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05:18 Techrights-sec; /var/tmp would be better since the RPi can get rebooted after various updates
05:27 schestowitz; <li>
05:27 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/sketchup-helix.html">How to create a coil spring (helix) in SketchUp</a></h5>
05:27 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.dedoimedo.com | How to create a coil spring (helix) in SketchUp
05:27 schestowitz; <blockquote>
05:27 schestowitz; <p>Recently, I started doing a while bunch of new models in SketchUp, and I always try to only use my own components, never anything from the 3D warehouse. This means extra work, but also more satisfaction when you succeed. But then, I did face one big challenge. How to make a helix, a three-dimensional spiral, that most elusive of shapes.</p>
05:27 schestowitz; <p>In essence, most of 3D design is just figuring the intricate intersect of planes in three dimensions. Sounds trivial, but sometimes, you end up scratching your head, not quite sure what to do. I decided to check a number of online tutorials, and while they do accomplish the task, I found them impossible to reproduce. The actual steps needed in SketchUp baffled me more than the concept of how a helix
05:27 schestowitz; should look like. Well, eventually, with great satisfaction, I worked it out. It's not the prettiest or most efficient method, but it's dead simple. Let me show you.</p>
05:27 schestowitz; </blockquote>
05:27 schestowitz; </li>
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07:19 schestowitz-TR; originally I wanted to put it in your account, but for that I'd have to use ssh rather than quick drop and drop in dolphin
07:19 schestowitz-TR; the key thing is having the files on more than one lap
07:19 schestowitz-TR; Putin and Luka are even madder than EPO
07:19 schestowitz-TR; Luka took down a whole plane just to roughen up some blogger
07:33 schestowitz; On 4/24/22 00:04, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
07:33 schestowitz; [snip]
07:33 schestowitz; > I don't know who promotes the above law (if Breton, be suspicious; we
07:33 schestowitz; > wrote tons about him), but I know someone who might know a lot more
07:33 schestowitz; > about it.
07:33 schestowitz; I suppose that would be Dr Patrick Breyer
07:33 schestowitz; https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/
07:33 schestowitz; I get the impression that he may be the most active of any of the (good)
07:33 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.patrick-breyer.de | Patrick Breyer Digitaler Freiheitskmpfer und Europaabgeordneter
07:33 schestowitz; politicians on that front.
07:33 schestowitz; xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
07:35 schestowitz; <li>
07:35 schestowitz; <h5><a href="https://blog.einval.com/2022/04/19#firmware-what-do-we-do">Firmware - what are we going to do about it?</a></h5>
07:35 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-blog.einval.com | Steve's blog
07:35 schestowitz; <blockquote>
07:35 schestowitz; <p>In my opinion, the way we deal with (non-free) firmware in Debian is a mess, and this is hurting many of our users daily. For a long time we've been pretending that supporting and including (non-free) firmware on Debian systems is not necessary. We don't want to have to provide (non-free) firmware to our users, and in an ideal world we wouldn't need to. However, it's very clearly no longer a sensible
07:35 schestowitz; path when trying to support lots of common current hardware.</p>
07:35 schestowitz; </blockquote>
07:35 schestowitz; </li>
07:43 schestowitz; >> If that was 8 hours apart, considering the length of the post from
07:43 schestowitz; >> Steve, this would be believable. Otherwise I call it a coincidence.
07:43 schestowitz; > They have a cache of things like that ready to publish on-demand. He
07:43 schestowitz; > didn't write it immediately before posting it. At the bottom of the
07:44 schestowitz; > email he notes that other people had reviewed a draft. It may have been
07:44 schestowitz; > sitting in his drafts folder for a week or two.
07:44 schestowitz; >
07:44 schestowitz; > He put the email on his blog as well so it would appear at the top on
07:44 schestowitz; > uncensored.debian.community
07:44 schestowitz; >
07:44 schestowitz; > Various people noticed a similar pattern: whenever something
07:44 schestowitz; > controversial appears on uncensored.debian.community, one of Russ
07:44 schestowitz; > Allbery's book reviews usually appears within a couple of hours.
07:44 schestowitz; >
07:44 schestowitz; > This all may sound a bit paranoid but remember these are very
07:44 schestowitz; > thin-skinned people, they have a pathological obsession with hiding any
07:44 schestowitz; > criticism. It may not relate to the intelligence agency stuff at all,
07:44 schestowitz; > they are simply so afraid of criticism that they go out of their way to
07:44 schestowitz; > hide it.
07:44 schestowitz; This is always a possibility. Companies do the same. LF seemed to have done it when I exposed two LF scandals in two days back in December. They emptied their cache (about 6 fluff items) in just 2 days. That felt rushed and premature. That overlapped a Zemlin and IRS 'blunders'...
07:44 schestowitz; Proving such correlation is very hard.
07:44 schestowitz; EPO is the same BTW...
07:44 schestowitz; In summer last year Vista 11 fake "leak" was likely hiding from two crises: 1) Gates Foundation being abandoned. 2) leaks about Microsoft commandeering the whole "big tech" narrative.
07:44 schestowitz; >> By the way, conflating the military with "Mossad" isn't helping, as
07:44 schestowitz; >> Mossad is notorious even domestically. A better headline would speak of
07:44 schestowitz; >> the military (like the body) rather than Mossad. It would pass
07:44 schestowitz; >> "clickbait" smell test.
07:44 schestowitz; > The article now has links to the Wikipedia article. Notice that
07:44 schestowitz; > engineers and programmers don't follow the normal military service
07:44 schestowitz; > route. They may genuinely end up doing cyber war stuff even if it is
07:44 schestowitz; > not Mossad. It is harder to explain that in a blog title but I
07:44 schestowitz; > understand the point you are making
07:44 schestowitz; There's this thing called 8200, if I recall correctly.
07:44 schestowitz; You might want to look into the roots of the company Snyk, which we consider to be a bit of a Microsoft 'proxy'.
07:47 schestowitz-TR; ------
07:47 schestowitz-TR; In Techbytes I've put some redacted stuff of interest
07:47 schestowitz-TR; for transparency without too much attention
07:47 schestowitz-TR; I think it's understandable that some people may know identities; for others,
07:47 schestowitz-TR; that needs to be made obscure enough and hard to locate by searches
07:47 schestowitz-TR; I've not been very actively in IRC lately. This is intentional.
07:47 schestowitz-TR; The main channel runs OK on its own.
07:47 schestowitz-TR; We have about 70 users online, on average...
07:48 Techrights-sec; ack
07:48 Techrights-sec; fetching *.pdf and *.doc
07:48 Techrights-sec; 4 PDF files
07:48 Techrights-sec; 3 M$ Word files
07:49 schestowitz-TR; the file format was not my choice, it is now ooxml, and libreoffice handles
07:49 schestowitz-TR; all the 'features' there OK
07:49 schestowitz-TR; for practical reasoins (exposing EPO abuses) I need to separate doc
07:49 schestowitz-TR; format activism*it is NOT OOXML
07:50 Techrights-sec; I can see the reasons for retaining the "original" formats
07:52 schestowitz-TR; I've alreadycorrected some typos in parts 2-3 this morning
07:52 schestowitz-TR; this is still work in progress, intercepting (reporting) typos would help
07:52 schestowitz-TR; I have still not finalised my approach for dealing with patent "news" (noise)
07:52 schestowitz-TR; of utmost concern: linking to sites I strongly disagree with
07:52 schestowitz-TR; and more so: linking to falsehoods (even if there is an in-line rebuttal)
07:59 schestowitz-TR; last night I realised that in some sense we already won thr argument
07:59 schestowitz-TR; I was reading some comments, not paid-for fluff, and convinced myself
07:59 schestowitz-TR; that perceptions had shifted
07:59 schestowitz-TR; like RMS/GNU/FSF inspired CC and WWW, criticism of the patent status quo
07:59 schestowitz-TR; is infectious
07:59 schestowitz-TR; you now see comments you could not see 10-20 years ago
07:59 schestowitz-TR; even from within the microcosam/occupation
07:59 schestowitz-TR; Last week NY Times did a piece about it
07:59 schestowitz-TR; then I saw several articles about the NY Times piece
07:59 schestowitz-TR; generally agreeing that the patent system is capturd
07:59 schestowitz-TR; and no longer cushions innovation
07:59 schestowitz-TR; EPO is one area where we get in-depath insights,
07:59 schestowitz-TR; so the soft underbelly of "the machine"
07:59 schestowitz-TR; is laid bare
07:59 schestowitz-TR; in a similar vein, the media is "finding out" only NOW that Vista 11 is "Smaller" than XP
07:59 schestowitz-TR; based on statcounter alone we already said this months ago
07:59 schestowitz-TR; and the point being, even without WBers sometimes you can use data points by which
07:59 schestowitz-TR; to proactively suppress shills and trolls
07:59 schestowitz-TR; I noticed that even Microsoft Paul (T) took note of this
07:59 schestowitz-TR; They are very concerned and this past week they started pushing WSL again
07:59 schestowitz-TR; (Windows retention strategy)
08:04 Techrights-sec; yes but the risk is that they can do the attrition startegy which they used
08:04 Techrights-sec; with the first round of Visa to grind down resistance. The
08:04 Techrights-sec; GNU/Linux distros and FreeBSD ought to be making hay with this.
08:04 Techrights-sec; FreeBSD instead are a bunch of Windows boosters and Canonical and the otehr
08:04 Techrights-sec; companies backing the vaiorous distros have all be heavily infiltrated.
08:04 Techrights-sec; Einfeldt had estimated that going below around 85% desktop market share
08:04 Techrights-sec; would pop the Windows bubble. Most people believe that M$ makes money
08:04 Techrights-sec; from selling Windows, that is a myth which M$ likes to perpetuate.
08:04 Techrights-sec; The real money comes from the monopoly rents and it is the OEM monopoly which
08:04 Techrights-sec; counts there. The stuff with the UEFI, TPM, Restricted boot, and so on
08:04 Techrights-sec; is an attempt to lock in what they can with aspirations to having
08:04 Techrights-sec; enough market share remaining after that to be able to continue their
08:04 Techrights-sec; leveraging of old monopolies into new ones.
08:04 schestowitz-TR; I have just tried, in vain (vague headline), to find last week's article about
08:04 schestowitz-TR; aschool (US, IIRC) changineverything to GNU/Linux, client side also
08:05 schestowitz-TR; Chromebooks weaken Windows and force the revenue of WIndows down
08:05 schestowitz-TR; but they won't usher in any real emancipation, nor will they give pupils
08:05 schestowitz-TR; the core skills needed to lead the way away from Windows
08:05 schestowitz-TR; Gulag is like enemey of enemy in this context
08:07 Techrights-sec; Another area, which is probably the largest if I were to guess, would be
08:07 Techrights-sec; the buying and selling of its own stock.. That probaby brings in more
08:07 Techrights-sec; revenue than the other areas. Note also that M$ "profit" even with Eron-
08:07 Techrights-sec; style accounting is less than the government bailout it got with JEDI
08:11 schestowitz-TR; speaking totally in the abstract here, you know where I stand in my hypotheses
08:11 schestowitz-TR; on US "tech"
08:11 schestowitz-TR; Like Luka with his "tech" sector in Minck, with 1% tax rates
08:11 schestowitz-TR; The real goal isn't to create a profitable econom
08:11 schestowitz-TR; but an economic yoke tgar helps the ruling class (or dicatoator) of a nation
08:11 schestowitz-TR; 1) spy/control the population
08:11 schestowitz-TR; 2) spy abroad or leverage (e.g. blackmail, taking blogger's plane down)
08:11 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft is a centerpiece going back to the 1990s
08:11 schestowitz-TR; the gov. put Microsoft in a split dilemma
08:11 schestowitz-TR; now it has back doors in over 200 countries woirldwidde
08:11 schestowitz-TR; Gulag tells the US gov. what over 5 billion people think (or browser, or search for)
08:11 schestowitz-TR; that does not need to be directly profitable
08:11 schestowitz-TR; the bproblem is, all these "hobby projects" of sociopathic ruling classes/dictators
08:11 schestowitz-TR; are a yoke on taxpayers, whose contributions are paid in the form of debt (i.e. borrowing
08:11 schestowitz-TR; from the futture, based on speculations or delusions of grandeur)
08:15 Techrights-sec; yes, as complained about a lot, technology is more about control than
08:15 Techrights-sec; functionality or usability or reliability
08:15 Techrights-sec; M$ /is/ the backdoor
08:15 Techrights-sec; the continued existence of M$ is a drag on the world economy and hits the US
08:15 Techrights-sec; economy worse than most
08:15 Techrights-sec; yes the taxpayers foot the bill for the backdoors and spyware used against them
08:15 Techrights-sec; as mentioned the debt itself is the new currencu
08:15 Techrights-sec; ^currency
08:17 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft , Gulag, and Palantir help the US harvest medical data
08:17 schestowitz-TR; We already have solid proof that, as per Wikileaks/Cablegate, the US
08:17 schestowitz-TR; leverages such information to discredit and manipulate foreign leaders
08:17 schestowitz-TR; like Kirschner in Argentina
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I hope that thew Belarus series helps illuminate how "apps fur diktatur"
08:17 schestowitz-TR; is really a thing
08:17 schestowitz-TR; or NSO Group/ClearView/something "bright" (the hypePhone back doors) for Israel
08:17 schestowitz-TR; Germany has Gamma Group, which I assume just rernamed rather than shut down
08:17 schestowitz-TR; The US is "world leaders" in this regard, but US took 11,000,000,000,000 (I had toi count
08:17 schestowitz-TR; the zereoes) in loads in just 2 years of pandemic, so it's overdoing it
08:17 schestowitz-TR; overdosing so to speak
08:17 schestowitz-TR; people do not read books anymore (few do)
08:17 schestowitz-TR; but some books about silicon valley were making points /similar/ to these
08:17 schestowitz-TR; I did not read these books, but I saw allusions to them
08:18 Techrights-sec; nope and I would posit that young people /cannot/ read books and not
08:18 Techrights-sec; due to lack of availability either
08:22 schestowitz-TR; physical books are "dangerous"
08:22 schestowitz-TR; 1) they last long
08:22 schestowitz-TR; 2) they pass hands without the government seeing who from/to
08:22 schestowitz-TR; 3) they cannot be remotely removed (store, DMCA etc)
08:22 schestowitz-TR; like "app stores", there's centralised controls associated with "e" 'books'
08:22 schestowitz-TR; Stalin and Putin "approve"
08:22 schestowitz-TR; they can eliminate books without the carbon footpinr associated with physical
08:22 schestowitz-TR; book burning
08:22 schestowitz-TR; Applem now takes it a step further by hashing and making DBs on files in the OS
08:23 schestowitz-TR; it'll pass to other OS
08:23 schestowitz-TR; "because das kinder!"
08:23 schestowitz-TR; *der
08:23 schestowitz-TR; (I think, I'm not good at connecting words... or German for that matter)
08:23 schestowitz-TR; the way to legalise books (and kinder "eggs"/chocolate) is to mouild them into the shape of a rifle
08:23 schestowitz-TR; and then claim they're covered by 2nd Am.
08:23 Techrights-sec; 4) they are accessible and easie to deal with than e-books
08:23 schestowitz-TR; I hope they at least hand out their inventories to good homes
08:24 schestowitz-TR; instead of pulping, which cannot be undone
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09:04 schestowitz-TR; "Here's someone from Europe who was interested in reading a story about a person in a small US (United States) town [3] and yet, the
09:04 schestowitz-TR; y couldn't because the owners of the news website (which isn't owned locally, but instead by a larger company in another state [4]) p
09:04 schestowitz-TR; robably doesn't care about European readers." gemini://gemini.conman.org/boston/2022/04/23.2
09:04 Techrights-sec; That is isolationism on the part of the larger corporations there. It is a
09:04 Techrights-sec; part of removing democratic control of the contry in favor of fascism or
09:04 Techrights-sec; similar. If people can't see whats; going on, more trouble can be made
09:04 Techrights-sec; before people respond to it.
09:05 schestowitz-TR; they do also crush newsrooms. I suppose limiting their audience is one way to justify this.
09:16 Techrights-sec; the buying up of local news is so that it provides a local name to disemminate
09:16 Techrights-sec; national level corporate propaganda within the community, there is no
09:16 Techrights-sec; need or reason for them to keep more than a skeletal staff for actual local
09:16 Techrights-sec; news
09:19 schestowitz-TR; r audience is one way to justify this.
09:19 schestowitz-TR; I will admit I rarely follow "local" news sites in the UK
09:19 schestowitz-TR; Manchester has one big sites/paper, M.E.N.
09:19 schestowitz-TR; but it makes sense that, as you say, they rope in local
09:19 schestowitz-TR; for mostly mindless gossip
09:19 schestowitz-TR; like local pubs, places to go events, football
09:19 schestowitz-TR; but the "added value" is the amplification of national and intl
09:19 schestowitz-TR; propaganda
09:19 schestowitz-TR; so it boils down to control over minds and, thus, behaviour/attitudes
09:19 schestowitz-TR; I recognise that some mindset cohesion is desirable for building
09:19 schestowitz-TR; communities with cultures, traditions etc.
09:19 schestowitz-TR; rather than dealing with millions of lone wolves
09:28 Techrights-sec; The local news would build the community, removing local news and replacing
09:28 Techrights-sec; it with a mouthpiece for corporate propaganda works to erode that community
09:29 schestowitz-TR; MEN is full of too much 'hoi polloi' junk to be usable
09:29 schestowitz-TR; eityher in paper form (distributed free sometimes)
09:29 schestowitz-TR; or as web site
09:29 schestowitz-TR; better to post less and based on merit/quality
09:29 schestowitz-TR; but this is not their objective
09:37 Techrights-sec; ack
09:38 schestowitz-TR; thought experiment: I access their site's front page now
09:38 schestowitz-TR; must consent to malicious spying
09:38 schestowitz-TR; probably by american firms
09:38 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> When I access manchestereveningnews (local news) I cannot proceed without consenting to data about me being sent to
09:38 schestowitz-TR; about 50 "partners" that spy on me from US, Germany, etc. JavaScript made the Web a toxic place. We need to compel companies to move
09:38 schestowitz-TR; away from it.
09:38 schestowitz-TR; top story is about very rich people
09:38 schestowitz-TR; along the whole top
09:39 schestowitz-TR; causing envy and streife, at least along class lines
09:39 schestowitz-TR; not race or gender (that seems to be for Daily Fails)
09:39 schestowitz-TR; *Fail
09:39 schestowitz-TR; mostly local news
09:39 schestowitz-TR; then, OMG "ADVERTORIAL"
09:39 schestowitz-TR; for Dubai trip
09:39 schestowitz-TR; it;'s even marked as such
09:39 schestowitz-TR; tourism spam
09:39 schestowitz-TR; there's a heart symbol in the logo with ukraine flag
09:39 schestowitz-TR; not sure why that's needed in a local news site
09:39 schestowitz-TR; the right wing would call that "virtue signalling"
09:39 schestowitz-TR; all in all, I got NO story of use out of it
09:39 schestowitz-TR; even the football story is 100% gossip
09:39 schestowitz-TR; about someone's feelings
09:39 schestowitz-TR; not a transfer or actual concrete news
09:43 Techrights-sec; :(
09:43 Techrights-sec; as mentioned the local part is in name only; they have been bought out
09:43 Techrights-sec; to ride on the name recongition built up in previous generations and now
09:43 Techrights-sec; squandered to promulgate national corporate propaganda within the local
09:43 Techrights-sec; communities
09:43 schestowitz-TR; now I feel maentally drained and damaged
09:43 schestowitz-TR; they also did clickbait like "never guess what happened next"
09:43 schestowitz-TR; headlines designed to create mystique
09:43 schestowitz-TR; I hate those
09:43 schestowitz-TR; youtube's front page became like this
09:43 schestowitz-TR; I went there just moments ago to look for the boxing match noted in MEN
09:43 schestowitz-TR; so it's a wormhole of noise
09:43 schestowitz-TR; mental clutter
09:43 schestowitz-TR; like twitter in 2022
10:05 Techrights-sec; the goal of many, including the corporations, has been to eliminate the
10:05 Techrights-sec; participatory nature of the WWW and turn it into something more akin to
10:05 Techrights-sec; cable TV with ads, DRM, and all
10:05 Techrights-sec; So not just one-way transmission but who can transmit is also tightly controlled
10:05 Techrights-sec; See the DSA fight or lack there of which should be going on in EU at this
10:05 Techrights-sec; moment
10:06 schestowitz-TR; people's voices get funneled via wall street, through Twitter, Facebook etc.
10:06 schestowitz-TR; Swarm-like controls
10:09 Techrights-sec; the illusion of speech is given since a select subset of voices are allow
10:09 Techrights-sec; ed visibility;
10:12 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "One may think that when it comes to 3D printing, slicing software is pretty much a solved problem." https://hack
10:12 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Could not resolve host: hack; Unknown error ( status 0 @ https://hack )
10:12 schestowitz-TR; aday.com/2022/04/23/a-universal-non-planar-slicer-for-3d-printing-is-worth-thinking-about/ | Source: Hackaday
10:12 schestowitz-TR; -TechrightsSocial/#boycottnovell-social- A Universal, Non-planar Slicer For 3D Printing Is Worth Thinking About | Hackaday
10:12 schestowitz-TR; Wikileaks DID enjoy visibility there
10:12 schestowitz-TR; Until it became Twitter policy to lock thei accoutns, make t hem less visible etc.
10:12 schestowitz-TR; The problem is, Wikileaks elevated Twsitter Inc. to Wikilekas "boss" statu
10:12 schestowitz-TR; this is, in general, a short-sighted shortterm gain magical thinking
10:12 schestowitz-TR; GulagTubers were soo busy wanking over # of subecribers
10:12 schestowitz-TR; but thenthe very concept of subscriber changed
10:12 schestowitz-TR; wikileaks would have been vastly better off
10:12 schestowitz-TR; had it built its brand and presence online on RSS feeds
10:12 schestowitz-TR; even if only 100k people added that to their readers
10:12 schestowitz-TR; rather than 5 million Twitter 'followers'
10:39 Techrights-sec; they and many other people ignored or denied the obvious nature of social control media in order to be able to pretend to be with the
10:39 Techrights-sec; in crowd. That was
10:39 Techrights-sec; appearance was not just an illusion but an outright lie, and it bit them
10:39 Techrights-sec; on the ass later quite hard.
10:39 Techrights-sec; They were just some of the many fools than helped grow the illusion of twitter
10:39 schestowitz-TR; now it is all about fake choice
10:39 schestowitz-TR; even middle-aged white men can unergo transition into "vulnerable minority"
10:39 schestowitz-TR; and the social control media be taken over from within
10:39 schestowitz-TR; to chase down people who call out the bullshit
10:40 schestowitz-TR; the greater the BS, the wider the net can be cast
10:40 schestowitz-TR; mind you, this applies to Islamists too
10:40 schestowitz-TR; it's statistically provable that it begets more violence
10:40 schestowitz-TR; by saying so out loud is verboten
10:40 schestowitz-TR; I see that Daily Fail is using nuclear-level trolling
10:40 schestowitz-TR; to invoke emotional reaction
10:40 schestowitz-TR; it's like MEN one level up
10:40 schestowitz-TR; Manchester Evening News
10:44 schestowitz-TR; I want to say something for the record:
10:44 schestowitz-TR; Twitter changed. To say I made a mistake joining after Tony Manco had asked me to join
10:44 schestowitz-TR; identi.ca (I was hesitent) and them put copies in Twitter) is revisionism
10:44 schestowitz-TR; the problen is how the sites change over the years
10:44 schestowitz-TR; FB was also different in 2006, maybe close to benign at the very start
10:44 schestowitz-TR; fwiw, during ooxml/odf wars bob sotur was posting this stupid "tweet" thing
10:44 schestowitz-TR; and he also shilled second lige
10:44 schestowitz-TR; I thought, "what is he a kid?"
10:44 schestowitz-TR; 1-2 years later there were also "tweets" with my name in them
10:44 schestowitz-TR; the key problem is,
10:44 schestowitz-TR; (to emphasise to people)
10:44 schestowitz-TR; giving someone else control over your platform of mouth
10:44 schestowitz-TR; they may seem benign and courteous at first
10:44 schestowitz-TR; but they are still in control
10:45 schestowitz-TR; like a saudi husband
10:45 schestowitz-TR; and when things go sour they still have control over you,
10:45 schestowitz-TR; such as your data and your perceived "audience"
10:45 Techrights-sec; ack
10:45 Techrights-sec; yes, as usual, it is about control
10:45 Techrights-sec; and thus modifiying the message and shifting the "narrative"
10:45 Techrights-sec; thus the analogy to sharecropping
10:48 schestowitz-TR; on the internet, it is very hard not to be boassed by masters like dns, icann, nominet (uk) etc.
10:48 schestowitz-TR; those are problem further up the chain
10:48 schestowitz-TR; the "copyright holders" and Russia sanctions crowd have begun chasing them, too
10:48 schestowitz-TR; but then again the wiring between people is almost always going to be centrally controlled
10:48 schestowitz-TR; wireless meshes only work under certain conditions in very densely populated cities
10:48 schestowitz-TR; but then there is the power of encryption
10:48 schestowitz-TR; where you avoid being banned by hiding what's moving up and down the stream
10:48 schestowitz-TR; hence, the war on encryption is not about privacy
10:48 schestowitz-TR; it's about control
10:51 schestowitz-TR; activelow (in the channel at the moment) did some work on encryption
10:51 schestowitz-TR; I disagree with him on many political issues
10:51 schestowitz-TR; but IME, people who work on unapproved encryption get in a lot of trouble
10:51 schestowitz-TR; even if their first attempt at it sucks
10:51 schestowitz-TR; there is the prospect they will get it right later
10:51 schestowitz-TR; Over the years I spoke to people and heard from people who,
10:51 schestowitz-TR; merelt for developing ciphers, would get harassed a lot
10:52 Techrights-sec; The harassment is probably targeted and the target chosen on purpose
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11:06 activelow; on my TODO: removal of CONFIG_CRYPTO from linux kernel
11:06 activelow; none of this is required inside kernel
11:06 activelow; all that remains will be the 32bit non-primitive recurse LFSR for loopdev
11:08 Techrights-sec; ack
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11:17 schestowitz-TR; CNC https://hackaday.com/2022/04/23/omnibot-shows-off-over-a-decade-of-cnc-prowess/ | Source: Hacka
11:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Omnibot Shows Off Over A Decade Of CNC Prowess | Hackaday
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16:22 schestowitz-TR; [14:59] <techrights-news> Spamnil now has quite a few videos with fewer videos than days and some are - gasp - less than half the num
16:22 schestowitz-TR; ber of views than days, e.g. one month since publication, less than 15 views. LF bet its farm on a person who repels people.
16:22 Techrights-sec; search engines have been producing worse than useless results for a long
16:22 Techrights-sec; time now, as far as I know intentionally
16:22 Techrights-sec; LF probably chose Spamnil knowing he can run the service into the ground
16:22 Techrights-sec; He probably is blissfully unaware that his mediocracy is being exploited so
16:23 schestowitz-TR; I am about to publish many screenshots from Gulag Noise
16:23 schestowitz-TR; about UPC
16:23 schestowitz-TR; any feedback you can give me on the effect of this style would help
16:23 schestowitz-TR; as I invest a lot of time in this...
16:23 schestowitz-TR; eta 30 mins
16:25 schestowitz-TR; so far, I think it is the "least bad" approch
16:25 schestowitz-TR; it captures the text, authors' names, comments
16:25 schestowitz-TR; does not send them traffic
16:25 schestowitz-TR; it is conciuse
16:25 schestowitz-TR; and I can produce that RELATIVELY fast
16:25 schestowitz-TR; I also think that among UPC antagonists it can help "rally the troops"
16:25 schestowitz-TR; and shame the liars
16:29 Techrights-sec; looking
16:29 Techrights-sec; no draft ?
16:29 Techrights-sec; ok
16:29 schestowitz-TR; there will be two
16:29 schestowitz-TR; 5 mins,
16:29 schestowitz-TR; one is single
16:29 schestowitz-TR; image
16:29 schestowitz-TR; the other 24 images
16:35 Techrights-sec; google and the others like to blame "the algorithm" and that is sufficient to
16:35 Techrights-sec; fool or distract most people; however it is google employees which have written
16:35 Techrights-sec; monitor and tune the algorithms to produce the results they desire ...
16:35 schestowitz-TR; draft
16:36 activelow; and neither the google employees nor any algorithm is repsonsible for the content or what is searched for
16:40 Techrights-sec; looking
16:40 Techrights-sec; for the uninitiated the highlighted points need clarification as to their
16:40 Techrights-sec; importance, the pandering to Russia for example
16:40 Techrights-sec; or the significance of that particular author
16:41 schestowitz-TR; good point, I think after the next article I will do a video and longer text explaining the importance of those things, inc.
16:41 schestowitz-TR; with voice and freeform text
16:41 schestowitz-TR; tonight comes part 2 and video about it (belarus)
17:15 schestowitz-TR; draft
17:15 schestowitz-TR; I will publish for now, I think typos are not there anymore and I added a bit of clarity
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18:12 schestowitz-TR; "My mother passed away at 58. Covid and her heart couldn't stay beating." gemini://thedaemons.space/gemlog/2022-02-20.gmi
18:12 schestowitz-TR; OTA
18:12 schestowitz-TR; done
18:12 schestowitz-TR; 35 mins
18:45 Techrights-sec; ack
18:45 Techrights-sec; now about 15 minutes
18:45 Techrights-sec; the results start to come in at 18 UTC
18:45 Techrights-sec; checking
18:45 schestowitz-TR; the backups?
18:45 schestowitz-TR; in tmux there is a pane devoted to showing gz errors, if any, in real time
18:48 schestowitz-TR; the backup on TM was always good when I checked
18:48 schestowitz-TR; and so far on TR no back gz files in about 2-3 days
18:48 Techrights-sec; ack
18:48 Techrights-sec; with a newer version of tmux the pans could have actual labels
18:48 Techrights-sec; yes
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