Techrights-sec2; ack

17:32 schestowitz-TR; added to Planet 10 mins ago

17:32 schestowitz-TR; I will post Daily Links soon

17:32 Techrights-sec2; reading

17:32 Techrights-sec2; ack

17:33 schestowitz-TR; click OK ok cookies, ignore ads, don't click on the tits in the sidebar

17:33 schestowitz-TR; no mwtter "you'll never guess what happened next.."

17:39 schestowitz-TR; at are the barriers to open culture? Heres what the CC community has to say - Creative Commons

17:40 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Lack of knowledge https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-repressive-laws-are-exacerbating-a-growing-national-teacher-sh

↺ https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-repressive-laws-are-exacerbating-a-growing-national-teacher-sh

17:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-truthout.org | Florida's Repressive Laws Are Exacerbating a Growing National Teacher Shortage

17:40 schestowitz-TR; https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-repressive-laws-are-exacerbating-a-growing-national-teacher-shortage/

↺ https://truthout.org/articles/floridas-repressive-laws-are-exacerbating-a-growing-national-teacher-shortage/

17:54 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Social control media is shit. The public realises this. More and more over time. TechDirt pushes back. No idea why this insistence... https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/22/polling-the-public-about-social-media-policies-turns-up-nothing-particularly-useful/ | Source: Techdirt

↺ https://www.techdirt.com/2022/07/22/polling-the-public-about-social-media-policies-turns-up-nothing-particularly-useful/

17:54 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Polling The Public About Social Media Policies Turns Up Nothing Particularly Useful | Techdirt


6 PM, July 23

18:05 schestowitz-TR; "Pregnant People"... what people get pregnant? https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/right-to-travel-abortion/ | Source: The Nation

↺ https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/right-to-travel-abortion/

18:05 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.thenation.com | Could GOP States Really Stop Pregnant People From Traveling to Get Abortions? | The Nation

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18:06 schestowitz-TR; "people with dicks"

18:07 schestowitz-TR; this is the sort of thing creeping into sites like The Nation

18:07 schestowitz-TR; and sometimes Common Dreams

18:07 schestowitz-TR; afaik, not CounterPunch

18:07 schestowitz-TR; that I noticed

18:09 Techrights-sec2; ack

18:09 Techrights-sec2; yep

18:09 Techrights-sec2; and many places

18:09 Techrights-sec2; as far as I can tell it's all about derailing the discussions and opening up

18:09 Techrights-sec2; opportunities for social control media mobs to brigade the targeted individuals

18:10 schestowitz-TR; "mammals with trunks"

18:16 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Watering the garden is important to do regularly if you want your plants to thrive." https://hackaday.com/2022/07/22/watering-the-garden-with-a-solar-powered-system/ | Source: Hackaday

↺ https://hackaday.com/2022/07/22/watering-the-garden-with-a-solar-powered-system/

18:16 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Watering The Garden With A Solar-Powered System | Hackaday

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18:38 Techrights-sec2; ack

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9 PM, July 23

21:33 mjg59_; schestowitz-TR: Trans men get pregnant.

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