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01:18 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> A huge chunk of these are Microsoft holes, actively exploited while Microsoft commandeers the media to obsess over "Linux" https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/23/cisa-adds-21-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

01:18 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | CISA Adds 21 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA

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07:40 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR OH DEAR https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/05/24/get-a-windows-10-lifetime-license-for-15-or-microsoft-office-for-28-coupon-code/ CNX is back to SHITPOSTING!! http://techrights.org/2022/02/17/cnxsoftware-partly-compromised/

07:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cnx-software.com | Get a Windows 10 lifetime license for $15 or Microsoft Office for $28 in May! (Sponsored) - CNX Software

07:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | The C in CNX Software is Not Community | Techrights

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08:03 schestowitz-TR; I wanted to hear what you make of the libO conference funding dilemma

08:38 Techrights-sec; can you gice some links to that?

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08:43 schestowitz-TR; front page of TR (screenshot, too)

09:43 schestowitz-TR; you can also see in the front page that we have some eyes and ears around the uspto now

09:43 schestowitz-TR; yes, gnu/linux users

10:39 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1529002427726409728#m

10:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "Taylor Wessing pushing for more litigation via the UPC, of whom Lehne helped them a lot by being a biased rapporteur in the European Parliament, all of that for profit and in total impunity http://techrights.org/2022/05/22/unified-patent-court-inciting-against-law/" | nitter.it

10:39 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1528996222907957248#m

10:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "JUVE sponsored UPC content by Simmons and Simmons, who will profit from more litigation, not journalism anymore http://techrights.org/2022/05/23/upc-mischief/" | nitter.it

10:40 schestowitz-TR; https://nitter.it/zoobab/status/1529002477588303872#m

10:40 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-zoobab "NO Software Patents" (@zoobab): "@quatremer" | nitter.it

10:43 schestowitz-TR; points above: a) libreoffice. b) uspto. d) upc

10:43 schestowitz-TR; no need to reply ;-)

10:43 schestowitz-TR; I am doing a post or at least draft of going part time (or less)

10:43 schestowitz-TR; choosing my worfs carefully, assuming I might post it before a decion is made

10:43 schestowitz-TR; but writing about them is like badmouthing amish on live tv

11:08 schestowitz-TR; the company is so incapable of attracting talent now

11:08 schestowitz-TR; I told them so

11:08 schestowitz-TR; not just salary

11:08 schestowitz-TR; but also the tooling

11:08 schestowitz-TR; so we outsource to associates, who cost a lot per hour as they are casual

11:08 schestowitz-TR; and it's draining the budget

11:08 schestowitz-TR; but such ais the nature of brain drain

11:08 schestowitz-TR; as the smart people leave the core of the operatings turns into a sumpster fire

11:08 schestowitz-TR; and this dupster fire repels potential joiners

11:08 schestowitz-TR; both as clients (unless you like to them) and worker (they see what's inside, even if you lie to them)

11:08 Techrights-sec; I think the tooling even more than the salaries drive away talent from even considering working there

11:08 Techrights-sec; as menionted, and as shown in studies, when you outsource enough, there is no

11:08 Techrights-sec; reason for talent to stay interested, so people leave, as people leave, the

11:08 Techrights-sec; skilled people have no peers and over time all of them move on

11:14 schestowitz-TR; tldr death spiral

11:14 schestowitz-TR; and then they ask technical people to make up for staff vacuums

11:14 schestowitz-TR; for tasks that do not suit their skillset

11:14 Techrights-sec; of sorts, yes

11:24 schestowitz-TR; just chatted about this in the kitchen

11:24 schestowitz-TR; the metaphor is a sinking ship and you choosing to stay on deck before it won't be submerged fully for a while

11:24 schestowitz-TR; rianne wants to check other jobs

11:24 schestowitz-TR; but I told her to be meticilous so as to maintain her technical skills

11:29 schestowitz-TR; I have a legit question

11:29 schestowitz-TR; from a mareketability [sic] perspective

11:29 schestowitz-TR; what is the true difference between resigning and going down with the ship so to speak

11:29 schestowitz-TR; I heard things about that, but I don't know if they're untrue

11:36 Techrights-sec; Again, I would check with the labor union representative for your union and

11:36 Techrights-sec; maybe with your union's lawyer(s). In many countries if you leave on your own

11:36 Techrights-sec; the company owes you nothing but if they turn you out the door there are

11:36 Techrights-sec; obligations from both them and the government for a short period of time,

11:36 Techrights-sec; usually. So that is also one of the reasons so many companies try to make

11:36 Techrights-sec; life hell for remainin employees so that they go out th edoor on their own

11:37 Techrights-sec; the trend for decades has been that of increasing contempt

11:37 schestowitz-TR; I've long felt it was a myth based on the notion of pride rather than one's demonstration of willingness to stay

11:37 schestowitz-TR; and help even when time gets rough (plus, job hopping is off-putting to some who recruit)

11:37 schestowitz-TR; the condept of loyalty to one's employer etc.

11:37 schestowitz-TR; as you note, the method of causing edundancies without compensation is preached by HR firms

11:37 schestowitz-TR; our company now hires one

11:37 schestowitz-TR; and you can see the wording they use

11:37 schestowitz-TR; it's designed to make it seem OK

11:48 Techrights-sec; HR is a hostile group working against the employees. Don't speak to them ever,

11:48 Techrights-sec; if possible and certainly not a word more than necessary if you have to speak

11:48 Techrights-sec; with them.

11:50 schestowitz-TR; working against the "resources"

11:50 schestowitz-TR; anyway, another domension here is naturalisation

11:50 schestowitz-TR; active employment for 9 years and letter from employer can hlp a lot

11:50 schestowitz-TR; come this summer

11:50 schestowitz-TR; so joj-hopping would have a hidden cost

11:50 schestowitz-TR; nationality will likely matter a lot worse when SHTF, which is pretty much a present, not a future

11:50 schestowitz-TR; based on what my sister says, the US is already a former soviet union

11:50 schestowitz-TR; it's a place to leave, not immigrate to

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12:10 Techrights-sec; how soon can the naturalization application be put in and processed?

12:11 schestowitz-TR; it can start this summer, preparation and all

12:11 schestowitz-TR; I think factors like these include durations

12:11 schestowitz-TR; the longer, the better

12:11 schestowitz-TR; but better done before the boat is under water

12:13 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> The shitposting garbage dump boingboing is promoting straw man BS to distract from actual crimes of Bill Gates https://boingboing.net/2022/05/23/conservative-covid-19-expert-stella-immanuel-says-biden-and-gates-downloaded-their-brains-and-have-been-replaced-by-demonic-clones.html

12:13 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-boingboing.net | Conservative Covid-19 expert Stella Immanuel says Biden and Gates downloaded their brains and have been replaced by demonic clones | Boing Boing

12:17 schestowitz-TR; with the ukraine war

12:17 schestowitz-TR; I've notice gamification or sportification in the media

12:17 schestowitz-TR; like medal counts in olympics and dfc plays along

12:17 schestowitz-TR; with this stupid spectator event

12:17 schestowitz-TR; half a globe away

12:17 schestowitz-TR; occasionally realising that "his" own economy is messed up

12:17 schestowitz-TR; not just russia's

12:17 schestowitz-TR; (uor ukraine's for that matter)

12:28 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> Microsoft ZDNET: "Microsoft: This botnet is growing fast and hunting for servers with weak passwords..." WAIT... meanwhile, there are ACTIVELY-EXPLOITED WINDOWS holes and the exploits DO NOT need to know any passwords. ZDNet is a Microsoft disinformation machine.

12:39 Techrights-sec; ZDNet has shilled for M$ for a great many years now. They got rid of all their

12:39 Techrights-sec; otherwise excellent FOSS and GNU/Linux writers.

12:41 schestowitz-TR; they recently "borrowed" jack wallen (fired by LF from Linux.com)

12:41 schestowitz-TR; from their sister site 'tech' republic [sic]

12:41 schestowitz-TR; but it's too late and seems like face-saving damage control

12:41 schestowitz-TR; sjvn is coin-operated for years now

12:41 schestowitz-TR; not just in zdn et

12:41 schestowitz-TR; but some LF-bribed 'news' sites

12:41 schestowitz-TR; pushing corporate BS

12:41 schestowitz-TR; as part of the contract

12:41 schestowitz-TR; in the register they borrowed sjvn a few times

12:41 schestowitz-TR; and put liam in 'full time' FOSS coverage

12:41 schestowitz-TR; I think the register is at l;east trying to tackle what's perceived

12:41 schestowitz-TR; to be a real oversight

12:41 schestowitz-TR; but again, too much damage done already

12:43 Techrights-sec; With the register the need to apologize for the years that occured after

12:43 Techrights-sec; their agreement with M$, Damn that was around 20 yeras ago already.

12:45 schestowitz-TR; the latest simon sharwood coverage of stable kernel release

12:45 schestowitz-TR; did not troll or taunt torvalds as per usual

12:45 schestowitz-TR; torvalds already complained about him

12:45 schestowitz-TR; and spoke to sam varghese about it

12:45 schestowitz-TR; without mentioning the name

12:45 schestowitz-TR; for obvious reasons

12:45 schestowitz-TR; that was after the "therapy" (to convert LT into a suit; that treatment did not work fully)

12:45 schestowitz-TR; sharwood = ms shill in the register

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13:16 Techrights-sec; 'shillwood'

13:17 schestowitz-TR; we used to argue a bit in Musland

13:17 schestowitz-TR; then he changed his tone for a bit

13:17 schestowitz-TR; then got back to his own ways

13:17 schestowitz-TR; he got more "enagegement"

13:17 schestowitz-TR; when he took any release of Linux

13:17 schestowitz-TR; even a perfectly stable now

13:18 schestowitz-TR; and sought to rile up some controversy about iut

13:18 schestowitz-TR; not just the editor with a stupid headline

13:18 schestowitz-TR; *Muskland

13:18 schestowitz-TR; before the fraud pretended to be buying the land, Icahn style

13:21 schestowitz-TR; apropos sharwood sensationalising

13:21 schestowitz-TR; torvalds' release emails

13:21 schestowitz-TR; larabel is now coverting commit messages into 'articles'

13:21 schestowitz-TR; and addsphotos to these

13:21 schestowitz-TR; the value added by those articles is very low

13:21 schestowitz-TR; I just pick the link for the commit from those

13:21 schestowitz-TR; the context is there

13:21 schestowitz-TR; and code as well

13:21 Techrights-sec; selling out cost him much of his audience

13:22 schestowitz-TR; "dear linux, please merge".... wait... PHORONIX article

13:22 schestowitz-TR; "git push"... wait... Phoronix article linking to your shithub page or gitlab MR

13:22 schestowitz-TR; plus photo

13:22 schestowitz-TR; I honstly think it's not of much value

13:23 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> "Hi Linus,..." [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 5.19-1 - Hans de Goede https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/13e61c61-0d4b-5f48-6373-f056bf8b603f@redhat.com/ Source: Red Hat | ICBM | GNU | Linux

13:23 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-lore.kernel.org | [GIT PULL] platform-drivers-x86 for 5.19-1 - Hans de Goede

13:36 Techrights-sec; ctrl-c in wrong window again

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14:19 Techrights-sec; s/(among other blunders)/, among other wrongdoings./

14:19 Techrights-sec; s/Aast year/Last year/

14:19 Techrights-sec; s/(Nat Friedman had left also)/, and Nat Friedman had left also/

14:19 Techrights-sec; s/The series will/That series will/

14:19 Techrights-sec; the "Stipe mafia bolt thing" needs a few words of explanation

14:19 schestowitz-TR; thanks, orrecting and alkso expanding now

14:22 schestowitz-TR; this series has been watched very closely

14:22 schestowitz-TR; so timing matters

14:58 Techrights-sec; perhaps a word or two about what makes those particular sw patents 'spooky'

14:59 schestowitz-TR; I have expandedthat part

14:59 schestowitz-TR; I will leave Richard Graveley out of it

14:59 schestowitz-TR; he's an oddball

14:59 schestowitz-TR; but I think his son is incapacitated by now

14:59 schestowitz-TR; Friedman, like BillG, will try toresurface

15:00 schestowitz-TR; Friedman is a phoenix

15:00 schestowitz-TR; Microsoft

15:00 schestowitz-TR; then Ximian

15:00 schestowitz-TR; then Novell then Microvell

15:00 schestowitz-TR; thgan Xamarin

15:00 schestowitz-TR; then Microsoftr

15:00 schestowitz-TR; then GithHub

15:00 schestowitz-TR; and he's only about 45

15:11 Techrights-sec; or a weasel

15:11 schestowitz-TR; weasels are mostly harmless animals

16:39 schestowitz-TR; <ciphrCat> DuckDuckGo ceo admits that his Microsoft syndication agreement forces him to not block MS js trackers & that he has

16:39 schestowitz-TR; an NDA so he cant disclose details https://graz.social/@publicvoit/108357440909126378

16:39 schestowitz-TR; [16:25] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:: "RT @shivan_kaul@twitter.com This is shocking.

16:39 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:: "RT @shivan_kaul@twitter.com This is shocking. Du" - graz.social

16:39 schestowitz-TR; Du" - graz.social

16:40 Techrights-sec; interesting and incriminating

16:40 Techrights-sec; that explains why the firewall here blocks DDG, I had started to wonder about taht but not investigated, but now I know why. N

16:40 Techrights-sec; ot that DDG gets used often

16:40 schestowitz-TR; we were right about DDG more than 10 years aog

16:40 schestowitz-TR; we also called it Microsoft proxy,. even beforew some of the more incriminating evidence turned up

16:41 Techrights-sec; it would be useful to remind people of that, too

16:46 Techrights-sec; https://privacytests.org/about.html

16:46 Techrights-sec; https://privacytests.org/

16:46 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-PrivacyTests.org: open-source tests of web browser privacy

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17:44 schestowitz-TR; want to read my draft for the scenario of me going part time?

17:44 schestowitz-TR; I took 3 shift off this week, rianne covers some of them

17:44 schestowitz-TR; I've just lodged it under drafts even though the target site would be schestowitz.com

17:44 schestowitz-TR; but I put that in TR

17:59 Techrights-sec; might want to be clear in Moodle v Azue, which is the surveillanceware

17:59 Techrights-sec; the part about the NDA needs expansion for context

17:59 schestowitz-TR; everything ON Azure becomes surveillanceware

17:59 schestowitz-TR; even if the php does not intend for it to be

17:59 schestowitz-TR; aws for that matter

17:59 schestowitz-TR; but for that we're guilty too

17:59 schestowitz-TR; we outsourced even the vpn to aws

18:00 Techrights-sec; yes, that's true but could be expounded upon in a coupl of words for those

18:00 Techrights-sec; less familiar with Moodle. Moodle is great but many outside education have

18:00 Techrights-sec; not worked with it or else maybe even used it without knowing that tghey

18:00 Techrights-sec; were using it

18:00 schestowitz-TR; we should rename mickeymouseIT.com (US)

18:04 Techrights-sec; putting a VPN on AWS renders the VPN pointless, furthermore, the VPN itself

18:04 Techrights-sec; is a failed paradigm and M$ oriented. A return to "Zero Trust" is what's needed

18:04 Techrights-sec; not crunch-on-the-outside / soft-on-the-inside weak network architecture

18:06 schestowitz-TR; the vpn is mostly being used to lock out former stuff, and vice versa

18:06 schestowitz-TR; but then again, proper use of openldap (as before), maybe with puppet in the mix, would

18:06 schestowitz-TR; enable the same bu better

18:06 schestowitz-TR; accounts are already scattered all over the place and outsourced to companies

18:06 schestowitz-TR; with NSA on their lap

18:06 schestowitz-TR; This reminds me of Mark's book on teaching cybersecurity

18:06 schestowitz-TR; I'm not a pro/expert, but come on...

18:06 schestowitz-TR; This is the basic stuff!

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18:28 Techrights-sec; Changing group membership in OpenLDAP should have reduced access and then

18:28 Techrights-sec; the suspending or removing of the account from Kerberos ought to have done

18:28 Techrights-sec; the rest

18:28 Techrights-sec; neither basic nor advanced stuff is taught (or used) any more. Just reselling

18:28 Techrights-sec; M$ crap or immitating the defective crap out of Redmond if not using it directly

18:30 schestowitz-TR; it is tricker when dealing with clients' systems that have their own generic login credentials

18:30 schestowitz-TR; and sometimes no firewalls

18:30 schestowitz-TR; the better ones would add accounts on a per-user basis

18:30 schestowitz-TR; we got caught out a few times

18:30 schestowitz-TR; failing to remove accounts of people who had left

18:30 schestowitz-TR; and iirc, vpn was not required for access either

18:30 schestowitz-TR; but we go around falunting "iso"

18:30 schestowitz-TR; all that was... tick some boxes

18:30 schestowitz-TR; they don't even check anything

18:30 schestowitz-TR; iso itself is a joke

18:30 schestowitz-TR; rianne knows it since she was younf

18:30 schestowitz-TR; because she saw the processes of granting iso stamp

18:31 Techrights-sec; ISO certification and just about any "IT" certification is mostly a joke

18:52 schestowitz-TR; "we have no skilled staff, we can loan some upon demand, but L@@k, we have this piece of paper"

18:55 schestowitz-TR; I did not ask too many questions, but I assume we pursued this only because of the NHS (post hoc) and we hired

18:55 schestowitz-TR; engineers enternally to do the engineering because you cannot pay engineers so little to work overnight on programming

18:55 schestowitz-TR; tasks. As NOC, I refuse to do such work; that is another tariff

18:55 schestowitz-TR; anyway, that piece of paper is not of much use, it only proves one thing: that we spent monies on some piece of paper

18:55 Techrights-sec; https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-07

18:55 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Dilbert Comic Strip on 1995-11-07 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

18:57 schestowitz-TR; lol at dilbert cartoon

18:57 schestowitz-TR; also lol at having to access and to access tls exception for about a dozen different domains just to see a stupid jpeg

18:57 schestowitz-TR; *and to accept

18:59 Techrights-sec; https://dilbert.com/search_results?page=2&terms=certification

18:59 Techrights-sec; worse, it should be PNG or GIF due to the color palette

18:59 Techrights-sec; they'd save a little storage and a *lot* of bandwidth that way

18:59 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Certification Comic Strips - Page 2 | Dilbert by Scott Adams

19:00 schestowitz-TR; I did not check the format, but seems a lot of the overhead of user-side like having to run a ton of script and make like 100 c

19:00 schestowitz-TR; onnections

19:00 schestowitz-TR; and for them, there's lots of cruft that goes with the image

19:00 schestowitz-TR; plus technical debt it all addsa

19:02 Techrights-sec; that too

19:02 Techrights-sec; I stand corrected, they are GIF, that is good and appropriate for the content

19:03 schestowitz-TR; media: mp3 is dead (software patents' expiry)

19:03 schestowitz-TR; media: gif is dead (because some person died)

19:03 Techrights-sec; many companies only use the formats *because* they were patent encumbered,

19:03 Techrights-sec; probably as part ofthe Zero Sum Game religion

19:05 schestowitz-TR; there is tat percewption spread by Steve Blows and the likes of him

19:05 schestowitz-TR; that only what you pay for is legally safe

19:05 schestowitz-TR; so using ogg means uncertainty and that there will be some "patent pool"

19:05 schestowitz-TR; Phipps still talks about these issues, but today's OSI is clueless and incompetent

19:05 schestowitz-TR; Piana is OK and it's good he and another person joined the board

19:05 schestowitz-TR; but a principal in that board is full-time microsofter

19:06 schestowitz-TR; who cancels them out

19:06 schestowitz-TR; along with OSI bribes from MSFT AND GitHub

19:07 Techrights-sec; from here it looks only like they can't get their minds aroudn the idea

19:07 Techrights-sec; of an open standard

19:12 schestowitz-TR; sorry for suddent change of subject

19:12 schestowitz-TR; it gets sunny now, contrary to the weather

19:12 schestowitz-TR; maybe not warm enough

19:12 schestowitz-TR; but I now realise that my current seyup is problematic in the sense that if I take out the door just one laptop I miss a lot of

19:12 schestowitz-TR; components such as irc, ytalk, my main browser with browsing history (for references) and then the monitoring parts

19:12 schestowitz-TR; even if I just wantto tyype an article in the sun, for references I need to put "LLL" (means link) instead of retreiveing them

19:12 schestowitz-TR; later in summaer this can become an issue

19:12 schestowitz-TR; (the door to the back yard is 1.5 meters from me

19:12 schestowitz-TR; *two doors

19:12 schestowitz-TR; but going in and out is a cleanliness problem

19:17 schestowitz-TR; DuckDuckGo is de facto Microsoft proxy, i.e. in NSA PRISM https://www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought/

19:17 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.reviewgeek.com | DuckDuckGo Isnt as Private as You Thought Review Geek

19:18 schestowitz-TR; [19:16] <ciphrCat> that DDG-related tweet I mentioned earlier now has an article for it https://www.reviewgeek.com/118915/duckduckgo-isnt-as-private-as-you-thought/

19:18 schestowitz-TR; [19:16] [Notice] -TechrightsBot-tr to #techrights- www.reviewgeek.com | DuckDuckGo Isnt as Private as You Thought Review Geek

19:22 schestowitz-TR; maybe you know this already, but the posts we did on DDG were likely read hundreds of thousands of timea already

19:22 schestowitz-TR; they are among the more popular ones

19:22 schestowitz-TR; even years down the line

19:22 schestowitz-TR; (mostly because so few losers out there bother writing about this)

19:23 Techrights-sec; I had not checked. That's excellent news

19:25 schestowitz-TR; if msm started writing about rick allen jones and about ddg, they would outrank us

19:25 schestowitz-TR; same for epo

19:25 schestowitz-TR; yet worse, there's a real risk they would promote straw men

19:25 schestowitz-TR; to discredit all sceptics of ddg

19:25 schestowitz-TR; side story, last night I spent almost 30 mins deleting comment spam in schestowitz.com

19:25 schestowitz-TR; at first I thought it was that yorkshare "medicalk" shit I filed a complaint about last year

19:25 schestowitz-TR; trying to derank those pages

19:25 schestowitz-TR; by shoving endless link spam

19:25 schestowitz-TR; but later I convinced myself this was very improbable

19:25 schestowitz-TR; based on other patterns I saw

19:27 schestowitz-TR; there are upsides and downsides

19:27 schestowitz-TR; to see the downsides, recall what happened last feb. when you discovered what raspi had done since jan 25th iirc

19:27 schestowitz-TR; and how the media was all over this

19:27 schestowitz-TR; nobody even mentioned your discovery

19:27 schestowitz-TR; ecept the official raspi os site (before the rename)

19:29 schestowitz-TR; the media and "influencers" of gulagb00b slanted the discovery in a pro-Microsoft slanted way

19:29 schestowitz-TR; a bunch of talking points that gave "acceptability" to what Microsoft had been doing to raspi since 2015 when it tried to

19:29 schestowitz-TR; shoehorn vista onto these boards

19:29 schestowitz-TR; risking their bloating, up-speccing to suit the wrong system

19:30 Techrights-sec; spinmeisters

19:30 Techrights-sec; they've changed attack methods against RPF and are now on the board

19:30 Techrights-sec; that is not the end move however and they are causing deadly trouble there

19:30 Techrights-sec; but it will take a while (and be too late byt then) to see publicly what they

19:30 Techrights-sec; are up to.

19:32 schestowitz-TR; you told me they had paid through large magazine ads

19:32 schestowitz-TR; I tried to open, I think I gave up, but I trust that it's there

19:32 schestowitz-TR; recen tly I saw a new 'article' about putting Vista 11 on a pi

19:32 schestowitz-TR; but, to b e fair, I think we caused enough 'damange' that for 14 mon ths now they've

19:32 schestowitz-TR; not run any microsoft 'ads' in the official raspi blog, which is in "merged"

19:32 schestowitz-TR; so I hope there is an internal mental note/memo about publicly shilling

19:32 schestowitz-TR; what their key customer base and enthusiasts hate deeply

19:35 schestowitz-TR; last time, based on the publication pattern, they were likely subjected to some secret contracts

19:35 schestowitz-TR; or binding agreement of doing scripted blog posts

19:35 schestowitz-TR; "times two" (x2)

19:35 schestowitz-TR; and then some other promotions

19:35 schestowitz-TR; and adding the repo

19:35 schestowitz-TR; once this deal was "completed" they sought no similar "partnership"

19:35 schestowitz-TR; between 2015 and 2021 there were 6 years

19:35 schestowitz-TR; so let's hope the bailout money of "Sleepy Joe" and "Cheeto" runs out

19:35 schestowitz-TR; before Microsoft has "defence" budget funneled into it and then into Welsh companies

19:35 Techrights-sec; they run a lot of defacto ads for M$ in various articles and blogs

19:36 schestowitz-TR; I do not see these anymore, or barely/rarely

19:39 Techrights-sec; I see them a lot more and more

19:40 schestowitz-TR; I mostly judge by what I see

19:40 schestowitz-TR; a) blog content (not sidebars)

19:40 schestowitz-TR; b) search results related to this

19:40 schestowitz-TR; 3) some aggregators like lxer

19:40 schestowitz-TR; last time I saw microsoft promotion was them was about 14 months ago

19:40 schestowitz-TR; I responded in video

19:47 schestowitz-TR; <techrights-news> About half these are Microsoft, for the second day in a row, but the corrupt media lets Microsoft badmouth "Linux" over admins who choose lousy passwords. These are actively-exploited Microsoft holes! https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/current-activity/2022/05/24/cisa-adds-20-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

19:47 -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.cisa.gov | CISA Adds 20 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog | CISA

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